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less than a week later, dr. lee passed away.han, we wanted to reach out to his family. his widow in particular. we decided to go by her house. we didn't want to be harassing and get too close to her in an uncomfortable way, because there is a distrust of foreigners, particularly a fear that we could be bringing with us the virus and exposing people to a potential risk. so instead, we were outside her apartment building. we placed a phone call to hear whether or not she'd be willing to share her story. now, the voice you'll hear in this is the changed voice of our translator and as respect, we decided to not share the voice of dr. lee's widow. take a listen. >> we pulled up to the apartment building of dr. young. he's seen as a hero here in china. his widow lives in a building that i'm looking at just down the street here. we're going to give a call to see if she'd be willing to share a little bit with us about this whole experience and how she's been able to process it. that was dr. lee's widow who okay najacknowledged her ident

so in this scene, dr. lee is a doctor in chinatown. the victim -- a man brings the victim to dr. lee. they lived in essentially the same house in chinatown. the man puts the victim on his back and walks him two or three blocks to the doctor's office trying to save his life. dr. lee was alone when fong burst in and laid the man in front of him. he was covered in feces and vomit and raved in apparent madness. the doctor struggled to hold him still wondering how he was still alive. a finger to his wrist revealed a racing pulse as if the body was facing internal tear while his forehead was so warm to the touch. his scream sounded wet as if he was in the sea. the man's skin had open red sores, leaving a line between bodily tissue, the outside world in unsettled question. the lymph nodes were so swollen. a mixture of blood and foam began leaking out of his mouth, a sign of ruptured blood vessels. he soon fell into a coma, in which the doctor knew held never recover. you have a terrifying gruesome disease coming to san francisco. san francisco at the time was essentially the wild west. s

and that is helping a lot. >> dr. lee, we notice the cdc changed their guidance just in the last 24 hours on the use of some of the anti-malarial drugs, taking down dosage recommendations, that sort of thing. there have been a lot of questions about this, even a public debate about it between the president who has touted the unproven success of this, dr. fauci who urged caution saying the success is only anecdotal. what do we know about the success of anti-malarial treatments and what is the significance of the cdc changing their guidance here. >> i think that's very interesting. because i'm not aware of any new scientific evidence that has emerged in the last 24 hours. i think at this point in time, what we have before us are some -- what we call anecdotal evidence and very small studies that weren't controlled, they were done in other countries, like france and china, and we have information from lab studies, and what we really need are randomized control clinical trials to tell us whether these drugs work and we're tal

dr. lee's widow who acknowledged her identity on the phone. we're just in front of where she lives. part of the concern has been since this story has been polite sized by coming here and outside of china, the concern is that there's more pressure on his family to keep quiet and not share beyond what he himself has already shared. out of respect we did not air the voice of dr. lee's widow. what you heard was the voice of our translator. dr. lee's widow told us she simply is too busy to talk, she had other things to do and didn't go into much detail beyond that. there is a lot of fear around speaking out especially to foreign media. there's a question what we could be bringing home virus wise into this area. they have focused on the external threat and what could be caused by imported cases. david culver, cnn, wuhan, china. >>> with people around the world confined to their homes, air quality in many cities has improved dramatically. where has the pollution gone? is there any chance we can try no

lives while they were treating coronavirus patients mostly into bay province and that list includes dr lee when lee young who was famously one of the 1st whistleblower doctors to call attention to the outbreak late last year when it was 1st beginning the number of people who've died from corona virus across europe has now exceeded 40000 italy and spain account for more than the heart of those germany's chancellor is warning people to stay at home over easter saying it's too early to lift restrictions. made the comments after leaving self quarantine she tested negative for the virus the country's strict measures and early testing being attributed to the low mortality rate is just over one percent it's listening post. to al-jazeera we want you will force was when you saw that document for the 1st story we listen now through world war saying you'll be in to go build you know the stage of you will not be with you we meet with global news makers and toolkit about the stories that matter the no 0. i thought. last time i saw. i was like i'm. going through with this to get this information what i

