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KPIX Face The Nation July 13, 2024

This morning is mitigation working . And how are we doing on scientific advances to stop the virus . Well talk with dr. Anthony fauci of the National Institutes of health, and former f. D. A. Commissioner dr. Scott gottlieb. Plus, as the crisis continues to engulf new york city, well talk with the head of northwell health, michael dowling. The pandemic has left at least 10 Million People out of work so far. Well look at the new numbers, and talk with the head of the st. Louis Federal Reserve bank, james bullard. Finally, as the strain of job loss, health concerns, and isolation take their toll on americans, well Ask Mental Health expert dr. Luanna marcus, how to cope with it all. applause brennan despite these dark of americbeing challenged like never before. We will get through this, america. Brennan from coast to coast, there is one thought that can unite us all. Its all ahead on face the nation. Brennan welcome to face the nation. Since last weeks broadcast, the number of deaths due to covid19 in the u. S. Has quadrupled. In the last 24 hours, there have been more than 1300 new deaths recorded. The hardest hit areas are by now familiar to you the northeast, west coast, the south, and some parts of the midwest, with new york city, los angeles, new orleans, and detroit heavily impacted. Experts say there is a new wave of socalled hot spots coming, expanding areas in the northeast, midatlantic, and south, plus states like indna and colorado. Cbs News National correspondent Mark Strassmann reports from atlanta. Reporter good morning, margaret. The c. D. C. Now recommends wearing face masks in public, something cloth, like this bandanna, all voluntary. If its the latest shift in our crisis lifestyle. Roughly 95 of americans now live under orders to stay home, a nation in hibernation. 50 states, 50 front lines, and by far, new york has the worst of americas corona contagion. 40 of the countrys cases, and almost half the deaths. Were not yet at the apex, and if we dont stop the spread, thoing to burn down our own country. Reporter Governor Cuomo believes new york city is about a week away from the apex, terrible timing. City hospitals could run out of ventilators within days. P. P. E. reporter doctors and nurses protested alarming shortages of protective gear gowns, masks, face shields. Every day when i go to work, i feel like a sheep going to slaughter. Reporter in new jersey, Governor Phil Murphy pleaded for supplies and volunteers. Clearly, were in a world of hurt. Reporter without realtime data, no model can truly predict when any hot spot will peak, but consider the latest trends. Covid19 deaths quadrupled in both chicago and detroit over the last week, and doubled in new orleans. Overflowicflow cocorona patientn military field hospitals. Across america, nearly 20,000 National Guardsmen reinforce covid19 response efforts. And for the coast guard, its all hands on deck with cruise ships. In port miami, carnivals coral princess today will start letting off more than 1,000 passengers. Two people died at sea from the virus, another dozen have tested positive. This is so sad that all the cruise lines are here. Reporter right off south floridas coast, you can see a floating parking lot. In all, 114 cruise ships sail in or near u. S. Waters. They carry an unknown number of sick people. America is staring at another grim week. New cases and deaths will spike again. Without a vaccine, soc distancing remains key, because only the virus can predict its course. The c. D. C. Has also gun blood testing groups of people. Its looking for signs of previous infection with the virus, and one of the goals to get a better sense of just how widespread this epidemic really is. Margaret. Brennan Mark Strassmann reporting from atlanta. As most of the world struggles to contain a stillsurging pandemic, china is over the worst, and things are getting back to normal. Cbs news senior Foreign Correspondent Elizabeth Palmer reports. Reporter margaret, now that the worst is over and theres no sign so far, anyway, of a second wave of infection, china declared a national day of mourning. Nationwide, people stopped wherever they were and joined president xi, and the party leadership, to remember what china says was 3,333 victims. That now sounds shockingly low compared to more than 30,000 deaths in europe alone. In spain, a popup hospital in madrids Conference Center has 1,000 acutely ill patients. The country has the secondlargest number of cases in the world, after the United States, but at last, some good news. Prime minister sanchez announced the peak is almost over. And in italy, too, the rates of infection and death have flattened. Grateful shoppers in rome were back at a local Street Market this weekend after one of the strictest lockdowns anywhere. By con, in mump of te developing world, including brazil, the death toll is mounting fast. There, president bolsonaro tweeted, coronavirus is just a little flu, which so infuriated rio citizens they beat pots and pans on their balconies to protest his lack of leadership. Here in the u. K. , there is Still Limited freedom of movement. Evidence suggests the infection will peak next weekend. Prime minister bor boris johnson, himself still sick with covid19, begged people to continue to follow the rules. Please, please, stick with the guidance now. Reporter to yards apart and heed the police. One British Institution did go ahead this weekend, the grand National Horse race. But virtually. Britons could bet on these computergenerated horses. All the proceeds went to health care. In a few hours, Queen Elizabeth is going to make a rare special address to the nation, just the fifth time shes done that in almost 70 years on the throne. Its to unify the country and to thank people for everything theyve done in this