as we head into november. thank you very much, good to see you both. so before we go tonight, the live look at the empire state building lit up in red, white, and blue in effort to combat covid-19. >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." america's national shutdown in response to chinese coronavirus enters its third week, almost 40,000 additional cases were confirmed just over this past weekend and about 1,000 additional deaths of americans. that is awful, of course, but it's better than what's happening in europe right now. for some perspective, we are joined now by chief breaking news correspondent trace gallagher who has the latest numbers. >> there is not much optimism because today's death toll took a big jump pushing america very near the 3,000 mark in total deaths but america far and away leads the world and confirmed

cases, the u.s. is fifth in total deaths. italy has four times as many. spain nearly three times as many, and when you look at the hardest hit of the states, there are some encouraging signs. a california governor gavin newsom said today when it comes to the icu beds, the state is meeting demands but is continuing to look for makeshift hospital sites. california has more than 6500 cases of covid-19 and 135 people have died, but for the second day in a row, the number of new cases and deaths have come down. so far, nobody is calling that a trend. but washington state is seeing evidence of a trend. state officials there believe the containment strategies are causing a steady decline in both the number of new cases and the deaths. michigan seeing a different dynamic. for example, yesterday michigan saw a number of new cases and deaths go down but today, there was a significant increase. michigan is now getting close to passing california for the third highest number of infections.

louisiana has the nation's tenth highest number of confirmed cases but has the fourth highest number of deaths and finally, new york is the hardest hit state. we all know that one, more than 66,000 cases but the rate of hospitalization has slowed and instead of doubling every two days, it's doubling every six days and that is relieving some major pressure on the states overworked health care system. >> tucker: trace gallagher, thanks a lot for that report. from day one and this pandemic, one of the main problems with tracking it has been we have no idea how many americans have it. we haven't done randomized testing and that means we don't know how fast it spreads, how deadly it is, the physical effects of the disease. but that could be changing soon. could now be feasible to conduct widespread randomized testing, and that would give us a much better picture of what this disease is doing. assistant secretary of health and human services and we are happy to have him tonight, thank you so much for coming on.

tell us what your plan is with testing, how that could change. >> testing has come a long way very quickly, and today we surpassed the 1 million tests being performed and we see this ramping up continually. of what we really tried to do over the past couple of weeks it is not just the number of tests, but the types of tests and you've heard a lot about the point-of-care tests which is really important in our whole mill you have testing. as you said, we move further and further along, we will have the ability to do widespread population-based testing to understand how many people did come down with the sickness even if they weren't symptomatic. >> tucker: since we don't know that now, do you expect the assumptions we have about this disease to change once we find out? >> i think there is no doubt that our assumptions about the disease will change. and we know that many people can

be completely asymptomatic and therefore, they will never show up in our current testing regimen because we have to prioritize testing to those who are hospitalized. health care workers, first responders, but as we have more widespread testing especially in the future, to see if you've been exposed, will know how many people are exposed and with the mortality rate is. we've said for six weeks when the mortality rate was thought to be three or 4%, that was a gross overestimate even then we thought it would be between .2 and one. that still a very serious disease. >> tucker: those are really high numbers absolutely. how long will it be until the average person who feels sick, body ache, the familiar symptoms can get tested? >> it's not going to be this week or next week because we are still in the state that everybody who needs to have a

test who were truly sick and hospitalized, the elderly with symptoms, hospital workers. we absolutely have enough tests to test those but we do not have tens of millions of tests yet. so it's not going to be in the next week or two but i want everybody to understand that if you are young and healthy and you have mild symptoms, the test is not going to change anything. you need to stay indoors, listen to the days to stop the spread and consult with your health care provider because in many areas where the disease is not widespread, they are getting tested. areas like detroit and new york city doesn't make sense to test those and we need to focus on the sick. >> tucker: thank you so much for that update, it's hopeful. appreciate it. so the fda has just given emergency approval to hydroxychloroquine, and antimalarial drug that has shown some promise as a treatment for coronavirus where is

