south dakota, university of minnesota has over a thousand patients randomized. let's get the data so we know what we are dealing with. steve: also let's go ahead and -- brian: is it important to know what they're combining it with and dozage? don't you have the zpac? dr. oz: a lot of variables, brian, we are better waiting for randomized trials dr. fauci is asking for otherwise we would be be reacting back and forth. a lot of it has to do when you get the medication. you give it to people who have breathing tubes on their throat it's not going to have the same effect as if they got it early. we don't have randomized data in the united states to educate us

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part of the university of minnesota. phyllis is joining us from lafayette, indiana.olumecould turn the down on your set. please go ahead. caller: ok. you are speaking to phyllis, correct? host: i am. go ahead please. caller: my concern is that someone from tennessee mentioned they had a bar and then that they had closed the bars. they were not sure if that was the best thing to do because alcohol has impact also. if theern was wondering is the bestred wine wine. i used to know the name of it but for some reason, i cannot come up with the name of it. i was just wondering -- i have the feeling that some people got into this might try the red wine and it might be that it would help if they got it quick. --the time they get to where host: i think we have the essence of it. i will ask to the doctor if there is any medicinal benefit to that. dr. osterholm: we are hearing a lot about what i would call home remedies -- anything with out call or cold medications. unfortunately, the way the virus grows in your throat and upper respiratory system, none of this has any hope of p

next erica entered erika lee at the university of minnesota looked at xena phobia throughout american history, her book is "america for americans". >> erika lee teaches american history at the university of minnesota where she's a regents professor, a distinguished mcknight professor, the rudolph j chair in immigration history and the director of immigration history research center. she is the author of three award-winning books in u.s. immigration. in american history and amicus gates chinese immigration during the era 1882 - 1943, angel island, immigrate gateway to america and the making of asian america, history. at the immigration history research center she has helped emerge immigration history with the digital humanities. she launched and oversees the national endowment for the humanity immigration story project which works with recent immigrants and refugees to. text, preserve and share the expenses. her book, "america for americans" history of xena phobia in the united states is the subject of tonight's talk. please welcome erika lee. [applause] >> hi seattle, him so glad to b

of massachusetts and now thanks to the governor's team they have more than 30. minnesota governor tim walts reflected on the call today about the partnership he's forged with the male clinic, the university molecular tests and 15,000 antibody test per day. i'm looking forward to travelling to the mayo clinic to learn first—hand from the governor about their efforts across the state to expand testing. i will governor kim reynolds gave an update on her progress. she's tripling capacity in her state. she also launched the test iowa .com website which actually creates an access point for people to fill out access point for people to fill out a questionnaire about whether or not their symptoms or circumstances are justifiable for a test. she said in the first 72 hours, 150,000 people went to the test site to receive an assessment and iowa is now testing 4500 people a day. in indiana, i spoke today with governor eric holcomb. they tested 72,000 people today. they are adding drive—through sites. they have ten established before. as other governors have done, governor holcomb last week opened up half of their elected surgery sites and hospitals across the state and they'll be opening up the stat

also with me, the director of the center for infectious disease research and policy at the university of minnesota. he's the author of "deadliest enemy, our war against killer germs." his latest piece in the "new york times" is it's too late to avoid disaster but there are still things we can do. let me just start with you, because you are a proponent, as many public health officials are of the fact that at some juncture and maybe starting now we do have to think about how we get back -- how we get our economy back. obviously it is important for people to work. obviously a society doesn't function with everybody at home. but you are concerned that the way the administration and attorney general barr and vice president pence and all of them put it creates a false dichotomy. either we stay home and stay safe or we go back to work, and are the truth lies somewhere in the middle. >> thank you, ari, in fact, i think the big challenge we have right now is the fact that we're going to be living with this for many, many months. this is not an event that's just about over with. we can expect at least 16 or

