discover an unknown virus with pneumonia like symptoms that was first observed in the wuhan province area of china. january 7th, the coronavirus was first identified. that is this year. by january 31st, 3 weeks later the president comp administration declared a public health emergency. americans abroad were then subject to mandatory quarantin quarantines, on february 2nd the president ordered a temporary travel ban for all non-u.s. citizens who recently visited china. in the days that followed, he formed a toxic force filled with the top scientific medical professionals in the country led by the vice president. february 29th, that travel ban was extended to iran on the same day they department issued news travel restriction's to and south korea. march 2nd, president trump met with pharmaceutical executives. these meetings now will come into a broader picture. march 3rd, cdc was ordered to lift all restrictions on testing. march 6th, he signed it and a $.3 billion emergency spending package into law. on march the 10th, the president meant with insurance industry representatives. they

it looks like in wuhan province, part of the reason it appears to be leveling off is they really putomething like 50 million people in quarantine. it now we have northern italy was something like 17 million in quarantine. i don't know whether that is panic or the best way to address deterring the spread of this disease. dr. bhattacharya: that is an excellent point. i think a quarantine is a reasonable response in cases where you have a condition spreading rapidly. we don't have very good data about it. in somey, quarantine sense is a public health response of last resort. the virus was found in wuhan, the authorities really didn't know much about it. it widespread quarantine seemed like the appropriate thing. given what we have seen about the effectivity of the condition, i think a way to thick about the quarantine is a way to slow down the rate at which people get it. adon't think we will prevent very large number of people getting it. it is very likely people will be exposed at some point or another. the thing you don't want to do is overwhelm the health care system caring for the

for the past twtwo weeks all of those nenew domestic cases have been in n wuhan province. the ring has been closing in on the disease. cases,these imported there were 34 imported cases that the disease today. that is a significant jump from onlyrday when there were 12. that is s something a authoritis have to get to gripsps with. president xi held a special meeting yesterday. he said there was a risk of disease rebounding, particularly in regions outside of wuhan. regions like beijing and shanghai are at particular risk. a lot of these imported cases have been coming g into these mamajor cities. we are simply not out of the woods at this point. china is not quite at a point of celebrating it. the european central bank has promised to do everything necessary to hold the euro together. 750 billion euro package. it will buy government debt from across the euro zone. lagarde tweeted that there is no limit to the bank's commitments to the euro. within the next hourur we will talk to our business editor about whether that stimulus package is managing a stabilized market here. it

but the second is if you go to wuhan and provinces where the outbreak has been greatest, people are in their houses. they're not allowed to come out. and now we're going to see this experiment in italy where there are now quarantining 16 million people. >> yeah. >> and in a country like italy that is going to have a bigger economic impact than in china. >> and to quote the article and you just alluded to the part but i want to continue with you say we may have more to fear from an old-fashioned demand shock that emerges when everyone simply stays home. so austin, should we be more worried about causing our own economic problems? >> yeah, kind of. now, in a way i think that what pushes you back to is the argument that we should be investing every possible resource that we have to slow the spread of this virus. we should be getting the tests out -- to everyone like in other places to slow the spread. because if the spread gets as great of as reach as in china or italy, the impact on our economy is going to be really quite bad. so when i say that, i don't mean to say that all we have to f

in didn't replenish it after each one and one and it is not the wuhan province. the stream of incoherence is just normal leading to an enthusiasm gap among democrats. look at this, a new abc "washington post" pullback shows enthusiasm for joe as lowest on record for a presidential candidate in here now with reaction, mike huckabee and katie pavlich. governor, i look at this, are they really going to run this guy? >> looks like they are. it's an amazing thing. i had a conversation this afternoon with my 3-year-old grandson and he made a lot more sense than joe does. i don't even know what he's talking about and it's apparent he doesn't either. he struggles with that but i think the democrats are stuck with him. they don't have a mechanism to get him out unless they decided somehow just to talk him into quitting for to tell him that he already won the presidency and had a great eight years and they appreciate it, give him a plaque at the convention and nominate somebody else. that may be their only hope. >> sean: i look at this, he is against the travel ban. he sti

