Resisting, florida, now weeks into this, imposing stay at home restrictions. And the scene in california. And the pleas for help from the front lines. We also have new reporting coming in. Abc news obtaining the orders given to public and private ems services in the new york city area. The paramedics answering these calls. And now an acknowledgement that neardeath patients may not be able to be saved while City Hospitals are overrun with coronavirus. What the guidelines now say for these crews on the front lines. Across the country tonight, the doctors who say even basic antibiotics are difficult to get. Another fearing he will have to deny ventilators to patients who need them. And the patients with preexisting conditions, compromised immune systems. What one cancer patient says she was told if a choice has to be made. Tonight, the cruise ship headed toward florida. Confirmed cases onboard. At least four are dead, including an american. Officials in florida saying they dont want the ship to dock there. The dire need onboard the u. S. Aircraft carrier. Cases now climbing to 93. And weve learned of new action tonight. The families, and the economic toll across this country. The first of the month, bills due. The laidoff workers on the line for days trying to get unemployment. And that question about stimulus checks. Do you need to apply or will they come automatically . We get answers tonight. And dr. Jen ashton with your questions. And tonight, the important headline for americans 60 and older. Good evening. Its great to have you with us this wednesday night. And tonight, the numbers tell the story of a growing crisis in the u. S. The president has said prepare for a very painful few weeks. Tonight, the Vice President making news as well with what he said just today. We all saw what played out in italy, its still playing out there. The Vice President saying the white house modeling suggests italy may be the most comparable area to the united states. Tonight, the numbers here. In just two weeks time, weve gone from 7,700 cases to more than 206,000. One month ago, there was one reported death from the virus in the u. S. Tonight, its 4,600. 45 states imposing stay at home restrictions. Florida, mississippi, georgia, imposing those just today. Here in new york city, video provided by mt. Sinai, queens. Patients lining the e. R. Hallways. The Field Hospital in central park up and running. We were there when the first coronavirus patient arrived. Many more to come. And Governor Andrew Cuomo saying the peak of it in new york wont likely come until the end of april. And that as many as 16,000 new yorkers could die. Just before we came on the air tonight, weve learned of the grim guidelines being given to First Responders in the new york city area. Well have that for you in a moment. And there are also the two cruise ships held off the coast of florida. Hundreds of sick passengers and crew onboard. Four have died, including an american. Authorities dont want them to dock in florida. Temporary hospitals going up in detroit, mississippi, dallas, parts of california tonight. And as we do every night, well get to it all and carefully. The president saying difficult days are ahead. A few days from now will be horrific. We begin with whit johnson tonight. Reporter tonight, a doctor taking us inside new yorks mt. Sinai queens hospital, now pushed to the brink. This is our e. D. You can see all the rooms are filled. Usually these halls are very neat and empty. And now you can see theres patients everywhere because of this. Makes it very hard to work and were trying our best to treat everyone that we can. Reporter many of the patients immediately put on oxygen. All these patients here sitting out in the hallways because we are full. Reporter Health Care Workers on the front lines, making painful sacrifices. I said goodbye to my wife and to my daughter for who knows how long. Its going to be several weeks probably before i see them in person again. Everyone in the hospital is working overtime. It takes a toll because youre both physically and mentally exhausted. Reporter and tonight, news on dr. Colleen smith, who shared these images from one of the first hardhit e. R. S in queens. All of the patients here have covid. Reporter now confirming shes tested positive herself for covid19. Hospitals so overwhelmed, iconic public spaces, now used to treat patients. This is really an extraordinary moment. You can see that ambulance pulling up. Were told this is the very first patient with covid19 to be transported and treated in this Field Hospital in the middle of central park. This facility has 68 beds. Medical teams and volunteers from samaritans purse stepping up to meet the need. Some will be transferring who are already ventilated so we will then transfer to our ventilators to take care of them. Reporter the death toll in new york state, close to 2,000, surging by nearly 400 overnight. One projection showing 16,000 new yorkers could die. And tonight, word of a 6weekold baby passing away from complications of the virus in connecticut. What were looking at now is the apex, the top of the curve, roughly at the end of april, which means another month of this. Reporter the governor shutting down playgrounds, calling on the nypd to enforce the rules. How reckless and irresponsible and selfish for people not to do it on their own. What else do you have to know . What else do you have to hear . Reporter the White House Coronavirus task force with that grim projection, that even if americans follow the restrictions, 100,000 to 240,000 people could die in the u. S. As i said yesterday, difficult days are ahead for our nation. Were going to have a couple of weeks starting pretty much now but especially a few days from now that are going to be horrific. Reporter at least 45 states now with stay at home orders. But tonight, growing pressure on the rest. In florida, the governor reversing course, now issuing a statewide stay at home order for its 21 million residents. The governor abandoning his county by county approach after consulting with the white house. Im gonna be doing an executive order today directing all floridians to limit movements and personal interactions outside the home. Reporter in louisiana, a jump in cases. Nearly a third of hospitalized patients are on ventilators. Those numbers are staggering. And it looks like theres no end in sight. If these numbers continue, we will be maxed out at hospitals and ventilators by the end of the weekend. Reporter just last night congregants flocking to this church, defying bans on social gatherings. But the Vice President today telling our byron pitts he had a message for the faithful. We really believe this is a time when people should avoid gatherings of more than ten people. And so we continue to urge churches around america to heed to that. Reporter across the country, Field Hospitals going up from massachusetts to illinois, where and in seattle, this exhibition hall soon to be a 250bed hospital complete with two operating rooms. Tonight, the mounting loss of life is taking its toll. 34yearold scott blanks from whittier, california, who was