ron klain, a political veteran now and formerly advising the biden campaign. among his many roles in the white house over the years, working with dr. redlener. he oversaw the response to the ebola outbreak during the obama presidency. ron happens to be the co-host of a new podcast about the coronavirus called "epidemic." ron, since you guys are colleagues, i'm going to start with you but ask you both in order to answer the same question. what do you see out there that needs doing, that's not being done? what's perhaps being done wrong? >> yeah. so i think we're seeing a crisis of both confidence and competence at the trump white house. the confidence crisis comes from the fact that the president keeps on saying things that aren't true, and he's finally run into an opponent he cannot tweet into submission. the coronavirus is not going to be impressed by trump's tweets. so he keeps on misrepresenting the state of the disease. he keeps on misrepresenting the state of progress on things like the vaccine. that erodes the power of his communications on this. on the

but most importantly it was ron klain who oversaw the response to the ebola outbreak during the obama presidency. he also importantly is co-host of a new podcast about the coronavirus called "epidemic." ron, first things first. minnesota mine and manufacturing company, 3m, terrific company full of terrific people. they gave the world post-it notes, by god, and a whole lot of other things. why can't the president federalize their mask assembly line and just say, we'll make you whole, but we need you to triple production. everything that comes out of here, we're going to distribute. because what we're hearing from the briefing room, we're not seeing those masks in health care facilities. >> yeah. well, the answer is he can. the law that the president expanded last week, the defense production act, gives him precisely that authority. the question really isn't why can't he. it's why won't he. you heard the president say today, i'm not a delivery clerk as a way to kind of dismiss this concern about these medical supplies. the states somehow should just kind of order them on their own, righ

ron klain is with us. he's a former senior aide to former vice president joe biden and president obama. he served as the ebola czar, so-called, during the obama administration. he is now an adviser to joe biden's 2020 presidential campaign. and democratic congressman bay area before barra of california. the former chief medical officer for sacramento. dr. harris, i want to begin with you because we heard the most extraordinary thing that we could possibly hear in this situation today, which was donald trump's assessment of the mental health of the country and his prediction of thousands and thousands of suicide, mass suicide if people do not go back to work, apparently because he believes they value their paycheck more than their lives. what can you both as a psychiatrist and a medical professional, what can you say in reaction to the president of the united states saying a thing like that? >> well, lawrence, in reality suicide has increased 30% over the last ten years. particularly among youth and particu

we begin right now with ron klain. you may recognize him because he has been everywhere providing his insights given his unique experience of leading the obama white house's ebola response. he is also a former chief of staff we should mention to vice president biden. we're also joined by msnbc medical contributor there lithy troy at langone. thank you both for joining us. ron, walk us through your review of what the numbers mean, what the government is doing and the defense we just heard there. >> so, look, the numbers mean, as you said, ari, partly this disease is progressing. partly we're testing more. but we're still behind on almost every single front. three weeks ago president trump said there would be a million tests by the end of that week, and 1.4 by the end, millions by the end of last week. we're probably only still in the hundreds of thousands of tests. what we see on your board is a fraction of the reality. hospitals are starting to see the inflow of patients that we all predicted a few weeks ago would star

ron klain, we're going to ask you to come on again many times, i know. thank you very much for staying up late with us tonight after the day you've had already. >>> and coming up for us, our next guest has his own take or takedown of the president's skill set on crisis management with all of us in the teeth of an emergency. kids laughing,] [sfx: bikes passing,] [sfx: fire truck siren, ambient sounds] onstar, we see them. okay. mother and child in vehicle. mother is unable to exit the vehicle. injuries are unknown. thank you, onstar. my son, is he okay? your son's fine. thank you. there was something in the road ... it's okay. you're safe now. having dry skin is a struggle. turns out, my body wash was the problem. but with olay ultra moisture body wash, my skin went from dry and dull to visibly healthy in just 14 days. better skin from a body wash? you better believe it. with olay body. my schizophrenia for a while, and then my kids asked me why my body was rocking back and forth. my doctor said i have tardive dyskinesia, which may be related to important

