i'm particular proud of johns hopkins coronavirus tracking system which public-health officials have come to rely on for up-to-date information. i implore johnsfi hopkins officials which has proven itself critical in fighting this disease. as lord kelvin stated so long ago when you can measure what you are speaking about and express it in numbers enough something about it but when you cannot measure it and you cannot express it in numbers you are of theyl unsatisfactory kind. in the early days of the pandemic and maryland state officials like officials of those they were desperately searching for ways to increase our testing capacity to johns hopkins developed its own coronavirus task force to meet demands. the university has been especially helpful in maryland's effort to combat the virus to johns hopkins has closely corroborated with local nursing homes to train their employees and test residents to protect our most vulnerable population butns i commend johns hopkins ingenuity which has been critical to efforts to identify those to prevent the spread ofd the virus. the university of

i applied on - - applaud john hopkins officials to create that pool which has proven itself critical to fight the disease. what you speak about that when you cannot measure it and express it in numbers so in the early days of the pandemic state officials desperately searching for ways to have the testing capacity developing his own coronavirus test and it has been especially hopeful to combat the virus and johns hopkins has closely corroborated with nursing homes to train employees and residents for the most vulnerable populations i commend johns hopkins ingenuity which is critical to those afflicted with covid-19 and affect the spread of the virus university of maryland medical system to address those devastating effects and the states minority communities which is likely due to those disparities the university has assembled of public health experts with the covid-19 consortium to be critical to developde strategies to form the states response efforts to protect communities who are more susceptible to covid-19. despite the immense burden they have stepped up to help local hospitals

university, also a senior scholar at the johns hopkins center for health security. thanks very much for being with us. >> thanks for have me, i appreciate it. >> what did you find out last september, and would it come through -- come to fruition in? may of this year? >> the purpose was to address the possibility of there being a pandemic caused by fast-moving respiratory virus. by a fast-moving respiratory virus. the idea was it could spread quickly and potentially affect multiple countries at once, and what should preparedness look like in that scenario was so many places are affected at the same time? the availability of resources would be limited and it would be every country for itself. what we found is we would probably have not a medical countermeasure like a drug or vaccine to combat the new virus like this, so we would have to rely on nonpharmaceutical intervention, social distancing. we looked into the supply chain issues and anticipated shortages and medical supplies and ppe. we consider the possibility that surveillance would be limited and it would be ha

sanchez's office has not acknowledged his error because johns hopkins tracker cites world-o-meter as rce. >> should they? >> i'm not sure. that's a great question. i think that's -- hopkins. >> johns hopkins says its covid-19 tracker uses mostly automated scraping from designated, credible sources that are manually verified. one of those sources is world-o-meter. asked why it trusts a website it knows so little about, the university would only explain that it's a process of continual cross checking and refinement to ensure that the data we are presenting is as accurate and timely as possible. >> we think that people should be worried and especially media and decision makers, policymakers. >> scott mclean, cnn. >> well, you will, soon, be able to eat inside a mcdonald's. but it may look a little different from what you're used to. coming up, how the fast food giant is beatiefing up its safe measures. >>> also, brazil's health minister quits after just weeks on the job. we'll look at what happened as the country reports the worst coronavirus numbers in latin america. we'll be right back

and johns hopkins has been leading the nation, certainly, in this. have four kids. you also have a husband. you're going to see them later, but here's a surprise. you're going to see them now. dr. rod is with us, and there are the four kids! can you see them? >> hi! happy mother's day! >> i miss you so much! hi. >> hi. >> we miss you too -- >> i know, i miss you too. >> happy mother's day! >> thank you. >> thank you. i wish i was home with you. >> wish you were too. >> oh, i love you. eric: we really surprised you. dr. ron and kids, you know, what's it like to see mom on tv, and what's it like to have mom, you know, at work today? she's doing something very special, and she'll be home later on tonight. what's your message to her? >> you're doing great, mom. >> we love you so much. thank you for what you're doing for the world and johns hopkins. >> yeah, we love you. [inaudible conversations] >> it means you have to stay there, then whatever. >> we understand. >> yeah. >> we love you. >> love you, miss you. >> i love you guys too. i miss you too. than

