important. >> marty walsh, we wish you, the good people of boston all the best of luck. >> thank you very much. thanks to all of you for joining us. i'm jim sciutto. >> i'm poppy harlow. we'll see you back here tomorrow morning. "newsroom" with john king is next. hello to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm john king in washington and this is cnn's continuing coverage of the coronavirus pandemic. we will hear in just moments from the new york governor, andrew cuomo. his state is hardest hit here in the u.s. the big question is whether some encouraging trends in the recent numbers continue. across the globe today, high anxiety. french officials say their country yet to hit the coronavirus peak. in spain, they hope their cases are a blip. sudden training again in the wrong direction. britain's prime minister now

stable and said to be in good spirits. you see the numbers up on your screen there. nearly 370,000 cases in the united states, more than 11,000 deaths. it is just tuesday in what white house officials say is likely to be america's hardest week of this crisis, yet the president is publicly agitating to get americans out of the house and back to work. sooner than people think is the president's timetable. federal social distancing guidelines are in place until the end of the month, end of april, and experts say they would need to extend through may if the united states wants to keep the death toll in the ballpark of 100,000, maybe below that number. but the surgeon general, who just days ago called the coronavirus this generation's pearl harbor moment today is adopting the president's tone. >> over 90% of the country is actually doing the right thing right now. i want the american people to know there is a light at the end of this tunnel, and we feel confident that if we keep doing the right thing for the rest of

this month, we can slowly start to reopen in some places. >> here with me to share their reporting and expertise today, our chief political correspondent dana bash and chief medical correspondent dr. sanjay gupta. apologies to both if i need to interrupt if governor cuomo comes out. sanjay, i want to start with you. the president saying sooner than you think. the surgeon general there, instead of being it stark and sober on sunday, said, hey, light at the end of the tunnel. the model is getting better. explain. >> well, first of all, john, i just want to make this point that a few things can be true at the same time, right? there could be evidence of light at the end of the tunnel, but it's still a long tunnel, a significant tunnel, and i worry a little bit as i show you these numbers, john, these modeling numbers which the white house has really been touting. these are the ones coming from the university of washington. that people i'm talking to around the country are sometimes looking at this and saying, hey, look, we can ease up. things are getting better. i don't think that's what

anybody intended when they look at these numbers. let me talk you through it quickly. projected deaths -- i'm sorry, if you could put those up again. projected deaths -- >> i'm sorry, sanjay. it's your bad luck this week. i need to interrupt with governor andrew cuomo. >> no worries. >> i'm technically a doctor also, but not really. robert mika, doctor of the budge budget. let's talk about numbers and where we are today. total number of newly hospitalized is up from yesterday, but when you look at the three-day averaging of these numbers, the three-day average is down, which is good news. this is a three-day hospitalization rate. we tend not to look at any one day. day to day it's up somewhat, but if you look at the three-day average, it's moving down which

is good news. we talk about the apex, and as the apex is at a plateau, and right now we are projecting we are reaching a plateau in the total number of hospitalizations, and you see the growth, and you see it starting to flatten. again, this is a projection. it still depends on what we do. and what we do will affect those numbers. this is not an act of god that we're looking at. it's an act of what society actually does. change in the number of icu admissions is way down, and that's good news. the daily intubation numbers are down and that's good news. the discharge rate is right about where it was. the bad news is 5,489 new

yorkers have lost their lives to this virus. that is up from 4,758. that is the largest single day increase. we talk about numbers, but that's 731 people who we lost. behind every one of those numbers is an individual, is a family, is a mother, is a father, is a sister, is a brother. so a lot of pain again today for many new yorkers, and they're in our thoughts and prayers. many people across this country. why the discrepancy or the discordancy number of deaths up, number of hospitalizations dropping, the number of deaths, number of losses is a lagging indicator to the number of hospitalizations, right? what happens as a person goes

into the hospital? if they're treated, most of them are then released, they're discharged. some stay, some get put on a ventilator. the longer you are on a ventilator, the less likely that you will ever come off that ventilator. and that's why you're seeing the number of deaths increase, because these are people who came in at the peak. they were not successfully treated. they're on a ventilator. the longer you're on a ventilator, the less likely you come off the ventilator. new york is still the most heavily impacted state in the nation. new jersey, which is on the curve a little bit behind new york, is suffering. and, again, our thoughts and prayers are with them. i spoke to governor murphy of new jersey today and we talked

