the they were just dazzling in their knowledge, their strategy, their experience in getting the right kind of bill passed, even though, again, come pro pri , c recognizing that we won the day. for rent, utility costs, eligible for sba loan. i salute chair nadia vazquez for what she was able to accomplish there. schools funding, thank you, bobby scott on our tomorrow, doing so much work there. don't get me started on all the members. i'll be talking all night and you'll see how they present tomorrow on the floor. and we have oversight. there was this idea they put for that there would be a $5 billion

slush fund for secretary of the treasury with no accountability whatsoever? are you kidding? with all respect for the secretary, that was a complete non-starter. i'm pleased that language that was in the house bill and in the senate bill named the inspector general specifically for that account, and a congressional panel of five people appointed by leaders to oversee how that funding is disbursed. it comes back down, though, to the fact that people are at risk. as i say, tens of thousands of cases, nearly a thousand deaths in the united states. i said from the start we must have a proposal that is governmentwide so that we can really address the challenge that we face in a scientific

evidence-based way. that is not necessarily the course that has been advocated by some, but it's where we must be if we're going to end this. from a scientific standpoint, we have some of the best minds working 24/7, all hands on deck to find a cure. which is, of course, the light at the end of the tunnel. but if we do not heed the advice of the scientific community about isolation and avoiding as much communal contact as possible, in fact, none, then the light at the end of the tunnel may be a train coming at us, the proverbial train. every day, every week that is wasted on not taking that warning seriously is a problem. it's a problem. so let us thank our men and women, our health care providers, our first responders,

our emergency and firefighters and the rest who are not only responding to this but initiating their own efforts, sometimes risking their lives to save others' lives. we need to get them more personal protective equipment. it is absolutely essential and it is a shortfall right now. we would hope the government production office agency would be called upon to call upon industry to convert to making ventilato ventilators. testing, testing, testing, masks, masks, masks, ventilators, ventilators, ventilators. what's the mystery? the administrativentilator is n breathing easier, it's about breathing, period. it is vital to life and death in

many, many cases. we need an unlimited number. let's think of it that way. endless number of ventilators and just to name one thing. but everyone, the farmers, the producers, the grocers, everyone who is keeping america fed, the truck drivers, the postal workers everyone helping us to survive, and we hope we find a cure. like i said, there were so many things we didn't get in these bills yet in a way that we need to, so the next step would be, among other things, we want to have more -- better definition of who qualifies for family medical leave. i can give you some examples if you wish. stronger osha protections for our workers, essential.

essential to life. pensions, we had a proposal on pensions in the legislation that my understanding was, and i trust that it's true, that the president supported but senator mcconnell wouldn't do it but said we'll do it in the next bill, so we're ready for that. increase snap. one disappointment in the bill was they would not increase -- we were asking for a 15% increase in food stamps at this very fragile time for many families. they wouldn't do that in this bill. more money for state and local governments, i spoke to the chair this morning that we're not doing enough for state and local government. that's just the way it is. we had 2 billion in our bill. we ended up with 150 but neither of those figures are really enough. we're hoping, and i mentioned to him that the fed, and i talked to chairman powell about this, that they would expand the opportunity for, shall we say,

helping out state and local government, municipalities and the rest. in the bill we call for that but really enabling the secretary to do it but not requiring them to do it, and the administration did not want the requirement, but they say that that is what they intend to do. we'll see, and hopefully that is the case, but we're still going to need to have more money for state and local governments, municipalities and the rest. then one of the important things that i just -- >> i'm john king in washington. you've been listening to the speaker of the house, nancy pelosi, give another example of the expanding scope and severity of the coronavirus crisis, both from a physical standpoint and an economic standpoint. today is her 80th birthday, saying at some point she hopes she gets to hug her grandchildren again. she hopes to bring tomorrow the stimulus bill passed by the

government last night. she said it helps with additional money for desperately needed medical supplies, but senate, the house and the congress, will be back soon to do more. she said this crisis will demand more when it comes to family and medical leave, workplace protections for workers, pensions, food stamps, state and local governments. just a reminder that as the congress moves in a bipartisan way to rush money in to prop up the economy, it knows this phase 3 that will pass the house tomorrow is just a down payment on the challenges to come. dana bash joins the conversation. it is a bipartisan moment. the bill passed the senate overwhelmingly. it will pass the house overwhelmingly. even so, in the middle of a pandemic, you hear the speaker say democrats are going to continue to fight. she says republicans are corporate down and the democrats are people up. >> right, because even in what is going on right now, even