lisa: that was a professor of johns hopkins bloomberg school of public health.he johns hopkins bloomberg school of public health is supported by michael bloomberg. we will have more on new york city real estate. this is bloomberg. ♪ lisa: welcome back to bloomberg markets. i'm lisa abramowicz. right now, let's turn to real estate in the new york region. the main person we want to speak to as the portfolio of new york office space. that is marc holliday, sl green realty chairman and ceo. this is an economic crisis, a crisis in commercial real estate. before we get there, it is also a human crisis on every level, from people dying to risking their life, to losing their jobs. i want to speak to the losing their jobs aspect of this. your property hosts about 30 different restaurants, and also a lot of people that are hungry. what are you doing on that front to remedy the situation for those populations? marc: thank you for having me. our response has been centered around two primary initiatives. first and obviously, we have a food crisis. covid.xisted pre- it has on

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francine: thank you so much for joining us, lauren sauer from johns hopkins university.omberg terminal for more information and tune in for our exclusive with johns hopkins experts on battling covid-19. the focus is tensions between the u.s. and china. kevin cirilli was talking about some things the u.s. and trump administration would be looking for, including sanctions against chinese officials. that sent a bit of concern on the market, but european equities and u.s. equity futures are up. this is as the european union put the final touches on a fiscal stimulus program to be funded by e.u. debt, the euro now gaining and i'm looking at the renminbi, 7.1544. simulcast,our jonathan ferro and lisa abramowicz with more "bloomberg tv.eillance" on radio and this is bloomberg. ♪ ♪ credible ton't gets believe that a long-term solution to the problems we are facing can be achieved by moving interest rates. >> economic forecasts are hazardous at best, even more so now. >> the uncertainty associated with the pandemic is not likely to go away. >> this is "bloomberg keene,lance," wit

very soon, johns hopkins specifically in june.we will have our first vaccine trials going. in addition, multiple vaccine candidates, so not just one vaccine. while the rest of the world is moving ahead, and we know oxford , we have seen the initiatives take off, so i think we are being nearsighted in the u.s. response in not participating in global efforts. francine: thank you so much, jason farley of johns hopkins. go --e to check out vr s ,go. -- david rubenstein is speaking with eric schmidt to see what he is doing to limit economic fallout in new york. your markets looking forward to understanding a little bit better the unemployment figures in the u.s. this is bloomberg. ♪ ♪ alix: oil production collapses. the iea says output outside of opec is cratering. and major players warned of overvaluation's, and fed chair jay powell gives a gloomy assessment of the future, warming a solvency crisis could emerge without more help. and what comes next for venture capital? we will sit down with greg croft -- with greycroft's cofounder an

remley: johns hopkins is a cumulative amount of tests. we'll never catch up unless we inappropriately tested everybody in the state which wouldn't give us information that would help public health. so if you look at what do we need to know for public health? the 10,000 was looking at about 3% of the population. if you look at 2% to 4%, 2% is hkt is a 0 a day, 4 little more than 1,000. that's when the best model, the best people that inform dr. pique and dr. oliver and the governor say, that's where you get the most information about the state in terms of opening up and where we are. we are, if not today there we're there in the next couple of days that will provide a lot more important public health information. in addition, we're focusing on making sure as the governor said that we're taking care of the uninsured and underinsured. the vulnerable populations we don't always see or find. it's through free clinics who care for those people, federally qualified health centers, but also as we have more testing capacity, being able to deploy o

at the bloomberg johns hopkins bloomberg school of public health.i have co-authored a number of reports and guidance document on reopening safely and its license from the work of what want to e with you today. but first a little bit about the current situation. the united states still faces 25-30,000 new cases every day and approximately 2000 deaths. arrange that held steady for the entire month of people. many states are either moving towards reopening or looking ahead to those decisions and wondering as we all are how to do that safely. it's clear to me where in a critical moment of this fight that we risk complacency and excepting accepting the preventable deaths of 2000 americans each day. we risk complacency and accepting our healthcare workers do not have what you need to do their jobs safely. and we risk complacency in recognizing that was not continued vigilance we will begin create the conditions that led to us being the worst affected country in the world. and so with that in my i want to highlight a few critical capacities that i think we

