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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 still stunning and sad.
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the infectious disease expert says again, expect 100,000 to 200,000 to perish, that's the best case scenario. stop and think about that scale for a moment. schools will stay closed until the end of the academic year. in maryland, the governor issued a stay-at-home order going into effect tonight. vermont, directing from the governor, anyone from out of state musselt self-quarantine f the next 14 days. if you can't get help from the federal government to triple the number of hospitals beds. the president again this morning says it is the state's job to solve their own problems.
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cnn brynn gingras is live for us in new york city. you hear the numbers from the mayor and the governor, new york is still up when it comes to the curve here. >> reporter: what the governor has said is all hands-on deck at this point. we knew it was going to get worse and that's what we are continuing to see more than a thousand deaths because of the coronavirus here in the state of new york alone. listen, they are flooding resources to these hospitals. we are talking about doctors and nurses and equipment and personal protective equipment and ventilators and however it is still not enough. the mayor says that sunday could be d-day here in new york if they don't get more supplies. it is a dire situation and we are seeing that in the hospitals. my colleague marquez given that exclusive look of hospital beds lining up in the hallway. the new york city hospitals system, their e.r. doubled and
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tripled the icu units. these are staggering the number. the mayor as he welcomes comfort to the people who are working on the front line. they need to triple the amount of bed they have by may. so there is a lot of things that are working and in place. i want to make this good point and the city now is saying you can be fined for as much as $500 if you don't practice social distancing. there is going to be a warning and a fine. that's important because if that's another step to get everyone to comply to bring these numbers down. >> another reminder we are still early in the challenge. >> live reporting straight from new york. live from louisiana officials, they say they are in serious trouble. louisiana will see new york-like coronavir
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coronavirus. this morning the lieutenant governor says louisiana needs more ventilators, they need them soon. we absolutely need more ventilators. >> cnn ed lavandera is in louisiana. >> this is going to be crucial here across the state of louisiana as we continue to see the number of coronavirus cases spiking by the hundreds everyday. we are now up to more than 3500 coronavirus cases here in the state, nearly 1400 of those cases are here in the city of new orleans alone. there has already been 151 deaths. the reason why this week is so crucial is that state officials, the governor is saying that this is the week towards the end of
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this week we'll begin to see extreme shortages on the equipment necessary to help many of these patients battle the infection. by the weekend, there could be a shortage of ventilators across the state. the governor requested 12,000 ventilators and so far he received 192 of those and the governor says none of those comes from the national stock pot. there is a great deal of concern as medical officials here and medical experts say still have not reached and won't reach the peek of number of cases they are battling here at least for several more weeks and that equipment shortage coming at the wrong time. great deal of stress about that. really state officials are urging people to change their behaviors and really buckle down on social distancing. over the weekend here in no, sir
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li over the weekend here in no, sir li over the weekend here in no, sir li over the weekend here in no, sir linor new orleans, a warning was issued for a man doing a funeral gathering. that's the one thing that everyone can do, social distancing to help battle through this outbreak of coronavirus here in the state of louisiana. ed lavandera, cnn, nor liew orl. michigan is also getting a lot of attention specifically the city of detroit. dr. anthony fauci added detroit to a list of cities that are on a dangerous trajectory. >> you want to start seeing some flattening out and turning around of the curve and coming down. it was not doing that. if you look at new york, it was doing this. if you look at new orleans, it was doing this. detroit is going to uncertainly
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going to do that. you need to be pressing the foot on the panel as oppose to the brakes. >> dr. tina chopra at the detroit medical center from infectious disease at wayne university. dr. chopra, this is a question that i keep on asking. when you look at the challenges, is today better than yesterday? is today getting worse as dr. fauci puts detroit on the places where the arc is going in the wrong direction? >> today is definitely getting worse and it is going to get worse as people get out. detroit is on the same trajectory and worse than new york and i think that the fact that detroit has a unique characteristics of the highest population and the fact that detroit is socially disadvantage also puts us in a unique
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situation. >> what is your sense of where we are today, the governor is trying to get what we need here when it comes to ventilators and masks and protective equipment. the destrtroit area is in bette shape now? are you still in a dire situation? >> we are still in a dire situation. we need more and more resources. i do hear more resources coming our way. we are still struggling. michigan is struggling and both with more resources and staffing. >> what is the biggest surprise for you as you look at the case data, as we try to learn for your study of what you can get paper if you would, from china or south italy and from new york. now you have real-life experience and in the state of
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michigan. what will are you learning of covid-19 that most surprises you? >> the most important thing in detroit is the growth rate is very high and the number of new cases. the number of new cases detroit hyper tension or heart disease, we are on one of the top cities with higher preservalence of th factors. also, a lot of patients are coming to us when they are severe. they are coming to us when they need to treat them right away and put them on ventilators. that's very much because of the fact that they have -- they are socially disadvantage and they have all these high-risk factors. >> the people that have these
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factors, most of them or many of them have known to the medical community. is there a concentrated effort to make sure that they have heard three or four or five, six times from people keep your distance or follow these guidelines and you are most at risk. >> absolutely. the state of michigan and the city of detroit have done an amazing job in communication and collaboration with the group physicians and doing a good job in testing these individuals. our front line providers to make sure we can partake and get as many people as possible and make sure we get them. >> dr. chopra, thank you so much for your time. more importantly thank you for all the work you and your colleagues are doing as we fight through this. >> thank you. thank you very much. up next for us, a former nfl
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massachusetts has 5,000 cases of coronavirus. the staff there is facing the same type of shortages, protective equipment that we see across the country. >> there are no masks right now. >> let me ask you after seeing that video and the empty shelves. as you listen to the white house team now, supply lines are opened and things are getting better. is it there yet? >> our hospital is one of the larger hospital in this new england area.