joining us now is dr. lee norman, who is secretary of the kansas state health department. mr. orman, thank you so much for your time this evening. i know you are very busy and right in the middle of it. thanks for being here. >> thank you, rachel. appreciate being here. >> i was struck by not just your blunt language about what the public in kansas needs to do, whatever is happening with the legislature, what's happening with this political fight as you described it, the public needs to stay home so we can beat this scourge. i know you've been blunt-spoken throughout this crisis, but i'm also struck by the fact that you're expressing anger here. i am so angry, you said. shame with an exclamation point. tell me about what is animating you on this. you do seem like this is something that has really got to you. >> well, i'm a very moderately tempered individual normally, but this one was a mistake. i have nothing against religious gatherings now. i have it against all gatherings now. and i just don't think that a religious gathering should be singled out. we're not limiting people

dr lee, very good to have you with us. dr lee, very good to have you with us.act tracing, as we look to how we might be able to get out of this lockdown gradually. first and increasing testing for key workers, how useful is that going to be? i think it's going to be pretty useful. for two reasons, really. the first is for a lot of essential workers who may be self isolating, they are unable to get to work, they are concerned about infecting staff or people they come into contact with, if they are home workers, for example. so having a knowledge of their status, that will certainly help them get back to work. and the second point is many of these people work in essential functions. if you think about the utilities, for example. so for them to be off work could be disruptive to be off work could be disruptive to those services. for them to be able to get back to work in a timely way ensures that those functions can continue. but we have to factor in shirley that some of these essential workers who test positive on one day could essentially pick up coronavirus a c

lives while they were treating coronavirus patients mostly in who by province and that list includes dr lee when lee young who was famously one of the 1st whistleblower doctors to call attention to the outbreak late last year when it was 1st beginning now this is the 1st time that china has held such a such a day for a public health disaster this is previously only happened because of natural disasters such as earthquakes katrina you mentioned there that people are still being told to try and stay at home but we can see behind you plenty of cars out on the streets how is the push to try and get banks normal wife then really shaping up . it's really a push and pull i think for the government a delicate balance between making sure there's no 2nd wave of infections and also trying to get the economy up and running again as you mentioned in beijing and many cities around china people are back to work businesses are open restaurants were open people are going to parks it's starting to feel more like normal life and even who bay province the epicenter of the outbreak a lot of restrictions were ea

lives while they were tracing coronavirus patients mostly into bay province and that list includes dr lee when lee young who was famously one of the 1st whistleblower doctors to call attention to the outbreak late last year when it was 1st beginning now this is the 1st time that china has held such a such a day for a public health disaster this is previously only happened because of natural disasters such as earthquakes. as we mentioned earlier health officials in the u.s. announced new guidelines on the use of face masks to halt the spread of the virus but president trump says he has no intention of following them around a quarter of a 1000000 people in the u.s. are confirmed to be infected she habitats he has more. all week and have been reports of a debate within the u.s. government on whether to recommend the use of knowledge medical cloth masks whenever people go outside and on friday the decision was announced the c.d.c. is advise in the years of non-medical cloth face covering as religious voluntary public health measures almost immediately donald trump undermining the advice. but

dr. lee for your thoughts, false positives, false negatives. how accurate are these tests? >> that is something that we have to be cautious of too. i think, you know, a lot of times what i've seen is that there can be some false negatives, and clinically we're looking at the rates of that. sometimes it's not as much the test and the processing of it per se, but how the sample, the specimen was collected. as you know, we use the swab to go way back in the nose to get the sample. if it wasn't a great sample, you might not get enough of that virus on that swab to get an accurate test. and so we do have to watch that carefully. that is an issue that arose with the antibody tests. we need to make absolutely sure that they're accurate. for the most part we do feel confident about that. but it's something that we're tracking. >> important indeed. dr. lee, thank you very much as usual, we appreciate it very much. >>> coming up we'll have an update on the question of a krov coronavirus vaccine. and on

