I never really thought much about the flu. It seemed like something that came around every year and people get sick and get better again. I never been interested in it at all but a few years ago im a reporter from the New York Times and i wrote an article for the times about a miraculous discovery. There was a guy at Walter Reed Medical Center and he was writing in a technical journal called Science Magazine that he had managed to get some samples from the soldiers who died in 1918 and in that lung tissue were fragments of the virus that had killed them and when i interviewed this man about his work he told me that the influenza pandemic of 1918 and i was stunned. I had never heard of anything like this. It was the worst Infectious Disease epidemic in recorded history. It killed so many people that if Something Like that came by today it would kill more people than the top 10 killers wrapped together, 1. 5 million americans. And i just found out by looking at the cdc papers by the cent
Tackle the outbreak mike hanna has more from washington a number of u. S. Governors have been pleading with the federal government for bowl medical supplies in particular ventilators a state like new york says it needs as many ventilators as possible to stockpile for when the 8 picks of the epidemic hits which current projections show by the end of the month yet President Trump continues to insist that there are enough ventilators being supplied to the various states in fact he says that many odd being produced now so many that at some stage in the future the u. S. Could export a ventilators to countries in need were soon going to have more ventilators that we need were building thousands of ventilators right now takes a period of time to build and. And again nobody could have known a thing like this could happen were building thousands we will fairly soon be at a point where we have far more than we can use even after we stockpile for some future catastrophe which we hope doesnt happe
London which is the epicenter of the country the epicenter london has actually been around westminster. Several m. P. s lots of political journalists. People who work in whitehall have all said theyd go see this bar shows and obviously is in is it is is it in regular contact with all of these people every day and so obviously all more level if you look at anything where the Prime Ministers got coronavirus thats amazing but also it is not really the onyx that its called and expect its expected in a sense its not really much of a surprise anyway he said he managed to get through a 2 minute long video own twitter without coughing once which is Pretty Amazing given the uncontrollable cough is one of the symptoms and he said the symptoms were quite moaning to try and carry on you can judge for yourselves his appears a clip of the video ive developed model symptoms over the coronavirus thats to say a temperature and a persistent cough and on the advice of the chief medical officer ive taken
Some related the end of the tunnel but this is going to be a very painful very very painful 2 weeks mike hanna has more from washington d. C. So at least i can get very soft but indeed saying that mitigation elements fighting the disease by social distances by the lock down is a matter on the mind of death as he put it incidentally its the 1st time in the room i received has actually released projected figures theyve resisted doing so until now they said they didnt have enough data to be able to make a realistic prediction now it appears that they are getting in great to date data far more detailed data across the us states and their prediction is from 1500022400 extension 00 deaths predicted by the models they are looking at and that is even with the bitty gay shouldnt factors that are in place at the moment the lockdown the social distancing keeping people away from interaction with others worst Case Scenarios if there is no mitigation measures taken say the hill thinks but is Someth
Years in two weeks. From the front lines of the nations epicenter, the doctors an going back to saying, hey, i never said as Surgeon General you shouldnt wash your hands or overworked and overwhelmed. Cover your cough but were going to start to look at how we ease people in. Thats one of the things were looking at with mask this is too much. I dont know how much longer i can do this. Just ahead, the new help on the way. Recommendations. Desperate plea the captain of the uss theodore is there a possibility we can use cloth masks to allow people roosevelt begs the navy to help to start to come together once they got over the peak and flattened the curve. An Aircraft Carrier. What he says need he did to be these are questions we have. I hear on everybody is going done now. To have a different situation, different states, different hot spots. I guess to put a fine point on it, is it in the realm of the battle, two cruise ships possibility that the white house and task force could say in 30