given how unbelievably dire this is, and remarkable how bipartisan this was in the senate and is likely to be in the house, they still have their constituencies to deal with. you see alexandra ocasio-cortez raising her hand. other democrats in her caucus saying, we're not happy with everything, and that is something that she's clearly trying to ignore in the short term when it comes to politics' big picture and compromise. but they understand because they have seen not this movie exactly before, but something on a smaller scale, that when the dust settles and things return to normal, they're, you know, for lack of a better word, extremes on both sides of the aisle are going to come back and

say, we will do what we were elected to do, particularly the democratic majority in the house. sdp >> again, you see some markers being laid there, but you see from the speaker, from the president, that we are in the early chapters of this story, and there will be more that the federal government has to do. dana bash, i appreciate you jumping in there. we also hope to hear from another key person in this, governor andrew cuomo. he is expected to speak within the hour after a morning filled with frightening economic numbers and more coronavirus milestones as well. you see it on your screen, 65,000-plus, another 12,000 new cases just diagnosed yesterday. there are now across the united states 1,000 dead. 32 people perished wednesday, making it the single most deadly

day so far here in the united states. the economy, too, on its heels or worse. weekly jobless claims came in today at 3.28 million. say that again. 3.28 million people filing for unemployment benefits just last week. by far the biggest number on record, and remember, we are still in the early chapters of this crisis. hospitals this hour also in need of dramatic help. no one more so than new york city. let's get straight to new york and shimon prokupecz on the ground there. shimon, you're at the epicenter. we're seeing cases rise across the country, but new york is right now ground sdplezero. >> reporter: it is ground zero, and we're seeing that all across the city, whether it's queens, manhattan. you're seeing this all over the city, and keep in mind, john, we're not even at the apex. the governor has been talking about this apex. he says we could be two weeks

away from that, and we're already seeing hospitals that are inundated, they don't have room for a lot of patients. as of the last count from the mayor's office last night, there were 840 people in icus all across this city. and that is where the emergency rooms, that is where the hospitals need the most help. it is those ventilators, of course. we're hearing stories, a lot of nurses and doctors take to social media because that is the only way, in some cases, for them to get their stories out, describing conditions inside this hospital. one doctor, her name is meredith, who took to twitter said yesterday was the worst day she has ever seen and she expected today to be much worse. we're hearing all sorts of stories through social media about the different conditions and we're seeing pictures of the different conditions inside the hospitals. keep in mind, we're not even where the governor and city and the state officials feel we are

going to be in 14 days. they need more help, they're asking for more help, protective gear, and of course those ventilators. the governor speaks in about 30 minutes. i'm sure the numbers he's going to give are not going to be pretty, so we wait for that, and we'll see what else the federal government is going to do to assist folks here in new york, john. >> shimon prokupecz, i appreciate the report. we expect to hear from the governor in little more than 15 minutes right now. covid-19's effect on the economy hitting painfully hard today. we just mentioned a bit ago, week weekly unemployment filed 3.28 million. joining us, christine romans and greg from the "wall street

journal." 3.2 million is staggering. sdp >> it really is. it's a number i never thought i would say in terms of jobless claims. john, when you shut down the american economy, this is what happens. the states, when they were reporting these numbers, said it was hotel workers and restaurant workers and bar workers, and this is just for one week. more than 3 million people for just one week. and we've heard anecdotally that, frankly, the number could have been higher, but it was so jammed at so many of these state unemployment benefits' offices that maybe these numbers will bounce even higher next week. >> greg, coming into the conversation in the sense that you have this giant stimulus package. it will pass in the house tomorrow and the president will sign it quickly. but if you listen to nancy pelosi, even she gets it. i don't think anyone has a clue what the final price tag is going to be. when it comes to where we are right now, 3.2 million people last week applying for unemployment benefits, we can only assume the number is going

