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captioning sponsored by cbs >> brennan: i'm margaret brennan in washington. on "face the nation", as the president declares a national emergency over the corona virus, we'll take a special look at the two areas the americans are most concerned about. the health and economic risk posed by the disease. as the covid-19 pandemic takes hold across the country, the nation's top expert on virus, dr. anthony fauci will be here. former fda commissioner will also join us, and then we'll turn to the impact on our uncertainly economy as america struggles to adjust to the new reality. is a recession ahead? will the market recover? how will the hard hit airline industry cope with new travel
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restrictions and more americans staying home. we'll talk with white house economic advisor, larry brdlow, and the head of bank moynihan. first an update on the virus and toll. in the u.s., 49 states and the district of columbia have reported over 3,000 cases of corona virus. the death toll stands of at least 60. globally, 142 countries have reported over 156,000 cases with the international death toll over 5800. there are now travel restrictions on non-americans coming into the u.s. from 28 european country, including new restrictions on incoming travel from the uk and ireland that will go into effect monday night. we begin with three reports around the world. first with paula reed. >> good morning, margaret. this is a critical moment for
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the trump administration marred by mixed messages and missed opportunities to prepare ande tests widely available. after days saying he didn't need one, president trump revealed he had been tested for corona virus. the white house revealed yesterday that the president has tested negative for corona virus after coming in close contact with at least two foreign officials who tested positive. >> people were asking me to take a test. >> friday night when the president said he was tested the white house released a memo saying testing for covid-19 is not indicated. it's the series of mixed mess >> it's it's eye habit. >> on saturday, members of the press had temperatures checked before attending a
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presidential briefing. the house passed legislation, including paid sick leave, food assistance and expanded unemployment estimate. >> no cost estimate for the bill which heads to the senate. the president also declared a national emergency, freeing up to $50 billion for the outbreak. that announcement made alongside top business executives in the rose garden helped stocks rebound after the worst day in 30 years. in addition to the new restrictions on travel from the united kingdom and ireland, the president said he may consider restricting travel travel in the u.s., and encouraged americans not to travel domestically if they don't have to. >> brennan: we go nowchnend m oliver. >> tke
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people who could be sick out ti health care facilities infect more people. >> are you here to be tested? >> a steady stream of residents lined up for corona virus testing north of new york city. 70-year-old michael myers told us he got tested as a precaution. >> how are you feeling? >> fine. >> he takes care of his frob-year-old son with a spinal cord injury. >> how are you coping with this? >> day by day things change. ni. kirkland washington life care center, the emergency has grown. the number of positive cases grew 47 more overnight. hospitals are racing to respond, setting up triage and evaluating how many patients they could handle if there's an onsought of new cases. >> we would be treated right away without costs. >> coast to coast, drugstores
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and grocery stores are no match for consumers to rush to store shelves for supplies. apple and nikey both announced drastic action closing most of their stores around the globe until march 27. back in the containment zone in new rochelle, jerry is struggling to keep restaurant open. he's lost 25% of his customers. >> get back to normality. right now it's up in the air. >> for now this is the new normal. the governor's office is going to open a new testing site in long island to test 6,000 people a day by next week. >> brennan: we turn to london and senior news correspondent for an update on what's going on in europe. >> good morning. italy still has by far the highest number of positive corona virus cases in the world, but just last week, the
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who named spain as the new epicenter of the pandemic because the number of cases rocketed up 10 fold. >> the streets are empty. the government ordered people to stay home unless absolutely necessary. and spain's prime minister confirmed on television that his own wife tested positive. all across europe, cities are eerily quiet. in france, italy and belgium as well as parts of germany, cafes, bars and restaurants are closed as officials scramble to slow the spread of the virus. schools are closed too, and even the great landmarks like rome's fountain and the eiffe tower. paris didn't slow down protesters facing police.
