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>> i spoke to mount sinai this morning, reacting. he assured me that we have all that we need here. i checked in today. they have got all that they needed new york city, so as these individual stories are popping up, they are reacting to them in real time, but they continue to assure us that we have what we need at the moment. >> governor cuomo: we have enough in stock for the immediate need. not pass to the immediate need, but for the immediate need. >> quarterly evaluation, is not something that you would do? in conjunction with the legislator? and what advice would you give? >> governor cuomo: . we are all coping with the same thing, first of all. the federal government has a revenue loss. state governments have a revenue loss. city governments have a revenue loss, so no one can say well, i don't accept this reality of our revenue loss. it is a reality for everyone. and everyone has to adjust to it. i am sure there will be some people who say well, i shouldn't have to adjust to it. i should be held armless from reality. no one is held harmless from reality. go tell any family out

here at mount sinai hospital on the east side of manhattan.and at other hospitals in the mount sinai system they are preparing triage tents. the tenants are being set up in a number of locations including here in suburban nassau county, they expect them to be up and running as soon as tomorrow. in a single day 13 people died of the coronavirus in queens at elmhurst hospital, dr. colleen smith released a video inside the hospital to "the new york times," she told the paper the hospital preparations were in her words "too little, too late." she said emergency room patients are now double the usual number. they continue surging supplies but dr. smith described a dire situation. >> today is kind of getting worse and worse, we had to get a refrigerated truck to store the bodies of patients who are dying. we are right now scrambling to try to get a few additional ventilators or even cpap machines. >> at another new york city hospital, mount sinai west, the nurses posted a photo online showing them using trash bags as protective gear. the hospital sa

. >> we are outside of the screening station outside of mount sinai, this is where patients can drive be screened if they have covertly symptoms. they will be put in that white tent you see behind me, the forward triage tent. the most vulnerable and most contagious patients where if you have a broken arm or you go in for a party event, you can at least have some separation. you've got a fever, cough, or flu-like symptoms, you're going to be in that tent and afterwards, you will be admitted and some people are sent home with those types of symptoms. the amount of patients being treated here went from 100 to 220 and just the last two days. hospital workers say they are being stretched to the limit in terms of ventilators, and those who know how to work all of the equipment that personal protection equipment known as tce is definitely in need. we have learned through a source familiar with mount sinai's operations commission to private planes last week through his company sending them to china to obtain approximately 130,000 n95 face masks on behalf of the mount sinai network. is the nee

jolion mcgreevy, the medical director of the emergency department at mount sinai hospital right herein new york. dr. mcgreevy, thank you very much for joining us. thank you for all the work you and your team are doing. >> thank you for having me. >> so as i mentioned on the air yesterday, my wife is a former icu doctor here in new york city. and she and i have been in touch with doctors throughout the city. what we're hearing is really bracing. we're hearing quotes like, the situation is insane. it's like a tsunami forming over us. it's a national catastrophe, we're hearing about lack of supplies, doctors getting sick. what's the situation like for you and your team? >> thankfully we're doing better than that. we're certainly prepared for this situation to get worse. at the moment we're doing okay. >> do you worry about not having enough supplies to protect your staff and then as a consequence to protect the rest of the patients? >> it's not really at the front of my mind. i'm not worried about that. the thing i'm more worried about is making sure people are following the precautions

however, it is meant to ease the strain of hospitals like mount sinai and also mount sinai west on thether side of the city. patients will be brought here in order to open up room at those e.r.s over there. but you mentioned the grim milestone today, nicole, 1,000 deaths in new york city. and this is something that local authorities say they expect to get worse over the coming days. that's why they're building this hospital in the most iconic of locations. >> gabe gutierrez, thank you so much for being there for us. phil and rick are both back with me. phil rucker, the scenes in new york, "the new york times" headline on that story about the hospital elm hurst was accurate about elm hurst becoming increasingly accurate about new york, apocalyptic. >> yeah, it's horrible. frankly to see these scenes and to see the overcrowding and the hospitals and the desperation, but there's also signs of heroism and i don't live in new york, i live in washington. but i've been there many times. i have a lot of friends there who have been posting instagram videos at 7:00 p.m. at night when people open

