next hour, thank you so much and thanks for all you're doing and for your service and thank you for joining us. i'm dana perino. and be sure to check out my article on foxnews.com, i find a silver lining that lies at home. story time, 3:30 p.m. >> bill: thank you. i'm bill hemmer, welcome to thursday, a ton of numbers to digest, and they are daunting. here is where we stand at this hour. the number of deaths now close to 16,000 in the u.s. and massive unprecedented job loss keeps piling up. another 6.6 million americans filed for unemployment in the last seven days. more than 16 million americans have done so in the past few weeks. our economy has never seen these kinds of numbers before. treasury secretary steven mnuchin saying that he thinks businesses might start reopening next month. meanwhile on capitol hill, republicans and democrats now in

a stalemate over the next phase of economic relief. those are just the headlines as of the moment. fox business network joins our coverage now and good afternoon to you, how do you see it? >> that's right, you might've thought that this virus couldn't get any worse for small business operators. guess what? it can. just hours ago, senate democrats blocking a bill to provide more loan money for these businesses, money we are hearing over and over again they desperately need but democrats think they want even more. more for businesses in disadvantaged communities, plus cash for other priorities. small businesses already have nearly 350 billion at their disposal but the trump administration suggesting an additional 250 billion to help them make payroll. for now, that's not happening. >> i'm afraid this unanimous consent has been a political

stunt because it will not address the immediate need of small businesses. >> we are asking small business owners to place their faith in us. we are asking them to keep workers on payroll. we must not fail them. my colleagues must not treat them as political hostages. >> on top of all that, unemployment continues to rise paired the labor department revealing today an additional 6.6 million americans filed for unemployment last week leading to estimates that the jobless rate could be as high in april 13%. altogether, that is 17 million americans out of work, there is some good news today, the bad for your 401(k) and the dow on track for its best week since 1938. as the federal reserve sets up money or main street, yet another bailout. by the way, jpmorgan chase and

home depot. and keep in mind tomorrow, markets will be closed for the holiday. >> bill: it seems like the treasury department and the federal reserve are working hand-in-hand. when that job number came out, treasury came out at the same time and said here is $2.5 trillion more that we can work with. so we are keeping an eye on that, thank you. there is this also. >> these models were originally based on our best guesses and we looked at the china data and that's the best we had to put into our models. we now have real data from washington, from california who flatten the curve. real data in the u.s. and we also know people have been more engaged in social distancing than what anyone ever could have or would have predicted. >> bill: the surgeon general now predicting the u.s. may reach its peak sooner than expected. one of the models the white house task force used to

predict at least 100,000 americans could die. now suggesting it could top up of around thousand, a professor at the institute for health metrics and evaluation, comes to us from the university of washington which produces the model that just lowered its prediction, thank you for your time today. a tough job, so many are looking at what you produce, what do you see as of today? >> good afternoon and thank you for having me. we see a lot of positive news coming up, it seems people are staying at home and helping medical institutions to take care of the patients and our physicians and hospitals are doing that amazing job by providing the best treatment, and it seems everything is working so far. >> bill: i don't know how you do your job, i'm sure it's complicated and involves a lot of numbers. i'm going to show you some numbers now. don't know if you can see this or not but this is what we were told from your organization on

monday of this week, so four days ago. and this was a lot to take in. on monday, you said we were ten days away from the peak, and that would hit around april 16th which would be next thursday, and the total deaths per day in the united states would top 3100 was just an extraordinary number and then yesterday, same model we got this. so three days until the projected peak which takes us right at easter sunday on the 12th of april and 2200 deaths in a single day. how do you move so much within 48 hours? >> very positive news. we have seen data coming to us from spain where the peak was much higher and faster and they didn't go as high as we had expected, and the same we have seen data from washington state and california that informed our model and that is positive news. >> bill: i agree with what

you're saying about good news but so much of this is dictating what decisions we should make. here in new york, i will just advance this one time, correct me if i'm not seeing this the right way but in the state of new york, we have hit our peak, right? on this model, it is zero days. however, state of washington, you hit your peak three days ago, correct? and in florida right now it is projected 14 days from now for another two weeks from this point now. you believe your model is so effective because you do apples to apples which means state to state. help us understand that. >> we also update our models on a daily basis with new data coming in. and we are monitoring the situation. we started this based on what we have seen in wuhan and italy and later in spain. now we have our own data and how well they are seeing that and how well our medical system is

