. >> i'm cori coffman. >>> it's time to begin another week under lockdown. the united states has marked another devastating milestone. more than 40,000 lives have now been lost due to covid-19 in this country and more than 750,000 cases have been confirmed. >> as states continue to ramp up their testing sites there could be more federal help on the way. president trump says he's using the defense production act to increase production of swabs used for those tests for at least 20 million federal officials announced new rulefopatient's families and to the cdc. >>> some of the beaches have now re-opened in north carolina. but patrols are making sure social distancing rules are still being followed and shared facilities like rest rooms still closed. >>> raf a week of protests, kentucky is reporting its highest single day rise in cases. the total increased by more than 10% to nearly 3,000. the governor says this means it will be at least 14 days before the state could start easing some restrictions. >>> walmart is taking new precautions against the virus starting

. >> and i'm cori coffman. the death toll reaches a grim milestone as clashes over testing begins it hr first confirmed case of coronavirus. and now more than 755,000 people are infected with the virus. over 40,000 americans have died from covid-19. >> at the epicenter in the empire state governor andrew cuomo is launching aggressive testing for antibodies this week and says new york has passed the high point of infection recording its lowest daily death toll in two weeks. here's a bright spot a patient getting a standing ovation as he leaves north shore university hospital on long island the 46-year-old was their 1,000th discharged coronavirus patient. can you see there doctors and nurses cheering him on. >>> new york's finest are showing solidarity for those who lost their lives to coronavirus by wearing black bands across their shields. so far 28 uniformed and civilian members of the nypd have died from covid-19. >>> starting today, walmart employees will be required to wear masks the company says its evolvi

. >> cori coffman. thank you. >>> dr. john torres, we'll talk to you in a second in more details. cori was reporting about intubations being down talk about the relevance of that from a medical perspective and where you think it bodes in terms of covid-19 fighting? >> i think that's actually some good news we're getting, the fact they're down, the way things happen is the cases start off first and people get hospitalized after a few weeks. then if they're sick they get intubated into the icu and intubated and unfortunately once on the ventilator 80% of them end up not getting offer the ventilator and dying while on it so those intubations are down, that means we're getting towards the end of seeing deaths start to drop. that hasn't happened yet but it's going to happen. but what we're seeing is the beginning here of the cases dropping, the intubations dropping so that is good news, hopefully we've reached the apex or at least the plateau and start coming down the back side of that curve. >> okay, a few more questions for you in just a moment, dr. john, appreciate that. let's go to