and gena on saturday and we cannot wait for that. very excited. it's incredible. he volunteered to come to new york to be a nurse. he wasn't even working as a nurse anymore. he had nurse training but he decided, i'm going to do this. the news continues right now. i want to hand it over to chris for cuo"cuomo prime time." >> there are a lot of health care workers that have been sacrificing their own private times and contact with families even if they live locally for fear of spreading it to their own families. that's a lot of sacrifice. it's important to remember, especially today on national nurse appreciation day. big daddy anderson. i wait for the laugh. i won't leave until it. i am chris cuomo. welcome to prime-time. so, look, the facts are not in dispute, not on in show. no state has met the relatively relaxed standard of 14 days or fewer cases to reopen. the question has become, is the goal still to save lives in this country? it seems the measure has

changed. and america is deciding what to do now on the basis of how much death is okay, as the price of getting back to work and play increasingly life seems to be getting pretty cheap in america. are you okay with that? the governor of the state where much of this first hit is is not okay with it. in fact, he says he's infuriated with the state of play. and he will tell you why the need is great, we know that, and the fact is seen plainly in the fight for food. so let's find solutions. we have a man with a plan to stop hunger in this pandemic. you know chef andres. he is literally feeding the country. and he has food for thought, as well, about what the fix is for hunger all across america. remember, what affects one eventually affects all. especially now. so, together, as ever, as one. let's get after it.

all right. here are the numbers. 43 states will have eased isolation restrictions by the end of this week. is that progress? again, not one has met the lax federal standard for doing so. and remember, the virus hasn't changed. hospitals, still being flooded. people still being killed in increasing numbers and in weird ways that are confounding science. there's no cure, there's no vaccine, and neither is coming anytime soon. new hot spots are emerging. in fact, many states are expecting spikes after they reopen. here are the facts in your face. you see the bright spots on the map? those 19 states are now seeing an upward trend in confirmed covid cases over the last 14 days. the 18 states shaded orange, they stand at about the same levels, which is we're calling a plateau right now.

only 13 states so far appear to be going down in cases, but again, even though down, none has met the white house marker for two straight weeks of declines to trigger reopening. and many places still don't have what they need to test, trace, or treat the cases. literally, not even enough ppe gear. so today, a prominent nurse -- remember, it's a national nurse's day, pointed that out. the reality, right next to the president. and look what he said. >> i think it's sporadic -- i've talked to my colleagues around the country. certainly, there are pockets of area where ppe is not ideal. but this is an unprecedented time. i've been reusing my n-95 mask for a few weeks now. >> sporadic for you, but not sporadic for a lot of other people. >> oh, no, i agree, mr. president. because i've heard the opposite. i've heard that they are loaded up with gowns now.

>> he better cross his arms in a defensive postchive posture. >> first of all, how dare he do that to her on the spot. she's reusing her n-95 mask. it is not just sporadic for her. that's not even what the word means. in pockets all over this country, they don't have what they need. let me ask you, why does he keep denying what it will take to make it go away? why does he hide from the need, instead of providing them? why doesn't he unite this country behind this desperation of fact instead of dividing? we need the reality. and you will get it from governor jay inslee of washington. he just extended stay-at-home orders in his state until the end of the month, invoking the wrath of gop lawmakers there. they're actually suing him, claiming there is no longer an emergency. he says there is. and it's a battle of life and

death. governor, thank you for joining us. >> you bet! thank you. >> so your state is a very interesting examination of the current state of play of the tension between safety and reopening. you're actually being sued by the republicans in your state. what is your perspective on what this lawsuit is about? >> well, it's about biological ignorance and kind of human heartlessness. and i think that's the best way i can describe it. it's just trying to ignore the clear science of biology, which from an epidemiological standpoint is very clear that if we abandon our efforts that have been significantly successful to date, this is -- that curve is going to go shooting right back up. this beast is going to get off floor and bite us back. and this is just a biological certainty and we have some legislators who have the "r" name after them and are paying more attention to that than the

biology of this thing. and the thing that's maddening is that there's no dispute about this. this is just a biological fact. >> how did it get to be so partisan, gov.? >> it's very disappointing to me, because when this started out, we had a very unified, very bipartisan approach to my state. i appreciated some republicans speaking up in favor of it, but, frankly, when the president asks americans to conduct illegal activity and ignore the clear orders of governors that were the law of their respective states, that was just kind of a signal to his colleagues thinking, this is how they're going to do battle, politically. and it's very, very unfortunate. because i can tell you the majority of republicans in my state get what they're doing. they get it. they care about their loved ones as much as i do. they understand science. and this is just a bunch of elected folks trying to make a little statement rather than a rationale, unified approach.

