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And the dramatic increase in those applying for jobless benefits. We want to hear from you. If you are a medical professional, we want to hear from you. Tweet andso send us a we are on facebook at facebook. Com spaceman. Facebook. Com cspan. We begin with the numbers tonight courtesy of Johns Hopkins university. Now, more than one million cases worldwide and nearly 52,000 deaths. Rapidly. S. , we are approaching a quarter of a million americans infected with this disease as we outpace every coun...

Been working through femas acquisition process not only to deploy but to gather up personal protective equipment. In a few moments you will hear from admiral john polcyk on the extraordinary progress we made on the strategic stockpile but identifying on the commercial marketplace around america and around the world literally millions of n95 masks, surgical gowns, gloves, protective equipment and at this point we distributed some 7600 ventilators and you will hear today specifically about the sta...

Faculty member of the Economics Department and the cochair of the mit work of the future attack force that was commissioned a year ago the spring and the purpose of the task force is to engage in confront the sense that many have that the labor market and technology is changing rapidly to understand why people are anxious, to figure out how concerned they should be, what is changing and what is different this time and what can we do to ensure that the coming era of change needs to not productivi...

Watched cspans washington journal. Live at 7 00 eastern this morning. Join the discussion. Good evening. The world past a grim milestone today with more than one million confirmed cases of coronavirus across the globe. It is thursday, april 2 and this is a prime time edition of the washington journal. One person and every 1000 americans are infected. We speak to the author of the deadliest enemy. And the dramatic increase in those applying for jobless benefits. We want to hear from you. If you a...

Lord, give our law lawmakers aing this upper for your words and a desire to apply your knowledge in their daily work. We pray in your merciful name. Amen. The president pro tempore please join me in the please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance to the flag. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Mr. Mcconnell mr. President . The presiding officer the m...

Industrial mobilization to make adequate ventilators particularly a short one to help the people of new york, detroit, new orleans, chicago, denver, seattle, all around this country as this virus bears down. The ventilators of the most important things for the patient to become more seriously ill. They are the lifeline for people. I personally have been working with fema and with hhs and Ventilator Companies making sure we can get what we need as quickly as possible. Virtually, every one of thos...

With james hodge who is director of the center for Public Health law and policy at Arizona State university. Washington journal is next. Is next. Is next host good morning. This is washington journal for tuesday, march 17, 2020. There is very little celebrating planned due to the shutdown of bars and restaurants nationwide because of the coronavirus and further restrictions and limited by the federal government, the white house, State Governments and localities. We would love to hear what you ar...

People staying in their homes, no restaurants, no bars, no congregation. The United States has been very slow to that. Particularly, the federal government has not been urging it. Just two days ago for the first time, the cdc recommended that there should be no gatherings of 50 people or more, which is way too many. The president yesterday said that we should try to avoid gatherings of 10 people or more. That is probably too many also. But this indicates to me that we are in whole new territory....

Industrial mobilization to make adequate ventilators particularly a short one to help the people of new york, detroit, new orleans, chicago, denver, seattle, all around this country as this virus bears down. The ventilators of the most important things for the patient to become more seriously ill. They are the lifeline for people. I personally have been working with fema and with hhs and Ventilator Companies making sure we can get what we need as quickly as possible. Virtually, every one of thos...

Saw a briefing yesterday by the White House Task force and a number of news outlets have reported a ramping up, this turn from the president. What did you hear in terms of extra measures that came out of the briefing that caught your ear . Host many countries have been aggressively getting guest many countries have been aggressively doing social distancing. The u. S. Has been very slow to that. Particularly the federal government has not been urging it. Just two days ago for the first time cdc r...