professor william schaffner in nashville tennessee thank you so much thank you bethany. well germany has pledged 300000000 euros in humanitarian aid to fight the coronavirus epidemic in poverty and crisis stricken country's foreign minister. said the virus posed a grave risk to those living in countries with struggling health care systems as well as in war zones and refugee camps he said international solidarity was needed to gain from the pandemic germany is responding to a call by the united nations to provide an additional $2000000000.00 of relief to contain the outbreak in less developed countries. oh earlier we talked to our political correspondent tom aspera and i asked him what was behind germany's decision what's behind that decision by germany is that pledge that you mention and also that announcement by the united nations that a warning that the pandemic is affecting obviously all countries around the world but not all countries in a very equal way so the most vulnerable countries around the world are suffering more from this pandemic and that's why united nati

professor william schaffner in nashville tennessee thank you so much thank you to the need of the sound of children playing has returned to the streets of spain that emerged from 6 weeks of hamas elation off the government allowed them to go outside again spine imposed strict lockdown rules in months to stop the spread of the coronavirus but if the nation continues to reduce the infection right authorities have promised to give citizens more freedom in coming weeks. a snapshot of an unforgettable moment spain's children emerged from their homes on sunday for the 1st time after 6 weeks stuck inside children under the age of 14 are now allowed outside 8 day for up to one hour accompanied by an adult and within one kilometer of the homes critics of the spanish government's coronavirus lockdown one of the world's toughest had pointed out that even dogs allowed out for walks have had more freedom than the country's children the relief out on the streets was palpable. i've missed the streets the streets and the park the most and to feel the arrow on your face. i never thought i would miss sch

william schaffner, professor at vanderbilt university. doctor, always good to have you.ch for joining us. we know this virus can be brutal on the lungs. but, now, there are reports that it is beyond just that. there is a lot that we still need to learn about this. but a person's health, it's going to be compromised in the future, we're wondering, as a result of the impact of this virus. we're waiting. i think we lost him for the moment. we're trying to get dr. schaffner back. okay. we're going to try to get dr. schaffner back. we're going to take a quick break. don't go anywhere. when you have nausea, heartburn, indigestion, upset stomach, diarrhea. try pepto liquicaps for fast relief and ultra-coating. nausea, heartburn, indigestion, upset stomach, diarrhea. get powerful relief with pepto bismol liquicaps. >>> so we are back now with dr. william schaffner. he is professor of infectious diseases at vanderbilt university. okay. let's try it again, doctor. listen. we know this virus can be brutal on the lungs, as we said. but, now, there are reports that it's beyond just t

william schaffner, professor of infectious diseases at vanderbilt university.hank you for joining us. we know this virus can be brutal on the lungs, but now there are reports that it is beyond just that. there's a lot that we still need to learn about this. but a person's health -- it's going to be compromised in the future as a result of the impact of this virus. we're waiting sh did i think we lost him for the moment. we're trying to get dr. schaffner back. okay. we're going to try to get dr. schaffner back. we're going to take a quick break. don't go anywhere. >>> so we're back now with dr. william schaffner. he's the professor of infectious diseases at vanderbilt university. okay. let's try it again, doctor. listen, we know this virus can be brutal on the lungs as we've said. but now there are reports that it's beyond just that. there's a lot that we still have to learn. but, you know, a person's health going forward can be compromised in the future as a result of the impact of this virus even if they do survive it. >> yeah, that's absolutely right now, don

william schaffner joins us now. he's an infectious disease specialist and cdc adviser. good to have you, doc. doctor, you hear me? all right. let's try this. i got andy slabet with us who understands how to put policy at play in the white house and dealing with the public health policy and how we deal with that politically and with the public as the former acting administrator of the center for medicare and medicaid. andy, do i have you? >> you've got me. >> always have a back up. so, was i wasting my time shivering and sweating when i was just a couple of sprays of fantastic away from getting over this virus? >> i only wish that that was the answer. it would be so much easier if that was, in fact, the case. we could just shoot up some hand sanitizer. but, you know, i think that this idea of clutching at straws one day and then having to reverse yourself the next day, you know, it's not a great strategy. the public is actually more patient than he realizes. there was a poll out this morning that said that 80% of americans actually believe that the right thing to do was

william schaffner, an infectious disease expert. andrew zimmer will join us, john heilemann will join us on a day fox news poll showed joe biden with a significant lead over donald trump and pete vegas will join us, not just because he has the coolest name you can ask for in this world but because pete vegas owns a business that was awarded a $3.5 million small business emergency assistance loan which he says his business does not need, does not deserve, which is why pete vegas thanks -- thinks the way the small business loans are being administered now amounts to what you calls legalized fraud. congress is going to put more money into that fund, you'll want to hear from pete vegas tonight about how that fund is working and who it's working for. we begin tonight with a word about the numbers and we need to stress tonight more than ever that the official numbers on the coronavirus in the united states under state the extent of the pandemic and they under state the number of people who have had the virus and the number of people who h

