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How soon those tests will become widely available. New hot spots emerge around the country. Detroit converts a Convention Center into a 1,000bed Field Hospital. Cases spiking in louisiana. Stay home, except for essential needs. Help us flatten the curve and save lives. The governor warns theyre days away from running out of ventilators. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson hospitalized ten days after being diagnosed with the disease, suffering from persistent symptoms like high temperature, as Queen Elizabeth makes a historic address to the nation. Her rallying cry heard around the world. We will be with our friends again. We will be with our families again. We will meet again. Grocery game plan. How to extend the life of your food as you minimize the need to leave your house. This is the moment to not be going to the Grocery Store, not going to the pharmacy. And that new recommendation from the cdc. Wear a mask, save your life. The right way to wear one, what you need to know. And final answer. Is that your final answer . One of our friends is back. Were going behind the scenes of who wants to be a millionaire . As the classic show is set to return. Good morning, america. Happy to be with you on this monday morning. We hope everyone had a safe weekend. And robin and george, they are joining us safely from home this morning. Good morning, robin. Good morning, michael. Hope everybody was able to get a bit of a rest this weekend. I want everyone to take a look at this though, a fema cargo plane arriving at l. A. X. Overnight. This is a great scene. It came in from china with some much needed medical supplies. George, we have another challenging week ahead of us. Help is coming in from everywhere though, robin. Good morning to you guys. We do want to get to the latest headlines as we start the week. Dr. Anthony fauci is saying its going to be, quote, a bad week and that it might be shocking to some. There are now more than 1. 2 million cases of covid19 worldwide, and in the United States more than 300,000 cases and more than 9,000 deaths, but more than 17,000 this is important have recovered from the virus so far across the country. The cdc as you know has released new guidelines now recommending that americans wear Face Coverings, masks, in public in order to try and reduce the spread of the disease. And here in new york at the bronx zoo, a 4yearold tiger has tested positive for coronavirus. That is the first animal here known to be infected. Robin . Many want to know how was that animal able to get a test when so many people are unable to. We begin our coverage here in hard hit new york city where the hospitals could run out of ventilators and reach capacity this week. Tom llamas is outside one of those hospitals in brooklyn. Good morning, tom. Reporter robin, good morning to you. We are entering what could be a pivotal week in the war on the coronavirus here in new york city. This hospital just behind me in brooklyn pushed to the max like so many across the city. Staffers here telling us they have worked 30 days straight, and, of course, these white overflow tents, the telltale sign that the coronavirus has taken over. This morning amid warnings of the hardest and saddest week yet, new york could see its infection rate peak, this at a time when hospitals are nearly full. Its so different than most anything weve cared for before. Reporter abc news inside brooklyns Medical Center, a City Hospital. Inside this room, staff preparing for an incoming covid patient. They say they get a new e. R. Patient every 14 minutes and theyre treating nearly all of them as potential coronavirus cases. Pretty much the entire Emergency Department is a hot zone at this point. Reporter according to a report by fema reviewed by abc news, new york City Hospitals will likely be at or near total capacity this week. Governor andrew cuomo says doctors and nurses are being asked to do the impossible. The system is over capacity all across the board. Its just over capacity. Youre asking a system to do more than it has ever done before, more than it was designed to do with less. Reporter the president sending more than 1,000 medical military personnel to eight hospitals in the city and help run the 2,500bed javits center. The Convention Center one of the largest hospitals in the country and now able to treat covid19 patients. The cavalry has come. God bless you all. Thank you. Thank you very much. I applaud you. Thank you. Reporter overnight, mayor bill de blasio greeting nearly 300 military medical staffers at the converted Convention Center, thanking the federal government for the manpower and supplies but saying new york needs more. At least today we are seeing a downpayment. Thats the way i would phrase it, but i want to say to everyone in washington, thats a start. Its nowhere near what i requested for our public hospitals. Reporter over the weekend the rate of deaths initially spiking. A person dying from covid19 in new york every 2 1 2 minutes. But on sunday, Governor Cuomo reporting the daily death toll in the state dropped for the first time. The disease killing more than 4,000 new yorkers. And as the university of albany is testing the antimalaria drug hydroxychloroquine on thousands of new yorkers with covid19, the president is enthusiastically promoting the drug which still hasnt been proven effective against the virus and carries potentially serious side effects as a powerful drug. Dr. Anthony fauci, the nations top Infectious Disease expert, has said claims about the drug are anecdotal and based on essentially nothing. But at a News Conference at the white house, the president stepping in to stop fauci from answering questions about the drug. Would you