i feel a responsibility to these animals. really, that's what i was put on this earth to do. >> watch anderson cooper's full update and nominate someone you think should be a cnn hero at cnn here owes.com. the number of confirmed cases from the coronavirus outbreak tops 100,000 and it is far from contained. cruise ship quarantine, a ship off the coast of the u.s. is latest to be affected by the virus. hear what some of the passengers are saying about it. plus the two-man race for the democratic nomination, what joe biden and bernie sanders are doing to increase their chances of winning. hello and welcome to our viewers in the united states and all around the world. we're live in atlanta, i'm michael holmes. "newsroom" starts right now.

more than 100 additional cases of coronavirus were confirmed on friday in the u.s., a 50% increase from the day before. american health experts now recommend that the elderly as well as people with chronic medical issues stay home and avoid social events and crowds. all around the world, over 100,000 people are now infected, nearly 3500 of them have died. the vast majority have been in china. off the california coast meanwhile, at least 21 people aboard the grand princess cruise ship have tested positive. nick watt with the latest on that. >> reporter: on board the grand princess cruise ship, uncertainty and fear. how many if any passengers are

positive? the testing continues, at least five from the ship's last leg of its voyage caught the virus. one died. >> he was around a lot of us on the cruise up on the 14th deck where we all kind of lounged and hung out. >> reporter: it is an older crowd and that demo is hardest hit. >> those over the age of 70, we're looking at 10%, 15% case fatality rates. >> reporter: in washington state where at least seven deaths are now tied to this nursing home, there is grief, fear and now confusion. pat's mom among the dead. >> i want her body tested. i've been told that we don't do that, we just assume natural causes. i'm saying that is not okay, i need to have her tested for the larger picture. >> reporter: the university of washington just announced no more classes on campus, the north shore school district already shut down, at least 80,000 students in the seattle

area are now being kept home. >> they said up to 14 days it might be closed. >> are you concerned that the virus is going to get inside your home and that you and/or your kids might be infected? >> yes. my middle son has asthma, so it is mild asthma, but that is a big concern too. really what it goes for is the lungs. >> reporter: the number of confirmed cases across the country climbing at nearly three per hour in just over the past day. in cut, emma just back from italy where nearly 200 have died is in self quarantine just in case. >> i've been allowed to like pet my dog every once in a while, but it is lonely. >> reporter: in new york state, more than 4,000 in a similar situation. >> this is like a flu on steroids. >> reporter: 11 new cases in the state announced today all connected to contact with one man who is right now being treated in a manhattan hospital.

>> nick watt reporting there. on friday, the u.s. president got a firsthand look at the coronavirus response with a visit to the u.s. centers for disease control and prevention. here's what he had to say about the infections an bloord tboarde ship. >> i'd be inclined to say leave everybody on the ship for a period of time and use the ship as your base. i like the numbers being where they are, i don't need to have the numbers double because of one ship that wasn't our fault. >> while u.s. health experts scrambled to address the growing outbreak, the trump white house continues to down play the threat. more from jim acosta. >> reporter: with president trump urging americans to remain calm and avoid panicking over the coronavirus -- >> you have to be calm. it will go away. >> reporter: -- top white house officials are misleading the public insisting that the public health emergency has been

contained when in fact the data shows the virus is spreading causing more illnesses and more deaths. the officials offering those rosy assessments, kellyanne conway -- >> i am pleased to report that the 14 deaths so far that are completely 2r57b8g tragic and very sad, shows that this has been skancontained because the president took action and you criticized him for do that. >> reporter: and she and larry kudlow are not disease experts. >> we don't know the magnitude of the virus is going to be, although frankly so far, it looks relatively contained. >> reporter: one big problem, administration officials have yet to understand the full copy of the break as testing kits are beingdistributed. >> we have provided all the tests to the state of washington, d.c. and the state of california that they have asked for. the production and shipping of tests that we've talked about all week is completely on schedule. >> reporter: a top expert on the

