he joins us from harvard university. and with us in washington, d.c., is congressmember bobby rush of illinois. he is national co-chair for the mike bloomberg 2020 presidential campaign. congressmember rush has served in office for more than two decades, since 1992. he got his start as a civil rights activist in the 1960's. his background includes being both a co-founder of the illinois chapter of the black panthers and the only member of the democratic party to have defeated barack obama in an election. that was in the 2000 democratic congressional primary. welcome both of you to democracy now! i went to begin w the unusual developers that took place last few days, on the eve of today, super tuesday, where you have several presidential candidates dropping out -- pete buttigieg on sunday followed by amy klobuchar on monday -- and yesterday, both of them endorsed in biden after his major win south carolina. but it was only them who endorsed joe biden, also former presidential candidate beto o'rourke and a roster of the de

and harvard university. if you have an opportunity to go online, don't do it right now on your phones but when you get home, he developed an online interactive map calls slave map, it's a narrative so you can go online and share a lot of the themes and you may speak about this this evening but it's a great online resource helpfully will begin to be used by educators in classrooms. he's received guggenheim fellowships, his documentary in the heart of blackness was broadcast nationally on pbs and received the o'connor the award and chosen as the best documentary of the hollywood festival. in 2017, for those of you who were here april 19 when we opened the museum of the american revolution, vincent brown was one of our absolutely stunning key note speakers. we went back and read your transcript and comment that day, they continue to inspire us. more recently might have seen him interviewed on cbs sunday morning piece about the museum. all of these are available on the museum's website. we've got a little sizzle

we speak to an expert from harvard university.ms of coronavirus to look out for are a continuous dry cough and/or a fever. if you're sneezing a lot, got a runny nose or a headache, you may be ill but you've probably not got coronavirus. so, how high a fever is a coronavirus one, and what exactly is a continuous dry cough? well, it's when you cough and there's no mucus or phlegm — basically no gooey substance in your tissue. and this is not the odd cough here and there, it has to be coughing regularly for no other reason, such as clearing your throat or smoking. so how high a fever is a coronavirus fever? well, if you have one, you will know about it. technically, it's a body temperature of more than 37.8 degrees celsius, or 100 degrees fahrenheit, but if you've not got a thermometer, basically you will feel hot and your chest and back would be hot. this is bbc world news. the latest headlines: president trump says new york is by far america's biggest problem, as half of all known us coronavirus cases are linked to the state. spain

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just the taxpayers and their workers. >> before i let you go, i just saw a report today that harvard university dining employees. i just want your thoughts on that. >> i'm obviously not involved in that decision. >> of course. >> i think every employer should be trying the hardest it can to keep people on through these tough times right now. we're going to have our students back. i expect them there in the fall. we'll need dining hall workers in the fall. the more we can look out for each other right now, the better. >> thanks so much for coming on tonight. really appreciate it. >> thanks for having me. >>> and thank you all at home for tuning in tonight. it's a privilege to speak with you in these times. there's so much fast breaking news during this pandemic, you can sit tight. wolf will be here in the situation room all weekend with up to the minute coverage. that starts right now, the situation with wolf blitzer is up next. ♪ want to freshen your home without using heavy, overwhelming scents? try febreze one; it eliminates odors with no heavy perfumes, so you can feel good about using it in

. >>> all right, breaking news, we just learned that harvard university has canceled its classes and college r university to make that decision. joining columbia in ohio state. athena jones is live at columbia here in new york, where person to person classes have been suspended. >> good morning, john. that's right. we have been talking for weeks about american universities canceling their study abroad programs. a growing number are now canceling study on their u.s. campuses. you just mentioned harvard university, which we learned since last night, also the ohio state, san francisco state, the university of california, san diego and amherst college. we learned are all now moving their classes online. just adding to the list of schools making this move. social distancing is the priority at schools across the country as they try to prevent the spread of coronavirus. in washington state, the university of washington has suspended classes for the rest of the quarter asking instructors to conduct classes and exams remotely, with plans to resume normal class operations march 30th, pending pu