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although we don't have your masks, where they would be for surgery. if i am going to go operate on someone, that's where the masks would be now. they're at a centralized location and being dispersed around all employees. n-95 masks are still being provided and right now certainly resources are low and everyone is trying to conserve as much as possible and protect ourselves. >> you are a neuro surgeon resident helping in the fight of coronavirus. tell me what that is like. >> i play football my whole life. one thing football taught me is to be able to adjust and adapt especially something on the field that you did not anticipate or prepare for. the number of patients coming in and the influx and severity and
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how infected this is. we are being recruited to help in the surge clinic which is a hospital within a hospital and that kind of triages and help. we are being team players and doing the best we can >> give us a description of what it is like to be rushed into a surge clinic when you have to deal with all these patients coming in with treatments and stress of that and worrying your own exposure and even as you try to help saving lives. >> my day is taking out a brain tumor or something of that nature. now the shift has been how do we keep this patient's oxygen high or get the right test or consult. it is hectic. we have to protect ourselves
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here so that we are valuable member of the team to treat these patients. our primary focus is to fix surgical disease, the call and more vulnerable state of patient is to do what we can. >> you see the line in massachusetts. you see the line of massachusetts in terms of the number of cases is going up. you are seeing it in realtime playing out. what's the stress and where do you see this heading? >> the stress is real mr. king. our hospital has adjusted. now when you walk in, everybody has to wear a mask and there are hand sanitizers everywhere. our floor has been converted to a covid-19 only floor. a lot of things day-to-day are changing.
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i give credit to our hospital registratiby keeping us informed and what way we can use best practices and methodology. i am certain that's happening around the country and not just us here. >> what are the challenges of that? you are turning places in the hospital that were designed and some of them are waiting areas and they are now treatment areas and covid-19 area. it is fantastic that people are showing the flexibility to respond to the challenge. with that comes significant challenges and no equipment in the waiting area and now it is a hospital bed. there is different equipment in neuro surgery and now you have to deal with covid-19, how do you get through all that? >> it is retraining. some of the nurse parishioners and doctors on how to manage these patients and what to do.
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for this aspect of medicine is certainly much different. the patients who are waiting on the wait list for a neuro procedure now have to be pushed back. >> a little issue with our signal there. i want to thank dr. myron me. up next the politics of the health crisis. the disagreements and the tensions between governors and the president.
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the president's tone shifted significantly from the coronavirus. restrictions will stay in place for all of april tch. there has been one constant. the president wants credit from the states. he says the federal government have done so far to respond to the coronavirus. joining me from washington is cnn's jeff zeleny and kaitlan collins. listen to the president when it comes to governors and says i am doing a great job, you should recognize it. >> she has no idea what's going on and all she does is say oh,
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it is the federal government. we have taken care of michigan. don't call the woman in michigan. >> i don't have energy to respond everything. what i am trying to do is work well with the federal government. is no such thing as partisanship right now. the president yesterday says we are all in this together. he bristles and shoves back when it comes to the states. >> john, the president realized politically speaking it was not a good idea to go after those governors. he's been doing that with the governor of washington, calling him a snake and he urged the vice president not to call him either. after that briefing where he was saying i told mike not to call if this is what's going on referring to the vice president, of course, they realized that was a political mistake and it was not a good idea to pick these fights with these
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governors at a time like this. there has been a lot in coordination, these states are desperate to get more supplies for the their hospitals. >> you heard the president saying hefsa saying he was not attacking them but of course that does not match up of what the president is saying on this. the president knows who's praising him and he's criticizing him. >> governor cuomo is hot with the president and a lot of times he's complimentary. if you say nice things with the president on television, you are likely to get his attention and what you are looking for. doct dr. fauci and dr. birx have moved the president. the president says it could go well into the month of may. here is another one i want you to listen to. the president keeps on saying, i am going to help the states when i can.