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>> iran has the second highest number of cases on earth. it's now struggling to treat victims in ill equipped hospitals. noteably is there nowhere panic. instead displays of solidarity. like locked down italians singing from their windows. and in spain, a mass ovation for health care workers manning the hospitals. here in the uk we've still got far fewer positive cases than most of europe, so the government hasn't closed the pubs, restaurantsand schools, but it is clearly hedging bets. for example, it's announced it's planing to buy as many ventilators as it can get hands on. margaret? >> brennan: liz, thank you. the uk is advising against travel to the u.s. we turn to anthony fauci,
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director of the national institute of allergy and infectious diseases at nih. thank you for making time. i know you're busy. you said this week, we are not at the peak and this is going to get worse. what are the numbers? >> i can't give you numbers. i depends on the effectiveness of our response. if you just leave the virus to its own devices, it will go up like we've seen in italy. that's not going to happen if we do what we're attempting to do and are doing. >> brennan: can we get ahead of it? >> the way you get ahead of it as i explain to people, i want people to assume that we are overreacting, because if if it looks like overreacting you're whathe vir dist thing.wew chin ates aes off. are dng it.nting
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infectin travel restrictions. and the other is containment and mitigation within the country. it's correct that the infections are going to go up. our job?:f is to make sure it doesn't do the maximum peak, and actually blunts. within the blunt there will be many new infections. we want to make sure we don't get to a bad peak. >> brennan: americans lives has changed and will continue to change. people aren't supposed to be visiting nursing homes, and told to be working with home and schools shut down. give us a reality check now. what's the mortality and recovery rate? >> the issue is, if you look historically, right now in the united states we're collecting data. it looks similar to other places. if you look at the totality, china dominated that previously. the mortality was about 3%. that's quite high for any kind
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of respiratory disease. if you look at the other countries it's somewhat less. if you count all the people who are getting infected and are not counted because they're not coming to the attention of a health care provider, the mortality will likely comdown to 1%. even that is serious. that's why we take this seriously. if you look at the typical flu season, 0.1%. this is a virus that has a high degree of morbidity and mortality. that's the reason we need all of our forces. if you look at the recovery rate, the recovery rate is minus what the mortality is. then it's 99% recovery rate. if the mortality is less, overwhelmingly more people recover than get into serious trouble. there's no doubt about that, but we want to make sure we not only decrease the rate of infection, you protect the
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vulnerable people within that percentage that have a much higher degree of morbidity and mortality. >> the president indicated he's looking at travel restrictions, including within the country. should americans get on a now? >> it depends on the reason for getting on a plane. anything in my mind, particularly if you are a person who's elderly or falls in the category of underlying conditions you should think twice before putting yourself in a situation where you're in a crowded space. >> you wouldn't get on a plane? >> for a number of reasons, i wouldn't get on a plane. if i were not doing the job i'm doing because of my age, i would seriously think not doing any travel >> hould americans get up and go to the office tomorrow? >> it depends on the situation you're in. to the extent possible, teleworking should be done to the extent you can do it. some jobs you can't telework.
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let's be real. if you can, you should. you should avoid crowded places, that's the thing we've e webse.king about all along. you go in and talk about the mitigations at different levels of involvement. >> don't go to crowded places. >> france is trying to close down restaurants and cafes and bars. >> should that happen in the united states? >> every single day we meet with the task force and take a look at what's going on. you don't want to make a pronouncement that no one should go in a restaurant. that's overkill. but everything is on the table. it may come to the situation where we strongly recommend. right now myself personally, i wouldn't go to a restaurant. i just wouldn't, because i don't want to be in a crowded place. i have an important job, and don't want to be in a situation self-ice laifting 14 days. >> brennan: for americans returning from europe, how do we make sure that doesn't
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allow further spread? >> if you look at what's happening noul for people who are coming back from the european countries, when they get back, they're having enhanced screening when they t come back. >> brennan: what $'hs that mean? >> looking at see if they're siccék give them a telephone number and here's what you nee$ñ to wa,c out for,e1 and importantly,lp 14 days of sel ih(6zd youñrçó come t( from onec it depends on individual
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it's a difficult situation >> the american college of surgeons >> do wie have the capacity to deal with what's happening? use military hospitals. >> first much all, again, you've got to look at what the bracket is of the possibility. if in a worse case scenario, and i don't want to scare people -- but you consider there's a worst case, a best case, and something in the middle. wedoiverything we can to not allow that worst case scenario to upon ha. if it happens which i don't think it will, i can see the effort we're putting in. >> you don't think hospitals will be overwhelmed? >> it's possibly they could be. but when you say people get
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frightened concentrate on what you can do to not make that happen. if, in fact, there's a scenario that's severe, it's conceivable that will happen. that's the reason you have strategic national stock pile for ventilators and things like that. >> brennan: this concern about shortages of key supplies like that, ventilators and cotton swabs? >> we would be unrealistic if we were not concerned that possibility exists. what we need to do -- >> brian: can you reassure the public there's planning? >> there's absolutely hundred percent, take that to the bank -- there's planning to address that. but we would be unrealistic to not pay attention to the possibility that could happen. >> brennan: so millions of children across this country are looking at the possibility of not being able to go to school for at least a few weeks >> right. >> brennan: possibly longer. the parents have to figure out what to do with them.
