hello to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm john king in washington. this is cnn's continuing live coverage of the coronavirus pandemic. just the last hour, the usns comfort arriving in new york city, being welcomed by governor andrew cuomo. the ship the big response to the coronavirus crash in the epicenter of new york city. also a global disruption today. 93 more coronavirus deaths overnight in the netherlands,

for example. in italy 61 doctors now dead after contracting the virus while treating its overrun hospitals. the olympics officially postponed to the summer of 2021. but we begin the hour here in the united states with a big about-face by the president amid new frightening projections of just how many americans are expected to die. this hour the case stands at 121,000. nearly 2,000 have died. the restrictions put out by the white house now run until the end of april. the administration said it could go longer. part of the reason why he changed his mind is harrowing situations at a local hospital. dr. fauci says this. >> it wouldn't have been good to pull back at a time when you need to really be putting your foot on the pedal as opposed to the brakes. i don't like to see it.

i'd like to avoid it. but i wouldn't be surprised if we saw 100,000 deaths. >> you hear it there. the president is changing his approach to fighting this virus reaffirms the present danger. but the president isn't changing everything. some personal grievances remain in his playbook. quote, the states should be getting it, about the medical supplies shortchanged many hospitals. nancy pelosi says the president is a slum. the president again questioning whether pelosi actually prays for him. dana and sanjay, i want to start with what the overwhelming majority care about. the president has changed his mind and april is essentially gone. the president is shutting down the american economy for another month, telling americans to

fight this disease. they must stay sheltered for another month. sanjay, i want to start the conversation with listening to dr. fauci. the president said if we can't open all of the country, maybe we can open pieces of it. there are pockets and states and counties with locations that are not so high. dr. fauci and dr. birx convinced the question with this statement. >> there are areas of the country that have relatively few cases. those are the ones that are relevant and dangerous to go along and spike. if you just look at those and say, there are very little infections in this area or that area or that area, we don't have to worry about it, you're making a big mistake. because those are timbers that can turn into big fires. so you have to do both. you have to mitigate the ones that are in obvious trouble, but you have to stop the ones that are starting to spark. >> sanjay, the public health experts have been saying that for months. the president was saying something very different. but finally through persistence,

they changed his mind. >> look, john, this is a fundamental point here, because i think it really is the inflection point between what we do now in terms of going forward for the whole country and what we do on a case-by-case basis which has been this idea that's been floated a few times by the president, by many others as well. i think what dr. fauci just said, and i hope people heard that and will maybe listen to it again, that those areas where you have fewer cases, those are actually the areas we have to pay very close attention to, not saying they're going to be fine. they haven't had many cases yet, they're going to be fine. dr. fauci just said the exact opposite. it is a fundamental difference, john, between what we are hearing last week, this idea that maybe those places could start to be opened. dr. fauci has said pay more attention to them. practically speaking, john, it's really about the number of people per capita that are infected, not just the total

number of people. whenever you look at these maps, think about this per capita. new york obviously much more densely populated than some of these other areas. but number two, we haven't been doing testing there yet. we really don't know how significant the problem is. don't let those embers turn into flames. it's a really apt metaphor, john. >> if you look at the map, tiny places like rhode island, arrow going that way. out in rural idaho, arrow going that way. the doctor finally convincing the president, sir, you have this wrong. just because the map isn't filled in doesn't mean it's not coming. they showed him a chart that said do you want 2.2 million americans to die, sir? do you want to be that president? or do you want 100,000 to 150,000 americans die? don't you prefer to be that president? you could hear it from the president when he came into the rose garden yesterday, everybody saying, what is he going to decide? he said 2.2 million?

