One who needs them. It is still early on in this coronavirus pandemic. In america alone there are families already planning a thousand and 67th funerals. Many of those funerals wont be held, at least not for a long time. Many of these families cant find solace in the arms of loved ones because they cant be close to them. For those who died, many of them died alone. Families are not allowed in hospitals or near the virus. The ones closest to them before during their last breaths are the doctors and nurses and ems workers. Right now they are overwhelmed. For everyday the nation is slow f to get ventilators or debating the need to stay home, these soldiers are working tirelessly around the clock to save lives. Tthe New York Times describin a doctor performing a chest compression on a man in her 80s. All suffering from coronavirus and all who died. Doctors and nurses quote struggle to make do with a few dozen ventilators. The code for when a patient is on the verge of death comes several times a shift. Some died inside the emergency room while waiting for a bed. A refrigerated truck have been stationed outside to hold the bodies of the dead. In this hospital, at least 13 people have died in just 24 hours. The sick, well, they are too ill to tell you their stories. Doctors can like this one. The president saying things like we are going to be fine and everything is fine and from our perspective, everything is not fine. I dont have the support that i need and even just the materials that i need physically to take care of my patients and it is america. We are supposed to be a first world country. Pleas like that of front line healthcare workers to be alarmed. I am going to talk to two people who put their lives everyday on this pandemic, one in the east coast and one in the west coast. Dr. Suzanne hill, dr. Hill, lets start with you, you are in new york city, there are nearly 18,000 cases there, tell us what you are experiencing. Right now we are experiencing some of the same things that everyone across the country is experiencing, we are all anxious and we are worried and we are worried about our patients and families and each other. Right now things are still changing on hour to hour basis as we brace for whats coming ahead the next few weeks. Dr. Ottish, what are you seeing . It changes day by day and hour by hour. We have to create Surge Capacity within our hospitals and create icu s in places where we cared for different patients before. We are mobilizing teams or ready for what we know is coming. And dr. Hills, do you say you expect to get the coronavirus . I think everybody here in new york is at highrisk for exposure. I think all of our healthcare workers feel like it is almost inevitable that well be exposed so that is right now the situation that we are dealing with and we are doing our best to keep our patients and ourselves protecting and we want to be able to be here for patients when they get sick. We want to be standing when people meet us and right now we are doing Everything Possible to keep ourselves and the teams that we work to be healthy. And dr. Awdish, youre in detroit, wayne county. Wayne county has the seventh highest number of confirmed cases in the united states. You must be confronting this reality as well. How do you prepare for the possibility of getting this . You know i care for my first covid19 positive patient ten days ago. I did all the procedures we do to protect ourselves with personal equipment, we are willing to go into these rooms day after day. We just want to be protected and we want to be able to protect our patients and our families and our colleagues. We worriley less about ourselve. We dont want to transmit it who did not choose this work. And dr. Awdish go on dr. Hills. No, i fully agree. I think our priority is our patients and we are all working together across the country to try to think about creative ways that we can make protective equipment lasting as long as possible or Work Together to try to keep healthcare providers. How are you doing that dr. Hills, what are creative ways you and your colleagues making protective equipment, or is enough . What we are thinking is right now we are so grateful for everybody who is staying inside and helping us to slow the spread of the virus. I think thats going to be ultimately the most powerful tool that we have to prevent the spread and help conserve the resources that we have to protect ourselves and patients. When we think about two or three or four weeks from now or eight weeks from now, given the equipment that we have now, we dont know where we are going to be in a couple of weeks. There are guidelines from the cdc and what to do in a critical shortage of equipment and suggestions that are out there considering to resterilizing masks and using others not so protective equipment like bandannas that we know is not effective against the virus. We are not in that situation but the way things are looking we got to think about what are we going to do a couple of weeks when we hit a crisis here if we dont get the equipment we need. Yes, you could very much be in that situation. Dr. Awdish you tweeted a heartbreaking message about how you made personal preparations for the quote, break the glass scenario. Explain what you are talking about and what led you to take these actions. We are taking care of these patients all understand that things can change on a dime. You cant get two or three doctors together where they dont start saying okay, u. Justo you know this is the plan, this is where i want my kids to go to and what people think of their pets and security, we develop this ritual and decontamination