also weigh in on this issue of hydroxychloroquine . What do you think about this and do you know how many times hes answered that question . Maybe 15. Im asking the doctor. He doesnt have to answer your question. Hes your medical expert, correct . He answered that question 15 times. Reporter still, small glimmers of hope even in hardest hit new york. 75 of those hospitalized have already been discharged and are on the mend, like christina poss, who survived her 15day battle with the virus. The mother of five wheeled out of a new york City Hospital through a sea of applauding workers and right into her husbands arms. Now, on the issue of ventilators, mayor bill de blasio was worried they would run out by now, but because of donations from washington, oregon, even china, he says we can hold on for a couple days more. Michael, we also want to be Crystal Clear about something. We also are following the cdc guidelines. We have our masks. We are wearing them when were not broadcasting. Michael . All right, tom. Definitely be safe out there, my friend. Were going to look at the situation nationally. Look at the map two weeks ago. There were more than 30,000 cases in the u. S. And today there are ten times as many with new hot spots outside of new york and washington state. Authorities are warning us that this week will be this generations pearl harbor or 9 11 moment. Victor oquendo joins us from miami as the nation braces for the worst. Good morning, victor. Reporter good morning, michael. Normally this time of year this would be the site of a huge county fair. Now its been converted into a 250bed Field Hospital. There are no Covid Patients here yet, but they are ready and other major cities across the country are taking similar precautions as they prepare for a surge in cases. The next week is going to be our pearl harbor moment. Its going to be our 9 11 moment. Its going to be the hardest moment for Many Americans in their entire lives. Reporter with cases surging across the country, officials urging people to stay inside. This is the moment to not be going to the Grocery Store, not going to the pharmacy but doing everything you can to keep your family and your friends safe. Reporter authorities across the nation desperate to stop the spread. In detroit where some hospitals are already reaching capacity, theyre transforming the states largest Convention Center into a 1,000bed Field Hospital ready to open before the end of the week. Two days ago this was a blank concrete floor. Now were putting 600 rooms into here with nursing stations. Reporter nurse aimee deline on the front lines at the Detroit Medical Center lost three patients in a single night. Were losing a lot of patients quickly. As soon as theres one death, youve got somebody else in the process of crashing and youre running from one bed to the next. Stay home except for essential needs. Help us flatten the curve and save lives. Reporter in louisiana, cases are spiking. The governor says they might run out of ventilators by thursday. We already have louisianans dying. We think its probably around the 9th of april before we see our ventilator capacity, based on the current number on hand. Reporter one economics professor telling the wall street journal, saying the virus is killing twice as many fatalities as new york city. Legendary saints kicker, tom dempsey, known for making what was once the longest field goal in history passing away saturday. He was 73. It is time for us to be more serious about what we are facing as a city. Reporter in florida where nearly a quarter of the population is above the age of 60, the bulk of cases are in miamidade and broward counties where shannon bennett, a 12year veteran deputy died from coronavirus over the weekend. Registered nurse kyle mcbride just south of orlando choosing to isolate himself from his family to protect them, only interacting with his Young Children through windows. Youre in the line of fire and so i knew that i needed to protect my family somehow and i felt like this was the best way to do it. Reporter that nurse tells us hes now been away from his family for two weeks. Effective tomorrow wearing some kind of mask or Face Covering will not just be encouraged, it will be a requirement on miami beach if youre heading out to the pharmacy or Grocery Store. George . Okay, victor, thanks very much. Were joined now by u. S. Admiral brett giroir. Hes a key member of the White House Coronavirus task force. Admiral, thank you for joining us this morning. I know youre responsible for testing. Theres so much to cover across the country. I want to get to that as well. But i want to begin with that warning from Surgeon General adams yesterday saying america should be ready for a pearl harbor moment this week. He reports to you. Is that how you see it right now . What should americans know . Good morning, and i think the Surgeon General is absolutely right. For parts of the country, particularly new york, new jersey, connecticut, detroit, this week is going to be the peak week. Its going to be the peak hospitalization, peak icu week and unfortunately peak death week. That doesnt mean were over this week. There are other parts of the country that will peak a little bit later like new orleans. So we have to be very, very serious about whats happening this week, next week, the following weeks. Do the physical distancing, wear the masks. Thats how were going to defeat this virus. Thats all the prevention and the mitigation. Theres also a lot of questions about treatment as well and this possible treatment, hydroxychloroquine. Give us your best scientific judgment now about what people should know about that drug right now. Youre a pediatric icu surgeon. Would you prescribe it to your family, to your patients . I think