alok patel. dr. patel, as you know, has been here for us answering countless questions about covid-19, treatments, tests and what you should do to stay safe and he is ready to do it again after doing a lot of research. so, thanks to those of you who have already submitted questions. if you haven't yet, go to our facebook page, abc 7 news's facebook page and put in your question and i will definitely try to get to that, if we can, during our program. we've already gotten some really good ones and we just want to see more of them coming so we can address that with dr. patel. there's so many interesting new medical developments to cover right now. we want to talk about herd immunity with dr. patel. we also want to talk about reinfection. we want to talk about just how far the droplets from covid-19 can travel and whether that's influencing your decision to wear a mask or not. as you know, there's been a lot of back and forth on that. and now that there are a lot of tests, more people doing tests, there

alok patel. he is ready to answer your questions. dr. patel, thank you for joining us today. so much has happened since we last talked. >> so much. it's evolving day by day. >> it really is. so, i'm really glad you are here to unpack some of this for us. today, just in the past hour, i heard the cdc director said that u.s. coronavirus deaths could be much lower than the 200,000 predicted we were hearing a lot about last week. so, what do you make of this? >> what i make of that is that it's giving us proof that staying at home, sheltering in place and the physical distancing could actually work, because a large majority of the country is doing it. now, the caveat is, we don't really know what's going to happen. it's just more of this promise that we need to double down. and we need to keep staying at home and we need to keep kind of flattening the curve as much as we can. and then we'll see what happens as we get more testing and as time continues. >> all right, i want to also ask you, seems like we're looking at a tale of two cities or two states, i should say. new york is s

patel, for our viewers, what should people do? when you hear the president of the united states say, what do you have to lose and then hopefully as many people heard the head of the american medical association say, maybe your life, what is are the facts as we know them right now about this drug therapy? what should people do? >> all right, here's what we know. we know this is actually a very

patel now. what would be going on that they would make this extraordinary move, is it out precaution or is there real concern about his condition? >> it's probably both, nicolle. certainly, any pa patient and he's fitting the statisticses that we know that there's kind of two presentations and one typically is around day ten or 11 of this illness they significantly worsen it's likely he's overwhelming a routine hospital floor can do, his oxygen requirement is increasing, you can be conscious and be intubated that's in fact possible and it's also highly likely that he needs other supportive care including support for his other organs that we also see in covid-19. this is absolutely what new yorkers are seeing, the rest of us in the united states and that's why tony fauci said we can't let up. we must persist and get even more aggressive against this virus. >> dr. patel, can you weigh in on what bill referenced as his only complicating factor that we know of, his weight, or being overweight? >> we

patel, her first appearance at a daily briefing.it the new circumstances since the lockdown. we can go live to our home affairs correspondent, tom symons. there has been lots of controversy about how police have been interpreting the new guidance, the laws that now allow them to tell people what they can and cannot do in terms of social distancing. priti patel things they are doing a very good job. she does. it's difficult for the police, because they are effectively enforcing the sorts of rules they've never had to enforce before. and there are lots and lots of grey areas. it was said to be by one person that the police don't have any powers to stop you and ask you where you are going and what you are doing, but they are trying to stop people from making trips out which are not absolutely necessary. today we heard that the number of finds they have issued is 1084. that is figures from 37 of the country's 43 police forces. it isn't a total figure but it gives you an idea of the amount of enforcement going on. i would say that's quit

patel, would you be surprised if our shelter in place went longer than may 3rd?> not at all, i would not be. you know, we know that that is the right thing to do. we still have we have about 90, 92% of this country right now under stay-at-home orders and we really need to have a unified, unified rule to shelter in place and again, like we mentioned, we are not sure in the curve is flattened yet, the best thing we can do is prepare for the fact that it may extend well passed may. there's had models that say, we are going to see cases going through june and july. the best thing we can do is we have tools we have tools to mitigate and we can make sure that we are all working on it together, regardless of how long it goes. >> next question, can you talk about any new symptoms that you are seeing, i have seen people talking about possibly gi symptoms before everything else hits. there's a lot of reports coming out about kind of a-typical symptoms. your classic triad will be what people are talking about. dry cough, fever, shortness of breath. there's reports of patien