ustedes en la universidad john hopkins han hecho la lista de contagios y muertes en todo el mundo. muy interesados en saber la verdad, y que los datos que envÍan son fidedignos. por supuesto que hay paÍses en los cuales no tenemos muchos datos y no han enviado datos desde un principio. tampoco quiero mencionar esos paÍses, pero lamentablemente el mapa simplemente es un esfuerzo de hopkins con ayuda mundial, de cada gobierno, del sector salud de cada gobierno, que nos envÍa sus datos. yo creo que pese a que no puede ser perfecto, porque hay paÍses que no envían datos, nos ha dado muchÍsimas ventajas al momento de observar la densidad poblacional, las distintas muertes y las distintas tasas de infectados, dentro de cada sÍ dentro de estados unidos mismo, que se han incluido herramientas nuevas, saber cuÁntos se testean. la ciencia se tiene que requiere un poco de confianza. nosotros hemos hablado, y los gobiernos y las autoridades que envÍan los datos, nos aseguran que estos datos son confiables. le voy a dar otro ejemplo muy oportuno. si un paÍs testea poco, no sabemos a la realidad

- speak to andrew pekosz of johns hopkins not miss ourd do exclusive daily conversations. tom keene, jonathan ferro and lisa sir -- lisa abramowicz for more "bloomberg surveillance." u.s. futures edging lower, stocks also dropping. we are awaiting the scheduled press conference from president trump on china. this is bloomberg. ♪ staying connected your way is easier than ever. you're just a tap away from personalized support on xfinity.com. get faster internet speeds with a click. order xfi pods to your home in a snap. or change your xfinity services with just a touch. all in one place. you're only seconds away from all of that on xfinity.com. faster than a call. easy as a tap. now that's simple, easy, awesome. >> it's hard enough to forecast where the economy will be going over the next months and quarters. forcasting potential output the next several years is even harder. >> every other financial market is pricing in something closer to a u. >> economic are hazardous at rest. they are even more so now. >> this is "bloomberg keene,lance," with tom and lisa abramowicz. keen

, beth blower from t john's hopkins, and bedr. nuzzo. how do people know the daily death toll and stats we see are reliable? >> the death stats we see are only as good as what's reported from the states. and we know that the states are doing testing of people who have died to count them as a covid-19 case. we should very much believe that the death numbers that are reported reflect those who have died of covid-19. that said there are probably numbers of deaths out there that have not been tested that are not being included in the numbers. if anything, we may see the true number is actually larger than what's reported and not the other way around. >> i see a lot of conspiracy theory things going on saying these numbers are overcounts. these people are not dying from covid, they're dying from other diseases. how do we know that's bs? >> that goes back to testing? order to be counted as a confirmed death, states are testing. and therefore we have laboratory evidence that the person who died died with covid-19 infection. we do know in

joined by professor alexander white use a sociologist who teaches the history of epidemics at johns hopkins university in baltimore professor white it's good to have you on the day we just heard in that report that prejudice is a discrimination that they're enjoying somewhat of a rebirth is that what pandemics do they claim lives and they also take some of our humanity at the same time. i would say that's that's very well put unfortunately the rise of racism and xenophobia can comment when an epidemic is not a new phenomenon historically those who are perceived as others within society and blame for the spread of disease which in turn has been used to justify oppressive policies against marginalized groups it was the same in the 14th century as jews were blamed for spreading plague in europe and burned to the state and a host of racially instead of phobic we motivated quarantines and occurred you know really from that period up until the 20th century in response to be by nick clegg and other diseases largely blaming marginalized groups for the spread of this disease and it's important to no

i mean that it's an interesting question you ask you know we're finishing up our semester at johns hopkins and i have some brilliant students who are all suggesting you know they're not asking questions about how this will change their lives but they're asking really what's next and what we have to do to make sure this doesn't happen again i think we've seen waves and waves of crises for her generation z. but foundationally there's also you know a significant motivation to make sure we don't repeat the mistakes the past and i hope that that's the message that gets carried through after this. you know you are a professor you deal with the leaders of the future what is this pandemic doing to the generation that will be in power or mid century when for example climate change will be full blown yeah i mean i think it is causing a great deal of anxiety certainly amongst them and they're mourning what they've lost their they're losing you know the time to to be out and about when when they're young and i think this is this is a very disappointing but i also think there's a move to understand the

