bob: beyond testing, all of our readers are talking about covid-19.drugs for when you do research for the fora., you find a center drug evaluation and research, cder. i wonder if they have the appropriate resources at this to properlyent evaluate covid drug candidates? dr. hahn: we have seen a surge in the applications to the agency for potential drugs that are being considered for covid-19. we took an all-hands approach at the agency called the covid treatment acceleration program where we brought people from not just theency, center for drug evaluation research but center for biologic research and all of our centers -- some of which weren't as busy as the drug evaluation people and brought those to the table. about a month ago. and prior to that had been a prioritization scheme on this. i am confident in the scientific expertise of the people at fda. they are wonderful and have looked at these applications and have prioritized them and have been making decisions based on data and science. here, little antidote bob. anecdote. i was on a call this morning with the team that is doing the work and i can tell you sc

medical center as one of europe's biggest university hospitals is also one of germany's leading centers for researchin the coronavirus welcome professor is the chancellor right to warn the germans that it's too soon to relax virus control measures. oh i think she's right because you have still to be very cautious i mean it seems that the measurements are affected if indeed but we have to look at the intensive care units what's going on there and i expect in the reeks to come that we see more patients in the intensive care units and for we have still really to be alerted so how long do you think men before life can go back to normal that's difficult to predict of course on the other side the as the economic pressure and their precious very high so why seeing after you stand the political instability discuss oh they can relief their measurements a little bit but that has to be very controlled so we have to do it step by step maybe it can be all in small shops and also talk to people is that they still follow the rules of heights and so they still have that social distancing all through sickle distanci

to adjust the interventions in the fight against it and then jack calls and the whole center for infectious research thank you for sharing your thoughts with us you're very welcome and not a staple segment on our show you send us your questions about the coronavirus we try to answer them and the man hard at work doing so is our science editor derek williams. if i order take away and an infected could by delivery person sneezes on it can i get covert 19 i get asked this a lot it's something that worries people let's put it this way there's no evidence so far suggesting that take out or take away food contributes in any way to cope with 19 transmission there are no reported cases that have been linked to food there aren't any full blown studies yet on covert 19 but there have been some similar studies on this topic with other coronaviruses and they show that transmission in those pathogens doesn't really happen via the digestive tract in the 1st stages of the infection at least coronaviruses in general invade the cells in the upper respiratory tract sars cove to also often appears to gain its 1st foot

medical center one of europe's biggest university hospitals is also one of germany's leading centers for researchof a coronavirus welcome professor is the chancellor writes to warn the germans that it's too soon to relax virus control measures. oh i think she's right because we have still to be very cautious i mean it seems that the measurements are effective indeed but we have to look at the intensive care units what's going on there and i expect in the reeks to come that we see more patients in the intensive care units and for we have still really to be alerted so how long do you think that before life can go back to normal. that's difficult to predict of course on the other side as the economic pressure and their precious very high so i seeing after it you stand the political instability discuss all of a can relief their measurements a little bit but that has to be very controlled so we have to do it step by step maybe it can be all in small shops and also talk to people that they still follow the rules of high chain and so they are still ok as stay with us a place professor we're about to loo

for reopening the economies in various states, were joined by the director of duke university center for researchseemed that the suggestions for the governor seem similar that you have put together in a phased reopening, are they getting it about right and what they're telling people to look at. >> i think is very good framework or outline for how to go forward, the proof is in the printing when we turn the big ideas into specific steps that governors and people across individual states will have to implement in your starting to see the incremental steps now like governor abbott in texas announcer retail to go program like being able to get food at a restaurant and take out and careful circumstances, those will be the early steps that we seek to implement the plan but it's going to have to be a comprehensive plan at every state level building on framework in order to succeed >> the things we hear over and over from andrew cuomo and others that they need more testing, it seems like were improving on a daily basis more and more test but now it seems that maybe on the diagnostic side we've hit a pla

