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Another cruise ship off the coast of florida. Going nowhere. The Airline Industry slowed by the pandemic. What will happen to its workers . But at the top of this hour, today there are more than 287,000 confirmed cases here in the u. S. The death toll climbing to 7,721. In florida, beg development in the last few hours, the cruise ship coral princess has docked in miami after being turned around from port everglade. First Governor Andrew Cuomo in the last howard said the state hit a new high in coronavirus cases, also announcing 630 people have died in new york since yesterday. Were not yet at the apex. Depending on whose modeling you look at, four, six, seven days, some people go out 14 days, but our reading of the projections is were somewhere in the sev sevenday range. Were not at the apex yet. Part of me would like to be at the apex and lets do it, but part of me says its good that were not at the apex, because were not yesterday ready either. New guidelines from cdc urging all americans to wear clothfaced coverings when going outside, and. President trump announced the guidelines, but says he is not following them. And this breaking news, as we show you right now in south florida, dramatic developments for a cruise ship carrying at least a dozen people who have all tested positive for coronavirus. Sam brock is in miami for us. A lot has changed since you and i spoke. So whats happened . Alex, a lot has changed in the last several hours. Over my shoulder, you sue the coral princess that had been slated to dock in ft. Lauders dale and was canceled. Catalyzing a chaotic search to find out where the 1900 passengers and crew would end up. We found out in a last couple hours from Princess Cruises, it would be coming to the port of miami. We watched it arrive at about 10 30. There were a couple ambulances sitting outside. They have sending moved to the other side of the terminal, to provide Immediate Care to those critically ill right now. We know Princess Cruises have confirmed 12 different passengers testing positive for covid19. Sadly, as you mentioned earlier, Princess Cruises also confirming that two people had died aboard this ship. They didnt offer any die tail how they died or if it was related to covid19, but two have passed away. I talked to paul nam, his dad tested positive, his mom had been sick as well. At this point were not sure how long it will tame for them and their fellow thousand passengers basically to get off this ship. It will be a multiday disembarking. The reason for that is there are not available flights right now. Everyone, of course, will have to go through health screenings. Assuming they pass, theyll be taken directly by charter bust to Miami International where they would go to their end destination, but thats an openended question how long it will take. Meantime all these families who put their heads on their pillows last night not knowing where their families would end up, at least they now in the next couple days they should be headed home. Any describe at all what was it was like aboard the ship for their sick parent . Very rough. They had little contact. Obviously there was a quarantine put into place, and the very difficult part is the fact that other crew members were able to get off this cruise ship on march 18th, originally slated to finish in abobuenas aires, but theres tons of liability involved with bringing people who are sick into areas of the country that are already dealing with a Public Health crisis that did get resolved this morning. Thats where we find ourselves right now, with some 1800 people, about 1,000 passengers trying to get off this ship. As you just described the timing of this, sam, has anyone been asked or answered the question if they thought twice about getting on board a cruise ship in these times . We have known about this issue for a good few weeks into months now. Reporter yes, thats a completely fair question. We talked to folks on the coral prince princess and folks on the r rott rotterdam. When they got on, there would you a few cases in south america, but not exploded, and almost to a person they said their state leaders were telling them to not interrupt their lives. I will say, alex, we did know about the situation in San Francisco when a couple thousands people were essential stranded off the pacific coast, so its not like you can claim complete unawareness, but in fairness to the passengers they were being told by their local leaders, its fine, go about your regular lives. Sam brock, thank you for the update. Lets get a live look at times square, where this looks like to be exactly nobody. Thats because residents are under a stayathome order at least until april 15. The governor wrapped up hi daysly briefing a short time ago, with property many news he acquired ventilators for the state of new york. Were at the Javits Centering with more on that. Welcome to you. A bit of an update tone from the governor. He had superbig thanks for the state of organ for the number of ventilators they were loaning the state. Where you are, theres also news as well. Reporter yeah, a bigger chunk coming from klein as well, him making that announcement today. He sounded markedly different from the daily briefings he had been given prior to this. Its difficult to get on camera and give bad news every day. He was me arently surprised at the donations, and nothing being in times squares. Nobody here at the Javits Center here in Hells Kitchen in manhattan, save for the volunteers and medical professionals, and military personnel who are headed in here, because this convention is now operational. All right. So back to the ventilators, and of course this muchneeded donation from not only oregon, but china. He said he had been working on this a bit now, and that he worked with ambassadors and other rep activities to try to get this done. He also asked for the white house for some assistance on this. He said, quote, we got really good news that the Chinese Government will facilitate a donation of 1,000 ventilators. And that help that we see across the states really is what is needed at this time, alex, as it seems to be state by state, every state for themselves trying to secure as many ventilators and ppe as much as possible. This bit of good news came just two days after the governor estimated that the state had just six days worth of ventilators left if they continued at their current burn rate. That came before yesterday, which was the deadliest day for new york. As of today Governor Cuomo gave us the update the death toll has risen to more than 3500 people here in the state of new york. Of course, as we messagesed all of this as the jacob Javits Centering is open and operational. We will continue to provide you updates from here. And they were taking covid19 patients there. That wasnt the original plan, but it is now. Thank you so much. And the doctor is the assistant profession ow of medicine at boston university. Welcome to. After saying for weeks cdc changed that 2k3w50idance. What happened there . And do you think that fewer people could be afflicted if the guidance had been released several weeks ago . So part of this is the e evolution of our knowledge. The guidance has been if you know you might be shedding this virus, thats when the mask is most useful. New data, theres in data thats