i was there as the outbreak began in kirkland, washington. we'd just seen another person loaded up into an ambulance to be taken to the hospital. >> reporter: and over the weeks, the body count has continued to rise. 49 in virginia. >> one of the deadliest covid-19 outbreaks at any assisted living facility in the country. >> reporter: just this week, in andover, new jersey. >> we're taking very special care of our nursing homes and our seniors. >> reporter: critics say the administration has mishandled the situation on multiple fronts. >> clearly the federal government has been slow. they said well, we're not really responsible. the states are responsible. to this day, we still have the trump administration battling governors of both political parties. >> reporter: some pointing to the shortages of protective equipment and testing in the facilities. >> we've been saying for the last month and a half that if we don't have testing in nursing homes, if we don't have personal protective equipment, things are going to get bad. >> reporter: others

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

i am in seattle, about the time the outbreak happened in kirkland, which is where i was visiting friendswhen i got home, -- they are ok. i got a case of upper respiratory infection, which i get every couple three years. im pretty come from eyes. it, i lost myer sense of taste. that was unusual. his that miss or marker -- is that myth or marker? >> that is actually true. what we have noticed in a huge number of people, there was a fromt study -- a reporting fact that talks about the that over half of the people, when they were called, said they lost their sense of smell or taste at some point. mers. it with even in that, it was documented. we are seeing a much greater frequency to the point that in some clinics, they use it as a marker of saying you probably had it. if you had a lost sense of smell or taste with the upper respiratory infection. our guest from massachusetts. -- host: our guest from massachusetts. caller: i'm concerned about georgia opening up. restaurants on monday, along with movie theaters. people fly into the airport all the time. that's loaded with restaurants and bars

we do not want a kirkland, washington incident happening here.were the first to say no guests in a nursing home. and that was hard. i got calls from people who said you won't let me see my brother. this is a time to teach her facingtime. >> it's so hard for them, especially if so many not being with loved ones when they pass. but you have inbenefit of giving people the most chance to live. i know it's a struggle for you. i appreciate you taking the time. you will always have a place on this show to make your case the audience. >> thank you very much. and year cheering you on every day. >> i'm one of the lucky ones. >>> all right. we saw so much bad news out of the nursing home in kirkland the governor just referred to in waux. washington. but there is good news that got delivered to one family on a stretcher. watch this. >> my mom is coming home. yay, we're survivors. >> praise the lord. >> survivors. >> now, we have been following this story for weeks. that is the mom of karen, the nurse who i met on the show, introduced you to her. she wound up

level of care and management, we have somewhere to send them, that will keep us from creating more kirklands>> what advice do you have, what should they look for in that facility to see if or learn about, since they're probably not allowed into the facility, is this facility -- are they taking care of a family member in a well enough, not just regular times, but in this pandemic? >> great question, anderson. i've been giving this advice to family and friends. i'd be asking what they're doing in terms of infection control and prevention. stellar hand hygiene, if they have any cases, and are they effectively containing it and checking the temperatures of every staff that comes in every d day? we've developed a lot of expertise regarded the type of control care needed in long-term care facilities. i think by and large across the country, assisted living, nursing homes have really been doing as good a job as they can with a caveat. most everywhere, they don't have the ability to test. we don't have the equipment. then we'll have a problem and that's where my heartfelt reaction came from yesterda

kirkland, new rochelle, uss tr, those are big ones. in terms of simple math, they may all be dwarfed by an outbreak you may not have heard about at all at the cook county jail in chicago which is now officially being described as the nation's largest-known source of coronavirus infections. quote, it started small, on march 23rd, two inmates in the sprawling cook county jail, one of the nation's largest, were placed in isolation cells after testing positive for the coronavirus. in a little over two weeks, the virus exploded behind bars infecting more than 350 people. and even those numbers probably grossly underestimate the scope of infection because, quote, the vast majority of the jail's 4,500 inmates have still not been tested. the dry tinder situation at the cook county jail has led to urgent calls to get the prisoners out of there. it has also drawn pleas from the americans who are locked up there right now themselves, that's a handwritten sign you can see propped up in the cell window. it says, "help. we matter too." in the commun

