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face. the united states now has the most coronavirus cases in the world. surpassing china, if you believe china's reportingful regardless. more than 82,000 are sick here. nearly 1,200 are dead. it's astronomical. and it should be sounding an alarm in your head that no matter what you hear, even from the president, we are nowhere near through this. if we don't start acting with more resolve in more places, we're in for a long painful war. and our health care system just cannot sustain the strain that is bearing down on them. not for long. let's check back in with one of the doctors on the front lines, treated the very first coronavirus patient in the seattle area, and let's get the reality. dr. amy compton phillips. how are you? >> doing well, chris. >> you're a doctor.

you're not a politician. the idea that it could be over pretty quickly. every data point we seem to be receiving says that the opposite is true. how is it looking from your neck of the woods in the pacific northwest? >> so in our neck of the woods, it is definitely still going up. the good news is the rate of escalation in the northwest is slower than the rate of escalation in new york city right now. but it is because we started social distancing earlier. so exactly like you've been talking about. we've been doing the things to limit the transmission. our doubling rate here is around six to seven days. in new york, it is around two and a half to three days. that's because of the effect of staying apart from each other. minimizing the opportunities to pass this from one person to the next. >> so the panic inducing aspect of the state is, rate of acceleration. that means just slowing down the speed at which it is moving and doubling rate means what it sounds like, doubling cases

every week. where do we see any idea of this turning into less cases on a weekly basis? like going from 100 to 90? when might that happen? >> so that's exactly what people are talking about when they talk about flattening the curve. we have to actually get the transmission rate to less than 1 per person. if you have an infected person, if you get down to less than one person that you infect, that we can break the back of this epidemic. that can happen through really effective social distancing. it can also happen like what they did in south korea, like testing people more broadly. and separating people who have the germ so they can't pass it on to others. we obviously aren't doing the right thing because the metric

is how many people do i infect when i have it. it should be none because i'm doing the right thing. god forbid i get it. i do the right thing so nobody else gets infected. clearly, we just don't have the behavior and the culture where we we need to be. now another big problem, ppe. that's going to be an acronym everybody is going to know, right? personal protective equipment. the health care workers have to have it, or they're going to get the virus and they're going to fall off the front line, and we're not going to have the staff we need. we're already short-staffed. i can lament it. i say it. i dramatize it. you do something about it. what you doing to make sure that your brothers and sisters on the front lines are have the ppe to sustain them through the weeks and months to come? >> well, you are so 100% right, chris, that sending a physician, a nurse, a person who is cleaning the room into that room without the ability to protect themselves would be like sending a soldier into battle without the tools they need to keep safe, right? so we can't do that. they're on the front lines of

the war against this virus. and so as you well know, because you helped us immensely last week, we put out a challenge to say we need 100 million masks. and we started ourselves. we said we're just going to sew them ourselves if we have to, using medical grade materials, but we need them for the front line. you made that available to everybody in the u.s. and told everyone in the u.s. about it, and then we got overwhelmed by the number of amazing americans wanting to help. >> americans. >> amer-cans. every single amer-can out there wanted to help us. we started responding to so many opportunities, it's taken away from our ability to care for patients. we had fantastic -- and by the way amazing corporate partners as well that said we want to flip our production from our factory to building masks instead of building furniture.

nordstrom tailors is one of them. right now nobody is buying clothes. let's have our tailors build masks. so we have corporate partners. we were drowning in it. i think you started this. we called the american hospital association and said hey, you guys, we can work locally, but we really want you to help us make this be a national thing. so now the american hospital association, they're going to announce it tomorrow formally, but you're getting the preview tonight. is actually taking on the 100 million mask challenge to help all those makers, all those small businesses, everyone in the u.s. that wants to help us solve this, they can help do that now through our 100 million mass challenge. >> all right. so first put the website up. people want to look at the doctrine. they're tired of my face. keep that up there while we're talking. so doctor, two things. why just masks? why not the gowns and the shoes and the gloves and the advisors and everything else that you guys need? and what about people giving money for this effort and maybe