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joining us on the kron 4 morning news on this wednesday may 13th i'm robin winston, according to johns hopkins university more than 82,000 people in the u.s. are reported to have died from the coronavirus an updated model predicts increased fatalities over the next few months right now there are more than 4 million cases worldwide with over 291,000 deaths john lawrence reports. >>147,000 covid-19 deaths by august. that's what the institute for health metrics and evaluation at the university of washington is predicting for the u.s. 10,000 more than its projection earlier this week states relax people have. >>heard the message that got me out to become more mobile out there having more contact and we're seeing the ready of that transition california state university system is canceling most in person classes through the fall semester. and los angeles county might keep stay at home orders for the next few months. >>but ease some restrictions we're learning to live with it we're not moving beyond it. >>but it's important not to overreact and not to under react others, including president trump wan

to covid-19 the number of confirmed infections is well over 1 million this morning according to johns hopkins university, at least 187,000 patients have been able to recover from the virus. >> california plans to move forward with phase two of its reopening plan on friday the governor says some retailers, including clothing and sporting goods stores, will be able to reopen with safety modifications. in santa cruz, california, an anonymous donor gave $1 million to the employees at dignity health dominican hospital, including the doctors, nurses, cleaning staff, everyone part-timers get $600 >> in washington state, toys for tots are delivering christmas cheer early. they want to help keep kids engaged and active while they're stuck at home right now. in texas, people started leaving their homes to go to the movies. the state is allowing theaters to reopen at 25% capacity. major chains are still closed, but some smaller ones decided to open three locations in san antonio attracted about 3,000 customers over the weekend >>> for the first time in over a month, president trump is hitting the road t

johns hopkins has tracked 1.3 million cases in the u.s.lone accounting for one-third of the global total. the virus has even made it into the trump white house now and potentially sidelined several key health officials. cnn's jeremy diamond has this from the white house. >> reporter: well, three top doctors on the white house's coronavirus task force are now going to be teleworking, working from home, carrying out some form of self-quarantine for the next two weeks after coming into contact with somebody at the white house who tested positive for coronavirus in just the last week. that is dr. robert redfield, the head of the centers for disease control, dr. stephen hahn, as well as dr. anthony fauci who has of course become one of the most public faces of this white house's response to the coronavirus. all of them announcing that they will be working from home for the next two weeks carrying out some form of self-quarantine. dr. anthony fauci telling jake tapper that he will be undergoing a modified quarantine for the next 14 days, working

with an economic crisis that's left many struggling for basic supplies human rights watch and john hopkins university say venezuela's lack of capacity to deal with covert 19 could cause more problems at its borders and police in the u.s. city of minneapolis have used tear gas to disperse protesters calling for justice over the killing of an unarmed black man while in police custody. there are calls for the offices to face criminal charges. those are the headlines on al-jazeera coming up next inside story to stay with this. 2 major powers that warmly disputed himalayan pulled up india and china blame each other for confrontations over the past month but why is this happening now and could the tension trigger a military conflict this is inside story. hello welcome to the program i'm bernard smith trouble is brewing up the roof of the world india and china both claim territory along the him a liar.

we have been talking with members of johns hopkins university about this pandemic.s been kind enough to join us repeatedly, always giving good perspective. i want you to talk about dr. f auci, the virologist, talking to the ophthalmologist, going at it over infectious disease? is an: i think dr. fauci expert. as an infectious disease physician, we have to trust that his path forward and vision for how to safely reopen the country is the most important path to follow. we have to be safe, steadfast, and this is the time when we need that voice of leadership. lauren, good morning from london. where can you find a voice of leadership? is there anyone or anything when you look at testing and some of the things about what this virus does, that you would trust? lauren: that is one of our bigger challenges -- biggest challenges. in that discussion, when dr. cavalier whenim he said schools should reopen, i don't feel we have a strong national leadership front we can go to for support. normally you would expect that from the cdc and the cdc has been sidelined. bestnk dr. fauc

