350,000. Members of the task force issuing some grim warnings about what is ahead. This is going to be the hardest and the saddest week of most americans lives, quite frankly. This will be the pearl harbor moment, the 9 11 moment, although it will not be localized it will happen all over the country. Part of this week is going to be that there is a light at the end of the tunnel if everyone does their part for the next 30 days. Dana President Trump telling americans to prepare for a tough couple of weeks also saying that we could be nearing a turning point. In the days ahead america will endure the peak of the terrible pandemic. Our warriors in this life and death battle are the incredible doctors and nurses and Health Care Workers, starting to see light at the end of the tunnel. And hopefully in the nottoodistant future, we will be very proud of the job we all did. Dana there are some glimmers of hope. More than 18,000 people have recovered from the virus in the United States. And in
A crew on ship testing positive. Being isolated on board so thats a change. Steve but there is no hope in the state rocked by the virus. Take a look. You can see the percent of new cases dropping over the past few days. Governor cuomo says the state could be nearing the flattening of the curve. And good morning, everybody. It is tuesday, april 7th, 2020. Once again, another split show. It sounded as well, ainsley and brian, from the governor, as if new york could actually currently be hitting the apex. And there was some good news as well regarding that socalled murray model or the university of washington model. That shows now fewer deaths. Last week, five days ago. They predicted 94,000 deaths. Now they are saying probably closer to 82,000. And ainsley, the need for ventilators is down substantially as well. Ainsley yeah. These are all good signs. Hopefully you are right, steve. Hopefully we are coming on the other side of this, according to the governor here in new york. And our may
Governments been very careful about restricting information. Not to worry people, but whilst keeping them informed at the same time. New details, michael gove very close to the Prime Minister telling bbc radio that mr. Johnson was given oxygen support whilst in icu but he isnt on a ventilator. It hasnt escalated his condition to that extent, at least not yet. The Prime Minister has been in intensive care since late monday. That is when his condition got worse. Dominic raab has been dep advertised for the Prime Minister when necessary. Lets find out what that means. Lets go to Nick Peyton Walsh where the updates are coming. Whos in charge . Reporter well, were seeing what you would expect this morning, dominic raab standing in when necessary for Prime Minister johnson. Arriving here. The Health Secretary matt hancock. The latter two people who have said they have tested positive for covid19 but recovered and now of course face the complicated task of dealing with u. K. Policy to ward th
And theres tremendous stress on the health care system. We are at red line. People cant work any harder. The staff cant work any harder. And staying at this level is problematic. The governor also warned that the state is beyond capacity for ventilators, and its not just new york. The hhs Inspector General released a report today warning that there are equipment shortages at hospitals across the country. The surgery generon general is warning that the coming days are going to be the most difficult Many Americans have ever faced. Joining us now from the javits Field Hospital in manhattan is nbc news correspondent kathy park. And from a funeral home in brooklyn, nbc news correspondent, rahema ellis. Kathy, ill start off. Have we learned anything about hard and fast, i know its a moving fast, patient numbers, starting where you are, arriving at Javits Center . And for viewers just joining us, has it been determined to be a covid Field Hospital or exclusively for nonCovid Patients . Report
We begin with the coronavirus pandemic playing out in some very different ways right now. Part of the world is moving toward opening the toward reopening and toward what could loosely be called getting back to normal. This is new yorks central park on saturday. The weekend sunshine and warm temperatures also drew people out of the onto the National Mall in washington. And right now more than 30 u. S. States are loosening restrictions. And so are many countries. In hardhit italy, for instance, construction and manufacturing businesses can open their doors on monday. As new cases continue to go down in italy, Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte says the countrys reopening plan could accelerate. Other nations, however, are saying not so fast. France is poised to extend its state of emergency and indias lockdown, which was set to expire on monday, will continue for two more weeks. Well, Johns Hopkins University Says there are more than 3. 4 million coronavirus cases worldwide. Roughly a third of