zika virus is just the latest. we had ebola in west africa where it had never seen before, we had novel kinds of avian influenza including one that caused the biggest outbreak of animal disease in united states history. we have had novel coronavirus is , a new one coming out of the middle east, and then of course all of the antibiotic resistance resistant pathogens we have. we have chikungunya zika, west , nile virus, a whole number of things. what i wanted to look at as a journalist is how does a microbe that, you know, just a tiny little thing that has no how doesnt locomotion, it become this pandemic causing pathogen? i decided to answer that question. first i looked at the history of pandemics, and i picked on one to focus on, that is one of the most successful pathogens of all time, cholera. pandemics but two seven. it killed half of the people infected with it. this can happen in a matter of hours unless they are rapidly treated. in the latest one is going on right now a couple hundred miles off the coast of

it's one of the things that protects us against zika.when you think about what does it take to protect us, we need to use every tool available for us. for us it's killing baby mosquitoes, killing the adult mosquitoes which is calledded insecticides and source reduction which means final, sources of water out there and get rid of it and we need to think about every tool that's available to us and including ddt and others and people are thinking that way, what is the right tool for the right area, what is mosquito resistant to, what are they not resistant to. >> i'm christian, thank you for this presentation. dr. khan, i wonder -- as you know a number of societies have had prohibitions of consumption of animal proteins n. the faith i grew up beef and pork were forbidden. you've made the connection that there's a lot of connection between these kinds of viruses that come from animals. i wonder any studies have been done that society where is the consumption of animal protein is limited or not at all the ability to resist some of these illne

we are not prepared for zika.and beg, and every outbreak becomes very political. in the united states there are a patchwork of laws that guide health. there's no consistency in the level of funding or urgency or training or expertise. am i allowed as a public health official to go on your front lawn, your private property, and spray insecticide? in some cities yes, in some cities no. am i allowed to force you, compel you to drain a swampy-like condition in your back yard because it's breeding mosquitos? again, there's no consistent law. public health is a two-way trust. i have to trust that government's going to do the job. but government can't do the job of public health unless the public is engaged. if government says mosquitoes are here and they're carrying a really dangerous disease, we need to come on your property, we need to have access to ways to eradicate those mosquitoes and you say i believe in the second amendment, cheek-cheeka, nobody's coming on my property, then there's no trust. and there's no publ

we will see zika virus. hopefully not a lot of cases but we will likely see it. ethics of a delayed response goes back to what you talk about amongst your audience , think about these marginalized populations why we see these delayed responses and we see it today with the conversation there are better terms so let's protect the united states against zika virus and how much they want to pay for it and i often get asked should be 500 million that congress wants to give or one.one the senate wants to give? i don't care. pick a number where we having this conversation six months later? me know what will happen. we also know mosquito control in the united states is not a federal function. is not even a state function by the city and county and district function and you need to get the money out to these people so they couldld be doing what they should be doing to eliminate mosquitoes and then think about a long-term strategy to protect pregnant women and then have a vaccine strategy why are we still having this conversation six months later? why are we robbing peter t

so how have we done with zika? i don't think we done fairly well. here it is in the united states and there has been animal research on vaccines and this is the kind of thing you can vaccinate for but will probably just start testing vaccines may be in january. here in the united states we can't even put out the money to control this. there are things we can do like mosquito control and research on vaccines and congress is stuck in political games and is not giving out the money. bear in mind it's been -- the lifetime cost for caring for these kids that have microcephaly is $10 million for a lifetime. that is what we are looking at. we been incredibly pound foolish, penny wise. were not even being penny wise. we are being foolish but that is what we are looking at again and i think the other parallel that i find it striking here is that this just shows, yet again, how remarkable viruses are. ed may give us reasons to feel happy and warm and cuddly about the microbial world but i'm here to freak you out. [laughter] think about it. the zika virus has

so it is effectively zika-proof. because it is good at manipulating its hostss as they talked about, it is good at spreading through a wild populations of the idea is if you release a small number of these into the wild when there is a few generations of their kind which in a few months in our time, the entire local population should carry a microbe and bust be unable to transmit these important human diseases. this has been tested in the laboratory and a simulated in mathematical models and was posted in 2011 for the first time in a couple of australian suburbs where the mosquitoes were released into the wild and very quickly in the span of months you saw the prevalence went from zero to 100% in the mosquitoes in the areas about tharea is aboutthe organizationd this approach has been testing iin different countries around thee world they are scaling up and going global. they are testing the approach in brazil,zi colombia, indonesia ad vietnam gearing up to release the mosquitoes over cities with millions of people t

