7488000. Republicans, 202 7488001. Ndependents, 202 7488002 you can send us a text this morning, if you do its 202 7488003, and we ask that you provide your name and where you are from. You can catch up with us on social media, facebook or twitter. A good Tuesday Morning to you, you can go ahead and start calling in now. The latest focus on Anthony Fauci began last thursday when President Trump gave a interview to sean hannity, saying that faucher had made a lot of mistakes since the outbreak and by saturday the post and other news outlets got a document listing those mistakes from unnamed sources at the white house and by yesterday here were some of the headlines about dr. Fauci from both sides of the political spectrum. From the left, the huffington post, medical schools voice support for how she amid white house attacks. We are concerned and alarmed by the efforts to undercut the top u. S. Infectious disease expert. From the right side of the aisle, from the red state website, sayin
State are on track to move to phase three of the reopening plan before the end of may. He also announced illinois has become the number one state in the nation for coronavirus testing per capita. This is just over one hour. Welcome to our tuesday, may 19, daily update. We are going to started off with the medical update from dr. Ngozi ezike. Dr. Ezike thank you, governor. Good afternoon, everyone. I will get right to the medical update. Since yesterday, we are reporting 1500 45 additional individuals with covid19. We now have 98,030 total cases in the state of illinois. This does include 146 additional people with covid19 who have been reported to have died in the last 24 hours. A total of 4379 fatalities. Of those, 993 were the icu and 576 were on ventilators. There is evidence that the stayathome plans are working. I know people are asking, but why are there so many cases and why are people continuing to die . But we know that the number of cases is a big function of how many tests w
Secret puppet masters. I guess i should start out by pointing out that irises are microbes as well. It made sense to call this this is a young, a writer for the atlantic, author of a new book called multitudes of other microbiota microbes of our panel. Here is paul, a Science Writer for the New York Times and other many books including most recently, a planet of viruses. Im an author of a book called pandemic about how microbes cause academics and all of these folks are going to be for sale by barnes noble and will sign them after this session signing table h. I hope you can come join us for more discussion. First, before we start, i would like to ask is anyone here in microbiologist . Okay, weve got four. We cant make anything up. [laughter] i think its really interesting time to talk about microbiology because there is a paradigm shift in recent years. If think back to the late 19th century, we thought about microbes mostly as these intruders we have to target with physical physician
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Sense to call this microbes, viruses, and destiny because of our writers we have. This is ed yong, site letter for the atlantic, author of a new book called i contain multitudes. Its about the micro biomes, the microbes of our panel title. And carl zimmer a a science wrr for the New York Times and author of many books including most recently a planet of viruses. Im sonia shah, and author of a book called pandemic which is about how microbes cause epidemics in the past and future in all these books will be for sale by barnes noble and will be signed aftery this session at signing table h. Of you guys can, joint us for more discussion there, too. First before we start id like to ask if anyone here actually is aua microbiologist . We have four. We can make anything up. [laughing] you guys correct us if you see nothing a wrong. I think its a really interesting time to talk about microbiology because of theres been a paradigm shift in recent years. If you think back since the late 19th cent