for overseas assignments alone, 217 general hospitals, 196 station hospitals, 91 evacuation hospitalsd 99 field hospitals had to be organized and trained. this unit training was conducted at camp berkeley, texas, camp crowder, missouri, carlisle barracks, pennsylvania, fort lewis, washington, and a camp in illinois. in addition to the overseas needs, hospitals and laboratory facilities in the zone of interior had to be expanded. general hospitals increased from four to 65. 56 regional hospitals were established, 26 for army forces and 30 for army air forces. 30 station hospitals where required, 142 for the army service forces and 158 for the army air forces. there were 10 service command laboratories. the medical department was faced with the job of staffing, training, and equipping these their forstallations wartime response ability. enlisted personnel received training at the medical department and technician schools. located at fitzsimmons general hospital and nine other general hospitals in addition to the army medical center. these men and women became specialized medical laborat

general hospitals increased from a total of four to 65. 56 regional hospitals were established. 26 for the army service forces and 30 for the army. 300 station hospitals were required. -- 158 for the army air force forces. addition, 10 service command laboratories are the medical department was faced with the enormous job of staffing, training, and equipping various installations for wartime responsibility. enlisted personnel received training at the medical department and technician schools. located at fitzsimmons general hospital and nine other general hospitals in addition to the army medical center. these men and women became highly specialized medical laboratory technicians whose loyal and able wartime record merits the highest praise. civilian medical schools throughout the country contributed to the training of medical department laboratory offices. officers are not doctors, but they are scientists in their own right. they are a group of scientists who directed bacteriology, chemistry, serology and entomology sections of the laboratories. they made significant contributions to t

the most complete facilities in the theater are in the general hospitals. ents are referred here from ,he evacuation, field, station and other hospitals for treatment. variety of clinical material necessitated a more complete laboratory. diagnosis can be made on frozen tissue. the pathologist examines the slide and can render an immediate diagnosis. tests are used for the identification of dysentery and salmonella. fever and other cultures,, tests, amoeba cultures, and tests for bacterial resistance to drugs can be made here. the chemistry section is prepared to perform cholesterol and other determination, in addition to other requested determinations. technique forfate a blood-specific remedy is used to assist with the management of shock. where a large concentration is required, and economy of assistance is affected by a hospital center. special responsibilities are delegated to each hospital. one general hospital performs required by all the general hospitals in the center. the 12 hospital center was composed of the 55th and other general hospitals. the l

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gain seven general care bed and 17 hospital beds. by may 14th, when installation the fourth unit is complete, northeast georgia medical center in gainesville will gain 10 care beds and 10 general hospital beds. as you know across the nation, the coronavirus has had a long-termg impact on care facilities, putting vulnerable populations at risk causing alarm among public health officials, healthcare our families. and georgia's battle with covid-19 these facilities continues to wage on and we are fighting it literally with everything in our to keep the medically fragile and elderly out of way.s as you know, on april the eighth, i signed an order strict sanitation protocols and changes in existing living arrangements, including a ban on visitors, except for end of life stop thences, to spread and improve conditions. community oft of health has been working day and for compliance and hold facilities accountable. surveyors are contacting to ensure daily they're utilizing appropriate safeguard residents as well as staff. the department is a

if i would come to the -- if i would come to the general hospital, i would come to the general hospital, and you would open up the stump and stuff like this, and all of a sudden i said, the stump needed to be bled, because it was that tainted blood that was in there. so we put his stump in a bleeder pan like this, take our bleeder, like this, give him a little cut and let him bleed until it stopped. and bandage him back up again and a couple days later and check him again. if he still needed to be bled, we could hang a couple of leeches on it and let the leeches suck out the tainted blood. i'll ask you a question while i got you here. after i amputated arms and legs, okay, and i would suture them. you know what suturing them is. i would sew them shut. all of a sudden, i find out i'm running out of -- i'm running out of suture thread. i got to use something else. what could i have used at that time? >> other than suture thread? >> yeah, i don't have no silk thread. this is -- this is in my other case, silk thread is what i used. i didn't use cotton thread, because it would tear too easil

