yourself, and not have -- >> one of the points you make for people, there's a lot of people in your situation and they'll be all over the world, but you have made a point that people can do this. you know, this is tough, but you found a silver lining in it in sort of, i guess, staying in with your baby for a few days. tell us about that and what you want mothers who must be very scared. what do you want them to know? >> i was the same way. i was terrified. i cried many tears, but i actually called it our little love bubble for three or four days. we did not leave the room. we slept in the same room, ate in the same room. i was able to have that alone time that i needed as a new mom to really connect with my baby, and, you know, learn little things about him in those first few days that maybe i wouldn't

have been able to do if there were grandparents and family friends and even my husband around to, you know, kind of interfere with that, so i really looked back and think that was actually a blessing in disguise. >> well, megan, thank you for sharing your story with us and charlie with us. he looks like a doll. he's doing great, huh? he's beautiful, megan. megan westbrook, thank you so much. and it is the top of the hour. i'm brianna keilar in for brooke baldwin and thank you so much for joining cnn's special coverage of the coronavirus pandemic. we saw it happen in china. we are seeing this happen in italy and now the united states is experiencing its first sense of the unforgiving covid-19 battleground that doctors have been warning of for weeks. "the new york times" just captured images inside elm hurst

hospital in queens showing overwhelmed hospital floors, underprotected hospital workers and patient after patient arriving seriously ill and highly contagious from coronavirus. a refrigerator car was brought in for the bodies, and as the hospital is struggling to keep up in numbers keep closing up. closing up on 75,000 cases nationwide. the u.s. also passing the somber milestone of more than a thousand people in the country dying from covid-19. and with those kinds of numbers, new york's governor says no matter what plan you have, it will not ease the burden on hospitals and first responders. >> 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. >> coronavirus is also decimating the u.s. economy with a shocking 3.3 million people filing for unemployment benefits last week. it's the most ever reported. i want to turn now to cnn's erica hill outside of elm hurst hospital where the situation described by doctors as apocalyptic. erica? >> reporter: medical professionals leaving the hospital saying the state of mind inside was a state of parano paranoia, so concerned if they have the virus or don't want to pass it on to their colleagues or loved ones at home. they are bursting at the seams, and what's so important as we hear from folks inside, brianna, is that across the country, people realize this, we're hearing from officials, is likely a precursor of what could be coming. empty streets lead to packed emergency rooms across new york

city. the country's epicenter for this pandemic. >> it's insane to see those photos of nurses and doctors wearing garbage bags is shameful and it is shocking. >> reporter: the need for gear, including ventilators, is unrelenting as the number of patients soars. at elmhurst hospital in queens, 13 people dying in just one day. dr. colleen smith documented 72 hours inside elmhurst for "the new york times." >> we are in see various office saying things are going to be fine, and from our perspective, everything is not fine. i don't have the support that i need and even just the materials that i need physically to take care of my patients and it's america and we're supposed to be

a first world country. >> reporter: cnn reached out to elmhurst hospital about dr. smith's statements. meanwhile, the line outside the e.r. today continues to grow. further south at new york city's belleview hospital, a makeshift morgue is being set up for possible surge. nyu is allowing senior medical students to graduate early to help meet the demand for health care workers. >> everybody's doing things they've never even in their wildest dreams thought they would be doing. it is a disaster that nobody could have anticipated. >> reporter: across the country, leaders are watching, urging people to stay home knowing they may be next. >> what we see in italy, for what we see in spain, for what we see in new york city, it's coming here. nobody is immune from this virus. >> reporter: just over two weeks a -- >> just over two weeks ago, we had zero. this is ramping up exponenti

exponentially. michigan fifth in the nation with confirmed cases of covid-19. >> reporter: in louisiana, hospitals face an urgent need for ventilators, hospital beds. surge of mardi gras visitors may have helped the virus spread. >> over a million and a half people in the city, international visitors attending parades daily. >> reporter: on the heels of america's deadliest day for the virus, doctors facing increasingly difficult questions about who is treated. >> we want to do our best to save every life that comes through our doors. but during a pandemic when resources become scarce, sometimes we have to engage in uncomfortable conversations. >> we saw some of this during katrina. this is an awful position to put first responders in. it is unacceptable. >> reporter: the nation's voice of calm in the swirling storm, reminding the country, it is unchartered territory. >> you've got to understand that you don't make the timeline. the virus makes the timeline.

