paul saunders, a covid survivor himself, performing "ecmo", temporarily drawing blood out of the body to help oxygenate red blood cells in patients whose lungs aren't functioning. >> with such limited resources, we have to be very careful as to who we're going to offer this to. and making sure those patients are ones that really have a good chance of a good benefit. >> reporter: emotions running high for nurse mary kate funaro. working in the same icu where her father, a doctor, was being treated for the virus. he's now back home, feeling better. >> unfortunately i was not able to go inside his room, didn't want to cross contaminate. between other covid-19 patients and him. so i waved to him from outside the glass. >> reporter: but in new york state, the death toll reaching new heights by the day. coronavirus killing nearly 800 people in just 24 hours. >> we've lost over 7,000 lives to this crisis. that is so shocking and painful and breathtaking, i don't even have the words for it. >> reporter: overwhelmed hospitals scrambling this ki so patients on bunks in large trucks to be transp

paul saunders gets a hero's welcome back at the hospital. >> thank you very much.s undeserved, but thank you all for coming to work and for working so hard in all this time. all appreciated by everybody, but thank you so much. >> and welcome back. >> happy to be back. [ applause ] >> still got people coming in. >> back to work, guys. back to reality. >> this is surgical icu. >> is this the stuff you miss putting on? >> no, this is not something, this is the patient who was put on yesterday. so he's been on for about 24 hours now. >> in this crisis, dr. saunders is called upon for the most extreme cases, when a ventilator isn't enough. >> what we do is go to assess them where they are at the bedside and put in very large ivs that drain blood from their body, take it out of their body and run it through an oxygen eighter, it takes out carbon dioxide and puts it back in their body. >> you have a total of eight patient. >> stretched thin here and around the country, critical nursing staff. up from d.c. to help, danelle quickly gets a crash course in life at this covid

after paul saunders recovering from coronavirus, returning to his rounds. [ applause ] he was not expectings. >> thank you very much. totally unexpected and undeserved but thank you all for coming to work and for working so hard and all this time. so all appreciated by everybody, but thank you very much. >> and welcome back. >> happy to be back. >> reporter: and now we wonder, that doctor who was on the front lines that even while he was recovering, dr. saunders was checking in on his patients. >> one of the hardest thing about not being here is you feel like you're letting everyone down inside the hospital. everyone's working so hard and the whole time i was home i'm just anxious to get back and just get back, get back to work. >> reporter: there are so many heroes. we have seen those lines applauding health-care workers. but tonight, with this image from a nurse recording as she walked through it. nurse victoria them back. >> thank you! >> reporter: this evening, victoria sending us a message after finishing another shift. telling us that moment mattered. >> it was incredible to have the

paul saunders is using a rare treatment for younger patients and it temporarily draws blood out of the body to oxygenate red blood cells in patients whose lungs aren't functioning. >> with such limits resources, we have to be careful as to who we'll offer it to and make sure they have a good chance of a good benefit. [ applause ] >> reporter: just before deploying that treatment, dr. sade thcoronavirus himself. >> thank you very much. totally unexpected and undeserved. >> that is the one thing he's wrong about. well deserved there. and, meanwhile, researchers at columbia university say they've discovered an ultraviolet light that may kill the coronavirus and could be used in places like airports and schools and waiting for fda approval. >>> the virus has been devastating for nursing homes.is statidsihave nowies say mor and in ohio, workers at two assisted living centers are going to new lengths to protect their residents. the nurse, cooks and housekeepers have been living at the facility for 28 consecutive days all to make sure they don't bring the virus into the building. >> everyone

paul saunders, a covid survivor himself, now back on the job using a therapy called echmo temporarilywing blood out of the body to help oxygenate red blood cells in patients whose lungs aren't functioning. >> in the current epidemic it is used as a last resort when ventilators aren't enough. >> reporter: some patients in their 30s and 40s. >> we definitely are seeing people who are young with no medical problems coming in and getting very, very sick and it's very hard to predict who is going to get very sick and who is not. >> reporter: overwhelmed hospitals moving patients to bigger facilities, stacking them on bunks in large trucks to be transported. despite growing calls for an expanded nationwide testing system, president trump insisting it's not necessary before re-opening the country. >> we're talking about 325 million people and that's not going to happen, as you can imagine, and it would never happen with anyone else either. >> reporter: the pandemic sweeping across america. in texas, the number of cases topping 10,000. about 200 deaths as concerns grow of a possible new hot s

paul saunders using a rare treatment for younger patients when ventilators are not enough.o help oxygenate young patients. >> with such limited resources we have to be very careful to -- as to who we're going to offer it to, making sure those patients are ones that really have a good chance of a good benefit. >> reporter: just before deploying that treatment, dr. saunders received this warm welcome from the hospital staff. when he returned to work after beating the coronavirus himself. >> thank you very much. totally unexpected and undeserved. >> it's very well deserved there. with so many new yorkers dying, governor andrew cuomo's authorizing out-of-state funeral directors to work in the state to ease the load. >>> now to the economic toll of the crisis. a new u.n. report says 81% of the world's workers are being affected by workplace closures right now. some of those workers were among the 6.6 million americans who filed for unemployment last week. the labor secretary says some states are issuing $600 supplemental unemployment checks. in the senate $250 billion of new aid

paul saunders risked his life for the patients. we're at home, we're helping our brave health workers. we must leave no one behind and we must accelerate in our race to find a vaccine. after all, covid 19 anywhere is a threat to people everywhere. let's keep fighting together to stop the pandemic and support the most vulnerable in society. >> parents around the world are struggling with school closures, schools are closing everywhere. for many, it's learning about how to teach their it's about l how to teach their kids at home, which is tough already. but, for others, the problem is much more dire and, now, with the spread of covid-19 across the world, it's estimated that 91% of the world's children are out of school altogether. the most marginalized kids and most poverty-stricken areas, those are the ones that are going to suffer the most. without support, they are in great danger of falling behind, and even falling out of the education system altogether. we can't let that happen. so join the global effort to stop the spread of th