gary cohn, mark cuban, adina friedman, john rogers, scott gottleib thank you for watching >>> my mission is simple, to make you money i'm here to level the playing field for all investors. there's always a bull market somewhere and i promise to help you find it. "mad money" starts now hey, i'm cramer! welcome to "mad money. welcome to cramerica other people want to make friends. i'm just trying to make you some money. my job is not just to entertain you, but to educate you and teach you. call me at 1-800-743-cnbc or tweet me at jim cramer today's rally, second one in a row 496 points, rising 1.5%, nasdaq dipping 1.4%, shows wall street has faith in the stimulus

scott gottleib is going to join us with an effort on the updates to flatten the curve and halt the spread of coronavirus scott, a new paper out on what it will take "squawk box" returns right after this >>> don't forget to subscribe to our podcast. you'll get interviews, original content, and behind-the-scenes access look for us on apple podcasts or on your favorite podcast app and subscribe to "squawk pod" today. >>> welcome back to "squawk box," everybody. we've been watching the continuing toll of what's taking place with coronavirus the number of cases in the united states continues to grow, and the death toll in america is now topping 2500 people. joining us right now to talk about what he sees happening and potentially some plans for when things might actually open up again is former fda commissioner, dr. scott gottleib he is also a cnbc contributor and he serves on the boards of both pfizer and i willumina. yesterday he put out a plan on what can happen before we can get back to work and school. why don't you lay out the steps that are vital before we can get back >> we believe tha

scott gottleib on the spread of the coronavirus in america. what do cities outside of current hot spots like new york, new orleans, detroit need to know we'll bring you those answers. as we head to break, take a look at the price of oil. coming off of 18 year lows the kremlin, vladimir putin and president trump had a phone call to discuss stabilizi tnghe market we'll talk about it when we return awesome internet. it's more than just fast. it keeps all your devices running smoothly. with built-in security that protects your kids... ...no matter what they're up to. it protects your info... ...and gives you 24/7 peace of mind... ...that if it's connected, it's protected. even that that pet-camera thingy. [ whines ] can your internet do that? xfinity xfi can because it's... ...simple, easy, awesome. [ barking ] >>> "squawk box" this morning. worldwide coronavirus infections have now topped 800,000. this according to johns hopkins university joining us to find out how critical the next month will be in the fight against the virus someone we've gott

scott gottleib who we're going to talk with in a minute, is the concern that even though he thinks, too come out the other side, you're talking eight to ten weeks on something like this, the concern doctors have is trying to flatten the curve right now so it is less overwhelming on the health care systems in new york city do you go along with that? some people hear this and say it should be business as usual and states should not do lockdowns is that what you're saying >> no. be extraordinary vigilant, implement extreme safety measures until we get on the other side and see it in a free fall there's no question that's what we have to do. i think -- and my guess is that that's going to be sometime in late april, early may. that would be optimistic that would be following the hubei example. again, if you just think about this, we've got these incredible experiments going on country by country. some of it, china, command and control, singapore, command and control. hong kong, command and control they did a great job we've got free societies in europe, in the united states they're experienc

joining us is scott gottleib and michael strain guys, i want to talk about your op ed in a minute.cott, while we've got you here. i have a bunch of questions i need answered. i've been waiting all morning on this first of all, you've been running numbers at aei to come up with the number of tests that have been administered in the united states. what do you see now? how do you find those numbers? >> it's not tests being administered, it's the capacity of the labs offering the tests we've come at a number that we believe based on all the laps that are offering a test upwards of 17 thousand patients a day. 17,000 aren't being tested a day. part of the problem is certain labs have the capacity and we need to figure out a more efficient system for shipping around samples for places that have a lot of demand like new york can tap the capacity for places that don't have that much demand california has capacity but not as much testing demand lap corps has gotten testing up quickly. we need to be working with them very, very closely to get those tests on what we call their automated platfo