mount sinai like so many other hospitals in new york is struggling to cope with the increasing numbervirus patients. all hospitals in the state have been ordered to increase bed capacity by 50%. and constructing facilities and that the buildings lobby to a dominate patients part of the u.s. open stadium will be converted into a hospital. 350 beds will be set up at the tennis center. construction expected to take three weeks. obtained 250 ambulances. the city. still in short supply to treat those who are critically ill our ventilators. a plea toice, in your operating room, we need it now. it should not be sitting there doing nothing. this is a war effort. everyone needs to contribute. you'll get it back when this battle is over. >> in recognition of the hard work and sacrifice by emergency workers, the empire state building replaced its customary lights with ones that were red and white. the colors resemble an emergency beacon at the very top of that building honoring those who are trying to keep us safe. the operators of the empire state building say this practice is going to continue

happy weekend everyone, coming up mount sinai hospital as our special guest to discuss the ramifications around coronavirus and what it will do to our communities and how prepared we are in the healthcare system. join us for the special to be coming up. but first we'll look at your money, the coronavirus also having serious ramifications on your money and throughout wall street all three majors entering a bear market this past week. by thursday we were down better than 20% from the february highs. that is definition of a bear market. the dow alone, down 10% on thursday that was the worst day since the 1986 crash and black monday. that left traders unsure how to handle the virus impact and questions abound about how slow the economy will become? are we in a recession right now right now is a boston group chief officer david monson is here, joining us this weekend with $2 billion in asset management and eve got the ceo of van eck's, $51 billion in assets under management 80% of funds great to see both. thank you so much for joining us. what a week, david let's kick it off with you. what di

as new york sees its worse today yet, 100 new deaths including nurse manager from mount sinai hospital who had been treating covid-1covid-19 patients until e contracted it. governor cuomo now saying the hospitals in new york do have what they need. this is old hurst hospital, hardest his facility in new york where tens have been set up outside and testing, refrigerated truck also outside to hold the bodies of those who did not make it. all of that of course eerie and tough to see for folks in new york city. there is also this big picture question about whether the terrifying models that the world has been watching are wrong. one of the top epidemiologists in the u.k. neil ferguson, who advises prime minister boris johnson and predicted doomsday scenario of half a million dead in england and 2 million people here, is now drastically reducing those numbers. so far in the united states, we have lost 1,000 plus americans, 1139 as of today. that and congress wraps up the most massive relief package in the history of the country, $2 trillion, hard to wrap around how much money that is. we ar

fox news david lee miller is live outside mount sinai hospital with the latest. >> the numbers are onlyoing in one direction, up. here in new york city there are now more than 25000 confirmed cases of the coronavirus, more than 360 people have died. governor andrew cuomo visited the javits convention center that transformed into a temporary hospital. the governor says he will ask president trump to authorize construction of four more temporary facilities that will provide for more thousand additional beds, the doubts that they will need anticipated 30000 ventilators to treat patients, the governor said the devices are being stockpiled based on projections from medical experts. >> i hope we do not need 30000 ventilators. i hope some natural weather change happens overnight and kills the virus globally. that's what i hope. but that is my hope, that is my emotion, my thought. the numbers say you may need 30000. reporter: according to the governor, more than 60000 retired doctors, nurses and other ethical professionals have volunteered to help during the crisis, doctor who works at mount si

at mount sinai, they are now constructing facilities in the building's lobby in order to accommodatepatients. in new york city borough of queens, part of u.s. open stadium will be converted to a hospital. 350 beds at the billie jean king national tennis center. construction will take about three weeks. mayor bill de blasio says the city obtained 250 additional ambulances from fema. the city is distributing badly-needed supplies to all hospitals, hospitals owned by the city and private. those items include three million surgical masks. still though in short supply, ventilators to create those critically ill. de blasio issued a plea to anyone that might have one that is not being used. >> if you have got a ventilator in your office in your operating room, we need it now. it should not be sitting there doing nothing. this is a war effort. everyone needs to contribute. you will get it back when this battle is over. reporter: in recognition of the hard work by emergency workers last night the empire state building replace its customary lighting with ones colored white and red. the colors

