this from westchester county, the nation's first containment zone in new rochelle. >> the good news side, can you slow the rate of infection? yes. how do you know? look at what we did in westchester. that was the hottest cluster in the united states of america. we closed the schools, we closed gatherings. we brought in testing, and we have dramatically slowed the increase. nassau county is 3,000. relatively right behind westchester. they were at like zero when westchester had started. so we can slow it and we have slowed it. >> but while the progress is made on those fronts, problems persist, especially for health care workers with a lack of life-saving equipment and also hospital space. plus, we're now hearing about infection hitting one of the few businesses that's still booming during these dark days.

amazon. cnn's nick watt is joining me from los angeles with more on how the country is coping. nick? >> reporter: as you say, brianna, it is a question of capacity and supplies right now. we just heard from michigan that one of the biggest hospital service providers there is nearing capacity. we just heard from six acute care hospitals on long island that say they're now running out of isolation gowns. new york right now is the focus. it will shift, but for now, new york is the frontline. there are field hospitals in manhattan, college dorms being converted, upping capacity and navy hospital ship coming soon, but new york is still 20,000 beds shy of what they say they'll need. >> i think we're looking at hotels, we're looking at former nursing homes. >> reporter: they had 4,000 ventilators. bought 7,000 more.

fema delivered 4,000, but new york is still 15,000 short. >> we're exploring splitting where one ventilator could do two patients. >> reporter: opening some streets to pedestrians to reduce density in city parks and no more basketball. the rate of hospitalizations in new york is now slowing. >> the evidence suggests that the density controlled measures may be working. >> reporter: meanwhile, the president pushing to re-open at least parts of the country for business. >> i'm also hopeful to have americans working, again, by that beautiful easter day. >> reporter: easter, that's before new york estimates they will hit peak infection and other states likely later. >> we need to know the data and if we don't have the data, how are we making these decisions at all? it seems like these dates that are being picked are arbitrary and not based on science and evidence. we don't have enough testing.

>> we're seeing a doubling once a day from deaths in coronavirus. the doubling time is only one day, worst in the world right now. >> reporter: spain overtook china, over 3400. italy suffered more than 6,000 deaths. europe, the current epicenter, the w.h.o. said the u.s. could be next but -- >> you've still got the means of turning it around. >> reporter: by testing, tracing contact, isolating and many of us continuing to quarantine, more than half of americans are now under orders to do so. >> finally, getting the people who are ill to treatment and when you do that, really, really protect your health workers. >> reporter: many of the health workers still suffering severe shortages of what they need to stay safe. >> for example, my ems department, over 50% of my people are now on quarantine. >> reporter: meanwhile, amazon, for so many, dealing with

coronavirus in workers in nine facilities nationwide and in stores, walmart, kroger and others now adding sneeze guards to checkout lanes. one of the latest confirmed cases is prince charles over in britain, so there's a bit of royal contact tracing going on right now and brianna, i want to end on some good news. we got this from the american society of microbiology. they say right now there's no evidence this virus is mutating to make it any more virulent or any more transmissable. a comfort, i'll take it. >> i'll take it too, nick. thank you so much for that. for the doctors and nurses and first responders, the fight to stop the coronavirus is upending work as they once knew it. not just speaking out about the shortage of supplies but changes in protocol that would have been unthinkable a few months ago. drew griffin spoke with some of

them and with atlanta to discuss this. i'm so curious, drew, what they're telling you. >> reporter: brianna, they are doing things today that would be fireable offenses just weeks ago and that is reusing this equipment knowing it's probably not clean and could infect themselves or even their patients but they're having to do it out of necessity because the material just is not there. we've been talking to them not just in new york, all across the country. these nurses, these doctors are calling us. they're very scared. some are even sending us video where they're crying because they have to make an anxious decision about going to work knowing they could potentially be exposed without proper equipment and then risking coming back to their family. judy gonzalez, an e.r. nurse and head of the nurse association. she told us this. >> we're terrified. everybody is terrified. we feel an obligation to take care of our patients, everybody

