just use good hygiene and go on vacation >> that's a perfect point to bring in meg tirrell, with the dow down about 1,000 points this afternoon. the ten-year yield, below 10%. >>> let's get to the very latest in the coronavirus outbreak. the case number in the u.s. are continuing to grow that might be one other catalyst for the market meg, why don't we start here meg tirrell here with the latest >> in new york, the total cases doubled overnight to 22. eight new case tied to the attorney in westchester county two new cases in new york city and one in long island cuomo saying the number will go up because we're continuing to test more and more and testing capacity is beginning to expand across the country after an initial slow start. the cdc is shipping more test s academic labs are bringing their own tests on online. the world health organization is saying it's advocating aggressive preparenesses to governments across the globe saying it's concerned that some haven't taken the threat seriously enough or decided the there's nothing they could do. >> meg, let's get do it. i heard that t

and meg tirrell has the latest on the coronavirus outbreak. i'll be watching the fallout for the banks. pete is joining us yesterday, today two very different days have you chanced what you've been doing >> have not. this is a classic buy the rumor/sell the news type of trade. it was tell graphed friday and over the weekend we're trading higher eventually. >> you still think we go long you do think the panic is overblown. i am in the life sciences. i know some of the things going on that are not well publicized, but they're out there. it's moore pernicious, and now it's on our shores, and that's the big concern. it is a virus that i do believe that at the end of this quarter, a few months, we'll be seeing the light at the end of the tunnel and the markets will trade back higher. >> over to bob pisani. a flight to saved, we talked about what's going on here, but gold's big rally moving up two, three, four, 5%. a positive reaction, a little less enthusiastic than it was earlier in the day all of them are to the up side here what else can be done

meg tirrell is here with the details a the a safe distance. meg? >> hey, kelly. the numbers, of course, across the united states are still rising but we are seeing glimmers of progress that was the word that dr. anthony fauci used this morning talking to cnn and those glimmers are in a few different places the first is in seattle. according to two different reports cited by the public health department a study of mobility using mobility data essentially from people's facebook apps showed that mobility declined in march and transmission reduced in san francisco some hospitals reported cases leveling off. kaiser and ucf here in new york, governor cuomo talking yesterday about icu admissions rate here slowing from doubling every two days to yesterday doubling every six days and saw updated numbers the case numbers are bad but the trend continuing kinsa tracks fever data. they have a million of the thermometers across the country and they have a map here showing the decline over seven days in that fever data across the country. experts say you can use this as an indi

let's get to meg tirrell who joins us with the latest on the coronavirus outbreak. >> that $8 billionat the novel coronavirus expected to go to a vote in the house potentially later today. this as vice president mike pence who is leading the u.s. response to the coronavirus said the cdc would lift all restrictions on testing so that, quote, any american can be tested, no restrictions subject to doctor's orders the testing capacity is still ramping up with doubts about how close the country actually is to the one million test capacity cited by the fda commissioner. case counts are growing in the u.s. reaching 135 across 16 states that includes six new cases in l.a. county and four more in new york l.a. county declaring a local emergency today though it notes it hasn't detected cases spreading in the community yet in new york the four new cases all connected to the west chester patient identified yesterday. >> meg, come on over so there's too many questions i think right now, one is about the severity of coronavirus itself do we know the recovery rates of anybody who has been affected?

. >> the dow up more than 100 points over to meg tirrell who has a look at the latest efforts to flatten the coronavirus curve. >> good morning. while efforts might be working in certain parts of the country they are saying without a coordinated national strategy the country is not going to see its curve flatten or efforts to do so could be slowed. to check this out graphs two counties experiencing different things right now one is westchester which we know was the site of one of the earliest outbreaks in the united states that's on the left new daily cases. governor cuomo saying yesterday, good news, those look like they're ticking lower. on the right or leans parish where new orleans is, that is starting to tick up at an alarming rate. louisiana has now put into place a stay at home order for the entire state that happened later than we've seen in other states this is a chart from evercorps along with updated data we've added to it, showing statewide stay at home orders. some states have it at the local level like texas and florida and you are starting to see cases tick up in those pla

