A face mask in public. Germany orders a 2nd localized lockdown after a coronavirus outbreak linked to a Meat Processing plant. And Novak Djokovic becomes the latest tennis player to test positive for coated 19 of the tournament he organized in the balkans. Color americas top Infectious Diseases expert has warned of a disturbing surge in corona virus infections as the u. S. Death toll climbs past 120000 testifying before congress at a fact she singled out the states of texas florida and arizona where u. S. President donald trump is due to address conservative activists later how she wore a mask during testimony a safety measure thats been mostly ignored by his boss and also brazils president jalal so narrow hes not been ordered by a judge to wear a Face Covering in public brazil has the worlds 2nd largest outbreak. Meanwhile germany has reimposed lock downs into western districts up toward 1550 workers in a slaughterhouse tested positive for corona virus here in the u. K. Which has the
Global pandemic. Lawmakers were told this week that the virus would continue to spread in this country and that the worst is yet to come. We will see more cases and things will get worse than they are right now. How much worse well get will depend on our ability to do two things, to contain the influx of people who are infected coming from the outside, and the ability to contain and mitigate within our own country. Bottom line, its going to get worse. Paul dr. Borio, the former director for medical and biodefense preparedness policy at the white house, a position she left in 2019. Welcome, doctor. Appreciate you coming in. Thank you. Paul lets talk first about testing. This is a big issue of contention. Where do we stand now on the availability of tests for the coronavirus . So, testing is just now becoming more available. In addition to the Public Health lab testing, academic labs are beginning to test. The good news is that some private Developers Already have tests authorized for us
The outbreak has been declared a global pandemic. Lawmakers were told this week that the virus would continue to spread in this country and that the worst is yet to come. We will see more cases and things will get worse than they are right now. How much worse well get will depend on our ability to do two things, to contain the influx of people who are infected coming from the outside, and the ability to contain and mitigate within our own country. Bottom line, its going to get worse. Paul dr. Borio, the former director for medical and biodefense preparedness policy at the white house, a position she left in 2019. Welcome, doctor. Appreciate you coming in. Thank you. Paul lets talk first about testing. This is a big issue of contention. Where do we stand now on the availability of tests for the coronavirus . So, testing is just now becoming more available. In addition to the Public Health lab testing, academic labs are beginning to test. The good news is that some private Developers Alr
This Chinese Government as begin with Gordon Chang Asia x. Wait contributor for the daily beast hes in new york what do you make of chinas claims you think theyve stabilized that gordon. There we dont really know larry because there is now extraordinary information control and the infections to 6 deaths statistics that are coming out of beijing actually support chinese rulers see jim pings policy of getting Chinese Workers back to their job sites so its sort of suspicious now i think that maybe and on where this started maybe theyve stabilized but we also know that there are clusters in beijing and some other cities and so cute very well have in these other locations a new Virus Outbreak but you know as i said because of what beijing has been doing especially putting journalists in jail and all the rest of it we absolutely do not have very much of an idea still can we is says how being is handling this. Well we know that for 6 weeks from december 8th when the 1st corona virus patient w
Of suspicious now i think that maybe and on where this started maybe theyve stabilized but we also know that there are clusters in beijing and some other cities and so cute very well have in these other locations a new Virus Outbreak but you know as i said because of what beijing has been doing especially putting journalists in jail and all the rest of it we absolutely do not have very much of an idea so can we as says housing thing is handling this. Well we know that for 6 weeks from december 8th when the 1st coronavirus patient was diagnosed to january 20th when he made his 1st public a knowledge moment we know that the communist party hid information about the virus that allowed it to spread around china and indeed to escape china and around the world so that is damning of his his policies the real problem is hes now gone back to the secrecy and because of that its very difficult for us to assess whats going on but i dont trust those numbers and we really wont know for quite some ti