maybe it's zika.ld imagine it being useful in your doctor's office, in an airport, or you can imagine someone wanting to bring it to a triage site if there is some disaster or some outbreak. [ speaking in foreign language ] >> today the president of brazil gave public health officials the right to enter any home or business. >> cases of the zika virus have been identified. puerto rico is in the cross hairs of the virus. [ speaking in foreign language ] >> zika is spreading rapidly around the world. at least 49 countries or territories in the western hemisphere have local zika transmission. >> we're aalrealready seeing mosquitos transmitting zika in the united states. it's just a question of how many mosquitos, how widespread and how many people will acquire infection as a result. we are not prepared for zika. every outbreak we go to the capitol hill folks and beg. and every outbreak it becomes very political. in the united states, there are a patchwork of laws that guide health. there is no consistenc

that role i worked in the department's response to public health emergencies like the bold and the zika virus. i remember feeling the weight and gravity of our work on the american people and the world were looking to us. the threat was great but we took it with resolve, with focus in with coordination. our communities were less stronger and we must do that again. that means insuring and all of god response that builds sustainable capacity within our local public health system. that is essential as it is rely on expert and putting them directly in front of the american people to communicate about steps that they can take to minimize the risk of infections and to prevent transmission to others. we need to support the essential role of state and local public health officials with more sustained funding. i convened a call with those in my community last friday to gather information of what they're seeing and hearing and to thank them for their work. these are the people truly on the front lines. i'm so proud of the work that they are doing to protect our communities. here in congress make

that is why we have a nice zika vaccine but not enough to do it because there is no zika around. that is one of the things we are going to push on is to have it ready if in fact it works. host: that was dr. anthony fauci and dr. leonard schleifer, as you hear that, your reaction or thoughts? guest: first of all, kudos to tony. he has been amazing, working his tail off. i don't even know if the man sleeps but he has been doing everything he can to move forward on things like a vaccine. when i was in the white house meeting with the president, dr. fauci was part of that group and i echoed his sentiment that a vaccine takes some time. there are some vaccines you develop that make people worse. you can't just say you've got it. what he said very carefully is we can try half a dozen of these , start scaling up a half dozen of these and then if one or two work, we will already have the material. that is something only on a scale that the federal government can do. private industry and these smaller companies cannot afford to manufacture something less they know there was a customer lik

zika jumped from the south pacific to brazil in 2013, two years before it was identified there.avel between the south pacific and brazil, including visitors who attended a pre-world cup soccer tournament, the confederation cup. >> goooal! >> someone was carrying the zika virus and some mosquitos bit that individual, absorbed the virus, and that's the beginning of this saga. and then undoubtedly, the el nino weather event provided the necessary ingredients, rainfall and drought, that fundamentally changed the conditions on the ground and allowed for the spread of this virus. i saw how d devastate entire populations. i also saw how the first responders, doctors, nurses, o' ♪ >> come, come, come. >> [ speaking foreign language ] [ crying ] [ rattle ] ♪ >> in 2015 the zika virus suddenly spread across brazil, primarily through the bite of one type of mosquito. the medical establishment only began to comprehend zika's danger as the number of babies born with the birth defect microcephaly started to dramatically increase. >> [ speaking foreign language ] >> since the alarm went soundi

we didn't take it with zika.ice maxine but there is no zika around. -- vaccine but there is no zika around. we are ready if in fact it works. the issue of safety, something i want to make sure the public understands, it is not only safety when you inject somebody and they get maybe an idiosyncratic reaction, allergic reaction, pain. does the vaccine make you worse? there are diseases where you vaccinate someone, they get infected with what you are trying to protect them with an you enhance the infection. you can get a good feel that in animal models. that will be interspersed at the same time we are testing we make sure they don't have enhancement. the worst possible thing you could do is vaccinate someone to prevent infection and make them worse. i will get to your question. finally with regard to therapies, we keep getting asked about therapies. there is a menu of therapies going into clinical trial. the best way to get the best drug as quickly as possible is to do a randomized control trial so that you know is

connection comes into play with zika obviously with mosquitoes, with ebola ex-pats.h of the original cause but where this virus lives in effect somebody that's how you spread the chain of transmission and humans. 75% of the diseases you hear about, new diseases, emerging diseases, they have an animal connection. if you move people out into the environment into the jungle they get infected. that disease has the potential to cause person-to-person transmission as we see with ebola or laissez with murderers which we believe is from bats and camels. if you're having contact with camels that's how you get the disease. it's not a surprise when we think about these emerging infections they tend to come from africa or south america or parts of southeast asia where you have a lot of connection with animals, bird flu is another good example where you have people in china and other parts of southeast asia live very close to their birds or owl or chickens and it's a great opportunity for these viruses to swap their genes and eventually affect humans and become global pandemics.