coronavirus task force pointed to missteps at the centers for disease control. >> it is unfortunate that is got off it a slow start, there were some missteps with regard to the cdc's test, they had a problem, they fixed the problem. >> reporter: despite the rocky response, secretary of state mike pompeo claimed the u.s. is outperforming the rest of the world in its response. >> i'm confident that we'll handle it better than any nation in the world. >> reporter: democrats aren't buying that. >> the cdc says basically anyone who thinks they need a test should go to their doctor and ask for a test. the vice president says we don't have enough testing capacity to a address all the tests that we need to take. >> reporter: there was even confusion over whether the president would visit the cdc. first the president said his visit was scrapped due to concerns somebody at the cdc could have the coronavirus. >> we may go. they thought that there was a problem at cdc with somebody

that had the virus. it turned out negative, so we're seeing if we can do it. >> reporter: and then the white house cleared mr. trump to go. the president is trying to find a silver lining noting more americans may avoid traveling over seas and choose to spend their money in the u.s. >> people are now staying in the u.s., spending their money, and i like that. >> joining me now, dr. robert kim fawley from the fielding school of public health and also form her director of communicable disease control and prevention at the los angeles county department of public health. more than well enough qualified to talk about this. i wondered if we could start with the messaging. the president says when it comes to the coronavirus, his words, he stopped it. kellyanne conway telling reporters that the coronavirus outbreak has been contained. just purely from a medical standpoint, are either of those

statements true? >> i think the issue of containment means that everything then is not having any local spread. and we do have area hes of local spread in the united states at this time. >> tell us about this whole testing kids issue. i mean, you don't know how many people have it if testing is not being done. dr. gupta said that the u.s. is at the bottom tier of the world when it comes to testing. i think when the u.s. tested 1500 people, the south koreans were testing 10,000 a day, do you think there could be unnecessary spread going on because of this lack of testing? >> maybe not so much unnecessary spread, but i think we have spread going on that we may not be aware of. in one sense as the million plus kits come out, i think that we'll have increased numbers of cases being reported just because there is more testing going on. >> yeah, and again the president said on friday anyone who wants a test can have one, he called the test kits beautiful.

but it is deae monda demonstrab case. >> and i think it is very important for public health officials to be consistent in their messaging, to be able to make sure that the public understands what they can do themselves personally and when it comes time for having to do some community wide measures, but there is very clear understanding as to what things may need to be closed, what may need to be changed in terms of going to eventses, things like this, but that has to be clearly messaged so there is no confusion on the part of people in the community. >> i also wanted to ask you about the readiness for what might come. there are modeling scenarios out there. even moderate ones that show potential for perhaps a million hospitalizations going forward, perhaps 200,000 people needing intensive care.

tense of thousands needing ventilators. that would overwell. resources. what planning is being made for that situation, can you plan for that? >> it certainly will be a challenge for the public health officials in the united states. i think what is being done is we're more prepared today than we were yesterday and we'll be more prepared tomorrow than we are today. but the thing is what we need to make sure, if we can try through such measures as personal nonpharmaceutical interventions, basically again covering the cough and ensuring that we are not shaking hands anymore, and when we need to, to institute the community wide measures, these things will blunt the epidemic, will make it go over time slower and that will help then ease some of the pressures that we will see on our health care system. >> i was wondering again, from a medical standpoint, not necessarily a political one, health insurance issue, i mean, there are millions in the united states without sick pay, without

health insurance. tests are going to be free apply. but not hospitalization, doctors fees or things that could bankrupt people who are not ensured. should provision be made for those people given how wide spread this could become? >> yes, i think the society has an obligation to make sure that we are protecting the most vulnerable, including those that may not have access, make sure that everybody for coronavirus is getting the care that they need, whether that is at a clinic or whether that is actual hospitalizations even if it means intensive care units. this needs to be provided. >> when you look at the overall situation how it is being handled around the world versus here, there has been a lot of talk about cuts that have happened to the system in recent years, the removal of the white house pandemic response unit, budget cuts to the cdc and so on. how much of an impact is that

having on what we're seeing now in terms of preparedness? >> public health infrastructure in the united states has been defunded or under fund underfun several years. and so this is a good opportunity for elected officials to take a good look and realize what the value of public health is, why you need to have even in times when things may not be an outbreak, strong robust public health programs that are planning for such events just as this and we have surge capacity in the hospital systems, it is very important to fund a very robust public health and health network. >> yeah, surge capacity, that is a phrase that we'll hear more and more. good points well made. doctor, thank you so much. >> a pleasure to be with you, michael. we'll take a quick break. when we come back, for those on lkdown, not the vacation that