the wider community outbreak was discovered, because a doctor at the evergreen ce theal in kirkland,n cdc gave permission, started testing sick people in the hospital and immediately he got positives. it was so overwhelming. he had 32 positives in his hospital. most crucially, some had no connection to that nursing home. to sleuth out the fact there was widespread community spread of the coronavirus at that time. host: what to the governor and state officials do next? guest: they went public pretty quickly. within about a week or so, a state of emergency occurred. the business community acted almost unilaterally. microsoft and a lot of big players immediately encouraged people to stay home. there was all most an automatic response here. not a lot of indecision about it, frankly. they came forward and very quickly some of the precautions that are now so familiar, social distancing, sheltering at home, were put in place here. they acted quickly. the data we are seeing now suggests what they have done has worked. host: i want to invite viewers to join in on the conversation. their quest

the nursing home in kirkland, in washington state, where we learned that two-thirds of the residentse sick, and ultimately 35 people died. the town of new rochelle in new york, where the outbreak was so fierce and moved so fast, that officials sealed off the town into a one-mile containment zone. more recently, there is the uss thee ro theodore roosevelt, where the sailors turned sitting ducks stuck on board while their ceo desperately asked the navy for help, and kirkland, new rochelle, uss tr, those are big ones, but in terms of simple math, they may all be dwarfed by an outbreak you may not have heard about at all at the cook county jail in chicago which is now officially being described as the nation's largest-known source of coronavirus infections. quote, it started small, on march 23, two inmates in the sprawling cook county jail, one of the nation's largest, were placed in isolation cells after testing positive for the coronavirus virus. in a little over two week, the virus exploded behind bars infecting more than 350 people. and even those numbers probably grossly underestima

february 6th, three weeks earlier than what was thought to be the first confirmed virus fatality in kirkland, washington. the disclosure adding to the growing stack of information suggesting the case count and the death toll could be far higher than the current count. the president is having a scatter shot morning. threatening iran in one tweet, wishing a gossip columnist a happy birthday in another. the president is out ahead of the facts or trying to create alternative facts. he says states are safely coming back and reopening. fact is, that process is just now beginning. and only in a few places. georgia and florida do want a quick return to work. texas also taking some first steps. delaware's governor, though, says he wants to double the president's advice and log 28 days of declining cases before thinking about reopening his state. currently, no state meets the letter of the president's own reopen guidelines. and the president's own medical experts are advising caution. the cdc director says a tandem flu and coronavirus assault next fall would, quote, put unimaginable strain on the heal

we do not want a kirkland washington incident happening here in connecticut. but it's risky. we were the first ones to say no guests going in a nursing home. that was hard. i got calls from people who said you won't let me see my mother and i was just saying, if you love your mother, this is the time to teach her to facebook, face time. >> i know it is so hard for them, especially if the patient ge gets the virus and people passing, and these are all hard choices governor and i know that and i know it is a struggle for you. i appreciate you taking the time. you will always have a place on this show to make your case to the audience. >> chris, thank you very much and we're cheering you on every day. hang in there, brother. >> i'm one of the lucky ones. governor ned lamont of connecticut, thank you. >>> we saw so much bad news coming out of the nursing home in kirkland that the governor just referred to in washington, right? but there is some good news that got delivered to one family on a stretcher. watch this. >> my mama is coming home. yeah. what a survivor. yes. >> praise t

joining us to discuss the coming months for the economy is joanna kirkland.e are through some of the volatility. it does seem to be calmer waters. we know some of what is going to happen at an executive level. how are you advising investors? we got through some of the extreme stress and now it is time to step back. we came through this crisis with failing anemic -- fairly anemic growth rates. we have been comparing that recovery with what we call a wobbly bicycle. any gust of wind could blow you off course. i think that even once we get out of extreme versions of lockdowns we have seen in recent weeks, the return to normality will take some time. we will still be dealing with weak growth environments even after the more extreme measures are lifted and that is something we need to start thinking about now. vonnie: when you look across the multi-asset strategy you have built up, what tweaks would you be making? area is -- clearly the fed -- a week or so ago. some of then extreme risks have been removed. being further out capital structures is probably a good id

dan springer is in kirkland, washington, with a look at that story. dan?> yeah, jon, we are seeing incredible courage and sacrifice from over 100,000 retired doctors and nurses, who have come back to the job to keep this healthcare system afloat, during this pandemic. governors in many of the hard-hit states including california, new york, asked retired healthcare workers to come back to the job and many have answered that call. new york has 85,000 volunteers including 22,000 from outside the state. some are right back on the front lines, treating patients with covid-19. others, like a 70-year-old doctor in california, are doing tracing work to help limit the spread. >> i've always been someone who looks for holes and puts fingers in them. that's what i started to do, to look for the holes where i could give a little help. >> but some think it is way too dangerous. the director of the national center for disaster preparedness says retirees are by definition older, more likely to have preexisting medical conditions, and therefore, among the highest risk ind