through the situation and we're working on joint strategies, but our heart goes out to all of our neighbors in new jersey. michigan, california, louisiana. in terms of how we're operating, how we're managing the situation, as we know, the hospital system basically has -- is a three-legged stool. it relies on number of beds, number of staff and the equipment. number of beds, we have started with a system of about 53,000 beds statewide. we're up to about 90,000 available beds, so we have more than enough beds available. staff has been a problem. health care staff is getting sick, they're overworked, they're stressed, they're under great emotional stress. you know, think about these health care workers.

you're working in a hospital, in an emergency room that's overwhelmed. you're worried about your own health. you then go home. you're worried about bringing a virus home if you're infected. at home is under stress, as every home is under stress. about 7,000 new staff have been hired from the pool that we have identified. these are retired health care workers who came forward. these are people from across the country who came forward. the state has a pool of potential employees. the hospitals hire from that pool and they've hired about 7,000 to date. equipment, that's the protective equipment, ventilators where we are stretching and moving, but every hospital has what they need to date. and then we balance the patient

load among all hospitals, so no single hospital or system gets overburdened. and that's a daily adjustment which takes tremendous cooperation among all of the health care institutions. i thank them very much for what they're doing. then we have the overload relief, which is the javits center, 2500 beds, and the u.s. navy ship comfort. the u.s. navy ship comfort had a 1,000-bed capacity. it was initially for non-covid patients. what wound up happening is we don't really have non-covid patients. there's fewer traffic accidents, crime is down, so the original plan, which was the comfort would take non-covid patients from the hospitals didn't really work because the hospitals didn't have non-covid cases.

i called the president yesterday morning, asked him to speak to the department of defense to see if they would change it to covid. the president, to his credit, moved expeditiously. he called me back yesterday afternoon, said they would make the comfort non-covid. when they make that transition, the capacity of the ship comes down from 1,000 to 500 beds because covid patients require a greater treatment area, more space, therefore, the capacity of the ship came down from 1,000 to 500. it's still an enormous benefit. between javits and the comfort, that's 3,000 beds, which is a welcome overload relief to the hospital system which is already extraordinarily stressed. but i spoke to general shaunnesy

today who we spoke to the comfort and javits. the number of medical personnel they've sent up here and how quickly they've sent up here, and this is a tough assignment to run facilities this large and to come up to speed and to be handling this many covid patients in a new startup emergency facility, this is a really difficult undertaking, and they have been -- they've really been fantastic, and i want to thank them all. and i want to thank the president for moving as quickly as he did. we're working on a tri-state cooperative as i mentioned to governor murphy from new jersey, i spoke to the governor from the state of connecticut. we coordinated the shutting down, if you will, when we did schools, businesses, et cetera because this really operates as a tri-state area. a lot of people who live in new jersey work in new york or live in new york, work in new jersey or connecticut, so we talk about the tri-state area, which is

true. and we try to operate to the best we can as that regional collaboration, and that has been working well for us on schools, on the economy, on health care issues. we have to start planning restarting life. we're not there yet. but this is not a lightswitch that we can just flick one day and everything goes back to normal. we're going to have to restart that economy, we're going to have to restart a lot of systems that we shut down abruptly, and we need to start to plan for that. i spoke to the governors, governor murphy and governor lamont, about coming up with a regional metropolitan and tri-state approach to do just that. when we get to that point, which we're not at, but how do we restart our economy and get everything up and running as quickly as possible? my personal opinion, it's going to come down to how good we are with testing.

you're not going to end the infection and end the virus. before you start restarting life, i don't think you have that luxury. how do you start the economy back up? how do you start getting back to work as quickly as possible? it's going to come down to testing. you're going to have to know who had the virus, who resolved the virus, who never had it, and that's going to be testing. and that is an entirely new field that we're just developing now, right? new york state developed, the department of health developed an antibody testing regimen that the department of health has approved for use in new york state. that has to be brought to scale, and the department of health is going to be working with the fda to do just that.

