Two Top Health Officials who are urging americans to stay at home. Dr. Deborah birx of the White House Task force on the coronavirus pandemic is saying this week was not the week to go to the Grocery Store or pharmacy if you can avoid it. Stunning images from wisconsin today, long lines of voters for the states primary, wisconsin the only state to allow inperson voting to go on this month during this deadly pandemic. As cnns nick watt reports, Health Officials across the country are telling americans that social distancing seems to be working and is changing the number of projected infections and deaths and are using that to argue that these precautions need to continue. Reporter new york state just had its deadliest day. 731 people who we lost. Behind every one of those numbers is an individual, is a family, is a mother, is a father, is a sister, is a brother. Reporter but here on the front line, the new case count appears to be flattening. For the past couple of days, discharging mor
All right. Time for tonights dose of gratitude. Listen to new york city saluting our heroes. [ cheers and applause ] big cities impressive, but this is happening all over the country, communities big and small. Look at this in new jersey, a nurse who treats Covid Patients came home to her little quiet suburb and look what she found. [ cheers and applause ] [ horns honking ] thank you, janeke janeke nobles of montclair, new jersey. Listen to your neighbors. We see you. Thank you for being our best. This is the medicine that will make us get better. Remember how many are doing so much for us. Do your part as well. Thats how we get through it. Together, as ever, as one. Time for cnn tonight. You know what that means. D. Lemon. How are you doing, brother . Better than i deserve. You know im worried about you. I didnt talk to you that much. I got a text we texted, what, a little bit today . What do you have . Is that a cough drop . Yeah. Youre looking a little red today, got to be honest. I
He also kinda claimed credit for curing a woman of the coronavirus. He said shes a democrat, africanamerican, with a beautiful manner of speaking. She appeared on fox news last night to say she took the hydrochloroquine on the president s recommendation, and it was like a miracle. He didnt stop there on that front. He is selling hydrochloroquine hard. He said it again today. I say try it. Youre not going to die from this pill. The side effects, he said, are from the antibiotic, the zithromax sazpak. He repeated, i really think its a great thing to try. Today the president went after the World Health Organization, and to be clear this is a fox news hobby horse even though on february 10th he said they were doing a fantastic job. The thought here is to blame the w. H. O. For downplaying the risk from china. It also lets the president continue to say largely unchallenged that he closed our borders to china even though about 400,000 people continued to fly here and that he closed our borde
Helps countries get ready for epidemics. Go through a couple things here, initially, what appears to be clear, doctor, we need to know where the virus is and where it is not. And we cannot do that until we have a test. Isnt that at the heart of where we are today, sir . There are a few things that we urgently have to do, and everyone has a really Important Role to play. Testing is crucially important, and we are seeing testing come up with commercial Companies Like abbott coming into the game and getting test kits out there. We are seeing hospital laboratories develop their own tests now that the fda has allowed them to do so, and the cdc test kit is working in every state, and at cdc. But its not quick enough and wide enough yet. In places like new york city where we are having so many cases, our advice to people is if you are just mildly ill, dont try to get a test, dont come in right now, there arent enough health workers, nurses, doctors, there arent enough test kits and tests and
Already near their breaking point. This tremendous stress on the Health Care System. To say to this tremendous Health Care System which is at Maximum Capacity today, this is a Hospital System where we have our foot to the floor and the engine is at redline. Dana President Trump telling americans the peak of this terrible pandemic is still ahead after saying this could be the toughest week yet. Lets bring in kristin fisher, she is reporting live it from the white house for us today. Kristin. Dana, everybody from President Trump to the Surgeon General, to dr. Fauci say that this week and next week are going to be two of the toughest weeks in american history. You know, we have heard so much about how hard hospitals are being hit by this, especially those hospitals in new york city. That they are very close to their breaking point, and now, today, we have some hard data to back that up from the watchdog that oversees the department of health and human services. The departments Inspector G