"the washington post" predictably worded it "fda authorizes widespread use of unproven drugs. he can tell they will be heartbroken if the drug actually works. but does it work? and if it does, how are other treatment options looking? there are some and for details now, we go to marc siegel who joins us. thank you so much for coming on. so where are we in the development of effective treatments? >> there's a drug i'm going to talk about which is a drug that was approved for hiv, and it is actually a very exciting drug that's been used in ten patients around the country. because you know what it does? it decreases the inflammation we are seeing when we have a reaction to covid-19. in other words, people out there should no it's not the virus itself that is calling this pneumonia. is just like what it sounds, a storm of immune cells. this blocks that in at the same

time revving up your own regular remove response and it looks very promising at keeping people off of ventilators or if they're on ventilators, getting them off them off ventilators by decreasing this inflammation. there's also another drug, an older drug that's been proven to be used for that and that we used to fight asthma in severe cases. that's being used together with a blood thinner, so again to decrease this inflammation or exuberant response in the lungs and it too has shown some effect at our goal here which is getting people off ventilators or preventing them going on ventilators. i also want to give a shout out to somebody called tucker carlson who because of your attention to hydroxychloroquine, night after night talking to front line people about this drug insisting that it be taken seriously, i believe our focus on this drug have led us directly to fda him emergency approval which may save many lives.

>> tucker: thank you. obviously, not my lane, but it does seem promising. is it turning out to be our doctors using it effectively to treat this disease? >> they were many, many instances of that around the world, a small study we talked about in france. in china it was used a lot. was used in south korea. i talked to a top rheumatologist who's been using it for years for lupus who believes it has significant antiviral properties. it's been shown in the test tube to fight the 19 effectively. the real question is how early in the game to use it? in other words, it may be that it's best use as a health care worker told you last week as a prevention, as a prophylactic or early when you first start to see symptoms. i think some of the other drugs i'm talking about tonight, the anti-hiv drugs, the antiviral drugs, the one to suppress the immune response in pneumonia and again, it's a kind of pneumonia which isn't the virus.

it's the immune system going against you. that's the other drugs. i think the hydroxychloroquine is more useful earlier ron to decrease the amount of virus that is circulating and causing the damage. so we are trying to fight this on all fronts with experimental drugs, antiviral drugs, and starting to see some impact. >> tucker: this is definitely our strength as a country obviously so it's great to see it, doctor, thank you. >> thank you, tucker. >> tucker: so we are still not sure where this virus came from. we know it came from wuhan. there is some debate about where in wuhan but top contender is a local wet market where they sell wild animals for food. those markets were closed down supposedly and now there are signs that are making their return across china. details on that next. plus, an amazing television interview exposes how completely self-serving the world health organization is to the chinese government. don't miss this. your job will hang open.

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>> tucker: we still don't know where the coronavirus came from originally in wuhan, and anyone tells you we are certain of that is lying to you. but many believe it could have originated in the wet market in wuhan where consumers buy the meat of wild animals to eat including bats. wild animal wet markets have long been recognized as a major pandemic threat. china announced they would crack down but it looked like it didn't last long. according to daily mail, across

china, wet markets are reopening and selling the same animals they did before. dogs and cats are both for sale as food, and a stand selling traditional chinese medicines advertises things like lizards, scorpions, and bats. more than a decade that wet markets are a disease timebomb. this is notven after a global crisis, china continues to threaten the rest of us with wet markets. right now, the united states is by far the world's top funder of the world health organization, we give them about $58 million every year. that's double what any other country donates for some reason, but for the organization's leaders, there's only one country that matters, and is not us. it's china. right now, taiwan is battling coronavirus, but they are denied membership in the world health organization. they can't even have observer

status here to why is that? people are dying but the world health organization refuses to protect them. why do you think that is? because china objects to anyone acknowledging that taiwan is a nation. from the beginning, world health organization officials have praised china's response to coronavirus. they repeated the countries lies as facts to the rest of the world. initially, trying to claim the coronavirus could not be transmitted from person to person even though doctors in wuhan knew otherwise. and it was obviously untrue. the world health organization told that lied to the world and that hindered global preparation to contain the virus. they made it worse, not better. an on the world health organization praised china for its transparency, a cruel joke, as those lives had been exposed, their subservience to their masters in beijing has only become more obvious. on saturday, a hong kong television station aired an interview with the world health organization director.