performing so this has led to an earlier peak unless projections. i agree with you that talking about coming back in our economy one can really open and it is the time now for all of us to consider the recovery and when we can go back to normal. is not turning a switch on and off. we have to do it in phases but we should start having these discussions and do it right so we don't allow the virus to come back. >> bill: how long have you thought about that? >> this has been always in the back of our minds, the restaurants have closed. so from day one we started projecting that, discussing the recovery is well here. >> bill: thank you for your time today. university of washington, and we will follow it whether we like the models are not. doctor, thank you. in the meantime, dr. anthony fauci suggesting there may be no

getting back to normal. he was asked about his comment that americans will never shake hands again. >> knowing that hands to face does it, that would be something that i think would hopefully be attainable, but i don't think it will be. i said that somewhat serious and not realizing that that likely will never happen. what i really wanted to tell people is that when you're talking about getting back to normal, we know now that we can get hit by a catastrophic outbreak like this. the whole world can. >> bill: want to bring in dr. marc siegel, nice to see you today. what you think about that comment about changing the way we live? >> i think he is right on the mark in terms of the idea that what we are learning most from this and it's very hard to learn with this much pain and suffering going on but we're going to learn better in the retrospect but what we are learning is the way we were doing things before wasn't ideal

to prevent respiratory virus spread. every year, we have a virus season, this year we got a pandemic which we have no immunity to which is putting thousands in the hospital and killing thousands. over 80,000 around the world. so what can we learn from this is what dr. fauci is saying. we can learn that were not washing her hands enough. we should be disinfecting surfaces. i learned to disinfect my iphone. i never did that before this and finally, this point about hands, he wants us to know that there's a lot of germs on our hands. when we were shaking hands before, we sought is friendship, how to interact with people. now we are thinking maybe when we hug and kiss people and shake their hands, we could be putting them at risk for a virus. it's actually being even more responsible than what comes with handshaking. one more point, your previous guess was talking about modeling and was excellent but i want to add a caveat to this. we don't know the health care

denominator ever. they are never accurate because what is the denominator? how many people actually have this virus. it's up to 50% spreading a symptomatically. we can't predict accurately the case numbers. we are always going to be a step behind that. so it's interesting to have the numbers but that's why they're changing all the time. >> bill: talking about not living the same way we did before. is that a comment that is reserved for the moment given where we are in the story and this pandemic or is not an overstatement? >> i like it. when i first heard it, i didn't like it. the more i think about it, the more i like it because what he's most concerned with is we are going to be living in the moment now and then we are going to be so relieved when we can go to a restaurant or when we can go to a stadium that were going to immediately forget everything that we learned which then makes is vulnerable to the next

contagion or this one recurring in the fall which we are worried about. so i like the idea of using that as a teaching moment for what we've learned, how we are being careful. what we're doing to protect each other. i'm >> bill: last comment on the models you just referred to you. what do you think they learned from this? >> i think they've learned the same thing that i've already said, you're only as good as your denominator and another thing he was implying which i liked a lot, he is pointing out that our health care system has rallied, we have come together, we are triaging better and bringing emergency care in and getting people back in the words that weren't there before. it's the spirit of cooperation in the spirit of courage and shared bravery. every night, you see the fire department coming up to nyu when everybody's cheering for each other. that helps save lives. so we are coming together to save lives. >> bill: i like what he said about opening the economy up yet

again and everybody knows someone who has been hit by it, i thought that was a very relevant point. we are going to bring you back later in the show, thank you. live with us today, fox news alert right now. the british prime minister boris johnson now out of the icu and intensive care. had been hospitalized spokesman saying that he is an extremely good spirits under close monitoring at the hospital while he recovers. the first known world leader to come down with the virus. good news from london a moment ago. meanwhile, the airlines taking a massive hit from the pandemic, a third of all planes in the world are grounded. we will have a live report from chicago in a moment. and will speak to a covid-19 survivor who donated his blood plasma just today to help save lives and develop treatments. in, so you only pay for what you need! [squawks]

