michael wasserman. dr. wasserman is also the president of the california association of long-term care medicine, which represents doctors, nurses and others working in long-term care facilities. expanded testing is one of several measures he's been advocating for to try to better protect these facilities and their residents and their workers. now that l.a. county is going to try to do universal testing in its nursing homes, dr. wasserman told the "l.a. times" this, quote. we expect to see the number of cases that get reported to skyrocket, and we expect to see the number of deaths that get reported to skyrocket. joining us now is dr. michael wasserman, president of the california association of long-term care medicine. he's also the medical director of eisenberg village at the l.a. jewish home. thank you so much for being with us tonight. you've been in the middle of an interesting and important circumstance. thanks for taking time to talk to us. >> thank you so much, rachel. you've actually said it better

michael wasserman.o the president of long-term care medicine, which represents doctors and nurses working in long-term care facilities. expanded testing is one of several measures he's been advocating for to try to better protect these facilities and their residents and their workers. now that l.a. county is going to try to do universal testing in its nursing homes, dr. wasserman told the l.a. times, we expect to see the number of cases that get reported to skyrocket. and we expect to see the number of deaths that get reported to skyrocket. joining us now is dr. michael wasserman. he is president of the california association of long-term care medicine. also the medical director of eisenberg village at the los angeles jewish home. dr. wasserman, thank you so much for being with us tonight. you have been in the middle of such an interesting and important circumstance. thanks for taking time to talk to us. >> thank you so much, rachel. you've actually said it better than i can, to be honest with you. this

michael wasserman. i've got to leave it there. i appreciate you coming on and telling the story. >> thank you very much, michael. >>> well, u.s. crude oil takes a beating in monday trading. it hit a low that has not been seen in decades. we'll discuss when we come back. this is an athlete, twenty reps deep, sprinting past every leak in our softest, smoothest fabric. she's confident, protected, her strength respected. depend. the only thing stronger than us, is you. >>> welcome back. . trump says republicans and democrats are near agreement on extra money to help small businesses. the small business administration officially ran out of money on thursday for the paycheck protection program. sources telling cnn a sticking point is how to spend billions of coronavirus on coronavirus testing. the white house wants testing done by the states while democrats are calling for the federal government to coordinate it. >> i'm hopeful that we can reach an agreement that the senate can pass this tomorrow and that the house can take it up on tues

michael wasserman is president of the california association of long- term care medicine. >> nursingomes way, sifted livings, and group homes be in the accelerator this virus. >> reporter: he said the california department of public health has allowed nurses homes to set up covid wards without providing enough expertise. and they're making policy decisions that getting older adults killed. >> reporter: the doctor's association just submitted a formal proposal to the governor on how to protect nursing home residents. it calls among other things for covid-19 positive facilities to be run under an incident command structure with a centralized virtual support center and a full-time infection preventionist in each facility. >> why they are not using the experts to help inform them on how to fight this. >> reporter: in a statement, the department of public health told us cdph has worked closely with dr. wasserman, and has not rejected his advice, but rather ha into the covid response work. back at the pine ridge care center, the day after we notified management, we spot add lot of activity

. >> reporter: michael wasserman is president of long-term care medicine. he wants part-time inspection officers at all the state's homes to go full-time. >> they need to literally be the generals. they need to go around the building, if you see a doctor not washing his or her hands, you call him out on it. >> reporter: wasserman says emphasizing hand washing and proper use of masks and gloves will go a long way, but he hasn't heard back from the do governor's office. >>> by the end of the week, one in three americans will no longer have the strict shelter at home order. president trump is not renewing the nationwide social distancing policies. those policies expire at midnight tomorrow night. the president says he wants to leave it up to governors to decide what is best for their states. the president hopes to reopen the economy. new data shows that the gdp fell by 4.8% in the first quarter. that's the worst drop since the 2008 recession. >>> up next, big news from the san francisco symphony and high profile conductor. stay with us. >>> they're world renow

michael wasserman is president of the california association of long-term care medicine. >> moving a person who has covid into a facility that doesn't have covid will ultimately result in some people dying. that's just -- it's medically wrong and it's ethically wasse send his plan for what california needs to do to protect its nursing home population. among the ideas, split the populations to the covid-19 populations are either in completely separate facilities or separate wings of the same binge and the coronavirus patients must be served by completely different staff members. if he were able, he would bring a family home from most skilled nursing facilities because of covid-19. >> if she was in 95% of the nursing homes in theof hetb >> this i-team has obtained this letter from the campus for jewish living that contains a skilled nursing facility saying they will begin accepting covid-19 patients next week. they tell me they are able to keep them in a separate wing of the building and we take the health and safety of our patients and staff as first priority. dr. wasserman says for s

michael wasserman is president of the california association of long-term care medicine. >> sending someone back who has the virus, who is still possibly fighting the virus only is going to add stress to an already stressed facility. >> dr. 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