we want to show you this whole thing. we hope you watch carefully because it tells you everything about where this world is going and why you should be really nervous about the government of china. watch this. >> the w.h.o. considers hong kong membership? hello? >> sorry, i couldn't hear your question. question. >> let me repeat the question. >> that's okay, let's move to another one then. >> i'm actually curious, talking about taiwan as well, taiwan case. >> we decided to give him another call to follow up. >> i just wanted to see if you could comment a bit on how taiwan has done so far in terms of containing the virus. >> we've already talked about china. when you look across all the

different areas of china, they've actually all done quite a good job. so with that, thank you very much for inviting us to participate and good luck as you go forward with the battle in hong kong. >> tucker: in the middle of a global pandemic, they are refusing to help a country because china told them not to. and on the world health organization which represents all of us is boldly without shame repeating the chinese government propaganda. wasn't just caught in a bad moment over skype. here's another clip of him sucking up to the government of china. the map to the people of wuhan, it is recognized the world is in your debt and when this disease finishes, hopefully we will have a chance to think the people of wuhan for the role they played in it. >> tucker: it is beyond disgusting. it's scary. gordon chang is the author of

"the coming collapse of china" and he joins us tonight. you've been on this topic for such a long time. does it surprise you the world health organization which normal people need to look at them and think they are keeping the world safe from pandemics, but they're actually acting as a spokesman for the government of china. does that surprise you? >> this has been going on for some time, tucker. and there have been a number of other things that we've got to be as concerned about, so it's not just bruce, who by the way he said he had absolutely no reason to question china's numbers. it's also the director general. in other words, the number one guide. in late january, he gave an interview to china's state media saying that beijing's response was admirable, should be emulated by the rest of the world, and then he said it all shows the superiority of china's socialist system. china has a totalitarian system and what he was doing was attacking democracy on behalf of beijing. so this is really despicable

across the board. >> tucker: this really matters. this is unlike nba players kowtowing to the chinese government. this is the world health organization. where is bill gates, who is the single largest individual funder? why isn't he saying anything? why aren't our leaders saying anything about this? >> you're absolutely right. this is dangerous because for the last ten days of january and for the first ten or 15 days of february, the world health organization was parroting beijing's line that no country should enact travel restrictions on china. and because they were noticed travel restrictions are very few of them, the united states being an exception, what happened was this virus spread even farther around china's borders. so what the w.h.o. has done was it actually helped spread the coronavirus around the world, and it did it on behalf of beijing. >> tucker: it is just beyond

belief. it's hard to believe those words are true, but they are true. thank you for that. >> thank you, tucker. >> tucker: a lot of chinese americans who fled the totalitarian government of china. you talk to a lot of people who came here from there, they will tell you they're not surprised. we should've listened to them earlier. global health bureaucrats are not the only one submitting to the will of beijing. democratic congressman seth moulton of massachusetts, remember that name, has withdrawn his support for a resolution condemning china's communist government. why would he do that? because it would encourage the racist ideas that china's dictatorship is worse than the trump administration. >> the resolution has caused division. of the substance which is not seen a phobic at all overshadowed by president trump's divisive xenophobic attempts to deflect from his administration's abysmal response to this virus. i apologize for that and i'm withdrawing my support for the

resolution for that reason. i've been someone who is spoken in stark terms about racism in america in the dangerous of trump and what has been used is unacceptable to me. >> tucker: that guy is a total buffoon. serving with him, a nonbuffoon, matt gaetz represents the state of florida and we are happy to have him on tonight. almost feels like he is speaking from a different century talking about xenophobia and racism like those are the problems with china. what planet is this guy on? >> we saw the democratic party over hype the russia threat. now many are cozying up to china. today's democrats have become the pro-china party. i would suggest that china doesn't need an apology from seth moulton or access to bailouts for the economic relief package which by the way, many chinese controlled companies are going to be able to get. and they certainly don't need another bite at the supply chain.

