♪ arthel: and we begin with a fox news alert on the grim new warnings about the coronavirussing pandemic in the u.s. with the white house task force making it clear the worst is yet to come. hello, everyone, and welcome to "america's news headquarters," i'm arthel neville. eric: hello, arthel. welcome, i'm eric shawn here in new york. governors are calling on president trump to enact a full nationalization mobilization effort, citing a lack of ventilators and other equipment in various areas. so far 312,000 of our fellow americans have been infected by the coronavirus leading at this moment to more than 8,500 deaths. this morning on "fox news sunday" u.s. surgeon general

jerome adams had a dire and alarming warning about what could come this coming week. >> this is going to be the hardest and the saddest week of most americans' lives, quite frankly. this is going to be our pearl harbor moment, our 9/11 moment only it's not going to be localized, it's going to be happening all over the country. eric: this is going on right now near america. here in new york city, animal hospitals are donating ventilators to hospitals for humans, using that equipment that's used on cats and dogs for humans. the government caught short and a premier health system that is unprepared to deal with the pandemic that has been so long predicted. mark meredith is live with the latest on the federal response. mark? >> reporter: good afternoon, eric. as you were mentioning, the white house really is trying to prepare americans for the tough week ahead. we heard from the president and the president's task force on saturday urgently calling on

americans not to let their guard down in the days ahead. >> this will be probably the toughest week, between this week and next week, and there'll be a lot of deaths, unfortunately. >> the next two weeks are extraordinarily important. this is the moment not going to the grocery store, not going to the pharmacy, but doing everything you can to keep your family and your friends safe. >> reporter: the president is deploying at least 1,000 military medical personnel to new york to help people on the ground there. we're also, as you mentioned, hearing from the surgeon general who's letting americans know what they can do to stop the spread. >> from a national perspective, the surgeon general is saying no matter where you are, stay at home. at least give us a week or two if you can. we want you to do it for 30 days, but even in those nine states, give us what you can so we can start to come down on the other side. >> reporter: of course, that's just the health crisis. there's the economic crisis that's part of the fallout. the administration talking a lot about this because they know how

many millions of americans are either not going to work right now or are working the from home and eager to get back to the office. we got the jobs report on friday, that indicated where things stood at least in the early part of march with 701,000 jobs lost and the unemployment rate climbing to 4.4%. a lot of people believe that number's going to be a lot higher in early may. we did hear from house speaker nancy pelosi already talking about what congress needs to do next. quote: we must double down on the down payment we made in the cares act by passing a cares ii package which will extend and expand this bipartisan legislation to meet the needs of the american people. you remember congress just approved and the president signed into law that $2 trillion stimulus not too long ago which allows for direct payments to some americans and also loans for small businesses to keep their employees on paw roll. we have heard -- payroll. we have heard reports about some of those businesses having a hard time getting access to those loans, eric. the administration says they are working on it and believes there

will be help for businesses in the days ahead. eric? eric: yeah, or they certainly need it. mark, thanks so much. arthel? arthel: yeah, and eric, thank you. there is a taste of positive news as the death rate is falling in new york for the first time. although it is too early to tell what exactly that mean ifs. we're live in new york city with more on that story. >> reporter: arthel, you know, we talk a lot about the numbers of cases. now we are seeing exactly how those numbers are impacting, slamming hospitals in new york state. let's bring up some video from the washington post there shows a frightening inside look at the medical center in brooklyn. the post reporting 80% of the 600 patients there are covid-19 positive. that's a patient in every single bed in the icu, nearly all of the 25 surgical icu beds with the hospital now trying to find room to increases capacity there because there's a backlog of

patients. the staff there calling the hospital their battlefield. >> i think everybody's afraid. hopefully we'll all make it, life at the end of this will be very, very different. >> reporter: now, new york continues to top that list of cases across the country. it's at 122,000 today. the number of deaths though according to governor cuomo has been dropping for the very first time. new jersey coming in second with 34,000. michigan is being slammed hard, rounding out the top three now with over 14,000 cases. and by the way, michigan's governor on "fox news sunday" this morning saying that she feels like because there hasn't been a national, nationwide policy for this pandemic, she feels like that's going to impede on the effort to curb this virus and that in the long

