welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm john king in washington. this is cnn's coverage of the coronavirus pandemic. we begin this hour with the sober coronavirus reality. the world is in for a very long fight. in indonesia, four nationals now banned from transiting across the country. in france, president macron says his country needs 4 million masks per week. here in the united states, the death tolls are quickly clicking upwards. more than 161,000 cases, over 3,000 deaths here in the states. the death rate here is likely to surpass the total in mainland

china by the end of this day. the scale of the american shutdown again growing. 75% of the united states, nearly 250 million americans, now under those restrictions. the life pause is also an economic one with spiraling consequences on your livelihood. for today, putting planned reopenings of its auto plants on hold and now won't say when its assembly lines will be back up and running. that is just one slice of already huge job losses. the forecasters now expect to reach great depression levels. goldman sachs saying today the united states will hit 15% unemployment by the summer. 15%. that translates into 25 million americans out of work. dust bowl levels of joblessness. goldman sachs also saying the united states economy will now contract in both the first and second quarter of this year. amid the dow headlines and expectations, this will get worse. there are also some signs social distancing strategies driving the disruption are also

beginning to disrupt the virus. a cnn analysis in new york state show the numbers are still growing, but at a far slower pace. still, the surgeon general this morning with a very stark warning. what new york looks like and feels like right now, your city could experience soon. >> the rest of the country is following a similar trajectory right now as new york. they're at different places on the curve, but their curves are starting to look the same. >> cnn is on the ground in places emerging as the next hot spots here in the united states. one of the states with the fastest rising death rate is louisiana. officials there are warning the state could run out of ventilators by this weekend. cnn's evidence lavandera is there on the ground for us. ed, what's the latest? >> reporter: p hi, john. the governor of louisiana says this state is not over the hump of coronavirus cases.

the cases now stand near 4,000, over 200 deaths. the latest numbers will come out, but this is a state that's really bracing for a crush of needs at hospitals across the state. at the new orleans area in particular because this is where the majority of cases are in this state. the governor has requested 14,000 ventilators. so far the state has only received about 192. the governor says that he did get assurances from president trump that another 150 ventilators would be sent here to louisiana, but those haven't arrived and there is no timeline as to when that's going to happen, so far as we know so far. we're looking for an update on that. this is a state that is continuing to urge people to shelter in place. the governor has extended the shelter at home order through april. another clear sign here, john, that they expect this to get worse before it gets better. john? >> worse before it gets better and one of the many states with a big supply line question. ed lavandera, i appreciate your

reporting on the ground. stay in touch. a cnn analysis finds the rate of coronavirus infection is slowing down. but while that may be an inkling of longer term hope, officials today say the need for hospital beds and ventilators are more urgent by the hour. cnn's brynn gingras is live in new york for us. brynn, you don't want to raise people's hopes. perhaps that's beginning to tilt in the right direction, but the needs are still desperate. >> reporter: yeah, fingers crossed, john, that's where we are today. officials are asking for this constant need not just for today or tomorrow or even the next day. it's because this surge hasn't stopped. it's really weeks from now they're still going to need all this material. but listen, all these field hospitals that are going up around new york city, it is literally changing the landscape of this city. we have this one here behind me. i'll talk about it in just a second, but we've also learned the center where the u.s. open is played is also going to be transformed into a hospital. we're also learning that fema is

sending 250 ambulances to the new york city area to deal with the crush that's on those first responders, along with 500 paramedics. so that's good news there. but yes, let's stick you inside this hospital. we have a look with video. this is a hospital that was set up by a christian group that came up to new york city from saturday. in three days' time they were able to make this hospital in central park where usually people are sunbathing enjoying themselves. it's now a field hospital for overflow patients, covid patients with ten beds with ventilators, those precious, precious ventilators. this is going to be a big help, along with all the other field hospitals that are across the city, but also i got to tell you that the governor at this point is still pleading for anyone who can help, personnel, health care workers, to come to new york city. because like you said at the top of the show, he says, we will be there for you when your surge hits in your community. john? >> brynn gingras on the ground in new york for us. it is heartwarming to see all these people volunteering, the