. >> now, the life care center of kirkland washington was the scene of one of the nation's first major outbreaks in the bay area. outbreaks have been seen in the nursing homes like san jose and burlington. the white house task force say that is the nursing homes are going to be a priority when the tests are available. >>> this morning a team of bay area theres and nurses are in new york. that's to help on the front lines of next month working at the at new york hospital. they're sacrifice got the attention of steph curry that tweeted this message. >> i want to send a shut out to you. it's -- send a shout out to you. it's unbelievable on the sacrifice. >> united airlines is sending the workers across the country. >>> new york's heart of the coronavirus pandemic is giving us a glimpse of what the doctors and nurses are dealing with in the emergency room. >> everybody is testing positive. all that you hear is oxygen. people of all age ranges. >> in fact, dr. eric recorded what happened during his shift showing the hallways filled with coronavirus patients. >> i am seeing young patients, o

in a kirkland washington type system -- situation, it is likely -- less likely to occur. other settings include the homeless. again, there are folks living in close quarters where we have to be able to quarantine those who have tested or contact -- come into contact with somebody who is covid positive and get them quarantined. thinke created about i 1500 beds spread across 14 hotels. mainly double rooms. again, so that we can get the homeless taken care of in a safe and quarantined area and are much less likely to be able to disperse walking around the community. roland cook is our great commissioner. there has been a lot of talk about corrections. i will ask him to speak in a few minutes. what is important to know there is like with nursing homes and the homeless, over the last three or four or five years, we have extra capacity and are nursing homes. over the last couple of months, over 700 people have been released. the lowest risk of folks who are incarcerated there for minor probation related issues. on the other side of the break and, roland is looking out the oldes

in a kirkland, washington type situation, it is likely -- less likely to occur.ther settings include the homeless. again, there are folks living in close quarters where we have to be able to quarantine those who tested or come into contact with somebody who is covid positive and get them quarantined. we have created about i think 1500 beds spread across 14 hotels. again, so that we can get the homeless taken care of in a safe and quarantined area and are much less likely to be able to disperse walking around the community. roland cook is our great commissioner. there has been a lot of talk about corrections. i will ask him to speak in a few minutes. what is important to know there is like with nursing homes and the homeless, over the last three or four or five years, we have extra capacity and are nursing homes. over the last couple of months, over 700 people have been released. the lowest risk folks who are incarcerated there for minor probation related issues. on the other side of the break -- equation roland is looking out the oldest of our folks who are incar

the first heartbreaking images we saw in the united states, an outbreak at the life care center in kirkland, washington. a nursing home. at the time it made sense, earlier studies had shown the disease was more severe among people who railroad owere older underlying conditions. yet we kept hearing stories that young people extremely sick. >> he came into our bedroom and he said i got to go, i have to take myself to the hospital and i said are you sure you want to go there. and he said yes, i need to. >> reporter: or this 39-year-old. >> that day he was starting to decline because he did not have a horrible cough this whole time. and the 22nd is when i brought him to the hospital. >> reporter: young couples, husbands and wives, all infected. and yet in these cases, the wives stayed relatively healthy while their husbands became suddenly critically ill. and died. >> they wouldn't let me in the hospital as he was begging that i need my wife, my wife makes my decisions. they told me to park the car. we thought that i was going to get to go in with him and when i walked up to the doors, the hosp

resident of the lifecare center in kirkland, washington site of america's first major deadly outbreakhe virus her lungs filled with fluid. she thought she was at the end of her life. she convinced physicians to let her family gather around her for one last time. with such little oxygen in her lungs she had difficulty talking. she was later transferred to a hospital where she began to recover. she told cnn she was glad to be home so she could give her grown children "a hug or a kiss or whatever they needed." her message to others with the disease is don't give up and keep fighting. >> and last tonight, a congratulations to shawn and dawn clancy of ohio and their newborn. >> my goodness. >> eli. less than two weeks after young eli's birthday he and his father shawn were both diagnosed with covid-19. dawn says her son was lethargic and that "his eyes weren't really opening." according to cleveland tv station wews, both of them are back home now, recovering, resting. congratulations to all three of you. >> congratulations. >> and i know, anderson, a lot of people also ask about how they c