confirmed it now, even early in the san diego, a period where youre asymptomatic or presymptomatic, which means you havent yet developed the symptoms, you may be shedding that virus in the community if you go outside. So the use of a cloth mask or fabric basically allows you to not shed that in the brief periods of time that you were in public. It was sort of an extension in the same concept when youre shedding the virus that the mask for the public is most useful. So the interesting part, the second question that you asked is, you know, when we looked back a few weeks ago, would this have prevented some of the infections that occurred . I think a portion. I dont think it would have been a complete change. The reason why is that still needed to be done in conjunction with physical distancing, and if you think about it, the way this virus is transmitted is not just shedding the virus, but touching surfaces and people people are touching that same surface, so if were still spending time outside, we could have it transmitted to ourselves, so the social distancing, the physical distancing, the stay at home is important, but there are communities where theyre not at the peak, so my advice is lets learn from this and apply the best evidence that we have now the physical distancing, hand washing, use of cloth masks in those communities so we dont see that they will follow throughout the other communities in the United States. Absolutely. Preventive measures, youre 100 right. New york added more cases today, much of the state has been shut down for about three weeks or so. Where are we inned overall arc, and do you see hopeful sign that the measures are working in new york . In new york, as you said, i think there seeing a dropoff and still not at their peak. That number changes every day, because we get the data of how do the real numbers fit the mold moldles. As the governor said, well know tomorrow, but the great since we seen are from california and seattle, which started the epidemic before everybody else, saw that the and their social distancing has made a difference. Here in boston, what the models hass has shown, even though were on the upswing, were not at the peak seeing that the cases that are occurring are thankfully less than the worstcase let me look at a lot of the grows cases, the fatalities, but the good point is a lot of people have recovered. John hopkins says almost 10,000 have recovered, have we learned anything from those people who have recovered . Survivors are a ray of hope. If we can prove that someone has survived this and immune to this san diego, we can start some of the Economic Activities and essential services in our society which has been at a standstill and help Health Care Workers who we know would not be at risk, who still need to follow measures to protect themselves, but we know could continue to be soldiers in this fight. What we know is people who survive this disease, they create antibodies and proteins in their commune system that would likely protect them from getting the infection again. A, we have seen antibodies in their blood. Weve noticed theres small Animal Studies that show when a nonhuman prime yeah recovers from this, they dont actually get sick. We also have data from mers and sars dont get sick for a year or two, but its not lifelong immunity, so thats why a vaccine is important. It cant come soon enough. Monica, welcome talk about this shift in the cover your face guidance. Reporter it was just a few weeks ago the Top Health Officials including the Surgeon General warning please do not get masks, only people who are ill really are the ones advised to use them. Most importantly they wanted to make sure that masks would be available for the critical Health Care Workers. All of that changed at a briefings where the president debuted the new guidance that does encourage millions of americans to use more of a cloth Face Covering when they were out and about on these essentialer rants, such as going to the Grocery Store or the pharmacy. The president himself said he wasnt going to be following those guidelines, but the first lady during that briefing issued a tweet that urged all americans to take heed of this warning and to specifically look at the issue of wearing a mask or a Face Covering. It can help people to wear it and stop people to so the thinking is if everyone does this, it helps so that was a topic the president was pressed on. The other was if so many states have issued stay at home orders, why not give the others guidance . Heres how the president responded. Reporter should every state in this country have the state adhome orders in place . I think its up to the governors. Theyve been doing a great job. Were close to 90 anyway, and states were talking about are not in jeopardy. Why leave it to the gompors. Reporter it was just a week away we were talking about a potential quarantine for the tristate area. That seems to be the theme here, leaving it up to the governors. I do think well continue to see questions why so few are holding out if the message is, do your part, stay at home. Alex . Monica alba, thank you so much. Keep out. How newark, new jersey is using police to stop people from entering the city. Will that really help . Entering the city. Will that really help . Dad, im an old spice body and face wash kinda guy. Hmm, moisturizing. Balanced nutrition for strength and energy. 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Reporter weve been out here all morning. I would is a mask usage is about 5050. You can see some folks lining up for the deli. Weve seen some designs of homemade masks as well, but only about 5050. Some people also wearing gloves. Theres been a pretty heavy stream at the market. This is one of the severalal businesses that the governor is allowing despite the state adhome order. This is made up of familyowned restaurants, coffee shops, that kind of thing, but half the the businesses are nonessential, so they have been closed. Unfortunately the Association Says because of all those closures, all or most of the employees have either had to ska scaled back owner. I spoke to emilio, hes at an italian market here, and he expressed in frustration at what has had to be done. I see people on both sides of the table. Are vendors staying on one side or the other . Is that more loose . Reporter theres no strict guidance, but it did seems that everyone is staying on one side of the street for the most part. What i wanted to mention, emilio, he had to close down hess flagship restaurant, also a catering event business he had. He had about 100 employees he ended up having to lay off. So they had to reallocate some of them, because he does have a cheese stop here at the italian market, and they are seeing a flow of business, at the mercado. Hes seen more online orders than in the past 2 1 2 years of having that. So theres a bright spoke the house that technology is helps. Hes still doing pretty well. But i spoke to sal at a seafood market, and hes not as optimistic. The good and the bad news, for nur. Newark, new jersey is one of the cities failing it says University Hospital is close to being overwhelmed. We are seeing an unreal reality right now in ear hospitals. We are seeing over 100 people now at University Hospital with covid. Were seeing all of our intensive care units filled with people who need ventilators. Our