. first up here on msnbc, now it's 80 million people told to stay home. state shutdowns expanded. we'll tell you where. desperate times, desperate measures. the plan for major hospitals in one major city. new questions about vaccines and potential treatments. >> not every single person in the united states needs to get

tested. >> we are literally scouring looking for medical supplies. >> plus new images of covid-19 as we learn more about how it attacks patients' lungs. a very good morning on that note to all of you. welcome. it is sunday, march 22nd. i'm alex witt. as of this morning $24,026 cases across 50 states. the death toll climbing now to 297. this morning at least 80 million americans are virtually in lockdown as they dramatically ramp up restrictions. new jersey becoming the latest to order people to stay home. >> we must flatten the curve and ensure residents are practicing social distancing. as i have said before, we can no longer maintain a sense of business as usual during this emergency. again, i repeat, just as it is

no time to panic, it is time to be smart, proactive, transparent, aggressive, it is also no time for business as usual. >> on capitol hill, bipartisan notions resumed -- negotiations resumed for direct payments to taxpayers. sources tell nbc news, the big four congressional leaders will meet in just a few hours. >> we propose that this be not just a one-shot deal but a paycheck every work period and it should go for as long as the crisis lasts. we want to fund it for at least four months, maybe six. if the crisis ends more quickly, of course, we might be able to terminate it, but we need to give the workers of america the assurance that they will have paychecks, the same amount of resources that they had before this crisis that they have now. and it will occur ongoing. >> at new york this morning is

being called the new epicenter of the outbreak here in the u.s., the number of cases in the state topping 10,000, that is almost half the number of cases in the entire country. joining me now live from a potential hospital site in new york city is nbc news' mara bar et. a big good morning to you. let's talk about where you are and how new york is ready to deal with this potential influx of affected patients. >> reporter: good morning, alex, i'm here outside the davitt center in man hattap, it's one of the four sites new york state is looking at to be a temporary coronavirus treatment facility. the center, itself, could hold about 2,000 patients. the state is also looking at two sites up at state universities in new york and another on site in west chester. these temporary hospitals are needed because hospitals already in place here in new york are running out of space and running out of materials for testing and

treatment of patients. we saw some letters to area hospitals such as nyu medical treatment centers like that basically discourageing testing to outpatients coming in, looking for any coronavirus testing, even if they are presenting symptoms. the health department is saying that only testing should be done inside hospitals for hospitalized patients already. basically, cuomo told us yesterday, there are only 15% of positive testing cases are being hospitalized. of that now more than 10,000 cases. so these temporary sites are needed when it comes to treatment, in addition to new and additional medical supplies. they're running low on a lot of masks, cuomo said they need about 30,000 ventilators to accommodate all the needs that are going on in new york today. in addition to all the supplies that are needed and treatment and all of that, cuomo warned yesterday that basically new yorkers right now aren't doing

enough to protect themselves and be vigilant in protecting the area when they are being safe being out in public. this is what he told during his update yesterday. >> there is a significant amount of non-compliance, especially in new york city, it has to be stopped, because you are endangering people and if it's because of misinformation, if it's because of non-compliance, i don't care, frankly. this is a public health issue and you cannot endanger other people's health. >> reporter: and, alex, officials are telling us you need to maintain social distancing, keep 6 feet apart, use hand sanitizer. wash your hands frequently. i was at union square farmer's market yesterday, it was very crowded, lots of people in close contact even with all these precautions the market was trying to take. they had lots of hand sanitizer,

there were a lot of people out and about and a new york going on 100% non-essential closure at 8:00 p.m. so people are going to have to start following these rules. >> well, i'm looking at the video you provided from yesterday. we were talking about this at that farmer's market. i'm surprised at the lack of masks and things, even the lack of gloves. i know people aren't supposed to wear masks unless they think they have symptoms or whatever it is, let me tell off, coming into close contact with anybody, a mask sure makes you feel a little more protected. that's for sure. there is not a lot of them out there, anyway. >> exactly. >> all right, thank you very much near the jaff vitt center. everyone over the next two weeks is supposed to stay inside all essential businesses are closed. hey, phil, he is live in chicago for us. you are essential as always, my