when we remove all of our clothing in the hospital and attempt to sterilize ourselves because physicians and nurses and respiratory therapies, theyre sleeping in spare bedrooms and garages and basement trying to protect their family. No, we have heard so many stories of people, they go into their garages and they strip off their clothes and head straight for the shower and have to make a decision how they behave at home. Do they separate themselves. Dr. Hills, we are learning some hospitals are weighing whether they make changes to our dnr policies, do not resuscitate policies as part of the way to reduce risks to their staff. Do your hospital have that conversation . The situation is changing everyday. Looking at other countries, where these things are happening like italy for example. We have to look at those countries and experiences and think thats something that could be happening here. So i think what we are seeing happening elsewhere in the world is really very educational for us and we have to Pay Attention to what is going on in places like iran and italy, of the way they are having to manage this disease and the difficult decisions they have to make. When we look at china, tremendous wealth of information thats coming out of china. They publish that information on a collection of 72,000 cases last month. Those experiences of what is happening and whats going on and how theyre shorthahandling things you should be watching and seeing and really taking to heart and learning from and this is a pandemic situation thats affecting every country. We are all in this together. And we need to really watch whats happening around the world. Look, thank you guys for being our eyes and ears. Well continue to check in with you to see how this is going. As you say this is changing daytoday. Dr. Awdish and dr. Hills. Thank you both. The truth behind the drugs that you have been hearing so much about. I will talk to the white houses trade adviser, Peter Navarro, why he says it is expected. Some say mardi gras may be the blame. How do your teeth get a dentistclean feeling . Start with a round brush head. Add power. And youve got oralb oralbs round brush head surrounds each tooth to remove more plaque. For a superior clean, round cleans better. Oralb. Robinwithout the commission fees. So, you can start investing today wherever you are even hanging with your dog. So, what are you waiting for . Download now and get your first stock on us. Robinhood. Thats ensure max protein, with high protein and 1 gram sugar. Its a situp, banana bend at the waist im tryin keep it up. Youll get there. 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Governor andrew cuomo talked about the challenges that are facing hospitals there. He applauded the healthcare workers on the front line. Those Healthcare Professionals who are dealing the virus they did not understand. They still dont understand. Theyre there working and many of them seven days a week. Yes, we are tired. But, look at what others among us have to do and the challenge they are under and how they are stepping up. Who am i to complain about being tired when so many people are doing such heroic efforts . Tomorrow the house is expected to vote on a 2 trillion stimulus bill which was approved last night in the senate. This is a bill delivers billions of dollars to hospitals and sends money to impacted workers. Nancy pelosi says she expects a strong bipartisan vote for this bill. The navy will test 5,000 sailors aboard the u. S. 23 sailors tested positive for coronavirus aboard that aircraft carrier. Doctors are searching for answers with so many critically ill patients packed in the hospital coast to coast. I want to bring in elizabeth cohen. L lets talk about two of these drugs. One is chloroquine and one is getting plasma treatments. Whats the truth and promise behind these . Lets take chloroquine first, it is a hydroxychloroquine, it is a less toxic one to think. The president has been enthusiastic. When you talk to doctors what they say is not so fast. We have to study this and we dont know if it works in patients with coronavirus. They say look, we are not going to get enthusiastic until we see the results of the trial. Luckily they are speeding up and hoping to have answers in weeks or months and not in years. You mention plasma donation, it is simple. Once you rekoer frcover coronav. You have answers. Theyll take the antibodies who recovered and give it to someone who is still stick. It has worked for other diseases and it is unclear if it will work here. What do you do when you are not a confirmed coronavirus case . Thats an excellent question. I have talked to some doctors who for their trials are interested in finding those people because they want as many people they can get who recovered. It depends on which trial you are talking about and the rules may be different. Some places are going to say no, i want you to already have the test and i dont want to test you because we dont have enough test. Theyll use people with confirm ld test or can you go and roll up your sleeves and say hey, test me, i think i may have had it. They can miss a lot of people. Elizabeth, thank you so much for walking us through that, we are curious of those possible treatments. I am going to talk to our director of infectious diseases, doctor, thank you so much for being with us. I wonder which avenue you find promising. Well, it is a great question. Right now it is really one big body of work. We dont know if these existing drugs are going to be effective or how effective or whether theyre best used to prevent infection or treat people early until the course