emergency room has ten people on ventilators waiting for an intensive care unit bed. The rest of the beds of filled with coronavirus patients who may need a ventilator. Theyre on the cusp. Joining me is newark mayor, as i welcome you sir, very chilling to hear that picture painted. Any better news . Absolutely nothing. This is a recurring theme here. We are up to 1,117 folks actually infected with the coronavirus and 35 deaths to date. What does the city need, and what are you not getting . We need ventilators, gloving, may have beens, gowns, more importantly for the toke at the hospital, were going to need space for beds, to move some of the folks not infected with covid19 into other places so we have room for the folks coming in. We have secured two hotels were going to be moving some of our folks without homes or homeless folks, and some of our seniors into shortly, but we need more space for the hospital. There are reports about the virus hitting, sir, lowerincome communities harder than others. Have you found that to be true in certain pockets of newark . Absolutely. Most of these cities are already densely populated, so people are piled up on top of each other. Access to health care was already poor to nonexistent. Its very difficult, but they depend on the Public Sector to provide them with care, testing, so we have a lot of people not being tested, folks depending on 911, calling 911, overwhelming 911 and the hospital. We also treat the Emergency Rooms as a primary care physician, which has escalated these problems in these communities. You are just a stones throw from new york city. Are you not getting what you need, because a lot of the attention is faced at the densely populated city across the river . Theres a lot of attention and there should be. New york city is having a very, very different time. Their cases are huge, the deaths are tremendous. They should get attention. We obviously need attention, too. I believe there needs to be a national response, a uniform national sponges, to everybody can get a tally that they need of resource, and people need to be given those resources. We should not be competing on the marketplace for testing, gowns and masks in this difficult, difficult time. We dont have the power or resources to compete with new york city. We cant if new york buys masks for 7, we cant bay them for 8 or 9. We could do that. It means we go without. Newark mayor ras baraka, thank you so much, sir. Thank you. New guidance a when youll see your relief money. Also a sign of the times of two weeks of crushing jobless claims. 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In a bit of good news, cuomo said more ventilators are on the way. We got really good news today, that the Chinese Government is going to facilitate a donation of 1,000 ventilators that will come into jfk today. Also, the state of oregon contacted us, and is going to send 140 ven lators, which is i tell you, just astonishing and unexpected. Walmart is taking new steps to protect shoppers and workers. Starting day walmart will limit of number of customers insigh allowing one person in, one person out when it reach 20s capacity. Aisles will become one way to protect any close contact. At the Vatican Pope Francis is urging people to stay home, evens holy week approaches. The pontiff released a video message, encourages his followers to continue to reach out to each other. They will hold Holy Week Services without the public. That starts tomorrow with paul come. It could be months before some americans receive their checks. Nbc News National political reporter Josh Letterman has been following this story. Lots of confusion here. Im looking to you to clear this up, to tell us who qualifies, how people sign up, do they need to sign up . Can you break it all down for us . Reporter this has been just a real mess for people, frankly, alex over the last week as they tried to sort it out. If youre on ssi, as about 8 Million People in that category, even as of today, more than a week after this game law, the government cannot tell you whether or not you need to file a tax return in order to get this money, but to try to simplify this for people as form as possible. If you filed a 2018 or 2019 tax return, youre good. They have your information. In youre on Social Security retirement or disability, then you are also already all set. Youre not going to have to do anything other than possibly update your direct deposit information on an i. R. S. Website that hasnt been created yet. If you dont file tax returns, youre going to want to file a simple tax return to make sure you get that money, but that simple form, that too has not yet been set up by the irs. The big question, alex, when are people going to get this money . For some people it could take a while. If youre someone that the i. R. S. Already has your direct deposit info on file from your last refund, youre going to start to see the money in mid april. About a week after that, the government will start sending out that money to people on Social Security. If youre someone they dont have your bank account information, they have to sent you a paper check, that process will start in may, but because the government can only issue so many checks per week, it could take until all until they get all those paper checks out the door. You did a good job straightening it out so much. I know ive been asked if Social Security recipients would be eligible, so good to know that they are. Josh, thanks so much. A remarkable seen. In houston, texas, airport run waughs turning into parking lots, and the Airline Industry suffering an ongoing financial hit due to the pandemic. Hundreds of thousands of flights have been canceled due to these travel restrictions. Joining me via skype is president of the association of flight attendance sara nelson. Welcome back to the broadcast. Youve got to wonder if less planes in the air, does that mean Airline Industry workers are laid off . Furloughed . Whats happening there . The loads are all the way down to 90 cuts, we are saying that all planes not essential travel should stay on the ground. Weve been on the front lines of this Health Care Crisis since the end of december. Our flights started to get pulled down in january. Luckily 80 of the airlines is unionized with contracts. So we have pay protections, but i should be really clear that every single industry in america has been running at high product activity. What that means is most people, in order to meet their bills work overtime hours. Those overtime hours are gone. People are getting minimum pay protections, but otherwise theyre really hurting. Real quick, for those planes that are still in the air, sara, are they adjusting where customers, passengers can sit . I mean, sometimes you see like on the a320s, three, an aisle, and three. Are they all full . Theyre not full generally, alex, we also have worked out with some of our social distancing policies to makes sure we dont have people congregated together and make sure we dont have crews congregated together. Many of the airlines have also stopped the aisle food and Beverage Service to cut down the contact, but we have a lot more to do, and we have supply hadchain issues with the personal protective equipment. So were saying getting every plane on the ground that doesnt really need to be in the air to help fight this virus. Those