have reinforced the nototion that travel b ban's may work, en though my public heah collegee mate looook askancece--public hh colllleagues may look askancncet that. widespread testing -- don'n't be so narrow. spread it out. be enthusiastic about testing. that is lesson we can learn. phil: good talking to you. thank you so much f for joining us, professor wililliam schaffnr from vanderbilt university. the number of people killed by coronavirus is past 5000. governments around the world are working to halt schools, that he large gatherings, and in some cases closing national borders. the head of the world health organization had this assessment. >> europe has become the epicenter of the pandemic, w wih more reported cases and deaths than the rest of the world combined. apart from china. more cases are now being reported every day than were reported in china at the highest of the epidemic. phil: the eu commission president has promised to do whatever it takes to help the bloc deal with the pandemic. she has pledged to help redirect a vital medical assistance to hard-hit areas like italy. it

extra prececautions beingng takn and back on- on the cluster zones in the north a reportt takes s a looook. well i'd haveo cope with nineteen corona virus outbreak. a body temperature check to go shopping these iranians are having to deal with additional health tests to enter one of tehran's shopping malls more evidence of how life has changed in areas affected by the corona virus outbreak. well one hundred twenty five new cases were e reported in china on tuesday t the lowest since the end of january the outbreak is now r rapidly spreading elsewhere around the world. south korea has said the country is at war as the number of cases surpassed five thousand dozens of nations have imposed travel restrictions for people who have been to the country in recent days. and in europe authorities are scrambling to contain the virus italian health officials say they are considering setting up a new quarantine zone near the city of bergamo home to more than a hundred thousand people. there were twenty seven new deaths nationwide on monday. meanwhile french president emmanuel macron told journalists th

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we looook at domestic violenence during the p pandemic wiwith kae ray-jones, head of the national domestic violence hotline. all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. the united statetes of america s become the epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic, overtaking china to lead the world in cases of covid-19. the virus continued its exponential growth thursday, surging to over 85,000 u.s. cases, though the true number is certain to be far higher. over 1300 people across the u.s. have died from the virus, and the death rate is predicted to accelerate in the days ahead. this as president trump continues to defy his scientific advisors and downplay the threat of the endemic. here in new york city, the largest hot spot of the u.s. crisis, 84 covid-19 patients died just thursday as wave after wave of critically ill people flooded intensive care units and threatened to overwhelm the healthcare system. columbia and new york university medical schools said they will allow medical students to graduate early to join the fight ag