he is transported to providence regional medical center just outside of seattle for medical staff areeady. >> it took us about two hours for us to get our staff, personnel, supplies in place to be able to give the ems the green light to come in. we were ready for. >> they were ready. less than three weeks earlier, providence regional medical center had conducted an elaborate simulation. pandemic training. chinese experts report a new coronavirus. >> we were aware of what was going on in wuhan but it was part of our structure to prepare. >> we had to go to plan. >> we had a game plan in place already. >> we had everyone involved, including the local ems. the people that bring the patient from point a to point b. we had a variety of scenarios. host: the writer and producer of ist series, miles o'brien joining us now to talk about this new documentary. what do we know about patient one that we did not learn just there? guest: he has connections to china. he's a local person with a strong connection there and spend some time there in the wrong time in the wrong place. it's important to ge

around 10:00 p.m. on januaryon 20, patienwas brought to the providence regional medical center.his is a photograph of his arrival, encased in what's called an isopod, designed to keep a patient quarantined. >> patient number one arrived here in this? >> he did. when we were going through the transportation plan with the ambulance company, they wanted to keep their staff safe. completely contained, doesn't allow any possibility of infection. so our patient was pd in this by ems and brought to our hospital and unloaded in his room. so, it took us about two hours from the time the cdc called for us to get all our staff personnel, supplies, and the facilities all in place to beve able to he ems folks the greenlight to come in. >> o'brien: you did at in two hours? r in two hours. we were ready fo. >> o'brien: one of the reasons they were so ready: less than three weeks earlier, diaz and his lleagues had conducted elaborate simulation-- pandemic training. w were aware of what was going on in wuhan at that point, but it was part of our routine structure already to prepare. >> o'brien:

...providence regional medical center in nearby everett. >> and have you traveled outside the u.s. in last 30 days? >> i have. >> okay, so we're gonna ask you to put on a mask. >> o'brien: okay. this is the hospital that treated the first known case of covid-19 in the country. >> there we go, 97.6. >> o'brien: i met dr. george diaz, an expert in infs one-- a 35-year-olld patient man who'd flown into seattle on january 15. >> he was having a cough, he had been having feen having fevers e hadn't been eating well, hey generalt poorly and he had been complaining of diarrhea at home. >> o'brien: he is 35 years old and otherwise healthy. >> totally healthy person. he began developing symptoms the day after he aived. >> o'brien: he went to this walk-in clinic and described his symptoms and told them where he eehad been for about six w: wuhan, china. >> a preliminary investigation into a mysterious pneumonia identified...uhan, china, has >> o'brien: that was a crucial detail. >> the mysterious new pneumonia virus has sickened doz people... >> o'brien: for weeks, wuhan had been the center of a

george diaz of the providence regional medical center in everett, washington, told us, this is makingmore optimistic that we are headed down the right path with remdesivir. >> woodruff: but miles, this is not the final story, is it? the studies are still underway, after all. >> yes, it's a global study conducted at multiple sites all around the world. so, now that there's news that the drug can in fact block the progress of the virus, the trial rules can be changed-- no more patients receiving the placebo. in other words, everyone will get the drug, to see if there's some effect. we still don't know if patients on remdezivir are less likely to die. that is still under review. there was a study in china earlier on that involved that particular issue, but it didn't come to any conclusion. it was flawed. the patients were sicker. it's a muddied study. and researchers were only able to test about half on the 450 subjects they hoped to study. >> woodruff: let's turn the corner and talk about something else. what are antibody tests? how do they differ from the testing used to identify the v

he is transported to providence regional medical center just outside of seattle for medical staff areeady. >> it took us about two hours for us to get our staff, personnel, supplies in place to be able to give the ems the green light to come in. we were ready for. >> they were ready. less than three weeks earlier, providence regional medical center had conducted an elaborate simulation. pandemic training. chinese experts report a new coronavirus. >> we were aware of what was going on in wuhan but it was part of our structure to prepare. >> we had to go to plan. >> we had a game plan in place already. >> we had everyone involved, including the local ems. the people that bring the patient from point a to point b. we had a variety of scenarios. host: the writer and producer of ist series, miles o'brien joining us now to talk about this new documentary. what do we know about patient one that we did not learn just there? guest: he has connections to china. he's a local person with a strong connection there and spend some time there in the wrong time in the wrong place. it's important to ge