run we might actually see this pandemic last longer and increase the number of deaths as well. arthel? arthel: yeah, she's not alone in that sentiment. before you go, listen, we know that first responders are really going through it. i mean, they're bearing the brunt of this pandemic. update us, if you will, on the health of the first responders. >> reporter: arthel, that's a great question. unfortunately, there really isn't a good answer right now. it seem like no one is tracking just how many health care workers are testing positive for covid-19. in fact, hot spots like new york and washington state which was the first major outbreak, they have not been tracking infections among medical workers. the data crucial though because it would help those experts who are building the models of how the virus is going to hit the nation's health care system. right now it appears all those mold els are based -- models are

based on, basically, health care workers staying healthy. and if we know for a fact that is not just the reality out there right now. arthel? arthel: god bless them. they are really, really doing the work of the angels. thank you so much. eric? eric: yeah, we owe a complete debt of gratitude to our health care workers. meanwhile, the centers for disease control and prevention, well, that agency has announced this weekend that it has begun some new prelim -- preliminary studies to try to determine just how many americans have already been infected with the coronavirus. some may not know it because they are asymptomatic. steve harrigan is at the headquarters in atlanta with the very latest on the progress there. hey, steve. >> reporter: eric, that's right. the cdc will be launching multiple studies this summer to try and get a better handle on just how this virus has aeffected the u.s. they'll be taking blood samples on a national level, even from those who have never been infected, samples from hot spots

and also samples from specific groups like health care workers. the goal is to try and see exactly how many people have been affected to get a clear idea of the exact death toll and also to determine the high risk people, which groups are particularly at high risk. eric? eric: yeah. and, steve, there's also certain hope about those antibody tests. what's the progress with that? jr. the mayo clinic announced that as of tomorrow they'll have an antibody test ready. this will test really who has had the virus, who's tested positive and come out on the other side with those antibodies. this will be a critical test for a number of reasons. it will enable giving you an idea who is safe to go back into the workplace and also the plasma of someone who's been through the virus and come out the other side healthy, that plasma can be used to treat the most severely ill. eric? eric: it seems a lot of progress

is being made, thankfully, steve harrigan. steve, thank you. arthel? eric: yeah. and, eric, for more on where we stand in the fight against this pandemic, want to bring in now dr. martin perry, professor of public health at johns hopkins university with, a fox news contributor also and author of the book "the price we've paid." so, doctor, i want to pick up on steve harrigan's report about the mayo clinic expecting the covid-19 antibody test to be ready tomorrow. so if you as a doctor could explain and tell us more in terms of what will the test tell scientists, and how will this help with treating critical covid-19 patients? >> arthel, those who have recovered and are immune to this infection may be our path to getting back to work and to rebuilding this economy. and actually many predictions and plans have it that those who test positive with this antibody test, which is a marker of immunity, may be the ones who march forward, get back into the

work force starting with essential services and ultimately anyone who tests positive for the antibody may be given, essentially, a green light to get back to work and get out there. arthel: do you have any idea of how many tests at this point will be, you know, available to be spread out across the country so we can identify those people you're talking about? >> well, we're hoping for a rapid test. now, the rapid test developed by abbott takes about five minutes, but it's one test at a time. most high-powered testing systems can run hundreds of tests at the same time through machines, and that's what we're hoping gets rolled out. so so if somebody says, hey, we've got a test for the antibody, that may be a good local solution, but it's not scalable right now. we are hoping that, ultimately, if 20-30% of the u.s. population gets this virus, we will have enough for those 20-30% of the population. arthel: very good. and so, you know, again in terms

of the broader scope of how long you know if you can use those test results from the antibody test to develop a vaccine for the general populace, and would a vaccine prevent someone from getting coronavirus in the future, or would it be used to treat or cure already infacted patients? >> -- infected patients? >> i think it's useful when we think about therapeutics for coronavirus, we think of two different types. vaccines, which are designed to give to healthy people to avoid getting the virus, and therapeutics; that is, medications we can give that would actually auto-repair your body or be an antiviral agent. now, have shown some promise. but remember, the systems right now set up at the fda are designed for screening out snake oil, and they're designed to compare different chemotherapy drugs where one might be 1% better than the other, or they're looking at lifestyle drugs. these are slow processes, these