. >> reporter: today, harvard university joined a growing list of colleges from coast to coast canceling classes and telling students to go home. the united states is starting to shut down as millions of americans are working from home. companies like amazon are advising employees to do so for the rest of the month. the coronavirus is hitting airlines especially hard. american, delta, united, and jetblue are reducing flights. southwest is expected to lose up to $300 million in revenue. >> misses on the floater. >> reporter: with the c.d.c. warning against large gatherings, the sports world responded, limiting locker room access to players and staff. the ivy league canceled its men's and women's basketball tournaments, and pressure is mounting for the n.c.a.a. to take some sort of action before march madness. musicians aren't taking any chances either. bands like kiss and pearl jam have canceled events, and the music festival coachella has been postponed. within days, the national guard will arrive here in new rochelle to help distribute food within that area of the one-mile radius. norah

à Ãbut also because of phil mead one of the curators and he was a graduate student hours at harvard university am grateful to be here to support him. [applause] i'm extremely honored to have laurel thatcher or work in the audience. she was instrumental in hiring me and i'm so grateful. i'm grateful you did. i'm honored to be with you here. i'm hoping we can catch a bit of the spirit of revolution together before it's too late. in 1776 great britain's most important american colony was on the verge of infraction. colonists perceived that the government and britain was conspiring against the rights of material subjects. they feared a plot against the english liberties they had long enjoyed. at the dinner tables they discussed the merits of open sedition. those infected with imperial governance dwelled upon topic of americans rebellion. as these jamaican colonists debated liberties, their slaves saw an opportunity. the island was at a critical junction with the british entry into yet another imperial war. colonists traded exaggerated accounts of the french and spanish military buildup in the cari

he's now a professor at harvard university who advocated for that basic idea.joins me now from massachusetts via skype.so furman, thank you so much for being with us. first of all, in you view, is the trump administration identifying correctly what the needs are in this economy right now? >> i think today ws a really important st in identifying those needs. they're understand tg that we neact in a way that's really big, that is really fast, and at gets money directly to the families that are going to be most affected by everything that's happened. sohere's more i'd like to see, but i thought today was a very important step. >> woodruff: so they're talkg about $850 billion, mnuchin later threw out the number $1 trillion, including as you mentioned tat $1,000 per individual. why is that in your mind a o idea? >> the economy is going to go througthe largest dislocation it perhaps has ever gone through. have hurricanes hg everyously part of the country and every part of the gloobal enomy simultaneously. ofts of people are going to lose money as a resulhis. it would

. >> reporter: harvard university joined a growing list of colleges from coast to coast canceling classes and telling students to go home. the united states is starting to shut down as millions of americans are working from home. companies like amazon are advising employees to do so for the rest of the month. the coronavirus is hitting airlines especially hard. american, delta, united, and jetblue are reducing flights. southwest is expected to lose up to $300 million in revenue. within days, the national guard will arrive here to help distribute food to the area within the one-mile radius. meg oliver, cbs news, new rochelle, new york. >>> the slow pace of testing for the coronavirus in the u.s. may be hampering efforts to contain the outbreak. according to state results, just over 5,000 patients have been tested in the u.s. "cbs evening news" anchor norah o'donnell asked president trump about the government's delayed response. >> reporter: why has the u.s. been so slow with testing? other countries have tested tens of thousands -- >> no, i think the u.s. has done a very good job on testin

kenneth rogoff is a professor of economics at harvard university. well, it's absolutely necessary.table standstill. maybe we're going at half speed. and every month that passes, we probably lose $1 trillion of output. it is a very difficult situation. frankly, $2 trillion is just a start. i've never heard $2 trillion described as a start before. i guess that gives us an indication of the scale of things facing the united states, and also there was a front page of the new york times showing that dramatic jump of unemployment claimants from 200,000 to 3.3 million. i mean, the scale of this is phenomenal. it's just staggering what's going on. outside of a wartime, it's really hard to think of an analogy. i live in boston, massachusetts. and around where i live, the restaurants, the shops, they're all having to stay closed. they can't hold onto employees. everybody‘s letting people go, even some of the big companies. it's a very, very difficult situation. what kind of historical analogies might there be, if you cast your mind back to the 20th century? you know, in terms of what we are

