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Economy, yes. But whats on the other side of this scale is literally saving lives. Were going to do this and were going to do this together. We go out there today and we kick coronavirus ass. Thats what i say. And were going to save lives and new york is going to thank you. Our Shimon Prokupecz there in new york where the makeshift hospital set up. Look, weve been talking to you about this all week, shimon. So give us a look now that this has been set up. Reporter right. Finally, we have a look inside, brianna, the military, the construction workers have been inside, folks at the center here in new york, this is what theyve been doing and you can see theres a bed here, we have blankets. They even have a little plant here, a pot with some plants here. Heres a Hand Sanitizer. Theres a humidifier, lighting. Theres a thousand of these all across the hall here. Theres, of course, this is fema. They brought in the resources. The items that are needed as this location begins to take in patients. The other thing i wanted to show you. There was this orange bag that is displayed here behind us. Theres all kinds of medical supplies in this bag and you can see here, theres what doctors and nurses would need. Theres stethoscope, gauze pads, scissors, other materials. Theres protective gear in here. All sorts of sterilizers. A lot of this is stroewn along the line here in whats a makeshift hospital. The other thing inside these, some of these rooms, this is what theyre now designed to look like is some of the things to perhaps maybe make some of the patients who are going to come here feel better. Theres lip balm. Theres a honey lip balm that the japhet center, jacob javad center. Theres things to help them feel better as they come in. Theres Hand Sanitizer as well. All of this, obviously, is going to play a big role to try and relieve some of the stress that the hospitals we keep hearing about, the hospital in the city, the hospital in the state are going to start to feel, once they start accepting patients here. Its going to relieve some of the stress on the hospitals and theyre still building out. Theres still a lot more work being done here but theyre ready, being prepared here. The governor finished speaking here and continued the work and this should probably be up and running some time next week, brianna. I wanted to ask you about something, shimon. The president on twitter attacked Governor Cuomo, claimed thousands of federal government ventilators found in a new york Storage Facility and the state must distribute them now. You were talking to Governor Cuomo just a short time ago and you asked him about this. He essentially gave you a fact check. What did he say . Reporter he did. He said it was ignorant for the president to Say Something like that. The fact that there are these ventilators. Of course, theyre there. Theyre there so that they could be distributed when they are needed. Heres exactly what the governor said, brianna. That is incorrect and grossly uninformed. The point is, we have ventilators in a stockpile and we didnt send them to the hospitals yet. Of course, we didnt. Thats the whole point. The hospitals dont need them yet. The hospitals arent at the apex. The hospitals have enough ventilators today, but the numbers are going up. We are planning for an apex, a high point and by 21 days, thats when we need the 31,000 ventilators. Not today. Right now, we put them in a stockpile. So the point is, theyre in the stockpile, you must not need them is just ignorant. Of course you dont need them today. You need them when you hit the apex which is 30,000. Were not there yet. Reporter brianna, this is what the governor has been talking about so they have access to them to move around the state and new york city. Were hearing stories from hospitals saying theyre going to need more help, theyre feeling the burden of this virus, that there are too many people at some of these hospitals and they do anticipate things to get worse. And the governor is saying, we need these ventilators to move them around when the time comes. The governor says he still wants more ventilators. Hes hoping to get that. The apex, as you said, 21 days and theyre still working to make sure the hospitals have everything they need, protective gear and obviously, the ventilators, brianna. Brookdale University Medical center in brooklyn, down to the Single Digits in ventilators and here we are 21 days away. Stunning, shimon. Thank you so much for a look inside whats a Field Hospital inside a convention center. Thank you. President trump publicly pushes to reopen parts of the country, claiming some states are at a low risk, microsoft cofounder and philanthropist bill gates is warning against that, saying social distancing must be the countrys top goal nationwide until the number of cases goes down. So heres what he told Cnns Anderson Cooper and dr. Sanjay gupta last night. So were entering into a tough period that if we do it right, well only have to do it once for six to ten weeks, but it has to be the whole country. We have to raise the level of testing and the prioritization of that testing