the nation prepares for the worst with one exception, he. i'm michael smerconish in philadelphia. here is the very latest. the number of coronavirus cases in the u.s. stands at over 330. and that number is growing rapidly. including 17 deaths. there are now cases in 29 states. a cruise ship carrying over 3,500 people of 54 nationalities is being held off the california coast for coronavirus testing. so far, 19 crew members and two passengers have been confirmed as infected. california, florida, maryland, kentucky and washington have each declared a state of emergency. washington's primary is this tuesday. two top infectious disease experts that advise people over 60 and those with underlying health problems to strongly consider avoiding activities

that involve large crowds such as traveling by airplane, going to movie theaters, attending family events, shopping at crowded malls and going to religious services. fears about the coronavirus disrupting the global economy continue to unsettle wall street. the s&p 500 index has dropped develop% since february 19th. in austin, the south by southwest music and film festival was cancelled which last year brought 400,000 people and $350 million to the local economy. around the world there have been other drastic changes to public events. in venice, italy, a string quartet played a beethoven concert to an empty opera house, streaming it instead online. in korea, a concert without any members of the press. the bbc has reported that china discontinued live audiences for

many, including singing contests. and everybody stocking up at costco with hand sanitizer, toilet paper selling out. me? i've stockpiled literally nothing. that's been my response so far. let me say this clearly, you should make your decisions based on what the health experts are telling you. but, me, i've altered nothing. i've actually increased my exposure to the public. i'm not deliberately escalating my activities. i just haven't scaled back. by way of example, i've been traveling by train back and forth to d.c. for cnn election coverage. last tuesday, next tuesday, the tuesday after that. someone close to me unfortunately is sick. so this week, i flew to florida and back within 20 hours. i took five uber rises in connection with that trip. all uberesque. i was in cars of total strangers. i made plans with friends of mine who have season tickets to

see a flyers playoff game. our middle son asked me if he should take a longtime trip to cabo with his fraternity brothers. his mother and i both came to same conclusion which was take the trip. in less than two months i'm doing a live in bellevue, washington, that's king county. and the center for the venue for the event, sent out a memo saying king county is recommending but not requiring event organizers oud-a void bringing large groups together. more than 300 of the 400 tickets have already been sold. and nobody has asked for a refund. this spring, i've got two live 30th radio anniversary shows in philly. sold out 750 people. and instead of considering

cancel them, i'm looking at the prospect of adding five more dates around the country. later today, i'm visiting a friend of mine who has gone away for a while. he's in a federally gated community, confining space. i'm more active in terms of traveling and public places than at anytime as an adult. i'm washing my hands, but i've always done that. but am i nuts? or am i doing my part to ensure that coronavirus damage does not become -- i know that health care professionals are not discouraging us from doing what i'm doing, instead there seems to be an overreaction that deprives them of the joy of the day and deprives us of their company and commerce. on friday, tesla ceo elon musk tweeted the coronavirus panic is dumb. and according to former chair of the council of economic advisers, austan goolsbee,

behaving with too much caution could be affecting our economy. advanced economies like the united states are hardly immune to these effects, to the contrary, a broad outbreak of the disease in them could even be worse for their complete than in china. that's because when people withdraw from one another tend to dominate economies in high-end countries more than they do in kleichina. if people stay home from school don't travel, don't go to sporting events, the gym or converts, the economic consequences would be worse. i want to know what you think. go to my websit website @smerconish.com, have you undertaken any coronavirus preparations? i'll give you the results at the end of the hour. joining me now is dr. jeremy samuel fouse, dr. fouse is an

emergency physician at brigham and women's hospital. and also an instructor at the harvard school. he wrote this piece, covid-19 isn't as deadly as we think. doctor, thank you for being here, you say you think the "diamond princess" is an odd lab of some sorts maybe even more than the world health organization. explain. >> michael, thank you for having me. it's an important thing that you're doing. i'm an e.r. doctodoctor, i want reassure the well and focus in on who is sick. as you say, the "diamond princess" cruise was a really nice, if not unfortunate laboratory to filling out who to worry about. we now know that young people are very very, unlikely to have problems. there are going to be outliers

there and we're going to hear stories and that scares people. but for the most part, it affects people older who have other conditions. what we saw on the "diamond princess," the overall fatality rates have been lower than places like the w.h.o. add even within the risk group populations who did actually have deaths, 70-plus, the 80-plus, the people with medical problems, actually, even among those people in a closed sort of system like the "diamond princess," the numbers were far more encouraging. >> here's what you published. put this up on the screen, kathryn. this all suggests that covid-19 is a relatively benign disease for most young people. and a potentially devastating one for the old and chronically ill, albeit, not nearly as risky as reported. why the disparity, doctor between what is that number or that which is coming out of china? >> that's a great question. and it all comes down to