patel just said. we have to test a lot more. it's interesting to me that as a matter of math our progress towards the goal is not going to ever get there because we're going backwards. we're going to test fewer people in america this week than we did last week. we're not on a path to solve this problem. we're on a path to make this problem worse. that's because the president doesn't want to take leadership of these tests. he said that the tests are up to the states. the states don't have the power, the ability to direct the manufacturers to make the different components. as dr. patel alluded to, these tests are complicated. they involve test kits, swabs, reagents, parts of the processing machines. very complicated. unless the president uses the defense production act, steps up, takes over, drives this, we are going to see this continued my asthma on testing that is not going to get better. >> ron, what would your advice be -- i won't ask you to put any of the people that have reached out to you on the spot but what would your ad

she was askedif priti patel's response.ked if she would apologise to families in the health service that we re families in the health service that were being infected or even dying because of an absence of ppe equipment and i was a rather brief reply. she did not like the question very much in the problem with it was that it did not acknowledge the anxiety and upset that this is causing among health workers in the nhs were clearly very worried, despite the government assurances that the logistical operation is there and that the kid is there and we'll get to the right people in the field it is simply not working well at the moment and she is the home secretary, not the health secretary, but she was on the spot again and again, when is this equipment going to get here? shejust again, when is this equipment going to get here? she just repeated again and again, the up by the health secretary. she went on for much of this press conference and said that many people will do very well abiding by the government social distancing re

patel and joining us, dr.c, peach medical adviser and former deputy secretary for department of health and human services. let me start with you what we just read there. the new symptoms that have been added to the profile of the disease that folks should be on the lookout for, we hear so much this is a disease of the lungs, the air ways, it it a fekts breathing. when you start to see chills added to the list, what is that telling us about our understanding of what this disease, what the virus is? >> steve, we're still learning quite a bit about the disease. a lot of the symptoms you just presented are flu-like symptoms and the important part for the public now, flu season is winding down and you see the illness out the there. which makes us think absolutely that covid-19 is present across the country, and not necessarily showing signs of slowing down everywhere. >> well, as businesses, we just talked about this, decide whether to begin to reopen, a new study shows the coronavirus will linger in air in crowded

patel, meanwhile, to your point in regards to mass, dr. fauci indicated on tuesday that that is something they are looking at, suggesting that americans who are walking around, who are conducting essential business outside their homes, that they wear masks. where do you fall on the spectrum of that argument? >> i think it's an important question and one that they will take very seriously. here is where i fall today. we need the masks, of course, to prioritize for essential health care workers. remember something important for all americans, anybody who actually is positive and is at home, just isolating themselves, they should wear a mask, because the key about a mask, craig, is for you to protect yourself from giving it to others, not necessarily the other way around. and that's why i think it's so critical that the takeaway message today from all of us is stay home. wear a mask if you're positive and you're in your home so you don't infect others. if you're a health care worker like myself, of course. but we should really think about not

patel, where are we on testing? you have heard the president, the vice president talk about we have all the testing we need. >> we are still woefully inadequate, to your point, and just one fact that can tell you how inadequate we are, that in some parts of the country, you know, not only do we have only about 45 tests per thousand people, but on top of that, we are not even sure what the reliability or the sensitivity and specificity -- how good these tests actually are because they are pretty new, andrea. so the fact of the matter is that we are doing about 180,000 test as day. and as businesses are opening, you can make an argument that we should have at least several million tests day. researchers at harvard have said anywhere from 5 to 20 million. you can just tell the dramatic magnitude. you can't hold dr. birx personally responsible for that. but at the same time it is a bit misleading to say that we have, or even in the next two weeks that we might have an adequate number of tests. >> ashley, do you expect t

alok patel. we want to get to some of your questions now. a viewer on instagram asks is it safe to travel by airplane? dr. patel? >> say that airline travel should be limited to essential travel only. now, here is one thing that we're going to have to talk about. when states start to reopen at different rates and people then say like, hey, i want to travel, i need to see my family, going back on this trip i wanted to do, remember, we potentially are vectors for spreading this virus across state lines that's something that everyone is going to have to really look at in terms of their own personal responsibility. if we are reopened, that does not necessarily mean that every state around us is safe. we could easily reintroduce another wave of this virus if people start traveling and bringing it back. i would err with extreme caution when it comes to traveling across state lines right now. >> you keep telling us the virus knows no borders. fay is asking do -- >> virus doesn't care. >> do preschool ch

