of the pandemic in the united states let's look at the medical science about what's going on william schaffner is professor of preventative medicine at vanderbilt university in the u.s. city of nashville welcome professor as part of his announcement that the president said that $500000.00 additional coronavirus testing kids will be available early next week $500000.00 is that credible. i don't know if it's credible but it sure would be welcome because we need to do much more testing now it's one thing to have the testing kits it's another thing to have places on the ground where the patients can be evaluated and the specials attained to send to the laboratory and that's that other part that's still in many parts of the country including in my own community is not working very well yet so if you say this is going to be welcome or obviously what if you made of the way the u.s. or thors is have dealt with this pandemic so far. well we get good starts good reports and things that we obviously could have done better early on we contain the virus very very well the travel ban with china was very hel

much time ok well let's hope that we are a limp dick 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 promot

vice president mike pence speaking 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 mike pence 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 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 test

william schaffner . dr. anthony fauci at the task force reaping talked about vaccination development and trials and how do you respond to it? thing i mentioned several times from this podium is to clarify about the timeline for vaccines. and with that have pretty real impact on what we would call a rebound and cycling in season. certainly a vaccine will not help us now or next month or the month after. trialt into a phase one and i keep referring to one vaccine. there is more than one. there are a couple at different stages of development, but they are all following the same course, and that is you first go into a phase one trial to see if it is safe, and you have very few people, but if i people, in age group, all healthy and not at great risk of getting infected. the reason you do that is you want to make sure that it is safe. the next thing you do, and it takes three months or more, which brings us to the middle of summer, you go to a phase two trial. we put a lot of people in there. we hope that there ar

william schaffner, i so appreciate you. that you think very much. >> my pleasure. >>> let's get an update now speaking of, lets get an update on the cruise ship that is still waiting to get those test results that were dropped in. dan sigh nmon is live in san francisco where that ship was supposed to dock. they're waiting for these results from 45 people aboard the grand princess, what's the story now? >> reporter: these results we were told were going to come out sometime this morning. now it looks like it's going to be sometime this evening. plus they're going to do more testing on board. originally they said 100 passengers would be tested. they did 45 yesterday. i guess they're going to do the rest today. for these passengers, this is a really frustrating experience. identify be i've been getting a lot of texts from them. they're anxious and worried. they don't know how long they're going to remain on this ship. there's really no path forward at this point. it appears that they're just waiting to see what the results are

william schaffner and dr. leana wen. thank you toour questions as well. we'll have more later in the showh for tips ont you can be doing now to protect yourself from covid h9,ere's some tips from the cente for disease control. centers for disease control and prevention. ed. >> nawaz: the pandemic is not just a health crisis; it's also triggered an economic crisis, and it's already having a major impact on our jobs, our finances, and our futures. as the fears and uncertainty around covid-19 spread, financial markets have been left reeling. >> wall street crashed again, sth the dow jones industr falling... free-falling nearly 3,000 points, or 13 points-- the most in 30 years.aw >>: just one month ago, wall street was trading at record highs. today?vo tility is the new normal. trillions of dollars of market value have been wiped out, and fears of an approaching recession are growing. >> nawaz: u.s. stocks are now recent peak in febary.soir of the hardest hit industries? airlines and tourism. major carriers like american airlines, delta and united have been d

william schaffner, professor of preventive medicine at vanderbilt medical center. dr. manny, i will come to you for us. here on the east coast we are watching these things be erected here in new york. pop up hospitals. what, in your estimation, is enough? are we getting there? >> dr. alvarez: well, we are certainly getting there. we are not quite there yet. if you look at any city around the hub of new york city, so come in northern bergen county where i am, long island, places like that, all hospitals are at maximum capacity. we are at 100% capacity. for instance, in many places -- and i know this personally -- we're even putting beds in the cafeteria. so the capacity is definitely overflowing, and it is important to put these tents and ambulatory hospitals and the ship here in new york because we need to get other patients away from the center of the epidemic, which is many times within the hospital. that is absolutely right. i also want to caution that there is some light at the end of the tunnel. that has to do with the testing. therapies, it is a wait and see. the

william schaffner, an adviser also for the cdc.ion, doctor, to shut down a school is an extraordinary one. talk to me about the pros and cons. >> well, katy, you're exactly right. it is a difficult decision. on the one hand are the infectious disease issues. could the children be the big victors of the coronavirus and spread it to the community and bring it home? oh, sometimes the teachers and administrators and other supportive staff of the school are so sick that you have to close it. but on the other hand, you have particularly in inner city schools, underprivileged children who get two, sometimes three square meals a day in those schools. it's a safe environment for those kids. if they are let home, they may be home alone. that's not a good thing for young children. >> and children that get their meals there. that's a did portion of our population, kids whose parents can't afford meals and they go to school to get, at the very least, the free lunch. what is the bar for a decision to be made at that level? >> it's all made at a

william schaffner. doctor, i want to shower you and our viewer he dr. anthony fauci at the white house task force briefing talk us about vaccination, development and trials and have you respond to it. >> one of the most important things is one that i mentioned several times from the podium and that is to clarify a bit about the timeline of veeps and would that have -- vaccines and would that have impublicity o the rebound or the cycling in the season. certainly for sure a vaccine won't help us now, next month, the month after but is a mentioned to you, went went to a phase 2001 trial and i keep referring to one vaccine. there's more than one. there's a couple of handfuls of vaccines at different stages of development. but they're all following the same course. the course is, you first good in to a phase one trial to see if it's safe and very few people, 45 people in a certain age group, all healthy, none at really any great risk of getting infected. the reason you do that, because you want make sure it's safe. that tikes the months easily, maybe more. t

