check out the radio show from action was immoral and imhumane. i knew something was wrong... the office of the a.g. is 9:00 to noon. >> i want to tell you all thank but i didn't say a word. considering all legal options. you so much for being with us during the course of their disease around 50% of people with parkinson's for during this difficult time. some time. say prayers for everyone on the may experience hallucinations or delusions. final thoughts. you wrote about the big front lines, steve. but now, doctors are prescribing nuplazid. capitalist comeback. what happens after we get >> all right. the only fda approved medicine... through the worst of this on see you tomorrow. proven to significantly reduce the medical side and saving lives and then we see the >> sandra: fox news alert the hallucinations and delusions related to parkinson's. administration try to open the nation hitting a grim milestone. economy back up? don't take nuplazid if you are allergic to its ingredients. how much can we come back and more than 3,000 americans have how fast can that happen? now died from coronavirus after nuplazid can increase the risk of death >> we can come back very the deadliest day of this in elderly people with dementia-related psychosis quickly if trump does what he pandemic yet. i'm sandra smith. and is not for treating symptoms did during the first three >> ed: good morning to you. unrelated to parkinson's disease. years of his administration and nuplazid can cause changes in heart rhythm there are over 164,000 steps back and encourages confirmed cases in america. and should not be taken if you have certain abnormal heart rhythms or take other drugs businesses to hire. lowering taxes, reducing new data suggests social that are known to cause changes regulation. in heart rhythm. i hope we don't make the distancing restrictions are tell your doctor about any changes mistake we made at the end of beginning to slow that spread the great recession with the in medicines you're taking. in some areas. the most common side effects are obama administration where they at least 30 states have issued swelling of the arms and legs and confusion. came in with a stimulus and stay at home orders now. new york still the epicenter of we spoke up and it made all the difference. affordable care act and the ask your parkinson's specialist dodd-frank act attempting to the outbreak. reporting over 1300 deaths take advantage of a crisis to you can't always stop for a fingerstick.betes about nuplazid. across the state as governor with the freestyle libre 14 day system, enact some socialist andrew cuomo asks healthcare collectivist agenda. we need to make sure american workers across the nation to a continuous glucose monitor, you don't have to. come to new york and help businesses are free to grow. that they have the ability to warning this is not an isolated with a painless, one-second scan grow. situation. you can check your glucose with a smart phone or reader the government isn't suppressing the growth and

we'll come back very quickly. >> anyone who says this so you can stay in the moment. situation is a new york city trump's last three years, the no matter where you are or what you're doing. first three years of this administration were a perfect ask your doctor for a prescription for the freestyle roadmap for what we need to do only situation is in a state of libre 14 day system. when this crisis is over. denial. you can do it without fingersticks. obama's eight years are a you see this virus move across perfect roadmap for what we the state. learn more at freestylelibre.us. you see the virus move across shouldn't do when this crisis is over. i think we can come back this nation. quickly. there is no american who is >> sandra: there has been bipartisan support for at least immune to this virus. that stimulus for now to get out to those struggling big picture is the situation is american families. >> we need it now. we need it now. painfully clear now. we don't need it when it's over. there is no question what we're we need it now to get through dealing with. there is no question as to the consequences. this. nobody is arguing about that. >> sandra: great to have you on this morning. >> sandra: fox team coverage thank you. >> thanks, sandra. this morning. mark meredith is standing by at >> ed: president trump extending those guidelines for the white house. social distancing through the end of april. we begin with david lee miller what else the white l get into in manhattan this morning. yes. this moving thing never gets any easier. >> 48 hours after construction well, xfinity makes moving super easy. york governor andrew cuomo began on a tent field hospital i can transfer my internet and tv service in about a minute. about to update us as his state. here in new york central park, wow, that is easy. it is now going to be become almost as easy as having those guys help you move. completely operational. we'll take you to albany live this field hospital has a total we are those guys. that's you? when his news conference begins of 68 beds including 10 that in a few moments. the truck adds 10 pounds.

have icu capability. in the arms. it also comes fully equipped ok. -yep. transfer your service online in a few easy steps. with a staff including doctors now that's simple, easy, awesome. and nurses. now admission to the hospital xfinity makes moving easy with two-hour appointment windows, is going to be handled by mt. even on nights and weekends. sinai hospital which is located go to xfinity.com/moving to get started. directly across the street. the field hospital was set up by a christian charity called samaritan's purse. they set up a similar one in italy. despite the arrival of the usn comfort and the javits center to the hospital. they are trying to increase the number of hospital beds. the mayor talked about the khaej. >> we project we'll use all 20,000 beds will have to be turned into intensive care beds >> sandra: the u.s. navy to focus on covid-19 patients hospital ship comfort docked in who are remi sick. new york city is now accepting this is how abnormal it could be. >> speaking to a local tv

station he said he has had non-covid-19 patients. >> we have a main pharmacy. we have lab capabilities. we have four radiology suites talks about using hotels. and ct scanner aboard the ship you create a nurse's station around where the elevators are. and 80icu beds. in queens parts of the u.s. ventilator capability. we have our own galley that can open stadium will be converted serve thousands of meals per to a hospital, 350 beds will be set up at the billie jean king day to provide support to the crew as well as the patient population. it is enormous. national tennis center. lewis armstrong stadium will >> sandra: bryan llenas is live turn out 25,000 packaged meals for patients, doctors and who from pier 90 in manhattan for needs them. the site planning to host the more on that. good morning, bryan. u.s. open august 24. >> good morning. we expect the first patients to among the latest fatalities two begin boarding the u.s. navy hospital ship comfort at some members of the nypd, 63-year-old school safety agent point today. we're told it will be 50 i love rakuten, it's basically free money. and 58-year-old senior patients a day. new york city hospitals will it's an easy way to earn cashback on the stuff administrative aide died from decide which patients should be i'm already buying. transferred to the ship. sometimes it's 3% sometimes it's 8% but you're the hospital will screen these always getting cashback. patients for covid-19 and then so it's like getting free money. the virus. the department says more than go to rakuten.com and sign up today for a $10 bonus. those patients will be brought 14% of all officers are now calling in sick. in recognition of the hard work and sack made by emergency workers, last night the empire to the javits convention center state building replaced its temporary hospital and screened >> sandra: all right. usual lights with red and again before boarding an did you know prilosec otc can stobefore it begins?urn ambulance to the ship. opening bell a moment ago.

wall street is looking at a red heartburn happens when stomach acid white, the colors resemble an refluxes into the esophagus. an insurance card will not be arrow this morning. lots of volatility as we start needed. prilosec otc uses a unique delayed-release formula patients won't be charged for emergency beacon to honor those any of the services. another week. tuesday morning the dow up 184 trying to keep us safe. this is considered a national that helps it pass through the tough stomach acid. points. a lot of uncertainty how a very disturbing statistic. humanitarian need. it then works to turn down acid production, in new york city alone there this ship up to 1,000 hospital businesses will fare during and blocking heartburn at the source. are now more than 38,000 after this pandemic. beds is for non-covid-19 maria bartiromo is host of with just one pill a day, testing positive for the patients obl to alleviate city coronavirus. sunday morning futures on the you get 24-hour heartburn protection. new york city now has more fox news channel and host of prilosec otc. cases of the virus than most one pill a day, 24 hours, zero heartburn. countries. hospitals. the city needs to triple its "mornings with maria" on the sandra. hospital bed capacity. >> we have to get over 60,000 fox business network. >> sandra: staggering new numbers there. how does the first quarter end? thank you. ed. by the beginning of may it doesn't look good. >> ed: the president is touting the worst first quarter according to what we know now. performance for the dow on a brand-new rapid coronavirus record. >> we have the worst test. it can produce results in mere like adding 40 u.s. comforts performance for the dow, also minutes. the president also highlighting and that's the magnitude of the worst performance for the what we're talking about. an uptick in testing across s&p 500 since 2008. we all america as he follows through know the first quarter was on that extension of federal >> yesterday crowds gathered to dreadful. most people are happy to say guidelines on social distancing. see the comfort dock and this goodbye to the first quarter. >> president trump: the more we morning deblasio said it was we probably will zero economic unacceptable they did not dedicate ourselves today, the follow social distancing more quickly we'll emerge on the other side of the crisis. guidelines. he said new york will begin and that's the time we're activity in the first quarter waiting for. fining people this weekend the more we commit ourselves now, the sooner we can win the upwards of $500. and contraction in the second they welcomed the comfort. quarter and third quarter as fight and return to our lives particularly its 1200 crew and well. two quarters straight of

contraction is officially a and they will be great lives. medical personnel, active recession. there are a lot of expectations maybe better than ever. sailors and reservist doctors, that things will snap back in a today we reached a historic nurses and surgeons who are big way by the end of the year. here to help. so i just want to say that yes, milestone in our war against things are volatile and yes >> words are incapable of there is a lot of uncertainty the coronavirus. over one million americans have on there but a lot of positives expressing our gratitude. they left their families during now been tested. also. i think we really have to this uncertain time in our more than any other country by nation's history knowing they can make a difference. identify those things particularly at a moment with far. >> ed: mark meredith is live that is what the u.s. navy does. outside the white house with time with so much uncertainty. more. good morning, mark look at business operating. >> we're told the worst is yet you have ford motor now gearing to come for new york city but up to produce ventilators. highlighting that one million testing number. a sign of how muchthe last sandra, mayor bill deblasio working with general electric, said the comfort not only is ge healthcare, you have all hands on deck when it comes to several weeks. hope but a boost of morale for the corporate and business the administration also making it clear they have to do so the people of new york as we much more to slow the spread of get ready to go through this sector trying to come to the together. the virus. sunday we saw the white house >> sandra: what a welcome sight aid of healthcare workers across the country and how call for extension of social that ship was when it arrived about those healthcare workers? distancing guidelines. now until the end of april. yesterday. thank you, bryan. how they're putting their lives the president urging americans >> ed: covid-19 taking a toll on the line and our heroes right now. to avoid any unnecessary on new york city's first we have a lot of positive contact as they try to save responders. hundreds of cases in the new lives in the weeks ahead. >> the guidelines will be very york fire department alone much as they are, maybe even after two days ago after an toughened up a little bit. auto mechanic died from the things. this morning on "mornings with maria" i had the ceo of johnson

