when we have a t.b. outbre we can usualrace -- [ inaudible ] i think the community risk is bigger.n make the hospital a cocoon. you can't control the community. we try to make the hospital as safe as possible. >> as of friday, you started wearing masks? that is a rule. >> yeah. >> i want to address a couple of questions with regard to drugs. both from ee dora who asked what medications are working for covid-19 patients. let's start there. then i have a second drug question. >> great. i think about drugs covid-19 like the olympics. there's a gold medal, silver medal and bronze and people who dropped out, they get hit in the knees and fell out of the race. there's no gold medalist, you don't have great data. the silver medalist is ran disvir. it's given intravenusly that people might have heard about. it's developed by gilead. they brought it out to repurpose it for covid-19. a lot of people, enthusiastic about it. but i think we need data. right now, unfortunately, because we have so many cases, we're going to get the -- [ inaudible ] we're enrolling people in trials. there's not a

using credit cards or of course you can find out all day with a critical scholars and then says the t.b.'s can give you even more finite movement today. to the patient to talk to in the past who the patient to pointing to poor example and i saw one. very did only thing profess a this it is dangerous when a government can track every step of its citizens it is certainly is so this is this is an emergency measure all only when the only when the president of troops it does dental put it is a controlled access to these authorities or with a ta through police so when this situation is over they don't have the data don't get all sustained longer professor john once on joining us live from seoul in south korea thank you very much for this important. i think you. know that answer a few questions about how south korea handled the fight against the virus but 1st questions around the global outbreak arise every day. your questions most important and you have sent us plenty facebook twitter and e-mail and to answer them at least the part of them. every day here is our science correspondent williams

we don't need t.b. coming into our country, our schools. people are losing their jobs all over the country. we don't need new workers. we need people back to work as soon as medically possible and okay health-wise. commissioner morgan, great to see you. stay safe out there and our love to the border patrol. they're amazing people. i met so many of them the last several years. take care. >> i'll pass it along. >> laura: all right. in moments, is the coronavirus causing the internet to overload? uh-oh. and the quarantine is bringing out, well, not the best in certain celebrities. wait until you see who cnn trotted out as their expert on covid-19. raymond arroyo breaks it down on friday follies next. announcer: there are everyday actions to help prevent the spread of respiratory diseases. wash your hands. avoid close contact with people who are sick. avoid touching your eyes, nose and mouth. stay home when you are sick. cover your cough or sneeze. clean and disinfect frequently touched objects with household cleaning spray. for more informatio

we do emergency preparedness along with community outreach, immunizations, t.b. control, environmental health, and we are fortunate to have many great partnerships and working relationships which include the c.d.c. and in texas, the texas department of state health services. local health departments are, to use a phrase, your boots on the ground. we are the ones here to interact with the community. our work is often referred to as invisible. i look at you in the audience. how many of you think daily about your local health departments? the answer is you probably don't. a lot of times our work is invisible while we are out there every day doing such things as making sure you have clean water, have safe food to eat, -- vax nations provided vaccinations provided. as a matter of fact, the back of my business card, it says public health, your invisible guardian. a lot of times the work we do is invisible. but, you know, until -- when things are going well, our communities and citizens are working, living their lives and being productive members of society. however, in

i saw what they do and t.b. and a lot of, they do a lot of very tough stuff and it was still one more great acquisition you have done marc casper and a fabulous job with thermo fisher thank you for coming on the show i appreciate it. >> thank you for having me today. >> we can be gloomy. i saw marc casper, i heard that he was involved with this, i said that guy is a hitter. we do have hitters in this country. we're not a total, you know, we can get this we can beat this things like thermo fisher. "mad money" is back after the break. >>> even though this has been another terrible horrible, no good, very bad day we don't want to forget friday afternoon's big rose garden event at the white house. president trump gave us the first stage of a plan that will hopefully help us mitigate the damage from the coronavirus outbreak he announced a set of public/private partnerships between the government and some of our nation's largest companies. i like that. it wasn't the marshal plan i've been calling for but a step in the

t.b. is he heading to t.b.? tom brady expected to sign with the tampa bay buccaneers as early as today. the deal is believed to be worth $30 million a year. the six-time super bowl champ announced he would be leaving the new england patriots after 20 years with the team. the buccaneers have had one winning season since 2011. what do you think, brian? brian: what i think is they better get some talent around him quick beside wide receivers because he can't take a beating at his age. and number two is very curious to see if derek carr goes to new england if the raiders are going to engineer a trade. ainsley: $30 million. what's his salary now? brian: i think he is playing for minimum wage right now. ainsley: right. right. he does hav doesn't have to payn florida though. steve: that's true. jillian, thank you very much. brian: questions pouring in about covid-19. like how worried should you be about what's in your mail? a doctor is on the case next. steve: that's a great question. plus, one major city is delaying s