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this is a state's responsibility when it comes to masks and ventilators. listen to dr. birx. >> it is our job to ensure hospitals are receiving the supplies they need. >> those are not words the president uses. he uses sometimes it is us verses them or i am not going to take or share any of the responsibilities of the problem. >> no question. these governors are in a crisis. governor whitmer is not incline to fight the president. she does not have time to do so. the next few weeks, we'll see some flattery of the president because indeed it works well. look at rwandan matton desantis good relationship with the
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president and so far he gotten what he asked for. the president made the speech yesterday at the rose garden, they could not control that. the question is as this moves west across the country. it is going to hit blue states and red states and all people of all stripes. that's the question, the challenge for this president. can he keep those fights at bay. he does remember the states that he wants. he loves the people of michigan and the people and of course he's not a fan of the governor. governors are talking among themselves and trying to play nice with the president. the actual business gets done and the call with the vice president and the fema director and others. that's where these governors can rely on for help from the white house. >> governors and mayors, highly complementary. he takes their calls and at least tries and giving them full credit. they give him a ton of credit
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for trying. one of the things we heard yesterday kaitlyn, the president's policies shift. taking the huge step back from his pledge to try to reopen the government as soon as possible. when it came to accountability. the president tries to pass the buck. he says the states have the supply they don't want to admit it. one city hospital used to order 20 or 30,000 masks is now asking for 300,000 masks and he suggested there is something going on. listen. >> how do you go from 10 to 20 or to 300,000? 10,000 to 20,000 masks to 300,000, where are the masks going? are they going out to the back door? how do you go from 10,000 to 300,000? i don't think it is hoarding. i think it is worst than
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hoarding. he's the president of the united states, if there is a ne -- >> we heard from andrew cuomo who talked about how there been some thefts of these critical needed supplies. the president was implying something nefarious happening with over 200,000 masks. implying that something was going on with the hospital employees, the president seems to be indicating and of course there is no evidence of what the president is talking about. if you see these interviews with the nurses and doctors coming out of these hospitals. they have in desperate state. they are being overwhelmed and they are worried of getting sick. they don't seem to be occupied with stealing supplies or something with that nature. the president's implication
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there is not necessarily a lot of aids seeing helpful. we are in short supply, we need the federal government to help. also they need help with the coordination because there is a lot of states all trying to get the exact same thing and they say comparing or creating this competition between all of the states. they say that's their issue and that was not what the president was focused on yesterday during this press conference. kaitlyn collins and jeff zeleny. thank you. >> congressman mark meadows will resign from congress later today. he gets ready to become the next white house's chief of staff. his first day at the white house will be tomorrow. he takes over from mick mulvaney who serves as the acting chief of staff. coming up, states braced for more deaths as the number of
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coronavirus. the city's 12 million residents can only leave their homes to get medical supplies or go to the store or walking their pets. zimbabwe starting a three-week lock-down, shutting more shops and suspending flights in and out of the country. the african nation have less than a dozen of millions of cases. in italy's lockdown likely to be extended past friday. the restriction is likely to be exte extended. in arkansas there are now 450 confirmed infectious. 6 people there have died. while the state does not have in i major hot spots, dr. birx says
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now is the time for rural areas across america to get ready. >> if you wait for that, if the metros and the rural areas don't take care now, by the time you see it, it has penetrated your community pretty significantly and that's what we are concerned about. that's why you have to prepare even though you think it is not there. >> joining me now is dr. smith. thank you for being with us. to the point that dr. birx made, of 449 cases and six deaths today. one week ago you were at 160 cases and at zero death. what does it tell you? >> we are watching it closely. we know that we have spread in our state and we are taking action to limit that spread and prepare ourselves of the number of patients we expect will require hospital care. >> let's deal with the challenge.
