it lived through, they lived through sars, so they were started, they were starting universal mask layering, started social distancing early january. taiwan, which had gone through it, heard from mainland china that there was transmission and did the same thing, ramped up production, locked down, those are the countries that have it under control. we should have been one of them. >> one of my favorite writers, on a variety of topics, thank you for your time tonight. >> thank you, chris. >> that is "all in" for this evening. the rachel maddow show starts right now. good evening, rachele. >> fantastic show tonight, chris. really one of the best i have seen by anybody on this topic. one of your best. thanks. much appreciated. >> thank you. and thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. i am not the world's most squeamish person. i mean i like being outdoors. i don't really mind bugs and stuff. i like to fish. sometimes that means handling bait of various kinds.

which bug some people. it doesn't really bug me. and also i should also mention if you're lucky when you're fishing, the act of fishing also occasionally involves handling fish, right? that also has a problem for some people but i like to fish, i don't mind it, that said, if i had to pick a few things i would choose to avoid if i could, i would pick number one eels, they just, huh-uh, not going to do it, number two, spiders, basically they just, ugh me out, given the option, spiders, no thaw, i also don't like needles. when i get blood drawn for anything, at the doctor's office, i always get a little oozy, i have to warn them i'm going to turn green but today, i learned something, i watched something, that for the first time in my whole adult life, made me feel less woozy, less bad about needles.

because today, i learned that in modern med schools, and nursing schools, when they teach student doctors and student nurses how to draw blood, they use a fake arm. that's not like a wedge of baloney or some unfired pottery, that's, i'm sure it has a technical term, we're going to call it here, an arm simulator, it is an arm simulator that has fake-clofred blood in it, they use this device for teaching nurses in training, in this case, how to do a blood draw, using a butterfly needle and a vacu-tainer. and even though i'm super freaked out by needles seeing needles to train a medical professional or soon to be medical professional on a device that is meant to seem like a human arm, it just makes me feel less icky about the whole thing. the first thing i looked at the needle without turning green my entire life. the reason i learned today this is how they do it, this is how they train, is because this video was made of a training

this past week, pour people, for people who are not nursing students. within the past few day, the surgeons in training, the surgical residents at the medical cal school at the university of southern california, usc, all of the surgical residents at medical school at usc volunteered to basically stop out of their advanced surgical training for now, to instead learn to be nurses. to instead at least learn some of the skills that icu nurses have to learn. because right now, in our country, what we need is pretty specific. coronavirus is not causing a demand for lots of new surgeries. what coronavirus is doing is putting a lot of people in the intensive care unit, in the icu, and so these high-flying surgical residents at usc volunteer now, that what is needed right now, is what they will do, they will stop their surgical training and train as critical care nurses for right

now, because that's what's needed. and usc apparently innovated this in a matter of days. but the surgical residents all stood up and said yes, i will do it, i will change my training, i will learn this stuff instead, because all of our lives are changing in this pandemic, and country is going to need things from us that it has not needed before. luckily, for a green around the gills woos like me, this lessen in today's news comes with a machine that fakes being a human arm so i don't have to pass out while reporting on it and also i feel like i got over my squeamishness on this story all together. that is the usc med school. a lot more news like that today, in terms of people stepping up and people asked to step up in very dramatic ways. we will talk about some of those extraordinary efforts, over the course of this hour. but i also want to start tonight with something that i mentioned tentatively, a couple of nights ago, on the show, as a

potential sign of good news. it's again, good news is relative in this context, but what i mentioned a couple of nights ago is the potential sign of good news now looks like it is holding as good news. so i want to show you the data that we just got today. as you know, it is the nation of italy that has the worst outbreak in the world right now. and hospitals in the northern part of italy are overwhelmed, and the death toll is still towering, it is six and 700 death still every day now. but this is a chart, it's aggregated data from italy's ministry of health, that shows the rate of increase in new cases in italy, and you can see, there are still an increasing number of new cases being reported each day, but what this chart show, that in recent days, the rate of increase is slowing. we reported at the beginning of this week that for the first time since italy really spun out of control, the rate of increase in new cases had dropped into

the single digits, and that was true at the beginning of this week, and it's still true. italy has now reported a rate of increase in new cases that is in single digits for three straight days. and i know this is the thinnest of silver linings. but it's pointing in the right direction, right? it at least means that italy's measures to try to slow the number of people, getting newly infected, to try to keep people distant and slow down the rate at which these this thing is spreading, this is the first signs that this is working and the first hope for italy even as italy is in the depths of it right now. in new york, where experts have been screaming from the rooftops that the new york trajectory is basically italy minus two weeks time, in new york today, governor andrew cuomo cautiously announced that new york's skyrocketing hospitalization rate may also be showing the first signs of slowing.