this tests the blood to determine whether or not you have the antibodies which means you had the virus and resolved the virus. that's why you would have the antibodies for the virus. that would mean you're no longer contagious, and you can't catch the virus because you have the antibodies in your system, which means you can get to work, you can go back to school, you can do whatever you want. but you have to have that testing, and you have to have that testing on a scale, right? you have 19 million people in the state of new york. just think of how many people you would need to be able to test and test quickly. so the antibody testing is part of that. also rapid testing to determine whether or not you have the virus now exists. they have, quote, unquote, 15-minute tests that are commercially available. but, again, they have to be

brought to scale. no private company has the capacity to bring those to scale. i was speaking with governor murphy and governor lamont. we are interested in working with private companies that can actually bring this testing capacity to scale and to scale quickly. because, again, if you have the antibody testing, that's part. if you can then test if a person is positive for the virus and you can do it that day, and you can get those results in 15 minutes, that's also another way to get back to life and do it quickly. so we're very interested in that in new york, so is new jersey, so is connecticut. there are private companies that have these tests. again, it's all up to scale. we're starting them in the state of new york but we only have about a 50,000-person testing

capacity, which is nice but it's not of a scale that's actually going to make a large difference. so private companies that are interested in getting to this space and coming to scale quickly, we're interested in those companies, and we're interested in investing in those companies, and they should contact us at empire state development corporation. also restarting life, the state budget, not just the state but every state budget has been decimated by the situation. you shut down the economy, people aren't working, they're not paying income taxes, businesses aren't operating. so our budget just collapsed, right? our revenues just collapsed. you want to restart the economy, you have to help restart the local governments. and that's going to be a federal act. i don't have the capacity as a

governor, no governor does, to generate revenue in a positive way from an economy that's not operating. that is going to be a federal stimulus bill. there's no other way to do this. and it has to be a stimulus bill that actually understands you have state and local governments that have to be brought up to speed and functioning if you want to facilitate this restarting of the economy. the federal government passed some legislation. as i've said at the time, it was woefully inadequate from new york's point of view. we then have had some time to actually study the legislation. it actually gets worse when you read it, and it's not even what was represented to us initially. so i'm sending out to the congressional delegation today a letter saying the past legislation did good for the nation. i have no doubt gave aid to a lot of people and places that

needed it, but it was not fair to new york, and that has to be remedied in any legislation that goes forward. the last point, i know it's been a frustrating 37 days, but it's only been 37 days on the other hand. i know it feels like a lifetime. it's been so disruptive, so abrupt, so frightening, so disorienting, but it's only been 37 days, right? everything in context and everything in perspective. i know it's tough to get up every day, and this is like groundhog day, living through this bizarre reality that we're in. it's even more difficult, i think, with the weather changing and you feel the seasons changing and it's getting nicer, and you start to open a new book of possibilities, and now the

weather is getting nice and i should be getting outdoors, and i should be doing this and i should be doing this. i get it. but it's only been 37 days. and i started by saying those numbers of cases, that's not arbitrary. what we do affects the number of cases. our behavior affects the number of cases. we're generating the cases. they're not descending on us from heaven, right? it's our behavior. so it's been 37 days. the 1918 pandemic that we talk about peaked in new york for six months. came through in three waves, and it peaked for six months. 30,000 people died in new york during that pandemic. why? they didn't react the way we did, they didn't know as much as

we know today, they didn't have the same drug therapies, but we are changing the curve in that virus growth. you see that plateauing. that's because of what we are doing. if we don't do what we are doing, that is a much different curve, and that's what happened in the past. so social distancing is working. well, you shut down all the businesses. i know. well, you shut down all the schools. i know, but it is working. that's why you see those numbers coming down. if we were doing the same rate of interaction, those numbers would still be going up. so to the extent we see a flattening or a possible plateau, that's because of what we are doing, and we have to keep doing it. i know it's hard, but we have to

keep doing it. and to the extent it takes an effort, remember at this time it's about we and it's not about me. i know what i would like to be doing. i would like to be going -- it's motorcycle weather for me. it's time to get out on the water. it's time to go hiking in the adirondacks. i get it. it's not about me. it's not about me. what i do will affect other people. it will affect my family, it will affect other people. it will affect people in those emergency rooms who are killing themselves every day to keep other people safe. i get infected, i will affect them. so we all talk about society and community and interconnection and interrelation and family and life is bigger than us.

