c cnn's coverage of coronavirus. andrew cuomo saying his cases are doubling every three days. the curve is getting steeper and it is not flatten. he warns his state is the cannery of the coal mine for the rest of the country. >> different regions have different curves of the infection. new york is the cannery coal mine. new york is going first. we have the highest and the fastest rate of infection. what happens to new york is going to whine up happening to california and washington state and illinois and just a matter of time. we are just getting there first. >> cuomo is calling out the federal government for a lack of proper response. fema says they are sending 400 ventilators to new york. cuomo says he needs 30,000. president trump is looking ways

to open businesses backup. the white house considering several options which putting younger workers back on the job or relaxing federal guidelines on a state by state bases. governor cuomo says the need for hospital beds is greater than anticipated. >> the number of hospital beds needed could be as high as 140,000 hospital beds. flatten the curve, flatten the curve. the curve is actually increasing. that means the number of hospital beds which is at 53,000 beds, 3,000 icu beds. the anticipated need is 140,000 hospital beds and approximately 40,000 intensive care unit beds. those are troubling and ast

astronomical number and higher numbers than projected. >> shimon prokupecz is at the javed center there in new york city. some dire news you heard from governor cuomo and he took shots a at the federal government response. is he frustrated right now or he's feeling like the clock is running out for how much time they time they need to get stuff done like beds. >> i think it is both. sitting here listening to him over an hour talking about the dire needs of these ventilators. he's begging the government to release these ventilators. there are 20,000 ventilators need to be released to new york

state. he explained a lot has changed in the last 24 hours. there is an increase of cases, apex, the height of this is coming much sooner than expected. 14 to 21 days. he's cautioning that it is more likely on the 14 days side. if they wait any longer for these ventilators. by the time it comes, it is going to be too late. no use for that. it is about saving lives in the end. that's what the governor were saying. the urgent need, i can't say it enough. hearing the governor and i listen to him everyday. this was about a somber and as urgent as we heard him and seen him in the last several weeks as he's been talking about this. it was all about ventilators and saving lives and how our hospitals are going to decide

who's lives get saved over another life because there are not enough ventilators. there are over 700 people across the state in icus. there are over 3,000 people hospitalized across the state. there are 25,000 people who tested positive. they have done 90,000 tests. they're testing people at a rate faster than any other city than any other state. also behind me, he's here today because the javed center behind me is where they set up this federally temporary hospital, this is people who needs surgeon care necessarily. a lot of people are going to be coming here are people who hospitals can't treat because they're going to be so overwhelmed so they're setting up sites like this behind me so that if you have a broken leg or if you have some other serious injuries or issues that needs a doctor care or hospital care,

you can come here to alleviate some of the pressure from the hospitals. there are ventilators and other equipment here and medical supplies and all of that is very much inside and the process is underway. they're building this out. it will be ready in 7 to 10 days. the most important of this today and what the governor was saying with the ventilators. when are we going to get the ventilator ventilators. that's going to be the most important aspect in all of this as the days going forward brianna. >> he says he needs 30,000 of them and he does not have them right now. shimon prokupecz. i want to discuss this with dr. jennifer lee and we have our dr. sanjay gupta is here with us. i want to talk about the dire situation in new york both of

you. the world health organization has just said sanjay that the u.s. has the potential to be the next epicenter. when you hear that, what is that telling you and what should americans be taken from that? >> we are not 4% of the world's population and new york city alone has 5% of the world's coronavirus cases who have been confirmed positive. this is not surprising and not the news that people want to hear. it does add a sense of urgency to all the measure that's taken place. some argued that we waited too long to implement these measures. we are sort of thinking at this point but in terms of going forward, the idea that they need to stay in place for some time to come is really pretty clear. the numbers are not going to go down. brianna, as you and i are talking about, the number we are

seeing now are pictures of what things are like 10 or 14 days ago between the time they are exposed or tested or tesiting t come back. it could be 10 or 14 days. clearly there has been more spread. we don't have the testing evidence of that yet. this is not good news but not surprising news that we are likely the epicenter. >> right? you just look at the graphs dr. lee and it is pretty disturbing to see the rise that new york is on. this is a steep increase. we heard governor cuomo what they said they need, they need beds and hospitals ventilators and ppe. you understand his frustration, what do experts who are working with the white house need to do at this very moment?

>> we have to focus all our energy on helping new york. you know as a country we have no idea how we are doing in the fight against this virus. we have not had enough testing. in the area where i work in the d.c. metro area, we really have no idea, there are so many patients i have seen and my colleagues have seen that we wanted to test and we have not been able to because we have not had enough testing capacity. as the capacity increases over the next few weeks, we are going to need to do more testing and open up the criteria to do that. in the meantime, one thing we know for sure is that new york is suffering and a crisis is coming there. they have over 80 times identified cases than my home state virginia. we need to do everything we can to send them equipment and support them in terms of stamping and build a capacity there for the coming surge.