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william schaffner. i first want to start with you, kristen welker. the president -- i do think we're learning what the president has ordered, and i think it's important he just said and emphasized he's not going to order any state to open before they want to open. that's an important point there. he's hinted he's willing to open before then if a state is ready. he seemed to want to walk that back. the biggest thing that i think i can't figure out here that i want you to try to untangle is this issue of saying, well, it's the states that have to do the testing. that's not on the federal government. that seems to be a big deflection and a big missing piece of this puzzle to open up the country. >> it's a huge missing piece, chuck. president trump remember had initially said, look, we're ramping up testing. we're making sure that various different states have the tests that they need. there's going to be testing in the parking lot of walmart, for example. yes, there has been this ramping up of testing across the country, and yet it's still not anywhere

william schaffner, professor of infectious disease as at vanderbilt university. good to see both of you. thank you so much. dr. schaffner, despite what we heard from dr. fauci and dr. redfield, the president maintains that the coronavirus may not come back in the fall or it could just be embers. what are the chances of that? >> well, i think most infectious disease doctors and public health people think that the coronavirus will come back in the fall. it will be masqueraded by influenza making even more important that we all get our influenza vaccine this coming fall. we'll be working with a double-barrelled respiratory virus season i'm afraid. we all anticipate that. >> we saw the president repeatedly question science at today's coronavirus briefing. how concerning is this kind of rhetoric in the middle of a public health crisis? >> it's usually concerning. you know, don, what politician or ideology or salesman defeated polio? or who was it that gave a rah-rah speech and knocked ebola back? nobody. it's science. the president is asked us to stay in the middle of

william schaffner, infectious disease expert, cdc advisor. always a pleasure, doc, welcome back to "primetime." >> good to be with you, chris. >> so, doc, people are googling this because they take him seriously. nobody was laughing behind him when he said it. you know who is telling the truth? dr. birx. he was processing information in realtime. he heard them talking about using uv light and other ways of disrupting the virus on surfaces, so it can kill this virus so it doesn't live as long as a pathogen on all these different surfaces and he wanted to one up it. people will say who cares? nobody cares about this. why do you care? >> well, i care a great deal. that disinfectant remark really gave me a chill when i heard it because there might well be some people out there who took it seriously. i mean, that's toxic. we'll be generating calls to poison control centers because of that. that can make you really, really sick. disinfectants are for inadamant surfaces, not for the interior of the body. by the way, my inbox gets all kinds of sugges

william schaffner. doctor, it's good to have you back. so you now have the latest numbers coming out from the white house saying thousands fewer u.s. deaths than before. obviously, that is good news. but this is at the same time we're finding out they say well if things open too quickly, you could see a major spike in terms of new cases. so how -- how does this all play out for you? what are you more concerned about? opening too quickly? or not? >> well, it's good news, but not perfect news, right? we are just at the start of good news so we have to keep doing what we're doing. we just saw some models here in nashville. we thought we were going to be peaking in the next couple of weeks or in may. but the models show that we might peak in june. so that took a lot of us aback. so we have to keep doing, not just in nashville but, around the country, what we're doing, for a prolonged period of time yet, i think, because we don't want to open things up and then have the virus come back on us. >> so can i just ask you because i know models depe

william schaffner joining us from nashville, thank you. dr. schaffner: my pleasure.y healthy, everyone. steve: we agree. thank you. "time" magazine has a piece out this week by former senator bill frist, three ways policymakers can help our nurses and doctors. but first, this from governor andrew cuomo in albany, a plan to figure out who has the disease in new york, new jersey, connecticut, and steps forward. more from albany and governor cuomo. governor cuomo: you cannot trace someone within the environs of new york city, because once someone goes outside new york city, that would be a westchester person. pick me. i live in westchester. i work in new york city. new york is going to trace me, how? i am in westchester, a different county. you can't trace me. in we will trace people westchester. no, westchester is going to say, that is my resident, don't come here and trace my resident. ok, let's forget the jurisdictional fight and the political fight. we will coordinate everyone. this is a monumental undertaking. who is going to do it? we are all going to do it, city,

william schaffner. we appreciate it so much. nicolle, you are so right. i was ill during december.i can name a half dozen people who were really stricken with illness over christmas, over new year's, into january. everyone has that lingering question. was that it that i had? >> that's right. i remember when you were sick and it was resistant to all the normal things that you do when you have any sort of illness like that. i was sick in february and went and got three strep throat tests and they were all negative. so i probably didn't have it. you may not have had it. but you do start to wonder when you see reports like the two in the news that we just covered, was it something that i had? i know you start your show every night talking about testing. we do, too, with the governors. i think we have to be careful. the test isn't the sort of pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. it's all of these tests. it's the tests which give you the snapshot in time, almost the way a poll does of where a campaign stands. it's to understand what part of the population has already been exposed and m

william schaffner, always appreciate your insights on the real science. >>> what was once a coronavirus hot spot in colorado is now reopened just about three hours ago. jbs beef slaughterhouse telling its 6,000 workers they can return to the plant in greeley. that plant shut down two weeks ago in an outbreak that left more than four employees dead, 100 testing positive for the coronavirus. mark, thank you for being with us. are you convinced, as they say the plant is reopened, come back to work, that your men and women, sisters and brothers, are safe? >> i am not totally convinced at this point in time, john, for the following reason. based off the conversation you just had about testing, testing has been very difficult for us to obtain for all the workers. now, they closed the plant, left it closed for a period, and i think the reason why they did that was hoping it would ferret out anybody that may have come up with positive symptoms and then they wouldn't have come to work. but we've added layered ppe inside the plants with shields, masks and partitions, but until we get testing, i c

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