World Health Organization Declares Coronavirus A Pandemic | Andrea Mitchell | MSNBC

The World Health Organization on Wednesday said that the new coronavirus outbreak can be characterized as a pandemic, saying they were "deeply concerned both by the alarming levels of spread and severity, and by the alarming levels of inaction." An outbreak is considered a pandemic when a new disease spreads around the world, and most people do not have immunity to it, according to the WHO. Andrea Mitchell and Jeremy Bash discuss. Aired on 03/11/20.
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World Health Organization Declares Coronavirus A Pandemic | Andrea Mitchell | MSNBC

64 comments

  1. This is horrible. And yeah we had stupid people. Like rush limbaugh calling it a hoax. Anybody that believes in conspiracy theories. Is crazy.

    1. @Some Person Also, I don’t remember Daehole speaking to you at all you just popped on in there. Your probably some weird smelly dude.

    2. America First Lol If Corona virus doesn’t get you first! You may be able to see it! Or not! Lol

    3. America First if you make it till November to see it In Case he wins, because still the possibility that idiots like you survive the corona virus and vote for him lol!

  2. Why is everyone so afraid to call this a Pandemic, when it’s been a Pandemic for weeks or more??. God bless and keep us all.

    1. @Teardown Dan
      It is worse.
      The incubation period is at least 14 days. According to SARS experts from HK 28 days.
      According to German scientists, the virus is able to survive for 9 days without being hosted by an organism (therefore the sanitizer campaigns on Wuhans streets).
      This evening, German TV news confirmed once more that a negative test doesn`t prove that you are not infected.
      Already in China and Japan virologist outlined a failure rate of about 40%. The test is more reliable if the patient displays symptoms. It might depend on the virus load.
      Therefore, only people with symptoms are tested.
      Also people without symptoms are capable to infect others (e.g. kids).
      The testing is executed only to monitor the speed of spreading to prepare the healthcare infrastructure – trying to slow spreading down by cancelling events, gathering, social contacts.. .

    2. President Trump has been doing a tremendous job so far because of his amazing leadership.
      tinyurl.com/vmpdyw2

    3. @Sam I used 10 days because that is at the lower end of the range and a best-case scenario for detecting it “early” based on symptoms while test kits are still a rare commodity. Negative results have never meant much – can be too early in the incubation period to be detectable and doesn’t stop you from getting infected after-the-fact either.

    4. Update: As of Wednesday afternoon, at least 1,107 people in 41 states and Washington, D.C., have tested positive for coronavirus, according to a New York Times database, and at least 32 patients with the virus have died. 03/11/20.

    5. It’s nothing more than a flu British citizens say, but people are crazy it’s obvious it’s more than a flu but that’s the UK for ya

    1. Emily hey, I have a gut my toes just broke. Wait! What was that? My hand is crooked and needs to be snapped into place! Can someone get me a leg brace? Anyone? Where’s my mommy?!?!? Me goodnight. Bye

    2. I’m chilled too!! Just hanging out inside, stocked up a month ago. Got everything I need. Will be watching the chaos w popcorn…yay!!

    1. @Susan Green *”we cannot win this re-elec, uh, election. Uh, um, Excuse me. We cannot win this re-election. We can only re-elect donald trump” -joe biden*

    2. @Susan Green “i’m joe biden, and i’m running for senate of the united states. If you don’t like me, vote for the other biden” -joe biden

    3. @T4TEXASTOM JOHNNYCAT Because he is a pathological lying moron! Who only sees thing through the lens of how it affects his narcissistic disorder!! Hope that helps!!!

    4. @Janet Airlines As a Trump supporter you are actually quoting other people that get their words a little mixed up! Trump does it all the time! He he even does it in tweets!!!! Lol!

    5. @science wins

      😅You seem suicidal. Might wanna try calling one of those suicide-prevention numbers. If that doesn’t seem to help, you might ought to…….

      VOTE TRUMP!!!!👍😊
      GOTRUMP2020🇺🇸M.A.G.A. K.A.G.

    1. MEDICARE 4 ALL SURE LOOKING GOOD NOW YET AMERICA ?? !!!
      Bernie Sanders: The FDR-style politician the US needs.
      Joe Biden: The braindead candidate the US deserves.
      Hillary , Obama and the establishment media played you !
      IDIOTS !
      ❤️ Australia .Land of Medicare 4 All. and Free Higher education ❤️

    2. @Perro dehont pls don’t use that as a source, u can’t use the most biased channel against china as a source about china

    1. CDC botched the original test and took a month to finally get it right…. So much for big Government, should of just ordered them from China like everything else.

    2. Who reads his tweets? I’m a supporter and have never not once…. To wonder you idiots got TDS, get a life.

    3. ‘TDS’…
      ‘Trump’s Damnable Schemes’. 🤨
      Too bad *EVERYONE’S* onto him…case in point:
      *Every* state, *every* bank, *every* insurance company and *every* country that #45✳’s *LIED to* in his financial filings *ARE* now ‘comparing notes’…and *finding ‘discrepancies’.* 📑
      And *VERY soon* #45✳’s life becomes a *neverending nightmare* of litigations, losses… *and/or blackmail.* 💸

    1. MEDICARE 4 ALL SURE LOOKING GOOD NOW YET AMERICA ?? !!!
      Bernie Sanders: The FDR-style politician the US needs.
      Joe Biden: The braindead candidate the US deserves.
      Hillary , Obama and the establishment media played you !
      IDIOTS !
      ❤️ Australia .Land of Medicare 4 All. and Free Higher education ❤️

  3. *I thought it was all a democratic hoax!*

    The government is failing tremendously due to this moronic president. God help us

  4. No doubt trump’s “hunch” was another scheme like eradicating all testing – to lower the numbers to “almost zero.” This should become known in the lexicon as “to pull a trump.”

  5. Trumpers: “This is all a hoax to make Trump look bad and it doesn’t exist.”

    Later: family will members die after being diagnosed with the Coronavirus.

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