no way. >> you're talking about 2.2 million deaths. 2.2 million people from this. and so if we could hold that down as we're saying to 100,000, it's a horrible number, maybe even less but to 1 000,000. so we have between 100,000 to 200,000. we all together have done a very good job. >> the numbers themselves overwhelming, but they managed to present them almost in a trumpian way, saying, mr. president, these are huge. you can do something about it. >> i talked to someone who was familiar with that briefing last night who said that the presentation that the doctors, the medical professionals gave, and in particular dr. fauci and dr. birx, was incredibly powerful. not that much different in substance from what they have been saying behind the scenes and in public, and what anyone

has been listening to sanjay say about the models has been understood fire long tior a lon. but it's difficult with a president who has pushed really hard against the grain, against the notion of doing this. he was convinced by this powerful presentation, and our colleagues have some great reporting about the fact that it was that and the images out of elmhurst hospital which the president himself said in the rose garden yesterday is a place that he's quite familiar with right near where he grew up, that that was something that helped to persuade him as well. i can tell you that i've talked to some people in and around the president who don't like this idea, who think that there is still -- these are not medical professionals, these are political policy people who still think there is a way to do it piecemeal. but right now, where we are right now, the president is listening to the medical professionals, listening to people like sanjay. >> he has locked in on this,

even saying he does not see anyplace in april he can do the county by county or region by region approach he had talked about last week. sanjay, it sucks, i'm sorry to use that word, but it sucks trying to prepare the american people for this who, sanjay said, still don't think this is a big deal. you're looking at 2,461 deaths. that is horrible. dr. fauci is saying we could get up to 100,000. michigan, louisiana, florida, cases doubling every two days, in new york every four days. i'm thinking of a major football stadium, a medium-sized city in america, 150,000, 200,000 people. what do we look for in the days and weeks ahead to show, yes, this is the scope of this, and anyone out there who doesn't believe the doctors and doesn't believe the science, you should

finally believe the president and take this seriously. >> john, i agree with you, this does suck. there is no two ways about it, and i don't think anybody gets any joy in citing those sorts of numbers. this is a catastrophe, a pandemic that is sweeping around the world. mother nature is retaliating in this way, and that is something worth remembering, . as we talked about, we're all in this together. the idea that best-case scenario that's presented in the chart you just showed, the worst case 2.2 million, the best case around 100 to 200,000. that is still if we continue all the active mitigation measures we have in place right now, and it's not clear to me still that we're doing that. i can't believe after two months of saying this, as we all have been, that it's still not clear. here in georgia where i am right now, it's not happening universally. the governor still said people who are medically vulnerable should stay home for the state. that's still happening right now

even as the president is saying everyone should stay home until the end of april. it is still being applied very unevenly, john. >> i saw some construction workers driving in. they were in like a football huddle, smoking, drinking, talking inches apart from each other. sanjay, dana, i appreciate it. we'll continue this conversation. it is one thing to hear about the dire situations, the hospitals and the health care workers on the front lines of this pandemic. it's quite another thing to see it yourself. miguel marquez went to the brooklyn hospital in new york. miguel, take us inside that hospital. >> reporter: if you need any other sobering example of what's at stake here and how difficult it is going to get and how long it's going to be difficult, go to brookdale hospital, their emergency room. this is in the brownsville neighborhood of brooklyn. largely african-american and latino, one of the poor neighborhoods in new york.

on a good day, on a great day, they have plenty coming through their front door that keeps them busy. coronavirus is now pushing that hospital and many others to the very edge. every corridor, every corner, every ward, every inch of brookdale hospital medical center in brooklyn now inundated with those suffering from covid-19. what are you looking at on a daily basis? how difficult is this? >> this is a war zone. it's a medical war zone. every day i come in, what i see on a daily basis is pain, despair, suffering and health care disparates. >> reporter: through sunday afternoon, brookdale said it had at least 100 confirmed cases of covid-19 with at least 80 awaiting confirmation. nearly 20 people have died so far from the disease a top of its normal emergency flow. coronavirus is pushing the hospital to the max. >> we are scared, too. we're fighting for your lives and we're fighting for our own lives. we're trying to keep our head

above water and not drown. >> reporter: doctors, nurses, even those keeping the floors clean, they say rising tide, uncertain how long it will rise, unsure this coronavirus won't be in them as they struggle to stay a step ahead. what do you need right now? >> we need prayers, we need support, we need gowns, we need masks, we need more vents, we need medical space. we need psychosocial support as well. it's not easy coming here knowing what you're going to face. >> reporter: the deaths keep coming while filming another victim of covid-19 was moved to the hospital temporary morgue, a refrigerated semi trailer parked out back. the hospital's regular morgue filled to capacity. how much room do you have in your morgue? >> usually we have around 20-plus bodies we can fit comfortably. >> reporter: you've gone over that. >> we've gone over that.