christian group coming up to build a hospital. every little bit helps. every little bit matters. brynn gingras on the ground in new york city, thank you so much. with me to give their insights, i want to start with something dr. fauci said this morning. a cnn analysis, as we said at the top of the program, said perhaps, perhaps the new york curve, instead of going straight up, is starting to arc a little bit. this is dr. fauci saying, maybe, but be careful. >> we hope, and i believe it will happen, that we may start seeing a turnaround. but we haven't seen it yet. we're just pushing on the mitigation to hope that we do see that turnaround. so what we're starting to see right now is just the inklings, and i don't want to put too much stock on it because you don't want to get overconfident, you just want to keep pushing on what you're doing. you're starting to see that the daily increases are not in that steep incline, they're starting

to be able to possibly flatten enough data yet? you hear our analysis in new york, you hear dr. fauci there. in california, people in the bay area do think the rate of increase has not been as severe as they anticipated because of the early action up in the bay area to put stay-at-home orders in place. do we have the daily yet or do we just have hope? >> i think dr. fauci is a master of wonderful words. he said inkling. i think that's right. we do see some beginning evidence in california and in seattle a little bit and san francisco that we can be optimistic just a little tiny bit, begin to have an inkling. i want to caution everybody, it takes three or four weeks before the effect of social distancing is seen, and it was only the middle of march -- it's hard to believe two weeks ago -- that san francisco and then california began this experiment

in social distancing. so it's logical to think that the models that predict that the curve will start dipping down the middle or third week of april, that sort of fits with how it takes almost three weeks or a month for social distancing to work. but i'm optimistic that it will work. >> let's hope that in several days it's not an inkling, it's a data point. you make pay very critical cautionary point there. dr. ramoin, very early on when we started to cover this deeply, they said don't wear a mask if you think you're well, wear a mask when you think you have symptoms. now the cdc is considering, you're supposed to be social distancing, but if you go to the grocery store, if you go for a walk, maybe you should put a mask on. listen to the cdc saying not sure yet. >> if you have a mask and it makes you feel better, by all means, wear it, but know that the more you touch your face,

the more you put yourself at risk. there may be a day we change our recommendations particularly for areas that have large spread going on about wearing cotton masks. again, the data is not there yet. >> doctor, is there data that says it's not helpful? there are some that say don't do it early on, more a supply issue than a medical question. >> there are several issues at hand here. the first issue is -- this is a novel coronarus, and that means we are learning about it in realtime. it is reasonable that recommendations can change as we understand more about the situation, what the virus is capable of doing in terms of spread, how infectious it is and the mechanisms for spread. now, there have been several cases now where we understand that it could potentially be spread by a small droplet.

everybody, when they speak, they spit. small, small droplets will come out and be in the air and be able to hit other people. so it makes sense that if people can cover their mouths that they might be able to stop community spread. now, this is a very different issue than ppe for health care workers. i think these things are getting confused and conflated. so we must have enough ppe, surgical masks, n95s for our health care workers. they are our precious resource that are at great risk, getting high volume of virus in their faces, and they must have n95s and surgical masks. that is not what this discussion is about. what the discussion is for the public is that everybody can do their part to keep their droplets to themselves. that's my tag line here. so what they can do is they can wear a bandanna, they could wear a fake covering. this could make a difference. >> thank you for the important

context there, especially the difference between a mask an everyday american might wear walking around and the desperately needed protective equipment, ppe, for american workers. i don't like to ask doctors about politics, but i want you to stand by. this is a supply question, a reality question, this is an is the president listening question more than anything. the governor of louisiana saying, i need more tests. the president saying, i don't see problems with testing. >> literally we are one day away if we don't get test kits from the cdc to do testing in louisiana. we don't have adequate tested to necessarily do it, we don't have the ppe along the way and we're not finding markets to be able to do that. >> i haven't heard about testing in weeks. weave tested now more than any nation in the world. we have these great tests and we'll come out with another one tomorrow where it's almost

instantaneous testing, but i haven't heard about testing being a problem. >> i listen to that last part, dr. brilliant, with considerable disbelief in the sense that every day on television, and we know the president watches television, we see red state governors, blue state governors, red state mayors, blue state mayors, doctors on the front line saying we simply don't have enough tests yet. correct? >> of course there's a problem with testing. there's been a problem with testing since day one. we don't have enough tests. we should be flooding the zone with testing. that's our eyes and ears in this outbreak. for people who are on the cusp of being diagnosed with this disease to not be able to have a confirmation test is unthinkable. no, we don't have enough tests. they're unevenly distributed, they're not always the right tests for the right issue. this should be a manhattan project, to have enough tests.

