The Infectious Disease expert says again, expect 100,000 to 200,000 to perish, thats the best case scenario. Stop and think about that scale for a moment. Schools will stay closed until the end of the Academic Year. In maryland, the governor issued a stayathome order going into effect tonight. Vermont, directing from the governor, anyone from out of state musselt selfquarantine f the next 14 days. If you cant get help from the federal government to triple the number of hospitals beds. The president again this morning says it is the states job to solve their own problems. Cnn Brynn Gingras is live for us in new york city. You hear the numbers from the mayor and the governor, new york is still up when it comes to the curve here. Reporter what the governor has said is all handson deck at this point. We knew it was going to get worse and thats what we are continuing to see more than a thousand deaths because of the coronavirus here in the state of new york alone. Listen, they are flooding
In this crisis. More than 1 million known coronavirus cases worldwide. Any minute now new York Governor Andrew Cuomo will be holding that Daily Press Briefing about the escalating situation in his state. He now says that the Javits Center, that convention center, that Massive Convention center originally intended for nonCovid Patients will now be treating people who have the virus. The governor also warning at the current burn rate, new york will be using every ventilator it has in just six days time. Were also continuing to track the surge in cases across the country. Right now there are more than 246,000 known cases in the United States. Thats more than 29,000 cases than this time yesterday. So far, the virus has killed nearly 6,000 americans. Lets go right to nbcs ron allen. Ron is at mt. Sinai hospital in new york city where medical professionals there are still begging for more supplies. Ron, what are you hearing from those workers there at mt. Sinai . Reporter a lot of emotion, c
Hot spots wear cloth masks whenever theyre out in public. But even that recommendation came immediately with an admonition from dr. Deborah berx. One, masks are not a substitution and, number two, still not enough people are practicing social distancing. As a result, she says, were not succeeding and we are not bending the curve. Part of the problem may be the refusal of the president to establish national standards. Even dr. Fauci said, i dont understand why theyre not doing that. At least ten state still have no statewide stay at home orders in place. All of those have republican governors and, as we saw with florida, the president is loathe to tell a gop governor what to do. Where they are stay at home orders, some governments and local leaders are cracking down. Couple instances here, in maryland, violators can be imprisoned for up to a year and fined 500. In newark, new jersey, they issued hundreds of summons and in Georgia State parole officers are prepared to deal with people wh
Good week to ten days, and that is being able to fulfill the promises that have been made about testing. And this is now second day in a row where somebodys reminded a member of the task force, yesterday, it was somebody reminding the president , somebody, the Vice President , that we were supposed to be ramping up to millions of tests and you heard the Vice President say we are only able to just do 100,000 in a day. Dr. Zeke emanuel, penn university, a Health Adviser during the obama administration, kristen welk er with me, as wel. And the original sin of our struggles here, inadequate testing, dr. Birx seemed to say, maybe a month, maybe in a month we could have the asymptomatic testing. We heard Vice President pences very rosy response to not being able to hit the goals that they had set not very long ago. Zeke, ill start with you. Did you hear any green shoots here on the issue of testing . No, i heard a lot of evasion. The Vice President was pretty evasive about why we didnt get t
Providing emergency relief for families. A trillion dollar stimulus plan is next. Will it be enough for Small Businesses struggling to survive . We have reports this morning from shanghai, london, berlin and madrid. Welcome to our viewers in the United States and all around the world. This is early start. Im christine romans. Im laura jarrett. You feel so far away from me but were doing it for a good reason. Invisible enemy posing a very clear threat this morning. Front line medical workers across the country now reporting a dire shortage of materials to conduct tests for coronavirus. With the virus spreading more rapidly by the day, experts say the u. S. Health care system will be overwhelmed. Consider this warning from president obamas ebola czar. We have hospitals that are going to start to break this weekend, not weeks from now, not months from now, in the next few days. The case count in the u. S. Approaching 8900. 149 people have died. Both of those numbers essentially doubling i