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has chosen to replace his chief of staff. mulvaney is out and mark meadows is in. he decided to make this switch at crucial time which might cause some concern. kaitlan collins with the details. >> reporter: president trump announced in a late night tweet on friday that he is shaking up his staff once again, pushing out his acting chief of staff mick mulvaney after a little more than a year on the job and replacing him with mark meadow, an outgoing congressman from north carolina who when he announced that he was retiring, led many to believe that it was only a matter of time before he took this job. now the president didn't announce anything further about the swap at this time beyond saying that mick mulvaney is going to be going as the special envoy to northern ireland. that is a job our sources tell us he has pushed for long before he became chief of staff and reminded the president recently as he was clearly on the outs in

his role that that is a job that he wanted. now meadows is going to take over at a time where mulvaney had really lost the president's confidence. he was not seen as someone that the president turned to for advice anymore. he often didn't even travel with the president on trips he made and he wasn't at work the day the president announced he was pushing him out, instead he was on a personal trip out west. now comes mark meadows, a conservative stalwart and someone who has been a consistent advise consist tent z adviadviser of donald tr. people will wait to see if he makes other staffing changes. and the other chiefs of staff that the president has had, reince priebus, john kelly, mick mulvaney, have all had very different ghofoverning styles i the west wing. so what they will be looking for in mark meadows is of course also the role that he play in

the next critical months ahead as the president is trying to keep his presidency and stay in office. some say that they believe that mack meadows wi mark meadows will be helpful, he does a politician and knows how to campaign, he has been campaigning for the pld since early days of 2015 and 2016. so mick mulvaney is out. no comment from mulvaney yet though meadows did issue a statement thanking mulvaney for his time in the job and saying that he looks forward to taking over from here kaitlan collins, cnn, washington. and the other side of the political aisle, the race for the u.s. democratic presidential nomination looks. different than it did a week ago. it is now town to thrdown to th essentially really only two. jessica dean with that. >> reporter: for 2020 democrats, it is now effectively a two-man race. joe biden and bernie sanders looking ahead to the next round of super tuesday voting and its

biggest prize, michigan. sanders canceled his planned event in mississippi to turn his focus to michigan. >> can't be in six states at the same time. so michigan is where we'll spend a bit of our time. i think that we'll be certainly in arizona, we will be elsewhere as well. but it is just a question of having to make decisions. >> reporter: biden continues to rack up key endorsements that now include michigan governor and her lieutenant governor. >> he's shown up over the years for the auto industry. he has been a friend of this community. >> reporter: the endorsement both sanders and biden want in senator elizabeth warren and 's she said she wants time to make a decision. >> i'll get up tomorrow morning and start thinking about that. >> reporter: but sanders isn't waiting, encouraging warren's voters to back his campaign. >> i think that they will find many of the issues that senator warren campaigned on are exactly the issues that we are fighting for. >> reporter: with the democratic field narrowed, sander and biden

now drawing sharper contrasts. the two candidates sparring over social security on twitter and the air waves. >> well, we have bad news for them. we are not going to cut social securi security. >> joe biden has always been a strong supporter of social security. negative ads will only help donald trump. it is time we bring our party together. >> let's dive a little deeper into all of this with natasha. how do you see this shaping up in terms of the democratic fight? >> well, it will be really interesting. prior to super tuesday, it was sanders that was ahead in the polls in michigan. a new poll just came out after super tuesday results and we see biden ahead by six points.