let's get to meg tirrell for the latest on the virus outbreak >> hey, wilf, the case numbers continuerise in the united states king county, washington bringing the total of the country to six. health concerns are concerned about an outbreak in a seattle suburb where some were residents, more than 50 residents and workers have shown symptoms of the the total case is now more than 100, including the first case in new york city and new cases in florida, rhode island, oregon and more. illinois, the chicago board of election discussing plans to keep voters safe in new york, new cleaning protocols for schools and public transportation, including uses bleach in washington state, plans for isolation centers. the spread, of course, also continues around the globe with almost nine times as many cases record outside of china. which is the most closely watching outbreak in south korea, italy and japan sara >> meg tirrell, thank you. >>> we've got a market flash now on microchip technology. >> now issuing a warning, saying they are seeing in their word, very weak demand in asia, especially in chin

stepped up meg tirrell is here. meg? >> hi, kelly cdc director dr. redfield telling congress there will be a strategy for the coronavirus today, a framework for each state and new york announcing a mitigation frame work as cases grew to 108. schools and other public gathering places in a 1-mile radius of the epicenter closed for two weeks starting thursday. the state will also bring in the national guard to assist in its response total new york state cases rose by 31 today to 173 including a near doubling of cases in new york city to 36 and finally an update on a possible treatment. it's used on a space for a number of people in washington state. the cdc director said today noting there should be data on whether it works by april an saying, quote, that's important because that's a drug to save lives if it works. >> that would be great going back to new rochelle seeing this -- >> containment. >> containment it is not a full quarantine it sounds like. not saying you have to stay at home perhaps thinking that's too draconian but they could still travel

meg tirrell joins us on the phone with that news meg? >> reporter: good morning, guys. this is positive news. it is very early, but regeneron says it is speeding up its time line to get doses of potential drugs for the coronavirus ready to start human clinical trials by early summer. this is a different program than the one we've been talking about yesterday with regeneron's rheumatoid arthritis drug. simultaneously with that, the company is developing antibody based drugs, they can be both protective against the coronavirus infection and also treat the coronavirus infection. just two weeks ago the company had given us a time line when the ceo joined us on air saying by the end of the summer they aim to have hundreds of thousands of doses ready for human clinical trial now they are saying they aim to have some doses ready for clinical testing a couple of months earlier than that, by the beginning of the summer. this is good news. i talked to the chief scientific officer last night who told me things are going really well they're hitting all of their internal time lines.

mikael dolsten joins us with our own meg tirrell. back over to you. >> thank you for joining us by phone. tell us about this partnership and the time lines you're looking to start human clinical trials. >> thank you we are very pleased that we can extend our great partnership with biontech under these difficult times to rapidly, as a team, move forward to develop covid-19 vaccine and the timeline is very aggressive we hope within weeks to start dosing patients in u.s., germany and china. >> wow, that is very fast. and, of course, we know mederna working with the nih, is using a similar messenger rna technology the first patient was dosed yesterday. i understand they're concurrently running animal tests as they start that it's not the usual step-by-step process. is that what you're doing as well, to have that expedited timeline >> we have been a partner of biontech since two years ago, to disrupt the way you do flu vaccines, to get them better, more precise as we got to know more about covid-19 getting up to code and its behavior on h

china and italy to predict how our epidemic to play out, rbc updated the coronavirus model and meg tirrelloins us now meg? >> hi, kelly we showed you the graphs yesterday with rbc's modeling in the u.s. based on the numbers they saw in china and italy creating kind of an algorithm of what they expect to happen here in the u.s. and with case numbers here rising so quickly, now to more than 15,000, and what rbc and others are saying, they're seeing an uptick in hospitalizations due to influenza-like illness in new york city, suggesting that there could be an exponential growth in severe covid-19 cases requiring hospitalization and updated the chart. now the base case scenario has become that and this is the orange line to be looking at the dotted line where we were yesterday and the day before the orange line, solid line, where we are now they're seeing because of the surge in cases to see ic u capacity stressed by next week and seeing in the hospitalizations that's not due to flu that is what's really concerning people about the hospital's capacity right now. >> not only the coronavirus cur

