chen, thank you so much, with cowan.american retail and some of the immense challenges forward. we will continue an important stirs.ew from cal there view is important. this is bloomberg. ♪ ♪ this is surveillance." we spoke to james bullard, and he said the u.s. cannot afford all of the debt it is accumulating to fight the coronavirus and says it will not hurt growth in the longer-term. he spoke exclusively to michael mckee. want to see i did pandemic relief -- i will not call it stimulus, i will call it pandemic relief. what i interpret the program is trying to do is stabilize incomes and stabilize businesses as we work our way through this investment in our national health over the next couple of months. on the unemployment, we do have a blog on this. if you read the blog carefully, you will see there is a way to bound the unemployment rate between 10% and the upper bound is like 42%. justis because we are identifying vulnerable workers in this environment and what is going to happen is that those workers, some of thos

mr chen is a chauffeur i've hired him for a day to show me his district. anyone who wants to enter has to get registered i'll go out and arrange it with i'm going to get it for yeah. yeah. no one is allowed into the quarter without a pass we try it using mr chen's. want to. me this is my plans for the quarter it will make sure that. we aren't the only ones waiting everyone is being checked by the neighborhood committees the communist party's security apparatus is omni present in the fight against the virus. the committees are the party's local arm it's their job to enforce the quarantines in the affected districts they issue the permits and inform authorities about anyone who is running a temperature or not wearing a mask. the neighborhood committees have grown since the beginning of the crisis these people call themselves volunteers united in the battle against the virus but whether they've got an armband or not they are in fact paid by the city authorities to ensure people stick by the rules the checks are strict and you can only leave the area for restr

my full conversation with caroline chen, visit facebook.com/newshour. >> sreenivasan: the economic t fallout fr new coronavirus outbreak is worldwide and may continue for months.g join now via skype is the u.s. business editor for "theja economist," vaitheeswaran. our first priority is to think about the health stories and what's happening on the whound. buen we see the impacts, when the businesses start to close, when e airplanes are flying less,here's a ripple effect here. how are we going to feel this? >> this is an unprecedented crisis because it's a double whammy. we have th supply and demand hit at the same time, which was not, for example, the case with the globafinancial crisis. and at the same time as the health cris is unfolding, we also have had an oil sock, a global oil shock. this is posing unusual challenges for governmas we respond. in terms of likely implications, i have bad news and good news. the bad news is the markets are, obp ously, in deestress. we can see from the financial maets and stocks at this is going to affect the real economy in terms of companies, espe

lanhee chen joins us from california. welcome. a sense of where we are with our public health system in this country and what we need to do in response to this virus. lanhee: at this point the challenge is we are seeing certain parts of the country where the public health response has become elevated and more aggressive. here in northern california, while we do have a cluster of cases in washington state, in those areas you see public health agencies taking a more aggressive stance to mitigate the spread of the virus. that is things like social distancing, canceling events, making sure those who are at risk, the elderly, understand the need to take additional steps to protect themselves. that is still a regional phenomenon. the question is going to be if and when it begins to take hold more broadly and nationally. you are already seeing the cdc and other federal agencies take a little bit more aggressive stance about things like cruises , telling elderly folks and folks with pre-existing conditions not to go on cruises. i would ex

her third all england title in four years, with a straight sets victory over the world number one, chenthank you, katie. back to the coronavirus outbreak now, and as we've been reporting, the health secretary says people aged over 70 will be asked to self—isolate in the future in order to shield them from the coronavirus. matt hancock said the new measure would be introduced in the "coming weeks". it's worth listening to his appearance on the bbc‘s andrew marr show at length he was speaking this morning. i'm joined now by the health secretary, matt hancock. welcome, matt hancock. it is good to be here. you were here two weeks ago and when we were speaking then 36 people were infected in britain and nobody had died. what do you think will be the situation two weeks hence? so far we have seen over 1000 people affected on the formal figures. we think the figure is higher than that. much higher? that is right. sadly now we have seen over 20 people have died and we are working round the clock to protect life and to keep people safe, in particular to protect the vulnerable and those who are m

