Adam curry Jhansi Devorah and Sunday April 3 2022. This is
your award winning give on nation media assassination
episode 1439. This is no agenda,
rewinding the
COVID clock and broadcasting almost live from the heart of
the Texas hill country here in FEMA Region number six in the
morning, everybody. I'm Adam curry,
and from Northern Silicon Valley where it's my birthday week. I'm
Jhansi Dvorak.
My my voice is still cracking. Long, long, long. COVID
continues long. COVID long COVID
It's hardly noticeable. Yeah,
it was better on Thursday. And I just cracked. So here we are.
We're almost live. It's kind of like we're really here. You of
course are in the Seychelles wish. Have you ever been to
Seychelles?
No, but I've been told by a couple of guys who do a lot of
traveling. They've been all over the world. They say the
Seychelles is the best. Yeah, I've never been unfortunate. I
don't know if it's true anymore. This was like 20 years 20 plus
years ago wasn't the
Seychelles the one that was going to tip over from climate
change.
It was one of the islands but I don't think it was that that was
gonna say show I was gonna drown national idiot. Yeah.
So we're taking now. I am hoping that I got the timing of this
right. The reason for this break is because we you and I haven't
had a break in a year.
Year and a half to almost two years. I think it was two years
not away with Tina and I went away. We had a break in 2020. Do
we have one in 2012? I can't remember if we had one. No,
Bolden must have been I know we didn't have one is 2020 You
can't remember when you last one on vacation then it was a while
ago? Yeah. So I hoped I timed this before the the the food
shortages and the financial collapse. And I think we did
pretty well by timing it after the Ukrainian war and COVID.
We've done pretty well.
We'll see if you can't get back. We'll know the reason why.
But they're definitely gonna kick that into high gear.
They're definitely COVID is coming back. We have all the
evidence. They're going to do something it's gonna be testing
gold dragon to get much traction, they got to find
something else to do dig their work. They can't bring it.
Democrats can't bring it back because they're gonna they
already know they got troubles for the midterms. Yeah, they
can't take a chance on pissing off everybody. They would bring
it back maybe to get to a mail in ballots so they can scam that
again. Right
now. They can't they can't drag it out. We'll see. In the
meanwhile, the art for the last episode 1438 Taunton, Neil, I
believe was clearly perfect because you called the end of
the COVID pandemic, April 2022. And here we are,
seems to be over perfect timing, and the war should be over by
the time we get back.
Until then, what have you put together for us for this
is a show of COVID clips only. And I've got a couple hours
worth in it's like all the stuff from the beginning with the
first clip when we first met COVID first appeared on the
scene right through the goal two or three weeks, so it has
flattened the curve. And I got the boat coming out to bring in
the Mercy Ships. Oh,
I forgot about those. Yeah, the hospital ships,
ships, they didn't send one person to and they have
ventilators we need more ventilator so we can kill more
people. And they there's just a lot of good stuff and a lot of
has been forgotten but I think this will bring back a few
memories
now as I was listening to the next week. Next episode. So next
next ship next
I'm losing it the next episodes clips, which will be the best of
end of show mixes it's really incredible what the human brain
has had I'm sure you'd notice this what the human brain has
had to endure in the past two and a half years of bullshit
being injected directly through our retinas into our brains.
Yeah, to good thing we're doing this show I don't know where
we'd be I mean it's not
it's not just okay we had a virus and then there was
problems. I mean, all the stuff it's amazing to think and I
think people will realize this when they listen to it how much
bull crap was thrown at your brain and your amygdala non stop
Yeah, it's pretty nonstop that was the problem I think either
way Ross remember the one good thing was that out here because
of the way they structured the shutdown stay at home laws. They
had this media exemption thing which included podcasters so I'm
out and about but their traffic down to nothing there's nobody
on the roads and driving around
beauty rate and this so these clips are just the clips not us.
I'm sorry, the clips the this specialist just the clips not
us.
Yeah, you The clips love it. And please note there are no vaccine
clips in this batch because this is from January 2020 to May
1 2020 It's just unbelievable.
Let's kick it off COVID Best of ever go.
We will show you inside Georges lugar laboratory which detects
and prevents the spread of dangerous diseases. But pro
Kremlin media claim it spreads disease experimenting on humans
with cancer, the Zika virus killer mosquitoes and plagues of
stinkbugs. I asked the laboratories director whether
there was any truth to these narratives,
but we are not making Zika virus in this operator, the killer
mosquito about the laboratory is the the level of the laboratory
is so high that we can diagnose here the Zika Ebola creamier
Congo and many many infectious diseases. No killer blocky
making this virus is here.
No Marmorated Stink Bug coming from the lluvia laboratory but
the Marmorated Stink Bug. I'm not a scientist. But what I have
been seeing here suggests that this laboratory is exactly what
the Georgian government says it is. The Russian claims that
what's going on at the lugar lab is far more sinister, haven't
been supported by any hard evidence in taxes.
Authorities are warning that a traveler with measles may have
unknowingly exposed others across the country that come
that new alert comes amid an increase in measles cases
nationwide. Sam Brock is in Austin with the latest.
Tonight an urgent health alert from Texas after a passenger
infected with measles passed through the Austin Airport last
week after traveling in Europe. It's Travis county's first
detected case in 20 years.
We're trying to get on top of this share as much information
as we can to try to really contain this
the passenger left from Austin International Airport on
December 17, but then proceeded to go to airports in Chicago and
Virginia, meaning that other passengers and not one, not two,
but three different airports were potentially exposed this
after separate cases in LA X and Denver international airports
earlier this month. But health experts say Austin is at greater
risk because of low vaccination rates of children.
Austin unfortunately, is one of the epicenters of the anti
vaccine movement in America. A startling
study earlier this year estimates one infected person
could lead to an outbreak of more than 400 cases in Austin,
with nearly 1300 confirmed cases of the measles nationwide this
year more than three times the number last year the highly
contagious virus can linger in the air for hours. Symptoms
include cough, rash, fever and sore eyes. Tonight doctors say
it's another stark reminder to get vaccinated. Sam Brock, NBC
News Austin,
two year old Jude McGee, 26 year old newlywed Katie mutt
question. Gianna cabas sagg, a four year old little girl they
all died of the flu, and they all had flu shots. There's no
question you should get a flu shot. Last flu season the flu
killed at least 36,000 people so this shot could literally save
your life. But it's far from perfect.
Even on a good year, influenza. The effectiveness of the vaccine
is about 60% On a bad year. It's as
low as 10%.
Do we need to make a better flu vaccine?
You know, we really absolutely do.
In September, President Trump signed an executive order noting
that the current system for making flu shots has critical
shortcomings. The order pledges to modernize the process. The
first step, stop using eggs to make flu vaccine. They grow the
virus in the eggs like the eggs you eat for breakfast, and then
they kill the virus and put it in a vaccine. But sometimes the
virus changes inside the egg so it doesn't end up matching the
flu that's out there spreading among people. That's why some
companies like this one have figured out ways to grow the flu
virus without using eggs. Trump's executive order is
designed to encourage more of this technology and something
even bigger, something researchers have been working on
for years of flu vaccine you would get only once in your life
instead of every year. A new
viral outbreak from China is spreading around the world.
Countries like the US Japan and Thailand have confirmed cases.
And on Wednesday, a Chinese health official has said the
virus is adapting and mutating. So what exactly do we know about
this flu like virus? Your health officials now say it can be
passed from person to person. So far hundreds of cases have been
confirmed and several people have died. Symptoms include
fever, coughing and difficulty breathing and can lead to
pneumonia. The exact origins is unknown though Chinese officials
have linked the outbreak to a seafood market in the city of
Wuhan. All of the deaths so far have been in that central
Chinese city. It's also home to a Foxconn plant, which is a key
supplier to Apple. And it's hosting Olympic qualifiers for
women's soccer next month. thing to look out for next will be
what happens over Chinese New Year, and whether Fear takes its
toll on the global economy. Millions of people are preparing
to travel around China and abroad for the New Year
celebrations, raising the risk of a wider contagion. Fear of a
pandemic has also sent chills through the markets, investors
are comparing it to China's 2003 SARS outbreak that killed nearly
800 people, and by some estimates caused $40 billion in
global economic losses. Aviation and luxury goods stocks have
already been hit particularly hard with concerns it could
deter Chinese consumers from traveling or shopping.
What we know and I think this is one of the big points out and I
remember this covering the SARS outbreak and the MERS outbreak
at some point. The question is, is this something that is just
spreading from animals to humans as it seemed to be in central
China, people visiting the seafood and an exotic pet
markets? Or is this something that is spreading from human to
human? And we now have evidence that it is spreading from human
to human? Seems that 14 healthcare workers that were
taking care of this patient in Wuhan, were infected and we also
know people who never visited Wuhan are now carrying the
virus. So that human to human transmission is what this
meeting tomorrow this public health meeting is going to be
all about. Really scary.
I mean, or at least it sounds scary to the lay person.
And so what's keeping public health officials up at night
most?
Well, you know, I think immediately what you think of
when you hear this Coronavirus, and we have an image of what
this looks like. You think a SARS you remember this I mean I
covered this 2003 You think of MERS by the way quick
microbiology Coronavirus, that's the crown on the outside, you'll
always be able to identify this type of virus. They're mostly an
animal's Allison seven times have we ever documented they
jumped from animals to humans and only two of those times what
didn't end up being a really significant infection, SARS and
MERS so what's keeping public health officials up at night is
is this going to go the way of SARS and MERS was SARS was a
nearly two dozen countries 8000 People infected 800 people died.
Is it going to go that way? Or is it going to be more of a more
innocuous gets people sick but people don't really die? We
don't know yet. And that's what they're going to try and
determine look at all this data and figure that out.
Found a new virus that has killed nine people and infected
hundreds more in China has now spread to the US. A man in his
30s from Washington State is the first person in America to be
diagnosed with Coronavirus. It's called the man returned to the
Seattle area last week from a trip to Wuhan. That's a city in
central China where the outbreak began. Right now that patient is
in isolation in a hospital north of Seattle.
Our number one priority is to complete the identification of
all the patients contacts, reach out to the contacts and monitor
their health. We also want to
enhance screening is already in place at three US airports with
two more being added this week. Are Dr. Tara Narula is you're at
the table with more on this story. You hear about it. You
see the mask. It's very disturbing. How worried should
we be? Yeah, and
what is it? Exactly?
So this is a form of Coronavirus. We've known about
Coronavirus before this is a new strain. This is a virus that's
found worldwide. It causes typically a mild or moderate
respiratory illness but it can be more severe. We saw that with
SARS and MERS which are also forms of Coronavirus. So
certainly the CDC is recommending that we be cautious
about this that we'd be proactive because it is a new
strain. It is contagious. So interestingly, they think it
does circulate in animals, and occasionally can make the jump
from animals to humans, which is what they think happened in this
case, because the initial cases were surrounding an area of
market a seafood animal market in the Wuhan area. And so they
think that it started in animals, it was transmitted to
humans. And now they're saying that, in fact that is spread
between human to humans. Bottom line,
we don't have to worry about this one, right. Well, I
you know, obviously you need to take it seriously and do the
kinds of things that the CDC and the Department of Homeland
Security are doing. But this is not a major threat for the
people in the United States. And this is not something that the
citizens of the United States right now should be worried
about.
It's great to see. Thank you for joining us again in Davos. We've
done this before, right think was a couple of years ago.
Before we get started with with we're going to talk about the
economy a lot of other things. A The CDC has identified a case of
Coronavirus in Washington state the Wu Han strain of this if you
remember SARS that affected GDP travel related effects. Do you?
Have you been briefed by the CDC? The words about a pandemic
at this point? Oh,
not at all. And we're, we have a totally under control. It's one
person coming in from China. And we have it under control. It's
going to be just fine.
Okay. President Xi. There's just some some talk in China that
that maybe the transparency isn't everything that it's going
to be you trust that we're going to know everything we need to
know from China?
I do I do. I have a great relationship with President Xi.
We just signed probably the biggest deal ever made that
terms. It certainly has the potential to be the biggest deal
ever made. And it was very interesting for the time, let's
get without it done. And no, I do. I think the relationship is
very, very good.