>> this is very interesting. because the evidence suggests that the density control measures may be working. and again, we're doing this from projections. but look at this, because it's interesting. this past sunday, the projection was that hospitalizations were doubling every two days. on monday, the numbers suggested that the hospitalizations were doubling every 3.4 days. on tuesday, the projection suggested that the hospitalizations were doubling every 4.7 days. now, that is almost too good to be true. but the theory is given the density that we're dealing with, it spreads very quickly, but if you reduce the density, you can reduce the spread very quickly.

>> so on sunday, hospitalizations in new york were doubling every two days. then the next day, they were projected to double every 3.4 days. and then the next day, yesterday, they were projected to double every 4.7 days. that's going in the right direction. that's good, right? that may be a sign that the measures new york is taking to keep people at home, to keep people apart from one another, those measures may be slowing the number of people getting newly infected, which is slowing the increase in the number of people getting sick, which is slowing the increase and how fast people are pouring into new york hospitals. it is good if that, that all of this is slowing. it means, it indicates that maybe these stay-at-home orders, these work from home orders, these shelter in place order, whatever you want to call them, it means they may be working. but even still, even with that good news, that's about the

doubling of new york hospitalization rate, the doubles, even with that news from the governor, i mean new york hospitalizations are still doubling less than every five days. which is terrible. i mean as of tonight, we just got the latest numbers. as of tonight in new york city, there are 3,750 people hospitalized in new york city, at least 840 people in intensive care beds. again, those numbers just, we just got those moments ago from new york city. so i'm just checking something right now. 3,750 hospitalizations in new york today. that number yesterday was 2,850. so i mean yes, it's better if those kinds of hospitalization numbers are not doubling every two day, and they're instead doubling every four or five days. but still, doubling these numbers, within the space of a week, is still an upsurge in

catastrophe, in new york, in terms of the capacity to continue to treat people in new york hospitals. i mean here's the headline in "the new york times" just posted tonight, an apocalyptic coronavirus surge at a new york city hospital. quote, in several hours, on tuesday, yesterday, dr. ashley bray, performed chest compressions at elmhurst hospital center on a woman in her 80s, a man in his 60s and a 38-year-old who reminded the doctor of her fiance. all had tested positive for the coronavirus and all went into cardiac arrest. all eventually died. elmhurst, a 545-bed public hospital in queens, new york, has begun transferring patients not suffering from coronavirus, to other facilities as it moves toward becoming one facility dedicated entirely to the coronavirus outbreak. doctors and nurses have struggled to make do with a few dozen ventilators. calls over a loud speaker of

team 700, the code for when a patient is on the verge of death, comes several times a shift. some patients have died inside the emergency room while waiting for a bed. quote, a refrigerated truck has been stationed outside to hold the bodies of the dead. over the past 24 hours, 13 people at elmhurst died. it's a apocalyptic says dr. bray. he is 27 years old. across new york city, hospitals are beginning to confront the kind of harrowing surge in cases that has overwhelmed health care systems in china and italy. according to a federal emergency management agency, a fema briefing obtained by "the new york times" tonight, all of the more than 1800 intensive care units in new york city are expected to be full by friday. by friday. that's the day after tomorrow. one doctor at that same elmhurst hospital in queens new york, telling the city newspaper

today, quote, it's a fairly dire situation. covid-19 is completely taking over the hospital in a way i've never really seen anything else do. it's just a tidal wave. the only beds we have been able to free up are people who have died. >> and yes, this is what is happening in new york now. because new york is first in our country. but this is what we know happens even in places like new york city, or milan, in rich northern italy, when the virus spreads fast enough. unchecked enough. that so many people get, it and so many people get sick, the numbers just swamp, even big modern capable health care systems and big modern hospitals. this is how it goes. everywhere it gets in a significant number and spreads fast. new york, as andrew cuomo said yesterday, is the canary in the coal mine, but new york is first. other places where it is spreading, particularly places where it is spreading unchecked, and there have not been serious measures put in place, to slow

