hello to our viewers in the united states and around the globe. i'm john king in washington. this is cnn's continued coverage of the coronavirus pandemic. some startling global developments today. the u.k.'s prime minister boris johnson claiming he now has the coronavirus. they are turning to more drastic measures designed to keep the virus in check. but we begin here in the united states. now the owner of a distinction no country wants, the global

coronavirus case leader. more than 82,000 cases, but there is a question about whether beijing's math can be trusted. beginning now, house debate on that $2 trillion stimulus package, this after some lawmakers had to race back to washington overnight. just moments ago, a somewhat chaotic scene on the house floor. a democrat, haley stevens, ignoring the gavel, shouting her words. >> we beam for our manufacturers -- i request 30 more seconds -- because i rise before you not for personal attention but to encourage you to take this seriously. i rise for every american who is scared right now, to the families -- >> the gentlelady will suspend. the gentlemen from maryland is recognized. the gentlelady is out of order.

>> that emergency money lawmakers hope will offset the global economics shock from restrictions on everyday life. president trump ignoring the words of his own public health experts is again stirring debate over how long to keep american life shuttered. the president says he wants to open quadrants of the country by easter. the top experts say the easter target is aspirational and only aspirational. they insist the administration will follow the science and the data, but the numbers and the trends this morning, again, look grim. map the spread of the virus and it's hard to see how large swaths of the united states can return to normal so soon. 24 states yesterday reporting at least 100 new coronavirus cases. eight saw coronavirus surges of more than 500 cases. new york remains the center of the coronavirus onslaught here in the united states, nearly 45,000 cases now. that number said to rise dramatically when we hear this morning from governor cuomo.

but the surgeon general raises the possibility that new york's dramatic shutdown could soon pay dividends. >> we know that this week was a particularly bad week for new york. we're hopeful that next week new york will start to come down because their cases have started to level off, and that's because they've been aggressive about their mitigation efforts. the places that have been aggressive about staying home, about staying in groups of ten, was successful. >> the surgeon general said hospitals will be overwhelmed and face supply crises. the most critical of those resources are ventilators. governor cuomo says he needs 30,000. but president trump last night says he doubts that math. >> governor cuomo and others who say that we want 30,000 of them -- 30,000. think of this. you go to hospitals and they have one in a hospital, and all of a sudden everyone is asking for these vast numbers.

>> cnn's brynn beggingras doing reporting for us in new york. brynn, how does it look in new york as part of the grim numbers there? >> reporter: it will be interesting to see what the governor says in response to the president, because he's addressed the president almost every time he comes to the podium, so it will be interesting to see how he talks about that in the next half hour or so. ventilators, ventilators, ventilators, that's what he was saying yesterday, the governor, that that's what's needed. this hospital the epicenter, 40 people died in the last 24 hours and all those people were on ventilators. the need is so bad the state has actually authorized splitting ventilators to accommodate all the patients. we can see the need. i'm going to get out of the way so you can see as well. now we have a box truck in the way. i apologize for that. the line alone of people trying to see a doctor and perhaps get

tested for the coronavirus, the line does not get shorter and that's really what we're seeing. it's been snaking through that line all morning, and there you go, you can probably see it in just a minute. you mentioned the nypd, john. we just got updated numbers that the number of police officers that have called in sick is now 11% of the work force out sick. there are more than 500 people in the department who have coronavirus. that is a significant jump than what we were seeing just from yesterday. and we also heard from the nypd that it is experiencing its first death. it is a custodian who had been with the department for more than a decade, named dennis dixon, died from the coronavirus. we have to keep in mind all of our first responders who are battling this just as much as everybody else. >> yes, we do. they are heroes at the moment, their families as well. brynn gingras on the front lines in new york. brynn, we appreciate that. keep in touch.