flight attendens who have been laid off, can you give me a General Number or percentage of those who have . And what are they do to pass the time . I know ive heard some flight attendants are volunteering, trying to give back. Yeah. Actually what we did through the c. A. R. E. S. Act was unique that didnt happen with any other industry. If we have a bailout of the airlines, and we wont have a bailout that everybody hates, were going to craft this so there are continuation of paychecks. So the grants that are going to the airlines are intended to keep people on the job connected to their paychecks and health care. Those complications with getting the checks to people through unemployment, that goes out the window. We have the most streamlined process to get people money right now to check checks that they have built their life around and to maintain that stability. Now theres also a requirement on the executives when that happens, they cant lay anyone off. They cant use any stock buybacks, they could have executive compensation or dividends, and so this is a package were hoping can be used for every other industry to call people back to the job and actually get their pay through their paychecks. This is a true workers first package. This is what we are working on right now over the weekend with secretary mnuchin to make sure he doesnt use the advice of the Bankruptcy Attorneys hes called in to make this a different process and push these airlines into bankruptcy. If he doesnt do this as congress has intended, that could happen and then we would see massive layoffs. Perhaps setting an example for other industries, thank up so much. President trump has bragged about the ratings through his daily briefings, but who gets more out of it . Is it the American Public or the commander in chief . This is hal. This is hals heart. Its been broken. And put back together. This is also hals heart. 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The president expressing confidence that novembers general election will not be delayed by coronavirus, this as he navigates the country through the crisis while at the same time running for ea election. In a new articles, my next guest says the president has turned the abandoned briefings room into a new stage, making it mustsee tv. Joining me is michael from politispli Michael Kruse from politico. How do you think effective they are . They are essential rallies, and some some ways better than rallies. They were never about transmitting information, and you could argue niece are these briefings. Theyre the latest show in the trump presidency, whereas the rallies had started to feel stale, they might have been new for the people in the prospective arenas, but the tv had dropped off. Not as many were watching, and watching they briefings, the ratings are high, and he loves those ratings. The central gambit for the entire adult existence for donald trump is those who gets the most attention are those who are the winners. By that measure, you can see these briefings as sort of the centerpiece of his Reelection Campaign rather than simply his ponce to the pandemic. So this is like a reality tv response. Is there a point at which it wont work for him, do you think . Tbd. As i say, this has always been how much attention and bad attention potentially, is a real problem for donald trump. He has plenty of experience, plenty of track record finding ways out of tight spots where he had a ton of bad publicity. Obviously this is apples and oranges. If there is a person who could spin his way out of this and come out with something reassembling a victor, it is donald trump. Again, these briefings are free area time. We can discuss and debate that. In fact theres concern over the reach as well of these daily briefings. I want to lynn to what Carol Simpson told a. M. Joy just a bit ago. He is having these Coronavirus Task force press briefings right at the time local news is playing its biggest shows between 5 00 and 6 00. All these shows are being preempted. My daughter is a medical correspondent here in boston. Shes been preparing stories all day long, and then the president comes on and it knocks off the local news. They stay on until 7 00. The local stations are losing money, because they could run the commercials bought, and the local folks are getting trump, trump, trump the whole time. So the timing of they will, is it strategic . There are those who have suggested that the Late Afternoon early evening sundays Task Force Briefings are planned to cut into the 60 minutes. When he inserted himself on the center of the stage a few weeks back, they typically were in the middle of the day. They started to get later and later in the afternoon. Now theyre nudging into primetime at times. They have also gotten longer and longer. At first they were until an hour, now approaching two hours. Just the other night it went past two hours. He is intentional and some reporting has shown this, putting these briefings at that time of the day, that particular time of day to preempt things to nudge himself into prime nye. Hes a mast of the National Television and we see that in this context as well. We have to give him that the reality tv president for sure. Michael, great article. Thank you so much. Is it working and how much . New information about social distancing and the spread of the coronavirus. About social distancing and the spread of the coronavirus. Were oscar mayer deli fresh, and you may know us from your very first sandwich, your mammoth masterpiece, and whatever this was. Oscar mayer is found in more fridges than anyone else, because its the taste you count on. Make every sandwich count. You cant always stop for a fingerstick. 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Theres a few parts where fever levels are leveling off before they get to zero. Thats been happening the last three, four days, particularly true in florida, where its leveling off a bit above 1 , and in new york where its leveling off in the 2 to 3 range. I am concerned that that potentially indicates continued Community Spread of illness, and in new york in particular its a highdensity city. I notice its hard to do social distancing, but the key message is double down. We need to make sure were breaking the chain of infection. Youre concerned about new york and florida at this point . I am. Again what were seeing in the last few days is theyre continuing to go to zero, theyre starting to level off. Were still trying to investigate what that means and take other date sets in considering, but particularly in new york levels off at a level higher than 2 . One more model, i want to show you, the illness trends over the last seven days, the blue color is notating a decrease. It does if its denser, a darker blue, thats where youre seeing the decrease, as opposed to places with the paler blue like new york and florida . Thats correct. Some parts of this country, like in the middle of the country where you see that yellow, its already very close to zero. Thats a good sign. When theres not fever, youre talking about breaking the chain of infection. Thats good. However, if you click on one of those counties in the new york or florida area, its leveling off at above a again, its possibly indicative that theres continued Community Spread of illness, and that means we need to double down. We need to ensure were implementing more policies, to makes sure the number of newly infected people continues to drop. I like what im seeing there. I think its good for our viewers to get a good idea. Please come back soon, maybe next weekend. Thank you. A new message today about who should wear a mask and what kind. Why has the guidance changed . Well take a look at that. 