it's all a question of what kind of tradeoff you're looking for >>> meg tirrell is at hq with the latest on the coronavirus. good morning >> good morning. with the veeirus reaching 105 countries, infecting more than 115,000 and killing more than 4,000, the world health organization saying the threat of a pandemic has been very real but it also said it would be the first pandemic in history that could be controlled. noting the actions of governments, businesses, communities and individuals can make a difference. we're seeing more stark action being taken around the globe the in italy a lockdown extended to all of its 60 million citizens some epidemiologists warning the u.s. is not taking the virus seriously enough dr. mike osterholm said this morning that washington is handling this like a d.c. blizzard, like it will pass. the cdc stepping up warnings to high-risk groups older people and those with underlying health conditions another doctor warning it's likely many will be exposed to the virus this year or next and people should stock up on medications, household items and groceries. vic

let's bring in meg tirrell now with the key developments. what can you tell us >> kelly, these timelines are just mind boggling for development. we have never heard of a vaccine get developed this quickly before johnson & johnson saying today it selected a lead candidate for the development, plans to start human testing in september potentially have that vaccine for broader rollout in early 2021 we have got to picture here to give you kind of a layout of where we are across the spectrum includi including ma der ma this month we can see multiple vaccines vanl in early to mid 2021 and not even counting developments coming from pfizer and santa fe not pictured here and a lots of shots on goal. j&j ceo said how this is a company's moonshot take a listen. >> we expect to begin first in human testing in september but in parallel as you know not only do you need a safe and effective vaccine but you need to have one that can be produced and very large volumes. we are going to be doing that at risk smimultaneously right here in the united states and

for now we're going to go to meg tirrell who joins us with the ceo of pharmaceutical company novartis meg? >> jon, thank you so much. joins us from bassle it's great to have you with us we want to ask you everything about what novartis is doing we know you're working as part of a major consortium with other science companies and the gates foundation as you're looking across the spectrum of academia and non-profits, what is the nearest term potential timeline for getting a drug that could help with covid-19? >> first, thanks, meg, with the opportunity to speak with the audience and take the opportunity to express thigh gratitude and my admiration for all of the health care workers, physicians, nurses, front line workers working tirelessly to ta on this pandemic we view it as our role to play our part in that fight i think right now there's three main groups of technologies that the industry is working on, novartis is working on some of them as well first is looking at existing medicines that we could repurpose to fight the virus or fight the immune response that is causing a lot of the

and the white house is loudly calling on big phrma to step into try to help meg tirrell with more. >> the president and the coronavirus task force meeting with the ceos of major drug and advantage e vaccine makers and research chiefs the president trying to go get a sense of time lines from these companies. we spoke just thousand about that with dr. shiver who had just come out of the meeting. >> we hope to have a vaccine in the clinic within a year or so and hopefully move quickly into development past that as we all see how the outspread of coronavirus changes or grows >> and eamon javers asking the president if he would consider allocating difficult funds to speed the work and trump jokingly responded that the industry has too much money already underlying some of the tension from the president whoer persistently attacked the industry for its high prices, now depending on that industry to speed a vaccine or drug to market >> meg, thank you very much. so let's talk about some of the biotech names. and let's be clear, we made cleans, there are two different types of companies here. t