does, but we don't want to become sick and we also don't want to become carriers, nor do we want to be so disabled we can't care for people. zbhr zbhr. >> reporter: a nurse in ohio told her she quit the hospital because she couldn't take the risk of knowing she didn't have the proper protective equipment and exposing herself to covid-19 and then coming home night after night to her children. brianna, it is a real struggle for the heroic workers out there doing this battle, obviously, without the protection they need. >> yeah, they are serving this country. it is admirable and simultaneously unacceptable. drew griffin, thank you so much. richard pollock, the ceo of the american hospital association. thank you for being with me. >> thank you for having me. >> your group with the american

nurse association and the ama said $100 billion was needed in assistance. the stimulus proposal for hospitals is $130 billion. some officials are warning though that coronavirus has not yet even peaked in the u.s. is $130 billion enough as you see it? >> it's an important first step that will give us the resources that are very much needed in terms of getting the supplies, the personal protective equipment that we need to provide to our health care givers on the front lines, the doctors, nurses, and other workers that are the true heroes in this battle. it will be helpful in that regard. there is also assistance in there to help us build search capacity as well and to help us with cash flow because we've shut down all other operations, have nothing coming in, and we have a lot of expenses going out. so we're going to need that type of funding. now, i want to praise the leadership of senator mcconnell

and senator schumer. so important first step, brianna, but it's not going to be enough in the long run. >> what happens for hospital workers who end up dying from coronavirus and they did not have the appropriate safety gear? >> well, our focus right now is getting them the protective gear. that is our number one priority. if we don't have the gear and we don't get that to them, then the whole system will collapse. of course, we care about protecting their lives. they are the front line warriors in this battle and they need to be protected. right now, we're working with all sorts of companies to produce more of that protective equipment, get more of it into the supply line. we've asked the president to use the defense production act to ensure that there will be more. we need to press every lever we conceivably can to make sure the

health care heroes get the equipment that they need. >> but some of them don't have it and they're already putting themselves at risk. are you confident they're going to be taken care of? i think of, prince, folks in the military. when they give their lives, and you know, we've seen issues in the past where they didn't have the proper equipment as well. when they give their lives, their families are taken care of. are you confident that the family of the front line medical workers are going to be taken care of in some way? >> we've got to do everything we can right now to make sure that we don't even get to that point. that's the objective. that's why we have to get them the equipment. we have to get the supplies going from the strategic stockpiles. we have to ensure that there's more product being put into the pipeline. >> can i ask you though, seriously, aren't you already to that point? you can try to catch up and make

sure it doesn't spread that far, but you're already seeing front line workers come down with this and they're not having, they're reusing masks. they're not using the masks they should use. aren't you already to this point? >> there have been very unfortunately some health care workers that have gotten infected and that is something that obviously is troublesome, but again, the focus now is to protect them as much as we possibly can. again, the system collapses without them being healthy and without them having the protective gear. >> okay, i want to know if you think the u.s. is going to have enough ventilators by next week. >> there's a gap. it all depends on where it's needed. new york, obviously, struggling to get as many as they can because they're a hot spot and we know that we need more. that's why, again, we think that the president ought to use the

defense production act to order more of them. unleash them from the strategic stockpiles. we ought to make sure that every conceivable avenue is used to make sure that those heavily impacted areas have all the equipment they need. this is an unprecedented situation, and we're focused intensely on making sure we get as much as we can to the front lines. >> right now, as you know, roughly half of the country is under either what's a full stay at home order or maybe it's a partial or something that might actually effectively be a stay at home order. the governor of new york says the numbers are suggesting that social distancing is working in his state. are you seeing any evidence that it's helping in terms of stopping the spread? >> you know, our view is that we have to follow the science and we have to follow what the local public health authorities are suggesting, and in that vein, by the way, the american medical so, the american hospital association, the american

