. >> reporter: he's worked at the new york hospital that saved his life bellevue for 15 years. remembering today a specific act of kindness from one of his colleagues when he was put on a ventilator. >> when i was about to go under, ms. katy was holding my hand and said derrick, i love you so much i said i love you, too.eelife and death. in new york, 80% of coronavirus patients who end up on a ventilator don't make it if love alone could heal, they'd all go home like this. >> i thank all of y'all so much for everything y'all have done for me and i can say all the time, i thank god for bellevue because when i couldn't fight for myself anymore, my bellevue family fought for me i really appreciate it so much. [ applause ] >> reporter: not a dry eye in this corridor. it's the happy ending they hope for every time. >> derrick, hurry up and get better and come back. >> reporter: cynthia mcfadden, nbc news. >> let's hope we see more moments like that. >>> up next, i want you to meet an american hero who is keeping life rolling on in the middle of a pandemic >>> in spite of population

soledad: can you give me some insight into how much access you are getting to sick people at bellevuev. martin: yes. we have pretty much full access to all the patients. we are equipped with n-95 masks and when we need to go into an area where we fully clothe in p.p.e. we are allowed. we try not to get, use the p.p.e. because that i for the direct providers but we have total access. soledad: what are the kinds of conversations you are having with families who have virtually no access to their loved ones because they can't get inside the hospital? rev. martin: part of our duties are to call the families, we are the initial call they receive and they are concerned about getting updates on their loved ones, they are concerned about test results. they are concerned about being able to see them. so we recently were equipped with these were nice donated eubgs pads and we are now doing video calls and families are very relieved to be able to see their loved one in the hospital. soledad: my mom and dad died last career about 40 days between each other. and i got to be there for their last bre

as they are drowning, bellevue is still afloat. >> is there sufficient ppe >> oh, yeah, absolutely. >k is bellevue's. >> everyone who needs chief medical officer. >> this entire floor has become basically a covid-19 intensive care. >> everyone who needs an n95 mask at your hospital at this moment has one >> absolutely, without question. >> you do hear some people who sound panicked i'm talking about doctors. i'm talking about seasoned nurses who say they are just being hit by a tidal wave. that doesn't seem to be the experience you are relating. >> three weeks ago we were a normal hospital. then the first patient hit the hospital it feels like every since then we have been sprinting to stay ahead of the wave. >> the doctor takes us inside the bellevue icu. >> every single cubicle has a covid patient. >> he's not wearing a mask in the icu hallway because over the last two weeks it has been transformed. >> our engineers and carpenters go into each space to turn it into a negative pressure room, which is the safest possible for patient care as each room got opened up, literally a covid-1

over course of time at bellevue i saw that change.tes went down for the alternative therapies. >> that's fascinating. sanjay you had heard other doctors talk about that. dr. leavitten, thanks for coming to new york and helping save the city and for what you do in normal times. thank you so much. >> thank you for having me. just want to mention the real heroes are on the front lines in new york city. i came for ten days. but thank you for having me. >> going to have a papaya dog in your honor. >> thank you. >>> up next, lab report from other struggling area of the country, navaho nation. one of the highest infection rates in the country. we'll take you there ahead. rinvoq a once-daily pill can dramatically improve symptoms... rinvoq helps tame pain, stiffness, swelling. and for some... rinvoq can even significantly reduce ra fatigue. that's rinvoq relief. with ra, your overactive immune system attacks your joints. rinvoq regulates it to help stop the attack. rinvoq can lower your ability to fight infections, including tuberculosis. ser

