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KPIX Face The Nation July 13, 2024

Washington. Words matter. And those words have created a certain amount of confusion and when you lack clarity that can create confusion and confusion can lead to panic. Brennan President Trump visited the usns comfort on saturday. The hospital ship is on route to new york to help ease the load on the says hospitals. Our country is at war with an invisible enemy. Brennan new york state accounts for half of all coronavirus cases in the u. S. Governor andrew cuomo is preparing for the weeks ahead. You dont win on defense, you win on offense. You have to get ahead of this, anticipate what is going to happen. Brennan around the world, there are unprecedented efforts by leaders to cope request global shortages of ventilators, medical supplies and personal protective equipment for medical workers. President trump signed a 2. 2 trillion package of Economic Relief for individuals and businesses, but with a recordsetting three at a, 3 million unemployment claims last week is it enough to stop the plunging economy . We will ask treasury secretary Stephen Steven mnuchin and hear from former fda commissioner scott got 11, john bel john bel edware advisory board, dr. David heymann and the head of the mayo clinic hospitals. Finely, as we try to keep our spirits up in these grim times, a thank you for all the healthcare workers battling to keep us safe all over the world. All that and more is just ahead on face the nation. Welcome to face the nation. It is increasingly i do find the best way to start this broadcast with the overwhelming amount of news about what is going on in the world but we are committed to bringing you the most Accurate Information that we can in these excruciate khalidi times, if you stick with us until the end of the program we promise you we will look at some true heroes rising to the occasion and inspiring us with the strength of their human spirit. As of this morning, the u. S. Has the highest number of covid19 cases of any country in the world. We have recorded nearly 125,000 cases. Thats almost five times what it was just a week ago. And there have been nearly 200200 deaths. That rate is more than six times what it was a week ago. Cbs News National correspondent Mark Strassmann has a look at the situation here in the u. S. And he repormtlorter good morn, margaret. New york is still the epicenter but all signs point to a devastating spread across the country. You mentioned those mixed signals, yesterday President Trump float add mandatory quarantine of new jersey, connecticut and new york. Governor cuomo shot down that idea right away. So the cdc instead issued a travel advisory, all residents of those three states should avoid nonessential travel for two weeks, but no question, the siege of new york is about to be felt elsewhere. Watching new yorks coronavirus contagion, anybody is entitled to shutter, overwhelmed hospitals, underprotected scared emergency workers. Shortages of ventilators, test kits and respirator masks. Many shifts i have left from after finishing my shift i cried. The city famed for its risk everyone feels vulnerable. The models say 14 to 21 days away from that apex, and that curve hits the highest point. Reporter at Rhode Islands border, National Guard troops stop arriving new yorkers, they quarantine for 14 days. Florida set up checkpoints, this one closes the florida keys to outsiders. How is it fair to them to just be airdropping in people from the hot zones bringing infections with them . Reporter across american, covid19 has morphed into a hydra headed threat, nine days ago, four states ordered the residents to stay home, 75 million residents in all. Today, it is 25 states, 228 Million People, roughly twothirds of americans, including californians. By midweek, los angeles expects to be the next new york, the navy prepositions a supertanker converted into a floating hospital. Its name . The mercy. Mayor eric garcetti. We will have doctors making excruciating decisions and we will be trying to figure out what we do with that surge. Reporter other infection hotspots expecting a bad week include chicago, detroit, new cases of the virus jumped 1,100 percent in eight days. And new orleans its corona death rate spikes. Per capita its infection rate is about the same as new york. We are becoming an epicenter and we need all of the help we can get from the federal government to help prepare. New orleans converted its Convention Center into a field hospital, like new york. City leaders will create 4,000 additional hospital beds at four sites. At another Navy Floating Hospital arrives in new york tomorrow. Across america this week communities in crisis will rely on the heroics of front line responders and Something Else that is contagious, hope. Brennan thats Mark Strassmann reporting from atlanta. Worldwide we are close to the 700,000 case mark and we are nearing 32,000 deaths. Cbs news senior Foreign Correspondent Elizabeth Palmer has a look at what is going on outside of this country. Reporter here in the uk the death rate rose sharply this week as Prime Minister Boris Johnson became the first elected head of state to become infected by the virus, the fact he announced on twitter. I am working from home. I am self isolating. Reporter the palace announced Prince Charles was down with the virus too, but said threeyearold queen remained in good health. After the u. S. , italy has the most cases and deaths. Near vergamo, a priest conducted a mass funeral but strict stay at home rules meant there was not a single mourner. In italy and spaher,eohave tiede virus, but the spread does finally appear to be peaking in some areas. The exception to europes strict rules is sweden. There, the focus is to isolate the elderly while schools, restaurants and businesses stay open, a bold some say crazy