even volunteering to help handle the flow? is that stuff all addressed on the website? >> it is all addressed, and it's all of the above. the challenge that we had initially was masks. but absolutely it's going to be masks and gowns and gloves and ventilators and tubing, and all kinds of things that we need to make sure that, you know, what's normal is at a reasonably predictable level. but what we're building for is more like a tsunami, right. it all comes in at the same time, and you need very different levels of ppe for that. at the same time, our production lines from overseas are disrupted. so this is actually a great opportunity with this challenge to start manufacturing some of these things on shore. and so for all of those people that are unemployed right now, well, guess what? we can actually change what they used to make into what we need today. so it's a great opportunity for everybody. >> now, again, doctor, you are not a politician. i'm not going put you in a

political position. but i will remind the audience of this. the president has powers to make factories make things, all right. it was designed during world war ii. he had said he was thinking about using it. he hasn't used it. if he did use it, it would actually be a pro-business move because you're giving the startup capital. right now they're doing it because they want to do it and they're figuring out how to do it. it's a little different when you're told to do it. it will be interesting if that's where we wind up. here's what we know right now. dr. amy compton phillips, you are the best of us. you are literally healing people who are dealing with this. you're getting out the public service message, and you're figuring out how to extend to it the other amy compton phillips, although there are probably not too many with that exact same time naim doing the same thing across the country. doctor, let us know how we can help your efforts you deserve the hand. >> thank you so much. i so appreciate it. thank you for everything you've done for this effort, chris. >> be well. stay healthy.

stay in touch. >> thank you. >> all right. so now what's more proof that we got a long way to go here? virus is moving. it's easy to blame it on new york, right? it would be convenient. those new yorkers, new jersey, those californians. you know, it's them on the coast. it's moving around. okay. louisiana. why is it bursting there? critical equipment is in short supply. now the state is behind other states because they're a little late to the game. they didn't want to have as many cases as we did early on, but now they have to wait longer and they're in a bigger fight to get what we need. we've got a doctor from the state's public health office. what's happening there? what can you do to help them? and what word needs to get out? all answers ahead. nt to brain b? unlike ordinary memory supplements neuriva has clinically proven ingredients that fuel 5 indicators of brain performance. memory, focus, accuracy, learning, and concentration. try neuriva for 30 days and see the difference.

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there is a new front line. emerging in louisiana, cases are spiking and a frighteningly familiar scenario building on the obvious. no place is immune. nursing homes once again hit the hardest. why? so many vulnerable people there. six of them, including this one where 11 people died as of tuesday. i don't know what the number is now, but they're being monitored by the state as a coronavirus cluster site. critical supplies because now louisiana is behind other states like new york and other big states that need so much. supplies are dwindling. no states have peaked yet. so it's not like equipment is going to free up any time soon. this is a jam, okay. so let's bring in dr. alex, the assistant secretary for the state public office. doctor, it's a pleasure to have you on the show. i wish it were not under these circumstances. i'm saying that too much these days, but this is our reality. first, the idea of the nursing homes.

it's big here. this lambeth retirement house here in new orleans, we talked to a brother and sister whose mom is in there. they're trying to find out information about her. she has the virus. 268 people. what do you know about the nursing homes and how you can get those situations under control? >> yeah, well, chris, thanks for having me on. it's a real challenge. we saw that early on in washington. frankly, the populations that nursing homes serve are the populations that we know have the hardest time with coronavirus. those are folks older thanl 65, folks who have chronic conditions. as all of us age, we're more likely to be in those categories. when you a group of those vulnerable individuals living close together, it really sets up a bad situation when the coronavirus shows up in that community. and as you noted, lambeth house was one of the first clusters that we identified here in new orleans. >> so are you guys, are you finding with your population and your governor getting the watch

like the governor here in new york and other states, you think your population is going to snap to a little bit more quickly when you start slapping on restrictions? and what kind of restrictions do you have in and what kind of restrictions do you expect? >> yeah, well, we certainly hope so. i mean, i think that the governor and lots of officials across our administration have been very clear that unlike the disasters that we usually face in louisiana, natural disaster, hurricanes, floods, this is one where we as louisianans have an actual chance to change the trajectory that we're on. right now we're on the same growth trend as italy, spain, and actually south korea was before south korea took the actions that they needed to flatten that curve, to reduce the spread of the virus. and so early on, the governor took proactive measures to limit crowd sizes, really to talk about the measures we should all be doing, covering our cough, washing our hands.

