From there. Thatll be a day of celebration. We just want to do it right. So we picked the end of april, the last day, april 30th, as the day where we can seeogress. And we expect to see that. Harris meanwhile, the cdc has issued a travel advisory urging people in new york, new jersey, and connecticut to refrain from nonessential Domestic Travel for 14 days after President Trump had considered a quarantine. This, as Task Force Officials born even if the United States takes the right action, covid19 and its death toll could still spike. I would not be surprised. I dont want to see it. I would like to avoid it. But i wouldnt be surprised if we saw 100,000 dead. We put them into a model. We look at the italy data, selfisolation, and thats where we come up with, if we do things together well, almost perfectly, we could get in the range of 100000200000 fatalities. We dont even want to see that. Harris wow, those are huge numbers they are talking about. All modeling, of course, based on what weve seen. Fox news chief political anchor bret baier, also anchor an executive editor of special report, alongside me now. Good to see you. Bret hey, harris. Harris just a couple housekeeping notes. People can see after the right at the bottom of their screen that we are awaiting the governor of new york, cuomo, to speak. This is the first time, bret, we will have heard from him since the usns comfort showed up in the new york harbor here to help. That will be of interest. Also a popup surge hospital in a couple of locations, the citys Largest Convention center, javits, and central park. As soon as he gets started, we will go down live. Meanwhile, the big news with the president talking about april 30th. Bret yeah, harris, this is significant. This is the president taking the advice of tony fauci and deborah birx. Advice that obviously is startling when you look at the numbers and you hear that sound bite from dr. Deborah birx, saying if we as a country do everything perfectly the be 100. Those are massive numbers when you think of an average flu year. So this is significant. By all accounts, they went to the oval office, put the date dn the desk and said, this is the deal, what do you want to do cannot and the president said, i agree, extended to april 30th and that june 1st is the outlier. Lets hope. Harris you know its interesting, the president talks in the nation every day. Hills News Conferences, he takes a flurry of questions. On the president has indicated that he may throw an easter date, that he is flexible. His team getting that out. Kellyanne conway, bret, told me on this program that the president was even in discussions about a face 4 of stimulus. Keeping that flexibility. We talk about the American Public being resilient. How much do you think the kind of flow of conversation is helping at point . Bret listen, the president s briefings, the White House Task force briefings, a lot of people are critical about how he presents things and now he runs them. But their information every day. Out of that comes this guide framework. The experts, along with how he interprets it, provide at least a blueprint. Thats what cuomo does a new york as we are getting ready to see him do all the time. I think that, in some sense, is comforting the country. To sort of get the data in real time every day. But when you look at the economic data, harris, the Restaurant Industry has lost 25 billion since march 1st. Think about that. 50,000 Retail Stores have closed down. There is major pain here that eventually a month later is going to be exponential. Harris wow. You know, a New Washington post abc poll shows President Trump is now virtually tied with joe biden in the race for the white house, with the former Vice President at 49 . The president at 47 . Biden is brushing off the survey. Lets watch that. I think thats a typical american response. In every single crisis weve had that ive been around, going back to jimmy carter and the hostages, all the way through to this moment, the president s readings have always gone up in a crisis. Harris you know, bret, for this hour i have stayed away from politics. Its hard to ignore when you have someone in joe biden who is completely stalled. I mean, our whole primary process has been brought to a halt. I do want to spend just a little bit of time getting a reaction to what he just said. Bret listen, its tough at times for the former Vice President to break through. He has set up his studio in his house, trying to do several interviews. We have invited him on special report, hes welcome there. Hes done several interviews but is not the same as the governor of new york, for example, who holds this briefing we are about to see you nationally. Harris good point. Bret and the president every day at 5 30, 6 00. In the middle of the crisis, thats what people are looking at. Thats why you hear these whispers, is andrew cuomo going to run for president commit no, hes not in a position to be the nominee of the democratic party. But Vice President biden is trying to make a breakthrough. We should point out our own fox poll mag in the head the headtohead has him up eight points over donald trump. But the Approval Rating for donald trump on handling this has been really high. Harris at some point i had read 60 among just that category, of how the president is handling this. We just saw the numbers comparatively with joe biden. I think the word we are searching for here is relevancy. Its hard to be relevant if you arent running the country or youre not running a state right now. Ill give you the last word. Bret yeah, this is going to be a president