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>> a lot of them are at airports like here at o'hare where we stand, hub airports. however, the airlines have actually shipped a lot of them to warmer climates and drier climates figuring that they're going to be down for a while and that they would survive a better there in places like california, arizona, new mexico has dozens of planes parked there and that's an indication has a say that they think they're going to be there for a while and some people think some of these aircraft will never go back into service again because some of the older ones slated to be retired in a way to think the demand be there even when we come out of this on the economy

reopens that they will be enough demand there to justify putting them back in the air. pretty amazing. >> bill: thank you, nice to see you today. health officials cautiously optimistic, some covid 19 hot spots may be flattening their curves. the number of deaths continues to rise but the governor saying the state is seeing a drop in the number of hospitalizations from day-to-day. in michigan, detroit's mayor says they are seeing the beginning of a glimmer of light. officials now say the city could finally hit its peak may be this week. in louisiana, hundreds have died in the past few days but health officials they are saying the virus may be plateauing in new orleans, one of them hit hardest by the pandemic. businesses getting hit hard by this but the head of a hospitality group here in new york arguing the industry could be feeling at the heart is. he's going to join us later and make his case about how he wants the law to change.

first, we'll talk with the covid-19 survivor who donated blood plasma today with the hope of helping others. will take us through the process and tell us how you and your family might benefit.

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>> bill: hospitals across the country are using blood plasma from survivors. my next guest got the virus about a month ago, he has since recovered. he spent this morning donated his blood plasma. he joins me from atlanta where he is healthy again with his wife and two kids and nice to see you yet again and good afternoon to you. there's a lot of curiosity on this, take us through the process and what did you do in atlanta? >> i found atlanta blood services which is typically a

platelet donation center and called there, made an appointment, they just started seeing patients for the convalescent plasma donation on monday, so amazing about a dozen people so far. i did have to have my positive test results with me because they want to be certain that i haven't and i fully recovered and i think once they get the rapid antibody testing, they'll be able to do this for people that never did get tested, so that was pretty much it. i made the appointment and was there this morning and it's the same thing as donating blood except you are in the chair for an hour. >> bill: i understand you've been trying to do this for a couple of weeks. what was the hold up, do you think? >> i was emailing different people that i saw that were doing research on this and was never able to find any place that was doing the donation, there is actually a daughter-in-law of someone that put out a plea on facebook that my friend elaine saw and she got it to me and said they're going to start doing it, that was last

week, so i got there this week. >> bill: what do they do with the plasma next now that they have a? >> bill: the fda has approved it for the most serious of patients, so the four units that i donated today can help for patients and using it for the most serious but a real important thing is they can unfreeze this and keep it for up to a year, so there is a resurgence of this, super important that people that tested positive go out and do these donations, really important. >> bill: you're trying to help along the process. let me bring in dr. marc siegel, hang with us here. when you listen to his story, you have to think there is at least 25,000 americans in mike's category because they have since recovered. how do you view what his process is now? >> first of all, he is to be congratulated for caring about others in the community and it will be beyond 25,000 once we figure out the antibodies in the blood that he's talking about. this is a tried-and-true

technique that's been used for well over 100 years for diseases like polio and measles and typhoid. but now, this process of recovery to answer your question is blood, but it's not the blood cells. it's the serum that they take off, but he is going to need a few days to get his strength back, to take it easy, to keep well hydrated, and then he's going to be 100% completely fine. >> bill: how does his process help you guys figure out what the answer is here? >> that's another piece that's hugely important. we're going to be able to use this type of plasma that he has and check the antibodies to test our vaccines. this is how i'm going to be able to tell if the vaccine works. can i generate the same exact antibodies that he makes from getting over the disease? 's plasma will help teach us how to protect the entire society. >> bill: i love it. will you do it again or can you do it again? >> i'll be back there in eight

days. >> bill: what would you say to the 25,000 others just like you who have not recovered, they had it and they can do a similar thing, could they not? >> we are all working as a country to beat this, so this is the way i can help and the rest of us that have recovered. >> bill: thank you for sharing your story, best to you and the kids they are. thank you, good american there. in a moment, they will have to answer some tough questions about the pandemic. i will speak with the former white house chief information officer. she says the organization may have been manipulated by beijing. that's next. >> this is not the time for retribution, but it is still is time for clarity and transparency. we are still working on this problem, still data that these good people need and develop therapeutics and a vaccine and