i want to get over to meg tirrell who joins us with the combination and the data behind it meg. >> reportergood morning, andrew it's the combination of two existing drugs, one is hydroxychloroquine and one is azithromycin he's saying this has a real chance to be one of the biggest game changers in the history of the medicine hydroxychloroquine treats malaria and rheumatoid arthritis and a zit throw my sin is an antibiotic what he was referring to is a small study in france. 36 patients, 20 of whom are on treatment. those who took hydroxychloroquine, 57% cured in 6 days then when they looked at the combination with the antibiotic which was given to prevent secondary infections, 100% were cured at day 6 there are major caveats with the study. the small size that was only given to six patients concerns about cardiotoxicity. safety issues for the heart in particular of this combination still, many saying this is potentially promising and it needs to be tested more rigorously and on a larger scale. new york is starting to do this. the fda is shipping 10,000 doses of that combination for a trial

the number of coronavirus cases reaching a sad milestone now surpassing 100,000 worldwide meg tirrellhere with the very latest for us. >> 100,000 and growing cases stand at more than 101,000 with more than 3,400 deaths. outside of china south korea, iran and italy have the highest case counts with more than 4,000. the numbers climbing across europe, as well. we expect to get results sometime today from at least 45 people on the "grand princess" cruise ship as they had sampling kits yesterday it's been held off the coast of the san francisco. total cases in the u.s. past 240 including 11 more today in new york meanwhile, vice president mike pence visited washington state yesterday being greeted by the governor with an elbow bump. seattle and king county reporting 51 cases among the nation's hot spots for the virus. larry kudlow saying this morning there are places to avoid for now. >> we heard from the governor of pennsylvania and said presumed positive how much is that process slowing down what we know about where coronavirus is in this country but at the same time we don't want false

scary time right now thanks for being with us >> thanks, meg >> meg, our thanks to you as well, meg tirrell with the ceo of vertex. there will be impacts on the effects of coronavirus to other drugs in the pipeline. >>> coming up, small businesses were a big focus in this this stimulus bill but lots of questions remain who is eligible and how much can they get and state of the state. 9 economic slowdown will take its tolls on individuals and businesses but on states as well which will look at which ones could come under extreme stress as the downturn continues. a reminder, watch and listen to us live heon t app on the cnbc go app i just figured it out myself we're back in two. heading in a new direction. but when you're with fidelity, a partner who makes sure every step is clear, there's nothing to stop you from moving forward. outbaso now, you can enjoyure great steaks here...r, big game platters here... and date night essentials here. get free delivery when you order now through outback.com outback steakhouse. and sometimes, you can find yourself heading in a new direction. but when you'r

the world health organization declaring the coronavirus a pandemic, meg tirrell is here with the details and so much more of the action we have seen today. >> people say this was a delayed declaration. some experts calling for this to be made weeks ago. the world health organization said not just the concerning level of spread and severity but the inaction seeing from governments to not act quickly enough to combat the spread. i don't know if we have sound from the world health organization if we do, we'll play it now. >> w.h.o. has been assessing this outbreak around the clock and we're deeply concerned both by the alarming levels of spread and severity and by the alarming levels of inaction we have, therefore, met the assessment that covid-19 can be characterized as a pandemic. >> now, part of the reason they hadn't made this declaration earlier is worried about it sparking panic and said you need to be doing more around the world to stop the spread we don't have a vaccine. no immunity and no approved treatments only thing to do is try to slow the spread. >> i want to make sure everybo

meg tirrell. tune in to "mad money" today and regeneron ceo speaking with cramer tonight the worst day for the dow and the s&p since 1987, we dropped 13% on the bell yesterday. here you can see the comeback. it's a little bit of a comeback. dow up 3%. the nasdaq is up a little more th than 4% and it's been volatile within the dow let's take a look at the components. boeing and united technologies are the worst performers right now. boeing as you can see here is down about 4%, despite the president assuring the public an hour ago to look to support boeing if he can there the other laggards, united tech down and disney 2% today in terms of sectors, leerding the way today, utilities and consumer staples by far heading higher energy is only sector lower. consumer staples up 6% there's energy down 2% along with wti crude today nearing $28 a barrel just over that level right now. this after talk of further travel restrictions in the u.s nothing concrete yet and brian sullivan pointed out, saudi talking