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Now there are more than 289,000 confirmed cases in the United States, 7,760 people have died. Today new york Governor Andrew Cuomo set the state hit, quote, a new high in cases. He also announced 630 people have died in new york since just yesterday. Were not yet at the apex. Were getting closer. Depending on whose model you look at. Theyll say four, five, six, seven days, some people go out 14 days, but our reading of the projections is were somewhere in the sevenday range. So were not yet at the apex. Part of me would like to be at the apex and just lets do it, but theres part of me that says were good that were not at the apex, because were not ready yet, either. And in florida, the coral print companies was cleared to dock in miami today after being turned away from another florida port. We learned two people on board that ship have died, after at least a dozen people tested positive. Well have a live report in just a moment. Were also keeping a close eye on new jersey where anyminute governor murphy will hold a briefing. Also new today, a Field Hospital at new york citys Javits Center is cleared to receive coronavirus patients, but it remains relatively quiet. The governor says the city has not yet reached the apex. More than 113,000 cases statewide, almost 16,000 in hospitals, more than 4,000 in icu, more than 3500 deaths. However, there is a silver lining. Almost 10,500 people have been discharged from hospital. Good news with the bad news coming from the governor, corey. Take it away in there. Reporter a bit of a mix, alex. Good afternoon. Here it is Javits Center thats been turned into a weve seen federal personnel coming in today. Weve been getting update. It began running last night. A bit more about the back and forth. The good new. Bad news is we are severely severely in the red. But thats because the state also did the most amount of testing in one single day than it had done, with 23,000 tests yesterday. The good news, though, alex, is that we are starting to get more ventilators in. The governor announced today china will send 1,000 ventilators. Oregon also donating 140 ventilators. To put all of this in perspective Governor Cuomo said they ordered 17,000 ventilators and the u. S. Stockpile nationally is far below that. They are still cram binge to get what they need before we hit that apex. Were still gathering equipment, because were not at the apex, but when we hit the apex, you have what you have. I talk to the white house several times a day. The federal government says the stockpile is about 10,000. It moves a bit. But thats for the nation. Thats for the nation. So theres no place, no repository that is going to have everything that we need. Reporter and then that is why, as you heard Governor Cuomo say earlier, even though he wants the apex to come sooner, hes also glad it hasnt come yet and could be about a week ago as they scramble to get the supplies they need, alex. Another bit of good news, some 85,000 volunteers have been helping out in the state of new york, 22,000 coming from out of state, and the governor also authorizing that medical students graduating this year can start work early. Okay. Cori coffin outside the Javits Centering, thank you for that. Joiniwelcome to you both. Dr. John first, Governor Cuomo would like to see the apex quickly, on the other hand maybe not. What does he mean by this . I think what hi means is we start on the downhill part, but at least we start going down. Thats what hes looking for, but he also knows getting to the apex will be incredibly difficult. That means more people being hospitali hospitalized, more people dies. He said we definitely want to get to the apex to start recovering from this, which will take time, but were not looking forward to it, because that will mean a lot more people unfortunately dies and being hospitalized for it. So, ann, i dont know if you were tuned in, if you heard that i interview with iner king from kinsa, he also added florida to his area of concern. What is your understanding of all of this. Well, social distancing is like a blunt instrument. All were trying to do is use the most basket method were if not everyone is doing their part, we dont see the down turn we would look to see. So we need people to be social distancing, we need people doing the hand washing that weve been talking about. Thats why were now, as were learning more and more about this violation, starting to make recommendations like for everybody who wear a cloth mask. This is important to remember, this is a novel virus. We are learning about it, making policy decisions in real time. Can you elaborate on that, dr. Torres, how the past couple months the cdc was advising against wear iing why the mixed messages . Are we still learns . Or was there a western that needed to go to masks to the people on the front lines. There were a bunch of mixed messages, which probably added to the confusion among people about what they should and shouldnt do. I think all along, like we were saying here, this is a novel virus. This is something we hadnt seen before. Were learning as we go, using history, what happens with those and what we think would happen with this, but we were finetuned along the way. Now we would know, people when they were asymptomatic or presymptomatic, can end up passing this along a lot more freely, so the social distancing isnt working, and its not the fact that that six feet isnt what we need, but the fact that people arent maintaining that six feet. Now the cdc is saying lets take the next step, wear the face masks mainly for people who might be pacing it on to themselves, but also, for people who may not bet got the social distancing. Part of that science and biology, because its changing and our advice change based on what we understand, but also because of the way populations react and having to react to that reaction, saying its not working as well as we wanted to, so lets add one more thing to the layer. So, anne, were focusing on the growing number of cases, but a lot of people have recovered from the virus. You have John Hopkins University saying almost 10,000 in the u. S. Have recovered, worldwide, more than 200,000. So what have we learned from those cases . This is a good thing to see so many people recovering. Quite frankly we know there are probably many, many more that are recovered, but its too soon to know what we need though know. This speaks to the need for research right now. We need to be were learning about this virus in real time, so learning as much as we can good everybody here. People who have immunity, people who are sick, people who have not made it through or have made it through, you know, with severe disease versus mild disease. There is so much to learn. Right now what we can learn is look at the global daughter. We are not biologically different from all these different countries, and i its its important to be really looking at this data and understanding what is happening over