the state has been gracious enough to bring us apparatus to help keep families and keep the bodies in comfortable areas because we didn't want bodies piled on top of each other. >> reporter: brookdale needs more of everything. today edward says the hospital has 370 beds. they would like to add more, many more. two weeks ago this was the pediatric emergency room. now it's dedicated to victims of covid-19. plastic tarp taped to the ceiling offering some protection and a bit of privacy. the intensive care unit filled nearly to capacity and sealed so fewer doors and less traffic than usual comes and goes. this window is the only place where family members can watch their loved one inside the unit as they chat with them via cell phone. it's sometimes as close as they can get as covid-19 takes another life. as grim as it is right now, dr.

m mollett expects it will get worse. >> it could end in the fall, it could end at the end of the year. but that's why we're asking to put the threat on the emergency department but those at home. >> you think this is months, not weeks. >> definitely. >> reporter: the other thing she's seen come through the door is not just the elderly and people with compromised health systems. >> it's the same thing in the bronx. there was a couple in their 30s and they're now intubated and sick. >> reporter: no underlying conditions? >> no underlying conditions. the thing about life and death as far as this coronavirus is this virus -- there's no difference. it has nothing to do with age, it has nothing to do with access to health care, it has nothing to do with socioeconomics, race or ethnicity. this virus is killing a lot of people. >> reporter: brookdale has one advantage. hospital officials say it can do

rapid testing for coronavirus on-site, its own lab. right now up to 300 tests a day. they hope to get to 500 a day. >> right now we have about 52 specimens in here about to -- that we're preparing to test at the moment. >> reporter: the hospital following centers for disease control guidelines on who gets coveted tests. patients admitted for possible coronavirus, health care workers showing symptoms and symptomatic long-term patients. each test a laborious and time-consuming process. >> it's very easy to make a mistake just from an extra milliliter of an agent adding to the machine can mess up the entire batch. all of them, we would have to start over from the beginning. >> reporter: er doctors are used to stress. dr. mollett says she has never experienced anything like this. >> i don't sleep well at night.

i worry about my family, i worry about my safety, i worry about my colleagues, i worry about how the shift is going to be the next time i come, i worry about if a family member is going to come and be a patient as well and fall victim to the coronavirus. i worry about a lot of things. >> reporter: the disease a marathon that health care workers alone cannot win or even finish. >> reporter: it's not up to only the emergency department to pull through and to make sure the curve is flattened, this is a responsibility for everybody in the country to help us pull through. >> reporter: so stay the f home. >> exactly. stay the f home. exactly. exactly. it's not just us that has to help flatten the curve and take care of everybody. help us help you. >> reporter: she said it will take everyone pulling together. the worst days, she fears, are still ahead. now, what is most shocking about going to that place, we went in

in full protective gear, the proper protective gear that was necessary. the people who work there, there are thousands of employees, they all need masks, they all need goggl goggles, they all need gowns every single day. they don't have them. they looked at us as though we were wearing the gold standard and they were almost jealous that we had it. many people there telling us they go to home depot, e-bay looking for stuff to buy and help others there at the hospital. john? >> we hope that supply chain improves in the days ahead. thank you, miguel. it's critical we actually get to see this. that's brave reporting. it's critically important. hats off to those workers, the nurses, the guys mopping the floor. i'll talk to an emergency room doctor about lessons learned and about the efforts to try to flatten the curve. $9.95 at my age?

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california was the first region in the country to impose shelter in place. then it was adopted by the entire state. california covers 4 million residents. there has been 118 deaths in california. at what rate will the deaths climb in the days and weeks ahead. jonathan is in california.

let's go through your experience. your covid-19 caseload has been steady but not yet overwhelming. you believe that time has helped your hospital learn valuable lessons. let's start with patient care. in patient care, what have you learned in your drills from studying new york? >> i think studying new york, especially the hospital in queens, the hospital i work at, highland hospital in oakland, is a special care hospital. we do care predominantly for vulnerable patients, patients with unstable housing or the homeless and that helped us work a plan for discharges when we tell people shelter in place to make sure people have a place to shelter in place in. it's a lot easier to tell someone like me to go hang at home and get food delivered. it's a little harder when it's a

