thanks to a young woman and a little dog who fought for her life -- and won. >> that's all for this edition of "dateline." i'm natalie morales. thanks for watching. first up on msnbc, dire warnings for the week ahead. as america reaches a grim milestone in the escalating battle against coronavirus. this is the moment to not be going to the grocery store, not going to the pharmacy. >> stay home. the most direct appeal for americans to shelter in place and not even go food shopping in the coming days. why this week? to the rescue. a new shipment of supplies to new york from an unexpected source. the latest on whether it will actually fill the city's needs. not a sign of the times. the beaches are suddenly open in one place. but the rest of the state is closed. details on a surprise reversal,

next. good morning to you. it is sunday, april 5th. i'm lindsay riser alongside kendis gibson. before we go into those headl e headlines, we're going to look at a very empty times square in new york city. >> striking. this is absolutely striking. on an early sunday morning when many people would be walking or many vehicles would be driving around. >> there's a car. >> there's a car. it is "i am legend" come to life right there in new york's times square. in the meantime, just about six hours away from new york city, right now, a live picture in the vatican. palm sunday ceremonies are taking place right now. these are live pictures. the pope was there just a moment ago. these are live pictures. they are doing a little bit of social distancing. the pope is 83 years old. he had been seen coughing over

the last few weeks. they're trying to make sure that his health is very, very, very taken care of in these times right now. palm sunday, one of the big and holiest holidays of the christian calendar there. we'll keep an eye on the pictures there. this morning, there's more than 300,000 cases of coronavirus in the u.s. 8,300 people have died. >> as the numbers surge to alarming new highs, president trump and the task force took to the podium with a stark, new warning about the week to come. >> this will be the toughest week, between this week and next week. there will be a lot of death, unfortunately. every decision we're making is made to save lives. we want to save lives. he want as few lives lost as possible. >> new york is receiving a donation, as 1,000 ventilators

sent from china arrived in what is the epicenter of the crisis in the u.s. the governor here, andrew cuomo, announcing the state of oregon is giving new york 140 ventilators. >> and in florida, passengers stuck on another coronavirus-stricken cruise ship finally allowed on land today. healthy passengers from "the karl princess" will disembark after weeks at sea. two people onboard the ship have died. others are showing symptoms of coronavirus. >> monica alba is live at the white house for us. so, the president, never one to be consistent, also talked about, again, reopening the country, even as the number of deaths near the peak. what's he saying on that? >> reporter: that's right. this is a message we've heard from the president consistently, when he originally floated that easter deadline a few weeks ago,

he conceded that was aspirational. we're on palm sunday, a week away from easter. and the country continues to be under the national guidelines, urging americans to stay at home. but that same briefing he was giving the grim warnings for americans to prepare, for his words, a lot of death, he did talk about the need for eventually, the economy to open up again, in some parts of the country. and he's floated a potential second coronavirus task force that would be dealing more with the economic issue. take a listen to how he framed it at yesterday's briefing. >> we have to get back to work. we have to open our country again. we have to open our country again. we don't want to be doing this for months and months and months. we're going to open our country again. this country wasn't meant for this. >> reporter: the president discussed his conversation with many of the heads of the major

sports leagues, saying there isn't a specific date yet when he thinks they might be back or arenas might be packed. but he wants that to be coming in the next few months is something for americans to look forward to. that was a little bit of the tone there yesterday. the other thing the president was discussing was this need to continue at least to follow the guidelines for the next few weeks. but he kept looking to his doctors, fauci and birx, on the stage with him, for more guidance on that. a really strong message came from dr. birx. she said, this isn't a moment to go to the grocery store, to go to the pharmacy, to go anywhere. her message was different in tone. she wants people to heed those warnings. >> that was a striking part. in all of the press conference, ignoring what the president said, dr. birx, saying, the next couple weeks are critical in us not going to the supermarket. do we get a sense that there

will be another press conference today? and hopefully, we'll have a consistent message? >> there isn't a briefing on the schedule yet. the vice president and the president did mention palm sunday a lot in their remarks yesterday. there's a possibility that today, they are taking that as more of a different kind of approach, where they may be taking more private celebrations. the president said he was going to be live streaming some church services today. we're not sure if there is one. there's been days in the last weeks where they added one late in the day. we'll look for that. they have been briefing consistently. today would be a break. and it's probably likely that the task force would meet remotely. and so, we'll get a sense of that, probably from the president's twitter feed in the next few hours. kend kendis? >> monica alba at the white house. you saw the pictures from the vatic vatican. that's how a lot of people will be celebrating palm sunday, by video. a lot of people will be live

