doctors that reagan's book university hospital started developing their own antibody test in february. they've been working with blood plasma from recovered patients since early april. about is that these patients produce directly attack and destroy the virus this is the only virus specific therapy available. probably about 30 patients have received the plasma cases ranging from medium to severe doctors at the coronavirus intensive care unit pleased with the results. means we can intervene do something to help patients besides artificial respiration and support. we can help build up their immunity we've observed the viral load fall and it completely disappeared in one case it's probably pushed on the quality of the samples varies not everyone has enough antibodies the micro biologists have to select the best samples. is the biggest challenge is to assess the quality of the past. to detect the antibodies and whether the protector and hell the patient did during the transfusion. when he may have if the transfusion takes place early enough it may prevent the use of artificial respiration

for more i'm joined by professor marcus moll a pediatric director and to berlin sherry to university hospital good to have you with us now there are so many different studies out there some saying kids are safe from corona. super spreaders and others again say that they get seriously ill too how much do we really know about 19 and kids. yes hello that's a that's a good question so i think where we can we can clearly say is that worldwide future has been recorded 'd with disease caused by the new corona virus compared to adults and mostly in the community these kids. you know largely asymptomatic are present with signs of a common cold when they are made it to the hospital they cherry present with my deceased manifestations in adults and remarkably that means that we are not seeing the severe pneumonia as and respect or treat fadia that have been observed in adults especially in the in the elderly critically ill population in a given to as you say that kids often. mattick symptoms and that's difficult with people in general how can parents know that their kids actually infected that's a very d

they moved to new jersey for the first time this week to help an overwhelmed staff here at university hospitalbut it's a different scene sh back te protests demanding coronavirus reopen intense identified sunday.

>> i'm extremely concerned. >> reporter: jonathan green runs the emergency department at university hospital in newark. with the help of the army, they are just starting to feel the flattening of the curve. >> we just need to make sure that we stay the course with coming in. ancing. we don't want to see another surge coming in. >> reporter: restrictions in some states are easing. marinas and boatyards in connecticut, new york and new jersey are opening with strict measures. beaches in florida have reopened. ayere's hope in new york. governor cuomo says the outbreak is slowing, but they need to reduce the infection rate before restrictions are eased. >> but watch that hospitalization rate and that infection rate. because if that starts going up again, and you don't immediately correct, or you made such a dramatic movement that the virus infection spreads, you could go right back to where you were, in one week's time. >> rep the lines grow longer outside food banks, like this one in california. >> the need is massive. >> reporter: this month, university hospital lost five staff members to covi

she worked the night shift and was part of the university hospital family for 13 years. and i might add, judith persichilli ran university hospital and was the head of that organization. we have not spoken about that enough. as the current university hospital president, a true friend to those of us up here, as he noted, her family is saying her smile was -- and i quote her family -- "more infectious than the virus that took her life. " she was a frontline hero. god bless her and god rest her soul. if we had our druthers, we would speak about each and every one of the single lives -- each and every single one of these lives. we can't, but i want folks to know that that would be our preference if we could. each one of them is in our hearts and prayers. we also lost a veteran hudson county sheriff's officer bernard waddell. there he is -- god bless that guy. i have the opportunity to speak with his wife and his son -- also a member of law enforcement. this was yesterday afternoon, to extend our condolences and appreciation for his 28 years of service. he too was a frontline

empty beds at university hospital. judy ran university hospital. she is more qualified to talk to that. said all along, you have a number of capacities we are desperately staying ahead of. pretty id 24 this doggedly. beds, ventilators, medicines, ppe, health care workers. those are all -- they are the heroes here. those are all capacities, if you want to put it that way, we are desperately trying to stay out in front. any color e specifically on the empty beds but healthcare workers are not heroes but they are beat up right now. a lot of them, many, sadly, are infected. most are doing better. a lot are quarantined. they are literally our heroes. nothing new on the property tax deadline. sorry to disappoint. on the protesters, listen. with all due respect, anybody who thinks we are doing this just to take away people's liberties and rights is not looking at the data we are looking at. we are doing what we're doing to save lives and keep as few people as infected and hospitalized as possible. we are trying every step of the weight to make the right c

