Hospitals. There are already critical shortages. A bronx hospital is running out of ventilators. In brooklyn, doctors are reusing masks. Thats the headline, and the subhead tonight, of the new york times, heres the lead, quote, for weeks, as the coronavirus has spread across the world, new york officials have warned that a surge of cases could overwhelm the States Health care system. Jeopardizing thousands of patients. Now, that surge has begun. In a startlingly quick ascent, new york reported today the state was closing in on 8,000 positive tests which is about half the cases in the entire country. The number was ten times higher than what was reported earlier this week. New york has ten times as many cases now as it did when we started this week. And part of that is increased testing. The state says they processed 10,000 more coronavirus tests overnight last night. But regardless of whether it reflects increased testing or not, its giving us more information about what new york is coping with, and the state is now close to 8,000 known cases, with more than 1200 people hospitalized, already. There are not infinite beds to put people in in new York Hospitals, as they bear the brunt of the first wave of this illness in the United States. And the hospitals in new york that already do not have enough beds, they also do not have the supplies they need to keep hospital workers and doctors and nurses from getting infected themselves, and they of course are the work force that we must keep alive and uninfected, and well enough to be working. As the hospitals fill up and spill over. First in new york. And then next, watch. Its happening. Quote, in the bronx, doctors at Lincoln Medical and Mental Health center say they only have a few remaining ventilators for patients who need them to breathe. In brooklyn, doctors at Kings County Hospital Center say they are so low on supplies, that they are reusing masks for up to a week, slathering them with Hand Sanitizer between shifts. Heres new york citys mayor today trying to make clear that this isnt a future problem to worry about. This is what is happening now. And whatever happy talk youre hearing from the federal government about how things are under control, and supplies are plentiful, well, where those supplies are actually needed right now, theyre not here. We dont have masks. We dont have ventilators. At the beginning of april, we will run out of basic medical supplies, because of the intense strain thats being put already on our hospitals by this crisis. We literally will not have the things we need to save peoples lives. Im telling you in two weeks time or three weeks time, we will have nothing left and i have not gotten a hint of an answer from the federal government about when resupplies are coming. Theres no supplies moving. Theres no military mobe l lieization. We would know if we were receiving supplies but were not. We have not gotten a call saying here is your shipment, heres when it is coming. If the president doesnt act in days, for the defense protection act to put every company that could produce a ventilator or surgical mask and put them on full 24 7 production and guarantee that those products get to the front line, get to where the need is greatest, if he doesnt do that in the next few days, if he does not mobilize the United States military immediately, not only will hundreds die around the nation who didnt need to die, thousands will die around the nation who didnt need to die, people will die waiting to get into a hospital. People will die at a hospital because will is no equipment or there is no medical personnel who can help them in time. Theres no supplies moving. And we would know if we were receiving supplies. We are not receiving supplies. Heres the headline tonight in the wall street journal. Coronavirus cases strain new york City Hospitals. Quote, we are getting pounded. Swiftly rising number of patients. Sooner than expected. Leads to supply shortages. The journal reporting together that the Medical Center in brooklyn has no more isolation space for coronavirus patients. They are fullup. The journal also reporting that long island jewish Medical Center is now 90 full. Half the hospitals intensive care patients right now are coronavirus patients. The hospital is adding icu beds right now tonight, as fast as they can. One doctor telling the paper quote, we are getting pounding, ive been in icu care for 15 years and this is the worst ive ever seen things. Ive seen more cases in the last ten days of severe respiratory illness than weve seen in years. Quote, im very worried. To try to slow down the rate of new infections, remember, intensive care demand lags new infections by about three weeks. After people get infected, three weeks later, thats when those infections start to get reflected in emergency wards and intensive care wards. To try to slow down the rate of new infections, to try to slow the demand on hospital and intensive care beds, new york and illinois have now joined california as states that have full statewide stay at home orders. And announcing the first of the statewide orders last night, California Governor Gavin Newsom says without changes to slow the rate of new infections in california, california expects that 56 of the state would be infected within the next eight weeks. In a state as large as california, that means theyre saying more than 20 Million People woulden infected within the next eight weeks, unless the state radically changes direction. And so a statewide stay at home order announced last night, instituted as of last night. All the way across the country, in the great state of louisiana, things are escalating quickly there as well. Louisiana has more than 500 reported cases now. And that gives