quite dramatically to make sure we go through one shutdown, so that we take the medical problem really stop it before theres a large number of deaths. We do then get an economic problem which is why you want to minimize the amount of time and having states go to Different Things and thinking you can do it county by county, that will not work. The cases will exponentially be growing anywhere you dont have a shutdown. An epidemiologist and Infectious Disease expert joins us now with elizabeth cohen, our cnn medical correspondent. Elizabeth, to you first. Cnn has learned that these plans to reopen states, theyre not yet finalized but walk us through what the president is proposing. Well, you know, hes being very vague in what hes proposing. Hes saying maybe divide the country into quadrants, go county by county. Being very vague about what hes thinking of. The general feeling is not Everyone Needs to shut down. The term county by county, the experts ive been talking to, that makes them really bristle. People go from county to county. Why would you shut down one county but not the adjoining county . People travel from county to county, they could easily spread it that way. That certainly seems too microscopic. Whether or not to do that on a larger scale, as mr. Gates said, if you shut down the whole country, you may actually get the economy up and going earlier because you can stop this thing now. But i think the underlying thing im hearing from people is this, brianna. They want to hear the president talk about science. They want to hear him say, according to the numbers were seeing, we should do x. According to the testing data, according to the number of hospitalizations, we should do this. And thats not what hes saying. It doesnt seem like hes making a data or sciencebased situation. Hes just making a decision, i want to get the economy going again, thats not databased. Thats not sciencebased. Because you have to know what the problem is before you can solve it. Its pretty basic, and dr. Mcgregor skinner. I wonder if when we hear bill gates say this, shutting down for so many weeks, do you agree with that . Whats happening at the neighborhood level, the community level, even the county level, brianna, weve created resilient zones that are trying to keep the virus out. We know the only way the virus moves across the country into different towns, different neighborhoods is by people movement, and we know its not everywhere. We use lots of maps. Right now, were reporting where people are showing any type of sickness and put dots on the maps and letting everyone know this is what you got or havent got patients. We try to create resilient zones to keep the virus out, not just focus on flattening the curve. But would you think of a shutdown, a nationwide shutdown for that long . Do you think thats totally reasonable . Right now, my focus is on training in hospitals. Ive been in a lot of hospitals in the last two weeks, where im focusing on provider safety. Front line Health Worker safety, and what im seeing though is that all the communities, all the neighbors are trying to protect the functionality of the hospitals. Again, shutdowns, thats not my area of expertise. I focus on hospital safety, but what im saying here is that as people are not going to work, they they come ascome together the amount of virus transmitted in their community. So let me ask you then, dr. Skinner about, if youre talking about protecting hospitals and were looking at them becoming overwhelmed, and theres going to be staffing issues, what do you want to see done when it comes to medical students who are supposed to be graduating soon, right . And what do you want to see in terms of folks being trained on how to use respirators because that may be something thats in shortage . It is, brianna, and we are training every day. Even during the outbreak now, again, i teach and train in disaster medicine. Ive done that for over 25 years. Even during the disaster, you still train people, and as you get volunteers, you get people within the Hospital System, as well as those retired, as well as new graduates coming from universities, we train them in the proper ways of safe ly putting ppe on and taking them off and other medical equipment usage. That training is going on every day in every hospital in the country. We do it facetoface. Large paper documents produced by the cdc, hhs and turn them into youtube videos so people cannen watch them in their own time and everyone learns by doing and instead of reading, learning by doing, and putting people in the thousands to fill in the needs necessary gaps on the front lines. Dr. Mcgregor skinner and elizabeth cohen, thank you so much. First Health Care Workers dying from coronavirus. Youll hear from the loved ones and a nurse thats currently on the front lines. Why she said shes terrified. 