the zika virus from the zika forest. the lyme disease from lyme, connecticut.gotten worse over the years. your thoughts about that nonsense coming from some of the luminaries of the left. >> the world health organization took the lead. they gave their own pegs name to the virus and dropped saying wuhan or china. the chinese followed up quickly. they even reef to this as the italian virus. the worst of it is this comment by a foreign ministry spokesman that basically the u.s. army -- lou: i know all that nonsense. i am talking about the absurdity about trying to control the language and a departure for our good friends, the chinese. >> they are taking a risk doing this. the trade deal is coming due in the next couple weeks. lou: a lot will come due if they keep this up. the report that could have put an early end to the case against general michael flynn. lou: object wall street, stocks tanked. up belled, plunged. -- tumbled. the worst day since the '87 crash. the s & p down 261 points. the nasdaq in bear market territory down 750. volume 8.8 billion shares, the

we have had anthrax, sars, mers, h1n1, h5n1, ebola, zika. this virusere today, presents the worst public health emergency that we have had. i am afraid, as are other experts, that it is going to be very much like the 1918 spanish where somewhere between 20 million and 50 million people worldwide died from the flu. i don't know that that is when to happen, but this is a much more serious problem then we have ever seen before. in terms of the federal response, i, like many people, which it had started earlier. we are still having difficulty finding testing kits to determine who has the flu. andout this testing kits, moving as slowly as the u.s. is, it is very hard to develop a response. take, for example, medical personnel and hospitals. they could look at somebody, be dealing with somebody who has a bad allergy attack, a bad cold, the seasonal flu, or covid-19. until we get a handle on what we are dealing with and who we have to deal with in terms of therapeutics, we are really behind the eight ball. i must say, south korea, which handled thi

we didn't take it with zika. that is why we have a nice zika vaccine but we don't have enough to do it because there is no zika around. the same with sars. that is one of the things we'll really push on, to have it ready if in fact it works. now the issue of safety, something that i want to make sure the american public understand. it is not only safety when you inject somebody and they get maybe an idiosyncratic reaction, they get a little allergic reaction, they get pain, there is safety associated, does the vaccine make you worse? and there are diseases which you vaccinate someone, they get infected with what you're trying to protect them with, you actually enhance the infection. you can get a good feel for that in animal models. that will be interspersed at the same time we're testing. we'll try to make sure we don't have enhancement. that is the worst possible thing you could do is vaccinate somebody to prevent infection and actually make them worse. next, and finally with regard, i will get to your question

zika, hopefully i'm not al not all oft we will see it. you gave me a lovely comments the other day. the ethics of the delayed response and some of what you talk about here. if you think about these marginalized populations and why do we see these delayed responses, and we are seeing it today. the story of the last couple of days this conversation is probably better terms for the conversation between you know what let's protect the united states against zika and deciding whether they want to do that and whether they want to pay for it so should it be 500 million congress wants to give or 1.9 or the 1.1 to give a version and i don't care what it is, pick a number but why are we having this conversation six months later backs we know what's going to happen and they also know mosquito control is not a federal function it is a city and county and district function we need to get the money out of these people so they ca can betn whabedoing what they should be g which is making sure they are identifying cases and have the money to think about hopefully a long-term strategy, vaccine strateg

the zika outbreak, the ebola the zika outbreak, the ebola outbreak, they taught us to be careful of our dogma and understanding what we think we know. everything is on the table until we can take it off. host: another text this morning from bakersfield, california, asking, if you would gauge the u.s. response versus the way south korea responded, if we are as ready as south korea was? guest: south korea also had delays built into their response. they should have been on top of it sooner. but they changed their posture quickly and now i think their response is a bellwether for what the rest of the world should be trying to do. host: let's go to calls. this is tom from iowa. you're up first for our guest, dr. christopher mores from george washington university, a global health professor. tom, go ahead. caller: yes, i have a question and a concern -- we have pre-booked flight tickets from chicago to san francisco on may 20. i am very concerned. i know we will wear surgical gloves and masks on the flight and try to avoid groups of tourists, but we are really concerned about that and would l