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hundreds of thousands of workers furloughed, businesses closed, assembly lines not running. all mounting signs that the united states continues to reel from the coronavirus pandemic. and we received information that consumers are rapidly losing faith that the united states will be able to weather this crisis without extensive damage to the economy. with us is julia chatterley.

julia, the united states is consumer driven. what do we take away from the numbers? >> sadly, it's a u.s. consumer that was seeing stock markets weaken, what was going on in italy specifically with the coronavirus. but nothing in the united states had even happened yet. today we're in a very different place and it's a far worse place. the data this week and the only data this week that will give us a sense of where we are comes on thursday with those jobless claims numbers. moody analytics has suggested we might see 4.5 million workers claiming unemployment benefits this week. for every 105 jobs lost it equates to a 1% rise in unemployment. i think we're talking about a figure already in the space of a few weeks of 8.5% to 9%

unemployment in just a few weeks. when i look at goldman sachs, i think they look pretty optimistic to only be talking about a 15% unemployment rate. you also mentioned the retail sector. one in four employees works in retail in the united states. there's good news here, too. they furloughed around 405,000 workers. they need to get help to pay those workers in the interim, but they're already looking to the economy to open up again. that will be contingent on the financial aid we've seen agreed to in congress and how quickly that gets through to the real economy. the ultimate fact is it relies on getting control of the virus, getting that money to people as soon as possible and probably more money being agreed by congress between then and now, and that's the bottom line. >> that is the bottom line. the third quarter begins in july on this last day in march. that seems a long ways off.

julia chatterley, appreciate it. all across the country, as julia noted, businesses devastated, the restaurant industry one of the hardest hit. some are branching out in different directions all while trying to help their furloughed workers. chris joins me from the food industry warehouse. let's see if we lost chris. can we get that back? okay, chris is -- he has dropped. he has dropped. we'll move on and bring him back if we can. some of the nation's largest automakers are now making supplies for health care workers as they treat the coronavirus. general motors said they expect to deliver their first 20,000 masks by next week. gm says it can produce an estimated 1.5 million masks a month. ford says it's set to restart production in its atlantic,

michigan plant. they're working with ge health care now to make as many as 50,000 ventilators, their hope is, within 100 days. that's with staff and 100 paid workers volunteering to do this task. take a quick break. we'll be right back.

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more now on the economic s disruption of the coronavirus and how businesses are trying to adapt in this world. chris is head of the food warehouse. chris, good to have you back. your business supplies 35,000 restaurants. many, if not most of them, are closed. businesses have had to scale back. how do you stay alive in this environment? >> with restaurants you're challenges r lengd to be creative. we started this business 35 years ago as entrepreneurs with the dream to bring food to the chefs of the world. we said we can roll over or we can reinvent ourselves.

we've always had a tremendous demand from lots of people calling me and saying, how can we buy like all the great restaurants you supply and buy stuff in bulk? so we had a few of our websites up, allenbrothers.com always supplying the greatest steaks to the public. they always had access to that. but i said, let's see how we can reinvent our business and get our trucks rolling again and get our people back to work as much as possible and do home delivery. we're doing cash and carry. we just rolled out home delivery. it will be rolling out to the cities where we have warehouses to most neighborhoods within that 50-mile reach of our warehouses, and it's taking off. people are going on line and shopping investigatchefswarehou.

i never thought it would be like this unless a nuclear bomb hit the restaurants. people will be home right now and it's an opportunity to get new food. people get tired of cooking after a while. >> innovation is a challenge for every entrepreneur. you have to do it as you go. how many of your employees have you been able to keep, how many have you had to furlough, and how do you try to help them through this? >> well, we're doing everything we can to keep as many people. we did have to furlough some, but we still have many, many people on payroll, and we're starting our own charity, too, as part of this new business, so we'll donate 10% of the profit to go to the people most affected in our company. we're going to hopefully get a pile of money and we'll start to give it out as it comes in, and we think long term we could do this. we said we're going to do this

