into perspective it's 9 times the amount killed during last year's record levels of gang fueled violence. now the coronavirus not slow burning obesity epidemic coming together there's a word for that says health expert simone buckhead a sin damage and one that makes ill prepared for. our particular problem is that we have less resources i mean a country which is very highly populated one of the team highest in the world without the resources of other countries and with disjoin epitome of obesity and other chronic illnesses to get it we coded stuff at the result. got far less intensive care beds per capita than almost every other major nation in latin america if the millions with diabetes and obesity here get the virus that spells trouble this isn't something that just become an issue now health campaign is have been trying for years to get the government to impose tougher regulations on junk

food and they've had some success attacks on fizzy drinks for example and just now a new labeling scheme for ultra processed food but powerful trans national companies have fought them every step of the way. and with the current a virus already here the country is running out of time to take the tougher measures which could have helped blunt its impact. john homan al-jazeera mexico city. the current virus outbreak hit greece at a time when it was still recovering from a major refugee and financial crisis but fatalities have been relatively low after the country introduced a lockdown measures earlier than most other european nations and the countries there hoping for a quick economic recovery john psaropoulos reports from athens. says the coronavirus has been good for his business especially in the run up to easter and. people are stocking up on food because they're afraid of shortages but they're

also sitting at home watching cooking shows and experimenting with new recipes. is one of the businesses considered essential by the government that didn't have to close due to coronavirus customers have to keep their distance one per 15 square metres but for other firms it's a different story. they look down measures were announced on a friday night i was about to pay my rent i'm such a morning and called my landlord to say i'm not going to pay you dismantle and a good thing too because i've been living off that rent for the past month greece is spending $15000000000.00 supporting affected businesses and workers until june it's locked down began early carnival celebrations were cancelled in february schools were closed on march 10th a week before france and germany and 10 days before the u.k. people who don't live on the islands aren't allowed to sail there so ferries a traveling light mainly to keep trade alive all this has led to greece having

a fatality rate of 9 per 1000000 much lower than the death rates in most european countries sources close to the prime minister say the government knew the national health system couldn't cope with a major outbreak early measures would create a recession but so would a health crisis so the government opted to trigger an early recession calculating that this would save lives and give it a stronger economic recovery but some say there was another goal stemming from greece's decade long economic crisis. crisis and the virus and what we wanted to show. responded. expected events and if we do so we believe that people will turn around and say you know what greece is a serious country i mean maybe we will get over this a mixed people at odds probably at experiences that at the previous decade we felt

that this itself obviously. let's take you back to the white house for president trying taking questions at the corner on a sequential growth that was what is are sure to try much of it has to do with short sellers bunch of it has to do if you look a month into the future i think it's a $25.00 or $28.00 a barrel so a lot of people got caught they got caught and there are a lot of people that are not too happy because they got caught so if you take a look at it you'll see it's more of a financial thing than an oil situation but because you take i believe in a month or so of the which go a little bit out it's a $25.00 and $28.00 or so it's largely a financial squeeze and they did get squeezed like you however saudi arabia and other countries make more who are doing that for several years cutting back russia's cutting back. mexico's cutting back and the opec plus

a quarter opec plus additional states are cutting back and you know the problem is nobody is driving the car anywhere in the world centrally $184.00 patients. factories are closed and businesses are closed and so all of a sudden we had really a lot of energy to start off with oil in particular and a lot and then all of a sudden they lost 4050 percent of their market so just up so it's going to be picking up in the energy business will be strong but they cut back it could be $20000000.00 barrels but it's let's say 15 and that was between russia and saudi arabia but this had to do with the squeeze and it was a very tough squeeze a lot of people got more right now. well they could if you were by the block it to be honest look same thing over here. the market is the way it is people are going to slow it down or they're going to stop that's going to be automatic and that's happening you know mr president on criminal justice reform in these best behavior so i got a an e-mail her loose one from a fellow in the northwest who owns

a supply business and he has a felony on his record on violent felony in the past 5 years which under s.b.a. guidelines makes him it would you go to one of these p.p.p. loans so he has now had to let go 50 employees many of whom are criminals trying to get back into society i don't believe there's anything in the cares act that would restrict if you give me the name of the company because they will have that checked up to. the printers no friend of my sister somebody who wanted to be able to call you to say he's a criminal and why did he get a lawyer what's he want to apply for it s.b.a. loan included and wondered how that square because if you're the lame akin to i'd like to look into that ok ok going to have 3 if these companies that open and they have employees come back to work and they get sick will these companies be liable. which companies you're talking about a company manufacturing in a company eventually going to get sick well here you imagine to the head of the