joining me now, kristen welker, white house correspondent peter baker, the senior scholar at johns hopkins health and security and leon panetta at the pentagon and cia. kristen, president trump backing down under pressure for the talk he was going to dismantle the white house task force. the task force that included all of those health care officials, now saying also that more lives will be lost with the reopening, but that is what we're going to have to deal with, the price we're paying i guess for reopening, for returning to normal. how does he weigh that balance, saying more people will die? >> andrea, i think it underscores the pressure the president feels as though he's under to try to get the economy and parts of the country back up and running again. this is a president who was planning to run on re-election on the economy, to tout the strong economy, and now deep concerns within this administration and within his campaign frankly that this crisis will undoubtedly undermine that argument, and that's in part why he feels so much urgency to try to turn the corner, and in part why you

francine: lauren sauer from johns hopkins university.ry with johns hopkins experts for stats on covid-19. this is bloomberg. ♪ ♪ alix: target's profit squeeze. shares drop as investors show concerns over weakening profitability despite record sayers in the first quarter -- record sales in the first quarter. the treasury is set to sell 20 year debt, while the u.k. sells negative yielding debt for the first time in history. shapiropeak to tom about rapid changes that will transform the real estate market. welcome to "bloomberg daybreak" on this wednesday, may 20. i'm alix steel. in the markets, equity futures in europe were pressured. targetket is digesting results a little less favorably. the big news overnight is the u.k. actually selling negative debt for the first time ever. that sets the stage for investor demand in the 20 year auction here in the u.s.

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it is an online tool that we developed with john hopkins bloomberg school of public health.feel strongly that this is a way forward in combination with social distancing. contact tracing has been very effective. vonnie: one of the concerns is between a lag time diagnosis and having the disease and being able to pass it along. is good and effective contact tracing, if you have already been in 14 different areas, had contact with 10,000 people, and then you test positive. why contact tracing is important to combating covid-19, number one, we want to find who thosecases, know contacts are, investigate them, make sure we are tracing their contacts. clear,ng i should make one less contact can keep this virus going. with theortant, phones,cation of mobile people can be tracked. we can accelerate contact tracing. we did it in west africa, liberia. we were able to train-- vonnie: i'm sorry to cut you off but we have to leave it there. johns hopkins is affiliated with bloomberg. ♪ mark: i'm mark crumpton with bloomberg first word news. british prime minister boris johnson has unveile

and the total number of confirmed coronavirus cases worldwide has passed 5000000 researchers at johns hopkins university say the virus has killed more than 320000 people lockdowns aimed at containing a tough devastated at the world economy. a chinese leaders have observed a minute of silence for corona virus victims at the start of it the biggest political gathering this year the opening session of china's top political advisor a body started one day ahead of the national people's congress when china's top leaders will meet unlikely announce measures to kickstart the struggling economy that's been hit hard by the pandemic and speak to katrina you in beijing for is so katrina the advisory board the body department meeting and they talk to a number of issues every year but this year is going to be different isnt it. quite different this afternoon and it's known as the 2 sessions opened here in beijing the advisory body is made up of about 2000 economists and other political political commentators analysts business people and they advise the government and tomorrow we'll have the national people

-- epidemiology at johns hopkins on the latest development on the spread of the coronavirus.nnifer gonzalez cologne, the resident commissioner for public -- puerto rico. she will talk about the islands coronavirus response and the federal relief effort there. join the conversation tonight at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. government federal at work and washington, d.c. and throughout the country, use the directory for contact information for members of congress, governors and federal agencies. order your copy online today. because of the coronavirus, the supreme court is hearing oral arguments via teleconference this week. this case involves free speech and that are restrictions to aids and hiv. this is one hour 10 minutes.