for at least six months. we're thinking of all different ways to get money for the people most in need from our business. you know, we started as a family business. we still call ourselves a large family business. you know, we treat everybody like family as much as we can and we're doing the best to supply them, and we've been here for 35 years and we plan to be here another 35 years when all the restaurants reopen. >> cooking is stressful for me, even more so at a time like this. i'm going to go to the website when i'm done today. chris pappas, best of luck to you. it's a blessing what you're trying to do for your workers with the charity work. keep us updated during this time. >> thank you. more than 50 million kids across the country at home indefinitely since this coronavirus update shut down schools. take a look at your map right

now. schools are closed through every single state, including some that are shut down until further notice. in washington state where there are over 5,000 coronavirus cases, schools have been closed since mid-march and will stay that way until at least april 24th. joining me is the superintendent of seattle schools. denise, thank you for being with me, number one. i know it's a terribly stressful time for you. yesterday was the first day of mandated remote learning for your district. how is it going? >> you know, i think this closure across the country right now is really shining a light on the inequities in our system and the value of public education to our economy and to parents at home. for the first time ever, we are actually relying on parents as co- hi co-educators at home, so it will be a little rocky at first as we roll these things out. the other thing that's important to know is i think superintendents across this country are really dealing with how are we going to approach

this challenge and start working and looking toward the future about how do we make sure there is access for all considering technology going forward. >> on the technology point, you think of seattle as one of america's tech hubs, one ahead of the curve. still, you talk about education disparity. what are you doing for families who might not be able to afford a computer or might only have one at home and parents are working from home, so you have this competing stress, if you will? >> right. we're currently working with the tech industry and our city to see if there is a way to actually fill that divide. in the meantime, since we're not moving totally to online because of that access issue, we are providing paper and pencil packets across the city. we rolled out 7300 of those yesterday. we are working with our educators in the system and videotaping them and sending them out on our broadcast channels. we have broadcast partners who are helping us to reach families who may not have internet or

computers but have tvs at home as well. it's a multipronged approach to make sure we're reaching as many families and students as possible. >> how about the special needs community? and that can be such a broad definition. children with different needs across the spectrum. how do you deal with that in this incredibly difficult environment? >> we're trying to make sure we're working with our teachers. the usual process is that a general education teacher teams up with a special education teacher, so we want to make sure those connections stay tight as they're approaching individual students across our system, particularly if there are accessibility needs at the other end in their homes, so we want to make sure that we are doing the work that's required for special education. we know that we need to do a great job with our students who are experiencing homelessness, our students of color for education injustice. we just want to make sure we are looking to support all students no matter where they are, their

economics, and it's a big struggle right now. >> as you know, this is your job. you understand it better than me. i have a third grader who is on his second day right now of remote learning. so far so good for him. he's into it, and the teachers are a blessing. to all of you who are doing this across country, it won't be perfect, but the effort is amazing so far, per my experience here. how are you dealing with the issue, you know this better than i, that some kids are independent. they learn independent. a teacher gives them a lesson and off they go. other kids need the kids in the classroom to help them out or the teachers to help them out. you have a very diverse set of students. how can you tailor this remote learning, whether it's reaching out to their parents or it's the teacher reaching out to those kids who might need a bit more attention? how do you get through all that? >> i think it's important to realize teachers also have their own families they may have at home right now, so balancing all those needs as well as reaching out to the students in the classroom, we're asking a lot of

our educators across the country right now. so we are not only doing, you know, computer-based online reachouts, we are looking at different platforms, we have teachers who are calling students students. if there are severe special needs happening in the home, we have a teacher standing on the patio trying to visit with their students. there are all different kinds of ways that educators are reaching out, but i think it's also important they are dealing with their own family structure, teaching their students as well as trying to teach their kids at home, too. >> denise juneau, thank you so much for your perspective. i hope in time you can come back and tell us how you and all the teachers addressed this

challenge. andrew cuomo is having his daily briefing in albany. >> we're all in search of the apex and the other side of the mountain, but we are still headed up the mountain. number of people tested last night was a near record amount. we tested over 18,000 people. we're testing more people than any state in the country, and i'm very proud of that. more per capita than china and south korea. total number of people tested, 200,000. population of 19 million. it's not going to give you a random sample, but it's been helping us track down the positive cases. number of positive cases, 9,298. total cases, 75,000 cases. you see the pre dominance domin york city, then westchester, then nassau and suffolk, then rockland. it spreads out from that area of

density. the march of coronavirus across the state of new york continues. we're down to just two counties that don't have a case. the overall numbers, 75,000 have tested positive, 10,000 people in our hospitals, 2,700 icu patients. good news, 4,900, almost 5,000 people discharged. that's up 771, so people come in, they get treated, they go home. new york is at 75,000 cases. next state is 16,000. california is at 7,000. you can see new york is a magnitude of difference more than any other state. 1,550 deaths. that's up from 1,218 yesterday.