down the spread of this virus, it will happen there next. this news is apparently not arrived at the desk of the republican governor of florida, ron desantis, florida has a population of over 20 million people, and florida has some very worrying signs in terms of this epidemic both in terms of their demographics as a state and the epidemiological markers are signaling that florida may have a real problem on their hands. today, no stay-at-home order from governor desantis. why bother, right? i'm sure florida will be fine. why not just guess. why assume. even idaho today finally issued a stay-at-home order. but in florida, population 20 million, dozens of deaths, and climbing, still in florida, whatever, no reason to have a stay-at-home order. last night we talked about the governor of mississippi, announcing that there would not be a statewide stay-at-home order in his state either because he said mississippi is not china. and while that is true,

mississippi is not a gigantic country in asia, mississippi is sandwiched between louisiana, which has what is probably the fastest-growing epidemic in the country, maybe in the world, and alabama, where birmingham, alabama hospitals are already screaming from the rooftops for help, in terms of the numbers of patients they've already got in their intensive care units and on ventilators. mississippi right in between louisiana and alabama. but today, the governor of mississippi said he would break new ground in the pandemic and not only did he announce there would not be a stay-at-home order statewide in mississippi but the governor of mississippi today did something brand new. he issued his own executive order that overrides and overturns any actions that have been taken by cities and towns in his state. even as he is refusing to act statewide. so take for example the beautiful city of tupelo, mississippi.

birth place of elvis presley, right? world famous. on saturday, the mayor of tupelo, mississippi, ordered a stay-at-home order for that city. he banned gatherings of more than ten people. he ordered nonessential businesses to shut in tupelo. that was this weekend. the mayor issued that order in tupelo. on tuesday, yesterday, the city council in tupelo met and in a unanimous bipartisan vote, they voted to affirm and ratify those rules that the may her put in place in tupelo. but today, the governor of mississippi superseded that. today, the governor of mississippi said tupelo and any other city or town in the state can't do anything like that. only his rules apply. and his rules are no stay-at-home order, and restaurants can still do dine-in service for limited numbers of people, lots of cities and towns around mississippi had shut down restaurants to takeout and delivery, and the governor says no, restaurants will be allowed to stay open as long as they're

only servicing limited numbers of people for dine-in service. the government's executive order says it's okay, nonessential business does have to shut down but the executive order declared that basically all businesses in mississippi are pretty essential, including, quote, offices. per the governor's executive order today, any office is an essential business, and therefore can't be ordered closed. cities and towns in mississippi have been ordering, real nonessential businesses to close down, including some that are housed in offices, but the governor of mississippi overrode that today, and said no you can't have those rules. the mayor of tupelo did a faist facebook live event today in which he tried to explain the about-face to his city after he and the city council had unanimously taken these decisions to protect the people of that city, and the governor came in and said, no, you have undo all of that. here is what he said.

>> so pursuant to the governor's order, some of the things that we did to protect the health and public safety of our citizens is no longer going to be in effect. there's nothing we can do about that locally. >> the jackson free press today reporting that thanks to the mississippi governor, overriding cities and towns, who took action to protect themselves, quote, as of press time, the jackson free press has referred reports from businesses in the jackson, mississippi, area, that have, businesses in the jackson area, that have as of today's executive order, scuttled plans for work from home, and instead, ordered their employees back to work on-site. so businesses in and around the capital of mississippi were putting in plans to have their employees working from home, a stay at home effort, to try to keep this disease in check in mississippi, but now, with the governor saying any local rule like that is null and void, on his orders, those employers are

instead telling their employees to come back to work on-site. i will just say this. to the people of mississippi. you should know that your government is breaking new ground when it comes to the coronavirus pandemic. the governor of your state today has pioneered a whole new kind of response to the coronavirus pandemic in which he is legally blocking towns and cities in your state from doing a better job than he is at keeping you alive. he is undoing public health measures and insisting that the state will not have them. meanwhile, in many more places on earth, this is an ask not what your country can do for you moment, but ask what you can do for your country kind of moment. in the u.k., where the response was slow and small until they just now started to panic at how behind they are, we mentioned last night that the government

in the u.k. put out a call for 250,000 regular citizen volunteers, just regular british citizens, to please come forward, and volunteer to three try to bolster the national health service as the nhs comes under what is expected to be an absolute assault in terms of the numbers of sick people and the numbers of people needing intensive care treatment in britain. the british government asked for 250,000 volunteers yesterday. in 24 hours, 405,000 people came forward to volunteer. as of tonight, now more than half a million british citizens have volunteered. in new york, governor cuomo has asked health care providers to volunteer to support the new york health system too and they have been coming forward by the tens of thousands. >> god bless them. 40,000 people have signed up as a surge health care force. 2,000 physicians. anesthesiologists. emergency room technicians. nurse practitioners.