ron klain, what about that and the fact the president said he didn't shake hands, hasn't been shaking hands, he said that in the oval office but when he was in india, he was shaking hands and hunging with prime minister modi. although that was more than 14 days ago. so he would be beyond the worrying stage. >> it's not clear if he was exposed there. how he was exposed there. i worry less about the president, whether or not he's exposed or not. he's got the best doctors in the world, best medical care in the world. i worry more about people out there right now who heard their president say anyone who wants a test can get a test and can't get tested. people are calling their doctor's office and being told no tests available. people going to hospitals being told no tests available. the president will be taken care of if he gets the virus but there are a lot of people out there right now that can't even get tested to find out if they have it or not. >> stephanie, the dnc where you used to work, just announced the cnn debate sunday night, first head-to-head debate with joe biden and bernie

we know how to handle this. >> of course, ron klain, there's no joy in saying this. we learned afterward that someone sick was at cpac, that it was something of a potential petri dish of gatherings in washington, d.c., and mulvaney was later tested for it. i believe he's been tested twice for it. same question to you that i asked the doctor. what we're doing now, how far short does it fall from what would be your national prescription. >> it falls very short. if at the time that mick mulvaney was standing at cpac kind of saying this wasn't a problem, and it was roughly the same day where the president said we only have 15 cases, we're headed down to 5. if then we had been accelerating testing, if then we had been accelerating the production of ventilators, if then we had been accelerating the production of protective gear, if we had been doing all the things we needed to do then, we would be in much better shape now. we'd have this disease more isolated. we'd know who have it more and be able to identify where it was more and be able to more successfully treat more p

. >> ron klain, apparently he was talking about lindsey graham, if you go to the right area you can get the test. >> yeah, i mean, look, first of all it's obviously unacceptable that only connected people can get tests, and it's probably not even true to all the connected people can get tests. i think everyone who works in the field has got their email box filled with people who believe they have been in contact with someone, who are worried they may have it and symptoms and cannot get tests and lawrence, that just scratches the surface of what needs to be tested. it's not just the people raising their hands begging to be tested and the president's out and out lying about that. it's equipping our state and local health departments to go do surveillance to find out where the virus is. is it in nursing homes? is it in senior centers? is it among vulnerable populations? we need to not only be testing the people demanding to be tested and of course, we should. we need to be testing the people who we should be looking out for and protecting from this virus. >> dr. j ha if you could ask anyon

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former white house ebola response coordinator ron klain. plus from "the washington post" white house bureau chief, our friend phil rucker. down at the new york stock exchange, msnbc's david gura, david, i'm going to start with you. pretty stunning. last week we had on monday the biggest drop since the 2008 financial crisis. on thursday we had the biggest drop since the crash in 1987. and now today we see another stunning, stunning drop in the stock market today. tell us what is going on down there and why, if it's not self-evident, why the markets are so freaked on this particular monday. >> you're ticking through the history there. it's a bit of deja vu. we had the largest percentage drop since 1987 again today for both the dow and the s&p 500. the worst day in history for the nasdaq. i think it's so interesting to juxtapose what we just saw with what we saw on friday afternoon. that was the president holding a news conference in the rose garden in the run-up to the closing bell. we saw the markets rise precipitously as that happened. we s

i'm going to -- i was almost going to call you, ron, dr. klain, but let me move forward. my premise is we have not been as effective with the federal government starting with the administration. ebola under the administration of president obama and biden and one of the strongest or one of the more difficult cases was in the state of texas where medical providers, nurses and others, someone took off for a wedding and vacation, but let me ask this, i think we had knowledge of this in december of 2019. what would have been the road map, been equipment for our -- preventative equipment for our health providers, storing up our test kits so they could be appropriately distributed, the appropriate documentation to inform people about washing hands, with an immediate statement after the first of the year, talking about preparedness and not panic. can i yield to you on the response you've seen so far. >> thank you. i would say there are three things that should have happened in january that didn't happen. first, a real focus on getting the test capacity problem solved by adopting

joining me now, ron klain who served as the u.s. ebola response coordinator under president obama.tinues to be a real problem. even after the announcement they were sending out these kits. how do you assess overall the response of this administration so far? >> i think you have to give it a pretty low grade, c minus, d plus, for a couple of reasons. they focused on travel restrictions to delay the arrival of the virus. we can talk about whether that worked or not. what it bought was time. that's only a valid strategy if you used that time to ramp up. so, yeah, it was reasonable that on monday when they said there would be a million tests by friday, no one should have believed that. but there should have been a million tests way before friday because we knew in december and early january this was coming. why didn't we start really working on this problem this week? same thing with hospital capacity and all the other aspects of this. the response is moving slowly. it's starting late. and that's inexcusable. >> the president had this -- he talked about his sort of bragging about the n