. >> williams in his center for research in the economy tracks anonymous cell phone data at 50,000 establishmentsrom mom and pop retail shops to malls, movie theaters, and manufacturing plants big and small. his latest data indicates a 60% reduction in manufacturing activity. >> it's crushing to be honest. it's -- manufacturing is the backbone of this state. >> last october, cnn profiled wisconsin aluminum foundry in man to work. today it's keeping all its employees paid, but new orders are down 90%. in agriculture, a similar story. the price of milk in a tail spain, milk so cheap farmers cannot give it away. >> this would have been on a store shelf 24 hours from now but it's not. we're just dumping it down the drain. >> the restaurant and hospitality industries nearly at a dead stop. coming back online won't be easy or quick. >> our sales are down about 90%. we would be good to survive through the current, what they're saying by the end of may, if it goes any further than that, then we're going to have to do a lot of adjustments. >> those adjustments will be made across the economy, leaving mill

. >> reporter: williams and his center for research on the wisconsin economy tracks anonymous cell phone0,000 establishments statewide, from mom and pop regional shops to malls, movie theaters and manufacturing plants, big and small. his latest data indicates a 60% reduction in manufacturing activity. >> it's crushing, to be honest. it's manufacturing is the backbone of the state. >> reporter: last october, cnn profiled wisconsin aluminum foundry in manatowack, it was struggling in the effects of the trade war with china. today it's keeping all its employees paid but new orders are down 90%. in agriculture, a similar story, the price of milk in a tailspin. milk so cheap, farmers cannot give it away. >> this would have been on a store shelf 24 hours from now, but it's not. we're just dumping it down the drain. >> reporter: the restaurant and hospitality industries nearly at a dead stop, coming back online won't be easy or quick. >> our sales are down about 90%. we'd be good to survive through the current, what they're saying by the end of may, if it goes any further than that, they'll hav

welcome to the schomburg center for research and black culture where we are dedicated to the preservation interpretation of global black experiences my name is novella ford, director for public programs and exhibitions. thank you for joining us for is

university of oxford or hero center for practical ethics in a branch in germany we have gerard krauss he's an epidemiologist at the helms hold center for infection research and in lancaster we have derek gatherer he's overall a just at the university of lancaster gentlemen welcome to you all dominic wilkinson coming to you 1st there listening to mr hancock it sounds very simple you do a test at home you pick the end of your finger you are good to go will it work that well well i think we don't know yet where there is going to be as simple as that it does seem like an attractive way of of stepping out of these great restrictions because at a course at this point in time it seems that some people might not need to be restricted because they've had the virus already in and no longer at risk of becoming unwell or spreading it to others and if we could know who was in that category and then that might represent a way forward there are some interesting scientific and ethical challenges. gerard krauss in germany it sounds on the face of it like a good idea because at least in theory a percentage of people would be able to go back to work if only with a certific

you and thank you, schomburg center for a search in black culture for being the stewards of such an incredible collection that was involu involume-- invaluable to my research on this book. i'm going to plunge in and then we'll talk. so on the evening of september 14th, 1909, james h williams summoned a throng of red cap to grand central to west 53rd street. despite the growing exodus to harlem, this street in today's hell's kitchen was still a hub of black life. williams had only recently been promoted to supervise these men as a chief attendant. this category name attendant was rarely used by travelers and it was by their conspicuous head gear called red caps. this seemed more formal. williams summoned this em to a church for the beneficial association of grand central terminal. at grand central a number of occupational and emotional distresses gathered the red caps fully around railroad service while construction crews built up the terminal complex around the old station. a fatal station accident claimed one of williams' men the month before. ... as officers of the new mutual aid society the man duly elected chief wanes as president and his assistant chi

