safe. there are other things you can do as well from getting groceries for your elderly neighbor to tutoring kids online. the important thing to remember is this, we are all in this together. thanks very much for watching. erin burnett out front starts right now. breaking news, the governor of california warning nearly 60% of his state will be infected with coronavirus over eight weeks. this as new york city warnings it's about to run out of medical supplies. plus trump calling an anti-malaria drug a game changer for the coronavirus. the fda though says not so fast. and an ohio father of four has been in the hospital with coronavirus for 11 days. he has a message for anyone who's not taking this seriously. he's my guest. let's go out front. good evening, i'm erin burnett. dire warnings from coast to coast. the governor of california saying tonight that he expects about 56% of his state, 25.5 million people, to be infected

with coronavirus. his words, quote, over an eight week period. governor newsom asking president trump to send a navy hospital ship to the port of los angeles to help care for the sick, and in new york city mayor bill de blasio says his city will run out of medical supplies in two to three weeks. mayor de blasio says he needs 50 million surgical masks, 25 million each of face masks, gloves, surgical gowns and his list goes on. he'll be on later this hour. the state department telling americans overseas to get home now. all americans must return to the u.s. immediately or they could be stuck there indefinitely. indefinitely is the state department's word. this as italy formally passes china in its death toll from the coronavirus and the world is rushing for a treatment. president trump today saying two existing drugs are being used in the fight against coronavirus. one is already approved and very well known as an anti-malaria drug. >> those are two that are out

now essentially approved for prescribed use and i think it's going to be very exciting. i think it could be a game changer. >> the fda commissioner was at that press conference also. he did make it clear doctors could use those drugs to try to fight coronavirus, but he also made it clear their effectiveness against the virus is not known and there will be formal trials. >> the fda is committed to continuing to provide regulatory flexibility and guidance but let me make one thing clear. fda's responsibility to the american people is to ensure that products are safe and effective. we need to actually know about the safety and the effectiveness and that's done through the clinical trial process. >> erica hill is out front in new york city's times square. eri erica, tonight the dire warning from this city's mayor in terms of just how desperately short they are and just the sheer numbers of these are sort of hard to comprehend what that

would mean in terms of ill people. that's putting a lot of people on edge. >> reporter: it is, as you point out. it's tough to wrap your head around. here in new york city there are 3,615 confirmed cases and the mayor stressing today those should all be thought of not as numbers but as people with families who are being affected and as he warned about the spread he said there are stores of medical supplies in this city's hospital system but they will not last beyond the end of this month. a stark warning from the nation's largest city. >> we are two weeks or three weeks away from running out of the supplies we need most for our hospitals. the only way those supplies can be provided in time is through the full mobilization of the united states military. at this point there's never been a greater no-brainer in the history of the republic. >> reporter: just weeks away from running out of crucial medical supplies, urgently

needed, 3 million n 95 masks, 50 million surgical masks, 15,000 ventilators, and 25 million gowns, gloves and cover alls. >> they may sound like daunting numbers at first but given the extraordinary production capacity of this country, they are very much achievable if our nation is put on footing. >> reporter: this on the heels of alarming recommendations from the cdc for health care workers, reuse masks to preserve the supply, or as a last resort, don a bandana instead. >> doctors across the country are starting to get sick and they're worried for what this means for us and our patients. the president may say things are being produced but they sure as heck are not showing up in my state. >> reporter: as testing and the number of confirmed cases increases, officials caution the number of americans tested is still low and we don't know the

full scope of the spread. >> massive social distancing is what's needed to slow the spread of this disease. >> reporter: the opposite playing out on crowded florida beaches. >> take some personal responsibility here. don't infect other people. don't take the chance that you're going to be the one that's going to caused your grandparent or your parents or another friend from school to get sick. >> reporter: in miami-dade county all beaches and parks closed this morning. further north in clearwater, they're scheduled to stay hope through the weekend. as much of the country adjusts to this new way of living, it's already having a major impact on the economy. >> we limit everybody, instead of working their full shift, we work half a shift each so everybody can work so they can take a paycheck at home at the end of the week. >> reporter: jobless claims for the last week spiking to 281,000, the highest level in two and a half years. the president today brushing off concerns about widespread lasting unemployment.