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and the amazing thing about it is, so that specific site is called broadway feeds bellevue but the greatso if you go to their website, you can find, you know, vendors or restaurants that are still open that will still provide dinner to those folks, and then, you can specify where the hospital is. so you could really sort of get very specific. >> jimmy: that's wild, i've never heard of this before >> i hadn't either, so -- but, you know, celia, she's just the best in these times. and found a website and put together a group of people to help out so i encourage people to check that out >> jimmy: andrew rannells, i love you i'll be watching "black mondays" on showtime you're awesome, buddy. it's so great to see you, and hopefully, i get to see you in the studio soon. >> yes, i wll as soon as we're able, i'm going to go come stalk you. >> jimmy: thank you. please, come whenever you want you're always invited. i love you, bud. >> i love you, too bye. >> jimmy: bye. ♪ [ cheers and applause ♪ ♪ >> jimmy: welcome back performing "come home" from their grammy-winning album "ventura," here's ander

it just comes out here in bellevue, right around the kirkwood -- kirkland, sammamish, redlands area. just a small paper that comes out on fridays. the first i heard about it was, there was -- when they have the new year, the one thing the chinese love to do is travel. boy. was a 14-year-old he went and visited his grandmother in that town where all of that began. so, bush put the notice they couldn't fly out from china. host: are you talking about president trump? guest: they wanted -- caller: they wanted their son to come home, as he was visiting the grandmother. they couldn't get him out because there were no flights from china. here he was, right in the very town. host: this was all in your local paper? caller: this was right in my journal american. host: how important do you think -- caller: what they did was they flew him -- they couldn't get him out of china so they flew maco. my cow -- they got him a plane from there to come home. on the line ages 50 to 70. stephen, good morning. caller: good morning. host: how has social distancing impacted you? caller: i was visiting my dyin

this grim picture outside of bellevue hospital. about a dozen of these refrigerator trucks lined up to hold the dead. overnight, the death toll in new york state jumping to nearly 3 thousand. >> highest single increase in the number of deaths since we started. >> reporter: funeral homes overwhelmed.s a patients.news >> i would love to pick up grandma now and have her on my roof where i can watch her, but i don't have to accommodation to get her right now. >> reporter: tonight, across america, the national guard building field hospitals in michigan and connecticut. disinfecting nursing homes in georgia. but here in new york, governor andrew cuomo giving the troops different marching orders -- to seize ventilators from medical facilities with lower needs and redeploy them to hospitals in crisis. >> i'm not going to let people die because we didn't redistribute ventilators. >> reporter: the trump administration has criticized states begging for supplies, accusing them of exaggerating the need. >> the notion of the federal stockpile wa

. >> this is what's going on in bellevue. they're making portable morgues. this is my life. this is our life. >> reporter: hospitals have been using these refrigerated trucks to store the bodies of covid-19 patients because the morgues here in new york city are almost already full, but these mobile morgues are filling up themselves to the point that the defense department is now sending 85 more of them to new york city. nearly every state in the country has been declared a public disaster zone. >> this is going to be like having many katrinas. this is going to be a reality where you're going to have my cities simultaneously needing medical professionals, needing ventilators. there is no national structure to address this right now. >> reporter: louisiana's governor now extending his stay-at-home order until the end of the month, warning the state's hospital system may soon be over capacity. this convention center in new orleans, prepping for patients, and an extra 200 ventilators from the national stockpile on the way. of louisiana's 12,000 covid-19 cases, more than 400 died

and right around the kirkland, bellevue, redmond area.t is a small paper that comes out only on fridays. and the first i heard about it they have was -- when the new year, the one thing the chinese love to do is travel. there was a 14-year-old boy, he went and visited his grandmother in that town where all of that began. bush put the notice at that they could not fly out from china. host: you are talking about president trump? guest: immediately, they wanted their son to come home. he was there visiting the grandmother and her they wanted him to come home. what they did, they could not get him out since there were no flights from china. he was in the very town. host: this was all in your local paper? guest: in the journal american. i will tell you what happened. what they did was they flew him -- they could not get him out of china, so they flew him to macau. and from there they got him a ticket on a plane to come home. host: that was carolyn in bellevue, washington. stephen from minnesota, the line for those 51-70. good morning. guest: g