>> seniors will be watched over protectively, we can do two things together and then he repeats the cure can't be worse by far than the problem. we are learning the white house officials are willing to go different options on easing social distancing including allowing young people to go back to work first. is that good policy, sanjay? >> well, look, it is challenging. i am not going to minimize that pa part. one thing we have learned and seen this around the world that anybody can be a carrier of this virus. the idea of asystsimila symptom is concerning. how is life going to work for those people exactly.

i was out and i may have the virus and i am going to come home and infect someone that's vulnerable in my home. you have to play this out a little bit. what is life going to be like? i think as we think about starting to get people back to work, an interesting notion that comes up, you talk about 100,000 or so that have been tested. we know the majority of people who have been confirmed to have the virus, they don't go to the hospital, they do recover from this illness and dr. fauci said they are immunized in a way now. you are starting to build a larger population of immunized against this virus because they went through the disease. those people should be released to the work force early on verses saying young people. we all talked about this, we tend to measure trihings in ter

of who live as and dies. people between 28 and 44. i don't think we should lose sight of that either as we are talking about this. >> definitely not. dr. lee, i wonder what you think of the timing of discussing sending people back to work when you can't test to see if they are immune or if they are well at a time when we have not even crested this curve when it comes to infections and everyon in th first place it is hitting new york. >> exactly, i think it is reckless. we under took these measures because we wanted to flatten the curve. what question that we have that we are flattening the curve. we have evidence that indicates that the exact opposite. we need to test. testing is opening up.

it is better than a week or two ago or three ago but once we are able to test more people, we need to rapidly test. i think there are opportunities still for some states and communities who don't have as much coronavirus at this time to test aggressively and potentially contain the virus and protect their residents. >> it is a very good point. dr. lee, thank you so much. sanjay, thank you so much. our special breaking news coverage will continue. a stimulus deal could be coming at any moment here. we'll talk about what it means for you and your family. holding out hope for a coronavirus treatment, drug testing in one state tarts today.

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right now the senate is inching close to a deal of the stimulus package could be worth $2 trillion. that could help with the coronavirus. >> last night i thought we were on the five-yard line. right now we are on the two. at this point of the few outstanding issues. i don't see any that can't be ov overcome within the next few hours. >> julie is here with me from new york and manu raju is live at capitol hill. what are the sticking lines

here. >> reporter: senate republicans who take apart of the initial negotiations here are getting briefed of the outline including senator mcconnell as well as top white house officials who have been involved in the discussion. they have been involved with marathon negotiations over the last few days. and they try to hammer out final agreement. today also on the hill, mark meadows, i spoke to just moments a ago, the deal is going to come through and house republicans,

they node to geed to get them o. i can tell you the expectation on the hill of this massive $2 trillion measures will pass very quickly once a final party signs off on this. we could see senate approval and followed by house approval and requiring cooperation of all the members. they just want to quickly approve it but they need all cooperations. members are getting briefed. >> julie, what americans? >> first and foremost, cash. i believe it was $1,200 check, democrats trying to push it up to $1,500. that's the keystone part of this. the next layer. loans, hopefully grants. i spoke to the national retail

federation earlier. 52 million employees represented by the sector, we are a nation of consumers, he got businesses don't have cash today. they need money asap. the thorny issue is the corporations and loans for them. this has been wackhamo on the condition. congress controlling executive pays for ten years. that's gone. there are a lot of things remaining. and all sorts of trying to tackle things like climate change. some of this is very important and some of this is way less important in the short term. bottom line they have to disagree. >> they certainly do. one of the things that some folks in congress are looking back on is that bank bail out where they gave hundreds of billions of dollars to bail out

during the financial crisis, big corporations and what they found out was they did not put safe guards in place or how that money is used. wall street does going to do whatever with that money. how is that affecting the situation here. >> that was a big fight, how to structure $5 billion to distress industries and localities and businesses that need that money. how will that be oversee? the concerns raised of what you mentioned of what happened in the after math of the financial crisis and the negotiations apparently agreed to is an increase over site of how the treasury secretary dove that out and how industries would use those loans. and so we'll have to see exactly how that language is structured but we expect some sort of inspector general reviewing how these loans have been allocated

but it appears to be enough to satisfy democrats are fupushing for that measure, the treasury department seems to sign on. that issue aside is one reason why a lot of optimism for the sweeping measure could become law as soon as tonight. brianna. >> manu and julia, thank you so much. new york state is beginning drug trials to fight the deadly coronavirus, what the results could mean for the rest of america. an ice skating rinks become a morgue ship.