dr. lee, listen, these are difficult decisions for health professionals, elected leaders, when, how much to relax, et cetera. but i know heads are spinning at home because people in the same day, same hour, same minute might hear guidance from their governor saying it is okay to come out and guidance from dr. fauci or other doctors saying it is too early. who should folks at home listen to? >> it is confusing. we in the united states have approached this, a patch work of strategies, rather than having one of very clear and consistent national strategy, and this is the result that there is different guidance and different states, even in different localities in the states, and it is hard to know what to do. you know, i think that what -- one thing that will be a marker for us to know whether it is safe to reopen is whether anyone and everyone that has symptoms is able to get tested for covid. we're not there right now. and until we get to that point, i don't think people are going to feel comf

sanjay gupta, dr. lee as well, george washington university. dr. murray, can you explain how you came to the conclusion the united states has reached peak daily death toll? >> that's what our model is saying. we rerun the model basically almost every night. and the new returns from different states are suggesting different peaks in different states but overall at national level we seem to be pretty much close to the peak. our model has pretty even numbers next four days or so. not going to see abrupt peak and decline but we do see it leveling off. >> and overall projected deaths in the united states, model now projects about 61,500 people in u.s. dying from coronavirus by august. that's compared to yesterday it was i think about 60,000, or earlier this week. if the peak is now, is there a reason the number's a little bit larger than it was previously? >> yeah, it is. some states haven't fully implemented social distancing. we're seeing their peaks shifting out in time. and we're seeing a peak now but decline is going to be very slow as some other s

dr. lee, thank you so much for talking with us. >> great to be with you, thank you. >> so, the whole world is struggling to control covid-19. and here in the united states the surgeon general warns this will be a pearl harbor and 9/11 moment as we face this crucial week ahead, what more should we all be doing to help flatten that curve? and should we all, perhaps, be wearing homemade face masks? because we are still getting some very mixed messages about that. >> well, rosemary, it was really sobering news to hear that although for a lot of the front line clinicians like myself, was not surprising. you know, each week in this pandemic has been worse than the last. and the projections that the white house task force is using show that the peak here in the united states won't really be hit until the middle of april. and that probably will be even further out for many specific states across the country here. so, it's a great question. what else can we do? you know, first of all, we still don't h

we don't know this virus well enough to answer that question yet. >> dr. leeman, the secretary of the kansas state health department. secretary norman, appreciate you making time and i know there has been a lot more attention to the coast than the heartland but we are interested in the story everywhere in the country and we hope you'll come back and keep us apprised as you keep fighting this in your state, sir. >> sure, happy to do so, rachel. >> all right. we'll be right back. stay with us. thank you. when our daughter and her kids moved in with us... our bargain detergent couldn't keep up. turns out it's mostly water. so, we switched back to tide. one wash, stains are gone. daughter: slurping don't pay for water. pay for clean. it's got to be tide. atthe perfect schmearnow of cream cheese. the recipe we invented over 145 years ago and me...the world's best, and possibly only, schmelier. philadelphia. schmear perfection. i am totally blind. and non-24 can throw my days and nights out of sync, keeping me from the things i love to do. talk to your doctor, and c

dr. lee, thank you for your time. if we could just start there, what do you make of this double blind sort of pretty big test that they're undergoing now in detroit at henry ford to see if this essentially if hydroxychloroquine can be prophylactic, if it can help. >> right, poppy, i think this is going to be very helpful when we see the results of this study, and it's a good point that we're looking at hydroxychloroquine not only as a potential treatment for covid-19, but also as a way to help those prevent getting the disease if they've been exposed to someone who is positive, and that of course has really positive implications for health care workers, like myself, who are in contact with people with covid-19 and also may not have known it. so i think it will be very interesting the next few weeks, as we see the results of this study, as well as many other trials that are looking at the effects of hydroxychloroquine on covid, patients with covid-19, yes. >> the focus on hydroxychloroquine, while important for sure, i

