Families. May they all rest in peace. May their memories be a blessing. Lets not also forget the fact the doctors, the nurses, the other medical personnel who are risking their lives right now to save lives and all the other men and women who are also risking their lives to simply help all of us get through this coronavirus pandemic. I think i speak for all of our viewers here in the United States and around the world, we are so grateful to all of them. Inside the e. R. , the incredible fight against the coronavirus starts right now. Its a disaster of bibly call proportions. The moment that somebody codes and comes off the ventilator, its clean. Its given to the next person. I fear that we will not have enough of anything to provide for our patients. What are you dealing with every day . People who cant breathe. Its as simple as that. We have been prepping for this our entire careers were either going to do this right now or die trying. We dont want to make the decision between two viable patients by sumplly trying to decide who is more worthy or flipping a coin. In our facility, we have 68 that have passed. The people i feel for are the families. Especially the one this is never had an opportunity to say goodbye to their loved ones. Im miguel march kwez in brooklyn, new york. Youre about to get a look at how intense the fight inside americas hospitals. We recently spent several hours inside a New York Hospital experiencing the growing wave of patients overwhelming the health care community. It is disturbing and sometimes dead ly. Almost impossible to imagine until you see it. Its not always size to after watch. This is inside the e. R. the incredible fight against coronavirus. The front line in the fight against coronavirus. The brooklyn emergency room of Health Sciences university. Patient after patient, struggling to breathe. This morning has been brutal. Today is pretty intense. We have had a bunch of people die in a short period of time. Which we are prepared for, but when it happens so many times in one shift, its hard to tolerate. As we arrive inside the e. R. , the latest victim is being wrapped up in the emergency room bay where doctors try ied to sa them. We visited for about three hours midday friday in the short time we were there in the emergency room alone, six patients coded. In other words, us they suffered heart or respiratory failure. Four of them died. The devastating part of just one day. This is a what we trained to do and signed up for. Just not in this volume. You may have a cold. You may have two codes where you carry that emotion and you wonder if you did everything you could. I think its emotionally hard to prepare for this level of sickness and suffering and mo e morbidity and mortality in such a short period of time. Have you ever seen this e. R. Jammed like this . Not quite like these days, no. Youre not at max yet, but youre pushing it. Were pushing it. At times the here theres no room to move. But we have a system of where we decompress them out in the the ha hallways. We have taiken over mediate risks. Theres clinics we can turn into beds and they wait there once once they are stabilized and go upstairs. The corridors lined with those suffering from coronavirus. Patients understand unresponsive, struggling to breathe. Its the hard reality of this virus for some patients it attacks the lungs depriving them of oxygen, slowly suffocating them. With covid, the pneumonia is in both lungs leaving the patient with no good lung. And its also widespread throughout both lungs. Its damaging the lungs. Keep iing the most criticall ill patients suffering from coronavirus breathing, it is as simple as it gets in medicine. But still a mystery as coronavirus resists treatments. Here in terms of the airway, we have to manage their airway once they become altered that they are una able to keep it open themselves. Whats the mortality rate . Once they are on a vent, what happens to mortality . It increases. More patients tie . The numbers are not exactly the same from country to country. There are various factors for that. We all agree it skyrockets. Theres fluid. An e. R. Doctor who has done Ground Breaking work on putting measure one person on a single ventilator. Its research he hopes never has to be used here. What keeps us up at night is doing that kind of research. We want an alternative to give to these patients. Not just for ventilators, but oxygen high flow. We try all sorts of maneuvers to keep them breathing and keep them from suffocating from having cardiac arrest. Its not just in the emergency room where patients struggle to breathe and code. While interviewing doctors in other parts of the hospital, nearly constant overhead announcements that another patient has coded. Those announcements for patients already admitted, not those in the e. R. Can i stop you for a second. This is the fifth or sixth code 99. Code 99 is a typically a rare event. Were having i would say ten code 99s every 12 hours at least. We have been here for about 30 or 40 minutes and thats the fifth or sixth one. What that represents is calling for a team to put an individual patient on a breathing machine. What is most jarring about seeing the inside of an er and hospital making the transition to being one of three in new york state that will only treat patients suffering from coronavir coronavirus, outside it is quiet and feels like an early spring day. Its slow moving. Its damn boring for a lot of people. But this is a