beginning tonight a citywide curfew in miami goes into effect. all residents must be in their homes from 10:00 p.m. to 5:00 a.m. take us through the exact instructions of this issue. >> reporter: it starts at 10:00 p.m. tonight and goes to 5:00 a.m. there are exceptions, for people going to work or any emergency. but this area has already been a ghost town. take a look behind me. i know it's a little difficult to see because it's far away, but that's i-95, and normally it is a parking lot during rush hour. right now we're only seeing a few cars here and there. the same thing with the miami river. that's the body of water that you're looking at. on any given friday and on the weekend, it's usually filled with party boats. not the case today. i've only seen a few boats come and go. but this is the hot spot for the coronavirus for the state of florida. more than 50% of the coronavirus

cases in the sunshine state are in the counties of miami-dade, broward and palm beach. and that's why we're seeing more restrictions in this area, not just a curfew here in miami, but also in miami beach. john? >> rosa flores for us in miami, one of many places where restrictions in some localities but not neighboring localities are going to test this in the days and weeks ahead. let's move on to massachusetts. a surge of coronavirus cases there. yesterday alone seeing more than 500 new cases, pushing the total past 2400. and as medical supplies run dangerously low in the state, massachusetts governor charlie baker making a desperate appeal for federal help. >> i stand here as someone who has had confirmed orders for millions of pieces of gear evaporate in front of us. and i can't tell you how frustrating it is. we've literally gotten to the point where our basic position

is until the thing shows up here in the commonwealth of mass, it doesn't exist. our first responders, our health care workers, everybody deserves to have that gear. and i'm telling you, we're killing ourselves trying to make it happen. >> let's discuss the massachusetts and national challenge with dr. andrew ortenstein. he's the chief executive in the department of health of massachusetts. doctor, what's happening in massachusetts? we're watching the epicenter in new york. you see a big increase in michigan yesterday, a big increase in new orleans. put massachusetts is context for us as we watch this spread across the country. >> well, thank you for having me. i think we're at the very early phases of the upslope in the curve in massachusetts. certainly what represents about 8 million people in massachusetts that we care for, we're addressing probably week

one and week two in the upslope of the curve, but we're starting to see more evidence of community transmission, although with limited testing, it's hard to confirm that. >> you talk about limited testing. i want you to listen here to dr. anthony fauci. again, we applaud any progress. it is nice to hear from the white house and it's nice to hear from some of the states that they're starting to ramp up testing, but my question is where are we now? first dr. fauci. >> it needs to be ratcheted up. we have to do it better than we are now, not that we're at fault, no one has made any mistakes, but they have to elevate it to point where when you have someone in society who is infected, you've got to not only identify them, but you've got to be able to isolate them very quickly. not five days later after they wound up potentially infecting individuals. we've got to get that system where you identify somebody, and as quickly as possible, get them out of a situation where they may infect other people. that's what's called strict

containment and that's what we've got to do. >> if that's what we've got to do, doctor, when will we be able to do it in a way that allows us to have a fair representation of how many people have this, how many people have this, and is it the time, as the president says, to start backing off or do we need to dial up. >> i agree 100% with dr. fauci and our national experts. we need to dial up. we're not there yet and i can't give you an answer to that excellent and invalid question. >> i'm sorry to interrupt, doctor, but what does it tell you that you're on the front lines and you can't give an answer to that question. what does it tell you? whose fault is that? >> i don't know who is at fault, but i do know it's very tough for the 12,000 people that i have in harm's way taking care of our patients and trying to stay safe. >> hopefully it gets better. i want to ask you a couple questions we get from our viewers, because to me this is the most important part of our program. we have people sitting at home who don't know what to do who are getting conflicting

information in the debates about ppe or should they get a test. couple questions here. there are rumors that certain blood types, o is less susceptible, more immune to the virus. the most subpoena accesceptible. do you agree with that. >> i don't know that at this point. >> here's another question. is it common for body temperatures to fluctuate widely during the covid-19? my husband was on a business trip to seattle. he keeps taking his temperature. it varied between 95 and 105 up and down during the day. >> the human body does vary somewhat, but once you get over 98, it's an abnormal temperature. >> i'm a nurse in a boston hospital. china and italy are a model for the united states. new york and washington are a model for what we will soon be

facing. can you please tell us if health care workers are not protected, they will infect healthy patients, if they're even well enough to continue to come to work? can you tell if you'll have healthy health care workers next week and the week after that? >> i can't say that. we are in a scarce situation with personal protective equipment. >> i know you're a governor. i'm a boston kid, and i know governor baker, and to see him emotional like that makes questions about should the state have more restrictions and the like. but to see him frustrated on the procurement front, saying they have orders in place and then they disappear. what is your experience when it comes to trying to get it, whether you're trying to get it yourself for your hospital system or trying to get it through the state or federal government? is today better than yesterday or more confusing?

