Tunnel as he warns of dark days to come in the next 2 or 3 weeks. Overnight us coronavirus desktops 4000. 1700 people have died in the outbreak epicenter, new york. 76,000 people tested positive in the state of new york. Another hotspot is louisiana, could soon run out of ventilators as cases spike 30 over 24 hours. Brian hawaii retiring people traveling between islands to self quarantine. As nevada issues a travel advisory to stop the spread of covid19 it is not all bad news, 7000 people have recovered in the us, 1000 more than yesterday, one of every eight that gets tested ends up tests negative but stunning to think we are at 7000 deaths and we are going to get between 100200,000 deaths over the next month. I cant wrap my head around that statement and we could be doing everything right and everything they tell us and still get to that number. We top people with the virus, now if that happens we will be by far the top of those 4000 dead, tops for people around the world with the vir
If we are lucky, somebody steps forward, a unifying figure, somebody who brings us all together, reminds us what we all have in common despite any other differences that might have kept us apart in the past. Today it was a republican congressman from kentucky, a man named Thomas Massie, who played that role. He proved that everyone, democrat and republican, could come together even in washington in common purpose. The common purpose of being absolutely furious with congressman Thomas Massie because there really was no suspense today about whether the house of representatives was going to pass this 2 trillion relief package meant to prop up the economy, which has more or less shut down during this pandemic. The Senate Passed this legislation a couple days ago 960, unanimously, democrats and republicans. By all accounts, the vast, vast, vast majority of members of the house supported this thing as well. The suspense was not about whether it would get passed. The suspense was about how th
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
Tonight with our chief breaking news correspondence. Good evening during the coronavirus tax force briefing dr. Deborah birx noted how california is an example of how to flatten the curve and bend to the curve, for more than a week the number of new infections and new debts in california has been steady. When it comes to patients being admitted to icus which is a key barometer on curve flattening, california is seeing numbers come down. Here is the states each h hhs secretary. Our peak may not be as high as we planned around and expected, the difference between what we are seeing today in our hospitals may not be that much different than where we are going to peek in the many weeks to come. Still Los Angeles County extended its stayathome mandate until may 15th. Across the country there is a great deal of focus on the number of total cases and number of deaths but when it comes to flattening the curve what is most important is the percentage of increase in the number of cases. From apr
Slow the spread of the virus, the hope is that the number of american deaths, if were lucky, could be more in the range of 100,000 to 240,000. That is essentially the goal, as described today by the Trump Administration. If all goes well, some where between 100,000 and 240,000 americans will die here. And that is if the United States somehow gets more serious about preventing people from getting it, preventing people from passing it on. Right now heres the National Projection graph showing the u. S. Trajectory of new cases versus other places in the world. This is from the financial times, the Data Visualization team aggregates this data from all over the world. They put out new graphs every day. You can see the u. S. Is in pink at the top. Our trajectory is the worst in the world by a considerable amount in terms of the rapid increase of new cases. Interesting though, look at italy on this same graph. We italys the sort of gray line there. We reported over the last week and a half tha