It may take quite some time before we know the full economic
impact of the one virus but the disruption is likely to dent
China's economy. And that's because Wuhan is a major
transport hub in recent years has become a symbol of
capitalism in central China with international automakers, such
as Honda and General Motors Building cars there. In fact,
reports say that more than 300 of the world's top 500 companies
have a presence in Wuhan. Local government data showed that
one's GDP growth was 7.8% last year and that that is 1.7
percentage points higher than the national average. Who hands
economic strength last year came as its total value of imports
and exports hit a record high it was 13.7% higher than in 2018.
And it accounted for almost 62% of Hubei provinces
overall foreign trade value
tonight concern growing in the United States officials saying
they expect more people will contract the dangerous new
disease. Passengers on flights to Boston wearing face masks.
Everybody's wearing the mask because they're afraid of
getting infected by other people
in Seattle, Chicago and Los Angeles reports that stores are
running out of supplies of masks. Two cases currently
confirmed in Chicago a woman in her 60s She had cold like
symptoms shortness of breath, fever, and many times it would
present just like a cold just to pay for cold or flu and outside
Seattle, a man in his 30s At least 63 people are now being
tested for the respiratory illness in 22 states including
three possible cases in New York. Symptoms include fever,
dry cough and shortness of breath. Tonight hospitals on
high alert Dr. Jennifer Ashton visited New York City's Health
and Hospitals Bellevue
so this is a negative pressure Room here at the hospital where
a patient with Coronavirus would be cared for by specially
trained
medical personnel. They showed her precautions they would need
to take how prepared
are you and your staff to receive a patient who may have
Coronavirus. We're prepared to take that patient now our radar
is always set high so we can screen these patients so we can
stop it from infecting other people in the public.
Tonight at the epicenter of the Coronavirus outbreak. The crisis
is escalating dozens of workers in Wuhan with heavy machinery
racing against time to build a brand new 1000 bed hospital in
just 10 days, and now a second 1300 bed facility in the next
15. The space desperately needed hospitals teeming with patients
and staff stretched then. In China alone. There are now more
than 1400 cases and at least 42 deaths as more than 400 medics
who've worked on SARS and Ebola deploy to help with a rapidly
growing emergency. Wuhan and 16 other cities in a travel
lockdown. That's a total of 15 million people ordered to stay
in place. That's the population of the state of New York and
Texas combined. The US government's evacuating the
majority of consulate employees and families from Wuhan and is
reportedly working on a charter flight to get all remaining
Americans out.
The term Cabin Fever is probably coming into play here.
Here it's the Chinese Lunar New Year the country's biggest
holiday. New Year worshipers have gathered here to pray for
good luck in the year of the wrath. But people also be warned
about gathering in large places like this. And so most people
here are wearing these kind of protective masks. The list of
cases outside Mainland China also growing with more than 35
cases in 13 countries or territories, including France.
In Japan. The health ministry says three evacuees have tested
positive for the virus. A day after returning to Tokyo. 206
passengers were on their government chartered flight on
Wednesday all were sent to medical institutions to undergo
tests. The ministry says two of the infected patients had no
symptoms. It's the first time in Japan the virus has been
detected in patients with without symptoms. The prime
minister also says two of the evacuees didn't give their
consent for the health check.
The procedure was not legally binding. Unfortunately, they did
not agree to be tested. We could not force them as it was also a
human rights issue.
They said he's confident all evacuees on subsequent flights
will give their consent. Now a second plane carrying 210
Japanese nationals from the virus hit city touchdown at
Haneda Airport on Thursday morning. 13 passengers on that
flight are exhibiting symptoms and have been sent to a special
hospital for infectious diseases.
Good morning. Dr. Jango Chou has been recognized by the Governor
General's Innovation Awards.
This work can't be done without teamwork. She and the team
at the National microbiology lab have been praised for developing
any bola vaccine, but just over a week ago to her husband and
her students from China were evicted from Canada's only level
for lab. Their security access revoked. Staff at the lab was
told last Monday the couple is on leave and not to communicate
with them. We're getting those resources who work at the lab
but who don't want to be identified for Fears they'll be
punished. They say this is coming just months after it
specialists entered choose office after hours and replaced
your computer and her superiors stopped authorizing work trips
to China. Manitoba RCMP confirmed it was called in by
the Public Health Agency of Canada on May 24. A spokesperson
says the agency is investigating a policy breach calling it an
administrative matter and it's taking steps to resolve it
expeditiously. We can assure Canadians that there is no risk
to the public and that the work of the NML continues in support
of the health and safety of all Canadians.
I want to stress. The risk of infection for Americans remains
low. And with these and our previous actions, we are working
to keep the risk low. All agencies are working
aggressively to monitor this continually evolving situation.
And to keep the public informed and it constantly transparent
way. The United States appreciates China's efforts and
coordination with public health officials across the globe and
continues to encourage the highest levels of transparency.
It is likely that we will continue to see more cases in
the United States in the coming days and weeks, including some
limited person to person transmission. The American
public can be assured the full weight of the US government is
working to safeguard the health and safety of the American
people.
You need not look far to see the economic consequences of this
virus airline after airline suspending flights to China.
This afternoon. One of air Canada's last direct flights
from Beijing landed in Vancouver. In China, entire
swaths of the country have been shut down. Starbucks has closed
more than half its outlets Toyota announced it will close
its plants. And Google says it will temporarily close all of
its Chinese offices. Remember though back in 2003, China was
basically the world's factory today China's much more
intertwined in the buying and selling of the global economy.
The fact that the
Chinese authorities have clamped down and they put many cities in
lockdown already. That means those consumers aren't out there
purchasing and that will really dampen Chinese growth.
And that dampening will be felt in places you may not expect.
Cameron seafood sells about half its lobsters to China. And
Chinese New Year is one of the busiest times of year they were
set to ship about 20,000 pounds this week.
Those are all canceled. So actually the sales to China
completely disappeared from Monday.
There are other markets for those lobsters but there's no
way to make up the loss of the Chinese market and no way of
knowing how or when the world's second biggest economy will
reopen for business.
A new case of the deadly Coronavirus has been confirmed
in the US the latest case in Massachusetts. It's the eighth
in the US and the first on the East Coast. Health officials
have declared a public health emergency. nearly 14,000 people
worldwide have been infected and more than 300 have died. And
nearly 60 million people in China are under travel
restrictions. Ramy no Sensio leading us off from Beijing.
The CDC says the new case of Coronavirus is a Boston resident
in his 20s who recently traveled to the center of the outbreak
Wuhan China, he's been placed in isolation. Also today tech giant
Apple announced it would close all its stores and offices in
China until February 9, joining a growing list of companies
restricting operations here this all comes as the worst The World
Health Organization declared a global health emergency and the
US State Department raised its travel advisory for China to the
highest level, meaning do not travel to China. A new study out
by the British medical journal The Lancet estimates that more
than 75,000 people have been infected by the virus as of last
week. If that turns out to be true, it will confirm what many
already fear that Beijing is massively under reporting these
numbers. The CDC reported that even if patients initial tests
for Coronavirus are negative, they could still develop the
illness because the test only works when patients have
symptoms. A study also showed the virus can be transmitted by
patients with no symptoms. A woman who travelled from
Shanghai to Germany infected seven other people while she
remained asymptomatic. Those findings contributed to the
decision to place 195 Americans housed at a California airbase
in the first federal quarantine in 50 years, they will spend 14
days there
that's way to control a virus like this is to keep people away
from everyone else. While you run out the clock on that
incubation period,
I routinely monitor outbreaks of disease around the world, both
for humans and animals to see if there might be a biological
warfare agent at work. So I follow what was going on there
at Wuhan. And eventually reached the conclusion that what we are
dealing here is an offensive biological warfare agent that
leapt out of the Wuhan biosafety level for a laboratory there
that has been DNA genetically engineered with gain of function
properties that simply accelerates the DNA genetically
engineering for a bio warfare agent in the first place. And as
far as I can tell, right now, Steve, just having read the
public record, it does appear as if it's a combination of what's
called a camera that basically you have the SARS. And we know
that that facility has previously worked with SARS and
stars leaked out of there at least twice before combined with
the flu virus. And it appears also combined with HIV that, you
know, leads to AIDS. At a minimum. It's my opinion that
you know, it's extremely dangerous. The Chinese
government the first case was December 1, it had nothing at
all to do with the you know, the food central there that's just
baloney and propaganda. Clearly the Chinese government knew
about it probably right around December one, the first human to
human transmission transmission was December 15. So the Chinese
government has been lying about it since then. This is a
specially designated who research lab. Now imagine that
the who are specially designating a bio warfare lab.
So the by the who is in on this? These BSL four facilities are
only good for research, developing, testing and
stockpiling biological warfare weapons.
The Chinese doctor who warned the government about a possible
Coronavirus outbreak has died after contracting the virus
while working at Wuhan Central Hospital. 34 year old
ophthalmologist Li wenliang warned his fellow medical
workers about Coronavirus on December 30. He was then
investigated by police and accused of making false
comments. His death has sparked a wave of anger and outrage in
China, where the hashtag We want freedom of speech went viral on
Chinese social media site Weibo on Thursday.
US officials announced today that an American citizen has
died from the Coronavirus in the Chinese city of Wuhan. The 60
year old woman who died on Thursday reportedly had
underlying health issues before becoming the first known
American fatality from the illness. As the death toll rises
and the virus spreads. Authorities from around the
world are taking strict precautions to slow the spread
of the deadly disease. Hong Kong said today that it will begin
enforcing a mandatory quarantine for anyone arriving from
mainland China and 3700 people are being ordered to remain
aboard a cruise ship for 14 days after 64 passengers tested
positive for the virus. The Coronavirus has infected nearly
35,000 people globally since it was first detected in December.
So let's talk about impeachment first process is finally behind
us. The President was acquitted. Mark, looking back on it, what
do you make of the process and the outcome?
Well, let me begin by saying David correctly predicted the
outcome. And so, you know, I have to defer, acknowledge that
God, there was a reluctance on the part of Nancy Pelosi and the
speaker, the speaker and the leadership to approach
impeachment, they did not see it as a political winner, but it
was forced upon them, and by the President, and by the revelation
that he was shaking down of not extorting an ally, to obtain
unflattering and libelous information on his principle of
principle political opponent. So they the left with no choice. I
think that, you know, several people acquitted themselves.
Well, the I will say that Mitt Romney restored some faith in in
the process. I mean, we've gone through a great time in American
politics with religions involved, where your question
is, does your faith inspire your politics? That is your politics,
a shape your faith, and I think Mitt Romney to his credit, you
stood as a witness to his belief in his convictions. But Donald
Trump emerges from it, emboldened, as by demonstrated
by his remarkably egregious behavior since then, at the
prayer breakfast in the White House, and public utterances,
and in today's actions,
Senator Tom Cotton, who sits on the Senate Intelligence and
Armed Services Committee suggested that the virus may
have come from China's biological warfare program.
That's an extraordinary charge. How do you respond to that?
I think it's true that a lot is still unknown. And our
scientists, Chinese scientists, American scientists, scientists
of other countries are doing their best to learn more about
the virus. But it's very harmful. It's very dangerous, to
stir up suspicion, rumors and spread them among the people.
For once, this will create panic. Another thing is that it
will fend up racial discrimination, xenophobia, all
these things that will really harm our joint efforts to combat
the virus. Of course, there are all kinds of speculation and
rumors that people who are saying that these viruses are
coming from some military lab not of China, maybe in the
United States. How can we believe all these crazy things?
He's like, it's crazy. Where did the absolutely crazy? Where did
the virus come from? We still don't know yet. It's probably
according to some initial outcome of the research.
Probably coming from some animals, but we have to, to
discover more about it.
Number one, I was a Democratic caucus. Member of caucus. No,
you have it. You're a lion dog faced pony soldier.
The press is creates hysteria and headlines that are now
divorced from the facts. I will not know when we actually have a
pandemic coming. I will not be able from reading. I'll put them
on hold reading the press, I will not be able to know what
we've got on our hands. And this is a perfect example of that. So
here are the headlines now. 10s of 1000s of more cases that we
had realized 300 Dead in China, when the headline should read,
in spite of it being milder and infecting many more 10s of 1000s
of people that we knew the death rate still remains just 300
people. Mm hmm. The numerator versus denominator is point oh
3%. Right. I don't know as is. In other words, you put 300 over
40,000 That's the death rate for them from Coronavirus, right,
because they're realizing that was much more widespread, much
milder, much less likely to kill anybody except people that are
immunocompromised and are old or at risk for complications of our
illnesses. You are much more likely to die of the flu right
now than the Coronavirus right now. Why isn't that the
headline? Why do they why are they saying get your flu shots
reminder. Don't worry about this one. The CDC has got it.