physician assistants. nurse anesthetists. respiratory, rn's, lpn's, 40,000 people have signed up. that is a big, big deal. with the staff, the existing staff, when they get ill, or by the way just can't work the hours that we're going to need people to be working. so that's very good. we ask for mental health professionals to voluntary sign up to provide online mental health services. 6,000 mental health professionals agreed to volunteer to provide mental health services for people who need it. how beautiful is that? you can call that hot line, you can schedule an appointment, with the mental health professional, totally free, to talk to them, about what you're feeling and what stress you're feeling. and again, god bless the 6,000 mental health professionals who are doing this, 100%, free.

on top of whatever they have to do in the normal practice. >> god bless them indeed. so states, countries are asking a lot of people right now, to come forward, and volunteer and do what they can. i mentioned at the top of this hour, the university of southern california, the usc surgical residents, who have now all volunteered to be trained in icu nursing methods, so that they can help out with the kinds of things they're going to be needing in icu wards more than their surgical needs are going to be needed in this crisis. in new york, medical students at nyu just got this stark request for their service as well. quote, we ask for your help. the medical school and the university have agreed to permit early graduation for students who agree to begin working as an intern now. this is consistent with the national discussion regarding the early graduation of eligible medical students so they can join the health care work force

prior to the typical july 1 starting date. we are writing to ask you to consider this option. we will permit students in the class of 2020 to graduate early, if they, with the graduation requirements, to voluntarily work as an md in the emergency medicine departments beginning in april. please note that you don't have to be going into the fields of internal medicine or emergency medicine to join our physicians in the fight against covid-19. >> these are medical students at nyu, being asked to stop med school now, in their final year, months before they would have graduated, to instead graduate now, and answer the call to service, to come help. joining us now is gabrielle mayor, she is one of the students at nyu's medical school, who has volunteered to graduate early and begin working as a doctor early to help new york hospitals respond to the surge in coronavirus cases. gabi, good to have you here. thanks for your time tonight. >> my pleasure to be here.

>> so tell us how this came together. it's my sense that this effort to release fourth year nyu med school students got under way all pretty quickly. it was a surprise when it happened? >> yes, and no. we've heard of things like this being done in other countries, or at least being entertained in other country, and understanding the increasing severity of the pandemic on new york city's health care system, i think it was something that had crossed a lot of people's mines. we had also heard some public tell from governor cuomo's office and mayor deblasio's office that they were considering speaking to medical schools about. we did not know anything until yesterday evening when we received the email you read allowed on air. >> tell us about the decision whether or not to say yes for this request to help. what you are weighing? how hard of a decision is this? and do you know how many of your fellow students have said yes? >> so i do know, the number

seems to be right now, it might change, around 69, of somewhere around 120 of us, have agreed voluntarily to enter the hospital as the interns, in a matter of weeks. as far as the decision making process -- go ahead. >> please, go ahead, i'm sorry. you have the floor. >> as far as the decision-making process, it was both an easy and i think at times a challenging one. i think things that go into it that are more fixrd my skill set, do i have a skill set that feels useful and helpful in the hospital. i think at this point, i finished all clinical rotations, and had a block of free time, leading up to graduation, and so i did feel and still feel very confident that i have a skill set that is going to be useful for patient care, acting as an intern on the floor. other things to consider, are the need for the health care system. and i think that's been the biggest motivator. i'm someone who is interested in helping people, and helping

patients as well as the health care officials fighting covid-19 and that made this choice a lot more straightforward for me. >> you are worried about the reports that we've already got from all over new york, from rich hospitals and less rich hospital, from hard hit hospitals, and hospitals that haven't yet got there, that the personal protective equipment for health care workers, for doctors and nurses and other people working directly with patients isn't sufficient to protect you guys properly from the patients who you're, the infectious patients you're going to be in contact with? >> absolutely. i think i've been on the ground doing some grass roots ppe sourcing efforts, alongside medical students across new york city institutions, and so it's certainly been on my mind for the past week or so. i think that hearing the response from the hospital, i know that they are actively sourcing ppe both for us, specifically, was mentioned in one of their emails to us, that this is something that they're putting concerted effort toward is, making sure we all have ppe, but to make sure that they catch

