Minister, shes tested positive for it. Justin trudeau, the Prime Minister, says he will now go into a selfquarantine. We know this as well, President Trump and his daughter, ivanka, were both in close contact with officials who have now tested positive. We know this because there are photographs. The white house still insisting, though, the president does not need to be tested or quarantined. Meanwhile, President Trump this morning taking on the cdc and also the Obama Administration in part for his administrations delayed response to the outbreak. He now claims widespread testing is ready to go. We know that people continue to have difficulty getting tests. Thats just a fact. Our team is covering this from coast to coast. Lets begin with our correspondent martin savidge. Good morning, marty. Reporter good morning, poppy. Yeah, short of families getting the virus, it is the shutdown of schools that is likely to have the greatest impact on daily life, and that is truly starting to have an impact across the country. In some cases, its happening in districts and other places. Its happening in entire cities. And now we know entire states are shutting down their Public School system. Lets just go down the list of states so far. It includes oregon, ohio, michigan, kentucky, maryland, and new mexico. If you start getting into the cities, ill just mention a few. Theres atlanta, austin, dallas, seattle. Many more are going to be added to that. There are governors that are also warning their populations that if the schools are not closed now, they should plan that they soon may be. Theyre obviously trying to give families a day or a weekend headsup to try to plan as to how theyre going to handle the daycare situation, not to mention millions of meals that now wont be served in schools. It is a huge problem. New york city says it will keep its schools open. Poppy and jim. Martin savidge, thank you very much. Lets turn now to the president s travel ban. It goes into effect at midnight tonight. Americans overseas are scrambling to get home. Nic robertson, he is in london. Nic, tell us how this is affecting things there. Are you seeing an exodus for the airports . Reporter certainly seeing people who werent expecting to be leaving at this time. I spoke to a couple of young students. Theyve been told by the university that they needed to get back home. Another couple i spoke to here in london on business and pleasure, they said that President Trumps message, even though the uk is not one of those 26 European Countries that is banned, they figure that they just couldnt count on the uk staying out of some kind of exclusion for much longer. Theyre heading home. Everyone im talking to is saying that theyre paying higher prices for tickets. Some people are struggling to get tickets, period. A couple we spoke to over in spain, they managed to get back to london because they couldnt get a direct flight from spain to the United States. Right now looking for tickets to get back to the u. S. What is interesting here, jim and poppy, i have to say, is talking to people, said, look, the british Prime Minister has talked about how bad the virus is going to be, that people are going to lose loved ones in their families. I said, when you go back home to the United States, do you think youre going to be less at risk than where you are in the uk right now . And the people ive spoken to have said, well, look, you know, were all going to be exposed. Theyre not feeling any safer by going home. Theyd just rather be closer to loved ones and more familiar surroundings, if they were to get the virus. Poppy . Nic robertson at london heathrow, thank you very much. Joining us is dr. Lina wen, Emergency Room Physician and former Baltimore City health commissioner. Dr. Sam fink is also with us. He is currently treating patients with covid19. Good morning and thank you both for being here. Dr. Fink, let me begin with you. You have been practicing medicine for more than 30 years, and you say you have never seen anything like this. Explain why and what it actually means for people at home, because i think we dont want to be alarmists. We want to arm them with the facts and the tools. Good morning. I agree, we dont want to be alarmists, but what bothers me is that a lot of people are getting infected. I know of a group of 13 skiers, all of whom were infected. Three ended up in the icu. Four were hospitalized. And i have not seen anything like that before. Or the number of people that will probably be infected in this country. And this is a problem. And so, what we have to do is make sure that Health Care Systems are able to handle it. A way to do that is to flatten the curve. We dont want the number of corona cases to do this. We want to flatten it. The best way to do that is with social isolation. As you know, ive been ad voeblgting for closing the schools and trying to keep kids apart from each other. We all need to stay apart. You have an enormous amount of experience with situations like this. Let me ask about what dr. Fink raises there, which is this concern about flattening that curve. Why do we talk about that . Because you dont want to overwhelm the health care system. Theres been a lot of talk about ventilators. Thats key to treating this disease. Sanjay gupta talking on the air, the country thats about 62,000 plus 10,000 in reserve. Predictions of how a pandemic, what kind of needs that would create, that it would create a need for about that many ventilators. Do we have enough, in your view, to treat the most severe cases of this . And if not, what can be done about that . Well, we dont know if we have enough, because we dont know what the trajectory of this disease is going to be. In an ideal situation, were able to take aggressive, bold, and early action to flatten the curve, meaning that well spread out and reduce the rate of infections so that not everybody becomes ill all at the same time. And that way, not Everyone Needs intensive care unit beds, not Everyone Needs ventilators, and we dont strain the health care system. But i hope that were able to do that. And we can only do that if each of us takes matters into our own hands, because individual actions make a big difference. Even if we are young and healthy ourselves and may not get that sick, we can still spread the infection to other people. So those who are the most vulnerable, the elderly, those with chronic medical conditions, they should already be staying at home and not exposing themselves. But everybody else should also reduce the rate of infection so that we dont have this peak as were talking about. Dr. Fink, the most frequent question im getting from other parents is what do i do if i am diagnosed, i have tested positive for covid, i live in a small apartment in noyew york cy or a big house. Do i stay in the apartment . Do i go somewhere else for two weeks . Do i leave, go to a hotel room, if thats even affordable . What do i do . Im asking you because youre treating patients youre obviously not positive for this, but youre treating patients, and you have children, one of them at home. Yes, thats right. I mean, its a really difficult question, because yes, you have to isolate yourself for at least 14 days. When you look at the implications of that, its really very difficult. For instance, there are three people i know of, and im taking care of two of them, theyre all staying together in a little guest house, but not everybody has that option. This is going to be very problematic. And i totally agree with