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, right?

my brother is smart, he was acting out of love. luckily we caught it early enough. but, it is my family and it is your family. it is all of our families. and, this virus is that insidious. we have to keep that in mind. keep in mind matilda's law and remember who's vulnerable here and protect them. if you want to go out and act stupid yourself, that's one thing. your stupid action don't just affect you, you can affect someone else and and you can cause a serious illness or death by your action. people have to get this and internalize it. it can happen to anyone. two weeks with my mother and

christopher. today is a different situation. last point, there is nothing i have said different since i started these briefings. there is nothing that we have not learned that's different since i started these briefings. we know what to do. we just have to do it. it is individual discipline to stay-at-home. that's what it is. it is discipline. no social distancing. it is discipline. well, i am bored. i know. i am bored. it is discipline. making this healthcare system work, that's government scale and government's performance. same to the healthcare system, i don't care how it works yesterday and i don't care who's turf it is or ego is involved. i am sorry, we have to find a way to work a better way.

congress and the federal government and fema and hhs, you have to learn how to do your job and you have to learn how to do it quickly because time is not our friend. it is about as social stamina. this is not one week, two weeks or three weeks or four weeks or five weeks, six weeks. okay? this is not going to be an easter surprise. understand that and have the stamina to deal with it. it is unity. let's help one another. new york needs help now. yesterday i asked four healthcare workers across the country to come here because we need help. we'll pay you. more importantly we'll return the favor. this is going to be a way across the country, new york then it will be detroit and then it will be new orleans, then it will be california.

if we are smart as a nation, come help us in new york. get the equipment and get the training and get the experience and then let's all go help the next place and the next place and the next place. that would be a smart national way of doing this. and showing that unity. unity meaning that we are not, i know this is a political year. everybody thinks it is a political backdrop and democrats want to criticize republicans. not now. there are no red states or blue states. the virus does not attack and kill red americans or blue americans, it attacks all americans. keep in mind because there is a unifying wisdom in that. any questions?

let's do on topic question first, if anyone has questions on local issues, we'll do that afterwards. >> how many healthcare workers on the ground right now? are all new york workers working on the ground? we are hearing some people are trying to apply that are in new york and they're not getting fr response. >> let's remember what we said. a few days ago, the question is are all healthcare workers working? the problem is healthcare are o they're afraid to go home, they're under immense physical

stress. we put out retirees coming forward and we have many people coming to help. god bless the state of new york and humanity. we did this in a meeting yesterday. sorting those 78,000 people by regional and expertise across the state. we have a portal that we have to link them up to the hospital. we have that pool of 78,000. that's what we are doing right now. >> the portal listen launched and live. the 78,000 or so, we have to do some prechecking. we check for licensing.

we have the need and extra help in the field. we are working closely with the entire system. we are linking up those new healthcare workers in facilities. it will be live today. >>. >> it is everyone. we know the potential health workers of every region in the state of where they are and what their status is. we want to get those people in first. they're here in new york. we want prioritize the new york down state regional because they are closer to facilities that we need now and we'll need the upstate employees later. we have the out of state employees. we are trying to keep those folks closer, looking at folks in new jersey and other implipl where they don't have to travel long distances.

>> are there concerns of individuals who are older. >> we are looking at aids and we are looking at background of every person coming into the hospital. we'll do their own checks to make sure the person is up to it. they may not be up to one job but they may be up to another job. we make sure we have coordination there as well. some hospitals can have some of these folks needed by thursday. >> that's the 64,000 question. we have literally five models that we look at. it is true to say almost no two are the same. the range on the papex is some where between let's say 7 to 21

days. if you look at all five, it is 7 to 21 days from now. look, jesse, this does not mean no good. it is 7 to 21? the range is too broad. do i have 7 or do i have three weeks? it is also a variable they are looking at. on one hand you would think they would be able to tell because you have the china model and south korea data and etc. you have variables here, how effective is social distancing or how many people are actually staying home. how does the density relate? so, there are variables. it goes to the apex's estimate of 7 the 21. they vary on how many beds you would need, right? we have 53,000 beds statewide.