we have a nice zika vaccine, but we don't have enough to do it because we don't have enough zika around. the same with sars. that's one of the things we're really going to be able to push on is to have it ready in case it works. now, the issue of safety. something i want to make sure that the american public understand. it's not only safety when you inject somebody and they get maybe an idiosyncratic reaction, they get a little allergic reaction, they get pain. there is safety associated, does the vaccine make you worse. and there are diseases in which you vaccinate someone, they get infected with what you're trying to protect them with and you actually enhance the infection. you can get a good feel for that in animal models. that's going to be interspersed at the same time that we're testing, we're going try and make sure we don't have enhancement. that's the worst possible thing you can do is vaccinate somebody to prevent infection and actually make them worse. next, and finally, i'll get to your question. finally, with regard to therapies, i mean, we keep getting asked about therapie

it should not be surprising when i talk about zika and ebola somehow is animal connection comes into play. zika with mosquito and ebola is bats which is the original cause and you spread out the chain of transmission in humans. 75% of the diseases that you hear about, new diseases, emerges diseases, pneumatic. that means animal connection. if you move people out into the jungle they get infected and that disease has potential then to cause person to person transmission as we see with ebola or let's say with mers which we believe is from bats and camels, if you have exact with camels, that's how you get the disease. it's not a surprise when we think of emerging infectious they tend to come from africa, south america or parts of southeast asia where you have a lot of connection with animals. bird flu is another example where you have people in china and other parts of southeast asia who live close to their pigs, birds, chickens and great opportunities for viruses to swap their genes and that become global pandemics. >> to find other books on pandemics, booktv.org, type pandemic, here i

an we don't have a zika vaccine. partially there, but then the effort gets abandoned, so we need to stay the course and the jobs so we can take some of these threats off the table. rogers: dr. ezike, you talked about quarantine. hat do you think the appropriate facility would be tyled like to be a good quarantine facility? dr. ezike: so thank you for the question. distinguishing the quarantine sites versus the isolation sites. mr. rogers: define those two. dr. ezike: quarantine, we used who don't ut people have symptoms, who are asymptomatic. about isolating people, maybe we needed some for for home isolation people who may be are already symptoms. the goal would be for people who are already sick to actually of the hospital. if they don't require ospital-level care, i.c.u. care, we really want to keep those people out of the hospital o that we don't pose that additional risk to the health care workers and sicker people hospital. mr. rogers: do they need to be exposed to any way to people who symptoms? dr. ezike: ple

the lab has developed test for zika, sars, mers, and now this coronavirus. and i think it really is remarkable that passion we had here. once we got the sequence i think this lab team had a functional test in about seven days that they then worked with the fda to make sure it was regulated. that's really what we do. >> president trump: they started working when they saw there was a problem in china many weeks ago. they saw something going on in china long before anybody even heard of it. before it was even in print. they heard there was a problem in china and when they started working on this. that's incredible and why we are ore in good shape. [inaudible question]. >> i think at this point again, we said this before, the secretary can add. the overall risk to the american public does remain low. again, i think we owe a lot to the decisive decisions to have travel restrictions and the number of areas of screening in airports. then the most important is to get the public health community to do early case recognition. isolation and contact. again, the fact tha

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only our sort of micro outbreak responses but also, too, from these major things like h1n1, ebola, zika, we build up expertise. we build up capacity. we build up tools. when we talk about ebola virus we scrambled, right? because it was a new thing and what do you do? the community was really scared about what is going to happen with people in the community. we basically put together technology to do home monitoring using mobile devices. but building on that foundation we were then able to go on and use this for our folks coming over for coronavirus. these historical lessons help us work to the future. but one of the challenges we face is this funding up and down where sometimes we will get specific money to address a specific issue like zika or ebola but then as that crisis resolves or diminishes, then we have to contract back to a state of acceptable but not sufficient readiness. when we look at what's going on in mississippi right now, we have activated our agency emergency response functions and we are working closely with our state emergency management agencies. within mississippi a