>> reporter: something else we were learning from that doctor who shared her account with "the new york times" said we are seeing people come in who are sicker than we did initially and also who are much younger, brianna, and i think that's important to stress too, we're reminded time and time again by the people on the front lines this virus does not discriminate based on age. >> it sure doesn't. erica hill, thank you, and we have some new details now about how the white house is tracking this crisis across the country. i want to bring in kaitlan collins. there's an effort to classify counties based on risk. tell us about that. >> reporter: this is a new letter from the president to all governors in the states after a call earlier today and it really talks about what their administration is going through. obviously, talks about what has been one of the main topics this week, the president's desire to reassess the guidelines he issued on social distancing and there's one graph here that's really important, brianna, i want to focus on that to you, where the president said they

envision, because they have expanded testing capabilities that will quickly enable them to publish criteria to have robust surveillance testing which allows us to monitor the spread of the virus throughout the country and under that data, they want to be able to suggest guidelines, categorizing counties as high risk, medium risk and low risk. they would essentially use those guidelines to determine what life looks like for people living in those areas, because that's something the president has been pushing, reopening certain parts of the country while other spots like new york would remain under those stricter guidelines about what they can and cannot do, where they can and cannot go for the time being as they're trying to slow the spread of this. but this is notable, because, "a," it assumes they have enough tests to develop this kind of a criteria to put people in these counties and as you just noted in the interview with peter navorro, that was a slowdown at the beginning of this with the administration that they say testing has improved throughout the nation, and the other thing is, as the president has been

pushing this easter date for when he wants to reopen the country, a lot of governors say they hope the president is right that the country is able to reopen within a matter of weeks and people can start returning to normal life but they say they're going to be making those decisions for their own citizens and their states as they're moving forward and basing off the data they have. you think of people like new jersey governors who just said the other day, he'll make the decision about what their guidance is going to look like in their state so you have to wonder what the states are going to do and how close we are to be able to, you know, label counties throughout the nation as high risk, low risk, how that would work and i think doctors will have questions about this too because you heard some doctors on the air this morning saying, coronavirus is not that specific, it can spread easily to people going in and out of certain areas and hard to track where certain people have been. the questions of whether or not this is going to be able to

mitigate the spread is another one. this is a letter signed by president trump. it's not signed by any public health officials, we'll be questioning later on. how they came to determine. this is the method that they want to go, but this does make pretty clear one thing, brianna. the president is pushing ahead with that date timeline, and a few weeks, trying to reopen parts of the country. >> do they realize the picture they have is inaccurate and outdated? they don't know where infected people even are or the picture. do they know that? >> reporter: that's the big question. we just got this guidance this week that was telling anyone who's left new york in recent days to self-quarantine for 14 days because they were seeing how people leaving new york city, they believe were actually creating hot spots in other areas, long island. they were fearful it could spread to other states and that's why you saw the guidance coming out of the white house. later, the new york city health commissioner said they were going to ignore because they didn't think it's helpful. if they're at the stage with

anyone who left new york city in recent days to self-quarantine, this is pretty specific if you're going to be able to label a county. a county in alabama as low risk, high risk, or medium risk and of course, the question would be, how specific would that be in each state? it's a lot to look at here. we just got the letter from the white house. we'll likely hear more from the president when he holds the briefing this afternoon but it raises questions about how quickly they'd be able to do something this specific. >> kaitlan collins, thank you so much. let's bring in a medical expert to answer some of the questions that kaitlan and i have. dr. peter hotez, and also the dean of the national school of tropical medicine at baylor college of medicine. it's wonderful to see you again, and i wonder, as you're hearing this idea about designating counties by risk when testing is still not widespread and there is, you know, for a lot of