we have a plane full of people just evacuated from the epicenter of the outbreak wuhan province. it was chartered by hong kong. they are being helped by health professionals wearing protective gear. 38 deaths and that total is 3,000. in wuhan, almost 2,000 people have just been declared free of the virus. they have been cured and are about to be released. i'll take any good news we can get. >>> turning to more on the coronavirus outbreak, more bay area residents are testing positive. berkeley reported the first case yesterday. contra costa county reporting a case. the concern this morning is that this may not be the only one. >> this case suggests that coronavirus or covid-19 may be circulating in contra costa county. >>> here is what we know about the patient. he is a man over the age of 18 and has an underlying medical condition. he was admit today a local hospital on sunday with respiratory flu-like symptoms and currently in critical condition. health officials say there is no known travel history or contact with a coronavirus patient. right now they are trying to retrace his s

that was the virus that emanated in wuhan province in china. but if we're going to have any chance of rebounding in the long term, we've got to ensure that these businesses can survive. no american business from your local sandwich shop to a major airline asked for or expected this turmoil and needs our support now. well, the final pillar of this bill will hit at the causes of this crisis, the virus itself. supporting our health care professionals and first responders and ensuring they have the resources and equipment they need is priority number one. we also need to continue investing in the development of a vaccine, although we know that will take months. in the interim, possible treatments, including drugs that are already on the market that are being tested by the food and drug administration to see whether this new application combating the correspondent rowia had the 19 virus is safe and effective for people to take and of course more testing and diagnostics. one of the things that distinguishes america from the rest of the world is not o

but the story that you may remember, next slide in china in the wuhan province there was a strange disease that came up and nobody knew what it was, the chinese didn't really tell anybody about it for a few months. n-novembenovember until it got g kong and in a hotel in hong kong and this was way back in 2003, someone from china to the hotel, infected a bunch of people, next slide and this is what you had, flights going at the time we didn't make any restrictions the way you do which you saved us a lot of hurt. next slide. >> and then this is what happens. there were 8,000 cases and that is how we get the number that i've been telling you that the mortality was nine to 10%. if you do the math. next slide. the other one is the coronavirus which is the one that was in saudi arabia that was also from animal reservoir and it was from a bad to a camel and then for the people in the middle east who got it, that was the infection so these are the kind of things that go from an animal reservoir to a human sometimes it doesn't go anywhere it just goes to one or two people but sometimes it adapts it

you look at the beginning of the graph you'll see where china implemented the lockdowns in wuhan and hubei province they estimated it was about 25 days from that lockdown and the quarantine until they started to see new case numbers start to slow down and they do point out

we had a report of infant death in the wuhan province at the start of the outbreak.res in the whole, less than 2% of all those infected, severely affected, are under 18 and very few are infants. there is enough covid—19 disease going around that a child could be born within underlying heart disease and the presence of the covid—19 could be the tipping edge for a child that has severe underlying conditions. it is hard to say when you get a single case like this out of the tens of thousands that we should revise our policy. if that is true, why is it then that covid—19 doesn't seem to affect younger people as much as older people?m is quite unusual. the honest answer is quite unusual. the honest answer is nobody really knows. we know that children can be infected the same way that adults are on that children to transmit the virus, but on the whole they don't get the same severe respiratory tract infection that the adults kept. it could be to do with the immune system being different, or perhaps the lung cells and develop in children don't have the lock that the virus i

today we heard from doctors from wuhan province who have come over from china, they were working there outbreak, and they are here giving advice to medics and doctors. they say the italians are doing very well, but there are two points they want to hammer home, early detection and early quarantine. they say if you can do those two things, this illness will be defeated. now, in the meantime, strict measures are in place across italy preventing people from moving around freely, the government hopes they will start to make an impact soon, but every figures are rising and as! soon, but every figures are rising and as i said, these measures are affecting the way people live here ona affecting the way people live here on a daily basis. thanks very much. in central and eastern africa, rwanda, kenya, ethiopia and sudan are among the countries to have confirmed their first cases of coronavirus. in the north of the continent, morocco has suspended air and sea links with france and spain, and banned any public gatherings of more than 50 people. tech giant apple has announced it is closing all its