then we go to zika and now this. the same thing happens every time. it takes us a little bit of time to get our arms around it. they're always stumbles in the beginning. a lot of it has to do with the federal and state governments have to figure out all over again how to work together. there always seems to be that new relationship building that has to happen. eventually, we get it right. and this will happen again. and i think the other thing that we want to see is the press not piling on too much. >> good luck with that. dr. hotez: it is occurring during the democratic primary. happening at the worst time possible from that sense. to have that perspective of time .aying, this always happens it is the hardest thing our country does. >> we have some records about stockpiling. >> recognize the gentleman from illinois. thank you very much. thank you for clarifying we will not have this vaccine for a year or so. can you share some of the risks of bringing a vaccine to market to early. dr. hotez: it is compromising safety. we are going to be immunizing he

we didn't take it with zika. we have a nice vaccine but there's no zika around. same with sars. we're going to have it ready if it works. the issue of safety. does the vaccine make you worse? there are diseases if which you vaccinate someone, infected with what you're trying to protect them with and you enhance the infection. you get a good field in animal models. we'll try to make sure we don't have enhancement. next and finally with regards to therapies. we keep getting asked about therapies. there's a whole menu of therapy that's going into clinical trial. the best way to get the best sdrug do a randomized controlled trial. if it's not effective, get it off the board and go to the next thing. if it is effective, get it out to the people that need it. you'll be hearing over the next month or more about different drugs that will go into these randomized control trials. i feel confident we'll have some sort of therapy that will give a partial, if not a very good protection in preventing progression of disease. we'll be back here taulking abot that a lot, i'm sure. >> you're sayi

supported brazil during a time of zika.regard to a university, we're in it right now because we have students who are studying abroad. we have about 500 students studying abroad. we have brought our students back from china. korea, we are in the middle of following guidance when italy went up. i think that's an important thing that we at a university follow the guidance in terms of when the levels. that's what institutions should do and individuals should do. the second part we need to plan for is enrollment and thinking about foreign students for the fall. how will this impact that. and the third place we're planning for a university is thinking through what would happen here if we had an outbreak in the area of washington, d.c. where america university is located. you can see those are different in time. one is right now and we're bringing those students back following the protocols that the cdc put forward. the other is thinking about the median term. depend i depending on the trajectory of the virus. >> sanjay, very qui

zika had a product ready to go in about 11 months, though it did not get into clinical testing.re are a lot of unknowns to be donone. there is unprecedented movement. there are 51 vaccines in prpreclinical development, and o o vaccines already in clinical trial. one of those got into a vial and 42 days. you can see the pace at which science is trying to accelerate. these ares you say, unprecedented times. international cooperation, i imagine, is key. however, we recently saw donald trump trying to buy a german company to make vaccines just for the u.s. drdrberkley: i think w what is critical is that this epidemic is global, science is global, and the response has to be global. we need to make sure the best products anywhere in the world are moved forward. maybe eveven working in multiple spots. the successful ebola vaccine which we rolled out now was a vaccine that was worked on in labs in canada, transferred to a biotech company in the u.s., and is being manufactured in germany. that's the way the world works, and we have to make sure we keep this global perspective in place. w

he has advised every president since then, navigfring outbreaks ebola to zika virus, praise for his passion call. in this crisis, he is against the president intent on giving america good news. he has tamped down is to trump excitement over quic solutions, whether an anti-malariarug could help patients with coronavirus. >> is there any evidence to suggest us with malaria it might be used as a prophylactic against covid-19? >> the answer is no. the evidence you are talking about is anecdotal evidence. >> i feel good abo it. that is all it is, just a feeling, smart guy. >> dr. f figure, especially for mr. trump's criticser, who his faithfulness to the facts as a counter to the president's misleading soundbites. when the doctor did noturn up on the podium the other day, twitter exploded with anxious questions. he has played dowthe idea of a divide. >> there is this issue of trying to separate e two of us. there is an a difference there. >>e has also said there is only so much you can do when mr. trump makes false statements. anthonyet fauci is aan commander in the war against t fectious diseas

four years ago, the zika virus force some athletes to withdr.he terror attacks in atlanta in 19nd inic m in 1972. but never before in peacetime have the games been postponed this way. while the decision ends weeks of uncertainty, there wilbe new s questito answer, and tokyo will have to wait longer. adam wild, bbc news. laura: so disappointing for all of those athletes. and of course for spectators, too. there are lots of things we cannot do while we are confined to our homes, like going to the salon and getting a haircut. social media, many ar limiting their overgrown -- lamenting their overgrown locks, whil hairdressers are facing an uncertain future. reporter: hairdressing at a distance of two meters is impossible. but for patients who are d,self-employe hairdressing is there on income. >> is not possible. for this nd of business, there is no weight without leaning on the customer. just one on one, as you can see. reporter: in thisalon for the past few days she has continued to cut hair. now she has to stop . >> very hard. reporter: there are