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can they take them to playgrounds, is it safe? > if you have a bunch of kids at the playground, i don't think it's good to congregate. >> brennan: of any age? >> of course, yes. >> brennan: there's a perception if you're younger you're not at risk. >> indeed. but if a young individual, or child gets infected they may be perfectly well from a physical standpoint, but may bring it home to a person susceptible. so we can't doubt children need to follow the rules. >> brennan: if i was standing next to someone diagnosed with the corona virus, what do i have to do? wait until i'm exhibiting symptoms to get a test? >> no. right now, if you feel -- if you are in a high risk situation -- remember, just being in the room six feet apart or whatever from someone. >> brennan: siting and having dinner, shaking hanltds? >> if you're having dinner for
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multiple hours with someone who has symptoms and finds out thaterson is sick, that puts you at a higher risk. that's something you really need to hunker done, get a physician, call them up and get instukzs what to do. if you walk into a room and find out three days later that somebody in that room was infected and was asymptomatic, you're risk is very low. >> brennan: and in the circumstance, i need that test? >> right. >> brennan: when will it be available? not just shipping them out, but getting operationsal. how long before that happens? >> i would hope baseed on what we heard from the ceos of the companies getting involved that they're going to be getting those tests out there in an easy way to get out there and actually get them. they're talking several days to a week to start to see and rev up. >> brennan: that means testing in several days or a week?
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>> right. but not maximum. nothing goes from zero to maximum. if the companies get involved, the laboratory groups that do this for a living, when they get involved, it's going to go like this. you're going to see tests more and more available, until soon they're quite available. but in the next day or so people are going to say i wanted to get a test and couldn't get it. that's going to happen, but the future as opposed to looking back, the future is going to be like this as opposeed to before. >> brennan: several days or a week, that's your time frame? >> the problem with pinning down the day it's going to be gotcha. >> brennan: we hear from viewers on twitter saying they're concerned about this. >> thaishtd be concerned. we can say now that the private sector is involved, we're going to see an entirely definite scene than the previous weeks previously. brx*b thank yo>> brennan: thank
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>> brennan: we're back with former fda commissioner with dr. gottlieb. good to see you back again. you've been telling us what to prepare for next. you heard dr. fauci say, they're coming, but they're not really here yet in terms of kits and availability to actually go and have it processed if you need a test. what's the timeline? >> i think we're going to see a dramatic increase in capability this week. within a week tests will be readily available. they're approveed on systems that can run tens of thousands of tests a day in academic labs and the large clinical labs. once those facilities have those systems online, they're going to be able to process an awful lot of tests and have them on online this week. by friday, testing will be
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ubiquitous. >> brennan: hospitals are trying to plan for the future here. how are they positioned? are there enough medical supplies? >> not if we have a wuhan style outbreak, which is a concern. we could have outbreaks of that -- >> of wuhan, the numbers we've seen in china? >> in the major u.s. cities. >> wuhan was the size of new york city. at the peak of that epidemic, they hospitalized 20,000. 10,000 in serious critical condition. to give you basis of comparison, new york state has 50,000 hospital beds and 3,000 critical care beds and 20,000 of those are in new york city. if we have a wuhan style outbreak in new york city city that's critical. they need to build out in possibility of that situation. that's the risk we face now. >> brennan: tens of thousands?
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>> we'll certainly hit tens of thousands of cases in the u.s. hopefully not hundreds of thousands. if you look at the good research out of the hutch and others, they're saying there's probably 10 to 40,000 cases across the u.s. the risk in the u.s. is we're a mobile population. china was able to confine the epidemic largely to wuhan. we have multiple cities, and multiple wuhans. that's the bad case scenario. >> brennan: that's incredible to say. the pentagon put restrictions on u.s. troops traveling domesticily. do you expect other government agency, and should americans be on lockdown. no question the steps right now are changing the course of the epidemic. we're impacting this, but we need to do much more. banning government employ eaves from non-essential
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travel will have an additional impact. we need to do all of these things leading hard into it. the best case is we say wow, we overreacted. dr. fauci made the point you want to be in a position to say we overreacted, it wasn't as bad as we thought. this is an once in a generation path gen. we haven't seen this in modern times. this is going to be historic now. >> brennan: should cities like seattle and new rochelle be on lockdown. >> i don't think we can deny people liberty. we can slow activity to a point where people have no place to go. if you close theaters and restaurants, and tell businesses not to have non-essential work. people go home. there's no place to go. that's the solution in the united states. object to put a city on lockdown. i hope not. >> brennan: is what new york state doing a model for the country?
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>> i think cuomo has been very aggressive and doing a good job. i'm concerned the city hasn't closed public schools. private schools are closed, public schools are not. you worry that the ability to protect themselves is going to break on socioeconomic lines. lower income americans will not have the same opportunities that middle and high wage earners have. because they send their kids to private school. that's a concern. >> brennan: we'll talk about that ahead with larry kudlow and others. i want to take a quick break and come back on health risks. more conversation with dr. scott gottlieb and your questions answers ahead. stay with us.
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