they're having a big impact. and johnson on. we're starting to see it. they are identifying a lead candidate for a clinical trials this september. that's the key, we're starting disease. yes, we're in the same situation we were a day ago to see the impact they're anthony is an ems lieutenant, when you look at these markets having. vice president of the ems and uncertainty around when we >> across the country people officers union local 3621. will get some solutions here. have been spotted wearing masks at the same time, you have to out of an abundance of caution good morning. just be in awe about the condolences to your department. not just those in hospitals and how is everyone holding up this response of america. morning, sir? medical centers. >> we're holding up. >> sandra: we haven't seen the my uber driver had a mask. we're very tired. worst yet. the legs are wobbly but we're according to most estimates. president trump asked if that you're right. would be a recommendation from the sense of unity we're the administration. still standing as members of getting from private businesses >> president trump: we haven't chipping in. ford motor company is coming on discussed it to that extent. the ems throughout new york city answering the call. next hour talking about making it is something we could those ventilators. discuss. we're getting the number of it's an amazing story. last night 7,250 times. masks that you need. we broke another record. meanwhile the president and his we are in the process of administration and coronavirus talking about things. couldn't have been more proud task force team have this huge i saw his suggestion on that. we'll take a look at it. of the front line paramedics. responsibility of balancing i would hope it would be for a >> ed: to put into context we obviously the priority is have a graphic on the high saving lives first. very limited period of time. levels of calls you are getting then the president talking doctors will come back and say about when it is time this for the rest of our lives we have to wear masks. to 911. economy will get back and on sunday you responded to over roaring again. here is the president on that. >> here at the white house 5900 medical calls. and now you are saying last >> president trump: the economy president trump does have a new is number two on my list. chief of staff effective today. night you broke a new record first i want to save a lot of lives. we'll get the economy back. over 7,000. this is far above the calls to i think it will come back very former north carolina fast. 150, 151 other countries are

911 after 9/11, for example, pretty much shut down. congressman mark meadows. here in new york city. mulvaney was serving as acting here we had the greatest >> sandra: the u.s. marking a chief of staff. economy in the world. milestone in the fight against for the president another busy i suspect anecdotally i've been we had the greatest economy in the coronavirus as we learn one day ahead. reading we're seeing this as the history of our country and a call scheduled with well. i had to go from doing a great million americans have now been talk about how that is taxing executives from america's your folks. tested. job for three years to shutting meanwhile president trump saying that he will keep network service providers and a it down. briefing at 5:00 from the >> so yes, 9/11 there were 6400 guidelines in place meant to coronavirus task force. >> sandra: we look forward to >> ed: we'll take it live. curb the spread of covid-19. mark meredith at the white that day, maria. >> president trump: this is house. calls. a lot to go through first. based on modeling that shows thank you. >> sandra: a member of that but 9/11 he either made it out from an investment perspective coronavirus task force coming or you didn't. planning is everything. the peak in fatalities will not up on this program in a bit. you have to look into the very tragic, of course, future and think when does the arrive for another two weeks. everybody remembers. what we're doing every day now, meanwhile testing expanding economy come back and how much the same modeling also shows across the country. though, for the last nine days the world health organization does it return to what we had, that by very vigorously now saying that countries or is 911 call volume every day and some saying it could even following these guidelines we states with a higher rate of with patients that are could save more than one overloading the hospitals, as be more robust than before. positive coronavirus tests are >> look, i have to say there million american lives. you saw. so ems members are on the front are some companies that will think of that, one million likely not doing enough testing. not make it out of this. americans lives. our future is in our own hands dr. peter hotez is dean of the we have to be realistic as well. but when you look at some of national school of tropical and the choices and sacrifices lines where we're stretched and the balance sheets out there of medicine and professor of tired. a lot of my members are worried some of the stocks that have gotten crushed in all of this, we make will determine the fate about bringing the virus home pediatrics and microbiology at there are some fortress balance of this virus. baylor college of medicine to their families. >> sandra: chief white house joins us now. we just had the mayor in the thank you for being here this correspondent john roberts has morning. a live report for us now and he i'll ask you the question that previous segment a month and a sheet and stocks trading at is joining us from the white so many studies are looking at house. around the globe right now. half ago he was telling people levels. >> good morning. find out what the actual to still go to the movies. at some point it could be very guidelines say later on today that is are these hot spots, whether or not there are any case in point new york, the members of ems and command well now this market ising to center were telling him we have have so many extraordinary modifications.

epicenter here in the united to have a plan for this. opportunities that you are for example, a fewer pointed out to me a short time ago states, are they testing enough? going to see investors out there was nothing in the 15-day there have been years of there piling up on the guidelines or they may be in >> that's a very important mismanagement of ems. companies that are certainly used as a stepping stone to growth stories. a lot of people that i've the new guidelines to keep six feet away from people. spoken with on fox business question because the who, world health organization has issued other agencies. throughout this week and last don't do things like shake unfortunately. so we are short staffed. week are looking for those hands with people. these guidelines saying you opportunities right now. we may also get some of the should have about a 12% we are going to have more we are chronically short thinking behind the new staffed. guidelines, though data is positivity rate. by that they mean you should be >> ed: at lot of review and dramatic 1,000 plus point still being compiled and isn't declines, no doubt about it overtesting in order to budgets but let's focus on what until we get clarity in terms yet complete. of when this is over. yesterday in the coronavirus identify those individuals who can go right in the days ahead. might be infected. but in the meantime, you are briefing president trump also so for example if you are doing one thing that's going right saying the current travel and border restrictions that have you mentioned mayor bill seeing throw the baby out with been in place will continue. testing and 60 to 70% are deblasio working with the president, the president is the bath water. those are all operating on in doing so you are missing separate authorities and working with mayor deblasio timelines. coming up positive for covid-19. fantastic opportunities. as they come up to expirations you probably aren't testing even though they've had their the economy will come back and enough and need to expand the we'll get through this. the president said they'll be differences. that's a fact. testing. that was the reason for the there are new resources coming renewed. to you and others in new york nothing is going to change guideline. the good news is the u.s. is >> sandra: first and foremost before the end of next month and maybe beyond. city, fema, federal government, it is our medical effort in all here is what the president said in the rose garden. 250 ambulances, 500 emt and of this and we'll see what that ramping up testing diagnostic holds for the weeks to come. paramedics flooding this city >> president trump: challenging times are ahead for the next 30 testing. we have new rapid tests. now to help the fdny. maria bartiromo, thank you for that's great news. days. this is a very vital 30 days. we have to look at a backup that's an example of this joining us on the opening bell. democratic mayor and republican the dow off 100 points to start president working together to the day. we're sort of putting it all on system. in places where we aren't fully help your men and women. thanks. the line this 30 days. >> ed: thousands of americans geared up for testing yet in >> yes, absolutely. so important. order to see if patients are the only way through this is stranded overseas as countries we have to get back. shut borders in response to the showing up with fevers at but the more we dedicate pandemic. how the state department is various locations. through cooperation, through ourselves today, the more the problem has been this. working together, getting the trying to bring these americans quickly we'll emerge on the a couple of times now we have resources we need such as n95 home. other side of the crisis.

found out in various u.s. plus the u.s. passing a grim masks which we were low on. >> the president also revealing cities that the -- we don't the shift coming in yesterday milestone over deaths and cases know if there is a covid-19 will be a big help to but also some good news on that pharmaceutical companies testing. and manufacturers are stepping healthcare workers in the how the trump administration is up to the plate. problem until patients show up looking for new ways to fight three pharmaceutical companies in intensive care units. hospital to help. making available some 37 it is what happened in new all the emt and paramedics the pandemic. million doses of chloroquine orleans and detroit. by then you've got a lot more and hydroxychloroquine for patients so we don't want to you're welcome and we're happy to have you here. hhs assistant secretary admiral distribution across the country. find out that way. joins us live next. we want to get ahead of this studies still underway to >> this is truly a the fdny is your home now and determine whether or how because what we expect right we'll help you do anything you now according to my colleagues need to get through. patient-centered approach. at the institute for health we're thankful for the support. effective it is in treating >> ed: i want to show video. just like tests for flu or strep where you go to the company vao*id 19 degrees. doctors and get the test done. there was a wonderful tribute he said we should try it. you can get an answer within metrics and evaluation. last night at the empire state building and you can see the minutes of having this test done. the covid-19 epidemic in the president told me yesterday blinking light there honoring america will peak in the next you and everyone else here not he is confident that as the two weeks. just in new york city but in some states like texas it infection curve approaches a spike in the middle of april, around this great country. will be delayed. the peak will come around the we want to thank you. that's a symbol of the thanks everyone who needs a ventilator will be able to get one. beginning of may. that should be pouring in. now is the time we have to go you mentioned you are tired, and as americans wait and full force doing all that your troops are tired but still wonder when life will be able testing. to get back to normal, a >> sandra: that being said, dr. strong reminds me of first responders after 9/11 as well. warning from dr. tony fauci hotez i go to something dr. we appreciate all of your hard yesterday the coronavirus will siegel said earlier this work, sir. best wishes in the days ahead. likely come back again in the morning. it is those that are walking fall but that the united states thank you. >> thank you for having us. around carrying the virus with will be in a much better no symptoms that are likely the >> ed: sandra. position to deal with it. >> sandra: big thank you to him listen here. ones spreading it the most >> if you come back in the right now.

