Half an hour ago pretty good turn around yesterday. Interesting, cramer, the night before said it would start at 230. But he said it would get sold out the day before i watched as the dow improved. The s p was stopped. I was like, figures. At the end of the day, thats called in the money. In the money in the tacos now, you change the story. I said it from the get go joe, it will cost me a lot less to buy the tacos. But you have to listen to me. You are used to that. Becky, what do i get . I get to not buy you a dog somehow. You won you were complaining about this you are such a welsher you set up the terms of the deal and came up with the whole idea. Suddenly, you got your whole dog expense. Oh, well. Did you talk about yields did you see oil . I didnt. I saw now that it is above 27 a barrel still the june contract. Yield on the 10year around 0. 6 the oil prices watching this, the wti Contract Trading now that is something we have been watching closely because of the overall demand pic
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Governors actions, we still have not entered phase i yet pretty they are not seen enough of a consistent, declining cases that the governor did open up some of the areas. People can go fishing, recreational fishing, some tennis, sports where people areh spread out. I thought that was an appropriate move, some elected surgeries resumed. But in maryland, the problem remains as ain dozen so many otr states, we still just do not have adequate testing to safely reopen in the next phases. That really requires an ability to test rapidly our weight scale system so you can quickly detect anan outbreak. If you want to make sure that you can find any flareups quickly. An isolated, trace everybody who may be hand contact with that person. Otherwise, some have said, your campfire becomes a bonfire. You just want to make sure that it does not take that leap pretty testing is essential. I wrote to the president , the essenators just yesterday, realy urging him to make better use of what is called tit
European country is making sure no cases of coronavirus fly under the radar at the airport good morning to you. Just six months ago, coronavircovid19 was a virus that didnt exist in humans now there are more than 4 Million People infected wrld wide here in the states more than 1. 3 million americans are infected thats over a million more than any other nation spain has the second highest number of infections with 234,000. The u. S. Death it toll has now is surpassed 80,000. As california moves to stage two of its reopening plan, researchers predict the state could see more than 6,000 deaths by the end of august california is one of a handful of states where cases are going up more than expected. And tesla filed a lawsuit against Alameda County from prohibiting the car company from reopening their factory during the outbreak elon musk threatened to move its headquarters to texas or nevada. American airlines and hyatt have teamed up to give 4,000 Health Care Workers free vacations. Emplo
Around the country. So when is it safe to reopen our economy . One leading medical expert joining us from boston in a moment. Could there be a second wave . We will talk to an Infectious Disease doctor in the second half of the program. Our phone lines are open. If you are a medical professional or medical student, 2027488002. We begin with the numbers from john hopkins university. Now around the world 3. 8 million cases of coronavirus. The death toll is now expected to surpass 267,000. Joining us from boston is dr. Jeremy faust an Emergency Room Physician at Brigham Womens hospital. Thank you for being with us. We want to begin with your op ed in the Washington Post with this headline the metric that could tell us when it is safe to reemerge. What is that metric . Dr. Faust the metric that has been discussed the least but matters the most is what is called excess mortality, or excess deaths. That is simply the number of people who are dying in comparison to the usual rates we know abo