people, i mean, we've heard some people say it's taken nine days to get their test results. how can you have a plan like that without data to base it on? >> right now, you cannot make such a granular map of the country because we don't know enough about the virus. this is an important point. we heard elmhurst hospital getting overwhelmed and other hospitals as well. that's really important because the mortality rate is directly linked to this. the reason the mortality rate was higher in wuhan because the hospital systems got overwhelmed. it was higher in northern italy because the hospital systems were overwhelmed. they couldn't take care of all the patients at the same time. there's a risk you'll see that in new york. so the point is, you have to do everything you can to prevent learning about your epidemic when you start seeing icu patients first appear because

it's too late at that point. so this is unfortunately what we're seeing in new orleans, what we're seeing now in detroit is our first problem is that patients showing up in the icu and you've lost the battle by that point because you didn't have the testing that's in place. so i'm extremely now worried about new orleans. i'm worried about detroit. we also don't understand the demographics very well. i suspect that one of the reasons that we're seeing this is because these are cities with high rates of extreme poverty and crowding. and in that sense, covid-19 is now emerging as a health disparity. this may be a new feature of the epidemic we're seeing. maybe disproportionately affecting african-americans who live in poverty, high rates of diabetes and hypertension. so to be able to say you'll design a granular map now when you're just learning about this new information is not really feasible. i don't think we can wait until

easter and then say, okay, we're going to make the decision. you've got to let this, see how this unfolds. where the new hot spots continue to arise, especially if we're still ramping up for testing. maybe in a month from now, you can reassess and start looking at the situation, but certainly not hold to that easter date at this point. >> let me ask you what happens if they do, if the white house does rule out something based on looking county by county but based on inaccurate, incomplete outdated information. what would that look like for the health of this nation? >> well, remember how this epidemic sun fois unfolding. it's unfolding as the hot spot urban areas. so far, unable to predict what urban area of the virus is going to pick off next. i'm not sure i would have predicted new orleans or detroit. we don't know enough about the virus to know where it's going

and if you don't have all of the testing in place, it's really a guess, really, knowing which city is going to be next, and it's really important that you not wait until you have icu cases show up. otherwise, you're going to reproduce new york over and over again, and it looks like we may have new orleans and detroit. so this is unfolding as a humanitarian tragedy in these cities and therefore, we've got to get our arms around understanding where the risk areas are for the city. is it disproportionately affecting the poor? is it disproportionately affecting people of color? i don't know how you make a predictive map with the information that we have in hand. we're still in a very steep learning curve. >> dr. peter hotez, thank you very much. we'll see you again soon. >> thanks so much. >> a reminder tonight at 8:00 eastern, bill gates and anthony

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so we are standing on the disturbing economic news. jobs report revealing staggering 3.28 million people filing for unemployment last week. that number shattering the previous record that was set in 1982. that's millions of people who

simply may not know how they're going to pay their bills or feed their families. here's how treasury secretary steven mnuchin reacted on cnbc. >> i think these numbers right now are not relevant and whether they're bigger or smaller in the short-term, you know, i mean, obviously, there are people who have jobless claims, and the good thing about this bill is the president is protecting those people so, you know, people with the plans, hopefully small businesses can hire back a lot of those people. >> let's bring in cnn business anchor julia chatterley and the flight attendants union and the new york chamber of commerce already criticized steve mnuchin for that comment. what do you make of it and the point that he's trying to make which is that people will have unemployment money? >> my gut response was tone deaf, quite frankly. the worst word to use, devastating time for these people amid great anxiety

already but context, to your point, is very important and he is right that help is arriving, that the problem here, of course, one, we're coming up to the month's end when people have bills to pay, car payments to make but it's just a promise right now. that money is going to take a bit of time to come through, just for context here, we're talking about more people than the entire city of chicago, filing for unemployment benefits. suggested and maybe it's true that once this money starts to flow, those businesses, small, medium and large will hold on to employees and we won't continue to see these claims rise to the same shocking extent, perhaps even, these businesses will begin to hire back, and maybe he's right but there's been an expansion of unemployment insurance in this country and that's going to capture whole pieces so working out what the net effect is going to be at

