Countries have closed their borders or imposed travel restrictions with the country. In japan, Prime Minister shinzo abe has announced the closure of all schools for roughly a month. The spike in cases in japan and south korea and italy has prompted the tsa to consider expanding Health Screenings at airports. Right now only passengers flying in from china are undergoing those screenings. All of this as the white house update on the u. S. Response causes confusion after President Trump contradicted Health Officials on everything from the timing of a vaccine to whether we will see a surge in cases. Our aggressive containment strategy here in the United States has been working, and is responsible for the low levels of cases that we have so far. However, we do expect more cases. I dont think its i dont think its inevitable. I think that theres a chance that it could get worse. Theres a chance it could get fairly substantially worse. Nothings inevitable. President trumps remarks prompted this reaction from speaker nancy pelosi. Unfortunately, up until now the Trump Administration has mounted an opaque and often chaotic response to this outbreak. Were coming close to a bipartisan agreement in the congress as to how we can go forward with a number that is a good start. We dont know how much we will need. Hopefully not much more because prevention will work, but nonetheless, we have to be ready to do what we need to do. As we watch the markets reacting to this virus, there is this grim warning from a wall street giant. Goldman sachs is warning that u. S. Companies will likely generate 0 Profit Growth this year because of the spread of the coronavirus. With me now is richard quest, your reaction to this dire prediction from goldman . Its extremely sobering because the number they were looking at before was 6 Earnings Growth off the tback o last year. This is a real live classic indication that this is not only going to probably get worse but also the tentacles through the various sectors of the economy. Travel and aviation, obviously, hospitality, but now weve got automobiles. Weve got food production, anywhere where there is either just in time supply from china or indeed now a slowdown from other economies such as asia, such as italy, south korea, and the like. So its multiplying, and its expanding. What about you mentioned air travel. Its already dramatically changing, you know, flights, cancellations, talk to me about that. So weve already got widespread pretty much universal cancellation of flights to china from western airlines. Hong kong still has very limited capacity, so those flights have gone because nobody was on them anyway. Other flights out of asia and in around asia, are 30, 50, 75 . Youve had in the last 24 hours, klm air france, and lufthansa both announcing draconian measures for staff freezings, no hirings, not taking on flight attendants, putting aircraft on the ground. L lufthansa has 13 aircraft it no longer needs that its storing on the ground. This will not take long before other airlines, the british airways, the u. S. Carriers who are slightly protected by this vast domestic network, but theyve been growing internationally, so theyre going to have to start cutting that you are european and asian routes too. I had mark sandy sitting in that seat yesterday, he was saying this is all looking more and more likely to a recession. This is all happening now, recession soon. Youre shaking your head. Were a long way from a u. S. Recession here. A global recession unlikely. I dont know anybody yet who is forecasting a u. S. Or global recession on the back of this. Now, could we could it and the reason look, the reason youre seeing the market down 600 points and the reason youre seeing it was down 960 points this morning was because of what im going to say next. If this continues and gets worse, if china doesnt grow at 4 , but actually grows at 3 , if italys growth falls into recession and the european union, which is teetering there anyway fall sbo into recession, then you are talking about a u. S. Recession at the moment. At the moment, thats the sort of media speak that the president doesnt like to hear, and at the moment i would say a global or u. S. Recession is not likely unless things get much worse. It is a feeding machine. Yeah. And nearly 3,000 down on the dow. The worst week since 2008. That will factor into general Economic Data if it lasts any longer. That cant be avoided. Richard quest, thank you very much. On the health side of all of this, let me bring in elizabeth cohen. You have more details on this california patient who Officials Say could be an example of what theyre referring to as community spread. Explain, a, what that means, and b, what do we know about this patient . Well, brooke, this is a real turning point today with this case at uc davis. Lets take a look at the u. S. Cases that have been going on thus far. When you look at these cases that are on this map, these people all have something in common. Either they were travelers to china or on the diamond princess cruise, or they were in close contact with the traveler. Actually, so close they were actually married. So either they had traveled or they were married to someone who had traveled. This uc davis case, thats not the