to be high. maybe not as high, maybe higher, i don't know, next week and the week after as the domino effect plays out here. in the current stimulus, what is there that will at least be a band-aid in the short term. >> john, i think what we have to focus on is accept the fact there has been this terrifying shock to the economy. the numbers are what they are. we've seen the unemployment rate go up 10%, it could go as high 20%. they're trying to keep this as short as possible. that, of course, will depend on the virus. there are forecasts that this extreme social distancing could last one to two months. how do we ensure that the people who have been forced on the unemployment lines in those one to two months have jobs waiting for them when they come back? that's where i think the stimulus package, it's a very important standard first step. too early to tell whether it's going to be enough, but it may help those businesses to hold onto their employees, it's giving those fortunate enough

who lose their jobs sustenance during this period. cross your fingers. if we can get through the worst of this virus in the next few months, there are prospects that we can come back at a more normal pace, more so than in the deep recession. >> as greg says, we hope in the next couple months, we'll have the numbers spiking. you see numbers spiking in states that have few relative cases, you see the unemployment doubling quickly there. we don't know where we're going, which is why policymakers who have to make big important decisions right now, like the fed chairman jerome powell, he says, yes, i get the economics of this but there's something i can't quite understand. >> this is not a typical downturn. what's happening here is people are being asked to close their businesses to stay home from work and to not engage in certain kinds of economic

activity. so they're pulling back. and at a certain point, we will get the spread of the virus under control, and at that time confidence will return, businesses will open again, people will come back to work. dr. fauci said something like the virus is going to set the timetable, and that sounds right to me. >> it tells you where we are when the chairman of the fed has to quote the government's top infectious disease doctor as he raises a giant question mark about what comes next. >> on the "today" show, speaking to the american people on the "today" show. that's where we are. the important thing here, he said the word confidence, and i think that is really key here. you don't want to crush the confidence of the american consumer, have people afraid or have a second wave of this that you're not prepared for. that would keep people home, that would keep businesses closed. you want the certainty of a plan and a plan for the other side of this, and what he's saying there is that they're building a bridge with the fed's endless amount of ammunition to prop up the economy, and with stimulus,

this is just the beginning. i agree there will probably be more stimulus. that's the bridge that gets us over this abyss we're in right now that the economic numbers are showing. if we do everything right and we take the amount of time, you'll have an economy that comes back. >> we'll have an economy that comes back. everybody makes some mistakes here. we look at greg in our business as he tries to deal with the current position. it could be 14 million jobs lost by the summer. they expect the highest number of employment would be in nevada, montana and hawaii. the most jobs lost, texas and florida. the question is we don't know when the pivot point is. the question is, is the government prepared to do all it takes to keep a basic foundation so that you can flip that switch at some point? >> well, that is, of course, the huge question hanging over all of this. but i have to say i'm encouraged

by what we've seen. go back to the global financial crisis. it took more than a year before we got from the beginning of the crisis to the first bailout package and another year to get to the first stimulus plan. we've covered that ground in less than two months, and with a degree of bipartisanship that you really didn't have in that last crisis. we have an unprecedented policy response, and that makes me hopeful. jay powell has made it clear the fed is there to make sure it will do whatever it takes to make sure the financial system does not shut down, that businesses that are legitimate operating businesses that just need cash flow and liquidity to get through this, they're going to get that cash flow. but the fed can't do it by i itself. the fed can't cure the virus, it can't reopen stores, and it can't put money in workers' pockets. we'll have more data on the virus and economic impact, and

maybe congress will have to come back and take another kick at the can. i will say having been through several crises in the past, it's pretty impressive how folks are responding to this one. >> i think that's a good point, and now the president praising his fed chairman. that was not the case before this crisis. yes, bipartisan differences being laid down. christine and greg, really appreciate your opinions on this important day. the side effects of this are devastating. new york is definitely the hot spot of the moment but the numbers are surging across the united states, not just in new york. look at this so you understand the concept of the map here. florida, georgia, illinois, louisiana, each case seeing a surge of deaths.

in ea a spike last week, now dozens this week. they also clash dramatically with this decision from the president, one month ago from today. >> when you have 15 people, and the 15 in a couple days will be close to sdpleer rzero, that's good job we've done. we're going down, not up. we have it so much under control. we really have done a very good job. we're testing everybody that we need to test and we're finding very little problem, very little problem. now, you treat this like a flu. up next, where do doctors turn when there aren't enough tests, ventilators, masks? a new jersey physician joins us to tell how he's dealing with the shortage of equipment treating the coronavirus.