ial election like weve never seen before. We dont know what its going to look like, harris. We dont know if there will be conventions. Maybe there will be virtual conventions. Who knows . But its going to be a different kind of campaign. Harris wow, how do you do that . Bret right, how can you do it . Zoom doesnt have that many options, i dont think. Harris [laughs] bret if you have this campaigning, somehow biden as to break through and he started to do it every day. Its tough in this environment. Its going to be fascinated by the time we get to the fall. Harris bret baier, good to see it. The best to you and your beautiful family, thank you. Bret you, too. Harris all right, we we are watching right now. No metro area will be spared, and the sooner we react and the sooner the states in the metro areas react and ensure that theyve put in full mitigation, at the same time understanding exactly what their hospitals need, then we will be able to move Forward Together and protect the most americans. Harris thats dr. Deborah birx, coordinator for the White House Coronavirus task force, with that warning. The hill is reporting we could be in a months, as the virus urges, with some hospitals expected to reach their Maximum Capacity this week. Models and projections show the month of april will be a Public Health catastrophe unlike anything in modern memory. Meanwhile, Health Officials are reacting wow erecting a Field Hospital in central park. I mentioned this, that we can see the video of it. They are converting major Convention Centers in manhattan and chicago to become temporary surge hospitals. Time now for the medical panel. Dr. Katie passaretti, medical director of Infection Prevention at atrium health. Dr. Manny alvarez, fox news contributor. Dr. William schaffner, professor of Preventive Medicine at vanderbilt medical center. Dr. Manny, i will come to you for us. Here on the east coast we are watching these things be erected here in new york. Pop up hospitals. What, in your estimation, is enough . Are we getting there . Dr. Alvarez well, we are certainly getting there. We are not quite there yet. If you look at any city around the hub of new york city, so come in northern Bergen County where i am, long island, places like that, all hospitals are at Maximum Capacity. We are at 100 capacity. For instance, in many places and i know this personally were even putting beds in the cafeteria. So the capacity is definitely overflowing, and it is important to put these tents and ambulatory hospitals and the ship here in new york because we need to get other patients away from the center of the epidemic, which is many times within the hospital. That is absolutely right. I also want to caution that there is some light at the end of the tunnel. That has to do with the testing. Therapies, it is a wait and see. There are new therapies coming on board. But i expect by the end of this week, or maybe early next week, youre going to see the fast testing, that testing that tells you whether you have coronavirus within ten or 15 minutes. Youre going to have the antibody testing. And thats going to change dramatically how patients are treated in the hospital, seen in the hospital, triaged in the hospital. Its going to improve the throughput we just dont i desperately need. This is one of the most important tools. Working with vaccines, thats coming up fast. But i think the Rapid Testing we are going to see at the end, hopefully the beginning of next week, it is going be one of the things that revolutionizes the whole thing. Harris wow. That light at the end of the tunnel, that Silver Lining in this journey, is so important psychologically for people, doctor. I appreciate that. I know you treat the whole patient top to bottom. Dr. Katie passaretti, i want to come to you on what we are doing here on the east coast and how important it is for the rest of the country. I was just reading here that louisiana has been taking some drastic steps to increase its Health Campus capacity and prepare for a surge even there. 1,120 beds in the New Orleans Convention Center something they are looking to do. Dr. Passaretti yeah, absolutely. I think across the country many areas are seeing, maybe at different times, starting to see an increased number of cases. But all areas probably need to be prepared for a surge of patients. That means putting more patients in nontraditional areas that are existing structures, and looking additionally at external sites. It also means working together as a community. So, not working individual health care buckets, but working with other Hospital Systems in the area. County health departments. It requires that level of Community Response to coordinate. Harris all right. Dr. Schaffner, i will come to you with a viewer question right now that is right up dominic up your alley is the reason new york city has a high rate of infection due to the volume of Apartment Living . And the virus travel within heating and cooling systems . Dr. Schaffner . Dr. Schaffner i dont think we have to worry about that, heating and cooling systems. This is the congestion of people, the closeness of people. This is a virus that is transmitted very readily, close contact, prolonged contact, in enclosed spaces. That describes new york. Its a very congested place. Even the transport in and out of new york city is very congested. That is an ideal environment for this virus to be transmitted. Harris you know, i want to cook follow up with you, dr. Schaffner. I dont know many very places in new york, including now, central park, where they are putting up a popup Surge Capacity capacity