coming up, director of the division of infectious disease and international medicine at the university of minnesotaiscusses the response to the coronavirus pandemic. in a sutter republican candidate -- congressman will be on to talk about the impact of the pandemic and recently passed release legislation. main street alliances discusses federal efforts to support small businesses during the pandemic. be sure to watch washington journal coming up at 7:00 a.m. this morning. join the discussion. -- members of congress are working from their home district . >> many of my folks, 30% of them, are ones at the automotive industry. the other majority are what i would call your front-line workers, now they are called essential workers. these are the folks that have been demanding $15 minimum wage. it is really important to highlight they are the ones who are keeping us afloat. >> this is a very serious issue. what i have been telling people is, please, listen to the federal authorities, state authorities and local authorities and health experts, and do. stay away from people right now. i see this as a war. t

of and a soda and the state health department -- university of minnesota and the state health department. i am looking forward to traveling to the mayo clinic in minnesota on tuesday of next week to learn firsthand from the governor on their efforts across the state to expand testing. iowa governor kim reynolds gave us an update on her progress. she is tripling testing capacity in her state through a partnership with the private sector with the university of iowa and iowa state university. she also launched the test iowa.com website, which creates an access point for people to fill out a questionnaire about whether or not there symptoms or circumstances would justify a test. she said in the first 72 hours, 150,000 people went to the website. iowa is now testing 4500 people a day in their state. in indiana, i spoke with governor eric holcomb. they tested 72,000 hoosiers to date. there adding drive-through sites. they will have 10 drive-through sites for the end of the weekend. as other governors have done, governor holcomb last week opened up half of their elective surgery sites and hospi

osterholm is the director of the center for infectious disease research and policy at the university of minnesota joins us now. welcome back to the "newshour". >> thank you very much >> reporter: i want to begin by asking you something the president said yesterday that's gotty a lot of reaction tod. io floated the idea of using ultrt lights and disinfectants to possibly combat covid 19. he said day he was being sarcastic, but what did you think when you first heard the remarks? >> well, i stopped listening to the daily briefings. i thini'm o of many in our business that has. i only heard it secondhand, but my ten yrl grandson wondred what that was all about. about that?: what do you mean >> i think it was obvious these are not realistic or potentially safe approaches, and, so, in understanding the comments, one had to just take them for the non-scientific basis upon which they were stated. >> reporter: can i ask you, though, cause it's not the first time that the president has made statements that either arci't backed up bynce or contradict science, and they do have some effect. m the officeay f

reflected on the call today about the partnership he has forged with the mayo clinic, the university of minnesotand state health department. the are collaborating to perform 20,000 molecular tests, 15,000 antibody tests per day. i am looking forward to traveling to the mayo clinic in minnesota tuesday of next week to learn firsthand from the governor about the efforts across the state to expand testing. i was governor gave us an update on her progress. she is tripling testing capacity in her state through a partnership with the private sector with the university of iowa and iowa state university. she also launched the testiow a.com website that creates an access point for people to fill out a questionnaire about whether their circumstances would justify a test. hours,d in the first 72 100 50,000 people went to the test site to receive an assessment and iowa is now testing 4500 people per day in the state. withdiana, i spoke governor holcomb. they have tested 72,000 hoosiers to date and they are adding drive-through sites and will have 10 established by the state of indiana before the end of the w

next erica entered erika lee at the university of minnesota looked at xena phobia throughout americanstory, her book is "america for americans". >> erika lee teaches american history at the university of minnesota where she's a regents professor, a distinguished mcknight professor, the rudolph j chair in immigration history and the director of immigration history research center. she is the author of three award-winning books in u.s. immigration. in american history and