up with the increased need in all of the hospitals and they already instituted several policies to eliminate excess usage and there is a concern but there is a lot of responsiveness from the hospital systems themselves to figure out a way to meet the need and that is making me more confident that i will be protected going into the hospital. >> gabriel, fourth year student at nyu school of medicine, volunteered to graduate early, to help her city respond to the surge in coronavirus cases. gabi, thank you for joining us tonight. thank you for doing this. we'll check back in with you hopefully in the days ahead as you start this new part of your life. thank you. >> i'll keep you posted. thank you. all right, much more ahead tonight. stay with us. we are t-mobile. covering over 200 million americans on the first and only nationwide 5g network. now experience it on the latest samsung phone. introducing the samsung galaxy s20 5g. right now, when you buy one, you get one free.

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there are two ways of testing to find out, to see if you've been exposed to the novel coronavirus. the first is to test for the presence of the virus.

that's generally with a swab of your nose or throat. that's kind of the test that is so hard to come by in this country. that's the test that actually tests for the virus, for the antigen itself. the second way is to test your blood for antibodies to the virus. so if you've got the virus, and your body fought it off, your body made and used coronavirus antibodies in that fight. and with a relatively simple cheap quick blood test, doctors can tell whether you have those antibodies, and therefore whether or not you've been exposed. today, the u.k. said they would try to go ahead with antibody testing of the british population on a mass scale. they said they've already ordered 3.5 million antibody tests and they're in the process of ordering millions more. the antibody testing advantage, as i mentioned is in part speed and ease. compared to the kinds of tests that look for the virus itself, antibody testing is quick, relatively easy and relatively cheap.

it therefore does have the pablts of being use, have the possibility of being used on a mass scale and it could be helpful, to reveal how far the virus has spread through a particular community and could potentially reveal whether people who have recovered from the virus may be immune from it, at least for a while, and it may be very important in thinking about people relieving overworked health workers or restart parts of the economy. it turns out the brits are not the only ones getting ready to deploy antibody testing at large scale a company in colorado is going to try antibody testing, that entire county, for free. and it comes out of an unusual set of circumstances in san miguel county, colorado. two biotech executives happened to own a home in the ritzy ski town of telluride colorado and they decided to offer antibody testing to all of the roughly 8,000 residents of telluride and the surrounding county of san miguel for free. the county plans on testing everyone, regardless of any symptoms or any known contact

with anyone who has the coronavirus. san miguel county says they have already tested all of the first responders of the county and their families, and that was 645 tests, and now they're going to start testing everyone else. they're going to roll it out in phases and try to get to every single person in the county. and when do you that, when you approach it that way, when you test an entire community, you end up providing individual people with individually interesting data, people find out if they've got antibodies to the virus, but i may also see things in the data that couldn't have been apparent through any other approach. in iceland, for example they tried large-scale testing in that small island nation. that thus far has shown not just who had the virus, so they could be isolated, to stop it from spreading any further, but also, that iceland mass testing program, showed that half of the people who tested positive were asymptomatic. which ends up being a very big piece of information, not just about iceland but about this

virus. with this new round of testing in this one county of testing will show us about it here in colorado. and joining us is dr. deanna kollger, deputy medical officer for san miguel county colorado, and coordinating this antibody testing. thanks for joining us. let me ask you, if i explained that right or if i got anything wrong about what you guys are doing in san miguel county? >> hi, rachel. you got it exactly correct. you covered all of the bases and we're super excited to be able to offer this to the members of our county. >> can you describe for us how the antibody test is administered, how long it takes to get results, and how confident you are in the antibody test that you are going to be using? >> sure. the antibody test is specifically a test for igg antibody, so the type of antibody that is produced usually about eight to ten days

after infection. this test is a blood test, a serum test, that has a relatively short turn-around time, less than a couple of days, is our plan, and as you said earlier, it really allows us to do mass testing, and gives us a better idea of the prevalence of the virus in our county. currently, we have been able to do some of the nasal swab tests, about 150, in the past few weeks, and 100 of those were done with our state cdp, our state public health facilitated with the national guard. unfortunately out of those 150 tests, we had one positive, but we've only had 24 results, and so the testing not only has it been unavailable, but it's been