in a tragic development the original whistleblower dr lee one young contracted the virus and died chinese social media erupted with anger and sorrow prompting worldwide grief to share the same. question such. who should. john. fox who. which. is good to see the change. hundreds of academics and everyday citizens signed a petition calling for a national day of free speech among the signatories was beijing lawyer lynch each leg who recorded this message for us. who we knew is true that you could. shoot our. cost. to. us with your. losses and back. here with. us. i say have. a 1000 kilometers from blue hand hong kong has been closely watching what's happening on the mainland. rarely has hong kong seem so quiet and placid easy to forget this same city has recently been the setting for up to violent protests calling for more democratic reform those protests have led to a growing and the mainland sentiment and this far as is deepening that sentiment. the fact is if you think about it if china was an open transparent democratic nation. then this whole thing might not happen in the 1st place. in

lives while they were treating coronavirus patients mostly in who bay province and that list includes dr lee when lee young who was famously one of the 1st whistleblower doctors to call attention to the outbreak late last year when it was 1st beginning now this is the 1st time that china has held such a such a day for a public health disaster this is previously only happened because of natural disasters such as earthquakes. the u.s. centers for disease control is recommending americans wear masks in public to protect against the corona virus but president donald trump says it's voluntary and he's choosing not to follow that advice u.k.'s opposition labor party has a new leader star has been elected as the person to take on prime minister. the former director all of public prosecutions and shadow breaks secretary replaces your recall but made the announcement via social media because of concerns of a coronavirus. horse racing is the latest sport to go virtual because of the pandemic in a few hours' time at 16 g.m.t. one of the world's most famous races begins with the virtual grand national w

dr. lee to start with you. we've just received the news that the national strategic stockpile has sent out what's being described as its last supplies of personal protective gear. do you believe this could have been prevented? >> well, i think that we need to take a different approach to this. that's very concerning to hear. and i think that what we should do is take a look at what countries like taiwan did. you know, for example, let's take face masks. taiwan faced a similar issue as we did on the issue of face masks. they, before this outbreak, had over 90% of the face masks that were sold in taiwan were produced overseas, mostly from china, like us. and when the supply chain was disrupted because of the coronavirus outbreak, they did a few things. first they stopped all exports immediately. second, the government required private sector manufacturers to work 24/7 to massively scale up the production of their face masks. they went from somewhere around 3 million face masks a day to now over

dr. jennifer lee joins me now. how do you explain this? ld the virus be in the system weeks after testing positive? we were talking to dr. rho drug, who said he's seen that in his own patients. they're still essential shedding the virus. >> there are a number of cases of similar finding from around the world. this one in italy, a patient who haus tested positive for covid, and then after his symptoms cleared, actually tested positive 30 days after the very first test. there are also reports -- similar reports out of china of patients who tested negative, and then 20-plus days later tested positive again. there's a group of patients, about 115 of them in south korea that they're looking into, because they tested negative and tested positive afterwards. so there are a number of questions. there's some hypothesises of what could be going on. did they clear the virus and get re-infected with a different strain? or is this virus laying dormant and reactivating? or did the test when they did it, for those who have negative tests, were they false-

lives while they were treating coronavirus patients mostly into bay province and that list includes dr lee when lee young who was famously one of the 1st whistleblower doctors to call attention to the outbreak late last year when it was 1st beginning the number of people who've died from corona virus across europe has now exceeded 40000 italy and spain account for more than half of those germany's chancellor is warning people to stay at home over easter saying it's too early to lift restrictions. made the comments after leaving self quarantine she tested negative for the virus the country's strict measures and early testing being attributed to the low mortality rate is just over one percent it's listening post. tool to al-jazeera. what you will force with when you saw that document for the 1st story we listen now through world war saying you'll be in to go build you know the stage of you but we will not be with you we meet with global news makers and the stories that matter go to 0. i thought. last time i saw. i was like i'm. going through with this to get this information well it's just.

