Virus. A councillor that tested positive discusses his experience. And your text and tweets. Washington journal is next. Us coronavirus cases have jumped. Returns at noon as they return to push a response package totalling over 1 million. Good morning, welcome to washington journal, this friday morning. March 20th. Well open up the phone lines, hearing from you, and your experience, response to the federal effort on the coronavirus. Of you in the central time zone, the line is welcome to your input if you are a medical professional tell us your name and where you twitter, ing from on facebook posts. There is a reporter from the mike baker, mes, stationed in the northwest. Part ofg the northwest the us, mike baker tweeting on the numbers, more than he said on the 132. More than 4,000 new cases in the us. Youll see his number at the there 12,336. When we started the programme 9 4509,450. 9,450. Checking the map. 245,484. 10,000, th toll over with 86,000 confirmed recoveries. 14,250. Us i
In, vice dean for public practice at the John Hopkins School for Public Health. The cases we talked about at the beginning of the show were reported cases, jumped by 5000 since yesterday. When you compare this to other Public Health crises, other viruses, i should say, what sort of jump is that . How concerned are you by that jump . Guest it is consistent with spread of a virus through a susceptible population. Some of that is testing is becoming more available. The reason testing is finding so many cases is so many people are infected. We are talking about a virus no human being has seen before, before a few months ago. We are all susceptible. That makes the spread fast. Host do you think the approach, the nationwide approach at least, in terms of prioritizing social distancing of people isolating, staying at home and secondarily, ramping up testing is the right approach . Do we need to be more aggressive with testing nationwide . Guest we are trying to be more aggressive with testing
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