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from its backlog. that's down from 160,000 tests nearly two weeks ago. should the private laboratories be doing more? >> i think everybody needs to be doing more, and private labs are a part of the solution. my sense is that they are working as hard as they can. >> reporter: dr. jah is the director of the harvard global health institute. >> without testing, you don't know how much disease there is. you can't isolate people who are infected. you can't make treatment plans for people who are infected. >> reporter: hospital officials say testing also helps them manage resources, like bed availability and personal protective equipment or ppe. >> when it comes down to lab testing, turn around time is ppe. >> reporter: dr. jeff bared is the acting chair of laboratory medicine at u.w. medicine in seattle. he says the hospital's in-house testing can process results within hours, which helps them save valuable resources. >> hospitalized patient or
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patient in the emergency room or if they have it because if they do, we need to be protected. and if they don't, we can then relax our ppe standards and treat them in a more appropriate way. >> reporter: but it's not just private companies struggling to keep up. as of sunday, more than 14,000 people in california are awaiting test results from both private and public health labs. many other states have yet to report specific numbers on testing backls. hi collects all the data state by state in one place. alexis madrigal, a writer for the atlantic, is a co-founder. >> we feel like if you're part of the national response to this epidemic, then you owe the nation transparency. what we need from them is not perfection, but transparency, honesty and openness. >> reporter: both quest and lab corps tell "cbs this morning"
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they have increased their testing capacity right now. both companies say they are testing around 35,000 each day. and combined, both companies have run more than 1 million tests. >> there is good news in italy where officials are reporting progress in the battle against the coronavirus, even though the country is doing fewer tests per capita than the u.s. chris has the story from a nursing home in northern italy where residents have paid a terrible price. >> reporter: throughout this pandemic in italy, nursing homes have been particularly hard hit. but perhaps none more so than here at t here. they gave us an exclusive look inside. issing home.fterictim,at housekeeper who lin garden. julia, a carpenter and book worm. these are the empty beds that used to belong to patients who
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died of covid-19, doctors say, but the unnerving thing is that they weren't tested before they died, so they don't appear in the official number of covid-19 deaths in italy. the virus struck so hard and so fast, they never made it to a hospital. and it's only those who die in hospitals that are counted in the national tally. even authorities acknowledge the actual death toll may be much higher. you call it a tsunami. >> tsunami. >> reporter: a tsunami that killed three residents per day at its peak. says the doctor, it could still teen tested? no, and neither have we, she tells me. i might have it, too. two coworkers died and many others are home sick. and it's at home where untold victims also die untested, and uncounted.
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lik like alesandro. this disease is wiping out the generation thatlt everythin around us, says son. were you or your father or anyone at your home tested for covid-19? >> translator: no. >> reporter: under reporting the number of dead is common even in nembro, a town which already has the highest per capita death rate in the country. we spoke to the mayor who crunched the numbers. so what's the death toll? according to our analysis, it's four times higher. most deaths simply aren't counted, he says. but the families and friends left behind believe every life matters, and needs to be remembered. it's also important to remember that under reporting deaths isn't limited to this town. mayors across the country are sounding the alarm, warning covid-19 is even deadlier than we think.
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been either ordered or advised to stay home with more down time than usual. they are turning to activities online, but what happens when your internet connection starts acting up? david pogue takes a look. >> reporter: like almost everyone else in america, corporate events producer mark felix has been working from home lately. it hasn't exactly been smooth sailing. >> three, although it seems like week 33, and the last week my internet has been crapping out on my big time. >> reporter: what form does that take? >> it keeps cutting out. my zoom meetings, i get dropped. when i need to open up a particular website, it's slower than usual. it's really acting like quite the belligerent child. >> reporter: he's not the only one. >> we're definitely seeing really dramatic rises in the use of internet traffic, especially during the workday, especially
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on these residential networks. anywhere from about 20% increases two weeks ago to closer to 40 or 50% now. >> reporter: internet expert josephine wolf is a professor at tufts university. how much should we worry about the internet getting overloaded by everybody at home on video and video chat? >> so far we've been doing pretty well in urban areas of the united states. i think it's reasonable to be concerned some of this real-time video chatting and communication that we're relying on could very soon, if not already, start to experience a certain amount of lag, a certain amountfery our h >> reporter: according to wolf, the internet's path to your home has basically three parts. there are the servers, like the netflix computers that send out our movies. then there are the fat high-speed connections run by service providers like comcast and verizon. >> and then the third part are going to be these lower capacity
