Town during the great recession. Look at some of the events book tv will be covering this week. Many of these events are open to the public. Look for them to air in the near future on book tv on cspan2. Shame on you. [inaudible conversation] were going to get started. So if people could take their seats, that would be terrific. So welcome to hoover dc, my name is ben witness. Im sorry, okay. My name is ben witness, and the cochair of the working group on technology and National Security and law. My other life, im a fellow at the Brookings Institution and im run law fair with partners with hoover on these high events. For those of you who have been to these before, i just want to give you a little heads up. Were going to do this one a little differently which is that neither i nor jack smith will be conducting an interview and the reason for that isthat when i reached out to grant , to come talk about his book, the way of the stranger, he informed me that sam had already reached out to
Looking at what were seeing now, you know, i would say between 100,000 and 200,000 cases but i dont want to be held to that, because its its excuse me. Deaths. Millions of cases, but i just dont think we really need to make a projection when its such a moving target that you can so easily be wrong. And mislead people. What we do know, jake, is we have a serious problem in new york. We have a serious problem in new orleans and were going to be developing Serious Problems in other areas. So although people like to model it, lets just look at the data of what we have and not worry about these worse case and best case scenarios. New cases in the u. S. Have risen sharply. Just over the last 24 hours, there are now more than 130,000 people infected with the disease. The number of deaths doubling in just two days. Now exceeding 2,300 people. All this as the White House Coronavirus task force is reviewing new proposals to lead to reopening some parts of the country. Holding a briefing in just
Contact with a patient, Thomas Duncan, at a dallas hospital has come up positive in a preliminary test for the virus. The cdc said this morning it is possible other Health Care Workers were exposed as well. Police officers are going door to door talking to the nurses, neighbors, trying to quell any possible panic and confusion about the deadly virus and there is plenty now. Lets go to new york for the very latest. Well, the cdc says that that nurse had contact with Thomas Eric Duncan multiple times, was wearing a gown, shield and gloves and yet still preliminarily looks to have been infected with ebola. We are waiting for the cdc to confirm that later on today. Right now what we know is that all Health Care Workers who dealt with duncan are on high alert as the cdc investigates a clear breach in the safety protocol at the hospital that led to the nurses infection. It is possible in the coming days that we will see additional cases of ebola. This is because the Health Care Workers who k
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