actually what you measure. what you test. you know, economists do this, doctors do this. so if you test -- if you only have ten test kits in your whole hospital, you're going to take them to the icu and you're going to say, here are my sick patients and let's test them. of course, the fatality rated in the icu will be high and scary. but now maybe if have you an influx of testings you can test the whole hospital you'll pick up more cases but any more deaths. because those people are okay. they picked up the virus and don't have a symptom of it. and this is what they're doing in south korea. that's kind of what you think of with the "diamond princess," if you think about it, they tested everybody. so widespread testing in a situation like this is very important. and their. is two-fold. number one, it gives us better numbers to know what's really happening.

that might help ramp up the fears because we're picking up bigger cases, the ones we didn't know about, that's important to ramp-down our fears to reassure that this is not a problem for everybody. and yet, on the same token, it helps to recognize those cases to say to individuals, please, if you do have this virus, if you do come down with it, those are the people we need to isolate from the elderly. i wouldn't recommend if you have an illness going to a nursing home because that's where we see a problem like in washington. the disparity in the numbers has to do with your testing strategy. in this country, we were actually surprisingly orr or unsurprisingly, we were caught flat-footed here. because we don't have enough tests. we actually need more testing. that's what they did in south korea, michael. their numbers are so much better. they have a 0.6% fatality rate in south korea because they tested so many people.

>> i want people to read what will you authored for "slate." put this up on the screen on who and what should be stockpiling. you say healthy people who are hoarding food masks and hand sanitizer may think they're doing the right thing. all dodd things aside, these actions probably represent misdirected anxieties. when such efforts are not directly in service of the protecting the right people not only do they miss the point of everything, they may be squandering what have become precious and unlimited resources. take the final word and expand on that. >> we've got to play the ball, we know where the problem is. it's a problem when you go to a pharmacy, if you're going to a health health aide and you can't find hand sanitizer. you got to have your setup, but

hoarding could deprice the resources to where we need them to be. that's really where i'm going with this. i'm really glad to see people washing their hands like they're scrubbing to do surgery. i was in laguardia, i just couldn't believe what will i saw, men were finally doing the right thing. we may actually save lives for generations to come if we actually know how to wash our hands. hoarding is not going to help. panicking is not helping. it's focusing on the elderly and sick people whose lungs can't live with this. but we do just the things that are right. >> dr. faust, thank you so much, it's quite different from what i've heard elsewhere. >> yeah, thanks, anytime. now, what should be done when someone is advised to quarantine him or herself and willfully ignores it. that's the situation in hand

jove, new hampshire where a local health care worker traveled to italy and was today to self-quarantine. instead, attended an event at a crowded music club hosted by the dartmouth business school. he since has been diagnosed with the virus, as has a second person interacted ewith him. dartmouth said four students at you the school said to be in contact with the second patient, instead of being quarantined and monitoring. as you can outrage on social media calling for the person to be jailed. at the home in new hampshire, it's a misdemeanor, but in this case, the patient had not been diagnosed but merely advised by a health care worker to stay home. still did he have a societal

option to be cautious? joining me the director of bio ethics. dr. caplan, outline it. >> you served the whole coronavirus, the person to avoid is you traveling all around the nature. >> stay ware from me. >> i think the obligation is there. if you get advised by a health care worker that you might be at risk, you might have been exposed and isolate yourself. don't go to parties or functions. it's the different situation than the one i was just ribbing you about. you're not at risk. you haven't been exposed to anybody that you know of whose got the disease. so, yes, there's a moral obligation. absolutely, this person was not a good citizen. not a good community member. >> dr. caplan in "the new york

times" in a related but different subject, you weighed in on incentivizing self-isolation. will you speak to that issue? >> yeah, look, michael, it's one thing to tell people who have been exposed, who might be at risk or who actually have been diagnosed, suffering the disease, to stay home. you know, we just heard about stocking up some food under those circumstances, and so. . if you work in the economy where you're getting paid to give people food, you can't take the time off. you're going to suffer, your family may suffer. if we're going to talk about being exposed to somebody who has it, i think states and the federal government should step in and say, here's your work subsidy. you're not going to go without pay. you will get paid if you stay home, if you can't get paid, we're going to create some kind of program to make sure that you don't starve to death. it's one thing to say isolate.