come to the general hospital. the surgeon would open this up -- open up the tongue and he sees the blue spots, the dark spots. he realizes that's gangrene setting in. he paints this, the creosote. it stopped the gangrene, but it burned like hell when you put it on. we had a lot of whiskey, too. we had towpath whiskey. lincoln sent it to me by the barrel. we used a lot of it for shock. like i said, the surgeons drank it because of the pressure during the day. we had pure alcohol, too. here is another thing we would do. if i would come to the general hospital, we would open up the stump and stuff like this. i said the stump needed to be bled because tainted blood was in there. we put the stop in a bleeder pan, give him a cut, and let him bleed until it stopped. then we bandaged him back up and a couple days later, check him again. if he still needed to be bled, we could hang a couple leeches on it and let the leeches suck out the tainted blood. you, young man. after i amputated arms and legs, i would suture them, --

in 1983, and in 1984, general hospital's accreditation by the joint commission was in jeopardy. the hospital did not have an affective governing body and had antiquated management systems and staffing shortages. we heard from hillary ronen today, and she called it bizantine, antiquated, it sounds the same. we've heard about staffing shortages. we've asked questions of our management that they are unable to answer. it seems similar. in addition to these accreditation issues, there were issues with ambulance response times. that's first responder issues. we're talking to e.r. staff who are on diversion 60% of the time. even then, many people in the community felt that the city mental health is not responsive to the needs. remember mental health s.f.? sounds similar. so the joint commission was created so that the city could make budget and policy decisions more transparent because the business would be conducted i in public meetings. when the joint commission was created, after this 1983 and '84 crisis, the aids epidemic was under way. and it was the frontline staff then that broug

if i come to the -- if i would come to the general hospital, i would come to the general hospital, open up the stump and stuff like this. and all of a sudden i said the stump needed to be bled because it was the tainted blood in there, so we put a stump in a bleeder pan like this, give him a little cut and let him bleed until it stopped and then bandage him back up again. a couple days later check up again. if he still needed to be blood, we put the leeches on it and let the leeches suck out the tainted blood. i'll ask you a question while i have you here. >> okay. >> you, young, man, after i amputated arms and legs and i would suture them, you know what youtu suturing is? i sew them shut. all of a sudden i'm running out of suture thread, i have to use something else, what could i have used at that time? >> other than suture thread? >> yeah, i don't have no silk thread. it's in my other case. silk thread is what i use. i didn't use cotton thread because it would tear too easily. but i ran out of it, now i have a soldier on the table, i have to suture a stump but i don't have silk thread

i work for the general hospital and have been off work forfour the general hospital and have been offur days. i have the general hospital and have been off work forfour days. i have been self isolating. two weeks ago i had bad symptoms and i'm due to come back to work on friday. sol bad symptoms and i'm due to come back to work on friday. so i thought before i come i want to get checked. almost all testing is analysed in hospital and public health laboratories and the problem is they're struggling to keep up with they're struggling to keep up with the workload and until this week had been told to concentrate on patients and not staff. the representative of trusts in england told me about the difficulties that they were experiencing. everyone will be working as hard as they can to increase the number of staff tests but we just need to remember there area but we just need to remember there are a shortages of both swabs and rea g e nts are a shortages of both swabs and reagents someone are a shortages of both swabs and reagents someonejust are a shortages of both swabs and reagents someo

he supports the government's plan to have general hospitals accept coronavirus patients too. >> we are running the e specialized d hospital. however, the numumber of patien exceeded to the number of our beds. so this is a time for the, it to include general hospital it to be included for the medical care for the covid-19. the biggest t issue is the shortage in the supply of the personal protectctive equipment for health care workers. so we need a good supply and strong supupply for these, you know, devices. >> he added the virus is spreading among tokyo's younger generations. although initial reports said the elderly and the chronically ill were the most vulnerable groups, he revealed that there are more youth showing severe symptoms. he gave more insight into why health professionals want people with mild symptoms to recover at home or in hotels. >> in this situation, the prprrity is t the patient. you have to save the patient wiwith infectiouous disease. to do that,, we haveve to focus thosee patients with very sick, you know, very hard, very hard covid-19. >> but the doctor emphasiz