harvard university is giving students five days to move out of the dorms. classes will now be held remotely. >> and at the pentagon, chairs for reporters were separated to keep people 6 feet away from each other, part of the social distancing recommendations to combat this virus. >> abc's andrew dymburt begins our coverage. he's in washington. andrew, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, and there really are no signs of the spread slowing here in the u.s. just yet. cities are taking an abundance of caution. one in particular now in containment. as cases of coronavirus continue to climb in the u.s., a cluster of covid-19 in new york state now becoming the country's first containment zone. the national guard being deployed to a suburban community just north of new york city. >> it is a dramatic action. this is literally a matter of life and death. >> reporter: that zone of containment consisting of a one-mile radius around the young israel synagogue where dozens of people were exposed by a sickened attorney. schools and buildings with large gatherings wil

joining me is democratic cochair of the coronavirus and a public helgs expert with a mt from harvard university. we really appreciate you joining us. look, california's governor, gavin newsom announced another cruise ship, the grand princess is being held off the coast because ten passengers tested positive. >> i think those were good prekaugdss because of how he felt and how the american people felt was abominable. it's not the leadership we need right now in the serious outbreak we're having. working in the emergency department during the h1n1 flu season, pilgts no joke. they're working extraspds hours in overcrowded emergency departmented outside the country and having a president who minimizes this is hurtful, not taenple. and say although this virus can produce mild symptoms, there are individuals older than 60 with lung dezeesz, and seriously ill. and everyone should have the social responsibility to make sure you use hand sanitizers to make sure you don't touch your face. and if you are sick, then make sure you stay home, that you stay away from people who i've nengdsed, are at hiesk eri

kenneth rogoff — is a professor of economics at harvard university — and was also chief economist andy fund. he joins us now from cambridge, massachusetts. professor, $2 trillion. will it work? well, it's absolutely necessary. we are a 22 trillion dollar economy that has been brought to a veritable standstill. maybe we are going at half speed. and every month passes we probably lose $1 trillion of output. it is a very difficult situation. frankly, $2 trillion isjust very difficult situation. frankly, $2 trillion is just a start. i've never heard $2 trillion described as a start before. agatha gives us an indication of the scale of the things facing the united states, also there was a front page of the new york times showing that dramatic drop of unemployment claimants from 200,000 to over 3 million. the scale is phenomenal. it's staggering was going on. 0utside staggering was going on. outside of a wartime, it's hard to think of analogy stop by live in boston massachusetts. around where eyelid, the restau ra nts, around where eyelid, the restaurants, the shops, they are all having to

here is a professor of carp -- of harvard university. >> i liken it a bit to a dark room where thereeople sitting in rows that you can't go up, you think, some peopleo walked into the room. but thos people have been the for a while. ros: even if the coronavirus mortality rate drops, but is still potentially very seriously serious. the did the uh oh estimates every year t flu kills between 290000 and 650,000 people. if millions of people contract the coronavirus, the death toll could run into the hundreds of thousands. next there is the speed of which the virus is spreading. here's one faxing scientist. >> one of the things we have learned, thivirus is highly transmissible that you could be caught off guard pretty quickly. as a consequence, things can move quickly so you have to watch out. ros: theros: who has said while the spread of coronavirus is concerning, it is not as contagious as the flu. how do the symptoms of fluent coronavirus compare? they are similar. coronavirus starts with a high fever. it can be followed by a cough. it can lead to a shortness of breath. . some patients

joining us now from boston is asaf bitton who is a primary—care physician and researcher at the harvard university'sforjoining us. how effect is social or physical distancing in saving lives? social and physical distancing is one of the most effective tools we have right now to mitigate the spread of this pandemic. it's really a tool that when operating in a co—ordinated, aggressive fashion across the country, can save probably or reduce probably over 90% of cases. that is a huge figure. a question for you, how do you, in yourdaily question for you, how do you, in your daily life, go about the moment practising physical 01’ the moment practising physical or social distancing? well, it's a huge change. it's something fundamentally different from the life that we we re different from the life that we were used to, even a couple of weeks ago. at its base, what this means is keeping physical separation between you and people outside of your household. so that means when you go outside, you need to maintain at least two metres or six feet from other people. you don't sit on park benches, you don't sit on