disaster. This is definitely a disaster. Its difficult for people from the general public who dont work in hospitals. When you drive down new york avenue, which are pretty busy, its almost cruck ets. But here in the Emergency Department its an intensity you only see in disaster zones that evehave been televised around t world. Its a a similar situation at brookdale hospitals a few miles. An emergency room inundated with patients. Every hallway, every space fi filled with those suffering from the disease. The magnitude of the disaster captured in two Emergency Rooms rapidly filling to capacity. Patient occupancy has gone up 50 . And the worst part hasnt even b arrived. How quickly does a hospital get overwhelmed . Within hours you could become overwhelmed. Ill give you an example. We had to open up two Additional Units to create beds for patients. We had to take up space and create a fourth icu to accommodate patients coming through the door. So it can change very quickly. It is ramping up adding beds, staff and capacity as fast as possible. Still the worry, it wont be enough. I fear that we will not have enough of anything to provide for our patients. Thats my biggest fear. We can mobilize staff, staff will trim up, double up, by the support things like the respiratories and bed space, those are my fears that we are not going to be meet patients needs. The need already overwhelming when we started our visit in the e. R. , one person had just died and being move d out. By the time we came back around, another victim of coronavirus was moved already into the same bed, struggling to breathe. Right now, weve got 100 reasons for you to switch to jackson hewitt. Say goodbye to your old tax service and get 100 when you file with jackson hewitt. Plus, youll get our lifetime accuracy guarantee. So maybe its more like 101 reasons. Get your coupon code at jacksonhewitt. Com and get 100 today. And i like to question your im yoevery move. N law. Like this left turn. Its the next one. You always drive this slow . How did you make someone i love . 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They are also sometimes simply buzz of the common cold. While most case of this coronavirus see mild respiratory illnesses, for some the virus invades the body threatening the life of the patient. It is those most extreme cases doctors here are seeing in ever greater numbers. Is he an a vent now . Hes on a ventilator. Its a disaster of biblical proportions. The barrage of emergency alarms. This is the fifth or sixth code 99. A constant and chilling reminder of the urgent need to figure out exactly how to treat coronavirus. Code 99 could mean someone that still has a pulse. The Blood Pressure but is struggling to breathe. Breathing, the number one concern. When somebody comes in here presenting with either covid symptoms or is positive for covid, how often is breathing the thing that might kill them . Almost every time. We always have to do some kind of ox jet nation on almost every covid patient that we keep in the hospital. At theened of the day, this is about people suffocating. This virus causes tremendous injury to the lungs. Literally causing them to fill with fluid, which makes it difficult for your lungs to grab oxygen. A typical virus could be treated with antiviral drugs. So far, none very proven to be effective against coronavirus. Imagine trying to treat severe bacterial pneumonia without antibiotics. Were relying on a machine and the patients own immune system to recover. Thats not a position we want to be in. Thats the same rent later you can run two patients off of. Absolute lu. The machine is a ventilator, which pumps air in and out of their lungs. Theres some fluid in the lungs. So your suspicion thats a covid affected lung. As we find multiple areas of this on both sides, it increases our position that hes suffering from covid. The numbers of hospitalized coronavirus cases show a sharp trajectory just over the last two weeks. The rate of shear infections nationwide even sharper. Johns hopkins is tracking cases and so far only shows a sharp rise. This gentleman is suffering covid as well. Yes. What exactly do we know about this siers virus . The answer still very little. We dont know that much a about it yet. Even though its been around for five months. We have been learning a about it from other places where it started. Every single day, we are reassessing our situations, what we have done prior day, prior month and try to make sense of it. This is unlike anything we have ever seen. 85 of the people stay out of the hospital. Have flulike symptoms, fever, cough and thats it. Then you have this other 15 of the patient that comes to the hospital. Because they are ill. 5 of those end up in the icu. The possibility of a miracle cure like the antimalaria drug touted by the president it could be a game changer, and maybe not. Maybe not, but i think it could be based on what i see, it could be a game changer. Is still far from proven. With dont know if those things are working. We get good responses sometimes. But i have to tell you honestly, the response have been disheartening at times. Were doing everything we can. Our best we can. But we are not successful most of the times. It will work on some and not others. The Infectious Disease specialist says the various virus and how it acts still surprises him. We are looking into a pattern for the virus right now. How it acts on people when people get infected. But every time theres