that state one of the highest per capita infection rates anywhere in the country. The mayor of new orleans tonight, instituted a stay at home order for the city. Its along the lines of what is in place now statewide in california and new york and illinois. The Tulane Health system in new orleans is actually planning to shut down one emergency room in a new orleans suburb so they can move all of the staff from that emergency room location, instead to a downtown new orleans hospital where theyre experiencing a large surge in coronavirus patients. Louisianas governor, John Bell Edwards telling the white house that he believes his state may be only seven days away from its hospitals being out of capacity. The white house released a transcript of his request for help, so we can see it in exact words, the governor saying, quote, my fear, based on modeling ive received today, is that in the earliest, in as early as seven days we can start to exceed our capacity to deliver health care here. Im asking for help in terms of surging our medical capacity. The governor then goes on to ask specifically if the v. A. Hospital in new orleans, federal facility, might be a place where patients from the regular City Hospitals could be surged into, as the hospitals start to overflow. In oregon state, and in washington state, the states governors there, kate brown and jay inslee respectively, they have now ordered a halt to all nonurgent medical and dental procedures statewide. Anything that requires protective gear for Health Care Providers because that gear is so key to whether or not doctors and nurses and other Health Care Workers stay alive to take care of the rest of us. The oregon governor, kate brown, announcing that the state is actually rounding up protective equipment now, like masks and gloves, rounding that stuff up, collecting it, from contractors, and veterinarians, and anybody else who is not using it for Human Health Care right now. Oregon is also one of several states that is building new capacity. New beds. Last night, we reported on king county in Washington Building a brand new 200bed hospital that im tempted to call a Field Hospital, because theyre building it in a soccer field, we reported on that last night, in king county, washington, that is going up fast. One state south, in the great state of oregon, they are also now building out a similar facility. A 250bed hospital that theyre putting up on the grounds of the oregon state fairgrounds. They are using a fairgrounds building thats about 50,000 square feet, and they are converting it to hospital overflow. Frankly, states all over the country need to be doing things like this. Heres salem, oregon, today. Were at the jackman lawn building, where the hospital will be set up. And when you look inside, this building is massive. Its 48,000 square feet. And inside, theres heating and electricity. Governor brown said this morning, the oregon medical station will become a 250bed emergency hospital. Right now, its unclear what level of care will be offered here. The governor said the Emergency Coordination Center is working on identifying 1,000 temporary hospital beds across the state, to move patients to, who do not have covid19. We do not yet know whether this will be that overflow, or if it will be an emergency set up for critically ill coronavirus patients. I spoke with one of the project managers, chris inningersoll, working at the covid19 emergency center, and says uniformed military members are helping set this up so he doesnt is want the community to be alarmed if they see them and unloading hospital materials like beds and other supplies, like military equipment. The questions like who will be staffing this hospital, and what level of equipment is here, we dont yet know. Governor brown said this morning, the hospital may be ready by friday, but inningersoll says he doesnt think it will be operational then. And what is clear right now is that setting up the oregon medical station is a direct measure to flatten the curve and slow the spread of covid19. So theyre calling it the oregon medical station. Oregon is building this capacity right now. They say they want a thousand beds that they need to get in very short order across that state. Theyre using military resources to get 250 beds up and running right now. Again, theyre calling it the oregon medical station. But theyre building it at the oregon state fairgrounds. In washington state, they want even more surplus beds. They want 3,000 beds in washington state. They have already been buying and leasing hotels and motels. Yesterday they started standing up a hospital on a soccer field. Well talk with the king county commissioner over the course of this hour, to talk about how his county, how hes been able to basically get so on the ball about that stuff, and get that stuff in motion, bet those beds in use, while the rest of the country has lagged so far behind. In chicago, the commissioner of Public Health said today that they, the city has assigned its first contract for hospital overflow and quarantine beds in chicago. Now the commissioner did not announce what that first contracted facility is for chicago. But they say theyre looking at empty schools and dormitories, and even convents. And chicago is expecting to stand up thousands of beds again to try to keep chicago hospitals from being overwhelmed. In california, the governor says they will be trying to add tens of thousands of beds. The governor there signed an executive order last week that allows the state to commandeer, to take over medical facilities and hotels and he signed that executive order last week, he now says the process of doing that is under way. Today, we just secured a very large hospital in northern california, seton, now