Crisis, with dr. Christopher mores, a Global Health professor at George Washington university, and Adriane Casalotti from the National Association of county and city Health Officials. This is the washington journal for march 6. President trump expected to sign 8illiondollar billion emergency funding bill, this has mike pence said yesterday there were not enough testing kits to meet demands Going Forward. Its will be disturbing to by the end of this week. Maryland has announced three new cases and the governor there reporting a state of emergency. Cdc highlighting cases when it at 100, coronavirus with 10 total deaths and state reporting cases out of 13 of , 13 cases reported by the cdc. Over the next 30 hours, medical professionals three hours, medical professionals will join us later to answer your questions about the virus and the Public Health response. Gethe first hour, we will your response. The level of concern you have about the virus in the United States. Here is how you can let us know level ofr concern. If you are concerned, call us at [cheers and applause]. At 202 7488000 if you are not, call us at 202 7488001. If you are unsure, call us at 202 7488002. You can text us at 202 , and003, tweet us cspanwj post on our Facebook Page at facebook. Com cspan. This is the cdc information on their page, cdc. Gov. That was updated yesterday. Looking at the updated cases in the u. S. Of covid19, total deaths at 10, they are reporting, and at the time this was compiled, states reporting cases, the number of states, 13 of them. And it comes to the cases that are reported to the cdc for 30 ofwith coronavirus, those cases are related to travel, the persontoperson spread, 20 cases, 49 cases currently under investigation, which brings the total number of cases at 99. , those states reporting coronavirus highlighted by a map those states reporting coronavirus, highlighted by a cdc, five to 10 cases, one to five cases, and the rest of the country. When it comes to the United States, 233 confirmed cases by Johns Hopkins, 12 deaths reported, 10 in king county, state, one in california, one in snohomish county, Washington State, bringing up the total number to 12. It was the Vice President yesterday that while traveling as during a visit to Washington State talked about the u. S. Response. We will show you that in a bit, but it was also dr. Anthony fauci that was part of the task worth it was kumbaya by the president to deal with the coronavirus in the United States, talking about how the virus will affect those generationally. [video clip] address one issue we continually get asked about, and i would like to clarify it a bit. That is the question we always get asked about what is the risk to the American Public . Divide it into two general areas. When you look at the country as a whole, what is the risk of actually getting infected with the coronavirus . The risk in the United States as a whole is still low. When you look at what we are seeing, and we are following it literally on a daily basis, this issue of Community Spread as we are seeing right now in the seattle area, which they are addressing by a variety of ways, the risk of getting infected when you have Community Spread in a certain area is a bit higher. Quantitatively, i am not sure, but still when you look at the ofntry as a whole, the risk getting infected is low. However, if a person is infected , like taking those unfortunate situations that we are seeing in seattle, where several people have gotten infected, the risk of getting into trouble widely varies. Young, otherwise healthy individual, the risk of your requiring any other kind of medical intervention is low. We know that from data from china and recent data from korea , and data from italy. Is about 80 or more of individuals who get infected will do well without needing any medical intervention. However, if you are elderly and have underlying conditions, the common ones that were used were flu, heart disease, chronic lung disease, diabetes, obesity, or being immunosuppressed for reasons such as cancer, chemotherapy if you get infected, the risk of those individuals getting into trouble is significantly higher. It is not a uniform risk across the board, which tells us that the vulnerable among us, those with those conditions, need to be particularly paid attention to, to protect them not only from getting infected, but to give them the care they need when they get infected. Thats dr. Anthony fauci. You can see that full press conference, by the way, on our website at cspan. Org. Holdeam compiled will another press conference around 5 00 this afternoon. They concentrate their efforts on the west coast. The Baltimore Sun this morning reporting about three new cases on the east coast. In maryland, larry hogan, the governor, declaring a state of emergency in that state. That is from the Baltimore Sun. And the rollcall saying that the president is expected to sign 8. 