was just this weekend that the propaganda arm of the chinese government was bragging that they are genetics experts had gotten the fast-track approval from our fda to send over coronavirus kits. so we need to do a lot more to re-domesticate that. i would suggest china needs a reckoning, not an apology. >> tucker: that's for sure. and we need a reckoning with the people of like the former secretary of state who has gotten rich for china or diane feinstein with the chinese by working for and got rich. the doj is now investigating whether senator burr and i hope senator feinstein use confidential reports to conduct insider trading ahead of the stock market crash. what do you think of this? is this enough? >> social distancing is not going to be a sufficient penalty for senator burr and the united states senate. he needs to be removed as the intelligence chairman. you think about the gang of eight, the group of people who review the most liked

intelligence of the world, that now includes adam schiff, richard burr, and nancy pelosi, three of the lowest integrity people in the entire united states congress. so i think leader mcconnell needs to take action here and may be in the next relief bill, americans can choose. 1200 bucks or stock tips from senator burr and senator feinstein. >> tucker: i get that they are partisan and i think the governor is required to appoint a republican replacement anyway, but why would mcconnell, the top senator -- why wouldn't he move to remove him from the committee chairmanship? >> it's unbelievable to think that the committee chairman with oversight over the fbi is being investigated with the fbi. drawing a foolish parallel to president trump, he was elected by the people to drain the swamp, where a senator burr is the swamp. he is someone who appears to have used information for personal gain at public expense when he wasn't being honest with the people and i am shocked that

more republicans are not saying this. why is every republican on capitol hill not joining me in this call to remove senator burr as the intelligence chairman and makes us all look less credible when we tell the american people that he is the best we've got to review intelligence. it's foolish of us. >> tucker: he liquidated his entire portfolio, sold everything, and then kept telling people always welcome of the economy is strong, it's totally fine. he's a liar. congressman, thank you so much for coming on tonight. appreciate it. >> thank you. >> tucker: across this country, state and local officials aren't simply releasing prisoners back and scaling back prettil police pro, they are not protecting you not allowing you to protect yourself. but first, look at the deserted streets of chicago from fox.

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>> tucker: another week of coronavirus shutdown means another week of profound damage to the u.s. economy. today, macy's announced a furlough for more than 100,000 employees but amid the gloom and the sadness and anxiety, there is brightness. in some companies are actually still hiring and we are grateful to them for that. and melissa francis cohost of after the bell on fox business joins us for that happy update. so there is some good news.

>> there is, although let me start with the bad news that seems like a lot of companies come a lot of hotel chains, a lot of retail are for allowing their employees which means they're saying were going to bring you back at a later date and continue to pay your health insurance, but you're not going to get a paycheck and this starts immediately. and their single-payer health insurance of the summer and with macy's, their they're going to bring them back in stages but i have doubts about that because before this whole thing started, there were a lot of macy's that needed to close that were pretty empty that they were thinking about closing and they were getting ready to lay off employees. so that's one whole side of the economy where were going to see that retail not come back. on the other side, though, they were all these essential companies, and there's a big list. i think you guys have it ready. kroger, papa john's both looking for 20,000 employees.

insta cart 300,000. so while it is very difficult work, you ask yourself at the same time for people that are out of work and very desperate and can't feed their families, amazon is offering jobs to 100,000 new people. so i think it also shows you, and, and you are very astute to this, a real shift that's been going on in our economy anyway when people are buying stuff online. they don't want to go into the big store, and what's happened is this virus has forced that faster. i think it was all happening anyway. just made it happen overnight. so it's a big adjustment, but

there are probably a million jobs out there right now begging for people, so there is work. >> tucker: that list up there at the screen if you don't mind and you just made a really smart point that what this is doing, what crises tend to do is accelerate trends already in progress, and this one for sure, things that were kind of rotten are going to fall down and i'm not celebrating that because a lot of people are going to get hurt, melissa francis, thank you. you always bring the smartest points. >> i'll take that any day, thank you. i would just say that macy's isn't going away. you're going to get to buy stuff online. it's a different type of business. when that great to see that, thank you. in the biggest counties in california, state governments are releasing prisoners back onto the streets.