and lanhee chen back with us as well, research fellow at the hoover institution, former policy directoror the romney/ryan campaign effort, and notably a former senior official at the department of health and human services. anita, i'd like to begin with you and the president's interview with sean hannity on fox tonight. personal attacks on joe biden, personal attacks on various governors, describing the governors as wanting to take, take, take. he's trying to upend the relationship between the feds and the states clearly. is this a pandemic or politics he's talking about, or is this a new hybrid, the politics of a pandemic? >> i'd say it's probably the latter. remember the president earlier today talked to the nation's governors, and he was really disappointed to hear them push back and not go along with his plan to start reopening parts of the country. he sent them a letter earlier, as you mentioned, saying that they should sort of decide for themselves which counties could be opened up and which couldn't. and so, you know, he got a lot of pushback. what the governors asked him for was

chen, pointed out by dr. zeek emanuel who runs the department of medical ethics and policy at upenn is that with so distancing, your ability to create an immunity quickly slows down. that's one of the side effects. and then you have version 2.0, 3.0 and 4.0, right? is that part of the negative side effects of the necessity of social distancing? >> that may be true in terms of your own personal immunity, but what we're talking about here is slowing the virus down as much as possible so that we can get to a day when we have treatments, we have vaccines, we can take care of people who get ill. if everyone got ill right now, we would not have hospitals to go to. we would just be completely overwhelming the system, just like it is looking like in italy. >> dr. gounder, there is a debate over shelter in place in a city like new york city. the mayor of new york is leaving that open as a possibility, the governor of new york andrew cuomo saying late yesterday, he doesn't think it will necessarily work. what does the

nancy chen reports on creative new ways to maintain a sense of community. >> reporter: when the coronavirus shutdown college millions of students lost their communities overnight. >> i didn't really get to say bye to any of my friends i was kind of sad. >> reporter: a senior at columbia university, to keep his friends together, he has to nightly gathering on zoom. where students share both heartache. >> anxiety that comes with all this uncertainty is crazy. >> reporter: and laughter. >> you get a little happier the end of the day talking with your friends which i think has been the most part apart. >> reporter: for years, nogy has been blamed for replacing human interaction. but when streets are relatively abandoned, it is technology that is keeping us together. rather than cancel their wedding, this texas couple streamed it on zoom. >> i had full confidence we werell gointo have the wedding. it was just a matter of making you know, major changes. >> reporter: groups are using the netflix party feature to watch movies and chat at the same time. aliens are connecting with friends for 49 and

>>george chen is the owner d chef of china live marketplace. he like many others ave had to resort to takeout and delivery only because dining rooms have been forced to close the businesses th remain open have been ailing this is kind of sh that shot to most restaurants. chen says china live marketplace has only been able to do about 5 to 10% of its normal business. >>combine that with the high cost of doing business in san francisco. it could cause your restaurant to go belly up to help prevent that from haening the california restaurant association has proposed the state help with a number of actions such as the lane planned increases to the ate's minimum wage postponing property tax payments differing sales in payroll taxes. >>canceling health and permit fees for a year and requiring gas and other utilities to continue service without payment chen is on board with some of these proposals but ys it will be a long slow bill to get restaurants back open and back to normal but they're still so much unknown. >>the uncertainty is was very very bec