scott gottleib, the former commissioner of the fda. been joining us on a daily basis to tell us what he sees on the front lines in the fight against coronavirus. good morning. >> good morning. thank you. >> earlier we had ken rogoff on and he said it was a war. >> we are in batwell a pathogen. what you're starting to sense is people want to understand when the current lockdowns and restrictions will lift and when normal life will return and when we'll begin to defeat this i do think there's an end to this we need to start defining it and defining the stages of what a return to better times looks like and how we're going to get there. you know, just sort of pause, but it's not a question of ending these restrictions, it's -- certain things are going to change. there isn't an on/off switch that will flip we'll unwind some of the measures, we'll adopt others we'll secure also in the process a better toolbox to deal with the threat which we don't have, which we can have in the context of the current epidemic so we don't get caught flat foo

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false hope or is it that they don't believe the drug works the reason i ask is i've been asking scott gottleibbout this drug for a week or two and every time he comes on he is skeptical if not dismissive of it. >> reporter: yeah, well, let's hear more from him this morning. i don't get the sense he's 100% dismissive of it i think that people think there is potentially promise here, but i think what you outlined at the beginning, that the science hasn't proven it's worked yet. that is what the scientific community thinks now, they want more evidence. the way they count evidence is through randomized clinical trials the way dr. fauci was describing it, as anecdotal data. we need more rigorous trials to really know. i think that's sort of what i'm hearing from the scientific community. >> you don't know whether the patient just recovers on his own or recovers from the -- you read about it a couple of weeks ago on all the social media sites, andrew good job we've been talking about it. but we get it. it's good. i know that's good. you've been bringing it up but it was all over social media at that

gary cohn, mark cuban, adina friedman, john rogers, scott gottleib thank you for watching >>> my mission is simple, to make you money i'm here to level the playing field for all investors. there's always a bull market somewhere and i promise to help you find it. "mad money" starts now hey, i'm cramer! welcome to "mad money. welcome to cramerica other people want to make friends. i'm just trying to make you some money. my job is not just to entertain you, but to educate you and teach you. call me at 1-800-743-cnbc or tweet me at jim cramer today's rally, second one in a row 496 points, rising 1.5%, nasdaq dipping 1.4%, shows wall street has faith in the stimulus plan we came in weak it this morning, then roared, sacrificing gains at the close because a handful of senators are holding up the bill bernie sanders thinks it's too generous to corporations i say it's possibly too generous right now. it was the sanders discordant threat that freaked everybody out. he's not trying to change the bill he's trying to fast track it sideshow, please, no panic the stocks that won big today at the peak

adina freidman and scott gottleib that's tomorrow at 7:00 p.m. eastern on cnbc.f people like nike tonight. talk about a path forward. maybe that's it. >>> i always like to say there's a bull market somewhere and i promise to find it for you here on "mad money. i'm jim cramer see you tomorrow "markets in turmoil" starts right now. next on cnbc >> good evening. i'm scott waup ner the developing story, the debate over when it is safe to go back to work as the dow has its best percentage jump since the great depression >> i'd love to have it open by easter >> major wall street rally >> stocks are surging. >> the dow pops. up 11% the best percentage gain since 1933 >> we're taking actions to preserve cash. skm >> we have been dealing with covid-19 for nin

scott gottleib, form jer fda commissioner we heard from one of our guests earlier, doctor, that in italyf a second derivative of i guess the acceleration may be slowing. can you add anything on the china or italy news? is it positive >> the china news is certainly positive i think it demonstrates that, you know, with containment strategies you can get through an epidemic. we've seen that in south korea and singapore, although they've had new cases and resurgence, they've largely gotten control and south korea was able to do that too italy is seeing the number of deaths rise. they may be approaching the peak in terms of new infections deaths and hospitalizations are going to rise past that peak because their time to hospitalization is about 9 to 12 days time to death could be as long as three weeks, maybe longer so people who are getting infected now, got infected last week, they are still going to go through that process so hospitalizations and deaths are going to rise even as new infections peaked. you said we're going to find more cases now that we're testing so many people do you at t