for potency. mice are being inoculated against japanese encephalitis. the army veterinary division is a part of the army medical department research and graduate school. it functions as the army centereterinary training, research, and diagnosis. chemical procedures to determine the quality of meat products are in process. students are being instructed in the instruction of food and the laboratory testing associated with this examination. ♪ the invasion of okinawa and occupation of japan gave the medical department the problem of combating japanese encephalitis. wereeterinary division given the job of producing a check embryo vaccine against encephalitis. in producing the vaccine, fertile eggs are selected. they are then punctured to prevent inoculations. rubber gloves, face shields, and gowns protect the technician from contact with the virus. and the are inoculated two openings are sealed. next, they are placed in an incubator to permit propagation of the virus. following intubation, the eggs are harvested. putembryos are ground and in saline solution. from this preparation, the vaccine is made. in this brief tour, the chemistry, pathology, and serology divisions are intimately con

welcome to the schomburg center for research and black culture where we are dedicated to the preservation and interpretation of global black experiences my name is novella ford, director for public programs and exhibitions. thank you for joining us for this conversation with eric k washington who is author of tonight's book , boss of the grips, the life of james h williams and the red caps of grand central terminal. this is part of an ongoing series of programs posted in conjunction with our series the ballad of harlem. if you've not had a chance to look at the exhibition it will be up through the end of december. there are all these things inside the exhibition that i think you will hear about tonight and also it might feed your own historical knowledge about how the ballot for harlem examines several strands of black place making in the 20th century offering viewsof presidents and institutions dedicated to education , politicalengagements , cultural affirmation and creativity. the exhibition as i was mentioning earlier highlights includes the brotherhood of sleeping car porters which wa

experts and disagreeing with them publicly world he demanded that the director of the centers for disease research come up front in front of the journalist to actually walk back his statement about the threat of a coming pandemic later in the year unfortunately he did not he had some quibbles with the headline of the original publication but he then confirmed that the quote was exact that he had warned that there would be a 2nd wave of the epidemic later in the year together with a massive outbreak of flu stressing that the u.s. citizens must get inoculated against the flu because then it makes it easier to deal with the 2nd wave of corona virus this is what the c.d.c. director had to say. when i commented yesterday that there was a possibility that the fall winter. next for winter could be more difficult difficult more complicated and we had 2 respiratory illnesses circulated the same time influenza in the coronavirus 19 but i think it's really important to emphasize what i didn't say i didn't say that this was going to be worse i said it was going to be were complicate are more difficult you kno

here in arkansas, there is a facility, used to be called national center for toxicological research. now everything except essential personnel, that would be the guys that keep the refrigerators running and feed the monkeys, have been furloughed. these are some of the most intelligent people. they know scientific method. they have all the stuff to do anything with in that facility. --as wondering, why is this i guess the fda guy, why are not these facilities being utilized in the investigation of the coronavirus? i will take my answer off the air. host: any answer for that? guest: i would say this. again, there are so many jobs being furloughed. i don't have the answer as to why. i do know we are fighting against those type of things. there was a lot of facilities that could be used that are not being used. out of nowhere, sometimes we get a notice that these employees are going to be furloughed, and this is where they are going. in many instances we have not had an opportunity to say anything about that because of diminishing opportunities to bargain. host: ron is next in georgia, f

she's the swap center for financial research and will be sharing her outlook for the sector.reg robinson spoke with us about opening up the borders, rolling out government support ahead of the reopening of the economy next week. our exclusive interview is just ahead. this is bloomberg. ♪ karina: the house of representatives has overwhelmingly passed a $484 billion coronavirus a package even with lawmakers at october the next bill. the debate from members wearing masks and entering the chamber under precautions. president trump is expected to sign the bill. seeing the price it may pay for the lockdown. current and former bank of england policymakers say the outlook for jobs is hernandez -- karen this. output contract this month. bloomberg economics say that may understate the damage. australia has called on the countries to and wet wildlife markets over concerns they pose a threat to human health and agriculture. australia used a virtual meeting to push for changes but was careful not to think about china which is australia's biggest trading partner. outbreak ofown covid-19 ha