part of our portfolio, and were going to populate that hospital, as an example to meet the moment. Tomorrow, well announce a hospital in southern california. Thats 750 beds, those two hospitals combined. We start to stack this. 750 here. The motels that were currently and hotels that were currently negotiating with, we start stacking those master leases, for those hotels. Were working, i had very, positive conversations with the leaders of two of the finest Public University systems in the world, uc and California State University system, were working with those systems to identify appropriate dormitories to help us with the surge. We start stacking those numbers. California, washington, oregon, the city of chicago, louisiana asking to please use the v. A. Facility, which makes sense, probably, in the short run, except the v. A. Has done almost no testing of veterans already in its care, and the numbers theyre showing early on from the few tests this very done show that the v. A. Is going to have their very own serious charge with their own patient load, particularly given that they have so many older patients. In terms of the happy talk weve had on this front from the federal government, there is no sign that the Navy Hospital ships that the president made such a big deal of, the comfort and the mercy, theres no sign that theyll be anywhere onsite helping out anywhere in the country for weeks yet. The president said when he announced that those ships would be put into action against the covid19 epidemic, he said one of those ships would be operational in new york harbor by next week. Thats nonsense. It will not be there next week. The army is talking about deploying a combat support hospital and a Field Hospital, potentially to new york, and also to seattle, that would certainly be a help, as we understand it, a combat support hospital typically has about 250 beds, including about 50 icu beds. A Field Hospital is much smaller, less than 100 beds, but a Field Hospital can also support icu bed, including with ventilators. So thats not a lot of capacity that the army is talking about, one combat support hospital, one Field Hospital, if theyre only talking about deploying one of each of those, thats not much, but every little bit will help. It would be helpful in particular if theyre able to move those fast. Again, it looks like tonight, new york is already getting the first blast in terms of hospital capacity. There is talk in new york about potentially converting the gigantic javits center, into bed space, to hospital overflow space. Theyre also talking about potentially using Madison Square garden. Or the student dorms at nyu, new york university. And it is presumed that the u. S. Military will help with setting those up, or with converting those spaces into hospital overflow, but with new York Hospitals already filling up tonight, just talking about the prospect of doing that, at some point, is late already. And i mean the lodestar, the thing that new york officials believe they are heading for, is something akin to the situation in northern italy which experts say epidemiologically speaking is about ten days 0 two weeks ahead of where the United States is in terms of its increase in cases. And about the same distance ahead of new york city in terms of a hospital influx. This is the main hospital, it is one of the most advanced hospitals in italy. But its the most hard hit hospitals in all of italy. The town is the center of the epidemic here. This isnt a ward. This is a waiting room. Wherever you go, people are on gurneys and corridors and meeting rooms, theyre everywhere. All the medical staff urge other nations to see whats happening, and lock their nations down. Right now. Or face this. Well, i would suggest just to shut down to stop all of the outbreak, and not come into this kind of situation. It is very, very difficult to manage. Can i ask you personally what its been like . I have never felt so stressed in my life. Imen intensivist, and im quite used to intense moments, and choices, and people are critical, and will die without any treatment, and you make a difference, but when youre over to this point, you realize that you are not enough, and maybe all, we are 100 anesthetists here, we are doing our best, but maybe it is not enough. We are here tracking the coronavirus. The problem facing Health Services across the world is that when the infection curve goes up, it rockets, and all of the resources, all of the testing, all of the supplies, are used up instantly. Multiple hospitals all at once. Italy reported its largest single day death toll today. 627 people died in the last 24 hours. And even as italy struggles and struggles and tries to keep up, china just set up a team of experts who just went through their coronavirus catastrophe to try to advise and help out with the situation in northern italy. The Vice President of the chinese red cross on that visit to northern italy said that from what he can observe, what italy is doing to try to slow the rate of new infections, which are frankly the kinds of measures we are just lackadaisically starting in a few states in this country, the chinese officials who just went through this in their own country, are visiting italy and they say what italy is doing is not nearly strict enough to make enough of a difference. Quote, here in milan, he said, the hardest hit area by covid19, the lockdown measures are very lax. I can see public transport is still running. People are still moving around. Having gatherings in hotels and they are not wearing masks. Quote, i dont know what people here are thinking. We really have to stop our usual Economic Activities and our usual human interactions. We have to stay at home and make every effort to