>>george chen is the owner and hef of china live marketplace.e like many others ve had to resort to takeout and delivery only because dining rooms have been forced to close the businesses that remain open have been ailing. >>this is kind of shot that shot to most restaurants. chen says china live marketplace has only been able to do about 5 to % of its normal business combine that with the high cost of doing business in san francisco. it could cause your restaurant to go belly up to help prevent that from happening the california restaurant association has proposed the state help with a number of actions such as the lane planned increases to the state's minimum wage postponing property tax payments differing sales in payroll taxes. >>canceling health and permit fees for a year and requiring gas and other utilities to continue service without payment chen is on board with some of these proposals but says it will be a long slow bill to get restaurants back open and back to normal but they're still so much unknown. >>the uncertainty is was a very b

nancy chen, cbs news, leesburg, virginia. >>> coming up exclusively on "cbs this morning."om the better business bureau on the most chon and riskiest scams and how to protect yourself from falling for them. >>> and we'll meet a new york mom who gave birth on leap day this past weekend for the second time. that's the cbs morning news for this monday. thanks for watching, i'm anne-marie green. have a great day. anne-ma

yale tung chen even tweets ultrasound scans of his lungs.s diagnosed sunday and has since been quarantined in a small bedroom at his home. chen talked to abc about his symptoms. >> so i started to develop mild diarrhea, headache. that soon fade away and now, yesterday was feeling really great. today i started to feel tired again. so it's more like a long journey rather than something really quick like flu. i'm symptomatic. right now i feel tired with little dry cough. besides that i feel well. no shortness of breath, no chest pain, no fever. >> chen giving us a firsthand account of battling the coronavirus. chen says that one of the challenges is being isolated while living in the same home with his wife and children. he's looking forward to getting back to work and getting better. >>> now to the deepening crisis in italy. >> the death toll has soared to more than 1,000. one hospital reports receiving a new patient every five minutes. and makeshift tents are being used to treat the sick. all churches in rome are closed until april 3rd. some

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nancy chen, cbs news, new york. >>> the coronavirus is also finding its way through prison bars. officials are releasing inmates to try to prevent the virus from spreading. new york city mayor bill de blasio plans to free some inmates from city jails. as nichelle medina tells us, the same thing is happening across the country. >> reporter: los angeles county sheriff alexander villanueva is releasing low-level inmates with 30 days or less on sentences to keep coronavirus out of the county's lockups. >> the population within the jail is a vulnerable population just by virtue of who they are and where they're located. >> reporter: since late february he's released more than 600 inmates. >> we had 17,076 and reduced that to 16,459. >> reporter: there are no cases of coronavirus inside of the los angeles county jails. but 111 inmates are in isolation housing or quarantine because of possible exposure. most lockups are not allowing outside visitors. other communities like sacramento are considering similar action for inmates that pose no threat to the public. >> i can get they have hom

. >>> nancy chen with hear on the clash on capitol hill. >>> the motion is not agreed to. >> reporter: on capitol hill, lawmakers failed to reach bipartisan agreement on a trillion-dollar stimulus package to soften the economic blow of the coronavirus crisis. >> if we aren't able to act tomorrow, it will be because of our colleagues on the other side continuing to dicker when the country expects us to come together and address there problem. >> the legislation has many problems. at the top of the list, it includes a large corporate bailout with no protection for workers and virtually no oversight. >> reporter: at the white house, president trump ordered fema to set up mobile hospitals in the hardest hit states -- washington, california, and new york. he also expressed hope congress would reach a deal. >> our goal is to get relief to americans as quickly as possible so that families can get by and small businesses can keep workers on the payroll. on cbs' "face the nation," dr. anthony fauci, a key member of the white house >> wre going to ge cges arahead. there's no doubt about it. thi

nancy chen, cbs news, new york. >> they track 46 so-called trigger events of things can result in the sort of collapse that would require seeking shelter. >> coming about -- up, the new test from the fda giving coronavirus results in just a matter of minutes. >>> let's take a live look outside at the city of san francisco from our treasure island camera on this monday morning. it is 4: covid-19 is a serious respiratory disease. there are simple steps we can all take to stay healthy and protect our community. wash your hands for twenty seconds with soap and warm water. clean and disinfect frequently touched surfaces daily. cover coughs and sneezes with a tissue or elbow and avoid touching your face. if you do have symptoms like cough and fever, stay at home and call your doctor. when we all do our part, we can keep california healthy. for more information, visit covid19.ca.gov. is so irresistible, you'll wanna eat them anywhere, so don't resist! pop 'em outside, or on the go, or on the way home! pop my 100% all-white-meat classic or spicy popcorn chicken combo for just $5.99. we find a