time of extraordinary hardship. Margaret. Brennan Elizabeth Palmer, thank you. We turn now to dr. Anthony fauci, the director of the National Institute of allergy and Infectious Diseases at n. I. H. Dr. Fauci, thank you for what youre doing, and thank you for making time for us. Good to be with you, margaret. Brennan we heard from the president that there will be a lot of death in the coming weeks. Dr. Birx said its not the time to go to the Grocery Store or the pharmacy. What should americans be preparing for . Well, this is going to be a bad week, margaret, unfortunately. If you look at the projection of the curves, of the kinetics of the curve. Were going to continue to see an escalation. Also, we should hope that within a week, may be a little bit more, well start to see a flattening out of the curve and coming down. The mitigation that were talking about that you just mentioned is absolutely key to the success of that. So on the one hand, things are going to get bad, and we need to be prepared for that. It is going to be shocking to some. It certainly is is really disturbing to see that. Buatsto so just buckle down, continue to mitigate, continue to do the physical separation, because weve got to get through this week thats coming up, because it is going to be a bad week. Brennan are you saying, doctor, despite the deaths that we may see, that mitigation is working, and that you do have this outbreak under control . I will not say we have it under control, margaret. That would be a false statement. We are struggling to get it under control, and thats the issue thats at hand right now. The thing thats important is that what you see is increases in new cases, which then start to flatten out. But the end result of that you dont see for days, if not weeks, down the pike. Because as the cases go down, then you get less hospitalization, less intensive care, and less death. So even though youre getting a really improvement in that the number of new cases are starting to flatten, the deaths will lag by, you know, one or two weeks or more. So we need to be prepared that even though its clear that mitigation is working, were still going to see that tailoff of deaths. So the first thing we want to look for is to see on a daily basis are the numberfew cases starting to stabilize . Weve seen that in italyst med t correctly. Were going to hopefully be seeing that in new york very soon. And thats the first sign of that plateau in coming down. Brennan so when Governor Cuomo says new york is not yet at the apex, what does that actually mean . And what happens on the other side of that apex . Yeah, what the governor is saying is that we are still going to see an increase. The curves that we show at the conferences, often, is the epidemic curve goes up, it hits the top a bit, and then it starts coming down. So what Governor Cuomo was saying is we havent yet reached that peak, and when we do, well see a flattening and am canning down. Where we are right now is really approaching that apex, and thats why what hes saying and what were saying is that this next week is going to look bad because were still not yet at that apex. Days, or nine d so, we hopefully are going to see that turn around. Brennan you have flagged that you see this virus now sprelgd in the developing world, and communities where people dont really have the luxuries that we have of working at home. What does that mean for the risk of reinfection here in the United States . Well, you bring up a very good point, margaret. Unless we get this globally under control, theres a very good chance that it will assume a seasonal nature in the sense that even if we and i hope its not just if but when we get it down to a point where it is at a very low level, we need to be prepared, that since it unlikely will be completely eradicated from the planet, as we get into the nexll see te bea resurgence. Thats the reason why were pushing so hard in getting our preparedness much better than it was, but importantly, pushing on a vaccine, and doing Clinical Trials for therapeutics interventions, so that, hopefully, if in fact we do see that resurgence, we will have interventions that we did not have in the beginning of the situation that were in right now. Brennan so you said yesterday that there are three things you think this country needs to have in place before some of these restrictions are pulled back the ability to test, to isolate, and to do contact tracing. How close are we to meeting those requirements you laid out . Were not 100 there yet. But the people who are responsible for getting these tests out there, its very clear that we are much, much better off than we were in the sense that in the next week or two, well have an extraordinary amount more capability of doing the kinds of testing thats essential. Because testing is not only important to be able to identify individual cases, icealate them in contact tracing, but we really do need to get a feel for what the pen trance of this infection is in society. That becomes critical when you plan to start to get back to normal, or at least take those first steps to getting back to normal. You have to know whats out there. You have to know what youre dealing with. So testing becomes even more important than what weve been speaking about in the past. Brennan do you wear a mask when youre not on television . Well, you know, my life is is pretty different. I i stay six feet away from anybody that i can. If i go out, which i really dont do very much because of my life as it is now, margaret i would and do, if you go to a tuatere you dont control over that sixfoot distance, that you wear a mask. In fact, my wife just went out to get us some food for the morning, and she doesnt wear a mask in the house or when we go out and run. But when she gets into a situation, as i woupowe thcontrt , ldecomoing what the c. D. C riately and correctly