she earned her ba in history from harvard university and phd in american studies from the university of iowa. she taught at texas tech university, cal state, harvard and brown and is also the author for un natioof four un nation ag earth. tonight she will talk about the three cornered for, tell us how it came to be, maybe share some anecdotes and things sh the thie learned in the research process and read a passage or two and then we will to questions from the audience. please help they give a warm welcome to megan kate nelson. [applause] thanks for coming out on this cold night. before we begin, i would like to acknowledge that we need tonight on the traditional lands. the three cornered war .-full-stop story of the civil war in the far west. most of the action takes place in new mexico and would become arizona during the war as well as texas and colorado and so at this point you may be asking your self i thought it was about gettysburg and basically virginia so i thought the same thing myself when i first started teaching and research in civil war history. i grew up in colorado and

to speak to you as the minister of finance in portugal and dovetail it in with your work at harvard universityh harm -- with the great economist warrants cass. -- lawrence cast -- lawrence katz. is it an opportunity for the smaller or more fragile economies of europe to reassert their part with the dominant economies like germany and the netherlands? well, we work in a very integrated economy. the single market develops to a level of integration that has no parallel in european history. it is important that to meaning of solidarity integrate society as ace pursuit -- has a specific meeting that today is being clearly put forward in the political divisions we are taking. -- in the political decisions we are taking. youral as the president of group and also being finance minister of a small -- of euro group, and also being finance minister of a small economy in the last couple of years is to make sure that these level -- that this level of integration, that the level of interconnectedness in our sonomies do not fall apart, that we can really benefit from being in the european union. i believe we

harvard university told anyone living on campus to leave by this weekend.ospitals are scrambling to come up with a response. isolation plans in case of an infection rate spiked. some doctors don't believe hospitals have enough beds. medicare and medicaid administrator would not say if us hospitals are equipped. she told martha maccallum the priority is getting tests. >> one of the things available in every public health laboratory across the nation these tests are available. what we are working on is to increase the capacity and private healthcare system because most of us don't go to a public health plan. you are used to going to your doctor's office. heather: a new study reveals the virus can remain in the air up to 3 hours and to live on surfaces like plastic for three days. in comparison the flu virus can only survive on the surfaces for about 48 hours. the closures continue, broadway going to, disney world and disneyland closed until the end of march. we have to get the healthcare system working to get the testing done and get the results back much qui

country in the world so you mentioned kind of global the global context worldwide lips it to harvard university happy to be able to you professor has been heavily quoted after saying i think he's revised numbers down but he originally said he thought 40 to 70 percent of the world's population could end up being infected with covert 19 as it's known in the next 12 months now whatever we argue about what the fatality rate is is it one percent 2 percent 3 percent less than one that's a huge number of people globally can you try to explain it is any kind of comparison analogy that we can make for that number of people to be infected so that number he clarified is now for adults but still a lot of it is incredible are people really and there are other people who basically you know angela merkel also came out with 70 percent of germany in the coming months as well this number is sound large but it is actually foreseeable if we don't do any containment in mitigation this is if we just let the virus roam around and be and do what the british prime minister barak's jumps in suggested recently i know tha

harvard university is having all classes online after spring break. is the time to lead into all of those measures and you know there is going to be a lot of shifting sand in the next 24 and 48 hours as the community is trying to get a footing as what they can do. personal protective measures, hand washing, hand washing, that's not just a thing we say. that really does matter. and everyon shaking hands and i like to bow people. that's a nice gesture and having meetings. see if you can call into meetings or you have to have meetings and have them in big rooms where you stand apart from one another. you really have to get over that feelings. oh, that's silly. that's life saving right now. that's a first basket of thing. the second of thing i should feel we should talk about is mention to one of my neighbors on the streets, she said it so well. to fight covid 19, we have to have an outbreak of kindness. what she meant by that was that we are very much interconnected here and what we are going to learn from this outbreak is how much our faiths are tied to