watford general hospital in hertfordshire has declared a critical incident and told all patients apartal trust says it's because of a technical issue with oxygen equipment. the government continued its testing of nhs staff, but few were turning up today at this temporary centre in surrey. at the moment, overall, hospitals have the capacity to deal with the expected surge in cases, but that could easily change. we can keep you alive using the technology and the equipment until your body gets over it, but we can't fix the virus. but the general public, you can fix the virus. you can stay at home, stay indoors and don't spread it. if nothing else, do not spread it. the number of deaths are likely to continue to increase over the coming days. experts say the best way of turning the tide is to stay at home. 0ur science correspondent pallab ghosh reporting. buckingham palace has given more details about sunday night's special broadcast by the queen on the coronavirus emergency. 0ur royal correspondent nicholas witchell explains the significance of the broadcast. it's not wartime, but everyon

gatta, surgeon at multi-care tacoma general hospital in washington., thank you for your work and thanks for taking time to talk to us about it. i really appreciate you doing it. i hope you'll stay in touch in these coming days and weeks. >> thank you, rachel. this is a great honor. i appreciate it. >> appreciate it. all right. thanks. we got much more to get to tonight. stay with us. rage when they bundle home and auto with progressive. wow, that's... and now the progressive commercial halftime show, featuring smash mouth. ♪ hey now, you're an all star ♪ get your game on, go play thank you! goodnight! [ cheers and applause ] now enjoy the second half of the commercial! even renters can bundle and save! where did that come from? the kitchen. it was halftime. where did that come from? new tide power pods one up the can it one up spaghetti night? it sure can. really? can it one up breakfast in bed? yeah, for sure. thanks, boys. what about that? uhh, yep! it can? yeah, even that! i would very much like to see that. me too. introducing new tide power pods.

to prepare for patient surge, our hospitals have worked around the clock to identify hundreds more general use and critical care beds for covid-19 treatment. hospitals were able to identify hundreds more and as of this morning, we have 1,023 critical care beds available for patients across our state. it is the highest number of critical care beds that we've had available since hospitals began tracking this data. ventilator use has also declined over the past few weeks. there are roughly 1,000 ventilators in use across georgia with more than 1,800 ventilators available for a total capacity of 2,800. currently, there are nine recovering covid-19 patients at the alternative care facility at the georgia world congress center. they were transferred from grady, emery and well star to open acute care hospital beds for incoming patients. we continue to coordinate with our hospitals to monitor capacity and if needed to accept non-critical or nonintensive care patients. in southwest georgia as you know, we've partnered with local leaders to build out phoebe north and albany for use by nearby phoebe

hospital setting? >> can you hear me okay? i am getting an echo. in general, the i.c.u. patients, about 3/4 of those are on ventilators. it's challenging to update that data on a regular basis because the ventilator status can change rapidly and this is from nine different hospitals. but just on sort of a monitoring level, the real question is what's our i.c.u. capacity? and in those i.c.u.s, most of those represent beds with more capacity. we expanhandled the i.c.u. and ventilator capacity as part of the surge planning by 91%, so we almost doubled the capacity there. and that was a key concern as we looked at the situation in new york. and again, people really responded tremendously to that. commissioner, i'm sorry, i forgot your second question. >> the reduction in the number of p.u.i. >> the p.u.i. number is one that i watch with caution in terms of interpretation about what will happen in the next coup of days. and likely that will depend on things like a neighborhood in laguna honda is all being tested and it is when the c.d.c. was here or if there is specific things