>> we're better in terms of the options, but in terms of deliverables, i can't say with absolute certainty that we're going to have what we need when we need it. we're trying to conserve as best as we can, and i agree 100% with the governor's frustration. asking health care workers and others to take care of sick patients, which is what they sign up to do every day, we need to be able to protect those people. >> doctor, we're grateful for your time here on the program. more importantly, we're grateful for the work of you and all your colleagues as you go through this, especially given the added stress of your safety in the supply chain. i really appreciate your help as we try to put this in context. thank you, sir. up next for us, the family of a 31-year-old coronavirus victim will join me. jasmine dixon's loved ones want you to know that no one is immune. we will share her story in just a moment. car like i treat mine.

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people who are falling to this deadly virus. could you please just tell me a little bit about jasmine. >> john, thank you for having us. jasmine was just a beloved family member. i would say jazmond was the person in our family who would get the perfect attendance reward at all the family gatherings. she was always there, always smiling, always part of the life of the party, and we are utterly devastated as we're still trying to wrap our heads around what has happened. >> the smile is contagious, and i know it's a terrible period of loss. i hope when the country gets to see some of the spopeople, this the moment of family. 31 years old. any idea how she contracted the virus? >> john, at this point we do not know, and that's one of the reasons why we're grateful we've had the opportunity to come on,

is there's just no way to really say how. anything would be speculation and we don't want to add to any fear mongering or any panicking. >> very grateful for that. kimberly, in the sense this is so isolating, families are told to stay apart. even when people get sick, you can't necessarily see them if they're being treated or when they're home self-quarantining. how does that factor into the pain here? >> it's really devastating for our family because we are such a close-knit family. we literally visit each other several times a week. so to not be able to be there for jazmond during those final moments or her mother or be there for each other during this time, it's been very, very dismal. >> i know you can't answer some of the questions here. americans around the country are dealing, and it's different in different places, about having

interactions with the health care system right now, having interactions to desperately try to get information. do you have questions and issues there, or are you just in the wake -- in the immediate wake of the loss dealing with that first before you try to get answers to your questions? >> right now we are just still dealing with the loss. >> yeah. >> still dealing with the loss. take me more through when you see the pictures, you say she got the a-plus in attendance at family gatherings. tell us more about her, who she was, why this is such a painful period. >> i would like to share that jazmond was so selfless. of course she always had the perfect attendance at family gatherings, and she was the one that if you could not make it, if you were sick or you were at work, she would make sure you were part of the celebration. on her most recent birthday,

february 9, she turned 31, and she had two birthday cakes. so instead of just taking the cake home and just having them for herself, anybody that did not come to her birthday, she went home, packed up the cake and she took it around to different family members that could not make it to the party. that's just how beautiful of a person that she was. >> i know you're still lacking some information here, but are you aware of any underlying condition she might have had that made her more vulnerable? a lot of people, we keep hearing conversations about how young people are immune to this, young people get mild symptoms, young people don't need to worry about it. you're suffering the loss of a 31-year-old cherished member of your family. any questions there, any issues there? >> john, that's, again, what's so devastating to this. the reason why jazmond has really been spoke about all over the country is because she really shattered a lot of myths. we have not been told by her doctors of any preexisting