and our team has functioned very well. beating viruses is the ultimate team sport. and our team in washington has been very effective, both ours, indeed, as citizens, pulling together, honoring our -- we've had massive compliance with my order. that's why we have been successful, because washington has been committed. so it's a lot of things, we're not letting this distract us. we're moving forward. both in a way to protect our health and our economy. because we all know the way to protect our economy is to restore our health. so they go hand in hand. they're not enemies. they are partners. and we're making good decisions in that direction. >> and to be fair, you guys were ground zero. you had to come at this with fresh eyes. the country was asleep on it, when you started dealing with it and a lot of the learning curve was through your experiences in that state. you've opened up parks. you have an order that you're going to phase in, have some businesses open up. so it's not like you're completely closed. you have not met the cdc

guidelines for 14 days of down cases, which means, technically, you're being more aggressive than the federal standard. you know, what more do they want at this point? >> sort of a political statement, and i think it is being driven by a political interest. that's all i can figure out. the biology is clear the interest in human life is clear. the only motivation i can figure out is trying to follow this siren song from the president who somehow believes that's in his political interest. as i've said, it's most unfortunate. >> here's what you're dealing with that doesn't make sense to me. there's this urgency for covid to go away. everybody shares that. but we don't see the desperation to make it go away. and in fact, what your state is experiencing is a perfect example of how the federal government has not motivated what needs to happen to create these circumstances to have covid go away. you still don't have the

personal protective equipment that you need in your hospitals. the testing and tracing that they want you to do, is on the state, to reopen the way you want, you don't have the money to fund and it the testing resources to do it and get it processed and turned around. so how can you do what they want you to do when they don't give you the money or equipment to do it? >> that's an excellent question for which there is no answer. look, we have to stand up a domestic manufacturing mobilization of our industrial base in the united states in order to solve this problem. i just literally walked out of a meeting where we're trying to figure out if we can stand up a domestic manufacturing base. we do have several companies that are making masks and visors and gloves right now, but we're now starting to look, can we get a domestic manufacturer's swabs for goodness sakes. and as you know, we have not been able to do the tests that we need. and the thing that's interesting, it's a little

counterintuitive, the need for testing and the need for ppe is going to go up as we reopen the economy, not down. and i think people are just really, including the administration to some degree, that has not realized that the demand for these products, as we reopen the country, as people come back to work, they're going to need more tests, even as the infection rate might go down. they're going to need more ppe in construction, in manufacturing, in restaurants to be able to have the masks we need. so we're in a full-scale alert in our state to try to potentially grow our own industrial capacity. but we know that there's only one person in the whole country that has the ability to actually order this to be done, and that's the president of the united states. >> you said the president's response has been infuriating to you. why? >> well, because there is only one person that can save us from the lack of this material, and that's the president of the united states, by using the defense production act, i urged

him weeks and weeks ago to do that. he refused to do so, because he said that was not his supply responsibility. he didn't want to be a supply clerk, as if that's a diminished role. look, i think providing ppe and testing material is an exulted responsibility right now. so i was very disappointed he did not do that for weeks. one good sign, because we're always looking for good news, there has been some movement in the administration to bring in some of the defense department supply chain, to use the defense production act in at least small ways, and we have been told by that we'll be receiving a half a million swabs in the next few weeks. this would be tremendous if that happens. so we want to continue that effort and encourage thaeft efft by the administration. we have a number of voices in the administration, i think in good faith, to try to encourage that mobilization. and if it's successful, it will be a bright day. but until then, our states are on their own, as we know, including your brother's great