>> you mentioned meg tirrell we will turn to meg now for the latest on the coronavirus. good morning >> good morning. case counts around the world climbing past 110,000 with almost 3,900 dead. more than 62,000 have recovered. china's new case counts are continuing to decline with wuhan closing 11 of its 14 makeshift hospitals. south korea, italy and iran case counts increasing case koin in the u.s. confirmed case numbers doubled over the weeken. washington state the hardest hit with an outbreak at a nursing home new york and california also reporting more than 100 cases each the grand ss due to dock today to move those on board to quarantine centers 21 people on board tested positive for the virus in massachusetts, 15 more cases announced yesterday all tied to a leadership meeting in boston for biogen in late february. though testing has been limited, officials say capacity is increasing dr. steven hahn on saturday said the cdc shipped enough tests for 75,000 people to health labs 1.1 million tests were shipped to nonpublic health labs with up to 1 million more shipping

meg tirrell is here with the latest at this hour. >> a lot of news this morning. cdc holding a briefing just now. a doctor saying based on the trajectory of the outbreak and a new virus and no immunity, likely many people in the u.s. this year or next many exposed and become sick. the risk grows with age and underlying conditions. the world health organization saying just now the threat of a pandemic is very real. but that it would be the first pandemic in history to be controlled and we are seeing countries taking more efforts to slow the virus' spread italy restricting the movement of 16 million people cities in ireland canceling the sainlt patrick's day parades and in the u.s. schools an universities closing temporarily and new york state governor cuomo announcing today is making hand sanitizer. >> okay. because we'll take - >> floral bouquet. >> great yes. that will take the edge off as we're rapidly trying to prevent the spread we appreciate it. >>> turning back to stocks, plummeting on coronavirus concerns and on the crash in oil prices over the weekend. rus

trading limit down by 1,191 points we would open down 131 on the s&p and nasdaq off by 396 points meg tirrelloins us with the latest on the outbreak and the latest headlines there meg. >> reporter: good morning again, becky. as the president announced the ban on travel from europe, the state department issuing a level 3 global health advisory from americans to reconsider travel abroad due to the global impact of covid-19. even countries where cases haven't been reported may restrict travel without notice this as the world health organization calling the disease a pandemic yesterday for the first time as it's now reached 118 countries infecting more than 127,000 people and killing 4700 director general saying today they're deeply concerned some countries are not approaching the threat with the level of political commitment needed to control it emphasizing that it's a time for countries to done down on actions like robust surveillance and reducing transmission by isolating as many cases as possible this as china declaring its epidemic past its peak according to johns hopkins data the country's

he know meg tirrell has a question. >> dr. bori o, it's a question for you.ou assess the testing capaci capacity we are seeing commercial companies come on. how are we doing how would you assess the messaging? and where do you expect us to be by the end of this week? >> the good news is today i believe the commercial developers, the big ones, are coming online and the capacity is going to increase significantly. the bad news or the good news is that we're going to be able to find a lot more cases that we know have been circulating in america and we're going to see how steep this epidemic curve is going to get we are just at the beginning of this epidemic here and the numbersare going to accelerate dramatically >> dr. borio, in terms of how quickly we can get even the testing done properly, i'm looking to new york -- at new york numbers, by the way, not to make this selfish about us right here, but over the weekend we went from 49 cases to 116. what multiple do you think is actually really out there right now? >> it's very difficult to predict, but i know that

meg tirrell has the latest for us, meg. >> hey, wilf, just new numbers from seattle and king county, one of the u.s. hot spots. 20 new cases bringing the total to 51, and one additional dead in new york cases doubling overnight to it 2. new jersey and tennessee reporting first cases, illinois reporting its fifth. some are related to travel, but a growing number have been detected in the community. total u.s. cases now approaches 200 in the u.s case numbers topping 97,800 with more than 3,300 deaths work continues to move quickly washington announcing it's begun encontrolling patients in the first trial. this is a vaccine developed by moderna with the nih they will enroll healthy adults in seattle between 18 and 55 years old. >> is there anything we can learn from south korea or italy, as it relates to some of these questions we're trying to tackle on the death, where this is going, how long it's going to last and how bad it will be? >> the last few questions are things people are trying to put a handle on. it's something i've been digging into today south korea's death rate is very l