they are not taking responsibility for it originating in the wuhan province.hat looks like propaganda to me. but everybody in the world knows where it started from and we know the truth. we are seeing people on msnbc who said it's gross to call it the wuhan virus. i don't know what that means. his colleagues in the mainstream media in january were calling it the wuhan virus. >> the coronavirus. the wuhan krf rsh. >> more on the wuhan coronavirus. >> the wuhan coronavirus. jesse: do you think the mess and as gotten out from the chinese government to the american media and they are following orders from the chinese communists? >> anyone who complains it's racist or xenophobic to call this the wuhan virus or china virus is a fool. in fact as you say, the chinese communist party is trying to blame this on america. in their chinese language media they are telling their own people this did not come from wuhan. it came from outside china, probably from the united states. we put the blame where it lies object the communist leaders in beijing. jesse: senator, thank you

we know it started in the wuhan province. >> it started there. but president xi denied it.e did not allow when president trump requested bringing american scientists and doctors in to help, he didn't allow us in. maybe we would have been able to contain it for the entire world in china. the doctor who warned them in november is no longer with us. thankfully president trump ended flights from china so early when the democrats criticized him. we just signed $8 billion which focuses on testing and treatment. so you are not going in but over the foreign you can treat it better. judge jeanine: doctors always say you have to come in before i can give a prescription. >> if you have seen a doctor in the last three years should you be going into the emergency rooms and being with everybody else who is contagious? in the last five years we increased funding to nih and cdc by 45%. and the republicans funded the rapid response team. gilead is already in a trial. johnson & johnson is already work on a vaccine. this is the iny newt of america -- this is the ingenuity. down at the n.i.h.

today we heard from doctors from wuhan province. china, they were working there during the outbreak, and they are here giving advice to medics and doctors. they say the italians are doing very well but there are two points they want to hammer home. they said it is about early detection and early quarantine. they said if you can do those two, this illness will be defeated. now, in the meantime, strict measures are in place across italy preventing people from moving around freely. the government hopes that they will start to make an impact soon but every day the figures are rising and, as i said, these measures are really affecting the way people live here on a daily basis. the headlines on bbc news... ten patients who tested positive for the coronavirus have died, bringing the death toll in the uk to 21. plans to ban mass gatherings are being drawn up to curb the spread of coronavirus. jet2 cancels all flights to spain, the balearic islands and the canary islands with immediate effect. we can state with that story. the uk airlinerjet

the presidential race is not a kissing booth in the wuhan province, all right? because look, it is true, st true that because of last night's results there have already been calls for bernie sanders to step aside and let the slightly younger generation take over. but let me tell you something, if you think a little turbulence is going to shake bernie sanders out of the race, you need to think again. >> senator bernie sanders earlier today making clear he has no plans to drop out of the presidential contest. >> on sunday i very much look forward to the debate in arizona with my friend joe biden. and let me be very frank as to the questions that i will be asking joe. joe, what are you going to do about the fact that we have the highest rate of childhood poverty. what are you going to do to end the terror that millions of undocumented people experience right now. what are you going to do to end the absurdity of billionaires bying elections. joe, what are you going to do, what are you going to do. >> trevor: what are you going to do when they come for you. bad boys

this virus did start in china, the wuhan province, and it's not the first disease to be named after a location. for example, ebola. that's named after a river in africa. and there's the spanish flu, and then the middle eastern respiratory system known as -- and we can go on and on. at the facts are clear. the chinese government tried to cover it up. they kicked out also called americans -- i don't really trust fake news. the wall street post, "wall street journal," i do want them there. now because of china's actions thousands around the world are dead, millions others are suffering, and china must be held accountable. here with a lot more on this, secretary of state mike pompeo. mr. secretary, great to see. thank you for being with us. you actually brought in chinese representatives to your office on this very topic of blaming the u.s. military and other issues. can you bring us inside that conversation? >> thank you for having me on tonight. we did in fact call the chinese ambassador and i spoke to my counterpart in china a couple days back. this disinformation campaign, which began

