>> do you consider america to be on a wartime footing? >> i do. i view it as a -- in a sense, a wartime president. i mean, that's what we're fighting. i mean, it's -- it's a very tough situation here. >> the president announcing he is also deploying two navy hospital ships to help when hospitals run out of beds but will it be enough? because according to a federal plan obtained today by cnn, the trump administration is making plans for this to last, and i quote, 18 months or longer and the plan says there could be, quote, multiple waves of illness. nick watt is "outfront" in los angeles and nick, tonight in california, a quarter of the population in a state which on its own is one of the largest economies on the entire planet, is now under shelter in place. >> reporter: that is right, erin, more and more counties following what they started up there in san francisco, the shelter in place, don't go out unless you need to and as you mentioned, this is a big state, a quarter of the people we're talking maybe nearly 10 million people and as you mentioned, erin, when you listen to the president, there is a lot of talk now about this being a war. >> it's the invisible enemy. >> reporter: military metaphors, a sign of the severity, and we might still be weeks away from peak infection. >> we have hospitals that are going to start to break this weekend, not weeks from now, not months from now, in the next few days. >> reporter: the administration tells us there's a federal stockpile of over 10,000 ventilators and more now on order. >> there's never been an instance like this where no matter what you have, it's not enough. >> reporter: and one washington state hospital, they're now making their own masks using supplies from a craft store. >> we've ordered millions of them but we need millions more. >> reporter: we might also need many more hospital beds and staff. >> we're reaching out to retired nurses, retired doctors, nursing schools, medical schools. >> reporter: ford, fiat chrysler and gm all about to halt u.s. production, saying they'll sanitize all their plants. nationwide, many workers have already been laid off like manhattan bartender tanya. >> i just have to keep living my life, keep getting dressed in the morning, just like there's definitely that ball of anxiety there constantly. >> reporter: jetblue now calling its losses stunning, saying typical daily takings have fallen from $22 million to an average of $4 million. and they're paying out $20 million a day in cancellation credits. some executives now taking a 50% pay cut. misery on misery, cancellations at chicago's midway because the control tower closed for cleaning after several technicians tested positive for coronavirus. in san francisco and elsewhere, millions now allowed out only for essential needs. >> i mean, the streets are, you know, fairly empty. >> reporter: note, essential needs include walking the dog and jogging. elsewhere, some criticism that the young, especially, aren't taking social distancing seriously. >> they don't realize that they can be carrying lots of bad things home to grandmother and andfather and even their parents. >> reporter: the federal coronavirus plan obtained by cnn shows the administration now planning for a pandemic that could last 18 months or longer and involve multiple waves of illness. and here's another scary statistic, as if we needed one here in los angeles county, they say that cases have doubled over the past two days. i did the math and it is a similar picture nationwide, cases about doubling in a two-day period, now nationwide, we're over 1,000 and remember, the experts say that each person who has this virus will give it two or three other people. that's why we're being told to keep apart from each other. one other word, the first member of congress, erin, just announced that he tested positive, mario diaz of florida. he's been in self-quarantine since friday. erin? >> all right, thank you very much, nick, and "outfront" now, d former national security director of bio and medical preparedness and dr. zeke emanuel, former obama white house health policy advisor. dr. emanuel, let me start with you. the new measures, we understand, involve two navy hospital ships. those won't be ready to go, really, in the next days at all, it will take weeks, but to deal with overload, but the pentagon confirmed they will provide 2,000 hospital beds. i mean, how many days away are we from knowing how big this surge, this huge surge that they say could be a few days or a week or so away will be? >> in terms of number of cases, you mean or in terms of response? >> in terms of how many people need that hospital care. >> well, it's very interesting because a lot depends on who you admit to the hospital, how sick they are, how many of them need intensive care unit beds. i think we don't fully know. we've done a calculation based upon 20% of the population being exposed which is 64 million people and you get pretty high up pretty rapidly in terms of the demand for things like intensive care unit beds goes over 3 million. so, you know, even if we had 5% of the population