streaming the services. thankfully so. by not gathering together. but still, celebrating as they would. >> and monica was talking about hot spots. new york remains the epicenter of the outbreak in the u.s., with almost 114,000 cases. eight other states have numbers in the tens of thousands. the latest numbers show, new york city now has nearly 61,000 cases, with almost 13,000 people in the hospital and more than 2,200 people have died. >> completely striking, as you look at the numbers. more than several other countries. our co-anchor is coming from the field hospital in central park. what kind of scene are you seeing there? it's the early morning hours but this is a city in dire need. >> it really is. and the activity doesn't stop. even if we don't see it inside those tents, those tents there's

5 icu patients and 30 patients total being treated for coronavirus. this field hospital has 68 beds. they've been set up since april 1st. they are work around the clock. they need more volunteers coming in to help out. at one point, they tell us, kendis and lindsay, they had eight ambulances waiting outside here at the entrance to the field hospital to get people if in and get patients treated. samaritans first created this. and they're partnering with mt. sinai across the street here in central park. this is another example of new york expanding available beds as everyone braces for the apex to hit. scientists believe it could happen in the next week or so. >> even as we listen to you there, you can hear the soundtrack that all of us living here in new york, sadly, have heard so much. all of the sirens. it has been blaring pretty much

24 hours out of the day. it's been rough. >> cori coffin, reporting from new york. 68 beds. any little bit helps at this point. msnbc medical contributor, dr. lippy roy. thank you for joining us on this sunday morning. we just heard that president trump says the toughest week is ahead. o are experts expecting a sharp rise in the cases? and will our hospital systems be able to hold up? i think we may be having an audio problem with her. let's try one more time. doctor, can you hear us? i think we're having an audio problem. you can understand, with all of the changes that we had to make. just take a look at the cases right there.

60,000 in new york city alone. there's many, many countries that have very few numbers compared to that. new york, by far, bypassing many other states. >> kendis, you were talking about the sirens being the soundtrack of the city. we know the naval ship "comfort" is only seeing a couple dozen patients for noncovid cases. we know the majority of people who are filling the hospitals, and turning them into icu areas. we know those patients are diagnosed with covid-19. >> and one of the troubling things that took in the overnight hours, friday into saturday, is that patients, five of them, got taken to "comfort." and they were coronavirus-positive patients. and that ship was not supposed to have any of those patients. that caused a little bit of confusion in the meantime. >> hopefully, we'll get dr dr. lippy roy back.

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welcome back. as we take a live look at san francisco. the bay bridge right there looking absolutely beautiful at 3:15 in the morning. san francisco, one of the cities that was ahead of the curve and making sure to shut things down well ahead of many other major cities. as a result, so far, at least, their numbers are down. >> dr. birx is seattle as one of the cities that took a grasp early. they're not dealing with catastrophic numbers, like other hot spots are. >> to pennsylvania in the meantime, the mayor or the governor there has been ahead of the curve, in particular,

philadelphia. the virus is dealing a major blow to the city's hospitality industry. as you can see there, as you look at the city hall right there, from market street, hotels have suspended operations. restaurants have closed their doors. and thousands of workers have been laid off. >> nbc's mahora barrett is ther. we saw you at an empty market that would normally be a sight of joy on a saturday morning. what are you seeing this morning? >> reporter: good morning, guys. i'm here in philadelphia's center city. and pennsylvania has 10,000 positive cases of covid-19. and here in philadelphia, there's 3,000, which is 30% of the cases. and philadelphia, as a city, is one that really relies on tourism and hospitality. you could be able to see the art museum, and city hall is across from me.

this is an area that tourists flock to get a dose of history in the united states. all of that has come to a halt because of the spread of the coronavirus. hotels have closed. there's about 25 hotels in the area that have closed. nine major conventions and the convention center just around the corner. also canceled. that would have brought in about 50,000 people here to the city. and about 70 restaurants in the immediate city area are closed. those are the ones that are offering deliveries. takeout options and other restaurants are not able to offer those delivery or pickup options, as well. we're at the italian market, that has restaurants along there. and we met the restaurant owner. he owns a bunch of locations. they had to close their flagship and catering in an event business. they have other essential business store fronts that can keep him going. he spoke about how hard it is to see his workers and his fellow business owners suffering during this time. here's what he had to say.

