good talking to you thank you so much for joining us and professor william schaffner from vanderbilt university in dunk the number of people killed by corona virus now past 5000 governments around the world are moving to halt its spread by shutting schools banning not gatherings and in some cases closing national borders and the world health organization delivered this assessment of the way the pandemic a shifted europe has now become the epicenter of the pun dimmick we reported cases and that is done the rest of the world combined apart from china more cases of now being reported every day than were reported in china highest of its appeal to me. you commission president a sort of underlying has promised to do whatever it takes to help the pla deal with the pandemic she's pledged to help redirect vital medical assistance to hard hit areas like italy italian health officials say more than 250 people have died from coverage 19 in the last 24 hours the biggest single day jump since the outbreak began. on the front line of europe's coronavirus special italy's health system is under pressure with mo

there let's cross now to dr william schaffner he is a professor of preventative medicine at vanderbilt university medical center in the state of tennessee in nashville dr it's good to see you again so we've got u.s. vice president white tents he's leading the white house coronavirus task force a lot of people around the world i have been perplexed by that how do you feel you as a medical professional how do you feel about a politician with no medical training heading this task force. well brant i think the good news is that he has surrounded himself with absolutely solid professional persons from the c.d.c. and from the national institutes of health so i think he's getting very very solid advice tends to have told the american public that the risks to the average american from the virus remains low do you agree with them. yes i do i do agree with that but you have to be careful to not just walk on the sunny side of the street we still don't know the exact extent of the corona virus across the united states because we haven't been doing sufficient testing that's just beginning to resolve itself bu

the vanderbilt university medical centers denison like this one of the top 20 labs in the world and is studying this disease. for over 25 years they received federal grants for the research into how these viruses make us sick, and they are currently helping with the development of treatment, antivirals, and vaccines to deal with coronaviruses, and especially the covid-19. and i am just so pleased with the progress that their making, today i wantt to draw attention to a threat that has again been highlighted because of this coronavirus outbreak. pharmaceuticals are no different from other products in that they are usually manufactured in pieces. the active ingredients in one place, and the inactive ingredients in another place, and so on. currently, only 28% of the facilities producing active pharmaceutical a ingredients, ad you will hear these refer to by the acronym, api, only 28% of the facilities producing these apis are in the united states. .. think about that. only 28 percent of all facilities globally are in the us. and china has doubled, doubled the number of facilities . in ch

lymphatic champions than next year this time dr william schaffner joining us tonight from vanderbilt university medical center in the state of tennessee dr thank you we appreciate your time tonight a few feet of the weight of it is a few well coronavirus cases in south korea have now ballooned to more than $6000.00 that's the most outside of china enough to fight the virus the country has deployed to keep weapons a rigorous testing system and disinfectant in the capital so clean teams are spring commuter trains and stations and forcing commuters to wear masks or correspondent frank smith since this report. so 3 is transit networks are using strong medicine to combat the deadly coated 90 epidemic special teams are working overtime to sanitize the entirety of so metro with stations prepared to shut down if anyone with the corona virus is confirmed to have been there and there's a good bit of public outreach going on as well. but among the measures taken by small metro to prevent the spread of the virus are public service announcements in 4 languages promoting containment several times for our com

the vanderbilt university medical center's dennison lab is one of the top 20 labs in the world that is studying this disease. foror over 25 years they have received federal grants for their research on how this virus makes us sick and how they currently help with the development of treatments, antivirals, and vaccines to deal with corona viruses and especially the cove at and i am just so pleased with the progress they are making. but today i want to draw our attention to a threat that has again been highlighted because of this corona virus outbreak. pharmaceuticals are no different from other products and their products are usually manufactured in pieces. the active ingredient is in one place, and the in active ingredient is in another place, and so on. currently, only 28% of the facilities producing active pharmaceutical ingredients, and you will hear these referred to by the acronym apis t. only 28% of the distillates ease producing these apis are in the united states. what this means is that american consumers, rely heavily on foreign sourced drugs in order to stay healthy. meanwhi

william shatner, vanderbilt university preventive medicine and infectious disease professor discusses the latest developments in the coronavirus outbreak. watch c-span's "washington journal," live at 7:00 eastern friday morning. join the discussion. how the we will hear u.s. army is responding to the coronavirus pandemic. this news conference from the pentagon is an hour. >> hey, everybody. how are you?