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. >> reporter: martin hirsch of massachusetts general hospital agrees. he says genetics and several other factors affect immune response. >> younger people, healthy people without any underlying conditions are the most likely to develop prolonged antibodies. >> reporter: with covid-19, the world health organization says we need more evidence about how effective the antibodies are and how long immunity will last. >> when we're talking about this idea of potentially getting infected for a second time, what time frame would sound reasonable to you for that to make sense? >> i think those people who test positive then negative and then positive within a few days or a few weeks are almost certainly not re-infected. i think if you go beyond that, a few months, a few years, then you can start talking about re-infection. >> reporter: antibody is not synonymous with immunity. antibody just tells you you've been infected before. immunity is more this complex idea. it's a continuum. and it depends on several things. it depends on the number of antibodies you produc

better than today in the general hospital. another character, i dedicate the book to carl lewis, not only proof polio is a viral disease in 1907 but in 1908 the rise of a vaccine that was 100% effective protecting monkeys from polio. in 1908 and 1909, it took almost 50 years to move that work to man. another major character william wells, probably the most important person in the history of american science, he created the entire medical and protection of the unitedd state. as one person said he had the power to change a man's life with a flick of her wrist. and one other guy who you may have heard, the army surgeon general, all these people were in the military, every one of them, the entire rockefeller institute, they were incorporated into the military. william gorgas surgeon general of the army had cut the death rate from yellow fever 20 in havana. and allowed the panama canal to be built. and he created the infrastructure in the army, he actually had a nightmare and the nightmare was that during this war with 4 million so

we have the general, all the other hospitals in the area are ready and willing to go to the next phase. so, thank you again for your support. [applause] announcer: president trump leads the white house coronavirus task force briefing this afternoon scheduled for 5:00 eastern. you can watch it live here on c-span. next, new york governor andrew cuomo holds a briefing on his state's response to the coronavirus. he reviewed the latest infection trends and announced a plan for statewide antibody testing program run by new york's health department.

we have the general, all the other hospitals in the area are ready and willing to go to the next phase. so, thank you again for your support. it.eciated -- appreciate to spend has around-the-clock coverage for the pandemic. it is all available on demand at c-span.org/coronavirus. watch white house briefings, updates from governors, track the spread throughout the u.s. in the world with interactive maps. watch on-demand anytime uncensored at c-span.org/coronavirus. ♪ >> c-span's washington journal live everyday with news and policy issues that impact you. coming up this morning, the national constitution center's jeffrey rosen on constitutional rights during the coronavirus pandemic. at thelisa shuman american benefits council. she talks about how the coronavirus pandemic affects employer-sponsored health care coverage. stephen morrison at the center for strategic and international studies discuss the role of the world growth organization and president trump's decision to cut funding to the who. sure to watch c-span's washington journal live at 7:00 a.m. eastern this morning. join the d

hospital setting? >> can you hear me okay? i am getting an echo. in general, the i.c.u. patients, about 3/4 of those are on ventilators. it's challenging to update that data on a regular basis because the ventilator status can change rapidly and this is from nine different hospitals. but just on sort of a monitoring level, the real question is what's our i.c.u. capacity? and in those i.c.u.s, most of those represent beds with more capacity. we expanhandled the i.c.u. and ventilator capacity as part of the surge planning by 91%, so we almost doubled the capacity there. and that was a key concern as we looked at the situation in new york. and again, people really responded tremendously to that. commissioner, i'm sorry, i forgot your second question. >> the reduction in the number of p.u.i. >> the p.u.i. number is one that i watch with caution in terms of interpretation about what will happen in the next coup of days. and likely that will depend on things like a neighborhood in laguna honda is all being tested and it is when the c.d.c. was here or if there is specific things