>>eorge chen is the owner and chef of china live marketplace. he like many others ve had to resort to takeout and delivery on use dining oms have been rced to close the businesses that remain open have been ailing this is kind of shot to shot to mostrestaurants. chen says china ve marketplace has only been able to doabout 5 to 10% of its normal business. >>comne that withthe high co of doing business in san francisco. it could cause your restaurant to go belly up to help prent that from happening the california restaurant associationhas proposed the state help with a numr of actions such as delaying anned increases to the state's minimumwage postponing property tax payments differing sales in payroll taxes. >>canceling health in permit fees for a year and requiring gas and other utilites to continue service without payment chen isn board with some of these proposals but says it will be a lo slow bi to get restaurants back open and bak to normal but they're still so much unknown. >>e uncertainty iwas very very because you don't know and a ton and

joining me now is caroline chen, a reporter for "pro publica," who is coverinthe covid-19 sponse and what we need to know about the spread of the virus. you lived through sars when you were a kid in hg kong. u covered zika and ebola. so you have a little bit of perience watching these things roll out. what is most concerning to you t ght now? >> ws most concerning to me is how preped the u.s. is, we are in a critical junction right now because speed matters ight now. we're still in early days in the u.s. buhow prepared we are now and how we respond right now over these weeks are gng to matter a lotd e population i'm most fncerned about are the vulnerable ar me that means the elderly in particular with a this diseas also the front-line workers. so that is health care workers and first responders. because this is more deadly than the flu. and in partular, there is enough data right now to know that it is a really danerous disease, particularly for the elderly. th's important to know. i think scientists are also t confident enousay that it is less deadly than a disease like sars where t

and this is what we look at every day out of our kitchen window is the -- the chens side. the windows they are worried about are back in here so partly are blocked by their stairway. so we know they want us to change the size of our building, but i feel like our plans are very reasonable, and i actually talked to kevin wong about that before, and if you remember seeing my response, i address the thing about the window. i said we would put fogged or ribbed glass in so we wouldn't be looking into his house. we really don't want to do that anyway. so we just, we feel like it was fair for them to do, should be fair for us to do. that's why, you know, we knew they wanted us to knock a lot of space off, but we felt like we wanted to pursue the plans the way they were drawn up and approved. so that's it. >> thank you. >> so you have four minutes left. if there's someone that lives in the same house as you, now would be their same time to speak. otherwise they'll be called up as public comment later. >> i think we've said it all. you know, not meeting with them is just because the

chou tien—chen will meet antonsen‘s compatriot in the final, viktor axelson.ubles action a little later on. you can watch live coverage on the red button and the bbc sport website. men's golf is on hold until next month at the earliest and we've seen first pga major, the masters, and opening ladies‘ major, the ana inspiration, both postponed. however, in cape town, the south african women's open finished earlier today, and what a week it's been for england's alice hewson. in herfirst event on the ladies european tour, she won by a shot and my colleague chetan pathak caught up with her earlier. it feels absolutely incredible. it is a dream come true. growing up as a kid, all i could dream of was playing on the ladies european tour, and for my first event, to come and win, the feeling is indescribable. you truned pro last year, has this happened quicker than you thought? it definitely has happened quicker than i thought, i was hoping to get to a nice steady start, but this is definitely a good thing. golf is, like most major sports, being shut down now. what is