friend. can i say, it's dark, it's early, but chicago from the pictures we've seen looks like a ghost town. >> it has been very quiet, alex, all day yesterday, coming into today. part of that is the weather. it has been quite chilly in chicago. barely above freezing yesterday. tonight, by the way, it's expected to snow here. that's made public official spaces clear and anything private has been closed for a while. chicago has been slowly ramping down over the last couple of days. we saw all the shops on michigan avenue close a couple days ago. bars, restaurants have been closed. yesterday the city announced as a part of this broader closure, public spaces, libraries will be closed. you've seen the western governors got ahead of this, in illinois, 700 cases, mostly in the chicago-land area. in michigan, a few hundred. they announced they were closing things like hair and nail salons, massage parlors. they have not gone full closure

like here in illinois. yesterday, talking to people making grocery runs before this order started, things were orderly, there is already a mental concern, people are getting a bit of cabin fever. here's some of the folks we spoke to yesterday afternoon. >> you feel cupid up, stir crazy, cabin fever. >> yeah, it's been hard. my family is in north carolina so it's being far from them, it's been pretty tough. but, yet, day-by-day. >> reporter: it has been interesting alex, being downtown in chicago, a lot of people out are mostly younger people. people are worried about the economic impacts of this, they're worried about the social impacts, like that young woman said not seeing her family in north carolina, more than they seem to be worried about infection. i am not making a value judgment. you are seeing this crisis beyond getting sick, talking about a disease, the effects it

is having on people's lives, much more broadly, folks here are starting to settle in to what looks to be a long haul. >> you know what strikes me what that woman said with family potentially not seeing them, potentially, elderly women, because they need to be isolated to stay in protective bubbles or those in communal homes. i have a really good friend whose mother is in north carolina, she says, i can't go see her, i can't visit my own mom, you know, it's disconcerting. >> my grandmother is 92, she's in an assisted living community in texas. they have no visitors in. my parents have thought about the idea of her staying home with them. if you leave, that more dangerous than staying in? this is the kind of family decisions made across the country and will be over the next couple of weeks. >> one suggestion is facetime, those elderly relatives as often as you can, that helps so much.

garrett, thanks so much. i hope your grandmother is doing great right now. thank you. let's go to the white house and nbc news' monica alba. let's talk about that rescue plan finalized on the hill. the president sounded optimistic. where do things stand? >> reporter: that's right. no deal yet. but an encouraging seen, the first of what would be procedural votes is scheduled for later this afternoon and it does seem that the white house is encouraged by the progress, though, there is no foul language yet. take a listen to how the president and vice president framed some of the talks yesterday in the briefing. >> mitch mcconnell, chuck schumer, they're all up there, kevin mccarthy and nancy pelosi, they're all negotiating and everybody is working hard and they want to get to a solution that's the right solution. i think we are getting very close. >> they are making progress by all accounts on a bipartisan bill. they worked late into the night last night, started early this

morning and we are working to pass that legislation on monday in both the house and the senate. >> reporter: so initially they were honing thaf that language on friday night. then that became yesterday, saturday. now they are hoping for it later this morning as there are meetings scheduled between the top congressional leaders. as you have seen, there has been constant contact between treasury secretary stephen mnuchin and leaders on capitol hill. that's how this is being handled between the administration and down there on pennsylvania avenue. it's noteworthy if this does come to the floor tomorrow monday for vote. there is language in there that could keep the government running the next few months, in case congress has to adjourn to further deal with the coronavirus pandemic. alex. >> okay. we got a lot to watch there from the white house and on capitol hill, thank you for that joining me now, baylor college of medicine dr. peter hotez. lots of questions. the first one, before we get to

the issue of testing which has been a controversial one, who gets it, who should get it and the like. give me the big picture here. where you this i this epidemic is headth in the united states, especially focusing on the larger cities that seem to have such swarms of infections? >> well, that's exactly right, alex. we are not seeing this uniformly across the country. what we are identifying are a number of cities across the country, which seem to be where the epidemic is now moving into full swing. okay, the best example is new york city. the big worry, of course, is that what we are seeing in new york is starting to resemble some of the scenes, what we are seeing in italy, where hospitals, health systems are being overwhelmed. and we're even starting to see healthcare professionals, nurses, docs, respiratory therapists start to get sick and that is a huge weak link in our

