hello, everyone. i'm kate bolduan. we want to welcome our viewers here in the united states and around the world. today here is what we are looking at, and we will be getting into this hour. more tough news on the virus and the economy. interesting new steps with experimental antiviral treatments. new moves in the battle for critical medical equipment, and that is just going to be our first hour today. here are the numbers to start you off. the virus has now killed more than 5,100 people in the united states. the death toll doubling over the

last three days. nationwide there are more than 216,000 positive cases. and there's also this. new reporting suggesting that the virus may spread easier than previously described by simply talking or even breathing. then there is the exhausting, ongoing fight for supplies. the federal stockpile of protective equipment is nearly depleted. that is what we are now learning, that the last round of shipments is being deployed. another change. five more states, including florida now, added or have expanded stay at home statewide orders. but there are some big caveats in some cases, and that leaves about a dozen states still holding out. on the economy, simply ugh. 6.6 million people filed for unemployment, nearly doubling the record set the week prior.

that's where we start. we have cnn correspondent elizabeth cohen. elizabeth, you have interesting new reporting and new research on how the coronavirus and the ease with which it spreads. what are you learning? >> kate, what we're learning is that a letter went out from the national academy of sciences committee to the white house last night letting them know, hey, we think the research is showing that it looks like this virus can be spread just when you are talking to someone and even just when -- even by breathing. this is not a contradiction, but it sort of adds something to what the cdc has been saying to us. the cdc has been telling us, oh, it spreads by sneezes or coughs because that kind of propels those germs out there, but this is a committee from the national academy of sciences, the most prestigious body there is like this in the united states, saying, wait a minute, we think it can be spread just by breathing and talking as well, and i hate to say this, those

droplets might hang in the air, possibly. someone walking by could run into them later on. >> and that's what makes it so troubling and what social distancing reinforces the desperate need for social distancing to remain in place. elizabeth, thank you so much. really appreciate it. so in california, governor gavin newsom, he says the number of coronavirus patients in intensive care has quadrupled in the past week. and the mayor of los angeles is now calling on residents there to start wearing masks whenever they go outside. stephanie elam is in los angeles with this. stephanie, the cdc, of course, has not yet changed its guidance on masks in the general public. how is mayor garcetti explaining his thinking here? >> kate, when you take a look at this, the way california has not reacted has not been waiting for the federal government or the cdc to say what to do. this was the first state in the nation to go into a stay-at-home order. los angeles has been living like

that in the state for about two weeks. now the mayor of los angeles, mayor garcetti, saying people should look for something to cover their face when they make those runs to the grocery store, to the pharmacy. take a look at what the mayor had to say. >> we are now recommending that angeleno's use homemade face coverings when they are in public and when interacting with others. to be clear, you should still stay at home. this isn't an excuse to suddenly all go out. you need to stay at home. but when you have to go out, we are recommending that we use non-medical grade masks or facial coverings and not take the ones that are reserved for our first responders. >> reporter: now, what he is saying is even a bandanna, a scarf, something over the face could help stop those droplets from being released into the air, keeping those respiratory droplets out of the air, and they're pointing to countries that have had a slower spread,

like taiwan, czech republic, and they're saying this could help. this doesn't mean to get out and get an n95 mask or get the ones reserved for health care workers. this is just for when you run to get your groceries or something so that when you're interfacing with other people, you're not contaminating that area. the other thing he did do, he's saying there are still some businesses in los angeles county that are continuing to operate even though they're not essential. so now he's directing the los angeles department of water and power to cut their services if they continue to operate to make it very hard for them to work. overall, though, kate, when you take a look at what he is saying here, he is not saying that putting on this cover means get closer to everybody. not at all. he is saying if you do need to run out, cover up your breath, whatever may be coming out of your mouth and noise, those respiratory fluids, stop that from spreading out, but really, if you want to do your part, stay at home. >> this is another added layer. i heard one doctor put it simply

