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Joining us now this morning on washington journal is dr. John andrews. Andrus who is an adjunct professor of Global Health at George Washington university. Your take on the president s announcement yesterday after the grim forecast, president is extending the social distancing limits until the end of april. What do you make of that move . I think thats excellent. I think the evidence has to be in the drivers seat and i have to commend him for taking that action. Host let me show you the Johns Hopkins statistics that are out there. Total confirmed cases around the world approaching 750,000. Tot...

Total deaths approaching 35,000. We have been reviewing the u. S. Numbers this morning. The numberssee in and recent trends and other news from recent days. Put this in perspective for us. When i personally try to put this in perspective i think about my 35 years working in Global Health and there are two events that i think i use personally as touchstones in dealing with this current crisis. One is india. I worked in the 1990s in india and saw firsthand in 1994 how the ague crisis brought the country to its knees. It was mismanaged. There was miscommunication. Fear was created. A reactive mod...

To referred them for testing for coronavirus . The one main difference of coronavirus versus the flu and we can go into this. Three main symptoms everyone has been talking about. Fever cough and shortness of breath. With the coronavirus. I tried to say those letters every time im on the news. So you remember what you need to look out for. Shortness of breath does not occur in the common cold. Shortness of breath does not occur in the flu. It is only sometimes present when you have allergies. Lets be real if you have allergies you will have different symptoms you wont feel like you do when you ...

Mr. Biden i want thank my sister, valerie and my soninlaw, dr. Howard krien here. Folks, look, we were planning a big rally in cleveland tonight. But the governor of ohio asked the president ial campaigns to cancel their indoor Public Events in cleveland with large, large crowds of people and thats what we did, due to the coronavirus and he was concerned about that. And as ive said all along that we would follow the guidance of the cdc, state and local officials and Public Health officials with respect to our campaign events. Well continue to do that. This is a matter, this whole coronavirus i...

To the civil war when the nation was very clearly divided into two political camps. We live in a politically divided time, although i dont want to imply we are headed for civil war. I dont know what we are headed toward, but there is resonance in the way we have red and blue states today. There were northern and Southern States than that were fundamentally divided over this giant issue of slavery. There are other things. The 1840s and 1850s was a time of enormous technological change. Within a few years of the invention of the telegraph, cities east of the mississippi were connected and there ...