when i first saw the results from the cruise ship or the kirkland senior home. these to me where telltale signs that we had a virus that was highly contagious and spreading across multiple modes of transmission. that brought me back to my forensic days looking at sick buildings. thiseaks to how easily virus has translated. if you are with somebody who does not show any symptoms, do you have a greater risk, less of a risk, or about the same? guest: certainly, when people are symptomatic, there is higher viral shedding. two, people are also coughing and sneezing more. not only do you have a higher viral load in your throat, lungs, but you are actually projecting that into the environment. i know we say to keep a six foot buffer, but if you have a strong emit 20 feetls can or further. two, it is the behaviors that change that -- that change when people are symptomatic. host: memphis, tennessee. i wanted to ask, i heard scientisthe news, a described this as a naturally occurring virus, distinct from something that would be -- origin is what i am looking for, down th

heartbreaking images we saw of the coronavirus in the united states, outbreak at life care center in kirklanda nursing home. at the time it made sense. earlier studies had shown the disease was more severe and deadly among people who were older and had underlying conditions. yet all along we kept hearing stories of young, healthy people becoming extremely sick like 30-year-old ben. >> came into bedroom where i was laying, said i got to go to the hospital. i said are you sure, he said yes, i need to. >> 39-year-old conrad. >> he was starting to decline, didn't have horrible cough whole time, 22nd i brought him to the hospital. >> young companies, husbands and wives all infected, yet the wives stayed relatively healthy while their husbands became suddenly critically ill and died. >> they wouldn't let me in the hospital as he was begging i need my wife, my wife makes my decisions, they told me to park the car, i thought i was able to go in with him. go up to the doors, hospital on lockdown, wouldn't let anybody in. that was it. never got to say i love you. >> two days after ben was released from

the kirkland hospital there was a huge wake-up call for them.hey tried to get all around the city and educate these nursing homes on the right way to handle patients, the right way to use ppe. but the challenge with elderly patients who have underlying conditions and in some cases have dementia and might not know they're sick has been overwhelming for some of the fire departments and ems organizations trying to them them take care of the vulnerable populations. again, the cities and state monitoring these two outbreaks closely as are cities and states around the country, ari, keeping an eye on the most vulnerable outbreaks in texas. >> garrett haake, thank you sir. it's been compromised by the challenging in tests as well as getting the results but we do know by the anybody of hospitalized patients suggests that many people who likely have the virus may not be included in the official counts. 102 counties say they have zero cases something that's hard to believe when you look at the numbers we were just reporting on. in a home of patients who co

diedfrom coronavirus on february 6 and february 17th. 3 weeks earlier then the first reported fality in kirkland washington. the mecal died in february did not have any known travel histies and that is presumed they contracted the virus from comunity spread. it comes. his georgia's governor brian kemp isdefending his decision to begin easing social distancing measures in his state this is just not hand them the keys back. >>to go back to where we were this is going asured approach with a lot of diffent requirements that was done in conjunction with public health officials officials based on that data that we're seeing in r state. >>by friday barbershops hair and nail salons bowling alleys jim's a massage parlors are allowed open again and next monday. so can resurants and theaters. some members of mps coronavirus task force and local leaders say they >>i really i'm at a loss as to what the governor is facing this decisi on other than getting people back work and so i i am concerned that there was nolocal in prayer. he's eager for more states to ollow georgia's lead we have to build back our coun

dan sprunger is hive in kirkland, washington, with more.now how many retired health care professionals have answered those calls to come back to work? >> reporter: yeah, hi, arthel. those numbers are being kept state by state. we can tell you it's well over 100,000 retired health care workers who have come out of retirement to come back to work because right now it's all hands on deck to fight this pandemic. in new york city alone, we know of 85,000 doctors and nurses, technicians who have answered the call to volunteer to help. 22,000 of them came in from other states, and washington more than 6,000 retiredded the health care workers have applied to come back even though they know this sacrifice comes with serious risk. hundreds, if not thousands of front-line workers have been infected, at least four we know of in the u.s. have died. but still so many have answered that call to push in. dr. matthew kieffer retired in january. heed had plans to travel, but all that travel was getting shut down, and just one week into his retirement, the v.