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the urgent need for critical medical supplies for the pandemic is forcing doctors into desperation. where are the tests? where are the ventilators? where is the manpower? that's just some of the questions medical professionals are asking in what could be a life or death scenario across the country. >> right now we are having a large demand in terms of respiratory failure and need for ventilating these patients. my team and i are working tirelessly to think outside the box to see how we can come up with solutions to meet the needs of the patient. >> shame on the federal government and others who can help us. if we don't get this in time, we have time to prepare, but we need to prepare for the worst and hope for the best, and given that the need for ventilators nearly doubled yesterday, and new orleans were using half our

ventilators already, unless we get additional supplies, we can't care for everyone who needs it. >> we have to decide whether people using those procedures get the best kind of mask or not. we're having to decide whether or not people in the ers even have access to masks. that is insane. we are a country that has had, you know, lots of opportunity to make sure this doesn't happen, and the absence, frankly, of a national commitment and leadership to not have people in garbage bags at a new york hospital really, frankly, is stunning. >> joining me now, dr. alexander shilano. he's a primary care physician in new jersey. doctor, when you listen to your colleagues around the country, it's sad, stunning, depressing, actually. what is the situation now for you and your colleagues as the case numbers in new jersey are starting to spike? >> good morning, mr. king. it's changing literally by the hour. yesterday was completely different than today as far as

the cases are going, as far as the new challenges that we're facing. supplies are still an issue, at least out here in the community with private clinics and offices. the biggest issue right now are test kits. we have the test tubes but we don't have the swabs. a 3-cent swab is all we need to really truly identify positive cases and get the proper treatment in place so we can ease the burden to the hospitals. primary care all starts out here in the trenches before we get to the hospital, but we can't fight the war in the trenches when we're given sticks and stones. >> most americans every day get to see the president and his coronavirus task force give their report from the white house. everybody makes mistakes, this doesn't have to be a blame thing, this is a giant panpande, but the government is not doing everything right. you just mentioned the testing issue. if you listen to the president,

he says we're in a much better place now. listen. sdp >> we're testing more than anybody now, there's nobody even close. our tests are the best tests, the most accurate tests. we can go to states right now that have virtually no problem or a very small problem. we don't have to test the entire state. i think it's ridiculous. we don't have to do it. a lot of those states could go back right now and they probably will. >> we could go to certain states right now that have no problem or a small problem. is that a fair perspective in the state of new jersey? >> that's completely lost in translation. that is not accurate at all. my hats off to governor cuomo and what he's doing there. every state should do this. we're talking potentially one in three adults could get this virus, some are asymptomatic. we need to test everyone, not just those with symptoms. this is the greatest country in

the world, and we need test kits. we need test kits. these swabs test for the flu, they test for covid virus, they test for typical upper respiratory panel viruses. there are no swabs. iver been working with the mayors of newark and orange, they are calling for swabs. there are no swabs. i was put on hold for 40 minutes and disconnected. we need swabs. we do not have what we need. >> you just mention the asymmetric issue. you have to think about a place where you can ease some in some places to get the economy back up. what do you believe is the percentage of people walking around who are asymptomatic but have the coronavirus and

therefore are a giant risk to other people? >> it could be as much as one in three walking around asymptomatic right now. >> one in three. >> yeah. we have tested some patients that have had known exposure to covid. they did not have a temperature, their pulse aux was okay. they had maybe just a sinus headache and they tested positive for covid-19. >> so you need the tests. >> yeah, we need the tests. we test people, we get a positive test, we isolate them and we separate them from the people who are not positive, so yes, we could get people back to work safely. and what about the worried well? you're right, mental health right now is being challenged and pushed to the brinks right now with anxiety about this. >> doctor, sharing your insights