the decision to use hydroxychloroquine is between a physician and a patient. It is a drug thats approved. We know a lot about it. It has some side effects, and it could be used off label. Any drug thats approved in the United States could be used for any indication that a physician thinks, and its a risk benefit analysis. If a person is really sick and about to go on a ventilator, the risk benefit calculation in my mind is probably would. You would probably use it because going on a ventilator, being on all the things we do in the icu, are also very risky, but its really an individualized decision. And i think its being made often throughout the country and were going to support physicians, doctors, pharmacists by making sure that the supply is there throughout the country should a physician and a patient decide thats what they want to do. Lets talk about where things stand with testing right now. The United States was clearly behind the curve at the beginning of this pandemic. Where do we stand right now, and just as important, where do we need to be if we do indeed want to move towards reopening at least parts of the country on may 1st . So where we are right now, as youve said, weve come a long way. As of yesterday weve conducted at least 1. 67 million tests, and we dont even get information from all of the laboratory derived tests. These are the ones that are in the hospitals that dont really report up through the system. Well do about a million tests this week and thats plenty enough tests for the people who really need it in the priority groups those who are hospitalized, Health Care Workers, elderly. When we get to the next phase about reopening the country, it will be a combination of the kind of tests we do now, plus something called serologic tests. Serologic tests are on a drop of blood. Theyre very, very quick. They will be scaled to the tens of millions very quickly and they will tell you if youve been exposed to the virus, have you had the virus. Thats very important as we think about reopening the country and the economy because if you have had the virus and you have an immune response to it, in all probability you are immune and safe from the virus. So it will be a combination of the active test for the virus will we be able to ramp up to those tens of millions by may 1st . For the serologic tests were very optimistic. There are several that are going through the fda right now. I just want to be a little bit cautious though. We want to make sure these tests are highly validated and their performance is excellent because we dont want to tell a person, yes, you have had it and youre immune, and thats not the case. So we are very optimistic. Im personally very optimistic that by may were going to have these in very large quantities with all the needed supplies. The current tests have a long supply chain swabs, media, testing, lab kits, et cetera. The next phase is much simpler. Finally, sir, we saw that report this morning about at the bronx zoo an animal testing positive for covid. What should that tell people about whether their pets can get it and viceversa . I think its the idea of pets, you know, we have to learn more about that. There is some cdc guidance that is posted on pets. Hopefully no one has a pet tiger, but clearly there could be a potential of some species. Coronaviruses are a very wide class of viruses, not this specific one, but theres a very wide class that affects many different species around the world which is why you have seen this transmission to us. Check the cdc guidance for updated information about your pets. That will change as our information evolves. Admiral, thanks very much for your time this morning. Youre welcome. Robin . All right, george. Were going to move overseas now. Pope Francis Holding palm sunday mass in a near empty st. Peters basilica. The service was live streamed to worshippers. Usually tens of thousands pack the square at this time of year. Meanwhile, in the United Kingdom Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been admitted to the hospital as his symptoms persist ten days after testing positive for covid19. The crisis sparking a Rare National address from Queen Elizabeth. James longman has the latest. Reporter overnight, british Prime Minister Boris Johnson hospitalized for coronavirus ten days after being diagnosed with the disease. The 55yearolds doctor recommending he undergo further testing after suffering from persistent symptoms like a high temperature. He was last seen in this video he posted on twitter friday. I still have a minor symptom and i still have a temperature. Reporter the news coming shortly after Queen Elizabeths historic address to the nation. Only the fifth time in her 68year reign has the monarch made such a broadcast, putting front line workers at the heart of her address. What you do is appreciated, and every hour of your hard work brings us closer to a return to more normal times. Reporter she remains in good health at Windsor Castle with her husband, prince philip. Only one cameraman in the room with her at a distance wearing protective equipment. There are nearly 50,000 cases of confirmed coronavirus in the uk. Nearly 5,000 have died. Her majesty with a subtle message to some still not staying home. I hope in the years to come everyone will be able to take pride in how they responded to this challenge. Those who come after us will say the britains of this generation whereas strong as in. Reporter and a final message of hope. We will be with our friends again. We will be with our families again. We will meet again. Reporter certainly an uplifting message to end on and signs of hope elsewhere in europe. Italy and spain, two of the hardest hit countries, now reporting a drop in infection rates. Spain now