we mandated more and now we are up to 75,000 beds. all of them say you need more than the 75,000 and the highest is 140,000. the ventilators estimate among those projections go from 10 to 40,000. do you remember howard? >> 20 or 40,000 on most average projection in addition to what we have. >> one of the executive orders that you signed will let you put in order. do you foresee having to do that and what wo you wouuld that all and for doctors? >> we have the ability to point the receiver at the hospitals. the hospitals are being cooperative. we put out that rules of 50%

capacity. they all responded. we are sending out a rule today that says i want to know your stock, what you have in stock and what's your stockpile is and what's your inventory is. we really need to share. nobody has enough so like everybody put everything into the middle in a pot and we'll distribute it. we are doing that. it is not going to be as much as they are not listening. it is going to be their capacity level. you have the state of new york. you have about 170 hospitals. if we sat here two months ago, we could have graded almost all 170 hospitals. and we would have had some stronger and some weaker. as a general rule the public hospitals would have been on the

weaker spectrum. let's finance and etcetera and history of being more trouble. you now put weight on all 170. even if you put the equal amount of weight on all 170. you're going to see a different reaction in the hospitals depending on the under line strength of that hospital. you put a differentiated weight of what you happen to be in brooklyn and it happens to be more density in brooklyn and that hospital gets more weight and you get a different variable. in general, what you are going to see mattthe hospitals that w stressed can't take the stress, right? it is not even a medical concept. the personality, too. the personalities who are having trouble dealing with stress are

having more trouble dealing with this stress. the health and hospital corporations which i said to the public hospitals. you have to help them. we have to watch. when they get up to near capacity, transportation. elmhurst got up to capacity, you heard other public hospitals had open beds. we have to get better and faster at transferring patients to other facilities, right? a perfect system. everybody is at 50% or 60% or at 80%. some people are at 40% or 110%. that's not the way the system is organized right now. they all talk and they al all -- they are different

systems. you almost have to shock the system in actually saying okay, we are really going to operate as one. >> if you don't see them making no shifts and you go in and basically demand it? >> look, no hospitals are going to say i want to be over capacity. it is just they did not have the cooperation or the system to call someone up and say i am drowning, i need to have somebody else except 150 patients. >> that's going to be managed in the system. we have never been here. normally hospitals fighting for patients because patients are revenue, right?

so you never have a situation where you say i am going to send you patients. this is a much different situation. >> have patients transfer to upstate hospitals yet? >> no. >> we have levels of sort of triage. we'll try to bring upstate staff down to new york state hospitals. that's one of the requests we'll make today. you have upstate hospital nowhere near capacity, send your staff down to new york city hospitals. worse step, you are over capacity in all new york city hospitals. you redistributed the load and still over capacity then send people to the upstate hospital, is that right, howard?

it would all be voluntary. well, we are all paying for the cost, right? the hospitals are paying the cost and the state is paying the cost. i said this and frankly we'll figure out the cost. this is about saving time. i am not going to say who pays the bills or determine whether or not people live or die. i said do whatever we have to do to save lives and we'll figure out the bill afterward. >> how much at this point with 2700 people in the icu so far. >> i said i needed 30,000 beds. >> how many do we have now? >> well, that's an interesting question. we have ordered 17,000 from china. that we would pay for.

roughly 17,000 each. anyone says oh, you don't need that many ventilators, you are saying 30,000 ventilators, you don't needeed that many. you know how many you know and i really believe that number? $25 ventilators and we are broke and the last thing i want to do is buy a single ventilator that i don't need. the complexity with ventilators is we ordered from china. so did california and illinois and so did the federal government and italy. the order into china are very slow coming out, exactly high and why we are not sure. they have tremendous demand.

of the 17,000, we have a firm expectations on 2500, is that right? we have a firm expectation of 2500. >> it is coming the next two weeks. >> the ventilator capacity reaches 2500 and icu bed in this situation is essentially a bed with oxygen and ave ventilator. you can't have an icu bed in this situation without ave a ventilator. >> address the surge? >> depends on six weeks or 21 days. that's what we are dealing with. you can't accelerate the order anymore from china. i don't want to do it now. but, look at the bizarre situation we whine up being. every state does its own