>> you know, when you're talking about this uncertain era, the stress levels go up. i was never -- i was never the person that took on a whole lot of stress or felt a lot of stress. you know, i can certainly see, you know, now, i get a little nervous. >> it's easy for the business owners to get nervous because emilio, in particular, as he closed the restaurant and the catering business, he had 100 workers he had to reallocate and find other jobs. he has some of them sanitizing other businesses. other restaurants don't have the luxury of having locations. they're left laying off workers, often with no guidelines of when they can come back into business. and so, unfortunately, like we talked about yesterday, kendis and lindsey, pennsylvania's unemployment claims are very high because the governor shut down a lot of the nonessential businesses earlier here in pennsylvania. because of the restaurant workers, other businesses around the country, shutting down,

we'll see some of the unemployment numbers spiking across the country going forward. >> maura, looking at unemployment numbers right there from the state of pennsylvania. it had been one of the battleground states for the elections in 2016. it will be again. and of course, as we look at those numbers, realize that employment will be one. maura barrett joining us from john f. kennedy boulevard, if you know the philadelphia area and the love statue. a city in need of a lot of love right now. >> notorious there on a sunday. we're getting new insight this morning how the research community, from around the world, is banding together to stop the spread of coronavirus. >> it's a subject of an article by matt abupuzzbuspuzzo of "the times." matt, good morning to you. what kind of cooperation are we seeing right now? this is not just happening in the u.s. your article mentions that we've listed them here.

universities all around the globe, among them. >> yeah. and it's not hiyperbole to say, that never before in the history of mankind, have so many scientists come together so urgently around the world to focus on one thing. in many laboratories around the world, all other research has ground to a halt because unless you're doing coronavirus research, your labs aren't open, you can't get to work. you are seeing extraordinary collaboration across borders, which is remarkable at a time when borders have been shut down for travel and political leaders from all countries, talk about how they lock down the borders. science is going completely another direction. you're seeing academic researchers who are setting aside the normal competitive

tendencies for publications. you're seeing them set that aside. as soon as they have development, rather than have sit on it and write a journal article that gets it published that turns into fetenure or a grant, they're on conference calls. there's hundreds of journal articles that are getting shared regularly that are prepublication serves in volumes we've never seen before. it's an incredible collaboration that scientists are marvingle at. >> one you talked to, there's plenty of time to get papers published. they're working towards a larger goal. what is it they're working towards and setting aside the personal career worries, really. >> well, there's a number of different things in the works. obviously, the race for the vaccine is the one that is the most nationalistic terms, in the

united states and china, like an arms race. but you're seeing a huge investment in vaccine research from the nonprofit sector. historically, vaccines have not been big moneymakers from the drug companies. it's driven by the nonprofit sector. and you're seeing a huge increase in the amount of pure science being done, just based on the genome of the virus, this lab science of the virus. and you're seeing a really rapid growth in the number of clinical trials for treatments. most of these are drugs that are on the market that doctors are testing in hospitals to see if they will actually help the outcomes of patients who already have the virus. you're really seeing a multi-pronged approach here. >> matt, in the meantime, how optimistic are the researchers

that you've spoken with? do they have any sense of a timeline for a vaccine or just treatment? >> i think what they say is, if you're counting on a vaccine to be the thing that opens up borders and gets the economies of the world back going, it will be a long wait and the economic pain will be severe. that's not something they can turnaround. and the big fear is turning around a vaccine that doesn't work or has side effects. so, while they're moving, obviously, at a pace, in that regard, they're also saying, we want to be cautious, we want to be cautious. one of the things you're hoping here is that the social distancing and the travel limitations take hold and slow the virus to the point where the medical facilities have it under control and the doctors can get it under control, in time for them to find a treatment. i think treatments and

mitigation are going to come before vaccines. >> i think a lot of us, when we think about the gears of science, they turn pretty slowly when you think about studies and all that needs to go into publishing a paper and having results. one doctor that you talked to, said this should be a lesson for the future. what did he mean by that? >> i think, historically, in academic research. academic medical research can be done very secretly because your professional career depends on being first to publish. they refer to it in the same way journalists refer to it. they want scoops. they want to be the fist to publish. and the difference between getting tenure and getting that grant can be being the first to publish and being the second to publish. that's the foundation of many academic institutions when it comes to medical research. and the doctors i spoke to were saying, maybe this is the moment when we can move away from that