no new cases reported in china's wuhan province where the operator started.se civilians being released from the hospital the questions are arising how honest the government is being about positive infections. in israel, benjamin netanyahu has issued a state of emergency. the population of 9 million people is being ordered to stay home or face heavy fines from police. israeli researchers using artificial intelligence technology to develop new testing methods for coronavirus. as the world looks for a vaccine or an effort to treat this virus as it continues to spread of donald trump has canceled the in-person portion of the g7 summit that was supposed to take place in camp david in june it will be a teleconference. jillian: we are relying on technology more than ever. rob: china reporting no new coronavirus is for the first time since the outbreak began. jillian: donald trump warns don't believe everything you hear from china. >> reporter: for the first time today china reported no new cases, but donald trump says it is hard to trust those numbers. >> as far as

china's hubei province will finally be allowed to travel freely after more than two months of lockdown. the restrictions have been lifted for citizens deemed healthy, but residents of wuhannd epicentre of the coronavirus outbreak, will have to wait until the 8th of april to be allowed to leave. we're joined from washington by rui zhong, a china expert from the think—tank, the wilson center. rui, the wilson center. thanks forjoining us. is now rui, thanks forjoining us. is now the right time to be lifting these restrictions incubate province, do you think? the province's name is hubei, not to be confused with hubai, but in hubei, there are dropping cases, and we can tell this, even though chinese statistics are fudged a bit, because we've seen a statistics are fudged a bit, because we've seen a lower strain on healthcare facilities and hospitals, and we're seeing the larger quarantine centres are set up in february taken down and some of the medical personnel moved back outside of the province. and you are from wuhan and you still have friends and family in the city there, how strict was the lockdown and what measures are still in place? the lockdown for the most part mea

another continent would get the infection was we are following carefully what happened in the wuhan provincecause there's a small chance of reinfection and doctor anthony fauci is trying to set expectations at this point. >> every morning we wake up to address increasing numbers. the coronavirus affecting all 50 states, washington dc, at least 69,109 cases, 1050 deaths. the president floated the potential easter deadline hoping he can restart the economy at some point for some areas. do you think that is a possibility, somewhere in the middle of the country where it isn't affecting areas as strongly as new york and california? >> i love easter and i would love for us to be full steam at come easter with regular activities but this virus is following the playbook so far that we have seen in other countries and are now seeing in spain play out where they have 800 deaths in the last 24 hours, 2 or 3 weeks before their peak. extrapolated to the us population that statistic would mean about 5000 deaths per day just before our peak. i don't see us having a green light by easter as much as i want t

we saw what happened in wuhan and hubei province in china. i have been there. it's a very old population. they were late getting to the identification and treatment and isolation. we see the repercussions from that. they are ahead of us in the cycle. however they dealt with that in the early days. we see now how they have dealt with that crisis and what's happening to the numbers and we can learn from that. i will talk about that in a second. the second phase, though, is transition. i'm not sure we're in it yet, but we're about to go into it partly because of this package, and that is to make sure that we protect the parts of the economy where we can so that when we do start to come out of this, just like every other country ahead of us in the cycle has done and is doing right now that will have our businesses in a position to reconnect with the employers or employees that they have worked so hard to develop. and of course the third phase is full-on recovery. that is to do the things then to get the economy back on its strong the fooing, to make sure that we ad

say of masks because three weeks ago they actually donated 3 million masks to china to help the wuhan provincel with their problems there at the beginning of the epidemic. on top of that, though, the world health organization has just sent in 7 1/2 tons of equipment including masks. but most importantly testing equipment because that is something that iran which is facing very heavy sanctions mostly led by the united states is really struggling to import because the financial systems that underpin importation have to be run or can often be linked to american banks, and nobody wants to be in violation of federal law. so there are serious problems for iran, and that is spreading elsewhere in the region. >> okay, cnn's sam kylie with the latest on the coronavirus in iran. thanks very much. >> all right, the trump administration placing new restrictions on journalists from china work in the united states. five chinese state news outlets will be forced to reduce their u.s. staff by 40%. u.s. officials accused china of a crack down on free speech not seen since the soviet union at the height of the