it's another thing to say isolate and good luck to you. you're going to lose your wages. you're going to have to figure out how to keep you and your family going for a couple weeks. you know what that means, people won't do it. >> there were stories that broke just in the last 24 hours in silicon valley about apple, about facebook, about google employees being told to work from home. i think that your point is a very important one. because those of us who are reliant on technology and work from it have a portable ability that many among us, just don't have. and it's important that they is not fall by the wayside in this process. i hope congress and the white house are listening to what you're saying. >> you know, there's one other group, michael, what do we have, 19 million people without documents in the country? what if they're exposed, what if one of them gets sick, are they going to rush off right now and go see the doctor? i think not. they're going to worry about

being deported. are we going to create an amnesty, say in the middle of a pandemic, make sure we do the right public health thing to seek out care, to talk to the doctor. we've got to reassure them too. i don't see the leadership either on the subsidized, the cost that it takes to stay home, or protect those who have reason to be fearful of the authorities, that's not the way to operate in a pandemic if you want to take isolation seriously. >> same argument that comes up in the argument of sanctuary city. same concept, if there's some situation, violent offender of some kind, we want people picking up the phone without fear that they're going to be deported for making that call. excellent point. thank you, dr. caplan, as always. >> thanks, michael. what are your thoughts? tweet me @smerconish. or go to my facebook page. i'll read some responses

throughout the course of the program. kathryn, what do you have from twitter, i think? smerconish, how dare you use your voice into fool people thinking it's about to go about as usual. it's irresponsible to go on and do this. it's your covert way of supporting trump. hey, mindful spy, i could not have been more clear in saying, hearings the uptick. of all of these factual headlines from what's transpiring around the country and around the globe, it occurs to me, not through some conscious decision that i've never been more active in my life. and i've told people expressly, you make your own decisions. i'm not telling you how to lead your life. but what i don't want to do is perpetuate headlines about the collapse of the company based on fears that get out of control. then you heard from me, a harvard physician come on and explain how from his educated perspective, the numbers might not be as bad as being

broadcast. make up your own mind. and i shall do likewise with my health. i want to know what you think. go to my website @smerconish and answer the survey question, have you undertaken any coronavirus preparations? up ahead, in michigan, an estimates 140,000 bernie sanders voted for donald trump, hoping to swing the state. now sanders might need them in his court to swing biden. and now tulsi gabbard is the last woman standing after elizabeth warren with the one promising campaign, did gender play a role? >> one of the hardest parts of this is all of the people, and all the little girls who are going to have to wait for more years. that's going to be hard. . you wouldn't accept an incomplete job

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the next big make or break primary, michigan on tuesday. six states are voting, but the wolverine state has the most delegates up for grabs. 125. it's also a critical general election state and an indicator of democrats of a can indicate's broader appeal. sanders' campaign, well, they've been confident about michigan since he beat hillary clinton there in 2016. a win could be the catalyst that sanders needs to form a comeback. joe biden, he's got the momentum. one lesson we learned, late decideds voted for are biden. and 8,000 have requested absentee ballot. in michigan you can actually

change your vote on an absentee ballot. joining me now, harrienten. harry, i respect your view and from david vassarman. see if you agree with this. he said, folks, barring a seismic event, the race is pretty much over, do you agree or disagree? >> i don't know if i'd be as strong as david who sends to do that. we've had multiple polls showing that joe biden is leading by double digits nationally. you saw the late deciders on super tuesday go overwhelmingly in his column. and i would say that sanders needs to change it if he wants to be in this primary season. >> would you say it's all on the line for senator sanders in michigan tuesday night? could he recover if he's unsuccessful in michigan?

>> i think the press would feel bad for him. that's part of the game we're playing. we're playing a delicate game, and a comprepress expectation g. if he wins in a state like michigan which is a great state where all of the polls said he was actually going to lose and he won, i think he'll be good in michigan no doubt about it. >> how do you assess the democrats in michigan and who do they advantage? >> this is a key difference from what we saw in the 2020 primary and what we saw in the 2016 primary. the reason that bernie sanders went into michigan and is because he won white voters without a college degree. he won them in michigan that is pretty much the same as winning them nationwide. what we saw in super tuesday in three states that were not vermont, minnesota, maine and massachusetts, we actually saw that joe biden carried that same

group of voters by eight percentage points by average. that is the group i'm keeping my eye on. i'm also keeping my eye on african-americans, a group that joe biden has done particularly well with. >> there's interesting interplay between sanders supporters and the trump electorate. there's a map that's i'm stumbling for my words to say. it shows, let's put it up, sanders' supporters who actually went for donald trump. 48,000 in michigan. 51,300 in wisconsin. my home state, 117,000 primary voters who then in the general elected donald trump. your thoughts? >> obviously, that was a nasty primary in 2016, perhaps not as nasty agency s 2008. i think sanders benefited last time from an anti-clinton vote. and i don't think he's benefitting from the same factor this time around.