legal answer to that when we look it up but we have tried to take liability away from these companies we just don't want that because we want the companies to open and open strong but i'll get your legal opinion on that good you well that's what i'm saying i'll get your legal opinion and discuss that nobody's discussed but we will now have any business executives that voiced concern to you about and why not want to look now i think that it's not at this point but we're going to look because they have talked about generalizability so i could use just if it can see from the boys ok go ahead chris thanks for the want of follow on oil. when you were talking earlier. you were talking about the p.p.p. deal deal and i mentioned the ready are in the 1st stimulus package even. no you don't know all that you know the price of oil right and i do do you know that the feds will it and i for $100830.00 or so to nobody's ever heard of negative will be what it's for short term. in in your opening remarks you were talking about the

p.p.p. deal and then you mention the 75000000 barrels of oil it's big you previously had said i want to purchase you weren't able to get funding for that in the 1st deal some wondering are you out of the price you're talking about you don't need funding they pay you see here if you don't get it out if you can hear it it's true if you can get it so my question my 1st question is are you asking for funding and i'm in no the feel if people store so well so it will use it a storage and charge for it but people need storage desperately and we have massive storage under the petroleum. requirements of the p.p.p. the interim funding deal except of course requirement if we could buy it for nothing we're going to take everything we can get the only thing i like better than that is where they pay you to take but that's a short term squeeze you understand that so it's i don't think you're going to see that. but you know we'd like to have congress this is

a great time to buy oil and we'd like to have congress approve it so that we could instead of just story good for the big usually the big companies because i think we have 75000000000 gallons right now capacity that's a lot it's we've been building it up over a period of time but that's a lot 75000000000 barrels. so we're going to get either ask for permission to buy it or we'll store it one way or the other it will be full ok please this person is going to finish up will go right. sometimes it isn't even entire time are calling you to stop saudi oil shipments are on the way right now that you can get out or section 32 that's something you could go look at today just as i'm walking into the room we certainly have plenty of oil. so i'll take a look at that ok yes please i think 1st off i'm testing the 2nd on the s.b.a. loan program when will you are you in fact voted yet with that company you mentioned to ramp up production of lonely don't we really don't need it we use it

we go up and i've used it a lot but we use it and then sometimes all they have to do is see it coming if you want to talk about it i think this is i don't think any of us knew very much about the d.p.a. but there's sort of a 4 side of the d.p.a. where you force a company to do something but there's a 2nd side of that which is really a hand up the company we're talking about have done has done everything to support this effort and if it ramped up production i'm on the phone with them multiple times a day this is the hand up this is the government coming in and saying how can we help you expand your lines there's no asynchrony here at all so this is the hand up side of the d.p.a. which is exactly what these small american heroic companies need they don't need to be forced they're all in their employees are all in order for and we know one of our single either plays right so today we were on site or the rear folks on site

with that company finishing out what their capital projections will be in order to be able to ramp up these additional 4 lines and i spoke about that company will then turn in a white paper to the d.o.d. that will then help move the process for but it's actively in process instead of the need is enormous but on march 24th from march 21st to ministration promised 27000000 tests by the end of march so far roughly 4000000 people have been tested so where are the other 23000000 or so tests are they not materialize within the pipeline help us understand that discrepancy. so since i was the one who said that let me explain where we are where we were so i was getting my information is correct information about the actual tests that are in the marketplace so if. i want to use those metrics there's been over 40000000 quote in the marketplace but we have an end to end the issue that we needed to deal with and that's what we've been dealing with the swabs the transport media if we don't have people use allies

in the machines the way dr burke says talking about we have some of our main platforms that are only 10 percent being utilized you can have a lot of you could have a lot of test in the market and those are correct numbers but if the machines aren't utilizing and they're not organized at that level then they're not being they're not being utilized to its fullest to what and that you that if the machines with utilize that would be you wouldn't you would have a lot of those millions of test already being done i think a bastard burks has estimated that we have another 1000000 test a week just on one platform that could be that could be done if the machines were utilized more for the poster for growth and this i believe for you to see in the vice president said this mr smith said that there will be enough tests in place for phase one and there are there are the question is what's the standard of testing that you now have the capability for is it just people who are only very ill is it test people who have this defense is it people who come in just because

they want to get a test i mean what what is standard here he did is the guidelines but i tried to be a little specific about this on friday and we all try to number one is you need to test every one who symptomatic right and you need to over test them because. we're talking any symptoms that would be consistent with coded right so and there's a wide range of symptoms you want to test them and you want to over test and we talked about the approximate metric with ambassador burke's fully supports because we you know this is a good metric that you want to get about one positive for every 10 test then you know you oversample 2nd and this is a really important part of the strategy is because so many people are asymptomatic there's no way that you can test the. nuff people to know to pull one asymptomatic god of 300 people in the population so the strategy with ambassador burns offered in you know i talked to epidemiologists around the country and they go wow i wish i

