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Anderson Cooper 360

42,600+ coronavirus cases in the United Sates and at least 541 dead

Anderson Cooper 360

CNN

News

3.73.8K Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2020

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

The President signals he is looking for a way to "get our country open again." He said he was talking in terms of weeks, not months but the Surgeon General says Americans should prepare for the pandemic to get worse. Dr. David Katz, former director at the Yale-Griffin Prevention Research Center, joins Anderson Cooper to discuss the op-ed he wrote in the Washington Post asking if "our fight against coronavirus is worse than the disease." Plus, the President has been touting several drugs that he believes might help fight coronavirus. Dr. Sanjay Gupta looks into one of them called chloroquine, which is used to treat malaria. Airdate: March 23, 2020 Guests: Dr. David Katz Dr. Sanjay GuptaTo learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

And good evening, the president of today's signal that he is looking for a way to quote

0:04.4

get our country open again.

0:06.3

He said he was talking in terms of weeks, not months, and he said it at the end of the

0:10.0

biggest single day rise in coronavirus deaths up more than 100 since this morning.

0:15.3

Now stands at 541 people.

0:17.8

He asked as he did in a tweet last night if the cure, which involves shutting down large

0:21.8

chunks of the economy, is worse than the disease.

0:24.6

We'll play you some of his remarks in a moment and debate that question tonight.

0:28.5

First, some context to it.

0:30.6

Since we last left you on Friday, the number of deaths in cases has more than doubled.

0:34.8

Nearly 43,000 confirmed cases of the disease about half of them in one state, New York.

0:40.1

Here in New York City, more than 12,000 people infected in the mayor today said hospital

0:44.2

supplies could run out in a week.

0:46.5

The Army Corps of Engineers today began converting a giant convention center just two blocks from

0:50.8

here into a thousand bed hospital.

0:53.6

In a related note, we're still awaiting test results from our colleague here at 360.

0:58.9

I personally have no symptoms and had no close contact with the person.

1:02.0

We broadcast from my home on Friday.

1:04.2

My staff is all still working from home tonight.

1:06.2

I'm in a remote studio with a robotic camera.

1:08.4

So I'm not in contact with anyone else, but again, no symptoms.

1:11.6

Globally late today, Britain's Prime Minister put the entire UK on the tightest social

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