Information come out of florida. The number of cases continues to climb, nearly a million 11 million cases. We think brazil. , give us your sense of where we are, particularly in the United States. We had the florida case is that seemed to be stabilizing. Is it too early to say the reentry to lock down from key portions of florida, how people are mixing bars and restaurants is having an effect . John i think its way too early to say that. These measures take quite a while. Caseser when we first saw taking off in china. They locked down 12 Million People. Months for those measures to have an impact. Those measures were much more comprehensive than anything we are seeing in the u. S. Right now. Level, itsday going to take quite some time to taken,ther measures have when impact its going to have. U. S. Still have a lot of freedom to travel from state to state. They are asking people in texas, the government has mandated mask wearing. Are people going to wear masks . See whetherrious to th
Were going to get back shopping just tell me about the National Nature service which is being promoted by the wildlife and Countryside Link well i was taught i was a kid that 2 negatives make a positive and weve got 2 negatives got a massive amount of jobless and weve got a massive job to do in the environment our eco systems are very degraded we rank Something Like one 189. 00 out of 218. 00 nations the loss of biodiversity in our landscape and by loss of biodiversity whether youre in a human being were talking about cells in a human being or wildlife in the countryside means poor health that means youre much more vulnerable when you dont have the biodiversity thats one thing we also have a massive job to help our landscape to sequester carbon and indeed to absorb water as the oceans rise if were to get anywhere near this charge of keeping that the overall temperature. Below 1. 5 degrees centigrade so weve got a massive job this is a massive vital job to do lets put the 2 together and
Apple have shut a number of Stores Across the country. Microsoft shutting all of its Retail Stores today. Joining us break it down is Abigail Doolittle who has been following all of the action by a rough day for stocks. This virus is really starting to weigh on investors. What do you see . Abigail stocks are lower in the selling pressure never relented. We have stocks responding to data as it comes out with the big drop on the data from the u. S. The nasdaq and s p down. Confirming the risk off, the fact that haven bonds rallied once again. We will bring welcome to the picture. Investors want out of risk. This week, they are not tiptoeing, they are running out of these risk assets on fears , perhapsaps the virus this is the first wave. That it could hurt the u. S. Economy. Emily you have been talking about havens rising as stocks have been down. What would you point out . Abigail it feels as though this week is new in terms of this risk off. And wednesday, we had a big down day and a b
Speak to you mark where the greatest actors on the planet you know the Mainstream Media conversation though mark is were going to get the economy going weve got to get back shopping just tell me about the National Nature service which is being promoted by the wildlife and Countryside Link well i was taught i was a kid the 2 negatives make a positive and weve got 2 natures got a massive amount of jobless and weve got a massive job to do in the environment our eco systems are very degraded we rank Something Like 189. 00 out of 218. 00 nations the loss of biodiversity in our landscape and by loss of biodiversity whether youre in a human being were talking about cells in a human being or wildlife in the countryside means poor health that means youre much more vulnerable when you dont have the biodiversity thats one thing we also have a massive job to help our landscape. To sequester carbon and indeed to absorb water as the oceans rise if were to get anywhere near this target of keeping tha
You can find more information about both of those verifications on our website and you tube channel but one irony our guest identifies in his new book is that britain was once the envy of the world when it came to handling epidemics Contact Tracing was pioneered against cholera in londons soho area and so what can we learn from past pandemics how they transform the world professor Frank Snowdon author of epidemics and society from the black death to the present joins me now via skype from rome in this early frank welcome to going underground before we get to the book which i think is being read by more and more people than maybe you even expected tell me about how you contract it coded in rome and why youve dedicated your life way before coronavirus to the study of pandemics and epidemics yes one devoted so many years to pandemic diseases because it seems to me there are a wonderful way forward. Understanding how societies function and their put together their values the relationships