covid-19 national response. that's the one part that we have to work like -- to avoid in italy we're about 5-to-10% of the cases are occurring among healthcare providers. it's tough to stop. this is how coronavirus' work. we saw wit sars and mrs and closed. these are hospital infections often and significant numbers of healthcare workers are getting infected. so we're going to have to come one some type of contingency plan pretty soon. >> yeah, like yesterday. okay. let's talk about the testing. who is getting tested right now among the shortage of the test kits that are out there. they say more are coming. there are yet to be enough to test everyone. but should everyone be tested? they certainly discussed that yesterday at the white house task force briefing. >> well, the idea is korean model where anybody who wants to get tested pretty much can get

tested. that's how you actually trace the epidemic and find out where it's headed next. i mean, what itself the next big city to be affected? is it going to be chicago? is it going to be our city of houston or dallas or phoenix without widespread testing, we're not going to know that. unfortunately, there is still rationing of kits. so it's still for people who are very sick in the hospital or for nursing home healthcare workers, who may have been exposed or are feeling ill and as long as we have those kind of restrictions, it's going to be really hard to know where this epidemic is moving. so i know there is a huge effort right now nationally to expand, the availability of kits. a lot of commercial producers are in place. the other big thing that we need is rapid testing. we need to have healthcare workers do point of care diagnostic testing. in other words, you go there, you get a test and you know within a half hour, 45 minutes

whether you are infected. >> yeah. >> i know it's there. it's really tough to accelerate this in the middle of an epidemic? >> here's the scenario i hear several times over from friends. they are home. they have self quarantined because they feel crummy. they think, according to what they've seen on the news and read that they have the symptoms that match that of coronavirus. so they're treating themselves with over the counter medications and the like. they don't know for sure if they have it. but they've got a pretty good feeling they may. someone in their officer may have been confirmed and the sort. tell me if, if this is the right thing to do, do they need to go get confirmation that they have coronavirus? or if they stay, hang out at home in isolation for two weeks, get better. is that really what the majority of people are going to experience if they become afflicted with this? >> well, it could be. we are actually dealing with this, with my 22-year-old son. he's got a cough and feeling a

little grumpy for a while. did he have the virus? did he not? without widespread accessibility of testing, it's hard to know. the one point i do want to make is very important is there is still this narrative out there it's only older individual or those with underlying debilitating states that are getting sick and requiring hospitalization or intubation and that's the situation that came out of china. we saw italy and now in the u.s. that a very high percentage of hospitalized sick individuals are those between the ages of 20 and 44. >> yeah. >> maybe up to a third and up to half what we are seeing in new york are under the age of 54. so, we've got to get away from this idea that this is a disease of grandma and grandpa and who may have diabetes or hypertension, it's quite different than that, and that's got to be a word that's got to

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business owners wondering when they'll get financial help from the government and whether or not it might come too late. joining me now, a chief washington correspondent for bloomberg news, welcome to you both. kevin, give me the logistics here. walk us through the process of getting this financial aid package to the president's desk. what has got to get going? >> reporter: senior leader mitch mcconnell said likely 3:00 p.m. new york time will be the first procedural vote in terms of this phase 3 as it's being called of the economic stimulus. so that could happen later this afternoon. but there are a host of different items within this piece of legislation that would make it easier for smaller businesses to get liquidity and loans and to help them keep funded and it's a host of different tools in the arsenal ranging from the federal department to the federal reserve and the small business

administration, all of that is going to be tucked away in there, in addition to some of this stimulus money that is going to several of the industries. >> okay. i'm looking at an article. here's the title, coronavirus causing labor market meltdown on a scale never seen before. explain the perspective here. >> that's right, alex. what we are seeing in the u.s. labor market is unprecedented. there have been long lines across the country of people trying to get jobless claims, trying to get on the phone, trying to file. in new york state the website crashed a couple times over the past couple days. what we are seeing is this surge of people who have been put out of a job, not able to get a paycheck because of these mandated forced closures of so many businesses and restaurants. so what has happened is that many americans have been left out in the cold and the assistance, what washington is doing right now in terms of a fiscal stimulus is desperately

needed right now. it was needed this week. so the hope is that these legislators will get this push through as quickly as possible, because businesses and americans need it right now. >> how does this? do you know how the logistics of how this gets to the businesses and the single individuals who have been laid off of work? kevin was outlining what will happen on capitol hill. literally, people are saying, okay, we are talking about having all this money potentially coming to help us, how do we get our hands on it? >> right. that's the big question for these businesses. so they have been lobbying trying to get information, for example, restaurants are working with the new york state restaurant association, also if talks with the national restaurant association. they're really trying to get relief when it comes to rent, when it comes to taxes. because although a lot of these businesses have been forced to shut down, they still continue to accumulate costs such as utilities and rent and other liabilities. so there is a lot of confusion right now. but they're hoping that they