with tents. This is how people in these intensely populated areas, live. New york, new jersey, philadelphia and pennsylvania, youve got these urban centers. Dallas, texas, is one that they are looking at now. New orleans, ive mentioned. Anywhere where you have a crush of people. I know here we live very vertically on the east coast, but that social distancing, it doesnt seem everybody is getting the message about that. I hear urgency in your voice, dr. Schaffner. Dr. Schaffner well, there is clearly urgency. And im a little bit surprised that people are not getting the word about social distancing. I know its very real here in nashville. We are under a mayors order. But i was talking to someone in a Rural Community in tennessee, just this weekend, and they were telling me that in that small town the restaurants are closed, the streets are empty, people are taking this very seriously. If there are places in the United States that folks are not yet taking it seriously, we havent really gotten the word. It is past time they do so. Its important for them, but its important for us. For all of us. This social distancing is whats going to slow down the transmission of this virus. Harris and we are already starting to see it, just in the number of cases, leveling off a little bit. New cases over the last week or so here in new york city. Dr. Passaretti, you said it, we are one big community. Tom t has a question. This one, we can watch. Ive been reading a lot about the concept of herd immunity. Do you believe that as a viable approach to tackling this virus . If so, how is what we are doing now contributing to that effort . And how can we strike a balance, if you believe its a good tactic, of protecting us now from getting sick and eventually achieving that concept of herd immunity . Harris we think tom t for his question. Dr. Passaretti, your thoughts . Dr. Passaretti yeah, so, herd immunity is really important in particular we have a vaccine. You want to vaccinate as many people as possible to stop that train of transmission. I do worry a little bit as im hearing about these purposeful infection movements, parties and whatnot, the thought being that by infecting some of the population it can provide some immunity down the road. That is true, but this can cause significant morbidity and mortality. So there is significant risk that goes along with purposefully infecting anyone. I would encourage the herd immunity concept to be more applicable once we get a vaccine for this virus. Harris oh, thats interesting. You know why thats interesting to me . Because i know tom was asking well, weve got to scoot. Breaking news. Governor cuomo of new york, this is the first time we will have heard from him since the usns comfort pulled into new york harbor to relieve, by treating noncoronavirus cases, to relieve, if they can, the stress on hospital e. R. S and doctors, nurses, medical teams, physician assistants, so on and so forth. All right, dr. Passaretti, we saw them. We will go back. I want to come back to you now. With interesting about what you are saying about herd immunity, tom t was asking when we get to that point. How many millions of people in the u. S. Would have to get it before we start to have some herd immunity . Dr. Passaretti yeah, so come herd immunity varies by what percent of population you need infected to prevent further transmission. A very little bit from virus to various prayed for measles, for example, you need, like, 90 or 95 of the population to be vaccinated to prevent that spread. This virus, we are still learning about the transmission character sick, but it would require a significant proportion of the population to be infected to prevent that transmission from person from persontoperson. But i kind of putting someone who is immune in that transmission cycle. Harris thank you so much. We are going to break away now. Javits center in new york, a current surge hospital. The governor andrew cuomo. Lets watch. This is something i dont think anyone could ever anticipate. 2500 beds, its a partnership between the state and federal government. I want to thank the federal government very much for what theyve done. The army corps of engineers did a fantastic job moving in here and getting everything set up as quickly as possible. Itll become operational today, receiving the first few patients. We will from the facility and take it from there. Let me give you facts to give an update on where we are today, and we will take your questions. You see the curve continues to go up, 7195. He said the number of people tested continues to go up, the state is testing more people than any state in the United States. More per capita than china or south korea. That is a good thing. We want to test, we want to find the positives. And we want to find the positives so we can isolate and stop the transmission. We tested 14,000 people yesterday. The number of cases continues to go up, 6984, total number of cases, 66,000 cases. Those numbers are daunting, to be sure. You see it is continuing to move across the state of new york. There is only one county now that does not have a covid case. Anyone who says this situation is in new york city only is in a state of denial. You see this virus move across the state, across nation. There is no american who is immune to this virus. I dont care if you live in kansas, i dont care if you live in texas. There is no american that is immune. What is happening to new york is not an anomaly. Theres nothing about a new yorkers immune system that is any different than any other americans immune system. In many ways, new york is just a canary in the coal mine. What you see us going through here, you will see happening all across this country. Part of what we are doing here is not only serving new yorkers, but we believe we are dealing with this pandemic at a level of intensity and density that no one has seen before. And hopefully we will learn lessons here that we can then share with people across this nation. Terms of the overall numbers, 66,000 infected positive, and 90,000 people are currently hospitalized. 