like some kind of new information comes up. If theres presentation, in terms of management, ins terms of response to the supportive management or different medications. We still have some surprises about it. The most symptoms so far that we have is fever, shortness of breath and cough. Not every patient has a fever. Not every patient has shortness of breath. It is ranging, but the combination of those symptoms, those are the most common ones. Does the assumption have to be that this virus is everywhere . In the community. It is definitely in the community. Or its definitely in the community. Thats why its not just avoiding certain is kind of patients, but it should be going out of unless its essential and necessary. The biggest unknown is how easily this virus can spread. Can it spread through breath . Potentially, possibly. The more symptom the patient has, the more spread and risk for spreading will be higher for sure. But there are some cases where there are some instance where the patient b is still no symptoms. And they start spreading the virus to other people. At this point, better to be safe than sorry. What i would say to people is to be b prepared. My life was pretty normal three weeks ago. This happened almost overnight. And i think people have to have a high index of suspicion. If it youre seeing a lot of flulike illness now today, you have to suspect it. Even abnormal symptoms like abdominal pain, nausea, gi symptoms are frequently one of the manifestations of covid19. And interestingly, that was not known early. In fact, in china there were many a patients and doctors that got exposed because they werent suspecting it. Does it help you to have people tested rapidly and efficiently so you know what youre dealing with on this front . Certainly, testing is helpful. People with symptoms are right now i would say you should assume you have it. Heres the other thing. One of the things that delayed the rollout, this is a not a simple test that you can do in a doctors office. Pcr takes some level of technical skill to do. The original test had up to 47 false negative rate. So thats bad. Youre telling people you dont have it and you actually do. If your suspicion is high enough and the test is negative, go with your clinical suspicion. Is this the big one . Its definitely one of the biggest ones i have seen. I have been in practice for almost ten years now. And this is one of the most aggressive virus i have seen. In terms of the way it spreads, its also in terms of mortality rates that we have been seeing compared to other viruss. Health care workers here are ready for whatever coronavirus brings. We have been prep pg for this for our entire careers. Were either going to do this right now or die trying. Lets hope not the latter. [ one more time by daft punk ] woo [ laughing ] woo play pop music no way dude, play rock music yeah woah no matter what music you like, stream it now on pandora with xfinity. And dont forget to catch trolls world tour. Lets party people one more time what are you dealing with every day . People who cant breathe. Its just as simple as that. They cant breathe. Struttiggling to breathe. Their lungs no longer a able to deliver enough oxygen to keep their bodies going. This is the reality for the most extreme coronavirus patients. A ventilator to pump this and out of their lungs. They are that sick. They are talking to you and then a few minutes later, youre put ing a tube down their throat and hoping that you can set the ventilator in such a way it actually helps them. Shes a respiratory therapist. She manages the ventilators that can help keep patients alive. Its not just this machine they talk about on tv that we dont have enough of. Its very complex. If you dont set it up right, that Patient Outcome is different. You need skilled people who have lots of experience doing this to have good outcomes with these patients. These patients are so different from any patients we have ever seen before. We normally have a couple patients that are this level sick. Our icus are filled with them. Filled with them. None of them can breathe. Are they unconscious the entire time they are on a ventilator . Its a bit of both. It depends on how critical the patient is. The more critical they are, the more we need to keep them sedated. These are basic push air in and out settings. These are aggressive and doesnt feel normal. So the patients are uncomfortable. They have all these tubes on them. If we lose an airway, we can lose them right then. Doctors and therapists using ventilatorsen of the front lines saying being hooked up to one doesnt mean youre in the clear. If youre hooked up to a ventilator, its as serious as it gets. Yes, its as serious as it gets. We talk about how more ventilators are needed. But if you go on a ventilator, thats not good news. Its not. You stay on the ventilator far long time. The average patient placed on the vent prior to this pandemic for this reason stayed on the vent for only three or four days. Perhaps even a week. But with covid, they are staying on for 21 days, three weeks. So when they take up one of the vents, they also dont give it back to us any time soon. So that vent is taken out of circulation for an extraordinarily long time longer than were used to seeing. That contributes to the shortage. When it comes to the number of ventilators needed here in brooklyn and around the country, Health Care Workers are fearing the the worst. We dont want to make the decision