save lives. It is worth putting every cost we have into saving lives. Again, thats what the head of the chinese red cross is telling northern italy about how well theyre doing in their nationwide lockdown effort. Their nationwide lockdown effort in italy is effectively the same kind of stay at home order that only three u. S. States have thus far adopted, and those three only in the last 24 hours. So here we go. There was some more happy talk from the white house today about how plentiful our National Supply of ventilators is, saying there is no problem there, and also how plentiful the supply of marches and personal protective equipment is. Theres tons of that stuff. Theres murmuring from the white house that there will maybe be some additional manufacturing of those things, but well see. Lets hope so. I mean those things do eventually start getting manufactured in greater numbers because the federal government decides to do something about it, lets hope all of those things come with a time machine, too, to turn the back the clock on the last three months that have been wasted while the white house was saying this was a hoax. I dont know if the federal government is ever going to get it together. But as of now, with the first hospitals in america reporting that they are all filled up, we are out of time waiting for the federal government to get it together. The bestrun state, the clearesteyed leaders in the bestrun states, right now are just going on their own. They have to be now. And if your state isnt, you should not hope that there will be some kind of federal response that will step up to fix things, when things start to get dark in your state over the next few weeks. States, we have learned, have to go on their own. Yes, we need a National Manufacturer and mandate for ventilators. We need that. We need a National Manufacturing mandate and a National Coordination effort for the distribution of protective equipment for Health Care Providers and the other crucial supplies theyre already running out of and rationing and unsafely reusing. And weeks ago, we needed a National Effort to get millions of coronavirus tests in the field. Weve needed all of these things from the federal government. The federal government is failing at all of these things. And that is lamentable and i lament it, but its not stopping the virus, right . Its not stopping these things from moving forward. Its not stopping the influx at our hospitals from starting as of today. So lament it all you want, but if youre a state official, the lesson is go. Go now. Do you want the president to use the defense protection act to ramp up production of medical supplies. Look, im if i had a new York State Defense production act, i would use it, jessy. I dont have it. So what im saying is ill pay businesses more, ill start a new, ill fund a new business, if you can make these products. Im trying to make these products. If you were in this, this line of work, you know, we need masks, if youre making clothing, figure out if you can make masks, ill fund it. So im doing everything i can to increase the production. If youre making clothing, figure out if you can make masks, for nurses, and new york state will pay you, i mean thats where were at. Thats where were at. Lots of expert help lined up tonight to help us get through the news. Stay with us. P us get through the news stay with us hes the one. Gesundheit. [sneezes] i see something else. A star. With three points. Youre in a. Mercedes. Wish granted. With four models starting under 37 thousand, there could be a mercedesbenz in your very near future at the spring event. 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Tonight in washington state, governor jay inslee is also asking the president to declare a federal major disaster in his state as well. Again, to help them deal with the spiraling crisis of the coronavirus epidemic. The governors request comes as king county washington, which includes seattle, now reports a total of 793 confirmed cases, thats up 100 from yesterday. King county is also now confirming 67 deaths, and seven deaths confirmed in the past 24 hours. Regardless of what the federal government ends up offering, a hardhit Community Like king county, washington, local officials there have not been waiting around for help. Chief among the early identified needs in king county is having enough room in the hospitals there, preserving hospital beds, so sick people can be safely isolated, and so that everybody who needs care can get it. Way back on march 2nd, the king county executive, a man named dao constantine, announced that the county would plan to buy a motel to convert it into a facility where people could be isolated. The county looked at properties that fit certain criteria, like having hard surfaces that could be easily and repeatedly cleaned and wanted facilities with separate hvac systems in each room and ended up purchasing a motel with 85 beds. And as of last week, they are leasing another motel in the city of issaquah to house and isolate more people. And two days ago king county started building the latest facility non a soccer field in the city of shoreline, ultimately 200 beds. King county estimates they will still need about 3,000 more beds and looking for more facilities to use for isolation, quarantine, recovery, hospital overflow. King county, washington, is not just talking about what could be done. They are doing it. Theyre not waiting around for the calvary. They are doing everything they can. And they are doing it themselves. And their efforts have come with some local friction. Some not in my backyard objections. But the king county executive dal constantine has defended how aggressively they are working and a statement that caught our eye