the president, they're working together to get this $2 trillion package passed to help the american people. gloria, thank you very much and to our viewers thanks for watching. erin burnett "outfront" starts right now. "outfront" next, breaking news, president trump saying some parts of the country may be able to return to work sooner than others. is that realistic? and cases of coronavirus spiking among new york's first responders. as 9/11 calls are also skyrocketing. the commissioner for the new york fire department is my next. and not only are many americans still not able to get a coronavirus test if they want one, the wait time to get your results can be seven days. why were other countries able to get results in a few hours? let's go "outfront." good evening. i'm erin burnett. "outfront" tonight, the breaking news. president trump holding his coronavirus task force briefing right now. the president floating his latest plan to end the national

shutdown. >> there are large sections of our country, probably can go back much sooner than other sections. and we're obviously looking at that also. people are asking, is that an alternative? i say absolutely. >> president trump also talking about the $2 trillion emergency relief bill that the senate has been struggling to pass, saying he thinks it will be passed soon and he'll sign it immediately. all of this happening on what really is the deadliest day of the coronavirus pandemic for united states. 215 new deaths reported today. at least 11 states now each are reporting more than 100 new cases of coronavirus just today. new york had 5,000 new reported cases. it is still the hardest hit state in the country, with nearly half of the national cases. there are more testing -- more tests in new york, and the majority of the cases are right here in new york city. 177 million americans are now

under stay at home orders. erica hill begins our coverage tonigh tonight. so many states right now, with 100 cases or more and they need supplies. how are they coping? >> reporter: they absolutely do. in fact, we even heard from the world health organization today saying that there is a critical shortage. there is concern about supplies around the world. here in the u.s., and here in new york specifically, the governor saying ventilators remain the single greatest need. add to that the need for tens of thousands of hospital beds and those are cries that we are hearing from states across the country. a virus that once seemed distant, hitting closer to home with each passing day. >> the vast majority of people in our state who have tested positive so far are in their 40s. and we have children as young as 10 months old, who have the virus. >> reporter: louisiana is showing the highest growth rate for the virus.

the governor warning health care facilities could be at capacity by the first week of april. michigan, one of several states facing a shortage of critical supplies. new jersey, now with the second highest number of cases in the u.s. and in new york, the governor warning the peak in his state, which now has 30,000 confirmed cases, is likely weeks away. >> we still have the trajectory going up. we have not turned the trajectory, nor have we hit the apex. >> reporter: but there are early signs the shelter in place orders are easing the strain of hospitals. still, the state needs tens of thousands of additional hospital beds and ventilators to meet the expected need. across the country, officials are pleading with retired health care professionals to return to work. >> god bless them, 40,000 people have signed up as a surge health care force. that's a big, big deal.

because you can create beds, you can find the equipment, you have to have the staff. >> reporter: the fight against this invisible enemy is increasingly defined by those on the front lines. the exhausted doctors, nurses, and hospital staff working around the clock. >> we are 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. >> reporter: for the 900 americans who have died, their grieving families facing another painful reminder of all that has changed. >> and for those who have passed on, their loved ones are now grieving, and don't have the opportunity to celebrate their lives with traditional funerals and wakes. let's send our thoughts, our support and our prayers to all of these families and their friends. >> reporter: in alabama, emery

grace, just a month old, is now isolated as a precaution after a nurse in the nicu where the baby has been since birth tested positive. her father telling cnn he felt this moment was inevitable, given the number of people tending to his daughter every day. erin, one other need governor cuomo came up with today is the mental held need for folks across the state. he talked about the emotional trauma people may be experiencing as lives are changing so rapidly. here in new york, a hotline has been set up, and the governor says 6,000 mental health professionals have volunteered to staff that hotline to help people. >> erica, thank you very much. and you know, we're going to hear shortly from that energy room nurse that you saw in erica's piece. she'll be on this program in a few moments. i want to go to dr. sanjay gupta and dr. william shafter, the former cdc official and

professor of infectious diseases at vanderbilt medical center. sanjay, the president sort of float thing idea now of ending the shutdown in stages. that in some places you would reopen for business and other places would take a little longer. would that work? >> well, i mean, one of the things people have to keep in mind is that we don't really know how widespread this virus is. that sort of makes sense if you say hey, look, this virus is only present in certain parts of the country and not present at all in other parts of the country. i don't think we just know the answer to that, because even though the testing has improved, there's still a lot of places around the country where they still have done inadequate testing. part of the reason we're seeing high numbers in new york because it is spread thing and because they have done a lot more testing. so i don't know. i would remind something that we talked about, young people are at risk of a, carry thing virus and spreading it to others. and also of getting sick.

