- Welcome to "The 700 Club".
Quote, "We're very ready for this."
These were President Trump's calming words
to the American public last night.
Even as the Coronavirus has now spread
to every continent withmore than 80,000 cases.
So what is the President doing
to make sure the U.S. is ready?
Jenna Browder has thatstory from Washington.
- As top officials lineup inside the White House
to talk about control and prevention,
we learned about thefirst infected American
not connected to travelabroad or another known case.
- And the number onepriority from our standpoint
is the health and safetyof the American people.
- [Jenna] President Trumpassembling his team behind him
to project calm andtell the American people
he's in charge and on the case.
- We're very, very readyfor this, for anything,
whether it's going to be abreakout of larger proportions
or whether or not we'reat that very low level.
- [Jenna] And in a surprise move,
announcing Vice PresidentMike Pence to lead
the U.S. response to the outbreak.
- I look forward, Mr. President,to serving in this role.
I'm bringing together all the members
of the Corona taskforce.
- [Jenna] On Capitol Hill,the Secretary of Health
and Human Services with this warning:
- America's risk is low at the moment.
That could change quickly.
- [Jenna] The NationalInstitutes of Health says
that while a vaccine is in the works,
it won't be available anytime soon.
- We can't rely on a vaccine
over the next several months to a year.
- [Jenna] The best wayto contain the spread
is through public health measures.
The CDC calling on states, businesses
and public entities todraw on its resources.
- The team is brilliant.
I spent a lot of time with the team
over the last couple of weeks.
- [Jenna] Trump saysCongress wants to give
more than 2.5 billiondollars he's asking for,
and at last night's news conference,
also criticized Democratsfor making it political.
- What he's doing islate, too late, anemic.
Hopefully we can makeup for the loss of time.
- [Jenna] In California, thelatest case could be the first
not connected to travelabroad or another known case.
A sign it could be travelingwithin the community.
And at Los Angeles Airport,
health officials disinfecting surfaces
after a Korean Airlines flightattendant tested positive.
Meanwhile, on Long Island, New York,
more than 80 people areunder self-quarantine
after possible exposure.
- The virus has now spread to 47 countries
and is on every continentexcept Antarctica.
And for the first time,the number of new cases
is higher outside of China than within.
In Washington, Jenna Browder, CBN News.
- Let's hope and pray wedon't politicize a virus.
Let's not use it as anattempt to whip the President.
Let's not play politics.
It's a health emergency that needs to have
all Americans on board.
What I want to tell you is,
it's not some plot that was conceived
in the deep, dark secrets of China
to bring an infection tothe rest of the world.
It's none of those things.
It happens to be a virusthat's gotten loose.
I think the mishandlingof wild animals in Wuhan
started this stuff.
But it should not be politicized.
And to say, "Well, thePresident's not doing enough,
"and he's way behind."
He's not behind.
He's been on top of it andwe're all working together.
So let's not politicize it.
The health reporter, LoriJohnson is here to talk about
the latest on the Coronavirusand how to protect yourself.
Lori, what can you tell us
about this new case in California?
- Well, it's in the Sacramento area
and the main thing about this
is we believe that this is
the first case of community-spread
which means we don't reallyknow where this patient
got the Coronavirus.
It doesn't appear that this patient got it
from someone who hadrecently been to China,
or someone else who hadbeen infected with it,
although they're doing contact tracing
and they may get someanswers in the future.
- Lori, what should people do
to prepare for this Coronavirus outbreak?
- Most important thing people can do, Pat,
is to step up their ownpersonal hygiene game.
That means wash your handslots of times during the day.
Be really careful becausewe know that this spreads
much like the flu through droplets
from people when they sneeze and cough
which get into about asix-foot radius of that person,
but then also can fall onto hard surfaces
like doorknobs and handrailsand the list goes on.
So if you touch those hard surfaces,
then touch food and eat it,
you might be exposing yourself.
Also be careful about touching your face,
if you've been touchingthese hard surfaces.
Really keep those hands clean.
Also, improve your immune system.
Boost the immune system.
We talk about this all the time.
We know that our gut health is 80% tied
to our immune system.
So get lots of sleep, and eat right.
Also, you might want toprepare, if you need to.
If you become sick, it's a good idea
to stay home and self-quarantine.
So make sure you have plenty of groceries
and your medications on hand
in case you need tohunker down for a while.