are protocols that are peacetime protocols, and we're at a time of war. so i hope they can rewrite some of these systems to approve medications and vaccines, and i hope we can speed up the six different vaccines that are currently in clinical trials around the world. arthel: you said you're hopeful, but are you optimistic? quickly, because i want to move on to my next question, but i had to follow up with that one. >> well, i'll be honest with you, i don't think the vaccine is going to be the ultimate solution, in my personal opinion. we heard dr. fauci talk about an hiv vaccine for years, and guess what? it was antiviral medications that was used, ultimately, to control that disease. arthel: uh-huh. listen, yesterday at the coronavirus task force briefing dr. deborah birx had a strong direct warning and message to the american people. take a listen. >> this is a moment to not be going to the grocery store, not

going to the pharmacy, but doing everything you can to keep your family and your friends safe. and that means everybody doing the 6 feet distancing, washing your hands. arthel: so you are a physician and professor of public health. what is at stake for public health, doctor, if we don't follow dr. birx's orders to stay at home? and if you must go out, maintain social distancing? what price will we pay? >> well, i think we're seeing an evolution of our recommendations based on the totality of the health complications that we're seeing. we've got people right now who are being given care that's substandard because there's not enough ventilators in the country. we're seeing it in new york. i talk to doctors all the time. so as our health care system gets overrun, i think we're just seeing recommendations get more and more concerning. and so, look, people need food, people need their essential medications, and i would say

don't let a recommendation like that prevent you from getting important, life saving medications or food to prevent starvation. but i think what we're generally seeing is a recommendation to avoid any if nonessential activities. and, again, i would come back to young, healthy people or people who have successfully recovered days, with at least days after a coronavirus infection to be the ones to think about those who are vulnerable and buy food for them or offer to go pick up medications on their behalf. arthel: yeah. that's a great idea, great suggestion. glad you said that, and also you can also, you know, leave their goods at their front door so you don't have to actually come in contact with them. they can leave you money outside, paypal, however you want to do it. you don't have to come in direct contact with them while you're helping them out. let me wrap here, doctor. so by all scientific forecasting, also stated by president trump yesterday, during the next two weeks

coronavirus will become even more menacing. could a nationally-mandated stay at home order help, and if so, how? >> well, look, there are 41 states that have done the right thing and have basically a shelter in place order. i think there's very little difference between a shelter in place order and a very strong advisory. ultimately, people are very concerned and they're not doing activities. i do think these other states need to move in line quickly. i'm very concerned that the states that are doing the shelter in place so late and it's very close to their peak may be doing it a little too late because there is a calm before the storm. and while people maw say, hey, what's the big deal, i'm not seeing people dying around me, this is overblown, guess what? the peak has a big inflection point, and that's where we're going to see rationing of care, and we're going to see our hospitals completely overwhelmed. arthel: dr. marty makary, i have

to leave it there, unfortunately on an ominous note, but people need to take it seriously. >> the thanks, arthel. eric: ominous, but, you know, that's great advice. just stay home for a while. just stay home. well, the emergency call is for 45,000 here in new york city alone, retired doctors and nurses and technicians being called back into service during this pandemic. coming up, where we stand on the forces facing the virus across the country as a grateful nation keeps our medical workers in our hearts and prayers. ♪ ♪