but last sunday he put in force a stay at home order. really encouraging, and frankly, directing louisianans across the state. not just in new orleans, but across the state to stay home, not just for themselves, not just for their immediate family, but for their neighbors. and if there is one thing louisianans do very well is taking care of our neighbors in a time of crisis. >> the cajun culture is well-known to anybody in my business. i've been in your state way too many times. but you do have a culture advantage. people there know how to hunker down. and they know how to do difficult things for an extended period. but this is different, like you said. we had tony fauci on the other night, dr. anthony fauci. and he had concerns about how fast the state was moving. let me play them for you so you can respond. >> have i spoken to the political officials in new orleans and in the state of louisiana. they're now shutting things down in a very vigorous way. it is likely that that should

have been done a little bit sooner, not blaming anyone on that. but you get caught unawares because the nature of this outbreak. >> what is it about this? is that with the hurricane you see the modding? you see it moving? and this thing, because it's invisible and you don't have people walking around with the case, it's just hard to muster? >> well, and what i heard dr. fauci saying there was really, it's not just louisiana. if you good back three weeks, really most of us across the country weren't taking the kinds of steps that we're taking now. because still focused on people who were traveling from other countries. really, right up until the point that we had our first case, and even with our first case, we were looking mostly to people coming back from china, iran, italy, south korea. what we didn't know is coronavirus was spreading through our community, through new orleans, and now we know across many communities in the country. and so i think if we had more testing available earlier, if we

had had better information, i think all of us would have been testing earlier and trying to isolate, like we now know we need to be doing. >> you have to get the testing ready for the next wave, and you have to get it up as quickly as you can to deal with the back on the other hand this wave. you have neighboring states that don't have the precautionary measures that you have right now. that's an issue. and it's going to be hard to source equipment. what are you finding on that last point? >> yeah, i mean, it's very tough. we made the point, the governor made the point earlier this week. in a disaster, again, we're used to those. we can look to our neighbors, because usually a hurricane doesn't hit the entire gulf coast or even the entire country. and the federal government and our neighboring states are able to muster and give us supplies. right now we may be, and we are the second or third highest rate of infections per capita. but the virus is spread all over this country. and so the ppe that you just heard of in washington and certainly i know your brother has been talking about in new york, we need that desperately

down here too. and frankly, if our neighbors don't need it as desperately as us today, they will a week from now. and that's challenging. we're not only competing with other states, chris, we're competing with other hospitals in our state and trying to get to the first supplier, get to the next supplier, just a little bit ahead of the next one. it's a real challenge that i think would really benefit from more national organization. >> absolutely. and also, again, it's raising the specter. this isn't about politics. it's about practicality. we need our factories to be making these things. the supply chain can't getting it done. people all over the world are dealing with this to different degrees. we have factories that are closed now. how many of them will be opened up to deal with situations like yours? doctor, we are here to help. you are a beautiful people and culture in louisiana. anybody who has been there has enjoyed it. you need our help now. we're here for you. >> we do. and we really appreciate that, chris. thanks for the opportunity to

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all right. we're just hours away from the house taking up the senate's historic $2 trillion relief package. unemployment claims spiked to 3.28 million last week. let's put that in context. it's the most in history. a massive surge from the nearly 300,000 nearly jobless claims filed the week before. it's called the 10 x jump, ten times. not good. just how bad, just how long on the economic side. let's get perspective from austin austan goolsbee. good to see you. >> great to see you again. >> how long? it's hard to answer the question other than the suggest it ain't going to open up in two week. >> the number one rule of virus economics is the best thing pour