if you are a confirmed case you as well. fall, it will be a totally meanwhile ford motor company know you have it and isolated shifting production at auto different ballgame of what or at the hospital already. happened when we first got hit with it in the beginning of this year. so should restrictions be eased factories to make life-saving our ability to go out and be on allowing people to go get ventilators. we will be speaking to a ford tested even if they aren't executive about the company's able to test, identify, isolate plan to make 50,000 in just 100 and contact trace will be showing any visible symptoms? orders of magnitude better. we have a number of clinical >> well, this gets to be a days. plus nervous investors really tough situation. trials that are looking at a wondering about a timeline for this is what makes covid-19 so this pandemic with a lot of uncertainty still on the variety of therapeutic interventions also. difficult because you are horizon as we enter a brand-new importantly, as i mentioned to having people very sick and in you many times at these quarter. maria bartiromo will be joining briefings is that we have a icus and people actually walking around with the virus us for the opening bell of vaccine that's on track and and spreading it and why we trading this morning. multiple other candidates. have this very large epidemic she will join us next. in the united states. >> president trump: i had to go >> dr. fauci is also cautious from doing a great job for but suggested yesterday if so yes, if you are concerned we three years to shutting it down. there are signs the vaccine but you know what? learned from the other experiences in korea that we need to know the full extent of we'll build it up rapidly and i candidates currently are testing but you definitely want affected they could be rushed think in the end we'll be out in time for the peak that stronger for it. is anticipated to be next to practice pretty strict we learned a lot. social isolation because me your hand! otherwise we're going to continue to have spread well into the summer. so those estimates of peaking i can save you... around the middle of april are based on people making a good lots of money with liberty mutual! faith effort to do that social year's coronavirus season. we customize your car insurance not even halfway through this

isolation and we've seen it so you only pay for what you need! one and talking about next season, goodness me. works. >> sandra: unbelievable. we have some new data coming hard for a lot >> just this morning i spoke to the president and the vice president about the need for this being placed in the title 32 status. as well as the need for the out through a surveillance system if you practice social only pay for what you need. isolation, the numbers of cases ventilators in colorado, 9,000 start going way down. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ to 10,000 more. so it really does work and this >> he made a commitment that is the best tool we have until they will send ventilators to we get vaccines out there like louisiana. >> this is a race against time. our vaccine and others. we have gotten some real help. >> sandra: you see the road signs to stay home. the ventilators that came in it goes back to your message. from the federal government and the message that we should all some from other sources. be heeding right now. very helpful and thankful for meanwhile there is a brand-new it all. study that shows that the virus >> ed: leaders around the country in desperate need can live in the body begging for more ventilators to potentially for as long as eight days after symptoms are treat coronavirus patients. one doctor is hoping a combination of two drugs could resolved in a patient. that would really complicate lessen the need for these things, right, doctor? the "new york post" article lifesaving machines. it is nicknamed hope. we'll get to him in a moment. this morning citing that study i understand the governor of on average it says the patients new york is now starting to still have the virus 2 1/2 days speak. let's go there live. >> the numbers today to give after no longer experiencing symptoms.

but individual cases ranged up people an update. to eight days the study said. the number of cases still going you go back to what we originally heard about this virus and how contagious it was up. we're all in search of the apex before you were showing on the other side of the symptoms and now we're learning mountain. but we're still headed up the according to this brand-new study it is living in our body mountain. number of people tested last after the symptoms disappear, doctor? night was a near record amount. >> it's a small study and it is we tested over 18,000 people. testing more people than any based on something called pcr state in the country and i'm a which looks for the virus rna. very proud of that. we don't know if that's the more per capita than china and actual virus being there. south korea. we are still on a steep total number of people tested learning curve about this virus. 200,000. population of 19 million won't those individuals may be give you a random sample but it outliers, may not be the has been helping us track down routine. the positive cases. this is why if you're known to have this infection and tested number of positive cases 9,298. previously positive for the virus, what you want to do is get another test to make total cases 75,000 cases. certain you're negative before you go out of isolation. the tricky part now is the cdc you see the predominance in new does have guidelines for people who have been isolated on the york city, westchester, then suspicion they have the virus but haven't actually tested for nassau, then suffolks and

it.on those individuals? so this again is a virus rockland. the march of coronavirus across the state of new york continues. pathogen we didn't know existed a few months ago. we're down to just two counties we have to remember that these that don't have a case. guidelines are guidelines, they will change over time as new the overall numbers 75,000 have data comes in. tested positive. i mean, the great news is the 10,000 people in our hospitals. u.s. has the full force of u.s. 2700 icu patients. being alied to the problem. we've learned so much in the good news, 4900, almost 5,000 last weeks and have new interventions. there is good news on that people discharged. that's up 771. front. so people come in and get >> sandra: dr. peter hotez, thank you for being here this treated and they go home. morning. people have so many questions at home taking in so much information. thank you for that. we'll have you back again. new yorkers 75,000 cases, next state is 16,000, california is >> ed: thanks. at 7,000. so you can see new york is a democratic congresswoman velasquez says she is presumed to have coronavirus. she contacted a doctor by phone magnitude of difference more after feeling sick on sunday. than any other state. her announcement comes three days after she visited capitol hill and stood next to the 1550 deaths up from 1218

house speaker nancy pelosi yesterday. during the signing of that stimulus bill. a congressional recess could be again we're studying the charts extended now due to coronavirus. and trying to study the data, the house and senate were set >> the united states has more to return april 20th. that's now up in the air. follow the data. the data is uneven. than 1 million samples tested. one lawmaker also speaking out we're testing 100,000 samples a it bounces. against remote voting. numbers often bounce in any republican congressman thomas day. also a level that no other massie who took heat for -- two model. there are variables in this country has reached. model. the hospitals are reporting it together the fda and cdc worked reasons congressional leaders don't want remote voting for to balance the feed for testing so what every hospital reported members. too hard to twist arms through the phone and wouldn't be able on a scale with scientific that day are they busy or combining a couple of days in to justify unrecorded votes. rigor that americans respect. one, it is an imperfect at a minimum we should be holding public hearings on this >> ed: that is alex azar on the reporting mechanism. but you see the basic line is number of tests in america as the agency works to expand drug still up. what the statisticians will virus using modern teleconferencing technology. tell you is you basically draw we'll watch that. >> sandra: this fox news alert. u.s. passing a milestone for treatments an the straight line that the coronavirus testing as the columns indicate and you see trump administration looks at helping to lead the efforts on we're still going up, which is new ways to battle the pandemic. what we see on the overall testing. thanks for coming in. more on the next steps with the trajectory. that was still going up. we heard the secretary there health and human services praising the efforts and yet number of intubations was down. secretary. not much but it was down. he will be joining us coming up. that's a good sign. stay tuned for that. the world health organization various governors in america

plus a symbol of hope in new are still saying there is not you also see the number of york harbor, the naval hospital enough testing. why is there still a disconnect? discharges going up and that's >> i think it's very important consistent. to understand that we have made the longer people are in, they unprecedented strides in either get treated and leave or ship comfort now accepting testing but where we are we still need to prioritize those they get put on a ventilator. non-coronavirus patients hoping to relieve overwhelmed who really do need testing. the longer you are on a hospitals in new york city. we're live at the docks with those who are sick. ventilator, the less likelihood more on that next. those who are healthcare you will come off the workers and elderly or in ventilator. long-term care institutions, that is the blunt truth of this situation. >> inspiring as the usns very important. we're not at the stage of being able to test everyone who just we have two missions overall comfort entered new york harbor. wants a test or even a person that we're pursuing. coming here to save the lives who is otherwise normal and one is the front line of this of new yorkers in our hour of battle is our hospital system. need. healthy who might be mildly ill. that's what this is going to come down to. the second is social we are not to have tens of responsibility, stay at home. don't get infected in the first millions of tests yet. that's what you're hearing. place. we feel very good not only don't get infected in the first about the number of tests, but place because it goes back to the kinds of tests that are your brain is an amazing thing. available and being able to you are creating a burden on test the people who really need it at this time. our healthcare system that our but as you get older, it naturally begins to change, >> ed: when you acknowledging healthcare system cannot handle. there, admiral, there are still causing a lack of sharpness, or even trouble with recall. some issues and challenges we're talking about exceeding you're trying to deal with, i thankfully, the breakthrough in prevagen helps your brain the capacity of our hospital get it is an unfolding crisis and you won't be perfect. and actually improves memory.

you have governors like the system by some estimates two the secret is an ingredient originally discovered... governor of montana saying times. so what does this come down to rural states and many others in in jellyfish. the heart of this country are besides all the other issues? in clinical trials, prevagen has been shown far behind new york and the it comes down to not coastal states that are getting overwhelming the hospital to improve short-term memory. a lot of attention. system because those people who why that disconnect in the heart of america? need acute care may not be able prevagen. healthier brain. better life. >> well, we're working very to get the acute care. so it is all about the hospital closely with the rural states. obviously new york city has system. more tests because they have that is the front line. what we're doing is we are the most patients. over 50% of people infected are in new york city. numbers to numbers are not following the mathematical going to add. projections of the experts. we're working with places like we're speaking to all the montana, with the advent of the healthcare professionals, all new point of care test, we're the healthcare providers, world health organization, national sending 15 machines to montana, institute of health, dr. fauci, the state health lab. we know that they have even in their own state they have a cdc, fda. the whole alphabet soup of point of care testing machine and tens of thousands of those healthcare experts. tests are becoming available. and the mathematicians who then so i do think the states like have different models. we talked to about five montana, south dakota, north dakota, will be greatly increased in their capacity in different models and we the upcoming time. compared the models and we try you have to understand new york to find the median through the city, california, chicago, models. that's how we plan everything.

detroit, these are centers where they are at critical follow the data, follow the points in time in their science. people asked me what do you healthcare systems and a lot of think? i don't think about this. what do i know? the big sort of infrastructure i'm not an expert, i'm not of laboratories are there. they are really not in montana or other states. so more testing has gone on in opineing. i talked to people who know and those major metroplexes. talk to experts. >> ed: president raised the question a couple days back for the hospitals, get the whether there is medical hoarding going on with critical equipment and support the staff. supplies. various governors said they priorities are support the aren't sure it's happening. staff. they are the front line and is hoarding going on? >> i can't talk to you about they need relief. they are physically exhausted. hoarding but i can talk to you even more they are emotionally about requests. it is very clear that most exhausted. people are operating on the this is unlike other disasters. principle of let's take the hurricanes, earthquakes, floods. outer boundary of what we might they happen, they're fast, they're over, you start need. i'll talk about ventilators. rebuilding. there can be a ten-fold this is different. difference in what is potentially needed versus what this is ongoing and the is most likely needed. we do have significant supplies duration itself is debilitating and exhausting and depressing. in the strategic national stockpiles and ways to preserve things. i'm speaking to healthcare from my point of view we all