i've been following scott gottleib and have respect for him. following the world health organization trying to get various sources on this. i have to be critical in one area. i'd love you to help me talk me off a ledge on this. i don't know if you can. is the lack of how we're handling testing right now. the fact that all of a sudden cdc has dropped keeping track of how many people we test. we had somebody talk to us this morning about as part of the ebola response. they comment, when you don't know what you don't know, that's not a great place to be in trying to figure out how to deal with things. the fact if we start not keeping track of this, the amount of tests and who we're testing, we should be much more aggressive, in the hospitals, anyone who's good pneumonia that we can't identify, we should be testing. i feel like this is one area, you gave me great response on where we are on fund finding something to help whether it be treatments or otherwise, vaccine. i feel like this is one where we're dropping the ball. i do want to get to anothe

we just spoke with scott gottleib and he pointed out a couple of things first of all, the idea thereds winding up in the hospitals than we might have anticipated. they might not be dying from this but they are getting sick and being put on ventilators there are going to be long-term ramifications from this disease. what do you say to that? >> i've heard that and i'm not a doctor i'm not a medical expert at all, but i have asked the doctors that i've been talking to about this, and that's why we so need testing and data, because were knows people all with pre-existing conditions? i don't know i just have no idea. what percentage are they of the total number that's precisely why you need to have social distancing period, sheltering in place while you're dogmas sieve teing massive testn understanding the exact str stratification of people who have been hit by this disease and who we can fold in most quickly and most easily. that's why social distancing plus testing that has to be stage one which then gives you the foundation to start folding people back into the economy because you know

scott gottleib he's the former fda commissioner and he serves on the boards of lumina advisor the coronavirusere are 85 deaths reported, more than 4600 cases across the country we've been hearing from the cdc saying social distancing, don't get into crowds. president trump says he doesn't want to see people congregating in crowds of more than ten people where do things stand in terms of how long do you think this will last? >> it's going to accelerates we'll be turning over more cases. sort of an optimistic case is that this, again, peaks out sometime late april, early may then we're coming down the epidemic curve this still lasts well through june and into july but you're peaking out in terms of the number of daily cases you're reporting sometime towards the end of april, early may. that's if we're trying to keep the peak of the epidemic down. you'll see it spread then i worry about the fall. your guest before talked about this this doesn't go away we need a vaccine or therapeutic. the reality is we can get a therapeutic by the fall and the point of care diagnostic so doctors can isolate and

scott gottleib he serves on the boards of lumina and pfizer. good morning to both of you.t with you, dr. gottleib we've been talking to you for the past several weeks this weekend it feels like this whole situation, both in the united states and also obviously in italy, has moved to a new place. this is a new chapter here >> yeah, i think we've reached a predictable tipping point where there will be a rapid acceleration of cases in the united states. we still have a narrow window of opportunity to implement tough mitigation steps but we're losing time and we need to start taking more aggressive steps right now to try to contain the large outbreaks that are in probably multiple u.s. cities right now to prevent a broader epidemic and try to get to a point where we don't exhaust the health care system the goal is to make sure the peak of this epidemic, we are heading for an epidemic, doesn't become so large where you get to a point where you've exhausted the health care system that's what happened in wuhan, china. >> what does that look like though just so we understand. >> w

scott gottleib he is the former fda commissioner and he serves on boards of lumina and pfizer. ou've been sort of guiding us through this almost every day. where do you think we stand right now? >> i think right now we're about six weeks -- we're about two weeks into the process i think the difference for us is we identified our community spread much earlier than china i think we're starting to take mitigation steps much sooner than they did. china did just about everything wrong during those six weeks i think we're doing a lot of things right currently notwithstanding the challenges we had getting the diagnostic steps deployed which will be fully deployed i think by the end of the week there will be much more diagnostic screening the steps that the government is taking which are very aggressive are going to absolutely impact the trajectory of this epidemic. i think we need to continue to do that. we need to have a difficult march so it will peak out. if you talk to folks modeling this, there is a sense it will peak in mid to late april and heading into may we'll be coming down