and china lifted all restrictions for travel from wuhan province, excludeing wuhan, where the city originatedjoining us from rome nbc news foreign correspondent matt bradley. matt, good to speak to you. you were right yesterday to say it's too early to say we've turned the corner and no one should be looking at the decline prior to today as a sign that the situation is under control as we see what has happened in the past 24 hours? >> reporter: that's right, ayman, there was optimism. people were hopeful, that, look, the numbers were going down, not in a big way but in a small way, hoping that the unprecedented two-week old nation lockdown would have effects with the statistics. you can't base a trend on small cases in numbers in a few days. that's exactly what will we saw yesterday. as you mentioned, 743 deaths, an appalling number up there with the world record on saturday which is 793 deaths in one day here in italy. and we're going to hear those numbers again at 6:00 p.m. local time. that's about eight hours from now. and there's no reason to necessarily believe that those numbers are goi

know people, actually one of my best friends is with the woman, girlfriend, soon fiance, from wuhan provinceey are saying it's the wuhan virus they are according to her and her family who still lives there. >> you know, sean, one of the things that a level at this president, he has the courage to push back on china. no democrat and no republican president in my lifetime has had the courage to just recognize that this is a totalitarian communist government. they abuse people's human rights. i'm wondering if "the washington post" and "new york times" will appreciate that of all things, it's donald trump who is defending them in the freedom of press, because the chinese totalitarian dictatorship has basically said you can't have free press. well, we knew that all along. i think this is a wonderful reminder that this is a president who said he was going to hold china accountable, not just for diseases, but her trade and for all of the ways in which they have been cheating and he has done it and it's been for the benefit of every americ. this disease is a terrible terrible thing. but it has point

oh, they had a virus in the wuhan province area of china. by the way, and then it is identified as having pneumonia symptoms. then it was january 7. when we first named it the "coronavirus." do you remember that? coronavirus, this one is the corona variation of previous one. and january 31, the trump administration, they in record time declared a public health emergency. americans returning from most areas impacted to quarantine. mandatory. military bases. soling thasomething that hadn'tn done for decades. february 2 the temporary travel ban went in effect for you those who visited the country of china. unprecedented steps by the president. he made the call. we now know and through my interview and others most officials thought it was too early for travel ban or quarantine. in the following days the president formed a task force filled it with the top, the greatest, the best scientific medical professionals in the world. led by the virus president of the united states. on february 29, the temporary travel ban was extended to, "any foreign na

china's health ministry says there have been no new cases of coronavirus in wuhan province today.t is where the pandemic started. meanwhile, countries all over the world are shutting down borders as the outbreak continues to grow. the normally busy causeway between singapore and malaysia is now empty. after malaysia closed itself off to travel. traffic backed up on the autobahn after poland increased checks at their border with germany. oesterle has also ordered their citizens not to travel abroad. >> life is going to continue to change. as we deal with the global coronavirus. this is a once in 100 year -type event. we are of course up to this challenge. >> are also concerns about whether to postpone the summer olympics in tokyo. so far the japanese government says they are planning to hold the games as scheduled. >>> the number of coronavirus cases in new york city is now doubled since yesterday. more than 1800 people have now tested positive for covid-19 in new york city alone. that is compared to 814 there, yesterday. 11 people have died. the governor says an increase in testin

president trump had rightly said that we need to close off e order and there is 27 deaths in the wuhan province>> tucker: amen, i'm glad that he did that, and i had a long conversation with the government officials very well informed february 3rd, and he said to me, millions of people like that... ultimately could die from this and we spoke and reported and scary as, no one's paying attention. it was out there and i guess it doesn't help anybody to point fingers retroactively but you want to think that your leaders are putting your interests before theirs. i wonder if that's always happening. speak out well come up with president trump helm, and our leaders are, you can see dr. fa, the health care leaders the economic leaders, and senator burr has stepped forward and said he'd be willing to step into the senate ethics process and just all we can do is go from there. we went right, okay. one last question, have you heard today -- editorial comment and i can't control myself, but hard to believe that richard burr and i agree with him on most political issues and i don't have a political bias they