professionals who say look, have to be really data driven more than physically tired, i'm on what is really needed at the time. it would be great for everyone just emotionally tired. to have 100% or 200% excess of seeing the pain, seeing the death that they are dealing what they need. they aren't going to be in that with every day. position over the next week or in general, i am tired of being two because this will peak. this -- the hospitalizations behind this virus. and ucu patients will peak over we've been behind this virus the next couple of weeks. from day one. we have to be very diligent and the virus was in china, we knew data driven on who gets what it was in china. when and we are really on top unless we assume there is some of that on a daily basis looking at all the major hospital systems and thus far, immune system variation with of course, we've been able to asian people, it was coming supply everything the states here. have asked for and including and we have been behind it from the ventilator needs. day one since it got here. >> ed: "washington post" has a and we've been playing catch-up. story raising eyebrows, cdc is you don't win playing catch-up. we have to get ahead of it. considering recommending the general public wear face kof, the second rule is never in public. we've heard from the beginning from various experts and the underestimate your opponent. government, frankly, your we underestimated this virus. colleagues, that the general public did not need to wear it is more powerful, more masks. so can you help clear up dangerous than we expected. confusion for our viewers the third point is plan forward. wondering if they are going to

the pharmacy to get get ahead of it. prescriptions today, should they be wearing a mask or not? fight the fight today, yes, but >> so i don't want to speak for the cdc here or dr. redfield. anticipate the next battle and there are two bits of plan for the next battle. information that are really and the main battle is at the driving the discussion. number one is we know many apex. we're still going up the people who have covid-19 are mountain. the main battle is on the top of the mountain. completely asymptomatic but that's where the main battle is going to be, the apex of the even though they're asymptom mat i can there is potential curve. and then we come down the other side of the mountain. whether they can spread it. we are planning now for the it's not whether it can protect battle at the top of the mountain. that's what we are doing. you from getting covid but wearing a mask could help get a staffing plan ready now diffuse the possibility of for the battle at the top of asymptomatic people spreading. if you were spreading it and the mountain. equipment stockpiled now. wear a mask it could be we're gathering equipment that effective in keeping you from we don't need today because today is not the day of the spreading it to someone else. battle. it's a whole different question the battle is when we hit the than what was being dealt with earlier whether wearing a mask apex depending on who you can protect you from the virus. you see that difference. believe, 14 days to 30 days the new information coming out from today. is what i know experts like dr. and also we need a social

fauci and redfield and all of acceptance of the time us are looking at. expectation. >> ed: if the president asked we are all anxious. you admiral, should the general we're all tired. we're all fatigued. it has been all bad news for a public wear masks given what you laid out, would you say long time. our whole lifestyle has been yes, they should or no? >> i'm not ready to answer that disrupted. everybody wants to know one thing, when is it over? yet. it needs to be as the president has always had a consensus of nobody knows. well, president said by easter. the experts in the room. this one said by this. we have very active dialogue but i think the question is can nobody knows. you can have a hypothesis, you we protect people from can have a projection and an opinion but nobody knows. spreading it asymptomatically by putting a mask on that person? that's really the focus but i can say this, it is not question. i think we'll have a consensus going to be soon. opinion very soon about that. >> ed: we'll watch that. if our apex is 14 to 21 days, we know you have a big job and thank you for coming in and that's our apex. sharing this important information for the public. >> sandra: thank you, ed. you have to come down the other side of the mountain once you thousands of volunteers delivering groceries and some hit the apex. critical supplies to those most calibrate yourself and your expectations so you are not vulnerable to this virus. we'll tell you about that group disappointed every morning you and the essential work that they are doing right now. get up. yesterday we met with the it is america together. entire state's hospital system. we'll have that for you next.

dr. zucker and our team. first time they were all in one place. we said to the hospital system it's a sit-up, banana! bend at the waist! i'm tryin'! look, what i just said to you, keep it up. you'll get there. we're dealing with a war. whoa-hoa-hoa! we're dealing with a war we've 30 grams of protein, never dealt with before. and one gram of sugar. we need a totally different ensure max protein. mindset and organizational transformation. we can't do business the way we have always done business. we need an unprecedented sense of cooperation, of flexibility, communication and speed. and that's what we talked through yesterday. and we have to do it now. the healthcare system is one of those bulk system. our state education system and it is in place and it is fragmented. they have their own identities and associations. it is regionally organized. that all has to change. we don't have the ability to meet the capacity of our

healthcare system as an entirety. that assumes the healthcare system is working as an entirety. that's not how the healthcare system is organized now. we have new york city hospitals and then we have long island hospitals and then we have westchester hospitals and upstate hospitals. that has to go. even in new york city you have two basic hospital systems in new york city. you have the private hospitals, voluntary hospitals about 160 of them which are some of the finest healthcare institutions in the united states of america. this is mt. sinai, columbia presbyterian, etc. some of their members are also upstate. but they are the large, private and platelet donations and asks healthy donors institutions. to schedule an appointment to give. greater new york hospital during this corona virus outbreak, patients are counting on lifesaving transfusions. association. it is 160. you then have in new york city visit redcrossblood.org the public hospitals.

the new york city health and hospitals corporation. they are 11 public hospitals. they are a universe and then you have the private hospitals as a separate universe. the 11 public hospitals are the hospitals that in many ways have always been under greater stress and greater need. we have to get those two systems, the private system and the public system in new york city working together in a way they never did before. the distinction of private/public, that has to go out the window. we are one healthcare system. on top of that, it can't be the down state hospitals and upstate hospitals and long island hospitals. when we talk about capacity of beds and when i say we now have

75,000 beds, that's a statewide number. that means those beds have to be available to the people in new york city or nassau even if those beds are in albany. so combining that whole system and you are no longer just the western new york hospitals or the central new york hospitals, it is one coordinated system. it is much easier said than done. but we have to do it. on top of that, you have to overlay the new federal beds that came in that are entirely new components. javits center 2500 beds, the usns comfort of 1,000 beds. we're planning other federal facilities. these all have to be coordinated on top of the existing hospital network. so you see the organizational situation that we're dealing with. and let's be honest and let's

learn from the past. we know where we have to focus. we know where we are going to have problems in the next hospitals because the hospitals that have the least capacity, that have already been stressed, are the hospitals >> sandra: america together. it's the spirit of our country that are not going to be able these days as everyday heroes to handle the additional load. confront a deadly pandemic. that is a fact. finding ways to stick together you know which hospitals were through this crisis. in new york city thousands of struggling. we do reports all the time volunteers are lending a helping hand to some of the about the financial capacity of hospitals and what hospitals most vulnerable delivering groceries and medicine to are in stronger versus weaker position. the hospitals that are in a homebound seniors. we have more on that story for weaker position are the hospitals that are going to you. one of many across america. good morning. suffer when they then carry >> sandra, good morning. that added burden. life has become so challenging that was elm hurst hospital. it happened to be a public for the elderly and immunocompromised and now that hospital, a public hospital in the president has extended that stay at home order through a place of density, it happened april things are going to just get more challenging for them. that's why so many of us have to get overwhelmed. and that's what -- then you saw

to come together and really help these folks out. the burden on the staff. you saw the emotion, you saw the stress. that can't happen. two 20 year old, created a and that's what we talked about group called invisible hands in yesterday and people said elm new york. a free delivery service for hurst isn't my responsibility. older new yorkers and most it is a public hospital, the vulnerable who can't go out to get groceries or run to the city runs it. i don't run it, it's new york pharmacy because it's too much city, it is not a private of a risk for them. the group takes orders online hospital. or by phone. i don't care which link breaks volunteer goes shopping and then delivers those goods right in the chain. to the customer's doorstep the chain is still broken. while practicing social distancing. now get this, in just two weeks it doesn't matter which hospital, which link. liam and symone amassed 7,000 volunteers to help. any link breaks, the chain breaks. 600 deliveries and also expanded their service to parts of jersey city with calls now the healthcare system is a coming in from all across the nation. >> there are people way above chain. it breaks anywhere, its breaks us who are trying to answer everywhere. that has to be our mentality. really big questions and really scary questions and trying to we laid out a full plan on how help people in that way.

and we're a bunch of young to do facility development, how people who can help. the least we can do is go buy to move people among hospitals someone's groceries or pick up so nobody gets overloaded, prescriptions and make someone's life easier. >> a crisis like this brings shifting patients, shifting staff, shifting supplies. out the very best. none of us have enough supplies. >> and that's exactly why this group doesn't want to call it okay. let's pool our supplies and let's put them out to the people who need them. social distancing anymore. they want to call it physical and just because one hospital happened to have found a vendor distancing. it isn't about restocking the from china who delivered 5 refrigerators. it is engaging the elderly and million masks, let's share those masks. we talked about that yesterday. immunocompromised in a world that as you know and i know can we also talked again at length be extremely isolating. sandra. about ventilators, which >> sandra: much-needed good everybody knows is a key piece stories coming out of all this. of equipment. identifying all the ventilators thank you so much for that. in the state. who has them, who has them in a ed. >> ed: thanks. should you or should you not stockpile, who ordered them. who expects them to come in and wear a facemask to protect yourself? the world health organization we'll have one stockpile of out with new guidelines. ventilators that we can they contradict advice from distribute for everyone who needs them. some experts. we also talked about splitting doctor in the house, dr. siegel

will weigh in on that next. of ventilators. because that's a technology we make ideas grow. that does exist. it has been used before. from an everyday solution... it is not ideal. you talk one ventilator and it to one that can take on a bigger challenge. is used for two patients. from packaging tape... to tape that can bond materials the federal government is a partner in this obviously. to buildings... and planes. i spoke to the president again one idea can unlock a breadth of solutions. yesterday about this situation. i spoke to the vice president, at 3m, we are solving problems that improve lives. i spoke to jared kushner, the white house have been very helpful. we have to get the federal agencies on the ground to understand how this operates especially fema, because we have to be coordinated and people have to know what they're doing. this is no time for anyone to be learning on the job. and we're going to be working through that today. ppe, same thing. we want to know what everybody has. one stockpile would distribute it fairly. testing, how -- when does this

end? it ends when we get a fast track test. an at-home test, 15-minute test and people can then find out when they can go back to work because they are negative. we're working on additional testing as i said the department of health has a new test. but that's when this ends. we're also working on the new medications. we're leading the country in many of those developments. we have saliva testing now and working on the antibody testing and the plasma testing at the same time. we put together a central coordinating team. it is going to be department of health. westchester is on it, greater new york is on it, new york city is on it, long island is on it. if the federal government is going the participate, they have to be part of this team. because we have to know what we're doing and i don't want fema coming in and blowing the

coordination of what everyone is trying to do. the coordinating team is going to organize upstate, down state transfers, set patient loads for hospitals, right? so if one hospital gets up near an overload capacity, let's call it, those hospitals start to send patients to other hospitals before they get up to their max. within the new york city public hospital system, within the greater new york private system, and then among the different systems. a whole different mentality but we have to do it. we said two missions, one was hospital, second was individual responsibility. individual responsibility is about discipline, about selflessness and about being informed. the basic point is stay at home. the point is stay at home. one idea can unlock a breadth of solutions. i know it's hard to stay at