3 billion emergency funding package that was passed yesterday by the senate 961, the vote total, with rand paul, who wanted cost offsets with cuts to foreign assistance grams, with the chambers was the chambers lone no vote. New orleans, louisiana starts us off with angelo, who says he is concerned. Good morning. Caller good morning. Thank you for cspan. Im very concerned, because i have a little grandniece and grandnephew, excuse me, coming from italy with his mother, father, and other parents to visit my brother, which is his grandfather, ok . I am 73 years old, his grandfather is four years younger than me, who is 69. Im not so much concerned about him, because evidence i have seen is that children up to 10 years old are fine. Middleaged people are fine. The problem is with the elderly and people who need care, which im worried about him being a carrier or someone in his family being a carrier of the disease and bringing it over and killing of the disease and bringing it over and killing me and his father, ok . Im very, very concerned about that because we are getting absolutely no information out of the white house. They are more worried about the rsona, [sighs] host how about your state and locality . What information are they getting you . Caller louisiana has absolutely no cases, ok . I am not getting anything out of the state because we do not have to deal with it because we have no cases. This is an isolated thing with them coming from italy. You may that point, angelo, and i wanted to alert you that the nbc affiliate in new orleans is reporting this morning that two new Orleans CatholicSchool Teachers have put themselves under self quarantine among travel to concern where coronavirus was present. That is the nbc news affiliate website there. This is ray in missouri, says he is not concerned. Youre next. Caller hello, good morning. Im not concerned. I think the budget has already been put aside for it. I think the vaccine is not going to come out for another 18 months at the best estimate, but we have the Public Health sector telling us to stay clean, dont go to work if you are sick, and it is like any other disease. I dont worry about the flu coming every year, and i dont worry when it comes and killed hundreds and hundreds of people, so they clean and take care of yourselves, ok . Host are you concerned about what we dont know about coronavirus yet . Caller in some ways, but we have been on this since day one and i am confident that we will find a solution is best we can as fast as possible. Host the npr affiliate in kansas city reporting on their to see, if you want that, for about a half million residents. Npr reporting there that only kitscoronavirus test are available. Bob in rockville, who is concerned. Hello. I am concerned. There are only three cases that have been confirmed, however, those three individuals have been in Montgomery County since february 20, so who knows how many people that come into contact with . To rebut what the gentleman said who spoke before me, the average flu kills. 1 of the people that are tested for it. This thing has been killing 3 of the people that have been tested for it worldwide. The people that have been tested for it worldwide. In america, it is much higher. In maryland, we have only had 20 as of last night we only had 20 confirmed tests, three of which were positive, so that is 15 of people tested that were positive, and we will see how many of those, hopefully everybody survives, but it does not look good. My reading of the evidence is this is tense, many factors more deadly than the flu. Tens, many factors more deadly than the flu. Host and he mentioned the headline from the Washington Times this morning, as he was traveling with the team assembled by the president , talked about leaders in Washington State about the coronavirus and also what is going on when comes to the testing kits. [video clip] we have been making steady progress, and i was encouraged to hear, governor, that cdc has been able to provide kids to washington kits to Washington State to meet your demands, but we know that a while that while we are meeting your demand of cases we know about today, we still have a ways to go to make sure the tests are available for any future cases and also for people across your state and across the country. That may be concerned that they contracted the coronavirus and wanted to attain a test. Im happy to report and have you confirmed that the cdc has prioritized the delivery of coronavirus test kits to Washington State and to california, and i can assure you, governor, that we will continue to do so. Week, the end of next cdcs test supplier, company known as ibt, will distribute kits across the country that will enable roughly 1. 2 million americans to be tested for the coronavirus. Those kits will be delivered in a matter of a few days. By the end of next week, another 4 million tests will be available. It is still just the beginning as our nation continues to hear of new cases every day. We want to make sure the testing is available broadly. To that end, President Trump brought together the leaders of the top commercial labs in the country. As we speak, at the president s urging, they have formed a consortium. We will be working with leading commercial labs in america, who tell us within a matter of weeks through validation efforts that we will do through the fda, they could well be in a position future, the not distant your doctor, your local pharmacy, your local med check will have access to a coronavirus. Another snapshot of the federal response in Washington State. Writing that state authorities sent an urgent request for 23,000 respirators and surgical masks to be released from the governments Strategic National stockpile. It is a repository of drugs and supplies for to plummet in major Public Health emergencies, such as Infectious Disease outbreaks. Within 24 hours, the states liaison to the federal government was told his state would get assistance, but it would be less than half of the 93,600required 100,200ors and surgical masks. The u. S. Has 12 million respirators and 30 million surgical masks, according to health and Human Services secretary alex azar. In springfield, massachusetts, philip, who says he is not concerned. Good morning. Caller good morning. Basically, im 80 years old. Basically also, every year i get the flu shot and every other year i get the pneumonia shots. Mornings i gothe to basically the stores, i go there at 8 30 