and it stuck with me. do what you can to keep your droplets to yourself. great to see you, stephanie. really appreciate it. let's turn to new york right now. mayor de blasio warning new york city only has enough critical masks to last until this sunday. that as the number of cases and deaths continue to mount in new york, this all reinforces the urgent threats that a supply shortage poses to workers on the front lines. brynn gingras is outside one of the hospitals. she joins me now. brynn, this stark warning about critical supplies running out by sunday, what are you hearing about that? >> reporter: he called it d-day, kate. he said sunday is d-day for their supplies, looking forward to the next week. they need more supplies and it's everything across the board. we're talking about face shields, we're talking about the surgical aprons, the n95 masks. he estimates more than 3 million masks are needed, and then, of course, those ventilators, hundreds of ventilators are

needed. it's kind of like what you already told your viewers about in california, that's what we're seeing here as well, it's the way patients are coming in, the fact that they are sicker than usual. it's not the amount, it's how sick they are when they come in. that's what's really, really putting a strain on these hospitals as well. i want to give you a quick inside look at one of these doctors who is working in an er in a private hospital here, mt. sinai, he did a diagram inside one of these areas where people are waiting to get served. it's just incredible inside these hospitals. the mayor has pointed to a familiar face in new york city, the former nypd commissioner, james o'neal, he is basically coming from a different job, volunteering to be the supply czar, making sure new york can get the supplies they need and

distributing it to the hospitals where the needs are most. there is a counterbalancing act here trying to get patients to those different hospitals, to the makeshift hospitals, like the javits center, the comfort rkts tcomfort, the one in central park, but it's an everyday challenge that this city is trying to measure as this demand continues to increase. >> just seeing the video of people in their hospital beds, like in a hallway, it's just so sad, and it's just so scary. brynn, thank you. really appreciate it. so the exhausting battle to maintain medical supplies, as brynn is getting to. it's in new york city but it continues across the country. here's how governor lamont describes this. >> i'm not going to complain about the protective gear because that's one thing we don't control where we are most at risk. don't believe anything you hear on tv where they say they've got plenty of protective gear. i was just on the phone with all the governors. they're all desperate.

>> desperate. joining me right now is dr. hans liszt. thank you for being here. connecticut is one of the states and the governor has made no bones about it that it's also being slammed. and where you are, close to the epicenter of new york. what are you seeing in your hospital? >> right now the situation is definitely tense. the hospital is stretched to the max and i think what we're seeing now is sort of the wave of people that are coming in after having minor symptoms, let's say, a week ago, now coming down with more severe symptoms. so the severity is starting to really increase and so is the stress level. it's really wearing thin on those of us on the front lines doing this day in and day out. >> day in and day out, the

stress never ends. a newborn baby in connecticut died of covid-19 less than seven weeks old. you've likely not seen patients as young as that, doctor, but certainly younger people in what you would assume is generally good health who then need to be admitted to the hospital. do you think with that, folks in general need to change their thinking about who is, quote, unquote, vulnerable to the virus? >> absolutely. and, you know, the studies that came out of china really pointed towards the elderly being at risk and those who are immunocompromised, but i have to say really no one is immune from this. just yesterday i took care of my first three patients and their ages were 32, 40 and 55. >> oh, wow. >> it's not just a disease that's affecting the elderly. it has to do with, you know, our immune system and our ability to fight off the viruses and then

the cascade of inflammation that happens after we're infected with the virus. and that's really what's hurting us and killing folks is the cascade after the infection of the virus. >> so then there's the moment of decision of when someone needs to be put on a ventilator and not. and new york's governor andrew cuomo said something really startling yesterday. he said that only 20% of coronavirus patients who go on ventilators are getting off ventilators. 80% of covid hospital patients on ventilators, they're not coming off. they're dying. that is really scary. are you seeing that in connecticut? and if so, can you -- is there any rhyme or reason to why that is? >> i don't know the exact numbers in the state of connecticut, but what i do know is that the longer one is on a

ventilator, the harder it is to come off the ventilator. and it's really about controlling the level of inflammation and some of the inflammatory markers that are going on within the body and some of the treatments that we're using now are aimed at decreasing some of that inflammation. so, you know, it is true. i think that once you go on a ventilator, it's going to be that much harder to get off the ventilator. obviously, the younger folks have an easier time than the elderly, but, again, like i said, no one is immune from this. >> is that something unique that you're seeing with this virus, about the deterioration or kind of how compromised -- the der tear -- deterioration when someone has to get on a vent, or is it in general when people are