conditions that would have contributed to jazmond succumbing to the results of this virus. >> and how is the family -- it's a tough question to ask and i'm sorry if i ask anything that sounds insensitive. i don't mean it to if i do. in the sense that you have a family member, you've lost a cherished member of the family, this is a time for the family to get together, to cry, to share time together. that has to just add to the devastation. >> it does, john. i think one of the stories that kind of paints a very vivid picture is with kimmy, myself, our mothers are sisters along with jazmond's mother, and we have not been able to see our parents. my daughter was born on jazmond's birthday. and my mother has wanted to be there for her sister. she has not been able to see us, she has not been able to see her

granddaughter just because of fears of potentially spreading the virus. we are utterly devastated, as kimberly said earlier. we are just so accustomed to being together. if jazmond were here, we would be eating lunch together. we would not have left the hospital until jazmond left. >> kimberly, i assume you don't know when you can have that family grief. obviously everyone is grieving individually, but you don't have a date certain. you don't have a date when doctors and professionals are telling you, even though you want to be together, you must be apart. >> facetime, skype, video messaging. that's the most we can do right now and it's all day every day. that's just what's keeping us together at this moment. >> and late nights. >> and late nights. i cannot thank of two of you

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any moment now, we'll hear from the governor of new york, andrew cuomo. next door in new jersey, now more than 1600 confirmed cases of coronavirus second only to new york. in new york city, a stunning 11% of the nypd has called out sick. two state-run testing sites are now open in new jersey for the first responders and health care workers who are the heroes on the front lines of this pandemic. cnn's athena jones is at a

testing site in holmdel. athena, how long is the line behind you? >> reporter: this site has been open since 8:00 a.m. and they've had this location since monday. you can see cars are trickling in at three separate lanes to come in, be tested. they're required to keep their windows up when they drive up. you'll get yelled at if you keep your window down, because these are people who are new jersey residents who have symptoms. today is a day anyone can come. there is no appointment necessary. if you have symptoms and you can prove you live in new jersey, you can get tested here. we've been talking to folks here. earlier in the week when they first opened, they were reaching capacity about 15 minutes in. the line of cars, they would start turning away new cars. now they're allowing people to trickle in which means they have not reached their capacity of 250 tests. as you mentioned, john, new jersey second only to new york in the number of confirmed cases. we can't get a real picture of how many people have this virus

or how well these isolation measures are working if we don't do more testing. that's why we're seeing the sites pop up in different areas around the state. i should say this site and the other state-run site, at bergen community college, is where they'll test symptomatic health care workers and first responders exclusively. that is important, john, because these are the folks who are on the front lines. workers in the hospital obviously treating patients but paramedics, firefighters, police officers, these are people who are oftentimes having the first contact with these suspected coronavirus cases. they're concerned with getting the virus, transmitting it to others and spreading it. john? >> absolutely, she should get preferential treatment. athena jones, appreciate that. the place that has more coronavirus cases than anyplace on earth. a very different trajectory than the president predicted one

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assembled and did such a great job on this facility. the increase in cases continues. we still see that trajectory going up. those are the dates from march 3rd to march 25th. strategy, plan of action all along. step one, flatten the curve. step two, increase hospital capacity. flatten the curve, meaning if you do it as well as you can do it, hopefully there is no high point of the curve. there is no apex. it's a flatter, lower curve. why? so the hospital capacity can keep up with it. that's what this is all about. not overwhelming the hospital capacity, and at the same time increasing the hospital capacity that we have so if it does exceed those numbers, which it will in most probability, that we have the additional capacity to deal with it.

flattening the curve, these are all sorts of measures we put in place. bar non-essential workers, social distancing, closing bars, closing restaurants. all the things i did that made people very happy with me. but the way you make a decision is the benefit and the burden, right? the risk and the reward. we are battling a deadly virus. is there an intrusion on daily life? yes. is there an intrusion on movement? yes. is there an intrusion on the economy? yes. but what's on the other side of this scale is literally saving lives, and that's not rhetorical. that's not drama. that's fact. public education is very important. it's important to all of us.