and i have been holding on to it ever since. He said quote epidemiologists tell us left unmitigated the number of people with the infection roughly doubles every five to seven days. That fact underscores the urgency with which we are implementing these Community Mitigation measures, as well as purchasing, citing, and setting up places for people to recover, and to isolate themselves so they dont inadvertently infect their families or others in the community. We must take time to be sure to get this right. But we must also act with urgency and leave no one behind. Again, that was earlier this month, im willing to bet, he feels the same way now. But lets ask him. Joining us is the king county executive, thanks for joining us for being here tonight. I appreciate you taking the time. Thanks for having me, rachel. So i understand that you have one motel open that youve convert to this kind of use and another that youre about to open. Youve got this hospital under construction. Tell me about the sense of urgency. Tell me about what you think would happen in king county if you werent building out that additional capacity. Well, what you just showed happening in italy is what we are looking to avoid. What weve been working hard for more than a month to avoid. Which is hospital overcrowding, hospitals having to turn people away. The people who need that acute hospital care and not being able to get it. So were pushing for 3,000 units for people to be outside of the hospital. Still recuperating or being isolated. Or getting an appropriate level of care while we keep the few hospital beds available for the folks who really need them. How difficult is it to get these facilities up and running . I know some of them, youre building from scratch, literally popping them up in fields but in other places youre taking existing facilities and repurposing them. As other communities around the country look at what youre doing, and trying to figure out how they can replicate it, what can you tell them about how hard, how expensive this is, and how much time it takes . Well, as you know, we already had a housing crisis here in central puget sound, so we are trying a yes and approach, if theres a vacant motel or hotel, well get it, if there is an open field, and we can get a large tent, well take that. Were putting up modular units on governmentowned property around the region. Were even converting an old shelter that weve already been using, into space for folks to move out into re spite for from the hospitals. In terms of the extent for which you are serving as a modelle for the country and im not sure why there isnt more National Attention to what youre doing, i think it needs to happen all around the country, i guess i wonder if you imagine you were speaking to other Public Officials right now who feel what youre doing is too hard or beyond what they think their jobs are about, do you have any words of encouragement for them about how this is doable or what they should do, who they should talk to, to make it more doable, particularly if it seems like an insurmountable task. You were talking about this earl ever, the frazzle governme government, the federal government has rendered itself incapable in this National Emergency and were here at the state and local level to provide for the people and one thing we need to do to save lives is to maintain that hospital space, so whether you have to borrow the money, whether you have to upset some people in neighborhoods, you have to get that space set up to get the people out of hospitals, to allow the hospitals the space to care for those who most need it. I went to our harborview Medical Center, a Public Health hospital, last week, with major jenny durken of seattle, and we saw the folks there on ventilators. It is truly harrowing. And to think that we might not have the space for them to be admitted, or there might not be enough ventilators for the people who need them is terrifying. So faced with that, were going to do everything within our powers, as a local government, including borrowing up to 100 million from ourselves, to set up the space we need to save lives. Dow constantine, king county executive. I appreciate you joining us tonight. And i know that the last thing you want to do is lots of National Media interviews but i hope more people call to you get the word out about what youre doing because it is a real model for the country. Thanks for being here. Thank you, rachel. So we are all depending on Health Care Workers in this current crisis. It turns out they are also depending on us and letting us know it. That story is next. Stay with us. G us know it. That story is next stay with us , to save time and stay ahead of the mess. But scrubbing still takes time. Now theres new dawn powerwash dish spray. The faster, easier way to clean as you go. It cleans grease five times faster. On easy messes, just spray, wipe, and rinse. 