2,000 icu patients. 4,000 patients are discharged. That is an increase of 632. You dont often focus on this line when we have these conversations, but people go into the hospital and people leave the hospital. And thats important to remember. We have dealt with some really deadly viruses before. We dealt with the ebola virus. That is not what this is. Most people will get sick, most people will get sick and stay home and have some symptoms. Thats 80 . About 20 will get sick and need hospitalization, they will feel better, and they leave. It tends to be those people who are acutely ill, have an underlying illness, who have th. New jersey is next with 13,000. California has 6,000. So we have ten times the problem that california is dealing with. 2,739 deaths in the state of new york. A total of 148,000 cases. 2,739 deaths. Thats a lot of loss, a lot of pain, a lot of tears, a lot of grief. That people all across the state are feeling. 1200, up from 965 deaths. Yesterday, what youre seeing is people who have been ventilated, been on ventilators for a long period of time. The longer you are on a ventilator, the less likely you will ever come off the ventilator. As we have now some period of time when people first entered the hospital, and were first intubated, we are seeing that number go up as the length of time on the ventilator increases. To keep it in perspective, the Johns Hopkins numbers are still instructive. Even studying this since china. So, 732 deaths, 34,000 worldwi worldwide. Total hospitalized, we are still looking for a pattern on these cases that are coming in. We are still looking for a pattern in the data. The number goes up, the number goes down. There is no doubt that the number is still increasing. Theres also no doubt that the rate has slowed. We had a doubling of cases every two days, then a doubling every three days, and a doubling every four days and every five. We now have a doubling of cases every six days. While the overall number is going up, the rate of doubling is actually down. The daily intubation rate is way up. Again, sometimes its just an anomaly. There is no clear pattern, as you can see from those past several nights. Discharge rate, again, that by and large is going up. People come into the hospital, they stay for a period of time, a number of days, and then they move on. But the big picture is this situation is painfully clear now. There is no question what we are dealing with. There is no question as to the consequences. There is no question as to the grief and loss of life. And there is no question about what we must do. There are only two missions. There are only two operations that we need to perform. First, the public has to be responsible. Stay at home. When i issued the stayathome order, it wasnt it would be nice if you did. It is a mandate. The stay at home. If your nonessential worker, stay at home. If you leave the house, you are exposing yourself to danger. If you leave the house, you are exposing others to danger. You can get infected, go home, and in fact whoever is at home. So stay at home. I know the isolation can be boring, and oppressive. It is better than the alternative. Lifes options, right . Stayathome. That is the best option. If you are out, no proximity. 6 feet distancing. You dont want proximity to other people, and he want to stay away from places that arese too many places with too much density. I dont know how many different ways to make the same point. New york city parks, theres too much density, you want to go to the park, go to the park. But not in a dense area. Not in playgrounds where you are playing basketball with other people. I have said that new york city is trying to reduce the density in those playgrounds. Thus far, they have not been successful. If that continues, well take a mandatory action to close down playgrounds, as harsh as that sounds. But it can actually save peoples lives. So thats mission one. Mission two and this is going to be more and more clear as we go on the frontline battle is in the Health Care System. The frontline battle is going to be hospitals across the city, across the state, and across this nation. That is where this battle is fought. Its that simple. Coming. You know exactly where the enemy is going to attack. They are going to infect a large number of people, that number of people to send on the Health Care System, the Health Care System cant deal with that number of people, you overwhelm the Health Care System. Thats whats happening. So, first step was flatten the curve, reduce the density, key people home. We done everything we can possibly do there. Second step is dont let the Hospital System get overwhelmed. The soldiers in this fight are our Health Care Professionals. Its the doctors, its the nurses, its the people who are working in the hospitals. Its the aides. They are the soldiers fighting this battle for us. The expression about troops, troops, in this battle, the troops are Health Care Professionals. Those are the troops who are fighting this battle for us. We need to recruit more health care workers. We need to Share Health Care professionals. Donnette, within