now is the time to live that, right? now is the time to live that. so when you feel that need, i have to do this, it's not about me, it's about we and what's good for all of us. and my health is in your hands. and your health is in my hands. and the health of those health care workers and those first responders and all those people who have to show up to work every day to keep society functioning, we are responsible to them also. so to the extent it's hard, i get it. but maybe if we think about it through a different lens, a broader lens, it will be a little easier. let's not get complacent. we have to stay disciplined, we have to stay smart, we have to stay safe, and we do that by staying home, and we will get through this together.

questions? >> reporter: yesterday it was said that the comfort was used to treat isolations and they said they would be treating a smaller number of patients, but will the ship be able to care for that number of covid patients safely? >> i spoke to the president, i spoke to the vice president, i spoke to northwell who is helping manage the comfort. when you transition from non-covid patients to covid, the capacity of the ship goes from 1,000 beds down to 500 beds, but it can treat 500 covid patients adequately and safely. and that's what we're transitioning into operation now. >> reporter: the antibody test, how long will it take to get that? >> we have a test at wadsworth

lab. we'll know next week how much we'll be able to run. we expect to scale that up not just in our lab but get other labs to do it as well. that's where we have to work with the fda to get that approved. the fda has already approved some antibody tests. is there some way the state can work with them? >> i think antibody tests, you have to look at them. some antibody tests measure the immunoglobulin mmg. some suggested there is a new infection occurring and others show the infection has been around for a while. it's important to make sure the tests that we are measuring show that individuals have the infection -- still have the infection. our test measures the antibodies saying they had the infection and it's resolved. >> did you get that? neither did i. can you do that one more time?

>> thank you. so there is many tests out there that companies are making. there are two types of immunoglobulins. there is one that says the infection still there and you're starting to mount a response, which happens with any virus, and the other, your body also makes an immunoglobulin after your infection is resolved. that's the one you want to measure. otherwise you may be measuring something which actually says you still have the infection in your body. so you want to measure the one that says it's resolved and that's the one we've developed the test for. is that better? >> yes, that was good. i almost understood that one. mark? >> reporter: this is very provincial, but i know you're very close to the jewish community. early today the rabbi passed away from coronavirus and he's going to be buried later today, so this is like a -- a buddha

says stay away, this thing is ripe for a mass gathering. is there anything the state police or state government can do to make sure that people are held at bay? >> i'm sure -- this is the burrough park in brooklyn, right? i'm sure they will do what they need to do. i made it clear yesterday that these social distancing regulations are not just pleas, they're regulations. you can be fined for it. we increased the fine to make the point that we're serious and i'm sure the nypd will be enforcing it, but also people have to understand. i understand religious gatherings, i understand the orthodox community, the jewish orthodox community. i'm very close to them and i have been for many, many years and my family is very close to them. but now is not the time for large religious gatherings.

i mean, we paid this price already. we've learned this lesson. that was new rochelle and westchester. so please, now is not the time. you do no one a service by making this worse and infecting more people. >> joseph? >> reporter: there are reports that communities of color have been particularly hit hard by the virus. do you have a sense yet if that's the indication in new york? you've been putting out a lot of data, gender, age, updating it daily. has it been difficult to get those racial breakdowns? >> so the hospitals don't actually report the race information directly to the state, so what we end up doing on the back end is calling the coroners' offices around the state after the death has been reported. so there has been a lag. we understand people want that information, we want that information, too, and we'll have

it this week. >> reporter: is there any sense that there has been that trend where it has infected individuals of color? >> one of the challenges is that some of the communities have challenges with their health in general. they're more apt to have some of the challenges with asthma and diabetes, so any time anyone who has underlying medical conditions ends up with this virus, and any other virus it puts them at risk. >> reporter: do you have an updated website to show there is progress there? >> there is progress there, and we'll have that interface up and running by thursday. we actually worked with verizon. the problem was the lines were crashing because the volume was so extreme. we've now moved 80% of the verizon system into call centers, so you should start to see easing up of that today. we ask your patience while we get this resolved.