that's part of the reason why i don't think he's going to do too well in michigan. i think joe biden is a favorite there. if we came down to a general election in this poll, it wouldn't be surprising to me if the sanders voters make a difference in the state like michigan if it's very close. but if joe biden is winning by a wide margin or any states you put on the screen they're not ultimately going to make the difference. >> and finally, harry, no love lost from secretary clinton and bernie sanders. from this new doc. here's a ten-second clip of hillary talking about bernie. roll it. >> honestly, bernie just drove me crazy. nobody likes him. nobody wants to work with him. he got nothing done. >> interesting, harry, you wonder if she'll just formally say those things on the stump. maybe she doesn't think it's necessary because of the joementum. >> yeah, i do wonder about that. elizabeth warren got out of the race this weekend. there's a real question where her supporters will go. a lot of her supporters are

people who backed hillary clinton. and they feel similarly about sanders as hillary clinton. and the warren supporters split evenly between sanders and biden, and that's not what bernie sanders needs to catch up in the race. >> harry, thank you. >> thank you, sir. let's see what you're saying on my smerconish social media twitter and facebook pages. i think this comes from facebook. regarding bernie, no one thought trump would advance. don't count him out just yet. kelly ann, your point is well made, there are a lot of similarities, except donald trump pretty much led from wire to wire in the last process. people kept thinks it would all shift when the field got narrow. he had that momentum from new hampshire on. this is a little different but i get that you don't want to count out an underdog. up ahead with shortages of hand sanitizer and other pros for the virus conscious, it's inevitable that crazy asking prices have followed. is this economic phenomenon

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senator elizabeth warren suspended her campaign this week after coming in behind both joe biden and bernie sanders. in her home state of massachusetts. her departure reduces the field

of female candidates which at one point numbered six to just one tulsi gabbard who so far has about calcula accumulated two delegates. 70 nations have been led by women. but america will not catch up this election cycle. elizabeth warren was asked this outside of her home on thursday. after her announcement. >> gender in this case, you know, that it's the trap question for everyone. if you say, yeah, there was sexism in this race, everyone says, whiner, and if you say, no, there was no sexism, about a bazillion women say what planet do you live on? i promise this, i'll have a lot more to say on that subject later on. >> joining me now is lisa lerer, national political reporter for

"the new york times" where she wrote this piece. was it always going to be the last man standing. lisa, it occurs to me, this could be self-fulfilling, perhaps a person is not him or herself sexist, but perceives her neighbor to be so. and then concludes, i'd like to vote for elizabeth warren but i don't think she can get across the finish line because others won't do so. therefore, i'll divert my vote. what do you think of that? >> i think you've got it exactly right. the number of times i've heard those exact comments from voters is just too numerous to count over the past year. i think there's something really interesting going on, our cultural politics are dovetailing with our political politics in a way that feels a little unexpected. there's a greater awareness particularly among democratic voters, female voters, of sexism in the polls in the way of gender bias in everyday life. and they've internalized that to

say, well, yes, sexism is real. that's why they say, they don't want to vote for a female candidate. as you put it. exactly as you put it, they believe their neighbor or somebody else won't do the same. >> the date is interest bhg you look at women. let me put up a screen with what happened in 2016 with white females, donald trump 47 to 45 defeated secretary clinton. women ranked third among the voters. speak to that issue. >> look, voters are not a m monolithic voting bloc. you're looking at two different thing. you're looking at a general election and primary election. i think we have seen in the democratic electric report, the huge forcing of suburban moms, they call them whole food moms, resistance moms who have come

out. some of those may have voted for trump this time around, they don't like his style, his behavior, they've flipped over to democrats and they're coming on record numbers. they helped democrats win over the news 2018. and they did vote in higher numbers for joe biden. although elizabeth warren also did vefairly well with that gro. >> here's gender analysis in the polls. she led in the polls until a discussion i would argue that medicare for all kind of consumed her campaign. her own state rejected her. they have a record of voting for her. it's hard to believe that massachusetts would be adverse of electing president someone they put in the senate. and i sai am reminded that secretary clinton defeated donald trump in the primary. your final thoughts? >> that's kind of the nature of running for president, making strategic missteps. i think what's striking here is that we are at a moment in the

democratic party where women are the powerhouse of this party. they are volunteers. they run for office in record numbers and win office in record numbers. you had an unprecedented of women running for the presidency. america has never seen that before that and within the whole process, the party ends up as two white men as their standard-bearers who are fighting until the very end, bernie sanders and joe biden. and the reason for this, those are two people in the race that had run before. but i do think that outcome is prompting a lot of democrats, voters, officials, party leaders to reflect on where the party is and the image the party wants to represent. >> and certainly, a lot being discussed and written on this subject. including the great piece that was on the front page by you of the "times" yesterday. thank you, lisa. >> thanks. let's check in on your social media reaction. twitter, facebook, this comes from facebook, i believe.