a house homeland security subcommittee hears from the former ebola czar ron klain on community perspective on coronavirus preparedness and response. >> follow the federal response to the coronavirus at c-span.org/coronavirus. you can find white house briefings, hearings with key public health officials and interviews with public health specialists. review the latest events anytime at c-span.org/coronavirus. >> officials at the world health organization held a briefing in geneva, switzerland, on the worldwide response to the coronavirus. reporters asked about recovery and mortality rates, the risk to the elderly and healthcare workers, and china and italy are managing the virus. this is one hour. >> good afternoon, everyone and apologies or this delay. we're just waiting for the doctor to join us and then we will start our press briefing on covid-19. i will wait for the doctor just want to let you know we are planning to turn on have free pressfe

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sanjay gupta, zeke emmanuel and ron klain, thank you for giving us clarification. your minds and experience will help people keep a focus on what matters. thank you. god bless all of you for being with me tonight. >>> now, everything they just talked about to you is playing out in washington. imagine how worried, how freaked you'd be if you got hit with coronavirus. be honest, even though everybody is telling you you'll be okay if you're not old and don't have an underlying condition. imagine if it was your family. now imagine if it's both. you're going to meet somebody in the home in quarantine dealing with the known and the unknown. what a situation playing out in washington. you'll see it firsthand, next. you clean dishes as you cook, to save time and stay ahead of the mess. but scrubbing still takes time. now there's new dawn powerwash dish spray. the faster, easier way to clean as you go. it cleans grease five times faster. on easy messes, just spray, wipe, and rinse. on tough messes, the spray-activated suds cut through grease on contact, without water. just

part of the curriculum for second grade these days, but ron klain, i wonder if you can pick up on this white house order or directive for anyone who has stepped food in the new york city area to self-quarantine wherever they landed after the travels to new york city. what does that mean? did you contemplate a step like that in battling the pandemic. ebola was different because of its -- so much more lethal, but were there ever any considerations to doing anything like that? >> fortunately we never got to that, we got on top of the things that the trump administration let get out of control. this is a point of dr. roy's three-part plan there, which i heartily endorse. which is that if we had been testing in january, we would have found cases, isolated chains of transmission and prevented the widespread things we're seeing. new york definitely is the epicenter, but this is not going to begin and end in new york. atlanta already reports its emergency rooms nearing capacity. detroit, largest health system now, every single icu bed in the hospital is at capacity. and so new york got this fi

i want to bring in ron klain, president obama's former ebola response coordinator. now a senior adviser to the biden campaign, as well. ron, what questions would you like to hear the president answer today? >> wolf, i think a lot of the questions that have been out there for a long time. when will we really have the kind of ubiquitous testing that will enable us to figure out where the virus and will ultimately allow people to go back to work. you heard dr. fauci say we could reopen parts of the country if we had widespread testing. so when will that testing be there? and specifically, what's he doing to get the masks and ventilators and all the gear that we need to protect our health care workers and to treat health care patients? we've heard a lot of talk, but still, it seems like it's coming along rather slowly. and really, there's no time like the present to really get that sped up. you know, we went from the first coronavirus deaths to the 1/1,000th in this country. took 30 days for that to happen. took three days to get from 1,000 to 2,000. this problem is acce

witnesses, including ron klain, who coordinating the ebola response, will talk about the coronavirus response from the state and local perspective. live coverage of the house homeland security subcommittee on emergency preparedness, response and recovery begins at 2:00 eastern here on c-span3 and online or listen on the c-span radio app. >>> follow the federal response from the coronavirus at cspan.org/coronavirus. find white house briefings, hearings with key public health officials and interviews with public health specialists. review the latest events any time at cspan.org/coronavirus. >>> we're back. joining me now is rose mary gibson, t. first of all, thank you for being with me again. >> it's great to see you again. >> first of all, tell us about your medical background. >> i'm not a physician, but i happened to spend three years researching and figuring out where our medicines are made. it's a real shocker. how dependent we are on china for so many of our generic drugs. >> you are a senior adviser at the hastings center. tell us about what the hastings center is and the resear