the economics is to slow the spread of the virus. until we get a slowdown of the new cases, we can do things like this relief bill, which we need to do. but this is just temporary, you know. we're just -- we're burning money to keep warm because the heat is out. but we have to slow the spread of the virus before we good get out of lockdown, or we got to do testing or got to have other means. but it's the virus is the boss. and that's -- we just have to recognize that. >> i want to go into the bill, but first, first, first, first, i want to get your take on this. why -- what is the good argument for the president not pulling the string on his manufacturing power and just you know it all, of course. but the war-time power of him saying to the factories, as they did in world war ii, you're going to be making x. instead of waiting on them to figure out how to get it done on a voluntary basis? >> i'm confused. i don't know really there is a

good argument other than they don't want the government to be telling the private sector what to do, even if it is an emergency. but i think it's a mistake because these are specialized things. they're not complicated, but they're specialized. and there isn't normally the production of this kind of volume. i think orienting whoever it is, automakers, other manufacturers who are at very low levels of production right now, i think it makes sense. now as you know in the pandemic plans, they haven't really been following, it does more than this. you could get the army involved in the logistics where they could say this factory can make this, but they don't have latex. well we can get latex from this other spot and have them ship it. i think hopefully we will over the next couple of weeks move to a thing where we can make ventilator, make respirator, make the kind of protective equipment we need.

because we've got to control the virus if you want the economy to come back. it's that simple. >> the military isn't even doing testing yet. volunteered to do it. we're not even using them in the process yet. we have a congress member in california who has been waiting five days for her test results. crazy. crazy. all right. >> it doesn't make sense. >> the stimulus bill comes. it's dense. put up the graphic we have as i ask austan about it. you have two different buckets of need here. you got stimulus, the top line of about $1200, depending on what you make, whether you're an individual or married or head of a household. plus 500 per kid. and then you have the unemployment benefits. so there is a lot of different buckets that you might fit in here or not. how hard is it going to be for people to figure out how they get what they get? and do they have to decide and apply, or is it all done for them? >> hopefully, almost all of it is done for them.

the $1200 per adult, the $500 per kid, that's supposed to get sent to you directly. if the irs already has your bank account from when you filled out your taxes, they're supposed to just put the money right in your bank account. if they can't, they're supposed to send you a letter, and the treasury is saying that that could be out in three weeks. that would be great. if you're unemployed, it's going to be a bigger amount of money, an extra $600 per week. but there you do have to file for unemployment insurance. you saw by far the biggest increase in unemployment claims of all times by a factor of five, the biggest ever. >> right. >> so it's going to be a little bit of pressure on the front end applying for that. >> right. that's complicated. >> there is going to be delays. >> that's going to be complicated. because you have to apply. most states, they try to do unemployment insurance like 40, 45% of your weekly check. i think the average check for a

worker in america is around a thousand dollars. throws that's their calculation of what it is. and this would add another 13 weeks of it. now the political pushback is you're incentivizing people not to work. they're going to make more money with this plan than they would have if they're working. you're incentivizing them basically to step out of the job force. other than the obvious argument you can't quit and get this, what do you think of that political pushback? >> well, all i'll say is i kind of object to the calling this an entire bill stimulus. i don't think it is stimulus. i think it's relief and rescue. and by the distinction i'm making, stimulus is we're going to give you a check because we want you to good out and spend it. and whoever you spend it on, we want them to go out and spend it, and you get some spillover. i think this is primarily we don't want anybody to starve. you keep food on the table. we don't want permanent damage from what we hoped to be a temporary shock. i think there is always a trade-off between tailoring who

gets the money and getting the money out as fast as possible. in this thing, i can see why the critics don't like that it would go through the unemployment insurance system. and there are some workers that a few senators objected, and they said wait, they might even get more than 100% of their wages. but, look, the fact is we're trying to get this money to the people in need, and trying to get it out the door quickly. the thing is, if we can't get control of this virus, this money's going to run out, and we're going to be back. it doesn't matter how big it is, we're going to be back and needing more money because people are going to be back on the edge. >> so then it gets -- so there is good news/bad news. self-employed people will be picked up on insurance. they will get pick up and they can file for self employment -- for unemployment bennies. that's good.