joining us from nashville is a professor of preventative medicine and infectious diseases at vanderbilt university medical center. thank you for your time this morning. >> good to be with you. >> the united states surpassed china, 82,000. what do you make of that? what are your concerns? >> my concern is it is going to grow. we haven't completely defined how widespread this virus is in the united states and how intensely it is distributed in different parts of the country. we need to do more testing. the next several weeks are going to see a surge of cases coming into hospitals. it may not get as bad as new york everywhere but we are already seeing patients coming in a rather steady way in nashville and we expect more over the next several weeks. >> describe what it is like an hospitals when you see these patients. how are they suffering? >> obviously people are very very ill. in a respiratory infection, that involves the lungs. you have difficulty breathing. that is an extraordinarily uncomfortable illness because it makes you extremely anxious and makes everyone around you, your family members,

william shatner is back from vanderbilt university, i know you are listening at your office in tennesseeif i could come a doctor come i know you've examined as much as we do. and i just want to go through a scenario here, a trend i'm picking up on. then i will bounce it off of you. so here we are up over half a million, 500,000 around the world. this is what i see today my c120000 recovered, and i don't think we emphasize that enough. there are people that recover from this. here in china i'm key on this number too. you have 82,000 cases, dr. but you have a recovery number 74,000 which means we can debate whether we trust the numbers from the chinese government, but you are about 7500 cases in china today. i find that very interesting. in the u.s. 76,000 where 1,000 have died as a result. i will show you a few more things, sir. this is the total test of a conducted u.s. through the public labs going back to the 13th of march where almost half a million from about 484,000, okay? come forward. remember folks like yourself, doctor, and everybody else saying the more we test, the greater the

thank you so much f for joining us, professor wililliam schaffnr from vanderbilt university. the number of people killed by coronavirus is past 5000. governments around the world are working to halt schools, that he large gatherings, and in some cases closing national borders. the head of the world health organization had this assessment. >> europe has become the epicenter of the pandemic, w wih more reported cases and deaths than the rest of the world combined. apart from china. more cases are now being reported every day than were reported in china at the highest of the epidemic. phil: the eu commission president has promised to do whatever it takes to help the bloc deal with the pandemic. she has pledged to help redirect a vital medical assistance to hard-hit areas like italy. italian health officials say more than 250 people have died from covid-19 in the last 24 hours, the biggest single-day job since the outbreak began. reporter: on the frontline of europe's coronavirus battle, italy's health system is under pressure, with more than 50 dozen current cases, patient-- 15,

william shaftner from vanderbilt university to answer your questions >> what's the best way to preventit? >> avoid people who are coughing and sneezing at the present time lots of good handwashing the people at greatest risk of infection are people who are older. it's certainly flu-like symptoms and the whole spectrum of illness from very severe to much less severe, we're now only appreciating older persons, people with underlying illnesses such as heart disease, diabetes, and lung disease, they're more likely to get pneumonia and the more serious coronavirus infections >> is it airborne? >> it can be transmitted through close contact. if i have the virus and i breathe it out and we are standing this close and you breathe it in, you can get sick. >> can i get the mask? >> that's a very good question you know, the masks really don't help you very much at all. >> what percentage of people now are dying from the coronavirus >> the data from china would indicate it's about 2% of people but most of us think that's too high coronavirus probably can survive on the surface for several hours. t

and your families we sent one of the top infectious disease specialists in the country from vanderbilt universityn the street to answer your questions. >> what's the best way to prevent the virus? >> what's the risk for somebody like us to contract it >> how can i avoid it? >> avoid people who are coughing and sneezing at the present time lots of good hand washing. the people at greatest risk of coronavirus infection are people who are older. who are older. >> it's certainly >> flu-like symptoms >> it's certainly flu-like symptoms the whole spectrum of illness from severe to much less severe we are only now appreciating. >> older persons, people with underlying illnesses such as heart disease, diabetes and lung disease, they are more likely to get pneumonia and the more serious coronavirus infections >> is it airborne? >> it can be transmitted from close contact. if i have the virus and i breathe it out and we're standing this close and you breathe it in, you can get sick >> what about the masks? >> that's a very good question the masks really don't help that much a at all. >> what percentage of