ron klain, former u.s. ebola response coordinator, and earlier chief of staff to two vice presidents and numerous other experiences at senior levels of government. lisa monaco, former white house homeland security adviser, currently distinguished senior school, andu law again, years of experience at the justice department in various senior roles. , professornifer nuzo at johns hopkins university and a begin yellow just whose work focuses on global health and security, virus by a surveillance, infectious disease diagnostics, operational research to improve outbreak fairness and response. can't think of a group that is better suited to help us understand and get to the basic facts and science and explanation about what to do with the situation we are facing today. i should also note that dr. richar rachel levine really wanted to be with us today, but because of the current challenges she is facing in pennsylvania, she was unfortunately unable to join us but is following this closely. -- with that [indiscernib

witnesses, including ron klain, who coordinating the ebola response, will talk about the coronavirus perspective. live coverage of the house homeland security subcommittee on emergency preparedness, response and recovery begins at 2:00 eastern here on c-span3 and online or listen on the c-span radio app. >>> follow the federal response from the coronavirus at cspan.org/coronavirus. find white house briefings, hearings with key public health officials and interviews with public health specialists. review the latest events any time at cspan.org/coronavirus. >>> we're back. joining me now is rose

importantly, she's also co-hosting a new podcast called "epidemic" about the coronavirus along with ron klain, who ran he host response to the ebola of the podcast "american diagnosis on health and social justice." it's a lot, but we need someone to do a lot. doctor, thank you very much for coming back. when the president said at the cdc on friday, anyone who wants a test can get one, how far was he off the mark then -- and i know you don't do politics. how far does he remain off the mark tonight? >> well, there was certainly not enough testing to go around on friday, and i'm not sure that we're there quite yet. however, it is promising that you had the big commercial labs like labcorp and quest getting into the game. they're used to doing volume, working with big health care systems, private doctors' offices and so on. then you have academic centers like the university of washington which are also scaling things up. they are collaborating with the gates foundation to offer home-based testing, at least in the seattle area at first and we'll see what happens later. there are a lot of big new p

. >> ron klain, the ebola czar during the obama administration, he said on cnn today that some hospitals will start reaching their breaking points as soon as this weekend. do you agree with that? >> absolutely. i think ron's assessment is right on the mark. and the thing that i think is also being missed, that's this weekend. as you talked about in the lead-in to this segment, we're talking about potentially 12 or 18 months of this. and so while we have to plan each day's battle, as has been said, this is a war. we've got a number of days of battle to do. so we have to figure out now how we're going to get these hospitals through, not just today, not this week, not next week, but potentially months of being under siege with these cases. >> all right, michael osterholm, we always appreciate your expertise, thank you so much, good to see you again, sir. >> thank you, jake. >>> health officials are scraping together supplies. why coronavirus tests does not mean labs can process them all. it's a cnn investigation and it's next. stay with us. (mom) were you planning on mowing the lawn today?

ron klain worked on this back in 2014. we knew how many beds, ventilators, masks and all this stuff that we would need, and look at us. we're so far behind the curve that becca is talking about having to make their own masks and how do you ensure it's going to do the job they want it to do? it's very hard to do this. >> very, very hard. becca, we wish you and your team lots of luck in this. it's sad that this is where we are in this. dr. sanjay gupta, thank you very much. >> thank you. >>> two members of congress have tested positive for coronavirus. both of them were mingling and voting with colleagues as recently as this weekend. what does that mean for other lawmakers? >>> and for the first time since the outbreak, mainland china reporting zero new local cases overnight. we'll tell you what that really means, ahead. i recently spoke to a group of students about being a scientist at 3m. i wanted them to know that innovation is not just about that one 'a-ha' moment. science is a process. it takes time, dedication. it's a