however, utilities and cable can still come after you if you don't pay your bill, even though there is student loan forgiveness of a federal loan and other types of abeyance programs that businesses can apply for. is that about as good a balance you could have done, or you think utilities should have been thrown in? >> well, look, they tried to solve the problem of figuring out which bill would be paid for by just giving you money. and i think that's probably the right approach. i think where the conflict may come about in the future is we got $500 billion of rescue money going to big corporations. there is a little over $250 billion, or almost $250 billion of additional corporate tax cuts. and i think it's still -- the jury still out who's going to get that money and how is it going to be governed. and that could -- there could be people coming back and saying why did we spend 5$500 billion o

save the airline industry or some specific industry, and they won't invoke the defense production act, and they're arguing over $1 billion for ventilators. i think that might be a source of tension in the future. but right now they're just trying to get the money out and let you pay whichever bills you have. >> and remember, again, you know this. but for you at home, businesses can file for bankruptcy protection and sweat workers. workers don't get that benefit. when you go bankrupt, you don't get to reorganize and come out of it that way. yes, you have chapter 13 under the bankruptcy laws, but it's different. it's different for workers than it is for businesses. that's why i've been focusing on business was austan. many of you asked, i can't work. i lost my child care. that's in here. that's in here. you can file for relief benefits in order to because you can't pay for child care. austan goolsbee, thank you very much. more questions the more we

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americans, we come together. there is comfort in the collective. but not now. so how do we keep faith in this circumstance? new york archbishop cardinal timothy dolan with his answer. cardinal, thank you so much for taking time to join us. i know how busy your days are, especially with all the need in the city right now. >> chris, i appreciate being asked. i wish i could walk up the street and be with you there in columbus circle. >> i miss you. i hope i get to see you soon where i can give you a big hug and thanks and appreciation as a catholic for what you've been doing for the community both the religious and nonreligious. here is the trick for you, cardinal. ordinarily i've heard you say so many times people need to come together, whether it's asking catholics to come to mass,

observe. obviously we're in one of our holiest seasons here of lent going into easter. but how do you bring people together when they literally are forced to stay apart? >> sure. you know, chris, physical togetherness is very important. so having a congregation at mass, having our families around the table, having neighbors and friends in. that physical connection is very important. it's not the only kind of connection, though, all right? there can be a solidarity, a unity in focus, in hard work, in prayer, in faith. we can come together in many ways besides the tactile, okay? and i think this is teaching us this. i've heard people say literally while they're cloistered in their room that they feel closer to their neighbors, they feel closer to their family than they have in a long time.

if a sense of presence and a belief in someone's company was dependent upon the physical, we -- where would our faith be in god? because god's presence isn't physical to us, but it's as real as ever. have you ever seen anybody more in love than a wife at home with her kids whose husband is fighting in iraq or in afghanistan? they are more in love. they feel closer together than ever. so this is the time that's dawning on us, chris, that togetherness, connection, solidarity, community, unity while we really bask in the physical part of it, doesn't exclusively depend on that. >> absence can make the heart grow fonder. my wife certainly likes it when i'm on the road for work. i'm not sure why. we'll discuss that another time. people are starting to get a feel of the reality.

they hear that easter services won't be there. but bigger. they're starting to see what's happening at the hospitals. they're hearing that they're having to bring in refrigerated trucks because people can't even say goodbye to the departed with any dignity, with any religious ceremony. and of course you have been so important to so many families, including my own in terms of helping us deal with death. the delay, the incompleteness, the lack of closure, what will that mean for people? >> it will mean a lot. you used a good word there when you spoke about reality. i've been getting calls from all over the country, all over the world and they're saying what's it like there in new york? we hear it's ground zero. we hear it's yuppie center. the word that comes to mind is realism. i don't sense panic. i don't sense despair. i do sense a very vivid sent of realism. they know what's going on. they know it's probably going to

get much more pressured before it begins to get better. so they are realistically assessing what's going on. one of the things we got here, chris, i guess for the most of us we can think back to sandy. we can think back to 9/11, okay. our elders can think back to the second world war, to the depression. for sandy in 9/11, for us new yorkers, those were awful and had consequences that are still with us in some ways. but they were over and done with. and we could begin to rebuild. not with this invisible enemy. we still don't know where it's going to attack, how many more are going to be attacked and when it's going to end. that kind of adds to a sense of apprehension. that adds to this dug-in realism that i sense all around us. >> how do you reconcile the season of rebirth and renewal