situation. This person has coronavirus, and they had not traveled to a coronavirus hot spot, and they didnt werent in contact that they knew of with anyone who had coronavirus. So lets look at what happened at uc davis. This patient shows up at the hospital on february 19th. The patient had been sick for a while with pneumonia, and so uc davis rightly so asked the cdc to test, and the cdc did not immediately test. The cdc did not agree to test until about four days later, and then it took about another four days to get those results. So you might ask why . Why would they delay it . The reason is because the cdc has been focused on travelers or contacts of travelers. Theyre getting lots of demands for testing, and this did not fit the criteria, this person hadnt traveled. Wasnt in contact with the traveler. This really gets to the heart of the issue which is that theres been just not enough testing available. Cdc in atlanta has been doing the testing. Thats changing. More labs are coming online now. Up until now its been pretty much cd krrc in atlanta. Thank you. Let me bring in dr. Myron cohen, the dreirector of the institute for Global Health for the university of North Carolina at chapel hill. Thank you so much for joining me. Lets jump back to this concept of community spread, right . The question on so many minds is how could this patient how could you get coronavirus if you dont travel to a nation in which there is coronavirus and you presumably dont know anyone whos had it . I think the obvious suggestion is that there is someone in Northern California with coronavirus, whether its symptomatic or asymptomatic that was able to transmit the virus to what were going to call the index case, the person with new infection in Northern California. So there almost certainly have to be two people involved. It is possible, we think the coronavirus pri pamarily is thrh respiratory spread. A tremendous amount of work is looking at the efficiency of which its spread. I heard one of your commentators talk about the contamination of an environmental servicurface. Thats possible but much more likely with a respiratory spread. Does this mean were in a new phase, and because of that will that force officials to rethink how they test, how they respond . Yeah, i think this is an emerging pathogen, the coronavirus. Its a new pathogen, and the most important thing for us to do which we are trying to do now is to learn the rules that govern this. What does that mean . There are rules that govern transmission and the efficiency of transmission, and when transmission can and cannot occur, and then there are rules that govern what the innfectife will do. About 80 of the people have mild infection, and a smaller number go on to severe infections. There are reasons why most people have mild infekctions. Were really trying to learn the rules. If you look at other emerging pathogens, it took us 20 years to understand many of the rules that govern hiv. Weve had about 20 days to understand covid19, and its been terrific, by the way. I think the scientific capacity thats been applied to the problem, theres like an article every hour trying to answer the questions youre asking. In terms of whats happening, were grateful for that, thank goodness, all these brilliant scientific minds. There was that delay of several days as elizabeth was just pointing out, you know, from the time that that patient was admitted to the time that he or she was tested for coronavirus. And Uc Davis Medical Center with patients being treated said, quote, since the patient did not fit the existing cdc criteria for covid19 a test was not immediately administered. Is that concerning at all to you . Yeah, again, this is a dynamic situation. The test thats available, people are trying scientists are trying to understand the exact validity of the test as they develop it and improve it as rapidly as possible. This a test of the virus itself. And in order to develop the test and distribute it as will happen soon, it takes some time, and i think this will i believe this case will speed up the process by which this kind of testing is available nationwide. What about hospitals, because i know the cdc is advising americans to be prepared for significant disruption to their lives. How are our nations hospitals preparing . What are they doing right now . I can speak for the university of North Carolina where i work, and were taking we have terrific commitment in preparation. For example, every person who now checks in for medical care is asked about their travel history, whether they have a cough, and questions of that nature, and our system that is prepared in a particular way to respond to an affirmative answer. So i think most hospitals, most medical centers are doing the same thing. Youve raised a really big concern, and that is we have to avoid being overwhelmed. Should this spread, and no one can predict the exact spread. We need to be prepared to take care of the sickest patients effectively, and so were trying to prepare for that right now. And i think the preparations are going well. Im sure most hospitals and medical centers are doing what were doing. Okay. Dr. Myron cohen in chapel hill, North Carolina. Thank you, sir very much. Lets shift gears and talk 2020, the South Carolina primary is considered a must win for joe biden, and then he faces an even tougher battle, super tuesday. Plus, Mike Bloomberg moments ago releasing information about his heart health, what it reveals and what hes calling on one of his rivals to do. Youre watching cnn. Im brooke baldwin. Well be right back. People, our sales now apply to only 10 frames. A new low at visionworks, our sales are good on all of our frames. Why are you so weird . Use your tax return and get 50 off any pair. Visionworks. See the difference. You look more like a heather. A. Do you ever get that . Its nice to finally meet you in person. 