Through cspans daily Washington Journal Program or through our social media feeds. Cspan, created by americas telogen company as a Public Service and brought to you today by your television provider. Joining us this morning is dr. Anand parekh, the former Deputy Assistant hhs secretary for health during the george w. Bush administration and the obama administration. Thank you for being here. Lets talk about the New York Times front page that found it social distancing had been put into place a week earlier it could have saved over 30,000 deaths. Guest thats right, and i think we have talked about this a couple of weeks ago when dr. Fauci was on the air. Unfortunately, that blew away the case. In january and february there was discussion of how we were not able to ramp up testing and that is true, but towards the end of february when we realized our Testing Capacity was not up to par to ensure containment of this virus, that is probably the time when we could have shifted gears towards
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Yesterday as well as the new york governor andrew cuomo. The headline in forbes, new york to begin Clinical Trials for coronavirus treatment. Doctor, what do you know about this treatment . And what are we hopeful for . Greta, thank you for having me on. There are potential treatments that are being talked about. Medications like chloroquine, to treat and prevent malaria. Hydroxychloroquine used to a medication treat diseases like lupus. Its thought that these medications do have antiviral and antiinflammatory properties. There have been some very, very small studies out of france and china demonstrating potentially these medications reducing the duration of symptoms as well as illness. And so what we really need now are Clinical Trials that make sure these medications are safe and effective to treat covid19. We also need basic answers to questions, such as who should get them, at what dose, for how long. So the Clinical Trials of these types of medications are absolutely critical. And