work, so we've got to keep the med pedal to the medal. >> you still wouldn't have what you need to test your populat n population, where you want to reopen on an ongoing basis. and there are two different signals coming out of the white house. there is, maybe we'll give you these things, but you also have the attorney general, who says he's considering legal action against governors if they do what he deems too stringent of a restriction. and it happens to be language that's echoed in a lawsuit against you by republicans right now. are you worried that you may have your federal government doing more to hurt you than to help you? >> not as much as maybe you might think, because we beat the federal government. we've defeated donald trump 26 times in a row. our excellent attorney general, bob ferguson, is 26-0 against donald trump's ignoring the law and the constitution,

frequently. no, it is clear that our states do have authority to protect our people in the u.s. constitution. there's no question about that. donald trump sort of had to beat a hasty retreat on that subject, when he said he was in total control. and then he said he was going to authorize us. we're authorized by the u.s. constitution to act and by the vote of our people and our states, both republicans and democrats. so i think we're going to be on firm ground. i think we'll prevail in these lawsuits that are more political statements than anything. so that we can protect our people. and this is about life. and i have to tell you, i had a meeting with nurses today who are heroes, of course -- >> and today is national nurse appreciation day. >> national nurse -- and i had a meeting with them today. and i was -- they were comparing some of the rhetoric, we're hearing from some republican politicians that these are just kind of old folks. and that is so offensive to me, to think that people over the age of 60 are sort of disposal

humans. being 69, i certainly don't appreciate that. there was a nurse who was about 65 who didn't appreciate it. and look, the people -- these are losses of living people. when we lose a brother or a parent or a grandparent, it's a loss to the living. that's what's at stake here. and i just really -- it boils my blood when i hear comments from some of these republican legislators that this is just a problem with folks at some age, so we shouldn't just worry about it. i can't stand that. that will not stand. we need to speak against. it call it out for what it is, which is inhumane selfishness. and make sure that we continue on this course, that the vast majority of people, at least in my state, believe is the right one. >> it is scary how quickly life got cheap in america. well, governor, we know this from the polls, your leadership has never been more praised than it is right now. so politically, you're in your prime. governor inslee, good luck going forward. we remain a platform for you to make your case to the american

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exhibit "a" from new press secretary kayleigh "i cannot tell a lie" mcenany. >> if we tested every single american in this country at this moment, we would have to retest them an hour later and an hour later after that, because at any moment, you could theoretically contract this virus. so the notion that everyone needs to be tested is just simply nonsensical. the people who need to be tested are vulnerable populations. we have to be strategic with our testing and we have done that so far. >> she has everything there wrong, except the idea that you can't test everybody all the time. but whoever asked for that? that was never the standard. the only person who ever implied anything like that was trump who falsely implied to you that there would be enough tests for anybody who wants one. that was supposed to happen weeks ago. and the reason nothing even close to it has happened is because he has done almost nothing to make it happen. focus though on why they do this. why play that game about testing, oh, it would be silly

to do what they want us to do. they want to hide the truth. testing is truth because numbers are truth. and they want you to believe that covid is going away faster than it actually is because they believe the longer it is real, the worse it is for trump and the election. the politics of forcing reopening is as obvious as it is ugly. so let's focus on the reality on what we need. and that does begin with testing and dr. sanjay gupta, chief doctor. good to see you. now, the reason reef been hammering on testing and tracing is, you don't know what to do if you don't know what you're dealing with. and hospitalizations are important. but reopening is about exposing communities, sanjay. and unless you just want to guess, there's only one way to make smart decisions, right? >> yeah, you need to have the data. that's always been the case. testing was the pivotal part of this. continues to be the pivotal part of this and will be the most

important thing. i mean, without the data, you really can't make these decisions. i think what's interesting, chris, is there is these various criteria. the sickest people should get tested first. health care workers who have symptoms. then health care workers without symptoms. and then basically everybody else. but the real question, i think, becomes, as you start to think about opening, and i think this is what those criteria are sort of getting at, which is how do you give people the confidence to start going back out in public. in many of these places that are reopening, you're seeing that people still don't want to go out, because they're frightened that either they'll contract the virus or they'll pass the virus on to somebody else. so, for that reason, you've got to have testing. how do you get the psychological confidence back into people? i think that's one of the reasons. and you know, i don't know how many tests it is. if you look at that harvard road map, they do say that ultimately, it's -- you know, they say, by july, 20 million tests a day, okay? that's a lot, right? that would be every person in the country, roughly, twice a