. >> leading off our discussion, ron klain. former senior aid to vice presidenten joe biden and president obama served as the ebola zar. dr. vin gupta, global health policy expert from the university of washington medical center. and dr. redletter, from columbia university. gentlemen, thank you for being with us. let me start with you, irwin. there is nobody in america who doesn't know that there are people who either want to, need to be tested or whose doctors want them to be tested who are not able to get tested. that is just -- i don't know what language we can use to describe that but it's untrue. for the president to say he didn't know that is worrisome at this point in the crisis. >> listen, just another jaw-dropping press conference that we're having to experience far too often and i think it is beyond preposterous. it's hard to know how to describe this. i can tell you, i speak to emergency medicine doctors every single day and they are absolutely panicked about the lack of testing. they can't get the test results back

and i was actually at the white house with ron klain in several meetings with industry leaders. we were all at the table. he brought an interagency working group together. we were not only talking about what we needed to do on the front lines to have the right supplies and the good information to be able to contain this in our workplaces and for those of us who are on the front lines, flight attendants, nurses, teachers. but also what we were going to do as americans to actually go to the infected remgones and help contain the diseases there. here we can't even talk here about what we can do in a coordinated way with good information in this country to be able to contain this. and so i can't even believe where we are today. i am extremely disheartened that the president of the united states is putting my members at risk, my members' jobs at risk, our entire economy at risk, and not taking this seriously. and we're not even getting to the space that we should be in where we should be coordinating through the white house with all the local healthcare professionals and the healthca

. >> i think the ron klain ad that the biden campaign has running on twitter, which is where i saw ithas tried to walk that line between educating the public on what's going on and pointing out some of the administration's and trump himself's missteps. but it is, it's a delicate balance, because people don't want to hear politicians tearing each other down right now. >> a lot of things have changed but not everything. >> without a doubt. and you also wonder, i was talking to david axelrod about this, are those ads going to even break through, is it a wise use of money at this moment. we'll see, there is a lot of money out there for negative ads, but we do not know where this is going to end. we do know this campaign now has changed and it is going to be about the economy and about this. >> everything. everything has changed. jackie, jeff, everyone else, thanks for getting up with us early. that's it for "inside politics." up next, don't go anywhere, a very important "state of the union" with jake tapper. his guests include illinois governor j.b. pritzker and new york congresswoman ale

. >> war council will work and ron klain should be on that council. >> thank you for being with us. thank you for your leadership. what i'm interested in is what is going to save lives, not tone from one place, one day to the next, but what is the tone that will save lives. >> if all of this is causing you anxiety, and not just you, everyone, stick around. we have tips to help you manage stress and anxiety during this outbreak. we'll also share stories of people helping other people through this challenging time, what are they doing? not even our competitor's best battery can match the power of energizer. because energizer ultimate lithium is the longest lasting aa battery in the world. [confetti cannon popping] energizer. backed by science. matched by no one. from anyone else. so why accept it from your allergy pills? flonase relieves your worst symptoms which most pills don't. get all-in-one allergy relief for 24 hours, with flonase. out doing it right no which mois plan asures. and plan b. you need equipment that's up to the challenge. all day. all conditions. all year round. tha

. >> ron klain is with us, the former ebola response coordinator during the obama administration. what was your takeaway? were you reassured by what you heard? >> i thought that was really disappointing, to say the least. and in some ways, we're watching the katrina public health unfold before our eyes. they're telling us there are going to be lots of tests, but they can't even test the 3,500 people on a single ship. if you're an american out there tonight who has some of these symptoms, if you live in a nursing home, if you're a person who visits people in a nursing home, there's no accessibility for tests and no clear answers on when that will be changed. yes, there'll be a commercial test potentially available monday, but who will get it? how will you get it? at the beginning of the week, they told us a million tests will be out by today. that doesn't seem to be a target that they've hit. we don't really know -- a lot of vague statements about when that testing would be done and how that testing would be done. and still no word on what would be done to ramp up capacity in hospi

we have ron klain who dealt with ebola for obama, sikhzeke emman and what is the real deal and realities someone who is self-quarantined at home. wait until you hear her story, coop. she got it visiting her elderly mother. the father who's old too was with her and now he's in the hospital. she's self-quarantined. it's the whole mess going on in washington. we'll take that on and what the political realities are after biden's big night, tonight. >> a lot to look forward to. chris, see you in about five minutes from now. >>> coming up, remembering a tv news trail blazer, bobby batista. when it comes to autism, finding the right words can be tough. finding understanding doesn't have to be. together, we can create a kinder, more inclusive world for the millions of people on the autism spectrum. go to autismspeaks.org adds to the legendary capability of the strongest, most advanced silverados ever. with best in class camera technology and larger, more functional beds than any competitor. the only truck that can compare to a silverado is another silverado. truck month is the right time to get