this state, and within this country. As governor of new york, i am asking Health Care Professionals across the country, if you dont have a Health Care Crisis in your community, please come help us in new york now. We need relief. We need relief for nurses who are working 12hour shifts, one after the other after the other. We need relief for doctors. We need relief for attendance. So if you are not busy, come help us, please. And we will return the favor. New york, yes, we have now, intensely, there will be a cur curve. Then there will be an intense issue somewhere else in the nation. And the new york way is to be helpful. So thats today, but tomorrow its going to be somewhere else. They will work its way across the country. This is the time for us to help one another. We need supplies and we are working on that. We had a meeting where we discuss supplies, i want to think Michael Evans from alibaba who is here with us today. I want to thank Elizabeth Jennings from the Asian Society who is here with us today. They are helping us source supplies. Because we are in a situation where you have 50 states, all competing for supplies. The federal government is now also competing for supplies. Private hospitals are also competing for supplies. You have a situation where you literally have hundreds of entities looking to buy the same exact materials, basically from the same place, which is china, ironically enough. We are fighting amongst ourselves. We are competing amongst ourselves. We are driving the prices up. When we started buying ventilators, they were under 20,000. The ventilators are now over 50,000, if you can find them. The ventilators didnt change that much in two weeks. The prices went up, because, literally, we are driving the prices up. We need to give our frontline Health Care Professionals the supplies they need, and we need to do it now. Our rule here in new york has been plan forward, to get ahead of the problem. The old expression is, dont fight the last battle. This virus has been ahead of us from day one. We have been playing catchup from day one. You never win playing catchup. Get ahead of the problem. Dont fight todays fight, plan for two weeks, three weeks, four weeks from now when you are going to have the apex and make sure we are in the position to win the battle, when the battle is truly drawn, which is going to be at the apex. Thats why we are preparing stockpiles now. We are building a stockpile. The word stockpile, by definition, means not for immediate use. It means you are preparing for a battle to come. And you have to have the equipment, and you have to have it now. Ive done Disaster Work all across the nation. I can tell you this, if you wait to prepare for the storm to hit, it is too late, my friends. You have to prepare before the storm hits. And, in this case, the storm is when you hit that high point, when you hit that apex. How do you know when youre going to get there . You dont, there is no crystal ball. But there is science, and there is data, and there are Health Professionals who have studied this virus, and its progress since china. We now have months of data. Listen to the scientists. Listen to the Mental Health the Health Care Professionals, and follow the data. Thats what we are doing here in new york. We just had a great meeting where we brought the Health Care System from across the state of new york together to come up with one coordinated plan. Not private hospitals and Public Hospitals, not new york City Hospitals and long island hospitals and westchester hospitals and upstate hospitals. Not big hospitals and small hospitals. The entire Health Care System convened, coordinated, working as one, for the first time in decades. No one can ever remember the way we have deployed and coordinated like this. Why . Because this is a statewide battle. And we want to make sure that we are all coordinated and we are all working together. And thats exactly what weve accomplished at this meeting. No politics, no partisanship, no division. There is no time for that. Not in this state, not in this nation. This is a deadly serious situation and, frankly, its more important than politics. Its more important than partisanship. If there is division at this time, the virus will defeat us. If there was ever a moment for unity, this, my friends, is the moment. In this situation, there are no red states and there are no blue states, and there arend there ae casualties. Its red, white, and blue. This virus doesnt discriminate. It attacks everyone, and it attacks everywhere. The president said, this is a war. I agree with that. This is a war. Then lets act that way, and lets act that way now, and lets show a commonality and a mutuality and a unity that this country hasnt seen in decades. Because the lord knows, we need it. Today, more than ever before. Questions, comments . Reporter he suggested we might be going out the back door, we might not be. How do you respond to that directly in terms of the question is that the president suggested that ppe equipment may be going out the back door. First, there is a warehouse in edison, new jersey. Its the new york city warehouse. We are creating a stockpile for someone to say, well, the warehouse has equipment and that, you should be using that equipment today. That defies the basic concept of planning, and the basic operation that we have to have working not just in this state but across the country. If you are not preparing for the apex and for the high point, you are missing the entire point of the operation. It is a fundamental blunder to only prepare for today. Thats why, in some