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, one of the medical professionals, heading up the tax force, had this [video clip] numbers are the numbers. They seem to be checking out, unfortunately. In some cases they are in the low side, which makes us happy. The very low side is why think we are headed. I would like to ask you and tony, where is, what is wheres the week of greatest attack . What will be the worst day, if thats possible to determine. I think thats what youre asking . And how many deaths are you expecting . Placesou can look in the that are most difficult hit, weoit, new york, louisiana are doing it by the counties in those states. It is metro areas and the bedroom communities around those metro areas. Because people went to work and got exposed and came home and exposed other people. If you look in new york now you can see it is in long island, suffolk county, and nassau county. , wayne,hose counties oakland, they are on the upside of their curve of mortality. So, you know when you get to the peak you come down the other side. So by the protections that are in that health data. Org, they are predicting that in those three hotspots all of them are hitting together in the next six to seven days. [inaudible]. Ou can go to the website its variable. Each one of those communities is different. You know where new york is, how much their mortality has been, and you know that what we are seeing today are the people infected two or three weeks ago. Yorktigation in new worked, and we believe it is working, the cases are going to start to come down. Will be a lag behind that because of the comorbidity and other conditions. That is why all of the protections are that this next week, and i think we said this last sunday when we talked about ,he charts, and it is difficult we tried to prepare the American People to understand that, as much as you grow up, you have to come down the other side. From before. I would rather not say a number, but they are available if you go to the website. You can see that there are several hundred per day in new york. I think Governor Cuomo has talked about that increasing still into the 5, 6, 700 range a day. Know, thats very concerning to us. Yesterdays from Daily Briefing. By the way, we have covered all of them and they are on our website at cspan. Org coronavirus. Here is a tweet from lizzie, who says host thank you for that. Here are the numbers of those recovered, 200 and 52,000 johnside according to Hopkins University with 1. 2 million confirmed cases. Wasvery first one discovered in wuhan, china, new years eve. Dan is in pennsylvania. A medical professional. Whats your job, then caller family practitioner. Guest thank you for joining us. Host thank you for joining us. Just listening 15 minutes ago about the president s meeting from yesterday. Medicine is about absolutely 100 wrong. Its detrimental to anyone who listens to him. He doesnt know anything about what he is talking about, medically. He gives things like insinuations about well you know what happens if you have to go on a ventilator. Recommendations are not only wrong, but very dangerous. You know, thats kind of it. From a medical perspective hes doing much more harm than good. Host are you still practicing . I have been in practice for 33 years. Familya Community Medicine in solo practice. Host still seeing patients . Caller absolutely, thats my primary job. Host thank you for the call, we appreciate it. Diane is next. Caller i would like to know if i can complete my comment before i get hung up on. Host certainly. Caller i speak for myself and most americans i have spoken with on the situation and we believe that this was a planned pandemic. In other words a wellplanned pandemic. We also believe that most mainstream media, including yourself, have been bought off by globalist. You are here to take the economy to destroy from trump and the country. We also think it is a bio weapon. We are not stupid. We stand behind the president no matter what happens. Host planned by whom . Caller the president. Pleasant trump. We stand by President Trump. Host no, who was this planned by . Caller i cant say exactly who. I would say globalists. I believe it was made in a bio lab, this virus. Its not normal. Nothing is normal about the whole situation going on. Host i have to fervently disagree, we are not bought off by anybody. Caller you are very biased and you do a good job of trying to hide it, but it very much shows. Host i could not disagree more, but you have your full comment, so thank you for that. Caller i am very scared. Doctor, her wife is a doctor. Its the frontline they are on. Donald trump should take that responsibility. The scientists, the professionals, they should consult with him. I am very scared. The medical professionals are in trouble. Donald trump is responsible, 100 . Thank you so much. Call. Think you for the beth on facebook said pointthat is our starting this first hour of the washington journal. George . Caller i him believe that other caller with that conspiracy theory. Whatever, since then these things have happened, i guess they were all some type of conspiracy . That cannot possibly be true. I never heard anything like that. The president , getting up there in the face of these things, this horrible thing thats going on, talking about how bad adam schiff was, pelosi. What is he afraid of . Afraid people will quit believing his lies . My jesus. Host thank you for the call. Front page of the new york , after the disclosure in wuhan, 430,000 flew to the u. S. Host next up is melvin, shreveport, louisiana. Good morning. I will be brief. I have an trying to reach people all over the world. Government and what have you. A solution for this problem is aerial spraying. Host