to johns hopkins university to talk about .ovid-19 with dr.his is bloomberg. ♪ ♪ this is bloomberg "surveillance," tom and francine from london and new york. every day, we are lucky to speak with johns hopkins about what covid-19 means, what the breakthroughs are, and what more can be done. we speak with andrew pekosz. thank you for giving us a little bit of your time. clinical trials, there is a lot of confusion of some of the drugs that have trials and have been tested, if they work, don't work. what do we know about remde sivir? andrew: it has had a couple of reports out. one from the nih shows significant promise and if it is given early enough in the course of infection it seems to improve the time in which people get better. a report out of china suggests it was less successful, but those patients were being treated much later in the disease process at a time where not just the virus is causing damage but also your immune response. i would say there is cautious optimism, but it certainly seems like it will be a treatment that is probably

andrew pekosz with johns hopkins university. we will do that next.rg. ♪ ♪ "bloombergs is surveillance." latest tech giant to cut jobs in the midst of the pandemic and cut jobs in at least five states. one worker said the number of positions eliminated is likely in the thousands. cuts unknown how many were because of the pandemic. nissan may reportedly cut more than 20,000 jobs worldwide it also reports that nissan may reorganize operations in japan because of falling demand for cars. its new midterm plan next week. hertz faces a deadline today to agree to a deal on a miss debt payment -- missed debt payment. some are sure they will -- tom: he is with johns hopkins university bloomberg school of public health. mr. bloomberg is the founder of andmberg lp, the radio online platform as well. as we go into a memorial day weekend attempting to understand emergencyes on our community and he is celebrating a wedding anniversary. congratulations to you and your bride. what is so important is the stresses on an exhausted medical community. how are they doing?

professor jason farley with johns hopkins university. bloomberg, the founder of this network, is a big supporter of johns hopkins university. meantime, i want to get back to uber results. more headlines have been really good on uber. the biggest news -- have been rolling in on uber. they sawst news is declines in ridesharing but are boosted by uber eats. what are your takeaways? of course we see how much the ridesharing business is being affected by the lockdown and shelter-in-place orders, but we see signs that are encouraging. in places where lockdowns have been released progressively, we rise, so that's great. the second thing is that these businesses react very well to a pullback. 6% in q1.ere down cash reserves we are down 9%. it is very rare to have businesses where you recover faster. that is encouraging. see is that [indiscernible] at some point in 2021, so it is not so far from here. emily: i also want to get your thoughts on tesla, because you also cover tesla. we have learned the china factory has halted production as well, me

johns hopkins has been at the forefront on the virus and every day we bring in insight into what johnsg and some analysis and information it has. we are thrilled to be joined by michelle patch thank you for joining us. -- michelle patch. thank you for joining us. what do we know about blood clots? how long do we need to study covid-19 before we figure out what form it can take in some patients? michelle: good morning from baltimore. a little background on what is clotting? an human body, we have incredible ability to heal ourselves. when you have an injury to a blood vessel, say you are cutting tomatoes and you slip and cut your finger. the blood vessels around that try to contract and stop losing blood, and you have several proteins that spawned to that area -- respond to that area and turn the liquid blood into solid. usually this would be helpful and protective. variousare seeing in types of severe illness, including some of our patient with covid-19, there is the potential for this system to focus in an overdrive setting. needed, more study is and this is complex and we are learnin

up next, lauren sauer of johns hopkins. up next and this is bloomberg. ♪ ♪ good morning, everyone, bloomberg "surveillance." she was born eight years after charles dickens. she had her best work at the same hospital where boris johnson recently fought her life. her name is florence nightingale and this week is the beginning of nurses week like we have never seen before. from johnss us hopkins university emergency medicine. give us an update on the state of the nurses at the johns hopkins university. lauren: i think the primary state of the nurses is exhausted. everyone is working incredibly hard to keep up with the patient load, keep up with the demands of using the ppe, of working overtime to make sure units get turned into covid units and patients are safely cared for. we are incredibly grateful for the work of our nurses. it has been unbelievable. tom: what i notice about emergency medicine is you try to learn every step of the way. what do you know now about the therapeutics of this virus verses where you were six weeks