ways, we are where we are. Weve been behind this virus from day one. You have the scientists in the data projections showing you a curve. The curve goes like this, you are over here. Prepare for the high point of the curve, and do it now. What are you going to do it, the night before . What am i going to tell the hospitals when they call up and say, we just had an influx of 50 more people. We need more equipment and we need more ventilators. Sorry . The stockpile concept is to prepare for the future. In terms of a suggestion that the ppe equipment is not going to a correct place, i dont know what that means, i dont know what hes trying to say. If he wants to make an accusation, then let him make an accusation. But i dont know what hes trying to say by inference. Reporter [inaudible question] we just had a conversation about exactly that. In new york city, there are basically two systems. There is whats called the Greater New York hospital association, ken rathke represents it. Its basically the private voluntary hospitals. Mount sinai, columbia, et cete et cetera. Then there is the health and hospitals corporation, which is the Public Hospitals. You have those two systems. We just discussed that those two systems have to, in this situation, undertake a balancing that they probably have never had to do before. In other words, you have 11 Public Hospitals. One hospital starts to get overrun, there is a high load in one hospital. Before that happens, transfer people to one of the hospitals that has more vacancies and less load. Distribute the load among those Public Hospitals. And do it immediately, do it on a daily basis. One hospital starting to overload, distribute. Transferred. Same thing with the Greater New York hospital association. Then we can take it a step further. Once one system is near capacity, then the two systems will Work Together to share the load. We just discussed that and we all agreed to do it. There are no legal barriers. If a hospital lets stay with the public system. Because the public system, i think, is going to face the greatest stress. If a Public Hospital starts to get overloaded, transfer to another hospital with less of a load. I dont believe there are any restrictions. Ken, who is the expert on this, ive asked him to that fine question, we are going to work as one cohesive family system throughout new york. New york is beyond the city itself, its including the downstate area, both the island as well as westchester. I think what we are going to see is that balancing that the governor is talking about. Balance within the system, balance without the system, beyond it, as we go forward. As we encounter more and more stress. With each day that goes on, the stress points will increase. As a result, that balancing is absolutely essential. Because of the leadership of the governor, it is clear to everybody that we are going to be one cohesive family in tackling this. Reporter [inaudible question] yeah. Yeah, we just spent a couple of hours doing it, and its complicated. Let me give you the top line, if i might. Right now, basically, the Hospital System operates in separate systems. You have the Public Hospitals, the Greater New York hospitals, westchester hospitals, long island hospitals, and upstate hospitals. And they have their own trade associations and public of public, the privates of the privates. We said we have to work as one system. Share staff, share resources. If one hospital doesnt have enough masks, rather than that hospital having to scramble, let the other hospitals help. More mutual kens word is a good one a health care family, as opposed to these distinct operations. We work that through. To add on top of the state system, you then have now javits, this facility, 2500 be beds, and the comfort shipped the president sent. 1,000 beds. These 2500 beds at javits and the 100 beds on the comfort asked them to make the facilities covid facilities, ja. Which means their function will be basically an overflow valve for existing hospitals. They cant take covid patients, but they can take noncovid patients. When we talk about a hospital getting near capacity, they could then download, if you will, to javits and the comfort. Reporter [inaudible question] yeah. How many years have you known me . The question is, am i unwilling to tangle with the president . How many years would you say youve known me . All right, 20 years . Have you ever known a time in the 20 years that i am unwilling to tangle . Im a tangler. Look, with the president said first, i think the president , because i take his comment of the compliment. He said people were pleased with my leadership. I thank him for that. That was a compliment. As far as the president s comment about having a political contest with me, i am not engaging the president in politics. My only goal is to engage the president in partnership. This is no time for politics. Lead by example. Im not going to get into a political dispute with the president. Im not going to rise to the bait of a political challenge. Im not running for president , i was never running for president. I said from day one i wasnt running for president. Im not running for president no. Im not playing politics. I just the president quite early, look, when you goot good things dogood things from a state, your good partner, i will say youre a good partner. And i have. I went to the ship, comfort, today. I said, thank you, mr. President. We opened up the javits center, i said thank you to the army. They did a good job here, the army corps of engineers. When you do a good job for my state, i say thank you. When i believe