interesting story, elizabeth schneider, thank you.d luck to you, if things change now you come back and weh will monitor that as well. >> all right, thank you so much for having me. >> bill: thank you for sharing your story, enjoy the weekend. what about americans hospitals? are they on the verge of being overrun? some experts are warning that from coast to coast, what is being done about it. the latest on that from the cleveland clinic, when we come back. these folks, they don't have time to go to the post office they have businesses to grow customers to care for lives to get home to they use stamps.com print discounted postage for any letter any package any time right from your computer all the amazing services of the post office only cheaper get our special tv offer a 4-week trial plus postage and a digital scale go to stamps.com/tv and never go to the post office again! ♪ >> bill: experts are warning the coronavirus outbreak could it in date t hospitals. >> we could still be easily overwhelmed is there a influx of tens of thousand

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. >> elizabeth schneider. >> reporter: these people have been either diagnosed with covid-19, suspecttte, california. >> seattle, washington. >> i live in manhattan, new york. >> for some like famously diagnosed nba player donovan mitchell the symptoms are mild. >> i'm fine. you know, things are going well. just in isolation. got a unique setup. but yeah, no fever, no symptoms as of right now. >> reporter: but that wasn't the case for lisa murk. >> i went to hawaii on february 2nd and -- with my husband. >> reporter: then life abruptly changed. >> on february 20th my back started hurting on the left side. my muscles started hurting. it felt like somebody was stabbing me with an ice pick. >> i took a week-long trip to paris, france on saturday march 7th i came down with a sore throat, headache, fever, cough. >> i was doing my dishes and putting them in the dishwasher and i became winded doing that. and that's something not normal. >> i was coughing. i had a really bad headache. >> i had body aches. i had headache. i was tired. i was starting to feel a little bit congested in my science

. >> reporter: elizabeth schneider tested positive after being sick with what she thought was the flu. her temperature peaking at 103 >> i felt pretty awful for about five days i would say. and then on the sixth day i started feeling better and then the seventh and the eighth day is really when i kind of broke through a wall. >> reporter: in st. louis ksdk nbc 5 anchor anne allred has been ordered to stay home, having undergone a kid ney transplant three years ago she takes medicine every day >> when i was told what could happen if i contracted coronavirus r vooirs i was told anything between pneumonia and death. >> reporter: in the n. seattle the first clinical trials for coronavirus vaccine are under way with 45 healthy volunteers among them jennifer haller >> everyone's feeling so helpless right now and i was so excited to find an opportunity where i could actually do something tran ji something tangible to help everybody. >> reporter: the nation's icus in a scenario would be overwhelmed and in a moderate scenario the country would need four times as many beds as it currently has.

and some survivors like elizabeth schneider who you heard about is actually paying it forward.night her blood to science so researchers can see if that blood can help provide a future treatment or a vaccine. >> that's nice to hear. i have to say as unsettling as it is to hear the details it's helpful because -- everything that happened is this it? is this it? the more details we hear the better. what treatments are available now? >> reporter: it's interesting. scientists are looking at a lot of different types of treatment. hiv medications, flu drugs, drugs that treat rheumatoid arthritis and an old drug that was used to treat malaria. but another drug is being studied in china and the united states in clinical trials. an out and viral that blocks the replication of the virus. >> what a broad range of symptoms these patients all have had. >> reporter: yes. important also some people are reporting gi or gastrointestinal symptoms. it can present in a variety of different ways. most often, fever. >> take your temperature. i've been doing that. my temperature is other day was 88.9.

joini ining us is elizabeth schneider who is now recovering from coronavirus. thank you for being with us. first obvious question, how are you? >> hi. yeah, i'm glad to be here talking with you. as you can see, i'm happy. i'm healthy. i am recovered. i am feeling much better. i do feel a little bit tired just similar to how you feel after you've just gotten over a cold or the flu. >> you say that you're feeling much better, which is a great thing. how had you been feeling? what was it like at the worst muof it for you? >> i would say the worst of it was the very first night that i fell sick, which was over two weeks ago, on tuesday, february 25th. initially i just felt feverish. i had body aches. i had a headache. i had ji general feeling of being unwell. i went to bed and before, i had a temperature of 103 degrees, which in my recent adult life was the highest i've had. i was shiverering uncontrollably. i knew i was definitely sick. i ended up calling a friend before i went to bed to ask if she could take me to the er in the middle of the night if things got w

coronavirus survivor elizabeth schneider works at seattle biotech company.orgia both joined us live for eight thank you for being with us. >> good to be here. good to be alive. >> look great. clay, i too have read about you story that you basically had gotten to the point of gasping for breath. you are in the hospital not doing great, how do you get her because you will look wonderful now. >> it's been a long jersey. it all started in a church delivery squared church, we had a massive gathering were over 100 choir members got together the choir director was retiring. we got together to sing. so i sing in church on sunday morning and by sunday night, i went from being normal sunday after church by monday morning was going to urgent care trying to get some help because i couldn't breathe. so i wound up in the hospital they kept me for a day, ran a bunch of tests on me. reinflate it and told me i had pneumonia. they wound up sending me home. i went home. i laid in my bed from monday through friday. when friday came i called the hospital back and told them i fee

pete: elizabeth schneider joins us via skype from washington state to tell us what it's like to haveng us this morning so it sounds like in your case, you thought you had the flu, you were going about your normal life and then walk us through how you discovered that you ultimately had coronavirus. >> hi, thank you, yeah. pete: good morning. happy to be here thank you so much i'm excited to share my story with you guys. so yeah, that is that is correct i did fall sick i had a high fever, body aches, fatigue, i had a little bit of congestion but you're correct i didn't have any respiratory symptoms or a cough, any tightness in my chest any shortness of breath, so i just thought i had contracted a nasty flu and it wasn't until a few days later after i started getting sick that i found out that there was a larger story at hand. i had gone to a party three days prior with a group of friends just a house party, and it turns out that a big group of them about a dozen by my count all got sick at the exact same time three days after the party with very similar symptoms so we started to get su