55-year-old gentleman who lives under a bypass with 50 other people. we've learned how to plan for that and see our problems ahead of time before they arise, saying, hey, how do we keep the curve flat? how do we keep patients like this from infecting other patients at shelters, at homeless encampments, as well as the general patient population? and how do we keep the people in the emergency room safe from infecting each other, and in the lobby from infecting loved ones who are coming to visit? we've learned a tremendous amount from our colleagues in new york, in italy, china, korea, all over the globe. >> i want to follow up on that. in terms of protecting the patients and all the people in the hospital. you're at a huge risk. the latest numbers from italy are just stunning. 8,000 medical workers have contracted the virus, 61 have died. you tell me you've studied how they were doing things and you're making big changes because of them that you think will help protect you and your colleagues. tell me about those.

>> absolutely. first of all, we found that simple things that protect patients protect us. as simple as when someone comes into the er lobby, they get a mask. it sounds super simple, but if you assume that everybody has some potential for having covid-19 and pout on a mask, little things like that can help reduce spread. but in addition to the things we're doing to keep ourselves safe, in addition to ppe, personal protective equipment, we're making huge changes in the way we organize our emergency department and the we we approach somebody who may need life support for treatment of their covid-19. for example, that when somebody needs a breathing tube put in, it needs to be a little bit of a all hands on deck scenario. medical students, residents, attendings, respiratory therapists, everybody coming in to lend a hand. we're limiting the number of people in the room.

we found that things like putting in a breathing tube is a completely high-risk procedure for health care providers, so we're limiting the number of people in the room, we're using video-assisted technology as much as possible to not physically look into the airway and be exposed to viral particles, and we're making sure that people who are performing these procedures are wearing powered air purifying personal respirators to make sure we limit our exposure as health care providers. these are things being done in italy and china and now being done in the u.s. >> i want to ask you a question about non-covid patients. you wrote to me about treating people in your area. a man comes off the street with a heart condition. you treat that people and they leave the hospital, your fear is you're sending them back to a shelter or on the streets who are immunocompromised where they

could be exposed and at risk. how do you handle that? >> that's a great question. that's one we're grappling with now. communities like l.a., chicago and san francisco, we have a tremendous number of social workers, county administrators, docs and nurses working to make sure we have housing set up for these vulnerable populations. as you said, it doesn't do much good to either the person i'm quarantining that i'm sending back to a homeless shelter or his bunkmate who is 60 years old, has heart disease. if i just return someone who i suspect has covid to a homeless shelter. for now we're working on a 100 to 200-bed motel/hotel setup where we arrange transportation, food, resources and possible transportation back to the hospital to allow people to effectively self-isolate and quarantine, to make sure that things like self-isolation and quarantine isn't just reserved

for people like me, but to make sure our most vulnerable people we care for every day at hospitals like elmhurst have the chance to self-isolate just like i do. some of the patients who are at the highest risk of potentially dying from covid, these are patients who are elderly, have many medical morbidities. these aren't someone like me, these are ones that are much higher, at higher risk of really bad outcomes. we're doing what we can to keep them safe at home and in a safe living environment. >> dr. gelber, we appreciate your insights. keep in touch as the challenge increases in the days and weeks ahead. i really appreciate it. most of all, stay safe as you take care of people. when we come back, more on the president's call to the governors right now. elief of yor worst symptoms, including itchy throat.

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maryland just moments ago becoming the 28th state to have some form of a stay-at-home order. governor harry logan's order takes effect at 8:00 tonight.

he says you can only leave your home for essential work or essential services that you need. maryland now the 28th state with such an order in place. this hour more signs of the coronavirus economic impact. macy's stores are closed. the company now says it plans to furlough a majority of its 125,000 work force. the furlough starts this week. the week ahead will bring us big clues about the coronavirus economic fallout. weekly unkmemployment claims, y remember last week, hit a record. this week the united states could see another 3 million americans file for jobless benefits. tomorrow the consumer kfconfidee index comes out for march. tomorrow for many americans it is the date to pay your rent and mortgage. on thursday we get the weekly jobless claims and on friday the unemployment rate. those employee surveys are taken early in the month, so early in