it is looking like biden is going to win michigan based on that most recent poll and based on the momentum he's gained from super tuesday. he has made big inroads with support coming from white working class voter, these were people that had back supportive of sand ners 2016, but sanders seems to have lost these voters to biden. he's done well with the suburbs and he's done well with african-american voters and of course with older voters. sanders has mostly been doing well with young voters and hispanic voters. not a lot of hispanics in michigan, so we would project biden to win michigan based on you how he has been doing thus far. >> you have seen elizabeth warren drop out of course, a progressive, but the interesting thing there, it seems her supporters don't automatically go to fellow progressive bernie sanders. they are pretty much split. what does that tell you? >> right, it is not necessarily the case that warren supporters

are going to go to sanders. she is delaying when she will make the endorsement of course that endorsement is going to make a big impact of course. but something that she didn't necessarily always clarify during the campaign was that she was somewhere in between. she got lumped in to this progressive category, but she said, you know, there is a place in the democratic party at the moment for someone in between a moderate and a progressive. and that is where she felt that she stood. she did really well with white liberal educated middle to upper middle class voters. some of them may decide to vote for sanders because maybe their policies are more in line with his policies. but there are those that are very strategic at the moment looking at joe biden's momentum and thinking about who is best suited to beat donald trump. so both are going to be trying to get her endorsement. it is important to note that in january there was tension between sanders and warren over

allegedly this comments that he made that woman wouldn't win in 2020. we'll see if that tension ends up impacting what she decides to do. >> and the gop already pushing videos of joe biden basically compiles of various gaffes for getting details so on and so forth. and the gop also claiming that bernie sanders is communist, which he isn't of course. it does point to how dirty the main campaign will be whoever gets the democratic nod. >> it is going to be one of the dirtiest campaigns ever. and we saw that in 2016, it got incredibly personal. and we see that that is the way that trump has been leading, with makiing personal attacks against republicans -- against democrat, i'm sorry. and we're seeing some of the ads that biden is coming out with, he is trying to say that the reason to vote for him is to bring the u.s. back to its morals, to unite the country.

but he will respond and he had responded in the past when trump makes personal attacks. the same with sanders. sanders doesn't allow trump to just make personal attacks on him either. so i think that we can assume that this campaign will be one of the dirtiest ever and it will get very, very personal and based on candidate characteristics, possibly more so than the issues. it is better for the democrats if they focus on the issues, on health care, on improving things for just the average worker, improving life for the average worker. if they focus on issues that the democrats really care about and independents care about, that would be better for them than if they get locked into the battles about personality. >> it is interesting with the various primary, the various states, i mean joe biden has won a slew of states lastly, but because of the way the delegates are calculated, bernie sanders just has to stay close. the delegate gap is not that great. does that point to perhaps

increased chance of a contested election -- contested convention? >> there are concerns that there could be a contested convention. the establishment is hoping that it will go to the moderate and it is not a contested convent n convention. because that would benefit trump. trump doesn't want there to be a frontrunner anytime soon, he wants everything to be up in the air with a lot of uncertainty and then a lot of inter-party wrangling at the convention. and best case scenario, whoever lose, their supporters don't come to the polls so you have a depressed voter turnout. to some extent that is what happened in 2016. there was low voter turnout compared to previous elections.

and in key states that ended up benefiting trump. >> all right. professor lindstaedt, thank you so much. appreciate it. >> thanks for having me. we'll take a quick break. when we come back, a cruise to paradise on lockdown because of the coronavirus. we talk to some passengers aboard the "grand princess." plus why the u.s. is lagging behind other countries when it comes to testing for the coronavirus. want to brain better?

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stories this hour. coronavirus is now infecting more than 100,000 around the world. 80% are in china, but new cases emerge daily all over the world.local death toll nearly 3500. and the u.s. is reporting more than 100 new cases of coronavirus on friday, raising the total to more than 330. president trump visiting the centers for disease control to get a first hand look at how the government is responding to the outbreak. and more now on the cruise sthip o ship off the coast of california. we understand that the ship is moving closer to shore because a passenger is in need of medical assistance and could be air lifted off. it is unclear though whether anyone else might have been leaving. lucy kafanov has the latest. >> reporter: there is so much shock, so much confusion on

