A 10 increase every 12 hours . Very early on in each one of these cases, if you look at all of the countrys to date, the mortality is higher at the beginning because you are diagnosing the sickest. The ones who came in quite ill. I just want to remind the American Public that still the majority the risk for serious illness and the majority of americans are low. That doesnt mean you cant transmit it to one of those higher risk groups. Thats why youre asking for all americans to take responsibility. You are seeing mortality, or deaths today from infections that occurred 23 weeks ago, in general. The other thing you are seeing is the dramatic and very difficult impact of this virus in nursing homes. Thats why very early on the president and Vice President had us come out and cms put those very strict rules in place. People thought we were being too strict in keeping loved ones away from their families and nursing homes. If we are going to solve this with a lower death rate, we have to protect the elderly because of their percent being much higher in mortality than any other age group. President trump if you add, please reporter mr. President , there is reporting that the federal government has a plan that shows this coronavirus outbreak might last as long as 18 months. Are you seeing those numbers . President trump no, we are not seeing that it all. Reporter my second question is theres at least one white house official who used the term kung flu referring to the fact of this virus started in china. Is that acceptable . Are you worried having this virus be talked about as a chinese virus, that it might President Trump i wonder who said that. Do you know who said it . Reporter im not sure of the persons name. President trump say the term again. Reporter a person at the white house use the term kung flu. President trump kung flu . Reporter kung flu. Do you think that puts asianamericans at risk . President trump not at al all. I think they probably grew that 100 . It comes from china, theres nothing how about the last question . Say it . Reporter switching gears to a larger question. Weve seen before the pandemic that there were a lot of americans that were already alienated. We saw in the depths of despair increasing through suicide and other things. Now there are individuals in rural parts of the country self isolating. What is your message to those individuals and what do you hope individuals, communities, and churches will President Trump my message to all americans but to those americans who are going through a lot, we love them, we are with them, and we will not let them down. Harris and the president there with his task force giving us a lot of detail and then taking questions. I want to get right to this right now. I know our broadcast stations are joining us, as well. As these events come up and get these updates, we will bring everybody on board. We just ask you, wherever you are watching from, to please stay tim to Fox News Channel and this fox broadcast station for continuing coverage of the coronavirus pandemic. Im Harris Faulkner in new york. We will continue now on Fox News Channel. This is coronavirus pandemic questions answered. Moments ago you saw the president invoking the defense production act, directing private companies to step up production of medical equipment in the battle against the coronavirus. You are watching outnumbered overtime. Im Harris Faulkner. Fastmoving developments as the number of cases now in the United States has risen to more than 7,300. 115 people have died with covid19. All 50 states and the District Of Columbia now have confirmed cases after West Virginia reported its first Coronavirus Infection just last night. And the number of cases worldwide is now more than 207,000, with more than 8,200 deaths. This, as the president has announced the deployment of two hospital ships to new york and the west coast. The uss comfort will be sent to new york harbor. Watch. One is called the mercy and the other is called the comfort. They are in tiptop shape. They soon will be. They are getting ready to come up to new york. I spoke with Governor Cuomo about it. Hes excited about it. I also we havent made the final determination as to where its going to go on the west coast. The comfort is located now in san diego, and its going to be it will be picking the destination very shortly. Those two ships are being prepared to go. Harris the u. S. And canada are also agreeing to temporarily suspend nonessential travel between our two nations. I want to bring in now our medical panel. Dr. Marc siegel, a professor of medicine at Nyu Langone Medical Center and a fox news contributor. Dr. Jacob deutsch, a boardcertified emergency medicine physician. Great to get his take on what they are facing on the front lines. Dr. Peter hotel as is the dean of National School of tropical medicine at Baylor College of medicine in houston. Dr. Hotez, i will start with you today. Got a lengthy update, a lot of questions answered. A couple things popped to me. Why are we right now starting to see more deaths among younger people in places like italy . Dr. Hotez thats a great question. Part of the problem