patel. he is part of our coronavirus team of experts. he is talking directly to you in a segment we're calling doctor's note. >> headlines about remdesivir are a roller coaster. there's good news and bad news and there's uncertain news. all of a sudden, there's this talk of gilead's stock price going up. let's get into it on today's doctor's note. remdesivir is an anti viral drug made by gilead. it directly inhibits a virus' ability to replicate. it was made to fight ebola. has been shown to have affect against sars. in the lab, it looks like it can inhibit this coronavirus. think of it like tamiflu. you can get it if you have influenza. it's not an instant cure. it's likely to get you healthy again faster. remdesivir, based on everything we know, is a drug you would need to get through an i.v. and would be for hospitalized covid-19 patients. it's not a pill. the nih released preliminary data from the adaptive covid-19 treatment trial. this is the first clinical trial for remdesivir in the united states. the early news is promising. the

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kavita patel and dr. nancy kass and covid-19 testing every day. testing remains a hurdle but seems we're doing our part to stop the spread, especially social distancing. >> what this graph illustrates is amazing work of the american people to really adhere to social distancing. this was nothing we had ever attempted to do as a nation and the world hadn't attempted to do. but they were able to decrease the number of cases so that in general most of the metro areas never had an issue of complete crisis care of all of their hospitals. >> washington is our first stop on the trip across america. two of msnbc's analysts, also with us, nbc senior politics dieter. glad to have you all with us. philip, start with testing. public health officials are saying that testing needs to double or maybe triple before the u.s. can safely reopen. this week president trump announced guidelines for states to ease their stay-at-home orders. where do we stand with that right now? >> administration said today there are more than 4 million americans who have been tested. th

in the daily press briefing, the uk home secretary priti patel said she was sorry if anyone felt there been failings over the supply of personal protective equipment for health workers. it comes as the british medical association issued a stark warning that many medics are unable to access the ppe they need to keep themselves safe. priti patel also announced the government would be giving £2 million to domestic abuse services to combat an increase in cases since the start of the lockdown. meanwhile, the coronavirus outbreak in the united states has become the deadliest in the world, surpassing italy to record just under 20,000 deaths in total. andrew cuomo, the governor of the worst affected state, new york, has said the death rate there was stabilising, but at a horrific level. and spain has recorded its lowest number of daily deaths for nearly three weeks. officials say 510 people died, the third consecutive 2a hours in which the daily figure has fallen. more on that soon. but first, let's get the latest on the situation in the uk from our science editor, david shukman. a human cost

health care workers have died after contracting the virus while treating people home secretary pretty patel was asked if she'd apologized to health workers and their families i'm sorry if people feel that they're happy failings i'll be very very clear about that but at the same time we are in an unknown in an unprecedented global health pandemic right now it is inevitable that the demand and the pressures on p.p. and the demand for p.p. are going to be exponential they're going to be incredibly high and of course we are trying to address that as a government and i think that is right that is our priority let's go live now to nadine barber in london the dame it seems like a case of the sorry that made things worse there. a thing that's fair to say sally but partly it's being analyzed as a sorry that wasn't sorry if you really look at the language twice pretty patel was pushed to say where the should apologize to health workers and their families for problems over protective equipment in the light of as you were saying many deaths within the system some of which have been attributed by their

begun testing and to malarial drugs a potential treatment for corona virus patients president tom from patel to the benefits of hydroxy chloroquine despite warnings from health experts about its long list of side effects its efficacy in curing covert 19 remains as yet unproven and when its on the reports from new jersey. it's being touted as the miracle drug to cure people infected with coronavirus doctors who have tried it on coated patients are saying hydroxy clora keane has shown it potentially as a preventative drug blocking coronavirus and where it's already infected a patient it could suppress it doctors who supported use are also relying on some studies that show similar there are some small clinical studies that have come out