>> one of the elements that is being worked on very much so on the hill is to keep the jobs going so that when we do get rid of the virus, we're going to be able to really i think go like a rocket. i think the economy is going to be fantastic. >> reporter: in the meantime we're learning tonight that a second regional carrier says it will now have to cease operations due to declining demand because of coronavirus. that airline flew regional flights for both delta and american, coupled with the other regional air carrier, some 2700 employees looking at losing their jobs. >> thank you very much. next, dr. richard besser, former cdc acting director during the barack obama administration, i appreciate your time, doctor. i want to start with what the president said today. he talked about two existing drugs that could be potential treatments, one an anti-malaria, one to treat the ebola virus. how hopeful are you that one of these drugs may work? >> well, i think it's always

important to remain hopeful because it's possible that they may work but i think it's also a good idea to underpromise and hopefully overdeliver. with something like this where you have drugs that are already licensed, you can get them tried in people much faster. we know what the side effects are, but viral infections are tricky. with the influenza, we have drugs like tamiflu that can shorten the illness but for most viral infections, apart from hiv, we've had a real hard time developing drugs that shorten the course. so i wouldn't count on drugs as the magic bullet here. >> so then obviously not the bullet people are hoping for because a vaccine would take longer than a drug already approved for something else. you get to the shutdown of the country and the economy and the state department tonight telling americans abroad they have got to come home or be stuck indefinitely. america and other countries are closing borders. schools across the united states

are closed. san francisco has a shelter in place order in place now. when will we know if any of this works for people who are desperately seeking an answer to that question? >> i think that's a critically important question. one thing to remember is that most people who get this infection are going to do fine. the vast majority will have mild symptoms or no symptoms. we're taking these steps to try and protect those who are at greater risk, the elderly, those with multiple medical problems. with a pandemic, although it says that the disease will spread around the entire world, it doesn't do it all at once, so learning from what worked in china, what worked in italy, what worked in the u.s., we'll see things in seattle that are being tried. we need to learn to see what was effective and what wasn't. the measures we're asking communities to take, shutting down schools, people staying home, people not having the income to put food on the table or pay rent, these disrupt

society and we want to make sure that what we're asking people to do is truly making a difference. >> so you've got tonight the governor of california saying 56% of his population, 25 million people are going to be infected over an eight-week period. the mayor of new york saying they're going to run out of medical supplies in two to three weeks. 50 million surgical masks, they need gloves, surgical gowns, 15,000 ventilators. how could this be for the situation in new york first? >> there's an enormous need for supplies. i oversaw the strategic national stockpile which is a collection of medical supplies, billions of dollars worth of medical supplies to be used during an emergency, but it's not designed for an emergency that's occurring over the entire country at the same time. so the idea of ramping up production is an important one. the idea of trying to slow this down so that we can maintain some capacity to treat those who

truly need it, we need to make sure that we're keeping people out of health care facilities who don't need to be there. we have 28 million people without health insurance and so telling them to call their doctor first is a bit of a hollow recommendation if they don't have a doctor to call. >> one question before we go. the 56% forecast from the governor of california, he's saying over an eight-week period, does that make sense to you? >> i think it's hard to say. there's a lot of different models out there. a lot depends on what we do and a lot depends on whether we give people the tools they need to be able to do the things that are recommended. that means for a lot of people putting money in their pockets, not just once but every month so they can afford to do the things and stay home and keep other people safe. >> doctor, thank you very much. i appreciate your time. >> my pleasure. next, president trump calls an anti-malaria drug a game changer for the coronavirus, so is it? sanjay gupta is next. plus an ohio man with