between two viable patients by simply trying to decide who is more worth it. We want to be able to offer a solution to everybody. For multiple patients to use one machine, one doctor who has done Extensive Research says the practice of splitting a single vent lawsuiter only works for some patients. So right here, we did the experiment of coventilation where we ventilate iing four subjects we recommend two, but for proof of concept, we did four. We didnt want to try one with three. So if we did four, two would be easier and possible. You can use it with most veb laters as long as they have the power to generate enough air flow for the two subjects. Absolutely. By coincidence because it was done here, this is the impaexac model that we did the research on. Some hospitals are already treating more than one patient the at a time on a single ventilator. This is a bandaid and not meant for longterm use. Its not as simple as that. Its not for every patient. Some pyatients were unable to put them on a vent because of diseases that they have. It would procollude them for it. If youre having an active asthma attack, we couldnt share your vebt because it would be too complicated. Its not a solution to not having more vents. It was always meant to be a temporary bridge for hours, 12 hours, until an area hospital could deliver more vents orb or the stockpile can come. Its not for days or weeks. Theoretically splitting means every ventilator can help two people. Splitting is not ideal by any stretch of the imagination. As were moving toward the crest, what goes through your mind . Every day we look at what the ventilator count is at. We have a robust Disaster Division here. So we have been preparing for a long time. My ventilator Research Dates Back over a decade ago. Its the reason we were worried about sars, h1n1, anthrax, so we have been preparing for this for a long time. But i think my research might be more applicable to the smaller hospitals who dont have enough ventilators, dont have the preparation or the Disaster Committee or the budget for it. Reporter while they still havent run out of ventilate e the parts ha th had to be replaced every time a new patient is put on one, they are in short supply. The moment that somebody codes and comes off the ventilator, its clean, the tubing is changed and given to the next person. The machine is the same. But the tubing has to be changed out. The filters and you can imagine ventilator use that we would do in a month were doing in a day here. This is using up supplies at a rate that no one could have anticipated. I call vendors all day long. Are my tubes coming. So i change ventilators, were using all tternate supplies eve single day because this one can give me two cases today. That one two cases tomorrow. Its continual to keep the supplies coming in. Were helpless without them. Despite the focus on ventilators, coronavirus patients that do need them still face an uphill battle. If youre on a ventilator, statistics show that the odds are against you. Were fighting for every single life. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo warned that 80 of patients on b a ventilator never recover. If you go on a vent layer, theres roughly only a 20 chance you will come off the ventilator. The longer youre on the ventilator, the lower the chance you come off. It is going to get worse. Are you ready for it . Im as ready as i can be. I have been preparing. You read about it. You dont think about it. You take one moment at a time. As the director of the department, i spend hours with logistics making sure that my staff have the tools a that they need and that they have the supplies. They have veb lantilators, filt we have it right now, but we know we cant take that for granted. You must be incredibly stressed. Yeah, im incredibly stressed. But this is what we do. Well be doing it every single day. My staff is here. Were ready for this fight. What do you say is to therapists, doctors, nurses, hospitals across the country where this is coming . Get ready. Because whatever youve imagined as your worst day ever, you have not seen it yet. Heres a razor that works differently. The Gillette Skinguard it has a guard between the blades that helps protect skin. The Gillette Skinguard. Inside and out, the Health Sciences university is dealing with a Massive Health crisis. A at the psasame time, its transitioning to be a coronavirus only hospital designated as one of three in new york state. Were in high phase. Were turning areas of the hospital normally not used for patient care into patient care settings. The ambulance bay being transformed into a war zone triage area for victims of coronavirus. It has the feel of a field hospital. It does. Were really taking a lot of tactics from military medicine. You make it up and improvise and get creative in times of disaster. And you have how many beds now . We have about 220 staff members. Were going to plus up to over 350 a at two locations. Bay ridge, a few miles away was an unused hospital. Its being called back into service. Back at the main hospital, the tents outside will soon be the fist place new patients are assessed. In a week, two weeks, what will this look like . It will be jam packed. Thats what were ready for. Reporter the tents are state of the art. Negative pressure chambers to keep the virus at bay and those working around it safe. A regular e. R. Has a few negative pressure bays, but nothing like this. Why does negative pressure help . If you dont have a negative pressure Clinical Care setting, the respiratory droplets in the air emitted from a covid patient would hang around. With negative pressure, its vented out into the atmosphere where once it gets to the atmosphere it disintegrates. Ppe, microresis sent gowns, face shields and gloves still a constant struggle to keep supply. How much do you have . How long can you hold out . Were not okay for next week. Thats the frustration that many of us feel here in new york city and we only have six or seven days supply in all of new york city. So my job is to think about next week. And ventilators and having enough for when the crest comes always a concern. How many do you have . How many do you need . We have about 65 today. We have about 30 patients on ventilators right now. So as you see, as the patients continue to come, were estimates that 25 of every patient we test will likely need icu care and or ventilation. The youngest we have had is 3. The oldest is 95. All covid . All covid. Wow, 3yearold. Good news is he went home. What was once the cafeteria will be transformed into a coronavirus ward. Were expecting a surge pretty soon. Three to six weeks. Thats what were preparing for. Between hospital which is staffed for 225, were looking to get another 50 to 60 beds in here. And then the at our bay ridge facility, 140 beds. To accommodate the new patients expected in new beds, it will take something in shortest supply. More staff. Were a at 2,000 now. Thats 205 beds. We need probably another 1,000 to 2,000 to come in. To almost double your staff . Definitely. 12 volunteer doctors and nurses are already working. The another 30 or 40 want to. The group that is in my mind success fiesing the most are the providers. The doctors, the nurses, the respiratory therapists. Everybody donating their time. But donating their time is almost taking away from the bigger sacrifice they are making. They are putting themselves at risk, their families a at risk to care for our patients. Responsible for making sure theres enough of everything y says medication to keep all those patients on ventilators sedated is is in short supply. What medications are you running is short of . Some pain medications like morphine. Were talking about sedatives. The medications that are required to keep patients on a ventilator sedated so thaw dont fight the machine and get into more trouble they are already in. Reporter also ramping up testing. Just this week its able to conduct rapid tests in house. Only a handful right now a day, but they would like to do 1,000 tests every day. Right now, we have one instrument that we can do about 12 tests an hour. But were kwuk ly getting anothr instrument and actually a second flat form where were going to be able to do many more than that. Finding enough of these reagents needed to conduct every single test, pushing staff in supplies to the limit. The hospital even expanding its capacity to care for the dead. Right now, everyone is on a stretcher. No one is placed on the floor. Were doing it with most respect and dignity. The hospitals regular morgue already full. Two refrigerated trailers now serve as a makeshift morgue, shelves will be added to increase capacity. And theres now a plan to close down a side street and move three more trailers into place. vo at sprint, our priority is keeping our customers, employees, and communities safe. During these Uncertain Times we want you to get Great Service without leaving the safety of your home. Shop at sprint. Com for free next day shipping and no activation fees on our best new phone deals, like the Samsung Galaxy s20 5g for just 0 a month. Plus, youll also get a 100 prepaid mastercard when you switch online. Stay healthy and visit sprint. Com to get the services you need. For people with hearing loss, visit sprintrelay. Com triage . Then they come in. They sign the book. Basically at capacity full. Its pretty intense. Already intense, stressful, but the coronavirus has yet to throw its most devastating punches at the resilient staff. What you are dealing with is still thot the crest of the wave . This is not the crest of the wave. We need to be ready mentally, physically. Are you ready for what lies ahead . We feel prepared. Is are you ready . I feel prepared. Part of the reason is because i have a team behind me. Suny isnt alone. Brookdale is being overwhelmed with patients suffering from coronavirus. Unlike suny, doctors, nurses and staff when we visited didnt have proper protective gear for dealing with a viral outbreak. We are. Com the best we can. We are asking everybody to send prayers and support, but if you have donations, if you could send donations with gowns and gloves and masks and vents, we need it. Look at the difference between suyn down states now only receiving patients suffering from coronavirus. Their staff in proper jump suits made to protect from microbes compared to what the staff at brookdale were wearing. Paper surgical scrubs and the emergency there every bit as intense. Every corner, every part of the hallway, every room, every space has been filled up to capacity with patients. Were just doing the best we can. Dr. Mollet works at brookdale in brooklyn, new york. The numbers keep rising. And thats the part that scares me. This is a war zone. Its a medical war zone. Every day i come in and what i see on a daily basis is pain and suffering and health care disparities. Reporter and the coronavirus battle has only just begun. Do