Javits Convention Center its remarkable what they have been able to do there. Also this, tents springing up in central park where the Charity Samaritans purse has set up their own Field Hospital to help out. It is the reality in new york and across the nation as we learn that we are, as many anticipated in this for a bit longer haul than originally hoped. President trump extended the social distancing guidelines now through april 30. And the White House Task force offered this projection from dr. Deborah birx for what may lie ahead. So in a flu model, the worse Case Scenario is between 1. 6 million and 2. 2 million deaths. Thats a projection if you do nothing. So we have never really done all of these things that we are doing. We put them into a model. We have looked at the italy data with their selfisolation. And thats where we come up with if we do things together well, almost perfectly, we could get in the range of 100,000 to 200,000 fatalities. We dont even want to see that. Did yo
Guidelines in distancing guidelines. We have Fox Team Coverage on the latest response at home and abroad. We begin with Mark Meredith reporting live from the white house. Mark. Reporter good eave nick, jon. The president s advisor are meeting for the Coronavirus Task force, this was a briefing we expected to happen via conference call, now it is happening in the white house situation room. Weve seen a few of the advisors starting to show up. The president as you mentioned tweeted he may or may not do a News Conference out of this. Well be on standby for that. The president told reporters on saturday he believes americas governors should decide what matters most for their states when it comes to whether or not there should be a lockdown of any sort and this morning the Surgeon General backed up the president s strategy. The governors are protective of their right to be able to decide whats best for their state and were going to do everything we can as scientists and as physicians, as me
America, we begin across the pond with some big developments in the u. K. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is in the hospital tonight for testing. His symptoms of coronavirus have persisted more than a week after he tested positive. Also today Queen Elizabeth ii gave a rare and historic speech urging her nation to pull together. Nbcs cal perry joins us now from london. Cal, lets start with borns. Whats the latest on the Prime Minister . Reporter well, we had a very short press release from his office that said this was a precautionary measure. The symptom that they cited was this persistent fever. They said a number of symptoms had continued, this now ten days after he had tested positive for the virus. His office saying that doctors basically wanted to see him face to face. That they were going to run some routine tests. Now, the question, of course, on many peoples minds are what kind of tests are they run at the hospital they couldnt run at his office. It has certainly raised co
For his part, our president said he sees, quote, a lot of light at the end of the tunnel, and its getting brighter and brighter every day. He said again today, not Everyone Wants to do significant testing. He said in some cases, its not good. He said he really believes, quote, well be able to put out the fires if this disease pops up again because he said weve gotten really good at this. Elsewhere during the briefing, he wished kim jongun well, and as he does every day, he reminded us of the death toll projections had he chosen to do nothing. In the real world tonight, the United States death toll stands at over 44,000. With between 1 and 2 of our total population tested, we know at least of more than 803,000 confirmed cases in the u. S. Worldwide the number of confirmed corona cases north of 2. 5 million now. As we mentioned, the director of the cdc is warning this second wave of coronavirus this winter will likely be worse because, quote, were going to have the flu epidemic and the c
Politics nation. In about 45 minutes, were expecting an update from the White House Coronavirus task force in the Briefing Room. Once it gets started, well take you there live. While we wait, tonights lead, six feet apart or six feet under. That is the decision facing the country in the weeks ahead. As President Trump pushes some states to reopen their economies, while at the same time telling governors that he wants them to decide when and how to ease social distancing restrictions. This week the president took on to twitter, of course, to rally his supporters to, quote, liberate states like michigan, minnesota, and virginia. All three of them swing states. All three critical to his reelection. All three with democratic governors to beat upon. And knowing this president personally, i am sure he is going to do exactly that. Escalate. Make it personal, and instead of focusing on a plan for, say, testing, the president is feuding with state leaders, trying to Prioritize Health policy con