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some local leaders are overruling him and issuing their own orders for closure. someone who has a message for those not heeding those warnings and who perhaps are filling those beaches, kevin harris, 55 years old, battling coronavirus right now in the hospital. kevin, you have been in that hospital for nearly two weeks. how did this start for you? >> well, about two weeks ago it started with a little tickle in my throat. i'm kind of a time fanatic, so i looked at my watch at exactly 8:00 on monday night. i was telling my friend, i got something stuck in my throat, it won't come out of my throat. it kind of just kept going, and about two hours later, at 10:00, i had a cough. now i'm telling him, dude, i went from a tickle to a cough in two hours, i'm getting the flu. the next morning, i laid down --

i woke up from sleeping all night and i woke up with body aches and what i thought was the flu. >> and then what made you end up going to the hospital, kevin? >> initially that next day i had a doctor's appointment just for a checkup and i went in and they looked at me, no test, no nothing, they said you got the flu and they gave me tamiflu. so i left the doctor's office, went to the cvs pharmacy and the girls usually go inside and pick my medication up. i said i'm so sick, whatever kind of flu i got, you don't need to get it, and i got my tamiflu through the window. so i go home and three days later they're telling me i'm supposed to feel better on the tamiflu but i feel ten times worse. so i called a friend of mine and his wife came over. i wanted to take a shower because i hadn't been in the shower in six days.

she comes over and i'm passed out in the shower. basically she came in, she got me dressed, told me, you have pneumonia and she took me to the hospital. >> look, it's incredible. it's incredibly lucky that you got there. now, as i said, you've been there for nearly two weeks and what are doctors telling you about where you are now? you're now looking at two weeks plus the five days you're talking about. this has been a very long period of time that you have had this and have been in incredibly difficult straits. what are they telling you now? >> well, now they're telling me i'm going to make it but to be quite frank with you, several doctors told me for four days when i first got here you don't have the coronavirus but we have to test you and we have to treat you like you have it. well, some staff members did treat me like i had it. other staff members were consistently stuck with the fact that you have pneumonia, we've

never seen this kind before but you don't have the coronavirus. it's highly unlikely. you haven't been anywhere, which i hadn't. i do these things where i spend a lot of time alone and i hadn't seen anybody else for like ten days before i actually got sick. so they're telling me you're going to be fine. as soon as the cultures come back we're going to know what kind of pneumonia it is and we're going to treat it but you don't have the coronavirus. you don't have the same signs. you don't have the same symptoms. you don't have half of what you should have if it was the coronavirus. i said okay. then two days later i got two doctors sitting in front of me, one of them with tears in her eyes. i'm like, what's going on? they said we don't understand it but you have the coronavirus. i'm like, you just told me for three days i don't have the virus. they said, well, we don't know what to do. i said what's next? they basically said pray. i'm like, how do doctors tell you to pray? what are you going to do to fix

me? there's nothing we can do, we have no treatment, there's nothing we can give you, you know. it's your body. your body has to fight it. they left the room and i'm sitting there thinking i'm getting ready to die. just yesterday -- the fever has been gone for three and a half, almost four days now, and yesterday they told me -- the one doctor promised me he would tell me when i was out of woods, and he said you're out of the woods. he said the only problem is we have no clue why you got better. we have no clue what kind of pneumonia you had. there's absolutely no reason whatsoever for you to be sitting here. >> it's an incredible story and incredible for people to hear, what people on the front lines are doing. they did everything that they absolutely could for you, kevin. let's be honest, many people are following what the government says now. you see empty roads.

you see empty subways. you see it across the country, but we don't see it everywhere. i don't know if you've seen the pictures. i'll show them again, spring breakers crowding the shores in florida. many of those beaches still open. it's packed. what do you say? what is your message to people who don't take this seriously? >> you know, in the beginning i was a little angry because i felt like i'm here dying and they're not taking it seriously. i'm as black as they come, we can get this, and it just amazes me how everybody is out there celebrating st. patrick's day. they're calling me the doomsday guy. a lot of them think that you guys are paying me to do these interviews, and they're doubting me. instead of me getting angry like i had been, i'm telling people i hope to god you're right. i hope you don't get it and nobody that you know get it because i don't have the sniffles version. i don't have the sore throat.