if it was sexism, how did she become senator? how was she the early front-runner? how did she not realize she was a woman -- sean, i should restate every once in a while. i don't see the social media in advance. but you kind of channeled the thinking that i just offered which i think you're making a valid point. how did she get to the united states senate from massachusetts? how was she the front-runner? how was hillary elected by the popular vote? are some of among us sexist? yes. are some among us racist? yes. sadly on both counts. but can you attribute to sexism in this case the flaming-out of her candidacy? i don't think so. i want to know what you think. answer the question, have you undertaken any coronavirus preparations? still to come, how much would you pay for a bottle of hand sanitizer. how much for a face mask? thanks to the coronavirus, the

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for only $34. some retailers are jacking up items. senator ed markey of massachusetts urging amazon now to stop third party sellers for price gouging for items like hand sanitizer. amazon said it would remove sellers who violate the policies. ebay completely banning sales for u.s. listings for hand sanitizer, disinfecting wipes and masks. how much legal troubles could this cause for companies that don't tamp down their price g s

gouging. joining me now is an adan abrame wears many hats. and the abc news chief legal analyst. his new book "john adams under fire, the founding father's fight for justice in the boston massacre murder trial." dan, i want to talk to you about coronavirus. but i have to say this about the book. this week was the 225th anniversary of the boston massacre. history apparently got it wrong. there's this iconic image, which we put it up on the screen from henry pelham, and you say that's not the way it actually went down. >> right. what actually happened years ago was not just british soldiers firing at columnists. it was much more complicated. columnists were throwing rocks. fights ensued. and the trial the subject of the book where john adams

represented the despised british soldiers was their trial for killing eight, soldiers and their captives all tried right before the revolution. i will tell you as someone who cares enormously about the rule of law. i think it was that respect for rule of law that prevented violence. i think there really could have been violence in response to this. it didn't happen because john adams ended up representing the british soldiers and there was a sense that fairness was the result. >> now, apply the rule of law to price gouging. >> yes. >> is this stuff illegal and if not, should it be? >> so, more than two-thirds of the states have price gouging laws. this tends to be a state-by-state thing, as opposed to federal. and in order for that to kick in, typically, you need a state of emergency. right now there's been, i think,

four states so far that have declared states of emergency in connection with the coronavirus. if there is a state of emergency then you're talking about essential supplies, the price can't go up more than let's say, 10%, 15%, if it does, in certain states will have been civil penalties. in a few states there have been criminal action taken as well. so, it's a little bit complicated. the laws, i think, are better suited for something like a hurricane, right? where it hits a particular area. and then you're talking about something like, you know, water. or gasoline and other items like that. here, when you're talking about something that spreads throughout the country, that is a public health menace. and it crosses state lines, it becomes a little more complicated. companies like amazon and ebay have to do what they can. but as you point out, you're talking about these third party sellers who are offering these products on those platforms. >> you know, dan, there's -- as

appalling as it sounds there is a libertarian argument that says this is the best way to allocate scarce resources. take my final 30 seconds and respond to that. >> yeah. look, some people are going to say if the price is so high that people aren't going to be able to buy it, and as a result, the government and first responders will be able to have it. you know, i don't know that i buy that argument. i think there's a reason that price gouging laws exist in a vast majority of states. i think it makes sense in the vast majority of states and i think it works. i just think it's a little more complicated when you're talking about a health crisis like this one. >> congrats on the book. i read it. thoroughly enjoyed it. >> thank you, michael. appreciate it. still to come, yourself best and worst tweets and facebook comments. and we'll give you the final result of the survey question. have you voted yet?

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i don't share it thus far. here's some of what came in during social media this week. "smerconish," finally someone with the guts to say the emperor has no coronavirus. not exactly what i'm saying. i'm a data guy. i'm like bloomberg. i'm a data guy. and the doctor, dr. faust from harvard said you know, the fatality rate on this princess ship might be a closer approximation than what the reality the w.h.o. is saying because the data that comes out of china is not exactly reliable. i'm just looking at the data. you guys all make up your own mind as to what your response may be. what else came in? this isn't a zombie outbreak. next this will be ak-47s to protect hand sanitizer. it's scary how you see the disheartened whenever there's a zrpgs in life.

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