Announced they are locking down the countrys population of 1. 3 billion people for the next three weeks, a complete nationwide lockdown. Keep this in mind. Theyre doing this when they only have 536 cases. 536 cases for now. But india is not alone. Leaders of countries all over the world are dealing with the virus and for the most part with notable exceptions most leaders are not saying things like, well, the flu is really bad too and a lot of people die from car crashes and, you know, what about the stock market in President Donald Trump began this crisis by down playing and denying the severity of the virus saying he liked the numbers where they were, telling us everything was under control, the cases would go down to zero all while he presided he over an abject failure of response. Last week he decided to declare war on the virus, tweeting in all caps occasionally at it, and after a few days of said war it seems like he is now looking to surrender. Today President Trump participated
Accelerate and peak in the next coming weeks. Heres what the president is saying about extending the shut down. We are thinking that around easter, thats going to be your spike, the highest point we think and then its going to start coming down from there, that will be a day of celebration and we just want to do it right. So we picked the end of april, april 30th as the day where we can see some Real Progress and we expect to see that, and then by a little short of june, may be, we think its a terrible thing to say, but we think the deaths will be at a very low number. Jesse also seeing the dramatic ramp up and testing, the White House Task force saying america has done almost 900,000 test so far and that number could jump even higher. The fda approving a new test that can give results in just 5 minutes from a Doctors Office or hospital. President trump reacting earlier. Sometimes its two or three days. Now its getting down to a day. N that but when this new test comes out, will be abl
Immunologist anthony fauci, hes out with a sobering and stark estimate saying we could see as many as 200,000 deaths across the country from the coronavirus in the most extreme. So its difficult to predict, looking at what we are seeing 200,000 cases. I dont want to be held to that excuse me, deaths. I just dont think that we really need to make a projection when its such a moving target that you could so easily be wrong. Eric well, he certainly hope it does not reach that. Fox News Coverage for you. On latest International Response to all of this, u. S. Ambassador kelly kraft, shes with us later in the hour. First lets begin with Steve Harrigan live in atlanta. Steve eric, as the numbers continue to rise, onethird of all the counties in the u. S. There has yet to be one positive test for the virus. Now most of these counties are rural, they are often older populations, often poor, whats not clear is whether this is some sort of National Social distancing going on or whether, in fact,
Have moved our show outside, across from the Jacob Javits Convention center in new york city, which is a massive facility on the west side of manhattan, it has been turned into this militarized makeshift hospital to treat covid19 positive patients here in new york. The places enormous, more than 2 million square feet, the u. S. Army corps of engineers, they transform to this facility in about three days time to a hospital to facility that can manage more than 2500 beds at once. It is just extraordinary. Inside that building behind me, the number of beds are way up. If they could go up higher if necessary. But it has made it one of the largest hospitals in the entire United States. At the moment, there are 66 patients being treated inside the facility. Again, run by the u. S. Army. I want to bring in major peter kirkendall, major planner for the u. S. Army and Operations Officer for the javits center. Major pete, good afternoon, thank you so much for your time, give us a status update,
Deaths. 946 deaths recorded yesterday alone out of more than 5,000 overall. Nearly 96 of the country now has been ordered to stay at home as more governors impose those statewide closures. Lets begin this hour of this. Our Brynn Gingras joins us again. Where we are getting an early and inside look at the Emergency Rooms hit by this pandemic. Reporter thats right, we are constantly getting nfr information about these Emergency Rooms. A lot of times were hearing about the public Emergency Rooms in the public hospitals, 11 of them. A man shot a video diary and this is in one of the private hospitals, mt. Sinai in new york city. He basically talks about that morning when he had to go to work, he left his wife and 17monthold daughter and he wasnt sure when he was going to see them again, because their family was fearful he would bring home the virus. He talked about all the equipment he has to put on and reuse in order to continue to see patients. And those ers, just like the ones weve been