purchasing so new york is purchasing and california is purchasing and illinois is purchasing. we are all trying to buy the same commodity, literally the same exact item. so your 50 states competing to buy the same item. we all whine up bidding up each other and competing against each other where you now literally will have a company call you up and say well, california just o outbid you. i have been on ebay with 50 other states bidding on ventilators. you see the bid goes up because california bids and new york bids and california rebids. that's literally what we are doing. how inefficient and fema gets involved and fema starts

bidding. now fema is bidding on top of the 50. so, fema is driving up the price. what sense does this make? the federal, government fema should have been the purchasing agent and buy everything and allocate to the state. why would you create the situation where 50 states competing with each other and the federal government of fema comes in and competing with the rest of the others. >> with first responders staying overwhelmed and heart attacks. >> this is a learning lesson and necessities. we are learning things here that -- it is not that with are learning things here. anyone could have told you a lot

of these things. the situation like this of purchasing. you really have to learn that 50 states should compete against 50 states and fema should not come in late and they compete with 50 states? it is not where you had to go to harvard kennedy school for learning this. should you have a hospital system in new york state where you have private hospitals and you have the struggling public hospitals. there is two separate systems and the upstate is separate and long island is separate. should you plan a comprehensive system? >> yes. but, the commercialere so intenu did not have a disaster and

emergency that you could not breakthrough them. conversations that i had with these hospitals is not just in that room. if it was not for the coronavirus, i would not have made it in that room. the foundation of the business of healthcare in this state which by the way, multi billion dollar business. sometimes you need the emergency to force change that would be very, very difficult. >> so the healthcare system is working on all those areas as well and regularly, pretty much everyday i have spoken to doctors and nurses who are working on the front line and

all those patients whether with a stroke or heart attacks. the system is continuing to move forward. the system is stressed but the patients are cared for. other emergencies are getting cared for as well, putting a strain on the system. >> let me give you an sanalogy. if i said to you, look, i know normally you write through your outlet and other outlets. we have a situation and you are going to write and you have to give it to all the other outlets. we don't have ten people that can come. you have to write for everybody else. if it was an emergency and you were the only reporter there, then you do it.

and that's true in so many different situations. you are violating basic commercial rules here and business rules and practices. i am a local government and i am in charge and you know. over write all that garbage you need extraordinary time. >> problems of the white house and the state under itf to get ventilators -- there is no question of when the next spot will get ventilators. >> governor pritzker? he's a good man and a friend of mine and does a beautiful job. he's right. you will have a new york curve and you will have an illinois curve and you will have a new orleans curve. how do you know the new york

curve is going to end before the illinois curve peaks? you don't for sure. you know basically there is going to be a spatial sequential before illinois ramping up. it can't be literally new york has all the equipment and illinois has none and we run to illinois with the equipment. it can't be that literal. but, essentially it would work, right? the alternative is also true. not everybody should have to buy everything. once we get through this and we have whatever we whine up with,

15,000 ventilators and 50,000 ventilator splitters and if we can help someone else, let's help somebody else. >> several officers calming lin sick. are you worried of police officers in the would you consider calling state to help with that? >> yes, am i worried? yes. you will see healthcare workers and you will see first responders -- like my brother chris, if you are out there, your chance of getting infected is very high. yes, and we'll do whatever we need for backup. if we need state police, i would do that. >> what's happening nick is almost impossible to buy

ventilators to the extent that anyone is successful in buying ventila ventilator ventilators, fema came in and is now capturing the market because the ventilators are coming out of china. and, fema basically bigfoot of the state in china. to the sense of anyone buying it is fema. that's why the federal distribution is so important because they are the only ones. i can't buy ave ventilator. whatever we are willing to pay, i can't buy it. so it really comes down to how the federal government distributes it. that's why it is so important. let's get someone who has not asked a question. [ inaudible question ]

>> when the state is out of ven ventilators -- >> first, i don't want to think about that consequence. i am going to do everything i can to have as many ventilators that we'll need. there is no protocols, we are working to get as many ventilators and we have a number of options. we have, we are looking at all ventilators across the state. we are then redeploying anesthesia machine without doing this ventilator splitting which turns ventilator into two, running two tubes. we are using a bypass machine, we ordered 7,000 of those. we are still in it.

we are creative and we are working and figuring it out and i still am hopeful at the end of the day we have what we need. >> i am planning on signing a budget. when we pass the budget, we pass the budget on time t sta, the s employees get paid, right? the payments that are due to our end and today, those are actually for payroll from two weeks ago. the controller presently has the authority and have a technical issue with their computer system they need to deal with. they have the authority to make those payments today and had nothing to do with the budget when it is passed.