experiment. Around the rest of the world, people are discovering how to be together apart. Here, a Group Fitness session in paris. Nearby, the eiffel tower beamed out a salute and a warning. Far away in india, people in an over crowded village found social distancing space in trees. This pandemic is now threatening the developing world with its vast population and authorities are reacting. Thnde himself into a oneman Public Awareness campaign. While in kenya, troops tear gassed crowds ahead of a new curfew. Meanwhile, back at the vatican this weekend, pope francis blessed the world in a deserted st. Peters square, joined in spirit by millions watching on tv. Finally, in china, authorities have so far managed to prevent a second wave of infection and continue to gradually lift the restrictions on people moving around. Margaret. Brennan liz palmer, thank you. We now go to connecticut and former fda commissioner dr. Scott gottlieb. Good to have you back with us. Thanks. Brennan doctor, we heard from anthony fauci, the director of the National Institute of health this morning on another network. He said the u. S. Will likely have millions of cases potentially hundreds ofk3 thousands of deaths. Do your projections look like this . I certainly hope not. I think we 57ly will have hundreds of thousands of cases and might get into the millions. Right now you look at what is happening around the nation and you see epidemics spread in cities like chicago with 1,800 cases, new orleans with 1,300, miami with 1,100, los angeles with 1,800, and you see a number of cities that have doubled the number of cases in the last three or four case, droiz, philadelphia, so this looks like d of the citiesmic right now will be in a similar situation to what new york is in right now. New york is actually showing some signs that the spread may be slowing in that city. They made some good decisions early and maybe in seven to ten days they will actually see themselves peak but as they come down the epidemic curve starts to peak slowly, other parts of the nation are going to be heating up and just in closing i will say, our capacity to sustain and support multiple cities simultaneously as they to into an epidemic is going to be very difficult. Brennan the white house is discussing lifting loosening some of these guidelines and restrictions. I know you have shared your recommendations with them. What should be the trigger for loosening them at a time when it only seems that this is spreading . Well, we have said in the report we put out today that you should wait until you see sustained reduction in the number of cases for 14 days, so 14 dayastaineduction in the number of daily cases is the point you can contemplate lifting some of these measures we have in places some of these aggressive social distancing measures but you need to do it gradually and substitute in other things. There are other conditions that need to be met. You need to have the ability to test the population widely so you can determine who has the infection and who doesnt and use case based interventions. We isolate individual people, you also want good information about where the virus is spreading, you need to be testing very widely to know where the virus is spreading so those tools need to be this place. Now those tools are getting in place. I think by the end of the week we will have the gas do screen maybe as close to 750,000 people a week, and going into the week after that maybe close to a million. The limitation on our ability to screen isnt going to be the screening platforms themselves. We have now deployed a lot of sophisticated platforms, including platforms into doctors offices. The limitation is going to be the low commodity components of testing like the swabs, or the plastic components used to actually run the tests, the manufacturing supply chain for those components is very limited right now. Brennan the bottom line, do you expect states to be told to loosen restrictions by the white house this week . I dont. I think what the white house is going to announce they are going to extend these measures or recommend that governors extend these measures for another couple of weeks going forward, and then reevaluate that time. The white house has talked about being data driven, i am hopeful they will be. It is too early to lift these measures. It is going to be a difficult april, we are going to get through this, april is going to be a hard month, come may we will be coming out of this and be able to contemplate lifting some of these measures as we see the epidemic curve come down, remember, there isnt going to be a simultaneous reduction across the country, new york is going to come down before the rest of the country does, and it may appear that the overall number of cases around the nation are coming down because new york represents such a big part of that, but in fact new york could be coming down and other parts of the country going up so we need to look at this on a regional basis. Brennan for people on home, for a long time the administration said dont waste face masks on yourself, save them for the sick, you now think people should look at this. Are these doityourself ones worth anything . They are. I think people should be contemplating wearing masks, the cotton masks we should be putting out guidelines on the cdc how to develop a mask on your own and might create a secondary market on episituate or other sites to sell toes masks, there truly is a shortage of masks. For the hospitals sector, the supply cha i chain is limited and the what goes into a procedure mask that might be used in a Dentist Office is the same component that go into a n 95 mask so all of that supply is going to the hospital but people can fashion masks partially protective, the value of the mask is not necessarily to protect you from getting sick, although it may offer some