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>> bill: the vice president mike pence saying the u.s. will ask the world health organization about how it has handled the pandemic. yesterday, the agency's director warning president trump to stop politicizing the outbreak after the president threatened to cut off the funding. theresa payton is a former white house chief information officer under george w. bush. welcome to the program and nice to see you today. there's a lot of wordplay going back and forth. cut through it for us. what do you think is at work here? >> absolutely. for starters, china vehemently denies that they are doing a manipulation campaign but what a lot of people may not realize what we would call a manipulation campaign, they call it public opinion guidance management. and so what you have going on right here is you have twitter verified accounts publishing part of this manipulation or

public opinion guidance campaigning saying things such as italy had the first case, not wuhan, putting out that they're doing a great job on underreporting the numbers of infections and potentially underreporting the numbers of deaths and how challenging this disease has been to contain. >> bill: trying to hang in here on the audio, sounds like you're in a submarine. this is a very important topic in a lot of questions came up yesterday at the white house briefing with the president and mike pompeo and others. you believe that beijing is copying moscow's playbook? >> absolutely. so russia definitely has a competitor on the scene in chi china. so what china has been doing is really controlling anything that is a positive pro china message. and promoting that on social media and having other countries such as russia and iran actually promote the

positive pro china news stories around china being open for business, around a positive spin on china doing a great job containing covid-19, and around china's ability to now help the rest of the world deal with the pandemic. >> bill: do you think -- but i know how this all plays out, going to look at this and figure it out and have a greater understanding of it. include the world health organization have been manipulated by beijing? >> i think it is very possible that they were presented with a limited set of facts in a limited set of people that they can interview and because of that, we are manipulated not only by the investigation they conducted there, but manipulated by what we are seeing in social media and news reports. so after it is safe to do so, my

biggest recommendation for both china and the rest of the world is to allow independent investigators to come in and figure out what broke down in the process. we can't afford to have another pandemic impact the world this way. >> bill: so don't watch what i say, watch what i do and in this case, watch what they say. what are they saying in the embassies around the world? what are they saying in chinese media today about this? >> what's interesting is although most of them do not have access to twitter, the government accounts in china are very active on twitter promoting a narrative that perhaps covid-19 was created in the u.s., that perhaps it actually originated in italy and that china was not the source of what is now impacting the rest of the world. >> bill: just going to ask one more question, bear with us folks at home. that is the case and that is true, what would that tell you

about china strategy? >> it is a china first strategy and what china wants to portray is for the world to see them in a positive light, that they are open for business and they are ready to trade. >> bill: teresa, thank you. thanks for hanging in there. interesting, we will follow it and see if it plays out that way. i mention the president getting this question yesterday. here he was in a briefing this afternoon. >> compared to $42 million, that's for the world health organization. that's not good. not fair. >> bill: so here is a situation, the president clearly criticizing china for its contributions to the world health organization. going to bring in bret baier, good afternoon to you. here are the numbers that were cited. world health organization contributions, united states 893 million annual, china

86 million, ready see this going on? >> there's definitely going to be a scale back into your last guest, there's a real effort by china to step up its p.r. game, it's propaganda game around the world and to send aid not only to the u.s., to europe, to be the benevolent player in the coronavirus scandal because it really is a scandal in the early days of what those numbers were coming out of china, take for example that china is japan's biggest trading partner and yet in japan's latest economic stimulus package, they allowed a $2 billion to any company that took its production out of china and brought it either back to japan or went to another country. i think they were going to be real pushes not only in the u.s. but around the world to pull out of china as a result of this coronavirus. >> bill: i don't know how much

consideration you've given to the world health organization, but as vice president pence says, there will be tough questions asked, and it goes along a similar vein about the amount of money you get the united nations on an annual basis. we should point out the world health organization comes under the u.n. umbrella. when you consider that and think about that, the funding may be one thing and perhaps you make a move on that. i would venture to guess that this is an administration that would be more than willing to cut back on the money, a transactional presidency and perhaps exact same change from the organization. when you consider six years ago, 2014, the bola, the world health organization botched it. they were very slow to respond in western africa and every organization and government in the world knew it and criticized it arguably justifiably so.