again, we're studying the charts. we're trying to study the data, follow the data. the data is uneven. it bounces, numbers often bounce, and any model, there are variables in this model. the hospitals are reporting it, so what every hospital reported that day, were they busy, are they combining a couple of days in one? it's an imperfect reporting mechanism. but you see the basic line is still up. what the statisticians will tell you, you basically draw a straight line that the columns indicate. you see we're still going up, which is what we see on the overall trajectory, that we're still going up. number of intubations are going

down. that's a good sign. you also see the number of discharges going up, and that's consistent. the longer people are in, they either get treated and leave or they get put on a ventilator, and the longer you're on a ventilator, the less likelihood you will come off the ventilator. that is the blunt truth of this situation. we have two missions overall that we are pursuing. one is the front line of this battle is our hospital system. that's what this is going to come down to. the second is social responsibility. stay at home. don't get infected in the first place. don't get infected in the first place because it goes back to you're creating a burden on our health care system that our health care system cannot handle. we're talking about exceeding the capacity of our hospital system by some estimates two

times. so what does this come down to besides all the other issues? it comes down to not overwhelming the hospital system because those people who need acute care may not be able to get the acute care. so it's all about the hospital system. that is the front line. what we're doing is we are following the mathematical projections of the experts. we're speaking to all the health care professionals, all the health care providers, world health organization, national institute of health, dr. fauci, cdc, the whole alphabet soup of experts. and the mathematicians who then have different models. we talk to about five different models, and we compare the models and we try to find the median through the models. that's how we plan everything. follow the data, follow the

science. people ask me, what do you think, what do you think? i don't think about this. what do i know? i'm not an expert. i'm not opining. i talk to experts and i follow people who know. but for the hospitals, procure equipment, identify the beds, support the staff. that's what it's been all about. of those priorities, number one is support the staff. they are the front line and they need relief. they are physically exhausted, even more they are emotionally exhausted. this is unlike other disasters, hurricanes, earthquakes, floods. they happen, they're fast, they're over. you start rebuilding. this is different. this is ongoing, and the duration itself is debilitating and exhausting and depressing. i'm speaking to health care professionals who say, look, more than physically tired, i'm

just emotionally tired. seeing the pain, seeing the death that they're dealing with every day. in general, i am tired of being behind this virus. we've been behind this virus from day one. the virus was in china, we knew it was in china. unless we assumed there was some immune system variation with asian people, it was coming here. and we have been behind it from day one since it got here. and we've been playing catch-up. you don't win playing catch-up. we have to get ahead of it. the second rule is never underestimate your opponent. and we underestimated this virus. it's more powerful, it's more dangerous than we expected. and the third point is plan forward. get ahead of it. get ahead of it.

fight the fight today, yes, but anticipate the next battle and plan for the next battle. and the main battle is at the apex. we're still going up the mountain. the main battle is on the top of the mountain. that's where the main battle is going to be. the apex of the curve. then we come down the other side of the mountain. we are planning now for the battle at the top of the mountain. that's what we are doing. get a staffing plan ready now for the battle at the top of the mountain. equipment stockpile now. we're gathering equipment that we don't need today because today is not the day of the battle. the battle is when we hit the apex, depending on who you believe, 14 days to 30 days from today. and also we need a social acceptance of the time

expectation. we're all anxious. we're all tired. we're all fatigued. it's been all bad news for a long time. our whole lifestyle has been disrupted. everybody wants to know one thing: when is it over? nobody knows. well, the president said by easter. this one said by this. nobody knows. you can have a hypothesis, you can have a projection, you can have an opinion, but nobody knows. but i can say this. it is not going to be soon. if our apex is 14 to 21 days, that's our apex. you, then, have to come down the other side of the mountain once you hit the apex. so calibrate yourself and your expectations so you're not disappointed every morning you get up. yesterday we met with the entire state hospital system. dr. zucker and our team.