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but i think facts are empowering. in a situation like this, not knowing the facts is worse because that's when you feel out of control, or when you feel you're getting selective facts or you're being deceived by the information you're getting, that is actually the worst situation. so i say to my people in every situation, just give me the facts first and then let me understand what the situation and the reality is. and then we'll go from there. so that's what i try to do. the facts on this situation are increasingly important on two levels. public health, but also the economic facts. we've been focusing on the public health facts and the response of the public health system to the virus. more and more we now have to deal on two fronts, we have to deal with the public health

situation but we also have to deal with the economic situation. i'll get to that in a moment. public health, we have a two-pronged agenda which we've been pursuing aggressively. we still are. flatten the curve. reduce the flow into the hospital system, at the same time increase the hospital capacity. what we're looking for is not a reduction in the number of cases, we're looking for a reduction in the rate of the increase in the number of cases, right? that's what comes first when you're starting to make progress. the rate of increase should reduce as opposed to the number of absolute cases. so that's what we're looking for. the optimum is when they talk about the apex of the curve is not to have an apex, and that's what the flattening is, not to

have that spike because that spike is when you overwhelm the hospital systems. we try to get down that rate of increase so you can actually handle it in the hospital system, right? and that's what they talk about by the flattening of the curve. just as an aside, dr. anthony fauci has been so kind and helpful to me. i speak to health care professionals all across the globe, literally, but dr. fauci, i think, is just brilliant at this, and he has been so personally kind. i call him late at night, i call him in the middle of the night, i call him in the morning, and he's been really a friend to me personally in the state of new york. so this is all about getting that curve down and not overwhelming the hospital system. almost any scenario that is

realistic will overwhelm the capacity of the current health care system. so a little reality. keep the curve down as low as you can. but you cannot get the curve down low enough so that you don't overwhelm the hospital capacity. so any of these scenarios we have to increase the hospital capacity. and that's why we're literally adding to the hospital capacity every way we can. that's what the javits hospital is about, that's what stony brook hospital is about, that's what the old westbury additional site is. we're also scouting new sites now all across the downstate area of this state for possible sites. our goal is to have a 1,000-plus overflow facility in each of the

burroughs downstate in the counties. queens, brooklyn, the new york city burroughs, queens, brooklyn, the bronx, staten island, westchester and rockland, so every county has a 1,000-plus-bed overflow facility. that's what we're working on at the same time, as well as increasing the capacity of the existing hospital system. as we've said, the hospitals have a 53,000-bed capacity. we're trying to get to 140,000-bed capacity between the hospitals and the overflow facilities. we've mandated that the hospitals increase their capacity by 50%. we've asked them to try to increase it 100%, but they have to increase it 50%. we're also scouting dorms, scouting hotels for emergency beds, and that's going well.

equipment and ppe is an ongoing issue. right now we do have enough ppe for the immediate future. the new york city hospital system confirmed that, so we have enough in stock now for the immediate need. ventilators, ventilators, ventilators. i didn't know what they were a few weeks ago besides the cursory knowledge. i know too much about ventilators now. we're still shopping for ventilators all across the country. we need more. we have approved the technology that allows one ventilator to serve two patients, what they call splitting, which is where you add a second set of tubes to a ventilator to do two patients. it's not ideal, but we believe it's workable. we're also converting anesthesia machines to ventilators.

we have a couple thousand anesthesia machines in our hospitals, and we're converting them to work as ventilators. why is there such a demand on ventilators and where did this come from? it's a respiratory illness for a large number of people. so they all need ventilators. also non-covid patients are normally on ventilators for three to four days. covid patients are on ventilators for 11 to 21 days. think about that. so you don't have the same turnaround in the number of ventilators. if somebody is a ventilator for three or four days, that's one level of ventilators you need. if someone is on for 11 to 21 days, that's a totally different equation. and that's what we're dealing with. the high number of covid patients and the long period of time that they actually need a

ventilator. we're also working on equalizing and distributing a load of patients. right now the number of cases is highest in downstate new york, so we're working on a collaboration where we distribute the load between downstate hospitals and upstate hospitals and we're also working on increasing the capacity for upstate hospitals. shifting now to a totally different field. the economic consequences of what's going on, which have just really gelled after what the federal government has done, and we were waiting for the federal action to determine where we were from a point of revenues and economics. what's happening to a state government, any state, what's happening to a city government is a double whammy.

