Hearing the case while at the hospital, doing things that i couldnt have done 20 years ago. Yeah, seriously. I mean, lets be honest, she could bench press either one of us. Oh, ive lost sound from rachel. Does rachel have sound from me . Oh. Bye. I hear your laugh. All i wanted to hear was your laugh. That was great. Thank you. Lost a little rachel sound there but i got the lovaugh. Thats all that matters. How long did you have to wait to get the food you ate today . Did you have it delivered to your home . Did you have to wait in line at the Grocery Store . How long doid you have to wait . Did you have trouble paying. The daily lines for food banks are two and three miles long. Thats how long you have to wait for food in this country now and somepla places have seen longer lines than that. Beto orourke will join us in this hour. And we will end the hour tonight with some very special words of wisdom from Gabriel Garcia marquez, the noble in literature that wrote 100 years of solitude and love in the time of color. His son, the film director rod rego garcia shared wisdom in a beautifully written piece in the New York Times, one of the two most important things ive read today. Ill bring you that at the end of the hour with the other most important thing that ive read today which was written by 25yearold chase beach who sees something now on her neighborhood walks that most if not all of us have been missing. And it is very important. And if you stick around to the end of the show, youre going to learn something profound as i did today when i read chases writing. No president has flipflopped more than donald trump. Beginning with mexico will pay for the wall to years of flipflopping that has left the most selfcontradictory president in history trying to spin his own spin during the coronavirus pandemic. He has gone from predicting zero deaths from coronavirus in the United States to 100,000 deaths in the United States. And after 24 hours of watching how badly his decision to end the White House Coronavirus task force played on television, which is the only thing that accounts for donald trump, today donald trump said this. I felt we could wind it down sooner but i had no idea how popular the task force is until actually yesterday when i started talking about winding it down. Hes like the president of a failing tv network that cancels a show and then hears some protests from the audience and decides to renew the show. For donald trump, the Coronavirus Task force has always been about the tv show that he was able to produce for a couple hours every day in the White House Press briefing room. When donald trump cancelled the tv show when the worst possible thing that could have happened on that tv show happened. And donald trump said the stupidest thing anyone in america has been caught saying about the coronavirus. And those are the words that will mark Donald Trumps place in history, the words that got that tv show cancelled. Donald trumps name will be forever matched with those words indelibly etched in americas memory the way we remember Abraham Lincoln saying a house divided against itself cannot stand and roosevelt saying the only thing we have to fear is fear itself and kennedy saying ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country and ive just recited them from memory but no one will be able to recite the famous trump quote from memory because in ccoher rans is difficult. When kids taking the sats 100 years from now come upon this quote, they will have no trouble identifying the president who said it. Then i see the disinfectant where it knocks it out in a minute, one minute, and is there a way we can do Something Like that by injection inside or almost a cleaning because you see it gets in the lungs and it does a tremendous number on the lungs. So it would be interesting to check that. So youre going to have to use medical doctors but it sounds interesting to me. So well see. The whole concept of the light the way it goes in one minute, thats pretty powerful. Yeah, thats pretty powerful. You know how it feels to be in a foreign country where you dont speak the language and no one speaks your language . Thats the way donald trump feels all day, all day, all the time. Donald trump knows that whenever hes talking about anything other than golf and the leading modelling agencies in new york city in the 1980s, he has no idea what hes talking about. And since donald trump is firmly opposed to doing any work that could replace his ignorance with knowledge, he knows that that could happen again in the White House Briefing roomment that. Thats why he cancelled the show and we criticized him for cancelling the show, today he sang something else. Nobody knows what will happen next with the Coronavirus Task force, least of all donald trump because hes at the mercy of his moods. He does not control his moods and so the task force might continue as a tv show. It might not continue as a tv show. It might continue as a disorganized group of people who collect information about the pandemic and share some of it with the public. We dont know. And donald trump doesnt know. Because donald trump doesnt know what his mood is going to be tomorrow or the next day or the next day. Thats why we will continue to bring you Health Care Professionals and policy experts to share with you the latest best information about the pandemic every night. You cannot expect the white house to do that for you. They wont. A troubling new report in the New York Times indicates that coronavirus could pose a danger to children in a way not previously recognized. Reporting on the experience in a Long Island Hospital for children, the times says in the past two days alone, the hospital Cohen Childrens Medical Center admitted five critically ill patients, ages 2 to 5 that somehow appears to be linked to covid19, the disease caused by coronavirus. In total, about 25 similarly ill children have been admitted there in recent weeks with symptoms ranging from reddened tongues to enlarged coronary arties, no solid data yet exists about how many children in the United States have fallen ill with what doctors are calling pediatric multi system inflammatory syndrome. This is really only a disease that has been clear for two weeks now so there is so much were trying to learn about this. The chief of pediatric Critical Care dr. James snider said in an interview on tuesday. Nathaniel has produced two important paragraphs for the New York Times that depict what the coronavirus curve looks like in america. First, there is this curve showing the coronavirus for the entire United States, which appears to be at a plateau that might be headed down. But thats mostly because the numbers are going down in the epicenter of new york. Here is what the curve looks like in the rest of the United States with new york removed from the calculations, just removing new york city, changes that curve. The National Trend is still increasing in cases of coronavirus. Michael joined us on this program many times. Hes the director for the center of disease and infectious control. He describes what those graphs mean this way. Its not a leveling off, its a painful hand off. New york is handing off the problem to the rest of the country as new yorks numbers