first time they were all in one place. the first thing i said to dr. zucker, we're degraling with a war, a war we've never dealt with before. we need a mindset and total tra transformation. we can't do business the way we've done business. we need flexibility, communication and speed. that's what we talked through yesterday and we have to do it now. the health care system is one of those bulkanized system. it's like our state education system, it's like our criminal justice system. it's in place, it's fragmented, they have their own identities, their own associations. it's regionally organized. that all has to change. we don't have the ability to meet the capacity of our health care system as an entirety.

that assumes the health care system is working as an entirety. that's not how the health care system is organized now. we have new york city hospitals, and then we have long island hospitals, and then we have westchester hospitals, then we have upstate hospitals. that has to go. even in new york city, you have two basic hospital systems in new york city. you have the private hospitals, voluntary hospitals, about 160 of them, which are some of the finest health care institutions in the united states of america, you know. this is mt. sinai, columbia presbyterian, et cetera. some of their members are also upstate, but they're the large private institutions, greater new york hospital association. ken raske runs that association of 160. you then, in the state of new

york, have the public hospitals, the new york city health and hospitals corporation. they are 11 public hospitals. they are a universe and then you have the private hospitals as a separate universe. the 11 public hospitals are the hospitals that in many ways have always been under greater stress and greater need. we have to get those two systems, the private system and the public system, in new york city working together in a way they never did before. the distinction of private/public, that has to go out the window. we are one health care system. on top of that, it can't be the downstate hospitals and the upstate hospitals and the long island hospitals. when we talk about capacity of beds, when i say we now have 75,000 beds, that's a statewide

number. that means those beds have to be available to the people in new york city or nassau even if those beds are up in albany. so combining that whole system, and you're no longer just the western new york hospitals or the central new york hospitals, it's one coordinated system. it's much easier said than done, but we have to do it. on top of that, you have to overlay the new federal beds that came in that are an entirely new component. we have javits center, 2500 beds, we have the usns comfort, 1,000 beds. we're planning other federal facilities. these all have to be coordinated on top of the existing hospital network. so you see the organizational situation that we're dealing with. and let's be honest, and let's learn from the past.

we know where we have to focus. we know where we're going to have problems in the next hospitals. because the hospitals that have the least capacity that have already been stressed are the hospitals that are not going to be able to handle the additional load. that is a fact. you know which hospitals were struggling. we do reports all the time about the financial capacity of hospitals and what hospitals are in stronger versus weaker position. the hospitals that are in the weaker position are the hospitals that are going to suffer when they then carry that added burden. that was elmhurst hospital. it happened to be a public hospital, it happened to be a public hospital in a place of density, it happened to get overwhelmed, and that's what -- then you saw the burden on the

staff, you saw the emotion, you saw the stress. that can't happen. and that's what we talked about yesterday, and people said, well, elmhurst isn't my responsibility. elmhurst is a public hospital. the city runs it. i don't run it. it's new york city, it's not a private hospital. i don't care which link breaks in the chain. the chain is still broken. it doesn't matter which hospital, which link. any link breaks, the chain breaks. the health care system is a chain. it breaks anywhere, it breaks everywhere. that has to be our mentality. we laid out a full plan on how to do facility development, how

to move people among hospitals so nobody gets overloaded, shifting patients, shifting staff, shifting supplies. none of us have enough supplies. okay, then let's pool our supplies and let's put them out to the people who need them. let's share those masks. we talked about that yesterday. we also talked again at length about ventilators which everybody knows it is a key pieces of equipment. identify all the ventilator in the state, who has them and who order orders them and who expects it to come in and we'll have one stockpile of ventilators that we can distribute for everyone who needs them. we talked about splitting of

ventilators. because that's a technology that does exist. it has been used before. it is not ideal. you take one ventilator and it is used to two patients. the federal government is a partner in this obviously. i spoke to the president again yesterday about this situation and i spoke to the vice president and i spoke to jared kushner. the white house has been very helpful. we have to get the federal agencies underground to understand how this operat oper especially fema. we have to be coordinated and people have to know what they are doing. this is no time for anyone to be learning on the job and we'll be working through that today. ppe, same thing, we want to know what everybody has. one stockpile distributed