month. every 14 days. that's arbitrary, but it's that level of tests -- maybe it's not that number, but that sort of idea of testing that we need to be doing it very robustly, where people are on a regular basis, make sure it's accurate and they can get the results quickly that's going to be necessary. >> the paradox is, his play, politically, the president is to get people back out there, but he's not giving them the thing that will give them confidence to get back out there, which is the recognition of the risk. something else. i want to talk to you about the agony of defeat. this -- what's it called? chil chillibain chil chilliba chillibane chillibanes, these feet pictures we're seeing everything. >> they're covid toes. you have the sort of situation where you have new symptoms that appear with this particular virus, right? we heard about things like loss of smell, you know, impact on the heart. and now this condition that's called covid toes, that's what

they're calling it, chillblanes, it kind of looks like frostbite in a way. you get these lesions on the toes. and at first dermatologists weren't quite sure there was a relationship here. but increasingly, dermatologists are seeing a lot more of this phenomenon. interestingly, not all the patients they're seeing are testing positive for covid. and they're thinking that maybe this is something that's a remnant of covid. so after someone recovers, for example. and it appears to be that they -- either the inflammation in the body as a result of the virus, some inflammation seems to linger, chris, this is something that you and i have talked about even in your own recovery. or it could even be these tiny clots. we've talked a lot about the fact that for some reason, this virus seems to be prothrombobottic, more likely to make you have clots. there have been some rare cases of people developing clots, causing strokes. and now it could be that these clots are actually causing little damage in the small blood vessels in the toes. so luckily, what we're hearing

is that it's not serious. i mean, it's painful, but not indicative of a more serious disease or anything and tends to go away on its own. but there's another thing, another phenomenon of this particular disease, covid-19, that seems to be emerging. >> i'll give you a little spot check after the show tonight about what's going on with that. but look, the mystery of this keeps unraveling, which takes us to our next headline, which also deals with what this is doing in terms of clotting. there may be another medicine available to more severe cases to help with duration and exposure. what have you heard? >> yeah, this was -- again, a really interesting. i mean, if you're someone who's -- i mean, we're seeing the emergence of a new disease here, chris. so for the medical establishment, there's a lot of curiosity here and investigative work that's going into trying to figure this out and figure out, what's tying all of these things together. what is the unifying figure. respiratory disease, yes.

loss of smell, cardiac disease, gi symptoms, covid toes, and now this idea that people may need to be on blood thinners when they develop this disease, as well. so here's what they found. it was a study of about 2,700 patients and these were sick patients, chris, who a certain percentage of them, when they were going on the ventilator, they were finding that somewhere between 60 and 70% of those patients were not surviving, okay? those same patients, if they were on a higher dose of a blood thinner, the mortality rate was closer to 20 to 30%. still awful, but about half of what it was if you weren't on the blood thinners. so the scenario typically of someone who's in the intensive care unit, chris, oftentimes they're started on low dose blood thinners, because they're immobile. you want to prevent clots from forming. but nose these patients have got more blood thinners because of the concerns about clots, and they seem to do better. so, again, this is brand-new. we're learning together. but this idea now that people who are developing this

coronavirus infection, developing the disease, covid, might benefit from blood thinners, at least at the point where they become more seriously ill, i think is becoming real. it's a razor's edge, chris. if you give blood thinners, what could happen? people could start to blood. so you have to give enough to be beneficial, but not too much to cause a problem. >> scary learning curve here, that's why the health care workers are so important and we don't want to put them under anymore stress than we need to. dr. sanjay gupta, as always, value added. thank you, sir. >> call me later. >> i will. >> and you can use that line, agony of defeat. it's yours. yet another gift. all right, another covid medical mystery. more reason to believe that this virus has been here and making us sick for much longer than we thought. the chief medical examiner in chicago in the area there is revising -- revisiting deaths. why and how far back? wait until you hear the answers. next. sweetheart, do my forearms look bigger?