constantino whom our work for the variance center for applied energy research inverts book which is developing new ideas about green 1st starts. keeping there for start irrigated is a lot more complicated than watering balcony plants installing as in the 1st place is also hard. but they do have a range of benefits. we can completely cover for sars with greenery even on troll buildings we can create a fully green surface on a tower block that's over 20 meters tall. because of us on the stop and that's without taking up extra space in a dense urban environment just put in there's a lot of potential in germany. we have millions of square meters of building for sods that could be grained from the conditions for vertical greening are in place. but the costs involved pose something of an obstacle. to make sure it's worth the investment the scientists are documenting the potential benefits of green facades for buildings. using a purpose built chamber they measure the relative advantages of the process for example could it which is heating costs. i know so it's hard to speak with the greening system i

michael osterholm of the center for infectious disease research e d policy at niversity of minnesota.nks for being with us. >> thank you very much. >> woodruff: in the day's other news, e congressional budget office warned of a tidal wave of red ink triggered by the pandemic. it said economic damage and relief bills will drivfithe federal t to $3.7 trillion. despite that news, wall street maged a rally. the dow jones industrial average gained 260oints to close at 23,775. the nasdaq rose 139 points, and, the s&p 500 adde39. the u.s. navy is recommending that brett crozier be re- rastated as captain of the ai carrier "theodore roosevelt." the newshour has confirmedhe recommendaon was made today. crozier was fired after he cpealed to evacuate the ship when tonavirus broke out. the man who fired him, acting navy secretary thomas modly, udi abiaoday extended aism and unilateral ceasefire for one month. it said the pause will help to contain the covid-19 pandemic. rebels backed by iran have refused to accept a cease-fire, and both sides blame the other for continued attacks. meanwhile, the

doctor john irvin of the center for pharmaceutical research stressed how crucial the test is. people are beating down the doors to get the trial. the company is going to test two doses of vaccine on 40 healthy volunteers in kansas city and the university of pennsylvania and as leaders of our country have been warning about this when it comes to covid-19 there is some light at the end of the tunnel, leaders say it could be days to weeks until the tests are made available and then we wonder who had it. >> we believe people we don't see, the antibody test is going to be helpful to us. >> reporter: doctor anthony fauci says testing will make a better bet of getting back to normal. that doesn't mean we can get our card down, donald trump asked if nationwide testing of covid-19 was needed to reopen the country. >> we have the best testing system in the world, certain sections of the country, in phenomenal shape already. what we are doing in the near future in certain areas of the country to do massive testing. it is a good thing to have. >> reporter: original us officials predicted

michael osterholm, director of the center for infectious disease research and policy at the universityf minnesota and we thank you for being with us. dr. osterholm: thank you. host: let me begin with something you have been saying repeatedly -- we need a unified national approach to combat coronavirus. why are we not seeing that? dr. osterholm: i don't know. it is unfortunate we are not because i think it is what is needed in this very dark spot. there are several aspects to it. first of all, what are we doing right now? what is happening in those cities which are in a sense on fire with this virus? this virus is going to stay around potentially for many months. if you recall in 1918 when it was first introduced in the spring, it took almost until 1920 before all of the people around the world were largely exposed to it and either recovered, were immune, or died. i don't think we have a sense at all that it is happening. i could see activity maintaining itself at a very high level for many more months to come. , you quotee book bill gates who essentially predicted where we are today fi

authorities and a welcome surprise to those watching for the institute for health metrics and evaluation is well-regarded research center run from the university of washington. has produced predictions for the course of this epidemic here in the united states as well as other countries. their model has done perhaps any other piece of academic research to shape our response to the coronavirus crisis. so accurate has that model been? here are some numbers. initially, they predicted that on april 4th, the state of new york would require 65,000 hospital beds to handle infected patients. the low-end estimate was nearly 48,000 beds and they had fewer than 16,000 hospitalizations fell below the model's projections as well, over the weekend they updated its model, across the countries and yet they are still significantly overstated. for example, today which is april 7th, they predict that new york will need 25,000 hospital beds. as of this morning, it was just under 17,500. the new model also predicted that as of today, almost 6,600 people would be in intensive care and actual numbers just under 4600. in florida, it predicted 4