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at least 30 states have now i don't care how smart, how issued stay at home orders covering about 75% of our rich, how powerful you think population. >> sandra: u.s. navy hospital you are. ship arriving in new york i don't care how young, how old. harbor to deliver desperately this virus is the great needed help to the city's overwhelmed doctors and nurses equalizer. my brother, chris, is positive as a field hospital has now been set up in central park. for coronavirus. found out this morning. president trump on the impact of social distancing from coast to coast. now, he is going to be fine. >> president trump: there are some parts of the country that are in far deeper trouble than he is young, in good shape, others, other parts frankly aren't in trouble at all. strong -- not as strong as he hopefully we'll be able to keep thinks but he will be fine. it that way by doing what we're doing. >> ed: griff jenkins is live in but there is a lesson in this. our washington bureau this he is an essential worker, member of the press. morning. >> we had the first daily he has been out there. increase with more than 500 if you go out there, the chance deaths in a single day bringing that you get infected is very that national death toll to more than 3,000 as this area of high. i spoke to him this morning and washington, d.c., virginia and he is going to be quarantined maryland become the latest to issue stay at home orders fearing that they could soon in his basement at home.

he is just worried about his see the crisis engulfing the daughter and his kids that he tristate area around new york. hopes he didn't get them infected. maryland governor making the decision as the situation -- you don't really know, chris. wore sens. you see chris. he has a show at 9:00 on cnn. >> yesterday was the last tool in our arsenal. we reached the point where the but you just see one dimension, cases had exploded in the right? you see a person in his job and washington region here in in his job he is combative and maryland, virginia, and the argumentative and pushing district of columbia. people. but that's his job. that's really not who he is. more than quadruple in a couple of days. he is a really sweet, beautiful >> experts looking at guy. projections is peak hospital resource use. two hard hit areas of louisiana and he is my best friend. and michigan picking april 10th. my father was always working and it was always just me and 11 days from now. chris, and he is a lawyer also, illinois and pennsylvania. april 16th. indiana the 18th. chris. he is a lawyer because growing alabama on april 20th. the surgeon general acknowledges the difficulty of up the decision point came to what do you want to do after college? predicting these things urging my father was a very strong national guidelines to get in front of the next outbreak. >> the rest of the country is personality. following a similar trajectory and my father basically right now as new york. suggested forcefully to chris

they are at different places on that he should be a lawyer. the curve but the curves are starting to look the same and it was a different time and a so we want people to understand different place, you know. that when you lean into aggressive mitigation efforts early you can flatten the curve. now my daughters kara who is >> there in the epicenter of here they all follow their new york health officials individual stars. recording their first death. this is their destiny which is right. coronavirus related death in a person under the age of 18. if he would have said to my father i want to follow my that state of new york poised individual star he would say to overtake the country of you can follow your individual china possibly tomorrow with the most cases, ed. star right out that door. >> ed: thanks for starting us off. >> sandra: all right, president so chris went to law school. trump meanwhile unveiling a new but he never really had a desire to practice law. rapid test kit for coronavirus he calls me when he is about 26. that is supposed to give he is at a law firm. results within five minutes of and he said you know, i don't want to be a lawyer. taking it. yesterday's announcement coming i said yeah, i know, you are days after a manufacturer now a lawyer. you are. abbott labs said the fda had he said yeah, but i don't want to be a lawyer. given them emergency clearance i said what do you want to be? he said i want to be a to produce its cartridge-based test. journalist? chief white house correspondent i said too late, are you a lawyer and you have to pay law john roberts joining us live with more on that. school bills, you didn't go to john, good morning. >> good morning to you. journalism school. it's too late. no, no, i think i can do it. the president very excited

god bless him, he quit the law about this new rapid five-minute test from abbott labs displaying it in the rose garden of the white house. firm, went to work for fox tv, we expect to get more details which is a whole separate on what the new guidelines conversation in the house. regarding social distancing will be. and then worked his way up. they will be in place until he is at cnn and he does a april 30th. the data behind those. beautiful job. the daily coronavirus briefing a sweet guy. now he is quarantined in the in the rose garden yesterday basement but he is funny as the president indicating he heck. he says to me even the dogs received a startling forecast from his medical team about what could happen if those won't come downstairs. guidelines were relaxed too but he is concerned about his early. i asked the president whether wife and kids. the guidelines would be the but the reason i raise it is he same or if they would be modified. listen here. >> president trump: we may add a few more but the guidelines is smart, he is social will be very much as they are. distancing yes, but you wind up maybe even toughened up a little bit. exposing yourself. they're having a big impact. people wind up exposing you and then they find out they are this is based on modeling that positive a couple days later. shows the peak in fatalities and i had a situation with will not arrive for another two weeks. the same modeling also shows christopher two weeks ago that i even mentioned my mother was at his house. and i said that is a mistake. now, my mother is in a that by very vigorously

following these guidelines we could save more than one million american lives. >> border restrictions will stay in place. travel restrictions from the different situation. she is older, and she is e.u. are up for reconsideration healthy, but i said you can't april 13th. travel restrike tuns across the have mom at the house. and he said no, no, no, mom is u.s. and mexico and canada lonely and she wants to be at borders up for renewal. the house. i feel bad she is cooped up in the president suggested there the apartment. wouldn't be a change there. i said i feel bad she is cooped the white house continues to up in the apartment, too. work with private corporations you bring her to your house, to ramp up and deliver you expose her to a lot of desperately needed medical things. supplies. the president announcing that you have the kids there, your drug companies will be making wife there, you are coming and going. available some 17 million doses your wife is coming and going. of chloroquine to treat and you could expose mom to the patients and announcing ford motors has partnered with general electric to produce 50,000 ventilators in the next virus. 100 days. i asked the president about and love is sometimes a little that, too. listen here. -- needs to be a little smarter >> president trump: so we have now 10 companies at least than just reactive and we had a making the ventilators. and we say go ahead. >> do you believe as we whole discussion. he and i are informed. approach this peak in a couple of weeks there will be enough was that dangerous? for the american population? >> president trump: i do think was it not dangerous? so, yes. i went back to dr. zucker. i do think so. i think we'll be in very good we have to tell people how are shape. >> more information from the

the rules, how does this work? coronavirus task force on how that's when i came up with long we will be dealing with matilda's law. i named it for my mother and it this virus. dr. anthony fauci saying he was very clear about people who expects that, like the flu, are older and what they should coronavirus will come back again in the fall but that it will be a very different situation. listen here. >> i would anticipate that that that was two weeks ago. would actually happen because if my brother still had my mother at his house again, out of the degree of trance missability. however, if you come back in the fall it will be a totally of love and comfort that my mother wanted to be at the different ballgame of what happened when we first got hit house, anyway. she didn't want to be sitting with it in the beginning of this year. there will be several things home in an apartment. that will be different. so, she would have been doing our ability to go out and be what she wanted to do. he would have been doing what he able to test, identify, isolate wanted to do. it would have seemed great, and and contact trace will be orders of magnitude better than what it was just a couple of armless, but now we'd have a months ago. it will be things we have much different situation. available to us that we did not have before. because, if he was exposed, >> one of those things chances are she may have very hopefully will be a vaccine as well. the president in the rose well been exposed. garden had with him the ceos of and then we'd be looking at a a number of different companies different situation than just my pitching in to help out when it brother sitting in his basement for two weeks. comes to personal protective equipment, the ceo of united

so, think about that. technology saying his company rit? will be making available personal protective equipment. he has in its stockpiles as well and making facemasks as well. he doesn't need the defense production act to get his company to move. the president will have a teleconference this afternoon with network service providers and at 5:00 we'll have the daily coronavirus briefing and see what that brings later on today. >> sandra: thank you for your reporting on all that. john roberts at the white house, thank you. >> ed: thanks, for more let's bring in dr. marc siegel professor of medicine and fox news contributor. good morning, doctor. >> good morning, good to see you. >> ed: this rapid test from abbott rolling out now. how critical might this be? >> well, this is very critical. of course, we have to get it from the rose garden to the hospitals, to the clinics, to the mobile units and doctor's offices throughout the country. the most important thing about

this is it's a point of care test. i don't have to send my results anywhere. i do a swab, put it in the machine called a now platform. it will give me the results within 5 to 13 minutes whether you actually have this covid-19 or not. it is pretty accurate. not 100%. none of the testing we're doing is 100% but pretty accurate and can be reliable and will enable us to say -- this refers to dr. fauci's comments from john roberts' report. once we have this in place we have a better method public health-wise saying you have this, who are your contacts. we have to separate you out from the community or we need to quarantine you and then we can decrease viral spread by knowing who actually has it. >> ed: speaking of data, there is this company kinsa health. an interesting this story about their thermometers that have a computer chip so they can track fevers across america and their data over the last few days is

suggesting that fevers are coming down across america and they think it might be a hopeful sign that the social distancing is working. your thoughts? >> i think that that's an overall epidemiological comment. i can't comment how accurate it s. i will tell you two things. one, fever is a very accurate sign of this virus. we've known that from the beginning. this virus tends to cause high fevers. two, i do believe that social distancing to this extreme plus the weather starting to change are positive signs the curve will flatten. we'll have to wait and see. it is a good sign that temperatures are coming down, yes. >> ed: good. meanwhile "washington post" out with a story you want to weigh in on, a potential recommendation on masks for the general public. the recommendation under consideration calls for using do it yourself cloth coverings,

it would be a way to help flatten the curve this official noted. such cloth masks would potentially lower the risk that the wearer, if infected, would transmit the virus to others. current cdc guidance says healthy people don't need masks for face coverings. you and others have said for a long time the general public doesn't need this. do you stand behind this or this is an evolve situation and maybe the general public does need to wear masks? >> it's an evolving situation, ed. here is what i want to say about that. we need masks for our healthcare personnel first. if we use the n95 the rest of the hospital has to have access to enough of these paper surgical max, number one. number two, i know cdc may change their guidelines but i think it still applies that if you're sick and coughing and sneezing, you are the one that

needs to wear a mask or if you're at high risk or in close quarters and you can't obey the social distancing. a new thing i would add. i might want to consider a mask then. if you know how to use it. it has to have a tight seal on your face. if it's moist, get rid of it right away. you the end to touch your masks so you have to wash your face and hands more frequently with a mask than without. the problem is the mask may actually collect viruses. if you aren't careful you can actually spread it more that way. as a barrier to rest pri tory drop lets, it's a good idea. >> ed: the surgeon general was on "fox & friends" and here is what he said about it. >> if you're sick, wear a mask. if you have a mask and makes you feel better by all means wear it. the more you touch your face you the more you put yourself at risk. the data isn't quite there.