. >> life care center in kirkland, washington, site of america's first major deadly outbreak. hit with the virus. her lungs fillwood fluid. she thought she was at the end of her life. she convinced physicians to let her family gather around her one last time. she had difficulty talking. she was later transferred to a hospital where she began to recover. g geneva was glad to be home. her message to others with the disease is don't give up and keep fighting. >> and, last tonight, a congratulations to shawn and dawn clampsey of ohio and their newborn. less than two weeks after eli's birth, he and his father shawn were both diagnosed with covid-19. son was lethargic and his eyes weren't really opening. both of them are back home now, recovering, resting. congratulations to all three of you. >> congratulations. >> and i know, you know, anderson, a lot of people also ask about how they can help. it is a common question we get. you can go to cnn.com/coronavirus. figure out how to help there. there are categories to figure out how you want to contribute and what you can do from medica

if there's any silver lining from the tragedy in the nursing home up in kirkland is that it allowed our local state and local leaders, as well as our health care administrators to prepare for the pandemic better, earlier than the rest of the country. it allowed us to raise our awareness, not just amongst the planning site, but from the health care provider perspective to be able to be ready mentally and physically for this onslaught that was about to come. so because of that, a and because of the scientific modeling that's been used, we have been able to flatten the kufb a curve, and by that i mean the goal which the rest of the country has aimed for. flattening the curve has allowed the hospital system to not get overwhelmed. so it's allowed our capacity within our hospital system to manage our patients, incoming flow to patients to be well maxed. therefore, the long answer to your question is, we have been able to manage well, enough to the point where the field hospital that was being built in seahawks stadium is being d dismantled and moved to a different part of the country. from a

three weeks earlier than the first reported fatality in kirkland, washington. the medical examiner says the people who died in february did not have any known travel histories and that it's presumed they contracted the virus from community spread. it comes as georgia's governor, brian kemp is defending his decision to begin easing social distancing measures in his state. >> this is not handing them the keys back to go back to where we were. this is a measured approach with a lot of different requirements done in conjunction with public health officials based on the data we're seeing in our states. >> hair and nail salons, gyms and massage parlors are allowed to open again, by next monday, so can restaurants and theaters. the coronavirus task forces and other local leaders say they were blind sided. >> i'm at a loss as to what the governor is basing this decision on other than getting people back to work. i am concerned that there was no local input. >> president trump is eager for more states to follow georgia's lead. >> we have to build back our country. i'm g

there didn't seem to be a sense of urgency even after what happened in kirkland, washington. 60 residentsnd sadly, this has not been the first terrific incident. we've had four or five incidents in nursing homes where multiple deaths in, in richmond, virginia, 46 death, in new jersey, as you just mentioned and a couple of other places. now, usa today has come out with a new study to show that there are more than 2300 nursing homes in the united states with covid-19 patients. we still don't have the full tabulation, but at least 10% of deaths in the united states are occurring in nursing homes. more than 3,000 deaths. one of the issues is why is this coming out of usa today? why isn't this being tracked and monitored at least in -- maybe it is. but we don't have a lot of public information coming from the centers for disease control. so we've learned that nursing homes, we knew this was coming. it happened and we still need to take better steps to protect our nursing home residents. >> i want to make clear to people, this is something of personal importance to you. your mother, i think, is

focusing on keeping this vulnerable population safe and this brings to mind the life care center in kirklandshington, where we all watched the outbreak grow and the elderly population there, 35 people died at that facility. nbc news has done an analysis on the people who have died in these facilities and have found that 5,670 people so far sends all of this began have died in long-term and nursing care facilities. >> dana: and no doubt their loved ones are very upset. thank you. millions more americans filing for unemployment in the last week as coronavirus shutdowns continue to slam the economy. how bad can this get before the pandemic ends? we will talk about it next. a lot has changed in the last few weeks. but one thing hasn't: breakfast. and, if that feels like a little bit of comfort, it's thanks to... the farmers, the line workers and truckers, the grocery stockers and cashiers, and the food bank workers, because right now breakfast as usual is more essential than ever. to everyone around the world working so hard to bring breakfast to the table, thank you. ibut that doesn't mean ayou