- We might add, when you're in a hotel,
the remote control for your television
is always loaded with germs,
Coronavirus and otherwise.
So, handle that with gloves.
- Indeed.
- Well, Lori, who's most at risk now
in America for this virus?
- Well, Pat, as a mother,I take great consolation
in the fact that this, apparently,
is not infecting children.
Believe it or not, they have analyzed
the first 72,000 cases of this
and zero, Pat, zero childrenunder the age of nine
have died from this.
Wonderful news becausekids are usually the ones
who get the viruses.
And just a tiny fraction ofa percent of people under 20
even get this virus.
So we're seeing that the deathsare mostly age 70 or over
and most of the infectionsare mostly age 50 and over.
And many of these people havewhat we call co-morbidities,
which means they havesomething else wrong with them,
like a lung issue or a heart issue.
So these are the peoplewho are most at risk.
And I would like to point out
that 80% of the peoplewho have this Coronavirus,
their symptoms are so mild theydo not need hospitalization.
Many people don't even know they have it.
It's so mild in so many people.
- Lori, is it a myth or not
that in hot weather thevirus goes away, or not?
- That's what a lot ofhealth experts are wondering
if this is what it's going to be like.
Because, as I told you on Monday, Pat,
there are seven differentCoronaviruses in human beings.
Four of them are part of the common cold.
And these are very mildand very widespread
and are seasonal.
And then there are thetwo others, SARS and MERS,
which are not very widespread at all,
and much deadlier.
So health experts are wondering and hoping
that this COVID-19 is more like the four
that are more like the common cold,
very widespread perhaps,but also more mild.
And with this vaccine, we may see that--
This comes around every year,
and a vaccine this timeof year may be helpful.
But as you said, a lot offolks are wondering if,
like the flu, it's going to go away
when the weather gets warmer.
That's something to pray about.
- Well, last question.
Where are we with treatments for the ones
that do have this infection?
- Very hopeful there.
We know that thiswonderful anti-viral drug
called remdesivir is being tested
on Coronavirus patients in Nebraska,
the ones who came backfrom the cruise ship.
And it's showing great promise.
It's an anti-viral, and weshould know the results.
They're doing randomized trials right now
which means the results aregoing to be very scientific
and very reliable and we should know
whether that anti-viral drug is working
within the next few weeks.
Also there's great promiseabout immunotherapy drugs.
We know that immunotherapyis a burgeoning field
within medical sciences
and it has shown wonderful efficacy
regarding cancer treatments.
And what immunotherapy drugs do,
is we give them to patients
and it boosts their own immune system
and helps them fight thepathogen that's in their body.
- Great work, Lori.
Thank you so much.
- My pleasure.
- Lori Johnson, ourexcellent health reporter.
Well, stay with us for thelatest on the Coronavirus.
We continue to provide updates
right here on CBN News Channel
and on http://www.cbnnews.com
Well, in other news, Bernie Sanders
has been steamrollingthe Democratic primaries,
talking about his planslike Medicare for all
and forgiving college debt.
But Sanders is not talking about
the astronomical cost behind these plans
and who is going to pay for them.
I wanted to find out about it,
so I asked our staffto research the figures
and what they found will shock you.
We're talking trillionsupon trillions of dollars.
Gary Lane brings us this alarming look
at Bernie's budget-busting bills.
- We are not only gonna winhere in Texas on Super Tuesday,
(crowd cheering)
we're gonna beat Trump in November.
- [Gary] Bernie Sanders hasgood reason to be confident
after primary wins inNew Hampshire and Nevada.
As the current frontrunner, he's become a target
as opponents criticize hisplatform as incredibly expensive.
At the top of the Sanderslist, Medicare for all
with a price tag estimated at34 trillion dollars or more,
over 10 years.
Not billions, literally trillions.
Then there's Sanders' supportof the Green New Deal,
the plan to move Americaaway from fossil fuels
at a cost of more than 16trillion dollars over a decade.
Not all Democrats areon board with his ideas.
- I do not support Medicare for all.
- I profoundly disagree with his solution.
- [Gary] Sanders says Medicare for all
will save the countrymoney in the long run.
But he acknowledges it will be expensive.
- I can't rattle off to youevery nickel and every dime.
But we have accounted for it,
you talked about Medicare for all.
We have options out therethat will pay for it.