protection, it is to protect you from other people, so when someone who is infected is wearing a mask, they are much less likely to transmit infection and the stud demonstrating this come out of demonstrations with the flu and some studies show up to 50 percent reduction in your ability to spread the flu if you are infected if you are wearing so where thes in e sures like stay at home orders and looking at lifting those in certain cities as we come down the epidemic curve. Telling people, well you dont have to stay at home anymore but if you go out you have to wear a mask that could be an sphwrip step you take as you transition away from these very restrictive measures. Brennan you used around the fda during the Trump Administration, do you think that agency can move any faster than it is in terms of approving kits, different can kinds of even ways to sanitize masks . Well, i think sharing a medical device with the career professionals are moving very quickly of getting tests to thee market now that has been opened up. I think there are opportunities to sterilized masks, i talked to some doctors using gamma radiation, certainly secondary procedures to sterilize masks to help increase the supply chain. I also think there is an opportunity for a therapeutic, i am hopeful by the summer we could have a therapeutic available authorized be at this fda to look at the antibodies that are in development, some of the antivirals in advanced stages of clinical trial. It is possible one of these is going to work wand we could have a therapeutic sooner than we expect and that is really going to an game chain changer and could change the flexion of the risk and allow us to implement some of these pull back some of e asur sooner. Bnnan okay. Eb good to talko you we will bk in jusecith treasuryy Steven Mnuchin. Stay with us. T Drinking Water . Weve all committed skin sins new neutrogena® bright boost. Kickstarts dull, tired skin with neoglucosamine. A gentle, nonacid amino sugar exfoliant that works within the surface and boosts cell turnover by 10x. For brighter, wideawake skin. Bright boost. Pair with illuminating serum for 3x the brightening power. Neutrogena® allergies with impossible to breathe. Get relief behind the counter with claritind. Claritind improves nasal airflow 2x more than the leading allergy spray at hour 1. Claritind. Get more airflow. We go to treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin 0 who joins us from the white house, good morning to you, mr. Secretary. Good morning, it is good to be with you. Brennan you will have incredible responsibility in oversight of this 2 trillion rescue package but what i want to specific ask you about now is when americans will receive those 1,200 dollar checks. We expect that within three weeks that people who have direct deposit with information with us will see those direct deposits in their Bank Accounts and we will create a web based system for people where we dont have their direct deposit they can upload it, so that they can get the money immediately as opposed to checks in the mail. Brennan 1,200 dollars takes you a lot farther in nebraska than it does in california, how do you want people to be spending this money . Well, there is really three components of this law now that protects the American Public and the president was determined that we protect the American Workers, since it was not their fault that we shut down the economy, while we kill this virus. So the first component is Small Business loans, which about half of the countries in half of the companies in the u. S. Will be able to get Small Business loans and pay their workers for eight weeks so we encourage people to do that and get them back to work. Two, there will be enhanced Unemployment Insurance and three as you said there will be these checks in the mail or direct deposit, it is really bridge liquidity for people as they go through these difficult times. Brennan bridge liquidity for about eight weeks . Well, i think the entire package provides Economic Relief overall for about 10 weeks. Hopefully we will kill this virus quicker and we wont need it, but we have liquidity to put into the American Economy to support American Workers and american business. Brennan so you dont know if the economy is going to be up and running by memorial day, essentially . I mean, are you going to wait that long to come up with phase 4 round of stimulus . Well, i main focus is now executing. We have everybody within treasury and the Administration Working around the clock to get this money out quickly, since this doesnt do people any good if it takes a long time. We also have the task force and the medical professionals making recommendations to the president about when they think the economy will be reopened, and if for whatever reason this takes longer than we think we will go back to congress and get more support for the American Economy, but i hope that is not needed. Brennan you will also have a key role in overseeing what is a tremendous Financial Rescue package for some of the biggest corporations in this country. At least 500 billion in size for one of these funds. How is this going to work . Should americans at home understand that you are going to run this, the same way that they saw the Auto Companies bailed out during the financial crisis . Well, let me just be clear. The majority of this money, 450 billion is money that we use with the Federal Reserve to create broad based programs, and, you know, chair powell and i speak multiple times a day. The way that works is, the Federal Reserve requests us to approve a specific program. I as treasury secretary have to do that. I have approved every single one. They asked for so far and in many of these packages we put up money to support the credit for the fed. So those are bed based programs. There

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