board the gland princip"grand p ship. and it looks like friday's announcement might be the start of a new one.big question, what is the fate of the 3500 or so people on board. the vice president mike pence, he says that the ship will be taken to a noncommercial port. it is not cleared where, it is not clear when or what exactly a noncommercial port is. we know that the 1100 or so crew members will not be allowed to disembark. the rest of the passengers, they will be tested for symptoms and taken to military bases and quarantined as needed. again rkit sounds like the administration is still working out the details. the passengers have had very little information. in fact finding out about the news of these test results, 46 people swabbed, 21 positive results, one test result inconclusive, they found out about this like the rest of us, by watching the news. take a look at this one clip that passenger sent us.

>> vice president mike pence announced that 21 people have tested positive for covid-19. you may have heard this on the news by the media already. we apologize but we were not given advance notice of this announcement by the u.s. government. are the i'm in touch with several passengers, they say they are confined to their rooms, they have been watching the news, they have been watching ttv, and they have bee given activity kit, one woman sent us a photo of a tote bag that they could be dazzle to pass the time. and another woman posted a message on facebook joking put us all in trump properties since the president doesn't believe there is serious danger. a bit of levity and a lot of confusion. lucy kafanov, cnn. and joining me now from aboard the "grand princess" cruise ship, michelle and steven smith.

sorry that you are going through this. but what is your understanding of what is going on, what information do you have about what is going to happen? >> well, they just came on the -- the captain came on with another announcement that helicopter was just dispatched to the ship to drop off some supplies and to pick up a passenger who needed medical attention. and they flew that person back to san francisco. >> when you heard that somebody who had been on the ship before had passed away after they had gotten off, and there was the risk of spread on board the ship, what was the mood, what did you guys think, what was the mood onboard in. >> we didn't realize until that time that there had been sick passenge passengers or crew members until we were well into the cruise. and when we found out about it,

we were about 10, 1 days into the cruise when we found out about it, so that is when they turned the ship around and instead of heading to mexico, they headed back to san francisco. so we were surprised and then of course you always think, well, it will never happen to me. and then they tested the 21 people -- or they tested about 100 people and found 21 of them to be -- >> infected. >> and we were already quarantined to our room. so we don't have any other exposure. and even when they come to the door to bring our food, they leave it outside the door and they are not standing there when we open up the door. >> it is sounding like they will take you into a port and you will come off. it is not going to happen, but earlier the president said he would prefer that passengers on board the ship remain on board the ship. i mean, the devote that he quot like the numbers be where they

are, i don't need the numbers to double because of one ship that unit with a our fault. i don't want to be political, but does it make you feel like you are thought of as a number? >> it doesn'twith a our fault. i don't want to be political, but does it make you feel like you are thought of as a number? >> it doesn't do us any good because in the general population, it will get people sick. i'm fine if we sit here for a couple week or whatever it takes and keep it from spreading, i think that is the right thing to do. >> yeah, we're good for that. >> why look at it as being a number of. i think he is making a very conservative decision about that. >> i think that the concern about that tactic is they tried it on the "diamond princess" in japan and the feeling is that what it ended up doing, you know, making the spread worse because everyone was kept there and the idea of getting you on land and then having separate quarantine facilities is the idea. i just can't imagine what it is like if you sort of are going through hour to you hour, what are you doing, what do you do to pass the time in.

>> reading books and they put 100 movies on the television screen. >> talking to friends and family. tomorrow would have been our last day on the cruise. so it feels we would have been here anyway if everything was going well. >> not a whole lot that you can do in 150 square feet. >> luckily we do have a window, so that really helps. >> we do have a window. >> we want to do what is good for the common good, that is for sure. >> understood. at least you do have a window. i remember with the "diamond princess," the people with interior cabins were not quite as happy, they had nothing to look at it michelle, steven smith, thank you so much. really appreciate it. you probably have another 89 movies to go. >> exactly right.