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all right. in chicago, where cases are still climbing, the medical examiner is taking a second look at deaths from months ago. why? let's ask. dr. pawnee arookamar is the cook county medical examiner. doctor, thank you for joining us. i know you're very busy, i appreciate your time. >> thank you for having me, chris. the first case of covid-19 in cook county was reported on march 16th, 2020, but there are areas in california, especially in santa clara county, where they've found cases much earlier than the first diagnosed case in the united states. we want to do our due diligence to find if there are cases in cook county that covers chicago and the neighboring suburbs.

if there are cases due to covid-19 that may have been missed, we want to do our due diligence to help public health, to see how this virus spread in cook county. we're looking at cases from november 2019 to look at cases where we determined the cause of death is due to pneumonia or due tmyocardial infarction, which is basically a heart attack, to see if this is due to some cardiac event and send tissue to cdc to see if that's due to covid-19. most of the time, natural deaths like pneumonia and heart attacks, the patients are going to a hospital, they die there. these usually don't come to our jurisdiction. they don't need a medical examiner to investigate these deaths. the treating physician signs out these death certificates. but if the patients die at home or die suddenly, these are cases the medical examiner's offices

usually investigate. and for cases where we're -- go ahead. >> let me just ask you some context. why november, not october or september, and what would be the value in identifying what kind of cases turned out to be covid? >> we're looking from november 1, if needed, we can go further back, but this is what we want to start off from. the reason we want to do this is to find out how this virus came from chicago to the neighboring suburbs and how it has spread. it will help public health and the residents of cook county understand how this disease came to cook county. >> tony fauci, you know him obviously from the president's task force, he spoke about the curiosity here. this is part of what he said. >> when you look at autopsies now, we're seeing things that we didn't expect. we thought it was all primary viral pneumonia.

then when you look at what's in there, there are things called mic microthrombi, which may be why people who are in that situation seem to be doing well, and then all of a sudden they rapidly and dramatically deteriorate. here's what spoox k mess abous this. it seems like you and the scientific clinical community keep learning more about this virus that is confusing, that you can't see, it keeps surprising you and killing people in weird ways. and at the same time, we seem to be rushing to reopening. what is your perspective on the mysterious nature of this and how you reconcile that with the race to reopen? >> we don't know much about this virus. we're still learning about it, how long does it last on surfaces, how long does it last in a dead body. we're continuously learning

about this virus. we've see younger patients, teenagers dying from thromboembolism, where we found that they tested positive for covid-19. it is causing thrombotic events and strokes in younger patients. so we're still learning about this virus and we still don't know everything about it. it can mutate. and about the stay-at-home order, i think, you know, we don't have enough testing available to see how prevalent that disease is. and that is what i can say from a pathological or forensic point of view. >> it's an interesting thing. there's so smumuch desperation have this end, and what we need most to give confidence to people are the tests, right? that's the only way that people like you can have the data to give someone like me the confidence that it's okay to go outside. and we're not doing the one thing -- do you have enough

testing equipment and material that you need to assess the data in your own community? >> we have testing available to test possible covid cases. we don't have tests available to test all the people in the community. so we don't know how prevalent it is in the community. >> and every time you test, you wind up seeing a spike, because you wind up having all of these new cases. there's a lot of unknown out there. doctor, thank you so much. please feel free to get in contact with us. we'll check back with you about what you're finding and what you need people to know about. see this as a platform for you to speak to the country. >> thank you for having me. >> god bless and be well. all right, pushing back on reopening. by the way, just as a matter of perspective, this isn't about denying the need. it's about making the best choice to reopen in a way that makes us more likely to succeed.

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of pounds of crops. no market. countless restaurants that wish they could be feeding hungry people. a maddening conflict of circumstances and no solutions from washington. that's where a true american comes in. chef jose andres. welcome to prime-time. >> thank you for having me. >> if our superhero, your name should be senior sabaroso. you are dealing with giving people food, but you are also feeding the faith of better days to come. and your work on the ground has given you ideas about how to fix what you see as obvious problems. tell us everything. >> well, i'm going to tell you one thing. the men and women of work central kitchen, we've already reached over 5 million meals. and one of the ways we achieve this is by bringing in -- with