get almost 380 votes for a trade agreement, we would have said not long ago next stop for you is bellevue. after months, a year of negotiating with bob lighthizer, we were able to put together a hemispheric trade agreement that involved negotiating with prime minister trudeau, president lopez, and have a redoing of nafta, a hemispheric agreement that was endorsed by the afl-cio and teamsters union as well as the american chambers of commerce, it was one of the highlights of my career. something else with that was interesting, massachusetts is heavily dependent upon trade. we have a first-rate health care community. we have a first-rate tech sector. we handle our own as it relates to manufacturing. but massachusetts, given the ocean and given that airport and the regional airports as well, we are a trade-dependent state. more than one third of our economy in massachusetts is trade related. so we are shaping these agreements so they accommodate all parts of the american family, it needs to be very important. i also think it is one of those interesting debates you go into, because this admin

theifically with regard to one in bellevue, we received a complaint about its, so we will be following up on that complaint. it all starts with an investigative process like anything else. we have to create a policy, not services, but anyone doing elective surgeries is being investigated. watching a are special episode of "speaking nebraska." we are answering the phones and answering your questions about covid-19. give us a call. the next question is for governor ricketts. this is a question about the plans for world areas. i am christine from ashland, nebraska. governor ricketts, you have suggested multiple times that our small rural hospitals take a ,usiness as usual approach transporting those whose needs cannot be met by their small facility to larger facilities. withave reminded us of lifted restrictions hospitals places.alternative these are ideas. please tell us what have you done to prepare small and will hospitals for more patients on site, as evidenced around the world this will become necessary. also, what measures have you methodo ensure that the for transporting patients t

we have millions of them now and we've given them to a lot we sent to bellevue in new york today that was from here to bloods are 200000 of them but we have 8100000 we're going to have more than that and we're getting them from various sources including the military we're rapidly then replacing them because we have to replace them in cases a in other emergency i would. be a gallons to we have many gallons being delivered and have been delivered our people have done an incredible job most people have said now and i said this yesterday governors have said thank you very much great job of their democrat governor in some cases not all cases at all if i said here's a 1000 ventilators how many do you want we want 1000 his a 1000. you got him but you know we're going to do we're going to add another 5000 is that good they said wow that's great and then if jim acosta goes a says are you happy with the president no we should a given is 10000 and that's what's happening in a way because that's a standard political answer and that's a shame because we have done a job like nobody's ever done it b

bellevue has received some.: you have managed to cut down on costs, cut down on supply chain issues. you can make one of these for, i understand it, $3300 where a standard ventilator is $30,000. you also have companies like honeywell helping you supply some of the parts quickly. talk to us about the process of actually putting the pieces together in a short amount of time. scott: with a lot of factories being closed down around the world, i'd ask my team every single day during the heat of the moment when hospitals were under the gun, hospitals and head of health services saying we may need this tomorrow. i was looking for points of failure. one of the points of failure really is in the supply chain. our motors were going to take too long from asia to get built. but we found a factory in rochester, new york and they have mobilized people. entireneywell, their supply chain of the sensors was pretty much frozen. there were a lot of people like ford and ge ordering a lot of sensors for what was going to come later.

just yesterday, the mayor was at bellevue hospital celebrating the doctors and nurses on the front linealong with the fire department and the nypd. very encouraging to see that. and, of course, new yorkers trying to celebrate the holy day. easter and passover this weekend. so, very mixed emotions here. but certainly, we're not out of the woods yet. christi, victor. >> cristina alesci in in new york. thank you so much. >>> experts say we're close to the peak. and there are encouraging signs the outbreak is leveling off in a sense. dr. anthony fauci warns if we do relax social distancing guidelines too soon there could be, or will be, a relapse, a rise in cases. >> don't let anyone get any false ideas that when we decide at a proper time when we're going to be relaxing some of the restrictions, there's no doubt, you're going to see cases. i would be so surprised if we did not see cases. the question is how you respond to them. >> in arkansas, there are, i've got the precise number, 1,102 confirmed cases of covid-19. little rock mayor is requesting a stay-at-home order from the governor bu