the uk british home secretary, priti patel, said she was sorry if anybody felt there had been failings over the supply of ppe for health workers in the fight against the pandemic. it comes as the british medical association issued a stark warning that many medics are unable to access the ppe they need to keep themselves safe while treating patients with coronavirus. earlier, the health secretary, matt hancock, said there was enough ppe to go around if it was used according to guidelines. and that doctors and nurses should treat it as a precious resource. priti patel announced the government would be giving £2 million to domestic abuse services, saying that for some home is not the safe haven it should be. the national domestic abuse helpline has seen a 25% increase in calls and online requests since the lockdown began. meanwhile, the coronavirus outbreak in the us has become the deadliest in the world. it has surpassed italy to record just under 20,000 deaths in total. andrew cuomo, the governor of the worst affected state, new york, said the death rate there was stabilising but at a h

alok patel. this one is forward looking. >> i'm dr. alok patel. a lot ofeeas us t18 months. let's talk about it on today's doctor's notes. vaccine protects us against various viruses and bacteria. you get vaccine, you build up antibodies and if you ever see that foreign invader again, your body is already prepared. right now there are over 40 different vaccine types in different stages of development. here is a brief over view of the process. first, scientists figure out the best way to make vaccine in lab. if their idea is approved, they move onto phase one trials to make sure the vaccine is safe. phase two trials are to make the vaccine create a good immune response, still safe and can be manufa trials can involve thousands of people, collect a lot of data to make sure the vaccine presents the specific disease in question. this is a long complicated process that can take years. for the vaccine to make it this far, it's still not over. the fda reviews all the data before giving vaccine the final stamp of approval. it's incredible collaboration of scientists all over the wor

patel. he's part of our coronavirus team of experts. every day he will talk to you directly in a segment we're calling "doctors' note." >> today's covid-19 doctor's note is trying to tell the difference between allergies, common cold or coronavirus, if you even can. right now everyone with a cough or sniffle is worried they have coronavirus. but it's tricky because symptoms are general and can overlap with a lot of other conditions. according to the cdc, covid-19 presents with a fever, dry cough and shortness of breath. a lot of people with covid-19 are also reporting body aches and loss of smell or taste. these are also symptoms you can have with the flu. early reports suggest shortnss of breath and loss of smell may be more common with covid-19 but it's too earlyo me a general k yourself about your recent t . that can change everything. if you have a stuffy nose and sneezing, it could be common cold or allergy. if you already have season allergies like i do, that's a huge hint. at the end of the day remember every person is different.

medical chief professor kiran patel needs to know how much space they have.de rooms do we have available at the moment for potential positive patients? at one o'clock there were two empty and nine potential. chief executive andy hardy believes the planning is paying off. we are feeling pressured, the pressure has been around for two or three weeks now. what we have done, because we know this is coming, we have been creating capacity for the expected surge and we are getting close to that now in a number of ways. the most important is increasing critical care capacity. we've prepared as well as we can. i do not want that to be famous last words but i'm, you know, i'm very confident in the preparation we have done. the most experienced medics are being drafted in to support intensive care, while some of the mostjunior are volunteering to help. some are fresh out of medical school. i think, on the one hand, i really welcome and inspire them and say this is the start of your journey. 0n the other hand i want to be honest and say you are heading into the unknown a

patel, researchers are expressing new hope about a vaccine possibly by september.niversity of oxford scientists say they've tested results. your thoughts? >> the results with the monkeys are positive. the researchers announce that they're going to start human testing on a grander scale, about 6,000 people by the end of the month. here's the thing, september does seem optimistic. vaccines have to go through three phases of trial. you got to really look to make sure there is a good immune response, they're safe, they're stable and you can manufacture on a large scale, and usually vaccines take years to develop so we'll see. i'm skeptical on this one but hopeful. >> we saw long lines at clinics here in new york on tuesday. people waiting a couple hours for antibody tests. there's new research on these kind of tests. what are you learning? >> well, what we're learning is there are now about 175 tests out there that have not been properly fda approved. there's only about seven that have gotten that emergency use authorization. here's the thing, many tests out there may