chen says that he pays most if not all of his employees at china live above minim wage. he believes that his company and his restaurants will be able to bounce back but even with state aid he belies that many of these retaurants will not be able to reopen reporting live in san francisco. dan thorn kron 4 news. thank you dan. >>some grocery stores are wrapping up their safety measures today it s announced these plexiglas shields have been installed at more than 200 save mart food, max, and luckstore registers throughout california and nevada. the shields of serve as an additional safety measure to rotect extra to provide extra protective space between the checkers and the customers. the company also says iis increasing the frequency and intensity of surface cleaning in their stores. >>in the south bay, is been a week now since san jose police warns t essential business owners uld ace misdemeanor citations if they say opened during the shelter-in-placerdr. santa clara county officials also remind residents to stay home and keep their distance ahead of this weekend as kron

caroline chen, thank you for your time. thanks for your reporting. >> thank you for having me. >> i would shake your hand but i don't do that anymore. >>> up next, we will look at how some other countries are doing quarantines. what steps they are taking that appear to be working and saving lives, stuff we're not doing here. that and more ahead tonight. stay with us. night. stay with us hey there! kelly clarkson! what're you doing on our sofa? what're you doing on your sofa? try wayfair. you got this! woah. yeah! let me try! all alright, get it! blow it up! that's what i'm talking about. except that's my seat, so. all right, so maybe after the movie let's talk about that bedroom of yours! when was she in our bedroom? to feel exhilaration. it all starts with an invitation. the invitation to lexus sales event now through march 31st. get 0.9% apr for 60 months on all 2020 models. experience amazing at your lexus dealer. aleve it. with aleve pm. pain happens. the only one to combine a safe sleep aid. and the 12-hour pain reliev

caroline chen covers health care for propublica.hank you very much. >> thanks for having me. >> i'm obviously wound up about this, and i do not expect you to be. i'm not asking you for your opinion on any of these matters. >> oh, i'm wound up too. >> you are? okay. well, tell me. i mean your reporting to me was something that i suspected was true, but i find it the wide range of advice people are given to be shocking. >> and i was surprised too because i had gotten some inkling of this from seeing stories on twitter. but we decided on monday of this week to actually seriously do a call-out and start searching out stories and comparing standards. and what we found was that a lot of people are given either misinformation, lacking information, or are desperately trying to get information and are unable to get information. and so there is a patchwork of information out there about what you should do if you think you've been exposed or you have been exposed across the country. >> and this is people calling their local doctor, their local

nancy chen has the story of a survivalist group that's been >> rr: stockpiled food, semi-automatic weapons and designated bunkers, it's all about the what if's as seen from the group's introduction video. >> what would you do, what would i do, what would anybody do if there was a serious viral pandemic or situation? how would you protect your family from such an environmental disaster? and the answer is fortitude ranch. >> reporter: it's a survival community with undisclosed locations in colorado and west virginia where members can escape in times of disaster. jrue miller is the company c.e.o. he wants to build a total of 12 ranch locations across the country with the next ones planned for wisconsin and nevada. >> we have a reserve room. it may not be fancy. we have spartan memberships that are very only $1,000 per person per year. and frankly a plywood bunk bed with the mattress. it's not fancy. >> reporter: each ranch has 100 members. in good times they can use the camp's log cabin for vacation. hunting and fishing on the vast properties. but in case of what they deem a disaster, they sa

and this is what we look at every day out of our kitchen window is the -- the chens side. the windows they are worried about are back in here so partly are blocked by their stairway. so we know they want us to change the size of our building, but i feel like our plans are very reasonable, and i actually talked to kevin wong about that before, and if you remember seeing my response, i address the thing about the window. i said we would put fogged or ribbed glass in so we wouldn't be looking into his house. we really don't want to do that anyway. so we just, we feel like it was fair for them to do, should be fair for us to do. that's why, you know, we knew they wanted us to knock a lot of space off, but we felt like we wanted to pursue the plans the way they were drawn up and approved. so that's it. >> thank you. >> so you have four minutes left. if there's someone that lives in the same house as you, now would be their same time to speak. otherwise they'll be called up as public comment later. >> i think we've said it all. you know, not meeting with them is just because the