i don't have the little body ache. i had the version of this that kills you, and there was absolutely nothing they could do about it. it's by the grace of god and the prayers of all the people that have been praying for me and i swear if it wasn't for jehovah god and my faith in him and jesus christ, i'd be gone already. these people have to take this serious. i know you're going to be inconvenienced for a while with social distancing. however, do you want to be socially dead six months from now? the same people that are going to miss you for a couple of months are going to miss you forever when you didn't take this seriously. >> kevin, i appreciate your time and i am so glad that you now have been told you're out of the woods. we're all hoping for a speedy recovery after such a long and grueling and terrible experience for you. thank you. >> thank you, erin. i really appreciate you giving me the opportunity to let people know that this is deathly serious.

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breaking news, a dire warning from the mayor of new york city. the city is just a few weeks away from running out of supplies to fight the coronavirus. >> i said very clearly that for the month of march we have the supplies that we need. the city has very strong reserves of the kind of supplies that i talked about. it is going into april that i'm worried about. >> new york city mayor bill de blasio. i appreciate your time, sir. the numbers that we were i sharing earlier, that you need 50 million masks, 25 million each of many other supplies that medical personnel need, obviously they need to use many of each of these per day but the numbers are staggering and frankly, mayor, they sound

frightening. >> erin, it is. we have to be sober about this. you're talking about a state of 8.6 million people, thousands new cases in a day. we've got to be honest about the sheer extent of this problem and where is the federal government? where is the military? why won't the president give the order to mobilize our military to guarantee that these products are being produced through the defense production act and get them to the american front in this war which is new york. >> so you're saying you're not going to have enough of these by april which, if i'm correct, is exactly when you expect to see a surge of patients. are you saying these patients will not be able to get treatment? >> erin, we're going to do everything we can to treat every patient. we're expanding our medical capacity constantly. we're going to create new icus

everywhere we can, new hospital beds in hotels or any other kind of facility we can get our hands on. we're recruiting thousands of medical personnel out of retirement. we're doing everything we can to get the personnel and the space, and we're going to be doing every form of freeing up capacity. we cancelled elective surgery. we're discharging people from the hospitals. but you know what, if you don't have the surgical masks, if you don't have the ventilators, at a certain point our doctors, our nurses, they can't do their job. we have been pleading for weeks with the federal government to step in. we're now by far the epicenter of this crisis here in new york state. what does it take to get some attention? what does it take for our president? he's from new york and he's betraying the city he comes from. all he has to do is order the military to active duty to fight this war, to fight this

challenge, this enemy, and he's not doing it, even though he activated the defense production act. not a single factory that i know of has been mandated to go on 24/7 production of ventilators and surgical masks. >> have you told them to do that? is it possible that you could get what you need in time? are you sure of that? >> there's no question in my mind if that order were given now that the production is out there in the united states of america, to at least give us the supply to keep us going. it may not come all in one shipment but at least get it going. there's no question in my mind that the military has the ability, the logistical, extraordinary ability to move vast amounts of material from one part of the country to another. if we just got regular supplies we could keep going. it's clear, i know for a fact -- i have talked to the top health officials in the city and they're saying there's a point in the first week or second week

of april where they're just going to literally run out of the things they need to save lives. it's as simple as that. >> you talk about space. the javits convention center, three floors, six blocks, has been talked about as a possible hospital. is that real? are you looking at that? >> we're looking at everything, erin. the best locations are the ones that are near existing hospitals and have the kind of physical layout that they can be converted to hospital wards or to hospital rooms with beds and all. >> like hotels. >> that might be a great location. we're looking at that. what's that? >> like hotels? >> yeah, actually, a hotel near an existing hospital is great because what you'll do is take any cases of whatever disease that can be moved out of the hospital or the coronavirus issues that are less urgent, you can put them there. you can put in nurses and doctors, et cetera, but the hospitals will be the icus for the really serious patients. we know who they are. they're older folks with