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Reporter there is, bree ya florida this y yana. One of two pressed into action to help us fight this coronavirus pandemic. You can see some of the military personnel who are aboard this ship. They are waiting to take people out of l. A. Hospitals to treat them so they can clear space in the city for the wave of coronavirus cases that we are expecting. Confirmed cases here in climbing. If this increased rate continues, in 16 days, well be where new york is today. Reporter the comfort expected to dock in new york city monday where the mayor believes more than half the citys population will catch this virus. Were going to seek to build another four temporary emergency hospitals. I want to have one in every borough. Reporter more than 500 now dead in new york state. Among them, a nurse at mt. Sinai and nypd custodian. 442 nypd uniform personnel have tested positive. 11 of the entire force now out sick. The governor says the rate of increase now falling peak infection, three weeks away. We hope next week, new york will start to come down. Reporter detroit now among the nations emerging hot spots. We think were still on the aggressive up slope and we still have several weeks to go as far as when we hit that peak. Reporter more than 500 new confirmed cases in michigan in just 24 hours, do Health Workers there have what they need to stay safe . Absolutely not. Now got doctors and nurses on the front lines that are using one mask for their entire shift. Reporter one detroit hospital said the system is preparing for possible life and death decisions ahead. A letter ready to send to patients and families reads in part, because of shortages, we will need to be careful with resources. Patients who have the best chance of Getting Better are our first priority. The Company Spokesperson telling this letter part of a larger policy development for absolute worst case scenario. Not an active policy. Every Major Hospital system in new york and detroit and chicago and seattle are having exactly these same conversations internally. Reporter over in britain, a bombshell from Boris Johnson, Prime Minister. Ive taken a test. That has come out positive, so i am working from home. No doubt i can continue thanks to the wizardry of modern technology to continue with all my top team. Reporter hours later, his Health Secretary amounnounced h also tested positive. Fortunately for me, the symptoms have been very mild, so ive been able to carry on with the work. Here in the u. S. , the president still talking about opening up at least parts of the country for easter. I think the president was trying to do was making an aspirational projection to give people some hope, but hes listening to us when we say we really got to reevaluate it in realtime and any decision we make has to be based on the data. Reporter weve just had some terrible news from another ship. The sandana cruise ship hoping to head to florida and now told four older guests aboard the ship have died. No cause of death given but 138 people on that ship are reporting flulike symptoms and two people aboard have already tested positive for this coronavirus. Back to you. All right, nick watt, thank you so much for that report from los angeles. That is certainly bad news indeed. Right now, i want to bring in a guest, shauna pavel, home nurse in the cleveland area and yesterday, shauna, the company you worked for received first coronavirus patient who was being discharged from the hospital and needed some home care. Shauna, thank you so much for being with us and just explain what do you do in a situation like that where youre caring for someone with coronavirus and you have concerns that they may be either undiagnosed or they may still be contagious as they recover . Thank you for this opportunity. So home care is so incredibly important, especially right now. We are providing a number of services in the home that not only keeps people out of the hospital, but also its helping create space for the hospital as they prepare for this big wave of covid19 patients. In the home, what were trying to try and protect not only the home care workers, but the patients we see as well is were trying to conserve the ppes we do have and coming up with new policies to try to do the most safe practice that we possibly can. And so how many masks would you have on a day to use . Currently, with all of our patients regardless, we use one surgical mask, the paper mask every day. Were reusing it. Those are obviously in short supply, and right now, only a few nurses that have been properly trained and tested are able to get a mask and they will be the ones to take care of the covid19 patients as they come home from the hospital. Okay, and so youre seeing multiple patients a day, right . So that is part of the issue is you have one mask. Some of your patients are really the most vulnerable here, including immunosuppressed patients. Whats your biggest concern as youre going about your work . So were not going to stop seeing our patients because of whats going on. We have a job. We have a duty. Were going to continue to do it. The scary thing is how can we prevent exposure and transmission to all of our patients while also trying to conserve the ppes we have . We really cant do both. So you have to make a choice, right . So then what do you do . So were being creative. I work with some of the most amazing nurses who are creating their own masks with air filters and Household