"the johns hopkins study being pushed around by the media as factual is based on faulty assumption ando way representative of any federal government projections," and as johns hopkins stated, shall be taken as a forecast. this study considered zero mitigation, conducted as though no federal guidelines are in place, no contact tracing, no expansion of testing, while removing all shelter in place protocols out in the phased approach in the opening of america again guidelines for individuals with comorbidities." johns hopkins also issuing a statement today saying, "these permit don my preliminary analyses were provided to fema to aid in scenario planning, not to be used as forecast. this version published is not a final version." the of emoluments mentioned, the white house he is from institute of health metrics and evaluation, says about 190 deaths per day and contrast. that's a 50% decrease of where we are today, but still troubling. a total death toll topping 135,000. all that said, the president makes his way west on his first trip since the end of march when he saw the usns comfort o

we will speak with the lead author of the report from the johns hopkins scschoolf public health and with an infectious disease pediatrician. all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democrcracyn.o.org, the ququarae report. i'm amy goodmaman. the worlrld health organizatat's director general warned wedndnesday ththe covid-d-19 pac has reacached a grim new mileste with worldwide cononfirmed cases of the novel coronavirus topping 5 million. >> in the last 24 hours, there have been 106,000 cases reported a singleo, the most in day since the outbreak began. almost two thirds of these cases were reported in just four countries. amy: the united states tops the list by far with over 93,000 deaths and over a million and a half confirmed cases. the u.s. has the ninth worst fatality rate in the world, right next to iran. russia has the second-highest infection rate with over 300,000 reported cases. brazil, which recently surpassed the united kingdom to become the third-most affected nation, has emerged as the world's largest coronavirus hotspot. in brazil's amazon region, the mayor

. >> reporter: and now, kate, the president there was referring to that johns hopkins university model which the researcher in charge of that has said it was not complete and he's not sure why it was included in this cdc and fema report that has been used internally inside the government. the white house, of course, has distanced itself from that. i also asked the president, kate, about the imhe model, which we know the white house has repeatedly relied on, and that report is showing a doubling of deaths by august to 134,000 deaths. the president also gave me the same answer there in talking about no mitigation. that's just not true, kate. >> that's right. >> this latest modeling is not about no mitigation, it's about relaxed mitigation, relaxed social distancing, and taking all of that into account as some of these states begin to reopen. i asked the president also specifically about the fact that almost all of these states are reopening before meeting the president's own criteria for beginning to reopen. that is, a 14-day reduction in the number of new cases. almost all of those stat

the creator of the john hopkins model saying the projections were unfinished and not intended to be a forecast but adding there are reopening scenarios where it could get out of control very quickly gotly noting cases are expanding in 20 states. >> it may be the case that we have literally tens of thousands of infections every day and we have to learn how to reduce our risk and how to live in an environment where the backdrop is that there's going to be continued spread of this virus. >> reporter: tonight, another model sited by the white house is projecting the death toll will reach 134,000, that would mean as many americans could lose their lives in the months ahead as have died so far. lester >> all right peter, thank you. >>> even with those troubling new projections, more states are letting businesses reopen despite the risks while others are taking a more cautious approach sparking new protests we get the latest from nbc's miguel almaguer. >> reporter: tonight in california where stay-at-home orders remain in effect, business as usual has never looked so shocking from restaurant

we spoke with an assistant professor from johns hopkins earlier about the latest strategies.entilators have been fighttely critical as we to help individuals survive this illness. seen improvements in the availability of them. as some individuals are we then, of course, would have those ventilators available for others. they truly are remarkable. tho are interesting, too, ugh, as there have been discussions behind the scenes, thinking about how we make the best use of our technology while also protecting our staff and ppe. some work bybeen engineers, nurses, others, how can we maybe use those ventilators from a distance? again, there is so much that we need to do, far that we need to go. stable,w, we are pretty i can say in the johns hopkins system, our ventilator situation is stable at the moment. ofthere were a number troubling reports about blood clots being formed. what do we need to know about this linkage? michelle: there are more questions than answers at this point. many are studying this connection. is it a direct result of the virus itself? is it more a correlation

the assistant professor of epidemiology at johns hopkins.his available at our website at c-span.org/coronavirus. thank you for joining us on this monday. stay healthy, keep well. we are back tomorrow morning at 7:00 a.m. eastern time. >> c-span's washington journal live every day. news and policy issues that impact you. coming up tuesday morning, we will discuss the airlines' theonse of the -- to coronavirus pandemic. then, i discussion of the pandemic's impact on assisted living facilities with the american health care association's david gifford. protestsanti-lockdown and the overall federal response to the virus. watch c-span's washington journal live at 7:00 eastern tuesday morning. join the discussion. be sure to watch washington journal saturday at 8:00 a.m. eastern. we are taking calls and questions from high scores across the country preparing to take the advanced placement u.s. history exam. is a look at alive coverage tuesday. thethe second day in a row, supreme court hears oral argument by teleconference on a case concerning free-