woefully inadequate as far as the time it takes to get those results back. this blood testing in contrast, we're hoping to be able to test everybody in our county, once, and then again, 14 days later, so that we can really see who has seen the virus, who has created antibodies, and perhaps is immune to it, and who hasn't had any evidence in their bloodstream of having made any antibodies. it's going to help us make some decisions moving forward. >> and from what i understand, there's between eight and 9,000 people in the county, i know you guys do want this to be universal, and it's free to everybody, to get tested, but you're asking for two blood test, right, 14 days apart, and obviously, this is unusual, this is not the kind of testing regime that is in place anywhere else in the country. how do people in the county feel about it? do you think you are going to get people mostly wanting to

participate, are there people who don't want be to a part of it? >> i think there probably are opinions all over the map. i do think that our community has definitely stepped up and has been very cooperative in our shelter in place orders, that we placed last week. and they're observing the social distancing rules that help us to stop or slow the transmission of this virus, and i think people are anxious to have some answers. i think we have not been able to provide them with a good estimation of how much prevalence we have in our counties. so i think people will be happy to be able to get that information. i think it's going to allay some fears, if we have really a good understanding of how much

covid-19 is here in san miguel county. and a lot of the responses that i've gotten from people is that they are thankful that we have this opportunity, and they're encouraging, you know, their friends and neighbors, to participate, because i really feel like the best information is going to come if everybody really does participate and it gives us an idea of where we are, and it will help us, moving forward, as we perhaps start to be able to consider loosening some of these restrictions that are there for a very good reason, but once we have some information, some data, i think we can reconsider those at a later date. >> fascinating, essentially pilot project, for the country, and in a community that is uniquely positioned to be able to do this. dr. deanna koellker, medical

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changes lives everywhere. everywhere. everywhere. everywhere. everywhere. here's how the "washington post" headlines the situation tonight. quote, scramble for medical equipment descends into chaos as u.s. states and hospitals compete for rare supplies. a mad scramble for masks, gowns, and ventilators is pitting states against each other, and driving up prices. hospitals are requesting donations of masks and gloves from construction companies, nail salons, tattoo parlors, they're considering using ventilators designed for large animals. because they cannot find the kind made for people. illinois governor jb pritzker says in conversations with ventilator maker, one company said i was competing with fema for ventilators and i called

another manufacturer and he pointed out that i would be competing with countries other than the united states. i better put in as big of an order as possible in order to put myself higher on the list of priority. state officials and health care leaders are begging the federal government to use a war time law to bring order and ensure the u.s. has the gear it needs to battle the coronavirus but so far the trump administration has declined. the president has talked about using a war-time law to try to bring order, and try to impose the power of the federal government to try to organize, mandate, and meaningfully distribute the medical supply chain in this country. he's talked about it. so far hasn't done it. and when the federal government is acting on trying to provide medical supplies it doesn't seem to be doing a particularly good job of it. state officials today telling abc news, what little they are getting from the federal stockpile in terms of supplies includes a bunch of old and

expired equipment. new york city says they've gotten 78,000 of the 2.2 million n95 masks they asked for from the feds, again 78,000 of the 2.2 million they asked for, the city health department says many of the ones they did get are expired. of course, they'll take them. but that's not ideal. the organi oregon governor's office says they received a percentage of the n95 gowns and masks and what we are receiving are well past expiration dates and wouldn't be suitable for surgical settings. but hey in the words of one pennsylvania health official, quote, a mask is better than no mask. that's where we are right now. the need to nationalize the medical equipment supply chain, to put the power of the federal government to make the supply chain of this stuff better, to rationalize it, to make order out of the chaos, to get enough supplies and quality supplies to where they are needed and to

have the states stop competing against each other and driving these bidding wars. this is not an abstract concept anymore. why isn't this happening? connecticut senator chris murphy tweeting this afternoon, quote, just off the phone with the president of one of connecticut's busiest hospitals. they have enough tests to last three days. and their supplier just called, the next shipment isn't coming. president trump federalize the medical equipment supply chain. lives are at stake. hospitals in hard-hit areas are already reporting they are days away from running out of key supplies, at a time when the number of covid-19 cases in this country is just skyrocketing. we're going to go live, to one of the first epicenters of the outbreak in this country, a place that took some of the earliest steps to fight it, and a place that may just now be starting to reap the benefit of having taken those early measures. that story is next. fact is, every insurance company hopes you drive safely.