when we first learned about that facility in kirkland washington, who had a whole bunch of people positive and we learned that a whole bunch of people would die there, it wasn't for a lack of trying or lack of caring to keep those people alive that things went so badly. do you feel at all, that there is a constructive way it approach it, that there is something, that for example, that something as paufrlg as the federal government could do that could meaningfully make a difference? >> it is not impossible. with people's lives on the line, you cannot go in with the attitude that this is impossible. if i were there, there's three things i would do immediately. the first thing i would do is i would test and get resources to every nursing home in the country, because we know right now, that the nurses and the staff, many of them are affected, infected, we don't know which ones, many of them don't want to show up, so over the next seven days, i would commit to testing every single one of them and getting gear to every single one of them. the federal government absolutely has the power to do. th

and if they just go on about their regular day, they're going to become another kirkland. >> in terms of trying to maintain a practical and constructive approach to this, since we've been talking about nursing homes a lot, we've heard a lot of people expressing real despair, especially if they've got relatives that are in one of these facilities who need to be in a facility like this because they can't be cared for at home. we've heard people really distraught, worried that there's no way to protect them. so what you just said about how there are protocols that work, that there are ways to protect people i think is important to hear. what i want to know is how we can try to up that standard, we can get more facilities up to those kinds of high standards nationwide. we have seen individual facilities, you know, pleading for donated ppe for staff. we've seen so many facilities where they say they don't have access to testing. do you think that we could act systematically as a country to get testing and get ppe and get medical consultation into these facilities to bring more facilities u

that is when a man passed away in kirkland, washington, towards the beginning of march.some doctors are looking at the possibility that covid-19 may have been here much earlier, in january or even late december. for now, the focus seems to be more testing, more contact tracing. right now in l.a. county, anyone with symptoms can get tested within a day. the next step will be searching for those asymptomatic characters. brian and nicolle, back to you guys. >> gadi schwartz, thank you for that. joining our conversation to help make sense of all that, dr. william shacker chaffner from vanderbilt university medical center. this is probably the most dangerous kind of information to ask you about is anecdotal stuff that comes up in conversations, mostly with other moms from my son's school. you hear a lot of people saying, i was really sick in february. do you think i should get the antibody test if it becomes widely available, could i have had covid? is that a real possibility based on what you're seeing? >> nicolle, sure it is. it's understandable. if we had reliable antibody

.>> the life care center of kirkland washington was the side of one of the nations first major outbreaks in here in the bay area we reported on nursing home outbreaks and hayward, orinda, san jose and burlingame and the white house task force says nursing homes will be a top priority as more tests become available. >>> a team of doctors and nurses from the bay area specifically from ucsf are in the state of new york helping those on the front lines. 12 doctors and eight nurses volunteered to spend the next month working at new york presbyterian hospital and golden state warriors star stefan curry tweeted a message to say thank you.>> hello doctors and nurses from ucsf i want to send a special message and a shout out to you guys and encourage you all in the work you are doing it is unbelievable that sense of sacrifice. >> the hospital partnered with united airlines to send the workers across the country >>> president trump is considering what he says is the biggest decision of his presidency thus far, when and how to reopen the american economy health experts say the data should determine

it was an outbreak at the life care center in kirkland, washington. a nursing home.he time it made sense. the disease was more severe and more deadly among people who are older and had underlying conditions. and yet all along, we kept hearing stories of young healthy people becoming extremely sick. >> he came into our bedroom where i was laying, and he said, i got to go, i got to take myself to the hospital. i said, are you sure you want to go there? he said, yes, i need to. >> or 39-year-old conrad buchanan. >> that day he was starting to decline, because he did not have a horrible cough this whole time. and the 22nd is when i brought him to the hospital. >> young couples, husbands and wives all infected. >>> we're going to take you live to the coronavirus task force briefing. >> i know you are watching carefully, the numbers have shifted over the last few days. what happens when nations -- when states change the reporting from confirmed to probable. now all probable cases are included. they had to add them back, in even though the cases may have been from march, th

they're close to that number set in kirkland, washington, when this pandemic first started. that outbreak caused 37 people to die in the same nursing home. we're at 35 right now, and that number could rise. despite the fact that virginia has been seen as one of the less affected states, one of the states doing better at flattening the curve, the outbreaks are not selective when it comes to nursing homes and care facilities. they are definitely hot spots that continue to pop up. chuck? >> that's for sure. catie beck outside of richmond, virginia for us. senior facilities haven't figured it out now, i hope they have. >>> facilities in louisiana have their strict measures in response to the overwhelming death toll there. the state reported more than 17,000 cases and 652 deaths. those numbers are among the highest in the country, particularly in states not named new york and new jersey. and hard-hit new orleans, there are now new guidelines on how thooto handle covid deaths. morgan chesky joins me outside a convention center turned field hospital in new orleans. all right, the d