will get about 300 billion in aid for businesses across the country, but exactly how that's going to be rolled out, we will need more details on monday from legislators. >> any idea, kevin, how quickly once this all gets agreed to, once the president signs it, how soon the money could go out? >> alex, i have been asking this president to republicans and democrats. what they are saying in the first week, in the next two weeks and mid-may in terms of the second round. and so. >> so hang on, wait a second, first round comes, i guess that would be a couple weeks early second week of april? >> second week of april at the latest, that would be a direct deposit. then the second round would come in mid-may. so i think the bottom line here is that it's important to note that in addition to the liquidity and the cash that's going to be injected into american's accounts, there are other ways and opportunities as we've outlined for folks in the

small business communities to also be able to get loans, to have to work with their local chapters of their chambers of commerce, of their associations that they are members of, also go online, small business administration as well as talking to local lawmakers, because there is so much information out there about the economic stimulus, but there are going to be in very short order different opportunities for small businesses to get assistance, so it's important to go to folks like the small business administration and to work with the local associations to make sure you are getting the right information on that. >> absolutely. last question to you, though, kevin is saying it's the first, second week of april for the beginning and something else in may, potentially, for how many people is that an eternity and they cannot sustain? is there a way to gauge the amount of businesses that will not be able to come back from this in. >> yeah. so, in terms of restaurants, i asked the new york state

restaurant association, how many businesses will be shut down because of this? he said that 30% have already shut down and 70% are struggling trying to still do deliveries, but likely won't last more than another three months possibly. so, we need this hope right now. walk is working on it, they have been working around the clock this weekend. hopefully on monday there will be a vote. they can't overstate it. they need this help right now. >> absolutely. good to see you guys. thanks, so much for the sobering chat. we are going to talk about vaccines and potential treatments as we get to new images of covid-19 and learn a little more how it specifically attacks patients' lungs. right now before we go to break, we are giving you a live look at a sleepy and somewhat foggy dallas downtown there. it is about 6:30 in the morning in dallas. still dark. we'll be right back, everyone. (burke) at farmers insurance,

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. back now with breaking news on the coronavirus pandemic. in italy, 793 people died yesterday alone. that is the largest single-day increase that country has seen since the crisis began. italy's prime minister calming the pan dem tictoc worst crisis since post-world war ii. italy's death toll is now at a whopping 40825. back here in the u.s., vice president pence and his wife karen tested negative. they were tested this weekend after a staffer in the vice president's office tested positivity. and in florida, take a look at this, that is clearwater beach near tampa. it is a ghost town, for the most part. look at those sandy beaches, completely empty. beaches across the state are closed, cutting the spring break short for many college students. here's a look at how today's

newspapers are covering the pandemic. the sunday's "new york times" leads with critical supplies for medical teams. the dallas morning news is focused on test kits for people who are sick. the boston globe is raising concerns that there are no signs of progress and no clues when it will be under control. congress leads with a race to pass an almost 2 trillion stimulus package and the spanish newspaper is focusing on new york becoming the epicenter in the u.s., passing 10,000 cases, lack of testing gear and hospitals and procedures for wakes and funerals. on the virus continuing its sweep across the country and the world, the race is on, not just for a vaccine, also for effective treatment. army researchers at walter reed are learning more about covid-19. here's nbc news' gabe gutierrez with a look at what they've found. >> reporter: scientists now say a part of the reason is coronavirus is so deadly. it's that those sharp objects

sticking out of the microscopic protein essentially stab patient's lungs. >> this is like a hook. it uses to bind to the lung cell. >> reporter: now the race is on, to figure out how to stop them. >> these different color objects are anti-bodies. the goal is to try to get them to block this protein from attaching to the lungs? >> that's correct. interesting. joining me now, an expert on global responses to infectious disease outbreaks, doctor, let's get running to what we heard. it's a what fascinating detail about the sharp edges that stab patients' lungs, is that something you've heard before? >> well, what we've heard before is the structure of viruses make big differences in the pathogen's genicity, the lungs is related to the structure of virus. that makes perfect sense. you are looking at structural confirmation as a potential therapeutic avenue. >> all right.