>> item 12 is zuckerberg san francisco general hospital medical staff report. and several action items on this. again, for the members of the public and those on the commission who usually are not on the joint committee, this is kind of business that is usually done at that committee. i am not sure if she is visually present or just audio. >> my intent was to be visually present as well. i don't know if anyone can see me. this is the first time and i can see all of you. >> we cannot. what number -- let's see. >> i don't think it's vital that you see me as long as you can hear me. the other thing is that there is this delay when i am actually on the video. so it is my audio is via the phone so i can be simultaneous with the proceedings. >> sure. i do not have power point slides and i do not think i have to have a visual if you are okay with me not having a visual. >> please proceed, doctor. >> so thank you so much. good evening. i have several items for you to review. and dr. chow, thank you for your comments and your questions. i wanted to clarify that we chang

fund, look at this, donated to taste catering 1,000 meals to medical personnel and zuckerberg general hospital in san francisco. across the bay, the a's had 300 pizzas delivered to hospital workers at cares persimmon in oakland. that's a delicious story. >>> right about now, swimmer facten adrian would be sitting down to a huge meal after one of his nine pool workouts a week. that's on hold. covid-19 took care of the olympic trials in june, too. but he's not about to let that or cancer stop him. what is it like being on top of that podium? >> brings a smile to my face, my man. >> reporter: from the top of the olympic podium, to now gym work, for swimming superstar nathan adrian. he was training for his fourth olympic games, and then the coronavirus spread, shut him down, till 2021. >> there is talk of trying to get a bunch of athletes together and liquarantine for 14 days, right? make sure we're all healthy, and live, train, and compete together for something like four or five weeks. >> reporter: the will to compete keeps the five-time olympic gold medalist and former american record holder in

falta material, si faltan ventiladores, faltan mÉdicos, se estÁn llenando los hospitales, el hospital generalego de escribiÓ como zona de guerra un hospital de tijuana donde al menos 14 profesionales estÁn contagiados. >> estÁn cayendo como moscas porque no se les dio la protecciÓn. >> sin embargo, la persona con la que hablamos, asegura que el hospital general a cargo del estado tambiÉn tiene problemas. >> el hospital general, dio positivo, su enfermera, dio positivo incluso estaba grave, a mi amiga le tocÓ entubarla. >> hoy circulan videos donde aparecen los cuerpos que se estÁn acumulando, mientras que tras las denuncias autoridades federales y estatales, han llegado a tijuana indicando que darÁn apoyo. >> cada vez vamos a tener mÁs pacientes porque estamos en casos acumulados en lo cual se va a poner crÍtico. >> hoy el presidente anunciÓ que los hospitales privados estarÁn atendiendo a paciente de hospitales pÚblicos con necesidades no relacionadas al covid-19. >> mientras tanto en mÉxico la comisiÓn nacional de los derechos humanos indica que tiene 44 quejas de miembros de personal mÉdic

also opened screening and testing sites in the castro mission neighborhood and the zuckerberg general hospital in the heart of the mission and potrero hill. we know -- we know that the health disparities and economic inequalities in our community are only made worse, unfortunately, only made worse by this pandemic. global and national data are already showing the disproportionate impact of the coronavirus on communities of color. in san francisco, we are seeing and expect to continue to see these inequities as well. although our current case data doesn't reflect major disparities yet, that data are also incomplete. we do not receive ethnic or race information for about a third of the test results that are reported to us. however, we have seen situations in the latinx community where people who live in multifamily or multigenerational homes are unable to self isolate. we have seen people in those households who must leave home to work and who have to make several trips a week for other essential supplies in small amounts due to their income stream. people in such circumstances are going to be m

all of the above and more, the chief of the division of infectious diseases at massachusetts general hospitaldr. rochelle rolenski and former acting director of the cdc, dr. richard besser. dr. besser, some states have begun to ease restrictions already, including florida, for example, reopening some of the beaches in the jacksonville area, for example. what sort of risk, potentially, does this pose to public health? >> well, you know, wolf, i think it's way too soon to be taking these steps. we need to be able to do testing in a wholly different way than it's currently done. right now, the people who are being tested are people who have severe illness, people who may be admitted to the hospital. if we're switching from the lockdown strategy we're in now, which has slowed the spread of this disease, we need the ability to test people who have even mild symptoms. and the reason for that is that with the new strategy, public health has to be able to do their work. we need to increase the public health workforce so that every single case of covid-19 can be investigated, people who are sick can b