was a very specific policy decision to rack up 2.2 million people and with the brennan center have done research for many years all across the country looking at who is incarcerated. the brennan center published a report a couple years ago finding incarceration does not make us safer. are livingn 2020 we in the safest times in the united states. in 1991 inmes peaked the united states. today, we have incredibly safe communities with very low crime rates except for a couple of pockets across the country. we know that incarceration does make people more criminally and client. they are separated from families , cannot get a job, and communities have been devastated. it increases intergenerational poverty. it is a failed social policy and what is happening right now in our jails and prisons, with so many people testing positive, shows is what a failed policy it was. host: to florida, this is james on the line for those who have a family member in the prison system. us?s, are you with we will go to cheryl in provo, utah on the same line. caller: good morning. can you hear me? host: yes. caller: i am calli

let's introduce the panel in london vicky pryce the chief economic advisor at the center for economic business and research in stockholm sweden who suck leme akiyama director of the european center for international political economy and also in britain's capital greg swenson founding partner at investment banking firm brick mcadam welcome to you all. first of all of this a big question for all of you combined global major international economies putting trillions of dollars into fighting into trying to recover from the global effects of the coronavirus or will it be enough to stave off a major global recession or minimize a recession. general expectation is that many countries for have to do more but we've just had for example the fed in the states putting extra to over 2 trillion years done as in liquidity into the market so it's obviously been understood that what has been done so far despite quite another fiscal stimulus as we've seen a number of countries probably isn't going to be enough but very much going to depend on how quickly we get out of this and there are of course a number of countries that

for everyone. download the xfinity my account app today. >>> doctors and researchers around the world are racing right now to develop a vaccine for covid-19. the centeror virology and research created a vaccine in combination with pharmaceuticals. this lab was able to work so quickly on this particular method because it spent the last 15 years working on hiv and zika. dr. baruch, the director of that lab at the medical center is with us now. doctor, thank you so much. we appreciate you taking time with us. he's also a professor of medicine at harvard medical school. >>> first of all, i wanted to ask you, i know your lab developed and collaborated this. how many vaccine strategies have you crafted? i understand there's one that may be looking at dna, dna-based. there is another one for age specific. does that mean there may be a vaccine for different people? >> thank you, christi. good to be here. our group has been working on vaccine development for a variety of different viruses over the last 15 years including hiv, zika and now covid-19. the hope is to have a vaccine that will be universally applicable that could be used for all populations, becaus

research on bad coronavirus. within a few hundred yards of the white market was something called the centers for disease control andrevention. the center used horseshoe bats for research. 7 miles away was another facility, this one was called the wuhan institute of virology. the virology institute also conducted research on intermediate horseshoe bats, the one they were not sold at the wet market. south china university scientists concluded that the coronavirus pandemic that people are dying from here likely came from one of these two government labs in wuhan. they noticed that a scientist at the wuhan centers for disease control and prevention have been exposed to the blood and of horseshoe bats. they also suggested that infected tissue samples from research animals may have wound up in the wuhan wet market. they entered the paper this way. "the killer coronavirus probably originated from a laboratory in wuhan. safety levels may need to be reinforced in high-risk laboratories and regulations may be taken to relocate his laboratories far away from city centers and other densely populated places. how is that for int

so for now i will go back to jen for, allow me to welcome you to the la paige center. tell me about your research and area of study. >> i'm the executive director for the rowan center for holocaust research and human rights. we have multiple foci. one of the questions that we're asked very often is so what. we're learning about other genocides, and what can we do about it now. so we made a decision to switch our emphasis so we could thans so what question that so many students have. my own research focuses on transgenerational holiday, and i came by way of education. i was an education professor, before that elementary school, and i have strong interest in how it is taught and remembered in school communities. >> so part of what duo is focus on the what and the how of history. maybe for those not familiar, what does sociology bring to the study of holocaust memory. >> the how there is looking at how people and communities accounted. what agency people took. so it is really on the people and the choices of the communities that were formed throughout in the holocaust and any other issue. >> if i ma