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happening right now in new york, drug trials are underway to treat coronavirus. the drugs being tested today come with their own set of controversie controversies. one of them is tauted by the president but not necessarily by scientist. andrew cuomo addressed this issue a short time ago. >> we are also trying all the new drugs, therapies and

hydro-colhloroquine which the president talks about and we are starting that today. the president is accelerating that to come to new york. >> elizabeth cohen is here with us. tell us where we are. when they tried it on 20 patients in france, people who had covid-19, it lowers the viral load in their nose. they have less of the virus in their nose compares to people who did not take it. is it promising? yeah, it is great. it will be terrific if it works out. we don't know until we have done

the trials which is something that dr. fauci had been adamant about. they're doing this to show some promise. they are safe drugs but there is a narrow margin between the safe dose and toxic dose that's why you want to be very careful. >> right, they're sort of doing diy medicine and that's not a good idea. these drugs are safe but there has been reports of terrible eye damage and cardiovascular issue. you don't want to diy this. >> elizabeth cohen, thank you so much. i am joined now by our infectio infectious disease, dr.

campbell. thank you for being with us. >> you see these drugs are being tested today and chloroquine and antibodies are being look at. what is the prognosis and having anything working soon. >> the reason why we don't just use them as diy and we are doing them in studies and what we are calling them controlled clinical trials because without doing tharks there that there are no way to know whether or not they are working. we find drugs that or antibodies or vaccines that work for similar diseases or test tubes or in a laboratory or animal model and start to test those in people with diseases such as

covid-19. we have high optimism moving forward and fining other therapeutics that'll work. we have to make sure that we are being careful because they all come along with potential side effects. >> is it something that takes months or something can be done experimentally as this virus progresses? >> given the number of cases across the country we'll have answers very soon. we had one drug, or a two drug combination which has been used for hiv, aids. it was thought to be a successful drug of what was proour proven not to work for covid-19. we should know within months

whether or not the therapy works. we look at it there is multiple ways of attacking it. there is what we call preexposure, before you ever come in contact with the virus, could you get something. i may check you or the traditional thing most people think of is a vaccine. most of the time when we are getting vaccine or infection or given them way before you are exposed, when you are exposed to prevent it. there is host exposure which we hear and others around the country are working on some attacks in that direction which means you have been exposed but you are in the period called the incubation period between exposure and coming down with the disease.

we know we can prevent rabies in those situations and it is possible that we can prevent covid-19 with similar approaches and there is the therapy, chloroquine and all of those are moving along in clinical trials. >> glad to have you here and you are an expert on infection. is the president considering loosening restrictions on how people keep themselves isolated in order to stop the spread of this. what are your concerns when it comes to children in younger people? >> the good news for children, the severity disease among children has been much lower than the severity in older people and people with morbid problem problems with other diseases. the bad news is it is highly transmittable. this virus as we can see from

the numbers it is going up rapidly. it is easily transmitted person to person. how is it transmitted? it is in our respiratory, it is in your nose and throat, it is in your saliva and how do we pass it from there through another person. through the hands and through the things that we touch. keeping distance from one another, not touching surfaces that have not been cleaned after another person has touched them. and washing your hands frequently with open water when possible or hand sanitizers, or soaps, all of those are ways to prevent the spread. we need to flatten the curve. health systems are get overwh m overwhelmed. i am in baltimore. we are still on the upswing of our curve but things are getting heated here as well.

>> it is coming at you and you can see it like a tsunami. >> i can imagine. >> it is hear and getting worse everyday. we all have plans for how we recover and we have people who need to be furloughed or become ill because they are in contact and get sick where they are not sure if they have the virus yet. it is very important that our health system are prepared. i am working with the pediatricians and our state on trying to prepare and also on helping people with what to do in your office. how to make sure children are getting vaccinated with the routine vaccine while we are in the middle of a covid-19 epidemic. we don't want to have another problem on top of that. >> it is a very good point. we are so glad you are working on that dr. james campbell,

thank you for being with us. >> thank you. >> strong words from the governor of new york as the infection rate there doubles every three days. some doctors around the world being forced to decide, who lives and who dies. could that be american next?

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as coronavirus continues to change, countries are taking drastic measures to cope. look at some of the life and death decisions being made starting in spain. >> i am scott mclean. >> reporter: the coronavirus have killed more than 500 people in spain the last 24 hours, more than one of every eight confirmed kalconfir confirmed cases is a healthcare worker. some nurses are making water proof gowns out of garbage bags. the state funeral service will no longer pick up bodies of coronavirus patients because they don't have enough protective gowns. >> there are cautious optimism

for the first time in nearly a month. we have seen two days where the number of new cases and new deaths have gone down. now the experts say this is yet a trend, they're not saying the curve is flattening but there is still a number of cases here, near 64,000 of 60 million people and more than 6,000 deaths. it is certainly giving hope to all those people making personal and economic crisis in the lockdown to stop the spread. >> i am nick peyton walsh in in central london. most shops are closed and you are out for medicine and exercise and food but no other reasons. unfortunately though if your job is essential, you can't go out. real concerns though, this demand was strict enough that

