Coronavirus outbreak. And we will take your calls and you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter. Washington journal is next. Host this is the washington journal for march 2. The Senate Health official Committee Hears from officials in the Coronavirus Response. You can watch that on cspan 3, cspan. Org, and listen on the radio app. President trump will meet with pharmaceutical officials to discuss creation of a vaccine and medicines to moderate symptoms as the Seattle Times reports a second death in king county, washington. About 90 cases confirmed in the u. S. For our next hour, we will ask about your level of concern whether it be the potential spread, the potential death or the federal governments response. Here is how you can let us know your thoughts. In the eastern and central time zones, 2027488000. Mountain and pacific time zones, 2027488001. If you are a medical professional, doctor, nurse, Public Health official, give us your thoughts at 2027488002. You can text us
Gauging the response, what is working and what has done well. We made toefforts implement travel restrictions and limit travel from china clearly bought us some time. It slowed the rate of new cases coming into the country, i think the question becomes what we do with that time and we did some things well and some things not so well. I think we prepared the nation, we got the Health Care System prepared. We will educate providers. Learn more about the virus and how it spread and how you can combat it. One thing we didnt do that we should have was had in place broader screening. We should event omitted screening weeks ago and really a month ago or even more. To try detect small outbreaks early. We had problems rolling out a diagnostic test, we took a very linear approach in my view and depended upon one test promulgated by the centers for disease prevention rather than not it also working with academic labs together diagnostics. Then we had to scramble and so we are now just getting in
App. Joining us from new york,s in dr. Scott gottlieb, the former head of the food and Drug Administration, served as commissioner in the Trump Administration from 2017 to 2019, a resident fellow at the American Enterprise institution. Here to talk about the response to global coronavirus. Doctor, good morning. Thanks for having me. Can we start with you gauging the response to date. What is working and whats been done well . What would you have some concerns with as far as the u. S. Response . Well, the efforts we made to implement travel restrictions and limit travel from china clearly bought us some time. It slowed the rate of new cases coming into the country. I think the question then becomes what did we do with that time . We did some things well and some things not so well. We prepared the nation, got the Health Care System prepared, able to educate providers. We learned more about the virus and how it spreads and how you can combat it. The one thing we didnt do that we should h
You for all of you are watching by live stream. As the 2020 Campaign Ramps up, both democrats and republicans are working very hard to rally their base. They are also trying to win over swing voters but i think we all know and we will specially see today, that it is by far the largest bloc of voters out there, 100 million voters are the voting age adults who dont go to the polls. I cant say enough, that the balance of power in the United States rest in those voters. These nonvoters span every demographic. Every racial demographic, age demographic, education demographic. Today we are going to have, a very enlightening panel discussion, discussing with Party Leaders themselves, how they plan to appeal to this group and get some of these people to come to the polls. Were also also going to discuss the very interesting results of this night study that is being studied today. And we have all been anticipating for a long time. I want to encourage you all, as you follow our discussion to also
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