the doctors at the university hospital in reagan's book have been working with these past meditation for 10 days hundreds of people who have recovered to volunteer that they take up to 5 donations per day. the samples are checked with an antibody test developed especially for cove igniting. i'm very optimistic and we have found donors who have substantial amounts of neutralizing antibodies in their blood and we've already injected this into the 1st patients here and reagan's book . more than 40 patients have been treated with the antibody plasma since last week all critical or serious cases so far no side effects have been observed in reagan's book but they have recorded the 1st successes the parameters or signs of the infection improve after a few days. the theory ferritin is one of the parameters that falls relatively quickly and if the patients still have a viral load so still have the virus in them then we can see the decreases disappears completely really pushed. this means people who have now recovered from the virus can help those who are sick and possibly also save lives. the

they moved to new jersey for the first time this week to help an overwhelmed staff here at university hospitalt it's a different scene sh back te protests demanding coronavirus reopen intense identified sunday. >> i'm fighting for my rights. >> reporter: some are concerned they will reopen too quickly. what's your reaction to the protests? >> a high extreme of concern. >> reporter: he runs the university in newark. with the help of the army they are just starting to feel the flattening of the curve. >> we just need to make sure that we stay the course with social distancing. we don't want to see another surge come in that would be overwhelming. >> reporter: restrictions in some states are easing. marinas and boat yards in connecticut, new york and new jersey are opening with strict social distancing measures. beaches in florida have reopened. there's hope in new york. governor cuomo says the outbreak is slowing, but they still need to reduce the infection rate before restrictions are eased. >> but watch that hospitalization rate and that infection rate because if that starts going up again, an

good evening and welcome the chapel of university hospital coventry. ‘ re having an easter service. but there's no congregation. instead, it's being live—streamed to the wards. how do you think things are going to go from here? i think it might get sadder. i think it will get more stressful. but i think what we're seeing is people coming together and... and finding creative ways of supporting each other which is really good. here in coventry, like the rest of the country, nhs staff have been crying out for increased coronavirus testing. the government promised 100,000 tests a day by the end of april. current capacity is less than half that. lacey moore is being tested today. she's a receptionist at the hospital outpatients clinic. have you got shortness of breath? yeah. fever? yeah. the hospital's ramping up testing for its own staff. it's recently expanded capacity with a new laboratory. i do apologise, we do need to go quite far back. lacey's been off work, isolating at home, not knowing whether she's positive for the virus. like thousands of nhs staf

for the first time this week to help an overwhelmed staff here at overwhelmed staff here at university hospital. but it's a different scene across the country as protesters rush back for more freedom. protests demanding coronavirus restrictions end and the country ndopen intensify sunday. but a new poll finds most americans are concerned states will reopen too quickly. what's your reaction when you see the protests? >> i'm extremely concerned. >> reporter: jonathan green runs the emergency department at army,sity hospital in newark. they are just st to feel the attening of the curve. >> we just need to make sure that we stay the course with coming in. ancing. we don't want to see another surge coming in. >> reporter: restrictions in some states are easing. marinas and boatyards in connecticut, new york and new jersey are opening with strict measures. beaches in florida have reopened. ayere's hope in new york. governor cuomo says the outbreak is slowing, but they need to reduce the infection rate before restrictions are eased. >> but watch that hospitalization rate and that infection rate. becau

we actually have been fortunate at university hospital and northwell. centers in clinical trials with remdesivir in that study. long island jewish medical center and north jersey -- staten island university hospital has been granted an expanded access to compassionate use of the drug. again, we have anecdotal evidence and it's encouraging. as the doctor said, it's not randomized clinical data. we really need that. this is a great time to remember that we are using patients in the city of new york, in the state of new york and the state of chicago to find out this information. when we talk about pricing and availability, we have to make sure it's available for the people that helped prove that it works. >> let me tell you what this doctor was recorded as saying. this is a report out of stat. we do see when patients come in with high fevers, they do reduce quite quickly. we have seen people come off ventilators a day after starting therapy. most of our patients are severe and most of them are leaving in six days. so that tells us the therapy doesn't have

