Inside Trump's Corona Virus Response; Going the 'Social' Distance; The Kitchen's Closed: Your Calls on NYC's Shuttered Bars and Restaurants

The Brian Lehrer Show | Mar 18, 2020

Coming up on today's show: 

  • Jonathan Lemire, White House reporter for the Associated Press and political analyst for MSNBC/NBC News, talks about the White House's rapidly changing response to the coronavirus pandemic, including strict new guidelines to limit people’s interactions in an urgent bid to slow the virus before U.S. hospitals are overwhelmed.
  • As residents in New York City and the surrounding areas hunker down in order to self quarantine and socially distance themselves from others, Jessica Justman, senior technical director at ICAP at Columbia, a global health center at the Mailman School of Public Health, associate professor of Medicine in Epidemiology at Columbia University and an attending physician in the Division of Infectious Diseases at the Columbia University Irving Medical Center, talks about whether we're doing enough yet to stop the spread of COVID-19. 
  • On Monday, Governor Andrew Cuomo ordered all bars and restaurants across New York closed. Ariel Palitz, Senior Executive Director of Nightlife For the NYC Mayor's Office of Media & Entertainment, and Gregg Bishop, Commissioner of the NYC Department of Small Business Services, take food industry calls on this surreal moment, how you're getting by, and what the city can do to help.

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