School during this pandemic no school work no graduation up next well show you how some students are using technology to create a virtual campus its all right its time to boost your means i knew. Right over 1000. 00 continuing to grip the world and of course this nation right now the new total around the world topping 1600000. 00 with over 100000 deaths and 368000 recover cases known so far the u. S. Still of course leading the way with more than 474000 confirmed cases and 17000 deaths 26000 recovered now those National Figures brings us to the state of new york which continues. To bear the brunt of this virus as it remains the epicenter of the outbreak new york now accounting for more than 93000 cases but while the state remains on lockdown looks like the curve might finally be leveling off archies Trinity Chavez picks up the report from new york. Today new york city the crossroads of the world has more confirmed cases of coven 19 than any other city on earth hospitals still heading capacity and medical staff pushed to their brink cleared that night walking to work and while the u. S. Navy hospital ship comfort to the Javits Center are supposed to help alleviate stress of the citys Hospital System part of what were there for as military medics is to help those communities and to help the patients that are brought to us for care and thats exactly what were doing the 500 bed vessel comfort just has over 60 patients while the 1000 bed Convention CenterField Hospital has seen about 225 patients new reports suggesting the army and the navy are handpicking and transporting small numbers of hospital patients while the virus continues to strain e. R. Rooms its overcrowded over 1000 patients are going to have to wait for a long time just to get upstairs to a bed with if im going to share a room or going to hallways with other covert action patients 1st responders also on the front lines the f. D. A. And why reporting that nearly 400. 00 a. M. s workers including firefighters tested positive for the coronavirus were at the point were you have to assume everyone is a covert policy and roughly 3000. 00 of the departments 15000. 00 were out sick weve dealt with large scale events or you havent dealt with a sustained serious call volume now going on its 3rd with no end in sight perhaps some hope the governor now saying the curve is slowing so or rural new york is flattening the curve and we have to flatten the curve. Because when they showed us the projection models of what the statisticians projected the curve would do. We have no capacity to meet those projections while the curve may be leveling off the city is still dealing with the mounting coronavirus death toll the virus now claiming more than 7800. 00 lives 777 of them who just died on thursday the driver of this huge uptick in deaths at home is covered 1000 and some people are dying directly of it and some people dying indirectly of it but it is the tragic x. Factor here the National Guard now using rental vans to pick up hundreds of dead bodies from new york city homes more exposed in the city dwindling the city now using an island off the bronx waters called heart island as a temporary burial site an aerial view shows hired contractors wearing protective gear digging graves and lining up dozens of caskets in those deep trenches under a new policy the medical Examiners Office will keep bodies in storage for 14 days before theyre buried in hart islands potters field which is a burial site for people whose families cant afford a funeral or who go unclaimed by relatives the number burials increasing from about 25 a week to now 24 a day meantime growing concerns for the state of new jersey officials warning that it could be the next hot spot the state accounting for more than 54000 confirmed cases and more than 1500 deaths state officials urging residents to stay home because just like new york social distancing is working to stop the spread reporting in new york trinity shabbas r. T. And widespread testing for corona virus remains at the forefront of this debate just this week the u. S. Began rolling out blood tests to gauge the dimension of the and affection of spread and to identify antibodies of those exposed already to cope at. 18 now jane Editing Technology is also being used to develop a Rapid Testing methods so why are these important joining us to explain Trevor Martin hes the c. E. O. Of mammoth buy of sciences trevor thank you so much for being with us a lot to get to so lets hop right in here the most common coronavirus test is in use now is the nasal swab but those results take a long time to come back mammoth bio sciences has reconfigured Crisper Technology for Rapid Testing using something called flow strips so 1st can you tell us how that works and why Rapid Testing is imperative to flatten the curve. Yet and so obviously when people think about this new technology crisper typically its the context of it being a genome tool and m. M. S. We think about risk or a bit differently and kind of a Search Engine for biology and one of the things that makes crisper really powerful is that you can program this protein to actually bind to any specifically across a sequence of d. N. A. And r. N. A. And for crude what you can do is instead of programming it to go to a sequence where you want to edit it you need you can program it to go to a coded specific sequence and then read all through Something Like a lot of low strip for example that hey i found a group of 19 in the sample. Interesting ok and so the imperative nature of obviously figuring out who is sick with this is is obviously to be able to quarantine those people right to they dont get everybody else in the population sick. So right now there are efforts