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
Theyre transmitting the virus. If people wanted to wear them they can, if people want to use scarves, you can. Youre reducing the amount of virus youre putting into the environment. Its to protect others from you. We have about six days of current burn rate of ventilators. 21,000 Health Care Workers are now to new york to help. Every day i go to work, i feel like im going to slaughter. Announcer this is new day. Welcome to our viewers in the United States and all around the world. This is new day and breaking overnight. The top Infectious Disease expert in the country, dr. Anthony fauci tells cnn that the entire nation should be under stayathome orders. And more than that, he doesnt understand why theyre not. Ten states are Still Holding out. President trump is still resisting issuing a nationwide order. More news, cnn learned that the cdc is recommending guidelines for what different towns and cities should look for in their communities before they relax social distancing. Its a week
Vantage points. Kristin thats right, im kristin fisher. More than 7500 killed by the coronavirus, wyoming is the only state not reporting any deaths, not yet. And steve is in atlanta georgia. Hey, steve. Hey, kristin. The c. D. C. Coming out with new recommendations urging all americans to wear masks, cloth masks, when they go outside or some sort of clothing that covers their noses and mouths. The president made sure to say that this was a voluntary recommendation, that he himself would not be wearing a mask. Were getting a new information out of new york from governor cuomos presser, the single worst day in new york, the death toll in new york state 3500. That number has doubled in the past three days alone. Some bright spots, theyre getting 1,000 ventilators donated today from china, arriving in new york today and also 140 on loan from oregon. The mayor of new york says those ventilators are desperately needed. If were going to save every single life we can save, we must have the ve
And that is where we begin 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 th
In the meantime, as you mentioned, Governor Cuomo of new york really setting forth some bleak numbers. This was the worst single day in new york both for the number of cases and the number of deaths. At the current rate friday, new yorkers were dying from this virus 1 every 2. 5 minutes. There are 3,500 dead from the virus in new york, that number has doubled in just three days time. Heres Governor Cuomo on what still remains to be ahead for the state of new york. Our reading of the projections is were somewhere in the seven day range. Four, five, six, seven, oughtday range. Nobody can give you a specific number which makes it very frustrating to plan when they cant give you a specific number or a specific date. But were in that range. Reporter so a mounting death toll for the state of new york and still the worst could be roughly seven days away according to the governor. As far as partial shutdowns in the u. S. , still some states, nine of them, just with partial stayathome orders, f