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♪ eric: now to the coronavirus pandemic overseas. in italy there's some

encouraging news to report today. the news of deaths have been the lowest in the last two weeks. that's a potential good sign. this as police in rome have been sanitizing government buildings and the hopeful news about the outbreak, we hope it continues from one of the hardest-hit countries in europe. amy kellogg is reporting live from florence, italy, on the very latest. hi, amy. >> reporter: hi, erin. well, in nearby spain, which has also been terribly hard hit, the prime minister is saying we are close to passing the peak. though the lockdown will continue until april 25. ins france the number of admissions -- in france the number of admissions to intensive care has been going down, and that is very good news. and here for a week now we are talking about flattening the curve. today we had 525 deaths in italy, that is the lowest since about, i don't know, two weeks ago, eric? and, of course, our restrictive

measures are going to remain in place until at least easter, and that means a holy week here like none other. pope francis gave palm sunday mass today in an all but empty st. peter's basilica on an empty st. peter's square which in gorgeous spring time weather like this would normally be packed to the gills with pilgrims. police are fining people with frequency across italy. a recent study here shows that the restrictive measures have saved 30,000 lives. this virus, as we know, does not discriminate among communities. one of the hardest hit has been the religious community. dozens of priests and nuns have died from covid-19. this priest, don angelo, lost a colleague, his very own father, and his mother is in the hospital with coronavirus now. it has been a tragic time for him and, again, many in his

community. >> yes, there's been a heavy toll on priests, something like 87 so far. but they've also been exampling of he rowism. there's an example of an 84-year-old friar who's actually begun to pray with victims and going to help them. he says at 84 what have i got to be afraid of. >> reporter: now, the priest at this church in germany has asked his parishioners for their photos so he can see them, feel their presence and feel more connected to them. he is broadcasting mass to the community. germany, interestingly, eric, has probably the lowest death rate of any of the countries we're talking about at 1.4%. there is a lot of debate about just why that is the case, whether it's been widespread testing or the virus hitting a generally younger population or a health care system that had better preparations in plus. but the fact remains that

germany on a daily basis continues to take people from italy. it flies them over to germany to take care of them because the wards here, the curve is flattening, are still overflowing. eric. eric: yeah, amy, a lot of people think that it was the early testing and contact tracing that germany instituted that is due to their lower numbers. amy kellogg in florence for us, thank you. arthel? >> if you're a nursing school student, medical school student, we need you. >> we've also done a call-out to all of our health professionals, and we'll be able to assist any individual who is retired, whose license is in inactive status in the district of columbia to allow them to come in. arthel: well, as you just heard, you've got calls being made from coast to coast for retoured medical workers -- retired

medical workers to return to the front line as the coronavirus pandemic takes its toll on hospitalses in our country. dan sprunger is hive in kirkland, washington, with more. do we know how many retired health care professionals have answered those calls to come back to work? >> reporter: yeah, hi, arthel. those numbers are being kept state by state. we can tell you it's well over 100,000 retired health care workers who have come out of retirement to come back to work because right now it's all hands on deck to fight this pandemic. in new york city alone, we know of 85,000 doctors and nurses, technicians who have answered the call to volunteer to help. 22,000 of them came in from other states, and washington more than 6,000 retiredded the health care workers have applied to come back even though they know this sacrifice comes with serious risk. hundreds, if not thousands of front-line workers have been infected, at least four we know of in the u.s. have died. but still so many have answered

that call to push in. dr. matthew kieffer retired in january. heed had plans to travel, but all that travel was getting shut down, and just one week into his retirement, the v.a. hospital in seattle asked him to unretour, and he did. a nurse for the last 40 years, she is 63 years old and has asthma. her 70-year-old husband battled prostate cancer twice. after being retired for two and a half months, she's back to work running a covid-19 testing program. >> we -- when you work somewhere 22 years, they are your family. i felt like i wanted to come back and help them. i knew they were going to to be facing some very difficult times. >> it is a risk, we understand that. but if we take precautions as we understand they're effective -- and they can be very effective -- then that's one of the ways we try and protect ourselves. >> reporter: just two of the many brave health care workers

out there, arthel. arthel: brave, selfless, compassionate. dan, you know, at a time when so many health care workers are needed, why then are many getting laid off? >> reporter: well, it's counterintuitive and, you know, you don't think of this, but so much of our health care system is tied up in non-emergency care, non-urgent care, and a lot of that has been shut down so they can work on the emergency cases. hospitals rely on things like knee and hip replacements and diagnostic tests like mris for much more than urgent care. in minnesota, for example, more than 13,000 practitioners and clinicians filed for unemployment in march alone. a hospital in washington couldn't make payroll, and even some emergency workers right now are having their pay cut because the agencies they work for are losing money on all that non-urgent care that's not getting done.

arthel? arthel: boy. dan springer, thank you for that report. and when we come back, we're going to speak to a doctor on the front lines in new orleans. one of the hardest-hit cities outside new york about the heart-wrenching decisions she has been forced to make. stick around. ♪ ♪ balanced nutrition for strength and energy. whoo-hoo! great tasting ensure with 9 grams of protein, 27 vitamins and minerals, and nutrients to support immune health.