lives while they were treating coronavirus patients mostly in who by province and that list includes dr lee when lee young who was famously one of the 1st whistleblower doctors to call attention to the outbreak late last year when it was 1st beginning the number of people who've died from corona virus across europe has now exceeded $40000.00 italy and spain account for more than harmful those. headlines the news continues after inside story stay with us. how much is the coronavirus on the stock market affecting the race to the white house. joined by. the democratic nomination i believe we can be down from. the developments in the u.s. election campaign on al jazeera. is the oil price war between saudi arabia and russia about to end crude prices enjoyed their biggest ever $1.00 day rally after the u.s. president raised hopes of the troops will donald trump's intervention be enough and what's the impact of the rift between the oil superpowers this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program i'm bernard smith over the past month 2 of the world's biggest oil producers have been in dispute

dr lee norman, our health and environment secretary said that the need for this game because they hadace before these limits were enacted, and there had been some covid—19 cases linked to these church gatherings, in particular there was one in the kansas city area which is the large metropolitan area on the kansas—missouri border, they had a large church conference took place, several covid—19 cases from that, including three cases that resulted in deaths. when can we see oui’ conclusion to all this? the governor wants a decision made on this by easter sunday, that typically is not how quickly the kansas supreme court operates, normally you're waiting several weeks if not months for a decision to be handed down. so we will find out perhaps more tomorrow morning if the court will expedite it that quickly, or if we may not have a ruling this weekend. stay with us on bbc news, plenty more to come including oui’ plenty more to come including our new technology is helping frontline staff find solutions to deal with the coronavirus. pol pot, one of the century's greatest mass murderers, is

dr. leethank you for your perspective tonight, it's good to talk to you. >> thank you. >> tucker: so you're hearing political leaders say that the coronavirus proves that we need a brand-new approach to health care. what many of them are not saying is that our response to the coronavirus has completely scrambled our current health care system. workers have been furloughed, and by workers we mean doctors and nurses, hospitals have gone broke. not enough attention has been paid to what is happening now among our front my medical workers. dr. brendan carr knows a lot about them because he is one, professor and chair of emergency medical -- joins us tonight.un thanks so much for coming on. give us a picture of where our health care system is right now, if you would. >> thanks for having me, tucker. the new york environment is a little bit different than most of the u.s. as most folks know, we were hit really, really hard over thew last month with lots of sick folks, lots of moderately ill folks a

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lives while they were tracing coronavirus patients mostly in who they province and that list includes dr lee when lee young who was famously one of the 1st whistleblower doctors to call attention to the outbreak late last year when it was 1st beginning. the number of people who have died from corona virus across europe has now exceeded 40000 italy and spain account for more than half of those the european union has admitted struggling to provide enough ventilators germany's chancellor is warning people to stay at home over easter saying it's too early to list restrictions. made the comments after leaving south quarantine she tested negative for the virus. headlines it's counting the cost now stay with us here on al-jazeera. as the world battles the coronavirus pandemic we'll bring you the latest developments from around the world. with updates about travel restrictions and how to protect yourself. around a virus pandemic special coverage on al-jazeera. hello i'm sorry this is counting the cost on al-jazeera your weekly look at the world of business and economics this week. health services in

patients of the credit virus who have been designated as national mosses and included in that list is dr lee when he was one of the 1st doctors in food a province to sound the alarm about the severity of this outbreak in january so today traditionally dates remember dead all the dead and also traditionally a day for families to gather together to perhaps go to the cemetery to tidy the tombstones have been offerings for example but the government has said because as you mentioned the pandemic is not over the threat of touching this virus is not gone yet most families are being encouraged. to commemorate this day. i'm something with the panel at home our correspondent get in and you live for us in beijing thank you very much indeed ok let's go back to the u.s. shihab rattansi is joining us live from washington d.c. just to recap some of what's been going on in the united states let's just go back to what we were talking about just a few minutes ago she had been free could this business about medicare many a medicaid and the insurance coverage that vice president mike pence has been saying that

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ireland's prime minister is returning to work as a part time dr lee ever i've heard who trained this position before entering politics has rejoined the medical register and will perform covert 19 assessments once a week thousands of retired medical professionals have answered an appeal from the health service to go back to work on. there's a glimmer of hope now in europe the death and infection rates in some hotspots appears to be slowing the number of people who died in italy was at its lowest in more than 2 weeks on sunday new cases there were also on a downward trend and daily deaths in spain of dropped for 3 consecutive days in france 41 severely ill patients have been transferred from paris to the northwestern region of brittany trying to ease pressure on the capital's hospitals and more than 500 have now been moved to other areas nearly 8000 people have died from the virus and france. president donald trump has struck an optimistic tone as his daily coronavirus briefing saying an end to the outbreak is in sight but with the number of deaths in the u.s. approaching 10000 health