nurse's association has written an open letter to the american public saying we've got to stop the spread, people should stay at home and when we talk to our front line health care workers, their message is that they are there for you and they'ir ask t the american public is that everyone should stay home for them and that's why we need to follow the guidelines, make sure people do, in fact, stay at home, except for essential types of services, and we believe that that is the best approach right now and we have to make sure that we follow those guidelines and instructions. >> you've heard the president wants to reopen the country, really, to business by easter. some officials are working on a rolling plan that would ease restrictions on different people, different times and maybe in different places. what would that mean for hospitals and their ability to stay below capacity for treating

people? >> you know, i know the president made some suggestion that he hoped that we can get back to some semblance of being normal by easter. that was a hope. we all hope we can be back in a better place by easter. but we have to be realistic about it. we have to evaluate on an ongoing basis and we have to follow the science and data and do what the experts tell us to do. >> i mean, it sounds like you're saying that's unrealistic. >> what i'm saying is we have to follow the science and we have to follow the data and we have to follow what the experts tell us to do. we have to evaluate it on an ongoing basis. it's a hope. it's something that you can be optimistic about, but from everything i hear, it's probably going to be longer than that. >> okay, that's what we're hearing too from the experts we've been having on. richard pollock, thank you so much for being on. >> thank you.

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today the senate trying to advance a $2 trillion stimulus bill after the white house and senate negotiators struck a deal very early this morning. a key part of that bill includes checks from the u.s. government directly to you. you can see how much you might get right there. $1200 for individuals earning up to $75,000. that phases up as you go up in income to $99,000 and then it phases out. so what the senate and then house is hoping to put on the president's desk is this phase three of a sweeping government response to the virus. already, wills tathere is talk phase four and whether the help coming down the pipeline is going to be enough. >> is this enough? is this going to be enough? >> we don't know. we don't know. the two awful things about this crisis are, one, that we don't

know how long it's going to last. who's affected. we still don't exactly know. we should be able to come back in a bipartisan way and probably have to do that one way or another. >> for thousands of businesses across the country, every day without help from the federal government is another day that they are uncertain of how long they can stay in business and whether they can keep paying their employees. i want to bring in designer and ceo tori birch. founder and head designer of tori birch apparel company. thank you so much for joining us. you employ 5,000 people. you have been leading a coordinated effort and initiative to get federal help for the retail industry. first, just what do you think about the stimulus package? there is hundreds of billions of dollars in there for businesses and for small businesses. is that going to be enough for the retail industry? >> well, that's exactly, thank you, first of all, for having me

because i represent over 25 ceos across the united states and we've been working with the national retail federation and the aama and came together a week ago to realize we needed a voice for our sector and quite honestly, i don't know yet and every minute that passes, people are talking about laying off 50% to 80% of their workforce, if not going bankrupt. >> give us a sense, just to put into perspective, when it comes to the retail industry, how much a piece of the economy this is and how high the stakes are? >> the stakes are huge, and i think we need to be talked about similar to the way airline and hospitality is talked about. our sector is million and millions of jobs. it's 2 trillion to the gdp, with retail, fashion, and fashion

apparel. so it is enormous and that includes jewelry as well, and we're talking about people that are living paycheck to paycheck, and i think that's one thing we need to dispel is that it's a lightweight industry. it is not. it's heavyweight and it's very much part of americans and putting americans, keeping americans in the workforce. >> so let's talk about some of the things that you're pushing for through this initiative. essentially, forgiving rent, right? financing loans that would allow for brands, stores, department stores to be forgiven rent until they can get back up and running. also, asking for grants that would cover a big chunk of employee pay so that you can keep them on payroll and then ask a request for some relief from tariffs and duties for the next year, which is key, obviously, this is something we've heard from many folks in retail, this hits them pretty hard. you spoke with the treasury