on a ventilator for a prolonged period of time? >> i think this is new with the virus, the amount of inflammation that is caused. this is a novel virus, so our bodies have never seen such a threat from a microorganism, so the amount of inflammation that happens is really overwhelming the system, so much so that it's infecting the heart, the lungs, the kidneys, multi-system organ failure. yes, i think this is something that we've not seen with other viruses and other bacterial threats. >> can i also ask you, the governor was talking about a battle for supplies, right? the masks to ventilators to more. i've been struck. the president said -- let's call it last week but then also said it again yesterday, that he was surprised and didn't understand how hospitals are using so much protective gear. can you just help folks,

including the president, i guess i would say, understand why there is a need, why you have to use protective gear at a rate that you never use otherwise? >> absolutely. any time you have any form of contact with any covid-suspicious patient, you have to basically don the entire gear. you can't just walk into a room, you know, without any protection. even for those patients that we're seeing that have very minor symptoms and are low risk, we still have to assume that they are covid positive. because as you all know, you don't have to have any symptoms at all. so the amount of ppe that we have to use every time, every encounter we have, every time we go in the room we have to put on the gloves, the gown, the n95 masks, sometimes another surgical mask over the n95 masks, a cap, shoe covers.

so any interaction we have with a patient, we have to put that on, and as soon as we exit the room, we have to take it off. so if you can imagine, if we're seeing, you know, 10, 15, 20 patients in a given shift, we have to probably, you know, take off and put on that equipment at least, you know, 15, 20 times. so the supplies are going to wear thin very quickly. we're okay in our hospital with the amount of supplies we have now, but what happens tomorrow, and what happens next week? that's what we're afraid of. >> asked, answered. the way you describe it as perfect, and i don't think it's hard to understand at this point, so hopefully that message is getting through. thank you so much, doctor, really appreciate it. thank you for your time. coming up for us, devastating jobless numbers just released show a record number of americans are now out of work. how much worse is it going to

get? will there be an economic freefall? how much light is on the horizon? we're going to discuss.

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and business reporter john harwood. julia, give me your numbers. what exactly do they show? >> reporter: this is what deep recession looks like, deliberate deep recession. to your point, this is 10 million people who a few weeks ago had a job and now they are without one. it's pretty broad based. if you look at the numbers here, it's transportation, it's warehousing, and it's coming from the health care sector, too, which is quite surprising. it's also seeing a ramp-up in claims from states like pennsylvania and ohio, some of the first states to have the stay-at-home orders implemented, so that arguably will get worse. for me in the middle of a health crisis, kate, these are millions of people who don't have health insurance, either, and they have 60 days to try to go to an exchange and get some. healthcare.gov is where they need to be going, but clearly there are millions now who didn't have health care in the first place. it's unimaginable what we're seeing here. >> add that to all the stress

and ank zixiety people are faci with trying to keep their families healthy, keep food on the table and trying to get health insurance again. john, what are you hearing from the white house on these numbers? >> reporter: well, kate, as you indicated in the intro, there is no silver lining on this. this is what president trump was talking about a few days ago when he said it's going to be very, very painful for the next few weeks. given that very painful situation, catastrophic economic situation, along with what we saw from president trump today has been trying to point his fingers at other people and deflect responsibility. he sent out a tweet saying, states need to get out money to people who need it fast. of course, that is partly a responsibility of states through their unemployment insurance programs, it's also a responsibility of the federal government through the stimulus bill that was passed that will require getting cash out to families and also small business loans to many businesses,

especially if they keep their payrolls up. he also pointed to congress, saying they need to pass a tax break for the hospitality industry. he said that he had reached out to nbs, the leader of saudi arabia, to try to get a cut in production that would boost oil prices. it has boosted oil prices. that's good for people who work in the oil industry, but it's a drop in the bucket compared to the overall economic problem. finally, the number one economic intervention the president could do most effectively is get on top of the virus. that is the key to unlocking this situation and the president was blame casting there as well, pointing to states saying, we could never give them enough help. they should have stocked up ahead of time. >> we are all in this together. that is not what that message is. julia, what is the outlook after this? do folks just sit, wait, dread next week's jobless claims report? does it look like anything from the government stimulus package

