Organizati organization, china as well as investigations of practices of Chinese Companies that are listed here in the u. S. So were up 0. 4 . 3 for the week as a whole sara straight to kayla in washington to recap what we just heard from the president including that significant announcement that the u. S. Would be terminating its relationship with the World Health Organization and sara, the president prevud that a few weeks ago saying it would be reviewing the funding it sends to the w. H. O. In the wake of what it sees as shortcomings by the World Health Organization to alert the u. S. Of some of the risks of the coronavirus. Sources tell me that one of the ways the u. S. Feels most wronged is that there was no information about asymptomatic transmission of this virus until late in the game when the u. S. Population and economy was at risk. He announced the administration would be suspending the entry of foreign nationals from china to the u. S. , that the u. S. Finds at risk to the
Taiwans military readiness. Are we all sat . Set . Okay. Good morning. I am Linda Feldman Washington Bureau chief of the Christian Science monitor. Shes been a politician serving four terms in the legislature and as the director of the Democratic Progressive Party International Affairs department. She moved to new jersey where she went to high school and then on to college in ohio and then from there she came back east to Columbia University where she earned a masters degree in political science. She likes to call yourself a cap warrior. As a cap person im going to adopt that for myself. I want to hear what you mean by that but first theres business to attend to and then before that, the ground rules. We are on the record here. Please, no blogging or tweeting or Live Streaming anything and no filing of any kind while the breakfast is underway and there is no embargo when the session ends at 10 a. M. We both email pictures to the reporters as soon a the event concludes. As many of you k
Threatens to pull its funding. The u. S. Death toll from the coronavirus has passed another grim milestone. More than 90,000 americans have died with more than 1. 5 million cases now reported. Still the process of reopening the country continues, and over the next week all 50 states will have eased restrictions or partially reopened for business. This map shows the trends when it comes to new cases as states gradually get back to work. And despite the increased mobility, a key model has revised the u. S. Death projections slightly downward. Now forecasting 143,000 people will die by early august. That revision came as a surprise to researchers. Were expecting them to probably go up because of the big surge in mobility in the last two or three weeks that weve seen in cell phone data, but whats really been fascinating is its not a strong correlation between where mobility has gone up and the trend in cases in deaths. Even when we take into account the increase in testing. And our explana
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TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan said it still hoped to be invited to the World Health Organization's annual assembly opening in Geneva on Sunday, as support for its participation was growing despite China's efforts to isolate the democratically governed island. | 05:50am