this as a demo last year and they actually did it in real time this year with scientists at vanderbilt university who took blood from patients in seattle who covered and searched their blood to find the b. cells that produce these antibodies that would attack the virus wow so they're already moving forward with that with with the blood from the recovered patients that is absolutely fascinating and now private efforts they are focusing on breakthrough technologies can you 1st tell us exactly what synthetic biology is and how it might accelerate the process to developing these antibodies and treatments against. it so that it biology is a movement to make biology easier to engineer you're seeking these rapid advances in the ability to read d.n.a. to write d.n.a. and d.n.a. and that's enabling all of these new applications in terms of designing building and testing cells that particular functions and that could be anything from the food we eat to the materials that we wear to consumer goods to some of the most pressing issues around how we can fight off infection and improve health care by making. dr

doctor william shatner, a professor of preventive medicine and infectious diseases and at vanderbilt university medical center. doctor, thank you for your time this morning. >> sure, good to be with you. >> doctor, the united states has surpassed china in a number of cases at 82000. what do you make of that and what are your concerns with that number? >> guest: my concern, of course, is that it will grow. you know, we have not yet completely define how widespread this virus is in the united instates and how intensely it is just a beaded in different parts of the country. we need to do more testing but the next several weeks, i think, will see a surge of cases coming into hospitals. it may not get as bad as new yorkd everywhere but we are already seeing patients coming ain in a rather steady weight here in nashville and we expect more over the next several weeks. >> host: describe what it is like in hospitals when you see or when you see these patients? how are they suffering? >> guest: obviously, people are very, very ill. if you get a respiratory infection that involves the lungs and that mean

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>> meanwhile, those already on the front lines are being stretched thin. 86 employees from vanderbilt university medical center in tennessee have tested positive for the virus. and in the boston area an even bigger number. 345 health care workers have tested positive for covid-19 across four area hospitals. police forces are also struggling. there have been 29 new positive cases in the chicago police department bringing the total number there to 50. meanwhile, in new york, two more nypd officers have died bringing the total number to five. nearly 1,000 employees have the virus with more than 5,000 currently out sick. louisiana is emerging as a new hot spot for the virus. and scenes like this are not helping. ♪ ♪ >> authorities say more than 100 people took part in a funeral second line in new orleans on saturday. right now gatherings of more than one household are banned in the city. an arrest warrant was issued for the organizer who refused to disband a large gathering. new orleans mayor says his family has since reached out to apologize. the city alone has more than 1400 coronavirus cases. >>>

i'm an alum of vanderbilt university, that classes were canceled on campus.y up until this moment we haven't done but we are where we are. how are you viewing this right now? how serious is it and how should americans be looking at it? >> willie, it is serious and we're rolling out the testing. that's the single most important thing we're doing right now because that will give us an idea, we hope in about a week, week and a half, how widespread this virus is across the country. is it just focal and spreading, or has it actually now encompassed the entire country? we're moving from containment to mitigation really. and the question is how quickly are we doing that? >> so as we introduce that test, you say week, week and a half, i guess that would be good news if it comes out next week. how soon will we have our arms around how serious this problem is? because as we said at the top of the show, doctor, the numbers we see and charts we put up and math we put up saying handful of cases here and there likely are vastly underestimating the scope of this problem. >>

william shatner, he's the doctor of infectious diseases at vanderbilt university. doctor, thank you for taking your time. i'm amazed we don't have a handle on the extent of this spread. we've known for weeks, really that, this elder care facility has been impacted. they've only just tested the people there. you have other countries that have tested tens of thousands of people, and the u.s. is lagging behind. why is that, and in your view, what difference does that make in the response? >> well, jim, looking forward, testing is now rolling out much more robustly in state health departments, and as we have heard, private test providers in large laboratories are also coming online. so i hope that deficit in testing will soon, over the next week, week and a half, be resolved, and as that happens, we'll have a much better idea of how widely distributed this virus is in the united states. is it still focal with local spread, or is it now in most states and already spreading in those states? that will give us a better handle on what's going on. >> that's a big question. >

william shatner, vanderbilt university preventive medicine and infectious disease professor discusses the latest developments in the coronavirus outbreak. watch c-span's "washington journal," live at 7:00 eastern friday morning. join the discussion. how the we will hear u.s. army is responding to the coronavirus pandemic. this news conference from the pentagon is an hour. >> hey, everybody. how are you? >> [inaudible] >> i hear you. punctuality. man. we have everybody? do we have folks on the phone again? >> yes, sir. >> ok, i will just let you know ,ho is here, ryan mccarthy chief of staff of the army, surgeon general, director of operations and plans, director of the army national guard bureau and sergeant major of the army. the chief will make some opening remarks, and then we will open up to your questions. i think we have a hard stop at 1400, right? ok. >> thank you, mr. secretary. the army has 288 confirmed cases of covid-19 as of this morning. 100 of soldiers. 64 department of the army civilians. .5 are dependents nine are cadets. 50 are army contractors. this week, the secreta