that was exposed, which is, you know, about 16 million people, you're quite rapidly into the hundreds of thousands which -- needing icu beds which drar dwarfs our capacity. our capacity even, you know, there's a little bit of argument how many icu beds we actually have for adults but it's certainly under 100,000. how long are we until -- in certain regions, san francisco, seattle, new york, a few other real hot spots, you know, we could be a week -- less than a week away. remember the numbers we're looking at, those 8,000 cases, we don't have a lot of testing, they're probably -- that probably means there are ten times the number of cases, at least 80,000 cases confirmed, and that's 15 days ago because to get a positive and have the incubation so you're looking at what the picture was two weeks ago at the start of the month. not really today, though. it progressed well beyond those 80,000 cases today. so, it's a serious, serious issue, and you know, if only 5% of those people need an intensive care unit bed, that's a lot of people built on a system that already, already had a lot of people in the intensive care unit. >> right, right, i mean, it's -- flu season, you got a lot of people in those beds, it's not as if all of them are empty to begin with. >> right, people who have heart attacks. >> yeah, all kinds of issues every day and people need to be in those beds. so the president signed the wartime law to expand the production of masks and protective gear. but then he tweeted that he only signed it, quote, should we need to invoke it in a worst case scenario in the future. so, when you look at the situation and then i know talking to doctors, even in hospitals where they believe they have maybe the ventilator and the icu bed situation under control, there's not a hospital in the country that seems to think they have what they need in terms of the masks and protective gear that prevent the spread of this. does he need to invoke this now or produce this now or is there just not even the capacity to produce it? >> well, i think that there is -- there is production has been ramped up. i think it's the private sector has responded very critically to this need, and whether there will be sufficient supplies really depends on the actions that we take today as a population to implement the social distancing and the hygiene measures that the federal government, the cdc in particular, has recommended. it's really ultimately going to be up to us to slow the epidemic curve, to flatten the epidemic curve so that we get to a point where we don't really break the hospital system. i can't stress that enough. i think governor cuomo communicated this very clearly yesterday where he said that as scientists show him the epidemic curve, what he really sees is a wave, not a curve, and a wave that has the potential to break upon hospitals, so the idea is that we really need to work together as a population to shelter in place and to avoid social interactions that will continue to propagate this terrible, terrible epidemic. >> so, dr. emanuel, one crucial thing that could be in short supply, of course, in some of these, even the moderate case scenarios, certainly some of the worst case scenarios are ventilators and trump was asked about that today and i wanted to play that exchange for you, doctor. >> there are a tremendous number of ventilators that we have but for weeks, hospitals have been warning about a critical shortage that they say we are not prepared for. so, why did it take so long to invoke the defense production? >> you know, hospitals are supposed to have ventilators too. and when we we have thousands of ventilators, it sounds like a lot, but this is a very unforeseen thing. nobody ever thought of these numbers. >> but we knew for weeks we needed more ventilators. >> well, we knew -- it depends on how it goes. worst case, absolutely. best case, not at all. so we're going to have to see where it goes. >> dr. emanuel, you've worked on emergency preparedness and, you know, seen what curves like these can look like. i mean, how quickly -- this is the ultimate question. can the u.s. get ventilators if it needs them, a lot more than it has, given the worldwide demand for them right now, given that everywhere in the world, they need ventilators? >> right. it's partially worldwide demand, it is also partially components. can you get the components out of china as an example? and jonathan cohen had a really good piece in the "huffington post" looking at this and the problem is we're not going to double the number of ventilators we have, say, go up to 170,000 in the next year. it's just not going to happen. and i think, you know, there's this -- seems to be this psychology at the white house that, oh, everything available, all we have -- instantaneously, all we have to do is say it and that's just not the case. i mean, we need tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of ventilators. we need probably millions or billions, excuse me, not millions, billions of masks. that takes time and even if in world war ii we could gear up to produce a plane every 30 seconds, that's not -- it's still -- we need time to produce this and we need the supplies. we have offshored a lot of the component parts, and that, i think, is going to make it very difficult. >> all right. i appreciate both of your time very much and next, some americans who still want to be tested obviously still can't get tested, not some, a lot. and now, there's a shortage of the testing supplies. >> there's all kinds of things in the chain of testing. there's swabs, there's extraction, et cetera, et cetera. there are shortages on many pieces of it. >> dr. sanjay gupta is next. plus a tale of two patients. both of them are out front. and one in five people unemployed, it could happen, and this is according to trump's treasury secretary. will it? 