Items to keep themselves safe. We are working together coming up with new ideas and the company very open with their communication and keep everybody safe. Our main priority and with taking care of these patients. You and your colleagues, shauna, and home care nurses are doing gods work across the country and trying to keep the hospitals from becoming clogged with other patients as well. Thank you so much for what youre doing and lets just keep an open line of communication because we want to know what youre going through and what you need. Absolutely. Absolutely. Shauna, good luck to you and your colleagues. Some schools in china start to reopen as china recovers from its coronavirus outbreak. The fear here is still palpable in europe and in the u. S. As well. Well be checking in with our cnn reporters all around the globe next. Every day, i see some staff member, nurses or residents who are crying out of stress, so theres a lot of anxiety in the air. Crisis comes to every presidency. We dont blame them for that. What matters is how they handle it. 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May not seem like a lot but thats a 23 increase. The federal government has shuttered its own nonessential offices, nonessential businesses and schools, and yet still a lot of people out on the street and some are still getting misinformation. It was on wednesday that the governor of the state of puebla in mexico told reporters that poor people cant get this virus despite that basis having not i scientific fact. Reporter xi jinping talking overnight and acknowledging need for cooperation. President xi extending an offer of support to the u. S. , which now has more confirmed cases than china. After the call, President Trump tweeting that china has been through much and has developed a strong understanding of the virus. Worth noting, he called it the coronavirus, moving away from controversial use of chinese virus. China said president xi emphasized on the call that conflict will only hurt both countries. State media here reporting that china is also providing medical supplies to the United States. Reporter im Nic Robertson in london where both the Prime Minister and the secretary of state have both tested positive for coronavirus, both men say they have mild symptoms. The Prime Minister said that he had a temperature and a persistent cough. Both men are now selfisolating for seven days. Both men say theyll continue to work. The Prime Minister said he can continue to lead the country through this pandemic using video links. Staff inside number 10 downy street said they can knock on the door, leave whatever they need outside the door. Thats how theyre told to continue to work. No one else, we understand, is being put into isolation at this time. The advice for staff inside number ten if they show symptoms, then to selfisolate. Thank you so much to all of my colleagues around the world for that reporting, and lets talk now with dr. Lena nguyen. Former Baltimore City Health Commissioner and doctor, first, what do you think about this . We see the british Prime Minister Boris Johnson testing positive for coronavirus. No one is immune here. Thats exactly right. No one is immune. We are all potentially at risk and i think its a reminder to all of us to take coronavirus extremely seriously and i wish Prime Minister johnson the best. I think hes also in announcing he has covid19, also giving a model for everyone else about what to do about the importance of selfisolation and also, about talking openly about his diagnosis. So tell us what youre seeing. Youre an e. R. Physician. What youre seeing in baltimore and what you are watching in new york that you think is coming your way. Well, were seeing the scenes from new york and we know that whats happening in new york is probably, almost certainly going to happen in many other parts in our country, and it just is untenable. And really, unimaginable. I mean, i could not have imagined two months ago the idea of Health Care Workers going to work and not having personal protective equipment. Making their own masks and trying to find gowns online. I also could not have imagined the situation in this country where doctors and nurses would be forced to think about rationing resources of having one ventilator and three or four patients who may need the ventilator in order to survive. Our Health Care Capacity and system is stretched already, and were seeing what happens in new york when its stretched beyond that capacity. We know that other places are soon to follow and the key is now, how can we get everybody else prepared in time so that were not, we dont keep on being behind because thats whats been going on in our response so far. We are always weeks behind where we should be, and now we know how to anticipate. We know whats going to come our way. Can we get those supplies in time . The beds, the equipment, and the staffing, so that we can avoid a real Public Health ka cacatastr where tens of thousands of people die unnecessarily. You were actually more than 39 weeks pregnant, right . Due on tuesday, and someone close to me is due on monday. I am sure tons of people out there have