going to stop you there because we are getting a delay. If you call in, turn the volume down and we will get your actions in just a moment. James, manhattan, kansas. Good morning. Caller good morning. How are you . Host fine, sir. Caller trump is doing a lot and he should be much more responsible towards the people. Seems that he is more concerned with compliments then he is for protecting the people. You, froms, thank kansas. Front page of the Washington Post. Full story is Available Online. Joe from dupont, washington, good morning. Caller i want to take issue with the comments that family practitioner made about ventilators. The statistics are in the of patients on5 ventilators die. Chinese statistics are about 90 . We are trying to avoid putting patients on ventilators. They linger for a long time by using high flow oxygen. That was one issue. I dont know where he is getting those statistics. Thing andicizing this making nonspecific comments about trump. The other thing is this reference with the hydroxychloroquine, i dont even know if that works or doesnt work. Studiesare some small that say it works, but that has been approved for 50, 60 years, used to treat people with rheumatoid diseases, malaria, etc. All the trump is saying is why not give it a chance . The call. K you for anthony has this point host npr has again, quoting the president , one of the toughest weeks ahead of us. Is next from jonesboro, georgia, good morning. Morning, steve. On the question of president , he has zero credibility. I say that because if he could get through one briefing, just one, without asking people to without ring and blaming somebody else for the problems that we have. We all know that this is new. We all know that we have to change the way we do a lot of things. But to constantly blame other people to me is really just asinine. And as far as diane from florida who says the people she speaks with all say this was something trumped up as a conspiracy, guess what, diane, it doesnt matter, people are dying. It doesnt matter. We have to do what we can do to mitigate. Same that send that fake check back and you get it, diane, you and your family. Text message tweet from mike in florida, saying that mr. Know it all trump said it was a hoax and would go away like a miracle that the deaths would soon be down to zero, finally has admitted to the reality. Now to samuel from waukesha, wisconsin. Good morning. Caller hello. I think that donald trump and Senate Republicans need to take more responsibility for their act in this pandemic and how it spread so wide in the United States. Facts of thed virus itself from us. When it got to the United States donald trump should have done his job, acted like the president , not lie about it like he did and stuff could have gotten done and we could have prevented these thousands of deaths that have already taken place. Host sam, thank you for the call. Victoria is next from everett, washington, good morning. Caller hey, good morning. The u. S. Has always been a trendsetter for the rest of the world. I definitely think that we could have mirrored china in doing a better job and maybe even bought some supplies from china. They have stops where people are , where temperatures are being taken. They have all the supplies that they need. Why cant we order supplies from them . We need a president who is going to back us up. I cant say it is a oneman job. Its an all of us job. They are not adequately testing everybody. People are Walking Around as super carriers and are asymptomatic. The problem is, we dont have the true numbers of how many people are truly infected and we dont have enough tests to go around. Theres no reason we cannot afford those supplies. Host victoria, thank you for the call. This is from john with a text message, saying tom, jacksonville, north carolina, good morning. I have a connection at a precinct in brooklyn. Three of the officers were asked veterans and havent gotten the vaccine. Host thank you. Tomorrow we will be talking to the head of the Police Chiefs to discuss how all of this is impacting Police Departments across the country. Most notably in large cities like detroit, chicago, and of course new york city tomorrow morning on washington journal. A medical professional hear from frisco city, good morning, welcome to the conversation. Hello . Youre on the air. How aregood morning, you doing . I just have a quick question comment about the socalled 17 intelligence agencies. My question is, where were they six months ago . What was congress doing six months ago . We are talking about what, blaming President Trump . Come on, now, america. Good morning. Host they give for the call. Yesterdays white house Daily Briefing, the president warned about the threat ahead in the next week or two. [video clip] week,sll be the toughest between this and next week, with a lot of death, unfortunately, but less if this had been done. But there will be death. We will be looking at the hardest hit regions. Some are obvious, some are not so obvious. They spring up. They come in they hit you like you have gotten hit by a club. That wasnt at all bothered, like in new jersey, where the governor is doing an excellent job at that just sprang up. Every decision that was made is made to save lives. Its really our soul consideration, we want as few lives lost as possible. That from the president , yesterday. This from the Washington Post host cheryl joins us from west virginia. Good morning. Are you with us . Joe in westo bobby terre haute, indiana. Good morning. I think that donald trump is doing the best he can, the best he knows how. Secondly, i was wondering what other people think of this. Conspiracy theorist at all, but i know that they are blaming the animal market or the