>> good spirits considering. now washington state is the epicenter of the outbreak in the u.s. cnn's omar jimenez has a look at residents and leaders are trying to deal with the growing problem. >> reporter: in seattle, there is a new reality beginning to form affecting nearly every aspect of life from business to travel and even education. on a normal week kday morning, these hallways would be packed with students. as you can see, there are absolutely none. this school is one of 33 in the seattle area school district that will look like this for the information foreseeable future, moving to online learning for up to 14 days, all as a precaution for the novel coronavirus. >> i was prayerful that it was the right decision. >> and you feel like it is? >> absolutely no doubt. >> reporter: dr. reed is the superintendent of seattle's north shore school district

where a parent volunteer tested positive for the coronavirus. >> when we have a fact pattern that affects the safety and health of our students that we will stop and recognize it is not business as usual. >> reporter: but this district wasn't alone. university of washington announced that they too are suspending in-person classes. >> we are very much guided with the very best public health information possible. >> reporter: between the university and the north shore school district, that is around 80,000 students now out of classrooms. statewide, cases have soared going from just a few to more than 75 in less than a week, including double digit deaths. in the wider seattle area, they have felt the difference. >> it can be stressful when you are just in your day to day trying to do what you normally do and you're running in to stumbling blocks of things, you know, beyond your control. >> on a rainy day, i mean, i hardly see anybody around here.

you'd see groups. yeah, kind of empty. >> reporter: but some like at seattle's signature fish market, famous for tossing fish, say that they are not changing a thing. >> doesn't matter who you are, where you come from, you travel all this way to see a fish fly, i'm going to give it to you. >> reporter: and while life in seattle hasn't entirely shut down, it is adjusting to a new reality at the epicenter of the novel coronavirus outbreak. and the legal world is not immune either. a federal judge here announcing that they would be postponing all in-court proceedings for multiple courthouses in the seattle area. many of these places are in crucial assessment periods. university of washington for one says at this point they have every intention of reopening once their quarter ends in a little over two weeks time. but only time will tell. omar jimenez, report fwing from

seattle. and one major concern is the limited testing. dr. sanjay gupta looks at why that happened. >> reporter: we will need millions and millions of tests. problem is more than a month after the first patient was diagnosed in the united states, we still don't have nearly enough tests. doorgd to o according to our review of cdc report, only around 1500 people have been tested total. it is a big difference from other countries like south korea where nearly 160,000 people have been tested. even in the drive-through. and in the uk, more than 20,000 people. it is basic surveillance. and in the united states, that lack of testing has led to a lack of planning. >> it is very important that there is an aggressive approach in the beginning that you look for all of those cases because as case numbers increase, systems become yefr weoverwhelm. so as much as can be done in the

early stages, the better chance you have to delay and reduce and suppress transmission. >> reporter: the test itself is similar to one done for the flu. a swab from the nose or the throat. the culture is then sent to a lab to see if there are any genetic traces of coronavirus. takes about six hours. so what happened here? many point to two issues. the initial test kit sent to state and county labs were key effective. and then the initial cdc criteria limited testing only to those who had traveled to areas impacted by the epidemic or been around someone who had tested positive. that greatly limited the number of people who qualified to get a test. on thursday the vice president publicly acknowledged the u.s. effort is behind. >> we don't have enough tests today to meet what we anticipate will be the demand going forward. >> reporter: and even dr. fauci

is making no promises that the problem will be fixed anytime soon. >> it got off to slow start. but up to this point, there has been a lag in the ability to get tested. >> reporter: now, this is not to suggest that everyone should run out and start asking for tests. if you go to your doctor with symptoms, the doctor may say first, hey, look, let's rule out common things first such as the cold or the flu. if you don't have anything to explain your symptoms, this coronavirus test may be ordered at that point. it may still though take a few weeks for all these test thaws gi that you just heard about to make their way to clinics a honesties around the country. back to you. keeping your distance is one the best ways to stop transmission. so how companies are rethinking

