This is the Tom Hartman program.

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I wanted to talk about the economy a little bit and what I see happening here.

And this, by the way, we've already seen this happen now we've seen

it happen in China if we simply look at what's going on we look at China look at

northern Italy look at South Korea what we are seeing are economies essentially shutting down. There are

some indications that China is starting to come back, that they may have this virus under control but that said it's China and

so they may be covering things up too. I mean Judd Legum is talking about over on

Twitter actually how the website the federal website that is confirmed and presumptive positive cases in the

United States and March 1st it showed that there had been a total of

472 people tested and out of those, there are, let's see, 22 total cases that have been found, which seems to me to be around that 2% number.

But that's only 472 cases.

But when you look on the exact same website today,

the number of total tested is gone. It's missing.

And Judd is suggesting that the CDC has stopped disclosing the number of Americans

tested for coronavirus.

On the left is the website, how it looked last night,

on the right is what it looks like now with the testing information removed.

This lack of testing is a scandal and this is the cover-up.

And I think Judd is absolutely right, and I am liking his tweet right now, but I mean, this is a big deal so anyhow back to the economy as we

see in northern Italy for example Venice has emptied out tourists are not coming

the restaurants are empty. The stores are empty. It's like things are closing down. Things are shutting down. The same thing is happening in Seoul, South Korea. And the same thing I think will be happening here

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