regional medical center. but now there were a number of complexities in transforming the school buildings to provide medical treatment. >>> many under americans are turning to an all-time war hobby, planting victory gardens. >> reporter: we have had a large increase in customers buying vegetable starts, fruit trees, vegetable seed. kevin with arranging garden supply has been busy with both old, and new customers. preparing home gardens during the covid-19 pandemic. many are starting victory gardens at a time when the economy is struggling and food security is uncertain. >> i think people are hungering down and beginning to wonder about the food supply. coupled with the fact that they are come hunkered down and they wanted to have something to do at home and gardening is the perfect activity for the family. >> reporter: victory gardens came about during world war i and again during world war two. the government encouraged the public to grow food at home to feed their families. these are some examples of propaganda during that time, known as the war garden movement. kevin says gardening is a satisfying both physically

provide shelter assistance and testing proper ppe training and food banks with liaison officers with emergency operations centers and the assessments for different facilities looking regionally to identify the surgeon and medical capacity. and many other functions so thank you for your leadership and all the work is being done by the soldiers and the airmen of the louisiana national guard. i've always said and i will still say it that general mcneil and i agree with that but i know he understands just how good the national guard is. and not just as * port on - - support and those soldiers and airmen and by the end of this year we will have 2700 deployed with the 256 brigade. and the state of louisiana today is worse than without the service of the national guard thank you for the general to support us at a national level in one of which is to get the title 32 status extended beyond the 32 days to have tremendous impact on the individuals who are serving because of the additional benefits they will now qualify for. and to deliver some remarks if you have questions for him asked them all he is at the podium because i know he has one more meeting and then he has to leave because he has to get to another location.

healthcare system, bowman health and the detroit medical center will serve as partners providing critical support and staffing resources at t.c.f. regional care center scheduled to accept its first 25 covid-19 patients this friday. the united states army corps of engineers has built this hospital from scratch in a matter of days with the michigan national guard. and we brought competing healthcare systems together joining forces to help get this up and running. it is truly a remarkable thing that has been accomplished. and i appreciate your army corps. for stepping up to make these announcements and this healthcare possible. i sent a letter to vice president mike pence about the shortage of supplies and medication used to provide covid-19 patients. we have dangerously low-levels of the medications required to safely place patients on ventilators and insure sufficient sedation and pain relief while they remain on ventilators. these medications are just as important as the ventilators themselves. specifically, i asked the vice president to improve coordination across all agencies to insure a steady supply of these essential medications as

do is incredible the job they do is incredible these centers provide care to 28000000 people living in medically underserved urban and rural regions including many african-american and hispanic communities we're taking care of them and it's so important because you've all been reading about the disproportionate numbers on african-american and you're reading a little bit less about hispanic but likewise hispanic communities the numbers a disproportionate effect would doing big studies on it right now we don't like it not right nationwide we've now conducted over $4000000.00 tests and deborah will be talking about that it's double the number conducted by any other country on earth so that's more than 2 times actually the number conducted by any other country on earth you hear so much about testing what we've done is incredible in testing and i started with an obsolete broken system from a previous administration or administrations but i would really say administration for a different reason because testing has become so advanced over the last number of years. and we have the most advanced of all i spoke with other nations this morni

. >> these centers provide care to 28 million people living in medically underserved urban and rural regionsg many african-american and hispanic communities. we're taking care of them. and it's so important. >> reporter: however, a key hurdle for reopening large portions of the country comes down to testing. roughly 3.5 million americans have been screened for covid, that's only 1% of the population. several governors say they need more supplies and federal help to get it done. >> we could be doing exponentially more and get up to 90, he believes 95,000 tests a day if we had those additional supply materials. >> i'm not asking for the federal government to come in and do any more than they need to do, but we do need their coordination. we do need their partnership. and we also need from the federal government we need funding. >> reporter: mark stewart, abc news, new york. >> we've seen a handful of stay at home protests in california, one down in san diego. organizers say yesterday's protesters are just people who love their local parks and would like to enjoy them again. one sign says "my c