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wroone of the biggest challenges is preventing person to person transmission. but given the social nature of most workplaces, that presents a challenge of course. it is causing employers to increasingly consider work from home options. brian todd with that. >> reporter: around the country some workplaces are telling their employees stay home because of the coronavirus outbreak. tech giants amazon, micro he soft, google and facebook are asking employees in seattle to work from home when possiblehe soft, google and facebook are asking employees in seattle to work from home when possible. >> we're encouraging employers to maximize telecommuting. >> reporter: other employers are preparing to make that move. nasa and jpmorgan chase are preparing by conducting one day telework practice runs. in new york state, a few

thousand have been asked to self quarantine. teleworking, refraining from travel, getting much of our work done at home could be more common place. the university of washington sa classrooms will be shuttered for the next two weeks. >> there is incredibly close approximate imgity. >> reporter: and meanwhile some schools can offer students their lessons, textbooks and assignments online. and are prepared to go into virtual days if the school needs to close. is america ready to telework? >> we're already seeing over the past 15 years a lot of companies even very large companies, companies that might surprise you like ibm which has a huge portion of its workforce working at home already. >> reporter: but for many, it means a shift in workplace culture. employees will be needed to be outfitted at home with the computers and other equipment they need, and they have to be trained on how to use them. >> luckily this is very intuitive. obviously there are a number of

different software exclusives out there to enable telework or virtual conferencing. very severimple to set up. >> reporter: and there are many businesses like carmakers, factories, food services, banks with retail branches where employees working completely is out of the question. but in other sectors they say the psychological advantages of working from home could lead to better productivity employees feel his stressed, the freedom of actionable to walk around at home and grab a snack can build creativity. the down sides, sometimes employees feel isolated or lose focus on the mission. >> people who are not used to working in a remote location at home falling victim to the fact that they are at home and they get to work this bunny slippers which they might mistake for the opportunity to sort of goof off and maybe miss some deadlines. >> reporter: steven moore whose cybersecurity firm has half working from home, has a

formula. >> use your calendar, set tasks for yourself. get up and take a shower. simply just going through that process of like not working in your pajamas is a good idea. >> reporter: workplace experts say that when making the decision to ask people to work from home, corporate leaders have one other thing to take into account, that for every office building where people are encouraged to work from home, there is an ecosystem of people who support that building, people who could be out of work or who could get their shifts reduced, people who work in swraunts restaurants, shops and bars who depend on that traffic for employees. brian todd, cnn, washington. when we come back, social greetings are evolving in the midst of an epidemic. we'll explain why hand shakes are a thing of the past and what is replacing them. ♪ hey allergy muddlers... achoo! do your sneezes turn heads? ♪

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no, our doctors and politicians are elbowing their way in, from senator dick durbin to the vice president, and not just once. >> there you go. >> reporter: jimmy kimmel has a name for it. >> it is called the el-bump. >> reporter: something he practiced with his sidekick wearing a coffee filter mask. even a floor broker known as the einstein of wall street is doing it. but who is not doing it in president trump shook ten hands on a single receiving line. he says that he is not taking protective measures though he must at least be doing what stephen colbert did. if you are not into sanitizing, alternatives range from the booty bump to the foot bump. to the vulcan salute. even germany's leader had her hands spurned. and whatever you do -- >> start working on not touching your face.

>> reporter: maybe you better start working on it. >> and i haven't touched my face in weeks. i miss it. >> reporter: you know what else is catchy? that germy pen used to sign the coronavirus spending bill. >> here, this is for you. >> reporter: tossed to an unsuspected reporter, there are even pizza dos and don'ts. don't lick your fingers and then touch the coffee lid. do do the elbow bump while wearing a pizza mask. as someone noted, is that the same elbow that everyone is supposed to cough and sneeze into? "the daily show" did a bit called watch those hands. >> i can't tell you the number of you who have put your hands to your face in the last 20 minutes. >> reporter: go ahead, lecture us. >> just be smart. >> reporter: and then rub it in. jeanne moos, cnn, new york.

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♪ the coronavirus hits a new milestone with more than 100,000 cases confirmed in italy, even the prime minister is refusing to shake hands as the death toll in that country jumps. and violence in the afghan capital during what is supposed to be a time of peace. where do we go from here? we'll discuss. and live from cnn world headquarters in atlanta. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and all around the world. i'm michael