With james hodge who is director of the center for Public Health law and policy at Arizona State university. Washington journal is next. Is next. Is next host good morning. This is washington journal for tuesday, march 17, 2020. There is very little celebrating planned due to the shutdown of bars and restaurants nationwide because of the coronavirus and further restrictions and limited by the federal government, the white house, State Governments and localities. We would love to hear what you are seeing in response to the outbreak. The7488000 is the line in eastern and central time zones. For mountain and pacific residence, 2027488001. In the line we have set aside for medical professionals. Your line, 2027488002. We would love to hear your experience. You can text us a message. That is 2027488003. We would love to hear where you are texting from, your name as well. Andwitter we are cspanwj post your comments on facebook, facebook. Com cspan. There was a briefing yesterday with the Cor
Saw a briefing yesterday by the White House Task force and a number of news outlets have reported a ramping up, this turn from the president. What did you hear in terms of extra measures that came out of the briefing that caught your ear . Host many countries have been aggressively getting guest many countries have been aggressively doing social distancing. The u. S. Has been very slow to that. Particularly the federal government has not been urging it. Just two days ago for the first time cdc recommended that there should be no gatherings of 50 people or more, which is way too many. The president yesterday said that we should try to avoid gatherings of 10 people or more. Thats probably too many also. But this indicates to me that we are in whole new territory. I have been working on and globaldiseases health through my life and i have never seen anything like this and i think americans should expect in the coming weeks to have extraordinarily strict measures of social distancing. Even
Now. In a mustang . The staff member was licensed and insured and using employees privately vehicle is not uncommon. They should have notified josephs guardians. Joseph is one of dozen of the Bay Area Special need students who take alternate transportation. The students need specialized need. Sometimes you need a taxi or van. The west School District uses taxis to schools outside of the district. In oakland the district uses taxis to get 12 students to class. For all of the districts the rides can get expensive. It can run from 50 to 200 a day. The special education director said thats cheaper than the alternative, sending a school bus for one student is 3 to 500 a day. They have tried to cut down by providing more special need services on their school campus. If a school close to home is not an option. Theres home to School Transportation and they dont have to get them to the site. Trance pour takes can be a source of stress for many special needs parent. Theres no word how you feel w
An Infectious Disease conference coming up. Ebola is on the minds of everybody there. Reporter this week Infectious Disease experts from across the globe are discussing all kinds of infections from mrsa to aids, but the talks about ebola are drawing the largest crowds. It was standing room only on the conference for ebola with the representatives from the World Health Organization and the center for disease control, talking about ebola in west africa. Dr. Fowler spent the last few months in west africa at the front lines trying to contain the outbreak. We need more people on the ground, from u. S. And canada and western europe to provide men and care. Today they announced enhanced screenings for ebola at five u. S. Airports. Screenings of patients leaving west africa are already affective and restricting travel from west africa could have a detrimental affect. It keeps people from responding and preventing people from responding to help there. He urges these disease experts to remain o
Welcome to the program and we begin in yemen where police opened fire on protesters to stop them from reaching the Prime Ministers Office and two people have been killed and demonstrators from the minority are demanding the government step down and we go live from the yemen capitol and tensions rising on the streets, tell us what has been going on there. Reporter we are still near the office of the Prime Minister where earlier in the day they were marching toward the building and prevented by Security Forces and there were fences there and knocked down by protesters and at that Moment Police started firing warning shots. Somehow for some reason things went wrong and they started opening fire, injuring people and five people were killed, Dozens Injured and a local hospital is asking people to donate blood. Its a very difficult situation. And they asked for more reenforcements and denied reports by protesters managed to break in the building but what we know so far is there is an escalat