harvard university has asked students not to return to campus after spring break.bia suspending classes for two days after individual linked to the school was exposed to the virus. classesn will have online starting marched when he third. there are questions around the world from preschool to high school about not just whether to close school but how to keep kids learning in the meantime. joining me, offering videos to 93 million users globally, good to have you back on the show. it's one thing for universities to do this, when you seemed that most of the students have the equipment to do it. but when you talk about younger children in schools around the world, are we really ready for the students to go online only? they could be going online in a matter of days. >> the simple answer is, we are not. there are a lot of actors trying to put things together so that we can keep students learning, essentially. the reality is, there are some korea districts in south that have canceled schools nationwide. it will probably accelerate in the u.s. over the next few weeks. is

in public policy and economics and politics from harvard university. three books recently in the last six years. most recently telling truth to power, a history of the national intelligence council which he co-edited with robert hatchings. published by oxford university press just last year. we've been going back and forth trying to find a good time for greg to come out and talk. it is unfortunate that he could only come out now because there is nothing happening in the intelligence community that bears any, that merits any of our attention. without any further ado, please join me in welcoming a long time friend, greg trump written. >> thank you my friend. such a treat to be here. scott has already stolen one of my best lines which is sorry there is no -- nothing talk about intelligence. great treat to be here. i grew up in denver. my parents, we were a middle class family. i was always trying to attach myself to their trips in broad more, i casually did. i got them to go to the broad more so we could listen to more lena the trick. when i was a teenager

she taught at texas tech university, cal state, harvard and brown and is the author of ruination and troubling earth. tonight she will talk to us about three cornered war, tell us how it came today, and sur se some antidotes during the research process and read a passage or two then we'll open it up to questions from audience. please help me give a warm welcome to megan kate nelson. [applause] >> thank you guys thank you everyone for coming out on this drizzly cold dreary night. before we begin i would like technology that we meet her tonight on the traditional lands of the wampanoag people. so "the three-cornered war" tells a story of the civil war and the far west, most of the action takes place in new mexico which would become arizona during the war as well as texas and colorado and california. at this point you may be asking yourself i have never heard this of the war, i thought it was about gettysburg and basically virginia. so i thought the same thing myself when i first started teaching and researching the civil war history 15 years ago which seemed like a very long time i gro

. ♪ one harvard university epidemiologist warning that up to 70% of the world population could contractavirus. doctor mark said 1% of patients who developed symptoms could well die. westchester, new york, hundreds of people congregants have been ordered to self quarantined after being exposed to a man who tested positive for the virus from all services have been canceled. worldwide, more than 3100 deaths now. 93000 cases, 40000 patients have recovered. in america, 122 cases have now been confirmed. california to the northeast, to the southeast, georgia, florida. nine people have died, all of them in the state of washington. joining us tonight, doctor albert from the yale's school of public health, the department chairman, professor of epidemiology and medicine, it's great to have you with us. i want to start with the world health organization and its role in this. talking with secretary a czar, he's seemed to emphasize their role and i was surprised, i feel that we have the expertise, scientific knowledge and public health system to handle it on our own. >> thank you very much. let me e

. ♪ >> tucker: last fall, harvard university's endowment start at $40 billion. t it down. it's not a big worry for harvard. no matter what happens, harvard will still be fantastically wealthy. as rich as some countries. harvard will no doubt be happy to tell you how much it deserves all that money because harvard does so much good in the world. because of people at harvard are such good people. this week, harvard announces laying off hundreds of subcontracted workers from the school's dining halls, hundreds. they are being fired without pay, even being provided a month of severance for them wouldn't cost a school in million dollars. we will save you doing the math. it's less than 140,000 of the school's endowment. every administrator knows he's your morals superior. you are repulsive. they by contrast believe all the right things. you don't. in the end, you can always tell who people really are about how they treat the people closest to them and the people beneath them. not how they talk about people in faraway countries and how much they care for this group for

she and her ba in history and literature from harvard university printed. dawn: and her phd from the university of iowa. she taught at texas tech university, cal state fullerton, harvard and brown and is also the author and trembling earth. tonight she will talk to us about the three cornered more, tell us how it came to be measure some anecdotes about things she learned during the research process and read passenger to an open it up to questions to the audience. please something of a warm welcome to megan case nelson. [applause]. megan: thank you guys. thank you for coming out on this drizzly cold dreary night. before we begin, i would like to acknowledge that we meet here tonight on a traditional land of these people. so the three-quarter, also story tells the story of the civil war the far west. most of the action takes place in mexico. it would become arizona during the war. as well as texas and colorado and california. and so this point, you may be asking yourselves, what. what more i have never heard of this. i thought it was about gettysburg. and bas