half of the patients there at massachusetts general hospital are covert positive, or half of the bedsre filled with cobit positive patients. we spoke with dr. ali roger he's the executive vice chair of their emergency department, and here is his inside look. >> we are doing what we used to do in one week, but we are doing it in monday. don't get me wrong, we love taking care of critically ill patients, that's why we do it we do, but the nonstop aspect of it is definitely getting tiring for everybody involved. >> the number of patients requiring intubation is staggering. >> for us to have 140 and debated cobit patients when normally, for all disease processes, we only have 40 and debated patients, we have gotten really creative with where we make input icus. >> and will face max, shield and other personal protective equipment aim to prevent infection, doctor says communication is the big loss. >> typically i can use my facial expressions, i can use my gestures, my tone of voice to really connect with patients about some really serious things. but with a mask covering up most of your fa

>>and intensive care trauma surgeon at san francisco general hospital doctor thank you for being withealth disparities among of lower income and of communities of color is not new. so what surprises you upset shoe um what if you take a particular concern of the fact that you're finding the same disparities when it comes to communities of color involving covid-19. >>so think your family this evening. i just want to say a couple things to throw in a scissor. african americans are twice as likely across the united states to be affected by this time they're not going to fire comey and mortality rate is twice as much or more on the african american community service is going to sort of 8 or we have a higher percentage of what makes our patients who have been affected by that but in cities like chicago. in new york city louisiana and new orleans and also in milwaukee, it's some of the numbers are it's a outstandingly just really is hard to fathom. the numbers in the water, your 25% of the population after american. and upwards of 60% of the deaths are in african american patients are this i

. >> in 2013 i was diagnosed with breast cancer and treated in massachusetts general hospital. maria: based on her own diagnosis, the m.i.t. professor is using artificial intelligence to help with artificial intelligence. >> even though m.i.t. and ngh are just one stop away, they are ages away in terms of technology. a lot of times with machines doing very well in many other industries, they are not doing them in healthcare, which is -- if i affects all of us. >> using data from 60,000 patients, the professor uses a mammogram to learn patterns in breast tissues that could be precursors of cancer. you it can predict cancer as far as five years into the future. >> we are able to detect breast cancer earlier than a radiologist might. maria: the provost at m.i.f.'s teams are driving research. a radiologist and a machine algorithm is doing transformative things in terms of detection of breast cancer. we have faculty to bring down all the record for ways that have been synthesized for all the literature. and it allows you to design specific chemicals and compounds. you think about th

. >>> 13 staff members at san francisco general hospital have tested positive for the coronavirus . six tested positive last week, no word on which departments in which they worked in? >>> a new program aims to help seniors in need and struggling restaurants at the same time . >> us partnership not only with fema but partnership with cities and counties for locally driven strategy to get our will hospitality workers to prepare and deliver nutritious meals to our seniors . >> the program will allow restaurants to rehire some employees were keep existing employees on the job . to be eligible seniors must be below the poverty level and at high risk of exposure to covid-19 . already the exposed directly or have a compromised immune system . >>> california is broadening access to its emotional support hotline to include support for senior wellness . the friendship line is on , 888-670 >>> the state saw more new cases than any other week since the pandemic began . the death toll has gone up 30% since sunday . more than 300 people died in just the past three days in the bay area the rates

we know we're still watching cases in massachusetts general hospital double every two or three days. i would say that we don't have -- we have a lot of supportive care we can give to you if you walk in the doors of massachusetts general hospital, but we don't have a treatment. we obviously don't have a vaccine. so the best thing we can do against this disease is prevent it. while it is an inconvenient tool, it is a blunt tool. the best thing we have for prevention is to separate. so the way we are doing that, the social distancing, it is working. it is the only thing that we have to prevent right now, and i would say until we are far beyond our peak cases, we need to continue this measure because it seems to me inconceivable of the alternative of watching people die is a good alternative. >> it's an excellent way to put it. it's a sobering way to put it but an excellent way to put it. in terms of the cases at mass general, who gets it, how it spreads, what helps, what doesn't is different now than it was at the beginning because it's novel, we're learning. what are two of the most im