on the other side of the balance beam is public health. i decided to close the public schools because i believed it was safer to close the schools and reduce the spread. we did that on march 18th. we said we would do it for two weeks and then we would reassess the situation at the end of two weeks. two weeks ends on april 1. we also said that we would waive what's called the 180-day requirement that every school has to teach for 180 days. we would waive that but that we would close the schools until april 1 and then we would reassess. also we said that every school district before it closes had to come up with plans to continue functions that they were doing. because school districts do more than just educate, they provide child care for essential

workers, they provide schools, they provide meals in the schools. so everything that they were doing, they had to come up with a plan to mitigate the consequence of their closing, including distance learning for their students. i have to reassess because april 1 is just in a couple of days, and i believe the schools should remain closed. i don't do this joyfully, but i think when you look at where we are and you look at the number of cases still increasing, it only makes sense to keep the schools closed. they have to continue the programs they're doing. they have to continue the child care, continue the meals, continue the distance learning programs. i'll continue the waiver on what's called the 180-day mandate they have to be in operations, but we're going to close the schools for another two weeks and then we'll reassess at that point. and that is statewide. at the same time we're working

to increase hospital capacity. what is a possible apex of the curve? it changes a little bit depending on the data day to day, but now we're looking at about 21 days for a possible apex. so we want to do everything we can to be ready for that increased capacity that could hit us in 21 days and ramp up the hospital capacity. we are doing everything we can. we're doing things that have never been done before. we're doing things that when we put them on the table, people thought they were impossible. but we are now doing the impossible, as you know well here with what you did over the past week. all hospitals have to increase their capacity by 50%. we're asking hospitals to try to increase their capacity 100%. because we need that many beds.

we're also looking at converting dorms, we're looking at converting hotels. we've been gathering equipment from everywhere we can, ppe equipment, most important piece of equipment for us are ventilators, and we're shopping literally around the globe to put it all in place. we're creating a stockpile of this equipment so that when and if the apex hits, we can deploy equipment from the stockpile to whatever region of the state or whatever hospital needs it. so we collect it, we hold it. as a hospital needs it, a region needs it, then we deploy it. the n95 surgical masks, examination gloves, protective gowns, coveralls and most importantly the ventilators. why ventilators? because this is a respiratory illness. people need ventilators who come

in for acute care. and the people are on ventilators much longer than most patients are on ventilators. most people are on a ventilator for two, three, four days. these covid patients can come in and need a ventilator for up to 20 days. so you see why that need for ventilators is so important. and, again, all of this is to make sure we're ready for that apex when the entire system is stressed and under pressure, and that's what we're working on. for the hospital capacity at the, quote, unquote, apex. we need 140,000 beds. we have 50,000 beds.

that's why we're asking you to scramble and do what you're doing. we need 40,000 icu beds. when we started we had 3,000 icu beds with 3,000 ventilators. you see how monumental the task, how monumental the mountain that we have to climb. of the 140,000, how do we get to the 140,000? as i said, all hospitals increase by 50%. some hospitals will increase 100%. they're going to get the gold star hospital award. i don't know exactly what that means, but we'll figure it out later. fema and the army corps and the national guard have been working to put up these emergency hospitals. so far we have planned for four, the one we're in today at the javits center, one in

westchester county center, one at stony brook and one at westbury. that would be 40,000 additional units. they are all underway as we speak. not as far along as your good work at javits, but they are on their way. again, with all of these beds we still have a shortfall. so we're going to go to plan b. what's plan b? we're going to seek to build another four temporary emergency hospitals, which would get us another 4,000 beds. and we just have been scouting sites for a few days. we have settled on a few sites working with the army corps of engineers. and i'm going to ask the president today if he will authorize another four temporary hospitals for us. i want to have one in every

burrough, i want to have one for the bronx, queens, manhattan, staten island, brooklyn, one for nassau, one for suffolk, one for westchester so everybody knows downstate which is where the essence of the density is right now that everyone equally is being helped and is being protected. we looked at a site in the bronx at the new york expo center. it's a 90,000-square-foot site. we think it would work well. the army corps of engineers looked at these sites and thinks these sites will work. at the racetrack site, 1,000 square feet there. one in brooklyn called the brooklyn cruise terminal. it's owned by the port authority but it's a wide open space. we could convert it very easily,