you have increased expenses because of the covid virus. and you have a tremendous loss of revenue because all those businesses are closed, right, and all those people are out of work. if people are out of work and not earning an income, they're not paying income tax. if businesses are closed, they're not making money, they're not paying business revenue. so we're spending more to take care of the covid virus, and we're receiving less. in the middle of all this, we have to balance a budget. so how do you do a budget when you have expenses going out and a loss of revenue? we estimate the loss of revenue as somewhere between 10 to $15 billion, which, you know, all these numbers are hard to give a context. that is a ton of money for the state of new york's budget. we were waiting to see what the

federal government did before we determined what we had to do, because water flows downstream, right? if the federal government had taken an action that helped state governments, city governments, et cetera, that would have put us in one situation. we now know what they've done. they passed their $2 trillion stimulus bill. they say maybe they'll come back and there may be another bill. maybe, maybe, maybe. we know what they did do with the stimulus bill. the stimulus bill helped unemployment insurance, and that's a good thing. it helps more businesses, and that's a good thing. it did not help local governments or state governments, and it did not address the governmental loss. the federal officials, the ones who are being honest, will admit that. new york state receives $5 billion from the stimulus. new york state government. and it's earmarked only for

covid virus expenses, which means it does absolutely nothing for us in terms of lost revenue to the state. the only thing it's doing is helping us on the covid virus expenses, which is nice, but the bigger problem is on the lost revenue. the congressional action, in my opinion, simply failed to address the governmental need. i spoke to all the officials involved, i spoke to our house delegation, i spoke to our senators, and i believe what they did failed to meet the governmental need. i'm disappointed. i said i was disappointed. i find it irresponsible, i find it reckless. emotion is a luxury and we don't

have the luxury at this time of being emotional about what they did. when this is over, i promise you i'm going to give them a piece of my mind, but i would say to them today, this is an extraordinary time in this nation, and it's an extraordinary time for government. this was the time to put politics aside and partisanship aside. this is the time for governmental leaders to stop making excuses and just do your job. do your job. we're one nation. you know the places in this nation that have the most intense problems. address the places that need the help. this is not a time to point fingers, this is not a time to make excuses, this is not a time to blame everyone else.

we've lived with that in washington for years. now is a time to actually step up, do the right thing and do your job. they haven't, as far as i'm concerned, especially when it comes to the governmental need. in any event, we have to do a budget, and the budget is due april 1. so the only responsible course for us is, number one, we have to address this revenue loss. we know the revenues are down, we don't know how much, we don't know when the economy comes back, we don't know the rate at which the economy comes back, and we don't know what washington may do to address this situation in the future, if anything. so you don't know, you don't know, you don't know, and you don't know. but you have to do a budget with all of those unknowns. address them realistically. and how do you address them realistically? first we're going to adjust down

our revenue projections for the initial budget, and then what we're going to do, which is something we've never done before, is we're going to adjust the budget through the years to reflect the actual revenue. meaning we'll say on day one, okay, we intended to give you $100. we don't have $100, so we're going to give you $95. but i can only give you $95 if i get $95. and i'll let you know quarterly or whatever the period of time is how much money i'm getting and how much i can give you of the 95, and therefore you can plan accordingly. and that's, frankly, the only way that you can do this budget when you have so many unknowns.

so adjust the initial number down and then have periods through the course of the year where you say to school districts, local governments, et cetera, this is how much we actually received, this is what the federal government did, it's what the federal government didn't do. the economy is coming back faster, the economy is coming back slower, but these are the actual numbers so you can adjust your budget accordingly. on the public health numbers, our testing numbers up again. we did 18,650 tests. this was just a massive mobilization operational undertaking. we had never done it beforeme. you have to set up all these drive-throughs, set up all these testing facilities, and we're testing more than any other state in the country. we're testing more per capita than south korea, more per

capita than china. it really is amazing what we're doing. and the testing is important. the testing is still helping you identify the positives and isolate the positives. the testing is not telling you how many people have the virus. and i think a lot of people conflate telling you increase of the rate of the infection. all it is telling you is you are increasing the numbers of tests and the more tests you do, the more positives you will find. we are working very hard to increase the number of tests because we want to find the positives. this is a really bad news. the number of deaths is increasing. bad news because people are dying. it is not bad news in terms of

it being unexpected. what's happening is people who were infected came into the healthcare system have been on ventilators. the longer you are on ave vent r a ventilator, the more probability of a bad outcome. we now have people who have been on ventilators for 20 days, 30 days. the longer you are on the ventilator, the more likely you are not going to come off the ventilator. that's what's happening. we do have people who have been on for quite a long time and those are the people we are losing. that's always been the way. the longer stay without recovery leads to a higher death rate.