google that, mount sinai and you'll see this place is no joke. he is a cardiothoracic  radiologist. doc, for the lay people, cardio, heart, thoracic, the lungs and the upper portion of the body and the interplay. this is your specialty. >> that's right, chris. thank you very much for having me tonight. i am a cardiothoracic radiologist. i dedicated my life to studying thousands of cases a year. i've been fortunate enough to be on a team at mount sinai where we have a partnership with multiple chinese colleagues. we've gotten scans of patients who are positive for coronavirus. >> before you tell me what you're about to tell me, what is your level -- you're putting your name and reputation out there. what is your level of confidence in what you think that you and the team have discovered? >> we're confident about our findings. they are published in the peer reviewed literature. >> this is not a guess? >> it's not a guess. >> it's not something you've seen once and maybe it can be repeat in other scans? >> we systematically tabulated hundreds of sc

this is a patient from mount sinai who does not have coronavirus. you see just one focal spot that's very, very white. and this is a patient with a more typical strep pneumonia pat person. >> how many scans, by the way? >> we looked at hundreds, close to 500 scans. >> so this is not two or three? >> this is not. >> how many doctors on the team? >> we have two fellowship trained and a supporting team of researchers in our group. >> the reason i'm asking those questions because for me and the people watching, i don't know if you are right. >> sure. >> but the level of vetting, how other doctors take what you say, now, have you gotten pushback? do you have people that are saying, no, no, no, you are way early on this? you are way wrong? the peer reviewed study, how many of them say, no, you don't have it right? >> to the trained eye of a radiologist, we have a very systematic way of looking at the scans and looks at the lungs. when data is published, it is educating our entire field. i don't think there's been any push back at all. one of our goals is

the team at mount sinai sent abc news this video. in these small wells, antibodies are reacting.e antibodies from the donor. we asked the doctor if there are any risks involved. >> that's going to be always a concern for us, but we believe based upon the history of this therapy that it is the right and ethical and moral thing to do in the face of a growing crisis. >> reporter: and there are people willing to help. >> i hope locally that once i'm recovered, or my quarantine is over, that i can go and donate blood and hopefully the antibodies that i have grown will be helpful to those who are a lot sicker. >> reporter: outside of new york, doctors hopeful that potential plasma treatments could help. this woman's husband is at the icu at cooper hospital. doctors say he could be a candidate for plasma therapy. she's hopeful those who qualify to donate will step forward. >> if you meet the criteria to be a donor, please go and donate. that is really extremely important. >> reporter: now outcomes are still not known, but tests like their being conducted by scientists across the country

thousands of indians scrambled to withdraw their savings long lines for mount sinai branches of the popular bank counter the central bank takes control of the cash strapped we'll take you to delhi. going into crisis management mode european companies are coping with the coronavirus as it continues to spread across this part of the world and the bigger they are the heart of a full new figures showing just how dependent germany is on china and europe's largest economy ride out this crisis. have been for business shares in india's yes bank have plunged by as much as 85 percent the central bank has imposed withdrawal limits for customers to prevent the collapse of the private lender it sent the rupee falling towards weakest levels since 2018. thousands of customers all across india have rushed out to a draw their money from bank but they can only get $50000.00 rupees per month that's around $600.00 euros one of india's largest banks is now under direct control of the reserve bank of india that guarantees all deposits are safe and that nobody should worry about their money that the issuances are

on thursday the new york post published a shocking picture that showed hospital workers at mount sinai makeshift gowns made of garbage bags but now the hospital says they do have enough supplies. in a statement they say this. to be clear we always provide all staff with critically important ppe they need to safely do their job. the troubling photo circulating in the media specifically shows the nurses in proper ppe under garbage bags. a nursing manager at the hospital died of the coronavirus tuesday and many of his colleagues blame the lack of supplies on his death. rob: a big statement from the mayor of chicago. >> the chicago police department aggressively wrapping up patrols. for those refused to abide by this common sense directive to help save lives, we will arrest you. jillian: she was forced to make that statement after reports of people congregating in groups of over 100 at the city at lakefront. many on social media say that is the right college one twitter user says that happens when people don't listen. rob says my question is not why, but rather why did it take so long? loo