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"i'm really concerned that we are not going to have the capabilities to test those who really need and should get a test." and erin, the food and drug administration told cnn it's well aware of these shortages, is trying to provide information on alternative sources of reagents of the swabs of the other things they need but one expert told me this is analogous to the exact thing that happened with toilet paper, only this is labs chasing dwindling supplies and hoping the manufacturers can just fill the void and catch up soon. erin? >> all right, drew, thank you very much. and i want to go to our chief medical correspondent, dr. sanjay gupta. the administration is talking about ramping up the number of tests, they said they'd be at 5 million this week and then yeah, what drew is seeing firsthand, which fits this issue of whether it's a test issue or a reagent issue or a dropper issue, where are we? >> i mean, even the swabs, right? i mean, the things in the kits in some places they're running low on those, drew is absolutely right. i think when people hear "test" they think it's one thing and there's all these various supplies that are necessary for it actually to translate into something useful for the patient. look, erin, you're going to sound like a broken record after a while, i keep saying this, but we've known about this for weeks. i mean, other countries have been testing way ahead of us and part of the reason they could get there was they actually planned and got all these various components of the test ready to go. you know, our first test that we sent out more widely was a flawed test here in the united states and we're still playing catch-up here. >> so, you know, dr. birx says tens of thousands of tests could be run each day. if that is the case, is that where we need to be? >> yeah, i think so. you know, i mean, given that we're behind, one could argue that we need to be doing more. i think there was 8,200 run in a single day, day before yesterday, which was getting us to that point. i mean, that's sort of around the numbers of what south korea was doing, 10,000 a day, but there's a lot of people out there and one thing i want to make clear is that it doesn't still mean everybody needs to get a test, especially when we have a shortage of tests. people who have symptoms and have some sort of risk factor, you know, either came from a place where it was circulating, came in contact with somebody who's known to have the virus, ultimately they're going to start doing more surveillance to get a better idea of how widespread this is. >> so today, president trump was asked about, you know, certain people are getting tested and it seems much more easily so, professional athletes among them. we're seeing basketball players testing positive asymptomatically which means they didn't have any symptoms, just the definition of the word. and here's what the president said when he was asked about that. >> how are nonsymptomatic professional athletes getting tests while others are waiting in line and can't get them? do the well-connected go to the front of the line? >> well, you'd have to ask them that question. >> should that happen? >> i've read -- no, i wouldn't say so but perhaps that's been the story of life. that does happen on occasion, and i've noticed where some people have been tested fairly quickly. >> so, what is happening here? is there a situation, sanjay, where some people are able to get them? doctors of hospitals aren't able to get them and if anyone would know how, you would think it's a doctor. >> no, look, erin, that's a tough situation to explain. i understand many of these professional sports teams have relationships with hospitals, they have clinics that help take care of them, maybe they're getting the tests through there, but absolutely, it doesn't even sound like some of them have met the criteria, especially in a situation where we don't have enough tests. so, i don't know how to explain that one. we've asked the same question and gotten similar answers. i think what president trump was alluding to is, like, it's not fair, what happened was not fair. >> it sounded like he was saying that, yeah. >> yeah. >> so, let me ask you a question, sanjay. we understand that there's -- this is how they anticipate it happening, there's going to