initially sent home from the hospital, only to return days later with pneumonia. A ventilator unable to save him. He never had any complications or never was hospitalized. Nothing. Its kind of unreal right now because we werent even allowed to go see him. Just awful. Whit is back with us live from new york tonight. I wanted to get back to the new guidelines for First Responders in the new york area. They have new orders about how to handle cardiac patients. It would seem its a tacit acknowledgment that some neardeath patients wont be able to be saved . The hospitals in the city already overrun with coronavirus patients. Reporter the new orders obtained by abc news outline specific guidelines on how to respond to cardiac emergencies. Telling ems crews if they cant get a pulse on their own, they should not take that patient to the hospital. These orders also reflect concerns about cpr itself spreading coronavirus. A sign of just how thin stretched the Emergency Rooms are. David . Very difficult decisions in days ahead. Whit, thank you. We stay on the need for ventilators tonight. Doctors fearing they will have to make choices. Americans with preexisting conditions, they have concerns. What one cancer patient told us she was told. Heres matt gutman from california. Reporter tonight, with fatalities spiking over 25 in just a single day nationwide, Health Workers on the front lines making grim life and death decisions. Basic anti biotics are hard to get. Even day to day medications are becoming more short as we use them more and more often. Reporter its the basic tools of the trade of medicinew . York state, they predict needing 25,000 more ventilators. Akshay ganju is an e. R. Doctor in westchester. Im nervous about one day needing to look a daughter in the eye and not being able to say i did everything i could. We dont have a ventilator for her mom. That were going to leave her on oxygen and hope for the best. Reporter Valarie Roberts from sacramento is a grandmother and cancer survivor. Nobody, nobodys allowed in my house. Reporter Health Care Providers are warning people to stay away from Emergency Rooms unless theyre very sick. Theyre also warning the vulnerable, like roberts. She says an oncologist called her to say to try to avoid the e. R. In the event of a surge. She told kgo that the doctor also said this. I wouldnt be probably a candidate for a ventilator if it was between me and a healthy person, no. The conversation was tough. If you get this virus and get complications with it, we need to discuss comfort care for you. Comfort care as in morphine . Yes. Reporter her hospital released a statement about the conversation, saying clinicians regularly communicate with medically vulnerable patients to fulfill their Current Health care needs. We will do everything we can to fulfill those wishes, both now and in the event of a hospital surge. Mandy hall was on duty when a desperately ill covid patient came in. He required immediate livesaving measures. Reporter he had a special wish, to see his daughter one more time. Did he tell you that he understood that once he was intubated, he might not come out of it . He did. Thats the reason he requested to speak with his daughter before being intubated. Excruciating moments. Matt, l. A. County have announced an unusually High Percentage of those hospitalized today have no underlying conditions . Reporter yes, a startling 76 of those hospitalized in l. A. County are otherwise healthy. Statewide, the number of icu cases have quadrupled since friday. But there is a sliver of good news. 34,000 retired or people out of Health Care Work have enrolled to get back into the work force in the past two days. Matt, thank you. Were also following the worsening situation off the coast of florida. Two cruise ships, hundreds of sick people onboard, many testing positive for coronavirus. Four people have now died, including an american. Tonight, the desperate struggle for a plan. Authorities in florida say they do not want the ship to dock in that state. Heres gio benitez. Reporter as the two Holland America cruise ships approach the florida coast, amy weedjones fears time is running out for her parents onboard. Her father has severe pneumonia, her mother has a fever. There is no time. These people need to get off the ship. There are people even more ill than my father. Reporter the zaandam left buenos aires nearly a month ago. Now 233 passengers and crew are sick. Four passengers are dead. Everyone onboard desperate to dock in florida. But floridas Governor Ron Desantis reluctant to let nonfloridians into the state. Clearly were gonna be willing to accept any floridians who are onboard. Reporter thats good news for the 49 passengers from florida but there are still questions about how the more than 250 other americans on the ships are getting home, along with hundreds of foreign travelers. Lets get to gio, tracking this all day long for us. I know florida is calling on the Cruise Company to come up with some sort of a plan for letting some passengers get off before any plan is approved . Reporter thats right. So far, they say Holland America has not submitted any of those plans. But the port says they need to see the plans 24 hours in advance. David . Gio, thank you. We also have new reporting on the u. S. Aircraft carrier with confirmed cases of coronavirus onboard, the uss theodore roosevelt, now with 93 cases. Seeing cases climbing from 23 last week to 93 now. Tonight, after a desperate plea from the ships commander, new action. The ship now in guam. 1,000 sailors already off the carrier. 1,700 sailors expected to follow. Next to the staggering economic toll for families across the country. 3. 3 million americans filed for Unemployment Benefits last week. This week, the toll could be even higher. Well learn that in the coming hours. Tonight, the laidoff workers on the line for days, trying to get unemployment. And the question about stimulus checks. Do you need to apply, or will they come automatically . Rebecca jarvis, getting answers for you. Reporter tonight, were hearing it from laidoff workers across the country. This completely changes our way of living. My bills are coming in. They dont care. Im just praying for everybody. Reporter with at least 45 states on lockdown, layoffs are surging, and the phone lines and websites to apply are jammed. Jose vera in florida lost his job as a graphic designer. Its my fifth day trying to apply for unemployment. And it keeps crashing. I try calling and the calls drop. Reporter the st. Louis fed predicts the number of unemployed could reach 47 million. Temporarily sending the rate above 32 , three times the worst of the great recession. A daunting reality for ashley patterson, an out of work bartender in michigan. Im five months pregnant and we have a 5yearold daughter. Reporter her husband was wounded while serving in iraq. But after their story ran monday on 20 20 i have at least three bills due as of right now. Reporter a giant outpouring of support. Strangers offering to chip in. Her boss setting up a gofundme that has raised nearly 6,000. 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