its location along fifth avenue, directly across the street from mount sinai hospital. the facility that is still under construction will have as many as 68 beds including ten that will have a icu capability. i'm going to step out of frame and let you take a closer look at the hospital tents. there will be a total of 14 when it is completed. construction began on sunday, and by tomorrow morning it will be up and running. the state brought together a charity called samaritan's purse to make this a field hospital reality and i talked to the doctor in charge respecting social distancing and he said he never imagined coming here to help during a medical emergency. >> i never thought i would be in central park doing this. we've done this in war zones, earthquakes and hurricanes but this is a very improbable location. we are blessed to be here and happy to work alongside new york to help take care of the people. >> another new york city hospitals preparing for the worst, lenox hill hospital in greenwich village side a refrigeration truck is outside of the hospital to serve as

i want to check in now with david lee miller, who is live outside mount sinai hospital in new york cityr hard-hit facility. david lee, this is tough on the people on the front lines. >> indeed it is, harris. what is especially interesting is, if you didn't know any better, from this vantage point outside the hospital, the emergency room looks like a normal day. but it is not a normal day. i spoke to someone who works in this building, and they tell me that once you enter the emergency room area there is a special partition that has been erected, and anyone suspected of having covid-19 is essentially segregated from the rest of the population. meanwhile, at another mount sinai hospital location, this one on the west side of manhattan, nurses there have posted a photo on social media. the nurses are wearing trash bags as protection against the virus, because they say there is a shortage of gowns and other clement. fox news has not been independently able to confirm the authenticity of the photo. in a statement, though, the hospital said in part, "we always provide all our stuff with criti

nurses at mount sinai hospital west in manhattan posted on social media a photo of themselves wearings as protective gear because they say there are not enough gowns and other safety equipment. fox news has not been able to independently confirm the authenticity of the photo. a staff member from the hospital died because of the virus, some workers blamed the debt because of lack of equipment. sometime ago the hospital issued a statement we always provide our staff critically important pp, personal protective equipment, to do their job, the troubling shows nurses in ppe underneath garbage bags. emhurst hospital in queens 13 people died in single day. that area accounts for 32% of all the coronavirus cases in new york. a doctor told the fa no, times the facility is overwhelmed, apocalyptic. new york mayor bill de blasio in response tweeted out, we moved in 40 more ventilators and added more staff to increase capacity. elm hurst. >> ppe is on going issue. we do have enough ppe for the immediate future. the new york city hospital city system confirmed that, we have enough in stock now for

. >> reporter: mount sinai nurse kious kelly died this week after contracting coronavirus. >> he just had this infectious energy. you felt good when he was around and you noticed when he left. >> reporter: his sister mariah sharon is devastated. she shared with nbc news her brother's heartbreaking final text message can't talk because i choke and can't breathe. i love you going back to sleep. >> that's the last time i heard from him. i'm sorry. >> reporter: she says her brother took up a career in nursing because he wanted to help people. >> i do absolutely believe that he contracted this because of the lack of ppe in his unit and at his hospital, but that's across our nation he's not a victim. he is a hero. >> reporter: here in new york city, medical calls to 911 have hit an all-time record the governor is planning eight makeshift hospitals throughout the region. he expects hospitalizations to peak in mid april. lester >> gabe, that leads to the question what about the shortage of medical workers? >> reporter: well, lester, we understand about 62,000 medical professionals have volunt