so let's say this is how it all goes down in someone's lungs, having these little piercings, if you will. how is it that anybody recovers from that? do you have to have stronger lung tissue to be able to resist this effects of the virus? is that what it is? >> not quite, alex. essentially, if you had any pre-existing lung condition, it does make you more susceptible to a severe syndrome. in fact, even young healthy people can suffer those effects. in fact, people under the age of 50 are not protected from the worst clinical syndrome. they just experience it less frequently. >> so the point you are making is that anybody is vulnerable to the effects of covid-19 attacking their lungs, potentially? >> that is correct. that is correct. >> okay. let's from et to the prospects of finding a vaccine, doctor, versus finding a treatment or even a cure, where do we stand on that? >> well, there are at least three vaccine products that have

entered early phase human trials. right here in the u.s., you may have heard of a company ma der na -- madderna, they are using pieces of rna you can inject into human volunteers. they make the proteins associated with the virus and those proteins provoke an immune response that subsequently protect you from infection. and that's happening right now. and, in china, in a company called cansino that's registered in hong kong, they're also doing a phase 1 early human trial where they're injecting pieces of the virus that have been taken from the spike protein, which is the, why it's called a coronavirus, that's a spike on the virus and pieces of that spike protein have been put into a vector and adeno virus vector which is activated and that is injected into people so that it

carries the spike protein to the immune system and allows it to make anti-bodies, which will then be protected. in neither of these two cases is infection a risk because these are inactivated products. >> okay. let's play right now, sir, a recurring exchange between the president and our infectious disease expert anthony fauci, who we have all become so familiar with, this to treat the malaria drug of covid-19. here it is, sir. >> sure. >> this has been prescribed for many years for people to combat malaria, which was a big problem and it's very effective. it's a strong drug. so we'll see. >> john, you got to be careful when you say failure, it was never done in a clinical trial, they compared it to anything. >> i feel as the expression goes, what do we have to lose? >> are you go to go use a drug that someone says from an anecdotal standpoint, not completely proven but might have

some effect? >> doctor, give me your interpretation of the different messages here? >> well, i've had the great privilege of working with anthony fauci. thank goodness he is here and with us in '79. c h l chloroquine is from the '40, this is a drug with little everyday that would have an impact on covid-19, which is the disease caused by sars, covid-2 the sars coronavirus. to bring it up is something that may offer potential hope to patients who are ill and their relatives i think it's a bit irresponsible, frankly. this, there are many other avenues that are promising for patients who are critically ill from coronavirus. and some of those, for example, include harvesting of anti-bodies from recovered cases and using that as a therapeutic for severe cases. that is a much more promising

avenue. as well, we have much better methods of selecting drugs for a new disease such as going through huge libraries of compounds that already exist. i'm sorry? >> no, i'm sorry, sir, i didn't say anything. but what i will say is that i am loving what you are saying, clarifying the discrepancies there and duly noting what we should be paying attention to and hoping for. sir, thank you so much from washington. >> thank you. well, those famous bright lights on broadway, they are out for further notice due to the coronavirus outbreak. several members of the new york theater community have been out of work for a week now. joining me the actor who played ike turner in tina turner musical. awfully good to see you. i am shire you are hating not being in the theater. i 94 no so many of you it's a

real passion. tell me what you heard in your show and the likelihood of coming back to broadway. >> wow, things are still very much in the air. you know, we're all confused about what will happen when it comes to people gathering with masks. we really don't know. >> when you say i don't know. what is the likelihood that your show, specifically your show or any of these shows are able to come back? does it all matter about how long this lasts? >> yeah. there are several factors. how long this lasts, what the investors, the producers are able to do, willing to do going forward. the show has already opened, how much money was already invested, how much money they have currently to hold off that much time? you know, people aren't working, there is no money coming in. so it's up in the air. some shows were just in preview, some in rehearsal. our show has been opened since october. so it have aers from show to

show. >> are you able to be in contact with some of your colleagues from your particular show? are you guys getting together i don't know on facetime or elbowing in the street? what's happening? >> yeah. we're all scattered to the wind. some of us in harlem, some live in brooklyn, we're pretty isolate fareed each other. we have a facebook page we can keep up with one another. >> how are the spirits of all of you right now in general on broadway? because broadway has been hit so hard? it went like that, we're out. >> yeah, it varies. you know, there are some of us like whew, a break. >> for a week or two, maybe. >> you know, the break that we didn't know we needed. there are others of us who this is, people are dependent upon this paycheck, it's an act of life a paycheck to paycheck life. that's sometimes up in the air, when we will be paid for how much and for how long? it's tricky right now. >> yeah. so what are you doing to pass the time? i said at the top you guys