secretary. you spoke with the republican leader in the house. were they receptive to any of these asks? >> they were very receptive and have been working around the clock as well as spoken to chuck schumer and nancy pelosi. this is not partisan. we're talking about american people right now, and the industry leaders need to keep americans in the workforce. we need to keep them being paid because a lot of them live paycheck to paycheck. this cannot be partisan. every minute we lose hurts certainly the american economy but also the american people. >> have you had to lay people off personally yet? >> we have not, and it is something that we are doing our best not to have to do but i can tell you, when companies don't have revenue coming in, it's very difficult to be paying employees, so we need to get that relief that's urgent and i

would say, yes, it fit perfectly, every ceo that i've spoken with has talked about their employees. we want to protect them but we also need to protect commercial real estate because it's an episystem. we need to bridge however long we need to keep america companies, a national health crisis but i can tell you, it's going to be a national business crisis very shortly. >> tory birch, thank you so much for joining us! thank you. > amazon sorting and sending things americans rely on during the coronavirus pause on normal life but there are troubling signs today. according to the company and local media reports, coronavirus cases have been identified at amazon warehouses in new york, california, florida, kentucky,

michigan, oklahoma, texas, and connecticut. i want to bring in cnn's cristina alesci with more on this. this is pretty widespread, kristcris cristina, a lot of folks are expecting them to protect their workers. >> absolutely right and it is an issue that a lot of these critical businesses are facing. how do you keep operations going and at the same time, protect your employees and consumers? we're talking about amazon because of the sheer scale of it. you talked about all of those warehouses that are recently had employees who were infected. this is a massive logistical nightmare for the company and they had taken steps to try and prevent the spread within the warehouses. we have a screen that shows some of the measures that includes cleaning the facilities more often, the start time for social distancing, training groups,

doing interviews for candidates over video conference. all of those things are being put into effect, but the matter is, this challenge comes at a time when delivery and demand is surging. the company said it wants to hire 100,000 more employees and we know based on the employees that we spoke to that they are anxious that the company isn't doing enough. for example, ceo jeff bezos wrote over the weekend the company is trying to source masks for the employees in the warehouse but that's obviously very difficult given the shortages. employees also complain about the way paid time off is structured and whether that encourages or discourages people to do the right thing if they are sick to stay home. so the company is having to juggle this while it ramps up. this is not like any other business to just stay open and put these extra measures into

effect. this is let's make all of these changes and add these precautions as we're expanding, brianna. the problem is huge, and it could impact millions of americans because they get stuff on amazon. there's a report that shows 40% of e-commerce happens on amazon, brianna. >> it's huge. crist cristina, thank you so much for bringing us that report. we appreciate it. we have some new details about how president trump is reaching out to countries across the globe to get critically needed supplies, even though he said this just yesterday. >> we should never be reliant on a foreign country for the means of our own survival. i think we've learned a lot. we've learned a lot. >> we'll break down the 25 items that the federal government needs the most. ta-da!

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the 25 medical supplies that it is telling its diplomats around the world to ask their host countries for, indicating that the u.s. needs some help in fighting this coronavirus pandemic, and as you said, these supplies include things as basic as hand sanitizer and complex as ventilators, also, things like gloves that are needed here in the u.s. now, the folks that we talk to said there was a sense of urgency with this ask coming from the stated. senior stated spokesperson confirmed or reporting telling cnn, quote, the stated reached out to missions and have asked missions to determine whether certain countries may have excess capacity of the ability to manufacture supplies, whether there are companies in that country that may consider exporting supplies to the u.s. also considering external