>> marya, i want to read the statement from mount sinai hospital.hey say we are deeply saddened by the passing of a beloved member of our nursing staff. the safety of our staff and patients has never been of greater importance. we are taking every precaution possible to protect everyone. this growing crisis is not evading and turned our frontline professionals into true american heroes. today we lost another hero, a compassionate colleague, friend and selfless care-giver. marya, i hear you. in the absence of information, you are filling in the blanks because you need more information as do the nurses and doctors out there. i understand why you're trying to put the pieces together because you haven't gotten enough information. all of this feels so mysterious. marya, we thank you for sharing your brother's story with us. obviously we'll stay in touch with you and try to find out what happened here as well as to all of the health care workers who are making all these sacrifices. thank you so much for being with us. >> can i add one thing? >> yes, quick

workers for the massive mount sinai health system shared photos online of themselves wearing trash bagsfor protection. a new york city nurse who was treating positive patients has died. mount sinai west nursing manager kious kelly was in his 40's and his co-workers described him as compassionate and devoted to his patients. for more, wewe are joined by dr. craig spencer, who is director of global health in emergency medicine at columbia uniniversiy medical center. dr. spencer contracted ebola while fighting its outbreak in africa and survived the disease. he is now an emergency room doctor in new york city where he isis treating coronavirus patients. he is also on the board of doctors without borders. and again with us, our cohost nermeen shaikh. welcome to democracy now! dr. craig spencer, describe a day in the new york city hospitals. we just laid out this graphic picture of shortage. and the question is, how unnecessary was this? the idea that in this country, the richest in the world, doctors, people like you and nurses and the stataff of the hospitals going to those who even clean

the order comes in response to a move by the new york presbyterian and the mount sinai hospital systems to bar partners from labor and delivery rooms, causing widespread outrage. new york became the latest state to postpone its presidential primary, originally scheduled for next month, to june 23, the same date as state legislative and congressional elections. in california, governor gavin newsom says his state received 170 broken ventilators from a national stockpile, but that a silicon valley company was working to fix them. california cases have topped 6000 with over 130 deaths. in more news from california, the mayor of lancaster has said a teenager who is believed to have died from covid-19 last week was turned away from an urgent care clinic because he did not have health insurance, and he had a heheart attack on e way to the hospital. president trump signed the record-breaking $2 trillion coronavirus stimulus package into law friday after the house of representatives passed the massive bill earlier in the day. on the house floor, new york congressmember alexandria ocasio-cortez b

this is the grand lobby of one of new york's fancy hospital, mount sinai in manhattan, they're fitting out in that lobby, what they call patient pods, and the public access area, the public library of mount sinai. the lobby. there's word today, welcome word, that the first hospital beds are about to go into operation at the cavernous convention interest center in manhattan, jarits center, the partnership with the army corps of engineers, the first 250 or so beds in the convention center, should be operational by monday. amidst a federal government response that has been absent in the most important ways, the military is starting to move. the military has not been fully tapped by the federal government to join this response yet. but it is starting up. and the army corps of engineers is moving. yesterday, you might have seen the army put out this request for veteran retired soldier army health officers to please return to service to their country. it's interesting to see it. the date, wednesday, march 25, 2020. subject, army announces voluntary recall of retired soldiers for covid-19 res

happy weekend everyone, coming up mount sinai hospital as our special guest to discuss the ramificationsavirus and what it will do to our communities and how prepared we are in the healthcare system. join us for the special to be coming up. but first we'll look at your money, the coronavirus also having serious ramifications on your money and throughout wall street all three majors entering a beart

york's death toll now skyrocketing to more than 500 people, one of them kious kelly, a nurse at mount sinaipital. we spoke with his sister. >> he was as well as everyone else there unnecessarily exposed. and essentially, it could have been prevented. >> reporter: the urgency across the country is bordering on desperation, this from a nurse in atlanta. >> they call us heroes, but, you know, we have families, too and all of us are so scared, and we don't want to be scared. >> reporter: in boston, more than 200 health care workers are now infected with coronavirus. acruise ship off the coast of panama, carrying two confirmed gevid-19-positive passengers is trying to get to ft. lauderdale next week. four people have died on board. in los angeles, the floating naval hospital "mercy" arrived with 1,000 hospital beds. with the u.s. now surpassing china in infections, new yorkers like david buie, now recovering are the face of coronavirus. >> i am a 44-year-old man but i was crying in my room. it was very lonely. >> reporter: this convention center turned hospital is expected to start taking patien