Tonight the CDC is intensifying the battle against the deadly
Coronavirus that has infected more than 50,000 people
worldwide. More than 1500 people have died nearly all of them in
China, Carter Evans now on China's drastic measures to stop
the outbreak.
This is what can happen to people who don't wear masks in
the epicenter of the outbreak. And security forces patrol the
streets of Wuhan during a total lockdown for medical personnel
protective gear like suits and masks are in short supply, as is
adequate care, hospitals and clinics are overflowing with
this sick and dying. In the US the CDC is ramping up its own
work respond to the epidemic by setting up five laboratories
around the country where people with flu like symptoms can now
go and be tested for the virus if their flu results are
negative. This has scientists around the world race to develop
a vaccine. So you're using DNA and genetics to teach the body
how to attack the virus
exactly and to recognize the virus and then attack it
immediately.
Inovio Pharmaceuticals in San Diego has already successfully
developed vaccines for Ebola and Zika Dr. K Broderick says the
Coronavirus vaccine they're working on now is showing
promise.
It's currently being tested in the lab literally as we speak,
and we're manufacturing large scale quantities of it to get it
into human testing by the early summer.
The US government is preparing to evacuate about 400 Americans
tomorrow night from the Diamond Princess cruise ship quarantined
at a Japanese port for the past 10 days. Those passengers will
have to spend another two weeks in quarantine when they return
to the US so far. 285 people on board the ship have tested
positive for the virus and were sent to Japanese hospitals.
Today. Malaysian health authorities diagnosed an 83 year
old American woman with the Coronavirus. She arrived in
Malaysia after being on board the Westerdam cruise ship
currently docked in Cambodia. That ship was turned away from
multiple countries before more than 2200 passengers and crew
were allowed to disembark yesterday when no one showed
symptoms or tested positive. In France. authorities announced
that an 80 year old Chinese tourists died of the virus, the
first death outside of Asia and the fourth outside Mainland
China. The Chinese government reported 143 deaths and more
than 2600 new cases of the Coronavirus in the past 24
hours.
Mark just a few seconds a few seconds, Judy, I mean, his
Amanda's pushing prosecutors to prosecute James Comey and Andrew
McCabe and intervenes of Mike Flynn. And for Roger Stone. Why
Roger Stone? I think this open speculation and very plausible
Roger stones, the one person that could tie Donald Trump to
WikiLeaks and to the Russians in the 2016. I mean, after all that
investment to all that investigation. I mean, he that's
what he did. That's what he was lying about. That's he was the
intermediary. And I think that it's not out of loyalty or
affection. I think it's out of vulnerability. He's still
concerned with that 2016 election, rather than worried
about 2020 landing
in Omaha, Nebraska today, escorted from the plane one by
one by medical teams rushed off by motorcade to this special
isolation unit.
They've had a very long journey. So I think we're not going to
make any assumptions about anything that's passed along
verbally. We're going to go ahead and just test everybody.
338 Americans were evacuated from the Diamond Princess cruise
ship in Japan flown to bases in Texas and California arriving
overnight. 14 are suspected of having a Coronavirus infection
for now in isolation and hospitalized near Travis Air
Force Base near Sacramento. 10. In Omaha, hundreds of passengers
checked before leaving the ship were deemed healthy to fly. I
have to put my mask on the bus will take you airplane. Airplane
takes you Thanks. But after the evacuation had already begun a
complication, new test results revealed those 14 people were
positive for the virus exposing others on a 40 minute bus ride
to the airport. Officials making a critical decision saying the
safest option was to push forward with the evacuation,
putting infected patients in the back of the plains in these
special isolation chambers.
They put temperatures at a high temperature you went into that
isolation booth. Mark Jorgensen
had to leave his wife behind in a Japanese hospital after she
tested positive for the virus. So far 454 Cruise passengers
have been infected. We met John and Melanie herring when he
spiked a fever and had to be hospitalized. He's now fighting
the virus and has pneumonia fine Diamond Princess The couple
deciding Melanie should be on that flight home. Melanie is now
back in the US telling us she to spiked a fever.
Alright, so let's get to Clayton said del he is live from Omaha
tonight in Clayton the rest of the roughly 300 passengers the
Americans who showed no sign of the virus we know they spent
time on those buses with these passengers. The Americans the 14
who it's believed might be infected with Coronavirus of
course more testing here at home. But I gathered the rest of
the passengers who were in close contact will be watched closely
now for the days to come.
They will be watched very closely David they'll be in
quarantine for two weeks. And it's important to note that
those 14 others who tested positive in Japan will be tested
again here in the States. And while that happens they will be
kept in quarantine in isolation away from everyone else. David
the World Health
Organization warned today that the window of opportunity to
contain the international spread of the Coronavirus is closing,
South Korea has become the latest fraud in the outbreak,
the country declared a health emergency. As cases their
quadrupled to more than 200 infections over the past two
days, officials closed schools and banned math mass gatherings,
including services at a church that most of the sick attended.
Good. No one has entered the church since Tuesday. We did
disinfection work twice on Tuesday and Wednesday. Right now
all the disinfection work is complete, and no one is entering
the church.
Meanwhile, in China, the number of new infections fell for
another day, Chinese officials have recorded over 75,000 cases
and more than 2200 deaths. So far, at least 12 more deaths
have been confirmed outside of mainland China.
It's a disaster. It's disastrous. It's crazy. It
started out with a ridiculous psychosis against Chinese or any
oriental looking people. So already, I'd say two weeks ago,
people weren't going to Chinese restaurants anymore somehow
thinking that you know, anything Chinese, no matter if they've
been to China or born here. And there was a lot of
discrimination against Chinese people couldn't even come into
shops, psychosis, total ridiculous stuff. In the
meantime, Italy was one of the first to really start testing
everyone. So I went to Madrid 12 days ago, I think, and I went to
Spain and nothing going on. And then when I came back to
Florence, they they zapped me with a thermometer. So already,
this really goes to prove how you know if you're testing
everyone, first of all, you're going to find cases, and that's
what happened. They found people who didn't have any symptoms at
all, and whatever. I think the government is there, everybody's
giving the information that you know is very contagious. Yes,
but it's not lethal and only old people only that's the problem,
of course poor people with, you know, immune deficiency problems
or the elderly with issues. So the government and the media
sort of are giving the I think they're giving the right
information, but the actions are just the opposite. So closing
museums, closing schools. I mean, and the final thing is, of
course, canceling football games or doing football games in close
stadiums that that gives a big message yesterday passengers
from a bus called the police to come because they overheard the
bus driver talking to his doctor about having Coronavirus, so
they called the cops. The cops came and turned out the bus
driver was just telling his doctor that he had done the test
because he had to for his job and that he was negative. So I
mean, can you imagine people on the bus freaking out and calling
the cops because they hear the bus driver talking about the
Coronavirus. That said, so my telescope is closed, even if I'm
doing an online university and of course the online stuff goes
on. But I had two exams programmed for Friday, the 27th
of March and until further notice, those have been
suspended. On the other hand, the University of Florence is
open and Sabby started classes again yesterday. And she said it
was packed. So and then you hear stories about supermarkets rated
in Milan. And even here in Florence, people are hoarding
and we don't we don't do this stuff. We just go we're trying
to go to as many Chinese restaurants possible. I have a
son who's doing his usual shopping at the Chinese junk
shores stores. So we're trying to contribute to normal life. Of
course, I'm a remote worker. So I'm not really touched about all
I'm not really touched by any of this. But you know, even if I
were I mean we're feeding it normally, but unfortunately the
sheep are just going behind what everything's happening. So so
the
corona outbreak in Iran is becoming deeply troubling. The
epicenter was in the holy city of gloworm. And it's spread
rapidly from there now one of the main reasons it has affected
Iran so badly seems to be that Iran has kept its flights open
with China during the outbreak there. And because Iran has such
close ties to China, and both politically and economically
links with the Chinese, which have been a lifeline for Tehran
to combat sanctions. They didn't close access from and to China,
and it also seems that senior officials are not immune to the
virus either. Members of Parliament the mayor of
Tyrone's, 13th district have contracted the virus and even
the deputy health minister, who's in charge of countering
the corona virus has tested positive for it. In a video
that's become viral in Iran, he seems standing next to the
government spokesman during a press conference. With the
media, he sweating profusely and constantly wiping his brow with
a handkerchief. The government spokesman then attended meetings
with other senior officials. That same deputy health minister
also gave an interview on state TV last night where he was
coughing and spluttering away. And today, in a live speech,
Iran's President, Hassan Rouhani, said that this is one
of the threats of the enemy, the USA, to spread fright amongst
Iranian society, in Iran to lead the country towards closure. The
other
thing? How would it get out of the lab, most people would think
well, a technician got infected through poor lab procedure, and
then walked out on the street infected his family and friends
and so forth. But there's another way it could have gotten
out of the lab, because we know that that in China, some
researchers, not all but some researchers have actually taken
their lab animals after they're done experimenting with them,
after they've been infected with various viruses so forth. If the
lab animals aren't dead, they take the bats and the rats and
the snakes and everything to the local fresh meat market and sell
them on the fresh meat market to make extra money. So the virus
may have passed to human beings. By that means, through the the
Avenue of the vector of someone's stomach,
but I'm not at all convinced that we can't get hold of what
we need here in the US, we have stockpiles, we also have the
capacity to produce more in all these areas. I'm no expert in
this. But we've seen some of these biotech companies, Gilead
being one of them, probably coming up with the vaccine in a
much shorter time than people realize.
I'm deeply concerned that we are way behind the eight bonus.
Well, we actually have been aggressively moving. It's been a
month and a half since this situation arose. And we have
enacted the most aggressive containment measures in the
history of our country. In terms of our borders. I've used the
first federal quarantine authority and 50 years of an HHS
Secretary, we worked
every single American today that if this pandemic hits our
shores, that we have everything available, and we've stockpiled
it and we're ready to go.
That's just I was very clear, when we enacted our containment
measures at the border, we cannot hermetically seal off the
United States to alarms. And we need to be realistic about that.
And so this virus will have ozone in some forms. It does and
we'll have more cases in the United States. And we've been
very transparent about that. And we will then work to mitigate
the impact of those
they met in Italy now the epicenter of the corona virus in
Europe, trying to coordinate the response to the disease. While
taking measures to block the outbreak, Europe's health
ministers decided against canceling all major public
events and against shutting their borders. On TV,
we've decided to apply a set of common principles in the next
days, weeks and months in principles based on good
cooperation and mutual assistance. And we've decided
that it's unthinkable to even consider closing our borders in
such a measure would be inefficient,
who left a majority for chair
while China has applied to drastic measures to stop the
outbreak imposing lockdowns on 10s of millions. Europeans say
that closing their borders and posing ID checks or examining
travelers will not stop the disease. Scientists say it can
still slow its expansion on pressure.
controlling the flow of travelers can slow down the
spread of the disease. But I believe it can't stop it
altogether. Probably.
Since the latest spate of infections in Italy COVID-19 has
reached new countries Switzerland, Croatia and Austria
through people who had traveled from Italy, Germany, France and
Spain have declared new cases.
Washington state public health officials gave new details and
an afternoon press conference about the circumstances that led
to the man's death.
The person who died was a patient at Evergreen hospital,
but underlying health conditions. It was a male in his
50s.
At this mumble we have 22 patients in the United States
currently that have Coronavirus. Unfortunately one person passed
away overnight. She was a wonderful woman a medically high
risk patient in her late 50s.
That was a lot. Let me start with the most important part and
that is confirmation that an American has died in Washington
State. We had early reports that it was a male and reverse
release from the governor of Washington referred to our
hearts go out to his family and friends. The President then said
that it was a woman in her 50s. The the governor of Washington's
press release has been changed to make reference to there. So
we are unclear. We do not have confirmation. We're trying to
get confirmation, but we do know that the first US citizen has
died
after do. Are we overreacting? Yes, yes. Yeah, I'm
hearing this from doctors left and right.
