Raising the death toll here to more than 3,700. And tonight the Commanding Officer of the u. S. S. Theodore roosevelt is making an extraordinary plea to evacuate a majority of the 4,000 sailors on his Aircraft Carrier. He says he fears the virus is spreading on board so quickly that it is risking american lives. New york remains the epicenter of the crisis. The governor there, andrew cuomo, now says his state is heading into battle even as more Healthcare Professionals are getting sick themselves. Our team is covering every angle of this story tonight, and mola lenghi leads us off from new yorks central park. Mola . Reporter well, norah, the death toll here in the state of new york has jumped 25 in the last day, topping more than 300 deaths many just a 24hour period. Governor andrew cuomo, as you mentioned, is now warning that the coronavirus cases, when they peak, will need twice the number of beds we currently have right now in the state of new york, making these makeshift Field Hosp
In the north, lombardi, the medical system is all but overwhelmed. Too few hospital beds, not enough gowns, masks, a desperate shortage of ventilators. Youve seen whats happened and what continues to happen in italy right now. Yeah. Reporter dr. Maria raven is chief of emergency medicine at the university of californias San Francisco hospital. Youve got me on one gurney and youve got a 25yearold on another gurney. Youve only got one ventilator for the two of us. Who gets the ventilator . Thats a very tough question. I mean, i think the answer that we would use if we were to follow principles from a specialty like transplant is that people that have more life years might get the ventilator. But there are also many other sort of principles that could underlie the decision making. You know, you have to take into consideration underlying illnesses people might have and you have to take into consideration if there are other temporizing measures in one person you could use. You may not need