Good evening, welcome to second hour of 360. Another grim milestone, first time more than 1,000 have died in one day in the United States. 1,419 people. Most in a single day for this country, 7,402 dead overall. Total cases those are the numbers. There are people behind all the numbers. To underscore the sharp rise, emergency went out in new york. Seeking licensed Health Care Workers to support needs. New york times number has nearly doubled in a week. Number hospitalized, on ventilators. Recommending face coverings for all americans, something he repeatedly said he wont be following that guideline. Talk about the new guidelines with mayor of los angeles, Eric Garcetti. Also a report on captain who lost his command after informing superiors about the threat to his vessel. Not here, chris cuomo, at home having contracted covid19. He joins us now. Joining us again, dr. Sanjay gupta. How are you feeling, chris . Hey fellows, doing better than i deserve. Sanjay told me everything takes a f
Deaths now. A new watchdog report out today shows significant stress on u. S. Hospitals heading into a week the Surgeon General predicts will be a pearl harbor moment for this country. Our Inspector General today backing up the message from governors across the country that hospitals are falling short of critical supplies. The white house says the mitigation is working, but another peak in a few weeks may overwhelm the Health Care System if americans ignore those social distancing guidelines. That underlying uncertainty and dependence on everyday followthrough clashes with the sunday evening optimism at the white house, that the end of the road might be near. I want to say to the American People that we are beginning to see the glimmers of progress. I steeee a light at the end the tunnel. If i didnt, i would not be very thrilled with what weve done. If we start seeing a flattening or stabilization of cases, what youre hearing about potential light at the end of the tunnel doesnt take a
It has been another dark week in the history of the country. Over 300,000 confirmed cases of covid19 and more than 8,000 deaths. And the numbers keep climbing. President trump still seems unwilling to fully embrace the warnings from his two top health experts. And states are meanwhile fighting each other for basic supplies. This has left much of the public confused. But tonight there are growing concerns that black and brown communities who tend to be in the higher Populated Areas have higher rates of Certain Health risk factors such as diabetes, who traditionally have lower incomes and higher rates of uninsured people, those communities will be harder hit when this is all said and done. But before we get started, let me say this, im using this platform to call all houses of faith to keep all Services Online during holy week starting with todays palm sunday, through passover, and up to and including Easter Sunday, next week, then ramadan later in the month. Churches, mosques, synagogue
Give you a false positive or a false negative, implying that you may be protected. So, please wait until we have those tests available and validated. People are working around the clock to make those available to the american people. We all understand how important that is, because youve heard us talk about asymptomatic cases, and we really want to know how broad that is and how common that is. And so, in places like new york city, where i described that they had seven per thousand, sometimes two, three, four times any other place in the United States, being able to know what the number of people who never had similymptoms but do have a positive test would be really critical at this point, particularly as we plan for any reoccurrence in the fall or in future seasons. Thank you. And we have the center for medicaid and Medicare Services to support hospitals, as we support Health Care Workers, we have to make sure the institutions that are providing the environment for care are well finan
Have enough and to sit there and say whatever you need i can get you. Dont worry california, dont worry new york and dont worry florida. They cant. They have essentially said i dont have enough in my stockpile to handle all of this. Forget testing and vaccines. Thats a separate product. Thats no t where people are going to die in the near term. People are going to die in a near term because they walk into a hospital and there is no bed with ave ventilator because the is no bed and no staff and no ppe and thats whats going to happen. We could get guidance on masks. We could get more recommendations on masks. Bill de blasio laying out the truth today unless the federal government steps up, he only has a few ventilators to last until sunday. Our shimon prokupecz, there is some questions of how the Javits Center and the navy comfort is being used or not being used. The comfort has a houthousand b. The javits certain nter is a co only and whats up with the comfort . The javits will accept C