model. and the other doctors i was talking to, were saying, it's also time to really look at the red tape around getting clinical trials set up. in italy, they got clinical trials set up in ten days, without, you know, getting rid of the safety steps. so, they're saying, if it can be done in ten days, in a crisis, maybe we can shorten that afterwards. i think this is going to have a real legacy effect on the way medical research gets done long after we're through this. >> ten days in italy, usually that stuff takes about ten months with the fda back here in the u.s. mat apuzzo joining us from brussels, belgium, thank you. coming up, thousands of applicants, zero loans. part of the relief package that's supposed to be a lifeline for millions that's failed to launch. and the nurse who traveled across the country and is putting her life at risk to fight on the front lines. what she's seeing firsthand in

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welcome back, everybody. here's the latest headlines in the coronavirus pandemic. new antibody testing at a stanford university drive-through site is looking to see how many people have already had the virus. and doctors will determine if someone is immune. results could be available as early as today. >> getting a finger trick. just a drop of blood. and what we're looking for in the blood are antibodies, what our body creates in response to the virus. >> this is striking. united airlines is cutting 90% of flights in and out of new york. and its main airport in new jersey. it will drop from 139 flights to 15, serving just 9 destinations. and new york's la guardia will go from 18 to just 2 flights a day. the company says all employees will continue to be paid and

receive benefits. the suspension is expected to last at least three weeks. in georgia, the state is under a state-at-home order. but that doesn't apply to beaches and parks. those are all still open. governor brian kemp reversing an order to close them. when he gave the shelter-in-place order, he just learned that people could pass covid-19 when they're asymptomatic, that medical experts have been saying for quite some time. this is a move that has angled some in the state. since the gyms are closed, beaches and parks need to be open. gatherings are banned and people must maintain distance in public. d kendis and i have noticed that when the weather is out there, you can't keep six feet out there on a path. the numbers continue to rise. there's 300,000 confirmed cases in the u.s. more than 8,000 people have

died. next, we want to get back to msnbc medical contributor dr dr. lippy roy. >> i can hear you. >> dr. roy, we heard president trump, a little earlier, say that the toughest week -- weeks are ahead. are experts expecting a sharp rise in the cases? >> it does look like the united states, in terms of case load and death, sadly, continues to rise. in other countries like italy and spain, as well as we know, china, have already reached the plateau and are coming down. united states is nowhere close to that. >> dr. birx had a similar message yesterday, telling people to stay home. let's listen to that. >> the next two weeks are extraordinarily important. that's why you heard from dr. fauci, from myself, and the president and the vice

president, this is the moment to do everything that you can on the presidential guidelines. this is the moment to not be going to the grocery store, not going to the pharmacy, but doing everything you can to keep your family and your friends safe. and that means everybody doing the six feet distancing, washing your hands. >> dr. roy, is the idea here that they don't want this to become white noise for americans? why this message now? >> yeah. so, i think different parts of the country are hearing a different message. i think part of that is because the different governors are still not implementing a stay-at-home proed cotocols for states. the message remains the same from the public health field. and if anything, it's being comply ifcomp comply amplified, really staying at home and maintaining distance.

grocery stores and farm pharmac those are exceptions to the stay-at-home rule. they're considered essential services. people need to get groceries and medications. they need to practice wearing, covering their mouth, things like that. >> there is a moment that really stuck out with the president yesterday. he said that people who have lupus aren't getting coronavirus because of the drug -- the unique drug they're taking. is there any truth to that? >> so, my message to the public would be to obtain their medical and health advise from medical and health professionals. >> not from the president? >> shocking, i know, right? this is not a political thing, no matter who the president is. talk to your own doctor. if you have lupus or rheumatoid

arthrit arthritis, or any condition that you are taking medications, talk to your own physician or health care provider. but regarding the medication, hydro hydroxychloroquine, this is in the public. we do not have its efficacy towards covid-19 infections specifically. that's the data we're waiting for. >> and "the washington post" reports that coronavirus is killing more men than women, according to numbers in new york city. men make up 59% of hospitalizations and 62% of deaths. do we know why? >> yeah. that's a really good question. that's coming up a lot. so, there's a study from china, looking at their number of people. maybe 300 people or they obtained plasma. it indicates that women are producing more antibodies which may confer some immunity.