182,000 square feet. and in staten island, the college of staten island, which is a cuny facility, 77,000 square feet, again, inside can be converted. it has power, it has climate control, et cetera. we would do the same thing that we've done here successfully so we know it works, we know it's feasible. building the interior space. we have exterior space that we could put up a temporary tent for supplies, equipment, et cetera. that would give us coverage all across the downstate area comfort coming up. that is going to be on its way soon. it's going to be right here in new york harbor. it is a massive facility in and of itself, 1,000 beds, 1200 medical personnel, 12 operating rooms. it has a pharmacy, it has a laboratory, and it should be here on monday.

so that will also help us in this quest. and then we're looking at dormitories and converting dormitories downstate. we're looking at city college dormitories, queens college. we have the dormitories because the colleges are closed, and the students have left, so we actually have dormitories that we can convert. we're also looking at hotels and nursing homes. we're looking at the marriott brooklyn bridge hotel and a nursing home called brooklyn center. so as you can see, we're looking far and wide. very creative, aggressive and finding all the space that we can possibly find and converting it to be ready in case we have that overflow capacity. we also have it planned out so

that this will be coming onli le before we think the apex hits, and at the same time we're trying to flatten the curve to delay and soften that apex, right? those are the two strategies. slow the spread, flatten the curve. in the meantime, increase the hospital capacity so whatever that surge is that you have, you actually have the capacity to deal with it. right now we have a plan where over the next three or four weeks, which is the same timeline as the apex possibly coming, we're going to have the capacity as high as we can possibly get the capacity. in terms of where we are today, because we're tracking the numbers, we want to see what's happening and are we getting closer to the apex? are we succeeding in flattening

the curve? we've been testing. we test more in this state than any state in the united states. we test more per capita than china or south korea. so we ramped up very quickly on the testing. new tests, 16,000. total tested, 138,000. number of positive cases, total cases 44,000. new cases 7,377. it continues to spread all across the state. as it continues to spread all across the country. the number of deaths, we're up to 519 in new york. that's up from 385. that is going to continue to go up, and that is the worst news that i could possibly tell the people of the state of new york. the reason why the number is

going up is because some people came into the hospital 20 days -- 25 days ago and have been on a ventilator for that long a period of time. the longer you are on a ventilator, the less likely you're going to come off that ventilator. and that's not just true with this virus, that's true with every illness. when someone is on a vent fliil for a prolonged period of time, the outcome is usually not good. so we're seeing a significant increase in deaths because the length of time people are on the ventilator is increasing, and the more it increases, the higher the level of deaths will increase. and, again, we expect that to continue to increase. it's bad news, it's tragic news,

it's the worst news, but it is not unexpected news, either. if you talk to any health care professional, they'll tell you, if you're talking about a loved one, if they're not off that ventilator in a relatively short period of time, it's not a good sign. overall, 44,000 people have tested positive, 6,000 currently hospitalized, 1500 in intensive care units. that's up 290. those are the people who need the ventilators. 2,000 patients have been discharged. that's up 528. so you have people coming into the hospital, getting treatment and leaving the hospital. most people who get the virus will never even go into the hospital in the first place, right? so we havep this in focus. 80% of the people who get the

you will feel ill or maybe you don't feel that ill or you think you have the flu and you self-resolve. 80% of the people. 20% will go into the hospital. some of them will get short-term treatment and they'll go home. a small percent and they tend to be vulnerable people, people with an under line illness. this respiratory illness compounds the problem they have. they had compromised immune system, they were battling cancer and on top of that, they now get pneumonia which is what this coronavirus is. that's the population that's most vulnerable. they then go onto the ventilator and some percentage get off quickly, some percentage don't get off the longer they're on,

the higher the mortality rate. new york is the most effective state in number s of cases and numbers of deaths. why? we welcome people here all over the globe. people from china came here and people from korea came here. people stopping in china or stopped in italy and came here. because we are a very dense environment. social distancing stays 6-feet away, that's hard in new york city, right? walk down the sidewalk that you can stay 6-feet away from someone. we are so dense and together which is what makes us special,