. >> and the wu han wuhan province laboratory there, there is speculation about the laboratory, it wascularly well in the power averages, and the virus might have escaped from thatas laboratory. but remember we have much better healthcare here in a population with better shape. we had tragically one death but we have not had dozens or hundreds that they found in other countries. i'm quite confident were in better shape. you have to look at who's in risks, the average ages, 59 for people getting ill and people at real risk are in their 70s and 80s, meal, hypertension, diabetes, respiratory conditions, this is not the disease i need to worry about my kids or middle-aged individuals. those at risk i was to go to see your doctor and make sure your diabetes is under control that you have as much as i do is under control and you're in good shape. but the most interesting tip is this, you are not going to know whether you have the flu or corona because similar symptoms. the flu ort to have you think it is the flu, call your, healthcare provider and ask about antiviral drugs like tamiflu for e

oh, they had a virus in the wuhan province area of china. and then it is identified as having pneumonia symptoms. then it was january 7. we first actually named it the varney. remember that? now, varney, this one is a corona variation of a previous one. on january t 31, the trump administration, they, in record time, declared a public health emergency. americans returning from most areas impacted to quarantine. mandatory, a military base, something that hadn't been done for decades in this country. february second, the temporary travel ban went into effect for all who went to china. up press at the present timed steps by the president. he made the call and now we know through my interview and others, most officials thought it was material for a travel ban or any quarantine. in the following days the president formed a i task force filling with it the top, greatest and best scientific medical professionals in the world. led by the vice president of the united states. on february 29, the temporary travel ban was extended to "anyo foreign natio

of several weeks from when we found out that there was this virus known as coronavirus in the wuhan province of china to when the president finally appointed vice-president pence to head this task force, that time was squandered. you can go through and pinpoint discrete instances of when the testing didn't work, when the testing criteria was too narrow, and there's also talk of how the white house, especially the president didn't really take it seriously when it was a public health crisis. it took for it to become a political crisis. so that would be the stock market plummeting. that would be what the president viewed as alarmist rhetoric from his aides saying it's not a question of if but when. that the president and the white house really gott engaged which frankly started a week ago yesterday. >> jonathan lemire, let's keep going on this theme. the president worked the word flu into the fox news interview last night. he has always been able to create this alternate universe. in some cases using his own stats and his own facts. but to ashley's point, this bumps against public health, which

. >> bret: do you believe the chinese report that there are no new transmissions in wuhan province? no local transmissions today? >> if you watch the trendlines over time, and lined them up with south korea they are very similar. at this point, at this moment, we would believe those data. i think everyone is still concerned about why we weren't alerted earlier. >> bret: you know, you mentioned three states today when you were with fema. three states with more than 50% to 57.7 actually of the cases, new york, california, and washington. the governor of california gavin newsom wrote a letter asking for assistance in which he said we project that roughly 56% of our population, 25.5 million people will be infected with the virus over an eight week period. do you buy that? >> this is the issue, when you look up models and you look at what happened in china and south korea. certainly, they didn't have that same level of infection. but they did a lot to decrease the spread of the virus. i think that is why the president put out these guidelines. we know what to do now to stop the spread of

no new cases are reported in the wuhan province where the outbreak started.mages shows chinese civilians being released from the hospital. there are questions arising about how honest the government is being regarding the number of positive infections. in israel, benjamin netanyahu issued a state of emergency. the entire population is ordered to stay home or face heavy fines by police. israeli researchers are reportedly using artificial intelligence technology to try to develop new testing methods for coronavirus. this as the entire world is trying to come together to look for solutions. we do know the americans do continue to take precautions. the white house announcing overnight that president trump will no longer be hosting g-7 leaders at camp david in june. this is going to be a teleconference. lauren, cheryl. cheryl: i wanted to ask you, is benjamin netanyahu and the government there, even though it's a little messy right now, are they working with u.s. lawmakers in particular for generic drug protection. at the. veronicateva pharmaceuticals is. >> repor