would have thought of that is to really focus on the vulnerable population where we know that the asymptomatic rate could be much higher than the rest of the population and we are going to be focusing this is what my office does and during normal normal times focusing on the under-served populations particularly in interest inner cities and urban areas they have a higher rate because overcrowding they can't tell the work they're subject to a lot of co-morbid conditions nursing homes we all know about nursing homes and there is both symptomatic and asymptomatic spread in finally some of our indigenous populations in the indian health service so this is a very very important layer that most of the models and people don't talk about because that's where we're going to pick up the asymptomatic kerry it's in when you do that that's when you focus on track and trace. if we have enough tests right now i want to go into season one why is the governor of maryland having to get half a 1000000 tests from south korea. i don't know what the governor of maryland is

doing in south korea but there is excess capacity every day if he wanted to send 30 or 40000 test a lab corps inquests that that could be done that could be done tomorrow and that they need it to start to need to up their testing capacity and make it out once i think until i think we're seeing all across the country that in the states that have been hardest hit their capacity to know their capacity their testing far far exceeds south korea and they've been able to do that on a relatively straightforward basis i don't know what the governor of maryland we talked to him today he didn't bring that up today. we were on the governor's call today and you might personally i'm. sure we spoke to governor hogan today i'll follow up because i heard there was an announcement today about. that he had acquired some tests from overseas maybe we could put the slide back up that showed the number of facilities just in the state of maryland and part of our process and

i don't know when the governor place the order from south korea wouldn't wouldn't begrudge him or his health officials for ordering tests but. the capacity of all the different laboratories and the number of machines that are across maryland's part of what we were communicating today including federal facilities and i h's in maryland there's department of defense facilities and what we assured the governor then and we should all the governors that will open up all of those facilities but john back to your point was one other element of that that's the phase one testing and i can't i can't really describe it as well as the doctors here but it's the contact tracing piece we really believe that states that meet the criteria of 14 days. of of cases going down and proper hospital capacity if they test people that have symptoms. and if they deploy resources to vulnerable

populations nursing homes and other designated vulnerable populations were rebuilt leave the threat of serious outcomes from the crime of viruses real then we also today inform the governors that we will be deploying c.d.c. teams to every state and every territory in the country to assist them in contact tracing a governor jared polis raise a very good point about the legislation the president is currently negotiating on capitol hill and he recommended that we make sure that the new bill that has $25000000000.00 in testing resources also cover contact tracing expenses by states we assured him ard ministration strongly supports that we communicated that to the secretary of the treasury and the rest of our. team and we'll be pursuing that but we were able to tell every one of the governors that we will be deploying teams we think of 10 or 12 for a start from c.d.c.

to reside in all of our states and territories to supervise and work with contractors and others to do the kind of contact tracing so it's test people that don't feel well and they have a coronavirus keep a careful eye and monitor your vulnerable population and when you come across a case have a team on the ground that can do the immediate contact tracing and testing and that's how we that's how we restrain and contain the spread of the corona virus during phase one and frankly it's the beginning of the structure for how we contain the coronavirus going forward and take a look at. the governor of maryland mike pence to several months with little to look at these different motions and that's maryland right there so to save a lot of money but that's ok to south korea you know why don't we get it to go to south korea and i think you needed to get a little knowledge would have been helpful to us be a month do you think it's rated major corporations major institutions like the brits restaurant chain like harvard university apparently got

a lot of money under the care is that money that was supposed to be here mark for small business owners do you think that's fair why no one thing i didn't get any that's for the sure i didn't get any we'll look at individual things and some people will have to return it if we think it's inappropriate criteria be changed if that money goes to people who need it well it's big done by great professionals it's being done by banks and as you know community banks all over the country that that's what they do they loan money and they're supposed to do it at courting to not only criteria but according to what we think is right but if somebody's got something that we think is inappropriate we'll get it back ok good good point place to get another a different question about south korea there are reports that you are personally negotiating with president moving the terms of redemption of u.s. forces on the korean peninsula that and that there are 4 scenarios in. paul can you confirm that and if so what is your desired outcome well i think that south korea had a great talk with president moon he's a friend of mine i can graduate had a wonderful election victory is very happy about that he was. as you know just

recently we are negotiating for president moon and for south korea to help us monitary only because we as you know we have 32000 soldiers there that varies from 28232000 south korea and we think that. before i came aboard they paid very little if anything so we're defending a wonderful nation a nation that we have great relationships but we're asking them to pay for a big percentage of what we're doing it's not fair so well it's not a question of reduction it's a question of will they contribute toward the defense of their own nation we're defending nations that are very wealthy south korea's a very wealthy nation they make our television sets they make ships they make everything and i give them great credit we've been defending them for many many decades as you know many many over 8 decades and i've gone to them in the past

