st. barnabas. >> well, the battle continues. the end of another shift. we still have a large number of people intubated down here. i believe there's 13 intubated. and about five or six on cpap. a lot of people are still requiring high concentrations of oxygen. it doesn't seem like it's v slowing down, although we've had a little -- i don't want to use -- but a little low right now, which is good because we're able to get some patients upstairs to te upstairs to the icu. let's hope we reach that plateau at some point soon where we flatten the curve. i i'm hopeful. >> when he says we have got five or six patients on cpap, what that means is that st. barnabas in the bronx is one of the places that has basically a response to patients who need mechanical assistance to breathe as coronavirus attacks the longs. lungs. what dr. patty's describing there, they've also started repurposing cpap machines, machines for people with sleep apnea, basically into a make-do clinical solution for critically ill corona

st. barnabas fighting coronavirus like all doctors and health care workers at st. barnabas are doing now, trying to keep coronavirus patients alive. he himself became infected with coronavirus. he died at the age of 59. frontline health workers know that their lives are at stake while they're doing this work, and yet remarkably this far into it, with all the support that we as a country are trying to give them, it's not enough. we are still seeing hospital staff have to literally protest to try to get themselves protective equipment, to try to get enough staff, relief staff on board to share the burden in hospitals that have crippling numbers of cases. this, for example, was today. this was wycoff hospital in brooklyn today. >> we need more nurses at the hospital. the nurses are working short. the nurses are working stressed. the nurses are working hard. i want my nurses to know that we love them. we respect them. the respiratory therapists, the physical therapists, the doctors. they're all working hard for the patients in this community at this time. at the end of

st. barnabas hospital. in just the past 30 minutes or so we've seen balance after balance pull in. we've seen a number of taxis pull in as well. around 200 covid-19 patients are inside this hospital right now. more than 100 patients have died at this hospital so far. roughly 300 have been treated and discharged. this hour there's an organization on site handing out care packages to the health care workers on the front line. that's that white truck on the right that you see. meanwhile, this tent to the left, we're told this tent you see right now, that's where the health care workers themselves are being -- been tested for covid-19. you can see some of the doctors and nurses in line for those care packages. we'll get you caught up on the situation at st. barnabas in just a moment. first, we want you to know the facts. >> in 30 minutes we'll hear from new york governor andrew cuomo and his daily briefing. starting tomorrow new yorkers have to cover their faces in public when they can't keep at a social distan

st. barnabas. dr. earnest patti we spoke to last week about the condition in his incredibly hard-hit icu in st. barnabas. we're going to check back in with dr. patti tonight live at the end of his shift to talk about what it is like in the icus now as new york is seeing in the data a possible light at the end of the tunnel. but the tunnel is still so black and so long and so cold with more than 600 new yorkers dying every day. you know, it's interesting. we watched italy so closely from here as a precursor. we were worried that italy was going to be a precursor as to what we were going to go through m in country. those warnings were exactly right in terms of following italy and them handing us the baton of having the worst outbreak on earth. because we saw italy go before us, we were also heartened when he with saw italy start to turn their curve, start to bend their curve. we started to see their new infections, their new hospitalizations, their icu utilization numbers starting to go down. but even as

st. barnabas, you see something like 1200 trama patients a year.oes what you're doing now compare to what you normally see? how abnormal is your day in the life right now compared to a busy day in the time before coronavirus? >> i have to say, probably two of the things that struck me the most right from the beginning, rachel, were having to, when you walked into the department, the level of noise and the level of increased seemed like 100 fold, the number of machines beeping and alarming and making noise and trying to catch our atin attention was much greater than i've experienced in the past and those are ventilators because we had so many in the emergency department. we were basically running our own icu. tonight we were still running an icu. the other thing is having to wear ppe or personal protective equipment like this for the entire day. non-stop. because i can tell you today i was actually performing an infew base on intubation on a very si patient. when i went to do the procedure, i always say a little quick prayer and i thought i hope thi

st. barnabas hospital in the bronx, which has been an incredibly hard-hit facility. we've talked to him the last couple of friday nights. well, it's friday night again, and tonight he sent us some pictures. he sent us a picture of a bunch of origami hearts that kids in texas sent to him in the e.r. at st. barnabas to say thank you for what you're doing. you can see each one has a little note on it. here's dr. patti and his colleagues at the st. barnabas emergency room being very happy to have them. you see how they're holding them. i love this picture. and look at this. this is fascinating. one of the things we have noticed with dr. patti when he has sent us his sort of check-in videos from his shift in the e.r. at st. barnabas is that he's worried his patients can't, like, connect with him, can't see his face because of the mask and the shield he has to wear. so we've noticed, you see on his sort of -- where his lapel would be if he was wearing a suit? it's backwards there because that's the way it's shot. but you can see he's got his name. he drew his name and a li

st. barnabas. you can see every one has a little note on it. very happy to have them. you see how they are all holding them. i love this picture. yet, look at this. this is fascinating. one of the things we have noticed with dr. paddy, when he has sent us his sort of check-in videos from his shift in the er at st. barnabas, is that he's worried his patients can't like, connect with him, can't see his face, because the mask and the shield he has to wear. we've noticed you see where his lapel would be if he was wearing a suit? it's backwards there because that's the way it's shot. but you can see he's got his name. we noticed he drew his name and a little smiley face on his name tag. it's this very sweet human touch we noticed about dr. paddy in these videos. well, dr. paddy says that someone else in the world was, also, struck by that. and they decided to come up with a solution to the problem that he is trying to fix here. they printed a picture of dr. paddy's actual smiling face on a sticker. it's kind of the size of a baseball card and he can peel the back off that s