this stage is quite tough, devastating for the people involved. >> so congress is expected to pass this stimulus bill that's going to be providing an additional $600 in unemployment checks. how much will that help? how quickly can that get out and how could the u.s. have avoided these staggering numbers if congress acted faster on a package or not? >> every single day counts. i've been saying this for more than ten days at this stage. we did see politicking, but at the same time, it's a gigantic piece of legislation and negotiating that does take time. the expansion of this unemployment insurance is critical. four months at higher payment. i spoke to the national union of taxpayers today and they say it normally takes several weeks between filing that claim and actually getting that money through. so i hope they found a way, they can find a way to speed up that process, but there's going to be a great deal of uncertainty in the interim for people just paying the bills, going out to

get food, in addition to the fact that we've got fears about the health crisis too. i don't want to be so pessimistic about it, but you can understand how frightening it is for people going through this. >> it is, when you say several weeks, we have to keep an eye on this because you're talking about people going hungry and people losing things that they need to live. julia chatterley, thank you so much and there's many small business owners who have temporarily had to shutter their doors to reduce public health risks and the same small business owners are wondering, how are they going to pay their employees? how are they going to keep their businesses afloat? i want to bring in amanda mcclemoth and so you run basically, you can see behind you, boutiques with well curated household and gift items. you're kind of a staple, salt and sundry here in washington, dc. you had to temporarily close your store fronts and move to

online only. give us a sense of what this meant for you. how many people do you employ? how many people have you had to lay off? >> thanks for having me on, brianna, and as a neighbor, hello. it's really been a heartbreaking week, i think, for a lot of folks and i have 40 incredible employees across my shops here in dc and, like you said, we made the decision to close back on march 16th, for their health and safety and for the safety of the community and essentially our revenue stopped overnight because of that, and we had to make a really tough decision to cut, you know, essentially all part-time employees hours and reduce everyone else's pay by half and these are devastating things to have to decide as a business owner and, you know, it's been extremely stressful. >> and so one of the things

you're trying to do is, and yeah, i walk by your store many, many days of the week and i see people in there and these are my neighbors. it's terrible. but you, i wonder, is your transitioning to an online model, how does that look? is that something that's lucrative or is it really is jury is still out on that? >> online was a small part of our business, as a brick and mortar retailer, we rely on foot traffic. so switching over to essentially online only, we're also doing delivers within dc. it's been really challenging, but we also feel really supported by the community. people have really been coming through and shopping online, but basically, every dollar that i'm bringing in right now is going to pay, you know, my team which is my family, as long as i can

as we weather this crisis. >> do you think this bill will help you? >> it's unclear. we have to know how quickly aid is going to be available, and a lot of business owners are wondering how much debt we end up having to take on. i think fete fdebt forgiveness grants will be more helpful than loans at this point because a lot of us won't be able to bounce back from that in the long-term. >> how do you repay those? it's a very good point. amanda mcclemens, thank you so much. >> thank you, brianna. next, a perfect example of how quickly coronavirus can spread when people do not follow social distancing. a yale doctor who fielded 100 calls from people who all attended the same party with the person who tested positive.

one of the leading voices on president trump's coronavirus task force issued a reality check about how soon the u.s. could realistically get back to normal. the timeline by easter, dr. anthony fauci said the pandemic's course is not up to anyone but the virus itself. >> you've got to be realistic and you've got to understand that you don't make the timeline. the virus makes the timeline.

