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in fact, former lieutenant governor of new york betsy mccoy points out that cuomo was warned of the shortage of ventilators in 2015. they only had 2,000. the task force recommended they needed 18,000. so, instead of buying 16,000 more, cuomo did nothing. and now he is screaming at the president, whose building hospital after hospital, sending all the ventilators and he puts in the warehouse, now he's lecturing the president, well, that's why the federal government sent over 4,000 to you that you stuck in a warehouse. multiple emergency hospitals. you now how the usns comforter right there in new york harborg and it gets even worse. cuomo borrowing new york citizens, this has got to end. hospitalized -- if you're not hospitalized, the last placehi you want to be is in a hospital right now if you can prevented. but now, the only place you can go in the state of new york to get hydroxychloroquine is at a pharmacy. they are not allowed to give it to you. that's right. governor cuomo, rescind that order and take responsibility, why didn't you buy those ventilators? you spent $750 million on a ata

joining us, betsy mccoy, former lieutenant governor of new york, here to explain her idea to get us back to work. good morning, betsy. what's your plan? >> good morning, ashley. in effect, we do need a strategy right away. we can't wait until the virus peaks and the reason is that the shutdown could kill more americans than the virus itself. more americans could die from suicide, drug overdoses and heart attacks related to despair, they lost their jobs or lost the businesses they spent decades building. right now we are seeing 12,000 deaths in the u.s. from the virus, very tragic, and it's predicted to increase to perhaps 82,000 but think of this. every year in good times, 48,000 americans commit suicide and as the unemployment rate rises, every time it goes up 1%, more suicides in the u.s. similarly, with drug overdoses. in areas like ohio and kentucky, where unemployment has been ravaging those areas for years, opioid overdoses are a severe epidemic and so we have seen with the shutdown and a 30% unemployment rate predicted by the st. louis fed that we could be overwhelmed by a second