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patel, around the world we've seen men are more likely than women to die of the coronavirus.ooking into perhaps if estrogen gives women a better chance at beating covid? >> i think this speculation, these trials are really fascinating. you know, in all the early data we were seeing that men were doing worse with covid-19 than women were, and a lot of this was attributed initially to lifestyle factors such as the fact that men tend to smoke more or men wash their hands less or perhaps men are showing up a little bit later to get clinical care. but now researchers are suspecting that it may have something to do with biological factors. and so estrogen and another sex hormone, progesterone, have been shown in other studies and especially animal models to be able to possibly change the immune system's response to this virus. >> and our thanks as always to dr. patel. >>> coming up, hey, you guys, flashback to the '80s, a "goonies" reunion. >>> plus, we'll explain the new push to eat more french fries. challenge accepted. we'll be right back. >> yes. and kinda competitive. flash fo

patel is back with us.i sweat watching hip deliver that basically what amounts to quackery, using his massive bully pulpit, the biggest bully pulpit the world over is the office of the presidency. he uses it dispense what amounts to, based on the science, quackery. how do we put the toothpaste back in the tube? >> it's a great question. even when i dispense medical advice, i'm careful to put it in the context of science. it's troubling on so many levels. to put the toothpaste back in the tube, all we need to do is look at the study that came out from the va, not a randomized trial, but 389 veterans, nicolle, where it showed that not only is this not beneficial, but if you use this drug, hydroxychloroquine, that it can actually do harm. these were more seriously ill patients. but the bottom line is we just don't know enough to start making sweeping recommendations. certainly when you've got people like dr. tony fauci and dr. birx, actually qualified health professionals, leave it to them to make these procla

patel. he's part of our coronavirus team of experts. every day, he's going to talk directly to you in his segment we're calling "doctors note." >> antibody tests can tell us who's been exposed to coronavirus and this is really important information as we start talking about reopening society. but there's been some concerning headlines about their accuracy. i'm dr. alok patel and i'll explain more on today's "doctors note." quick recap. antibody tests are serologic tests. if you had coronavirus in the past, your blood should have these proteins or antibodies present. these tests can hopefully tell us who's immune or who's still at risk. so far, the fda has approved four antibody tests, yet there are over 90 currently being market marketed and sold and some of these non-fda tests are not nearly as reliable as the companies say they are. for example, in texas, one e.r. spent $500,000 buying a bunch of antibody tests. the company said there were 93% to 97% accurate, but the local health department found they were closer to being 20% accurat

alok patel about the significance of these cases. >> everything we know right now about the person whoassed away in the beginning of february there wasn't a clear travel history to any coronavirus hot spot. now, she did work in a company where some people were traveling around, but it's more likely that she spread it within the community. >> so is this saying something about how california has been impacted by the coronavirus crisis and also about herd immunity? >> the reason i don't think it's likely is as far as every estimate we know, we need about 60% of people to be immune to coronavirus to build up herd immunity. now, recent estimates from antibody surveillance studies are showing us that in a perfect scenario in these studies, that maybe 4% of people in southern california, northern california could have been exposed to coronavirus. 4% is way far out from 60%. >> more states are canceling school for the rest of the academic year. health officials have said there's potential for this virus to really come roaring back this fall. so what should parents consider when it comes to sen

kvitova patel. she was a top official in the obama white house and worked on the administration's response to the kwien fswine flu. dr. patel, thank you for joining us. we want to begin with the big news announced from the white house yesterday that the cdc is now recommending that americans who leave their homes wear nonmedical masks but president trump says it's voluntary and he's not going to do it. what's the bottom line here, dr. patel? should people be wearing masks? >> the bottom line is that we should be, first of all, staying at home and practicing social distancing. then on top of that, if you need to leave to conduct essential business only, you absolutely should wear a nonmedical grade mask. i think we've made that pretty clear. we're not trying to take away from valuable mic wohealth care workers such as myself and others. the president immediately then says he's not going to do it. we need to do across the country a uniform message, a mandate of sorts and that also has to go for social