Yes. And we are not overreacting. The press is
overreacting. And it makes me furious. The Press should not be
reporting medical stories as though they know how to report
we will if we have a pandemic, I don't know how to tell that
we're actually having a pandemic because everything is an
emergency. People that are infectious disease specialists,
the CDC, the epidemiologist, need to take this very
seriously. The Press needs to shut up because you're more
likely to die of influenza right now. However, it
may I'm not trying to go against you. But I have a question. It
is now beat stars in terms of fatalities. 362, and they're
saying
Tality rate is still lower, but there's spreads fast. It's a
mild illness, it spreads all over the place. And it's only
out of the 17,000 in documented effect that I bet there's
hundreds of 1000s of cases 300 deaths, okay, and always in
immunocompetent compromised people always in people that are
at risk for these sorts of things. If they get a severe
viral respiratory infection, whether it's flu or corona, or
whatever. All of these can hurt people who are compromised. They
can the rest of us need to wash your hands carefully get our
influenza vaccines. Listen to the CDC, if there's a problem,
they will let us know the CDC made it very clear that 5000
People just in the last two weeks have died from the flu
here in America. Why are we panicked about that real people
died on the streets of Los Angeles this morning from
homelessness warning if that were Coronavirus, people freak
the hell out right? Why aren't we putting our parties in the
right place? It's the press,
as you may know, as of today, and I say as of today at this
hour, we have 33 confirmed positive tests for the virus.
Five individuals have subsequently moved out of state.
So they're 28 people that we know in the state of California
that are positive. The case yesterday, understandably
generated a lot of attention, but didn't surprise any of the
folks standing to my left or right. We knew this was
inevitable, as it relates to the nature, the epidemiology the
nature of these viruses that that incident would occur
accordingly.
When hearing about it, we initiated a series of protocols
that we were prepared to advance.
Thank you, Mr. President.
And I'm just going to ask you directly about this with regard
to the flow of information. From the very beginning, you received
a lot of criticism regarding that, in particular about Dr.
Anthony Fauci.
He is world renowned in contagious diseases. And there
were reports out there that he was being muscle, can you tell
us that this widely respected expert, Dr. Fauci will have
every opportunity to tell us the truth? Well, that's a great
question because he has, because he has had that ability to do
virtually whatever he's wanting to do. And in fact, in fact, he
was never muscle. Okay. I think I can speak you can speak Why
don't you speak to the very dishonest question, but that's
honest, I want to
clarify. I want to clarify. So
let me let me clarify it. I have never been muzzled ever and I've
been doing this since the administration of Ronald Reagan.
I'm not being muzzled by this administration. What happened,
which was misinterpreted, is that we were set up to go on
some shows. And when the Vice President took over, we said,
Let's regroup and figure out how we're going to be communicating.
So I had to just stand down on a couple of shows and re submit
for clearance. And when I resubmitted for clearance, I got
cleared, so I have not been muzzle liberal. That was a real
misrepresentation of what happened.
Breaking news tonight President Trump address the nation today
announcing the first Coronavirus death in this country, a patient
in Washington State. The president says there's no reason
for panic. He plans to meet with drug companies on Monday to
discuss vaccines. The outbreak has now spread with at least 65
cases across nine states. There have been three new cases today
all in Washington State and Wall Street has been infected. The
Dow lost more than 3500 points this week. A 12% Drop. CBS is
Steve Dorsey is that the White House
there's no reason to panic
in and abruptly arrange the White House news conference
President Trump tried to reassure the country. His
administration is taking unprecedented actions to contain
the virus. It comes after he accused Democrats of trying to
weaponize it against him at a South Carolina rally last
Tonight is that new hoax. And today he doubled down
the hoax was used with respect to Democrats and what they were
saying it was a hoax what they were saying. But the President's
critics
say he's the one putting politics ahead of public health.
Their problem is when you have the highest levels of the Trump
administration actively using words like hoax, that sends a
very dangerous signal to American people. We want folks
to take this seriously. Meanwhile, the White House is
announcing new travel restrictions on foreign
nationals who have recently visited Iran. It's also now
telling Americans to avoid traveling to areas in Italy and
South Korea most affected by the virus.
It's certainly not a good situation when you lose travel.
That's a big part of market. But for a period of time we're gonna
have to do whatever is necessary safety health number one, where
the markets will take care of themselves.
The President also stepped up pressure today on the Fed to cut
interest rates to help protect the economy. Rena
see you thank you very much in Tennessee Smyrna, Tennessee
Republican line, Michael. Hello,
fellows. Thanks for taking the call. I want to talk about the
Coronavirus that's not that's been around for a long time.
Excuse me. If you look on your your levels of Lysol
Disinfectant, it sits on their human Coronavirus. I believe
that China created this a different strain of it. They
released it to their people. I believe I did it to start a
recession in China because their economy is so bad right now. And
now they're they're wanting to get it over here in the United
States. And it's working if they started in a easy avenue to
start a recession here in the United States. Because we ship
things from China. You think about the bubble wrap you busted
bubble wrap, it's got Air and Air it could it could have that
strain of Coronavirus in there. And it'd be easy for Donald
Trump to shut the ports down. And we start tre stop trading,
then we got a recession in America. So I believe that
people are really just taking this too much out of contact
text because of the regular virus, the flu kills people. And
we don't know if these people are dying from just a natural
cause of flu. They're old or their immune system as well. So
I just played they're just trying to scare everybody. It's
a socialist tactic to try to scare people from going out,
going on vacations and getting around crowds of individuals.
Okay, so that's my
goal in Tennessee. The President yesterday when he was speaking
referred to this fatality as a woman. It is a man is how was
the mistake like that made because people are very nervous
right now and getting some of these basic facts right. affects
public trust.
Well, I understand that it's a very fast moving situation. Our
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention were up late at night
very early in the early in the morning working with the
Washington State Public Health Office, and inaccurately
recorded that the individual was a female. That's what the
President was briefed on. They've apologized for
incorrectly briefing on that, but it's a very fast moving
situation. Obviously we're right there in Los Angeles a state of
emergency. In New York City tonight about 1000 people are
now under self quarantine, or possibly coming in contact or
linked to one man who was hospitalized. In critical but
stable condition tonight. His wife two children and a neighbor
all testing positive. One of his children a college student
classes canceled they're in Los Angeles that state of emergency
six new cases there including an airport where are doing medical
screenings at Le X but death toll in the US rising to at
least 11 Tonight the first death from California, a passenger on
a cruise ship during a round trip voyage from San Francisco.
ABC is with Johnson leading us off with the efforts to contain
the virus here in New York and across the country.
Tonight a scramble to contain the spread of the Coronavirus in
New York, about 1000 people ordered to self quarantine all
possibly connected to one patient in this hospital. That
is
another 12345 people. And again, all of this one attorney they're
going to be hundreds and was just
that 50 year old father now hospitalized in Manhattan in
critical but stable condition. His wife, two kids, a neighbor
who drove him to the hospital and another family connected to
his law firm testing positive to the number of cases jumping to
11. A local public school district now closing to
disinfect the buildings in California tonight. Health
officials say this Grand Princess cruise ship as likely
linked to the state's first death from the Coronavirus and a
second infection an elderly patient possibly exposed while
traveling from San Francisco to Mexico. CDC now investigating a
small cluster of cases of COVID 19 in Northern California traced
back to that ship.
The World Health Organization said Tuesday the global death
rate from the disease caused by the new Coronavirus is 3.4
percent far deadlier than the seasonal flu. The warning came
as the number of Coronavirus deaths outside China surpassed
the number inside China for the first time. Washington State
Tuesday reported another Coronavirus death the ninth in
the region in New York Mayor Bill de Blasio said Tuesday, a
Manhattan lawyer has become the second person in the city to
test positive for the new Coronavirus
worldwide the Coronavirus death toll now top 3000 With nearly
90,000 cases. But even those numbers are nothing compared to
what could happen in the months ahead. Today CBS News's Jim
Axelrod spoke with one of this country's top experts from
Harvard on viruses who has a startling prediction.
The number that I think is grabbing a lot of people is this
estimate 40 to 70% of the world's adult population could
be infected.
Yes, accurate. That is, it's a projection. So we will find out
if it's accurate. As things go on. It is a best estimate that
I've been able to make based on a combination of the
mathematical models that we use to track and predict epidemics.
So in terms of addressing the numbers that may get people
panicked, what can you tell us?
Well, again, the 40 to 70% is a number infect a proportion of
the population, adult population infected. And we know that some
people who get this infection have no or almost no symptoms
whatsoever. What we don't know is how many there are like that.
So if say that's half the people, then the 1% or 2% that
we're seeing in the symptomatic people is cut down by half.
Whatever the number is, it's going to be it's going to take a
toll if it really does spread as widely as that projection says,
and that's what I think is likely to happen.
The Wall Street Journal reports the Trump administration is
considering using a national disaster program to cover the
cost of treating Coronavirus in some of the 27 million Americans
without health coverage. The nation's largest union of
registered nurses National Nurses United Tuesday called the
nation's public health system, woefully unprepared for the
pandemic and demanded once a vaccine vaccine is developed it
should be made free to the public
and I wanted to get your reaction to this global
headlines in China. There's a new study out tonight showing
that there could be two strains of
this Coronavirus, which
we see for example, in other viruses like influenza this
small study out of China showing two strains one more common one
more transmissible. We don't know yet about which one is more
common here in the US.
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It began in healthy looking pigs months perhaps years ago. A new
Coronavirus spreads silently within herds. Gradually farmers
started getting sick. infected people got a respiratory illness
with symptoms ranging from mild flu like signs to severe
pneumonia. The sickest, required intensive care many died. At
first, the spread was limited to those with close contacts,
health care personnel, co workers and families. But now
it's spreading rapidly throughout local communities.
International travel has turned local epidemics into a pandemic
spanning the globe. Just three months ago cap started in South
America, but has now reached several countries with more than
30,000 cases and nearly 2000 deaths.
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has deployed the National Guard
to New Rochelle, a suburb of New York City in Westchester County,
ordering a one mile Containment Zone around a synagogue whose
congregation is at the center of the nation's single largest
Coronavirus outbreak. National Guard members were ordered to
disinfect schools to set up a Coronavirus testing facility and
to deliver food to people in quarantine including 1000s of
students forced to remain at home. This is Governor Cuomo
speaking Tuesday.
It is a dramatic action, but it is the largest cluster in the
country. And this is literally a matter of life and death. That's
not a overly rhetorical statement.
And the hardest hit country in Europe is Italy where today the
death toll jumped to more than 800 and there are more than
12,000 cases. The lockdown in that country now includes all
retail stores, bars and restaurants, except for grocery
stores and pharmacies. Seth Doane reports tonight from Rome.
With the number of cases outside China increasing 13 fold and the
number of countries tripling the head of the World Health
Organization said spread severity and inaction lead to
that sobering calculation. We have that
for med the assessment that COVID-19 can be characterized as
a pandemic,
a pandemic its reach is clear from China at the epicenter the
number of cases across the world has exploded to more than
122,000 across 115 countries. The global fight is so far not
sufficient whether disinfecting public buses in Spain drive
through swab testing in Belgium or encouraging the wearing of
masks in Iran. After China Italy has the highest number of cases
more than 12,000. The quiet squares and canals across the
country belie the scramble to stop this virus. There is a
glimmer of hope where this started in Wuhan. They're
dismantling those specially built hospitals and the number
of new cases is going down. Tonight Italy is announcing a
real lockdown only basic public services will remain in
operation including transportation. Also grocery
stores and pharmacies will be open but nor a big hit for a
fragile economy.
China's Senior Medical Advisor Tom Nanshan says the Coronavirus
outbreak may peak soon and maybe over by April. In
an interview with Reuters, Mr. Tong said that the prediction
was made based on mathematical modeling. The 83 year old is
known for combating the SARS crisis in China in 2003. This
comes as the death toll from the Coronavirus epidemic in China
hit 1016.
Now, while the prime minister today said he feels fine He also
said he has no plans to be tested for COVID 19 which has
many people asking why not? Shooto said his doctors actually
advised against testing since he He's showing those symptoms. And
his health minister Patty high new pointed out a little later.