howard university hospital here in the nation's capitol. hough is washington preparing for a possible surge? >> reporter: well, wolf, howard university really at the front leans of this the hospitals especially because it really the a world class trauma center. it has a great deal of experience in dealing with the underserved community, african-american and poor community sections of washington you see don't have a major hospital, they come here to howard university hospital. also they have been tasked by the mayor, mayor bowser to participate to be one of the covid-19 hospitals, as a go-to facility. they are providing 170 extra beds. the mayor says she may need up to a thousand if not more. there is a triage center we were shown today set up. a tent outside of the hospital. that is where they will actually be assessing people that i are asking them to come in. they will assess them to see how sick they are. whether or not they have to be admitted into the hospital. wolf, talking to the president of howard university dr. wayne frederick, the

the latest victims of the pandemic was a pregnant nurse, working at the luton and dunstable university hospitalbe a "highly—valued and loved" nurse, who'd been admitted to hospital last week. doctors say her child was delivered successfully and is doing very well. among other nhs staff who've died is dr peter tun, a specialist at the royal berkshire hospital. the total number of nhs staff who've died so far is a5, as our correspondent andy moore reports. a hospital, like many across the country, dealing with a surge of coronavirus patients. luton and dunstable university hospital has seen dozens of deaths from covid—19. on sunday they lost one of their own. mary agyeiwaa agyapong, also known as mary mo, was 28. she'd been a nurse for several years after completing her training in the uk. it understood she'd been working during the latter stages of her pregnancy, but her nhs trust said she was not treating coronavirus patients. she tested positive on the 5th of april and she was admitted to hospital two days later. her daughter was delivered by caesarean section when her condition worsened. davi

circulating of these flyovers one of the more popular ones was posted by the president of the university hospitals of newark you can see that there are health care workers gathered on the roof of a hospital as the planes fly over and he thanked them he said it is amazing display of gratitude and patriotism from the best pilots on earth there was another health care worker karen fossil she's a cardiac sanaa grapher in philadelphia she said beautiful fly over today a temple health thank you to the thunderbirds and rangers for a little morale boost at work so a lot of people are grateful for this of course it's also hard to miss i don't know if you've had 12 fighter jets fly every had but it's a very physical experience of this was definitely. an event for a lot of people the new york area so a lot of health care appreciating this gesture but there are some who are not so happy about it as right there was a lot of critical voices also on social media people questioning why the u.s. government spent so much money sending fighter jets to fly over new york city over the very same hospitals that are suff

ghana marks a long time to get ready before he can enter the intensive care unit at a concert university hospital is neither huge but we know in spain and italy as minister 15 percent of medical personel going to affect it and many died and he's very strong with. patients with covais 1000 are currently being treated here that means they're on artificial respiration sometimes for weeks and as doctors here stress they're not exclusively people from high risk groups. yes by one cent we have patients here who are not 18 years old some are only in their sixty's. and they didn't all have preexisting health conditions some were pair fairly healthy before con woman. is one such patient the 52 year old thinks he was infected in austria he's been treated for kobe 1000 at a hospital in bavaria for nearly 3 weeks he was on a respirator fighting for his life. this was it was like a bad dream and one point i remember hearing someone say to me you have to fight you have to survive. this hospital has become a center for cope with 19 patients until recently the situation here was extreme with more than half of th

scene you're very well adjusted to berlin charité medical center as one of europe's biggest university hospitalsis also one of germany's leading centers for research in the coronavirus welcome professor is the chancellor right to warn the germans that it's too soon to relax virus control measures. oh i think she's right because you have still to be very cautious i mean it seems that the measurements are affected if indeed but we have to look at the intensive care units what's going on there and i expect in the reeks to come that we see more patients in the intensive care units and for we have still really to be alerted so how long do you think men before life can go back to normal that's difficult to predict of course on the other side the as the economic pressure and their precious very high so why seeing after you stand the political instability discuss oh they can relief their measurements a little bit but that has to be very controlled so we have to do it step by step maybe it can be all in small shops and also talk to people is that they still follow the rules of heights and so they still h