march before so many sectors were decimated by the coronavirus. meanwhile, many businesses like amazon have seen a surge in business. but that has shown workers now saying they work in risky conditions. allison, what are the complaints and demands? >> hi, john. instacart and amazon employees are saying they're not being protected by these companies. at instacart, employees are going on strike saying they don't have hand sanitizer, they don't have wipes, they don't have anything protective. they said they would give them hand sanitizer and would give them 14 days paid leave for those who contract coronavirus. at amazon, one of the employees

tested positive for coronavirus, and the employees there say they need to shut down the facility, they need to clean it and they need to pay them while they are cleaning the facility. amazon responded in a statement. they said they're following the local guidance from state authorities and they're making adjustments to their business hours. they're also going to do enhanced cleaning, and they said they also instituted temperature screenings. this is something we'll see around the world as employees are trying to be safe at their job. companies are trying to meet the bottom line, but more importantly, they're trying to take care of their employees while getting the job done. john? >> one of the many mounting challenges as we try to sort through this. for one community in west texas, the coronavirus is a gut

punch. in texas city, they were hit with low oil prices. the texas mayor patrick payton, who is also a pastor. mayor, i spoke to someone yesterday who met with you, and she was talking about your experience with a pastor, specifically your presiexperien presiding over funerals, is sadly becoming handy these days. please explain. >> as i was sharing with the "washington post," many times you go through a grief process any time you do a funeral with the family. the positive side is by the end of the day or the next morning, you begin to see some relief in sight. as we wake up every morning, it seems like the news gets worse and worse.

you heard of it affecting places like amazon. it seems like we're all waking up to a fresh tragedy every morning, and we're learning how to deal with this pressure with really very little end in sight. >> i want to read from your own facebook posting, because one of the things we need to do a better job of in this, i'm in washington, obviously big cities in california, but medium town america like midland are dealing with this. you wrote, i woke up and the town had literally cratered overnight. literally thousands of people had been laid off from their jobs. when a man or woman come up to you and say, mr. mayor, or mr. pastor, what do they need from you at this moment? >> really they need a sign of comfort, and where they're finding this comfort is in one

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u out. now people are finding it's difficult to just go somewhere else while everybody is crashing in the jobs industry, and we're not able to move around to different spots as we're going through something we've never gone through before. >> mayor, thank you for coming on. remember the smaller places in america and what you're going through as well. >> appreciate it, john. >> thank you, sir. coming up for us, cities on lockdown all around the world. we'll be live in london, next. what do you think? i don't see it. only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪

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left to go home and die. and the reason they're asking those tough questions is because there simply isn't enough room in many of these hospitals. they need to maximize the room they have and make sure that the people with the greatest chance of survival are the ones who are getting access to the medical equipment that they need. i'm not just talking, john, about coronavirus patients. let me give you an example. i spoke recently to a top london oncologist who was explaining to me that they've been asked to categorize their patients from 1 to 6, 6 being the most sickly with the least chance of recovery. those people who fall into category 6 are now being given a phone call by their oncologist and told simply they cannot continue with chemotherapy. they cannot come to stay at the hospital. partly because of the risk in a vulnerable group of cancer patients, but partly also because these hospitals need to be cleared, beds need to be made and priority needs to be given to those who have the best

chance of recovery, john. >> clarissa ward, appreciate that. sorry we have to cut this short. we have to get you to new york and mayor bill de blasio. >> it's known to all of us in nork ci new york city, but i want to thank everybody who was a part of this. we have to remember, this is a wartime atmosphere. we all have to pull together. we may have differences in peace time, but we all have to be as one in wartime. i know our colleagues in the military understand that. we all need to understand that now. so i do want to thank president trump, i want to thank secretary esper, i want to thank chairman milley, everyone at the united states navy, the united states marine corps, the united states coast guard, all the people at

fema, so many people at the federal government who came together to make this happen and so much more for new york city. i want to thank governor cuomo and everyone in the state government who has joined us in pushing from day one for this kind of support. i want to thank, from our administration, everyone who worked to get the dredging done, working with the military. i want everyone to understand, and admiral muston will affirm this. this ship is ahead of schedule by the amazing work of the military. the dredging was done faster than anyone knew it could be done to allow this ship to dock. i want to thank everybody in the development corporation, our emergency management team and the state department of conservation and everyone who pulled together. this was supposed to take two weeks for this ship to dock, they did it in eight days.