jennifer steen as a psychiatric nurse at san francisco general hospital and vice president of the nurses union s e i e 1021. she says the hospital experience a challenge would ventilator sedatives to figure out. >>could still serve the harsher u.s. to face up or when a patient has to be intubated a tube is inserted through the mouth and then into the airway to assist with breathing and they have to be paralyzed because they're such powerful reflexes to try to keep you from doing coughing and things like that doctor michael gropper is a professor and chair department of anesthesia on perry operative care at ucsf he says well ucsf medical center has enough ventilators for patients, the supply for sedatives are low and can impact not just copa 19 patients. >>but those in intensive care units and operating rooms they have about a 2 weeks supply of the paralytic medications. give our current usage and our current usage is quite low because we canceled all elective surgeries and even some some buyers and surgeries i think there's been less discussion about the medications needed in order to ma

about 2400 right now general hospital beds, icu 2175 which isct obviously more than 243. bed capacity five and ventilators in the model predicts 630 and we currently have 471 in new mexico so we've got work to do. we have pulled together a group and i will talk more about that and let you know what we are doing. the next slide is covid cases by u.s. states in highland, new york. it's highlighting the doubling time by two days. there are more cases, a lot more cases and if you squint, you can see new mexico but on the next slide, that is highlighted and you can see the doubling time is moving away from the -- from three days and more toward for. - -four. from a medical point of view, that is great progress on that social distancing continues to work and having a bigger effect. , somes some good news concerning news. on the next slide is the social distancing scoreboard. data of all the cell phones in the united states and they provide -- we don't know which cell phone is which -- it's about how much people are moving around. this is our scorecard from a few days ago and yo

right now scientists working inside this building on the san francisco general hospital campus could be the first to deploy a test to patients and healthcare workers. >> i'm excited about it. especially the results that we're getting. >> a associate professor and codirector of the clinical lab at san francisco general. where she and a team tested 500 blood samples from 80 patients when were positive for coronavirus. >> we validate the method. you can see the increase and raise in the response over time. >> the test reveal people develop coronavirus antibodies two to 15 days after the symptoms. they expect to use the test on patients and employees within san francisco public health system. >> antibodies can show if someone has had a previous infection. this is important because we are not able to do swabs on every individual in the population. if a healthcare workers has the antibodies they would be at increase risk of acquiring the virus. they could be more on the front line of fighting this. the only risk is we don't know if antibodies the presene means someone is immune. we're hope

now over in morning, patient numbers are exceeding capacity at general hospitals. one specializing in cancer treatment has temporarily discharged man p patients t accommode p peoe affecd w wit the coronirus. nhk skeo a pharmacistt the hospitalal. she said herer hospital h has a indefininitely postptponed surgs of many cancer patients. atat least ten people working there havave t tested positive the virus. >>>> what is scaryry aboutut th corona, covid-19, is everyrythi is happenedd all of a a sudden. i mean,, ddenly, you willll, yo collapse. suddenly, you wi, y you will become pneneumonia. suddddenly, y you're going to b dead. so very scary. >> she said her facility tests more than 2,000 people a day for the coronavirus and about 100 patients who have been found infected are now hospitalized. now across the globe, more than 1.43 million coronavirus infections have been reported. that's according to johns hopkins university in baltimore. the united states has the most confirmed infections at around 400,000, followed by spain and italy. >>> in other news, the acting s