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the world. my next guest, margie whirl, best selling author and she and her son, ben, are under mandatory quarantine in singapore after her husband tested positive for coronavirus and you wrote the the book on how to handle tough stuff including this article, when fear runs high, the need for courage runs higher. i want to talk about that and sort of your very interesting, and i think informative perspective but first, tell us about your husband, how's he doing and how did it unfold for your family? >> yeah, well, he's actually in the united states last week. three children over there and a junior in high school. taking him around on a college trip and he arrived back in singapore wednesday morning where we've been living for two years and by thursday morning, i was like, let's just check that and wouldn't usually be so conscientious of him feeling a

bit off, but on friday when it was gone up, went to the hospital, the public hospital to get tested and they admitted him straight away because in singapore, they admit everybody who has tests for coronavirus, 100%, even if you are not even showing symptoms. so he's been in there since last friday. he's been really laid flat, actually. for a fit guy, he had been really knocked down by this. but i'm hoping, yesterday, his fever seemed to abate a little bit. i'm really hoping that today, we can say he's turned the corner. >> so you hope he's turned the corner. i know you're crossing your fingers there as you wait for the next few days there but talk about the kind of care your husband has been getting, the type of awareness that you've been getting living there in singapore, and even tell us how medical costs there are being handled. >> yeah, so in singapore, back

in january when obviously the outbreak took root in wuhan, china. singapore acted swiftly. all the events, everything was cancelled. they kind of gradually ramped up some of the different measures so that, you know, they tried to contain the outbreak and big in contact tracing. before my husband even knew he had tested positive, we had a call to say, don't leave your house, you know, because we've been with him, so obviously, under this strict 14 day quarantine. they call us three times a day to check our temperature and if our temperature goes above 99.5, we have to call them and they send an ambulance. that's how they manage it. in singapore, generally, they're covering all costs for testing the coronavirus and all costs as well for actually any treatment of coronavirus. my husband, unfortunately, his company, exxon, they're moving

back to australia recently, so he's actually not been covered because he was here spending time with me in the final part of high school with the singapore american school, so unfortunately, we have to -- but generally for any singapore resident, it's fully covered. >> that's amazing, and just the sort of machinery that's in place that you describe. let's talk about the mental aspect of this. you've written the book "you've got this," right, you talk about how people can weather these things and you know a thing or two about it. you were evacuated from australia in january because of the bush fires and now you're dealing with this. you have kids living all over in the u.s. including in new york as you watch this all go down. tell us about how you stay positive in this really kind of confusing scary time. >> you know, i'm a strong

believer that we have to really focus on ourselves first right now. so much outside of our country. obviously, there's so much outside my control, and it is easy to go into overwhelm, easy to feel anxious but the more we dwell on what makes us anxious, the more anxious we become. really intentional, walking the talk and advice in my book "you've got this" doubling down what strengthens me, body, mind and spirit. i do a lot of things, whether journaling, listening to music, praying, meditating, just keeping in the right head space and the right heart space so i can be as calm and brave but also optimistic too. i really believe if we stay optimistic and hopeful, this storm will pass. this situation will pass. the world may feel like it's been tilted off the axis right now but i know that we're going to get through this and i believe that when we stay focused on the good times that

are to come and it does really help us thrive through the stormy times that much better. >> we will get through this. margie whirl, thank you so much. >> my pleasure. thanks for having me on. the president has criticized china for not telling the world sooner about the outbreak there but also praised china for its response in the early days of the crisis. plus, the state of michigan seen an alarming jump in coronavirus cases and deaths and now hospitals there are warning they're near their limit. too many after parties?

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cases in michigan spiked by more than 460 in just 24 hours, which is prompting new concerns over how to treat those infected. right now, the total number of cases in the state sits at 1,791. 24 people have died and those are the numbers as they've been reported so far, but keep in mind, in addition to the state running low on critical medical supplies like ventilators ppe, they don't have nearly enough tests and add hospital beds to the list, the michigan health and hospital association warning, quote, they're getting close to capacity for available beds. i want to bring in michigan congresswoman alyssa slatkin. thank you so much for joining us and you represent the 8th district of southeast michigan, this includes counties that are near metro detroit and i wonder, do you know, what is the plan for hospitals that are running out of room and that are running out of supplies? what

