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Officials were responsible for the enormous death, suffering and economic losses they inflicted on the world. a crucial element to reopening the economy is coronavirus testing, something the governor of new york has been urging the president to step up. after a meeting with mr trump at the white house, andrew cuomo said a deal had been reached to increase testing capacity in new york. to quantify that situation in the state of new york, we now do, on average of about 20,000 tests per day. our go...

Testing capacity in new york. we do on average of 20,000 tests per day. algol, which is very aggressive and ambitious, but we sit at high, algol is to double the 20,000 to get to 40,000 tests per day. that is our goal and it was a very productive conversation. the governor and the president also agreed that new york no longer needed a us navy hospital ship which was sent there to ease the burden on city hospitals. the ship, comfort, will move to its base in virginia in case it is needed for othe...

Alarms on medical equipment are going off. a nurse telling us what is happening, a patient is having extreme trouble breathing. they need to flip her onto her stomach. this is the moment doctors face around the clock, life or death in the hands of this medical team. within minutes, dr. pascal comes out. theyve stabilized the patient. he tells us what just happened. >> what happened just now is an absolute emergency, a life or death situation. unfortunately thats what were seeing with a lot of ou...

Best we can. we just worry whats going to happen with another 30, 40, 50,000 patients showing up on our hospitals door. >> reporter: the sick are coming so fast, the city could need 5,000 care beds by next week. michael dowling runs 23 new york area hospital wheres one out of every four covid patients is in intensive care. >> every hospital right now is a covid hospital. every hospital is unbelievably ousy and preparing to get busier because the numbers keep escalating. ew new york is in crisis....

Were told the "comfort" tonight has fewer than five patients, again, none of whom are coronavirus patients. the defense secretary said today in washington that that could change, that if calls upon that hospital ship would be willing and able to take people with coronavirus. but so far its not. a source familiar with the situation tells us, "the reason for that is because the federal government is not allowing coronavirus patients to be admitted to javits or the "comfort." the hospitals and stat...

Seen it coming. the 12th of april is an at least date and many people expected to be extended for longer. it will depend on what happens with these rates of infection. thank you very much, jean mckenzie, in rome. president trump has said that america faces a vital 30 days in the fight against coronavirus, and suggested that social distancing could save up to a million lives. health services in new york have been overwhelmed by the number of cases — with more than 1200 deaths. the state governo...

Steve: a fox news alert more than three-quarters of the american population now under stay at home orders. thirty-one states pictured there plus the district of columbia and puerto rico demanding people not go out unless it is essential. at least 10 states and d.c. are even threatening jail time or fines if the order is violated. ainsley: right now there are more than 164,000 coronavirus cases nationwide, more than 3,000 people have died, but here is the good news, the number of recovered americ...

Are very serious about us hunkering down in place. thats one of the reasons the president yesterday said rather than talking about the number of lives lost, he said we could save more than 1 million american lives. and that is a good thing. meanwhile, in just a couple of hours. the usns comfort will begin serving americas covid-19 epicenter which is new york city, ainsley. ainsley: thats right. 1200 medical personnel will serve non-coronavirus patients. free up space at our city hospitals grappl...

We will be safer, other countries will be stronger and well have less likelihood of explosive spread of this or other diseases elsewhere that will endanger us here. the u.s. can make a huge difference not only by implements things here, but by engaging effectively with countries that we work with to we can work together. this is truly world war against the coronavirus. its all of the world against the virus. and we need to collaborate, coordinate, learn from each other and figure out what strate...

Role. >> let me get your thoughts quickly, i know we have a lot of time going forward to look back at where everything went wrong, but when you look at the global response to this, has the united states position been somewhat affected negatively by not being engaged on the international stage, by not trying to lead the way in coordinate an international response to this in a way that comes back and hurts us domestically with our own patients? >> absolutely. absolutely. the u.s. has been a leader...