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days at work that made you pause or think to yourself, oh, boy, we really are operating in strange and unusual times? >> hi, arthel. yeah, we definitely are. we are opening up icus, and i can only speak for us, but i know our city is rising and trying to be as ahead as possible. we opened up three icus last week, two this week on top of everything else that we've done. and, yeah, you're right, our surgeons aren't operating, we are not -- oncology is seeing patients. we are currently seeing cancer patients and treating, but as a medical system, for the most part, people are stepping up. and everyone is going to, back to our basics. we all trained in all varieties of medicine even though we have our specialties. yeah, we are going wherever the need is. we answer the call every day.

we have internal medicine services, we have icus that we're staffing -- arthel: right. >> it's incredible. arthel: if i can, if i can -- yeah, i beg your pardon for the delay, but if i can jump in because i know that your hospital, your medical center in mar is very on top of it. i get that. and i know you're on top of that, and i'm not asking you to speak as a professional so much right now, but really as a person. because again, you're an oncologist. you specialize in bone marrow transplants, and i know you're trained with the basics go back in there and help these intensive care patients out. but it's still not what -- you know, i'd imagine you're seeing things right now, dr. staton -- or ashley -- that is making you go, wow, this is, this is not normal. what we're doing right now. >> no, it's not normal at all. and it's incredible because i feel like we're probably the first generation of doctors that has seen this for a few

generations of it. and hopefully, we will be the only ones for a few more because overwhelmingly everyone has the same virus, and it's a very product bl course -- predictable course which is scary but also predictable. our cancer patients are obviously different. they don't have an um moon service. -- immune system. on the larger board, it is humbling to know day five, day seven this happens. arthel: and, dr. staton, or ashley, i want to talk to you about this because i know you're now dealing directly with some of the covid-19 patients. so you're right on the front lines. and you're in your 30s, and i understand that you and fellow young physicians is have recently formalized your living wills. i mean, tell us why and how did you come to that decision, and what was going through your head

as you're going through that process? >> so it's absolutely something that we all did because you can't truly dedicate yourself to your patients until to the best of your ability your own family's taken care of. and i did, i sat down about ten days ago and said i can't take care of them before i know that my parents are okay. they are bubble watched in a house. they are -- wrapped in a house. they are doing well. but also who's going to make the decisions, and those are are hard choices to make, and i wanted someone -- i didn't want to put that in my older parents hands, i didn't want to make sure it was one of my friends, the critical care doctors know what's happening, and they know who can pull through and who can't. and, yeah, i did to -- i did do that, as all of us did. you have to -- arthel: wow. you know -- yeah, it's really, i'm sorry for the delay, there's so much i want to talk to to you

about and i do, i do have time con restaurants, unfortunately. -- constraints. we have set the scene. you're an oncologist. you specialize in bone marrow transplant. you have cared for patients who were, who were not going to make it. you knew it, they knew it, the families, the circle around, their loved ones in those final moments. tell us, dr. staton, what it's like for doctors and nurses or any of the front-line medical workers when you have a patient who's dying from covid-19, yet in those final moments you cannot allow the relatives of those patients to sit with them, hug them, touch them in those final moments? how does that make you feel? >> you really just pause and you understand, you become their family. i will say that our administration has done an incredible job for -- they have insured if someone is actively termal and very close to the end, we do allow family to come

in in that scenario e whether it's spouse or adult children. we have all of our ppe to be there with them, but until those moments we are their family, and we care for them. and our nurses have gone above and beyond. i can't even imagine what our nurses do. as doctors with we go in, we assess, we take care of, we manage. the nurses are truly the ones that are holding their hands, insuring safety. i cannot say enough about our nurses that truly -- [inaudible] and as we do, we're on the phones all the time with the families, but you're right, they can't be there. but we are there for them. we are communicating with them day and night. they call us for updates, and we try to be their -- [inaudible] at that last moment they are allowed to be there the last day, hours -- [inaudible] [audio difficulty] arthel: yeah.