ron klain headed that up. used to be my chief of staff. we anticipated that.d free, all vaccines, all testing is free. the idea that we're going to charge people to do the right thing, get themselves tested and be responsible is bizarre. and he is in court now, in court to wipe out obamacare. by administrative rule, he has decimated it. this is what we talk about needing action immediately, lawrence. by the way, that's being reported, how many people are going to go in and get tested? it's free, should be free. f-r-e-e. >> bernie sanders says this is yet another case for medicare for all. if there was a universal 100% coverage medicare for all, that anyone would know confidently that they could get off an airplane, feel sick, whatever it is, and go straight in and get tested and they would not be hit with one of these bills. >> they know that under obamacare. they know that under obamacare additional care option i provide. you don't need medicare to be tested for this. you can dictate that be the case. under my proposal, you would, in fact, under obamacare you

the ebola crisis in 2014, a day did not go by when the president or national security adviser or ron klain when he was the ebola response coordinator didn't ask, what are with he not thinkiwher personal protective equipment? at the end of the day, many of those commodities that which may run out of are things we're sharing with our partners or allies. i think we would have been able to get ahead. >> do you think a press conference like this where businesses came together, tony fauci spoke, et cetera, the first community based transmission, meaning not from somebody who got it overseas, not somebody who got it directly from somebody with a diagnosed coronavirus, but just they got it from somewhere, we don't know where, that was january 30th at the cdc. >> yes. >> should this press conference have happened at least around then? >> i can't say for certain whether a national emergency should have been called at that point, but i absolutely think the press conference that should have been held in january should have been looked much more like this one. >> let me go to cnn's kaitlan collins at t

ron klain, who is among many other positions in public service was the white house ebola response coordinator during the obama administration and can provide lessons learned from his time battling a previous public health emergency. we also welcome today mr. christopher neuwirth assistant commissioner of the division of public health infrastructure laboratories and emergency preparedness for the new jersey department of health. in his role, he provides strategic and operational leadership to coordinate new jersey's hospital and public health disaster resilience laboratory, services, and emergency preparedness and response. welcome. next we have dr. nadine garcia the executive vice president chief operating officer for trust for america's health, a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that promotes optimal health for every person and community and advocates for an evidence based public health system that is ready to meet the challenges of the 21st century. welcome, ma'am. and at this time i'd recognize the gentleman from mississippi mr. guest, to introduce our fourth witness. >> thank you, mr.

. >> to ron klain, you mitigated the spread of ebola.ou've been less than positive about the white house's attempt to control communications on a variety of issues but particularly public health officials and you have noted probably effective pandemic response requires trust in government. can you describe a little bit why trust in government is so important on these issues specifically and address the issue of whether this -- the issue is with credibility in this administration on this issue with the american people and our foreign partners and how that affects, how that impacts an effective response? >> what we are seeing is both a failure of confidence and failure of confidence. second on the confidence part of this, as you alluded to we are far behind other countries in testing people for this virus. when we hear the viruses in x state but not x state we haven't tested in that state. the same for the global map, no cases of coronavirus in sub-saharan africa it is not because there are no cases of coronavirus in sub-saharan africa but

. >> i ask unanimous consent to put in the record article by ron klain, "success not to be repeated". >> mr.hout objection. chairman, may i add something to the record. >>dated march 3rd, 2020, u.s. s only a fraction of the medical supplies it needs to combat the coronavirus andmay this is in e national geographic. lies>> without objection. >> thank you. >> mr. neuwirth, you've heard the -- that the federalal g governments been ineffectiveless communicating and providing contradictoryecti guidance to te local andd prov state governmens during this outbreak. cal what has your experience beo and how canw communication with the state and locals be improved?oved >> so our experiee has been one of -- there have been challenges to this point ensure that we're able to implement the policy decisions of the federallim government ina timely andsten consistent manne. es awe are in lockstep with our regional representatives atdc, u.s. department of health andd cdc, ofrvices and the course, but there are, you know, there have been since the beginning of this in january, instances where, you know,

ron klain was the ebola response coordinator during the obama administration. he joined policy express for a discussion on the u.s. response to the coronavirus at the center for american progress in washington, d.c.. >> good morning everyone. tanden.is neera i am pleased to welcome you to the center for american progress. i am so glad you could join us for this critically important conversation. the death toll from the coronavirus and now exceeds 3200 people, with more than 200 cases confirmed inside the united states. as health officials warn that the virus will ultimately become widespread in the unit