di meola just a professor at mercy college joins us on skype from in new york welcome to the program this morning from w.h.o. about numbers being much higher at the moment we're talking about 20000 cases across the continent and less than $1000.00 deaths which it all sounds very low doesn't it. so indeed there u.n. estimate of 300000 cases been severe a good picture of what we can expect to see in the coming months on what's the doomsday picture and why i'm inclined to say it can prove a not a gross overestimation this exaggeration seems to be more plausible given that we know that this virus is highly transmissible and highly and leaped on and the perfect set of bacteria for our susceptibility and spread exists in most of the african countries so any foot hole of this virus in any country it's likely to be met with the next notion. what are those factors that you're talking about. well hi i'm ari a week help here infrastructure and that we like to see also the perfect enemy of public health is a kraut and when you think of most african countries they have a card to rise by overcrowd

to an's speak now epidemiologist and professor at mercy college who joins us on skype from new york.s morning from the who about numbers being higher, we are talking about 20,000 cases across the continent and less than 1000 deaths. that sounds very low. indeed, you -- the u.n. estimate seems a very grim picture of what we can expect a coming in the -- we can expect in the coming months. it can prove another gross overestimation. this exaggeration seems to be more plausible, given that we know that this virus is highly transmittable and highly lethal. the perfect set of factors for susceptibility and spread exists in most of the african countries. any foothold of this virus in any country is likely to be met with an exclusion -- explosion. >> what are those factors you are talking about? >> a week health care infrastructure. the perfect enemy of public health is a crowd. when you think about most african countries, they are characterized by overcrowding, especially in the urban areas. adding to that, as well as poor health care infrastructure, are factors that can lead to serious ill

numbers are higher than reported when it's enough rossi has his own epidemiology professor at mercy college he says the pandemic poses a major threat to africa's dense populated cities. enemy of public health is a kraut and when you think of most african countries the uk hard to rise by overcrowding it's actually in the urban areas but adding to that as well as health care infrastructure are factors that can lead to serious illness and death for example endemic all year round in most of those countries are diseases such as tuberculosis it child beat aids and malnutrition and those conditions tend to look at lead to compromised immune systems and therefore in fewer and lead death be done and lead to serious disease and death so it's a perfect recipe so what drives an epidemic in the explosions where i can understand the concern of the u.n. here rossi has at them now this president is resisting calls from state governors for the federal government to play a bigger role in ramping up coronavirus testing dollar trump says that is the responsibility of u.s. states which are under growing pressur

as an epidemiologist and professor at mercy college and he says the pandemic poses a major threat to africa's dense populated cities. enemy of public health is a kraut and when you think of most african countries they have hard to rise by overcrowding especially in the urban areas but adding to that as well as health care infrastructure are factors that can lead to serious illness and death for example endemic all year round in most of those countries are diseases such as tuberculosis aids and malnutrition and those conditions tend to lead to compromised immune systems and therefore in fewer and lean danny and lead to serious disease and death so it's a perfect recipe. right an epidemic and explosions where i can understand the concern of the u.n. here ecuador's worst his city of guy kill is reeling from a huge surge in deaths officially around 400 people have died from coronavirus in the country so far but doctors say that that number that the number of deaths in the province is actually far higher. and health officials in mexico they're increasing calls for people to wash. count of

mercy is in l.a., both ships are receiving patients. joining me now the commander of the united states northern command. thank you very much for joining me. collegend get right back to work because i know you have a lot on your plate, i cannot believe what you're doing building the hospitals, shipping supplies, i just saw you intercepted a russian jet entering alaskan airspace and turned it away and sending's soldiers down to the southern boarding under border. please extend what you are doing. gen. o'shaughnessy: thank you jesse, we really appreciate the opportunity to highlight the things that the u.s. northern command and arm entire department offense are doing. we are to defend our homeland, we make sure that we have the force that we need, 100% of the time, 24/7, 365 even while in the virus. we make sure were ready to prepare to respond to anything, we have that done were ready to go and at the same time were providing support, all across the nation because our nation needs us, this is a whole nation approach, we are part of it and as you mentioned with the hospital ships, with the army, hospitals built up in the javits center in new york ci

, may god in his mercy grant peace to all, to the lives that were taken six years ago, to the lives that go on, and to the life that ended today. history,n lectures in grove city college president paul mcnulty talks about the development of the u.s. constitution and what he believes are its main results, republican is him, separation of powers and federalism. he served as deputy attorney general in the george bush administration from 2006 to 2007. mr. mcnulty: good evening. welcome to class number two. great to see you all here tonight. last week we looked at the history, a brief look at history that led to drafting the constitution.