- [Gary] And there's a lot to pay for.
Sanders has several other proposals too.
In addition to Medicare forall and the Green New Deal,
Sanders has a guaranteed housing plan
he says will cost two anda half trillion dollars
over 10 years.
He'll spend 2.2 trillionto make college free
and cancel all student debt.
One and a half trillion dollars
on universal childcareand pre-kindergarten.
Plus 1.2 trillion forK-12 educational spending
and higher salaries forpublic school teachers.
And one trillion dollarsfor infrastructure.
Add it all up, and it comesto around 60 trillion dollars
in new spending.
That would double thesize of the government.
Critics other than his opponents,
such as conservativeeconomist Stephen Moore
question whether some ofSanders new spending programs
like Medicare for all would actually work
for the people they're supposed to help.
- Medicare is running out of money.
The worst thing you can do for seniors
is then put millions and millions,
potentially tens of millionsmore people on Medicare,
because the whole systemis gonna collapse.
This is one of the reasons that polls show
the two groups that are mostopposed to Medicare for all
are number one, senior citizenswho would depend on Medicare
and number two, union members
who already have very goodprivate healthcare plans,
but would loose themunder Medicare for all.
Remember, under Medicare for all, it's not
"If you like your healthcareplan, you get to keep it."
This is, "We don't care ifyou like your healthcare plan,
"we're moving you into a new system."
And that's what makesAmericans very nervous.
- [Gary] One thing basicallyeveryone agrees on:
Sanders will need to raiseand even create taxes
to pay for them.
And he has a long list of new taxes
from increasing the payroll tax
paid by employees and businesses by 80%,
repealing President Trumpstax cuts, a wealth tax,
raising capital gains taxes on investments
plus cutting militaryspending and far more.
Moore says that wouldbe bad for the country.
- I think it would do severedamage to the U.S. economy
to add all of this spending,all of these new regulations,
and then tax rates thatwould go up to 50, 60
in some cases 70%.
We haven't had tax rates like that
since the Jimmy Carter years.
- [Gary] And economists on bothsides of the political aisle
argue that Sanders' new taxeswould not even come close
to paying for all his policies.
- [Stephen] The math doesn't add up.
If you take all the taxes,
and there are many taxesunder Bernie Sanders' plan,
and you try to match them upwith the cost of the spending,
it still doesn't pay for it.
- [Gary] That means on top of all
of his new extremelycostly government programs,
the Sanders plan woulddramatically increase
America's exploding 23trillion national debt.
- [Gary] You could potentiallysee, over the next 10 years,
a double or even triplingof the national debt.
- Sanders' enormous spending plans
haven't gotten much public attention yet.
But that's likely to change
as he wins more and more delegates
in the race for the Democraticpresidential nomination.
Gary Lane, CBN News.
- The millennials are saying,
"We like the idea.
"We're gonna have free college,
"we're gonna have free healthcare,
"we're gonna have our studentdebt taken away from us.
"We're gonna have a Green New Deal.
"It's just gonna be wonderful."
Well, I tell you what, Millennials,
when your country is broke
and there's no money for anything,
then you're gonna wish
that you had been more fiscally prudent.
But this is just insane.
And yet, they're flocking likelemmings to the Pied Piper
who is leading them offthe edge of the cliff.
It's just insane.
60-some trillion dollars.
The U.S. economy now is runningabout 20 trillion a year.
This is three times the GDP
of the whole United States ofAmerica, this 10-year plan.
- [Terry] And nobody's really holding
his feet to the fire on this.
He says, "Well, I can't accountfor every nickel and dime."
(laughs)
- Every nickel and dime.
- That's 60 trillion.
- Trillion, 60 trillion dollars.
It's just unbelievable.
And yet people areflocking to support him.
Well, I heard on theradio today something that
A.O.C., you know Cortez,
is actually putting her child
in a charter school, becausethe schools aren't very good
and she's got to get in a better zip code.
So, I think she's moving to Westchester.
And Sanders is now a billionaire
because of the fees he's gettingfor the stuff he's doing.
And, you know, he's notany longer a poor man.
These are pretty rich guys
and he wants to soak it to everybody.
It'll destroy us.
Wow!
Okay, well you heard it.
I wanted to tell you what the cost was.
60 trillion dollars over 10 years.
- Have your eyes be opened.
- Please, open them, okay.