university hospitals so goes to show you that you know they do a global kind of mandate on very little funds but i think what it really really hurts them is their moral credibility that when they do speak and we've a long way to go in terms of seeing the end of this pandemic when they do speak it may not give them the same more authority as they once did and that would be very very bad and and much of the race that will do now in response to the action that thank you mr president has taken. well i think continue what they've been doing i mean the united kingdom just gave a multi-million dollar donation to adopt a child to fight the pandemic look where crossing a very important line right now i think in terms of fighting terrorists to run a virus i think what we're all hoping for and praying for is that doesn't really hit hard on a lot of countries with weaker health systems especially in africa because most of those countries have very weak ministries of health and that is where the w.h.o. expertise and you know ability to mobilize will really come into place so god forbid that it isn'

and assistant professor at george washington university hospital. s talk about the so-called pop-up hospitals like the ones in new york and another at central park. if your loved one is sent to a so-called pop up, can you be confident it's good as they would get in a regular hospital? like george washington university hospital in washington d.c.? >> i think so. the hhs and assistant secretary of preparedness and response, fema, they're well versed in these types of facilities. they've been used in countless emergencies from the hurricanes recently to katrina. you can tell there's experience there by how quickly they were set up. it's amazing from an infrastructure standpoint. what you saw was a thousand medical providers being brought over. the quality of nurses manning those are going to be top notch. i think they should have confidence in the ability to receive care there. >> will they have the same resources, the same equipment at their disposal that you have? >> we hope so and that is the ultimate goal of setting up thoo these types of facilities

the university hospital in reagan's port. >> this contains a possible cure for covid-19. he has the antibodies produced by the body to fight the viriru. >> the antibodies attack and destroy the virus. that is why the only specific treatment is possible that we have. >> the doctors have been working with these plasma donations for 10 days. hundreds of people have volunteered. they take up to five donations per day. >> i'm very optimistic. we have found donors who have substantial amounts of neutralizing antibodies in their blood. >> more than 40 patients have been treated. all were critical. so far, no side effects. the signs of the infection improves every few days. >> it is one of the parameters that fall quickly and if the patient has the virus in them, then we can see if it decreases. >> people who have recovered can help those who are sick and possibly save lives. >> here is a quick round up of other developments around the world. the majority of cases are in europe. more than a quarter in the united states. brazil's president has fired its health minister over disagr

he was an associate specialist in cardio—thoracic surgery at the university hospital of wales in cardiffived at the new nhs nightingale hospital at the excel centre in east london. the temporary field hospital, which was officially opened last week, can accommodate up to 4,000 patients. it is the first of several such facilities planned across the uk. medical leaders from across the uk have urged people with any urgent and serious health conditions to continue to seek help during the pandemic. in a statement the academy of medical royal colleges — which monitors patient care — said the nhs remains open and the public should not hold back from getting medical assistance if needed. while the london region has seen the highest number of deaths and confirmed cases in the uk, the midlands has seen a sharp rise in infections. the mayor of the west midlands has insisted the region's hospitals are prepared. the wider midlands region is "a particular area of concern" to the government, with a total ofjust under 1,200 deaths there so far, as our correspondent sian lloyd reports. at the moment... d

. >> emery university hospital ran the largest of the trials. >> it was originally designed to treat e-bola patients. >> i'm very encouraged and i'm optimistic as they have earlier disease and are sickest i've e. >> they were trying to think we have nothing to lose because if we can help him great. >> the president is calling on the fda to approve it as the front line drug. the nih study needs to be peer reviewed >> thanks for that report. >>> with the white house social distancing guidelines set to close today. >> with the white house social distancing guidelines set to expire, president trump says he is not planning to extend them >> now the governors are doing it >> but doing enough testing has continued to be a part of the reopening. 5 million tests to reopen safely president trump told me the administration would meet that benchmark. >> you're confident you can surpass 5 million tests per day? >> we're going to be that very soon >> there is ak absolute any lo way on earth that we can do 20 million tests a day the president tried to walk back his comments >> i didn't say it but s