these centers provide care to 28 million people living in medically underserved medical and rural regions, including many african-american and hispanic communities. we're taking care of them, and it's so important because you've all been reading about the disproportionate numbers on african-american and you're reading a little bit less about hispanic but likewise hispanic communities. the numbers are disproportion e disproportionate. in fact, we're doing big studies on it right now. we don't like it. not right. nationwide we've now conducted over 4 million tests and deborah will be talking about that. it's double the number conducted by any other country on earth. so that's more than two times the number conducted than anywhere else on earth and i started with an obsolete broken system from the previous administration or administrations, but i would really say administration for a different reason because testing has become so advanced over the last number of years. and we have the most advanced of all. i spoke with other nations this morning, the leaders and they all are talking about ou

. >>> these centers provide care to 28 million people living in medically underserved, urban and rural regions. including many african american and hispanic communities. we're taking care of them. and it is so important. because you have all been reading about the disproportionate numbers on african american and you are reading a little bit less about hispanic, but likewise hispanic communities. the numbers are disproportionate. in fact we're doing big studies on it right now. we don't like it. not right. >> van, what are the biggests n obstacles for communities of color in the u.s. for this pandemic? >> a number of things. first of all. so called essential workers. low wage workers with tough jobs and are under insured. now we call them essential workers. they weren't essential and now all of a sudden they are. look at those jobs and you see yourself overwhelmingly people of color in the grocery stores who are the nurses, who are driving the truck, dropping off our amazon packages. overwhelmingly people of color. so we are, our communities are on the front lines. there should be statues to nu

regional medical center in san jose. they held a rally outside the hospital this afternoon. they say the women services department which is scheduled to close in may providesfor women at all stages of life including childbirth. organizers say the closure would impact thousands of lower income residents in east san jose. >> we have so many walk-ins. so many moms that come in with little or no prenatal care. they know they can come here. they talk to their front that have delivered here. we specialize in those kind of patients. >> hospital corporation of america owns regional medical center in san jose, an online position to stop the closure has already more than 10,000 signatures. >>> looking at the high temperatures today you noticed a cooldown today. as much as 10 or 15 degrees in some places. especially along the coast. temperatures coast side were much cooler. not the 70s or 60s. some cases just in the 50s with low clouds and fog all day. 66 in napa today. the warm spot was fairfield in the upper 70's. yesterday both of those spots were at 86 degrees. system offshore. there it is. kind of a little bit of green showing up a little bit of rain showing up

regional medical center. yesterday they held a rally outside of the hospital and said the women services department which is due to close in may, providese for women at all stages of life including childbirth. organizers say the closures will affect thousands of low income women in east san jose. >> we have so many moms that come in with little or no prenatal care. they know they can come here and get good care. they talk to their friends who have delivered here. we specialize in those kind of patients. >> hospital corporation of america owns at regional medical center in san jose and an online petition to stop the closure has more than 10,000 signatures. >>> santa cruz county is beginning to lift the restrictions on outdoor activities. the new rules are taking effect today. the county health officer wanted to wait until after easter and passover to prevent large holiday gatherings outside. beaches and parks will be open from sunrise to sunset in the county experienced yesterday. >> it is hard being inside all day long, and it is nice to get out and see a lot of other people out here walking the beaches and that workers are back out. >>

these centers provide care to 28 million people living in medically under-served urban and rural regionsny african american and hispanic communities. we're taking care of them and it's so important because you've all been reading about the disproportionate numbers on african american and you're reading a little bit less about hispanic but likewise hispanic communities. the numbers are disproportionate. in fact, we're doing big studies on it right now. we don't like it. not right. nationwide, we've now conducted over 4 million tests and deborah will be talking about that. it's double the number conducted by any other country on earth. so that's more than two times actually the number conducted by any other country on earth. you hear so much about testing, what we've done is incredible on testing and i started with an obsolete, broken system from a previous administration or administrations. but i would really say administration, for a different reason, because testing has become so advanced over the last number of years. and we have the most advanced of all. i spoke with other nations thi