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residential networks, what we sometimes call the last mile of the network that actually gets out to your home. that's the part that most people are concerned about in terms of handling extra capacity. >> the good news is that the internet was really built from the beginning to deal with crisis. the original specifications from the 1960s were around how do you build a communications network that could live through a much worse chris, a nuclear war. >> reporter: matthew prince is the c.e.o. of cloud flair that provides cloud securities for websites. you can drive between two points. traffic can spread out across those different roads and you won't have as much congestion on any one of them. >> reporter: well, that sounds great. and yet in the european union, netflix and youtube have actually degraded their picture quality to avoid overloading the internet. prince says that's because the internet's wiring is different in europe. >> they rely a lot of times on
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older technology, especially dsl, which is basically the internet over the telephone lines. as opposed to in the u.s. where most of the internet connectivity is over the cable system. turns out that the telephone line system, the dsl system doesn't have quite as much capacity. >> reporter: and if you have cable, you get much faster internet speed into your house than out of it. >> the cable system was really built originally to be able to take lots of tv programs and bring them into your house. it was never built so well to actually take content from your house and send it back out. and so i think what people in the u.s. are seeing problems, by and large those problems are coming because they're trying to have multiple people in the household trying to do multiple video conferences. >> reporter: if i am experiencing jitters or hiccoughs, is there anything i can do about it at home? >> the quickest way to do that is often to turn off your video this so you're just trying to get the audio. >> reporter: will you do that so i can see what it looks like, turnoff your video? >> so, if i do that right there,
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the capacity that i have can be reserved just for the audio so that at least i can hear what's going on. >> reporter: and then there are people even in this country who don't have high-speed internet at all. >> right. and that's a huge problem right now. it's always been a huge problem. i hope that one of the lessons we'll take away from this is the importance of really investing in that infrastructure and upgrading that infrastructure for everybody. >> reporter: for everybody else, cloud flare c.e.o. matthew prince says, the internet won't slow to a stop. >> i think there's a lot of things we need to worry about during this crisis, but i think the internet is one of those things that is really holding up very, very well. >> reporter: eventually, presumably, our lives and our internet patterns will return to normal. mark felix, for one, can't wait. >> hard for me to admit it, when you i look forward to my lengthy commute into new york city and working in a real office. i will miss being home, but not all the trips to the
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social distancing can be lonely if you don't have someone to share your quarantine with. steve hartman has the story of a love that would not be denied in the era of covid-19. >> reporter: turns out social distancing, staying at home, even locking yourself in your
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apartment, cannot prevent love sickness. take the case of 28-year-old jeremy cohen, the brooklyn man who fell for a girl he saw out his window dancing on her roof. what did you see in her? you could barely see her. >> i saw a shining bright light. i mean, she was happiness in a dark time so i went out to my deck and i waved hi. she waved hi back. i felt a little bit of a connection. >> reporter: but there's nothing you can do about it. >> unless. >> reporter: unless you have a drone. and the courage to fly your phone number to a total stranger. 23-year-old tori signorela texted jer any shortly after. >> so i asked her out to dinner. >> reporter: of course, tori couldn't come over so she sat at her table and he at his. >> you look beautiful. >> reporter: they even shared a facetime toast. >> it felt like a real date, even though we were on facetime. >> and the date lasted until tori's phone died. >> reporter: for their second date, this week the couple went for a walk, using a giant bubble
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jeremy bought on e-bay. tori was bowled over by the gesture, almost literally. >> no! [ laughter ] >> she's so nice. >> why wouldn't she tell me? >> reporter: are you guys dating now? >> sure, but we're opening to seeing other roof people right now. [ laughter ] >> reporter: it is hard to maintain a long distance relationship, even if it's just across the street. but we will certainly be rooting for them because it's their kind of attitude a ingenuity that we're going to need to preserve our humanity. steve hartman, on the road, in new york. >> and that is the overnight news for this wednesday. for some of you the news continues. for others, check back later for "cbs this morning." or follow us online any time at cbsnews.com. reporting from the cbs news studios in washington, i'm jeff begays.
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♪ ♪ y captioning sponsored by cbs >> o'donnell: breaking news tonight-- death toll triples. staggering numbers across america tonight. in one week alone, the number of deaths from coronavirus has more than tripled. new york suffers its deadliest day. but, there are signs of hope. is the empire state beginning to .latten the curve? spiking in the south. new cases explode in louisiana. texas tries roadblocks to stop wey south is eiuch a dramatic uptick in cases, and the most common underlying conditions in coronavirus deaths. desperate for benefits. hundreds risk exposure to coronavirus to file for unemployment. >> i'm scared for my life. just for an application. >> o'donne

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