those two great universities were harvard university where he earned his bachelors and ph.d. and the university of berlin, which in the early 1900s, was the preeminent university in the western world. and so he, the -- quite possibly the greatest and most-educated african-american in the country, had no clue about africa's history. and -- and so, for him, he viewed africa like -- like african-americans generally viewed africa. as this sort of place of -- of -- of barbarism. this place of -- where civilization was never really known. and he also wrote in his reflection that i came then and afterwards to realize how the silence and neglect of science can let truth utterly disappear. so essentially, that truth about africa. and so then he took it upon himself. and really, from that point forward, he started to write more and more and speak more and more about africa. but unfortunately, by 1912, dubois was -- was battling a novel that was first sort of published in this periodical named "all stories magazine" written by edgar rice boroughs. it became an instant sensation and this

that doctor is ashish jha, director of the global health institute at harvard university.ns us now. it's good to see you again, doctor. look. we would all rather believe the president that, in a few weeks, we'll be okay. and we are hearing from his staff, well, that was an aspirational statement. but there's a danger in giving false hope. what do you want people to know? >> yeah. look. i think we could all use some hope and i'll get to hope because there are areas where i have hope. but hope that's not based in fact and empty and doesn't get us morphiving forward. what americans need to know tonight, we are number one for all the wrong reasons. we had 30,000 more cases and n just the last two days. lot of folks. and we crossed the thousand people who have died. i think, sadly, the days and weeks ahead, we're going to see more deaths. and we're still early in this. we have a lot -- we have a long way to run on this. so, chris, you know, i think the next couple days, next couple weeks are going to be hard. and what we need to do is start thinking about how we're going to ben

joining me is a physician at harvard university and the director of pathology at bringam.s this going to affect the situation? >> yeah, so the recent policy change, it's going to open up access to clinical laboratories, these advanced laboratories that are associated often times with academic medical centers to be able to start performing much-needed tests for their patients. i think in general it will increase the number of tests we can do for this coronavirus and provide faster care to our patients. >> that is very good news. we have some viewer questions for you that i want to get to you. viewer question number one, it says i know that a vast majority of people, even if they are infected will have minimal to no symptoms. if that's the case then should everybody get tested as a precaution? what do you say? >> yes, this gets into the difference between testing patients to know if they are currently infected versus screening, which important for public health processes and to understand how the virus might be transmitting. these two have to be different, and we would not,

harvard university, for example, closed all classes yesterday until september. with that kind of uncertainty, we would be making a mistake if we supposed that cutting interest rates by 25 or 50 basis points was somehow going to be decisive. so i am for it, but what is really going to be important is whether we have a credible and convincing program to contain what has happened in terms of the disease, whether we have really substantial public action to stimulate economies. as long as we are worrying about budgetary targets and budget deficits and the like, i don't think we are going to get where we need to be. david: you have said we need to do something, and we need to do something big. you have said as much as $500 billion. what about the timing? there does seem to be a delay. we were told by the presence we would have the outlines of the plan yesterday. we didn't. how fast do we have to get something in place? larry: there's much more risk of being too slow than there is of being too fast. as rapidlyill elect as possible on all the relevant dimensions, whethe

that doctor is director of global health institute at harvard university. see you again, doctor. nobody wants to hear what you have to say right now. we would all rather believe the president that in a few weeks we'll be okay. and we're hearing from his staff that was an aspirational statement. but there's a danger in giving false hope. what do you want people to know? >> yeah, look, i think we could all use some hope. and i'll get to hope because there are areas where i have hope. but hope that's not based in fact is empty and doesn't get us moving forward. what americans need to know tonight is we are number one for all the wrong reasons. we have more cases here than anywhere else in the world. wi we have 30,000 more cases in just the last two days, a lot of folks. and we cross a thousand people have died. i think sadly in the days and weeks ahead we're going to see more deaths and we're still early in this. we have a long way to rounts. so, chris, i think the next couple of days, next couple of weeks are going to be hard. and what we need to do is start