it is basically the private voluntary hospitals, mount sinai, columbia, etc. then there is the health and hospitals corporation, which are the public hospitals. you have those two systems. we just discussed that those two systems have to, in this situation, undertake a balancing that they probably have never had to do before. in other words, you have 11 public hospitals. one hospital starts to get overrun, there is a high load in one hospital. before that happens, transfer people to one of the hospitals that has more vacancies and less load. distribute the load among those public hospitals. and do it immediately. do it on a daily basis. one hospital is starting to overload, distribute, transfer. same thing with the greater new york hospital association. and then we should take it a step further. once one system is near capacity, then the two systems will work together to share the load. and we just discussed that, and we all agreed to do it. there are no legal barriers. if a hospital -- let's stay with the public system -- the public system i think is going to

brendan carr is chair of emergency medicine for mount sinai hospital. >> oh, i think the projectionsre pretty clear, that we all expect this to get worse. >> reporter: well, governor andrew cuomo says he does not expect the virus to peak for another 45 days. that will inevitably mean more cases. and, of course, essential workers are not immune from this. one n.y.p.d. officer has tested positive for the virus, and 17 other officers he worked with are now self-quarantining. norah. >> o'donnell: all right, mola. makes it very serious. thank you. tonight, the trump administration is calling on hospitals and dentists to delay all elective procedures due to shortages of masks and other protective equipment used by doctors and nurses. the concern is real. in milwaukee, 200 people are now being tested because a doctor there has the virus. and across the country, medical professionals are concerned they are not safe treating patients. here's dr. tara narula. >> we're concerned. we're scared. >> reporter: health care workers desperately fighting the spread of the coronavirus are about to get s

nicole bouvier and her team at new york's mount sinai will soon be using the same treatment just purchase think this might work? >> we have some idea partially from the 1918 influenza pandemic that taking blood plasma from one person and giving it to another actually may improve outcomes. >> reporter: antibodies against coronavirus are not only being used for treatment. they also help identify people who may have been infected without knowing it. >> an aggressive testing regimen with our front lines to find out who has low levels of immunity can get back to normal as soon as possible. >> reporter: they are co-c.e.o.s of united biomedical. they are one of several companies to develop a simple rapid blood test for covid-19 antibodies to see if someone has been infected and built up immunity to the virus. their current plan, test as many of the residents of colorado's rural san miguel county as possible. >> we'll be able to find out who has been exposed and who has antibodies and hence who has a certain level of immunity to this. >> reporter: once the antibody test is more

mount sinai, columbia, etc. then, there's the health and hospitals corporation, which have the public hospitals. you have those two systems. we just discussed that those two systems have to in this situation undertake a balancing that they probably have never had to do before. in other words, you have 11 public hospitals. one hospital starts to get overrun. there's a high load in one hospital. before that happens, transfer people to one of the hospitals that has more vacancies and less load. distribute the load among those public hospitals. and do it immediately. do it on a daily basis. one hospital is starting to overload, distribute. transfer. same thing with the greater new york hospital association. and then we said take it a step further. once one system is near capacity, then the two systems will work together to share the load. and we just discussed that and we all agree to do it. there are no legal -- there are no legal carriers. stay withtal -- let's the public system because the public system is going

one hospital, mount sinai, is setting up tents in central park to treat people afflicted with the coronaviruse coronavirus. iam personally speaking with icy you nurses who say they do not have mosques they need for that one woman says she has been using the same mosque for the last four days. —— mosques. the disconnect seems to be with what we are hearing from front—line workers, the governor and the mayor. the president says supplies are arriving by the planeload, tonnes and tonnes and tonnes. frontline workers are saying, regardless of what the president is saying, i had an icu sang four people were treating one patient and not one had the mosque they needed. they did what they were required. the time is 13:20. our top story this lunchtime. the government insists it's ‘ramping up' testing for coronavirus, amid warnings from doctors than the shortage of tests is causing problems for the nhs. and the struggle to get home for thousands of britons stuck abroad. and in sport... the manchester city midfielder ilkay gundogan says it would be fair to award liverpool the premier league title if the