. >> american history of the university of minnesota, where she is region professor, distinguished unite professor, chair in immigration history and the director of the immigration history research center. the author of three award-winning books in u.s. immigration. american history at america's date chinese immigration during the exclusionary era, 1882 -- 1943, angel island gateway to america and the making of asian america. a history. at the immigration history, we have helped merge immigration history and the digital humanities. she launched an overseas national endowment for the humanity fund and immigration story, projects which work with recent Émigres to share their expenses. her book, america for americans, history of xenophobia in the united states is subject tonight talk. please welcome erica. [applause] >> i'm so glad to be here. i'm glad to be back here at town hall. i was so blessed here in 2010, before it was activated. i'm happy to be back. i'm very glad we began this evening with acknowledgment, i would like to repeat that land acknowledgment. we'll discuss later xenophob

finalists-- a sophomore at the university of southern california, from arcadia, california... ...whose cash winnings yesterday total $800. a sophomore at the university of minnesotan prairie, minnesota... ...whose cash winnings total $22,195. and a senior at indiana university, from greenfield, indiana... ...who won $200 yesterday. anhere is the "jpardy!"-- alex trebek! thank you, johnny. thank you, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome, everybody, to the deciding game of our college championship. in a little bit, who gets to go home with this trophy as well as a check for $100,000? so good luck. here we go. ♪ now let's take a look at the categories, please, starting off with... next... ...followed by... ...and finally... tyler, you get to start us. let's start with greek, weak, $200. nibir. what is his heel? yeah. college life, $1,000.

testing in ohio 'd virtually overnight governor tim waltz of minnesota announced along with the state's health care system the mayo clinic in the university of minnesota what he described as a breakthrough for rapid widespread testing they've been able to test more than 20000 people using their letting their an america that is the message from the u.s. vice president as well as the u.s. president donald trump standing alongside him there giving their daily briefing on the coronavirus pandemic just a few moments ago president trump was citing statistics that seem to suggest according to him that the u.s. is making some progress against the virus but he also did encourage people to keep following the guidelines he said reopening the states is quote very exciting but it does not mean we are letting down our guard and he also began the press conference by saying that the aid bill has now been approved by the u.s. house and that aid bill is going to help save many small businesses so just a reminder on bought aid bill a wide margin of members in the u.s. house of representatives have now back as you've been hearing they've backed the 484 $1000

some of the production may be getting shut down, according to a study from the university of minnesota and some of those drugs might be blocked leaving the country. this involves things like antibiotics and albuterol. it adds up to a very concerning picture. one of those researchers says he's getting more and more concerned every day. back over to you >> meg, would you say in general, the shortages are in treatments directly related to coronavirus. because we heard so much object the chinese supply plain of every day medicines before us, more common medicines at this point. >> it's both people who use these medicines for other diseases are having trouble getting them as well it's a whole downstream effect it's playing out across the system i'm sorry, you're hearing my dog bark at mailman. >> we just request a visual at some point thank you very much. >> i think the dog was saying he agreed with everything you just said, meg. thanks again still ahead, companies are closing their doors and furloughing workers. it's unlikely that they will be able to pay their landlords. we'll look at the

of the medical system. so that will be a key strategy this fall. host: dr. gregory poland is with us from minnesota. a graduate of southern illinois university school of medicine. he also studied that the university of minnesota. the mayo clinic and northwestern university. he's joining us from new york city. thank you for waiting. you very want to thank much for doing your studies in vaccine. and bringing us to this point of understanding. night, i listened very cleanly to governor cuomo as he delivered his report of the three stages we are going through right now. and the fourth stage that may occur. that i learned is herd immunity. that's the fourth stage. first is treatment. second stage is contact tracing. quarantineage is being necessary. then he spoke about the percentage of the population of new york city that has performed these tests. he said somewhere between 15% with selfe infected immune response to the covid virus, meaning they caught a thatt few, and for those have immune deficiencies that were restricted and passed away. stage isaid the fourth the herd immunity. host: we will get dr. poland's reaction. when you hear the term,