pre-existing serious medical conditions. that's who's dying all over the world. we want to save as many as we possibly can but we can only do that if we have the combination of space and the personnel and the supplies. guess what, we can't make the supplies out of thin air. >> before we go -- >> a lot of people want to help. >> earlier today governor cuomo said that fear is more contagious than the virus right now. that was the quote, fear is more contagious than the virus right now. would you agree with him on that? >> yeah, i think he's right to raise it because even though i think we're obligated, erin, to tell people the blunt truth and to tell our federal government that they must intervene, franklin roosevelt said it, the only thing we have to fear is fear itself. we've got to not be afraid or panicky. we've got to be purposeful that there's still time to fight back but we can't do it alone. >> mayor de blasio, i appreciate your time. thank you very much. >> thank you, erin. next, the president calls an anti-malaria drug a game changer for coronavirus. is it? dr. sanjay gupta will join me

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tonight a potential milestone in china's efforts to stop the coronavirus. there were no new domestic cases reported in china on wednesday. it's a stunning thing and it is the first day that that has happened since the pandemic began. president trump though says he is skeptical as to whether that's true. >> as far as believing what they're putting out now, i hope it's true. who knows, but i hope it's true. i really do. >> so what is the real situation on the ground in china? it's really one of the most important questions in the whole world. david culver is out front. >> reporter: as medical personnel prepare to move out, chinese state media stay doctors and nurses in hubei province are beginning to scale back. now we are returning home so i'm really excited as we won the victory over the epidemic, this medical worker said.

with the epidemic spreading in the u.s., health experts here warn even with an increase in the number of patients recovered and a drop in daily reported cases, this is not a mission accomplished. wuhan health officials will only consider lifting lockdown restrictions after 14 consecutive days without any new cases reported. >> the single biggest danger is complacency and this was something we talked about in china a fair bit, that people drop their guard against this disease. >> reporter: in the past two weeks officials reported nearly half of the new cases in mainland china came from abroad. in hong kong, more than 90% of new cases are imported. chinese officials are now heavily focused on external threats. at beijing capital international airport, china's cdc conducting strict screenings for international arrivals. health evaluations conducted at

individual booths set up to represent each province. most every traveler entering beijing from overseas is now designated to be quarantined at government facilities for at least 14 days. for those traveling within mainland china, big data is helping the government track us and trace potential exposures. we each have a code that allows us access into some hotels, malls, grocery stores, even restaurant chains. green means you're clear and okay to enter. yellow indicates you've potentially been in contact with a confirmed case and should self-isolate at home. red means forced quarantine. on the streets of shang do, images reminiscent of robocop. police scan body temperatures as people stroll by. various command centers have been set up to monitor the health information of more than 300 million people. here privacy, it seems, once again taking a back seat to national health security. but even as chinese media

proudly shows china's medical personnel helping other countries, sending supplies and teams like this one to italy, uncertainty remains on the home front. in shanghai, two months into this outbreak, people slowly venturing out of self-isolation and into the spring-like weather. some public parks re-opened. life cautiously resume. the waters are calm for now, but as lockdown restrictions ease, concerns grow for a potential second wave of infections. erin, it is worth pointing out here for example in shanghai, a city of 24-plus million people, you do start to see things coming back to life little by little but even the folks that you interact with are cautiously optimistic and at the same time hesitant to return to normal all in one instance. they believe this is going to take time. however, there is a political back and forth going on and we stress how the state media here is putting out a certain image. they want to show china resuming