be this wave, and the governor of new york says it will be a tsunami. we're going to see how big it is. but then you're going to have a small percent of the population that's been exposed and we realize that globally, you're going to have the vast majority of people exposed over some time so it's wave of wave and as people think about whether life is going to be like this and whether that's sustainable, it raises the question of whether anything can be done before a vaccine. trump says today there's a big announcement coming from the fda. we don't know what it is but we're all reading on this. there's a number of drugs being tested right now and treatments, a malaria drug, hiv drug, there's rumbles of an approval. is anything out there, do you think, that possibly could change the entire way we're seeing this right now? >> well, i think it's one of two things that we're going to hear about from the fda. it's going to be more about the testing or there have been -- there are several trials that have been ongoing, including one that's been ongoing in china where they were starting to treat patients with these existing antivirals. so these are therapeutics. this would actually be an antiviral and that could be the other thing that the fda is going to talk about. i don't know that we're going to hear that one's been approved necessarily, tomorrow, we might, but i think it's more that, look, it's showing a lot of promise and we could get there quickly. >> all right, then of course it's a matter of how quickly could they even ramp up production of something that still would have question marks around it. sanjay, thank you so much. and make sure everyone knows because everyone is turning to you, sanjay is hosting another cnn global town hall tomorrow night. don't miss "coronavirus facts versus fears" in partnership with facebook tomorrow from 8:00 to 10:00 eastern. and next, two patients tell us what it's like to have coronavirus. one with mild symptoms, one recovering who said it's like nothing she ever experienced. and another brutal day on wall street. should we prepare for a depression? 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"outfront" now, two people battling coronavirus, amy driscoll is a 48-year-old mother who works for an insurance company in ohio. and reverend eric is a 56-year-old minister from omaha, nebraska, and i appreciate both of you taking the time and i want people to know we have your ages because it has relevant for how people understand this and what the risks are. amy, let me start with you. you woke up in the middle of the night, you had chest pains and a fever. finally you went to the hospital as your symptoms got worse, they did confirm you had coronavirus. so how quickly did it happen that you went from that first symptom at 3:00 a.m. to needing to be hospitalized? >> so, it really started for me the afternoon of wednesday at work. i started to feel feverish and not really, you know, just feeling like i was coming down with something and by the time i got home that night, probably, you know, 6:00 p.m., i had a fever of 99 and by the time i fell asleep and then woke up at 3:00 a.m., i was really in distress, it was really struggle, and through a couple communications with my cousin, trying to get figured out what was going on, she was the nurse that i contacted, i was on -- i think on my way to the hospital by 4:30 and admitted by 6:00 a.m. >> wow, so that happened very quickly. so your progression was very fast. you're talking about, you know, just overnight. >> yes. >> so, reverend, your experience was totally different. you came back from a trip to spain last week, you had a minor cough. what were your symptoms like? >> yeah, i came back from the trip, i actually didn't have any symptom whatsoever for a full day after i got back. it wasn't until the next afternoon i noticed a slight cough i that i associate with what i always get during allergy season so i didn't think anything of it and spain wasn't on the hot list at the time but then the next morning, the cough hadn't gone away and i'd learned that spain had been put on the hot list so i thought, well, you know, nobody's telling me to do so but i'm the minister of a large church, i should call somebody and they said, yes, you should be concerned, you've been abroad and you had one symptom but since the beginning, i've only had a slight cough, and that's it. when they took my test, they noticed a slightly elevated heartbeat but that's it. no symptoms whatsoever. i've never had more than that. in fact, the last few days, i haven't even had the cough. >> i mean, it is an incredible how different this can be. amy, you described your experience so very different and onset to hospitalization, so rapid, you described it as a battle inside your body. tell us what you mean by that. what happened? how did it feel like? >> so, i was just so sick right away, and it just felt like i just couldn't -- like i couldn't do anything that would make it better. and you know, when i was inpatient in the hospital, they ran a whole bunch of tests and they did all the things and then