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They are asking for the community to help create medicalgrade masks for Health Care Workers who are desperate now for protective equipment so they can keep doing their jobs. This is not the way that american Health Care Workers are supposed to be getting personal protective equipment, but this is what weve got. How about any of you out there in oklahoma . Anybody out there in oklahoma with a sewing machine and good set of hands . The stillwater Medical Center in oklahoma is asking for people to sew masks, if you go to button counter. Com and search for face masks, you will find a tutorial of exactly what theyre looking for, in that case, in oklahoma, theyre looking for masks to be warn by the worried well, so people will start buying up the medical ones so actual medical workers can use those. Last night we reported that the president of mass general, massachusetts general in boston is, broadly appealing for anybody who has a 3d printer to try to help out as well, asking for people with 3d printers to start printing medicalgrade masks. Well, update to that, this morning, on the today show, the president of that hospital said he heard from over 100 individuals and Companies Offering to help. Mass general is also giving out this email, that you see on the screen, Research Institute at mgh. Harford. Edu, for those with expertise who want to work with their researchers on that project. Everybody out there, hospitals need help from regular civilians who didnt know we knew how to do this stuff. You may have seen pictures of e. R. Workers and their masks and gowns along with the hash tag, get me ppe, get me personal protective equipment, drawing attention to the desperate need for basic equipment like marches and gowns and gloves. And that campaign was started by somebody on the front lines of that effort. An e. R. Doctor in portland, oregon, who saw the need, who experienced it herself, who decided, well, lets just try, it lets just ask the world for help. Joining us now is that doctor, and e. R. Doctor, an associate professor at the health and Science University in portland. Doctor, thank you very much for joining us. We appreciate it. Thanks for having me on, rachel. It does feel ridiculous for people with sewing machines and people with 3d printers to be activated here. It only feels slightly more ridiculous than Construction Companies and contractors being asked to donate their masks, as well. But the campaign that you started and the way that its resonated around the country, with doctors and nurses, Health Care Providers everywhere, saying yes, the shortage is real, it is starting to seem like this stuff isnt farfetched. Yes, i mean this really feels to me like some sort of distopian novel, where regular prove fys have completely broken down and we are doing these really surreal things like dropping by the home depot on the way it a shift or asking our friends and neighbors to sew basic medical equipment, for us, so that we can have some semblance of being safe when we go in to take care of these patients, but thats where we are. And ill tell you, speaking from Health Care Providers im talking to, this is one thing were fix ated on because it is the first layer of protection as we simply go in and see people and take care of them. Were already thinking ahead to if the supply does not come through, if were not really able to reproduce medicalgrade equipment, through these kind of mcgyver ways, were thinking ahead to the hard decisions we have to make, i mean can we continue to ask this entire work force to go into rooms where theyre not adequately protected knowing that they are going to be exposed to patients with covid19, get sick themselves, and then not be available to take care of hundreds or thousands of other patients. There are some really tough ethical decisions we will have to make at some point. I mentioned earlier in the show, and i used sort of harsh language, i said that its, theres been quite a bit of happy talk, from the white house, from the federal government, in terms of the availability of these kinds of equipment. Would he have seen the president and the Vice President say that there is tens of millions of masks on order, and that theres going to be a mental supply, not only of masks and protective equipment but also of complex equipment like ventilators. Its frustrating to me just as an observer to see the distance between what the white house is talking about, and what providers like yourself are describing, in terms of the ground reality. But i have to ask you over these past couple of weeks, does it feel like anything is getting any better in terms of supplies of this kind of stuff . I really want to be positive, you know, i want to give people hope, i am listening, and watching all of the news that youre talking about, and im hearing some positive messages, and i think on the ground, we would love to see those things, i will say hospital administrator, Public Health officials are working very hard and trying to be very creative, doing the kind of public campaigns that youre talking about. On the ground, were not seeing the, were not really seeing the delivery of items that were hearing from our countrys administration, so i havent unfortunately seen it yet. Were waiting and were optimistic. And then in the meantime, we will do what we can with what we have. And i also want to say, face masks, gowns, gloves, respirators, ventilator machines, these are the kinds of things that weve been talking about. They represent one part of many, many different types of resources that we are going to run short on. And something we havent really talked a lot about is were right now facing a National Shortage of albuterol inhaler, the first line treatments for people like wheezing and shortness of breath, asthma exacerbation, the kind of things that get worst when you have a respiratory viral illness like koes covid19, so as we get over this first hurdle, if we get over this first hurdle of things like face masks we will then be talking about the vital medications we have a shortage of and we will talk about how much supply do we have of these experimental therapies that were using to treat covid19, and then on and on, to rooms and ventilators, other advanced icu equipment, and then how we sustain the work force, and not just doctors and nurses, respiratory therapist, pharmacist, the complex team that you need in every hospital to take care of very, very sick patients. So this issue of were lacking fill in the blank, it starts here with basic things like face masks