william schaffner. infectious disease specialist, cdc advisor. doctor, thank you so much. people are so worried about what they are learning and it's so valuable to have you to put some context to it. so, first, with what i just said about the cases. isn't it a fair assumption that given the lag in testing and the relative inability to keep up with the flow with testing, that any numbers we get have to be, if anything, on the bottom side, right? >> oh, that's absolutely right, chris. we're not testing nearly as many people as we would like to test to give us a sense of, actually, how many people with the infection are out there. i'm absolutely amazed at governor newsom's order. really impressed. in fact, when i heard it a minute ago, i had to punch myself in the chest to get my heart started again. i never anticipated something like that would happen. here, in nashville, we're actually almost there on a voluntary basis. this morning, when i went into work, the traffic was less than 10% of what it normally is. there are lots of businesses closed. sports venues. entertainmen

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

william schaffner, an infectious disease expert at vanderbilt said tonight about testing. here it is. >> we have some hot spots. we have some warm spots, and we have some other spots such as national that's warming up. i'm sure that this virus is just about everywhere, but how dense it is, how widespread it is, we don't know yet. we haven't tested sufficiently. if we could test a lot more, we would have a much better idea of how distributed this virus is. >> is that right? are there hot spots that could be popping up that we don't know about? >> yeah, that sounds spot-on to me. the truth is if we were on top of testing, and we'd been on top of testing from the very beginning, we would be able to figure out where the virus is traveling. i mean, best practice would mean that we are even testing people who are asymptomatic, who have a high chance of transmitting to other people, particularly people like health care workers, or people who are working in places like nursing homes where it can be transmitted very quickly to other people, places like, you know, correctional facil

william schaffner, good information, sir. thank you so much for the insight. >> my pleasure. >> trace: while the markets plunging again today as concern around the world grows over the coronavirus pandemic. you can see there the dow down 1800-plus points. it's been down below a couple of thousand a couple of times. a live report from the new york stock exchange straight ahead. ♪ ♪ am at newday usa is helping more veterans refinance than ever. the newday va streamline refi is the reason why. it lets you shortcut the loan process and refinance with no income verification, no appraisal, and no out of pocket costs. one call can save you $2000 every year. call my team at newday usa right now. dhtd=ñ6z jy4hoúm# i was told to begin my aspirin regimen, blem. and i just didn't listen. until i almost lost my life. my doctors again ordered me to take aspirin, and i do. be sure to talk to your doctor before you begin an aspirin regimen. listen to the doctor. take it seriously. >> tech: don't wait for a chip like this to crack your whole

william schaffner. he's an infectious disease specialist and cdc adviser.esk is filled with all the latest information about what we just learned about california. this is the first governor to do something like this, statewide stay at home. not marshall law. he said people don't need law enforcement to tell them to do this. he did say it was open ended. he did say 16 or 17 different areas of essential services had been identified to keep the state going. he did say that you can go out in the executive order, you can get your food, your medicine, your necessities but to keep social distancing when you do the same. you celebrate this because you say it is -- you agree with the idea that it's wrong headed to see these types of measures as proof of defeat that the virus is getting us. this is the best weapon against us. now you get to why we want to mitigate the number of cases other than common sense, less is better. our hospitals are going to be over capacity pretty much everywhere this hits. the question is why, doctor? why doesn't the richest country in th

william schaffner professor at vanderbilt medical center. so what does that actually mean in practice? is this words? or is this more? >> we don't know. i mean, there's been presidential emergencies declared before. you typically think about them in the wake of storms and things like that. and in some ways, this is being treated like a storm. you know, we can sort of see what's coming. we got to sort of prepare for that. but i think there's two big issues. erica just brought up one of the big ones we've been talk about for weeks. the testing. we still don't know exactly what's gone on with the testing. why it's still so slow. obviously, people still having trouble getting tested. >> in the middle of the biggest cluster of the united states unable to get a test. >> i'm getting calls from colleagues or physicians who are saying this exact thing. we want to be able to do this. we think this person deserves a test based on the criteria, can't get them. is there something that can be done to accelerate that process once and for all? the second th

william schaffner, professor at vanderbilt, and we should note an adviser to the cdc. what in your view is the most important thing americans need to understand tonight? >> we need to understand that we still don't have our arms around defining this outbreak as it exists across the country. we obviously have some hot spots, some warm spot, and other spots that are warming up. but we haven't defined that very well across the country, and the virus doesn't know the calendar. it's going to tell us what we need to do. and it certainly sounds as though a two-week stay-at-home policy is not going to be long enough to suppress the curve sufficiently. >> you refer to the calendar, doctor. we are dealing with a day where we have these terrible numbers, over 1100 death toll in the united states, and we also have the other toll from the reaction and the precaution of the virus, the highest unemployment figures ever recorded by the labor department of american history. when you mention the count, i want to play for you jerome powell, the fed chair, talking about his view what the

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william schaffner from vanderbilt university out to, to answer your questions. >> what is the risk fore us to contract this >> how can i avoid it? >> avoid people who are coughing and sneezing at the present time lots of good handwashing the people at greatest risk of coronavirus infection are people who are older. >> flu-like symptoms >> well, 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. >> do i get the masks? >> 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