zika manuel, thanks to you and all of the others who have helped us on this difficult day. a difficult day which also involves some terrible news here at nbc news. to report about a dear colleague and member of our nbc news extended family. larry ed wargt, who has died due to complications from coronavirus worked most recently at 30 rock and tested positive for covid-19 earlier this week. according to his wife, he suffered from other health issues that led him to succumb to the illness. he is the big ghie you see right there during a shoot in namibia in 2011. he spent most of his 25 years at nbc news as a skilled audio technician traveling the world to bring you our viewers all of the news. i was one of those privileged to work with larry for decades here in the u.s. and in hot spots around the world. he was the person that you're always happy to see when you arrive on a conflict zone, on the campaign trail, or just at the corridors of 30 rock. in every situation larry had my back. his small, his laugh were a virtual embrace in good times and bad. andy lack said in a note t

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a variety of others, zika and other infections, came from an animal.in africa, the health abilities we have in the united states are not prevalent, so hiv and aids are still a big problem there. dr. fauci: right. we better not downplay it in the united states. there are 38,000 to 40,000 new infections in the united states. it is very concentrated both demographically and geographically. it is very interesting that 12% of the population of the united states is african-american, and yet about 45% to 50% of new infections with hiv are among african-americans. david: i guess a few years back, when president george w. bush was president, he asked you to come to the oval office and asked you what you could do about hiv and aids in africa. what did you tell him? dr. fauci: well, he sent me to africa to do a fact-finding and come back with the feasibility of doing something. because he said, and told me, that he felt that, as a rich nation, we have a moral responsibility, now that we have drugs that can treat and prevent infection that other individuals, who b

. >> we dealt with zika, yes. >> brennan: and the largest hiv outbreak from intravenous use. saying this administration has been slow to respond to this virus. given that vice president pence and you, same team, different situation, how do you respond to that, that there was a slow response then, there is a slow response now? >> well i would rather talk about coronavirus but it is important for folks to know. >> brennan: well the response specifically is what he was criticizing you for, not having kits in place for not playing the ground -- >> i appreciate that, sir ring programs which folks are looking at stepping the tide of hiv transmission in indiana wereov >> brennan: noei ord.er to the v situation. governor pens showed leadership in that situation, syringe service programs were illegal when he came in and legal when he left and one of the few governors from a red state that actually expanded access to care which end in that response, and so we have the right person in charge of this response right now. it is a recommendation of the panel that susan brooks led in congres

series of epidemics where this has been a concern, whether it's ebola or swine flu or bird flu or zika or sars we've had too many of these into short a period of time, and at that same period of time, the globalization of the supply chain has dramatically changed. so as we prepare for future hazards, we want to assure that the supply chain is in place to allah as to provide the kind of health care we need, the kind of response we need, the kind of protection we need. they should be part of the bill. we sent to the president hopefully between now and no later than the end of next week. it's one of the things that will begin to set us on a better direction and create greater security, greater health security as we look at our other security concerns. and with that, mr. president, i would yield the floor. >> mr. president, the senator for virginia. >> mr. president, also rise, like my colleague from missouri to address the nation's response to the covid-19 virus. .. the capital, here working under tough circumstances i notice the pages are not here and that is because the senate wisely de

. >> ...and the zika outbreak. >> the key ito protect >> but the world h to experience anything like covid-19. of the storm.the binning >> with the number of coronavirus cases growing... >> we were looking at a freight train coming across the country. we're now lookingtr at a bullen. >> ...more than 100 million americans on lockdown...e >>ed to bend the cve in the state of california. >> ...and so many questions out what's next... >> easter our timeline. what a great timeline that would be. >> ...what does former cdc rector tom frieden say now? >> "firing line with mgarehoover" is made possible by... additional funding is provided by... corporate funding is provided by... >> dr. tom frieden welcome to "firing line." rm glad to join you. >> you were the director of the united states center for disease control and prevention. you are currently the president and the c.e.o. of resolve to save lives, a global health initiative which works to prevent epidemics. >> andou are joining us at this unprecedented momenthi in americaory. so thank you for being he on video conference as we practice