time. This really speaks to the need to be banking samples, to be doing research in real time. This is the way that we will be able to make policy decisions, and this is very important. You know, dr. John, to annes point, the presumption that a lot more people may have been aflitted with this virus, there were a lot of people who are sick in february with similar symptoms to coronavirus, who tested negative when they went to take a flu test. Theyre now saying to themselves, wait a minute, did i already have coronavirus . Is that possible . You know, alex, thats something im saying to myself. I had a very long cold back in february. Now in retrospect, could it have been coronavirus . It definitely could have been. What im telling people is if you got sick in january, most likely it was something else, a flu or cold. February is kind of middle of the road. March looks more line coronavirus, and now definitely coronavirus, so it depends on when it happened. But you really dont know and cant say assuredly. You cant said i have immunity, i can go out and do things. Once we start getting the antibody toss, that will determine for people if you have immunity built up. We nonknow how long it will last, but up until then, you cant rest much on that. Absolutely nothing, we all need to do the same thing. Absolutely do not let up on the protective measures. Anne, question to you here. The level at which someone is exposed, does that necessarily impact how severe their case can be . We think that it does. We think that may explain while Health Care Workers are having severe disease and so many poor outcomes. We certainly know this to be the case from other viruses. As dr. Torres has said, we are learning about this in real time. We are still trying to understand what this virus does, and how it works, but we are looking to other viruses for information. It does appear that several is linked to the route of infection. Im awfully glad we have youtube with sharing what you both know. Take care of yourselves. The president is defending Jared Kushner who suggested the stockpile was not for the states. Monica alba is at the white house with more. What is this all about . Yeah, Jared Kushner there certainly raising eyebrows with his choice of words. It was a surprise appearance for him in this new role very much in the leadership position on the task force. He was asked about all of these bidding wars and the states complaining that its difficult for them to get medical supplies, and asking about if the National Stockpile has they available, how can they debt distributed to the states, Jared Kushner referred to the stockpile as ours, referring to the federal government, that it wasnt necessarily available to the state at that moment. When the president was pressed, he had a strong reaction not just to the reporter, but to the topic at hand. Take a listen. Reporter yesterday Jared Kushner said the notion of the federal stockpile was it supposed to be our stockpile. Its not supposed to be state stock piles that they then use. What did he mean by our. What railroad asking . Statistics is it a gotcha . Our means the United States of america. Reporter the states . Our. It means the United States of america. Then we take that our, and we distribute it to the states. Reporter why did he stay its not supposed to be state stock piles . Because we need it for the government. Its such a basic simple question, and you try to make it sound so bad. Reporter its not bad you ought to be ashamed of yourself. Reporter we have seen the president lash out when he doesnt like questions. He referred to that as a take larry nasty question. Of course its a legitimate one. When the president was pressed on this by another reporter, he did mention that the stockpile is of course for use in surges, and ultimately for the states, but the bottom line is weve seen the president with these reactions when confronted with either his own words or those officials that are close to him that he has put in those leadership positions, in this case, of course, his soninlaw. That was notable. We will see when Jared Kushner makes another appearance. Monica alba at the withouhite h thank you. The scientist who just start add trial on the antima lars yay drug hydroxychloroquine. And part of the story, dozens of planes not going anywhere. 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We really do have to thing of our american citizens who have been stuck in this cruise ship. We need to show compassion and adhering to the strictest of measures. I can tell you from the latest reports we saw today, they will disembarking those who are not infected. Theyre going to remain, keep those passengers that have the virus on board. I want to make sure the Health Care Providers have the proper equipment. I continue to see a lack of proper equipment here locally. Those are some of the measures we need to put in place locally as we see this cruise ship coming to board here. Your constituents, as they see this cruise ship dock and disembark, are they concerned about these ships docking in their backyards miamidade has become a hot spot in the state of florida. They are understandably alarmed, but if we follow the proper measures to disembark those who do not have the virus, and i have been assured they are doing that, then lets show compassion. Many of these do live locally, and are american citizens if we have the health care, we were by okay in allowing them to disembark for those who do not have the virus right now. As you are well affair, the cases in florida now surpassing 10,000, and there was a ranking, politico puts ron desantis atop that list of gubernatorial busts. He ranked 50 out of 50 governors. What do you think of the governors response thus far in the state of florida . Look, alex, its been so troubling for me, seeing the mismanagement of this pandemic at the state level. The congressional delegation here in florida has been trying to be communicating as often as possible with the Florida Department of health. It was very apparent early on, im talking early february, they were not equipped to handle the pandemic. We have passed several packages to provide funding for equipment, supplies. What im seeing logly now here in the county is that everyone is out bitting for test swabs, bidding for ppe equipment. Theres no coordinated effort. The govern op continues to react to these numbers. He issued a stayathome order, but left church to say remain an essential business, leaving them to make the decisions. Its negligence germnegligent, costing lives. We need to come together and unite, so that we can save lives. That is our priority at this point. As states cross this country are pleading with the federal government to secure muchneeded supplies, lets listen to what Jared Kushner said this week about the federal stockpile. Here it is. The nothing of the federal stockpile is its supposed to be ours, not states stock piles. So were assessing their needs, the data from the local situations,ened then trying to fill it with 9 supplies we have given them. Our stockpile, not the states. Last time i checked ours is supposed to be the United Nations of ameri united state america. Are you disturbed at all to hear this reflection from at least one leader in the trump administration, the mentality of this, as states are strugglinging to get what they need . Theres so much