it is part of the army development and graduate school that functions as the army center for training and researchand laboratory diagnosis. here, chemical procedures to determine the quality of meat products are in progress. students are being instructed in the inspection of food and the laboratory tests associated with this examination. the invasion of okinawa and the subsequent occupation of japan gave the medical department the problem of combating japanese encephalitis. the veterinary division and the virus section of the school were given the job of producing a chick embryo vaccine against japanese be encephalitis. in producing the vaccine, first, fertile eggs are selected, then punctured to prevent inoculation. rubber gloves, face shields, and gowns protect technicians from contact with the virus. the eggs are inoculated, and the two openings are sealed. next, the eggs are placed in an propagation permit of the virus. following incubation of the embryos are harvested. then the embryos are drowned in a mill and ground into a solution. with this preparation the vaccine is made. in this brief t

of may, normally around 4% and the region could lose more than 800,000 jobs, stockton center for business and research estimates california will lose 4 million jobs and even the tech sector will be hammered with santa clara county projected to drop 200,000 positions. san francisco, the east bay and san mateo county combined are expected to lose 520,000 jobs lost. >>> not the best time to buy and sell a home, a lot of anxiety and uncertainty, and usually as you probably know, springtime is a boon time for real estate sales. not anymore though. an economist with real estate company zillow says bay area sales are down about 35% from this time last year. he says despite lower interest rates, sales hit the skids around march 16th. >> there's so much to be uncertain about. there's a question of, you know, what are interest rates going to do, what's the stock market going to do. >> and concern over social distancing, real estate agents are resorting to virtual sales and plenty of sales are still taking place. >>> still to come, bernie sanders explains why now is the best time to end the presidential bid. >>

michael saget, associate dean for global health and the director of the center for aids research at theersity of alabama at birmingham. i know you have recently recovered from the coronavirus and i want to get to that in just a moment sir because we are glad that you are well. take a listen to governor cuomo talking about the flattening of the curve. >> if we stop what we are doing, you will see that curve change. that curve is purely a function of what we do day in and day out. if we continue doing what we are doing then we believe the curve will continue to flatten. but it's not a time to get complacent. it's not a time to do anything different than we have been doing. >> dana: dr. s.a.g., dr. fauci today also said there are hot spots that are going to intensify. listen to this. >> those locations that you mentioned will not ever turn into a new york or new orleans and that is what we are counting on by essentially, as i say, putting our foot on the accelerator of mitigation as opposed to saying, well it looks like we may be turning the corner in some areas and therefore we should pul

her papers at the center for research and black culture. in harlem.i would take my kids to school, and drive to harlem -- i live in philadelphia now. a little bit longer drive. and i would stay in the stacks as long as i could, in the papers, and then i would drive home, pick up my kids from school and come back the same day -- the next day. you know, it was an extraordinary collection, and i could use other archives too, so i could see letters -- >> host: with a friend of hers? >> guest: yes, a close friend of hers, nina simone. she had a mentor. paul rosen was a mentor. as she was dying, she wrote an extraordinary obituary, just absolutely beautiful, that talked about her mentor's significance for black people at large, not just as a scholar, but as a citizen, important social and political force, as she's dying. you know, he dies in 63. she dies in 65, at the very beginning of the year. you know, something like heart breakingly poetic about that relationship. >> host: robert, new york city, you're on with the professor. >> caller: hi, how are you?

also with me, the director of the center for infectious disease research and policy at the university of minnesota. he's the author of "deadliest enemy, our war against killer germs." his latest piece in the "new york times" is it's too late to avoid disaster but there are still things we can do. let me just start with you, because you are a proponent, as many public health officials are of the fact that at some juncture and maybe starting now we do have to think about how we get back -- how we get our economy back. obviously it is important for people to work. obviously a society doesn't function with everybody at home. but you are concerned that the way the administration and attorney general barr and vice president pence and all of them put it creates a false dichotomy. either we stay home and stay safe or we go back to work, and are the truth lies somewhere in the middle. >> thank you, ari, in fact, i think the big challenge we have right now is the fact that we're going to be living with this for many, many months. this is not an event that's just about over with. we can expect a