nathan citino, and the barber kirkland history professor at rice university. he has written many, many articles and two fine books on the middle east. his latest book, envisioning the arab future, won the robert h. farrow book prize. this is the prize given to the best book after the first book. it's a great honor. then i'm going to turn this over now. first to dr. toprani. >> okay, so there's no need to go over my background. i'm an associate professor at the u.s. naval war college. obviously i do need to add a disclaimer to my remarks. i'm here in an official capacity, none of the opinions or attitudes i express should be construed as representing the official position of the united states government or any of its agencies. leaving that aside, this is a short version of the talk i give to my students at the war college regarding the global oil industry. i'll try to keep it ten minutes and hopefully david will keep me honest. all right. so the aim of this talk is giving you one as to how the foreign oil business operates. the second point is to explain how oi

if they just go on about their regular day, they're going to become another kirkland. >> in terms ofing to maintain a practical and constructive approach to this, since we've been talking about nursing homes a lot, we've heard a lot of people expressing real despair, especially if they have relatives that are in one of these facilities, who need to be in a facility like this because they can't be cared for at home. we've heard people really distraught, worried that there's no way to protect them. so what you just said about how there are protocols that work, that there are ways to protect people i think is important to hear. what i want to know is how we can try to up that standard, we can get more facilities up to those kinds of high standards nationwide. we have seen individual facilities, you know, pleading for help in terms of donated ppe for staff. we've seen so many facilities where they say they don't have access to testing. do you think that we could act systematically as a country to get testing and get ppe and get medical consultation into these facilities to bring more fac

. >> o'brien: but soon more signs of trouble began to appear across lake shington in the city of kirklandthe life care skilled nursing and rehab center. scott sedlacek had brought his86 -year-old father there to recover from a bad fall. >> so, he hit his head hard trauma and bleeding on the brain and he broke his right ankle. and the bed that opened up was at life care. and so, on february 20, we moved my dad to life care. and then we started seeing some of the staff wearingespiratory gear, wearing face masks, wearing glov. it's kind of like, "what's going on?" >> o'brien: inside life care,si nts had been getting sick with an unknown respiratory infection. the sickest were brought to e arby evergreenhealth medical center.dr francis riedo is the medical director of infection control here >> remember, this was flu season.dy and we'd alrad a peak of influenza b in december, and now we were going through the peak of influenza a. and so the unit was full of individuals with severe respiratory infections. in the meantime, in th background, we're watching these events unfold with increasing alar

recall the first major nursing home outbreak was at that facility out in kirkland, washington state where at least 37 people have died now, but that toll could soon be surpassed by this outbreak from richmond, virginia. officials say at least 35 have died at a nursing home accounting for nearly one-third of all the deaths in the commonwealth of virginia. joining us from richmond, nbc news correspondent katie beck. katie, tell us about the circumstances there. >> reporter: hi, brian. this severe outbreak has now gotten the attention of the governor and the top heads of the health community here in virginia. obviously a hot spot that has developed and then spiralled out of control. the numbers of fatalities from covid-19 in this facility have doubled in just a week. when you look at those numbers as virginia as a whole, there's only been 109 fatalities in total in the state of virginia due to covid-19. 35 of them have happened in the same facility that is right behind me. in addition to that, another 90 residents in that facility have tested positive for covid-19 and 25 of their health care

people died on february 6th and the 17th, that was a week earlier than the february 29th fatality in kirkland, washington the u.s.s sns comfort will leavw york city and return to virginia its medical staff have treated few patients and less than 100 of the 500 beds have been occupied >>> the mayor of new york, says the city is working with maisys, the sponsor of its annual fireworks show to find a safe way to celebrate the fourth of july the display will be a celebration of the city's strength and honor front line workers. that will be a very welcome sight. as always you can get more on the coronavirus coverage by heading to cnbc.com. morgan, back to you. >> i imagine a lot of people are going to tune in for that. sue, thank you >> you got it. >>> we'll take a quick commercial break taking a check on the markets before we do the dow, s&p and nasdaq are up for the first time in three days the dow up 1%, s&p 2% and nasdaq up 2%. stay with us [horns honking] birthdays aren't cancelled. hope isn't quarantined. first words aren't delayed. caring isn't postponed. courage isn't on hold. and love has