is first of all, thanks for having me back. I dont think we really know the answer, and we also would like to see some better documentation. All we have right now are news reports coming in. I think they are reliable, but youd really like to see the paper written by the actual physicians that are taking care of the patients to know that whether its a definite trend and Something Real or if its anecdotal reports. Its looking like they are seeing significant numbers of younger people in icus and very sick from this virus. Of course the application for us, as weve been talking about the last couple of days, weve been struggling to get young adults to take this seriously, to get them away from congregating out of bars and this kind of thing. And certainly appealing to them because they can infect their parents or their grandparents. This adds another piece to this, saying they themselves are at high risk now for this infecti infection. This is very worrisome. Also, we dont know if its true. Why is it happening in wuhan and in china, and not happening why it is happening in italy, and what will happen in the u. S. Iis a going to look more like china or italy . More questions than answers today but in something we are following very closely. Harris that is so interesting. You gently pushed back, and rightfully so. What we are looking at his many more critical in severe cases among young people. Some deaths, but the burst is coming from how many of them are actually sick. Dr. Deutsch, frontline Emergency Care medicine. You heard the president being pressed. We need more ventilators. What do we need . Dr. Deutsch i have patients in new york city in my urgent care practices. Its an interesting dynamic. We are actually seeing people who probably are more positive cases because they are avoiding the hospital and they are trying to go to ambulatory care centers to get tested, and we are seeing a tremendous amount of positive cases. As of yesterday, the number of cases we sent out, about 50 are coming back positive. Thats really astounding. Harris if you are treating them, you are getting to see them up close. So are these they have a question has been, dr. Deutsch, why medical professionals even those who have on so much gear, those who have access to enough gear to protect themselves the way the cdc and experts from nih saving you be protected why are they getting so sick . You said people are waiting, not going to the hospital. What are you visually seeing with them . Dr. Deutsch most of the patients we see have just been mildly ill. We havent had to direct anybody to the hospital for a higher level of treatment. Everybody has been otherwise symptomatic, where it looks like a flu or even just a mild cold. The tests are definitely showing that people are turning out to be positive. So its just confounding the problem. People dont really realize that this is everywhere and that people need to isolate. Getting the test is important to get some epidemiology, but more importantly, Everybody Needs to take responsibility now. Not in another week when we start to put these kids to get it. Its already too late as far as im concerned. Harris dr. Siegel, before i come to you i want to draw everyones attention. The numbers on the screen to the bottom night as you look at television, trading has been halted for the last few minutes on wall street. You saw the numbers ticking down, theyve been ebbing and flowing come up weve been in a rather anemic treating territory today. We are expecting out about 1 11 p. M. Eastern here for trading to resume. So some reaction in the markets to everything that is going on, from the task force update, maybe that will be positive as it comes back now. Also, currently the prices of oil being different down, so on and so forth. Dow watch , we should see the numbers move expeditiously see here. Dr. Siegel, as we look at the defensive production act, and you and i talked about this three weeks ago, how the president needed to maybe take a look at putting some things into the market. Those n95 respirator masks. We know the Vice President visited 3m up in minneapolis. But you said there needs to be an expeditious and expedited nature for making medical items. At least we are on track now, but how far behind rb . Dr. Siegel we are pretty far behind, because we are starting to use up all the ventilators we have. At least in the hot spot areas like new york. As dr. Deutsch pointed out, theres a lot more spread out there than people realize. I still think identifying and isolating cases or their contacts, they help decrease the amount of spread to the targets we are most concerned about. Those with preexisting conditions and the elderly. Even though we are seeing some more young. Ive heard that a different medical centers around the country. Ive heard their cases on ventilators of younger people. There are a couple of questions i had with that that we dont have answered. Are they vapers, number one . Are with a smokers . We dont know. Do they have Underlying Health conditions . These are key issues prayed i would urge you to another not to vaped, not to smoke. Its a long publication of this virus were