>> ed: he also said wearing a mask could create a false sense of security that okay, things are better from wearing the mask so i won't social distance as much. your thoughts on that. >> that's an extremely good point. i think we've been focusing correctly on social distancing, on washing hands frequently. keeping hands moist so that the cracks don't become where viruses can come in. and also disinfecting surfaces. that's the right place to go. no social gagterings or now large groups. it can send a message of false security and a message of fear that the virus is right with you. that causes you to take fewer precautions. let's keep with the hand washing and with the social distancing and the disinfecting as our primary tool. >> ed: there is an interesting "wall street journal" exclusive

saying nyulangone. it will support emergency room staff who withhold intubations, threatens to discipline doctors who talk to the press. we identify you, you are a professor of medicine at nyu and you can't speak for them. what are your thoughts about this story saying think more critically about who gets ventilators? that raises many questions. one being are people who are seen as older or sicker not going to get ventilators? >> that's a very fair question. i'm going to say i don't think we'll go there. i don't think in the united states we should be making decisions like that. i'll tell you how we'll get around it. we have 3,000 beds opening up at the javits center. you talked about a field hospital in central park. you have the u.s. navy ship comfort with 1,000 beds offshore. whichever of these we use for covid-19 patients the others

will be used for overflow to take pressure off the hospitals. i don't want to see a situation where value judgments are made on patients' lives. i don't anticipate that. we need to organize and use the facilities that are now growing around us. >> ed: doctor one last thing. the new york city health department saying their numbers show the first death of someone here in new york city under the age of 18. they aren't giving out any additional details nou. i understand it is a fresh report and you don't have all the details. but the idea that now someone under the age of 18 here in new york city has died because of the coronavirus could concern people given all we've heard. again, the context being that this is an unfolding crisis, things change. it is evolving. the guidance from the beginning is that younger people, while vulnerable are less vulnerable than others. what does this tell you? >> i've been talking to medical centers around the country and

i'm aware we're seeing younger patients on ventilators than we were hearing from china. the reason for that is because of an exuberant response in the lungs which causes the pneumonia we're concerned about. that's not the virus but the impact the virus has on the lungs. it can occur with any age. more common in elderly people and people with pre-existing conditions and chronically ill. nobody is immune to this. definitely not surprising to me we would see a younger patient tragically die from this. an emphasis on how important it is that we really hunker down still because even if somebody gets a mild case of the virus, they could then spread it to somebody who gets very, very sick. this is an extremely serious situation. >> ed: great advice from dr. siegel. more details on this and many other cases. dr. siegel. thank you for coming in and covering so much ground. thank you. >> sandra: great information there. meanwhile on to this. a florida pastor in handcuffs

after holding sunday services. why police say he put hundreds in his congregation at risk. plus ford motor company now boosting production of a crucial medical equipment to fight the coronavirus vowing now 50,000 ventilators in the next 100 days where the company is with that pledge. we'll get an update next. >> president trump: ford just announced a little while ago that they will produce along with general electric healthcare 50,000 ventilators and they will be doing it in less than 100 days. s. by refinancing now, you can save $2000 a year. and newday's va streamline refi shortcuts the process. veterans can refinance with no income verification, no appraisal, and no out of pocket costs. one call could save you $2000 a year.

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>> ed: a florida mega church pastor has been arrested for defying government orders amid the covid-19 pandemic. rodney howard brown the pastor of the river at tampa bay church held two services sunday. the livestream showed a packed crowd cheering and applauding. >> shame on this pastor. their legal staff and the leaders of this church for forcing us to do our job. that's not what we wanted to w unlawful assembly in violation of public health emergency orders. he was arrested and released.

no date yet for his next court appearance. >> sandra: fox news alert now. the ford motor company ramping up ventilator production to fight the pandemic. it announced it would begin producing a third-party ventilator in collaboration with ge healthcare. they said they plan to make 50,000 units within the next 100 days at a plant in michigan. let's bring in jim baumbick vice president at the ford motor company. jim, thank you for joining us this morning. >> thanks for having me, sandra. >> sandra: what an amazing story. our viewers are looking forward to hearing from you all morning. how do you make 50,000 ventilators in 100 days? tell us about it. >> there is a very famous statement at ford. go like hell. we see an incredible need for getting medical devices and personal protection equipment

into the hands of patients and first responders that need it the most to help fight this war. so everybody at ford is absolutely committed to doing whatever we can to help out. >> sandra: i know you have 500 uaw workers that have volunteered to be part of this project. three different shifts. you'll work around the clock. initially to get this effort started you are sending engineers down to that florida-based company that designed the ventilator and then of course it's licensed by ge to ford. tell us about the collaboration and what it took to get this going. >> the whole principle was trying to take the best of two companies and match it up. ge healthcare matching it up with us, producing at high volume industryallizing at scale. a great collaboration and working with others with a device we can move quickly on.

we wanted to get teams on the ground both at ge and aron and making immediate improvements in the through-put on their current production lines. 40% more working collaboratively with them. getting units to people today. at the same time as we start to florida to increase their through-put and in the background we get the high volume production line up and running to produce these at rates. as we bring these team members on to amazing partners of the uaw our goal to get up to a production rate of nearly -- of these machines per hour of 60. >> sandra: it is important to point out these are some of the most basic ventilators that are you manufacturing at these plants and getting together with ge to make. because these are the badly needed ones right now for the middle of the crisis that we're in. they work off air pressure, not

electricity. tell us about the ventilator itself. >> we looked at quite a few designs and we tried to identify what's p best machine for the current crisis. we have to get so many of these to support the surge demand. this is one area that working with our g.e. healthcare team we focused on. as we set up the icu and convention centers and electricity and other infrastructure will be a challenge. this device operates off compressed oxygen. the device delivers the basic need that is required to support covid patients. and it allows to scale it up at volume much, much faster. a combination of those factors that got us locked in on this as the best possible design to move quickly given the urgency. >> sandra: we heard the white house the other day talking about that manufacturing might that ford used during world war

ii that we're now seeing your manufacturing facilities used for now. what was it like -- you look back to the war-time days and how those manufacturing facilities were changed to adapt to the needs of that time. what was it like this time around to make those changes to your manufacturing facility to throw that ford might behind such a huge effort? >> well, it really is a war. we're at war with a virus. the most important thing is we're supporting first responders and these patients that need this equipment. that was the inspiration. exactly why we dove into this effort the way we have setting up the plant we're using what we learn about the machine and as we set the machine up to break it down into its components, and if you think taking each of those components the goal is to produce these components and set up the machine at a rate what we're used to in the automotive

industry. it is different than what has been previously done for some of this medical equipment. a perfect mesh between healthcare and automotive. >> sandra: such a proud american moment. you look back at the images of the ford manufacturing facilities during wartime and now i'm sure we'll be seeing the pictures when we see this production up and going, 200,000 in 2020. is that still a feasible goal? >> i think we're preparing for whatever we think the surge need is. at the moment we're focused on getting the first 50,000. we have the capacity or capability to continue to run a rate if the need is there. just to go back this is what is the heart and soul of ford motor company. when crises have happened in the past and ford just wants to do everything we can to help. >> sandra: a great american story. thank you for joining us this morning. >> thank you. >> ed: what a great example of

the american spirit. seismic shift in the global order could be underway. the pandemic threatening to change our relations with nations around the world. we'll look at the big picture on all of that next.

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of respiratory diseases. visit cdc.gov/covid19. brought to you by the national association of broadcasters and this station. >> ed: fox news alert on the pandemic. the number of cases around the world exploding now topping 800,000. new warnings the public health crisis is becoming a diplomatic one as well that could threaten global stability. the escalating tensions with china as blame games unfold on the origins of the virus. what are your thoughts on how this is playing out globally? we'll get to china in a moment. president trump sat down with leaders in various videoconferences. they won't all get together. a lot of videoconferences have

been inconclusive. the leaders put out statements where they don't really have a cohesive approach to the pandemic. >> all of them have been inconclusive in radical difference to what we saw after 2008 and 2009 where the united states was taking the lead internationally. no one is taking the lead internationally right now. i would argue that the u.s. response domestically, though late, is now pretty coordinated and pretty strong. certainly on the economic and on fiscal and monetary policy, 10% of gdp stimulus. democrats and republicans coming together and we see a surge on the healthcare side. late but we're doing it. internationally the united states is not providing leadership right now. the chinese despite the fact they were responsible for this initial outbreak and covering it up, are doing everything they can to try to take advantage of the fact that the united states isn't seen as leading. they are the ones out there

engaging in much stronger diplomacy. they are critical for medical supply chain and doing a lot more humanitarian aid. something we've never seen from the chinese after previous crises. >> ed: are the chinese doing a better job diplomatically or doing a better job at propaganda and frankly can we trust almost anything that is coming out of there? as you know there are a lot of questions about what really happened in wuhan and whether the numbers the chinese put out in terms of the deaths were grossly under counted because they're covering this up. >> it's clear they're undercounted and also clear that by the way they're tracking right now asymptomatic cases in china but not publishing the data and not sharing it with any of us internationally. very irresponsible. they have a largest number of

cases, the greatest case history. we need that information. they aren't sharing it. that's propaganda. but i think when you are talk test kits even if a bunch don't work. masks, hospital gowns, medical personnel, those are real things that desperate countries around the world want. the united states so far has offered an average of $4 million per developing country in terms of humanitarian aid. from an international perspective the united states is seen as really not there right now. again, america first, unilateralism. trans action nall policy. the chinese smell a big opportunity right now and they don't have to do a lot to be seen by other countries around the world, including american allies, as actually taking more of a leadership role. >> ed: as you noted, some of the tests that chinese sent around as a big pr move, the tests don't even work. on top of that the president and secretary of state mike

pompeo had this to say about misinformation from beijing, listen. >> there was a lot of discussion today amongst the g-7 about the intentional disinformation campaign that china has been and continues to be engaged it. you see in social media and remarks from senior people inside the chinese communist party talking about whether this was a u.s. brought to china. this is crazy talk. every one of the nations that was at that meeting this morning was deeply aware of the disinformation campaign that the chinese communist party is engaged in to try and deflect from what has really taken place here. >> china may see as opportunity to rejiger things but will the u.s. and its allies buy this? as you hear the secretary of state say others on the g-7 videoconference were not buying the misinformation from china. >> very interesting.