william schaffner at vanderbi vanderbilt university. >> the older you are the more likely you are to get a severe infection and sometimes gravely ill. so people who are let's say over age 60 who have underlying illnesses and even people younger than that who also have underlying illnesses, they should really reconsider going to mass events where they will be face-to-face with other people in enclosed circumstances for long periods of time. you avoid the infection by avoiding other people, and so older people and others should really consider their life circumstances, and that includes nonessential travel at this time. >> so dr. schaffner, brooke s a long time adviser to the centers for disease control and i asked him what exactly are you telling people? he said look, i would tell people to strongly consider not going to movies, not going to concerts, not going to big family events if they're over age 60 and/or if they have underlying health issues. that is very different from what we've heard from the cdc. the cdc has not said that, but remember, dr. schaffner has close ties to the c

catherine edwards, professor of pediatrics at vanderbilt university and dr. yaner bariam.r viewers are interested in hearing what doctors have to say about this. the president initially last week after dismissing the threat said, well, could be july, august, before things dissipate. now yesterday he says america could be open for business as soon as next week. you say that you need five weeks really for a lockdown to be effective. explain to us why that is. >> first of all, we really are talking about a lockdown. it has to be very, very strong action. but if we do that, then contagion becomes very, very limited. people are just staying at home, only going out for necessities, the only contagion that can happen is within cohabiting, people that live together, families or roommates. then over two weeks, the people that rin feare infected at the beginning of the period will show symptoms. so we know who they are and can isolate them. some people will still be infected because of the contagion within families in a few other random cases. it takes two weeks. but the outbreak wi

william shatner with vanderbilt university medical center. let me start with you, since it was the university of washington. since it appears some of the decision that were made for the white house they were basing it off of, dr. birx told me on sunday it was one of the models that she thought was getting it right. they actually have a higher 20 deaths, a higher rate than the university of washington study, but it does seem as if, is that the area that we're zeroing in on, if we do everything right, if everything goes as well as possible with social distancing, from coast-to-coast, we're still going to have 100,000 to 200,000 deaths? >> well, chuck that was one of the primary conclusions of this study out of the institute for health metrics at the university of washington, that 81,000 deaths is the likely estimate of deaths that we can expect by the middle of july, even if we're doing everything that we're doing right now, which is frankly half measures. we're implementing social distancing rules, still as suggestions, in two out of every five

one of those drugs rambisovir, we developed in collaboration, and vanderbilt university. o been studying that works well against all emerging coronaviruses, including sars, too. that was done in collaboration with groups at emory university and is moving through the fda process right now. >> so, when you walk us through that -- we're on a little bit of a delay from skype. if it's all right, i want to ask you a follow-up. when you walk us through your opening there, to put it in plain english, this is a big area of research that's been going on for years and people are waking up more to your work now because of this public health crisis, is that right? >> we've been working on developing these two particular drugs for over five years. rambisovir, we began collaboration with gillead, really designed to develop drugs against new emerging pathogens, and we focused on coronaviruses, particularly not only the emerging coronaviruses like sars coronavirus, mers coronavirus and sars 2, it works against all of them so it's quite impressive. in vitro, in animals, and now in human tes

william shafter, in infectious diseases at vanderbilt university medical center.nk you both for joining us. doctor, when we hear the vice president talking about travel restrictions, the president suggesting already there will be more travel restrictions, how much would that help containment here in the united states? >> well, wolf, i think it will add some to the containment because it will reduce the chance that more virus will be introduced. but of course, the virus is here already. and the enhanced testing that will be going on in the next week or two will help us to find exactly the nature and extent of the problem that's here already. >> doctor, how do you balance reassuring the public and making sure the public does not get into some sort of panic mode while at the same time explaining all the consequences of what's going on? >> well, i think we have to calmly give them the information. and your program is one where you're doing that. just getting the information out and letting them hear it in a deliberate fashion so that they can get an understanding that