saleen gounder, a cnn medical analyst and clinical assistant at nyu and bellevue hospital. good to see you, doctor. what are your thoughts on all of this. is there any evidence indicating that nonmedical cloth face coverings can help stop the virus from spreading from asymptomatic people? >> so what's become more and more clear over the last couple of weeks is that asymptomatics, people without symptoms, as well as people with very mild symptoms are very much helping to spread this virus in our communities. and the other thing that we realize is that you don't necessarily need medical grade masks to prevent somebody from spreading to other people. so if you think about it as a hose that is spraying out. if you put something right over the front of that hose, just like you would over somebody who is coughing or sneezing, you can prevent spread from that infection person to others. now the challenge is that, until now, we didn't realize that just because you didn't feel sick, didn't mean you couldn't transmit it. and so these recommendations are really geared at you or me wal

they sent me for bellevue or virginia. for deliver, my mission was to go into the jungle, those out an area. that was part of the engineer battalion. we used to go out and practice every day. i said no, this is not for me. so i applied for cadet training. there were ten of us. nine whites and myself. two of us passed. from there went to biloxi mississippi for 30 days of basic training, more basic training. i finished there and went to tuskegee and the rest is history. >> that's pretty good stuff. a lot of times you do things, you start off not realizing how far you are going to go. >> colonel alexander. he is another one of those that did some things that a lot of people would not expect. i know when he started, he did not figure he would write his own book. i see the book sitting here, and the title, red tail captured, red tail free. to go to the red tail free part, i want to ask you first, where did you come from? what squadron did you fly in? and then, can you tell us that they you remember that you said i am a p.o.w. b

we saw the mayor yesterday in front of bellevue hospital celebrating and clapping for the nurses and doctors there at that hospital. that was really nice imagery to see there. and very encouraging. but new yorkers this weekend trying to get their minds off of this perhaps and focus on celebrating some holy days both easter and passover normally places like st. patrick's cathedral would be packed tomorrow for an easter celebration. clearly that's not going to happen. >> i think that's going to be a tough one really for everybody across the country and across the world. we appreciate it so much. thank you. >>> listen, there's no doubt president trump wants to restart the economy. but he says he'll wait until the country is healthy to make that move. >> he says this will be the biggest decision without question that he's ever had to make. let's bring in kristen holmes, cnn national correspondent there at the white house. no doubt the president's guidance will be influential, but it was governor cuomo who shut down new york. governor newsom who shut down california. hogan in maryland and

elmhurst, bellevue. they'll be able to get access to antibody testing and this is cuomo's whole point about health care workers. show us that you care. don't just tell us that you care. show us that you care. and these antibody tests are a way of doing that. he also spoke about diagnostic testing. this tells you whether or not you have the virus. that testing will be greatly expanded, and he basically went through the step-by-step -- the step-by-step ways in which they are able to expand this. they have the equipment now and what they're doing is the state is partnering with local pharmacies in order to collect the samples, in order to dramatically reduce the numbers. in that regard he said, look, because of the ramp up, we can now expand eligibility beyond just health care front line workers. we can go to the police and firemen and grocery store delivery workers, all of those people who are on the front lines. they should be able to get access to testing. now on the colorful perspective front, we got th

bellevue, the health care workers that are basically the ones that are really trying to, you know, care for these people in volumes that were much larger than other pieces and other hospitals in the state. he also walked the public through a pretty big puzzle on diagnostic testing. this is the tefths that determines whether or not you have the virus. on that front, he said, okay, we're in the process of getting the pieces of equipment that we need to do the tests. now we're ramping up collections by partnering with pharmacies and if you put the two of those things together, we can ramp up and make these tests more available to a greater group of people. so he's talking about frontline workers beyond just health care workers. he's talking about the firemen, the policemen, even the people who are dealing with grocery delivery. he's talking about that kind of testing that is necessary. it's clear to governor cuomo in order to get the economy back up and running safely. to your point we've got the facts. we also got some colorful perspective from him. he says he hears the frustration and th

