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With james hodge who is director of the center for Public Health law and policy at Arizona State university. Washington journal is next. Is next. Is next host good morning. This is washington journal for tuesday, march 17, 2020. There is very little celebrating planned due to the shutdown of bars and restaurants nationwide because of the coronavirus and further restrictions and limited by the federal government, the white house, State Governments and localities. We would love to hear what you are seeing in response to the outbreak. The7488000 is the line in eastern and central time zones. For ...

People staying in their homes, no restaurants, no bars, no congregation. The United States has been very slow to that. Particularly, the federal government has not been urging it. Just two days ago for the first time, the cdc recommended that there should be no gatherings of 50 people or more, which is way too many. The president yesterday said that we should try to avoid gatherings of 10 people or more. That is probably too many also. But this indicates to me that we are in whole new territory. I have been working on Infectious Diseases and Global Health through my life and i have never seen ...

Saw a briefing yesterday by the White House Task force and a number of news outlets have reported a ramping up, this turn from the president. What did you hear in terms of extra measures that came out of the briefing that caught your ear . Host many countries have been aggressively getting guest many countries have been aggressively doing social distancing. The u. S. Has been very slow to that. Particularly the federal government has not been urging it. Just two days ago for the first time cdc recommended that there should be no gatherings of 50 people or more, which is way too many. The presi...

Lets head straight to blake urman at the white house. The president declaring a National Emergency over the coronavirus. I love that of a loved the economic message that the president spoke about afterwards as what might come next in terms of help with the economy. First off the National Emergency declaration this flexibility for the hospitals and hhs health and Human Services which as you knows at the forefront of trying to tackle the corona virus but this would allow for increased beds in hospitals. For example the presence that would unleash tens of millions of dollars to the tune of 50 bil...

Vice president pence we just completed another meeting of the White House Coronavirus task force. It has been a very busy and productive day here at the white house. President trump has no hire priority than the safety and health of the American People. And president has directed our task force employing a full resource of the federal government in full partnership with state and local Health Authorities to make that priority a reality. As i stand before you today, we have more than 100 coronavirus case is in the United States, that is counting domestic cases and cases of coronavirus of americ...