it is true that they are far less likely to die, which is good. but the idea that they can just go back to work and not potentially add to the problem i don't think is true. so dr. fauci says we'll have to look at the data and the data will change. >> so let me ask you about this, dr. fauci did say yesterday that part of the problem is we don't know what we don't know. because this country has done a terrible job in testing. so there's certain region where is you don't see a lot going on. you know, but the president tonight said that where we're not seeing numbers, it's because there's no problem. here he is. >> many states that i'm talking about, they don't have a problem. we have some big problems, but it's confined to certain areas, high density areas. so why would we test the entire nation, 350 million people? with that being said, we tested

far more than anybody else. we are -- we have the ability to test -- i mean, we've come a long way from an obsolete, broken system that i inherited. we have now tested with the best test far more than anybody else. >> several questions from that. but first this point, when he says many states that i'm talking about, they don't have a problem. we have big problems, but they're confined to certain areas, high density areas. do we know that to be true? >> we're not certain about that at all, erin. you know, we have some hot spots, we have some warm spots and other spots such as nashville that's warming up. i'm sure that this virus is just about everywhere. but how dense and widespread it is, we don't know yet. we haven't tested sufficiently. if we could test a lot more, we would have a much better idea of how distributed this virus is. >> so you can't say it's not there if you haven't been

looking for it. i mean, sanjay, the other question is, what the president said there, he also said we wouldn't want to test everybody, why test 350 million people? i understand you don't need to test 350 million people to know how many have it, but you do need to test a lot more than you've been testing and you need to test a lot more than sick people, which is the extent of who has been tested in this country, right? >> yeah, no question. i mean, look, to give you sort of context for the seasonal flu in any given year, we may say 30 million people have the seasonal flu, but fewer than 100,000 tests were performed, just for the reason you said, erin. they use all these different metrics to figure out how widespread the flu is. this is different. this is a brand new virus. it's still important to identify people who are positive and be able to isolate them and then find out who they came in contact with. that's getting increasingly challenging in areas where the virus is widely spread and very dense. but it's still important to do

that. because we haven't had adequate testing, look, we're nowhere close to getting to the surveillance part of things right now. in fact, people are told not to get a test unless they have symptoms. so that's a ways down the road still. but you're right, we do need to broaden testing. maybe not 350 million people, clearly not, but to give statistic relevance here, a lot more needs to be done. >> especially because on the "diamond princess" which is the one perfect zone you have there, half the people who had it, had no symptoms. so we don't know if that's true across the general population, but if it were to be true, the incidents of this could be way higher. it has immense implications for a lot of things, including how many people are sick, your fatality rate, how long the country should be closed, whether social distancing is working. >> people have gotten the information that you can spread

this informati the virus with minimal contact. of course, this expectation has been raised because people had been told if you want to test, you can get it. so for public health reasons, that's the main reason we want to test as well as for clinical reasons to take good care of patients and health care providers can use the appropriate protective equipment. >> so sanjay, the other question i have here is what is wrong with the u.s. testing system at this point? there's several questions there, but the one i want to ask about is the time. i know people, i have friends who have this. by the time they were identified as being worthy of getting a test, it then took several days to get the test, and then seven days to get the test back. and in one of those instances, it was a positive. so in all that time, that person was self-quarantining, thank goodness. but how in the world can it be taking seven days to get these

tests back when we hear about three-hour test results in other places? >> yeah, that's not acceptable. clearly, the test itself, like if you're in the lab and you have the specimen and you're going get the result back is hours, typically around six hours is what i heard. but as the technology improves, it can shorten that time. if a person that got tested, that specimen may have to get sent out. many places are starting to get a lot of specimens now. you're hearing about the testing ramping up, but that can slow things down in terms of results. but seven days is not acceptable, because that person that doesn't know, that would be a source of increased spread. one thing if i can just add, the "diamond princess," about half the people who tested positive did not have symptoms. within a period of time, you

