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and in new orleans, a look inside oxnard medical center where teams are using special respirator masks for protection as world health doctors urge young people to take the threat seriously. center for disease control says nearly 40% of the people hospitalized in the u.s. are between the ages of 20 and 54. >> i want everyone to know it's very important to stay inside and follow the cdc guidelines. >> reporter: people living in several states are being told to stay at home, president trump is still insisting he is not considering such measures nationwide. mark stewart, abc news, new york. >>> we've been tell iing you abt the risk to the elderly, particularly those in nursing homes. medically fragile children dealing with this crisis right now, coastal kids home and care in mountainview says it has a desperate need for n-95 masks, nonlatex gloves, hand sanitizer and other products. parents say this is life or death to have these supplies. >> at this time, if haden goes in the hospital, it could mean his life. so it is really a life or death situation for our nurses to stay in our homes. >

in at oxnard expanding by 96 beds. beds.n by 97 baton rouge by 75 beds. baton rouge general is adding regular, inpatient hospital beds by 34 i.c.u. beds and 229 in-patient beds. these things are being done in phases. some of those are coming online quickly. others within a couple of weeks. and others within about a month or so. critically t is important because those bviously who are most severely impacted by this disease will need an i.c.u. bed. going to need a ventilator. so increasing our capacity here incredibly important. in addition to this work, we're dentifying all of the capacity we have at tier 2 hospitals across the state of louisiana just for purposes in the new orleans region, in region 1, of e are approximately 172 these beds. and then we are working, as i before, to try to get an arrangement with the v.a. especially in new orleans in the short term, to see what surge capacity they may so they can take some of well.tients as actually was very gratified in the call that without my the president called n me to report about what our needs were

retirement centers and to give you an example from louisiana's largest health care system, that is oxnard health, 80% of their patients in the icu are on ventilators and that is 30% of the patients. they're working to get more icu beds in the hospital and they put in an order of 200 beds two weeks ago and starting to get them in. so they're moving patients who are not affected by the virus to specialty hospitals, to orthopedic floors to separate them from the patients with the virus. they're looking at their own employees right now. they have 25,000 staff members, so far 60 have tested positive. but hundreds of others are showing symptoms. they're trying to get tests out as quickly as they can. and just like everywhere else in the country, there is a need for ppes, masks, anything they could do right now. right now louisiana is in trouble. and everybody there is sounding the alarm, jake. >> dianne gallagher, thank you so much. >>> also bracing for the impact of coronavirus, rural hospitals across the united states. ones that are already struggling to stay afloat. cnn medical correspondent

hit the hardest is austin, winston-salem and oxnard, california all down over 40% of 10 weeks ago andn new york speeds fallen by 24% on average the most popular streamers are lowering the quality of the video to ease the stress on networks netflix, facebook and disney reducing the size of the video streams. we are also seeing internet providers help out customers and not charge anymore comcast is lifting its data caps cox upgrading the higher speeds and at&t, verizon and charter are all taking steps to increase the capacity in their networks back orr back over to you. >> i'm surprised seems to me there's more bandwidth that we use. they can't deploy more that quickly, can they? >> reporter: there are a couple of factors here. one is what the companies like netflix do to minimize how much bandwidth they take up and so if you have all of a sudden everyone's at home and people on -- a family all streaming at once, then you can see that a company like netflix trying to really minimize how much space to take up is a significant impact of that traffic through a netflix or youtube and then t

robert hart, chief medical officer of oxnard health in new orleans. dr. hart, thank you for being with us. you heard ed's report, you heard governor john bell edwards say the state could run out of ventilators by this weekend. what are you seeing? >> well, it is concerning to hear that type of a discussion, and i know we have been struggling and working hard to get ventilators in. we have been working with our supply chain constantly, as we've continued to add icu beds. the state has been able to help us get several vents, which have been very useful to us. we're able to use those in different ways. some of the vents are the full best type made that we normally use. some are transport vents. they do different things. different vents do different things for us, and so getting creative about how we use the vents on different levels of severity of illness for our patients. >> i think i'd like to talk about the patients, if we can. i think sometimes in something this big we lose sight of how they're actually presenting and what they are suffering. so what are

including automakers to now manufacture masks, gowns, ventilators and in new orleans, a look inside oxnardng respirator masks for protection as doctors urge young people to take the threat seriously. 40% of the people hospitalized in the u.s. are between the ages of 20 and 54. >> i want to let everyone know it's very important to stay inside, follow the cdc guidelines. >> people in several states are being told to stay home, president trump is insisting he is not considering such measures nationwide. mark stewart, abc news, new york. >>> we've been telling you about the extreme risk to the elderly, particularly those at nursing homes. this morning we're hearing of a nursing group providing medical care for fragile children. coastal kids home care in mountainview says it has a desperate need for n-95 masks, nonlatex gloves, hand sanitizer and other medical products. >> if haden goes in the hospital, it could mean his life. so, it really is a life or death situation for our nurses to stay in our homes. >> this is the same desperate need that is going on at hospitals across the country. the c

s as the bills role i ann is on the phone from oxnard.rom the lastng caller about gratitude, i want to give a shout out to the ucla medical center. my husband and i were there a few days ago for him to get his chemotherapy. they are fabulous there. host: how is your husband doing? you know, he's about six months into a two-year chemotherapy treatment. so, he's all right. he's not doing well because he just got chemotherapy. but anyway, they do iv chemotherapy in the hospital. but my husband is actually a hospital pharmacist but hasn't been able to work because of the leukemia and he was forced into retirement because he was supposed to get near a logical last monday. he had an appointment. we got a call from the no rolla just saw office saying that they were -- got a call from the 's office saying they were closed because of coronavirus. his employer said he had to make a decision by the end of the week about retirement and he was going to use the data from the test to help him make the decision and they basically said sorry, we can't do