Sara carter. And in a moment the doctor will join us. Well get to the president s dramatic news in a moment but lets start tonight by appreciating the heroes of this crisis. Of course, the nurses and doctors risking their own health to protect ours but also the hospital cleaners and the Truck Drivers and shelf stackers, they are the ones literally keeping america going. It was another week with strong action by the president in the war against coronavirus but just today, as we saw, announcing the extension of the slow the spread guidelines until april 30 putting together the biggest and quickest rescue plan for workers, families and Small Businesses in american history. It cuts red tape and gets a 15 minute coronavirus test, fda approved, deploying fema and the army corps of engineers to build a hospital in new york in one week with many more to come around the country. It invokes the defense production act to get the ventilators our hospitals need. Americans are rallying behind this l
Just ride it right through. Thats where the 2. 2 Million People come in. Would have died, maybe. But it would have been 1. 6 to 2. 2. And thats not acceptable. But there were a lot of people that said i thought about it. I said maybe we should ride it through. You know, you always hear about the flu. I talk about it all the time. We had a bad flu season. Were in the midst of a bad flu season. You know, we had a bad season last year as an example, a bad flu season. And you will have 35, 36, 37,000 people die, sometimes more, sometimes less, but this is different. And part of this is the unknown. And part of it also is the viciousness of it. I had a friend who went to a hospital the other day. Hes a little older, and hes hea heavy, but hes a tough person. He went to the hospital. A day later hes in a coma. I said how is he doing . Sir, hes in a coma, hes unconscious. Hes not doing well. The speed and the viciousness, especially if it gets the right person, its horrible. Its really horrib