someone close to them whos pregnant right now, and you are looking at giving birth on the upswing of this thing and i was wondering what your concerns are and what you would say to other people in the same position. Yeah, this is my second child. The first time, i had a lot of anxieties and a lot of nervousness about pregnancy and delivery but its very different now to be pregnant in the middle of a pandemic where things around you are changing so much. I mean, hospital guidelines are changing. It used to be in my hospital that we allowed the entire family to be present at birth. Now we allow just one visitor and they are hospitals in new york allowing no visitors at all, which i think a lot of us cant even imagine, the idea of being in labor and not having someone with us, but this is whats happening. I mean, health care is happening every single day. It doesnt stop in the middle of a pandemic and patients and physicians and nurses, Health Care Workers, everybody is making enormous sacrifices and in times of uncertainty that we have to embrace that uncertainty because it is what it is, but we also have to recognize our collective selflessness and the sacrifices everyone is making in order to get through this time and to add another note about social distancing, theres a lot of people who cannot avoid the Health Care System right now. Theres a lot of people who cant help but go out and go to work because they have to. So for those who can stay home, please do, because your selfless act is helping others to save lives too. Dr. Leana wen. Youre incredibly chill for being due to give birth on tuesday and important advice for people who cant avoid the Health Care System and those who can but really should. Thank you, dr. Wen. Thank you, brianna. A coronavirus testing site in new jersey that saw long lines this week will now be open exclusively to First Responders. Thats happening as we get disturbing news about members of the new york fire and police departments. Well take you there live. I need a ride. Here hold this. Follow that spud. [ tires screech ] the big idaho potato truck is touring america telling folks about idaho potatoes. And i want it back. What is it with you and that truck . Robinwithout the commission fees. So, you can start investing today wherever you are even hanging with your dog. So, what are you waiting for . Download now and get your first stock on us. Robinhood. Unlike ordinary wmemory supplementsr . Neuriva has clinically proven ingredients that fuel 5 indicators of brain performance. 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Papa johns. New jersey now has more than 8800 confirmed cases of coronavirus as the state continues to ramp up testing. Two staterun testing sites that have now been opened to the public since monday. They will now be open only to First Responders starting tomorrow. And cnns athena jones is at one of those local stations. Athena, tell us about this. Reporter hi, brianna. Were here at the pnc bank art center. Its a partnership between the States Health department and the new Jersey National guard and as you mentioned, this location has been open since 8 00 a. M. On monday and theyve been seeing a huge influx of people coming to get testing. The first couple of days of the week, im told they ran out of tests within 15 minutes, maybe 30 minutes. Today it has wrapped up. You can see the lanes set up behind me. The tents set up. When we got here, that was full of cars waiting to go through to get swabbed by the Health Care Workers wearing these protective gear, but today, it took a little while longer for them to reach capacity of 250 but bottom line, a lot of folks are coming. Today though, anyone who was a new jersey resident who has symptoms. Tomorrow, at this site, they will be testing Health Care Workers and First Responders only. Symptomatic Health Care Workers and First Responders and we know thats important because these are folks who are on the front lines dealing with patients. Theyre concerned about getting the illness themselves and spreading it further to their families or other people. Brianna . Athena, thank you so much. So important theyre doing this for First Responders. We see them hit so disproportionately. Detroit identified as one of the next hot spots as this virus sweeps across the country, but President Trump is attacking michigans governor for asking for a federal emergency declaration. Ill get reaction from an emergency room doctor whos currently on the front line in that state. Hey america, ive got something to say. Completing your 2020 census could mean smoother roads. Or more emergency rooms. Or more representation in our government. The census counts us all. And an accurate count helps inform where billions go every year. So, dont miss your chance to be counted. Were kind of depending on you here. Complete the census, online, by phone, or by mail. Shape your future. Start here at 2020census. Gov. Yes. Yes. Yeah sure. Yes. Yes. Yeah, yeah no problem. Yes yes, yes a thousand times yes disover. Accepted at 99 of places in the u. S. Resa place to celebrate,been yes,to take a first date, yes to grab a meal between soccer practice and piano. 