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tonight president trump at the daily coronavirus briefing tried to calm an anxious nation and touting his administration's efforts to get potential

coronavirus treatments to patients. >> it's a really good promise. we have a couple that we're in really good shape on. that's for immediate delivery. >> there are several clinical trials under way for treatment but how soon could one be made available to the public? sanjay gupta is out front. >> it's a medical war. we have to win this war. it's very important. >> reporter: and to win in the future, the trump administration is looking to the past. >> we're also reviewing drugs that are approved abroad or drugs approved here for other uses. >> reporter: it's called repurposing, using a treatment targeted for one disease to treat another, like the 86-year-old anti-malarial drug chloroquine. >> it's shown very encouraging, very, very encouraging early results. and we're going to be able to make that drug available almost

immediately. >> reporter: in a statement, pharmaceutical company bayer who developed the drug announced that it's donating 3 million tablets to the u.s. clinical trial efforts. they said new data from initial preclinical and evolving clinical research conducted in china, while limited, shows potential. and one early study from france looked at a derivative of the drug in 20 coronavirus patients. >> it's still not ready for primetime. we still need substantially larger studies. >> reporter: it's believed that these drugs might work by making it more challenging for the virus to bind to cells, but those bindings have mostly come from the laboratory. >> for chloroquine, there is no proof that that is an effective treatment at this point. we recommend that therapeutics be tested under ethically approved clinical trials. >> reporter: trials will follow some 10,000 participants over five months to see just how effective the drug is.

at the same time other scientists are looking at the other anti-viral drug, remdesivir, which is believed to block the virus' ability to reproduce. >> that's a drug used for other purposes that's been out and has had very good results for other purposes, but it seems to have a very good result having to do with this virus. >> reporter: that still has to be proven. its manufacturer, gilead, is produ conducting trials with approximately 1,000 patients around the world. >> we will collect the data and make the absolute right decisions based upon those data about the safety and efficacy of treatment. >> reporter: that's important because just yesterday another trial using two hiv drugs that initially showed promise were found to be ineffective, and everyone is hoping the results this time will be different. >> those are two that are out now, essentially approved for prescribed use and i think it's going to be very exciting. i think it could be a game changer and maybe not, and maybe

not, but i think it could be based on what i see. it could be a game changer. >> so he says a game changer, sanjay, and obviously i know someone being treated with it now and our guest earlier in the program had been treated with it but it's unclear at this point. could it really be a game changer? >> we don't know and i think it's just difficult to use that sort of language because there are a lot of people who are really depending on it and you want to be hopeful on this sort of thing but you got to study it, erin. that's the thing. this other trial that i mentioned was very interesting and promising hiv drugs, that there was a lot of enthusiasm around. that trial started just one week after the first patient was diagnosed in china but they just found out. it was just published yesterday that that was into the found to be any more effective than standard treatment. so we got to do the trials because we want to make sure that what you're giving works and also you're not missing out on another option. >> right. you don't want to put your eggs

in one basket. people who are getting it now, in one of the patients he had been treated with all of them, the anti-ebola drug and the anti-malaria drug. it's unclear if one or none worked. the president also said this today, sanjay. let me play this. >> they've gone through the approval process. it's been approved and they took it down from many, many months to immediate. >> so what is the actual -- what's actually happening here? obviously people are getting it prescribed off label but as you point out, they're still trials. >> it's interesting, this is a drug that is approved but not for a coronavirus infection. it's approved for malaria, and then there's a derivative of the drug that's used for autoimmune diseases but there was no recent approval process for coronavirus. that's what it's got to go through these trials first. this is more the idea that maybe you would repurpose the drug

eventually, but again, you got to prove that it's going to be effective here. it's got good safety data, pretty good safety data, so that's going to be helpful, but the efficacy, how well it works, that's still got to be shown. >> right, right. so to imply it's going to change things, it sounds like it's sanjay's town hall coming up in a few minutes. stay with us. it starts at 8:00. across the country now, doctors meantime are working to provide any glimmer of hope they can, right. this is a race against time. among them a researcher at johns hopkins university who is looking at using the blood of patients recovering from coronavirus to help slow the disease. out front now, the chair of molecular microbiology and immunology at johns hopkins university. doctor, i appreciate your time. in english for us to understand, what exactly is this? how does the process work? >> erin, thank you for having me on your show. so what happens is that when you