at the same time, they are scaling back police coverage in the name of fighting coronavirus. in other words, actively making the public less safe. maybe they need to, we can debate that. what they don't need to do is what they are also doing and that's keeping people from protecting themselves. in those same counties, gun stores have been ordered to close down. the nra recently sued california to block those closures. executive director of the nra's institute for legislative action in washington joins us. thank you so much for coming on. you give us a quick overview because i think our viewers might appreciate it, where state and local governments have shut down people's ability to defend themselves. >> california is one of them as you mentioned right off the bat. new jersey has just reversed course and there some other states as well and it just kind of crazy to think that during a time when people would most need access to a firearm for defense of self or defensive family were

defense of property that they would be politicians looking to restrict that or make them nonessential and the hypocrisy of this is even greater. in those exact places, liquor stores are open and deemed essential but here access to exercise your right to self-defense is deemed nonessential. we further get to get into a look of how dangerous some of these common sense gun control bills have been passed in some of those are right now. one of the biggest ones is the universal background check. the fact that you can have a firearm if you don't have dealers that are open to process those. there is no way for a lawful individual to transfer a firearm lawfully to another individual and we all know the criminals are obviously not going to abide by the law and they're going to be out there continuing to break the law and you really lock down the right of self-defense for number of americans. >> tucker: but you keep the liquor stores open to make people more volatile. so you're stripping people of

their right to self-defense, the self-reliance, to independence, and then you hope they can hit the weed store often enough that they don't notice. do you see something ominous about this combination of moves or is that just me? >> it is absolutely terrible. and to a great degree, it is dangerous. i think president trump just did something fantastic with the guidance that he issued and we are already seeing some results of that from the pressure of that guidance. the gun stores are essential. the people's right to self-defense is essential. after that came out, that guidance on saturday, you saw new jersey reverse course today, so can't think the administration and president trump enough for issuing such strong guidance. >> tucker: the people who work going to break into your house don't go to gun stores. they have guns. thank you. great to see you tonight, thanks a lot. >> thank you very much, tucker. >> tucker: so the media encase you've been watching have gone out of their way to avoid

blaming the chinese government for coronavirus. but "the new york times" found a new group to blame, christians prayed explicitly flat out, it is their fault. how does that work? we will tell you but first, another look at the empty streets of los angeles from the perspective of our own kyle rothenberg. w?w?uhi?só'ñó

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is really like pulling a rock up and seeing with living underneath, one of the benefits and one of the most distressing parts of it. we don't want to bombard you with upsetting news but this is worth thinking about. virtually everything was impossible for people to predict. we didn't know when it would occur or where it would originate, we still didn't know when a lot of ways. didn't know what medicines would work, all of that was basically unknowable. but one thing was easy to predict. we knew that it one point, there was going to be a pandemic. pandemics have been with us for all of human history. you cannot stop a pandemic. you can only prepare for it. and that's one thing we didn't do. from 2003 to 2015, at least ten separate government reports warned that in a similar outbreak, america would suffer a critical lack of ventilators. congress which is thrilled to spend millions bombing syria based on grainy cell phone video never bothered to fix that problem or to make sure america

had stockpiles of other critical medical supplies. you know these stories. at one hospital, workers are told to reuse their surgical masks. nurses have donned garbage bags and everywhere, there's a shortage of the now famous n95 masks, the one so important for stopping the spread of this disease. be one thing of america invested as much as possible into our emergency health care system and still fell short, all of us would understand that but it's not what happened. instead, our leaders spend enormous sums of your tax dollars improving the health care in countries that hate us. afghanistan tops that list. spent $14.6 million building 100 bed hospital, just one of the million examples but in this case after five years of work, a review found the hospital still wasn't finished and had many basic problems like exit points pointing in the wrong direction among many others. at the same time, 37 million of