they did services to try to make me comfortable but they were pretty honest in saying that there just really wasn't a whole lot they could do so i had to battle out the fever and battle out how i felt and it was a lot of sleeping, waking, taking some fluids, going to the bathroom, going right back to sleep, all while hooked up to an iv and people, you know, checking on you every half hour or so. >> did you need a ventilator? >> i was not. i was not on a ventilator. i did not need it. >> right, i just am asking because i know people are worried about that and how that may play out. reverend, you know, to your situation, though, as you point out, unless you had kind of pushed hard to get tests and followed the news, you wouldn't have ever sought any kind of medical attention for what you had. there's a new study that says 86% of people with coronavirus in china were asymptomatic, which means they're spreading it to people who could have gotten extremely sick, people like amy or people who get a heck of a lot sicker than that. if it weren't for you taking that initiative to kind of force the issue and get tested, i mean, just to state the obvious, you could have spread the virus even more widely, right? i mean, you've got a church. >> well, not only a church, we're on the tri-faith commons, a church, a synagogue and a mosque have congregated. i systematically infected members of three different abrahamic faiths just through the day and a half i was in the office just through casual -- and i was doing social ska distancing and all that but still there were 30 people who got exposed to it and are now quarantined. i can't even now the people who are -- have been exposed to somebody like me, they didn't know they were, and now they're carrying the virus so they haven't even been abroad. they have one symptom and they're carrying this, thinking they have an allergy. >> you did the right thing. you did the right thing and you did the best you can, but i mean, just -- it's got to feel horrible. right? >> well, it -- regardless of what it feels like to me, it's really clear that we need to have a national quarantine now. we needed to have it a week ago. we need to shut things down so people -- people are hurting here in the heartland, really hurting already and not just from the virus. they're out of work. they're going to financial devastation and just how long -- we need to shut things down right now so that people are only out a week for a matter of few weeks rather than few months or even years if this triggers a global depression. >> amy, you have a 14-year-old son. i know he's quarantined at home. his symptoms, i believe you have said, are very mild, some headaches. what are the doctors telling you about him and what he should do? >> so, they don't want to test him. they don't feel like it's necessary to test him, and ohio has changed their regulations on who's getting tested now. and you know, he's under quarantine with me, essentially he'll be here as long as i am, and we're just going to kind of wait it out and see how it goes. if he has any more severe symptoms or anything that really gets, you know, something serious, then they've given us numbers to contact and people that we're supposed to call and make sure that we're in contact with so they're aware and we can make decisions from there. >> well, i hope that his symptoms remain mild and that -- so good that you seem to truly be on the road to recovery. thank you so much, amy, and you as well, reverend. thank you. >> pleasure. >> thank you so much. and next, the new york stock exchange making history and it is not a good history. the markets taking another massive beating today. are we headed for unemployment numbers not seen since the great depression? that is what the treasury secretary put on the table today. and the liquor business changing course to fulfill a desperate need using its alcohol to make hand sanitizer. i just love hitting the open road and telling people that liberty mutual customizes your insurance, so you only pay for what you need! 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"outfront" now, minneapolis fed president, he also oversaw the bailout program during the 2008 financial crisis. neil, while i'm glad to see your face again, i'm sorry it is under these circumstances. when you look at this, jpmorgan now forecasting the economy will shrink by the most we have ever seen since world war ii. do you think it's reasonable, from what you see, and you're looking across the entire center of this country, that we could see the worst economic pullback since the great depression? >> it's certainly possible and we just don't know right now. that's why financial markets are so volatile. are we going to follow a path of south korea and japan, which seemed like they've done a pretty good job so far controlling the outbreak of the virus without completely shutting down their economies, or are we too late? and we're going to follow italy and effectively have to shut down the u.s. economy for an indefinite period of time. how the virus progresses is really going to determine what the ultimate economic impact is and how many millions of americans, i hate to say it, are going to lose their jobs. it unfortunately could be devastating like the financial crisis or potentially even worse. >> so, you know, treasury secretary steve mnuchin told republican senators that if nothing is done the united states could see an unemployment rate of 20%. look at that versus the workforce that we have and you're looking at, you know, 30-some odd million americans losing their jobs. that would be twice as high as we saw in the middle of the great recession and it would be the worst since the great depression. the unemployment peaked at 24.9%. so 20% gets you 30 million americans. 