that's not just covid, that's any medical situation we deal with. that's the natural consequences when you have older and sicker patients staying on ventilators longer. they usually have the worse outcome, right? we had people on for a long time and they have not getting better. they are passing away. the number of deaths at 385 or 285. since we still have a large number of people on ventilators for a long period of time, the experts expect that number to continue to increase, right?

you get the infection, 80% self resolved and they don't go to the hospital. some percentage goes to the hospital and get treated and go home. some percentage go es to the hospital and needs ave ventilat and they never come off the ventilator. that situation where people deteriorate overtime. that's what we are seeing. that's the vulnerable population, the small percentage of 2% or 3% of the population who we have always worried about. and in the end we expect -- as time goes on, by definition, you have more and more people on ventilators for longer periods of time. the number of people tested

18,000, that's the break down number of positive cases, total of 37,000 new cases. 6400. the curves continue to go up. the spread across the state continues and always what we expect just the way it is spreading all across the country. the overall number tested positive. this is the point. 37,000 tested positive. 5,000 hospitalized currently. 1200 icu patients which is what we watch most carefully because those people who need ventilators. 1500 patients discharged after being hospitalized. not to be redundant.

people get sick, 80% of the people don't go to the hospital, they just self-resolve. some people get sick and check into the hospital, you are talking about 15% or 20%. a percentage gets treated and leave. of that, the smallest percentage gets put on ventilators, that's the 1,290 icu patients. some of those people on ave a ventilator get better so some people stay on the ventilator. when you are on the ventilator for a longer period of time, the outcome is not positive. the percentage of people who whine up in that situation, it starts with the 1,290 situations. those are the people this who are put on ventilators.

we are talking about a small population that put on ventilators. some recovers and some don't. most impacted states, new york is still number one. louisiana has a cluster that's growing. people in louisiana and new orleans are in our thoughts and prayers, we know what they are going through. we feel for them and we pray for them. we know the difficulty they are under because we are dealing with the same type of situation. our best to them, any way we can help them, we stand ready. total perspective is the john hopskin's count gone from day

one, my personal opinion, the facts, i give you the facts. my two-cent is worth a penny and a half. this is a life moment. a moment in a life of this country. moment in the life of the world, it is the moment in our family's lives and a moment for each of us. each of us is dealing with it in our own way. my observation has been that when the pressure is on is when you really see what people are made of. in a personal relationship, in a business relationship, people can be great when everything is great. the question is what does a person do when things are not great. what does a person do when the pressure is on them? that's where you can see a

little crack in the foundation of a person. when the pressure is on, that little crack, that little crack can explode and that foundation can crumble. or, you can see the exact s opposite. you can see them get stronger. you get to see what they are really made of, you get the see the worse, the beauty of people and the opposite. the outpouring of support for the people of new york have been so inspiring, not just from new yorkers. i am talking about from across the country and across the world. you would be amazed at how many phone calls we get and how many offer of support and creative ideas from everyone who asked medical staff to volunteer and retired medical staff who are no

longer practicing. 40,000 had volunteered. we now have 12,000 more people in one day volunteering to help on the medical staff. we ask mental health officials to come forward to offer mental health services for people who are dealing with the stress and the trauma of this situation. we had 6,000 people, we now have 8600 people. mental health professionals from other states calling up and saying they'll provide mental health health services electronically via skype or over the telephone. it really is, it gives me such strength and such inspiration but i don't want to sugar coat the situation. the situation is not easy.

but, easy times don't forge characters. it is a tough time that forge characters. that's what we are looking at right now. people say to me, people are getting tired of this situation. they have been home, it is going on a couple of weeks, they're getting tired. but, the truth is this is not a sprint. this is a marathon. we always said this is not going to be over quickly. i understand people are tired. i understand that people in this situation are really stepping up to the plate and doing phenomenal work. the next time you feel tired, believe me i feel tired. when i feel tired, i think of first responders who are out there everyday showing