know, several of them did develop symptoms. so in the end, about 18% did not have symptoms. the point is, even if you don't have symptoms now, it can take a couple of weeks to develop symptoms. i'm not trying to scare people, but keep that in mind. we're still early days. you're thinking i'm fine, i feel great and i hope you stay that way, but it can take a while to develop symptoms, as well. >> people should know during that time you should be spreading that virus. and perhaps even more virus present in your system right before you have all those symptoms you can be infeblgtiin others. next, a nurse on the front lines of the coronavirus calls her experience in the e.r. terrifying. and new york police officers and firefighters, lots of them are infected with coronavirus. they have gotten those tests back and they are positive as emergency calls for help in the nation's biggest city are surging. the commissioners of new york's

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president of the new york nurse's association. thank you for your time. our viewers saw you a moment ago in erica's piece. you were talking about how you're terrified as you take care of patients. what is life like right now in the e.r.? >> well, my e.r. is not different from other e.r.s from what we're hearing around the state. this health system is unprepared for this disaster, so we're making it go as we go along. we're not getting the personal protective equipment that we need to protect us, the m-95 respirat respirators, certainly not the haz/mat suits you see in china and italy post disaster, after they were not using the correct things and people are scared. they're afraid they're going to get sick and they can't take care of patients. they'll pass the virus on to family and friends. we hold the cdc responsible, because initially the

regulations were very strict in terms of what we needed to protect ourselves and our patients. when they relaxed the guidelines and we can't understand why that happened, because they had months to prepare for this, then we were subjected to have to change the rules along the lines and it's just totally unsafe for the nurses. >> i mean, it's scary to hear it. i know you all are heroic to be working under those conditions. what are the conditions of the patients who are coming in to your e.r. right now and are you fully at or over capacity? >> from what i understand, almost all the e.r.s are over capacity. i don't work that often, because i have presidential duties in the organization. my colleagues are working overtime and extra shifts to be able to meet the need, because we have so many people who are out sick. they are taking care of way too many patients at one time and we have patients waiting beds.

people are waiting days for beds. we don't really have beds and we were behind the eight ball to begin with, because over the past 10, 20 years, we lost 20,000 beds in new york state because of the medicaid cuts and this kind of draconian attitude of letting us function under bare bones. so we were ill prepared to begin with, and now it's just total overload. >> "the washington post" reports tonight thatsome hospitals are discussing a universal do not resuscitate policy for infected patients, having conversations they thought they would never have to have. they're discussing this because of the danger of exposing doctors and nurses, that they wouldn't be able to do everything possible to resuscitate a person who may be dying because of the risk of

infecting everybody caring for them. are those conversations happening at your hospital? >> i've heard whispers about that, but that's what is so outrageous. if we had the appropriate equipment, that wouldn't be an issue. if you look at what happened in china after the initial epidemic where people didn't have the appropriate ppe, when they brought in 40,000 health care workers from across the country, they gave them the haz/mat suits and they had zero infection rate. same thing in south korea and also in singapore. if we had the appropriate equipment, we can resuscitate people and do whatever it is we need to do for people. this is inexcusable. i hold the cdc and the federal government responsible. they're supposed to protect us and the public, they didn't prepare and now who are the victims? the public is the victim and the caregivers are the victims. it's outrageous. >> are the caregivers or the nuf nurses able to -- we know in

italy 10% of those infected are frontline health care workers. we see it in spain. and these are people like you, nurses, doctors who are putting their lives on the line. when you see some of the people who are younger, succumbing to this disease, many that are exhausted. are they able to get the nurses right now if they're sick, access to tests, get those tests back immediately, are they able to get answers? >> no, they're not. they relaxed -- they had done some testing, and now they have pulled back. you have to be really sick to get a test right now, and the wait time, i had some symptoms. i had a test. they said 24 hours it would come back, but i didn't get the results back until monday, but they let me go back to work sunday. the test results aren't coming back in time. very sadly we lost a nurse today in one of our sister facilities