it's this awesome partnership between the state and the mayo clinic and the university of minnesota to bump up the tests so we can then have data, realtime data before us to better make informed decisions. as you mentioned, you're not an epidemiologist. and take guidance that they are. it's the guidance that informs our decisions. >> we have to leave it there. we appreciate it. good luck. come back is and let us know how it's going. >> there have been 26.5 million people in the u.s. who filed for unemployment in the last five weeks. a look at the different types of people who are facing economic hardships from farmers to manufacturers to veterans and more. that's next. when dehydration gets real... ♪ hey! that's mine. i'll buy you a pony. advanced hydration isn't just for kids. pedialyte helps you hydrate during recovery. anna could only imagine a comfortable night's sleep without frequent heartburn waking her up. now, that dream... . ...is her reality. nexium 24hr stops acid before it starts, for all-day, all-night protection. can you imagine 24 hours without heartburn? and i like to

the director of the center for infectious disease research and policy of the university of minnesota u so much for coming on. first, do you believe this could come back and is there anything we can do to prevent that? >> first of all, i don't know if we can say they will be seasonality to this. it acts like an influenza pandemic which is seems to be doing right now, those are situations where for about two years after the introduction, waves will come and go and depending on what month of the year it started, it's usually six months later and then continues. i think the bottom line message you have here is a really important one that we are all obviously occupied and terribly concerned about what's happening right now but we could be the first inning of a nine inning game we've got 18 or more months left until we get the vaccine. the plan and we have to deal with is getting ready for a long-term transmission situati situation. >> tucker: this might be a pointless question but is there any way to know at this point? >> no, but i have to say that we have been predicting the situation si

here are our three finalists-- a sophomore at the university of southern california from arcadia, california... a sophomore at the university of minnesotarie, minnesota... and a senior at indiana university, from greenfield, indiana... and now here is the host of "jeopardy!"-- alex trebek! thank you, johnny. ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the finals in this year's college championship, a two-game total point affair with the winner at the end of, yes, tomorrow's program receiving $100,000. second place is guaranteed $50,000. third place guaranteed $25,000. if we can, i'd like to start today's first half of the finals with a sports analogy. we have hoosiers going against gophers going against trojans. let's see how it works out. good luck. here we go. ♪ - all right, the categories, please... good place to go. next... we'll deal with... and finally... notice the quotation marks. tyler, start us. let's go with traveling abroad for $200, please. nibir. what is jet lag? right. emojis, $1,000.

of massachusetts and now thanks to governor charlie baker's team, they have more than 30 testing sites. minnesota governor tim walz reflected on the call today about the partnership he has clinic, thethe mayo universitynnesota, the state health apartment -- -- de partment -- emily: vice president mike pence sharing additional information on testing. this after the president announced the fda has approved the first at home coronavirus test. this test coming from labcorp. in general, testing not always 100% accurate. the vice president saying one in three people can get a false negative so you might have to take multiple tests. in general, president trump playing it more straight today than yesterday. of course, those remarks about disinfectants widely proper sized and criticized. the president saying he was being sarcastic. 18 states showing a decline in positive test results. also, talking about a phone call he had with apple ceo, tim cook, saying cook told him he believes there will be a v-shaped recovery. that the economy will bounce back as soon as the economy is allowed to reopen. we will continue to listen in. you can watch this presser on live . this is bloomberg. ♪ david: governments fight

here is our second group of semifinalists-- a sophomore at the university of minnesota, from eden prairie.. a sophomore at the university of mississippi, from perryville, missouri... and a junior at hendrix college, from conway, arkansas... anthf eopardy!- ex trebek! [cheers and applause] thank you, johnny. i was standing backstage a few moments ago watching these three, nibir, londyn, and joe, get ready for this second semifinal match, and they're loosey-goosey. they're here having a lot of fun. they're not letting the pressure of the moment get to them, and that's good. so good luck. let's go to work. ♪ here come the categories. we start off with... well, for the seniors. we're gonna give you the... you identify the book those chapters come from. we'll deal with... and you're gonna love this one... eh? [audience laughs] joe, go. book chapters for $600. joe. what is "the adventures of tom sawyer"? you're right. book chapters for $800. nibir. what is "lord of the flies"? yes. math terms, $1,000. joe. what are variables? that's it.