northern italy there's an awful lot of commerce and interaction with china, particularly the wuhan province. is that correct or not? >> there are about a hundred thousand chinese who live in northern italy so when the chinese companies came in and bought some of the highly and italian brands, they wanted to be able to say they were made in italy so they brought in chinese workers and it's actually made in italy by chinese workers in one of the big differences where i think president donald trump comes out with very much like a statesman and a very smart leader, he caught a lot of flak when he cut off all the checflights from china but the italian government didn't want to look politically incorrect and they didn't cut off flights from wuhan and as a result there were a lot more people who showed up in italy who had the virus then showed up in america. you could argue that president trump bought us six or eight weeks to get our act together by being so tough at the very beginning in cutting off the flights. the italians didn't and the result was it got out of hand and it's mostly in northern

significant of active ingredients are from china but they actually come a lot of frit the province, wuhan provincethat there's going to be supply chain issues and disruptions. we already saw last night that there was disclosure that we've had our first declared drug shortage, they haven't yet as of this moment told us which drug it is. maria: unbelievable. are you expecting that we will see a shortage in things like antibiotics, penicillin? >> i don't want to speculate on how bad it is. i asked this question a few years ago in a hearing we had with hhs secretary, but bottom line is i do think we are going to have some shortages and i hope we are in a position to manage it here in terms of knowing what they are, but long-term, the question is should we rely as a nation as something as important as medicine. should we rely so heavily on a single foreign country particularly one who is adversary and one appears to be prone to outbreaks that are disruptive. maria: you also talked about investing in chinese companies and why there's so much obsession with making sure that these global indexes include a

a few years ago in the same wuhan province there was explosion and worldwide shortage of antibiotics. p i have think it begins informing people to the challenge we face. the way we address it is a couple things. great demand for domestic production of these basic ache at this ingredients and/or diversify our supply chain not coming out of one province in one country as you point out last week through the official newspaper of the communist party threatened to cut us off and kill americans by cutting us off of these basic ingredients used in the medicine. that he was what we know just on the ingredient piece. there may be more developed mess sins but their active ingredients are from there. we have got to create demand number one, the department off defense should have to be required to build a stockpile of essential medicines.f we should bring back the buy american preferences in the department of defense and the veterans administration. all of that creates demands for domestic production and part of it is actually requiring pharmaceuticals to tell us how much of the -- what percentag

. >> stephen: you are doing standup in wuhan province or-- >> no, i am booked there for a handshakingtephen: okay, okay. can you explain this? because i was told this had something to do with that anxiety of yours. i will show it to you first so you know the photo so i am going to--do you want to explain this, or should i show this first? >> when i fly on planes, i am-- half the people are coughing and sneezing, so i put a little thing over my face that i-- yes, that i wear. ( laughter >> i-- i-- >> stephen: is it necessary to look like a character from "assassin's creed," an homage? what is this? >> it's me being paranoid. and, of course, the internet set me right going. "oh, that mask doesn't block anything. and ,if anything, it creates a moist environment that makes viruses"-- again, just completely made me ten times more paranoid about everything. >> stephen: wait a second. if i saw you on my plane, i would get paranoid. >> well. >> stephen: this would not calm the rest of us down. >> exactly. >> stephen: this is like driving through the lincoln tunnel looking over to the guy next

it would be the pictures you saw on tv with wuhan province in china.on't even know how you could possibly do it. we need goods coming in and out of new york. we need food and mail coming in. >> on that point you made about the financial sector, about being able to have interstate commerce, and also the financial sectors, it is the heart of manhattan, right? what would this mean for the stock market? would it have to shut down? >> oh, it would drop like a stone. i mean, i don't know if it would operationally have to shut down, but it may as well shut down. you say you can't come to new york to do business, business people can't leave new york to go to chicago for a meeting. i mean, it would be chaos and mayhem. and that would drop this economy in a way i think that wouldn't recover for months, if not years. so it is totally opposite everything he has been saying. i don't even think it is plausible, i don't think it is legal, and it would really be total mayhem. i don't have another word for it. >> the new york stock exchange specifically, i'm sorry, i d