Came through. Im worried if we dont do this right that we risk having a second, third, fourth curve that ends upcoming our way similar to what happened in the spanish flu. We were told to put all the people on unemployment. Thats a joke. Half my people cant get paid from the state. Its not working. That was just a glimpse at the workers on the front line of both the economic and medical fight that is facing this country right now. Welcome to friday. Its meet the press daily. Im chuck todd continuing msnbc coverage of the coronavirus pandemic which has sent this economy into a tail spin, the likes of which we havent seen science the Great Depression. Its caused a historic spike in layoffs pushing the Unemployment Rate near 15 . We know from more data that the actual Unemployment Rate is likely much higher. Perhaps over 20 . U. S. Lost more than 20 million job in the month of april making it the worst job report on record. They started keeping the records in the 1940s. The president vowe
Recent data suggests that the virus is far more widespread than initially believed which means its far less lethal. That should impact our Public Policy response. Dont misunderstand, the virus has proven deadly. As of this moment, more than 65,000 have died in the united states, due to the pandemic. But the fatality rate is determined by dividing the number who died by the total infected. The larger that denominator, the lower the rate. You might remember dr. Jeremy foust, an instructor at Harvard Medical School who was my guest here seven weeks ago. Dr. Foust suggested that the diamond princess cruise ship. 13 of the infected passengers and crew died. A fatality rate of 1. 8 . One half of the w. H. O. Estimate. But dr. Foust points out there were four times the number of people over 70 on board the ship. So the ageadjusted fatality rate would be around 0. 4 . As he wrote a few weeks ago for slate, this all suggests that covid19 is a relatively benign disease for most young people and
Trying to Balance Public Health and the economy. Good morning, everybody. It is friday, may 1st. Can you believe it . Im yasmin vossoughian. The president says he has seen evidence that shows that the coronavirus came from a lab in wuhan. Just hours before that, though, the office of the director of National Intelligence put out a statement saying in part this, the Intelligence Community concurs with the wide Scientific Consensus that the covid19 virus was not manmade or genetically modified. The we will continue looking at information to determine whether the virus came from infected animals or if it was the result of a laboratory in wuhan. While the statement clearly says the investigation is still ongoing, the president made these remarks when pressed yesterday. You said a moment ago you will soon have information on where this virus originated. The director of National Intelligence put out a statement saying they thought it was naturally occurring, not manmade who said that . It wa
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Humanitarian crisis. Who was not elected to serve in the house of representatives. Until we end president obamas amnesty. Senator cruz calling the shots. To vote against the leadership. It shows the box that john boehner has put himself in. He says the president can take actions on his own without congress. They are now encouraging him on a statement to act by himself. Thats what theyre suing him for. You truly cant make that up. Theyre talking about delaying their planned recess. Sthz is like in the movie dumb and dumber. So youre telling me theres a chance . Yeah what leverage does boehner have at this point . Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me, you cant get fooled again. What was to be a routine final days work in the house of representatives before their long summer recess began with eric cantors farewell as majority leader of the house. Mr. Speaker, i close by once again thanking my colleagues for their service. I thank them for their friendship and warmth and with that, i yield