>> they have appropriation authority to make those payments present. >> it is going to be delayed though because of the way the pay period fell this year? >> no. we presently have the authority to do it and full authority and appropriation authority to make the payments. >> we never not pay the state employees everyon when the budg is late. >> what's the update? >> no update. it is either coming or not coming. we are where we are. the numbers are what the numbers are. the numbers don't lie. the numbers leave you fewer alternatives. federal government says they're going to provide funding. if they provide the funding then

the next few months we should have some additional money. but, am i going to say to the people of the state that i believe the federal government is going to deliver money to the state government? heard it before. and, it did not happen. i am not going to count on money that we don't have, especially when the political process is the process that's supposed to deliver the money. >> so what options are what now for the state? what spending is going to be cut here? >> well, it is interesting because it is all contingent. we have the budget. we do the budget on a projection that we now have. if we get more funding, we increase the allocation. >> the new york governor talking about state budget issues now after a lengthy briefing talking about his state's response to the coronavirus. the numbers are damming.

the governor's anger is raw. first the number, is 173,120. the apex depending on which model he looks at, 7 to 21 days away. new york needs help now. the words from the governor calling for equipment and openly voicing his frustration at the federal governor particularly fema. the governor says trying to get ventilators right now is like being on ebay competing with 50 states and fema coming in further driving up the prices. this is not the time for on the job training for fema. he's clearly frustrated there. he also said the ventilators he continues in the state. he's hoping for help in the federal government. let's discuss more of what we heard more from the government with one of the doctors on the

front line. dr. ranney and we are joined by dr. harvey feinberg, the institute of medicine in 2014. dr. ranney, i want to start with you, you are in a smaller state, you are behind the curb if you will of the case load. when you hear the governor talks about his frustration and the frustration of being the private system and public health system within his own state. you can see the rawness of his emotions trying to get the two systems in new york to stop their turf and cooperate and more importantly of the issues of ventilators. we keep on hearing from the white house the supply chain issues have been fixed and he clearly believed they have not. >> here in rhode island just like in new york. we are experiencing the same frustration that governor cuomo

articulated so well. the supply chain is broken. prices for simple things like masks have gone up by 10 to 20 times. n-95 pamasks would cost my hospital 40 or 50 cents and now it is $5 or $6 per mask. imagine the increase of price for ventilators. we need the federal government to step in and moderate the prices and distribute those supplies when they are best needed. my governor and the department of health and health system are wondering day working day in and day out. as governor cuomo describes it has been a bidding war out there. it is not fair to take care of patients. >> dr. feinberg using new york

as an example. california is seeing these cases going up and louisiana and michigan and louisiana and detroit. what do you look at to try to figure out if and when it starts and the state of new york and you look at the deaths number. when you look at the number from friday to saturday, it increases 209. saturday to sunday, it was 237 and sunday to monday is 253 and now monday to tuesday is 353. is that a factor when you try to build the model or is it more on the number of new cases? >> it is both, john. you have to look at the number of new cases and also the number of severe cases. what's most important for the nation as a whole is that we are at different stages in this

pandemic. it is also an opportunity for the state that's not yet suffering this severe brunt of this pandemic. our goal should not be simply to flatten the curve across the country. it should be to crush the curve. we should be in a position with a unified demand from the federal and the state and local lef levels to be able to mobilize all resources that we have and track this pandemic and treat people and ice isolate the cases and quarantine anyone exposed and take advantage of the creativity across the country to put real solutions in place. and dr. ranney as we go through this, there are so many elements of it. i don't pretend to understand but when you listen to the governor, he talks first about the equipment. i need these ventilators. you see my case loads are going

up, seven days from now or he hopes he has three weeks. he'll be at the apex in new york. he also then talked about the physical, emotional and stress on the front line workers. people like yourself saying he's worried that by the time the apex gets here, they are going to be wiped out, both physically and emotionally. tell us what that is like? >> john, first, i give you credit, you do a great job of understanding what's going on out there. i will echo his concerns. my text messages and e-mails are full from messages from my fellow providers and residents and colleagues and nurses who are terrified and exhausted. the process is daunting of protective equipment is in of itself is exhausting and taking care of patients who our age or seeing them critically ill is