>> reporter: an executive order was made for a redistribution. is that still happening today? >> i'm going to release the fines and everything today. >> reporter: what does that cover? >> everything we've covered to date. >> reporter: that's voluntary now, the health association put out something saying it's going to be a voluntary taking of those ventilators? >> the hospital tells us what they have, quote, unquote, available, meaning unused and they're not going to use it in the unforeseeable future. so it was always, of the equipment that you believe, you, hospital, believe is available, if the state lent 20% of the available units as you define

available, that would be 500. and 500 ventilators was a big deal, especially two weeks ago. frankly, since then, other things have happened. we have a thousand ventilators from china, california freed up 500 ventilators, oregon sent 140 ventilators, the state of washington freed up, i think, 400 ventilators, something like that. we've also acquired an additional 500 ventilators. so we're not in the position we were in. but that's what it always was. the hospital says we have available, by their own definition, unused inventory. we're not using for the foreseeable future 20% of that number, leaving them with 80% of the unused was 500 ventilators. >> reporter: that seems like a big change from friday, though. >> no. that's what i was saying.

>> reporter: is there a presumptive line of duty officers -- >> it's something that will come up and i think it's something to look at. i would like to find a way to say thank you to these health care workers who are out there every day. you know, we talk to them on the telephone, but what they have done is just incredible. just incredible. and not just the health care workers. i mean, the health care workers, just think of the mindset to walk into that e.r. every morning, putting on these gowns, putting on all this protective clothing, having to change the protective clothing several times a day, seeing people pass away and then go home and deal with the stress at home. but also the first responders, the transit workers, you look at the rates of sickness, they know

what they're exposing themselves to, and they still do it. just -- god bless them. >> reporter: do you expect any large numbers or any numbers in the prison system to be able to curb this virus? >> we're looking at that continually. i don't think there's anything new on that right now, but it's something we're exploring all the time. >> reporter: is there any specific plan or models? >> we've done about 700 parole violators statewide. those were deemed to be a risk to public safety and also a risk to covid. we've done that so far and we continue to evaluate it on an ongoing basis. >> you've bin lieen listening t governor of new york, andrew cuomo, and his daily update. the number of people who have

died because of coronavirus, , 11,008. government is hoping new york has reached a plateau. when do you start going down in other cases? including much like the president of the united states saying it is time to start having conversations about when you can restart the economy. the governor says he's coordinating with his neighbors in new york and connecticut. but his tone is also much more cautious than the president of the united states when he says that, saying you have to have these conversations now, but this is no time, no time, in the governor's view, to let up on social distancing, workplace shutdowns, other restrictions, he said, are beginning to work. the shutdowns are working and you must continue this. the chief at the infectious

disease decision at a massachusetts hospital. you're sitting in massachusetts, so when you hear governor cuomo, after all they've been through, and those numbers are incredibly sad. even when you think, okay, they've hit a plateau and that's, quote, unquote, good news, those numbers are stunning. when you listen to that, what does it tell you about where new york is and how does that project to other places? >> thank you, john. good morning. first of all, i would say our hearts go out to the workers of new york, the citizens of new york because we are watching them carefully. we know what they're going through, we're learning from them and we're grateful for what they're teaching us. we file like we're a week, week and a half, maybe two behind new york, so we're watching pretty carefully to understand. yesterday we had in massachusetts a total of 260 deaths, 29 of them yesterday in massachusetts, and our numbers are still going up. >> i want to show you those numbers.

we can show the massachusetts numbers. the known cases have doubled every five days. i want to show you the mayor of boston. the number of restrictions he's put in place, i don't think it's a mandate, but a curfew saying, please stay in your house. it's the only way to get better. stay a listen. >> is it your sense that boston is on the steep side, the early side of the curve, as they say? >> by looking at the numbers, i would say the answer to that question is yes. we have 235 cases of coronavirus in the city of boston, and in the last three days, 33% of those have been diagnosed. so we're starting to see that spike happening. it's really hard to manage these numbers a day at a time. you can't really tell. but i want to be on the -- err on the side of caution, if you will, as we make some very difficult decisions, yeah. >> so dr. willensky, help me from your perspective as an infectious disease specialist. we'll go through this 50 times,