perform in the theaters, it is a passion, as the calling. but are you not able to get out there and sing and dance like you were dock on the stage from front of an audience? >> artists will continue to do art. you know, there are facebook lives, there are instagram lives. people are performing, doing little campfires they are calling them to get it together and performing have iia different you know zoom, different outlets to keep it going. i have a guitar over there to keep me busy, practicing guitar, reading, catching up on netflix. >> pretty much sounds like what everybody else is doing right now. all right. all i can say is will you comp me a couple tickets when you guys get back on stage, because i'd love to come see you perform? >> i will do the best i can. >> i will look forward to it. good luck, the best off it to you. now for coronavirus shutting down millions of new york,, the state is keeping only essential stores opened, one deemed

essential liquor stores and new york restaurants are selling alcoholic drinks for takeout or delivery. take a look at this hong kong cleaning its subway cars with robots, we will get to that right now. but the robots with that city have enlisted an entire fleet of boxy cyborgs. they have been trains to or programmed to disinfect trains using bleach and hydrogen peroxide mist. they are the size of a mini fridge. then when social distancing is kept to senior citizens apart, an alabama man found a way through to his wife. ♪ amazing grace ♪ how sweet the sound ♪ that saved a wretch like me >> oh, that itself so sweet.

she was sing along, could you guys tell there? his wife has been battling alzheimer's 17 years, so he sings to her every day through her nursing room window. that is one adorable app. we have the cyborg robots in hong kong, they are stream cleaning, if you will, disinfecting cars on the subways, there it is, looks pretty clean to me. also in italy, everyone, it has come to this, the army called in to help move coffins as the country marks the deadliest day. the lockdown has gotten intense. we are leaving you right now with a live look at chicago's millennium park, which is looking pretty empty. there you are looking at that time cloud gate. pictures we saw earlier, everybody, all you chicagoans, get out, look out the window, there is a gorgeous dawn sky for you late in the day. we'll be right back.

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a sunday to be empty. how concerned are italy's latest numbers? >> reporter: hey, alex, good morning. that's right up. this again is reported like yesterday. yesterday when we spoke to you, it was a little busier, there were people out doing their shopping. today you can literally hear the signs squeaking. there is nothing. you see sa bus right there. people are still riding public transportation. that's a sign of the kind of the restrictions here in london are nothing like in italy. prime minister boris johnson is getting a ton of criticism for introducing restrictions a lot more gradually. this is a cafe. i will have my photographer show you right there, the doors are opened for takeout only. so far as restaurants, cafes, clubs, all of those were shut only on friday, alex. they are still opened for takeout, schools, alex were just shut on friday. everyone is incredibly nervous as those italian numbers kick up. there is no reason to say it won't be the same here across

the uk. it is mother's day, alex, here, prime minister boris johnson spoke yesterday as he does every day saying that the best gift that you can give to your elderly mothers is not to go see them today. but -- we are seeing a lot of people still out on the street. we are seeing more social distancing. whether you compare the streets of london -- we're in central london to the streets in italy, to spain, they look different. >> a silver lining, it looks like a pretty day for those outside. call your moms, everybody over there in the uk and tell them how much you love and appreciate them. molly hunter, thank you. the impact of the outbreak has had on elections and what it could mean looking ahead to november. yes! yes. yes. yeah sure. yes yes. yeah, yeah no problem. yes. yes, yes a thousand times yes! discover. accepted at over 95% of places in the u.s. i wanted more from my copd medicine

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so this will require in some states a change in the law. we can also expand no excuse absentee voting. there's a new bill running through the senate sponsored by senators klobuchar and widen. we need to make sure there's both bills that enable mail-in voting but also adequate funding included in this big coronavirus package. it's about $2 trillion. there's a request to put $2 billion into that to secure voting. we need to make sure that that passes this week. >> federal law mandates our election date as well as our january 20th inauguration date. do you foresee anything that could change that? >> not legally. the constitution sets those dates. congress is the branch of government that sets the date that we vote. that shouldn't be a change. no matter what sort of emergency condition we're in, those dates should both hold. >> hard and fast dates, we look forward to, joyce vance, thank

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