Foundation. Colonel, great to see you. The president is on a Conference Call to get this oil deal done. Your reaction to that story as we await for the presser . I think one of the Untold Stories about the whole Covid Response has been the u. S. As a global leader. Were so focused on the domestic story. Were so focused what china is doing around the world that china is absent and were not. This is one of the instance United States holding back, Holding World Health Organization accountable. Tremendous work weve done with other countries own development and cdc and everybody else. U. S. Is still the global leader. Im glad we have Something Like this to remind people of that. Elizabeth i want to move to jobless claims. This is a story of reopening. The American People want to know the plan Going Forward from reopening economy. Were different from europe. Entire nations shut down. They can make the call to reopen. We operate on a 50 state model. Here is the problem, 6. 6 million jobs lost
And now, live on tape from the ed sullivan theater in new york city, its Stephen Colbert cheers and applause stephen hey, everybody hello there cheers and applause good to see you. Please have a seat, everybody thank you so much. Welcome, one and all, to the late show. Im your host, Stephen Colbert. Folks cheers and applause i like that. Thank you. I dont know how you guys are feeling tonight, but i am staying positive not testing positive, just staying positive. laughter staying positive. I believe that the bottle of purell is halffull. laughter because somebody stole half my purell, and i will find you laughter jon come on, now. Stephen the coronavirus is still on everyones minds, so dont forget to wash your minds. laughter and ill tell you all about the latest in tonights edition of goin viral. cheers and applause book your cruise now stephen there are now over 600 cases of coronavirus in the united states. There were 500 when we rehearsed this two hours ago. laughter over the weeke
What about the pandemic in 1918 . With that time. And then to focus on the differences because 981 1918 of us several messages the biggest one is to understand what was killing people. And it will kill 150 Million People worldwide and they did not know what it was that was killing him so the word comes from the word influence they thought it was the stars of the planet was killing them because they were misaligned. So what comes out of 1918 is the communities and we are in a very different place within two weeks of the coronavirus they publish the full genome of the covid19 virus in publishing it in the major us journal for here in the us and around the world to read. And what was the number one thrust. Based on what was published in january are you surprised of where we are today early april . I am surprised there are often reports of novel viruses that are described it is not unusual to read of the cases that they flare up we have had several over the decades for china or hong kong o
I want to just talk very briefly about two or three things. First the issue of testing and how that has changed the complexion of the approach well be able to take. Testing was an issue. We had many questions of testing in this room for a number of times. Now that we literally have hundreds and hundreds and thousands of tests out there there are a few things we can do with that one of the things when we make policy poll what well do with the rest of the country particularly areas that are not hot spots, we need to know what penetration is there. We have to act policyize on data. And were going to be getting more data, a lot more data. The other thing is, that the areas of the country, not hot spots, not going through the terrible ordeal that new york and california and Washington State are going through, they still have a window of significant degree of being able to contain. In other words, when you test, you find somebody, you isolate them, you get them out of circulation and you do
Pacific and mountain, 202 7488001. We have a line for medical professionals, we would love to hear from you. Its 202 7488002. We are also on twitter and facebook. We are taking your text messages. That number is 202 7488003. Tell us your first name and where you are texting from. We begin as we always do with a look at the sobering numbers courtesy of Johns Hopkins university. More than 1. 2 million confirmed cases. The number ofs. Cases are approaching 330,000. 65,000 deaths around the country. Around the world, i should say. The u. S. Is leading the world in cases of coronavirus. That from Johns Hopkins university, which has been keeping track of this since the beginning in january. The president says a lot of death is coming. It will be the toughest week in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic, and he said this on saturday. He said this as the total number of coronavirus cases rose to over 300,000, with the number of deaths host at the Daily Briefing yesterday, deborah birx, o