gives us that special new york energy and gives us that new york mojo and that density becomes the enemy of a situation like this. this is the total number of people who have been hospital e hospitalized. we have been watching these numbers everyday. we are now compiling the numbers in a smarter way before we were getting individual patient data. every hospital had to tell us each individual patient of what their address was and where they came from and what the under line illness was and put all that information together which was labor intensive. it was erratic the way the information would come in. sometimes the hospital was too busy to put all that information together so they did not send it in until the next day or the day

after. this is a uniform set of data. the entire number of people in that hospital who have the covid virus. without getting through all the specifics of individual names and circumstances. it is easier for them to get us this data. you see again the steady incline in the number. but, and this is good news. early on you see the number was doubling every two and a half days. then it was doubling every three days and now it is doubling about every four days. it is still doubling and that's still bad news because it still means you are moving up towards an apex right because that number still goes up. there is good news that the rate

of the increase is slowing. so there are two separate tracks. the rate of the increase is slowing but the number of cases are still going up. those two-points are consistent. that's what we are seeing. we want to see the rates slowing and then we want to see the number of actual cases coming down or flattening. that's the flattening of the curve. but, this is where we are today. again to keep it all perspective people don't know what to make of the coronavirus and what's going to happen. john hopskin's studied every coronavirus of china. 532,000 cases they studied. of all those cases there has been 24,000 deaths. that's a lot of deaths. yes. but compares to 542,000 cases,

it gives you a sense of this disease. if you look at the 24,000, they're going to be overwhelmingly, older people and people with under line illnesses and etcetera. the amount of support that we have gotten from new yorkers in the midst of this crisis is just extraordinary. i am a born and bred new yorker if you can't tell my queens accent, i can tell when you are a brooklyn accent or staten island accent. new yorkers never seem to amaze me. they're talking about new yorkers are tough. yeah, we are tough. living in a place like this you

have to be tough. as tough as we are as loving as we are. as big as our heart is. when someone needs something there is no place i would rather be than new york. and the number of people who are volunteering and coming forward, we put out a call for additional medical personnel because we have to staff all these additional beds, we put out a call, 62,000 volunteers. the number one went up 0,010,00n one day. these are people who retired, who did their duty and who is sitting at home but they are coming forward. same thing we ask for menial health professionals who could provide mental health services electronically over the phone or skype or etc. many people are

dealing with mental health issues. this is a stressful taxing situation on everyone. on everyone. isolation at home, you are home, you are home alone day after day, that's a stressful situation. you don't know what's going on. you are afraid to go out. you are isolated with your family. that's a stressful situation. not that we don't love to be with our family, we all do. that can create stress. and there is no place to go and there is no one to talk to about that. so this mental health service over the telephone is very, very important. i want to speak to most important people in the room for a moment, who are the people are

responsible for this great construction behind me. first, i would like to introduce general patrick murphy, he's tested and smart and he's tested tough. i have been with the general for nine years and i have seen him in hurricanes and super storm sandy and everything mother could throw at us. i have seen him in terrorist attacks and there is no one better. he leaves from the front, he knows what he's doing. you could not have a better commander at this time than general patrick murphy, i want you to know that. i want to congratulate the army

corp of engineers of what they did here. i used to work with them on the pine ridge indian reservation building houses. one of the officers of the army corp of engineers are still in service and reminded me of that. they are top shelf. i want to thank you the javits staff which really stepped up and our national guard because you are the best of us. you are the best of us. when ever we call on you, you are there, and what you did in this facility in one week creating a hospital is just incredible. i don't know how you did it, now you did such a good job that i am asking for four more from the

president. that's the downside as being as good as you are of what you did. what you did was really incredible. i want to make two-points to you, i want to make two promises to you. this is a different beast that we are dealing with. this is an invisible beast. it is an insidious beast. this is not going to be a short deployment. this is not going to be you go out there a few