is going to do anything to slow this bleed? >> reporter: that is the only silver lining is that help is coming. the problem is it's not coming soon enough, quite frankly. yes, i think we're going to see more weeks of these devastating numbers, kate. the hope is that when the stimulus kicks in, it provides some level of support, but these numbers are only going to accelerate the call for more checks to be made and a further extension of those four months' unemployment benefits. the bottom line here is it's not enough. what we've seen is not enough. >> i'm just left wondering in a bitterly divided congress no matter what the country looks like right now, i'm just wondering if they've all been scared straight enough to actually do more and do it quickly. i mean, hope springs eternal, i guess. julia, john, thanks, guys. at awe're going to keep an on our screen, because at any moment, new york governor andrew cuomo will give the response to

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a troubling situation in florida today involving two cruise ships off the coast is now turning dire. two people have died, nine have tested positive for coronavirus. at least two people. 200 more have symptoms and there's a standoff between the ships and the governor of florida. rosa flores is monitoring the situation in florida. rosa, the governor said he had something of a plan here for the cruise ships and passengers on board, but what is it? >> reporter: you know, it's still very unclear. we haven't heard from the governor exactly about what his take will be, but we know he told fox news yesterday that as soon as he learned that there were americans and floridians on this ship that he figured that something had to be done to make sure that these americans were able to get off the ship. now, that, of course, is in line

with what anthony fauci said earlier today, dr. fauci from the nih, of course, that the passengers who are not sick need to get off the plane. now, kate, we're learning more, actually, from the county commissioners that we've been able to talk to here in broward county. one of them telling us that a conditional agreement has been made, that agreement has to be finalized and signed, of course, by broward county commissioners and unified command and carnival cruises which is the owner of holland america. but here's what it says, here's our understanding. according to this commissioner, passengers who are healthy will be able to disembark and go home. passengers who are still sick and have symptoms, they will stay on the ship for now, but kate, we are here literally watching the horizon, waiting for this to happen, because according to this commissioner, these passengers, some of them, can disembark as early as today starting at about 1:00. kate?

>> but as we have seen, rosa, when it comes to an orderly debarcation, it takes days. rosa, also happening in florida, the governor has finally put in place a statewide stay-at-home order. he put it in place yesterday afternoon. i believe it goes into effect tomorrow. but just that in and of itself is also facing criticism. >> reporter: it has, definitely it has. this order goes into effect tomorrow, and it includes all 21 million floridians, and it's a stay-at-home order. however, it allows for essential services to still continue. and under the list of essential services are religious services, and there's the controversy, kate, of course, because that would include church services, churches at synagogues and other places of worship and that's how

this virus spreads, in close quarters with people being together and people gathering. and that's the controversy, kate. >> yeah. all right. rosa, thank you so much. i really appreciate it. so exactly what the country does not need right now is this, being told that another supply chain is being depleted. but, alas, the nation's supply of critical ventilators and n95 masks is being dedepleted, the last bit of supplies being directed to hospitals. what is the hope on the horizon for this? chris, let me start with you. what did you learn about the stockpile? >> reporter: kate, look, this is almost exactly what you said, we're seeing the final round of protective gear being shipped out from the national stockpile. what is protective gear? we're talking about masks, gloves, any sort of protective

equipment for they see health care workers, and the reason it's the last round is because the stockpile is just so low. this is coming at a point in which we're hearing desperate pleas not only from governors but health care workers on the front lines who are just trying to get that protective equipment that they need. i want to note one thing here. this stockpile was never the answer to the full pandemic. we knew officials were ringing those alarm bells early on to say there wasn't enough in the national stockpile to answer to 50 states in the case of a countrywide pandemic. that being said, it doesn't make it any less scary particularly for these health care workers on the front lines who are watching their own supplies really go down and down, and they don't know when they're going to get the next round. >> that's so true. and leyla, there are shipments coming from overseas. where are they going?