That is the normal protocol.
There is no evidence that someone needs to self isolate if
in fact they have been contact with someone who is
asymptomatic. And so it's important it's important to
remember that that is why the Prime Minister has received that
public health advice it doesn't have to have a test.
I do also say the Prime Minister's wife Sophie will be
extensively interviewed as health officials attempt to
trace everyone she has been in contact with
and scientists work to contain the Coronavirus researchers are
still trying to figure out where it came from. Early research
suggests human picked up the Coronavirus from animals
possibly bats, but it's not clear how the virus made that
jump science journalist and author David's woman has been
tracking this. He joins me now on the phone and David I know
you know a lot about this but I am learning with a lot of other
folks here and a disease that can spread from animals to
humans is called zoonosis Coronavirus is a zoonotic
disease. What do we know so far about the Coronavirus and how it
spread from animal to human?
Well, part of what we know comes from past experience with
outbreaks such as SARS in 2002 and 2003. SARS was a very scary
new virus when it first appeared in southern China. It was new to
humans, it had to come from somewhere. And scientists
eventually tracked the SARS virus to bat bats are the
reservoir hosts, meaning the virus lives in them without
causing symptoms. Now that was part of what rang the alarm bell
on coronaviruses coronaviruses. SARS is one this is another,
they evolve very quickly. They live in animals, frequently
bats. And when we come in contact with that, we invite
those viruses to jump from bats into humans, because they
evolved quickly. They can frequently adapt to us and cause
terrible trouble.
If it is, in fact bats in this case as well. What is it about
them that makes them these frequent hosts of viruses or
reservoir hosts? I believe you just called them.
That's right. Bats seem to be overrepresented as the reservoir
hosts for a lot of these scary viruses, SARS viruses, I
mentioned MERS virus, Hendra virus in Australia Nipah virus
in Malaysia. Now this one. What is it about bats? Well, a couple
of things. First of all, bats are a very diverse order of
mammals. One in every four species of mammal hunters is a
bat.
The scenes of people stocking up on toilet paper and cleaning
supplies playing out all over the country, not just here.
Yeah. Reporter Nicole Comstock on what's behind the social
anxiety that leads to panic buying.
Shopping carts are being sanitized at busy Costcos all
across the Southland where customers have been stockpiling
food, water and hygiene products because of the Coronavirus
National Emergency
people are just freaking out over it's just like chill dude.
Adrian thing some people are going way overboard hoarding
food and water like it's the end of the world
or I'm going to hoard myself inside my house because we're
all gonna die and it's zombie apocalypse. You know, that's
that's too much.
But why are people buying too much?
That's kind of a social anxiety. Psychiatrist Anil Sharma is the
medical director at dignity Northridge hospital. He says
when some people see the crowded parking lots long lines and
empty shelves, it triggers an unreasonable response to run out
and follow suit. Rather than going into this anxious or
obsessive mode. They should think rationally
number in a panic mode. Silvia Hernandez didn't load up her
cart, she thinks most people don't need to.
They're not really looking into like kind of educating
themselves on it. Our anxiety came from the schools shutting
down for three weeks.
Yeah. Earlier this week, the first clinical trial of the
vaccine candidate for the virus began in Washington state, as
you probably know, the genetic sequence of the virus was first
published in January. But thanks to the unprecedented partnership
between the FDA, NIH and the private sector, we've reached
human trials for the vaccine. Just eight weeks later, that's a
record by many, many months. It used to take years to do this.
And we did it just in a very short while. That's the fastest
development in history of what we're doing with regard to the
vaccine, making very, very big progress.
But according to Tom, there's a much darker dimension to the
Coronavirus outbreak. He says there's deep suspicion here that
a major reason it became a pandemic is a massive state
cover up ordered by China's President Xi Jinping. Including
arresting the whistleblowing doctor who later died,
he said The G Jinping virus, not the cause of it. But certainly
the breadth of the outbreak is because of the authoritarianism
and the lack of press freedom in the mainland. There was no
mechanism for anyone to raise the alarm about this. The one
doctor, you know, who tried to in the early days and ultimately
succumb to the disease was was detained and told to shut
up. Public health crises and closed secret of governments
don't really go together, do they?
Right. They've even admitted that, you know, they've changed
the way they collect data a couple of times, so very, very
tough.
Do you think the death toll numbers that they're reporting
are accurate? There is a lot of
pressure in China for things to get back to normal the economy
is suffering. So I think, you know, it would be reasonable to
think that there is some malarkey with with the figures,
but you know, it's a black box.
We are in unchartered territory.
One measure of China's influence is the pressure it has put on
the World Health Organization to not officially call the
Coronavirus outbreak, a pandemic, but on that front, the
man at the center of it is blood. Why is there a blockage
with that? Why was the who are reluctant to call it a pandemic?
Well, technically it is. I suspect that it may be because
colleagues may think that if they will use the word pandemic,
then it would trigger panic and panic is no good for any kind of
outbreak control.
How was this virus born? What was the mechanism that gave
birth to it?
Probably a zoonotic jump that is from a small mammal likely read
or captured, at least for food consumption.
Fortunately, there's some good news reports not in that front.
early evidence suggests that Chloroquine that's a cheap anti
malaria drug may be effective in treating Coronavirus. Gregory
Rigondeaux is an advisor of the Stanford University School of
Medicine. And he joins us tonight. John, thanks so much
for coming on. So tell us what this is and why you think it's
promising,
please. So the President has the authority to authorize the use
of hydroxychloroquine against Coronavirus immediately. He has
cut more red tape at the FDA than any other president in
history. And for example, in 2017, a new drug was approved
for muscular dystrophy that enroll in a clinical trial that
for a clinical trial that enrolled less than 15 patients,
and it was generally uncontrolled in an open setting.
hydroxychloroquine has been on the market for over 50 years
with a quality safety profile. And I'm here to report that as
of this morning, about five o'clock this morning, a well
controlled peer reviewed study carried out by the most eminent
infectious disease specialist in the world did he a Rolls MD PhD
out of the south of France, in which he enrolled 40 patients
again a well controlled peer reviewed study that showed a
100% cure rate cheer rate against Coronavirus. This study
was released this morning on my Twitter account Rigondeaux ASQ
as well as our most recent website COVID trial.io. This
study was recently accepted to the International Journal of
anti microbial agents by Elsevier. I'm going to show
to no agenda. Imagine all the people who could do that. Oh
yeah, that'd be fun.
And there you go.
I forgot at least 60% of those. It's like this festival of
recognition. Oh, oh, holy. Oh, man.
Bag report.
Oh, my goodness.
A lot of this stems out out of New York. So that makes sense.
Yeah, right the front. But she's and they lock in everybody down?
Do you think in hindsight that people realize how duped they
were? I'm not no agenda people but people in general they
realize how deep they've been?
No, I don't think so. I think it's gonna take years before
they realize it. Because when you really didn't make Yeah, so
far in the future that then they've kind of forget about
it's like a broken arm. You know, I yeah, I broke my arm.
Okay, now because when you listen, when you listen to it,
you think, wow, we were all flipping out. We weren't most
people who listened to the show weren't?
Yeah, you know that. One of the things that comes out of these
clips is the notion of how does it COVID transmit, they had this
surface bullcrap, which they pulled back on a year later.
Hmm, yeah, there's gonna be COVID on every surface and it's
going to be transmitted via touch something.
We had the clean Building Initiative.
Yeah, I was at a grocery store and some woman was there with
her husband, dole masked up in there. Looking around where it's
sick and just when people would walk around when you come and
down the street, they give you a wide berth. Yeah. And she
touched a loaf of bread. It was in a cellophane thing and the
guy went Billis don't touch that. You're gonna kill us.
Don't touch it. Don't touch it. Don't touch it. Yeah, it was
pretty pathetic.
It's been quite a barrage. Of course, we're taking this, this
break here. Although, really the break is we just have to double
up on the work to get it done before we leave. We just can't
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And we'll be back to say goodbye after we get into Can it get any
worse actually enforce you for what you played now?
Yeah, all it does is get worse.
He was explained yesterday, there has been some promise with
hydroxychloroquine is potential therapy for people who are
infected with Coronavirus. Is there any evidence to suggest
that as with malaria, it might be used as a prophylaxis against
COVID-19.
The answer is no. And the evidence that you're talking
about John is anecdotal evidence. So as the Commissioner
of FDA and the President mentioned yesterday, we're
trying to strike a balance between making something without
potential of an of an effect to the American people available at
the same time that we do it under the auspices of a protocol
that would give us information to determine if it's truly safe
and truly effective. But the information that you're
referring to specifically is anecdotal, it was not done in a
controlled clinical trial, so you really can't make any
definitive statement about it.
More of the country is closing down tonight trying to contain
the Coronavirus pandemic. New York State and Illinois have now
joined California and taking that step, with more states
expected to follow. Meanwhile, President Trump invoked
emergency powers to move medical supplies into place as quickly
as possible as US infections top 15,000 With more than 200
deaths, William Bryan begins our coverage.
In much of California stay at home orders have already brought
much of public life to a halt. And today, those orders expanded
statewide. Governor Gavin Newsom asked the entire state 40
million people to stay home. He cited in an analysis that half
the state could be infected in the next eight weeks if more
aggressive moves weren't taken. So he ordered that nothing but
the most essential activities continue.
We will have social pressure that will encourage people to do
the right thing. Just a nod and look saying hey, maybe you
should reconsider. Just being out there on the beach. Being 22
strong at a park. It's time for all of us to recognize as
individuals and as a community. We need to do more to meet this
moment.
It's unclear how the new orders will be enforced. But it's one
of the most drastic containment efforts underway. Across the
country. Another huge effort. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo
ordered every employer in his state to keep their workers at
home
100% of the workforce must stay home. These are non essential
services. essential services have to continue to function.
Grocery stores need food pharmacies need drugs. Your
internet has to continue to work the water has to turn on when
you turn the faucet so there are essential services that will
continue to function
and Illinois Governor issued a Shelter In Place Order effective
tomorrow. These states have seen a surge in COVID 19 cases and
they along with Washington State are the hardest hit in the
country. Their hospital systems are already being stressed and
critical protective supplies are running low. The White House
offered some forms of relief today. President Trump said he
had invoked the defense production act and directed
certain companies to change their focus and produce supplies
needed for the Coronavirus fight. And the President also
announced an extension to the profit teen tax filing deadline.
We're moving it all the way out to July 15. No interest no
penalties. Your new date will be July 15
in the move to stem the spring Ahead of the virus across
countries. He announced the US and Mexico had agreed to close
down the southern border to non essential travel. But in what
turned into a testy contentious press conference, the President
also said several things that are factually wrong. For
example, He cited the wrong symptoms for COVID-19.
They are sneezing this sniffling, they don't feel good.
They have a temperature there a lot of different things
actual symptoms are fever, but also dry cough and trouble
breathing, sneezing and sniffling or not.
He implied that an unproven anti malaria drug could prevent
infection. There's zero proof of that one of his top health
officials Dr. Anthony Fauci had to correct the record moments
later.
The answer is no.
And contrary to all public health guidance, the president
implied the US didn't need additional testing for the
virus. You're hearing
very positive things about testing and it's able to test
millions of people. But we inherited a broken old, frankly,
a terrible system. We fixed it. And we've done a great job.
Here is a treatment protocol I followed as prescribed by my
amazing doctor. It was what's called a drug cocktail, which
means it's a combination of different drugs. It consisted of
Tamiflu, which is an antiviral, the antibiotic azithromycin,
more commonly known as a Z pack, a glycol pie relate inhaler that
was used to ease breathing and the inflammation that's commonly
associated with COVID. And here's what I consider to be the
secret weapon hydroxychloroquine. This is a
common anti malarial drug that has been used with great success
in Korea in their fight against the Coronavirus. And yes, this
is the drug that the President mentioned the other day. It is
also the drug that Dr. Anthony Fauci cautioned us about he said
that evidence that the drug was promising is anecdotal. And that
is correct. It means it was a study and it's only based on
personal accounts. We'll add my name to those personal accounts
because I am feeling better
and in the United Kingdom, the heir to the British throne. 71
year old Prince Charles is the latest high profile positive
test for Coronavirus. He has mild symptoms and his self
isolating at his Scotland to state
hospitals nationwide are preparing for a surge in
Coronavirus cases, ventilators to treat the most serious cases
are still in short supply. Governors and mayors are calling
for more help with equipment and relief for frontline health care
workers.