here's nancy chen. >> reporter: for more than a year, the holzers in maryland had been looking to adopt that everyone in the family would suddenly be staying home. >> we'd been thinking about it, but my husband and i both work full time and we just didn't know how widemanage integrating a puppy into our family and house training the dog and i just thought, wow, we got to do it now. >> reporter: through lucky dog animal rescue in washington, d.c., they brought home two-month old georgie who quickly became a member of the family. >> what a silver lining for my children who are out of school. there is this scary virus going around. they can't have play dates. it's a miracle for us. >> reporter: rescue groups say they are getting offers to help like never before. if owners suddenly become able to care for their pets or shelter staff is reduced. they are looking for a permanent decision, there are other ways to help like fostering, bringing home a pet until they're ready for adoption. sarah brasky is the executive director of foster dogs ink, placing them every year in new york city homes. >

let's go to cnn's natasha chen. for some students, school is the safest place they have. we are getting new numbers constantly. >> like you said, more than 2,200 case right now. at least 49 people have died, most of whom are in the state of washington. you have been talking about these kids who are home from school. more than 8 million students are now doing distance learning of some kind online. this is a question for parents and care takers and how they will be supervised. there are a lot of folks at home together at the moment. this is an issue for the children, especially who rely on students who rely on lunches served at schools. usda has issued a waiver for california and washington so when the closed schools offer meals to students they can give them in ato-go setting instead of requiring them to be served in a large group setting. typically the policy is that they have to be served in large groups to promote bonding of sorts, which doesn't work in this situation. those kids hopefully, especially in the low-income neighborhoods, will still be getting their meals. a

natasha chen shows us how the state and the federal government are now responding.. >> and through fema, the federal government will be funding 100% of the deployment of national guards. >> reporter: washington, california, and new york are getting the national guard. a move that comes one week into the white house's 15-day plan to slow the spread of the pandemic. in one week we've seen the number of cases in the u.s. go from 4,000 to more than 30,000 and the number of deaths have gone from 72 to at least 400. it's a signal that americans may experience quarantined life far longer than 15 days. >> this is literally a matter of life and death. we get these facilities up, we get the supplies, we will save lives. if we don't, we will lose lives. >> reporter: governor andrew cuomo says 40 to 80% of folks across new york state will become infected. they are calling for more help. >> we are getting progress. it's not nearly enough, not fast enough. we're way behind the curve. >> whatever the states get they should be getting. we're a backup for the states. >> reporter: de

and this is what we look at every day out of our kitchen window is the -- the chens side. the windows they are worried about are back in here so partly are blocked by their stairway. so we know they want us to change the size of our building, but i feel like our plans are very reasonable, and i actually talked to kevin wong about that before, and if you remember seeing my response, i address the thing about the window. i said we would put fogged or ribbed glass in so we wouldn't be looking into his house. we really don't want to do that anyway. so we just, we feel like it was fair for them to do, should be fair for us to do. that's why, you know, we knew they wanted us to knock a lot of space off, but we felt like we wanted to pursue the plans the way they were drawn up and approved. so that's it. >> thank you. >> so you have four minutes left. if there's someone that lives in the same house as you, now would be their same time to speak. otherwise they'll be called up as public comment later. >> i think we've said it all. you know, not meeting with them is just because the

nancy chen, cbs news, new york. >> telecommuting was supposed to be the wave of the future. here we are. for now we are all well aware of washing hands and keeping doorknobs and surfaces clean. what about the petri dish in your park it? your smart phone. people can pick up their smartphones hundreds of times a day, and most are not washing their hands every time they do it. >> there's probably microorganisms on there. your holding them against her skin. you are handling them all the time. you are speaking into them. speaking does release droplets of water, just in normal speech. there's likely a range of microbes, including covid-19 should you be infected with the virus. giving your phone a claim would be recommended. >> what is the best and safest way to clean your phone? apple says you can wipe down your phone with disinfectant wipes or 70% rubbing alcohol. other phone manufacturers recommend using a hand soap solution and a soft microfiber cloth, all taking care to avoid charging ports. there were also ultraviolet ways to zap germs. >>> two more bay area districts are shu