virus being started. But my husband says that there is a germ warfare place there in china, like six miles away from that market and was thinking that maybe something got away from their. What otherwondering people think of that. You for the call. This is from george, who says that now it is being reported that as early as january President Trump host next is a caller from tupelo, mississippi. Bobby, good morning. Caller i keep hearing the president say wash her hands and stay six feet away from everybody, but one thing that we put to our face all the time is cell phones and i want america to know, clean your cell phones, to. Dont touch something and then touch her cell phones and then sam want to wash my hands. Clean your cell phone. You may be giving up yourself by not cleaning it. Host good advice. Thank you for that. And has this comment from the Facebook Page host james from buffalo, kentucky, good morning. Morning, thank you for having me on your show. The way i feel about it, you know that a lot of these deaths are more in your liberal states. They want to bring in everybody from all over the world and what have you. Personally, i dont feel like were really, i dont really care of the whole state goes out in a blast, the way i feel about it is they get what they so. They get what they reap. And then they want to put, they want to set there and put that on the rest of the country. They are getting what they so. Thats how i feel about it. Thank you, have a nice day. From buffalo, kentucky. Bloomberg news has this headline a letter did so in sent to her colleagues. Reporting the following host we should report that Speaker Pelosi has scaled back or ambitions dealing with coronavirus and that the focus on a direct payment to individuals with expanded loans to businesses possibly leaves an eight hundred billion dollar infrastructure plan and other democratic priorities for a later build. Full story is Available Online at bloomberg news. Com. Kevin is joining us from denver, colorado. Good morning. By the way, i really love the regional approach to this. It is a more accurate bellwether of how we are all feeling, rather than otherwise. So, thank you for that. Really looking forward to your hosting of a guest. Perhaps some reporters, a couple of reporters, the timeline here. Its purposely being obfuscated. We have been following it. We were watching the things in china. Korea and italy. So, we have an indication of what was coming our way. Your kentucky caller just hit the nail on the head. Thats a fox news viewer. Its a liberal problem, we are getting what we deserve. Fox has to be regulated. Bring back the fairness doctrine. They are a threat to Public Health and thats my comment. Host kevin, thank you. This from larry with a text message from reuters news, this is the headline from mainland china, a new rising coronavirus cases, 30 reported yesterday, up ,rom 19 per day earlier highlighting the difficulty in stamping out the outbreak. 25 of the latest cases involved people that entered from abroad compared to the 18 per day prior, with five new locally transmitted infections on saturday on the southern coastal provinces up from one day earlier. The full story is at writers. Com. Mina, florida, good morning. I wanted to comment on President Trump has a task worse and people are forgetting that when he downed the china flight, everyone condemned him for that and called him a racist for that. And now you are saying 400 and 30,000 flights came in before that was even done and it looks like they all flew into these cities that are affected. Yorkame with the new flights coming into florida. Our governor didnt stop the flights and now he has to deal with it. So, its palm sunday. I wish everyone would unite and quit playing politics and we would get together to support the country and get everyone well again to support our leaders. Thank you. Thank you. This from anna in texas, host to the callers point, this is the headline from inside of the New York Times. Host next up is randy, from hager city, wisconsin. Good morning. Those last couple of comments leave right into what i was going to say. January and february, what was the congress doing . Trying to impeach the president over a phone call. The news media, thats all he ever talk about. Soon it was over with and the president was exonerated. President trump stopped the flight. He knew that there was something bad coming here and he stopped them flight. The news media went all over for that. Now, once in the same time, mardi gras is coming on, spring break is coming on. Didntmp administration know how bad it was. No one knew how bad it was. But the word was out that it was possible that it could be bad. Even though we got a task force together, they were coming out with what they were saying, it was not as strong as it is today, but look what its come to. The main places where all the planes flew into, new york, the new york population is huge. Close proximity to each other, very easy to spread the virus. Orleans, mardi gras, it was passed around. Spread of those people out all over the United States with all of these spring breakers from down in florida, eyesng it out a lot, in my , to the rest of the country. This is how the pandemic started a. President trump, did he say the right words all the time . Im sure he was given the information as his medical advisers were giving him. He did want to put this country in panic. He brought it up and does it more all the time now. As he said, we are in for a rough week. Randy, thank you for the call. This from stephen of firing, the president today defending the firing of michael atkinson. This is a headline from open the Washington Post, the president continues undermining watchdogs. Here it is from saturday.