in the space of two weeks, university college hospital has been transformed into a coronavirus treatmentbeing set aside for patients with covid—19. at the moment, most of our positive patients are of an older age, over 70, although we have had some positive patients that are currently with us now that are in their mid 30s. so it's quite a broad spectrum, actually. among the patients on this covid ward, we met imran from enfield. he's just 37 years old and was previously fit and healthy. i think it's very... it's very progressively slow. i don't feel better at the moment. ido... i am hoping i will get better, but i am struggling to... to feel better and to do normal things. imran is over the worst. despite the terrible toll of the virus, which is claiming hundreds of lives a day, the hospital says we mustn't lose sight of all those who recover, and the work of nhs staff that help them. if you watch television or if you read the newspaper, it's mostly doom and gloom and a lot of negative stories. but if you look at the response of a lot of nhs hospitals, if not all nhs hospitals, it's abso

this front line doctor says other institutions, including university hospitals, need to help alleviatehe strain. >> translator: the only way is for more hospitals to offer their beds. >> kutsuna says areas with fewer patients are at risk of becoming overwhelmed. 8,100 people in the country have tested positive for the virus, including over 480 cases confirmed on tuesday. the national total does not include 712 cases linked to the "diamond princess" cruise ship, which was quarantined in yokohama in february. more than 170 people have died, including 12 from the ship. >>> 25 russians are stranded at tokyo's hanada airport, one week after all flights betweween jap and russia were canceled. most of the travelers were in japan on business and scheduled to fly to the russian far eastern city on wednesday or later. they've been camping out in a terminal lobby. no one has reportedly felt sick. one of the travelers, a man in the car import business, has been at the airport since last thursday. he said he had no other choice because the hostel where he'd been staying closed down and hotels were

. >> reporter: at emory university hospital in atlanta, volunteers are receiving the first injections for a potential vaccine against covid-19 happening in near record time. >> like now we're trying to make sure that the vaccine is safe. once we determine it's safe, we also assess the body is able to amount the right immune response. >> reporter: vaccines nearly take ten to 15 years to produce but researches think they could have a covid-19 for wide spread rollout in 12 to 18 months sonia bell is married with three kids and works in emery's infectious disease unit she volunteered to be a test subject for the vaccine. >> from nih to our emory university faculty to our staff to our nurses who drew my blood today, i'm surrounded by excellence and i'm not worried. >> reporter: the trial uses genetic material to isolate a protein. the body uses that protein to stimulate an immune response worldwide there are dozens of vaccine candidates with two clinical trials underway in the u.s. including the emory trial. richard engel has been talking to researchers involved in the second trial. >> doc

. >> reporter: last week, an elderly man walked in to northshore university hospital >> we were sure he covid, he was having trouble breathing and i said to him, what can i do who can i call and he said, can you call my wife he was too short of wife to talk to her and i said, what can we tell your wife. and she said, i just want you to tell my wife that i love her and i hope she is okay and my internal a-- >> less than a week later, he died then the man with dementia and respiratory problems >> the only thing that calmed the person down was stroking his head. immediately calmed down, so, it was a little easy thing that made this patient feel better >> i think each one of us breaks down in a different time of day. and just having to be there and not knowing what to say to make it better, because right now, it's not going to get better it's going to get worse. >> critsina is an intensive care nurse >> i worry about taking it home to my family. >> reporter: what have you done to protect you're family? >> i left my home, i'm staying in a hotel >> reporter: her daughter is battling lupus,

. >> reporter: another game changer at emory university hospital in atlanta, rolling out its own test for patients and staff to determine if someone has coronavirus antibodies indicating they had the virus, recovered and hopefully have immunity. >> i don't think i've had covid-19 but i am kind of trying to see how this test is going to work. >> reporter: among the first to get tested, chief medical officer dr. kraft but when the results came back a shock. despite never having been sick, she has the covid antibodies. >> i was a little surprised partly because of my careful attention to infection prevention at work, but then i also was happy that if i've had it and i recovered from it then at least i know that. >> reporter: the original antibodies to do the testing came from an unlikely pair of 80-year-old donors. >> we were the poster children for the people that are supposed to go to covid-19 and we didn't. >> reporter: they were quarantined on the diamond princess after hundreds became sick they never did but tested positive for the virus. on tuesday, emery began using their antibodi