that's what pompeo says. then of course you couldn't actually get a communique coming out of that very meeting because secretary of state pompeo's demands the allies all refer to the coronavirus as the wuhan virus and every single american ally refuses to do it. this is what happens. after world war ii we did the marshall plan, right? we put the money out there. right now you have chinese and a bunch of humanitarian aid. some of which doesn't work and has been shipped back by countries like spain and turkey but it is still a lot more than what the americans are actually doing. china today 17% of the global economy. during sars 4%. the americans aren't going to buy it. maybe our allies won't buy it either privately. publicly the way they're reacting to the chinese is radically different than the way the americans are. one final thing on this. let's keep in mind president trump was also saying china

virus, wuhan virus until he talked to xi last week and we haven't heard it from trump. trump doesn't want to trump with the chinese now either. we have the phase one trade deal. they're committed to buying $200 billion of ag from united states. they won't make that number. trump is so far reluctant to have that fie. it is really interesting to see how it plays out. >> ed: we'll all be watching. thanks for your insights this morning. >> sandra: numerous americans stranded overseas due to the coronavirus. the u.s. government is now working on bringing them back home safely. the state department has brought home thousands from around the world and is looking to bring home more. senior foreign affairs correspondent greg palkot is live in london on that for us. >> that's right. the word from the state department to americans stuck abroad in the coronavirus pandemic, get home as soon as

you can. tens of thousands are stranded the last couple of weeks caught up by closing borders, quarantines and canceled fights. in peru a family was stuck for eight days. >> i understand that this is the first pandemic we've seen like this in the history of our world and that they clearly don't think we're prepared for thousands of us that were stuck in peru. >> embassy staff there and in places like ecuador are working round the clock to try to meet folks' needs. chartering planes and even the u.s. military is involved. right now they say that over 25,000 americans have been repatriated from over 50 countries. 100 more flights planned. more than 9,000 more passengers identified. here is secretary of state pompeo. >> you heard some of these stories. you heard the story of the comfort, the story from samaritan's purse. if you heard the stories what

the state department has done to get out of places and we had a sick american citizen who was suffering and we got him out and back and to safety. >> there are new challenges in far flung places in asia like nepal and india. health officials are not even allowing americans out of the hotels. some americans in fact deciding to hunker down and wait it out. a big task, global difficulty still not resolved, sandra. >> sandra: greg palkot from london. thank you. >> ed: markets opened slightly lower today. now they're climbing up. it's now up 146 points. uncertainty for u.s. businesses. can they weather this pandemic? we'll get into it next.

>> sandra: fox news alert. an hour into trading. a quick look at the big board. the dow is now higher after

initially selling off up 104 points. let's bring in cheryl casone from the fox business network. we're nearing the end of the first quarter. it is set to be the worst first quarter for u.s. stocks on record, although the stock market is significantly now off its lows during the coronavirus crisis. >> that's a good point, sandra. the dow right now as we're looking at it is up 20% off its coronavirus lows. we can't escape the bad news. i'll get it out of the way. the dow is down for 22% for the quarter today. s&p down 19%. we haven't seen these numbers since 2008 or 1987. one thing about the market turning around in front of us is that this could be five of six days of gains if these numbers hold. if we hang onto the positive numbers. a few things. analysts are saying we seem to be finding some sort of bottom. no one is committing to the bottom. you don't know when that is until after you've seen it.

at this point they're saying one thing. april 30th time frame that the president put out over the weekend, that's something else that is being watched. we're in this wait and see mode right now. investors are. we know that the news is going to get worse but there is another piece of news that is really moving markets at this point. that's italy, believe it or not. see the cases flatten out for the italians. we've seen this virus go around the world. we're seeing the epicenter in new york. but all of this factors into whether it's the death toll, the cases, or the unemployment numbers, all that factors into sentiment. for now it's steady as we go. not a bad thing. not seeing a 2,000 point swing today. >> sandra: meanwhile some staggering projections from the st. louis fed on the overall impact the coronavirus crisis will have on job losses and unemployment in the united states, cheryl. right now they're projecting the potential economic fallout

of this could lead to 47 million jobs lost and the unemployment rate could spike as high as over 32%, cheryl? >> i was looking at the research paper that came from this economist at the st. louis fed. these are very large numbers by historical standards but he says it is a unique shock unlike any other experience by the u.s. economy in the last 100 years. the point being as fast as this shock hit the labor market, as fast as it can go the other way and turn around. i want to point out a couple of things. we'll get initial jobless claims on thursday. that will be another rough number. i've seen estimates of 3.5 million unemployment claims. a lot of folks when they lost their jobs last week couldn't get onto the systems. some systems in some states were crashing. the technology is 30 years old. the fact we're seeing more and more companies furlough workers. i want to make an interesting point about the job situation.

there is furlough and fired. those are two very different things. we heard macy's, they say they'll furlough most of their workers. it doesn't mean your job is gone. for now apply for unemployment. macy's will be providing healthcare to their employees but they aren't saying we won't come back. some companies maria said it earlier. some companies aren't going to come back from this. as far as these job numbers i wouldn't be terribly surprised to see again about 3 1/2 million people file on thursday. we're also getting the march jobs report on friday. this is kind of a mixed situation though with the march report because that is really only surveys of companies for the first two weeks of march. so it really isn't going to truly reflect the full lockdown we've seen. i will leave you on this. goldman sachs have rough projections but not as bad as the st. louis fed. just projections and not reality yet. >> sandra: i know you put out a

picture of time square from your morning commute this morning showing you how empty the streets here in new york city are. and then we were showing images, video while you were talking. those are jobs that are not there right now at restaurants, at retailers. so we will watch as you said a lot of uncertainty for these markets as we look at the dow up 100 points this morning. cheryl casone, thank you. >> ed: opening day for baseball and a lot of other sports may be on hold because of the pandemic. we can talk about the great american pastime. legendary broadcaster vin scully. his thoughts on america next. to the mowers of green acres, rural ramblers and back to the landers. whether you saddle up or buckle down. run with us for all the head turners, stripe earners and time crunchers to the kid carolers, grill masters and all those who ride faster

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>> ed: after pearl harbor baseball officials contacted fdr asking if they should move forward with the 1942 season.

he wrote a letter saying it was best for the country to have america's pastime played. it would take american minds off world war ii and employ people. the 2020 season was supposed to be in full swing now but it is paused. we reached out to dodgers broadcaster vin scully. you can find our conversation at the fox news podcast and itunes. here is a taste of scully talking baseball but also giving us perspective on how after living through the great depression he is optimistic america will get through this stronger and closer to god. >> now that i have some leisure time and we're all locked in at home, i read an article and it was talking about what happened to the americans in world war ii. it was such a terrible time. the horrors of all the deaths and everything else that 3/4 of

the americans belonged to a house of worship. today after we've had boom time, half of the americans are involved in a house of worship. prior to this pandemic. so there is your answer. i think what will happen now, although they might not be able to go to a house of worship, probably more americans will be praying than since world war ii. >> i was watching pope francis on a livestream saying mass at the little inn where he lives. he doesn't like the trappings of power and lives in this little inn and he says mass there almost every day. a lot of people are doing that now, cardinal dolan has been doing that in new york and i suspect you've heard about it that people are connecting that way. >> we have another great advantage over the people

despite the pandemic and the idea you have to stay at home. i would say the majority of americans have television sets today and you can turn on a channel -- i know there are two of them that i get for sunday mass. and it's that easy. so i have the same feeling about what happened during world war ii, more people will be coming back to the faith. and now that this terrible thing is upon us, people might very well get back to center and it's a better world. >> imagine for me it is opening day at some point hopefully this summer and the dodgers call you up and say one last time would you give us that signature hello, dodgers baseball and you know, a great pleasant good morning, good afternoon to you. what would you say when that first game is played?

>> well, first of all, i would say what i always said, hi, everybody and a very pleasant good afternoon to you wherever you may be. that was always a scully opening or an evening as the case may be. and then finally it's time for dodger baseball. the crowd would roar and i would disappear behind the curtain never to be seen again. >> i wore dodger blue for vin scully. hard for a yankee's fan. still sharp at 92 and great advice for america. >> sandra: a great message and great to hear from him. fox news alert on workers at amazon and insta cart going on strike. breaking news when we return. uee rates are at record lows. that's good news for veterans with va loans. that's me. by using your va streamline refi benefit, one call to newday usa can save you $2,000 a year.