most concerned about. Its the ammonia that we dont have a good defense against and may have longterm publications. Young people out there shouldnt be vaping and smoking, for sure. Harris you three gentlemen are with me for the duration of the hour. We will do a lot of things and take a lot of your questions. So they will be live, skype, so on and so forth. Sit tight. I especially dont mike appreciate your expertise. Trading has begun again on wall street, the corner of wall and broad. We are watching it closely. More on that, the markets feeling the pain, obviously. As we saw a few moments ago, the s p plunged by more than 7 . That is the baseline when that happens. When they halted trading temporarily. The dow jones has now, and pretty steadily over the last little bit, been below the 20,000 mark. We are watching all of it. The Economic Impact of covid19 is reverberating throughout america now. How the Trump Administration wants to put cash in your wallets. Stay close. 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And it will be solved. We will win. And there will be a comeback. Harris President Trump just a few moments ago, as you were watching them here live on fox. The markets taking another big hit today due to the Economic Impact of covid19. Trading halted and resumed just before the commercial break, as i was showing you a few moments ago. The dow has now erased all of its gains since President Trump took office. This, despite yesterdays 1000point rally after President Trump promised a massive federal aid package. The estimated 1 trillion stimulus plan would include 50 billion for the airline industry, would you just heard them talking about there. Those empty seats on planes. 150 billion for other hardhit sectors of the economy, and 500 billion in Cash Payments to individual americans. The Treasury Department said payments could begin as early as april 6th. Last night, Vice President pence spoke about their efforts to help everyday americans. Watch. Were working with congress to assure that paid leave is available for hardworking americans. But making sure that this economy gets back on its feet, that americans are able to weather this time, is also a priority for President Trump. We are talking with leadership in both parties on capitol hill. And we are very confident. Harris also, treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin warned Senate Republicans yesterday the Unemployment Rate could hit 20 if no action is taken. Of course, they are talking about taking action. Joining me now, Connell Mcshane of fox business. Connell, i want to start there. And the action being taken. We are still waiting for things to move on capitol hill. The house, the senate. We often wait. And some think we are waiting too long. Thats part of whats happening, very small part, by the way, of whats happening on wall street today, harris. Big picture, we are still pricing in this type of environment where companies will not have any earnings to speak of. And we dont know how long we are pricing that in four. In the meantime, we have our everyday concerns. For investors, todays everyday concerned is to be trying to raise cash. Its been like this for a while, but particularly today. Maybe someone bought an asset on margin and theyve been called on that, they need to raise the cash. Leasing that even in the bond market where theres been some selling today, which is interesting. Theres just been a premium on cash. On capitol hill, our colleague chad Program Covers capitol hill sent out a moats dominic note or senator chris coons i think its right, its what a lot of people are talking about in the markets. Companies are telling us. We want to know now, we not done i want to know what you doing for us, i was going to be structured. They are tough decisions, but do we need to lay people off . Can you give them on the payroll because were getting money from the government . House at all going be structured . Thats whats going on. Harris thats an interesting point. Mark cuban, who we know owns the Dallas Mavericks and a few other things, was saying that he doesnt think we should put cash in peoples pockets. I saw that. Harris you saw that . It sends a message to employers that they shouldnt lay off, and that makes people think the government will take care of them. And he said they shouldnt think that. Wright, his basic message is the incentives would be wrong. Because youre running a Small Business and thinking to yourself, boy, im going to have a tough x amount of months. If i know my employee who i care a lot about, obviously, on a personal level, is going to get cash from the government, am i going to send them i will lay them off . At least end of the government is there for them. Anything simple and it will go up more as a result of that. I also think its interesting to todays what marco rubio has been talking about. Senator collins was involved, they were supposed to have an event that would usually plan thats been pushed off a couple times. Rubio is saying that if your Small Business and you want to take out a loan to cover payroll, that is fine pay but its going to be very difficult to pay that back.