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Ppe ventilators, n95 masks and test kits. You said you stand with michigan. Prove it. Shes getting some backup from local physicians. President trump, for you to blame anybody but yourself is expected, its predictable, but its just sad. Were out here on the front lines trying to take care of our patients, working hard with our governors in the states and all you can worry about is when youre going to get people back to work and back to church and trying to make yourself look good and all this instead of taking the leadership role youve needed to take for so long. Michigan has nearly 3,000 cases. The fifth most in the country. So far, 60 people have died there. Dr. Rob davidson is a michigan e. R. Doctor who responded to the president s attack. Joining us now and also the executive director of the committee to protect medicare. Welcome and tell us what made you decide to post a video. My e had texts and governors response and in this whole crisis as were treating patients and waiting for surges in various parts of the state and the country, you look for someone potentially to blame and certainly the virus is not our president s fault. But, like i said, he has needed to lead on this for so long. And his rhetoric early on that it was a hoax, that it was just like the flu or a cold or would be gone just like that, and now for him to be attacking governors and states that are being absolutely swamped and doing everything they can for the people in their state is just, like i said, it is just sad. I wish that he would step up. My committee of doctors, the committee to protect medicare across this country, weve called for a National Shelter in place. For him to fully enact the defense production act to get the equipment we need. And so far we have not seen that from the federal government. The four Hospital System there in michigan is acknowledging that it drafted this memo that came out which outlines end of life protocol at the facilities there. It is not an effect we should mention. But clearly the hospital is getting prepared to make serious life and death decisions. Are we headed to the point where there is going to be a rationing of medical equipment and treatment. I think the big answer is we dont know but weve seen it happen in italy. And we know that beaumont system in detroit area is nearing capacity of ventilators. If we dont have a an adequat number of supplies that will happen. Hospitals are having this communication and giving some directions to the doctors that have to make the decision because just contemplating that is gutwrenching for us that want to save lives that we might have to tell a struggling patient and a griefstricken family that for a lack of resource, the richest country in on earth, we just cant save their loved one. Its abobbinable. I think it is criminal that it isnt happening yet. Im sure youve had the tough discussion before where you have to give someone bad news. But i wonder if youve ever had to give someone bad news and say it was because you knew there was something that could save her life, perhaps, but you couldnt true it and didnt have the resources. Only one in my liefs afe whe volunteered in haiti at the earthquake. Something that is very distressing. I was there for a couple of weeks and it felt like a couple of years with that kind of conversations happening on a regular basis in my somewhat limited french that i could speak down there. So think that this could be happening where i live, in 2020 in the United States of america, again, if there is anything that can be done at the federal level, which we believe there is, with the defense production act and putting pressure on industry to get us this equipment, i think every stone needs to be turned over. 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What theyre being asked to do, take your mask home and put it in a ziploc bag, using the same mask for seven days and that is an average number that ive gotten. To the most recent communication i got and this is very, very disturbing was the idea that the hospital does not have any this particular hospital didnt have any more vents and this nurse was saying that now the hospital had to figure out what to do and the thought that they would just the quote and the text is that he thinks theyre just going to pull the plug on them and make to make room for new patients. And that thats inhumane. And in the back of my mind, which im trying not to think about, was is that what happened with keyous. And he was just 48 years old. Our heart goes out of course to his family and all of the families who have losted loved ones in the crisis. Our special coverage will continue now with jake tapper. Announcer this is cnn breaking news. Welcome to the lead, im jake tapper. Soon we expect President Trump to sign into law the 2 trillion stimulus package to try to help ease some of the economic pain of the coronavirus pandemic. But were going to begin the hour with the pandemic itself which continues to spread and accelerate across the United States. We started this month with one death in the United States. One. We began this week,