arrogance and incompete incompetence, it doesnt stop shocking me when i hear these words. My question is, who is in charge . We started with the secretary of health and Human Services secretary azar, then he appointed Vice President mike pence to be in charge, then the lieutenant for fema was going to be in charge . What is Jared Kushner doing . Why isnt there a National Coordinated effort to send equipment . I hear every single day they dont have the protective equipment. They dont have enough test swabs. What is happening . Like you said, we are the United States, we need to be united and there needs a national concentrated effort for all of these supplies and equipment. We cant keep waiting. Its very frustrating. I can tell you myself and many of my colleagues, we are asking as our own heads of state. Weaver trying to coordinate the efforts and thats not the way it should work. Dont let up, is all i can say. Take care. Lets go to a new word about a potential treatment, hydroxychloroquine, used to treat malaria. Its turnedly until way to see if it can prevent coronavirus developing in people who versus exposed to it. Dr. Bullware is running that study. Professor, awfully glad to have you here. This trial started the beginning of march. I want to know about the current status, and walk us through what you do what a trial like this. Thats an excellent question. Thank you for being here. So were one iing from a known e of covid19, either as when you live in the same household, and were looking at whether a short course of hydroxychloroquine given for five days, whether it can prevent infection. Soic looking at people who are exposed, but asymptomatic, and whether we can keep people without infection over the next two weeks. The second trial is people who have symptomatic disease, either people who have infection who have been diagnosed, but not hospitalized, or once again the same highrisk people from household contact, and now has symptoms, but may not have been tested as of yet, but has symptomatic disease. And looking at whether shortcourse therapy given in the first four days can reduce whether people need to be hospitalized. Both of these tracks, what are you finding in terms of a timeline of your answers . When might we see the results . Right. Obviously we want the results as quickly as possible. Yesterday, yes. Yes. So for those who wants to participate in the trial. They can go on our website, and basically looking for up to 1500 volunteers for each of these trials. The first prevent trial has enrolled over 675 people, so were almost about halfway there, and we expect to be hopefully in the next two weeks to complete enrollment for that trial. That hopefully well have results within a month. Thats a relatively shore time frame for a clinical trial. The second trial on treatment weve only enrolled 175 people. Thats not going quite as fast, but certainly theres a lot of symptomatic people out there. If once again you have symptoms that have just started in the last four days and have a diagnosis or known exposure, we would be happy to have you participate in the trial to see whether the hydroxychloroquine actually works. Youre not going to gives a conclusive analysis for often reasons, but is there something showing promise . Do either of these yes, youre a scientist, sir, but does anything tell you in your gut this looks good . Yes, how the trial is run, its a doubleblind trial. So basically i dont know what the participants get and the participant dont know what they get, so its a Fair Assessment of the medicine and whether it works. The first analysis will be on april 8th. Well have a panel of external people not involved in the trial review the data, and once again ill be blinded, so joe know the results, which of course is a bit id like to know the results and share the results, but for sort of a proper trial, this is sort of how its done. People are randomized. Half the people get the hydroxychloroquine, half the people get a placebo, which is a vitamin, and well see what happened over the next two weeks. April 8th is wednesday. So after april 8th youll have an indication or a direction . Rudd optimist are you optimistic . Whether it works or doesnt work, both will be quite informative. A lot of people are using the medicine willy nilly through the u. S. At least in a prevention role, does it have a role . If its highly effective, maybe by this next wednesday it may be so effective that we stop the trial . At the same time if its not effect i hav effective, the trial will continue. Were trying to determine if theres at least a 50 benefit in preventing infection. I hope youll part my persistence in trying to get good news, but dont let up. We will check back in after april 8th and soo if theres an indication where thils are going. Dr. Boulware, thank you and best of luck. Shes a survivor, and now donati donating plasma. Theres a new article that points out how to live vicariously through livestreams around the world. Thats the monterey bay aquarium. If you want, you can watch the fish swim all day long. Watch te fish swim all day long you wouldnt accept an incomplete job from anyone else. So why accept it from your allergy pills . Flonase relieves your worst symptoms which most pills dont. Get allinone allergy relief for 24 hours, with flonase. Im part of a community of problem solvers. 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He said more people in new jersey have died than were lost on september 11th. Over to moscow where people are experiencing the first weekend in lockdown. President putin announced a federal holiday until april 30th. Most of the cases are in moscow. And a moment of silence in china, with flags flying at halfstaff around the country and consulate and embassies abroad. Some science tissing believe finding treatment is plasma. Joining me now is the founder of survivor corps, and the first person in new york state to be screened for those antibodies. A thankyou to so many people for being the first to do this. When did you get sick and how long did it take to recover . I got sick on friday the 13th. You can read into that what you want. There was nothing subtle about it. I woke up with a 102 fever, and i had an ville on my chest. I was fever free after about four days. I was able to recover at home with tylenol and gatorade, but i had a typical experience. So i hope that gives hope to those people out there suffering at home through it right now. It can be miserable and is quite scary. Youre looking at the face of somebody on the other side. Thats a great face to see looking so healthy and well. The possibility of becoming a donor, how did you hear about that . So i was one of the first people in my area to be diagnosed with covid19. As soon as i got that news, i realized if i was lucky, i would also be one of the first survivors. With that came a tremendous responsibility an opportunity. I started seeing solicitations from local hospitals in new york looking for plasma donors. Being sent a lot of chain mail and i realized what an inefficient system that was, and we needed to create an efficient platform to connect survivors with the research opportunities. Not just for donating plasma, but your previous guest talked about the university of minnesota study, thats posted to our public Facebook Page called survivor corps. We are updating it daily with