so you've got to respond in what you see happen, and if you keep seeing this acceleration, it doesn't matter what you say, one week, two week, three weeks, you've got to go with what the situation on the ground is. >> joining me now, dr. steven choy, chief quality officer and associate dean for clinical quality with the yale new haven health success. thank you so much for joining us, and when you think of a timeline here, realistic one, to really safely get past this pandemic, minimize the loss of human life, what is that timeline to you? >> i think most of my colleagues and i are optimistically thinking it's going to be two or three months at the earliest. i think it's wishful thinking this will be over in weeks and in some ways, we want it to be longer because that's the only way we can slow down the spread and what everyone's been talking

about, flatten the curve, so the cases that do need hospitalization, the cases that do need icu beds, critical care services, those are spread over months rather than just days and weeks. >> and so, pardon me, when you are doing that timeline, are you basing this on rate of spread, what are all of the different factors you're taking into consideration here? >> that's a great question. the factors include, what is your current regional population? what is the rate of spread in the community and now across the country and how well are people adhering to social distancing measures and that's absolutely critical. that's one message i'd like to share with the community is that you have to adhere to those practices and you can't just do it for days or weeks. likely have to do it for months, otherwise, the virus will just

pick up once people let the guard down, start aggregating again, going to large public gatherings, private gatherings, and then increase the spread, you know, just like we saw in italy. >> your call center fielded several calls from people who attended a going-away party where one of the attendees later tested positive for the coronavirus and then you fielded calls from people who had been in contact with people who had been at the party. is this another cautionary tale about how quickly this virus spreads in crowded spaces and what do you want people to take away from this? >> that's absolutely true. so just to correct the record, we didn't have a hundred people at the party but hundreds of calls from both people who attended the party and people who were in contact with those who did attend the party and while i can't share any details of what was shared with us or what we recommended, what we did

see was the community transmission occurring within days from that phone call. so what we want to communicate, again, to the public, going to parties where you have large numbers of people, who are all using, let's say, the same bathroom, the same kitchen faucet, picking up the same cups, utensils, coughing, hugging, kissing, or dancing, things that increase that contact and the risk of transmission, that's what we want people to be aware of. while we promote people to be outside to get fresh air and exercise, even when you're outside, keep that safe distance of six feet and avoid being outside at parks with crowds where there's both kids and adults who are congregated in a small vicinity that are touching surfaces repeatedly and

potentially coughing and sneezing, and this is how the virus spreads. it's a very, very invasive virus. could stay on surfaces for extended periods of time. we don't know exactly how long and it's airborne, so it can transmit through a cough or sneeze. >> tiny respiratory droplets. important to remember. dr. choi, thank you for spending some time with us. >> thank you for having me. we are getting some heartbreaking images from italy where a church has been converted to hold rooms of coffins until these victims of coronavirus can be cremated. cnn reporters on the ground there and all around the world as well. how the globe is battling this crisis next.

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as of today, about a third of the world's population is living under coronavirus related restrictions. more now from our cnn correspondents all around the world. >> i'm in rome with a situation across italy remains critical but increasingly hopeful. we've had several days now of new infections seeming to stabilize. but it comes against a backdrop of troubling news. 37 doctors have now died from novel coronavirus. more than 6,000 health care workers are infected with this virus because they don't have the equipment they need to keep them safe as they try to help others. >> reporter: i'm al goodeman in madrid. exceeding the number in china in spain, second only to italy. new cases also on the rise and spanish officials trying to stop the disease are hampered. about 10% of all confirmed cases in spain are medical workers. the government has extended the stay at home lockdown order

until the day before easter. officials adding hospital beds in hotels and convention centers and scrambling to find more ventilators. >> i'm nick paton walsh. some of the free health care services in the uk see a continuous tsunami of patients seeking treatment, the government trying to project as much confidence as it can and behind me, a potential 4,000 capacity conference hall turned into something of an emergency hospital to deal with surge capacity here. we've seen the rate of rise of deaths in the united kingdom slow since the weekend but health care professionals saying things are bad and are going to get worse, but the science here, struggling, it seems, to get a clear picture. the prime minister said london was three weeks ahead of the rest of the country, so frankly now, it should be in the eye of the storm. >> reporter: i'm will ripley in tokyo. people seem to be ignoring

government warnings to work from home, avoid large public gatherings. we were out alone the river and we saw huge crowds of people viewing the cherry blossoms. many not wearing face masks. other parts of the city, panic buying setting in with supermarket shelves empty. a lockdown may be necessary here in the coming days as the number of coronavirus cases continues to spike, particularly here in tokyo. >> reporter: this is nic robertson in london. the saudi chair g-20 meeting, first where global leaders all got on one call along with the w.h.o., the u.n., the international monetary fund, the world bank all on that same virtual call. the aspiration, it is aspirational at this stage, bridge differences to fight the pandemic by sharing data, by sharing research, technology, making sure it's fully financed, to bring support, stability, and