here are today's contestants-- a sophomore at university of minnesota from eden prairie, minnesota...from parker, colorado... and a senior at indiana university from greenfield, indiana... and now, here is the host of "jeopardy!"--alex trebek! [ cheers and applause ] thank you, johnny. thank you, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome. in just 30 minutes from now, we will know the names of the nine players who will return to our program next week to compete in the semi-finals. one of these three will definitely be part of that list. nbir, natalie, and tyler, good luck. here we go. the jeopardy! round. ♪ here are the categories for you... we'll deal with... notice the quotation marks. "spring" will come up in each correct response. that's followed by... and... tyler, off you go. i will take "spring" break for $200, please, alex. - tyler. - what is the arab spring? right. pick again. "spring" break for $400, please. nbir. what is "spring forward, fall back"? - that's it. - cats for $1,000.

joining me the director of the center for infectious disease research and policy at the university of minnesota. thanks for being here. good to see you again. >> thank you, jay. >> the "new york times" reporting the stats at northeastern university shows a hidden spread of the virus weeks earlier in chicago, boston, new york, seattle, at a time when the officially confirmed cases in those five cities was 23. they're actually saying it was in the tens of thousands. what does that tell you and other health experts, how might this change your approach to the virus? >> well, first of all that study doesn't really tell us much at all. it's another modeling study that confirmed that we few there was lots of virus out there. the study you did just talk about, though, that's important is the one governor cuomo announced today showing basically about 13.9% of new yorkers may have anti-body. now that i think is an important study in the sense that, first of all, it's done by a very good lab. i might have some slight changes in the study protocol. i wouldn't just have done grocery shoppers. they're the pe

thankfully in university of minnesota there is an on going trial. sometimes they take a while to come back, in the meantime, i think that physicians should be allowed to make a decision on their own, i had a interesting discussion with one of head of lupus society, leup lupus commuy is not seeing a lot of covid-19, we have not found one, i am asking people too come to my web site, if you have lub lupus andu are on hydorxychloroquine and have covid-19 please let me know. the head of leup lupussies socid in his practice, he not had a single patient of his develop covid-19. and he said a lot of talk about side affects he is stunned by, they have used the drug for decades without cam communications, they don't check ekg's, he does not understand why there is such a hoopla about it, he is sending a letter to the fda accordingly. lou: it is a county intuitive. lupus patients are certainly immune compromised if any would be at all. for it to -- for that to -- that result, to be this overwhelming, 100% in case of the doctor you mentioned with 800 patients,

mike at osterholm is with the university of minnesota. this is really bad news, what do you think?ally not new news. it's something we've known about for weeks. peach have to lapped on to the test-test-mode. we need testing, but we have major road blocks we have to get over. who i've been super excited to say i can't wait for my family to take the test. who is pushing the solution, a solution that doesn't work? >> there's three piece to say this problem. one, we have a short an of the pcr test, because we don't have enough reagents, the chemicals to run these tests number two, the fda have allowed a lot of tests on the market, because, in their own words, they're crap. that's in response that we had such a shortage, it's almost if you had a shingle that said "testing" you can't get through, but this is a function with a test that occurs very rarely such as this antibody, likely in no more than 5% in the country, in new york city maybe as high as 15%, over half of the test positives will be in fact false-positives. if you tell you you have antibody, but a one in two chance it's not

our discussion tonight, the director of the center for disease research and policy at the university of minnesota. he's the author of k"deadliest enemy" co-host of "the circus" and editor and chief of "the recou recount." could you ref fee theree the ist broke out between the governor of maryland and the president. the task force showing a map of where all the testing laboratories are in the united states and showing a map of where the testing laboratories are in maryland insisting the governor of maryland did not have to make a deal with south korea in order to obtain testing from a testing supplies from south korea. what is happening with testing in america tonight and what do the maps that the white house showed us today have to do with testing? >> well, first of all, i would tell you just right now believe your governors. they know where testing is at and how much is available in their states. they want testing more than i can tell you. when they go up against the white house, it's not about a political issue. it not about a subjective issue. it's an objective issue for them. they know. it's