plus in puerto rico, plus the main islands. in terms of the united states, we're going through this 50 different times. as the governor of new york starts to talk about he's hopefully reached a plateau, but keep your foot on the gas when it comes to social distancing right now, but eventually you start thinking about how to get the economy back on. you're 200 miles away from new york. what happens in new york and connecticut will affect what happens in boston, massachusetts and northern new england. how do you figure this out? >> right, we know this virus has no borders. we know we're still watching cases in massachusetts general hospital double every two or three days. i would say that we don't have -- we have a lot of supportive care we can give to you if you walk in the doors of massachusetts general hospital, but we don't have a treatment. we obviously don't have a vaccine. so the best thing we can do against this disease is prevent it. while it is an inconvenient tool, it is a blunt tool. the best thing we have for prevention is to separate.

so the way we are doing that, the social distancing, it is working. it is the only thing that we have to prevent right now, and i would say until we are far beyond our peak cases, we need to continue this measure because it seems to me inconceivable of the alternative of watching people die is a good alternative. >> it's an excellent way to put it. it's a sobering way to put it but an excellent way to put it. in terms of the cases at mass general, who gets it, how it spreads, what helps, what doesn't is different now than it was at the beginning because it's novel, we're learning. what are two of the most important things you have learned in recent days? >> well, we are watching the numbers carefully. we have started several clinical trials. we have more underway. i think we have to watch the literature to see what happens from a treatment standpoint and make sure we're in the clinical

trials as we embark on those treatments. i'm really hopeful that as we start our search capacity, that we will have the ventilators we need. we got 100 ventilators from the stockpile just yesterday. that certainly helps and we can distribute those to our affiliates and other places so people have the ventilators that we need. the other thing i wanted to just comment on in the governor's comments, is what we need to reopen. everybody really is fixated on what's the end of this look like? the governor commented on testing. i would like to echo that we need a lot of tests for a lot of people. the other thing i want to really highlight is that we need to do something with those results. so, you know, as we think about the vulnerable communities who might be heavily impacted by this disease because they have less capacity to social distance, because they have less capacity to stop working, we really need to make sure that they are kept safe and that they

have the capacity to do what is needed should they have positive tests. so we're watching that space very carefully. >> that's an excellent point as well. dr. walensky, i really appreciate your opinions and insights. i'm watching dorchester, massachusetts very closely because it is home. good luck to you. >> thank you very much. wisconsin holding a primary election with extremely long lines during a pandemic despite the governor's efforts to delay that vote.

joe biden this morning got a very big endorsement from the civil rights icon long-time congressman john lewis. 2020 campaign news just isn't getting much attention right now, but it is impossible to ignore this today. voters in wisconsin in line to cast ballots while trying to keep their distance. many of them wearing masks. it is primary day in the middle of a pandemic. wisconsin's democratic governor tried to delay voting, but republicans in the state want a legal challenge that went all the way to the united states supreme court last night. now voters faced with wait times as long as three hours. cnn's oscar jimenez is in milwaukee. it is remarkable to see this. there is a lot of people in line and they know they're taking a risk, oscar. >> reporter: yeah, they really are, john. at this point, there has been a lot of debate, especially over the past 24 hours, on the policy side as to how exactly this day would play out. and we know even at this location here in milwaukee, we

are at one of only five polling locations open throughout the city because of a lack of poll workers who wanted to work today based on some of those risks. before the doors opened even at this location, we saw lines stretch very long, even around the corner from this location, and into the next block, and we now just confirmed a few moments ago with an official at the city of milwaukee that another one of these five polling locations is now seeing wait times of about three hours. they typically have 180 poll places that they work with. for the election overall, you look at absentee voting. that is one of the main aspects of this. you go back to a federal court order that was put in place last week. they extendedment amou the amoue that absentee ballots could be received as april 13th. but they said the absentee ballots need to be in the mail

today if they want to be counted. we've seen absentee ballots requested, over 10,000 that weren't received yet and won't be received by the end of election day today, and that means there are 500 voters right now who have to decide if they potentially risk their health and vote in person or not vote at all, john. >> oscar jimenez on the ground. it just proves that polarization does not end even if a pandemic. oscar, appreciate that. back here in washington, a campaign-related shake-up on the president's administration team. stephanie grisham now out leaving that position without ever having a press briefing with reporters. the new white house secretary will be karen mcinany. also joining the defense team,