continue to go down. The United States now has 1,234,677 reported diagnosed cases of coronavirus, and the United States now has 73,863 officially reported deaths from coronavirus. Pete is a Critical Care nurse at the Cook County Health in chicago. I keep coming back because the patients need us. But the biggest thing is the patients who need us need us healthy for them because if we get sick, who is going to be here for you . The biggest concern for the public is, you next reopening cities and getting stuff moving, which would be great for all of us including me. I want to be able to go out to dinner and do something, but unfortunately, we cant right now. We really have to get this virus under control to prevent it from spreading out even further than what it has. Leading off our discussion tonight is ron cleklain that sed during the Obama Administration and his cohost of the pod cast epidemic and dr. Kass, the medical contributor of yahoo news. The Coronavirus Task force, is there anyway to guess if its still working and will make a public appearance again and what they will be allowed to say . Lawrence, the problem is its never really worked. Its been more reality show than reality and thats why were in the mess were in. Look, the virus is a disease but the response is a policy response. And that response has been wholly inadequate in the United States. Its why we lead the world in cases. Its why we lead the world in deaths. Were 5 of the worlds population but a third of the worlds cases, and that failure of the White House Task force is what drives us. President trump is focused on this as a tv show and the tv show at one point in time had good ratings and now bad episodes. As a tv producer, hes struggling what to do but as president , he should be focused on how we fix this response, we get testing, we get our Health Care Workers protected, we bend the curve down and we continue to practice social distancing and by focussing on the tv elements of it, there is another distraction from the hard work that isnt getting done. Dr. Kass, i want to begin tonight with this new reporting about how coronavirus might be affecting children. Have you seen any of these cases or have they been reported to you in your practice in new york . Yeah, so these cases are being seen in new york and at the hospital i work at. Friends of mine who work in the pediatric e. R. And Pediatric Hospital have been seeing them. It mirrors similar to adults but we dont know much about it, which i think highlights the larger picture. We dont know a lot about what this virus is doing to anybody. We dont know what the longterm effects are. If this is actually something that p hahappens after you reco and not part of the active infection, that like shows us how much more we need to stay home and learn more about this virus before we just declare that weve, you know, mission accomplished. Which seems to be the message coming out of the administrat n administration. So doctor, what do we say to parents now . They were worried enough and parents had a right based on Public Information to be relatively relaxed about the kids, especially Elementary School aged kids. This story says we really have to Pay Attention when kids that age have any kind of symptoms. So i think that this story and reporting needs to be put into context, which is still very, very rare to see these things at all in children. It much more common for a child with a fever and abdominal pain to have appendicitis, either should be evaluated by your doctor or e. R. Our Emergency Departments are open. Were ready, willing and able to take care of all the patients that need us, not just those with the coronavirus. So if youre concerned about your child, call your pediatrician, call a telemedicine visit or go to the e. R. Doctor, quickly, how long has that been the case . Its funny to hear you say our Emergency Rooms are open and open to anyone with a complaint, you dont have to come in with coronavirus, im not sure when new york city crossed that line where you could say that. So i think that that happened, i would say, about a week or two ago we said we know you stayed home to help us take dare of t care of the coronavirus patients but we want the patients that need to be in the e. R. In. The best way to figure that out is call your doctor, we will tell you to go to the e. R. If you need to be there. We continue to take care of the patients with coronavirus and those having the other syndromes and symptoms staying away from the e. R. Before this. Ron klain. You show the picture with new york city in and it take it out and the country looks like it in much more trouble than it does with declining numbers from new york city. That seems to me to be what you might expect in the behavior of a pandemic like this. Yeah, i mean, i think ive said several times on your show, i think that we have this image from early on in the epidemic that the curve of this disease would be some kind of figure you saw in High School Geometry that went up smoothly and came down smoothly. In the history of epidemics is different. They go up quickly and come down very slowly. Theyre steep on the rise and flat on the decline. Thats what were seeing. In new york where they are making progress and the number of cases is down, its still more flat than down and the rest of the country is still going up and thats the most important point here, lawrence. I understand this has gone on for a long time in peoples minds but were in the craziest circumstance you can imagine, which is not only were reopening as in many places as the disease is getting worse. I mean, the lax white house guidelines said we should see 14 days of decline in a jurisdiction before it reopened, we have places reopening where the disease is going up, not down, let alone down for 14 days. That means that line thats still going up on the chart will continue to go up in more and more places. Ron, are you surprised that no one involved with the White House Coronavirus task force has come out and said these places are violating our guidelines by reopening . Yeah, lawrence, i think its stunning. I mean, the dr. Fauci and dr. Birx stood in the White House Briefing room and said on april 16th, the first step before reopening should be 14 days of decline in jurisdiction. I didnt think that was stock enough. Lets take that standard as it is to allow places to reopen and not to really vigorously stomp your feet about it where the low standard isnt even met seems like something the white house should be on top of. Instead, the president is cheering on places opening in contravention of his own white houses policy. I mean, thats a level of disconnect. I think just impossible to understand. And ron, with my experience inside government, tell me if it worked this way in a situation like this. I assume the experts asked for four weeks and the politicians gave them two weeks in the guidelines, that that guideline two week was a compromise to begin with. I guess we lost rons connection. Well have to leave it there. Dr. Dara kass ex ron klain, thank you for starting us off. When we come back, beto orourke will join us. Texas is setting records for the number of cars in line for texas food banks. 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