patel for that. again, governor newsom tomorrow is going to be announcing his plan for reopening california and the econom and part of that he said will be taking into account herd immunity. we'll tune in for that tomorrow. thank you all for joining us here on this interactive show, getting answers. we'll be here every dayt 3:00 p.m. on air, on livestream, answering your questions in realtime, facebook live, abc news app, and abc7news.com. we're tracking questions that weren't answered to save them for our next expert so keep those questions coming. "world news tonight" is next. have a great day. >>> tonight, the coronavirus hits a chilling milestone in the u.s. the president speaking moments ago, defending his decision making in fighting the virus. also, families trying to protect themselves from the virus, forced into shelters, as deadly tornadoes strike several states. >>> tonight, new york now reporting more than 10,000 dead. 671 deaths on easter sunday alone. while at the same time, the governor

patel. he is part of our coronavirus team of experts. every day, he is going to talk directly to you in a segment we're calling "doctor's note." >> the hospitalized covid-19 patients in the united states was just published. i'm dr. alok patel, and i am going to give you an overview of the important findings in today's doctor note. now, the study from the journal of the american medical association looked at 5,700 patients hospitalized with coronavirus, in new york city, from march 1st to april 4th. now, for all people hospitalized, the most common pre-existing medical conditions were diabetes, hypertension, and obesity. people with diabetes were, also, more likely to wind up in the icu, with kidney disease, or needing a breathing tube. now, 20% of all hospitalized patients died, and this is in line with previous estimations. patients needing a mechanical ventilator or a breathing tube had an even higher risk. and almost 88% of them died. now, the researchers also looked at the presenting symptoms people had when they first came to the ho

kavita patel is back with us. she served as a senior aid to valerie jarrett in the obama white house, advising on health reform, financial regulatory reform, economic recovery issues. she's also a clinical physician and among our medical contributors. so good evening and welcome to you all. and, doctor, with medicine top of mind, can you clear something up for us? these predictions certainly in the realm of possible and the realm of the feared that we could be looking at a second wave, a second curve when the weather turns cold. is allowing or preventing that up to us in terms of relaxing social distancing too early, these stating opening that may in retrospect be too early, or is this an organically-occurring second wave that we fear? >> well, it's not clear, brian. there is an element of an organically-occurring second wave certainly because there are a lot of us, thankfully because of social distancing, that have not developed immunity, and we actually don't know if those of us who have been infected have immun

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at the numberten from the home secretary patel at the number ten press conference today.arly he's been extremely ill and confessed for the first time that he was obviously close to death. and so you will need a lot of time to recover. it's quite heartening that he says, look, i owe the nhs my life and he says i can't thank them enough but he could think them enough because if at the end of all this given that they go way beyond the call of duty over and above any expectations we ever had of them would be really great is if he put his money where his mouth is and gave them a pay rise.|j he put his money where his mouth is and gave them a pay rise. i can see you nodding along to his point there briefly. absolutely, i have a son that's a paramedic with the advent of service and i know that i don't think people realise that an awful lot of people are making an incredible sacrifice, they are not seeing theirfamilies incredible sacrifice, they are not seeing their families and many people in the front lines are staying in hotels. not seeing their families at all, and they are d

if you look at social media that was the context in which pretty patel's no apology if you like has been received and it all does add up to a growing surge of demand from within the system and outside for really getting a grip on the problem now of course on friday the u.k. says it took it received a shipment of 250000 individual items of protective equipment from turkey they though have to get distributed around the country and to the right places so pretty patel did say the government was doing all it can perhaps they are now in terms of moving the equipment around but in terms of actually messaging i think they're not going down very well and the demon in russia we've had a sharp rise in the number of cases is that the result of more testing and better detection or of a real sudden surge in the virus. no sadly i think it's i think it's more the latter i think that already the kremlin has admitted that there is increasing pressure on hospitals both in moscow and instant petersburg as the number of cases rises now the death toll in russia is still relatively low it's risen in 24 hours b

cavita patel. formerly a white house health policy director in the obama administration and is an msnbc medical contributor. and infectious disease sdk at the providence medical group north everett clinic dr. george diaz. he treated the first u.s. patient with coronavirus. thank you both for being with us. so dr. patel, the white house sobered up a lot of people yesterday saying the next two weeks are going to be very, very painful. what does that look like? what is it going to be here for the average american over the next couple of weeks? and then the next few months? >> yeah, absolutely. chris, it's -- it's sobering in that we -- honestly, we're going to probably have to go beyond april. i know we're doing kind of a 30-day stay-at-home, social distancing, but i fully expect given those sobering statistics that we will have to extend this beyond april 30th, and, in fact, i actually think the conversation about masks, while it's an important one, is somewhat distracting from the essential advice t