and, you know, i want to tell you i i applaud you as a physician that you are, you know, lauding the nurses. because they're the right there with youment and, you know, i thank you for for coming on. full disclosure to everyone watching, ashley -- dr. staton -- is like my little sister, and i'm very proud of you. you keep up the great work, okay? i hope so you again someday soon next time i'm hope. >> yeah. hopefully not virtually. arthel: thank you. [laughter] eric: we all owe a tremendous debt of gratitude to dr. staton and the doctors and nurses on the front lines. well, at the same hospital where where she works, there is a show of gratitude for health care workers, this colorful sidewalk art right outside the medical center where she works. the messages -- [inaudible] start and end their long and grueling shifts. here's their reaction. >> it definitely meant a lot to

me and was a surprise, a colorful surprise walking out and going home to go to bed after a long shift. >> it's nice, it's really nice. yeah, gives us hope. finish -- eric: well, as we showed you, the writer touching hearts of many at the medical center. as we said, still a mystery who exactly is doing that, but certainly that person writing in colorful chalk is expressing the feelings of all of us for our dedicated health care workers across our great nation. ♪ eric: still ahead on the fox news channel, we'll get a perspective from a state where the curve appears to be several week behind those of new york and louisiana. the lieutenant governor of north carolina where it's not expected to peak until april 27th or 29th. what's being done the try and limit the spread in his state. ♪ ♪ nce,

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eric: in north carolina governor roy cooper urging people to comply with his stay-at-home recorder. that as the state records about 2500 coronavirus cases so far, and we are told 30 people have died from complications from the views. and the peak in north carolina projected to come at the end of the month, so there are still weeks to go. >> lots of blue skies are in our forecast. i know it's hard but stay at home anyway. we are in a crucial time period for granting the curve -- flattening the curve, and we still need you to step up. we all do our part, we'll get through this. eric: joining us now is the lieutenant golf of north carolina -- governor, dan forrest. welcome. your state is projected to suffer about 50 deaths a day. how are you getting that message

out to what the governor just said, stay at home? >> well, first, eric, before i jump in, let me say that we do live in the bible belt down here, and there's a lot of people in north carolina praying for you, praying for the good people of new york who are suffering right now, praying for those 85,000 doctors and nurses that are on the front lines up there. you guys are in the heat of the battle, and we're praying for you. here in north carolina we are a bit behind, and that's a blessing for all of us that we have some time to learn from things that have been happening in other states. we're somewhat on lockdown now, stay at home orders across our state. different local communities are handling things differently, but we i think as a whole, the people of north carolina are doing a pretty good job in staying home right now. eric: mr. lieutenant governor, let me speak for all new yorkers, if i can take that privilege, and say thank you. thank you to your constituents and those down south praying for us. i know five or six people who have coronavirus, one in the

hospital. had 104 temperature. the father of one of my son's classmates died, 50-something years old, a husband and a father. if you go out 90 seconds from where i'm sitting right now, you will see a tractor-trailer truck, a refrigerated tractor trawler truck parked behind a hospital waiting for the dead. and when you see that and you see what our medical doctors and nurses are going through in this city and the great need, we thank you for the prayers of those across the country. we see how this is impacting us and how it will spread. and sadly, mr. lieutenant governor, it will get at some point to you and to other states. some of your areas have curfews, you have, what, a stay-at-home order with a class ii misdemeanor. please explain why it is so important especially on a sunday to don't have friends over, don't have your family over just a up couple of weeks, please, and from my heart from the end e center. please, just stay home for a