. >> reporter: last week, an elderly man walked into northshore university hospital. >> we were pretty sure he had covid. he was having trouble breathing. i said what can i do who can i call he said can you call my wife? he was too short of breath to talk to her. i said what can we tell you wife i just want you to tell my wife that i love her. and i hope she's okay. and my intern and i walked out of the room and cried outside of the room. >> reporter: less than a week later, he died and then there was the man with dementia and respiratory problems who came to dr. matthew foley's hospital. >> the only thing that would calm this person down was stroking his head. immediately, calmed down so it was a little easy things that made this patient feel better. >> i think each one of us breaks down at a different time of day, and just having to be there and not knowing what to say to make it better because right now, it's not going to get better it going to get worse. >> reporter: christina is an intensive care nurse. >> i worry about take thing home to my family. >> reporter: what have you done

crest. [ cheers and applause >>> this is north shore university hospital in new york's long island over weekend the hospital celebrated discharging its 1,000th covid-19 patient a 46-year-old man sent off with cheer, applause, balloons and signs. >> i love seeing that more and more now. >>> in the fight against coronavirus one country is betting that not locking down could keep infection rates lower in the long run as nbc's bill neely reports, the stakes could not be higher. >> reporter: crisis? what crisis. in sweden things look almost normal crowded cafes, restaurants full, playgrounds and streets too. sweden's government didn't order a lockdown preferring a light touch of advising people to socially distance. >> i think it's good. >> i feel safe. >> reporter: sweden is gambling on allowing a slow spread of the virus and more early deaths to avoid future deadly spikes >> other countries are locking down but in that case they will probably see a second wave and a third wave. >> if we did follow that approach i think we might have 2 million people dead. >> reporter: president trump says

quote, overrun with covid-19 patients, university hospital in newark was stretched to its limits saturdayng. more than 150 confirmed covid patients and a few dozen suspected cases were requiring care. officials started calling around searching for additional medical personnel. several members of newark's emergency medical services team, the emts, were off duty and some of them had just finished a full shift of their own. it didn't matter. the ems workers set up monitors, helped intubate patients, got the critically ill to ventilators and started ivs. some even helped clean areas of the highly trafficked ward. newark's ems coordinator said the doctors and nurses at that hospital were so relieved that, quote, staff members were crying. they couldn't even form sentences. and that is an amazing and moving story about these frontline health workers pulling together to help each other get through a harrowing night, right? ems workers having already worked a full shift, right? ems workers saying nevertheless saying i'm off now. i'll come to the hospital. but that unit, they cover all of the city

luton and dunstable university hospital, where she worked, has seen hospital, where she worked, has seenn easter sunday, they lost one of their own. her daughter was delivered by emergency cesarean and he said to be doing very well. it is understood that mary mo had been working during the latter stages of her pregnancy but her nhs trust said she was not treating coronavirus patients. she tested positive on april five and admitted to hospital two days later. david carter, the chief executive of beneficiary hospital nhs trust has paid distributor: an online fundraising pays two page has been set up and it describes there is a blessing to everyone she came across an ad that her love, care and sincerity would be irreplaceable. 0ne sincerity would be irreplaceable. one person who gave money said that her memory will live on in her baby girl and another described her as a hero. today, the uk government is set to extend the coronavirus lockdown, which is transforming life for everyone in the uk. ministers are expected to agree a further three weeks of social distancing control. northern irelan

will be on the case to ensure that the hospital is implementing this no brighton and sussex university hospital staff or n.h.s. but by the health workers should be put in a position where they feel their employer is prepared to sacrifice their own safety to keep the service running ospital trust in public health england haven't commented on the situation yet until 6 remote hancock said the protective kit was on its way to hospitals. but just as the latest research by the royal college of physicians suggests the government is also underestimating the number of medics off work due to the virus official figures released by the department of health and social care says that over 6 percent of doctors are off due to corona virus related reasons but numbers revealed by the royal college of physicians are more than double the official figures reaching over 14 percent in the doctors' study also found that just 78 percent were able to access necessary equipment just over 30 percent could get hold of teens swabs and one in 10 reported not being able to get tests for patients who met the criteria of a more