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Hello. It is tuesday, april 14, 2020. Welcome to covid19 on the front lines. A digital event cast from the atlantic. We are going to be talking for the next hour or so about the latest science, about the latest treatments and will be looking forward about what we can expect in the weeks and months ahead. Before get underway, a moment to thank our underwriter who is making the conversations possible. First, lets take a look at where we are right now. As of last night, more than 580,000 americans have been diagnosed with covid19. Over 23,000 have died of covid19related complications. There are some signs of improvement in places like new york. The curve appears to be flattening, but some other hot spots are emerging and at the moment 315 million americans are still under stayathome orders. It is an evolving situation of course. The atlantic has been moving along with it publishing articles like the technology that could free america from quarantine and the coronavirus unique threat. To t ....
Talk as to whether the lockdown will be in place or lifted. More weeks of lockdown. Us, edward stay with morse and David Rosenberg. Aviana Boris Johnson spent third night in intensive care. His condition is improving. The National Picture has turned bleecker. Over a 24 hour period, 938 people died of coronavirus. It is likely a nationwide lockdown will bes is extended for weeks. Spain and italy are on the verge of extending their national lockdowns, expected to push their state of emergencies until april. In the United States, donald is helping coming up with medical criteria to reopen the economy, medical and political advisors kept out of a meeting. House is giving considerations to Health Considerations< ....
Symptoms, hanks says he and his wife and rita wilson feel better. In a tweet announcing their improvement, hanks reiterates sheltering in place and says this too shall pass. Those are some of our top stories on this monday, march 23rd. From abc news, this is world news now. Thank you for jning us on this monday. We begin with the battle over that rescue package to address the pandemic. Talks on the economic rescue bill resumed this morning after democrats and republicans failed to strike a deal. As the virus continues to spread across the country, President Trump activated the National Guard in the three hardest hit states, saying the federal government will pick up the cost. And after one of the worst weeks on wall street, s p 500 futures fell 5 minutes after opening gaining the maximum drop allowed. More now from abcs zachary kiesch. Reporter talks resumed on capitol hill ....
And global names are all taking it on the chin. The market itself is down close to 40 from highs reached a little more than a month ago. And this is feeding on itself. Now, the excuse de jure seems to be the fact that the senate could not cobble together a rescue package late last night. 2 trilliondollar package, democrats say was tilted too much towards businesses. Now theyre scrambling again to come up with something that might be more mutually acceptable. Questions whether it is too little too late. If you consider the 3 1 2 to 4 trillion that the Federal Reserve has provided through everything from cutting Interest Rates down to essentially zero to buying mortgagebacked securities, buying corporate paper, buying anything that they can get their who little hands on to get the cash in the system, that is what it is all about, get cash in the system so people dont feel they ....
Care system is broken and the polls say that 70 percent say it is broken. Right. I do think healthcare will be the number one domestic policy issue in the president ial election. In a recent poll that just came out from gallup that said 35 percent of the American People polled rate healthcare as extremely important as one of the issues and we have seen 53 percent of americans support singlepayer but now 65 percent are supporting the public option which is a supplemental Insurance Plan to compete i call it the steppingstone approach to government run healthcare. Host they say the proof is in the pudding if you look at the last election cycle two years ago, my party were ousted as the majority in the house to make the argument regarding healthcare and many of us campaign on repeal and replace and unfortunately we did not get that done and that was shown at the ballot box. Exac ....