>> the going to use this money and the biggest funding being the u.s. as leverage to try to make change inside the w.h.o. i mentioned yesterday about the same kind of equation with nato, different scale obviously but still using that leverage and the president has done this numerous times. there's a lot of criticism about the w.h.o. to go around, but in the middle of a crisis, a pandemic, may not politically be the time to pull that plug. >> bill: it was a tap dance yesterday during the briefing. secretary of state mike pompeo as they and they were hitting him with the questions and he deflected. he said exactly what you said, now is not the time. fill in the president was asked that, he did not hold back. >> no, and i think this is the m.o. from this president. this is how he uses his bully pulpit. he is blind, he tries to get change by talking about it and

whether it actually happens, we will have to wait and see. the big money that they're really worried about right now is the money for small businesses and right now, that is at a loggerhead on capitol hill. >> bill: one more point on that, apparently of larry kudlow last hour said he is targeting four to eight weeks to open up the country. you could roll it out based on the regions, what are you picking up on the possibility of that? >> that is the second official in just the past few hours. you had secretary of the treasury on cnbc saying he thinks the country could start opening up in may, because those same 48 weeks. i think that this phase in his really the biggest challenge for this administration and how it's going to look, what are the markers by which each county, each state can hit the open button. >> bill: i thought the treasury department and the federal reserve, they pretty much look like partners in this.

you think about that big jobs number that broke this morning and then the fed came in and said here's two and a half trillion dollars more. you need the liquidity, we've got it for you. last comment on that. >> think just for a second all the criticism the president has levied on jerome powell. now it seems like the fed is supercharged. it is the fed on steroids and it's doing a lot, more than some people wonder we need at this moment, but we will see. >> bill: thank you, brett. maybe we will see you at 6:00. terrific, nice to have you back. on the topic of the economy, a lot of the small business owners now facing challenges addressing the eight supposed to get through the crisis. we will dive into that with the restaurant and bar group leader who says the government stimulus package leaves his industry hanging.

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>> bill: so the senate in a stalemate over a bill to provide an additional $250 billion in aid to american small businesses. meanwhile many of the restaurant industry say that the measures do not do enough great executive director of the new york city hospitality alliance, welcome.

you represent more than 2,000 restaurants, bars, and clubs. i know you are feeling it today. first of all, your message about the law and why does it not help you >> sandra: >> so that paycheck protection program basically is well intended, the problem is if business owners are going to get two and a half times their monthly payroll to hire all their employees back, it makes no sense because they do not know when we're going to be able to open again and once we do open, what business is going to be like? or americans in tourist going to be comfortable to eat and drink out? it doesn't make sense to take this money and hire people back when they are not working and then have to potentially lay them off again, so that's a big problem. the second problem in a high-cost real estate cities like new york and across the country, the law only allows 25% of that loan to go to rent and other expenses.

so we really need to allow this money that is a loan to be converted to a grant. it is used over the next six months. not before june, and we need more of that money to be able to be used towards rent and utilities and all of these other expenses are small business owners have. >> bill: correct me if i'm wrong. the law says if you take the money, you've got to keep your employees for a period of two months. that way the unemployment rate stays where it is. then perhaps maybe once we get past that, we come back for another bite of this apple quite literally. but you are saying the law does not have enough flexibility built into it. so change it. >> exactly. so currently, the law requires that you would have to bring back your employees to prepandemic levels by the end of june. so that's not realistic for most

restaurants. we don't know if we'll be open, we don't know will have enough business to sustain those pandemic staffing levels. so we should extend the forgiveness period. we bring back our employees by the end of the year, let that loan turn into a grant. but we cannot do is allow this loan to be more debt for our small business owners. >> when you're a bartender, if you're not working inside your establishment, then they're not working. civil laws basically saying hire back your employees not to work. just wasn't thought out. >> bill: another question