that means help has arrived quicker and we'll be able to do the lifesaving work right now. i want to also thank from the military one of the leaders who did the work to make this moment possible, marine corps colonel brian deplessus who is with us. thank you, colonel. and from our team, colonel james hendon, thank you. so with this ship comes an extraordinary complement of talented individuals and service to our nation. 1200 medical staff and sailors here to help us all. 750 beds will be put into play immediately to relieve the pressure on our hospital system. let me be clear that this is such a crucial part of the plan we are putting in place, but i want you to understand the sheer

manage a magnitude of the plan. we need to triple our hospital bed capacity in new york city by may. the number of beds we had at the beginning of march have to triple by may. it is a daunting task, but we got a big, big boost, the arrival of comfort. this is like adding a whole other hospital to new york city. think it is like another one that just floated right up to help us right now. the new york city's mayor did a ceremony welcoming the u.s. navy ship. the mayor thanking the president and the pentagon and the navy and the navy and the marine corp. to help ease the over crowded situation in new york obviously of the coronavirus center right now. up next, protect yourself, that's the message from the state representative who tested positive for covid-19, he joins us with his experience.

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covid-19 is no joke. take it seriously. stay-at-home. >> we have to take this seriously. those of you who are treating it like a game, treatment with conspiracy theory, ilt dot does matter what you try to think is this or that. people are getting infected with this virus. people are dying from this virus. so we need you to take this seriously. >> right now more than 1100 cases in wisconsin. 13 people have died.

health officials in milwaukee says the city of african-american community is being hit especially hard. one recovering from the virus. state representative, david bowen. thank you for being here to share the experience. there are people out there who thinks this is over hyped and this is not so bad. you more than anybody can help people understand that's not the case. tell me your story. >> thank you for having me on, john. this virus is much moresi easie to get than you think. i had a chance to see a colleague at a cafe, clearly he had the virus. just like what i was contracted by the virus several days after that. i experienced very intensive symptoms that really resemble the common cold but they do

intensify and i was wondering why i was experiencing symptoms that is were so strong. i got a call from the health department that i was exposed to somebody that was exposed to covid-19. everything made sense at that point. it made sense for me to seek medical attention for my primary healthcare physician which a lot of people in my community don't have access to healthcare and it is blowing up this problem. >> let me jump in on that point. the contract tracing work. you had symptoms but when you're calling, they found you and said may have a problem, too. take me inside of uninsured community. this proportion number of african-americans and latinos at the moment. what can be done? we are in this now.

what can be done to raise awareness when it comes to healthcare disparity. >> absolutely. you are seeing a majority african-american population on the north side of the city accumulates the vast majority of the cases we are seeing. the big chunk of the cases we are seeing statewide and essentially we need to get resources to families and we need to get especially for folks feeling the economic brunt and problem with the economy right now trying to provide for their family and trying to provide for their family and where he need to get those resources on the ground for families. there are a lot of misinformation that was shared and especially when you have folks from the top down spreading this information both to the public and it allows folks not to take it seriously

as they should. >> have you turn the corner from yours experience, just people involving in politics, do you get a sense even the president of the united states as the country shuts down for the month of april, is it sinking in for those reluctant to acknowledge this severity? >> i think it is almost there. the problem is people are still trying to find help to help pay their rent or mortgage or a number of different things. they don't have a certainty those things will be taken care of or they'll be given the help to take care of those things. you have a lot of people in our community, all african-americans passing away from covid-19 and essentially we have to get the information out there of how easy it is to contract this virus, spread it and get people the medical attention they need that we know they were cutting

through years of disparity. equity that needs to be used to get folks access to the help they need. right now we are so far behind. >> i hope in a few months to see you in a democratic cob vennven and meet you in your town. representative david bowen, thank you so much. welcome to our viewers around the world, i am john king. last night a dramatic shift from the president of the united states wanting to return america back to normal by easter, now, keeping the country shut another month and possibly two. millions of americans would lose their lives to coronavirus. the u.s. coronavirus forecast is