you expect it to get worse . Yes, i do. Get worse at brookdale. Worse at suyn down state and the rest of the United States. What people are seeing here will be in columbus and chicago and in miami and los angeles. This is the proverbial canary in the coal mine for what the rest of the country will see. Right. I just did a talk with another Emergency Department in the midwest. I trained at cook county hospital, and theyre getting ready for what were already experiencing right now. They believe that theyre probably two weeks behind what we are right now. What happens in Rural America and the Smaller Community hospitals that have only a fraction of the vents we have, but are being overrun with patients. In those places just a few patients might in some cases overwhelming. You worried . Extremely. Im a volunteer fireman. Ive run into burning buildings. Ive seen accidents. This scares me. For myself, for my family. And for everyone else. Michael mcgillicudy is also the morgue supervisor, and these trucks are his new temporary morgue, prepping for what they believe is ahead. Ive been a funeral director for over 16 years. I worked with fema. This is pretty much the worst that ive seen. Because with the disaster, we know what were getting. Here it is nonstop. How many bodies do you guys have right now . In our facility right now we have 68 that have passed. Is either of these trailers full . No, theyre not full at all. At suny down state, the work load overwhelming. Even doctors who see death every day have never seen it like this. We are suffering psychological scars as is the community suffering psychological scars. Its tough on everyone. But the people i feel most for are the families, especially the ones that never had an opportunity to say goodbye to their loved ones. What youve seen is a small peek at what hospitals in new york city are dealing with right now. Whats coming in the weeks ahead and a warning to the rest of the country. Good night. Now well hold, ill hold on the you im a new yorker. Its essential that im out here. No matter what this world throw, wont shake me loose its a little risky coming outside, but i kind of feel like a superhero saving the world. I reach my hands out in the darkness, wait for yours to interlock, ill wait for you this is a war zone. Its a medical war zone. This is an extraordinary time where you need to see people at their best. Ill give it up, im not giving up, no, not yet, even when im down on my last breath it is in our heart and it is in our soul to sacrifice, to serve, to fight for you. Im not giving up, im not giving up, giving up, no, not me, even when nobody else believes im not going down that easily, so dont give up on me i travel coasttocoast as long as we can haul food for the american people, you will have plenty of food on those shelves. My heroes are all of the people that i work with who are showing up and helping us fight this pandemic. I will fight, i will fight for you, i always do until my heart is black and blue are you a christian author with a book that youre ready to share with the world . Get published now, call for your free publisher kit today im wolf blitzer in washington welcoming our viewers in the United States and around the world. The contagious and fastspreading coronavirus now responsible for more than 9,600 deaths just here in the United States. Many times that number globally where more than 1. 2 Million People are infected. A sliver of optimism sunday from italy and spain. Both countries reporting a first ever slowdown in new cases and deaths. The u. S. Surgeon general making an alarming prediction. Dr. Jerome adams is preparing americans for what he calls, and im quoting now, our pearl harbor moment, our 9 11 moment as he and other Top Public Health officials expect the number of infections and deaths to sharply rise. British Prime MinisterBoris Johnson spending the night in a london hospital. He is positive for coronavirus. Johnsons office calls it precautionary. And President Trump again promoting the use of an unproven drug to treat and prevent coronavirus. The president singing the drugs praises at a sunday night briefing, despite no reliable evidence that the drug would work. The president said several times, and im quoting now, what have you got to lose . Im wolf blitzer. The news continues on cnn. United states. As the u. S. Braces for a painful two weeks. There will be a lot of death. President trump casts blame on states desperate for medical supplies. Many of the states were totally unprepared for this. Ill speak to governors of two of the hardest hit states, louisiana and illinois, next. And active duty. The u. S. Military is stepping up its response to the pandemic. Prepared to do what we have to. And facing criticism over the decision to fire a navy captain. I agree with their decision 100 . Defense secretary mark esper joins me to discuss consisdiscu moments. Economic pain. More than 10 million americans file for unemployment as Small Businesses file for loans to stay afloat. We have to open our country again. When will the money get to struggling americans . Ill speak to the chair of the new coronavirus committee, house whip jim clyburn, next. Hello, im jake tapper in washington where the state of our union is bracing ourselves. Today marks the beginning of what President Trump says may be the toughest two weeks of the coronavirus pandemic in the United States. Announcing at a press conference saturday there will be, quote, a