laura: for more on the outbrea in the u.s., i am joined by a physician from massachusetts general hospitalank you for being with us. here in new york city, we are about to run out of ventilators. what is the situation in bton? >> i am atnce grateful andra mildly embed that here in boston we are among the lucer. our hospital has not been exhausteded -- yet exhauur supply of ventilators, although there is impatience from our governor that supplies of n95 masks and other personal ipprotective ent is on the way. the kraft family, jonathan kraft in particular, arranged the delivery of 1.2 million n95 masks to boston hospitals yesterday. i okink right now we ar however, every day, there is growing concern that we will exhaust that supply. that brings home the importance around the defense production act and the action the federal administration has taken in recent days to require companies across the country to step up productionre of criticalhing machines. laura: meanwhile, doctors and frnurses are on thtline. and youll areetting sick from the exposure. what is morality in yourio profession que

jennifer steen as a psychiatric nurse at san francisco general hospital and vice president of the nurses union s e i e 1021. she says the hospital experience a challenge would ventilator sedatives to figure out. >>could still serve the function or to basis for when a patient has to be intubated a tube is inserted through the mouth and then into the airway to assist with breathing and they have to be paralyzed because they're such powerful reflexes to try to keep you from doing coughing and things like that doctor michael gropper is a professor and chair department of anesthesia on perry operative care at ucsf he says well ucsf medical center has enough ventilators for patients, the supply for sedatives are low and can impact not just copa 19 patients. >>but those in intensive care units and operating rooms they have about a 2 weeks supply of the paralytic medications. given our current usage and our current usage is quite low because we canceled all elective surgeries and even some some buyers and surgeries i think there's been less discussion about the medications needed in order to mai

stuart harris from massachusetts general hospital. dr. gupta, we'll start with you. here's what we now know from this reporting, this morning. this was not -- these casualties were not in washington state, so we had originally thought the first deaths were in washington state. these were not cruise ship passengers. we knew about the outbreak on cruise ships there off of california. these were not travelers who had just returned from china. they had no known travel history. and, sanjay, i brought this up before, i remember that morning we were all on the air and i think it was february 26th we first heard the term, john and i, community spread. you, of course, knew it, but this is community spread then, weeks earlier than we knew it existed. >> yeah, alisyn. this is very significant. and perhaps not surprising to your point. i think for some time as dan said, dan simon, we suspected that there may be earlier cases. did we really think we happened to catch the very first patient in the united states or were there patients that we were missing even before january 21st w

ready-to-eat meals to the icu, medical surgery and labor units at the zuckerberg san francisco general hospital. you can help in their efforts by donating a meal on their website. how do you know someone who is making a difference or providing hope in your community? ktvu wants you to nominate your local hero, email your story along with photos or video of that person in action to myhero@foxtv.com. >>> elena is offering to take photos of families who are sheltering in place and she calls it the porch project but she charges anywhere from zero dollars up to $25 and she takes photos from a distance with each family showing their own version of sheltering in place. >> i will tell people where to stand if they need help but overall it has been the personalities of the families i have taken a photo of. >> she has taken more than hundreds of photos and has dozens more lined up for the weekend. this is over she plans to turn the project over to the healdsburg museum. from ktvu foxnews this is mornings on 2 . >> good morning and thank you for joining us and waking up with us . >> i'm pam cook . >> i'm

. >> ucfs doctor and medical director of pediatric emergency at sf general hospital. he says the bay area's early stay-at-home orders have helped ease the burden and bide time for health workers on the front lines. there are enough covid 19 tests for now, but masks, glovers, and other personal protective equipment white available are still a concern. >> we really need our policy to make this prioritize that that really makes the difference in our capacity and ability to serve the community. >> doctors nationwide right now are using all schools available to share knowledge about the disease. >> we are using e-mail listers. we are using conference calls. any way that we can spread the word and get the word out about a finding in new development. >> and treatment strategies have evolved over the past month to prevent lung damage. holding off. trying to delay that as much as possible. even using some of the lower pressure settings on our ventilators. >> covd 19 has really provided a situation where we're flying a plane as we are building it. >> dr. nicholas guam at ucfs c