>> reporter: that's a great question, kate. i can't give you specifics about what the prioritized hot spots are because they have not released that list despite multiple requests from us to do so. i can tell you here's how it works. a supply company carries these supplies overseas, fema is getting that supply, and they say a portion of it goes back into the market and another portion of it is to go to these prioritized hot spots. when i asked about the specifics on where they are, again, they are not giving that information, only saying it includes locations like new york, connecticut, new jersey, d.c., illinois, texas, florida, washington and california. but i got to tell you, kate, i have called a lot of local governments in multiple states across the country, including louisiana, north carolina, connecticut, michigan, where we are right now in virginia. and when you talk to these local governments, most of them are

telling you -- >> leyla, i'm going to jump in. we need to jump over to new york governor andrew cuomo. he's beginning to speak about an update, the epicenter of this virus fight in new york. >> per capita high in china, per capita high in south korea, we total tested 200,000. which is a lot of people, but in new york you're talking a base of 19 million, so the number of positive cases up to 8,669. 92,000 total in the state, predominantly in new york city but you see westchester and nassau which by percentage is a troubling number. remember, new york city is so much larger than nassau and suffolk. those numbers are concerning and we're watching those.

you see in nassau county 1,000 new cases, suffolk county, 1,141 new cases. that is troubling news. number of counties, you see the entire state, every county in the state now has reported a coronavirus case. we said it was going to march across the state. i've also made the point to my colleagues on every phone call i do with the other governors, the other officials, i say it's going to march across the country. it is false comfort to say we are a rural community. we don't have the density of new york city. that is a false comfort. you have counties in new york state where you have more cows than people.

new york state, don't think of just new york city. upstate new york is a rural community. and you see that it's not just urban areas, it's suburban areas. that's westchester, nassau, suffolk comparable to suburban communities all across this country, and we have rural communities that are comparable to rural communities all across this country. in many ways, new york states is a microcosm of the united states. that's why i believe it's going to be illustrative for the rest of this nation as to what's going to happen. current hospitalizations, as i said, 92,000 tested positive, 13,000 currently hospitalized. that's up 1,100. 3,000 icu patients, that's up 300. 7,400 patients discharged. that's up 1,292.

the number of people going to the hospitals going up, the number of people coming out of the hospital is going up. number of deaths, up to 2,373. up from 1,941. looking for a trend line. the trend line is still basically up. total new hospitalizations. trend line of icu admissions is still up. certainly a couple small deviations but the line is up. the number of intubations is up, but if you want to take an optimistic view, you can start to see a plateauing in the number of intubations, but the st statisticians tell me that's an optimistic view. number of daily discharge is going way up. that's people going in, people

going out. challenges still at the apex. that's what this has been all about for every system in this country now. everyone is basically waging the same battle. different time frames, different numbers, different percentages but it's the same battle. when you hit the apex, which is the highest rate of infection, highest number of people coming into the hospital system, can you handle that number? can you handle the height of the impact on the hospital system, which is at the apex of the curve? we call that the battle of the mountaintop. at least, i call it the battle of the mountaintop. questions people keep asking, which are the right questions. well, when is the apex? it depends on what model you

use, what model you follow. we follow all of the models. it's anywhere from 7 to 21 to 30 days depending on what model you look at. how can you have that variable, 7 to 30 days? it depends on how that model rates how effective social distancing is, right? the variable is the models that think social distancing is going to be more effective at slowing the rate have a longer time frame for the apex. those models that discount the social distancing, they have a shorter time frame for the apex. it makes it difficult to plan, frankly, because 7 to 30 days is a long window, and we are literally planning on the day-to-day basis, deploying assets on a day-to-day basis.