30% gets you 47 million americans losing their jobs. are these realistic scenarios? >> if -- i agree with the treasury secretary. if congress doesn't act. but i think the good news is, i'm really surprised and i'm happy to see it, both parties seem to be coming together and saying, let's put politics aside and put the country first. that's good news. i think that i going to work very quickly, but you know, speed is of the essence here. the reports around the country, including here in minnesota, are that a lot of people are getting laid off right now, this week, tens of thousands of people in minnesota and we are, you know, we're not california. we're a smaller state. but this is happening nationwide. so, whatever congress is going to do, the faster they can do it and the more aggressively they can do it, the more people we can help. >> so, i want to read something that was in the "wall street journal" from jenkins today. he wrote 83% of our economy will be suppressed to relieve pressure on the 17% represented by healthcare. this will have to last months not weeks. will people put up with it once they realize they are still expected to get the virus? wouldn't it make more sense to pour money into isolating the vulnerable rather than isolating everyone. what's your take on that in is >> it's a -- these are very difficult tradeoffs. i think if we -- we've heard from a lot of health experts, including on your show, that if we all get sick at the same time, we will very quickly overwhe overwhelm our healthcare system and a lot of people will needlessly die so the question here is, if you stretch it out, the economic costs are higher and longer, that's absolutely true. but we don't -- we won't necessarily overwhelm the healthcare system and we will save lives. so, my gut is, i think we have to err on the side of saving lives, even if that means we are going to be sacrificing in other aspects of our life. >> so, you oversaw the t.a.r.p., the relief program for the auto companies, the banks and the recovery from the financial crisis. on an emotional level, i know you never thought you'd go through something like that again. is this worse? >> well, for me personally, i'll tell you why it's not. because i lived through the frontline of that '08 crisis and i saw that we got through it and i saw the american people come together, even though it was politically difficult, and we recovered. so, i have this great confidence now inside that we, as a nation, will get through it, even though it will be very difficult for a lot of people, including loss of life. so, that gives me some inner confidence, but let's remember, it took us ten years after the financial crisis for the labor market to recover. ten-plus years so all of these job losses, whatever congress does, if they can intervene to try to keep people employed at their small businesses, at their restaurants and at the bars and at the coffee shops, keeping people employed is much better than setting them through the unemployment system. >> is there enough money, though? because when you're looking at something with no end date, you can do that for a month or two months but all of a sudden you're looking at a year, 18 months, there's no money to do that. how do you look at that? there is a time period over which you could do that, it is not indefinite. >> it's not indefinite, you're right, and i don't think it would be a year or more. i mean, i think the -- you know, angela merkel said she thought 60% or 70% of germans would ultimately get the virus. i think what we're talking about is spreading it out for our healthcare system to catch up so for a few months could the u.s. government effectively float the u.s. economy? sure. as much debt as we have, the u.s. government is still borrowing at very low rates so investors still have confidence in the government's ability to pay back the money that they're borrowing. >> all right, and of course the united states has the dollar, which needless to say is one of the greatest things that we have. thank you very much. good to talk to you, neel. >> thank you, erin. and next, you know the scene. you've been there. the grocery store shelves empty and basic supplies are gone. what one pennsylvania distillery is doing about that and jeanne found two people who did not know how bad the global coronavirus pandemic had gotten. how is that possible? 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