New york reporting, again, the most deaths yet in a 24 hour period. It was also the deadliest day nationwide with nearly 2,000 people dying yesterday. Pushing the overall death toll to nearly 16,000 now. Meaning if the current projections are accurate, new york has only suffered about half of the deaths that it could see by august and the u. S. Hasnt even really seen a third of the deaths projected during that same time period. The economic pain of all of this is setting in today in a new way. Take a look at this. The government reporting that this morning that 6. 6 million americans filed for one employment for first time this past week. San antonio the past three weeks almost 17 million americans have filed for unemployment. Unprecedented, lets be honest, starting to lose its meaning. Lets start in new york where the governor says today there are more signs of hope, but he also made clear, again, that in no way means its time to relax or let up on anything. Cnns erica hill is here standing by. What your hearing . Reporter there was that moment, as you just played for us, when the government talked about never could he imagine bringing in extra funeral directors. Thats because of the number of deaths. Theres some good news. The hospital of hospitalizations specifically is way down. 200 new hospitalizations on wednesday. Thats down from 585 the day before. Thats a very good sign. We also learned from the governor that the number of patients being put into the icu is at its lowest since march 19th. Also a good sign. But as were seeing perhaps a little bit of a plateau the governor was also adamant this is not the time for anyone to change their behavior. You stayathome and save a life. Period. Youre not out of the woods. And now is not the time to misunderstand whats happening. Weve done great things and we have saved lives because we have followed these policies. The reason youve seen a drop in in hospitalizations is because of the actions new yorkers took weeks and months ago. So as we mentioned off the top depressing news about the economy. Millions more people filing for unemployment for first time last week. Now source tells cnn President Trump is announcing a second economic package. Reporter they are expected to announce this in the coming days. Not clear when. Basically what they want is to have a group of aides that are solely focused on reopening the economy and ways to do that. As we noted its going to be a complicated situation so the white house is aware of that. They are trying to figure out when thats going to happen. The president is expected to announce this task force. Were told by several forces it will include Administration Officials you expect to see on Something Like this like the treasury secretary steven mnuchkin, larry kudlow, but were also told they will have privatesector figures on this including Economic Experts as well. They want this to be solely focused on this as the Coronavirus Task force is focused on Public Health. They have considering the economy. You have seen what treasury secretary has done with congress to get the relief funding. What theyve done for Small Business loans. But what will it took like when these social distancing guidelines are up at the end of the month. Today mnuchkin is hopeful it can reopen the economy in may. The president is not putting a deadline on it. If they will send people back to work is there enough widespread testing, contract tracing, things of that nature to make sure that they are aware this is going back to people going to work. Wont have to redo this shutdown with the economy. You just learned there are new Safety Measures going into effect for people including journalists at the white house . Whats going on. Reporter much who attends that press briefing today the ones youve been watching every day will be tested for coronavirus beforehand. Thats a measure the white house had been taking lately. Testing senior staffers meeting with the president and Vice President and now they are going to do so for the reporters in the room today after there was reports one reporter has coronavirus symptoms. They dont know if they tested positive for it. They are awaiting the results for that. The other thing is this will become a daily thing. The white house has been weighing how to handle this. They are considering potentially testing much who comes into the white house complex though they have not made any decisions. All photographser, technician, everyone will be someone who has taken a coronavirus test. Where we are today. Thank you. Joining me right now is dr. Julio frank, president of the university of miami but if i may, doctor, your resume covers almost every aspect of this crisis. Youre a former minister of health of mexico, chairman of the Board Institute creating these projection models that the white house is using and former executive with the world health organization. Thank you for being here. As the president of the university of miami i look at those unemployment numbers, those grim numbers and im struck wondering thats going through, of course, families with kids in college. How are you prepetersburg for families to come to you and say we cant pay for cool any more after this. The crept emergency unfolding, it started behind and will outlast the Public Health emergency. We all need to be preparing for that part of the emergency thats going to happen. By defending every time theres a novel pathogen that appears, the defining characteristic, that requires we develop whats called Contingency Planning to really make an exercise in figuring out what are the worse Case Scenarios so not that we hope that they dont happen but wework very hard we work very hard to defeat them. Were seeing that with the Public Health emergency. The measures are working. But we need be prepared for those scenarios on the financial front. Yeah. On both fronts. Youre exactly right. About to become the interim head of the university of miamis health system. Speaking about the worse Case Scenarios im seeing that the projected peak in florida is still 12 days out. You got places like ahead of you like detroit where hospital workers are reporting things like people dying in er hallways before help could arrive. How do you make sure that doesnt happen in your hospitals . Well that is exactly what that sort of Contingency Planning has to entail. One characteristic of this epidemic like all of them, its unfolding at different rates in different parts of the world and its everybodys duty to learn. Because of that uncertainty we are learning as the epidemic evolves. Were watching very closely what happened first on the west coast, Washington State and california. Now whats happening in new york. I think has really provided incredible lessons of what we need to avoid. Were watching whats happening in detroit and other areas. It is expected that miami will, will be facing a surge in demand. Weve been getting ready from the beginning, making sure we have equipment, ventilators, getting ready for that. Youre right because of my own professional training ive now taken the additional role of interim