but we need more data. i don't want the message to be out there that women are more immune, and therefore, they can go out and do everything. i don't want that to be the message. generally, men and women have the same immune system and immunity. we need more data to draw any type of conclusion. >> we're only three months into this, into the study of this particular disease. back in early february, though, there were a whole lot of people that were feeling flu-like symptoms but testing negative for the flu. is it possible that some of them had covid-19 and didn't know it? >> any of that is possible. as we heard this theme, time and time again, testing, testing, testing. we're now ramping up our testing. we certainly were not doing this on a wide scale back in january, when we had our first case, which seems like ages ago. we really need to do widespread testing. and now, the message is to test it among asymptomatic people to

get some sense. we can get a sense of who is carrying t inin ining the antib is immune. we need more data. >> dr. lipi roy, thank you for your time this morning. now, to an alarming report about business survival in the economic slowdown. technical issues and overload of applications is causing small business loans to be delayed. >> a new survey of small business owners show 75% think they can last beyond one month. 58% think they can survive just three months. >> let's go to sabeel marsalis joining us now. the online systems are crashing. banks are telling msnbc they're waiting for the administration to weigh in on the components of the program. but the president says, the program is ahead of schedule, he didn't hear of any glitch. what are you hearing about the

mallout? >> i'm hearing tons of frustration in the delays of getting the loans processed and in the hands of small businesses as quickly as possible. on friday, when the program launched, we're talked about $349 billion in loans, that were supposed to be made available to millions of small businesses across the country, as a part of the $2 trillion fiscal stimulus package. i talked to the owner of three restaurants in manhattan in new york city. and i asked him, how did it go? did you apply? he did not apply because his lender, jpmorgan chase, told him there were glitches and problems with the system and he should wait until middle of next week. that echoes what many small businesses are feeling with the launch of this program and the millions of problems they've been facing. the small business administration yesterday morning apologized to lenders for the glitches. lenders were having trouble

creating new passwords and new log-ins and all of that is delayed. this is a first come/first served bases. if small businesses aren't able to get the loans processed as quickly as possible, they may miss out on this pot of money they really need right now. >> it sounds like the launch of healthcare.gov all over again. you heard about major restaurants losing $25 million in the first 22 days of march, along with 3 million jobs. what is the possible path to recovery? >> right. restaurants are hit really hard with all the forced closures. the national restaurant association is saying in the first 22 days of march, they lost $25 billion in sales and more than 3 million jobs. so, they've been severely impacted by all this. we got the march jobs report.

that was the first negative number we got in terms of jobs in nearly a decade. 701,000 jobs were lost. that doesn't account for the 10 million people who lost their jobs in just two weeks. so, when it comes to what the april jobs report is going to look like, those numb mrers are going to be massive. >> you said the restaurant owner you talked to was told to wait until mid next week for the funds. maybe some of the businesses can't wait that long. thank you. >> that's why i'm doing a lot of take-out. the other reason being, i can't cook. denial and -- denial and dysfunction. >> a new report this morning on president trump's early response to the threat of coronavirus. and it raises some questions about how seriously the president sees the threat and what he'll do to fight it.

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here's a live look at st. louis this morning. and on monday, tomorrow, missouri will become the 442nd state to undergo a staty-at-hom orders. the state, announced on friday, will be staying home. >> finally. about time. as our nation grapples with a worsening crisis, "the washington post" reports the u.s. was beset by denial and dysfunction, as covid-19 raged. >> according to the paper, the trump administration received's first notification of the

outbreak in china on january 3rd. within days, u.s. spy agencies were signaling the seriousness of the threat to trump, by including a warning about coronavirus, the first of many, in the president's daily brief. and it took 70 days from the initial notification for trump to treat the coronavirus. not as a distant threat or harmless flu strain, but as a lethal force that was poised to kill tens of thousands of citizens. >> a senior politics reporter from "business insider" is here with us. >> after conducting 47 interviews with administration officials, "the post" learned that despite the activity, trump was not substantially briefed by health officials until january 18th and before hhs secretary alex azar could get a word in, trump cut him off to talk about his handle on an aboarded federal plan on vaping products.

do you think aides should have been more forceful? >> leadership comes from the top-down. it seems that trump completely dropped the ball here. the administration, sure, should have given him more of a substantial briefing before january 18th. but trump didn't want to hear it. he was generally more concerned about the economy. you know, continuing to present a rosey picture of how things are going, and his re-election prospects, than taking the coronavirus seriously. >> this is the biggest intelligence screw-up since 9/11. how much time was the two-month stretch before the president finally took the coronavirus as a serious and deadly threat? >> sorry, kendis, you cut out a bit. i must have a poor connection.