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. >>> joining us now is dr. lee riley. dr.da has issued its first emergency authorization for a coronavirus test that looks for antibodies in the blood. why is that important, and why is it significant?>> it's important because this is really the most sensitive test to really determine what proportion of people may have been infected with this virus read it will not help you to make any clinical decisions or try to control the epidemic but it will tell you afterwards, what proportion of the population may have been infected with this virus. it will also enable us to determine whether or not if the vaccine were to be developed, whether or not it will be effective or not. if these people who have antibodies against the virus do not get subsequent reinfection that would indicate that the presence of the antibody is protective against a second infection.>> let me get to the idea of a vaccine in a moment. first, so today around the world we topped 1 million cases, known cases, of coronavirus. do you think that number is close to be

dr. jennifer lee, clinical associate professor of medicine at george washington university. dr. was saying, obviously accurate, he and others have been sort of assuming and hoping that antibodies mean or translate to immunity but at this point, just scientifically, we can't say that for sure, correct? >> that's kpaexactly right, anderson. we're hopeful these antibody tests will be very helpful in the fight against the virus but there's a lot we don't know. there's some key caveats. i'd like to talk about three of them. so first is these antibody tests, we have to make sure that we're using them in the right way. so these antibody tests are not meant to diagnose active infection. if someone has symptoms and they think they have covid-19, then they really should be getting one of the tests they were using now to look for signs of the virus itself. these antibody tests are not going to be as effective early on when you're just getting symptoms in that first week. sometimes, it takes a few weeks in order to detect the antibodies. second as dr. fauci was saying, are these tests even

. >>> and then a with dr. lee getting under way at 1:30 this afternoon on the congressman's facebook page. >>> and some elite colleges are backing off of the money from the grant from the stimulus bill. private colleges are receiving money to help with the pandemic-related costs, and so many needy students, and harvard doing the same thing after recent blowback from the president. >>> the city of santa clara is providing breakfast and lunch meals for the weekends starting at 2:00 p.m. today. the pickup locations are on your screen right now, and we also posted the locations on our website, nbcbayarea.com. >>> and then debating the possibility of opening some parks and trails. some top health experts are already onboard if and when the plan is approved it will likely be a gradual reopening starting with limited access and limited entry. >>> kari, i know with the weather being so nice a lot of people are wanting to get out there and take a walk, but still doing the social distancing part. >> yeah, you have to rememb

and the congressman, eric swalwell plans to hold a q & a with dr. lee, and that gets under way at 1:30 on the kangman's facebook page. >>> immigrant rights group plan to hold a rally for detailineesn san francisco, and they want all migrants to be released in i.c.e. detention. people plan to gather today at noon and protest in their cars outside the office on center civic plaza. >>> thieves are targeting grocery deliveries. a san francisco woman said somebody took off with her delivery moments after it was dropped off in diamond heights and others are telling her the same thing. >> yesterday evening, my friends were skeptical, and they were dismissive and then the same thing happened to them this morning. >> a grocery store did replace the items. many shoppers have to wait days to get their groceries delivered with demand so high right now. >>> some elite colleges, including stanford, are backing off with the money they received from the stimulus bill. stanford is passing on, accepting $7 million in assistance so needy students can benefit. harvard is d

dr. jennifer lee for state of virginia. so good to have you on this morning. that news conference yesterday from the president, quite a dire prediction there, 100,000 potentially dead, that made headlines, now 240,000 as part of the range of what is possible here. is there anything that could be done at this late stage to prevent the projected short fall of beds, ventilators, icu units, et cetera, or are we hurdling towards that kind of mismatch, right? the need and what is available? >> well, you know, jim, as horrific as those numbers were when we heard them yesterday, i think what is even more scary is that that is actually a best case scenario, that is if all across the country we start to do -- we're doing the social distancing, the stay at home, that we're maximizing all of the mitigation strategies that are taking place in some parts of the country. and so i'm afraid that the numbers of deaths could be even higher than that if we don't take action and quickly all across the country. >> what is your message to national leadership? the president, in terms

