cheney peons then 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. readers 8 feet in a few more 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 cleaning teams are spraying commuter trains in 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 commuters are encourage

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

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 pince 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 prent 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 risk to the average american from the virus remains low do you agree with that. 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 but others the esti

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

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, anxious. if it

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 means you have diff

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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. >>> well, the worl

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

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 fiv

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

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

gratitude each day, a new artist is going to publish a video to honor staffers at vanderbilt university medical centery 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 depot cofounde

>> let's bring in professor of medicine at vanderbilt university medical center in nashville, dr. the alert. i'm an alum of vanderbilt, classes had been canceled there on campus. that's a trend we're seeing across the country. i'm interested, as we take a step back from 30,000 feet, at this point, obviously, there were things we could have done as a country up until this moment that we haven't done. 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. that will give us an idea, we hope in about a week or 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. the question is how quickly are we doing that? >> so as we spintroduce that te, you say a week, week and a half, i guess it'd be good news if it comes out next week, how soon will we have our a

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

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.

the vanderbilt university medical center's denizen lab is one of the top 20 labs in the world that is studying this disease. for over 25 years, they've received federal grants for their research into how these viruses make us sick, and they are currently helping with the development of treatments, antivirals, and vaccines to deal with coronaviruses and especially the covid-19. and i am especially so pleased with the progress that they're making. but today i want to draw attention to a threat that has again been highlighted because of this virus outbreak. pharmaceuticals are no different from other products, and they're 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 ingredients -- and you will hear these referred to by the acronym a.p.i.'s. only 28% of the facilities producing these a.p.i.'s are in the united states. what this means is that american consumers rely heavily on foreign-sourced drugs in order to stay healthy. meanwhile, the num