that will be coming at the same time that we will really be mired in maybe the deadliest aspect of this, if we're lucky for our state and this region? >> it could be. i know you're referring to two weeks from now when our jewish neighbors will celebrate passover. i think it's a gift, because it will allow us all to take a deeper spiritual two-point conversion of this. what is the passover about? the passover is about deliverance from death and depression, no future in egypt, slavery to liberation, new life, promise, hope in israel. what is holy week about? it's about good friday afternoon when literally the earth went black as the sun was hid as the earth shuddered with tremors of sadness with the death of the savior. from then passing over to new life and hope and resurrection

on easter sunday. this is what we need now. this is what we need. we're being very realistic as you and i commented about three minutes ago in the difficulties we got. in the apprehension we got, in the tough work we got ahead. we're also realistic to know that there is a deep stamm ma in the human heart. there is a deep connection among all of us, and there is a deep sense of divine providence and protection which i think is going to be particularly vivid and dramatic at passover and holy week this year. >> quickly, cardinal, before our time runs out here you message to people who say i love my community, but i got to take care of my own. i'm buying up all that toilet paper. i'm going to buy up as much food as i can. i've got to protect my own. i'm scared. what do you say? >> no, no, this is a call to selflessness and generosity. what greater example do we've

got than our extraordinarily courageous health care workers who are literally going for 18 hours a day who are putting themselves in danger to protect us. we've got this virus through other people. healing and help is going to come from our outreach to other people. this is a call, of course, to be very practical and realistic in protecting ourselves and our family, but it's also a summons to take care of the wider community. and darn it, new york and the united states are doing that, thank god. >> thank god so far. we are showing that we can be together as ever as one, and that's the way through. cardinal, thank you for reminding us during this very holy time of the year. >> thank you, chris. how is your mom? >> mostly sunny mom is doing well. she's with my sister. she is doing well. she always gets so to hear that you thought of her. and of course you are in her prayers. >> give her my love and tell her i want that lasagna at easter, okay? >> you will be first up with a

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it's not just the beaches where some people forgot that spring break is canceled. look at this swimming hole in austin, texas on tuesday. jam-packed, just hours after austin announced its own stay at home order. i mean, come on. don't you see what's happening in new york? this is not the time to play games. now, next, even worse. the video you're seeing is of a pennsylvania woman arraigned not in a courthouse, but while sitting in the back of a police suv. social distancing. the judge came outside to conduct the hearing. why? because the woman is charged with intentionally coughing on food at a grocery store after announcing "i have the virus, now you are all going to get sick." authorities say she coughed on the produce, the baked goods and the meats. the supermarket had to throw out $35,000 worth of groceries.

now she turns out to be mentally ill, and that was driven by some type of illness, one thing. otherwise you got to call it out in fact, she is lucky. something much happier now. ameri-cans. who is a good girl? wynn, a service dog in training who is comforting the staff at a denver hospital on the front lines telephone coronavirus battle. she is being trained by the e.r. doctor there. everyone who comes in contact with wynn washes their hands first. and i've been showing the medical heroes of louisiana, the latest hot spot. but who are their heroes? new orleans musicians, rushing fresh meals to the hospital. donors chipping in to pay the restaurants that are helping to make it happen. it's all being led by a mardi gras krewe leader, kk-r-e-w-e. a much different but essential parade of support now. and look, i'm going to keep

focusing on the front lines because this battle is won and lost in terms of two things. one, how we take care of the worst cases. those are the hospitalized cases. that's ventilators. that's ppe. you've got to keep your front line warriors protected, otherwise they're going to get it, and we're done. the second one is you and me, my brother and sister. we've got to do the right thing. you know we have to keep a distance right now. we've got keep it cool. that's how we'll get through it. special programing note. cnn is going to be hosting a democratic presidential town hall with former vp joe biden tomorrow night at 8:00 p.m. eastern. tune in. see what he'll say about what he'd be doing, what the government is doing, and what should be done next. that's tomorrow night at 8:00, and then we'll be back at 9:00. thank you for watching. our coronavirus coverage continues on cnn. awesome internet.

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