the government organization who watches over all of this has given citations to life care of kirkland, near seattle which was the original hot spot where 40 of their residence died. as well as others who are on the radar now. here now is a former cdc epidemic investigator, obviously you have a lot of elderly population. some of them are not well, but in your assessment, how was this handled and what could have been done differently to prevent 11,000 of these older citizens from dying questioning >> great question. today across 50,000 deaths nationally, many of them are in these very vulnerable high-risk populations of the elderly, specifically in that case what happened is you have individuals with covid-19, they were not initially identified as having the disease so early symptoms were missed. and then what was happening is that we weren't using proper personal protective equipment to prevent that infection from causing disease in employees, so employees got sick. and spreading it to others, that's how this happened. isolating, quarantining, ppe, all these things but in a microcosm o

at least 35 people dying at a nursing home in kirkland there setting off all kinds of alarm bells. state has come a long way since then. paint the picture for us this morning. >> reporter: that's right, ayman. this was once the epicenter of the outbreak in the united states. over 10,000 cases, over 500 dead so far. but authorities seem to have the situation here under relative control due in large part to early action by the technology companies without any sort of government say. they took action first keeping their employees at home. also authorities laying out in stark terms what people were facing here, that nursing home was an example of just how deadly covid-19 is. so people adhering to those social distancing practices. all of that leading to relative success here in washington, but they're not out of the woods yet. just yesterday, over 180 new cases. there's still community spread and i've been speaking to medical doctors here at this hospital and they're very worried about what happens next, what could potentially happen given that there's still community spread. if they e

wasserman tells me the risk is probably creating another kirkland, that nurse home in washington state that has seen more than 120 cases and at least 37 deaths. >> yeah, it's very emotional. >> the ordeal is weighing heavily on mrs. tomei's son and daughter-in-law. >> i was frantic. that's when i called you. i did not know what to do, what to think, where to go with it. all i knew is oh my god. >> you put her back into a place that has covid already. who's to say they haven't found out anything yet, if she would get it again? >> and evelyn tomei tells me even some of kaiser's own staff apparently disagree with the doctor's decision. >> i had a nurse this morning tell me she said are you from over there? i said yeah, but i'm not going back. she said don't. you fight it. don't go back there. now a nurse to tell me that, that's something. >> kaiser tells me they would send her home with support, but her daughter-in-law and her son say that's just too much, that evelyn needs 24-hour care and is bed ridden. i'm curious what you think. you can comment on my facebook page or on our story at a

a man in his 50s died in kirkland, washington. all that is raising questions on how early covid-19 may have been introduced to the united states. once again, it's stressing the importance of testing. when those two people died in their homes in california testing wasn't really available to everyone with symptoms like it is now in los angeles. you had to have a known travel history to china or have contact with somebody that had covid-19. in those early days, it appears as though the virus was spreading dramatically which brings us to the antibody testing studies that we're seeing, being done right now. one in santa clara and another here in los angeles suggesting, like you said, anywhere from 2% to 4% of those counties' populations might have had antibodies and might have been infected. that would suggest that 10 to 50 times more people have covid-19 in these areas than the current confirmed cases. to give that a little perspective, here in l.a., we have 15,000 confirmed cases right now. when the study was done we had 8,000, 9,000

it was the first big story about mass fatality out of kirkland, washington when this first came into u.s. and we first started seeing community transmission. there have been regulations that have been mhave doing work on this but we don't know the fundamental answer and down in florida the "miami herald" is trying to get answers and i suspect other reporters are trying to get the answers, as well. we'll be right back with more. needs a cfp® professional -- confident financial plans, calming financial plans, complete financial plans. they're all possible with a cfp® professional. find yours at letsmakeaplan.org. remember having that feeling for the first time? the first day you opened. the first day you had a customer, the first day you taught a class, had a client, a patient, a session. open... remember the night before you opened? who could ever sleep? open... but there's a different question we are being asked now. are you going to remain open? even when your doors are closed? open. that's how we show who we are. and there's another way to be open, to pull together - or push, depen