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the first known coronavirus cluster in the eastern united states popped up in westchester county forth of new yonorth of n the town of new rochelle. of new york's first 11 cases, ten were in rochelle. a lawyer who worked in manhattan commute in and out contracted the virus and seems to have passed it on to his own family members and they passed it on to others. within a week of the first case being discovered, within a week the number of known cases spiked to over 100. that lead governor andrew cuomo on march 10th, the establishment of an unprecedented one-mile containment zone in new rochelle. schools, places of worship and major gathering spots were closed and the national guard was sent in to deliver food and clean the area. it was the first effort of its kind in the u.s. to try to slow the spread of the virus by

keeping people in their homes and keeping people from going out. that decision in new rochelle to institute those early distancing measures maybe appears to have started paying off. the latest numbers from new rochelle shows two weeks after the measures were put in place, the spread in the city is starting to slow. and it's a bit of a controlled experiment here because while new rochelle was subjected on march 10th, the rest of westchester county did it last week when it went statewide and the county as a whole the number of cases continues to rise in a way we're no longer seeing in new rochelle specifically because they specifically acted and made a difference. these rules appear to make a difference. joining us now is westchester county executive. thanks for being with us. let me start by asking if i got

anything wrong or said anything that seems wrong about the situation in your county and 23new rochelle. >> no, you summarized it well. it a story in progress but we're encouraged by what we've seen so far. >> i do know that the number of cases in your county continue to rise but you do have what appears to be a success story in new rochelle where the numbers, the rise each day seems to have come to a halt. is there something specific about what new rochelle did that is not being done statewide and therefore in the county there? is there something else we should be learning with public policy from new rochell eere's experience. >> the shutdown and credit governor cuomo is seen as severe at the time but it jarred people into realizing that this was a

very serious contagion moving rapidly. within a few days we jumped to over 100 cases. we've done just about the number of cases, slightly more. in the last three days, we've had three cases. i don't know what the tremd lnd lines will show in the future. we saw in shutting down the schools and country clubs, houses of worship, the religious services were shut down in christian and jewish faiths, it stopped people from congregating and spreading the virus quickly. the fact the virus is still there but looking overall, we've tested with more cases per capita than any county in the country but we're hoping that what we're watching is the beginning of what we hope is the flattening of the curve that will save us in the long run. if it's accurate and if it's across the board. >> in terms of the large number of cases that you've done per capita in your county and the large number of cases you've

had, i know you asked for volunteers to come forward to help health care workers and support the health care system in your county. i understand quite a number of people have come forward and some started to be deployed to work with the department of health. what are you asking people to do as volunteers? how is that going? >> well, so far in making this general calling all nurses and doctors and other people who have experience in the health care field, we've gotten over 120 response, 90 plus nurse, 20 or so doctors and we know that when we hit the surge and governor ycuomo said we expect new york to be on the front end of the surge, possibly two weeks,less less or more. we've taken a facility we use for basketball tournaments and sporting events and prepared to turn it into an additional temporary hospital for overflow to take the 3,000 hospital beds

we normally have in westchester and trying to get the service personnel that can administer this with the physical spaces essential. your earlier story about having the ppes is essential, as well, the equipment and ventilators and things we and lock the government can't provide but this is an example of being prepare in advance and if we can do the right thing, hopefully we can keep this from peaking and save ourselves tragedy we've seen in europe and in asia. >> sir, i know this a trying time. thanks for making time to help us understand it. i really appreciate it. thank you. >> thank you, rachel. >> all right. we'll be right back. stay with us. more than ever, your home is your sanctuary. that's why lincoln offers complimentary pickup and delivery servicing. we'll pick up your vehicle and leave you with a lincoln loaner and the peace of mind that helps you focus on what matters most.

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. that's going to do it for us tonight. two things to watch for tomorrow. we'll get the numbers how many americans filed unemployment. for reference, the worst that has ever been before including in the great recession was on the order of about 700,000 unemployment claims over the course of a week. that's the record for the worst. experts are projecting that the number we'll get tomorrow is likely to be well into the millions. that will happen tomorrow. tomorrow night on this show, i'll tell you we'll be joined by lieutenant general, commander of the u.s. army corps of engineers. really looking forward to the