for more, we are happy to welcome to our broadcast a professor of global health at harvard university and the director of the harvard global health institute. thank you so much for coming on. my first question to you is which mayors in which cities should be preparing the most tonight. >> good evening, brian. thanks for having me on. you know, you're absolutely right. axios is right. there is a new wave that is about to come. there are a whole set of cities that we're tracking that i think we're worried about. obviously everybody has paid in attention in new york, seattle. i think the next cities, chicago, detroit is one i'm getting very concerned about. miami, dallas. this really is all parts of the country, cities in every corner of the country. this is a truly national problem that we have. >> the president at his briefing posed kind of a backwards question, doctor. i'm going to play it for us both. we'll talk about it on the other side. >> whatever they want to call it, you can call it a germ. you can call it a flu. you can call it a virus. you can call it many different names. i'

tly a professor economics at harvard university. yesterday, he joined a bipartisan group of 34 former treasury sretaries, fed chairs and economic scholars who signed a statement urging authorities that the bestad way tess the economic fallt of the coronavirus was to first attend to the medical emergency. lawrence summers, thank you so much for joining us. it's so hard the hear these stories. i want to ask you first about these unemployment claims today. 3 million people. how much worse could this get? >> judy, we're at war with this virus, and you showed some of the casualties of that war, and that's not a's war thoing to end soon. there will be millions more people who will be filing for unemployment insurance and who will lose their jobs. fortunately, that 2.2 trillion dollars is providings oad a point. net as we can at this a lot of money and little do a lot of good, but i'm sure it's not going to be the endf the things we do to keep our economy going and to maintain our economic system. >> woodruff: and that's what ci-- >> but w

another way to think about it is it was essentially the equivalent of harvard university's endowment. rush wasn 1838 when coming back is about 200 years at this point. their endowment is not the gift of one person, but of many gifts. this gift wasof really quite exceptional. so now congress had to decide what is an institution for the increase and diffusion of knowledge? and, they wondered is it a national library, a national university? john quincy adams, who after being president was back in congress, wanted an astrophysical observatory. other congressmen wanted teacher training colleges or agricultural station. decade, they debated and tabled bills and thought over what they should be. there were others still who didn't think it should happen. a number of southern congressman who were extremely wary of having a national institution. who was essentially a contemporary of smithson, and he had spent a lot of his childhood in europe with his father diplomacy and science. he felt himself to understand the sort of aspirations behind smithson's gift and he really fought for it to happen.

from harvard university as well as masters in public policy and public health.preciate you joining us. thank you so much, congressman. >> thank you, don, it's good to be here. >> listen, california's gavin newsom announced a state of emergency. he grand princess is being held off the coast of california because 11 passengers, ten crew members are symptomatic. you used to be an emergency room doctor. what do you think of these precautions? >> well, i think those are good precautions, first of all. and second of all, what the president said about caring more about how he looks than the health and how the american people feel is just abominable. it's not the leadership that we need right now in this serious outbreak that we're having. working in the emergency department during the h1n1 flu season, it's no joke. we have physicians out there right now. they're doing their best working extra hours in overcrowded emergency departments throughout the entire country. and having a president who minimizes this is hurtful, not helpful. what we need to do is to have a straig

. >> harvard university has an incredible endowment and a lot of the endowment they have can go towards ability to do that but there are a lot of small, private colleges and universities that don't have that margin because of the tuition driven and feed driven and fixed costs that are up there. that doesn't mean they shouldn't consider providing refunds or credit for future education and during this time of crisis when the priority is to provide uninterrupted delivery we have to wrestle with these issues so there needs to be time and space to figure this out. >> a tough situation for all sides but for the students it feels like the little guy. i want to get your position on this before i let you go, why you decided and how you decided to send your students home. i want to hear what was like making that decision? >> at the heart of every decision we make is our students, we are student focused so we want to protect them and provide the best health, welfare we can do that so we did. i will say that we are leaving our campus community open for students, we have a number of international st

