President trump and members of the White House Coronavirus task force spoke to reporters about the outbreak in the latest projections from health officials. As of yesterday, the u. S. Now has the most reported cases of covid19, surpassing china and italy. President trump hello, everybody. Hello. Thank you very much. Thank you. Beautiful day. Very good, what youre doing. Look at all those empty seats. Never seen it like that. Oh, boy. How the world has changed. How the world has changed. Right . But its going to end up being better than ever. I want to thank you very much for being here and i want to update you on the steps were taking on our ongoing fight to the virus. This morning i spoke to the leaders of the g20. Had a great meeting. We have a lot of different ideas, a lot of good ideas. Were working together. The leaders gathered virtually around the world to discuss the whole subject of the problem now, 151 nations have got. We had president fernandez of argentina, Prime Minister
We havent completely defined how widespread this virus is in the United States and how intensely it is distributed in different parts of the country. We need to do more testing. The next several weeks are going to see a surge of cases coming into hospitals. It may not get as bad as new york everywhere but we are already seeing patients coming in a rather steady way in nashville and we expect more over the next several weeks. Describe what it is like an hospitals when you see these patients. How are they suffering . Obviously people are very very ill. In a respiratory infection, that involves the lungs. You have difficulty breathing. That is an extraordinarily uncomfortable illness because it makes you extremely anxious and makes everyone around you, your family members, anxious. If it gets bad enough you have to be sedated, you get intubated and put on a ventilator to help you breathe and recover hopefully while your body fight off this virus. Why are we seeing people die of cardiac ar
The Pacific Research institute who makes the argument against medicare for all. Watch tv tonight starting at 8 00 p. M. Eastern on cspan2. Joining us from nashville, tennessee is doctor william shatner, a professor of Preventive Medicine and Infectious Diseases and at Vanderbilt University medical center. Doctor, thank you for your time this morning. Sure, good to be with you. Doctor, the United States has surpassed china in a number of cases at 82000. What do you make of that and what are your concerns with that number . Guest my concern, of course, is that it will grow. You know, we have not yet completely define how widespread this virus is in the united instates and how intensely it is just a beaded in different parts of the country. We need to do more testing but the next several weeks, i think, will see a surge of cases coming into hospitals. It may not get as bad as new yorkd everywhere but we are already seeing patients coming ain in a rather steady weight here in nashville and
President trump hello, everybody. Hello. Thank you very much. Thank you. Beautiful day. Very good what youre doing. Look at all those empty seats. Never seen it like that. Oh, boy. How the world has changed. How the world has changed. Right . But its going to end up being better than ever. I want to thank you very much for being here and i want to update you on the steps were on our ongoing fight to defeat the coronavirus. I spoke to the leaders of the g20. Had a great meeting. We have a lot of different ideas, a lot of good ideas. Were working together. The leaders gathered virtually around the world to discuss the whole subject of the problem that right now 151 nations have got we had president fernandez of argentina, Prime Minister Scott Morrison of australia, prime of brazil minister trudeau of canada, president xi of china, president macron of france, chancellor Angela Merkel of germany, Prime Minister mudey of india. The president of indonesia. The Prime Minister of italy. Prime
Hello the un secretary general has told leaders of the worlds 20 major industrialized countries that humanity is at war with a virus and we are not sweating and trying to get terrorists called for a Global Response at an emergency virtual g. 20 summit to plot a way out of the crisis where leaders vow to do whatever it takes to combat coronavirus he said the numbers of confirmed cases which have now passed half a 1000000 are only the tip of the iceberg and the real number is believed to be many times higher well the number of new deaths has surged in spain and they remain high in italy where its fear of deaths are now rising in the poorer south of the country as economists predict a deep global recession the u. S. Saw more than 3000000 people make new jobless claims last week its biggest jump ever made barker begins our coverage with this report on the situation across europe. This is how spain is hoping to win the war on the Coronavirus Police are among the 1st to be tested but its haz