william schaff ne r from vanderbilt university medical center.th person in washington state has died. give us some perspective on what this tells us. >> you know, public health officials are still trying to find out what is the connection between all these people. there's obviously concern about this extended care facility because so many of the people who have been infected or had some -- who have died have some connection to this facility. but this is challenging to try and piece this together. what we know is that the virus is spreading within the community there. maybe spreading within the community and other places as well. the majority of people who may have been exposed to this virus may not have much in the way of symptoms. they don't know they're carrying the virus. that's the picture that's starting to emerge which is not that different than what we've seen in other places around the world. the virus does not respect borders or geography as we've talked about. so it's, obviously, sad, but i think public health officials have known for s

friday morning, vanderbilt university preventative medicine and disease professor discusses the latestelopments in the coronavirus outbreak. watch c-span's "washington journal," live at 7:00 a.m. eastern friday morning. join the discussion. >> the housemates tomorrow at 9:00 a.m. eastern to consider the $2 trillion economic aid package in response to the coronavirus pandemic. you can follow the final vote live here on c-span. >> coming up next, president on therovides an update coronavirus response with members of the white house task force. nancy and kevin mccarthy discuss efforts to get a third coronavirus economic aid package passed and sent to the president's desk for approval. later, governor cuomo on the steps he is taking to address the coronavirus outbreak in his state. >>

william schaffner is a professor of infectious diseases at vanderbilt university's school of medicine. b thank you to yh for being here. i want to jump right in to some of these questions because we've sure got a lot. here's one now from rachael stillwell, 52 yores old from h woodlalls, california. takelaseen to her questions. >> what advice can you give me about how to politely convince my 76-year-old mom who lives in oregon and has a very active social life that she should curtail some of her socihe activities witr friends that she's used to seeing alst every day? >> reporter: we've heard is from the federal government, social distancing especially foh members ofe vol memorable population, what do you sato rachael? >> i would say this is for your health and others around you. for your health because older peop and those are chronic medil illnesses are in th category of the medically most t vulnerabcovid 19, and also this is for other people, too, thcause we knobest way, the only way at this point to reduce the spread of covid 19 is to socially d that doesn't mean you have to be emot

max shulman a student at vanderbilt university who is now under quarantine at his gnome long island, york -- home in long island, new york. i'm so glad that you're here to talk to us, because so many people have questions. first, i want to ask you how you're feeling, and then i want you to explain to us when you realized you may have had something going on. was it sudden is and what were your symptoms? >> yeah. so thank you so much for having me on the show. i think it's really important to just be getting accurate information out there right now. you know, all things considered, i'm, i have coronavirus, i'm quarantined in my room. i've been quarantined for a week. other than that, as you can probably see, i feel fine. i've been doing my workouts in my room, i've been eating pretty regularly as much as a teenage boy generally does. i've been doing work. i've had symptoms in five days so generally feeling pretty fine right now. this disease isn't that dangerous for someone of my age and health fortunately, thank god. and what was that other question? laura: i just wanted to know when

william schaffner from vanderbilt university medical center and we will get your reaction by phone, facebook and twitter. "washington journal" is next. guest: republicans 202-748-8001 independents 202-748-8002. join

and from vanderbilt university, john meacham. he is an nbc news and msnbc contributor. the coronavirus has now entered a devastating new phase, as the world health organization declares it a global pandemic. there are now more than 126,000 cases across more than 100 countries and regions. the latest numbers from johns hopkins university ranks the united states eighth in terms of countries with the most confirmed cases. keep in mind, we have a limit on testing. we learned this morning from the officials in florida that a passenger with coronavirus arrived at palm beach international airport from new york's jfk airport last night. two sources tell nbc news that in a closed door briefing, the attending physician of congress told senate staffers yesterday that he expects 70 million to 150 million people in the u.s. will contract the virus. on wall street, the dow plunged 1,400 points into a bear market. more on that in just a moment. last night, president trump delivered a rare oval office address and announced that travel from certain parts of europe would be restricted. m

william schaffner from vanderbilt university medical center and we will get your reaction by phone, facebook and twitter. "washington journal" is next. guest: republicans 202-748-8001 independents 202-748-8002. the conversation on twitter @c-span wj or facebook.com/c-span. here speak house speaker nancy yesterday sounding confident that the house would vote. >> i don't think we'll get consent. there's some other people who that.bject to we're not worried about that. our members want to come back in debate and wethe expect to have a voice vote on it. prepared't, we'll be for whatever it is. one way or another, with losing no time, we will be passing the bill tomorrow. thank you. host: speaker of the house yesterday. david when they gaveling in at next?.m., what happens guest: they will pass this as quickly as they can. the question is whether or not, is going to have force rollvoice and call voice. there's parameters in place to roll call vote. i think the question is, whether going to bes necessary. i talked to couple people it'srday that are hoping not necessary but people are prepared. hos