>> were there signals that were missed? >> absolutely. mainly by trump, though. we do know he was briefed by intelligence officials about the possibility of a pandemic as early as january. and he continued to downplay the threat for weeks. we know that in late february, for example, he said that the number of cases of coronavirus would be down to zero within a couple of days. i mean, that's a quote that will live in infamy, to quote fdr. we know we're well over 300,000 cases and thousands upon thousands of deaths. and we will likely see more. i was speaking with public health experts in early march who warned that because of trump downplaying the threat and ignoring the sicience, they say it -- of deaths. >> thanks for joining us this morning. >> john, our thoughts with you and your family. i know you lost your uncle as a result of all of this.

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to do more to sound the covid-19 alarm in black communities. joining us now is a former congressional press secretary for house democrats and wrote about all of this in "blavity." thank you for being here. you say telling black americans to wash their hands, stand six feet apart is just not enough nor is it reflective of the alarming statistics so easily available and yet remain untold by health agencies. what do you mean? >> absolutely. this came to me because i live uptown in harlem and when i go out, i hear things off the street, people talking, music playing like a typical spring day in new york city. we're not in a typical spring day in new york city. there's an entire pandemic going around. when i say that, i'm saying that i think health officials need to aggressively approach communities of color with this

information. the stats are out there. i found them. i'm not a medical expert or anything like that but i am curious about how these issues are impacting the community that i live in. when you think of the fact black people are more likely to die from asthma, they are more likely to be diagnosed with lung cancer, when we think about those people that are vulnerable we're talking about people of color. when we're talking about the underlying issues, a lot of those issues impact people of color more than any other demographic. >> and you were saying you live in harlem jouptown and there ar differences in the image of time square, lower manhattan, and tweeted don't be fooled by those pictures. that is not reality. so kind of take us through what you are seeing, what is reality? >> well, the reality is that times square and down by rockefeller center, a lot of those places are going to be empty because the tourists are

just not really coming to new york city right now, but what i'm seeing in my community is i see a lot of people still sort of hanging out. i still see people riding their motor bikes down the street. i can still hear people outside talking, as i said before. and i'm not trying to blame these people for what's happening to them, because we know that communities of color have consistently been impacted by environmental justice many times. but at the same time there has to be this aggressive approach. if you think about in milwaukee, for instance, they have more than 1,100 cases, right? 521 of those positive cases in milwaukee are black people. that is a xrem compared to 272 white. we have to take an aggressive approach to make sure we are utilizing whatever resources we have to communicate with these people to let them know they are

in serious danger. >> and really quickly here, it's not just milwaukee, we have the cities that are growing -- detroit, d.c., new orleans, once referred to as chocolate city. you can take a look at many of these cities and realize many of these cities are being targeted by the coronavirus and those are cities that are predominantly black. >> i saw this tweet that showed the number of cases uptown. when i think about the fact more than 50% of people testing positive for covid are from my community, that is a problem. and the other thing we have to take into account is look at the people able to work from home. only 19% of black people and only 16% of hispanic are able to work from home this is also a reason we're seeing those high number of cases, so there needs to be a better job done to make sure the information is getting out there to communities of

color to say stay home. >> absolutely. rochelle is saying we shouldn't just have the breakdown of the ages but of who exactly are dying from this virus. >> thank you. >> and we do thank you, everybody, for watching. >> we'll be back next saturday at 6:00 a.m. eastern. up next alex witt talks to an emergency room doctor about what it's like on the front lines and what he expects to happen in the coming week. ♪ this is my body of proof. proof i can fight moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis. proof i can fight psoriatic arthritis... ...with humira. proof of less joint pain... ...and clearer skin in psa. humira targets and blocks a source of inflammation that contributes to joint pain and irreversible damage. humira can lower your ability to fight infections. serious and sometimes fatal infections, including tuberculosis, and cancers,

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