We've all been focused so much on supplies on equipment on
ventilators. We need to focus increasingly on our health care
personnel. Both everything they're going through and how we
help them now but the fact also we're gonna need a lot more
people we're gonna be a lot more highly trained. Healthcare
professionals get us through this in the coming weeks.
The United States now has more confirmed cases of COVID 19 than
any other country. According to Johns Hopkins University's
Coronavirus Resource Center. There are now more than 104,000
cases reported in the US and more than 1700 deaths. More than
230 million people in the US are now under state and local orders
to stay at home to try to slow the spread of the Coronavirus.
While 10s of millions of Americans are under stay at home
orders President Trump left the White House today and flew to
Norfolk, Virginia.
So I think the first thing is, how do you get COVID. And I
think that this is really important. And we've really
learned a lot over the last couple of weeks to months about
how you get this disease. And so the overarching theme is
sustained contact with someone who has this disease, which the
vast majority is people with fever and aches, or someone who
is about to get the disease. So someone in the next one to two
days who is going to develop symptoms of this disease. And so
the way that you get this is the transmission of the virus almost
exclusively from your hands, to your face, from your hands to
your face. And so it's either into your eyes, into your nose,
or into your mouth. So there's a lot of talk about contact or
getting it through contact hands to face. There's also a small
thought that it can be aerosolized that it can kind of
exist a little bit in the air. The thought at this point is
that you actually have to have very long sustained contact with
someone and I'm talking about over 15 to 30 minutes in an
unprotected environment mean you're in a very closed room
without any type of mask for you to get it that way. But to very
simply state the overwhelming majority of people are getting
this by physically touching someone who has this disease or
will develop it in the next one to two days, and then touching
their face. And so that actually I think is incredibly
empowering. And that's as I've been in the hospital the last
two days. I've the thing that makes me smile a little bit, is
that I actually know now that I won't get this disease,
the number of cases in the US surge to 85,000 people, the
number is far higher because of the lack of testing. Well, let's
say you have 100 cases, and let's say, you don't do a
shutdown, then it grows 33% per day. So you take 100 you get
1000 You get 10,000. It's exponential growth.
The leading infectious disease expert on President Trump's
Coronavirus Task Force says he's really confident that those who
are infected and then recover from COVID-19 can build up an
immunity to it. Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director of the National
Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases appeared
remotely on The Daily Show with Trevor Noah when he was asked
about the possibility of reinfection from Coronavirus.
This virus acts like every other virus that we know once you get
infected, get better clear the virus that you'll have immunity
that will protect you against reinfection
on Noah show which is practicing social distancing and being
filmed remotely. Dr. Fauci caution that his take is not
100% given because the full study had not taken place yet.
Still, the infectious diseases expert seems certain, so it's
never 100% but I'd be willing to bet anything that people who
recover are really protected against reinfection.
Business Insider reports that blood tests have been carried
out by Chinese health officials showing that antibodies have
been developed to fight off the virus, which is an indication
that the person tested contracted COVID-19 despite
showing little or no symptoms. Matt Freeman, a researcher at
the University of Maryland School of medicine in Baltimore,
told NPR that it's very likely that those who recover from
Coronavirus develop at least some level of immunity to it,
and that even if reinfected later on the effects of the
disease would be much less,
the president said but he announced that those ships would
be put into action against the COVID-19 epidemic. He said one
of those ships would be operational in New York Harbor
by next week. That's nonsense. It will not be there next week.
And the naval hospital ship The USNS comfort. You see it right
there on your screen. It has just docked in New York City.
That ship will be used to house non Coronavirus patients and
that in itself will free up the city's hospital care to focus
primarily on those with the virus. New York Governor Andrew
Cuomo will brief media there at the top of the hour. We're going
to bring that to you live as soon as that gets underway.
We begin with breaking news
just coming in this afternoon. A bizarre story here a train
engineer at the Port of Los Angeles has been arrested on
suspicion of intentionally crashing a locomotive near the
Navy hospital ship mercy. Federal prosecutors say the
train engineer claimed the ship has an alternate purpose for
being docked there possibly a government takeover. Eduardo
Moreno of San Pedro allegedly ran the train at full speed off
the end of the railroad tracks yesterday in an apparent attempt
to damage the ship. The Mersey, which was not damaged its dock
here in LA to help ease the burden on local hospitals that
are busy with Coronavirus patients,
eventually what we'll have to have a certificate of who's a
recovered person who's vaccinated person, you know,
it's really unprecedented. Even the issue of once you get the
case numbers down, what does opening up look like? You know
which activities like schools have such benefit and can be
done in a way that the risk of transmission is very low. And
which activities like mass gatherings may be, in a certain
sense more optional. And so until you're widely vaccinated,
those may not come back at all.
Can I ask you about that, you know, more states yesterday
started having these stay at home orders but not all states
do. And even the states that do some have exemptions Florida
exempts religious services. In some cases, I thought New
Hampshire had exempted florists. At one point Arizona had
exempted hair salons at some point. I
mean, with all due deference to state Shouldn't there be a
national order and national lockdown or requirement rather
than this hodgepodge piecemeal method?
You know, you have a point there Sivanna. But it's one of those
things that in our country, there still is that issue of
central government versus the ability and the right of a state
to make their own decision. But again, I agree with you when you
see things like some of those exemptions. I mean, I can't make
any official proclamations here. But I can say really seriously,
consider those exemptions appropriate when you think about
what's going on. And I urge the people at the leadership at the
state level, to really take a close look at those kinds of
decisions.
Good morning.
We know we're supposed to keep six feet between each other when
we're out of the house. And of course that's right. We've known
for weeks wash our hands. Tell us now about covering our faces.
Well, the CDC says that what scientists know now given recent
studies is that a lot of people with Coronavirus lack symptoms,
or they have only mild symptoms, and they can transmit the virus.
So this means if an infected person goes out and interacts in
close quarters with others, they can unknowingly spread it. One
person who pushed to make this change. Recommending broader use
of masks is the former FDA commissioner Scott
Gottlieb.
So if you're a person who has the Coronavirus and you're
mildly symptomatic, you don't think you're sick or you're
asymptomatic and don't even know that you have symptoms at all.
In the nation's Coronavirus epicenter, Governor Andrew Cuomo
said the hospitalization rate may be slowing
we are flattening the curve by what we are doing. But that
doesn't mean people should be any less vigilant. If we stop
what we are doing, you will see that curve change. That curve is
purely a function of what we do day in and day out.
In fact, yesterday, New York saw the highest number of deaths yet
in a single day, nearly 800. In New York City there have been so
many deaths. Authorities are using refrigerated trucks to
store remains. And New York's numbers show that African
Americans and Hispanics they're dying at higher rates than
whites. For y'all we support you. Amid the grim work on the
medical front lines signs of support. Meanwhile, the
University of Washington's forecasting model one of many
often cited by the White House lowered its estimate of us
Coronavirus deaths. Today it projected more than 60,000
Americans would die by early August down from 84,000. The
University of Washington's model has been on the low side and
there are questions about the accuracy of the official death
count. Some say it may overlook those who die at home without
seeking medical care and those who die without being tested for
Coronavirus. In Washington, DC Trump administration officials
say they are planning for life after the pandemic. But caution
that was still a ways off.
What she's saying is that people need to maybe make their own
decisions. You know, Sweden, I was reading that Sweden actually
has that policy. People are going to dinner you see them in
restaurants, they're out in the streets. I mean, they did not
have a shutdown policy at all in Sweden. And I believe the
numbers are going up. Somebody could check that for me. I mean,
he took a risk the president of Sweden. I mean, it seems to me
that something like the example of South Korea, where they shut
down the country completely and now the numbers are going down,
that that seems to be the way to go. Maybe North Dakota doesn't
have as many of course, people as New York who are sick, but
they couldn't leave North Dakota, they could have the
virus and move to South Dakota now South Dakota gets an
epidemic. So I think that the President needs to shut down the
whole country. Of course, he won't do that, because it
impacts the economy and he knows that the economy is exactly what
will get him reelected or not reelected,
we're still in lockdown in Britain. But first, the
government here adopted the Swedish version, which meant
that there were fairly limited restrictions. Then they switched
to the Danish version, which required an enormous total
shutdown. This is a story of two very similar Nordic cultures,
you've got a widely differing approach about how to fight
COVID-19 At a time when most of the world is shuttered. Sweden
is open for business markets and shops or trading restaurants or
serving schools or educating the Swedes advocate limited social
distancing. Their strategy is to protect the vulnerable while
allowing the virus to spread through healthy people so they
can develop antibodies. This is designed to create so called
herd immunity, which theoretically should result in
most people being safe. Today, the health authorities announced
a further 96 fatalities. Thank you very much. Last night
President Trump criticized the Swedish approach.
They talk about Sweden but Sweden is suffering very gravely
you know that right Sweden did that. The herd. They call it the
herd.
The Swedish anti virus campaign is being led not by the
country's Prime Minister, but by Anders Tecno. an epidemiologist
with the experience of fighting Ebola in Africa. He responded to
Mr. Trump this afternoon.
No, we don't share his opinion. Of course we're suffering.
Everybody in the world is suffering right now in different
ways. But Swedish healthcare which I guess is alludes to,
it's very difficult to understand is taking care of
this in in a very, very good manner.
Fellow scientists mark is called despairs of Sweden. Being so out
of step with most of the world. This, to me sounds a bit like a
madman. We are here playing Russian roulette with the
Swedish population. King Carl Gustaf into the disapproval of
government tactics as he urged suites to cancel the traditional
annual getaway to country cabins
through the FTAs Coronavirus treatment acceleration program.
19 therapies and treatments are now being tested and 26 more in
the active planning or clinical trials. We have 19 therapies
being tested currently. And 26 More are in the active planning
for clinical trials. That's a big statement. That's a lot
trials for Gilead aids, anti rival drug remdesivir Continue
and the company has also expanded emergency use for new
patients getting good early results by the way the companies
that manufacture hydroxy Chloroquine are massively
ramping up production. As you know, many people are
recommending strongly Z Pak be added to Z Pak and also zinc and
the federal government continues to build our stockpiles and
distribute millions of doses for doctors to use as they see fit
for Russia. He golf is prepared to take on any enemy, including
the Coronavirus. Since early February. He has been in charge
of this special patrol by the URL co sacks. They hand out face
masks in their neighborhood of Yekaterinburg and check people
for signs of a cold. Igor Gorbachev is an ottoman, one of
the heads of the Euro Cossacks. People here recognize them by
their uniforms, and some of their recommendations on how to
stay healthy or just as old fashioned.
We recommend our traditional remedies having honey garlic and
raspberry jam and keeping to basic rules of personal hygiene.
When people come in from outside, they should wash their
hands and take off their outdoor clothes because it's decided to
help our government with the Coronavirus because we care
about the faith of Russia.
The Cossacks carry holy water along with them for extra
protection against the virus. These vigilante patrols weren't
authorized by the city. But in Russia, Cossacks often support
the state security forces and act as unofficial guardians of
public order. The next morning calls that teenagers try their
hand at a paramilitary drill. From the late 18th century,
Cossacks defended the borders of the Russian Empire. Since the
fall of the Soviet Union cosec identity has had a revival.
Anyone can now become a Cossack being patriotic, conservative
and ready to fight is key.
I am expressing my deepest apologies for getting it wrong
with the beginning of comparing Coronavirus to influenza. That
was wrong. When I did get right was telling everybody after I
stated my position to be sure you listen to Dr. Fauci because
he should always be your North Star, he will get it right no
matter what. And he has been and I was convinced would always be
the person we should listen to, and follow His direction and
nothing more, nothing less. Again, we are getting lots of
threats on my family's getting threats. I'd like us to please
ask that you stop and that we get together. This is a time for
collective effort not for scapegoating. So I was engaged
in a bit of loser think by comparing numbers. I had a lot
of numbers in my head, I was dealing with 100,000 people
dying of opiates and drugs every year I was dealing with a
billion people infected with h1 N one and 500,040 to 60 year
olds dying of that 24 million flu cases and 30 to 60,000 dying
of that those numbers were in my head as I was trying to compare
this outbreak to that, and I shouldn't have been doing that I
should have been just addressing this outbreak is what it was I
didn't understand the ferocity of this virus and it's
contagious. And now my heart and soul is with New York City,
which is where I spend a lot of my time, I've signed up for the
New York and California health court, and I will be part of the
part of the frontline. If I should be needed. Bill Gates,
thank
you very much for joining us on BBC Breakfast. I just wonder if
I could first ask you how important is it now to have a
global response? I'd say
it's critical because the tools that are going to reduce deaths,
the drugs, you know, that's a global thing to get those out.