michael oster university of minnesota and joins us tonight. doctor, thanks so much for coming on. ck in fall and winter. second, is there anything we can do to prevent that? >> first of all, i don't know if we can say there'll be any seasonality to this. if this acts like an influenza panic did which it seems to be doing right now, those are situations where for about two years after the original introduction, waves would come and go. depending on what month of the year the pandemic started, six months later, it would just continue. the bottom line message you have here is a really important one is we are all obviously occupied and terribly concerned with what's happening right now but we could be in the first inning in a nine inning game where we get 18 or more months left until we get a vaccine. we understand that's the kind of planning we have to deal with, playing for a long term future situation. >> tucker: this may be a pointless question but is there any way to know at this point? >> we've been predicting the situation for late december or early on thinking it was going to b

of massachusetts, and now thanks to charlie baker's team, they have more than 30 testing sites. minnesota governor tim also reflected on the partnership that he has forged with the mayo clinic, the universitynd state health department. they are collaborating to perform 20,000 molecular tests. 15,000 antibody tests per day. and i am looking forward to traveling to the mayo clinic in minnesota tuesday of next week to learn firsthand from the governor about their efforts across the state to expand testing. i would governor tim reynolds gave us an update, mr. president, on her updates. she is tripling capacity through the private sector with the university of iowa, and iowa state university. she also launched the test iowa.com website that creates an access point for people to fill out a questionnaire about whether or not their symptoms or circumstances would justify a test. she said in the first 72 hours, 150,000 people went to the test site to receive an assessment. and iowa is testing 405,000 people per day in their state. in indiana, i spoke with governor eric holcomb, they tested 72,000 hoosiers to date, adding drive-through sites. and established by the state of indiana for the weekend.

he's the director of research and policy at the university of minnesota. thank you very much for being here, doctor. thank you for sticking around. >> thank you. >> just one question about what we're hearing from governor cuomo. when you see that at this point when new york has been the epicenter of the national outbreak, the last 24 hours being the highest single increase in deaths, what does it tell you? >> first of all, it's a covid reality. that's what we're dealing with right now. i think the thing that's really hard for everyone to understand is that this is just the beginning of this situation. we're going to see this spread throughout the united states. there will be more places, maybe not quite as severe as new york, but they clearly are going to be severe. we've already seen that in a number of metropolitan areas. i think one thing that's really being missed here, if you look at 1918 and the big influenza pandemic that occurred then, that happened until 1920 until most people became infected and then became immune or died. what we're talking abou

osterholm is the director for the center of infectious disease and research and policy at the university of minnesota and joins me now. thank you so much for being with us. >> thank you. >> let's talk about, first of all, the masks. there's a lot of confusing, even the new york state health director sitting next to the governor was contradicting was mayor de blasio advised last night about the effectiveness. the point here is that it can protect the next person, not so much yourself, but it's more to protect people around you if you are within that six feet from getting possibly infected from you if you're wearing a mask outside. >> first of all, all of us want to do whatever we can. so everyone who's making these recommendations are doing them in the spirit of let's do something. but we just have to take a step back and make sure we're not doing something that is actually less protective. that may seem counterintuitive. but lets be clear, what's being recommended is to use a mask of some kind so when you're out in the public and you're not sick -- you shouldn't be in the public if you're sick at all