"squawk on the street" is coming right back >>> welcome back let's get to meg tirrell for an update onhe coronavirus. >> some bright spots to tell you about. signs across the country that the social distancing measures are having an impact in seattle, the public health department there putting out two reports yesterday saying that data shows that there was a reduction in movement in early march for anonamized mobility data and the transmission rate of the virus has dropped. in san francisco, reports that some hospitals are seeing a leveling off in cases. and a company using digital thermometers shows fooefers are declining. the lighter areas are decreasing levels of fever across the country and public health experts are saying this could be a leading indicator of potential cases of covid-19. around here in new york, governor cuomo citing a slowing in the rate of icu admissions. they are still going up, we're still in a bad place here, but he's saying as of yesterday, that doubling is happening every six days from previously every two. scott gottlieb saying he thinks new york may be pot

meg tirrell, good morning. >> multiple cases in california, washington and oregon a nurse facility in seattle suburb has more than 50 residents and staff showing symptoms a patient has died bringing total deaths in the u.s. from the coronavirus to two experts suggest there are many more cases circulating an analysis in snohomish county, washington, suggests the virus may have been circulating there for six weeks and there could be 150 to 1500 cases already in the community there. the new york city also responding to its first case, a traveler from iran, governor andrew cuomo saying in a tweet this morning the patient lives in manhattan and had no symptoms upon arrival, noting she is a health care worker, knew to take precautions and didn't take public transportation. still the medical community on alert and doctors expressing concerns about a continued lack of coronavirus tests dr. matt mccarthy on "squawk box" saying he has to plead his case with the department of health in order to get a test and that he expects thousands of cases by next week this as pharmaceutical executives head

meanwhile, case and deaths have been on the decline, the most recent numbers are mixed meg tirrell joins more >> there's a lot of hope seeing those numbers decline in italy since saturday of both new daily cases and the number of deaths reported each day. however, yesterday we saw an uptick today we just got the update at 1:00 we did see them come down just slightly, so it almost looks the same on the last two graphs. what people are wondering is does this mean that there was a peak on saturday and we'll start to see a downtrend epidemiologists and public health experts are saying it is too soon you need at least two more weeks of data to see if the trend continues. harvard saying about four weeks from the lockdowns is when we should probably start seeing a real impact. as you can see here, italy expanded its lockdown nationwide on march 9th how does this compare with other countries and particularly us here in the united states? those horizontal lines, the blue, the green, the yellow, and the purple, those are asian countries which have managed to flatten the curve in the first 30 days

. >> meg tirrell knows some good epidemiologists. she will get us up to speed on the numbers. >> well, worldwide cases are growing to more than 121,000 with more than 4,300 deaths. about 55% of recorded cases have recovered according to john's hopkins data italy's cases topping 10,000 iran is at 9,000 new case numbers growing again today in south korea after five days of declines in germany, with more than 1,600 cases, chancellor angela merkel says the virus is likely to infect up to 75% of the population the united states has at least 31 deaths. washington's governor today expected to announce restrictions on large gatherings of people as this state contends with the most cases at 279 in new york, new rochelle due to close schools and pun gathering places around the outbreak tomorrow public health experts warning that the u.s. health system doesn't have capacity for a surge in critical patients vice president mike pence is due to meet with hospital executives this afternoon we'll hear testimony today at 9:30 from dr. anthony fauci,