of disease or treat people late. The same thing is true of this antibody treatment, we dont know what its place will be. There are also new trugs that have yet to be used in Clinical Trials that are coming online thats not existing drugs and they may be proven more effective. You need to identify people who may have antibodies but there are a ton of people who are assumed coronavirus and recovered but they never officially tested. Some trialists maybe willing to enroll those patients and test them to see if they have antibodies against coronavirus and if they do, they can probably use their plasma in their studies. Is that the number that the u. S. Need to achieve as well and does Everyone Needs to be tested . We are learning not Everybody Needs to be tested but we are also facing a situation where we clearly dont have this test capacity that we need, it will be devastating to have an outbreak. Our Testing Capacity is not where it needs to be and not clear we need to test every Single Person but well learn more about that as time goes by. You signed onto a letter for healthcare tennessee, you were asking for a stayathome order. The governor has closed bars and restaurants and gyms and fitness center. Is that enough for you or do you think tennessee needs to go further . Well, i think it is a great start. We look at those stories coming out of new york. Devastating or detroit and we are haeeading in the direction having more cases. We are near a thousand cases in tennessee and over 3,000 cases in nashville. This virus needs to be slowed down. I think a shelter in place, safer at home policy is enacted across the state is where we need to be heading if we are going to flatten the curve. All right, dr. Aronoff, thank you very much. Be sure to join cnn tonight to get your answers, dr. Fauci and bill gates will join dr. Sanjay gupta tonight coronavirus facts and fears. Why dont americans have the equipment they need . I will be asking Peter Navarro up next. Preparing for the worse of louisiana. Why is that state becoming the next coronavirus hot spot. I use it to buy makeup. Travel. Clothes, electronics. To me, rakuten is a great way to get cash back on anything you buy. Sign up today and rack it up with rakuten. Until i found out what itst it actually was. Ed me. Dust mite droppings eeeeeww dead skin cells gross so now, i grab my swiffer sweeper and heavyduty dusters. Duster extends to three feet to get all that gross stuff gotcha and for that nasty dust on my floors, my sweepers on it. The textured cloths grab and hold dirt and hair no matter where dust bunnies hide. No more heebie jeebies. Phew. Glad i stopped cleaning and started swiffering. 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If anything we have learned in this crisis that we have to be prepared and as i have shared with you this crisis is not over in the first explosion. Until there is a feedback seen and we have drugs that can treat this, we may see a second or even a third explosion of this as we do in the flu season. We may see that in the fall as early as october or november. Garcetti did see the stayathome order appears to be working. An explosion of coronavirus cases in louisiana, additional 500 positive cases and 18 deaths just since yesterday. The outbreak in louisiana is the worst in the world in terms of trajecto trajectory. This is the disaster that defines our generation. Northbound li new orleans is the epicenter in the state and some are saying last months mardi gras is to blame. Diane gallagher is joining us. The greatest party in the world was a perfect incubator. Thats kind of what they are looking at brianna are those incubation period. A first case of louisiana was a person tested positive 13 days after fat tuesday. Since then they have been placed other people with positives that were in new orleans for mardi gras now. These are serious, it is something thats starting to grow among health officials. Take a listen. We had over a million and a half people in the city including International Visitors all attending parade dailies. I think thats obviously probably an issue for what we have seen in new orleans. New orleans is seeing a lot of these cases right now. Almost half or a little more half of the deaths in louisiana are from where new orleans is. According to the governor there, this is what we are seeing the biggest issues when it comes to medical shortages as well. They need about a thousand ventilators, just to keep up with the patients that are in the area. Now theyre bringing Homeless Individuals who live in new orleans into hotels right now. There is a stayathome order in effect for about a week now. The attempt to get people to take it seriously, food banks are running out of food. This is starting to happen across the entire state. Outbreaks of covid19 where they are attempting to tell people to stay away from each other and the basics we have been telling you for weeks. Theyre trying to keep medical professionals prepared here by bringing in more ppe and icu beds. We are starting to get icu beds. Theyre moving the floors so they can get people away from those affected by the virus and the spread even more. I will tell you to help with that food bank there. New orleans state quarterback drew brees announced hes donating 5 million to assist with the healthcare and several food bank. The governor is thanking him on twitter. They need federal help as well for their citizens. Dianne gallagher. Thank you so much. Are states getting closer to get what they need. As more patients are coming to hospitals, you heard it from louisiana. 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