. >> reporter: this vanderbilt university center who asked we not use his name is one of a number ofhe coronavirus at that school. >> because of the sort of rapid spread, everyone's really worried. i have a friend -- multiple pfriends in the hospital right now. i think that the narrative has flipped. if you go out now, you're going to get shamed from a lot of people. >> reporter: officials are trying to reach young people by any means possible. the surgeon general asked influencers like kylie jenner to spread the message. >> please, stay inside, you guys. please stay inside. practice social distancing, self-quarantine. >> reporter: new york governor andrew cuomo brought his 22-year-old daughter, mikaela, to a news conference to show she's staying put. >> it makes no sense to go expose yourself to these conditions and expose other people. >> reporter: 74-year-old errol eisinger of ft. lauderdale agrees. if you could say something to them, what would you say? >> i would say just be aware of what is going on and take it seriously. >> reporter: he's part of the quarter of florida's popul

vanderbilt, university of california berkeley have planned to shift to remote instruction.se, middle berry, rutgers, indiana, and grinnell college also joined the pack. many do not have covid-19 on campus. we want to hear what is happening around your part of the country. sue is in glen oaks maryland. that's glenoaks, maryland. --ler: i suffer from serious i have been on lockdown for a time. beenalth situation has neglected. it has not been fully diagnosed. it has been going on for many years. i relate to the people being quarantined. it is very isolating and difficult in terms of trusting the health care system, i think there is a lot of room for improvement. in terms of how it is affecting large swaths of the population, there are people in nursing homes at great risk. one of the questions i have is, is there a set up for people like me who have --? we hear about this 5% which is quite high, but if you separate out the people who are already ill, it must be much higher a death rate. there are a lot of things that need to be addressed. one of the things is that this type o

maria called gratitude each day, a new artist is going to publish a video to honor staffers at vanderbilt universityin nashville amy grant lending talent, as you said, many times on the program, these nurses doctors deserve our gratitude. back to you >> i love that, i would like to see that for all health care workers across the country great idea cheryl thank you frontlines where we are going of coronavirus pandemic new york city seeing more than 38,000 cases, 914 deaths, due to illness the u.s. navy providing a ship with 1,000 beds as cases mount quite the sight to see comfort ship arriving in new york harbor yesterday field hospitals opening up in central park jacob javits in manhattan hospitals new york governor cuomo making a power plea for health care help saying one million additional health care workers are needed to tackle this crisis. >> please come help us in new york now. we need relief we need relief for nurses who are working, 12-hour shifts, one after the other after the other we need relief for doctors. >> joining me right now chairman of nyu lan comoen medical center, he is the home

in finding solutions, scientists at vanderbilt university medical center are working hard in participation with our labs to find a vaccine for this. the denison lab, and i had the opportunity to talk to dr. denison last week. we know in connection with other labs they are expediting finding virals, vaccines, this is something they are working on and they are working as hard as they possibly can around the clock to find these solutions. of course we do know, madam president, if china had been more forthcoming, if they had not tried to keep this a secret, imagine trying to keep this a secret, which is exactly what they tried to do, we would be further along in this process. but we're so grateful, so, so grateful for these brilliant minds that are researching this and are building off past research from coronaviruses and from sars, and they are whittling down what can be used to fight this. indeed, the super computer at oak ridge and the team of scientists there working with the super computer, the summit, were able to put in a lot of information and distill down to 77 drugs that could be eff

bring in historian, author of the soul of america and rodgers professor of the presidency at vanderbilt university, he is an nbc news and msnbc contributor. joe, i think we saw a little bit of the soul of america last night. >> that we did. >> jon meachum, this was a historic political turn around, a first rate drama complete with everything save maybe the dewy beats truman chicago tribune head line. what an extraordinary turn around in the course of three or four days. >> when was the last time alabama and massachusetts agreed on anything? >> right. >> is one way of looking at this. we've been talking about my region and the line from the atlantic over, but minnesota, massachusetts, upper south and a deep south state, it was an amazing run. and i think the message was that the country is, in fact, both hungry for and now in sight of a stabilizing force. we spent five years on this terrible constitutional tilt-a-whirl where everybody is exhausted by a president who veers from unthinkable to unthinkable to unthinkable and vice president biden, whatever his faults, he is as you and mike were saying

