Force is preparing for a press briefing set to start at any moment. Youre looking at live pictures from the briefing room. The Vice President , mike pence, and other are expected to give an update on the federal governments response to the coronavirus. Were going to have live coverage as soon as it begins. Well see if the president shows up, as well. It comes as we see the number of cases spreading across the United States, now over 3,300 reported, with 63 deaths. Meanwhile, the white house is imposing new travel restrictions on the uk and ireland tomorrow, thats on top of current constraints already in place for much of europe, which has become the epicenter for the coronavirus pandemic. Right now, airports across the United States are facing huge delays, long lines, some hours and hours long greet americans being screened before reentering the United States and being allowed to go through customs. Lets begin our coverage right now with the latest efforts of the Trump Administration t
Supporting state governments for decisions that theyre making on mitigation to prevent the spread. But the whole issue of personal protective equipment and supplies and the capacity of our Health Care System is in the forefront of what were talking about every day and the secretary can address it. Thank you very much. First, being here at the podium, i just want to especially talk about the people in blue behind me. These are the leaders of the United States Public Health Service Commission corps that i am incredibly privileged to lead. Over 3,000 of them, americas Public Health warriors. Whether its going into the eastern congo or western africa to fight ebola, or if its staffing the nursing home in kirkland, being on the World Health Organization team in china, or helping to facilitate communitybased testing, these are americas Public Health heroes, and i just they rarely in fact, i doubt that there has ever been a time in American History where the leadership of the Public Health Se
One many people, pushing back on that approach. Its not going to be we flip a switch and everybody comes out of their house and gets in their car and waves and hugs each other and the economy all starts up i would love to say that is going to happen. Its not going to happen that way. It cant happen that way. Right now, there are over 557,000 cases of the coronavirus across the u. S. And more than 22,000 deaths. For the first time we can report all 50 states are under formally a federal disaster declaration. We have our nbc reporters covering the pandemic around the nation. We begin in new york where the governor Just Announced the state has passed a 10,000 death mark, although, at the same time, the curve continues to flatten. We can see ten hospitals that house patients, also threatened by high winds today. Staffers at the emergency Field Hospital in central park monitoring those tents. About 50 people being treated there. Nbc ron allen joins us live from the hospital now. Ron . Repor
They say ride it like a cowboy. Just ride it, ride that sucker right through. Thats where the 2. 2 Million People come in. Would have died maybe, but it would have been 1. 6 to 2. 2. And thats not acceptable. But there are a lot of people that said, i thought about it. I said, maybe we should ride it through. You always hear about the flu. I talk about it all the time. We had a bad flu season. Were in the midst of a bad flu season. You know we had a bad season last year as an example, a bad flu season. And you have 35, 36, 37,000 people die, sometimes more, sometimes less. But this is different. And part of this is the unknown and part of it also is the viciousness of it. I had a friend who went to a hospital the other day. Hes a little older and hes heavy, but hes a tough person. And he went to the hospital and a day later hes in a coma. I call. Hows he doing . Sir, hes in a coma. Hes unconscious. Hes not doing well. The speed and the viciousness, especially if it gets the right perso
Good to have you with us. The world is fast approaching 5 million cases of the coronavirus, with most here in the United States, but thats not stopping the country from continuing its push to reopen. In the coming hours, every u. S. State will have partially lifted their stayathome measures. And while infection rates are slowing across most of the u. S. , cases continue to rise in at least 17 states. But President Donald Trump says thats not necessarily a bad thing. Take a listen. When we have a lot of cases, i dont look at that as a bad thing. I look at that in a certain respect as being a good thing because it means our testing is much better. So, if we were testing a Million People instead of 14 Million People, we would have far fewer cases, right . So, i view it as a badge of honor. Really, its a badge of honor. Well, despite what mr. Trump says, the u. S. Is nowhere near the worlds leader in testing per capita. Data shows several countries are ahead of the u. S. As states reopen,