michigan state university and georgetown are among the latest. they follow the likeof harvardamerican university, and syracuse. any are offering online lessons instead. officials in italy say the number of cases and deaths related to the disease have spiked in the last day. more than 800 peoane have died, infections have reason past the 12,000 mark. the worsening situation mes as the country grapples with tighter travel restrictions and limits on day-to-day life, as mark lowen reports. mark: connecting the epicenters. a doctor in wuhan and those in europe's equivalent, northern italy. colleagues in crisis sharing the know-how. we reached the italian doctor on the right in his hospital. the first toco diagnose navirus here. it hit lika bomb that has caps on explodin >> we see 10,00 15, 60, 70, nations, and we have some hours when the oxygen supply sockets were insufficient to give oxygen to all the patients. we're in a so of war scenario. mark: but in his town, it may have peaked, with no cases in e past day. itould be a sign of containment working. >> what we're doing in thisr

harvard university, columbia, purdue, berkeley have moved their classes online.k from home if possible the next month and now in new york an entire city is on lockdown. more on that in just a moment. but that is just the start of the coronavirus. italy is at a standstill. museums, schools, day cares, restaurants all closed. sporting events, flights canceled and all nonessential travel has been banned by the government. courtney walsh lives in rome and so quarantined they are right now. she joins us by skype. according to him i think is much for coming on. first of all i hate to ask but why are you self quarantined? >> i've been in contact with people in the red zone is up north and there's been a lot of influx of people coming back south. i've been in touch with them. and just to be careful. and also i think the government, tucker, there have been over 10,000 cases of corona virus infections and only china has more. and the government is taking drastic measures now. as of this morning, all of the chinese are prohibited from gathering in public places, and health

we also learned just this morning that harvard university is also moving to virtual instruction. this is one of the key words here for students. and they're urging them not to come back to campus after spring break, which begins at the end of this week. and this is all about social distancing. we know that colleges are places where students and staff and faculty live, work, study, in very close proximity to one another. so the goal is to try to make sure people are kept far apart from one another. these are schools canceling not just classes, but events and gatherings making sure not more than 25 or 100 people are gathered together to try to stop this virus. the closings are taking place on both coasts, all across the country, stanford, princeton, harvard, a lot of schools. seems like the numbers are growing by the day. >> college kids, they don't require day care when they're at home. for parents, with kids who are in public schools across the country, elsewhere, they're suspending classes as well. do we know how comprehensive this is so far? >> reporter: not clear so far just h

he is currently a professor of economics at harvard university.bipartisan group of 34 former secretaries of the treasury, federal reserve governors, and economic scholars who signed a statement making the case to officials that the best way to address the economic fallout ofu the corona was to first attend to the medical emergency. larry summers, thank you so much for joining us. it is so hard to hear these stories, and i want to ask you first about these unemployment claims. today, 3.3 million people. orhow much could this get? mr. summers: judy, we are at war with this virus, ame you showed f the casualties of that war, and that is not a war that is going to end sn. there will be millions more people who will be filing for unemployment, insurannd who will lose their jobs. fortunately, that $2.2 trillion is directedg at provids big and broad a safety net as we can at this point. that is a lot of money, and it will do a lot of good. i'm sure it's not going to be the end of the things we do to keep our economy going, and to maintain our economic sy

. >> woodruff: a new analysis by researchers at harvard university shows that the bed capacity of hospitals parts of the u.s. will be overwhelmed if the covid-19 coronavirus continues to spread across theountry. and, as amna nawaz reports, hospitals and health care systems are working to increase their readiness. >> nawaz: judy, the harvard study indicates that even in a best-case scenario, with casesir of cus spread out over 18 months, american hospital b beds wouabout 95% full, unless they free up already- occupied beds. if the pace of infection, or their numb accelerate, the shortfalls become more dire. for what hospitals are doing to prepare themselves, and what mo needs to be done, i am joined by two people who focus closely preparedness. jeremy konyndyk is a senior policy fellow at the center for global development, whose research focusesakn global outbreparedness, among other things. he joins us by skype. and in the studio dr. bruc siegel is president and c.e.o. america's essential hospitals, an association of more than 300 hospitals and healthcare systems. welcome to you both. dr. s