who succumbed to our disease. that was our first nurse death that we know about. and we also have nurses who are ill. one of our own nurses in my hospital was in the icu, is still in the icu on a ventilator from covid-19. >> we are thinking of them and just the incredible heroism. i know everyone in this country gets chills when you think about the people that go to work every day knowing they could get sick and die and they do it any way. thank you very much for your time. >> we just want to get the appropriate equipment to help you. that's what we want. >> all right. you know, you have the nurses on the front lines and first responders. in new york city, many of them are also now testing positive for coronavirus. more than 3,000 nypd officers are out sick today. that is nearly 10% of the police force. this is the largest city in the united states. hundreds tested positive for coronavirus. the fire department is also seeing a spike in positive test

results, as 911 calls are skyrocketing, up by more than 40%. joining me on the phone now is daniel nigro, the commissioner of the new york fire department. thank you for joining me. how much does it concern you to see these numbers, people out sick, first responders, coronavirus positives, accelerating in your department. >> well, certainly this pandemic has created a very, very difficult situation for my department. our people are the front lines that take these patients and deliver them to the hospitals. and our calls have gone up somewhere in the neighborhood of 40% as of today. and then protected to continue to rise. >> and you know, that surge in demand, those numbers, 5,700 911 calls, up more than 40%.

2,000 than you would get on a normal day. and your firefighters and paramedics are responding to these calls. they don't know who may have the virus. we do know some of those first responders got infected. of course they're worried they could be infected or have it themselves and infect someone else. how dire is this situation for your men and women on the front lines, going into people's homes right now for these life saving 911 responses? >> well, proof of their bravery and their dedication is that they're on the front lines, that while we're asked to shelter in place, the members of our department don't have that luxury. they don't have that luxury. they're out there dealing with these patients each and every day. they're going home, worried about their families. and yet their dedication and their pride brings them to work and they serve the public. >> do you have the supplies you need or how close are you to not having them? >> you know, a few days ago i

was interviewed a few times and said it was critical. and i was hoping that the pleas of the governor and the mayor were heard in washington. they have been heard, and we have received some supplies, certainly we're not flush with supplies. we don't have an overwhelming amount. but we have supplies for the coming weeks and hopefully months. and we think the supply chain will continue to bring the protective equipment we need. >> commissioner nigro, that i hope ends up being true and that is very good news. i appreciate your time, sir. we wish you and every single one of your responders the very best. thank you. >> thank you. and we urge people, please use 911 just for medical emergencies. it's a matter of life and death for your friend's, family and yourselves. thank you. "outfront" next, the senate says there's a $2 trillion stimulus deal, the biggest in

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breaking news. treasury secretary steve mnuchin, defending the historic $2 trillion coronavirus stimulus plan, firing back as republicans threaten to block the plan, because they say an extra $600 week for un-americans could be an incentive not to work. >> i don't think it will create incentives. most americans, what they want is to keep their jobs. this is no fault of their own that businesses have been shut down. the president and vice president wanted to make sure those hard-working meshes got money. >> this as president trump vows to immediately sign the bill, which is based on income levels could give individuals up to $1200. $2400 with married couples, $500 per child.

phil, where do things stand? a lot of people watching this say okay, guys, why hasn't there been a vote? >> it's been a long couple of days. just about there, that was the text message i got for somebody working on this package. they think they have gotten through. the several concerns that were outstanding, and the concern the republican senators raidsed about the benefits put on top of state unemployment insurance were agreed to by the administration, by republican negotiators, by democratic negotiators. and they are a key part of a package that is supposed to interconnect. you have the enhanced unemployment insurance and the direct payments, as well. $350 billion in small business loans, $500 billion for distressed larger industries. all of these things, erin, are supposed to work together in concert. not to stimulate the economy from a growth perspective, but to seven as a bridge loan, to keep america alive over the course of the next several weeks or months depending on how things work. the reality is, the senate is

almost there. shea should be voting, the expectation is the house will pass it as soon as tomorrow. the president is planning on signing it. the big question is, one, how quickly can they get this money out the door? and two, are they going to need more given the depth of this problem of this issue of what the country is facing economically over the course of the next several months, erin. >> you look at the biggest package in history, whether that will only be the beginning. it is money that will be borrowed. thank you very much, phil matingly. i want to go to mark. he said this plan of send thing money, up to $3400 a month would not be an incentive not to work. he said americans want to work and get back to work. nonetheless, there are some republicans who think this is a disen sentive to work. what are you saying to them? >> thanks for having me on tonight. i concur with secretary mnuchin's belief, americans