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ahmthe growing threat of coronavirus, governor desantis mandated all travels have to self-quarantine for 14 days. rosa flores is live for us. the governor is taking more pressu action by closing beaches. how exactly can this be enforced? >> reporter: the governor is saying with law enforcement brianna, he's saying law enforcement and members of the department of health will meet

passengers from connecticut and new york and new jersey at airports, they'll get screened and temperatures tested and gather information from these passengers and that's when these 14 days quarantine orders will be issued to these individuals and breaking that order would be breaking florida law. take a listen. >> it is actually a criminal offense if you violate the quarantine order, people can be held accountable here in the state of florida if they break the law. >> reporter: and according to that order, a violation of the quarantine is a second degree misdemeanor punishable of up to 60 days in prison. all of this is happening as more and more governors across the country are issuing shelter in place orders and the governor here in florida is getting criticized for not issuing one. state lawmakers are measuring him to issue a shelter in place order and everyone the miami r

harold board asking the about you governor desantis maintaining he's --, but not every quarter of the state has been impacted by the coronavirus. >> thank you for the report from miami. right now 40% of all americans are living in states with stay-at-home orders, these restrictions are being imposed in 16 states across the country. the city of atlanta becoming one of the latest cities to impose restrictions. with the mayor's decision went far than the governor of georgia, who only ordered the elderly and those at risk to stay home.

diane, talk to us about louisiana in your mind? .. >> yeah, the difference here is basically in atlanta, what happened did not go far enough, so he issued that state jawed home order. yeah, please only go to essential places, and essential stay home. in georgia, the governor only limited large gatherings to nothing more than ten people. we also increased how much snap recipients would receive, and essential we need bars and nightclubs to close. in louisiana there's a much different situation. there's a stay-at-home order for the entire state. this morning the louisiana governor sent a her to president trump requesting major disaster declaration. according to the governor, the rate of the coronavirus case growth in louisiana is faster than any state or country in the entire world right now.

their per capita case diagnosis is third to washington and new york right now, brianna. they are dealing with quite a bit at this moment. 1300 cases that have been diagnosed already had more than 40 deaths in that state. the governor said if they don't get help soon, their hospitals will be at capacity within a week. >> diane, thank you so much, dianne, gallagher. a strong new warning from, he says new york is the canary in the coal mine. plus the president reveals a date when he wants the country to reopen. it may surprise you. stand by for that. i can save you... lots of money with liberty mutual! we customize your car insurance

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joe biden speaking out on the president's response to the coronavirus. here's what he said on "the view" a short time ago. >> one of the things i'm most concerned about is misinformation. listen to the scientists. listen to the doctors. listen to what they have to say i would respectfully suggest that you should have dr. fauci on a lot more than the president, or anyone who's not an expert like fauci.

cnn political correspondent arlette saenz is in philadelphia for us. >> reporter: joe biden did this interview with "the view" from the basement where they set up a live studio for him. the former vice president talked about the need to focus on medical experts and their advice. he also pushed back on the argument from president trump who suggested the cure cannot be worse than the problem. former vice president said that the current focus needs to be on flattening. curve and ensuring that the virus no longer spreads. he also pushed back on a suggestion from lt. governor dan patrick, who said that older americans may be willing to sacrifice their safety and health in order for the economy to get back up and running. the former vice president said he doesn't agree and people all

over the world are suffering, and the economy in the future will be able to bounce back as well as workers. biden also gave insight into how he's spending his days off the campaign trail. he's having what was-hour briefing with members of his public health advisory committees as well as his economic team about the impact of the coronavirus. but one challenge is breaking through all of this coronavirus news. you heard him be quite critical of president trump's responsible to the coronavirus, but biden also has been trying to get his own message across. on many of -- on several major tv markets on the east coast, his view -- his appearance on "the view" was preempted due to local news conferences about the coronavirus outbreak. so that is something that is a challenge for the biden campaign, getting his message out at this time. briana? >> arlette, thank you so much for that.

hi, i'm brianna keilar, this is cnn's special coverage of the coronavirus pandemic. with urge sis and desperation. andrew cuomo is taking aim at the federal government's lack of response. cuomo also dlifrlg what he called troubling and astonishing news. that is that the rate of infection is kleiman in new york. it is steeper, climbing higher than they had even anticipated. >> the inescapable conclusion is that the rate of infection is going up. it is spiking. the apex is higher than we thought and the apex is sooner than we thought. that is a bad combination of facts. so slow the spread, we'll still keep doing everything we can, but it is clear