We welcome you to this primetime edition of the washington journal. With the senate back in session today, we will talk to a leading vaccine expert from newton, massachusetts. Later, we will examine some of the new side effects from this virus. We hope you join in on the conversation. Our phone lines are open. If you live in the eastern or central time zone. For those of you out west if you are a medical professional, we would love to hear from you. Good monday evening. Thank you for being with us. Lookgin as we always do, at the numbers from Johns Hopkins university. Now around the world, the number of coronavirus cases approaching 3. 6 million in 187 countries and regions. The death toll has exceeded 251,000 around the globe. Joining us from massachusetts is dr. Mark poznansky, director of the vaccine and Immunotherapy Center at mass general hospital. I want to begin with the headline today from the new york times. As states moved to reopen, at least one model predicting the u. S. De
With the senate back in session today, we will talk to a leading vaccine expert from newton, massachusetts. Later, we will examine some of the new side effects from this virus. We hope you join in on the conversation. Our phone lines are open. If you live in the eastern or central time zone. 202 7488000. For those out west, 202 7488001. If you are a medical professional, we would love to hear from you. 202 7488002. Good monday evening. Thank you for being with us. We begin as we always do, look at the numbers from Johns Hopkins university. Now around the world, the number of coronavirus cases approaching 3. 6 million in 187 countries and regions. The death toll has exceeded 251,000 around the globe. Joining us from massachusetts is dr. Mark poznansky, director of the vaccine and Immunotherapy Center at mass general hospital. I want to begin with the headline today from the new york times. As states moved to reopen, at least one model predicting the u. S. Death rate could double. As you
Teleconference. The white house woking on new guidelines with those governors to put restart plans into operation. The cdc and fema reportedly coming up with recommendations. Advising states to come out of mitigation in a controlled way with robust Monitoring Systems in place to contain new cases and outbreaks. Adding leaders at all levels will need to prepare communities for occasionally returning to mitigation measures for a brief period to continue containing the disease. President trump is suggesting some states that are the least hard hit may be able to reopen by the end of the month and some perhaps sooner. President trump it will be very, very close maybe even before the date of may 1. So that will be for some states. Actually there are over 20 that are in extremely good shape. And we think well be able to get them open fairly quickly. Others will follow. The federal government will be watching them closely. And well be there to help. Lou the deadly wuhan virus that shut down mu
Teleconference. The white house woking on new guidelines with those governors to put restart plans into operation. The cdc and fema reportedly coming up with recommendations. Advising states to come out of mitigation in a controlled way with robust Monitoring Systems in place to contain new cases and outbreaks. Adding leaders at all levels will need to prepare communities for occasionally returning to mitigation measures for a brief period to continue containing the disease. President trump is suggesting some states that are the least hard hit may be able to reopen by the end of the month and some perhaps sooner. President trump it will be very, very close maybe even before the date of may 1. So that will be for some states. Actually there are over 20 that are in extremely good shape. And we think well be able to get them open fairly quickly. Others will follow. The federal government will be watching them closely. And well be there to help. Lou the deadly wuhan virus that shut down mu
Teleconference. The white house woking on new guidelines with those governors to put restart plans into operation. The cdc and fema reportedly coming up with recommendations. Advising states to come out of mitigation in a controlled way with robust Monitoring Systems in place to contain new cases and outbreaks. Adding leaders at all levels will need to prepare communities for occasionally returning to mitigation measures for a brief period to continue containing the disease. President trump is suggesting some states that are the least hard hit may be able to reopen by the end of the month and some perhaps sooner. President trump it will be very, very close maybe even before the date of may 1. So that will be for some states. Actually there are over 20 that are in extremely good shape. And we think well be able to get them open fairly quickly. Others will follow. The federal government will be watching them closely. And well be there to help. Lou the deadly wuhan virus that shut down mu