fairly. testin testings? when does this end? this ends when we get a fast track test, at-home test, 15-minute test and people can find out when they can go back to work because they are negative. we are working on additional testing as i have said the department of health has a new test. we are working on new medications, we are leading the country. we have saliva testing now and we are working on the antibody testing and plasma testing right now. we are putting together a coordinated team. it is going to be led by the department of health. new york city is on it and long island is on it. if the federal government is going to participate, they have to be apart of this team. we have to know what we are doing. i don't want fema coming in and blowing the coordination of what

everyone is trying to do. the coordinating team is going to organize upstate/down state transfers, set patient loads for hospitals, right? so if one hospital gets stuck with overload capacity, let's call it. those hospitals start to send patient to other hospitals before they get up to their max. within the new york city public hospital systems, within the greater new york private system and then among the difference system, two different mentality. we have to deal with. one was hospital and second is individual responsibilities. individual responsibilities is about discipline and selflessness and be informed. the point is to stay-at-home. i know it is hard to stay-at-home.

i know everyone thinks you know i can go out and i can be smart and i won't get infected because it is me, i am a super hero, it is not going to be me. that's not true. and, it is not just about you. it is not just about your health and your life that you are playing with here. you can infect other people. so i have been trying to communicate this in many different ways for many days. we still see people coming out who don't need to be out. even for essential workers, people have to be careful. i have been trying to communicate that. everyone, everyone is subjected to this virus. it is the great equalizer.

i don't care how smart or how rich or how powerful you think you are, i don't care how young or how old. this virus is a great equalizer. my brother, chris, is positive for coronavirus, found out this morning. now he is going to be fine. he's young, he's in good shape, he's strong, not as strong as he thinks. he'll be fine. but, there is a lesson in this. he's an essential worker, a member of the press so he has been out there. you go out there, the chance that you get infected is very high. i spoke to him this morning. and he's going to be quarantined in his basement at home. he's just worried about his

daughter and his kids that he hopes he did not get them infected. you know chris, he has a show at night on cnn. you see one dimension. in his job, he's combative and argumentative and he's pushing people. that's his job. he's a really sweet and beautiful guy. and, he's my best friend. my father was always working so it was always just me and chris. he's a lawyer also, chris. he's a lawyer because growing up the decision point came to what he wanted to do after college and my father was a very strong personality. my father suggested forcefully to chris that he should be a

lawyer. it was as different time and different place. now my daughter is here following their individual star, this is their destiny. i want to follow my individual star. he would say you can follow your individual star right out that door. so chris went to law school but he never had a desire to practice law. at 26 he's at a law firm. i don't want to be a lawyer but you are a lawyer now. he said i don't want to be a lawyer. what do you want to be? i want to be a journalist. you want to be a journalist? too late, you are a lawyer, you have to pay law school bills. you didn't go to journalism school. too late.

too late. he went to work for fox tv which is a separate conversation in the house. and, worked his way up. he's at cnn and does a beautiful job. a sweet guy and now he's quarantine inside the basement but he's funny as hell. he says even the dogs want to come downstairs. but, he's concerned about his wife and kids. the reason i raise is he's smart, social distancing and yes, but you whine up exposing yourself. people whine up exposing you and they find out they're positive a couple of days later. i had a situation with christopher two weeks ago that i even mentioned that my mother was at his house. i said that is a mistake. my mother is in a different

situation. she's older and she's healthy but i said you can't have mom at the house. he said no, mom is lonely and she does not want to be in the house and she's cooped up in the apartment. i feel bad but you bring her to your house, you expose her to a lot of things. you have the kids there and wife there and you are coming and going and your wife is coming and going. and, you can expose mom to the virus. and, the law is sometimes needs to be a little smarter and reactive. we had a whole discussion and he's informed and i am informed. was i dangerous or was it not dangerous? we have to tell people what are the rules. how does this work? that's when i came up with

matilda's law. it is clear about people who are older and what they are exposed to. my brother still had my mother still at his house out of love and comfort and my mother wanted to be in the house anyway. she did not want to sit alone in her apartment. she would have been doing what she wanted to do. he would have wanted to do what he wanted to do and it would have seemed great and harmless but now we have a much different situation. because if he was exposed, chances are she may very well have been exposed and then we would be looking at a different situation than just my brother sitting in mhis basement for tw weeks. so think about that, ri