first and foremost of them was dr. lee win yan.fter he was summoned by police he came down with coronavirus and died in hospital in february of the disease. there is a pattern of the chinese government trying to manage and control information about this disease and certainly about its origins from being shared with the outside world and the fact that china has the first diagnosed cases means it has more data that would be helpful but as we're seeing, more obstacles to sharing that with the wider world. >> thanks for that. so many questions. ivan watson. thank you. >>> opec and its allies agree to slash oil production like never before. what that might mean for your pocketbook. that's next. you're watching cnn. alice loves the scent of gain so much, she wished there was a way to make it last longer. say hello to your fairy godmother alice. and long-lasting gain scent beads. part of the irresistible scent collection from gain! it won't wait for a convenient time. or for hospitals to get back to normal again. that's why, at cancer tre

cnn spoke by phone with whistle-blower dr. lee win yong.acted the virus after being silenced by authorities and returning to work. on february 3rd as the iowa caucus had the first contest for the presidential candidate, the war of words between china and the u.s. began. the foreign ministry accused the u.s. government of inappropriately reacting to the outbreak saying, quote, that the u.s. is turning from overconfidence to fear and over reaction. on february 7th the doctor yong died of the coronavirus. after that news broke topics like wuhan government owed him an apology and we want freedom of speech on their twitter platform waiva and the relationship with xi jinping was said to be in great shape. >> we're working on the problem. the virus. it's a very tough situation. but i think he's going to handle it. i think he's handling are really well, we're helping wherever we can. we have a great relationship. >> reporter: on february 10th as the weather warmed up the virus will go away. >> the virus. their working hard. looks like by april, in

instead of listening to his warning, police silenced dr. lee and other whistle-blowers.e died of coronavirus in early february. cnn's early reporting also highlighted an underreporting of cases. wuhan residents telling us that their loved ones were never tested, despite suffering from coronavirus-like symptoms. instead, their deaths listed as severe pneumonia. whether it was intentional or due to a lack of testing, for some, china's reported numbers of coronavirus cases and deaths does not add up. >> the mere fact that we don't know the answers, that china hasn't shared the answers, i think, is very, very telling. >> china has repeatedly maintained that they have been open and forthcoming in the handling of this outbreak. on wednesday, china's foreign minister says that china has kept the w.h.o and relevant countries updated on the outbreak. but if the early cover-up and the mishandling at the local level was, in fact, known by top officials, their delayed action might overshadow the massive containment effort that china so proudly promotes. david culver, cnn, shanghai.

return now to the governor's plan to begin reopening california, and we want to talk about this with dr. leea professor of infectious disease at uc berkeley. dr., thank you again for joining us. earlier in the show we outlined the six criteria laid out by governor newsom, and i wanted to get your thoughts on those six criteria, what do you make of them? >> i think you know, we need to begin to talk about this because we are at least seen, at least in the bay area, we are beginning to see past the topeka, so we need to start talking about how we get back up, getting people back to work and school.>> do you see one of those criteria as being the oth i think so, i think all really back to work and school, it will have to be done in a staged fashion, but we also need to collect data as we go along, to make those decisions. and one of the important types of data that we need to collect, are who are these people still coming down with the disease. it's been more than close to four weeks after the social distancing order got implemented, and so, if people are still getting the disease, that means t

. >>> joining us now is dr. lee riley. 1st of all, what is the significance of this? what does this tell you that the 1st death happened over a month before we thought it did? >> i think that was probably just the tip of the iceberg. whenever you see any symptomatic disease or anybody dying of a disease that means there are a lot of others who have already been infected in the community. it's actually not surprising. i think the only reason they were able to find these people that were affected early on is because they happen to do posthumous testing. there were probably a lot more people infected already at that time. may be as late as january of this year. >> if that is the case what does that mean? what can we do about that now since that was 2 months ago? >> i think the state and especially the bay area did the right thing by instituting the social distancing directives early on even though there are already many cases. starting this lockdown perhaps slow down what would have been a worse epidemic in this area. >> does this lend anything to the studies that found

