Dr. Emanuel: Social Distancing Is Of Vital Importance | Morning Joe | MSNBC

Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel discusses the critical lack of supply in hospitals, his new column on why the coronavirus is here to stay, and he says social isolation can be effective in fighting the virus. Aired on 3/20/2020.
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Dr. Emanuel: Social Distancing Is Of Vital Importance | Morning Joe | MSNBC

45 comments

  1. Want to know where we are headed??? Once the politicians have protected themselves from the woes of the stock market…. ask them…

    1. Can you point to a time in history where the stock market went down and NEVER CAME up and didnt surpass its pre-drop high?

    2. @Dave Schultz hope springs eternal… the problem is that politicians saw fit to profit from confidential information meant to help Americans, all of us… they hoaxed Americans, all of us…

  2. Americans got a bunch of happy talk about coronavirus from Trump and Congressional Republicans, while they dumped millions of their stocks on the insider information reporting devastating economic downturn from COVID-19. Congressional Republicans are corrupt to the core, serving themselves, not the American people. Why do some voters keep stupidly electing corrupt GOP politicians who care nothing about them?

    1. But we don’t even know how the virus is spread. We have tested the air around corona patients and we can’t find any of the infectious virus particles in the air they are breathing out. It could be spread via surfaces, or liquids we drink, or food, or some other way. Anyway, viruses are known to travel long distances through air conditioning systems so the social distancing won’t make any difference, even if the virus is airborne.

  3. I’ve been isolated and doing social distancing every since tRump came into office & I became an adamant Anti & Never tRumper tRoll. This should be easy peasy for me! What about you? Will you isolate easily?

    1. tRuth doesn’t MAGA matta : As a matter of fact I’m here in Southern Mexico on vacation & my flight was cancelled & im stuck & in limbo. I got another one supposedly scheduled for end of the month you’ll be displeased to hear. One way or another ” I’ll be back” like Arnold says. I think treasonous tRump turds should have they’re citizenship revoked & they should be kicked out if not worst. Whadda think dat?

    2. Truth doesn’t MAGA matta : I’m a good strong swimmer but don’t think I could make it to Cuba. Cuba has some of the most beautiful beaches in the world with Veradero stretching for 17 miles. The people are wonderful, highly educated, great music & the women are beautiful. I’ve been there 4 times by flying out of Canada. Both countries ironically have 1 st class universal health care ironically but truth be known I much rather prefer Canada. during the summer as a holiday destination. Question for you friendly friend? Have you ever been outside Siberia or your trailer park depending if you are Russian or just a common tRump turd?

    3. Truth Matters Like your YouTube channel, you have no content. Your very name speaks of the hypocrisy that is our leadership right now. 45 keeps trying to find a scapegoat but this is completely on him. He didn’t create the virus but he surely didn’t do the responsible thing when he and his cohorts told America to relax, this is no biggie. Blood on all their hands.

  4. The weight of existing problems out weigh the new flu virus vivid 19. Seems as if the world’s super powers are in a NWO faction.

  5. right now I have a co-worker that has it and I’m scared for him and his family and for me and mine and everybody that works with him and us this is getting very serious

    1. More than 80% of People are recovering and/or asymptomatic. We’re mostly protecting the elderly and ppl with underlying conditions by all accounts

    2. I’m sorry. I pray he heals quickly and completely, and that all he has come into contact with remain healthy.

  6. Trump said, “We are not supply clerks’…..Talk about rising to the challenge……People are not going to forget his inadequacy and inaction.

    1. I sure hope so. He’s basically saying “fend for yourselves and depend on local governments, you can’t count on me”. Duly noted.

    1. its american solider brought it to Wuhan in late October during 2019 world military games, it has been around within US since September

  7. Stay at home until you are forced to leave to get food. This is amazing! Someone told me one can use a washcloth to clean up after a BM! These alleged washcloths are washable and reusable! Don’t forget that people have Covid-19 without being tested, so these numbers people toss around are all way too small. In the USA I don’t know how you would really get a test because the media spread information that is false. When you call a hotline they ask questions until they get an answer that disqualifies you from testing. You could very clearly have Covid-19, but if you can’t be tested, you won’t be counted. If I had gone on to die of interstitial pneumonia or ARDS, I would not be counted as a Covid-19 death. But the present US government is homicidally attached to the idea that the public believes all their lies.

  8. I had thought to make a pertinent comment, but after reading so many written by half-literate and wholly ignorant people, I decided to forget it.

  9. December 2019 China reported a new corona virus to WHO. The CDC knew there was a problem shortly thereafter.CDC designs a test that is unreliable . China and WHO offers the USA their tests and the government turns the offer down. While we were testing hundreds, by sending tests to the CDC ,and waiting days for the results South Korea was performing thousands of tests daily. Massachusetts received “ permission “ from the CDC to perform our own tests Feb.28,2020 despite Massachusetts having some of the very best medical facilities,of all types, in the country. We had time to get large numbers of tests into production weeks before and did little to streamline the process. The many delays had more to do with the stock market than with public health. This ,of course , backfired as the “ market “ finally began to see the ramifications of the epidemic and realized the leadership necessary to mitigate and slow down the infection rate was not happening. Trump made Pence the fall guy for the catastrophe that is corona virus. Pence said that all government experts involved in the epidemic have to clear anything they say through him. We need a plan . We need drive by testing(as seen in South Korea) we need quarantine of hot spots, work on treatment protocols and investments in research. If we can slow down the infection rate we can save lives. Only the old die is a myth. Smokers dying more often than non- smokers…. does that include people who vape or pot smokers? We don’t know. We all need to grasp what exponential increase means and how important a decimal point is . The flu death rate is .1 the WHO ( not a fan) says the death rate for corona virus is 3.4. That is 34 times higher. The flu death rate for 2018 was 79,400 in the USA . If we take 70,000 and multiply by 34 it equals 2,380,000 dead. Hopefully the WHO is wrong because much of their data is from China and may not be reliable. We need to watch Italy and South Korea. People who keep referring to corona as like the flu are only correct if they are referring to the 1918 flu which killed 50 to 100 million worldwide.

  10. 275 covid-19 deaths in the USA, 34,000 influenza deaths last year, 61,000 the year before but there wasn’t a run on toilet paper, there wasn’t a shut down.

    Where are the priorities? Why is one bug in every conversation and another not mentioned?

    The sky is falling, the sky is falling.

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