Continue to do our partat kron 4 with social distancing here in the studio and of course heth officials want us all to do worldwide there are about 596,000 cases and more than 27,000 deaths. In the United States alone there was a surge of more than 21,000 confirmed cases in the past 24 hours. This came after the us became the country with the highest number of cases tonight. There are more than a 104,000 cases while 1700 people have died. In california. There are more than 4700 k a coronavirus cases and 94 people have died. The Us Navy Ship Mercy with is 100 hospital beds arrived in Southern California today and a somber warning from los angeles today as the city of angels prepares for what is expected to be a significant surge cases of covid 19our kate ronan has the latest on developments there. With 257 new confirmed cases in los angeles today and 5 new deaths la is readying for an even greater pected surge in the coming days, yesterdays would of course have a 50 doubling rate of les
Weeks. And he was exposed to the virus as a passenger on the grand princess cruise ship. More information on this developing story as soon as we get it you can always get the latest on our website kron 4 dot com. Now the United States is now leading the world in the number of confirmed cases of the coronavirus and new hot spots are now emerging. The us Surgeon General says chicago detroit and new orleans are likely to see a surge in cases. Next week. And one of the hardest hit areas is new york. Governor andrew cuomo announced today that 519 people have now died in new is up from just 385 deaths hat that reported yestday. The governor says that that number will continue to rise and the peak is expected 3 weeks from now. What is the packs of the curve. It changes a little bit depending on the day to day to day day to day to day. But now were looking at about 21 days for a possible. Apaso we want to do everything we can to be ready for that increased capacity. That could hit us in 21 day
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Morning. Join the discussion. Aviation industry afternoon. Good a doctor posted a snippet of an analysis that found sars coronavirus and extensive bacterial colonies in a patients airways, and he says this new illness led the hospital to quarantine some patients in the emergency department. So frightening, a member of the group chat replied, is sars coming again . Suffice to say that the Chinese Communist government, which like all authoritarian regimes is often more concerned about protecting its image than the life and safety of its citizens, was not pleased. And even as dedicated Public Health experts scrambled to warn each other to collect more information on what was happening, chinas Security Services were busy trying to stop them. In probably the starkest example, on january 1, the Wuhan Public Security bureau summoned eight doctors for posting and spreading rumors about wuhan hospitals receiving sarslike cases. While the doctor was eventually released two days later, that was n
On december 30th, 2019, doctor lee, 34yearold ophthalmologist at wuhan hospital, took to a group chat to discuss the stars like illness that had recently been sickening people around the city. He posted a snippet of a lab analysis that found stars coronavirus, extensive bacterial colony in a patients airways and said this new illness even led his hospital to quarantines and patients in the emergency department. So frightening, a member of the group chat replied. Is sars coming again . The Chinese Communist government which like all authoritarian regimes is often more concerned about protecting its image than the life and safety of its citizens, is not pleased. Even as dedicated Public Health experts scramble toward each other, collect more information on what was happening chinas Security Services were busy trying to stop them. Probably the starkest example, on january 1st, wuhan Security Bureau some in eight doctors for posting and spreading, quote, rumors about wuhan hospitals receiv