And the thing that will get us back to the world that we had
before Coronavirus is the vaccine and getting that out to
all 7 billion people. And so the efforts to test those to build
the factories to understand you know, is it safe and ready to go
that's a global problem. And, you know, so I'm glad you know
that people are coming together to find where's the best work
and combine that, you know, the factory will be in a different
country than the sciences in. This is the whole whole world
working on probably the most urgent tool that's ever been
needed. And of course, duty. The administration today has been
criticized for reducing that support and solidarity in a time
of pandemic and because in order to enact those reforms, it's
going to need the support of the other members of the World
Health Organization, other countries around the world,
and what sort of criticism Nick directed at the US?
Yeah, the criticism is everywhere, you saw Bill Gates,
whose foundation is a major funder of the who say that
cutting the who would be a bad choice and quote the who is
slowing the spread of COVID 19. And if that work is stopped, and
no organization can replace them, the world needs who now
more than ever and Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi said the
president is ignoring global health experts disregarding
science and undermining the heroes fighting on the front
line.
So that's praise but that is in contrast to the administration
criticizing the who for many months. Why do you think we were
so ill prepared for Coronavirus? We haven't recognized
as a global community that we are a global community. And if
we had recognized that and stepped up to it, we would have
prepared for this. We would have systems in place, both
monitoring alerting very quickly. We would have had test
kits available we would have just you know we plan for things
as nations we plan for earthquakes, we plan for
tsunamis, we plan for tornadoes, we didn't plan for disease. And
I don't think that will ever happen now. Thank God,
California will make pandemic relief payments of $500 apiece
to 150,000 migrants who are living in the state without
documentation. Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom said today
that they do essential work and pay millions of dollars in
taxes. Almost 40% of the money will come from private
contributions, the migrants are not eligible for federal
payments.
Now, you know, I've seen you referred to a little bit
recently as the love gov. And I'm wondering if that's bleeding
into your demeanor at all, making you a little soft on the
President, that you don't want to really criticize him because
you need him and now's not a time for fighting. But don't you
have to balance that with calling him out? If he's doing
things that you don't think are great for the people of your
state to be hearing and experiencing? Love go? I've
always I've always been a soft guy. I am the love girl. I'm a
cool dude and loose mood. You know that? I just say let it go.
Just go with the flow, baby. You know, you can't control any
water off a duck's first time. And yeah, I think yeah, wow.
Never said any. Look, I have known you my whole life. All
right. Well, that's your opinion. Yeah. Well, you should
listen better listening works. I'm not always taught. What was
the question? Oh, I remember the question. yourself on I am on a
situation. Yeah. Well, that's your characterization. First of
all right. So it was stated as a question because you have a
characterization into that as a premise. I am working with the
president cooperatively, it's very important that the federal
government and state government work together during this time,
I have to do my best job for the people of this state. You cannot
say, Look, I've been the governor in this country as the
been the most critical of the president up until now. And by
the way, there is no governor that he's been more critical of
than me. So nobody's going to say I gone too soft on the
president. We're working together to help the state.
That's what's important. Now, no politics, no personality, no
ego, no ego. It's not about you. It's not about me, it's about we
and getting through this. And that's my singular focus.
There'll be a data time for everything. But this is not the
time and place.
And nobody is more complicit in that than Fox News. And let us
just for all of you for both of you. I want to put a graphic of
some of the recent inaccuracies from President Trump and we're
doing this explicitly because this is a matter of life and
death. And there's no pussyfooting around this sorry.
This is not a political issue. It's a science issue. It's a
life and death issue. So on April 7, President Trump says on
hydrochloric chlorine, I really think it's a great thing to try.
This is Chloroquine. factcheck clinical trials. Trials are
underway but the FDA and top public health officials have not
endorsed Trump's view that the drug can be taken safely.
March 30, we've done more tests by far than any country in the
world by far factcheck true that the US has done more tests than
any other country but on a per capita basis. It's way behind
Germany, Italy and South Korea.
March 26. On the pandemic, this was something that nobody has
ever thought could happen to this country. factcheck US
intelligence community and public health experts have
warned for years that the country was at risk from a
pandemic. experts also warn that the country would face shortages
of critical medical equipment.
Yeah, it's not only been the administration but a lot of
critics around the world has said simply the who is too
swayed by China. Let me take you back to about New Years. This is
the time when local doctors in Wuhan, China, were telling
hospital administrators that hey, this is something new, and
there's human to human transmission because we're
getting sick. But the hospitals and the local government covered
that up or at the very least silenced those local doctors. So
on December 31, the Wuhan government released a statement,
the investigation so far has found no obvious person to
person transmission, and no medical personnel have been
infected. And the who basically parroted that language January
5, based on the preliminary information from the Chinese
investigation team, no evidence of significant human to human
transmission, and no health care worker infections have been
reported. officials who are talking to me say that the who
should have known better and should not have accepted Chinese
language.
But Nick weren't the Trump administration and the W H. O
praising China's response back in back in January.
Yeah, that's that's a great point. And this is really key.
So let's take a listen to the director general of who talking
in January the day after the who declared this a global
emergency, but also President Trump praising China,
who continues to have a confidence in China's capacity
to control the outbreak.
I spoke with President Xi, we had a great talk. He's working
very hard, I have to say he's working very, very hard. And if
you can count on the reports coming out of China, that spread
has gone down quite a bit.
And Judy, obviously, the President's language about China
has changed. And the US really does want to reform who but they
need international support to do so. And it's not clear that they
have that.
Just like with ventilators, we're building now the best
ventilators. Just like with ventilators, our testing is
getting better and better. I took the first test. The first
test was not pleasant. This was not a pleasant thing. I said,
You got to be kidding to the doctor. You got to be kidding.
Up, you know, and then we hang out, right? And it goes down
here. And then we'll wiggle it around here under your eye. And
then we'll pull it out. And we'll say I said no, that's it's
there's no way that can happen. Is that the way it goes? Sure.
This was a very unpleasant test. And then I was tested a few
weeks later with the new tests that just came out the Abbott,
where they just touch your nose, basically, and they put it in a
machine. And literally a few minutes later, they tell you if
you're fine. And I was lucky in both cases
at Pine Street in in Boston, South End, universal COVID-19
testing leading to new stunning evidence about the asymptomatic
spread of the virus. It was
like a double knockout punch because the number of positives
was shocking to us. But then the fact that 100% of the positives
had no symptoms was equally shocking. Dr. Jim
O'Connell, president of Boston Healthcare for the Homeless
program says broad scale testing was carried out at this shelter
about a week and a half ago because of a small cluster of
cases. The findings now actively being examined by the CDC 146
positive cases about 36% of the shelter's population, all
asymptomatic,
it probably frankly raises more questions than it answers. Pine
Street
President Linda Downey says the results prove the previous
screening method of only testing those showing symptoms to be
ineffective.
I think there are so many asymptomatic people right now
that if we could do universal testing, the number may look
close to this. I don't think we know the universal
testing at Pine Street in and testing of the homeless at BMC.
Bringing Boston south end to number one in the city with the
highest rate of COVID 19 infection of the 146 people at
Pine Street in who tested positive health officials tell
us only one needed hospital care and many have not experienced
any symptoms. We also
one of the most important studies that's been done just
this week came out at Stanford University where they tested the
antibodies in Santa Clara County, California. And so these
are people who have the antibodies from the Coronavirus.
Their thought is that they had acquired the virus many of them
may not have known that they had had it but they look to see how
prevalent those antibodies were in that county, and they
determined that between 50 and 80 times more people in Santa
Clara had the antibodies than had actually tested positive in
Santa Clara County.
They one on one could not help but notice that the only shot
that was opened on the entire length of the shores Elisa in
Paris was a chocolate shop. Even his entire countries
have shut down to prevent the spread of COVID 19. essential
services around the world remain open. And what a country
considers essential tells us a lot about its culture.
All the luxury and fromagerie G shops butchers and wine
merchants and indeed, shocker Lachey that still exists in
which give France still so much of its character all these shops
have been given exemptions and can stay open. And the French I
have to say are all mighty glad of the fact
in the US what counts as an essential service depends on
where you live in states have made controversial choices like
gun stores after the Trump administration released guidance
supporting classifying gun shops as essential states have allowed
firearm businesses to remain open and sales have surged to
record levels. marijuana dispensaries both medical and
recreational have also been allowed to remain open in the
states where they're legal like Colorado, they have adopted new
social distancing measures like curbside pickup.
For the past few weeks, all restaurants bars, clubs and pubs
have been closed here in Australia, but off licenses or
liquor stores, they remain
open so you can go buy a drink, but you'll have to have it at
home. toy shops are an interesting gray area. Some are
closed and others are open to a limited number of customers at
any given time. And I know what you're thinking, why are toys
crucial? Well, the Prime Minister Scott Morrison did say
himself that his wife had to go and buy their children a whole
bunch of jigsaw puzzles because they were essential for his
family. They changed the way they live in the next few
months.
another country's bans on what many would consider essential
for sparking
outrage.
Most people who know a bit about the Philippines are aware of the
iconic Jeepney bus but there is another form of essential
transport here called the tricycle. They're a bit like
Batman and robins that bike but last month strict quarantine
measures placed on the country's main island Luzon meant all
public transport was banned. However, a popular young local
mayor in Manila Vico sotto allow trikes to be used by medical
workers but the next day Philippine President Rodrigo
Duterte. He warned local officials not to break
quarantine rules but now President Duterte his daughter
Sarah, mayor of Davao City has also allowed trikes to be used.
Her exemption being the city doesn't fall on the loose on
quarantine measures who would have thought the humble tricycle
could be so political.
For the first time in the history of India, its extensive
railway network considered a lifeline for the country has
been halted. But porting the strength of carry more than 23
million passengers every day has had a Fallout, lots of daily
regen as have been stranded in the cities without money, food
or shelter, the government's now making arrangements for them.
Interestingly, the information technology sector has been
exempted from what is otherwise a stringent shutdown, with a
view to keep networks that are crucial to communication,
banking and governance running
for for more on the origins of the Coronavirus, Trump's
response and where do we go from here we're joined by as wala
just who has long study diseases that cross the animal human
divide, and who for years has been sounding the alarm about
upcoming pandemic. Dr. Peter das shack is with us. He's a disease
ecologist, the president of eco Health Alliance, a nonprofit
that works globally to identify and study our vulnerabilities to
emerging infectious disease. Eco Health Alliance has been
studying Corona viruses in China since the end of the SARS
outbreak in 2004. This Coronavirus is really called
SARS to he's joining us from the Hudson River Valley in New York.
Welcome to Democracy Now. It's great to have you with us. So if
you can unpack what we just heard, it goes to the issue of
the origins of the Coronavirus, especially interesting that
President Trump is raising this now as he's being seriously
attacked for the United States lack of action and delay and so
he is striking out at as many sectors as he can but talk about
the origins of the Coronavirus Dr. Dash check.
You're good to be here long first the the idea that this
virus escaped from the lab is just pure baloney. It's simply
not true. I've
been working with that lab for 15 years, and the samples
collected were collected by me and others In collaboration with
our Chinese colleagues, they are some of the best scientists in
the world. There was no viral isolate in the lab there was no
cultured virus that this anything related to SAS
Coronavirus to so it's just not possible.
And might you say it's really a politicization of the origins of
a pandemic and it's really unfortunate.
Tonight the streets of New York City remain virtually empty. But
on the heels of the President's new three phased plan to reopen
America, some states are slowly inching back in tonight beaches
in Jacksonville, Florida will reopen, but no more than 10 in a
crowd.
First we inform the people what the rules are, then we warn if
they don't comply and then we take additional action if
necessary if they still don't comply.
