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. >> reporter: governor nome has said south dakota is not new york but as you point out is one of the single biggest clusters in the country right now. >> i don't like making the news for being a county and a city growing at the rate we are growing. >> reporter: last friday, smith field announced it would shut the plant down for three days in order to clean the facility. then on sunday, the company declared it would suspend operations at the plant until further notice. >> this virus can spread so unbelievably quick. and i think smith field would agree with this, that it snuck up on them like it snuck up on a lot of other businesses. two cases can turn into ten can turn into 50 like that. >> reporter: smithfield issuing a statement raidieading in part unfortunately, covid-19 cases are now ubiquitous across the country. we have continued to run our facilities for one reason, to sustain our nation's food supply during the pandemic. the company says it will continue to compensate its employees for the next two weeks. smithfield isn't alone. several of the nation's biggest meat and poultry

. >> reporter: not allowed to come nome-- at least nine american crew members on the "oosterdam" cruisep were blocked by the sease control frome control from getting off in los angeles tuesday. they're among at least 132 americans marooned on cruise ships owned by carnival cruise ships owned by carnival cruise line companies. why can't you go home? >> i don't know. ♪ ♪ >> reporter: ryan driscoll is a performer on one of those ships, currently an island in the oserently an island in the ships, cur coronavirus storm, essentially stranded at sea for more than 60 days. passengers got off march 13, and he's been quarantined for weeks, only allowed out of his room for meals and temperature checks. >> the fact that they won't let us off is extremely frustrating and irritating, especially for cips that just have crew members that have been quarantined for much longer than 14 days that have no covid-19 cases. we're just being-- we're just stuck here. it does seem like a prison sometimes. i want to go home. i want to see my family. >> reporter: the coast guard is monitoring 120 cruise ships in u.

we don't nome whether that's that true reflection or whether we just don't have the surveillance testing and the next time we find out about that community it's because many patients have ended up in the hospital and now our hospital suspects with all yoimpled and we have not had a chance to prepare. so we're at a loss until we get to the type of capacity we need and that means potentially looking at millions of tests a day, which is not even close as a country to where we are now. to date we've only performed 3.5 million tests in total over the last six, eight weeks and that's nowhere near sufficient for what it needs to be in order for us to combat covid-19 with the science and data driving decisions. host: we've been trucking with dr. owen wedge and another part of her story can be found in the "washington post" with the headline -- it's a scary time to be pregnant but i'm still to grateful. you wrote the following -- clt i am calm on the outside, on the inside i'm filled with worry. even in the best of times, childbirth is a worry. add to that a world thrown dangerously off kilter by

they are moving at an unprecedented speed to develop and vaccines' after the chinese made the gerks nomee public in january. joining us is the dean of the national school of tropical medicine at baylor. dr., professor, great to have you with us. give us a sense, if you will, you worked on vaccines for some time including the sars epidemic on which you were working on a vaccine. how soon do you think it's realistic to hope for a vaccine? >> thanks so much for having me. our charge is to develop a vaccine over a year to 18 months which is an aggressive timeline. we have two vaccines we are trying to advance to clinical trials. i think you will see a dozen or more vaccines undergoing clinical testing. you might say why do we need so many vaccines. the reason is we don't know which ones will and out. vaccine development is a high risk business because up to -- up to 90% fail to show they actually work and are safe. the strategy is to get as many vaccines into the pipeline in the hopes of two or three making it to the finish line. maybe one will be ours but we don't know for sure. lou: we wis

. >>> well, the governor of south dakota, christy nome, has announced on monday that the nation's first statewide trialh starting. the president has touted it has a drug to help with the coronavirus, but it hasn't been done yet. >> the u.s. bought millions of doses of hydroxychloroquine that we bought, and millions of people are using it all over the country. >> joining us now, elizabeth cohen, remember we had that press briefing a few weeks ago where the president touted this as a firm treatment, dr. fauci said the treatment is anecdotal. what are the facts here? >> dr. fauci and every medical authority has emphasized this. you have to study this drug. can you imagine, jim, if we were to give this drug to large numbers of people and it turned out to hurt their heart? that would be terrible. that's why it's being studied. the president is emphasizing the wrong thing. the supply is not the issue here for covid patients, the issue is should they be taking it at all? we have seen in some studies that it's hurting people's heart. in fact, the "washington post" reporting today that the cia i

governor nome is a big time trumper. she resisted a lot of the standards of the more heavily populated states. so what happens if statewide south dakota, wyoming, montana, idaho, so on and so on they get the advisory, go on, head out with precautions but go back to work? >> we'll have pools of the virus that has not been controlled and they will be sources of reinfecting the rest of the country. so i think we do this peace meal at our own peril. and we need to go along with the program which is keep safe, keep everybody separated until we're really ready to go back. >> doctor, what is the balance that needs to be struck? the president is looking at it. he has various counsels. what is the balance that needs to be struck between public health and finding a way to make sure our economy doesn't completely fall apart? >> well, the president and others have really created this into a sort of a pitch battle between the people that are worried about the economy and people that are really focused on the virus itself. let's have

is like having been vaccinated and the second is we believe it will restore confidence to let they nomehey're working with people who have been exposed and now are immune so those two factors will have an enormous impact on getting the economy jump started again. >> wow, that would be really fabulous that is what we're most worried about. i see all of the -- i see very people who have died between the ages of, say, 2 and 20 do you think they have immunity? >> no. i'm a -- jim, you probably know i'm a physician. i'm sitting right in the epicenter of this thing in new york and long island this is an serious disease and people think it is random about who gets the disease or who dies and gets seriously ill and people in their teens or kids who have it now and some pregnant women that have it but people in their 30s and 40s and 50s have also died and the key is to figure out what the genetics are of those people relative to the people who had no impact. someone is going to figure that out relatively soon. it is probably related to your immune function, your ability to fight off the disease.

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we don't nome whether that's that true reflection or whether we just don't have the surveillance testingnd the next time we find out about that community it's because many patients have ended up in the hospital and now our hospital suspects with all yoimpled and we have not had a chance to prepare. so we're at a loss until we get to the type of capacity we need and that means potentially looking at millions of tests a day, which is not even close as a country to where we are now. to date we've only performed 3.5 million tests in total over the last six, eight weeks and that's nowhere near sufficient for what it needs to be in order for us to combat covid-19 with the science and data driving decisions. host: we've been trucking with dr. owen wedge and another part of her story can be found in the "washington post" with the headline -- it's a scary time to be pregnant but i'm still to grateful. you wrote the following -- clt i am calm on the outside, on the inside i'm filled with worry. even in the best of times, childbirth is a worry. add to that a world thrown dangerously off kilter by a