Be prepared for the likelihood there will be 100,000 americans who die from this virus . The answer is yes. As sobering a number as that is, we should be prepared for it. Is it going to be that much . I hope not and i think the more we push on the mitigation, the less likelihood it would be that number. But as being realistic we need to prepare ourselves thats a possibility. Sandra new york is leading the nation in the number of deadly cases. The state reporting more than 1700 deaths so far with more than half of those in new york city. We have Fox Team Coverage for you this morning. John roberts has more on the white house response. But we begin with David Lee Miller live in new york city for us this morning. David. Sandra, the Field Hospital here in central park was supposed to begin operations yesterday. That has now been postponed. They say that it should be operating later today. And then start receiving the first patients. It has 68 beds and is designed to accommodate the overflo
A guy that had gone for spring break in miami, and he came back and he was admitted in the icu for trouble breathing. And his friend, best friend, was outside the unit, wanted to drop him off some toiletries. And i went and talked to the best friend, and he said, i know i cant come in, but can you please give him this and please tell him i love him dearly. So im in the covid19 unit and i talked to his friend, the patient, and explained we cant have any visitors, that he wanted me to tell you that he loved you, and he started to cry. And i started to cry. And we talked for a minute. And he said, can i ask you something . I said sure. Hes like, no, never mind. Its a dumb question. And i said, no, no, no. No questions are dumb right now. And he said, well, am i going to be okay . I said well, your vital signs look good, youre five days in, and i said, well, youre talking, and just continue to exercise your lungs. And he cried some more with tears of joy and gratefulness that, you know, i
Talking about President Trumps consumption of classified briefings. This morning, there is new reporting that says President Trump was warned repeatedly about the threat of coronavirus in classified briefings back in january and february of this year. Clearly, other things began to occupy that time and space. Willie, good morning. Good to see you. Morning. Donald trump started getting warned, according to reports, in early january. Thats when joe biden wrote that piece about it. Biden wrote a piece later on in january. By early january, you had the state department, officials at the state department, the pentagon, the National Security council, the cdc, of course, hhs. The concerns in early january throughout the Trump Administration were there, including, we found out yesterday, a series of president ial Daily Briefings, both written and oral, throughout january and february. Yet, remarkably enough, this is a president who, at the end of that month, was saying it was just one case fro
Home amid all of this. The number of hospitalizations in the state continues to decline. Governor cuomo says it is a sign that the soshl distancing measures are working. We are flattening the curve by what we are doing. If we stop what we are doing, you will see that curve change. That curve is purely a function of what we do day in and day out. It is not a time to get complacent. It is not a time to do anything different than we have been doing. And a leading forecast model, the white house uses to chart the progression of the coronavirus has adjusted its projections downward in dramatic fashion. The Washington Post reported wednesday the institute for Health Metrics and evaluation at the university of washington puts the peak of the u. S. Covid19 he resource use at just two days away on april 11th, after which the need for hospital beds and ventilators will be on the decline. The ihme now says the icu bed shortage nationwide is just over 9,000 and the projected number of deaths by au