exhausting and the fear of what comes next and whether we can be infected and die brings to a whole new lefrvel. american healthcare system does not work this way, right? so we are used to saying hey we need more medications and more medications delivered. we need more protective equipment that we have never been without before. there is this massive shift that some are saying this is causing moral injuries and putting us at risk of anxiety and burnt out. i am worried of my colleagues. >> as the governor put it, i am tired of being behind this virus. >> dr. ranney and dr. feinberg, i appreciate your perspective. on a somber one. the national guard man from new jersey passed away from the

weekend marking the first coronavirus fatality at the national guard. a letter the commandser, the commander officer of the uss theodore roosevelt says he could not isolate the virus on his ship. get the sailors off board. sailors do not need to die. if we do not act now, we are failing to properly take care of our most trusted asset, our sailors. joining me now from outside the usns mercy. >> thank you for taking the time today. to the point we just heard there. what are your complications and what is your plan and when you hear from commander on vessels say i need to get sailors off my ship. how do you weigh that? what will happen?

>> thanks john. it is a balancing act and we are working hard to true to make that balance acceptable. i heard about the letter this morning and i know that our command and organization has been aware of this for 24 hours. we have been working the last several days to move those sailors off into combinations. guam do not have enough beds right now. we are talking the government there to see if we can get some hotel space. we don't disagree with the ceo on that ship. we are doing it in a methodical way. that ship has aircraft on it and armor on it. there are a lot of things we have to do on that ship that makes it a little different and unique. we are managing it and we are working through it and we are taking all the input and we appreciate all the input from the ceo of the ship and the medical command on the ship.

we'll work on those issues immediately. >> you have a tough job and incredibly tough job. you are going face some criticism and deal with things as you go. i want you to listen to your boss here, secretary of defense, as you are dealing with this pandemic and you are trying to help your protect the american people. listen to secretary spread, we'll see more impact of persons in iraq. it will not affect our ability to conduct our guards. i am confident of the health to make sure they manage our resources and people. >> in your case, your challenge is more complicated because the navy is so critical to project the american strength of the visibility of american strength whether we are talking about the

persian gulf or sub china sea area. your men and women living in the most cramped environment because of the boat and below deck on that ship. how do you balance? i need to protect my force with i need to protect america? >> well, that's part of the challenge of my job. that's what we are trying to do. the people, the people and our teammates out there are all over the world. we have one mission and that's to defend the nation. this is a unique circumstances and we'll work through it and we'll try to maintain that proper balance making sure our friends and allies and our adversaries understand that we are not standing there to watch. we have the responsibility to protect our friends and allies around the world. we have to adjust of the best way we can to do that. >> do you have the supplies you need? i want to read a little bit, this is brian clark speaking to the wall street journal. it is hard to disinfect the ship

of that size. there are so many surfaces where the virus can belie leaving. every governor in america and everyone is dealing with this. you have unique circumstances because of the size of the vessels. do you have as we listen to all of these governors and the president and fema, do you have a supply surge underway to help the ships? >> we do in terms of the situation of teddy roosevelt. there are initial capacity and sailors on that ship was limited to about 200 a day. we are going to start ramping that up by sending those tests out to other areas. the key is to make sure that we can get a set of crew members that can man those critical functions on the ship and make sure they are clean and get them back on while we take the other crew members off.

that's a process we are going through. it is very methodical. we are absolutely accelerating it as we go. i think there are things that are happening within the last 24 hours that came after some of those letters and some of the comments that were made. we are working at it, we are in constant communication with that ship. my own office, i was talking with the ceo yesterday, we are engaged and concerned about it and we are taking all the appropriate steps. >> let me ask you in closing, you are standing on the west coast in front of one of your medical ships and there is another one in the east coast, most of what i believe neither ship will treat covid-19 patients but they are critical to offer support services for other patients on both in the los angeles area and the new york area. just talk a bit about the task of get it up and running so quickly. >> well, i expect this is what

we expect our navy to do when we are given a challenge and do it as quickly as possible. that's what's happening with these ships. i asked the question back in early february, in the timeline we are not acceptable and we started ramping up some of the procedures for that. when we got on the path to go in and get into new york and particularly the comfort and schedule by a couple of weeks which has been phenomenal. we are really proud of the sailors on the ship. the nation should take some comfort that the united states navy and marine corp. are here and they are here to help. unload the burden on some of these hospitals dealing with covid-19. >> mr. thomas modally, thank you so much, i wish you luck of the days and weeks you have ahead getting the men and women on the front line. >> appreciate your time. >> thank you, john.