don't want a handout check, they want to get back to work. the reality is, the income levels are different in different parts of the country. new york, wages are different than nebraska wages. and so for some in the smaller states, the dollar amount that's being given, some worry it's going to be higher than what some workers will be get thing their wages, so therefore as you suggested, disensentvizes them to work. but this is providing protection, because as the secretary said, the coronavirus is no fault of their own and no fault of their employer. this is a health care crisis that we're anxious to get to the other side of. this provides temporary relief. it's up to four months, not in purpose duty. >> up to four months. is that -- that's what you are willing to do at this point, anticipating this would not go on longer than that. but just to be clear, it may not go on that long, correct?

>> erin, it is our prayer that the coronavirus outbreak, we're on the other side of it before four months is up. so that is certainly our hope. but the four months was given, because in some cases employers who go back, it doesn't have to start the day the bill is signed. >> the plan, in addition to checks going to american families who earn under $100,000, you'll have bridge loans to companies, which do employ a lot of americans, millions of americans. however, former republican justin amash tweeted today, this bipartisan deal is a raw deal for the people. it does far too little for the ones that need the most help and widening the gap between the rich and the poor. why is he wrong? >> erin, i think any time you have a package of this size which you're putting together both sides of the aisle and trying to provide relief to the american people, there's going to be provisions that you can

say, i don't support every one of those. but the overall wholistic part of the bill that is important to get passed, we think it's important to provide that relief to americans, not just individuals but small businesses, because, again, what the economic consequences through no fault of their own, it's the reality of the health care crisis that nobody could have foreseen. we are anxious to get this bill passed. it's not to say every single provision is something that etch would love. but when you bring together both sides of a bill this large, it's something that we support. >> so whenever we get the unemployment report, they are going to be paid attention to tomorrow morning. larry kudlow says it's going to be a dramatic increase. here he is earlier today, mark. >> it's going to be a very big increase. everybody in the market knows that. >> california's governor alone says 1 million people filed for unemployment since march 13th.

how high do you think this number tomorrow could be? someone said 2.5 million. could it be higher than that? >> erin, i don't want to try to predict a specific number. larry is right, the number is going to be large. we recognize that. but it's all the more reason that we're anxious for americans to comply with the guidelines that we put forward to shorten the duration of this outbreak and the severity of it. the sooner we can do that, the sooner we can get the country back to work. so that is our desire, it's our ask for the american people. and candidly, we have been inspired by the way americans have come together to pitch in and try to help and comply with the guidelines that the virus is not spread to the most dangerous populations. >> mark, thank you very much. >> thanks for having me on tonight. next, president trump boasting about testing in the united states. but the reality of it is, is it most people who want the test still can't get it? and those who have been tested

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tonight, president trump says the u.s. is doing a great job testing for the coronavirus, yet in the united states, there are still long lines of people, i mean, you see this right here, right? those are people waiting to be tested. one new york city hospital system says they have 1600 hospitalized patients who are either waiting on test results or waiting to be tested. now, for those who do get a test, getting results back is frankly unacceptably slow for so many. drew griffin is "outfront." >> reporter: commercial labs, even among the country's largest, tell cnn testing ruts aredly -- results are delayed because of backlog. the average turn around for quest diagnostics can be as long as seven days. although the company is

expanding testing capacity, demand for the testing is growing faster, and we cannot accommodate etch who wants testing, and meet tight turn around expectations. it's just the latest issue in a long list of delays of testing since coronavirus first arrived in the u.s. >> that luck of testing is preventing us from understanding the true spread of coronavirus in communities. it's almost certain that not only in new york and the identified hot spots, but all over the country, there are significant underestimates of the true number of coronavirus cases. >> reporter: first, there weren't enough test kits. then there was a shortage, still ongoing in the supplies needed to conduct the tests. now, the critical delay, which is having a dangerous effect in hospitals and other health care facilities, is delays in getting test results. >> quick turn around time can save personal protective equipment. that's probably the most important thing right now. >> reporter: when doctors don't