colleen farrell performing "amazing grace" at bellevue hospital with accompaniment as the staff held service for their beloved nurse, ernesto deleon, who died from covid-19. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the quarantine report. i'm amy goodman. democrats are closing in on a dealal with the white e house fa $450 billion relief package to address the ongogoing economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic, even as progressive say that a pals out b businesses without prototecting working people. treasury secreretary steven thahat deal allocates anan additional $350 billion too smsmall business loans and reli. and a concession to democrats, the new relief package also includes for hospitals and $25 $75 billion billion for testing. at monday's task force meeting, trump suggested demands for testing and ventilators are part of a political conspiracy against him. trumka r remember, it was all ventilators and the reason it was all ventilators, they said there is no way he will ever be able to catch this one. not only did we catch it, we are noww thinking of ventilators all over t

we have millions of them now and we have given them -- we sent to bellevue in new york today for mayor de blasio a million. we are getting sources to rapidly replace them. we have to replace them in case there is another emergency. gowns, too. we have many gowns having been delivered. our people have done an incredible job. i said this yesterday. governors have said thank you very much if they are a democrat governor, in some cases, not all. i said here is 1,000 ventilators. how many do you want? a 1,000. you have them and we will add another 5,000. then if jim acosta says are you happy with the president. no, we should have had 10,000. that's a political answer and a shame. we have just dplifrdelivered a masks and protective gear. you are talking about a massive number, but as of this morning people were very happy. steve? >> did the oil executives ask you for a bailout? >> no it was more of a discussion. we discussed the concept of tear i w tariffs. a couple countries had a dispute, a competition. russia and saudi arabia. i think they want to get it resofrd. i think they are working

at bellevue hospital at the beginning of the month. this piece really, i read a lot of medical accounts, and this one really compelled me. just what was your experience of the sort of finding out that patients you're treating not thinking they're covid patients are in fact covid patients? >> i think most remarkable aspect of this story, chris, is that covid pneumonia, actually does not cause subjective respiratory problems to most patients until it is very advanced. that there are many patients who have covid pneumonia who don't realize it. probably, i would say in the united states, thousands and thousands who have had covid pneumonia and don't even realize it. and that the way it advances, the way it kills is with relatively few symptoms initially. it advances to a very serious level of low oxygen, and then when people present, they are very seriously ill. so i called this in the piece in "the new york times" silent hypoxia. it progresses slowly, and patients don't have a lot of subjective shortness of breath until it gets very advan

the news outlet the city reports nurses at the public bellevue hospitals have been told to sign forms falsely stating they are trained in certain types of care in order to compensate for staff and equipmpment shortages. at least 5 50 department off education employees have died from the coronavirus in new york city, including 21 public school teachers. overer the weekend, new w york y mayor bill de blasio said schools will remain closed until the fall but was quickly undercut by governor andrew cuomo, who said the decision was not yet mamade, leaving millions of students, teachers, and parents in country's largesest school district in the dark about their situation. in neighboring new jersey, governor phil murphy warned cases were still surging and the state faces a severe shortage of tests. nearly 2500 covid-19 deaths and 65,000 infections have been reported in new jersey. the national guard has been deployed to a veterans' home in paramus, new jersey, where 37 deaths in recent weeks are believed to be caused covid-19. a state-run nursing home in menlo park, new jersey, has reported

this one is from carol schmidt in bellevue, washington.t's an alert that she got on her phone from "the seattle times. they gave her two choices. let's see what they were sign up for coronavirus updates. yes, i want coronavirus or dismiss. wow. hope she made the right choice this last one is from adam flader in winter park, florida. he was watching our show and spotted this this is from our show last week, honey. i guess when -- when the screen buffers, there's like a screen -- a ring that goes around your screen this one perfectly fit right around my nose maybe i should get a nose ring i'm going to do that guys, that's all the time we have for "screen grabs." we have a fun show tonight we have -- melissa mccarthy and octavia spencer will be here on the show yeah frontline foods is the charity they're working with then we have megan thee stallion whose going to talk about the all in challenge. you can -- you can bid on -- on a hangout day or weekend day with megan thee stallion maybe you'll get some glam squad. you'll be in one of her vide