going on in the United States and worldwide to shelter in place to limit social contact and or semen but this is what i mean the curve its working but we cant do this forever and if we want to be able to successfully open up society again to some level we really need to bring everything to bear from vaccines to therapy to x. To diagnostics and we need to use this time thats being brought her us by these really heavy wraps around shelter in place and really push forward all the technologies we can to address these 3 theory here. And now looking at new york state obviously this new york is the hot spot in the whole world its probably highlighting a need right for targeted fast results maam of this developing point of care Testing Solutions as you mentioned including this reconfiguration of a platform called detector at the end there what are the main points of this protocol. You know so the main goals is how can we take this type of testing out of central love facilities where maybe you need to wait a long time shift the results and bring it to a more kind of point of need greater care type scenario where you can hopefully get the results in real time so that you can actually act on it more quickly and you can actually are react to the situation as it unfolds rather than kind of you know as it was 3 or 4 days ago and just this week i mean people are theres so much science going into into 1000 right now just this week weve seen a blood test being rolled out to identify antibodies another another method using crisper diagnostics for virus detection has also been published how effective and plausible is mass production of this. Type of testing and our blood test different then those that that utilize the virus in genetic code. So for all these methods i mean across diagnostics therapy to expect seems its going to require immense investment from society to bring this forward to scale quickly of course on in terms of how the different types of testing are segmented theres kind of 2 periods so theres Molecular Testing where youre detecting the nucleic acids for example the most common version of that would be p. C. R. And thats the type of testing where you can detect really from the 1st days of the infection when youre even a symptomatic you can detect the disease. Theres other types of testing where youre maybe looking at it and genzer antibodies and things like that and thats typically going to be later in the disease progression or maybe even looking at people that have the disease and whether they now have a committee so all types of testing are are and its just a matter of what is the goal youre trying to achieve are you trying to screen people that are currently infected or maybe are in the early stage of an infection and spreading the disease or are you trying to do a do you knology around who has the disease in 2000 unity these are all important questions and they have different technologies for answering them and obviously the Science Community has to kind of all Work Together to get ahead of this virus and lastly trevor before the outbreak began your company was already working on prevention and treatment what is the next focus and implement implementation for the Research Within your company. So were really focused on developing this crisper based Detection Technology for could be a great team and are really very its all about making sure the technology is extremely sensitive specific and working closely with clinicians in other experts to really bring the Technology Forward as quickly as possible what fascinating stuff that you guys are doing at mammoth bio scientists think you so much Trevor Martin c. E. O. Mammoth bio scientist we wish you luck in all of this thank you. Thanks for having me. While this pandemic has impacted just about everyone imagine if you were in high school or maybe even college life as you know it has obviously changed and as adults figure out how theyll provide for their families students are doing whatever they can to make the best of their situation are to correspondent atia suite shows us how some students are able to do just that with Technology Well may have the haleigh home and this is not i an update on a situation where isolated in my view so i have a fever for many teens sleeping in quarantine has become the new normal. Cargo. Allowed by one car in the city a little bit but i feel like its kind of quiet the last couple days due to this coronavirus and fourteens living abroad like 16 year old zoe who is living in china corn seem like there has even tighter restrictions my dad still works at the hospital he has to drive across the city every day and he always gets stopped at roadblocks the military is out there forcing them and he has a little past that lets him. Get through otherwise hell be sent home find your arrested as some students are gearing up to graduate summer utilizing minecraft in online video game to recreate their campuses and even partake in a virtual Graduation Ceremony these students whose avatars become a Community Within the game are able to build up the very surroundings theyve lost students in japan were able to collaborate holding a Graduation Ceremony amid the pandemic as classes were canceled. Just turned 16 a couple weeks ago and was kind of like crossroads and you. Know you. 