last year i went to them and now they're paying. a $1000000000.00 a year and i went to him again i said look i'll be back because that's just a fraction and again the relationship is great but it's just not a fair relationship we renegotiated the trade deal and made it a much more equitable deal than it was in the past it was a terrible deal it was done going to hillary clinton it was a terrible deal the new deal is a much more equitable deal that's on trade but on the military i mean we're paying for the military for to defend another nation that's 8500 miles away and they're not the only one i'm talking to by the way as you know i won't go into names but i've done this nobody talks about it but i think it's appropriate i think the taxpayers are in for country taxpayers want to hear these things and so now there are they've offered us a certain amount of money and have rejected it i just it's just you know we're doing a tremendous service and we have a wonderful feeling and a wonderful relationship with each other but we have to be treated equitably and

fairly and so that's where it is right now and what's going to happen i can't tell you but we'll find out fairly soon but i congratulate the president who's a friend of mine and i congratulate president moon on having a a terrific victory place a. question for you cover almost president and also questions crocker person during off the your governor along with the national governors association in the past have called for him to be on restricted as a lot of state and local governments see their revenues drop are you open to the idea on restricted aid work you want to be pandemics but we're going to be talking about that in phase 4 as you know which will start version at later that has to do with infrastructure hopefully infrastructure because this country needs infrastructure we spent all this money in the middle east $8.00 trillion $1.08 trillion trillion with a t dollars in the middle east but if you have a pothole in

a highway someplace they don't want you to spend the money to fix it how stupid have we been in this. tree how stupid have we been. and that's changing rapidly you know that you've seen that including things like to go shooting with friends but when we are helping friends friends should reimburse us for the cost i mean why should we be defending nations for free. we're defending a nation for free now i'm getting a $1000000000.00 a year and where we'll be getting we were offered much more than that but i turned it down so that's where we are with that as far as as far as the other is concerned look we have to be smart in this country we've been taken to the cleaners by every and i mean with allies not just with the enemies with allies we've been to frankly the allies have taken us much more so than the enemy's enemies we don't do business with right the allies we do business with and whoever made these deals whoever made these contracts in many cases we didn't have a contract like we didn't have a contract we didn't have

a trade deal with china they came in and they took $500000000000.00 a year for many years but who were from 200 to 500 $50000000000.00 a year out of our high now we made this great trade deal unfortunately that was a number of months ago and it's a great deal they're paying 25 percent on 250000000000 dollars there are a lot of things have to they could have to purchase $250000000000.00 worth of goods including farm product up to $50000000000.00 so a lot of good things are happening but then what happened with china was the plague hit us right the plague that was after this was long after we signed the deal to placate us so i'm not happy about that ok john please question for dr burke spoken . to president bush to the on the virus itself as it passes from patient to patient and mutates over time have you picked up any indication that it has become less virulent have you picked up in these cases it's become more variable and that

is an excellent question because we watch that all the time particularly with r.n.a. virus says to really track it's and it's adaptation to humans i mean you're really asking is this virus become more adapted to humans and more able to spread or is it becoming less adapted to humans and less able to spare. we don't have any indication that it's less able to spread and we'll have good analyses that will come from obviously the roosevelt had it's incident with a virus outside of the united states and we'll be able to look at those parameters and the d.o.t. and the military is on a great job and really ensuring the health of the so ensuring that this cut this these questions can really be asked and answered we have extraordinary evolutionary molecular biologists in this country all around the united states and they're looking at this very question and a lot of the work that we've been doing

a lot you see a lot of work happening with testing a new mexico and testing in other states they have extraordinary molecular biologists that are evolutionary biologists and they'll be able to look at that both in both the new mexico that may have lower transmission rates and compare that to new york that has maybe 10 x. transmission but it's an excellent question and it's something that we'll be able to be answered by what we see in the united states john whether because it was that come from what's the world like. france you know when senator schumer wrote a letter a couple of months ago and he said q. should use admirals and generals they said well that's what we did 1st of all we have our voice residues been incredible but. we have the adams we have the generals and i was just talking to the admiral inside just before we came and i said did you go to annapolis. he said no sara sidner that's too bad it's stupid what did you feel he said i went to harvard oh that's ok too i guess right so you were to

harvard there was a great student at harvard is doing a fantastic job and the young gentleman it was very very successful but he wanted to help the country who want to come into the country and we appreciate it very much it was a big success big big success. let's do here and there he next ok will say good players from the top that's what you think you're meeting tomorrow with governor cuomo he mentioned is there a reason he's coming all the way down here i don't know he want to lend and her own we believe it or not have we get along. ok he was very generous yesterday in particular said we did a quote phenomenal deal i don't know of anybody wrote that but he said that and i appreciated it because it's not about me it's about these people and thousands behind mike and the admiral and all of the other people that are working with us i mean when you say look i don't understand when when i see the polling in approval ratings for the job i've been this.