new york is not being served, the federal legislation that they passed, i will say that, too. Sometimes its simple. Just tell the truth, right . And thats where we are. Tell the truth. If youre doing the right thing by new york, i will say it. If hes doing the wrong thing by new york where the rest of the country, ill say it. But im not going to engage in politics. Not that im unwilling to tangle, but because i think its inappropriate and i think its counterproductive. And i think its antiamerican. Forget the p we are at war. There is no politics. There is no red and be. Its red, white, and blue. So lets get over it. Again, lead by example. Reporter [inaudible question] well, we have said that no one can get evicted for nonpayment of rent. That, to me, is the fundamental answer. That solves of the above. You cant pay the rent, a lot of people cant pay the rent. They are not working, theres no income. I cant pay the rent. The landlord technically legal he had a right to say, okay, youre evicted. I said, by executive order, there can be no evictions, period. If you pay the security deposit, you dont pay the security deposit, part of the rent, none of the rent, you cant be evicted for three months, period. If they want to pay, they can pay. Yeah. Reporter [inaudible] again, i think our policy answers it. You cannot be evicted for nonpayment of rent. Its not that you wont owe rent at one time, right . Because you signed a contract. Even the people to whom you pay the rent have to pay the rent, they have expenses. So, no evictions for nonpayment of rent. And we will see where we are and how long this goes on. Yes, sir . Reporter [inaudible] yeah. Well, we spoke about that today. Elmhurst hospital is in new york city, its a new york city Public Hospital. We talked about the health and hospitals corporation. Its one of the new york city Public Hospitals. It is struggling. Thats clear to everyone. And we spoke about it directly in this meeting. And ive asked other hospitals to pitch in and help elmhurst, and theyve agreed. And to also anticipate other Public Hospitals that may struggle as the numbers continue to increase, and be ready to help them, also. Reporter [inaudible] 100,000 to 200,000. Thats the estimated death toll. We dont have projections in this state as to numbers of deaths. We are studying models. Which, by the way, are done by very professional companies. I dont come up with these models. We have the bill gates foundation, they have an institute that has projections. We are studying to see how we best deploy to make sure we are ready for the next battle. To make sure we are ready for the apex. Is it 100,000, is it 200,000 . Look, does it whatever the number is, its going to be staggering. The number is already staggeri staggering. A human life is a human life. Weve lost over 1,000 new yorkers. To me, we are beyond staggering already. Weve reached staggering. The only point now is to do everything you can to save every life possible. Thats what this is all about. Reporter [inaudible] yeah. Right now this is my opinion a hospital is basically an isolated entity, right . One hospital has its own employees, has its own logo, has its own finances, does its own purchasing, has its staff. You can have associations of hospitals, and then you have the public new york City Hospitals, which are one system but still individual hospitals. That doesnt work in this environment. It just doesnt work. No one hospital has the resources to handle this. No one hospital can do its own procurement. No one hospital has its own staff. No one hospital can deal with the capacity. There has to be a totally different operating paradigm where all those different hospitals operate as one system. Can call brother ken at the other hospital and say, im out of masks, can you send me some masks . When i refill, ill send them back. We have to get to a point when i can say, i have too many people walking in the door. I can handle it. And we are going to set a load threshold, so that when you get near that load threshold, you can send people to other hospitals that have a lower vacancy rate. Purchased together, use staff together, download patients together, balance the load, and do it all across the state. We have hospitals in upstate new york that are experiencing none of this. Where they have staff capacity. They have bed capacity. We need you now this fight, and engaged. Thats a totally different concept, but thats what we did today. Thank you, governor. To the question, what we are going to do is work very cohesively with the state government, the department of health particularly, in putting together a command center that will receive all this information on an instantaneous basis and then begin feeding out that information and instructions as to what to do. For example, just simply in discharging patients to this facility, this huge facility that has been built by our colleagues here, this will create a way of decanting the pressure on our institutions. And that information will go to a central place, and transfers will be made, and that is part of this cohesiveness we are talking about. The same thing applies to supplies, ventilators, and all the other stuff that goes into making a hospital work. This is going to be done, and we are now in the process of pulling it off on a complete basis. Reporter [inaudible] tomorrow. Yeah, its in the works. We will do central purchasing, central stockpile, rather than everyone have their own stockpile. And then distribute by need. We will take one more. In the back. Reporter [inaudible] the doctors are exactly right. The message is god