said, its an adjunct. Its an additional way to help protect you and to have you help protect others. Brennan doctor, what would you tell our viewers who live in south carolina, arkansas, wyoming, south dakota, iowa, nebraska, north dakota, utah the eight states that do not have stayathome orders what does that do to the white house models of projected deaths . Are they putting the rest of the country at risk . Well, it isnt that theyre putting the rest of the country at risk as much as theyre putting themselves at risk. So every time i get to that podium in the White House Briefing room, margaret, i always essentially plead witpltt those very simple guidelines of physical separation. Theyre very, very clear. Theyre multiteledifferent ways that same all teamephys saratt away10 anacon, like movies and Sports Events and theaters and things like that. Even in areas where youre not having a big explosion of cases, to the best of your ability, do that. Because this virus doesnt discriminate whether youre in a small town in a relatively secluded area of the country, versus whether youre in a big city. And sooner or later, youre going to see a surge of cases. So i would urge people to please take a look at that. Brennan very quickly, is hydroxychloroquine preventive against this virus . Yes or no . You know, as ive said many times, margaret, the data are really just, at best, suggestive. There have been cases that show there may be an effect, and there are others to show theres no eff brennokay ks. Sink in tf nnl right, t good lto yl be rig bac look at our struggling enomy. Stay with us. Eared, people cant get anywhere. But no matter how crazy it gets, we know when and where to get to work. Data on the ibm cloud helps us maintain 8,000 miles of roads across the country. It helps keep millions of our visitors and our own families safe. Hey allergy muddlers. Achoo do your sneezes turn heads . Try zyrtec. Zyrtec starts working hard at hour one and works twice as hard when you take it again the next day. Zyrtec. Muddle no more. Sinus pressure, and congestion. Spepped of this Global Economic contraction is unlike anything weve ever experienced, and it that makes it very difficult to project out what the slowdown will mean. This week, there were more than 6. 5 million new unemployment claims filed by nowjobless americans. Combined with over three million last week, that means nearly 10 million americans have lost jobs in less than a month. We turn now to james bullard, president and c. E. O. Of the Federal Reserve bank of st. Louis, one of 12 banks that make up the Federal Reserve system. He joins us from st. Louis. Good to have you with us. Pleasure to be here. Brennan you and your team have predicted that 47 million americans could lose their jobs, bringing the jobless rate above 30 . It sound like youre saying the job market is in freefall. Where do you see this happening . What americans, whatduss . H, wd push th economy or the job market being in freefall. Were asking people to stay home to invest in national health, and were asking them to use the Unemployment Insurance program in order to get the transfers they need to be able to pay bills while theyre at home, while theyre not able to work because Health Authorities are trying to get the virus under control. Our estimates, which are available on our blog, st. Louis fed, on the economy blog, suggests the Unemployment Rate could go 10 and 42 . The 32 number is a compromise in the middle. Brennan thats what im asking you about. I mean, theres this idea, when i speak to Business Leaders in particular, that some of those jobs are going to come back, that these are temporary furloughs, that there will be, somehow, a switch that will flip on and the economy will come back roaring. Isnt that a little bit of projection of a perfect scenario here . Well, i think it can be done. Whether it will be done depends on execution. I thought congress did a great thing in passing their bill. I thought it was appropriately sized for this situation. The object is to keep everybody whole during the period when youre asking people to not go to their jobs and not go to the shops and basically not participate in the economy. Brennan right. So in some ways, the uptake on the Unemployment Insurance program is a good thing because it means youre getting the transfers to the people being disrupted by this healthordered shutdown. Brennan but when you talk about transfers, you know, we saw one of the emergency prgrams launched by the government, this 350 billion package to help Small Businesses, supposed to be up and operational this week, but thats not actually happening, according to some of the biggest banks like citi. Theyre not even accepting applications right now. What is the realworld impact of delays like that . Because the money is needed now. It sure is. And were in the middle of a national crisis, so you would expect some chaos, but we talked to the s. B. A. , the Small Business administration, on friday. They actually oridge in any in i potentiathat program to be nnanat abouthe size of this rescue package . The president said as recently as yesterday that he thinks there may need to be more money offered to Small Businesses than what has already been authorized by congress. Do you think we need a fourth rescue package . I felt like this one was well sized for the situation. I think most of the impact is going to come in the Second Quarter here, which just started a few days ago. If you think about the u. S. Economy in very round numbers, we produce about 5 trillion worth of goods and services, and, hence, 5 trillion worth of income every quarter. The shutdown means were onlo py workers working from home. Surely, thats less than 50 of the total economy. So income is going to be down 50 . If you said thats 2. 5 trillion, that soun

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