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your biggest challenge is like many other places in your urban areas, little rock and what is the situation there and how quickly is the case count going up and what's being done? >> yeah, little rock and the central arkansas area are highest population area and that's where we saw our first evidence of community transmissi transmission. we taken statewide action but the city of little rock taken more actions to try to limit the spread including curfews and things of that sort. we are also trying to follow up on all positive cases and do self-isolation and quarantine and all the things we know. >> and take us out you have many ru rural areas across the great state. you have a church gathering or a source of a number of cases? >> yes, yes, the total
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population of 30,000 having over 60 cases. most if not all of them are linked to a church gathering, it shows us how explosive covid-19 can be in the right setting. >> and the right setting. some of the languages you are using in the situation. help me understand your challenges as a state health director. this is an opportunity for telehealth. this is an opportunity for people especially, you don't want people especially who have diabetes or obesity or heart conditions or any of those compromised situation, you don't want them to be in a medical setting tch setting. this is a challenge of rural internet and how are you dealing with this at the moment? >> healthcare workers are particularly high risk. we have to protect them, 67 of our 400 plus cases are healthcare workers. we are urging people to call ahead and talk and do what you can over the phone. telehealth does not have to be
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sophisticated equipment, it can be phone call in certain settings. those who need hospital care, you want them to go to the hospital but to engage in the hospital in a way that does not expose people unnecessarily to covid-19. >> where are you dr. smith in closing on the supply chain issues, any needs today or smaller states should have a fewer number of cases or may have trouble getting the phone picked up if you will if you are calling fema or the white house. by numbers crisis in a place like new york or new orleans or up to california. >> well, yes, we are facing the same challenges with lab agents and testing and ppe and of course ventilators. these are all concerns to us and we are trying to do what we can on some of these things. >> dr. nate smith.
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across the country parents and teachers are adjusting to virtual learning, turning home into a classroom. st sta that's a giant challenge for students in rural and lower income communities who don't have access to a computer or reliable internet service. >> joining me now with jodi. jodi, let me start with you. i want to put the map up from your reporting about internet access in the state of illinois. this is a giant challenge. the entire country is going through it right now.
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if you live in an area that's under served by basic internet service, you are in areas that don't have up to speed or if at all computer. how much does that magnify when it is a dawning challenge of teaching children in a brand new environment? >> we are going to see here in illinois and have the country is these technology gaps affecting schools shutting down because there will be families and children don't have access to technology that'll help with education and there are families that have no access to the ecknoloec technology and they don't have devices or cell phones that's required by a lot of the educational technology. >> jennifer, to that point we see in the medical side of this equation surges of equipment
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shifting of resources, our states and cities, can they do anything? it is hard to lay-in cables in a community that has zero today. are they trying to do anything to surge resources or something to help those who are deprived at the moment. we talk about the healthcare disparity, this is now an education disparity. >> it is. what we are seeing service providers offering deals to get people connected in a minimal way in a basic level but what we are finding is that's not helpful for parts of the state where service simply does not exist. so a deal for low cost basic internet is not helpful at this moment. >> i have a third grader who had his first morning virtual learning. he live in an ars here in washi
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d.c., the provider was locked up at one point. i am not going to name it. we have seen stories of netflix and hulu and streaming service are becoming more at home. is there an effort to help these services, we are doing critical work up their capacity. >> well, i think what educators are doing is not relying on the technology because as you said, finding ways to supplement with paper and pencil work and trying to get creative with different work that students can do at home or working on scientific experience. i saw one class having a student challenged a parent to see who can do the most push-ups. i think a lot of thinking
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outside the box. educators are doing what they can with or without technology. technology is not going to always work. >> we are being reminded both in the healthcare sector and now again in the education challenge about the real heroes of our lives. the doctors and nurses and healthcare centers and our teachers who are under paid and over work. i want to listen to the head of the american federation talking about, she has these educators trying to figure out what to do to help students. >> teachers around the country are trying to make virtual learning work. it is not nearly as good. we know that as having brick and mortar schools. one of the ideas we have proposed is we figure out how to cap the year through experiments and project based learning. >> so it is a very different, it
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is very dgoing to go on for a while. the governor of arizona says the rest of the academic year of arizona will be done at home. we are seeing this across the country. >> we are. we are seeing as jodi says. educators are buckling down and getting creative. we got a school district that repurpose its buses as wi-fi hot spot so people can drive up the hot spot and download the material they need for the next few days or the week and go home and work at their own pace. educators are rising to the occasion to try to deliver anything that they can whether there is broad band service or not. >> that 's pretty amazing. i guess we'll see more challenges. jodi cohen, jennifer smith, thank you so much. appreciate your insights. a couple of updates for you in production of masks.
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brooks brothers are beginning to make face masks. >> people should not wear face masks unless they have sick with coronavirus or caring for someone who has it. andrew cuomo is expected to give an update in cases responding to his state. we'll bring you that live, stay with us. from your allergy pills? flonase relieves your worst symptoms which most pills don't. get all-in-one allergy relief for 24 hours, with flonase.
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