bless you, and thank you. We all applaud you. We are in awe of you. We are all inspired by you. We all wonder, secretly, would we have the courage to really step up at a time of challenge . And they are doing it. And they are doing it every day. We are all in their debt, we respect them and we love them for what they are doing. And they should have every piece of equipment that they need to do their job. That is the least that we can do. And we are all doing everything we can to make that a reality. Thank you guys, lets go to wo work. Harris and, with the outcome of the governor of new york giving some update points. Hes going to go back to work. Has big messages have to do with the falling rate, if you will, of new cases in new york. I just want to draw your attention, back on march 14th, there were 24 and a half new cases, every 24hour day. We peaked, it looked like, back on the 20th of march with 74 jump. The 19th and the 20th, middle of march. And now that rate he was talking about, every six days it has come down, and a half, a half, a half. Now every six days it doubles. And the rate was at 13. 8, in a 24hour period. A lot of numbers there. The bottom line is there seems to be something that is working and some good news. Lets get back to the medical panel. Doctors katie passaretti, manny alvarez, william schaffner. Dr. Manny, what is working . I want to get back to this now. This is where our conversation started a little while ago. Do these numbers and press . Dr. Alvarez well, they do impress me a little bit. From the press conference, look, i give a lot of credit to the governor of new york. I think hes doing a terrific job. One thing i kind of criticize a little bit, now we are beginning to realize we were focusing on masks and respirators and all that, which is incredibly important, equipment for the health care worker, but we have fallen a little bit behind on is the manpower. Now the manpower is affecting nurses, the number of nurses, the number of doctors, and then you hear this outcry by the governor, if you are a Health Care Professional in another state and you have nothing to do at the present moment, please come to new york. How, what do we do, where do they report to . What are the mechanisms . There has to be clear picture. Just because somebody is a doctor and has a license in oklahoma doesnt mean they can come to new york in practice. So the functionality is very important. Harris excellent point. Yeah. Dr. Alvarez the second thing is, yes, it is important that we look positively at the numbers of new cases slowly coming down. But the social distancing, it has to do with the question we had earlier in the program. Whether people get the disease, are we going to be better off . No, we are not. This is a very Infectious Disease. Theres a lot of misinformation on the internet. If you look at the news, the stories coming out of scandinavia, where they are not separating people and they still have the restaurants open, that is a false narrative and its very dangerous because its going to create more infections and its going to continue to over on the hospitals. So, keep away, stay home, thats number one. That is your civic duty, and if you dont do that, thats criminal. Harris we gotcha. All right, there is a little bit of a delay. I apologize for that. Dr. Schaffner, i want to get into this idea that dr. Manny just brought up. You cant just jump ship and go someplace if your doctor in another area, to help. Dr. Manny was right about that. But im also curious to know, witch doctor in america has nothing to do . Like, everybody is dealing with something right now. Dr. Schaffner i think there are a lot of retired doctors who are still license, who might be able to work in Assessment Centers and help with the testing program. They dont necessarily have to go to the major hospitals and work in intensive care units. But they could do an awful lot of peripheral work. Screening patients, talking to patients, assuring them, educating them. So there are those kinds of tasks. Thats like bringing the medical students in a little bit early. They can perform those functions, also. Harris oh, thats interesting. Okay. Dr. Passaretti, do you have a thought on this . Dr. Passaretti yeah, i agree, retired populations, physicians that have taken other career paths, potentially and pharmaceutical industries and whatnot. There are other pockets of individuals not directly working in Clinical Care that could be pulled into the workforce to help support the surge in the coming days. Harris well, there is one thing for sure, every time we hear from one of these governors we learned a lot. And they all have News Conferences that are perched to happen over the next few hours. I shouldnt say all, but many of them that have become hot spots in the nation. We will check on those news briefings, because we do learn. Doctors, think you so very much. Good to have you on the program as always. Dr. Passaretti, dr. Schaffner, and dr. Manny alvarez. Thank you. And thanks to all of you for watching. Im harris. You the daily briefing. Dana new York Governor Andrew Cuomo wrapping a News Conference just a few moments ago. Cuomo is saying more than 1200 people in new york have died but the infection rate is slowing. Hes also warning folks outside of the area, no american is immune. Watch. Anyone who says this situation is a new york city situation only is in a state of denial. Dana that after President Trump adjusts his message, extending his restriction on social distancing through the end of april and as the countrys top Infectious Disease expert warns, millions of ameri