your dollars went to improving afghanistan's pharmaceutical system. specifically, it is supply chain management. during that same period of time, a report produced for congress warned that our own country's pharmaceutical supply chain was dangerously dependent upon china, something we've learned the hard way is true. congress ignored that and continue to shovel money into afghanistan. leads to a couple cases, we paid for medical facilities that never even existed. they weren't there. was pure fraud. afghan warlords got rich and you got ripped off but congress kept sending money. and then there's this, on march 12 of this year not even three weeks ago, a newspaper reported shocking shortages of essential medical supplies which is terrifying in the middle of a pandemic as we all know. yet that very same day, the united states agency for international development announced it was sending 12,000 surgical masks, 12,000 surgical gloves, 1400 surgical gowns not

to new newark or camden. is hard to believe but they did a lot. similar shipments of medical supplies going to is pakistan, thailand, not only are none of those places in america, they're not even in crisis. between them, all the countries we just listed have fewer cases of coronavirus in the state of new jersey does right now. here's the most amazing of all. on february 7th of this year after the pandemic had already arrived in the united states, they announced that almost 18 tons of medical supplies including masks, gowns, and respirators were being shipped to china. the country that started this disaster, whose duplicity made it worse. the country whose economy is outstripping ours. that country got 18 tons of american medical supplies, supplies that we desperately need. are you shocked by that? you shouldn't be.

our leaders did this. is it the same people who have gotten rich on chinese money and then censored any criticism of the chinese government. these are the people anxious to send your kids do some more in the middle east in a country you've never heard of but totally unwilling to guard our own borders or troops. these are the same people who sell u.s. citizenship to chinese oligarchs and then give free health care to ms-13 members. at first, this all seems like negligence and then he realized they just really don't like you. a week ago, "the new york times" published an editorial saying "it is foolish and malicious to hold the chinese or any other people responsible for the spread of the virus." four days later, the paper felt differently because they found a better target, someone they really hate. on friday, the paper published an op-ed with this title, "the road to coronavirus was paved by evangelicals." got it? it's their fault. a disease that began in a country where christianity is illegal, a disease that is

flourishing most in our secular cities is in fact the fault of christians. and it's easy to see how "the new york times" concluded that. director of civil rights for the unborn, priest for life. she joins us tonight. really nice to see you, and i'm grateful you came on tonight. so "the new york times" has decided that they are all in for bigotry, they hate christians, and they're just saying it out loud. what do you make of that? >> i am a christian who believes in science. i am also a christian who believes in prayer. as a matter of fact, a self-imposed stay at home all the way until april 30th for agreeing with the president who also believes in science and he believes in prayer. so i think it is very ludicrous for the times to be so

irresponsible as to blame people who pray, who follow the laws of this land, who believe in putting america first. not america only but america first. i have to take care of me so i can take care of you. she would always put her own masks on first. so i think we have to take care of america and i believe that we do support medical information, i've been told to drink hot water for instance and to take steam showers and breathing the steam and i'm doing all of that. i'm praying at the same time. >> tucker: amen. and so does it seem a little weird -- do you see christians as responsible for this? >> suggesting that president trump is being influenced by christians who don't believe in scientific reports, that is absolutely outrageous. i was praying earlier today and i've been praying with several christians, but we are also

monitoring this and asking everybody to participate in the information and taking part of that that will help us to slow the role of this sickness. and to blame us when we know that the whole thing did really come out of china. don't misunderstand me when i say this. they were the president, did you ever eat some food and call you a racist for saying it was chinese food, it originated in china. can we be honest about those facts? >> tucker: no, i know. i am so glad you are well and i hope that you will join us again soon. great to see you. thank you. so do protective face masks actually work? some people are telling you they don't work. there are also telling you we

need to save them for other people because they do work. what's the truth about that? will tell you when a minute but first, an american hospital ship has arrived in new york harbor to provide relief for the city's besieged hospitals. a live report from the comfort is next. before the break, new images from barry new york city.

dr. jerome adams: why should young people care about the spread of coronavirus? well we know that people with underlying medical conditions over the age of 60 are at highest risk, but they've got to get it from somebody. dr. deborah birx: so we're asking everyone to be selfless for others so that we can protect those who are most susceptible. dr. anthony fauci: not going to bars, not going to restaurants, it all just means physical separation, so that you have a space between you and others. dr. jerome adams: for more information on how you can social distance please go to coronavirus.gov