recover from coronavirus, people who recover often have viral antibodies in their blood that will kill the virus. so people who recover can potentially donate their blood. we really call it plasma because it's only the liquid in the blood that contains the antibodies. and then that material can be used to treat other patients because you are giving them the antibodies that kill the virus. this is an old therapy. it's been around for over 100 years. there is a huge amount of medical experience with it, and it is based on sound biological principles. but like chloroquin in the previous segment, it is going to have to be tested and subject to randomized trials. even though we are optimistic, we won't know till we know. >> so, so, what makes you feel in terms of how you've done this -- i know you say this has

been used before -- that this would be effective for coronavirus? do you have any data points at this point to show -- that make you feel that way? >> well, we know that the coronavirus -- people who recover from it -- often have virus-killing antibodies in their blood. the chinese have used this therapy. we haven't seen the clinical data yet, but the reports coming out of china are encouraging. and this will provide those who survive the capacity to help the ones who come after them. >> so the fda commissioner today did discuss what you're talking about, this convalescent serum. here's the brief, doctor. >> over the next couple weeks we'll have more information that we're pushing hard to try to accelerate that. that's in the sort of more medium short term. >> so, he's saying over the next couple of weeks they'll have more information, medium short term. what sort of timing are we looking at for this to be something that could be used

broadly on patients? >> well, the great thing is that this could potentially be deployed in a matter of weeks. the team that is working on this includes some very dedicated physicians, just submitted today -- yesterday submitted the institutional review board protocols. and today an investigational new drug was submitted to the fda. i want to acknowledge the great efforts of three individuals. shoham, evan lock and aaron tobian. they have worked around the clock for the last couple of weeks putting down all these documents. so once we hear from the regulatory agencies and our institutional review board, we will be able to begin to put this in place. >> all right. well, look, i think we are all hoping and rooting that this will live up to the promise that you talk about.

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tonight it's a fact. the coronavirus is on everyone's mind, even that of "wonder woman." here's jeanne moos. >> reporter: forget this masked singer. these are the masks inspiring songs these days. stars like bono are singing

about quarantine, shot from closer to 6 inches than 6 feet. ♪ yes, there is isolation >> singer joe-joe was warning people to stay in. ♪ ♪ >> reporter: john legend gave a quarantine concert with his wife chrissy tiegen with a towel accompanying with a rear end assist. from yo-yo ma playing balk to cardi b. >> i'm telling you, it's real. >> reporter: producer set her words to music with proceeds going to food banks and shelters. is it any wonder that woman herself has gotten a bunch of celebrities together to sing -- ♪ imagine there's no heaven >> reporter: and jimmy fallon.

will ferrell. to mark. gayle said she was inspired by the trumpeter who played imagine. ♪ ♪ from a balcony in italy to comfort others stuck at home. some criticize gallaudet's version. how about singing have yourself a merry little quarantine. ♪ ♪ outside nashville, brenda sparks has turned her christmas lights back on. >> so we just wanted to bring a little light. >> reporter: into these dark days. others are doing the same. so, is christmas in march, christmas all spring going to become a thing? might be worth it to deck the halls, if the halls are where you imagine you'll be spending time. jeanne moos, cnn. new york.

>> and thanks so much for joining us. cnn's global town hall coronavirus facts and fears with dr. sanjay gupta and anderson starts right now. ♪ ♪ >> welcome. i'm anderson cooper in new york. >> and i'm dr. sanjay gupta in atlanta. and as you can see we are now doing what millions of americans are doing right now. we are social distancing. >> we may be separated by distance, but now more than ever we recognize that we are still part of a community. we are connected as citizens who have to act in concert with each other to protect ourselves, our loved ones and all our fellow citizens. so we're partnering with facebook and instagram for tonight's cnn global town hall. in our first one you may remember a few weeks ago the seats in this room were full. last week and again following the guidelines against large gatherings they are