we believe it is closer to the shorter end of the range with our in-house people looking at the professional modeling that's being done. how many beds will you need at the apex? between 70 and 110,000. again, that's a broad range. that's one of the frustrations trying to plan for this. right now we have 53,000 statewide, we have only 36,000 downstate. remember that. and this is primarily a downstate issue. so by any estimate, we don't have the number of beds, but, again, we've taken extraordinary measures. every hospital by mandate has to add a 50% increase, and they have all done that. we're setting up extra facilities which we've been talking about. we've been shifting patients

from downstate hospitals to upstate hospitals, and that is continuing. when does this end? you have projection models that have us hitting the apex, coming down from the apex. models vary at how quickly you come down from the apex, but they all basically say you come down from the apex quickly. and then some models have it flattening out, but flattening out for a period of time. models have it flattening out and continuing through the summer. how many lives lost? there's only one model that we look at that has the number of projected deaths, which is the ihme model, which is funded by the gates foundation, and we thank the gates foundation for the national service that they've done, but that is the model that suggests approximately 93,000 deaths across the country.

that's the model that i believe dr. fauci was referring to when he said about 100,000 deaths. new york would be about 15,000 deaths by that model. when we are doing this planning and we're doing our deployment, the theory is the chain is only as strong as the weakest link, right? so that's true for the hospital system. we have about, give or take, 180 hospitals that we are focusing on here in the state. the hospitals that will have the greatest issue will be those hospitals that are usually the most stressed in normal circumstances, right? so if the hospitals before this were under stress, you then add

this crisis on top of that, those are the hospitals that one would expect to see struggling first. that's also true for the entire hospital system. you know, we talk about beds, we talk about staff, we talk about supplies, but the truth is you need all three of those things to provide any care. a bed without staff doesn't do anything. a bed and staff without supplies doesn't do anything. so you need all three of those components to work to have a situation where someone can actually get care. in terms of beds, those are the easiest to find, and we are constructing additional facilities. we're now going to start at the brookl brooklyn cruise terminal, obviously in brooklyn, new york city. it's expected to open this week,

150 beds. we're hoping to take a facility in staten island and convert it to a covid-only hospital. on beds we are in relatively good shape because a bed is a bed, right? a bed is a question of a structure. if push comes to shove, we can acquire dorms, we can acquire hotels, we can acquire physical structures with beds in them. of those three components, beds, staff, supplies, i personally am least worried about bed capacity. we have 2,500 beds at javits, we have a thousand beds on the naval ship comfort. beds we can find. not easy but we can find them. the harder components are the staff and the supplies, which is what we've been talking about. on the staff, we're continuing

to shift staff from the upstate hospitals that are less impacted to downstate hospitals. we've requested out-of-state health care workers. god bless america. 21,000 people have volunteered from out of state to come into new york state. i thank them. i thank their patriotism. i thank their dedication and passion to their mission of public health. these are beautiful, generous people, and new yorkers will return the favor. new yorkers will return the favor. this is going to affect every place in this country. we are, in some ways, the first major encounter. we're learning. we'll get the experience, and we will return the favor. when your community needs help, new yorkers will be there.

and you have my personal word on that. and it's also the new york tradition when there's been a hurricane or there's been a flood or hurricane katrina, new yorkers are the first ones in their cars to go anywhere in this nation that needs help. and i will be the first one in my car to go wherever this nation needs help as soon as we get past this. i'll never forget how people across this country came to the aid of new yorkers when they needed it. and i deeply appreciate it. we have 85,000 volunteers now in total, which are being deployed to the hospitals so they can find staff that works for them. supplies are an ongoing challenge. the ppe is an ongoing challenge, the gowns, the gloves, and the ventilators. first of all, we have for the

first time ever a hospital-by-hospital survey that will be done on a nightly schedule of exactly what they have. we are coordinating like we've never coordinated before. rather than have all these regional systems, public systems, private systems, et cetera, we have a central stockpile. we are asking all the hospitals to contribute what they have to that central stockpile. and then we will disburse on a need basis. some hospitals have more supplies than they're using. we're saying, don't hoard supplies. let's put all the supplies in a central stockpile and then we will draw down from the central stockpile and we will monitor this literally on a daily basis. i'm also asking on supplies, i don't have a new york defense

production act, right? a governor can't say to a company, we need you to manufacture this. but i ask businesses just to think about the situation we're in and a possible >> it is the cruellest irony that this nation is dependant on china for production of many of these products. many of these products in the normal marketplace were being produced in china and now you have everyone shopping china for ppe, gowns, ventilators. the gowns and gloves are not complicated components to manufacture. gowns or paper material. if you are a manufacture who can