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In his pilot skills the 16 year old is flying across virginia delivery medical supplies to rural hospitals in need the sophomore at Landon School in maryland turned his weekly flight lessons into Relief Missions hes helping to deliver gloves masks gowns and other equipment to small hospitals like any teenager was disappointed when his lacrosse season ended before it really began but instead of getting down he looked at how he could serve others and came up with operation asked a west supplies over skies in his most recent flight came carried 4000 gloves 2000 shoe covers 25 nonsurgical masks 20 pairs of protective i wear and 10 bottles of Hand Sanitizer to winchester helping to supply a hospital in nearby woodstock we can gather enough supplies to go down and were going to go you know were guard lists of the lack of normalcy it looks as though generations e is getting a valuable lesson from the hard knocks of life and that its not what happens to you but how you react reporting in Los Angeles Natasha sweet r. T. All the World Health Organization is telling president not to politicize the virus but how is america handling this pandemic our Political Panel will weigh in on that and then later at the sports page kill regina hamm shares some of the best curlers to hit the field in Major League Soccer check out those moves but were back. Join me every thursday on the alex simon show and ill be speaking to guests of the world of politics sport thats less im show business ill see that. The swarm see the mood of them so much. Good your local was before. Much of those who heard its a preview or must never see him with the north we will were going to. Move. Move. Move show you this look beautiful live i mean its a its been a look or a good. Movie muslim also these girls will give you films for good girls. To go to shows a look but look your simu belonging to show the story to actually go. To starts to. Get to me to tell it with a little mist theyd say look it is its. 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As americans continue to hunker down at home the slow drip of new information on coping 1000 families live on how to live with this new reality now debate on Wearing Masks whos most vulnerable whose highest risk how long will this new normal last meanwhile earlier this week a surprise announcement from the Sanders Campaign bernie effectively calling it quits and handing the nomination to joe biden so joining us to discuss all of these hot topics watkins hes an acclaimed author and College Professor and ed martin a bestselling author and president of the Phyllis Schlafly eagle forum are joining us today so gentlemen good to see you its been a while so i want to go over to do you 1st. Now that this virus has been going on in the us a few months we can see a trend of where and who its impacting the most on a heat map the were seeing places like new york city detroit and new orleans a light up that map those are predominantly black neighborhoods how do you read those numbers. Well theres a number of things that we can see those numbers to. Africanamericans in this country are less likely to have assurance to them or subset the ball to be. As many things right because the. Dominant areas 3 and i have to get americans are are being deemed as essential employees out there the people working there a lot of these markets and these delivery services. Are incarcerated so. Is it in the more i think the support of people you know that divide us doesnt discriminate but at the same time if you are person you dont have a lot of resources that you are going to if you want to. Most likely get diverse obviously population density ed whats your take. Well you know i 1st of all its very important to know to as you point out that the hardest hit are in blue areas you know inter typically democrat or city detroit even numbered in San Francisco area and the whole federal government doesnt matter what party or has motivated and has and has mobilized to do everything they can to mitigate that heres the one thing id say is exactly right virus its color blind its going to get to everybody in every population i think we shouldnt ignore some of the data that showing that africanamericans are hit harder we should address that and i think we are and look i think the theres plenty of time in the future to look at who moved slowly i think new york city was a little slower but that shouldnt matter now what matters now is get everybody well get testing going in the right direction and i think were seeing that i think youre seeing success in fighting what is a really good man and something we could have expected ed sticking with you hear the president s response to all of this i think no matter who is sitting in the oval office theyre going to be damned if they do and damned if they dealt but it seems to fall down party lines in that republicans think trump should have taken a more measured approach like that if we didnt who only quarantined high risk or people whereas democrats think everything should be locked down and everybody even this lockdown isnt going far enough so what do you think of that. Well i think youre right its a lose lose situation right if you do everything you can to try to fight for me to gauge student social distancing were still having death you know its hard to measure how many lives you saved and i think you can write the president president tromp you would have thought it would have. If he comedy to try to which of the last minute he wins and he did what i think he had to do which was lock things down and move that way hes even slower now in terms of some republicans want to open up faster nancy pelosi came out today and she said you dont do it too fast i think the present. Listen ultimately though were going to get to a point where the nation is going to have to let the leaders decide when were going to take some risks to go back to work at that point some of us are going to get sick again some are going to die but this initial burst as d. S. Pointed out a lot of people are vulnerable that have less have less opportunity less structure wev