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>> ed: fox news alert on the national response to the coronavirus outbreak. more than two dozen states now under some sort of lockdown at this hour amid data showing that social distancing seems to be paying off. welcome back to a brand-new hour of "america's newsroom," i'm ed henry. good morning, sandra. >> sandra: good morning to you, ed. good morning, everyone. ifm owe sandra smith. more than 164,000 coronavirus cases across the country with 3,000 plus deaths. this marks the second time the number of deaths has jumped by 1,000 in just a two-day period. but there is some encouraging news as we learn the spread is

now slowing in cities where strict social distancing rules have been in effect. >> people need to stay at home. you've heard me say it many times. we're working around the clock to get supplies to cities across the country, to mayors and governors. we aren't going to supply our way out of this problem. the way we solve this problem is by everyone coming together, stopping the spread by limiting large gatherings and staying at home. you still see pictures on twitter and tv of people getting together, being too close, putting themselves in a situation where they could end up in the hospital. the best way to make sure you don't run out of ventilators, make sure you don't meet so many people who need to get on ventilators in the first place. >> sandra: we have live fox team coverage with dr. nicole saphier on the medical angle. and david lee miller but first to jonathan serrie live in atlanta for us. >> fema is helping new york

city bring in an additional 250 ambulances and 500 emts to help with the coronavirus response and what remains the u.s. epicenter. the fire department in new york says it is handling a record number of medical calls. monday night new york lit up the empire state building like an ambulance to honor the city's medical workers and first responders. after being denied entry to ports in multiple countries the holland america cruise ship and support ship were allowed to transit the panama canal and now await permission to drop off passengers in fort lauderdale, florida. several passengers have developed flu-like symptoms and four elderly have died. they write the covid-19 situation is one of the most urgent tests of our common humanity. to slam the door in the face of these people betrays our human

values. a spring training site for major league baseball has been made a drive-thru testing center. the emergency manager expressed frustration having to go through brokers and other middle men to order n95 masks. >> the private market now is like a ponsi schemes. email addresses created only a couple of days ago. >> we heard about medical centers considering the idea of doubling up patients on ventilators to stretch limited resources. today the department of health and human services issued some guidance to these medical centers saying that co-venting should be reserved only for extreme cases and used only on

a temporary basis. they really do not like this idea. it should only be used if there are no other a >> sandra: from atlanta jonathan serrie. to new york where an emergency field hospital opening today in new york central park. volunteer healthcare professionals are on the ground gearing up to begin accepting new patients. transferred from mt. sinai hospital which is nearby. as the city prepares for a surge of brand-new infections. david lee miller is live in the park's east meadow for us this morning. >> sandra, so far the patients have not yet arrived. they are applying the finishing touches to the field hospital at this hour. one of the things they're doing is a little landscaping and putting down mulch to create a walkway and easier to transport patients from mt. sinai hospital across the street. one of the incredible things this field hospital was put up and constructed in 48 hours' time. it has the capability to treat what one doctor described as

the sickest of the sick. it will have 68 beds in total including 10 that have icu capability. mt. sinai hospital is going to administer the admissions and mt. sinai like so many facilities in the city is struggling to cope with the growing number of coronavirus patients. governor cuomo ordered all hospitals in the state to increase bed capacity by 50%. mt. sinai are now constructing facilities in the building's lobby to accommodate the growing number of people that need treatment. brooklyn's brookdale hospital doctors are working lots of hours and using one mask for an entire shift. one physician calls it exhausting. >> it's like a war zone. a medical war zone. working with limited resources, with the constant disparities in pain and suffering we see not only with those who are afflicted with the coronavirus, but also those coming in for

trauma and pediatric emergencies. >> the new york city queens part of the u.s. open stadium will be converted to a hospital. 350 beds will be set up there. plans are to use the facility to treat non-coronavirus patients. it could change depending ong need. a brooklyn man had a secret stash of 80,000 medical masks. discovered from f.b.i. agents investigating the hoarding of medical supplies. he is charged with assault and making false statements to investigators. the mounting death toll has claimed the life of bronx, new york famed neurosurgeon dr. james goodrich. he was 73 years old. lastly, according to the most recent statistic, new yorkers are dying of the coronavirus

now at a rate of 10 per hour. sandra. >> sandra: rning. thank you. >> ed: the centers for disease control with a troubling stat out about the coronavirus oureare infected actually remain asymptomatic. it may be as many as 25%. that is important because now you have individuals that may not have any symptoms that can contribute the transmission and we have learned that in fact they do contribute to transmission. >> ed: who better to make sense of that and more than dr. nicole saphier fox news contributor. good morning, doctor. >> good morning. >> ed: as many as 25% may be asymptomatic carrying this. another reminder about the need to follow those cdc guidelines. >> you know the truth is we don't know how many people are

asymptomatic walking around with the viral infection. 170,000 confirmed cases in new york. if 25% of people positive are asymptomatic imagine how many cases we actually have. that's the biggest problem now. we don't know how many asymptomatic individuals are still continuing the freely walk around and infect others. we know there is a longer incubation period with this virus. you are asymptomatic and shedding the virus infecting other people before you show symptoms and why we had such a fast increase in cases. people didn't realize they were sick, didn't realize they were contagious and they were still going about day-to-day life. this is why social distancing is crucial right now and the reason we're seeing so many deaths right now, this is such a devastating number but it is because these people were infected a couple of weeks ago. the people who are dying are dying about 14 to 21 days after the onset of symptoms. they've been sick for a while.

now that we've been having the strict social distancing measures the last couple of weeks my hope is that in a couple weeks from now we'll see decreasing -- further decreasing numbers which will give us a lot more positivity and know we are getting on the other side of this. right now we're getting close to the peak where we'll continue to see the deaths of the people that were infected a couple weeks ago. >> ed: an admiral is leading the testing effort for the president's task force was on earlier in the program and to your last point there said he thinks the apex of these cases may be coming in about two weeks. does that square with what you're hearing on the ground and your analysis? what does it mean for our viewers where we are in this crisis? >> there is a lot of factors that are going into this right now. we're seeing a lot more cases. we said we would see a lot more cases because of more testing. remember, the people that are

now needing to be hospitalized are people infected one, two, three weeks ago. and they're having severe symptoms. these are the people on the ventilators. not people being infected today. my hope is that because everyone is adhering to these social distancing measures in a couple of weeks from now two to three weeks we won't have as many people on the ventilators because potentially we'll have fewer cases at that point. the encouraging thing we've seen the doubling time of cases and those being hospitalized are continuing to prolong. last sunday a week ago we heard governor cuomo say it was a two-day doubling down. now over six days of doubling time. i know it's a silver lining there but it is a glimmer of hope telling us that these measures are working. but if we were to just go back to business as usual right now, it would be all for nothing. so the important thing is we have to continue doing what we're doing and we will get over this and we'll get over it soon. >> ed: very hopeful indeed. your mind works like mine and

many others, was it a week or two weeks ago? it runs together. i only have 30 seconds. this is an important i want to end on. the cdc considering whether or not to tell the general public to wear masks for a short time. there are people all over the map on this. what is your bottom line? >> honestly it's very controversial. a respiratory droplet infection. wearing cloth if it a multi-layered offer your mouth whether it will protect you from being infected or protect otheresque infected by you. the other way it will work is everyone wears a mask. the asymptomatic individuals we're worried about infecting other people. if you're sick you should be home. the people that don't seem to be sick still out there. i don't know how i feel about all of the public wearing a mask. of course, we'll adhere to whatever the cdc recommends. >> ed: dr. saphier, appreciate your insight as always.

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>> ed: whole foods employees planning a sick-out today to demand hazard pay and better safety measures as the coronavirus spreads nationwide. one day after workers at amazon and insta cart walked off the job as well. grady is outside whole foods in chicago. one employee recently tested positive for covid-19. good morning, grady. >> good morning. americans are relying more heavily on these grocery store and delivery workers right now as americans stay home but some of these workers say their companies aren't doing enough to protect them. in calling for this sick-out today some amazon or whole foods workers i should say are calling for these demands

including paid leave for workers who choose to quarantine, hazard pay that amounts to two times their ordinary hourly pay and healthcare for part-time workers. of course, amazon does own whole foods and amazon as you mentioned dealt with its own strike yesterday. workers at a staten island warehouse walked out calling for similar changes. organizer there was fired. he claims out of retaliation but amazon says he wasn't following social distancing guidelines and he went on site even though asked to stay home for 14 days with pay after coming into contact with an associate who tested positive for the coronavirus. here at whole foods again they are cleaning the stores more regularly. they've put up guards at the check-outs to protect clerks and workers have unlimited call-outs. they can participate in this sick-out without fear of repercussion or losing their jobs. whole foods tells us in a statement team members in our stores and facilities also have access to up to two weeks of

paid time-off if they test positive for covid quarantined. in addition to $2 an hour per hour on top of hourly base pay and increased overtime pay. hard to tell how many employees are participating in the sick-out today but got the support of some democrats. including alexandria cortez. >> i am getting my hands on any hand sanitizer i can find. >> sandra: my new job is to stay alive from an worried insta cart shopper as employees at online delivery companies are concerned about their personal safety amid the pandemic. staging walk sick-outs and

trying to get better health protections and more pay. andy puzder is with us. parent company of hardee's and the capitalist comeback. thank you for being here, andy. >> good to be here. >> sandra: you are an important voice in this conversation. you used to run that company that oversaw all of those restaurant chains. you had worker issues all the time. some are calling these insta cart shoppers, amazon packers heroes because they've continued to work in this environment. those insta cart shoppers play a key role in helping those most vulnerable shop in the grocery store and leave it on the doorstep. are the companies do enough to protect them? >> i think the companies are doing what they can. look at the people at amazon. these aren't stupid people. they know that the two most

important things in a business are number one your employees and number two your customers. i'm sure they want to do everything one, to protect the employees' health. if they aren't protecting their employees and if they are allowing this virus to spread in their facilities they will lose business. people will stop ordering from them. i'm sure they will do everything they possibly can. they may not do what alexandria ocasio-cortez wants them to do. she wants employees to get paid and stay home 365 days a year which is impossible. i think these companies will do everything they can. i don't know if they're doing enough now. they should be very concerned about these demonstrations because if people get afraid to order online they'll stop ordering online. it would be a disaster for the country right now with the current crisis. >> sandra: it's an extremely valuable service that those

individuals and their companies are offering. in the case of this amazon worker at the facility in staten island, there has been a back and forth trying to reveal what exactly happened there because why would that employee be fired in the middle of all this? the fired worker put out a statement and said this, andy. amazon would rather fire workers than face up to its total failure to do what it should to keep us, our families and community safe. i'm outraged and disappointed but not shocked. amazon would rather sweep a problem under the rug than act to keep workers and working communities safe. amazon responded with a statement saying despite that instruction to stay home with pay he came on site. this is unacceptable and we terminated his employment as a result of these multiple safety issues. this is an example of so much of the concern, problem,

coordination these companies face with their employees to keep them safe but also to keep them working. >> well, because you are an activist doesn't insulate you from abiding by the company safety procedures. if he violated those procedures they were full lewithin their rights to fire him and they should have because he is in there doing exactly what he is protesting against. spreading the virus. i don't know if he has done that. we don't know what happened. we have two versions here. i have haven't heard him deny it in any of the statements that were issued and i think amazon probably acted correctly. that doesn't mean you should go firing employees every time they speak up, either. this is a big problem. amazon needs to solve this. >> sandra: it is quite a back and forth that's happening. i want to finish with the new yoattorney general statement. she said in new yo