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Is a third of the total delegates in the democratic primary, just for comparison South Carolina offers up 54. That is why candidates like elizabeth warren, Mike Bloomberg, Amy Klobuchar are not even scheduled to be in South Carolina today. Senator sanders will be there tonight, but hes also campaigning in North Carolina and virginia. Joe biden, Pete Buttigieg and tom steyer are all staying put in South Carolina today. And joe biden is all in on South Carolina, make or break state to be sure after he lagged in iowa, new hampshire, and nevada. But is he counting too much on one state . With just as we mentioned 54 delegates, his campaign is being roundly criticized in some of those super tuesday states for not showing up. Todays New York Times quotes the head of the chair of the party in texas who said this, quote, bernie has a ground game because he naturally has a ground game. Bloomberg has funded a ground game. Elizabeth warren has a ground game because she started organizing in texas a long time ago, but regarding joe biden, quote, i havent seen anything other than the events hes had in texas. With me now, michael john gray, chairman of the arkansas Democratic Party. And michael, thank you for being with me. You were quoted in this same article, and you said this, arkansas was, in my opinion, going to be a default biden state. He hasnt been here. Of all the campaigns the least organized in arkansas is biden. Whats the evidence . What makes you say hes the least organized in arkansas . Just the people im hearing from, brooke. The candidates that have been in the state, senator klobuchars been here twice. Senator warrens coming in this weekend. Senator sanders has been here, mr. Bloombergs making his third or fourth trip here. I know that last night mayor buttigieg had surrogates in the state, and theres some great support in the Vice President , but were not seeing the presence were seeing out of the other campaigns. Have you or folks within the party, have you heard from team biden . Weve heard sporadically from team biden early, and then weve heard from some people on the ground, but not a real plan and not a real Constant Contact with the biden camp, no. Might it be that theyre just putting all eggs in the South Carolina basket because they want the big momentum coming out of South Carolina to then already do well in states like arkansas . They just really need that win . So i think thats right. They want you guys talking about how he exceeded expectations in South Carolina, and now on to super tuesday, but i think what it does is it just points out the problems were having in the Democratic Party right now. Theres a whole branch that is worried about maybe the party going too far to the left, but the people that are doing the organizing and doing the work are the people that may be a little bit further left than what Vice President biden or some of the other candidates are, and those people arent doing the work to organize like left wing of the party is doing. Are you worried about that . Its a tight rope to walk. You definitely appreciate and enjoy the energy coming from listen, all of these candidates are progressive. Were using this label but theyre definitely progressive, specially compared to the regressive leadership in washington right now. Hearing moderate voters be a little bit timid about it but not seeing the candidates that are labeled as moderates doing the work to do the organization to get the voters out. One big concern among democrats is that the house of representatives will truly be at risk if senator Bernie Sanders becomes the nominee. Do you think the house would be at risk . I think if youre talking about seats in swing states or democratics narrowly won it or we have a chance, i think that definitely puts them back in play for the republicans. Seats that we picked up in solid blue states, i dont think senator sanders at the top of the ticket affects them as much. Do you think folks in arkansas will hold it against joe biden that he has so far been not around, not present as much . Or the 2 million absentee ballots have already been cast for super tuesday, maybe theyve already gone team biden . I dont think theyll hold it against former Vice President , but i think what youre seeing is theres discussion around other candidates, mayor bloomberg, mayor pete, mayor buttigieg and senators klobuchar and warren. You cant turn on a device in arkansas without seeing an ad for Michael Bloomberg. Michael john gray, thank you for your insight. Good to have you on. Thank you, brooke. 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