here, were you here during 9/11 19 years ago? >> yes i was. >> bill: i understand the program was different back then and it worked for a lot of people. >> there are some differences where our small business owners are the backbone of our country and they need direct payments to cover their expenses because when businesses get a loan, they really need a grant instead because it's a cash flow business. there is no money coming in the business, there's no money going out. so what we want to make sure is that this loan will be forgivable over a longer period of time that makes sense for the restaurant and the nightlife industry. can be done, it's just going to take the political will. >> bill: i take it that would be your message to the president and secretary mnuchin to change the law that way. is that a big fixer is that complicated? >> it is not overly complicated. basically just says instead of

the loan being forgivable, you hire back your employees by the end of june, it will be forgivable if you hire them back by the end of the year, and give you some of that money to cover more of your rent expenses. the other thing that the president and our elected officials don't understand is we need these insurance companies to pay out business interruption insurance claims for businesses that pay for this. what's happening right now, businesses are being forced to shut down by government. they want to go collect on the insurance they paid for in the insurance companies are denying them. we are able to fix it and able to get insurance claims paid out to small business owners, those two issues right there would bring huge relief to our business owners because frankly if our local restaurant and pub owners are not at the core of this recovery, i'm afraid that the american economy is not going to recover. we are the backbone, we are the neighborhood restaurants, local

pubs, and we need to recovers of the united states of america can recover and we will do it together but we need these policies and we need them fast. >> bill: a seat at the table leaves the hospitality industry hanging. we will see whether or not you get the changes you're looking for. thank you for sharing your story. i think on behalf of people all across the country looking at a similar situation with restaurants and bars and a service industry. thank you, andrew. we will talk again. in a moment, cases in georgia topping 10,000. extending the stay-at-home order through the end of this month. we will take you there. have you ever woken up wondering whether or not that sore throat is covid-19? researchers launching an online tool that will help you screen your own symptoms, that's next. ♪

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>> bill: the governor of georgia revisiting their stay at.

379 people have died. dr. alex is an emergency medical professor. welcome to our program. you have a novel way of trying to figure out whether or not you could be positive. he developed a way to screen online. how does it work, doctor? >> it's working real well, thanks for having me. a tool that would let people who have signs and symptoms of illness get on this website and check out and see if the fever and the cough, the headache, what medical problems do i have? you get put in the app in the app would tell you. are your signs and symptoms lined up with covid-19? do i have an emergency condition that makes me need to go to the e.r., or can i call my doctor and stay home? there are a lot of people wondering about our signs and symptoms. we created this tool to help

them sort through the symptoms they are having, get ported to some cdc information that's great that's on the web and try to keep down the people that are going down to the emergency department. if they all go to the e.r., the system is going to break. >> bill: how many have visited your site? >> 600,000 and more than half of those that have gone through the tool and gotten to an answer -- about 75,000 people came back to check their symptoms again and assess how they are doing. >> bill: i guess it gives you reassurance, especially if you are just wondering, do i have it? what about that sore throat? this is a way to do it. how is it different from an apple watch? >> the tool is something -- the technology is run by vital. the logic is run by emory university. on their smartphone or using a laptop or computer, you can go to that website, c19.com and

start putting in the informati information. it's basically going to ask you a few questions about the signs and symptoms are having. it's going to ask about ask about underlying medical conditions that would put you at risk for more serious illness. it will ask you if you have any crushing chest pains or difficulty breathing, and ability to keep down fluids for 12 hours. if something like that is going on, you need to go to the emergency department. roughly about 20% are getting the severe signs and symptoms. 80% are getting signs and symptoms that are severe. directed to additional information of how to cure for yourself at home and contact your physician to get for further guidance. >> bill: c19check.com. thank you, doctor, it's novel, as necessary, if needed. i think you'd agree with that too, right? >> absolutely, bill. the people with signs and symptoms that don't need to be in crowded emergency department

waiting rooms are out of the e.r. so people that really need the help can get it there. >> bill: thank you, a lot of people are in on this together trying to figure out their own way. here every day at 3:00 eastern. set your dvr. it is almost friday. >> neil: thank you very much, bill. we've had one of the better weeks for the market. one is writing that -- details are to come, growing part of them that they arc is turning positive. that includes hospitalizations in new york state. more of that in a second. when we heard larry kudlow tell charles payne on fox business -- which if you don't get, you should demand. one of the things he brought up is the idea that is doable to a slow rollout within 4 to 8 weeks. a lot of caveats and details to that a nuances to that.

but the bottom line was