and gloves, this conversation is not going to end, it will just be the next shortage du jjour for a while i believe. We need a warsized National Response to address these things each in turn, all of them. Its remarkable. Doctor esther choo, associate Professor Health and science in portland, orz, doctor, i would like to have you come back and talk us to in coming days as things start to evolve in portland. We would love to have you come back and talk to us again. Any time, thank you, rachele. More ahead, stay with us. Han. More ahead, stay with us. Man we drove to Safelite Autoglass for a sameday repair. More ahead, stay with us. More ahead, stay with us. Man safelite has service we can trust. Singers safelite repair, safelite replace. Resa place to celebrate,been to take a first date, to grab a meal between soccer practice and piano. And even though tables are empty at the moment. 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This has been prescribed for many years for people to combat malaria, which was a big problem and it was effective and a strong drug. It was effective against sars . As i understand that, is that a correct statement . It was fairly effective with sars. John, you got to be careful when you say fairly effective. It was never done in a clinical trial. You got to be very careful when you say fairly effective. President trump today again just flat out wrong in public about this malaria drug that has gotten stuck in his mind quite some tdistance from the fact. President trump said it would be available almost immediately for use. Within moments the fda had to clean that up because that is not true at all. It is not at all approved for coronavirus treatment. But the president loves saying things like, you know, theres a drug weve got. Its very effective. It approved already. Everybody is going to get it. He loves saying things like that because that would be a lovely thing to tell people unless of course, thats not true and telling people a fairytale like that is cruel and harmful and needlessly diverting and wildly irresponsible from anyone in any leadership role. It wildly responsible if someone said that to you from a bar stole if we could go to bars anymore but to get from the president ial podium, nevertheless, he keeps doing it. In the weeks leading up to now, we heard claims that the virus was well contained, that it was well under control and would disappear shs rememb disappear, remember that. In terms of material tangible promises, President Trump claimed we would have 1. 4 million tests available this week. Of course, weve seen nowhere near that. Weve done a tenth of that. He said google was developing a website to help people decide if they needed testing and where to go to get it. It would be very quickly done he said unlike websites of the past. Turns out of course, that website is still in the early stages of development and currently only being tested in one part of california and not even really working just for that. President trump announced this week that the navy was sending two medical ships, one to new york city, one to the west costa help treat patients. He said the ships would be launched over the next week or so depending on need. Wrong. That was also wrong as nbcs Courtney Kube puts it. Quote, its anybodys guess when those ships will come in. One of those ships is currently undergoing maintenance and has no medical personnel on board and the other lacks a medical crew all together. Remember the president said it will be there next week. It wont be there next week. The president has claimed that the government has quote massive amounts of ventilators. Maybe in normal times, i guess, you might say but in a crisis like this the governments stockpile of ventilators will not be enough to satisfy the demand. We need literally tens of thousands more than we have. He has said similar things about face masks and other protective equipment for Health Workers and told a grown up of nurses this past week that the government ordered 500 million n 95 respirator masks and declined to mention the order will take 18 months to fill, if were lucky. Millions of masks. Dont worry. Nurses, what are you worrying about . Millions of masks are coming. Wait a year and a half before you might. There is a clear pattern here in this crisis of the president promising stuff he knows america would love to hear but its not true. And even stuff that hes saying that he will do, that the federal government will do, hes not doing. And so the specific way in which the president is failing now is clear. We have said from the very beginning, watch what they do, not what they say. Thats very, very, very relevant here and i say this not to vent my outrage. Im over that frankly at this point. Im just saying it because i feel like we should inoculate ourself against the harmful impact of these on going pulse promises and false statements by the president recognizing when hes talking about the coronavirus epidemic more often than not, he is lying. Even when hes talking about what he has done or what he will do, hes consistently lying and giving you happy talk that is stuff that the federal government isnt actually doing. And its making people around the country count on the fact the federal government is doing that stuff when theyre not. There may be people in the federal government saying stuff that the not true but its a lit knee of things from the president that would be awesome if they were true and happening but theyre not and so the sooner we come to terms with that, i think the better for all of us. If it were up to me and its not, i would stop putting those briefings on live tv. Not out of spite but because its misformation. 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