i think it's a two-week t.b. test, everything, so that's a process within itself. and there are ways -- so for the emergency process that we're referring to, michael has put together a focus group to -- just focusing on nursing. d.h.r., although we're looking at projected planned, we have also offered what we call mass arriving. so for example, you know, we have offered d.p.h., because d.h.r. is responsible for the conviction history program. if they had a mass hire, we can go ahead and go to, for example, general hospital and bring our fingerprint machines to help fingerprint them versus an appointment each time. so we've offered that and we're prepared to assist the public health with mass hiring of nurses. >> supervisor ronen: last question, and then i'll cede to my colleague. so that was the general hiring process, and there's a million other steps in there, but i will let all of that go. and i will say so what of those processes -- you just mentioned one, the fingerprinting. but what else have you cut out to make it faster to hire nurses for general? >> i -- o

i think it's a two-week t.b. test, everything, so that's a process within itself. and there are ways -- so for the emergency process that we're referring to, michael has put together a focus group to -- just focusing on nursing. d.h.r., although we're looking at projected planned, we have also offered what we call mass arriving. so for example, you know, we have offered d.p.h., because d.h.r. is responsible for the conviction history program. if they had a mass hire, we can go ahead and go to, for example, general hospital and bring our fingerprint machines to help fingerprint them versus an appointment each time. so we've offered that and we're prepared to assist the public health with mass hiring of nurses. >> supervisor ronen: last question, and then i'll cede to my colleague. so that was the general hiring process, and there's a million other steps in there, but i will let all of that go. and i will say so what of those processes -- you just mentioned one, the fingerprinting. but what else have you cut out to make it faster to hire nurses for general? >> i -- o

certainly this is the way we set clinic all around the world when we worried about t.b. transmission. >> i'm wondering if you can comment on the new measures that britain has put in place. also germany said it doesn't want to have crowds, less than except for families, which is a pretty restrictive numbers. does that inform your thinking as you are coming up with this advice for in the next period for the president and vice president? >> the president and vice president asked us to look at every single scenario in every single country. because the more data that we have, the more our decisions can be completely data informed. whateally understanding impact that has. we're interested right now -- italy obviously waited until about march 7th. the virus have been circulating for almost four weeks before actually going into that methodology. but for the first time it looks like their mortality rates are decline.to which would be an illustration and things they did two three weeks ago may actually have an impact. those are kind of data we're looking at carefully. as well as v

certainly this is the way we set clinic all around the world when we worried about t.b. transmission. >> i'm wondering if you can comment on the new measures that britain has put in place. also germany said it doesn't want to have crowds, less than except for families, which is a pretty restrictive numbers. does that inform your thinking as you are coming up with this advice for in the next period for the president and vice president? >> the president and vice president asked us to look at every single scenario in every single country. because the more data that we have, the more our decisions can be completely data informed. whateally understanding impact that has. we're interested right now -- italy obviously waited until about march 7th. the virus have been circulating for almost four weeks before actually going into that methodology. but for the first time it looks like their mortality rates are decline.to which would be an illustration and things they did two three weeks ago may actually have an impact. those are kind of data we're looking at carefully. as well as v

i think it's a two-week t.b. test, everything, so that's a process within itself. and there are ways -- so for the emergency process that we're referring to, michael has put together a focus group to -- just focusing on nursing. d.h.r., although we're looking at projected planned, we have also offered what we call mass arriving. so for example, you know, we have offered d.p.h., because d.h.r. is responsible for the conviction history program. if they had a mass hire, we can go ahead and go to, for example, general hospital and bring our fingerprint machines to help fingerprint them versus an appointment each time. so we've offered that and we're prepared to assist the public health with mass hiring of nurses. >> supervisor ronen: last question, and then i'll cede to my colleague. so that was the general hiring process, and there's a million other steps in there, but i will let all of that go. and i will say so what of those processes -- you just mentioned one, the fingerprinting. but what else have you cut out to make it faster to hire nurses for general? >> i -- o

i think it's a two-week t.b. test, everything, so that's a process within itself. and there are ways -- so for the emergency process that we're referring to, michael has put together a focus group to -- just focusing on nursing. d.h.r., although we're looking at projected planned, we have also offered what we call mass arriving. so for example, you know, we have offered d.p.h., because d.h.r. is responsible for the conviction history program. if they had a mass hire, we can go ahead and go to, for example, general hospital and bring our fingerprint machines to help fingerprint them versus an appointment each time. so we've offered that and we're prepared to assist the public health with mass hiring of nurses. >> supervisor ronen: last question, and then i'll cede to my colleague. so that was the general hiring process, and there's a million other steps in there, but i will let all of that go. and i will say so what of those processes -- you just mentioned one, the fingerprinting. but what else have you cut out to make it faster to hire nurses for general? >> i -- o

i think it's a two-week t.b. test, everything, so that's a process within itself. and there are ways -- so for the emergency process that we're referring to, michael has put together a focus group to -- just focusing on nursing. d.h.r., although we're looking at projected planned, we have also offered what we call mass arriving. so for example, you know, we have offered d.p.h., because d.h.r. is responsible for the conviction history program. if they had a mass hire, we can go ahead and go to, for example, general hospital and bring our fingerprint machines to help fingerprint them versus an appointment each time. so we've offered that and we're prepared to assist the public health with mass hiring of nurses. >> supervisor ronen: last question, and then i'll cede to my colleague. so that was the general hiring process, and there's a million other steps in there, but i will let all of that go. and i will say so what of those processes -- you just mentioned one, the fingerprinting. but what else have you cut out to make it faster to hire nurses for general? >> i -- o