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. miami is enforcing a quarantine starting tomorrow. one player for the miami heat spoke out in an article for the player's tribune. here's what he had to say to those spring breakers. these are his words. quote, these kids fly down to places like south beach for a couple of days to party. and they think that's miami. but they have never seen the real miami. they've never been to liberty city. they never seen the side of the city that's living check to check. the side of the city that's surviving meal to meal. let me tell you something, man, there's a liberty city in every city. it's regular people with regular struggles and i don't know how i can get everyone to listen but i say this from the bottom of my

heart. the people growing up in the real miami is as vulnerable as anybody. i'll tell you one more thing. this idea about the those people because of this coronavirus that are going to go hungry they were already hungry way before this. they were already worried about where their next meal would come from or where they would sleep or how to get their next dollar. that's what i need get off my chest now he said. get off my chest right here because it's been eating me up to see this coverage of our city from all these people that don't know what they are talking about. just focused on a bunch of kids that are acting stupid. for too many kids school is the one place where they feel safe and all of that is up ended right now. so i want to bring in my next guest on this topic. she knows the impact this is all having on children who are victims of child abuse. rebecca cooper is the national spokesperson for the national

child abuse hotline. thank you so much for joining us on this topic. i know your call volume has jumped by 20%. texts to "the hotline" have gone up to 400% compared to this time last year. this time last year it was a new text program but that's still part of the increase you're seeing. what your hearing from children? >> so, we're hearing from a wide range of callers. our phone calls are up 20%. as you said we're seeing in texts and online chat we've seen the first crisis hotline to provide texting and chat and that's why we've seen an increase. but 400% increase in texts from last year is significant. we're hearing everything from people contacting us about actual abuse that's occurring as a result of pandemic anxiety, children having to be home with abusers rather than at school. we're also having survivors

reach out to us because this is triggering anxiety and they need someone to talk to and we have counselors that are available 24/7 and we creaincreased the nr of shifts. our staff is incredible. we operate the national hotline for child abuse but one of the largest nonprofits in the country according several programs. we have residential retaliate programs, where some of the most severely children are living to heal and we have advocacy centers where children go in when they need to be investigated. our staff has stepped up. >> and as you said, they are the still working, very important they are taking precautions but still working. if a child, if a child gets in touch they are more likely to use texts or a concerned person gets in touch, they call your hotline. then what are the resources, how are they different in this

situation where, you know, those kids don't have exposure to the mandate the reporters like teachers and the like. >> so we still follow the same protocol we always follow which is we immediately have them contact 911 if abuse is happening at the moment, child and family protective services in their city and state. if something is happening while they are contacting us, if they need counseling we can stay on the phone with them for longer periods of time. our counselors can help parents experiencing anxiety. to give you one example we had parents reach out to us. we had a survivor of abuse reach out to us, her baby was crying and she got anxious her baby was crying and was afraid she would abuse her baby. the counselor was on the phone

with her,000 stay calm, rock the baby and do all things we can do because that's why we're here. 911 can't provide those resource. right now they are stretched. for example, we got notification yesterday that cincinnati 911 is now alerting their police department that they are only to go to in-house responses in the most urgent situations. for example, if someone called cincinnati for assault they will respond but only do home response, if the abuser is on premise or if the person needs immediate medical attention. we can help absorb and still be the bridge for any of those kinds of local resources that may be stretched to capacity right now. we're increasing our capacity. >> it's such important work. i'm sorry to cut you off. i want to get the phone number. 1-800-for-a-child.

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