joining us to discuss, the center for infectious disease research and policy at the university of minnesota, dr. michael osterholm. doctor, president trump says he is ready to reopen, but you say we're in the second inning of this game. >> well, first of all, we have to understand we do have to reopen. somehow the economy can't be closed down for 18 or 20 months, whatever it may be this pandemic runs. we don't have a game plan for how do you reopen and if cases start to surge again, which we fully expect they will, how do you bring it back down. we don't have an on ramp or off ramp for this. that's desperately needed. everybody thinks testing in and of itself will make all the difference. there's real limitations with that as you're already hearing. >> like what? >> well, for example, number one, we don't have the tests. we don't have the reagents. in an op-ed piece in "the new york times" i said in about three weeks we'd start to collapse in terms of what testing we could do. it's great to have all these talking heads on tv and writing columns saying test, test, test, but then where are th

of massachusetts, and now they have more than 30 testing sites. minnesota governor tim walz reflected on the call today about the pickup he's forged with the mayo clip irk, the universityy're actually collaborating to perform 20,000 molecular tests and 15,000 antibody tests per day. and i'm looking forward to traveling to the mayo clinic in minnesota on tuesday of next week to learn firsthand from the governor about their efforts across the state to expand testing. iowa governor kim reynolds gave us an update, mr. president if, on her progress. she's literally tripling testing capacity in her state through a partnership with the private sector with the university of iowa and iowa state university. she also launched the test iowa.com web site which actually creates an access point for people to fill out a questionnaire about whether or not their symptoms or circumstances would justify a test. she said in the first 72 hours 150,000 people went to the test site to receive an a assessment, and iowa's now testing 4,500 people a today in their state. in indiana i spoke also today with governor eric hold couple, they've tested72,000 hoosiers to date. they're adding drive-thro

governor tim walts of minnesota announced along with the state's health care system, mayo clinic, and the university of minnesota, what he described as a breakthrough for rapid widespread testing, and was able to test more than 20,000 people using a molecular test per day. kim reynolds of iowa launching the test iowa initiative that will triple testing capacity. she also worked with the university of iowa hospitals to leverage further capacity, and governor eric holcomb and andy beshear of indiana and kentucky respectively both announced additional drive-through testing locations. our priority has always been to focus first on those impacted by the coronavirus, and then on those extraordinary health care workers to minutes stirring to needs every day. and i know, mr. president, how proud you are that our men and women in uniform have come along side our health care workers and communities most impacted. and i know the american people are proud as well. as of today, fema reports that 35,000 national guard have been deployed across the country to aid in our coronavirus response, governor kevin stand o

test approved in washi and now we've reached an agreement, the governor has, with mayo an university of minnesota the plan is to test up to 20,000 a day, which for a state of our size is pretty significantin and the one i would add, though, judy, is what we've seen in our state, like you've seen all over the country in georgia and other places, the highest per capita is sometimes rurals, arot the highest gross number of cases but the highest per capita and i am really concerned that we're not prepared for rural america.v of course, we more seniors, we have less hospitals andnt ators and the like and, so, we really start have to focusing on that. >> woouff: that's a story that needs to be told. senator klobuchar, now that congress has moved on, passed the fourth package of aid for small businesses, for people who are out of work, questions have been raised about money that went to people, organizations, businesses that it shouldn't v. how do you know in t next go aund that it's not going to happin? >> a lot of this will be enforcement and oversight. i actually just brouht bunch of senators togethe

plus michael osterholm, director for the infectious disease research and policy at the university of minnesota. kristen, first to you, the president has been tweeting up a storm today already from state to state talking about people -- letting people out. he just said yesterday that the governors are in charge after reversing himself from monday. is he now again saying he is going to tell the governors want to do? >> these tweets are quite confusing, andrea. let me just walk our viewers to what he's been tweeting in the past few minutes or so, calling on several states to essentially be liberated. liberate minnesota, he says, liberate michigan, liberate virginia. on this note he said it's interesting, save your great second amendment. it is under siege. we know virginia's governor just signed new gun safety measures into law. not sure if that's a roenks reference to that and why he felt the need to invoke the second amendment into that. here's what we also know about those states, andrea, there were protests in michigan yesterday with people saying that they thought that the stay-at-home order