joining me is that health care specialist dr. lee norman. i have questions about what is happening on the ground in kansas in the fight against the coronavirus. but first just on this. the president shrugged off any questions about upticks in calls to poison control centers. what are you hearing in your state? >> well, we are seeing an uptick in the numbers. it is not entirely due to ingesting the substances, but we did get very specific calls of people that drank a substance, the one man you mentioned, there are others that called in and had the good sense to say i heard this is a do it yourself way to prevent the coronavirus and is this good and it was good to have the calls so the answer would be no. >> that is a good thing. everyone needs to take responsibility for what they're putting into their bodies. but dr. norman, do you think you would have gotten so many calls if the president hadn't said this from the white house? >> you know, there is always accidental ingestions, kids that get into things so there is always x number of calls.

about human-to-human transmission and most importantly, the great martyr of this process in china, dr. lee and his colleagues in wuhan, the doctors were on we chat telling everybody, get ready we have human-to-human transmission coming into the hospitals now. maria: let me show you this timeline. we have a timeline, because it was december 10, one of the earliest known coronavirus patients falling ill in wuhan, chain and you're right the doctor raises the alarm on the coronavirus on december 30. what happens then, steve? he gets arrested. he's dead now, as you know, from coronavirus. >> well he's arrested and also tortured. his family is put under surveillance, and they force him to sign a document that says he's a rumor monger, that these are lies that these are not human-to-human transmission. the chinese communist party at the highest level that is president xi knowingly understood that they had human-to-human transmission. we also know now from scott gotl eib and also a report from a chinese doctorate south hampton university in the united kingdom that if they had acted like any human

. >> reporter: dr. lee riley says behavior could be one big factor, with men tending to smoke and drink alcohol more than women. >> that can contribute to different kinds of vascular diseases and those themselves are also associated with bad outcomes. >> reporter: he says studies show men also tend to wait longer than women to visit doctors. >> so by the time they get to a doctor, they may have more severe diseases. >> reporter: he says research indicates genetics might also give woman's immune systems in advantage, with 2x chromosomes. >> a couple of genes are involved in immune response wears in the mail, there is only one. >> reporter: covid-19 is not the only respiratory disease that shows a gender difference. >> the sars epidemic that we saw 17 years ago, again, there was a male predominance, tuberculosis is another major respiratory infectious disease and we see a ratio of 70 to 30, the disease being much more common in males. >> reporter: he says as researchers look for vaccines and cures, it is impo

their lives in particular 14 doctors and nurses were remembered today as national masses including dr lee when young who was one of the 1st doctors to sound the alarm at the beginning of the outbreak as of the severity of covered 19 so he was also remembered today but of course the day would normally families would gather in cemeteries and burn offerings to remember relatives who have passed away the government has said because of the outbreak because the threat of covered 1000 is not yet over they've encouraged people to stay home instead to do their remembrances. humanity's darkest hour that's the international monetary fund has described the coronavirus pandemic it says has brought the global economy to a standstill the head of the agency said the outbreak has pushed the world into recession crystal jervy is said a war chest is available to help nations recover she called on advanced economies to help developing countries this is a crisis like no other. never in the history of the i.m.f. we have weaknesses the world economy coming to a stand still we are now in recession it is way wors

i heard dr. lee and i wrote a song actually. but anyway, thank you for everything.ou seem like an amazing educator, sir. >> thank you. host: no, joe, we're glad to hear from you. we do want to move on because we have a college professor on the phone from akron, ohio. john, you're next. >> dr. mitchell, a couple of questions because just as you said earlier, the fall semester is the big thing on our minds right now with regards to what's going to be happening here. i'll ask you two quick questions. and what do you think the effect on tuition is going to be? because on the one hand there's going to be right now with what we know everything going on economically a question of what parents and students can afford. so what will be the impact there? and then also the fact that there could very potentially be an entire semester, who knows? an entire year taught remotely or even something where we're having to begin the semester teaching normal, traditional style and then as flu season kicks in, we decide we have to switch -- will that affect the customers or the parents or