converse to make these products and make them quickly. they are not complicated products. the fda lists the specifications for these products on the website. if you have a capacity to make seizure products, we'll purchase them and we'll pay a premium. we'll pay to convert or transition your manufacturing facility to a facility that can do this. but, we need it like now. we are not talking about two months or three months or four months. we need these materials now. that's the stress. i understand that. if you are in the garment manufacturing business, if you have machinery that can cut a pattern, you know, a coverall,

you are not making a fashion forward fitted garment, these are relatively straightforward components. if you can do it. it is a state need and a national need. contact us, we'll work with you and we'll work with you quickly. there will be no bureaucracy and no red tape and we'll finance what you need and we'll pay a premium. we need it. in terms of ventilators, we released 400 ventilators to city

health corporation. you see there were rolling number in suffix. that's starting to stress that healthcare system. we released those ventilators last night. at the current rate, we have about six days of ventilators in our stockpile, meaning if the rate of usage, the rate of people coming into hospitals and need ventilators, if that rate continues in our stockpile, we have about six things. if the apex happens within that time frame, if the apex increases or longer, we have an

issue with ventilators. we'll need what we need. i have no desire to acquire more ventilators than we need. we are basically requiring ventilators because the state is buying them. they're expensive. the state is broke. we have no desire to buy more than we need but we need what we need. if a person comes in and needs a ventilator and you don't have one, the person dies. that's the blunt equation here. right now we have a burn rate that we have about six-day in the stockpile. we are taking also to extraordinary measures. i spoken to people across the nation and also to researchers, we have extraordinary measures in place that can make a

difference if we run into a real ventilator shortage. we know where all the ventilators are in the state of new york by hospitals. if we have a problem in any hospita hospitals, we'll take the ventilators that are not flenee from the upstate hospital to transport them to down state new york to hospitals that do need them. more and more is going to be on long island and we'll return them and we'll figure out the finances of it and make those hospitals hold. we are also increasing the number of ventilators by ending all elective surgeries. a hospital can't perform it if it is not critical. that's freeing ventilators. we are using anesthesia machines

and using them as ventilators. we are splitting ventilators. we put out protocol to practice it now. it is not easy and it is not ideal but it is better than nothing. we'll be pie paby passing machi which don't have the same force as a ventilator but on an emergency basis, some research that's been done that says it could be suitable. we are still looking to buy v t ventilators. too late to ask companies to make them in seven-daytime frame. part of the country that has a

later curve, yes, giving the company two months or three months, but not on our curve. so we have to buy ventilators and we are converting bypass machine, machin machines. it has not been done before. northwell has developed the protocol and they are teaching other hospitals to do it. we bought 3,000 bypass machines and 750 came in yesterday. the burn rate of ventilators is troubling and six days of ventilators in the stockpile is troubling. we have all these extraordinary measures that i believe if push comes to shove will put us in

fairly good shape. i don't want to say yet, i am comfortable and it depends on how many we need but i can say with confidence that we have researched every possibility and every idea and every measure you can possibly take in finding ventilators. this state has done. that i can promise you. >> we are also going to open the healthcare exchange enrollment period through may 15th. we have about 96% of the people in the state covered without insurance. if you are not covered, we are extending the enrollment period until may 15th, please get covered. you can go to the new york state health website and sign up.

my little brother, i only have one brother. christopher has been tested positive for coronavirus. a lot of people are concerned about him obviously people in m and many people asked me about chris and how is he doing, not just for himself but we keep on saying coronavirus, and i am afraid of it and i am anxious about it and what it does it mean? okay, your brother has it, how is he doing? a lot of people ask me that question and i talked to him quite frequently and he's doing okay. i checked in with him this morning and asked him how he was feeling and he was up and much of his normal self.

i invited him to join us for a couple of minutes if he was up to it this morning. and i think he said that he was in a position to join us i asked him to join us by video if he's available. >> there he is. with his hat "cuomo primetime." >> yo looking -- >> let's get after it. >> you are looking fit and fine. many people are asking about you. i tell you the truth everyone is asking about you and how you are doing it and feeling. cara is here with me working on supplies, she says hello. how are you feeling?