reflected on the call today about the partnership he has forged with the mayo clinic, the university of minnesotaate health department. they're actually collaborating to perform 20,000 molecular tests and 15,000 antibody tests per day. and i'm looking forward to traveling to the mayo clinic in minnesota on tuesday of next week to learn firsthand from the governor about their efforts across the state to expand testing. iowa governor kim reynolds gave us an update, mr. president, on her progress. she is literally tripling testing capacity in her state through a partnership with a private sector with the university of iowa and iowa state university. she also launched the testiowa.com website, which actually creates an access point for people to fill out a questionnaire about whether or not their symptoms or circumstances would justify a test. she said in the first 72 hours, 150,000 people went to the test site to receive an assessment, and iowa is now testing 4,500 people a day in their state. in indiana i spoke also today with governor eric holcomb. they tested 70,000 hoosiers to date. they'll have

washington post" columnist eugene robertson and center for infectious disease and research at the university of minnesota, michael osterholm. kristen, let's talk about president's claims or suggestions. i don't know that we actually played it yet but just watching dr. deborah birx on that second camera, she looked so pained as she was bracing herself for him to ask her to comment on it. >> that's right. when the president asked her to weigh in on whether or not heat or light could be used as a possible treatment, she was quick to say that it couldn't be, although she was very diplomatic about it. she said, look, heat certainly in the form of a temperature can be helpful to the human body but there's no indication that heat or light can be used as a treatment for covid-19. let me read you what caylee mcnene, the white house press secretary had to say earlier this morning, andrea. she said, president trump repeatedly said americans should consult with medical doctors regarding coronavirus treatment, a point he emphasized again during yesterday's briefing. leave it to the media to irresponsibly take preside

michael osterholm, the director of the center for infectious disease research and policy at the university of minnesotawant to begin, dr. osterholm, with you to respond to something dr. birx said earlier on the show. she essentially seemed to imply that we can't ramp up testing as we know it and that the only way we're going to solve our testing problem is with essentially a breakthrough. is she right? is that throwing in the towel on testing too early? >> well, she's partially right, but let's be really clear. there are three major problems with testing right now. one, we don't have the reagents. our governor is not working with private sector companies as all the other governments of the world are seeking testing to best ramp up the reagents we do need. number two is we have the wild, wild west for testing. the fda has all but given up its oversight responsibility for tests we have on the market. many are nothing short of a disaster, and we got into that place because of had fact once cdc had a problem, the fda just opened the gate, and we have a lot of bad tests on the market right now. the third th

aarons to jonah is a labor economist and professor at the university of minnesota he says despite the jobless figures rushing people banks work is not the answer. i'm telling you there's no short cut around the public option around there's no way to get around it other than. to develop public health strategies that can preserve lives well people that get a long with their regular economic activity you can try to take a short cut her people back to work without being able to tell who's just. but it will provoke a worse health crisis than we're economic crisis you know there's plenty of people who are working right now who are doing essential jobs karen. groceries and public safety and they are taking additional risks than they used to and you know we're all grateful for that what i would advise them is to invest every productive resource you can in meeting the public health challenge talk to the public health experts and give them everything they need to be successful. and at the same time i think that the important question is how do we support families and small businesses through th

friday morning, ofector of the division infectious disease and international medicine at the university of minnesota discusses the u.s. response to the coronavirus pandemic. congressman, a member of the small business committee will talk about the impact of the pandemic on his district. and the main street alliance discusses federal efforts to support small businesses during the pandemic. be sure to watch "washington journal," live at 7:00 a.m. eastern friday morning. >> up next, today's white house briefing with president trump and members of the coronavirus task force. the house voted today on a subcommittee to oversee the coronavirus response. we will show a floor debate on that measure followed by another debate on a $500 billion for relief measures. the aide package passing today with bipartisan support. pres. trump: thank you very much. evening we expect the house to pass paycheck protection program and health care enhancement act. i am grateful congress is answering my call to deliver these additional $320 billion in relief the american worker, and for small businesses. at a time when many am