our system, over a thousand restaurants across 35, 40 estates. and yesterday was a big day. we were able to influence a bill, a bill that is bipartisan, but between congressman thompson, congressman mcgovern, all of a sudden, bipartisan support by congressman davies from illinois, and at the same time, in the senate, kamala harris and also senator scott, all of a sudden, we had this simple idea, which is called the fit act, that is a very practical idea, a good solution, where we show a good policy is good politics. >> so how does it work? >> well, very simple. through congress making sure they are able to do this act,

which is one that you'd to be called the stafford act. all of a sudden, governors are able to implement the funds at the federal government through fema. they can activate it and all of a sudden they can partner with local ngos, local restaurants to take care of local problems. governor newsom has already implemented this in california to feed others. i guess, i don't know if you know the governor of new york, that you can give a good voice about this program, that already has proven to be working very well. >> i will connect you with the love gov right after this second. but what i want to know, so the audience gets it, you have been able to coordinate the restaurants as outposts and how do you find the food and who makes the food. let us know, how are you using different parts of the supply chains. >> we have to understand sometimes bigger problems have very simple solutions. the systems before coronavirus began already was in place.

we have the farmers, we have the distribution systems. america is all about distribution. we are the leader of distribution in the world. what we are trying to do is making sure that the system keeps working so you don't see long lines across the food banks of america at the same time that farmers are dumping their unsold produce in the middle of the field. let's keep the system going. let's keep america fed. let's make sure that we don't have a humanitarian crisis by having congress and the federal government investing in this crisis, so we can look at the future with open as we get ready to reopen in the weeks and months to come. >> so the governors then have money to execute this plan, which works to coordinate the crops and livestock that people have, but can't sell. and who do they get that stuff to and who turns it into and gets it to the restaurant to distribute to people.

>> it's the same systems that we had. i'm here in maryland and virginia, we receive a lot of good produce from those farms. i go to the farmers market. the farmers market, they don't sell the same amount och food, but somehow they keep this army fed. we need to make sure that the systems they had in place, they don't stop functioning, because now restaurants are almost all out of business, many farmers don't have the same output, so now, this is not only one solution, we need to make sure that the federal government comes with usda and make sure that usda buys from as many farmers the product that they are putting out. all of a sudden, that food may be used by restaurants, by little ngos like us, by food banks that right now are running out of food, by organizations of collect ties of faith, is many ways we can be putting that food that america produces.

we need to keep reinvesting in what we were doing before all this crisis began. what we need to do is don't stop the system. so we can make sure that every american in need of food can have a plate of food for their families. >> so it allows -- so the simple explanation is that the food act, the former stafford act, allows governors to take up the space in the markets to create the demand for the farmers to deliver the produce to the restaurants to make the food and feed the communities. >> you translate my english perfectly, but this is only one segment. we need to make sure that congress, the white house supports extra to support the food banks. we need to make sure that we increase enough to make sure that the families have enough money through these hard times. we need to make sure that they can use the s.n.a.p.s, what we call the food stamps to be used in restaurants to also be used to buy food online, to be used also to increase the quantity of

fruits and vegetables that they can buy in the farmers markets. at the end of the day, this requires a 360 degree solution to fix this problem. i think it's very doable. we are already approving the concept in many ways by the way that we are able to interact with the different opportunities of the system. i do believe that every problem has a very simple solution and becomes an opportunity. that's what the kitchen is trying to prove to everybody. >> we will get on the phone with the people who are sponsoring the bill and start creating pressure to see what happens with it. i'll get you on the phone with the governor and your english is perfect, because everything you say comes from the heart and it is motivated by a very resourceful mind. so everything you say to me is perfect, chef jose andres, and i thank you for feeding america. >> thank you. and everybody should go back and read the jungle of st. claire. everybody should go back and read "the grapes of wrath."

many of those things, they've happened before. we need to learn from the past so we can come with the right solutions in the present, so we don't have a problem in the future. food is the solution of the many problems we face. let's make sure that congress, white we put the solutions working one at a time. >> chef, god bless. thank you and love you. all right. from feeding america to healing america. our medical heros, you know they're risking their lives, and they ask us one thing. so many of us say, oh, i love them. are you showing the love? next. if you have a garden you know, weeds are low down little scoundrels. with roundup sure shot wand you don't need to stoop to their level. draw the line. the sure shot wand extends with a protective shield to pinpoint those pesky bedfellows. it lets you kill what's bad right down to the root, while comfortably guarding the good. draw the line with the roundup sure shot wand.