patel, i'm just now getting a sense of how deep this gap runs.d friend who works at penn medical in philadelphia and he has covid-19. he works in healthcare. but he had to stay at home, sick, for like days before they could finally scare up a test for him and confirm that he was positive. so i'm not sure we fully have a clear picture on just how deep this gap runs. >> yeah. not only do we not have a clear picture, but, remember, this is a novel virus. so we don't exactly know -- right now, if i were to get coronavirus, like your friend did, i would have to have a time period where i had no symptoms. and, in order to come back to work, i would have to have two subsequent tests that are negative. and you talk about testing, joshua. not all tests are equal. so we know that -- we have been talking about tests like they're interchangeable. but, for example, even the test that your friend will probably get might be a little different than the test we have in california. and the performance of those tests is incredibly important. to the point you made a

it is no surprise that priti patel at the government's press c0 nfe re nce was that priti patel at the was stressing the need to maintain social distancing measures. she gave no indication of an early end to lock down. that message was aimed at all the buzz but also some people in her own party who privately were meeting in westminster last week and were getting a little bit concerned about the effect of the rejections on the economy, because they see other countries now, germany, denmark, tentatively, cautiously beginning to open up. today in belgium, very detailed plans about how they might open up next month. some of these mps want to put some pressure on their own government to think through how that would happen here as well. philip hammond, the chancellor very publicly said on the bbc today that effectively the rejections would have to be is a vaccine, otherwise the economy could become the biggest casualty of the pandemic. there is pressure on boris johnson when he returns to work to have some kind of rethink. that is not to say that some kind of work is not to say that some kin

patel.s going to take a coordinated, collaborative approach and it will take multiple shots on goal to work to vaccine development and also work on anti-virals. isn't going to be a single approach that gets us to where we need to be. it will be multiple approaches. but that are coordinated and level talents of different tynes constitutions and agencies. >> dr. minor, good luck to you on the research. coming up, the coronavirus pandemic continues to wreak havoc on the company, forcing nearly 4 million more americans to file for unemployment. that brings the title of jobless claims to 30 million. >> a lot, right now, i'm unemployed. right now, a lot of people are hurting sitting at home not working. >> it will be great to start wo working asap. it would love a job. a job would be awesome. or, give you unusually high energy, even when depressed. overwhelmed by bipolar depression? ask about vraylar. some medications only treat the lows or the highs. vraylar effectively treats depressive, acute m

patel.t new study from the cdc about how this virus can be transmitted saying it's not airborne, but there's a lot of talk about droplets. break this down for us. >> so what some of the studies are showing is that it's possible that the sars-cov-2 virus can exist in the air in an enclosed space. we have to stress these tests were done in a lab setting, which doesn't always translate to the real world. doing something in a lab is different than if you were on a subway or in a hospital or wherever. but it is a huge sign that we need to be extra-vigilant about this virus when it comes to airborne spread. essentially doing what we're already doing, making sure those on the frontlines have an n-95. we have something called negative pressure hospital rooms. we're learning more and more about how insanely dangerous and easy to spread this virus is. we have a couple things happening here. when we talk about airborne spread, and you do it in a lab setting, in a lab setting you can't necessarily repli

patel. she was formally a white house health policy director in the obama administration and is an msnbc medical contributor. legitimate arguments for and against masks, but what does confused messaging do at a time when leaders from deborah birx to governor cuomo are frustrated that enough people are following recommendations. >> absolutely, chris. as you stated, we don't have even a uniform policy around staying at home and just in the span of about 30 minutes, you had high-level federal kind of leaders telling you different or mixed messages. i think for everyone here, the bottom line is keep the health care workers well equipped with masks that are suited for them and stay at home, high priorities and then think about some benefit from having these cloth masks, but it does create a false sense of security. remember, they protect others from you, not the other way around. >> the governor of georgia delayed shutting down his state based on claims he hadn't heard, commonly reported informat