in the morning, there are 10 people there. You buy your stuff. Massachusettsin here, in springfield, basically , when you go in, they have little cloths where you can disinfect your carriage when you go in and buy stuff. And then when you leave, a before you go leave, before you go, you go to the little thing and get another sleeve, hands, so you disinfect yourself from going back into the store. The thing massachusetts, we are pretty good on this. First of all, we dont panic, we are all easterners, in other words, and we know we get the flu every year. This is just a new strain, and basically, what you do is you take it easy. Thats all i got to say for it. In other words, dont panic. Springfield,in massachusetts. We will go to new york. Carol, who says she is concerned. Caller im concerned. Unfortunately, i take chemotherapy. My brother just found out he has Bladder Cancer and my sister has lung cancer. I lost my daughter last year from lung cancer, and we are all on chemotherapy. We are allowing students from atna coming back to study university. We are allowing students from to come backrever to this country. We are allowing planes to come back to this country, where there are major epidemics. This makes no sense. Billion that 8. 3 congress has allotted for it, it is put into a general fund, which will allow buildings to be uilt, not just the situation with the epidemic. Host those funds also, there select for sins portions of those funds that go to Public Health. We had a segment on it yesterday. If you missed it on our program, you can catch it on our website, cspan. Org. It kind of breakdown where the money is going to when it comes to the 8. 3 billion. Caller what the president was asking for was a little over 2. 5 million, which was going to be 100 for the epidemic. But everybody thinks this 8. 3 thaton everyone thinks this is just going to go to the epidemic. It is not. Unfortunately, no one wants to really come out of the news what is really going on. We should not be allowing countries like italy to come over to this country. We should not be allowing iran, china, or any of these countries to come to this country. Host would you call for a target blanket on those countries and the United States or overall . How far does echo . Does that go . Like iti would have a right now. This is not a minor when we did sars and when we did ebola, we did a small amount in comparison to what is going on here. We do not even know what is going on here and how many people truthfully have this disease, because we have not been able to test. Not only that, i will bring one other thing people are going to the stores to get pu rell, Hand Sanitizer, and my sister who has Hand Sanitizer bought 316 ounce bottles 100 3 16t bought ounce bottles. 100. You cannot even do that with gasoline. Host we saw where some stores are when they come to Hand Sanitizer and the like. Lets go over to dublin, ohio and wendell, who is concerned. Caller i want to share some facts, listening to some of your other guests. And thead the flu shots pneumonia shots for the past 27 years. Recently last month, i found myself becoming very sick. I had to go to the emergency room, and i told him, i said, if it wasnt for the fact i have been getting the shots and had no symptoms are no cold, flu, anything, i told them i said, i swear some thing is different but i feel like i have the flu. They only gave me a shot for an upset stomach and said go home. I found myself the next day so conducted that i could not breathe. I passed out. I had to go to the emergency at osu hospital. They tested me for influenza a. They got me in about 15 minutes, and said, we need to separate you from the rest of the waiting area. You tested positive for influenza a. The other hospital, while all of this is going on, never even took that simple step of testing me for the flu at least. Thereeople were in coughing all over the place, they were not even supplying masks in the first hospital. We have a question about where these countries are reporting or not reporting all of the facts, but why have we not heard about anything going on in russia with virus . Irus this i watch the news and everything i can, im sure everyone else does, but i do not hear anything about, is russia being affected . Can they handle this situation . I also sometimes shake my head when people and i do not mean to be political about this, saying with the current president and the white house staff, the Vice President , who i just listened to when you showed it a while ago, it is a lot of hand movement, which makes me feel like he is very uncomfortable. Weref ums and gonnas, and these kids coming out to test, i would hope they would be made in the United States. In dublin,is wendell ohio. The Johns Hopkins website highlights coronavirus cases across the world. When it comes to russia, four confirmed cases total according to Johns Hopkins. To thatant to go website, it tracks throughout the United States and the world, even, when it comes to these cases. ,o concern is where michael is in brooklyn, iowa. Caller this is michael in brooklyn, iowa. Host thats what i said, go ahead. All, i reallyof appreciate the ability to watch cspan. Have watched it for years and i really appreciate it, because i feel like the media has been very unfair to the Trump Administration in handling this situation. ,f it was a democrat president there would be support and give him kudos. Unfortunately in this age, he can do nothing right. He can do nothing right. This coronavirus i live in iowa, so we dont have anything yet. , weard work doesnt kill us get up at sunrise, like i am right now, we go out in the field and we work, we feed our livestock. Thingsaround a lo