and author of "soul of america" and from vanderbilt university, jon meacham is here. he's an nbc and msnbc contributor. all along with willie and me and joe is back on monday. we're going to begin this monday with another unfortunate milestone as the u.s. overtakes china as the country with the most number of confirmed cases of the coronavirus. the u.s. has more than 85,000 cases with more than 17,000 reported in the last 24 hours. as the country sets records for new cases just about every day. president trump continues his push for guidelines on self-distancing to be relaxed. the administration is planning to identify certain counties by risk level, high, medium or low. hoping that some parts of the country can get back to work sooner than others. meanwhile, members of the house are racing back to washington right now to vote on that massive economic rescue package today. leaders had hoped to pass it by voice vote but feared at least one member kentucky republican thomas massey would demand a recorded vote. if he or any other member forces a roll call the house would

vanderbilt as well. they paid for the direction of the hall when it was determined by the university to move it -- remove it nearly a century later. you pay the people who directed -- erected it, who named it, for that privilege. we now have the irony hundreds -- irony of of thousands of hundreds millions of dollars being given to united daughters of the confederacy, sons of confederate veterans. other societies which are promoting a very partisan view. the very partisan view that people believe is embodied by some of the statuary. of course, statuary we discussed was often divided into funereal, those statues that were erected to honor the dead. and then some that were wrought military to remind people of the cause for which they were erected. and we come in our discussions, talked about how could we make people understand that many of the statues were not put up in the wake of the war, but they were put up in the 20th century with the rising white nationalism. some of them were very explicitly erected with signage that very clearly tried to promote a notion of white superiority and to connect that to t

vanderbilt as well, confederate memorial hall. they paid for the erection of the hall. when it was determined by the university to remove it a century later, nearly a century later, you pay the people who erected it, who named it for that privilege. we now have the irony of hundreds of thousands, millions of dollars, given to united daughters of the confederacy, sons of confederate veterans, promoting often a partisan view that people believe is embodied by some of the statuary. it was often discussed divided into those statues that were erected to honor the dead and then some that were to remind people of the cause for which they were erected and we in our discussions talked about how could we make people understand many of these statues were not put up in the wake of the war but they were put up in the 20th century with a rising white nationalism, and some of them were explicitly erected with signage that very clearly tried to promotion of white superiority and connect that to the confederate cause and to the legacy of the american civil war. i will say that i love participating in the roundtable because hav

universities prepared for this? we have one student who has tweeted to us, while i'm glad classes have been canceled, vanderbilt is having us return for one day, exposing all of the students, and now exposing us and others in return as well as travel cost burdens and last-minute arrangements. it is incredibly inconsiderate by the university. were colleges and universities prepared at all for something like this, likely coronavirus? guest: i don't know if anyone really was. this has been so fast-moving. the main effect in terms of colleges, they were the effects on the china outreach and recruitment of chinese students and a study abroad in china. then, effects step -- extended to other city abroad programs like italy. has the last 10 days, it really hit home for colleges in a way that was different than it had been before for u.s. colleges that is. i do think there has been a lot of confusion. evolving colleges guidance saying one thing one day and the next day they have to updated. it has been fast-moving. colleges, a number of them announced -- a number have not been -- they have made the announcement they plan to clos

vanderbilt as well. you had a confederate memorial hall. the udc paid for the direction of the hall. when the universityermined to remove it, one century later, you pay the people who erected it, who named it, for that privilege. ofwe now have the irony hundreds of thousands, millions of dollars, being given to united daughters of the confederacy, sons of confederate veterans, other societies, which are promoting, often, the very partisan view that people believe is embodied by some of the statuary. statuary we discussed was often divided into funereal, statues erected to honor the dead, and some that were military to remind people of the cause for which they were erected. in our discussions we talk about how can we make people understand that many of the statues were not put up in the wake of the war, but in the 20 century, with a rising white nationalism. some of them were explicitly erected with signage that very clearly tried to promote the notion of spare yorty and connect that to the confederate cause, and connect that to the legacy of the american civil war. i lovesay that participating in the ro