. >>> welcome back let's get the latest on the coronavirus with meg tirrell. >> as cases mount around new measures are being taken to try to limit the virus spread in india's capital new delhi's school closures affecting more than 2 million children are ordered until the end of the month. public events and schools also shut down in iran. in the u.s. testing capacity is expanding with testing giant quest diagnostics announcing it will begin offering covid 19 tests starting monday. academic labs are developing their own tests after a delay in the roll out of those from the cdc. in new york city, mayor bill de blasio calling for fast federal action to increase testing capacity as he announced two more confirmed cases of likely community transmission new jersey and tennessee also reporting their first cases while in california the coast guard supplying test kits to the cruise ship quarantined off the coast that's been connected with the state's first death from the virus. carl >> thank you very much, meg. for more on the coronavirus impact and the market volatility we are joined at post 9

better than back hsh -ish >>> coronavirus on the travel front corporate news meg tirrell for the latest >> for the first time, the daily number of new deaths reported outside of china surpassed those reported in the country, suggesting as the "new york times" put it that the front line of the epidemic may be shifting experts are cautious though about declaring china out of the woods and are closely watching what happens as restrictions return and people are back to work south korea reporting more than 5,600 cases and iran almost 3,000. in italy, with more than 2,500 cases weighing plans to close schools for two weeks. india reporting its first cases yesterday, a traveler from italy and six of his family members. today the count of infections climbing to 28 in the u.s., more states reporting their first cases along with a report from new hampshire that a patient with the disease broke self-isolation and attended a party this as health officials still trying to get a handle on the key characteristics about this virus, including the fatality rate the world health organization saying global

meg tirrell joins us. >> chief scientist officer dr. dan sterron democrski. >> thank you. >> the bio company aseller ra, you're deriving antibodies from somebody who survived covid-19 to make a potential treatment? >> we're pleased to have the opportunity to collaborate with this company who has been innovative, moving with incredible speed they obtained a specimen from a spashts as you said, one of the first in the i need who had coronavirus and recovered from it presumably, the reason they recovered is their immune system was able to react to the virus they were able to isolate cells from the patient's body, identify the immune cells, and screen against the reaction against the virus and we're collaborating with them to turn some of the antibodies into drugs we hope to test in snisht patients. >> your timeline professionally four months until you get into human clinical trials. tell us about that timeline. >> you're absolutely right a project like this in another disease area could reasonably take years to go from starting a project t

. >>> let's check in with meg tirrell for the latest on the coronavirus back at hq >> the world health organization just now holding a briefing where the director general said to the business community in helping fight the spread of the coronavirus, quote, we need you. he said the w.h.o. is working with the world economic forum and has spoken with more than 200 ceos about how to protect staff and customers. this as case counts worldwide have now topped 100,000. with more than 3,400 dead. outside china numbers are highest in south korea, iran, italy, and germany they're climbing in the u.s. as well to now more than 230 as the country expands its testing capacity particular hot spots in the seattle area and northern california larry kudlow the president's chief economic adviser saying an hour to you david on "squawk on the street" that people should exercise common sense and avoid those places for now sara >> meg, thank you. we're ending a turbulent trading week for the markets on monday and wednesday we saw the dow surge. on tuesday and thursday stocks were deep in the red with the dow

meg tirrell is here with the headlines on that. see you, meg >> reporter: good to see you, becky. let's start with good news we don't get to talk about it very much. yesterday governor andrew cuomo pointing out that in westchester it appears new case numbers may be slowing he's saying we do know how to slow this and we can slow it and you can see here, the blue line is westchester county those case numbers over the past couple of days have come down. we need more data to tell if something is starting to flatten or end and that can be potentially good news. the yellow line is new orleans we show you these numbers because public health experts are pointing to differences around the country in these outbreaks and a lack of a coordinated national response. you're seeing policies on the county level differing sometimes even when counties are right next to one another. we have a map here of the stay at home orders issued by governors in different states. now these stay at home orders account for about half of americans right now in terms