every Research Opportunity around the country to serve as a Matchmaking Service and make it as easy as possible for the Research Institutions to use us to stem the tide of this pandemic and save lives. For every plasma donation, three to four lives can be saved. I hope dr. David boulware is listening. He posted it this morning. Hell be flooded soon. Good. Requirements, though, to be able to be a part of a study like this or donate yourself. How difficult is the screening process for that . Um, its an interesting question. It varies from study to study. For a plasma donation, they are looking for people who are ideally at least two weeks symptom free, but really ideally 28 days. We are seeing that the virus is still showing up in peoples bodies even after two weeks symptomfree. And the longer you wait from the resolution of symptoms, the higher the count of anti3w0dies are in your body. So when i contracted the virus, mea body naturally created the antibodies to fight it off. Those are superpower skills. We as survivors can use that to transfer those super powers, those antibodies into the very sickest. Be we can also participate to figure out which drugs are responding to antibodies, method of transmission, how long the virus stays in the system, how long we are shedding the virus. We can answer the questions that will move science ahead. I wanted to create an official platform, and its a grassroots movement. We are connecting people on a daily basis. We are flooding these studies with volunteers. I have to say i applaud you and admire what you have done. I know a lot of people need to join your ranks, also those who are suffering right now are probably looking to you for hope. Thank you for joining us. Thank you. Her husband has covid19. Shes pleading for help. A new jersey woman i spoke with last week will give us an update after a break. St week will givee after a break. Still fresh. Unstopables inwash scent booster downy unstopables aand were here for you ry day fespecially now,rs. Doing Everything Possible to keep you connected. Through the resilience of our network and people. We can keep learning, keep sharing, keep watching, and most of all, keep together. Its the job weve always done. It is the job we will always do. A did the practicesperate sr the treatment. Amys husband has been in the hospital for two weeks. I had a friend from california email me this morning and say, how is amy doing . My floor director from last weekend, shes off today, and she emailed me. So answer that question. I know you got to facetime yesterday, right . We did. Thank you for having me again. We were able to facetime yesterday with brets nurse for the second time. He is still sedated and on the ventilator, so he was not able to convert with us, but we were able to all speak to him and, you know, tell him how much we love him, and some of the daily things that having going on, especially with my kids. You know, just in the hopes that he could hear us. Yeah. Well, lets hope so. Theres a lot of evidence to suggest that he sure did. With regard to getting that blood plasma you were pushing for, have you gotten it to him . If not, how close are you to getting it . So we have not gotten it to him. We are still in the process of baby steps, unfortunately. You know, theres been a lot of red tape involved getting the plasma donors a second covid test. One of the fda requirements and another one that has been updated is now theyre saying if youre 28 days symptom free you can donate and dont need the second covid test. Anyone who is less than that has to have a second covid test. We have had several tested, so thats progress, but they have tested positive still. So they have not been able to give, and we are working with our, you know, local and county officials to make this happen. I have wonderful people helping me behind the scenes to make this happen, and people coming from all over to test again. So hes not received it yet. Do you have a sense of how much longer youll have to wait . Um, no, i dont really know. We have a couple of peoples results that are pending. I would imagine that if one of them is negative, that we would then be able to go right ahead with the plasma donation, and it could be sent to the hospital as soon as possible. I dont know how quickly that would happen. Amy, im sure you are staying positive and hopeful. We all are. So keep us posted. When you get good news, i would love to have you back again. We have a lot of people pulling for you and for bret, of course. Stay strong, my friend. Good luck. Thank you so much. 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Grocery stores are the tipping point, the few places remaining open, leaving workers and shoppers ex sploezed. We have Atlantic Staff writer and author of this article. Olga, welcome to you. Everybody needs food, but grocery workers are not getting ppe. Are you in your reporting finding them to be sitting ducks . I mean, yeah, unfortunately they are some of the workers who are at greatest risk of exposure to coronavirus. They come within just a couple of feet of, you know, hundreds of people every day. Theyre not able to do their jobs from home like you and me and so many other people are able to. And so they really are getting increasingly worried about their health and safety and some of them are even saying, you know, theyve been writing to me saying should i risk going to work, should i risk my health, is it worth it . Because they really are concerned about contracting the virus. These new cdc guidelines, they cant give us any more comfort and this extends to people like transit workers, bus drivers. Yesterday i know you know the story about the detroit bus driver who died from the virus days after he complained on social media about the lack of protection. Weve seen so much concern about the doctors and nurses, but what about the Blue Collar Workers on the front line . Yeah, they have been extremely concerned about their own personal protection. Like you mentioned, theres a nationwide shortage of masks, so they are not getting those masks that doctors and nurses might. Perhaps rightfully so, because we do need those for Health Care Workers. But then the person who is checking out your groceries at traders joes is saying what about my protection . And some of these stores, theyve given mixed messages on things like masks. Theyve said try not to wear them because it might scare customers, or you can maybe wear it but you have to bring it from home and supply your own. I think walmart said that it would start supplying masks to its employees in the u. S. But that it might take a couple of weeks to get them to all the workers just because there are so many. So employees are saying where are these masks . We need them now because were some of the folks who are at greatest risk of infection here. Yeah. Olga, thank you so much for bringing us the latest on this article you wrote. I read it. It was great. Thank you so much for that. Thats going to do it for me this hour as i wish my executive producer a happy birthday through these trying times. My colleague is continuing our coverage in just a moment. Shes going to look at the disproportionate impact of the coronavirus on africanamericans. Ill see you back here tomorrow at 7 00 a. M. Eastern. Take care, everyone. E, everyone. 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