dr dr. Wen. Shes right, its about our social responsibility, how we protect each other, how we come together and help each other. And we can do that as americans. We have always done that. And i know were going to get through this. Dr. Wen, i want to ask another question, because were learning as we go along, and were learning particular from the data coming in from china and italy, the two countries, of course, that have experienced this most extensively. But in italy in particular, severe cases of this are extending outside the elderly. Weve been told from the beginning that the elderly really are the only highrisk group here. We had a doctor on last hour who said there have been cases of that on the west coast, 40, 30somethingyearolds, with severe cases of this. Are we learning that the most severe risk is not concentrated in that older group . And i know its early, but what is the data telling us . The data are telling us that those who get the most severely ill are the elderly and those with underlying medical conditions. But that doesnt mean that everybody else is going to be fine. There are some people who are young and healthy and otherwise well who will get very sick, and in fact, will die. And that happens with all illnesses, that you do see people who are the most at risk, but other people could still get very sick. And also, remember that even if they dont, they could still be spreading the infection to other people, too. And again, not cause for alarm, just important for all of us to keep in mind. Doctors, thanks so much. And to our viewers, well make this pledge. Were bringing you the smart people, the folks who know the stuff well, and were going to answer your questions as it comes in. Thank you, dr. Fink and dr. Wen. Thank you. Thank you so much. Developing fast, this just in to cnn. The chairman of the Augusta National golf club has announced that the 2020 masters Golf Tournament has been postponed due to the everincreasing risk associated with the widespread coronavirus, just the latest in a series of major sporting events, entertainment events, et cetera, being canceled or Going Forward without audiences. Were going to continue to follow these stories, bring you all the updates as we get them. And still to come this hour, right now on capitol hill, republicans and democrats inching closer to an emergency aid package to help americans like you impacted by the outbreak, but there are disagreements on what should be included in the deal. Were going to be on top of it. Also ahead, living with coronavirus. Earlier this week, we spoke with a man in the hospital in quarantine. Clay bentley diagnosed with covid19. Hes going to join us again, let us know how hes doing. His wife, whos also quarantined at home, shell be with us. Stay right there. 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My understanding that were definitely voting today. We were going to be voting out a bill, whether there was a deal or not, but weve been told that we have the substantial makings of a deal, and theyre just finalizing the last bits of it. Including republican support, is that the idea . Well, it remains to be seen whether House Republicans are going to fully support this. The speaker has been negotiating with secretary mnuchin, so primarily, those discussions have been going on with the administration. We still havent heard anything from leader mcconnell. He was continuing to criticize it all the way up until the end yesterday. Okay. One of the key issues has been paid sick leave. Yes. To accommodate the many people, perhaps millions of americans, eventually, who have to stay home here. Is that issue resolved . You know, im not 100 sure whether were resolved, and i think thats probably still one of the sticking points. The difference was, do we do this permanently or do we have a temporary paid sick leave and family medical leave . Weve been fighting for 14 days of paid sick leave and three months of family and medical leave, and the administration did not want to make that permanent. We did. And so, my understanding is that weve been focused on a compromise, but im not quite sure yet what that compromise was, but theres a pretty clear contrast between, you know, what a democratic president ial candidate like joe biden would have done and it wouldnt have even been a question, and where the president has been with this. Are you saying that democrats are willing to relent on demanding that paid family leave be permanent in any legislation . What im saying is that the situation is fluid at the moment and were being told that we are still hammering out the last details of that. Were going to vote today. But you expect to vote today. Yes. Im certain were voting today. Whether were voting on a package that is what we support and were just going it make sure that we put that out of the table, or whether we have an actual deal with the administration, im uncertain. Okay, fair enough. Well stay on top of that. Lets get to the question of testing, because this has been, really, i mean, as you noted before we came on the air, the nih Infectious Diseases chairman, dr. Fauci, granted that this has been failing here. Yes. When will that change . Because every week you hear, millions of tests are going to be out there, and lo and behold, here we are weeks into this crisis, and only 11,000 americans have been tested. Well, weve had multiple briefings on this from Public Health officials, including dr. Fauci. I had a chance to ask dr. Fauci this question that elicited that response yesterday in the House Oversight committee. The answer is, i dont know. Weve not been able to get a straight answer. They do keep telling us that there are mechanisms in place to ramp up to where we can have thousands, you know, tens of thousands of tests available. Theres a concern over how quickly they can process those tests. You know, in my state, we have a very limited ability to process the tests that have been actually given, so even if you do have that ability, your concern is are you going to be able to get the results . And then the mechanism nationally really is not in place yet to make sure that people can get a test. And the bottom line is, we have to make sure they can get a test for free, and it has to be analyzed as quickly as possible, and we have to make sure that we have consistency and certainty, which is certainly the last thing thats been coming from this white house. Thats another question, of many questions where theres been conflicting information, often confusing information. Can people who are watching right now count on getting tested for free . Of course, you had the president say in his address earlier this week, test and treatment. Then that was walked back to say just testing. But theres even been questions about that for uninsured people. What is the answer . Well, we fought hard to make sure that in the testing for free piece of this bill that there not be an income test. The white house wanted to do an income test on the testing, so thats not going to be part of this bill. Thankfully, we got agreement on that. Okay, so bipartisan agreement on free testing, regardless of income. Now we finally do, yes, thanks to democrats pushing for that. But it took far too long to get agreement on that. And even with testing for free, you still have a lot of confusion between the centers for Disease Control and state departments of health. The communication is really sorely lacking, like in my state. 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