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anxiety and questions in great britain of the condition of the prime minister, boris johnson. he's in intensive care right now receiving oxygen. he's not diagnosed with pneumonia. his condition took many by surprise including some members of the british parliament. the prime minister is being treated. clarissa what do we know of the latest of the prime minister's condition? >> reporter: so far there has not been a huge amount of change. he's quote "stable," that's cord to his spokesperson.

he's given standard oxygen treatment and he was not intubated. he was moved into the icu as a precaution measure. he had low oxygen level. they wanted to keep a close eye on him and be able to be in a position to intubate him and put him on a ventilator quickly if that situation arrives. we have not heard his condition has improved, we are told that he continues to be in good spirit. a lot of people are feeling a little bit more skeptical about the information that they are getting from his spokesperson and from ten downing street more broadly because 24 hours ago i was standing at the same place saying oh, ten downing street says there is nothing to worry about, this is a precaution measure. he's getting some texts because

he had persistent symptoms of coronavirus. a couple of days before that they were categorizing his condition as mild and obviously this is a dramatic escalation that's not uncommon on day 10 or 11 of covid-19 as we have seen again and again across the world with people suffering from the coronavirus. sorry, let me let that siren go by. still, there is a real concern here in the united kingdom of the prime minister health and his ability now of course to lead the country. he had dominique rob taking over the duty. people here would like to see the prime minuister get better and they want to see him take the reign again because there are so much anxiety already around the coronavirus, more than 6,000 death in the u.k.

obviously that in comparisons of what we have seen in the u.s. this is a much smaller population, john. >> one of the many samples that this virus does not discriminate. clarissa ward, thank you so much. back here in the united states, south dakota, one of the few states that did not implemented stay-at-home order. up to 70% of the states could ultimately be infected with the coronavirus. the governor did cancel school for the rest of the academic years. there are more than 280 confirmed cases and four deaths. the governor says government should be weary of exercising such power and she worries the economic disruption would be too great. as we have seen in many other states, some local officials are taking steps of their own. with me now is the mayor of

sioux fall, south carolina. do you this i the governor is wrong or do you think this is left up to you? >> john, good morning. f the position that we are taking, local municipality and local counties, we want to see you respond as you see best fit for your municipalities. we have a dense population that populates the state. on some cases it is probably should be taken right now. in places like sioux falls have

the density. i have to able to do that at a city level. as you have said with other segments of the virus has no limits. >> and so you are one of the more rural states. you have the most dense area in your state. where are you in terms of testing? it was a novel virus and there is no test. they had to stumble and the priority is new york and washington state and louisiana and now chicago and destrotroit what about you? >> we are still one of the states with low cases, we still need more testings to be done. even though that's the confirmed case that is we have, it can be more. states are doing all that they

can. we have the benefit of having seen everything in the rear-view mirror watching some of the hard hit municipalities states around the country. we had the luxury to learn it from the play book and steps and mi missteps, that's the approach that our governor is taking. we are trying to stay in locked steps with those approaches, we have to do things differently because of the density and municipality we are living here. >> you are more out in the west. are the people listening? >> we are a red state here. i am a red mayor. even though it is not partisan office, people know i am a republican. you have two schools on this. you have shut everything down and tell me what to do government and you have people who say don't you dare and it is not my right, it is not my

constitutional rights to assemble. that's adel kate balance protecting civil liberties and lick health and trying to do the right thing in the middle. you are not going to make everyone happy. i realized it quickly in our response. i think we are doing a good job here. >> mr. mayor, keep in touch. we folks on the big cities right now that's rippling across america. please chemkeep in touch. thank you, john. >> thank you, sir. >> new global restrictions today. paris officials banning outdoor exercises during the daytime hours, in honduras, you must wear a mask everywhere you go. in new york, governor cuomo with some bombsomber statistics. the bad news is 5,489 new

yorkers have lost their lives in new york. that's the largest day increase. that 731 people who we lost -- >> in the united states at this hour is uncertainty. the president says he can open the country sooner than most people think. social distancing is working. louisiana is not one of those places. it is a small community, st. john, baptist parish with 43,000 residents. 366 cases confirmed and 24 deaths. that spurred