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in kentucky nearly all out of state travel by jerresidents now prohibited after a sign by the state's governor. >> the next couple of weeks, folks are really, really critical, dire issue of a new exec tifr order thutive order i everyone not to travel. if you travel to a different state for any reason other than those exceptions that you will be required to quarantine for 14 days. joining us now governor beshear,

thank you for your time today. i know you are very busy. we don't want people coming from new york or connecticut. you are taking a different approach, telling your state residents to stay-at-home, don't drive-in to ohio or go anywhere. why do you think that approach is better? >> let me say thank you for having me. i start every interview or every opportunity telling my people and people of america that we'll make it through this and we'll make it through together. here in kentucky we are taking aggressive steps to protect our people. i think it is a test of our humanity. whether we are willing the put each other and the health and the lives of our neighbors ahead of our self interest. right now we are seeing our social distancing and our aggressive steps to help flatten the curve with the limited data that we have. right now in kentucky we see fewer tests and fewer positives cases of the coronavirus than many of our neighbors. i can't control what other states do and how they go about

it. i can say the people of kentucky have bought in what we are asking and by eliminating travel to other states but also trying to limit travel in general. people need to be healthy at home unless you are going to work or getting supplies. your duty is to stay-at-home and limit your contact and prevent the spreading of this virus. if we can do that, we'll have the healthcare capacity to take care of our sickest of the moment of the greatest need and we can ultimately learn our lessons and in number of cases and the veseverity that we see. >> i know we are going through every state by state. you had the first case and you declared a state of emergency on march 6th and you moved through social distancing. this is kentucky verses tennessee if you will. the yellow line is going up

quickly. if you look at kentucky cases there. do you believe those two curves are different because you are a newly elected democrat governor of a state that tends to go red. you decided to be aggressive about this. do you believe that's the difference there. i believe how aggressive we have been is working. but, there are really two parts to that. there is first of what you put into place and there is second in whether your people, whether the people of kentucky buy into it or come together. we have been saying there are not democrats or republicans. there are only americans verses this coronavirus. i will say i have never been prouder to be the governor of my state than seeing our people coming together and large part following all these directives and it is hard. this is a time of major anxiety. what we are asking people to do is staying away each other. that can increase the feeling of

isolation and that can be tough on our mental and emotional health. this is our calling. this is our generation's great challenge. we look back on what we call the greatest generation and they have to come together to change the american economy in world war ii. this is our time. what we have to do is very different. we have to come together by staying apart. but the people of my state. >> reporter: heeding t so many people are not going to work. so many small businesses are closing. it is incredible to see people understanding that we have to make the sacrifice for each other. i am very proud. >> governor, two seconds, just want to ask you the president had to call the governor yesterday. he had not heard complaints about testing in weeks. and we still have problems with testing and access and supplies,

do you have that problem or is it solved? >> we do in kentucky and everywhere across the country. there are shortages of ppe and testing kits. we are all fighting for these resources and this is a virus that did not exist at least to our knowledge four months ago. yes, we need more but we also got to be open and transparent about the fact that we don't have enough. for us we got to be a good neighbor. we got to make sure that if we are younger and healthy and strong, we make sure that test is available to someone who's most vulnerable. same thing when it comes to hospital beds. how do we get through this and how we protect our vulnerable is truly pass that test of humanity so say that i can ride this home as long as i am checking in with the frees up the bed for somebody that needs it. we all have to do our duty. if we do that, we can protect one another >> governor beshear, thank you

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i am anderson cooper, this is cnn's continued coverage of the coronavirus pandemic. more than 174,000 cases here in the united states. more than 3400 deaths thus far. monday was a single deadly day for the united states thus far. the rate of infection