>> tucker: dramatic efforts underway to keep the hospital system from collapsing under the weight of new patients. a new one is being erected in central park while the u.s. hospital ship has docked in the harbor. rick leventhal has more tonight. >> new york city says and he is to triple its hospital beds in a month and they u.s. and as comfort is here to achieve that goal and also provide reassurance and some immediate relief to hospitals on the medical staff who are overwhelmed by the surge and positive covid-19 cases. the ship arrived here in new york harbor this morning breeding close to 1,000 beds, 1200 medical staff, 12 operating rooms to handle noncovid-19

patient starting tomorrow. all patients will be screened for the virus before boarding the ship giving hospitals more room to handle the sickest coronavirus victims. >> this is a big time visible sign of what our government is like when we put into action. >> meantime, field hospitals are being built across the city including in central park where they're setting up a respiratory care unit with 14 tents covering 50,000 square feet to handle up to 68 patients including a makeshift intensive care area led by a doctor who treated ebola patients in africa and earthquakes in ecuador and called the park the most improbable place he's ever been. the numbers here in new york keep rising. new york state now has more than 66,000 confirmed cases. new york city more than 38,000 cases in the death toll has now topped 1200.

>> tucker: moving fast. rick leventhal, thank you. so when any crisis, trust is critical and not just for moral reasons. the government can coordinate a national response of the public doesn't mean what it says and looking out for its best interest. that's why honestly is essential at times like this. when the government lies, people know. they can tell, and then they start listening. from the beginning of the chinese coronavirus epidemic, mass shortages have been a major problem. some people reported hundreds of thousands of them, but in some cases apparently sent overseas. the foreign countries we outsourced prudently decide to keep them to themselves. of course here in the united states, our own didn't have nearly enough stockpiled to cope with what is happening. from the start, honesty would have been the right policy. could have just said they messed up but the sick and the elderly need the masks most so they get priority.

and people would have understood that because it makes sense. but the government didn't do that. instead they told us lies. dumb lies that anyone who thought about it for a second could see right through. they told the public you shouldn't buy masks because masks don't work. february 29th, the surgeon general tweeted this. "seriously, people, stop buying masks. they are not effective, but if health care providers can get them to care for sick patients and put them in our communities at risk. the cdc amplified this untruth even now. the cdc's official coronavirus guidelines only recommend wearing masks for those who are sick with their caregivers. the press joined in. americans don't need masks. the cdc says that healthy people in the u.s. should not wear them because they won't protect them from the novel coronavirus. in fact, face masks might actually increase your risk for infection if they aren't worn properly, but medical workers who treat patients who need th

them. "time" magazine joined in to say health experts are telling people not to wear face mask for coronavirus so why are so many doing it? why do you think, "time" magazine? the article suggested believing in masks and some kind of superstition like not walking under ladders or being afraid of black cats. it's insulting. it's ridiculous. they are telling you masks don't work unless you work at a hospital? how does that work? does mask effectiveness based on what job you do? up only useful if you're already sick? coronavirus can spread from asymptomatic carriers. that doesn't make any sense whatsoever. you're just too dumb to wear the mask, because they really hard to put on. of course masks work. everyone knows that. dozens of research papers have proved it. in south korea, japan, hong kong, masks were key. so look, we understand there's a shortage of masts. we understand only certain people should get them because

it's a triage moment, we get it. but stop lying to us because it makes us cynical. divides the country. tell the truth, we can handle it. that's it for us tonight. will be back tomorrow. kennedy's life from outside the comfort. dr. oz in manhattan, here he is. >> sean: majestic, the only words i can say. it's unbelievable, incredible. welcome to hannity. tonight, we begin with facts without fear broadcasting live on the ground in new york city where the comfort, a 1,000 bed u.s. naval hospital ship is now docked. this is a floating city. is massive. normally stationed in norfolk, virginia, and manned by a highly trained, highly skilled members of the u.s. navy, the comfort will begin receiving patients as early as tomorrow morning. the ship will serve as a support system housing noncoronavirus cases in order to