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this day, may 6th, official in 1982, but the fight had been going on from the '50s. nurses recognized the whole week and, boy, do they deserve is now more than ever. as churchill said during world war ii never have so many relied on the efforts of so few. you've seen the images of them working overtime in crowded hospitals. some without the necessary ppe. i'm sorry, mr. president, but that's the truth. giving dying patients their personal cell phones so they can say good-bye to their loved ones. 3 million registered nurses in the u.s., the highest percentage of health care workers. thousands have come here to new york city volunteering to help fight this. thousands of nurses have also paid the price for their efforts, contracting the virus themselves. the cdc says 10% to 20% of the infected on health care workers. many have fallen. dius jordan kelly, we spoke to his sister here, you may remember. he was an assistant nurse

manager at mount sinai hospital in western manhattan. he died on march 24th, just 48 years old. his last words were to his sister, i love you, going back to sleep. 54-year-old ewald worked for more than 20 years she died on april 1st, a week after telling family she tested positive for covid. lisa's niece said she cared so much more about other people than she did himself. and just last week, tina reeves lost her battle, a nurse working at the pickaway correctional institution in ohio. public servant for 14 years. she leaves behind three kids and ten grandkids. the list of victims is far too long to name every single one, but you should keep them in your heart because despite these dangers, heroic nurses put smiles on their faces and uplift patients and one another. you've seen these tiktok videos. god bless them for having the energy to do it. today all over the country there

have been celebrations in their honor, applause, signs, messages of support on social media from everyone, celebrities, politicians, sports teams, but here's the thing. if you ask them what can we do for you? what can we get you? what do you need? to a person no matter where they work across this country, they say the same thing to me. stay home. please do what you can to keep cases down. so my question is how many of us say we love them don't really show that love? my message for all of you on this day is, show the love, do what you can to keep cases down. your choice isn't just about you. you know now that it affects others, including maybe them. and how about our government? get them the damn ppe they need. have it made in this country. remember rosie the riveter. these are desperate times, everybody says it. how about having desperate times call for desperate measures? really, america can't muster making gowns and masks when we

made aircraft carriers and b-24 bombers? also, here is something else that would be really great for them. a new bill in the house from new york congresswoman carolyn maloney. now, the bill would forgive student debt for all health care workers who are literally putting their lives on the line to save others. there's precedent for this. we do it for the military, and we should, okay? i think it makes sense to do it for these heros as well during this time. what do you think? we certainly give a lot more money to a lot less worthy causes. and think about it. what do we do for them? we do the applause. at night here in new york city. i try to show it to you on a regular basis, why? because i want to remind all of us of our interconnection and our interdependence and we recognize what they're doing, so many of them are putting up with so much. remember the doctor i had on last night? volunteering 12-hour shifts in a

covid icu. that's not the job she does. she's an orthopedist. she volunteered. and then this country kicked back her green card application. she's from canada, by the way, before you start playing any race games. and why? because people aren't being recognized for their value. and that's what i hope we remember today. these health care workers, especially nurses for today, they deserve more than applause. they deserve that we give our best efforts, that we use our head to craft great policy, that we don't cave to political considerations. we know the need is great. the need is great for them, too. they're watching people die on a daily basis from a disease we don't even understand. don't they deserve -- and don't, frankly, you and the rest of this country deserve that we do smart things that show that we value people's lives enough to make moves that will ensure they have a chance to live those lives? so, you want to show your

thanks? i hope that these nurses get shown the same love by all of us that they give every day. thank you for watching. "cnn tonight" with d. lemon starts right now. >> listen, they love the applause. we know that. they love the accolades, but more than anything, i think the most important thing that you said in all of that is what do they want most? they want us to stay at home because they realize the best thing that they have right now is for people to stay at home and to socially distance themselves from other people so that they can keep the cases down until there is something that works on this virus enough to keep people from getting sick or until there is a vaccine. and that's it. that's what they want the most. so listen to the people who are on the front lines. and, chris, i have to say, you know, you and i bicker, we joke around. that was really great of you to do that. so i applaud you. but more than anything, i think you'll appreciate this, i applaud the nurses.