while. >> yeah, thank you, eric. this is a good time. this is palm sunday, and one of those things that have been a gift, i think, to the churches in north carolina, you know, you've been here, eric, there's one on every corner down here. but the about for these churches to commune -- the ability for these churches to communicate social media, via the internet and to spread the gospel, the good news all over the world, they're doing that in miraculous ways. so, yes, you can still do church. you can do it digitalically, do it from a distance and, yeah, stay home. that really is the message. just listen, we are a very individualistic culture in america. we like to have things our own way, kind of what's in it for me. but now you need to be thinking about what's in it for your neighbor, your community, your state and even your country right now because these other people are depending on us to get this right and to make sure that we're not spreading this. here in north carolina we've only tested about 40,000 people out of 10.5 million. so even the cases we have, some 2600 cases, we're talking about, you know, one-fiftieth of 1% of

the population has coronavirus, but we know that's not the full story, that there's a lot of people that are carrying this virus around that can infect people and cause a lot of trouble. just like you, eric, i know a number of friends who have had this virus, some have been in the hospital, even one in particular who's died from this. so it does hit home here as well. we're only at 34 deaths right now, and hopefully in -- if everybody does their job, we can get through this, and america will be stronger on the other end, we'll all be better off for it. eric: i lieutenant governor, i'm sorry, and i speak for all of us who are watching, for your friend. we will know people who will have this, we will know people potentially who have died. thank you for your thoughts, your strength, is and thank you to the people of north carolina and across this country. and you're right, we will get through this. hopefully, we'll be better for this and we will learn a lot of lessons -- >> [inaudible] eric: good luck to your state.

we will be following up with you as your peak set to hit april 27th or 29th. lieutenant governor, thank you. >> thank you so much, eric. stay healthy and stay safe. arthel: prayers to all, indeed. well, ahead, many americans who work if home may have few complaints, but some of them don't have -- [inaudible] like high-speed internet in a time where it is desperately needed. we'll tell you more when we come back. ♪ -excuse me. uh... do you mind...being a mo-tour? -what could be better than being a mo-tour? the real question is... do you mind not being a mo-tour? -i do. for those who were born to ride, there's progressive.

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arthel: for millions of americans, workg from home right now is proving to be virtually impossible. the problem, or the lack of high-speed internet in some places. fox news' multimedia reporter has the story. >> reporter: work from home is the new normal for millions of americans, but for millions more it's virtually impossible. >> i woke up this morning ready to work from home. >> reporter: cliff johnson, a professor at the university of mississippi, said connectivity is an obstacle in rural america, and it's getting in the way of his teaching. >> i've tried to access gmail via wi-fify, and i don't have any internet service. >> reporter: from the country to inner city areas, 21 million

people don't have access to high-speed broadband. georgetown fellow gigi zone says it could be as high as 100 million. in a time when life has moved almost entirely on line, that's not enough. >> what they're doing is really the bare minimum to get people online. or at least people keep people online. >> reporter: now fcc commissioner jessica is calling for more people to get online. >> we shouldn't rely on good deeds, we should appreciate them, but we need a national agenda to address digital divides. >> reporter: net neutrality regulations limit the internet companies. but with 55 million children out of the classroom across the country, 300,000 in new york city i alone without reliable internet, rosenworcel says the

fcc could and should step in. >> we have the authority, the knowledge, the ability, we even have funding. it's really important that we act fast because it's going to hit so many studentses in so many homes. >> reporter: in the meantime, for professor johnson's course at ole miss, every class is a struggle. >> we are going to be completely reliant on this internet service that is unpredictable at best. >> reporter: and with so many people online at once right now working, learning, streaming and video conferencing, there's a growing possibility that broadband service in some areas could get even worse in the coming weeks. fox news. ♪ arthel: and that does it for us. we're back at --

leland: a new coronavirus hotspot emerging here in the united states, michigan is now the state with the third highest number of confirmed infections, only new jersey and of course new york, the current epicenter have more, this is our coronavirus pandemic special i am leland vittert it and kristin fisher and i will cover the news in your physicians and panel of doctors. kristin: the number of coronavirus related deaths also on the rise since saturday morning there have been more than 1300 reported deaths across the united states, steve is tracking all of