>> sure. well we just have the second big hospital say they're at capacity today. obviously the big bill in the next couple of days will push a ton of money into our hospitals. it is really like a marshal plan. it puts a ton of money into personal protective equipment to make sure our frontline folks have what they need to protect us. but they're all looking at secondary locations and schools and dorms, hotels. the army corp of engineers is here helping us transition facilities so we have extra bed space. they're not waiting, they're just moving out. a lot of them at their own expense. but we're just trying to keep a handle on this because the big goal that we're trying to avoid is the overrunning of our hospital system and triage medicine which is something i've only seen in my tours in iraq. >> yeah, okay. right. so you've seen this upswing there in your state. you're having this spike. and you're still very much on

the climb. so what is your biggest concern about where this is headed there in michigan? >> yeah, my biggest concern is that we just have a gap right now in the personal protective equipment for our frontline doctors and nurses and first responders. we're working hard. the states are duking it out amongst themselves. now fema is getting involved and we're hearing reports of fema bumping the states out of line so there is a clamoring going on for the equipment. we'll get some in but there is a delay. so our governor, myself, lots of others in the state have made a public call for people to donate things. we've gone to our research universities, our dentists, our dermatologists, our tattoo parlors and nail parlors and asked for anyone with gloves, gowns, masks, to please bring it forward. it is sad that we are here. but that is where we are and that is what we have to do in order to protect the people who are protecting us. >> you know, to that point. we talked about this in the commercial break and you

referenced your time in iraq, looking at folks who are there on the frontlines, medical and other essential workers they're being called to serve and their answering this call to serve in a way that we haven't seen before. i think it is challenging our idea of just how essential and brave they are. what needs to be done to take care of folks, some of whom look inevitably at this point with not having enough gear, some of them are going to die. what needs to be done? >> yeah. i really think of them right now, the way i thought of the first responders, the firefighters on 9/11. everyone was running away from the buildings and they were running toward it and that is what our health care workers and nurses and our hospital administration, what they're doing right now is running towards the problem and they're the front line of defense. i think we need to think about what it means to be putting these people at risk. it is literally like sending our troops into battle without everything that they need. i think we need to understand the emergency supplies that we

need to go in. but we need to think about what our obligations are if people expose themselves and come down with the virus. and end up very, very sick from the disease or from the virus. i think we need to think about it in a different way. it is much more in line of think being how we support our troops on the front lines and i think that is a mentality we'll have to shift a bit. >> and, look, you're familiar with how controversial it was when proper armor was not provided to troops in these post 9/11 conflicts. it was maddening and got a lot of attention. so there is a stay-at-home order in effect and health officials hoping it would help the curve but it didn't go into effect this week. what do you say to people that say this should have been faster? >> sure. listen, we could spend a lot of time looking at lessons learn the when this is done. and we will. this will not be the only pandemic that we'll deal with in our lives so we'll go through the lessons learned.

the truth is i don't see much value in doing that now. i'm trying to get supplies today for our folks in our hospitals. i'm trying to figure out how we bridge to the seven days, ten days when our equipment starts to come in and then think about what the heck we'll do with our economy. our appropriation that we're about to vote on here in the next 48 hours is a good first step. but it is not the only step. so we'll have plenty of time to sort of quarterback it later but for right now i'm focused on what we can do now to help. >> yeah. very important focus. congresswoman slotkin, thank you so much for joining us. >> thanks for having me. new york governor said they are seeing evidence that social distancing is working. but he warns it is not time to let your guard down. plus prince charles tested positive for coronavirus. what we know about his contact with the queen.

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we have all been told to vigorously wash our hands to protect from coronavirus. but this is a real challenge for the homeless. so one atlanta based nonprofit is stepping in, it is called love beyond walls and they set up portable outdoor sinks in places where the homeless population congregates. >> we kept hearing, i'm scared i'm going to catch this virus because i don't have anywhere to

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