ceo because in addition to our education we provide a Vital Service to the community, especially for the most acutely ill critical patients as we are highly Specialized Hospital system. The cdc, when youre looking at kind of the broader Public Health emergency and when youre kind of looking at when society can open up again the cdc is loosening its guidelines saying when it comes to essential workers who have been exposed to the virus they can now return to work, taking certain precautions which they list out if they are not experiencing symptoms. Your comfortable with that . I mean, what do you think it will take to open society back up . Well, i mean clearly were trying to we need to change the mindset that there is sort of a close knit between the Public Health object jennifer and economic recovery objective. We need to work synergyistically. If we prematurely reopen the economy and have a second surge and many more people die that will obviously play havoc with the economy recovery as well. On the other hand, we keep the economy locked down longer than strictly necessary, you know, people will also experience the Health Consequences of an economic downturn if they lose their jobs. Just both physically and Emotional Health will be in jeopardy. So these two things of planning has to go handinhand. It is true we have to do some testing. Not the diagnostic test to see if you have a virus but a test to see if you have the antibodies. It makes since in a gradual way based on that kind of testing, not just that the aggregate numbers are better because prematurely we let our guard down we can generate a second spike. Were seeing this in singapore which now had to introduce more tougher measures because of that second wave. So, it is a very careful balancing act and the two pieces seem to go handinhand. Not one or the other. Not one against the other. Nothing hurts the economy more than having people sick or dying. And, of course, nothing hurts health more than having people out of jobs and in this kind of economic distress. The two work handinhand. But those kind of guidance makes sense and has to be based on rigorous the rest. Were not in a new normal were in an abnormal. When we come out of this well see permanent changes in the way wework being social distancing measures we introduced. Have jokingly say we might abandon hand shakes. I dont think that will happen but i think well have to change the way, we interact. Some of those changes will be positive. I think youll see very positive changes in education, much more use of online blending different classroom experiences. I think youll see witte we health. Delivering and improving access to health using technology. And also with work, being more productive using some technologies that today we would be forced to use but should become permanent. Then way we interact, more aware of the need for personal hygiene and for your measures, not social but physical distancing. I think those are likely to be lessons from this emergency. Ill take a positive lesson of anything. Dr. Frank, thank you so much for being here. You have a huge job ahead of you. Thank you so much. New cities are emerging as potential new yep centers for the virus. One mayor now ordering all residents to wear masks when they go to the grocery store. Well go there next. A nursing home evacuated after employees stopped showing up for work. Are thing Getting Better or worse for elderly and longterm care facilities . Philadelphi concern, according to the White House Task force reporting 1400 new cases of the coronavirus per day. Pennsylvanias governor just cancelled schools statewide for the rest of the academic year. We go to philadelphia. Alex, Health Experts were wondering if philadelphia is the next hot spot, next epicenter. What your hearing . Reporter yeah. Local officials are taking exception that this is as hot a spot as the white house is making it out to be. They are happy that theres concern for philadelphia but they are saying that the trend lines arent as bad as the Coronavirus Task force is making it out to be. That 1400 number thats for the metropolitan philadelphia area and we heard earlier from the Health Commissioner for philadelphia he says that the white house is using outdated numbers, that the numbers are actually slowing, that curve is flattening and actually in the last few days there has been what he called a plateau but at the same time the Health Commissioner issued a warning that they are in dire need of various supplies. Take a listen to what he told cnn earlier today. We are having problems with personal protective equipment for our Health Care Workers. Health care system could come under strain. We put in place a lot of safe guards. So at the moment looks like we can manage the surge. But its been tough to prepare for that point. So were by no means over this. Reporter so, they are not down playing it. What they are doing is expressing some cautious optimism that the Growth Numbers are slowing. The numbers that they put out today, positive cases for 494 compares to 505. In the same range. You see what he means by that plaing to, flattening out. Also saying that 104 philadelphians have died. That number surely to grow in the coming days. Alex, thank you. So d. C. The washington, d. C. Area is also bracing for impact, if you will as it shares that unwanted title of the next potential hot spot. Suzanne malveaux is there outside of Howard University hospital. What your hearing there . Reporter were at the awning at the entrance here and turned away from the entrance to protect the privacy of patients. We talked to a number of doctors who have seen and experiencing the coronavirus, the d. C. Mayor earlier today saying anticipate one out of seven d. C. Residents will be impacted and affected by this virus. They are beginning to see a surge in the number of cases. Were talking about dmv, d. C. , maryland and virginia area, 11,000 and counting. The mayor saying there was a dramatic increase as well justin prior days. What they are doing here at Howard University a world renown trauma hospital. They have opened up a wing to provide 170 beds for what they anticipate will be a surge. When seeing a patient it really takes a lot of sympathy, it takes a lot of fortitude because youre not only thinking about your patient but youre thinking about yourself and your family. So one we leave the hospital at the end of the day, we go home, we sterilize our cards, we clean our homes, you head right for the shower, remove our clothes and then interact with our families. Its a very stressful time for caregivers. The University President says they are ready, up for the task as a designated hospital for this pandemic. 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It sound like its getting worse. Well, its slowly Getting Better but were still fighting this incredible battle with two hand tied behind our back. One hand is the lack of equipment. We dont have enough masks and this virus spreads through coughing and maybe just through breathing and without masks we cant stop it. The second hand tied behind our back is