Texas will allow some retail to go but not permitted in store
shopping. Minnesota will allow golf courses to open this
weekend. Wisconsin's governor said Lawn Care businesses might
be able to operate and Idaho will allow non essential
businesses like craft dog groomers to open their doors.
Still, some workers are concerned. Andy Revelle works on
Navy ships in Virginia and let us strike this week after one of
his co workers died.
We're literally scared it's like the ship is like haunted by a
ghost. It's everywhere. And we just that's what the environment
we work in all day.
And it's debate over reopening continues news of treatment
progress. Gilead, the maker of the drug remdesivir saw a surge
in its stock price on news reports that the drug helped
COVID-19 patients in Chicago, New York with 600 more deaths in
the last 24 hours. It's still a hot spot. The city announced its
canceling outdoor concerts until June. But the governor today
said he knew patients was wearing thin
the situation we're in now is unsustainable. People can't stay
in their homes. For this length of time, they can't stay out of
work. You can't keep the economy closed forever. You just can't.
The I think when we talk about this idea of reopening society,
you know, only in America. Does the President when the President
tweets about liberation. Does he mean go back to work when we you
know, have this discussion about going going back or reopening? I
think a lot of people should just say no, we're not going
back to that. We're not going back to working 70 hour weeks
just so that we could put food on the table and not even feel
any sort of semblance of security in our lives.
There have been some reports of animals testing positive for the
Coronavirus. Doubt appears health officials in the US have
finally confirmed cases. The US Department of Agriculture and
the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says they found
two pet cats in New York state that have tested positive for
Coronavirus. She'll say it appears the animals can get the
virus from humans, or there's no indication animals can transmit
it.
The death toll from the virus in the US is now more than 46,000
people. Officials in California trace two of those deaths to
February.
I think what these deaths tell us is that community
transmission had arrived much earlier than we were able to
detect it. And I think it really highlights the importance of the
shelter in place and protecting the community and preventing
hospitalizations and deaths from
COVID-19. Good evening and thank you for joining us there are two
major headlines as we come on the air tonight putting
scientists at odds with the Trump administration.
Researchers behind one of the leading Coronavirus models one
that the White House has repeatedly cited now says most
of the country should not consider lifting stay at home
waters until the end of May. The new model comes as protests to
reopen are growing and just as some Southern Governors are
already loosening their restrictions. Meantime tonight
the scientist in charge of coordinating the government
search for Coronavirus vaccine says he has been abruptly ousted
from his job because of what he calls politics and cronyism. Dr.
Rick bright the head of a little known agency called BARDA says
he was sidelined after refusing to push for what he calls quote,
on demand access to hydroxychloroquine. That is the
drug that President Trump has repeatedly mentioned as a
treatment for COVID 19 Even though it hasn't been approved
for that news. Now all of this as the death toll in the US has
now passed 46,000.
Beginning this week, new EMT guidelines across the state of
New York paramedics are not to make life saving attempts to
unresponsive patients essentially do not revive in
order to protect first responders from Coronavirus
exposure. Still EMTs in New York City say they have yet to adopt
the guidelines.
But then we also talked about removing information that is
problematic and of course anything that is medically
unsubstantiated, so people saying like take vitamin C, you
know, take Tumeric like those are all will cure you. Those are
the examples of things that would be a violation of our
policy. Anything that would go against World Health
Organization recommendations. would be a violation of our
policy. And so remove is another really important part of our
policy.
Well, there are many, you know, the revolving door problems with
all of our federal agencies and and all of our state agencies.
There's an Amana that is very well documented called agency
captcha, which is a phenomenon or a dynamic by which the agency
that that's supposed to protect the American public from bad
drugs or from collusion or what have you ultimately becomes a
subsidiary or a sock puppet for the industry that it's supposed
to regulate it. And indeed, that's what we see with the CDC,
the head of CDC from 2002 to 2009, as you point out, as Julie
Gerberding, she did a number of billion dollar favors for Merck,
she's silenced a whistleblower, who was William Thompson, who is
still as I had to add at CDC, who wanted to tell the public
that testing of Merck vaccines, oh, that, particularly the MMR
vaccine was causing autism in black boys and other people who
got the vaccine on time and that the scientists had been ordered
to destroy data showing that fact, and that they went ahead
and publish this body lying about it to the American people
and the physicians and Julie Gerberding did a huge favor to
Merck by having that scientists punished and then silence she,
she arranged for Merck to get the monopoly to the multibillion
dollar MMR vaccine and to make sure Glaxo could not sell its
vaccine in this country. She approved the the HPV vaccine
Gardasil, which is another Merck product. She approved the
chickenpox vaccine and the silenced whistleblower Gary
Goldman is another doctor who said this vaccine is going to
cause shingles epidemic Merck, that not only got the chickenpox
vaccine, but it also was able to market a shingle of actress and
she retired in 2009. And she was made president of Merck vaccine
division in 2010, with a salary of about $2.5 million, I think
about $5 million in stock options. CDC is actually a
vaccine company.
We're also testing disinfectants readily available, we've tested
bleach, we've tested isopropyl alcohol on the virus
specifically in saliva or in respiratory fluids. And I can
tell you that bleach will kill the virus in five minutes.
isopropyl alcohol will kill the virus in 30 seconds. And that's
with no manipulation, no rubbing, just bring it on
leaving a go you rub it and it goes away even faster. We're
also looking at other disinfectants, specifically
looking at the COVID-19 virus in saliva. This is not the end of
our work as we continue to characterize this virus and
integrate our findings into practical applications to
mitigate exposure and transmission.
It's been called a landmark collaboration. The World Health
Organization heads of government and research bodies came
together to coordinate the fight against COVID-19. They've
pledged to work together to find a vaccine and make sure everyone
has equal access to treatments and diagnostic tests. But the
United States isn't taking part. President Donald Trump has
accused the who of mishandling the crisis. We'll bring in our
guests in a moment to discuss the challenges ahead first, this
report from our diplomatic editor, James bass, it's just
the place you would have expected in previous times to
have seen us leadership, a global crisis, and world leaders
coming together with a response, not the idea of this event to
coordinate the search for vaccine testing and treatments
for COVID 19. And to make sure all are widely available, the
world needs these tools. And it needs them fast.
Past experience has taught us that even when tools are
available. They have been not been equally available to all we
cannot allow that to happen.
A world free of COVID-19 requires the most massive public
health efforts in history. Data must be shared production
capacity, prepared resources, mobilize communities engaged and
politics set asides. I know we can do it. I know we can put
people first
leaders spoke from all regions of the world. Technically
bringing them all together was a bit of a challenge. Your
Excellency you have? Can you hear me now? Yes, yes, we can
hear you. Okay, Germany, one of four members of the g7 group of
countries that will represent it.
We're now going to continue to mobilize All countries of the g7
and the G 20. For them to back this initiative, I hope that we
will be able to reconcile this initiative with China and the US
because the fight against COVID 19 as a common good for
humanity. There shouldn't be any divisions between countries. We
need to join forces to win this battle.
Americans considering how polarized we're amazingly United
right now, 98% of Democrats and 82% of Republicans support the
social distancing 90% of Americans complete bipartisan
consensus, believe that if we loosen too much, there'd be a
second wave. 76% of Americans say even if their governor did
loosen, they wouldn't go out. And so, to me, the big story
here is we're sort of hanging together through this.
Two women Carmelita Barella and Rosetta Shabazz have been
arrested on federal charges that connection to using a cop as a
weapon during a robbery back on April 6 2020, inside at
Walgreens in San Francisco's tenderloin neighborhood, FBI
Special Agent in Charge, John Bennett,
when they were approached by store personnel. They began to
cough, you know, pretty, pretty aggressively and then they, they
told everybody they had COVID. And so in their own words, they
were they were telling people they were positive for for this
fight with
FBI investigators say these
crimes are part of a disturbing trend nationwide,
my executive order to stay at home that was issued last month,
is set to expire on April the 30th. That executive order has
done his job to slow the growth of COVID-19. And I will let it
expire as scheduled. Now, it's time to set a new course, a
course that responsibly opens up business in Texas. Obviously,
not all businesses can open all at once. A more strategic
approach is required to ensure that we don't reopen only to
have to close down again. We will open Texas businesses in
phases. Phase one begins this Friday, May 1, all retail
stores, restaurants, movie theaters and malls can reopen
May the first. Now to minimize the spread of COVID-19. During
phase one. On the advice of doctors, I am limiting occupancy
to no more than 25% the extent to which this order opens up
businesses in Texas supersedes all local orders. If phase one
works well containing COVID-19 Phase two will expand that
occupancy to 50%. This order allows these businesses to
reopen we can go over there over there
in this situation, the problem, not the solution. Cheap recorded
to show those social media, you're doing the wrong thing.
I'm just trying to save your butt. Okay, I don't hold them
you get the promotion.
Americans no Joe Biden saw this coming all along and warned
people in January about what was going to happen here.
Opinions fall along partisan lines, but it does include 55%
of independents who say they would prefer that Biden be
handling the crisis. And 51% of Americans want Joe Biden
handling the economy. 44% say they'd rather it be Trump Willy
Willy. That's pretty. Pretty remarkable. Number two, if you
look at Joe Biden on the economy, more Americans prefer
Joe Biden handling the economy, Donald Trump's calling card, but
he's always bragged about saying this is the difference between
him and other Republicans or him and Democrats. He knows how to
do things. Well, no, actually Americans have seen his failures
in developing a strong testing regimen has kept this country
closed longer. And if you look at his own doctors, if you look
at his own scientist, if you listen to what nurses what
medical providers say they all say and by the way, CEOs are
saying it too, we can't reopen our economy until we strengthen
our testing.
Clooney I'm not a doctor, and I've never pretended to be a I
don't have a fold up bicycle, for example, I don't feel the
need to wear scrubs in the street. And indeed, I've never
voted labour. I don't read the guardian. But let me introduce
you to a scientist I think we should all be asking questions
about his name is Professor Neil Ferguson of Imperial College. He
runs models, and not beautiful women models, statistical
models, where he tells people how many deaths he thinks
there's going to be from a pandemic or other crisis. Neil
Ferguson says lifting the lockdown could cost 100,000
lives in the UK, and he's the guy that government are
listening to right now. Which is why we're still under this
infernal house arrest that everybody seems to be clapping
their frying pans about. Let's look at some of Neil Ferguson's
work in the past and see how accurate it's been. For bird
flu. He estimated using his very sophisticated models, there
might be 200 million deaths globally. There were in fact,
292 when it came to swine flu, Professor focus and use his
brilliant models, and he estimated there could be 65,000
deaths in the UK. There were in fact 457. Again, with Mad Cow
disease, a disease that I can relate to between 50 and 50,000
deaths in the UK, he said, And the correct answer was 177. And
for COVID, he came out and said there may be 500,000 deaths.
He's now saying there may be 100,000 If lockdown ends. And of
course we have no way of knowing right now, how many deaths there
will be. But it seems that Neil Ferguson is prone to
exaggeration. He's kind of like Gemma Collins on hormone
replacement therapy. Other scientists have challenged his
thinking as well. Unsurprisingly, they say at best
his models are crude estimations containing serious errors. So
questions remain. Why aren't the mainstream media asking these
questions? Why are we listening to this man who's about as
accurate as my five year old trying to be standing up?
Everybody's saying it I see from CEOs to nurses. And so I think
that's partly what you're saying. And those poll numbers
that show Americans prefer Joe Biden to Donald Trump when it
comes to handling the economy.
And through all the chaos as you know, President Trump has
basically staked his presidency on a strong economy. It's where
he always goes when he's in trouble. Look at the
unemployment numbers, look at the stock market, as those have
collapsed over the last couple of months. He no longer can hang
his hat on that. And you're seeing some of that in those
numbers in terms of opening up the economy. That same NPR poll
Mika was talking about asks whether it's a good or a bad
idea to resume certain normal activities without further
testing. 91% of Americans say it is a bad idea to allow people to
attend sporting events. 85% agree schools should remain
close 80% thing where I think restaurants should not allow
customers to dine in and 65% say it's a bad idea to allow people
to return to work without testing Mika this Coronavirus
with all of his followers and let them all hug each other and
kiss each other and have a big big rally. Big cocktail of
disinfectant yeah and all take disinfected
and all drop dead
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