here at bellevue hospital, front line workers will now be able to get tested for antibodies but all across new york state now many more essential workers will be able to get tested for this virus. across america this morning, stark contrasts in the response to an ongoing pandemic. in southern california, open orange county beaches packed with summer-like crowds. social distancing recommendations frequently being ignored. in the midwest an illinois food department because of rampant covid-19 concerns. in new york, even as the number of new cases and hospitalizations move down the curve, the state is still in the midst of a grim reality. >> just when you think you're going to have a good day, this reality slaps you right in the face. 437 deaths yesterday, which is actually a tick up. >> reporter: governor cuomo says the state is now compulsively, obsessively focused on testing, signing an executive order saturday allowing all first responders, health care workers and essential workers to get tested for the virus. new york also rolling out antibody testing for front line workers at four hospi

we sent to bellevue in new york today. that was from mayor de blasio, 200,000 of them. but we have 8.1 million. we're going have more than that. and we're getting them from various source, including the military. we're rapidly then replacing them, because we have to replace them, in case there is another emergency. i would be -- gowns too. we have many gowns being delivered and have been delivered. our people have done an incredible job. most people have said, and i said this yesterday, governors have said thank you very much. great job. if they're a democrat governor, in some case, not in all cases at all, if i said here is a thousand ventilators, how many do you want? we want one thousand. here is a thousand. you got them. but you know what we're going to do? we're going add another 5,000. that good? they said wow, that's great. and if jim acosta goes are you happy with the president? no, he should have given us 10,000. that's what's happening. that's a standard political answer, and that's a shame. because we have done a job like nobody has ever done a job. but we ju

and we have given them to -- we sent to bellevue new york today. that was from mayor de blasio. but we have 8.1 million, and we will have more than that. we are getting them from various sources including the military, where we are rapidly replacing them because we have to replace them in case there is another emergency. i would be -- gowns too, many gowns being delivered and have been delivered. our people have done an incredible job. most people have said, and i said this yesterday, governors have said, thank you very much. if they are democrat governor, and some cases, not all cases. i said here is a thousand ventilators, how many do you want? we want 1,000, here is 1,000. you got them. but we will aid another 5,000, is that good? they said, yes, that is great. and jim acosta says, are you happy with the president? no, he should have given us 10,000. you know what's happening? that is a standard political answer and that is a shame. we have done a job like nobody has ever done a job. we just delivered a lot of masks. we just delivered a lot of gowns and protective gear. you'r

the video shows temporary morgues we're showing our viewers right now outside bellevue hospital. what are your nurses seeing on the ground not just in new york city but around the country? >> around the country we're getting different nurses are saying different things. it depends upon where they may be if not living, obviously there are additional hot spots heating up. nurses are seeing an influx of patients coming in putting a strain on the system. in other places where the coronavirus has not quite struck yet people are gearing up for that and nurses are requesting that they know what the particular disaster preparedness plan is for their facility so they know their role and they are prepared for that. >> ed: in the last 30 seconds we have we hear about the guidance we may be getting there the cdc about the general public when you go out in public wear a face covering. what is your concern about the potential for people to then push to get more masks, those masks that you need for healthcare workers? >> those masks are extremely essential that members of the healthcare team ge

and we have even them to a lot, we sent them to bellevue. in new york but today, that was for mayor de blasio, 200,000 of them, but we have a .1 million and we are going to have more than that. million we have and we will get more than that. we are are getting them from the military and other sources and we have to replace them. well.would be, gowns as we have many gowns delivered and have been delivered. our people have done an incredible job. most people have said, and i said yesterday, governors have sent thank you. if they are democratic governor, many. if i said here are thousand ventilators. if i said how many do you want, 1000? and i said working out another thousand. another t-1 and we want 5000 peered and then jim acosta goes, are you happy with the president? and they go, no they should've given 10,000. and we have done a job like nobody has ever done. we have delivered a lot of -- we have just delivered a lot of masks and we have just delivered a lot of gowns and protective gear. you're talking about a massive number. as of this m