know which patients are infected with covid-19, they waste precious personal protective equipment. because they have to switch out masks, gowns, everything in between patients to prevent the virus from spreading even more. it's making the uncertainty inside hospitals even more terrifying. >> people are very frightened of contracting the illness, of not having the equipment to protect themselves, transmitting it to other patients and to each other. and transmitting it to family members. there is absolutely not enough testing going on. >> reporter: and shockingly, for the most powerful nation on earth, many health care workers cannot get tested unless their symptoms become severe. in new york city, ems workers say they do not have m-95 masks or enough personal protective equipment. they are being exposed, getting sick and told to just go home. they are getting no tests. >> we are not provided with any tests, even after we've been exposed and showing signs and

symptoms of coming down with the virus. which is -- it's unacceptable to us. >> reporter: health care workers, first responders unable to get tested or proper equipment daily make the decision to go to work and risk being infected or give up. ago, a rse from ohio quit, she year ago, we would have been reprimanded. we would have lost our jobs, because what we were doing? not providing safe care. >> reporter: erin, one of the big questions is why are these tests taking so long to process when we see tests overseas like south korea being turned around in one or two hours. the answer is, the fda did not have a rapid response test approved. that ended a few days ago. a company is going to roll out a test which can be done in perhaps 45 minutes. but it's limited supply. and like everything else in this testing issue, the testing demand is way far exceeding the capacity to process these tests.

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approved, and now here we are. how quickly could we know, you know, how dramatically this could help people who have coronavirus? >> well, we are -- it's been tremendous progress in this area in one week. at the very least today, the fda has allowed the use of convalescent sera. this is something we'll now be usi using in the united states for the first time against the coronavirus. to know how effective it is is going to require some time. we're going to have to do some testing to determine how, when and if it worked. >> so, when dr. fauci said last week this could be a few weeks till they knew more information, what do you think it is here? is it a few weeks, is it a few months? what do you think is realistic? >> well, i think that new york is moving to deploy this very rapidly. i understand they are already trying to recruit people to donate their convalescent serum.

i think it's important that the viewers know this has not started yet. that the areas where people can donate will have to be locally. and that it is for compassionate use only. that is, doctors will have to make a determination as to whether this will be likely to benefit a patient potentially, and then make -- then use it in that case. it is not a clinical trial. it is compassionate use, means a decision has to be made that there is some likelihood that this will help, and that the likelihood is better or greater than if there was going to be any side effect of it. >> how many donors do you need? >> how many donors? well, you're going to need to have at least one donor per person who needs it. in the future as we know more about this, we may be able to change the dose. we think the population, one donor may be able to treat two people, but right now we're

probably thinking 1-1. >> quickly, before we go, when this does work on a patient, how significant is their turn around? >> well, we don't know that. we do have -- information we have is from china. the information that we have received is sketchy, but it's encouraging. and it's being used in very ill patients and they appear to be reporting some positive results. but i caution, it is not a clinical trial. until you do clinical trials, you don't really know how good it is as a therapy. >> all right. well, i appreciate your time and certainly we all understand that crucial caveat. i know there are many, though, who will be glad to have what they can get from the compassionate use. and i appreciate your time, doctor. it's good to talk to you again. next, jeannie joins me with the times at the epicenter of new york city.

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tonight a new normal in the city that never sleeps. here's jeanne. >> reporter: the first thing i notice these days, i open my eyes in my manhattan apartment, is that there is no traffic noise because there is no traffic. no commuters from new jersey, no trucks, no beeping horns. don't be afraid of anyone. no one to be afraid of, but 42nd street. you know the cliche when things are crowded, people say it's like grand central? this is grand central. at rush hour. central, but not so grand. do you mind if i take a picture of your sign? it's okay? >> cool, yeah, everybody cool.

[ bleep ]. >> reporter: coronavirus, i drink mine with a shot of wine disease. for guys asking for money and coronavirus, you know it's in the nation's bloodstream. staying apart is the best way to stay united. thank you health care workers. tough times don't last, tough people do. so, this is a line from whole foods in mid town. they're letting people in a couple at a time. notice how far apart everyone stands in the line. have you ever seen a line like this before? even ralph cranden, jackie glee s son from the honey movers is wearing a mask. he was a bus driver. social distancing honeymooners' style. >> if you see me coming down the street, get on the other side. when you come down the street,

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