sandhya patel will be along next. >>> abc is staging a day of hope, join good morning america tomorrow for the kickoff. we'll help you find food and connect with your neighbors in need. if you can make >>> as you take a look live outside, beautiful shot. you can see some fog and beautiful green hills. at least the sun came out today. >> if you come down from mount tamm a little bit, you see blue skies. let's check in with sandhya patel from home. >> hi, i get the sense you're looking for that brightness in your life right now, and it's understandable. let's take a look at a view from our camera. we've been seeing peeks of blue here, there are plenty of clouds starting to stream in, 61 in oakland. ianco 63 in san jose. and chilly in half moon bay. a nice breeze as we look along the embarcadero. our temperatures in the mid-50s, low 60s for the rest of you, from napa all the way to livermore, today's highs were in the upper 50s to upper 60s, ukiah managed to get up to 81 degrees, it's hard to believe. let me show you live doppler 7, showers a few days ago, still spinning off of the southe

patel says an infected person could slip bit. >> it you have back pain and take eye ibuprofen, you could w right by one of those screenings. >> reporter: typical covid-19 patients don't develop fever until day five but can go from day two to 14. a person denied access to argue a case of discrimination according to employment law specialist michael warren in san jose. >> so it's really important that if a temperature screen process is put in place, it be done in an unbiased, nondiscriminatory, neutral manner. >> reporter: dr. patel and other medical experts say temperature chebs are just one tool for screening testing and questionnaires are important, too, along with social distancing and hand washing. we're live working from home, david louie, abc 7 news. >> thank you so. domestic violence cases are up as the majority of families shelter in place. we have more on the push under way to connect survivors of abuse with much-needed resources. >> reporter: amidst the novel coronavirus crisis -- >> i am a mom with three young children that solely depend on me due to the loss of their would-be

patel, i'm going to put you on the spot.oing to think whatever they want, they already do, about donald trump. he was elected after a lot of things were known about him, the "access hollywood" tape was out, racist comments about judges were out. he attacked a gold-star family. lots of information was available. it would seem to me that people are going to have to make the most important decision of their life, maybe, in the next, i don't know, four to eight weeks about whether to leave the house, about whether to wear a mask, about whether to go see their parents, about whether to take their kids to see their grandparents. should they trust donald trump when they make that decision? >> no. and honestly, nicole, for people to say, oh, well, i'm being partisan about it, no, we should not be seeking the most important lifesaving kind of advice from someone who doesn't have any of that expertise. in fact, i would urge every american to ask the question of people not just one person but people who have science, credibility, and l

. >>> we want to bring in kavita patel. she was a top health official in the obama white house and is now working with the trump administration on its return to work policy. dr. patel, good morning. nice to see you. >> nice to see you, peter. thanks. >> we want to ask you about the businesses now beginning to reopen in states like georgia and oklahoma. obviously businesses like nail salons and tattoo parlors, there's no way to do that from six feet apart. you're up next to the clients or the stylist there. what is the risk of more cases being passed on, more infections as a function of this reopening? >> well, it's a pretty high risk. as you've mentioned, the numbers of cases are, in fact, increasing in that region, not declining. which is one of the first criteria that the trump administration, as well as our public health experts have cited. in addition to that, peter, really having these reopenings occur now just when there is even in some parts of the country, like new york, a decrease in cases, can only exacerbate the

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alok patel. doctor, thank you for joining us once again today. >> i didn't know i was your favorite. thank you. >> we love you, dr. patel. we just heard from the surgeon general about masks. what are your thoughts on the general public wearing them? >> there has literally been this back and forth for so long. i would not be surprised. i'm saying this right here. i would not be surprised if the next national guideline is for some type of coverage for the entire public. now i cannot stress again that that means not an n95 and not a surgical mask, but some type of cloth or another protective substance in front of somebody's face, if they're going out, especially if they're going to go to a place that has poor ventilation or to a crowded area. but this does not replace the social distancing or the shelter at place guidelines at all. this is just an extra step. is . a few weeks ago, we were told not to wear masks. now we're being told maybe we should be wearing masks. there is certainly a lot of mixed