a doctor fromto johns hopkins university, a specialist in infectious disease. don't go anywhere.his is bloomberg. ♪ scarlet: the pandemic has delayed u.s. economic growth. michael mckee spoke with the dallas fed president robert kaplan to get his expectations on when the economy can start to recover again. >> with businesses reopening, i think you can see a good, slow, steady recovery in the third and fourth quarters. what i'm worried about is despite what the government may ,ay or what the guidelines are there are certain behaviors that consumers will be reluctant to engage in. whether it's shopping, going to entertainment or arts, anything where people are gathered. me, whatn example for the feds have done for the lending programs as helped stabilize markets are the fiscal policy is key. i think this stage to recover faster, health care policies are central. what do i mean by that? ubiquitous testing, contact procedures, and i am one that a little concern we are doing more testing in texas, but i would love to see a national initiative manhattan project to really emphasize test

we spoke with a johns hopkins official about the outlook.here are many glimmers of hope and i want the audience to know that we see hope on the horizon. the appearance of a calling of the virus in certain locales, certainly in baltimore where i am, other areas where you are seeing a flattening of the curve, but by no means does that mean we can roll back our active participation in the social distancing measures when we are out and about. >> i look at rolling back the social participation. the fact is, we see social participation. get away with this, with the distances between us, 6, 12 feet, whatever the number is, or do we have to stay locked down? there is a huge push back. >> i think the population is exhibiting the exact same disillusionment we anticipate. in the beginning of any pandemic, there is great science around this, we see the heroic effort of the population to come together and persevere. that, over time, gives way to this level of disillusionment, where people push back on this feeling, this desire to interact socially. in th

steve: here are the numbers from johns hopkins university. worldwide infections in the last 60 minutes. nearly 2000. worldwide deaths in the last 60 minutes, 306. 231 in the united states. we are back tomorrow evening at 8:00 eastern time with a primetime addition of the washington journal. joining us will be the dean of harvard medical center. george daley will be joining us. and the assistant professor of epidemiology at johns hopkins. this available at our website at c-span.org/coronavirus. thank you for joining us on this monday. stay healthy, keep well. we are back tomorrow morning at 7:00 a.m. eastern time. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2019] >> c-span's washington journal live every day. news and policy issues that impact you. coming up tuesday morning, we will discuss the airlines' response to the coronavirus pandemic. with the international president of the association of flight

the johns hopkins is a cumulative amount of tests. we will never catch up unless we inappropriately just tested everybody in the state which would not gives information if it would help public health. if you look at what we need to know for public health the 10000 was looking at about the% of the population and if you look at the two, 4% it's about 5500 a day and 4% is more than 10000 and that is when the best models and the best people that inform doctor peake and oliver and the governor say that is where you need to be with testing at large for the state to be able to make good decisions about opening up and healthcare needs and where we will go. we are, if not today we are there and the next couple of days and that will provide more important public health information and in addition we are focusing on making sure as the governor said that we are taking care of the uninsured and underinsured and the vulnerable populations we don't always see or find it is through free clinics who care for those people and the federally qualified he

according to johns hopkins, 3.7 million cases around the world.he overall death toll, 263,000 globally. isning us in washington dc asretary burwell, who served hhs secretary during the obama administration. let me begin with the learning curve you had as president of a you. and what have you learned about a you and higher education in general over the last two months? secretary burwell: like everyone dealing with the uncertainty of the covid-19 crisis, we have been on a steep learning curve, doing things we have never done at the university. the main thing is our move to online learning, and moving off our campuses. thingsre the two largest , as well as, we are like everyone else, and our staff and faculty are also working from home. those of the main areas where, like everyone else, we have been asrning and acting nimble, we never expected we could. a lot of learning in terms of how our community can act together, and that was across all parts of our community. and that has been one of the and the samenings, time we have learned things that are c