we sent them to bellevue in new york today, that was for mayor de blasio, 200,000 of them, but we have a 8.1 million, and we are going to have more than that. we are are getting them from the various sources including the military and other sources and we have to replace them. we have to replace them in case there is another emergency. and i would be -- gowns as well. we have many gowns delivered and have been delivered. our people have done an incredible job. most people have said, and i said yesterday, governors have said thank you very much, great job if they are democratic , governor, many. in some cases not at all. if i sit here is ventilators. 1000how many do you want? 1000. here is 1000. we are going to add another 1000. how many -- jim acosta goes, are you happy with the president? and they go, no, they should've given 10,000. that is a standard political answer and that is a shame. we have done a job like nobody has ever done a job. we have just delivered a lot of masks and we have just delivered a lot of gowns and protective gear. but you know, you are talking about a massive

in our cnn medical analyst and clinical assistant professor of diseases at nyu medical school and bellevue doctor, plasma is used when new diseases or infections develop quickly and there are no treatments or vaccines developed. are you hopeful it can bridge the gap until there is a vaccine? >> anderson, this is an approach used really since the turn of the 20th century to treat anything from measles to most recently we've tried it with ebola. it's had varying success. so it seems to work better for diseases like measles and influenza. did not work so well for ebola. i think one major limiting issue is, this really does depend on people donating blood. and the amount of convalescent serum that you get from any one person is not a huge amount. and so if you're talking about treating thousands of people across the country, i do have very serious concerns. even if it works, which we have yet to definitively prove, that we can scale this up in a meaningful way. >> doctor, i want to ask you about what we heard from dr. redfield. the other issue -- sanjay, you can weigh in on this as well -- is

. >> reporter: he became a renowned psychiatrist at bellevue hospital.e from substance abuse and mental illness but that's not all ♪ he composed operas and drew political cartoons >> he was always kind of on fire i just take endless inspiration from that. >> reporter: pastor jones had nine children, 27 grandchildren. >> for us and kids, it was great. i'm sure it was crazy for my mom and dad. >> coming to take our lord -- >> reporter: he was the pastor at bountiful love ministries in flint, michigan. when flint's water was contaminated he organized shipments and handed out water. >> two more crates of water that's very desperately needed in the flint area. >> reporter: a survivor of cancer, a kidney transplant, ano win. even though he might not be here in body, we want the world to know just how great all these people are that have passed. >> amen to that. >> so important to say their names, i think, you know. we keep talking about the numbers at the top of the show all of a sudden you just see a handful of people and you realize like say their names >> m

host: let's talk to jim, calling from bellevue, washington. what type of business do you own?aller: a small printing business here in washington. i have a lot of hispanic employees in my field, and i'm thinking about -- have you ever had vaccines? vaccines, or a perfect candidate for trying the possibility of -- like smaller businesses like orchards and meatpacking plants. this is where a lot of will be willing to volunteer to try that polio vaccine, which actually has rna for months orl, years even. why do you think that young people don't get the symptoms from this covid? it is because they all have had like polio,ines rubella, measles, and they were all vaccinated. these folks, they never had that. host: i think we were seeing a lot of younger people showing up with coronavirus, so i do not know if we can say that this is something that is not hitting the younger population just as well as the older population. percentage, it is very minimal compared to ours. ands and 50's, 60's 70's. my dad died over a month ago. he was 85. whether he died from this or not we never did fin

host: stephen from bellevue, illinois. you are on. go ahead. caller: i have a question.he corona shot for animals, especially for dogs has been around for many years. can't the medical professionals and scientists learn something from the corona shot that's given to animals that it might help human beings? also they criticize the obama administration and the democrats obama but when president was president, he stopped the here byrus coming sending scientists and doctors over there to stop it. done with that the way we got things going on today. thousands of americans are dying. many are running around that don't have tests. it makes you wonder what's really going on. caller: coronavirus is a name, spanish word for crown. it's the weight is shaped. this one is different. although we call it corona because of the shape of the virus, it's a novel virus. whenever we have for coronavirus in the past will not work here and of course scientists are looking at the similarities in order to try to find the vaccine. it's totally different than what you are saying. as far as helping