st. barnabas, very happy to have them. all holding them. love this picture. look at this, this is fascinating. one of the things we have noticed with dr. patti when he's sent us check-in videos from er at st. barnabas, he's worried his patients can't connect with him, see his face because of the mask and shield he wears. we've noticed where his lapel would be if he was wearing a suit, it's backwards because that's the way it's shot. he drew his name and smiley face on the name tag. even if patients can't see his face, they can see that, human touch we noticed about dr. patti in these videos. dr. patti says someone else in the world was struck by that. and they decided to come up with a solution to the problem he's trying to fix here. they printed a picture of dr. patti's actual smiling face on a sticker the size of a baseball card. he can peel the back off that and stick it on the outside of his ppe suit. patients who can't see his face can at least see a smiling picture of what his face looks like. it's pasted on the front of his gear now. people are just se

st. barnabas hospital in the bronx. >> it doesn't seem like it's slowing down. let's hope w point soon. or we flatten the curve. i'm hopeful. >> reporter: these haunting images show the reality of keeping up with the record breaking number of deaths. bodies buried on heart island. this public cemetery averaged 24 burials a week, but it's per day according to the department of corrections. the invisible enemy hasn't won. even while separated, the show goes on. snl returns with a new episode produced remotely. >>> a new jersey football coach found a way to go the extra mile delivering 88 championship rings to each member on the team just minus the hugs. >> reporter: here at the national tennis center, they were anticipating the arrival of about 100 patients yesterday. mostly from hard hit elmhurst hospital, which is a couple of miles away. moving forward, if they don't need all the beds in this temporary facility, they will transition to a quarantine center to treat patients with milder symptoms of the virus. kristen? >> kathy park, thank you. the question now on

st. barnabas in new york. ernest patti. and dr.win and emergency physician at brighams and instructor at the medical school dr. jeremy faust. let me start with you, doctor, because that video i think really resonates, really, it's so hard to watch and really i think underscores the xhalgs that you all are facing every day. can you just talk to us about the beeping, the noise, that was overwhelming there. what does that show or demonstrate about the level of things that were going on in that yard behind you and can you tell us whether or not this week, is there reason for the little bit of hope and optimism that we seem to be feeling that we could be actually getting our heads around this? >> sure. first let me say thank you for having me, kate. i appreciate it. what the first thing you notice when you walk into the emergency department during a period like this is the shear volume of noise and that's due to all of the ventilators and other machines that are supporting life of our patients who are afflicted with covid-19 there in th

st. barnabas medical center as a hyperbaric safety officer in the wounded -- in the wound care center. but his most important jobs were as husband to his wife renee, and i spoke to renee earlier today. god bless her and father to their children, soul and journey. solomon was a basketball coach for the north plainfield nothing but nets organization. he was also a businessman. the owner of his own clothing company, soulful journey brand. and it's hard not to see where he got that name. helping people was his true calling, and i know his family and community will miss that the most. may god bless him and each and every one of his family and friends. 75 years ago yesterday, on april 15th, 1945, the bergen belsen concentration camp was liberated by british forces. one of those freed that day was margit feldman. she passed away from covid-19 complications on tuesday, april 14th. she was just about two months shy of her 91st birthday. she was born margit burkehalter in budapest and grew up in a small town near the border with czechoslovakia. when the nazis came, she and her parents were sent

st. barnabas hospital described the situation. >> i've into -- intubated more patients in the last week and a half than six months before this all started. we're seeing the worst of the worse. we're seeing the 20-year-olds, the 30-year-olds j it looks like a war zone. >> our emergency department has turned into an icu. essentially the hospital is turning into an icu. what normally goes into like a small area of the hospital comparatively to the rest of the hospital is now essentially the entire hospital. >> joining me now live from new york city's billie jean king national tennis center, cory coffin. the center you're at normally hosts the u.s. open, it's now set up as a field hospital. you spent some time at another surreal scene, a field hospital in central park. take us inside the operation that you're at now. >> reporter: yeah, here today is the first official day that they will be accepting covid positive patients, ali. this 100,000 square foot facility as you mentioned normally hosts some of the greatest athletes in the world, and now it is here to save lives in the midst of this glob

st. barnabas hospital remembers veteran trauma surgeon renault verrier who died from complications of coronavirus who had three children. >> he was one in a million basically. there are going to be another one like him. >> reporter: the medical community is worried about constant exposure including residents in training. >> our doctors, physicians, along with health care workers are heroes. >> reporter: dr. linda alverez is a union executive who represents residents nationwide. >> health care providers have the highest rate of infection. residents when they try to speak out against these issues to the administration are being told that they should be thankful to have a job. [ sirens ] >> reporter: there are health care workers both on the front lines and behind the scenes who have voiced concerns about coming to work during a pandemic. in a video obtained by cbs news, dr. linda forese, ceo of new york presbyterian, one of the largest hospital systems, made some comments to the staff that shocked some of them. >> please, for you and your families, stop sending emails, cards and letters, saying tha