. >> natasha chen in atlantic. >> natasha, we know more and more people are being told don't go anywhere unless it's absolutely necessary. what else are we hearing in regards to the steps that are expected to be taken in the next few weeks? >> right. christi and victor, all of these steps are in an effort to stop the spread in the communities. with a we're seeing in california and followed by other states is the government asking people to please stay home unless there's a critical need to go outside. and those needs could include getting groceries, attend to go health care, getting prescriptions or commuting to those essential jobs people working in the health care industry, working at the grocery stores, pharmacies and gas stations who really are critical right now in this time to help others. you talked about people worrying about their loved ones and it's possible that right now you are trying to communicate with those loved ones hunkered down in another part of the country. i want to share with you what los angeles mayor eric garcetti said yesterday in reaction to how all of this ha

cnn's natasha chen joins us now with a look at what cities are doing to slow the spread.are people without homes, without health care. without the simple things of just washing your hands. so where are they turning for help? >> well, fred, the choices are few and far between. people who have no shelter are particularly vulnerable with the spread in the community of this virus. even the cdc was advising local governments recently not to clear homeless encampments, because clearing those encampments means disbursing twe between the community, severing ties with services they have and more likely tore disea lly for spread. as the pandemic forces much of the country to isolate sbooinsi homes what about those who don't have homes. >> this will be tough. most vulnerable and susceptible. >> reporter: from coast to coast cities scramble to expand re, sources to serve an often unforgotten population. in seattle, one of the largest homeless populations the city so far created more than 2,000 new shelters or temporary housing objections since the crisis began. in boston, massachuset

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it is not jay inslee, and to speak to lonnie chen's point a moment ago about the whole of government approach and trying to speak with a single voice, the problem the trump administration is having right now to sort of cut to the chase is it can't do that because the president is saying things that are distracting from what would be the whole of government approach to this, not only within the trump administration at the political level, but at the career official level, and at the state government level working in coordination with the trump administration. jay inslee the democratic governor of washington and mike pence the vice president of the united states obviously on the same page, here's the president of the united states attacking the governor of the state over the coronavirus. this is a disaster for the white house from a public relations standpoint. you have a situation where what the president is saying creates a public health risk because he's telling the public not to worry about something it should be worried about. it sends a message when he attacks the governor like j

here's natasha chen. >> i recently traveled outside of the country and i'm thinking i possibly was exposedvirus. >> reporter: this is a drill and this woman does not have the coronavirus. >> put this mask on and just wait right there and i'll come around and get you. >> reporter: she's a medical assistant at an american family care clinic in georgia. like many hospitals and health care providers across the u.s., this network is running drills with mock patients to practice responding to a coronavirus outbreak. were you surprised when you heard that american family care clinics were doing drills this week? >> no. i was anticipating this was going to happen eventually. >> that moment came when their chief medical officer dr. benjamin barlow heard this phrase on tuesday. >> not so much a question of if this will happen any more, but rather more a question of when exactly this will happen and how many people in this country will have severe illness. >> that actually is what sparked this for me because i had been thinking about it and we had been preparing in the background, but as soon as they

we're going to overcome this, and america will be the greater for it. >> natasha chen, cnn, atlanta.ith me now from hong kong, the former assistant director general of the world health organization and the director of the school of public health at the university of hong kong. thank you so much for being with us. so, many people across the globe are making sure they wash their hands thoroughly and regularly and ensuring they keep their social distance from each other. but a whole lot of others are not doing any of this. what would be your message to them about how contagious this covid-19 is? >> thank you. there's a couple of places in the world which are probably ahead of the curve in knowing what this outbreak can bring and hong kong is one of them. in hong kong, there have been a number of different measures such as reducing travellers coming into the city. but really importantly, measures like social distancing. so, by reducing meetings and reducing the gatherings of people. and then personal measures, especially hand washing and using masks have been really important. and i thin