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Hospitals. There are already critical shortages. A bronx hospital is running out of ventilators. In brooklyn, doctors are reusing masks. Thats the headline, and the subhead tonight, of the new york times, heres the lead, quote, for weeks, as the coronavirus has spread across the world, new york officials have warned that a surge of cases could overwhelm the States Health care system. Jeopardizing thousands of patients. Now, that surge has begun. In a startlingly quick ascent, new york reported t...

Kushner who reported in vanity fair, viewed it nothing more than a pr problem. Trump wrote it off as a democratic hoax and he kept up with the happy talk despite receiving dire warnings from inside the administration about the looming pandemic. The waushington post is reportig that the u. S. Intelligence agencies began issuing warnings as far back as january. And so here we are. The hour by hour updates coming out of local and state governments are heart wrenching. There are now more than 19,000...

Very, very high happening in one of the richest regions with High Quality Health Care and doctors and higher per capita than the United States. What were trying to avoid there is their fate. The dispatch is very possibly a look into our own future. Weve seen Health Care Workers in this country infected, hospitals starting to run low on space and running out of supplies, we are many epidemiologists estimate ten days to two weeks behind italy and there are Health Care Workers in Washington State n...

Old. I am old by your definition. I still think i have a value, right . My mother is old, you know, shes the most precious person to me. Protect every life. And i am not going to tradeoff Public Health and well figure out the dollars and well figure out the Economic Impact but well protect people in the mean time and well protect their health. Quickly, you spoken about covid only overflown facilities that can take out of patients are you aware in the valley . We have covid facilities all across ...

Are people responding . Reporter you know, we actually just talked to miami beach, jim, and they reopened parks on wednesday and were learning that they just closed one park because people were not adhering to the social distancing guidelines. But when it comes to the state of florida, it really is using a geographic approach. Most of the state will be kicking off and reopening today with phase 1, except for three counties, and thats miamidade where i am, broward and palm beach. These three coun...

Flattening as moving to other parts of the country. All this adding to fears that reopening will actually backfire, not just in terms of the outbreak but also in terms of economic damage. And were learning more about when the very first wave of this outbreak may have started, a new study finding that its been mutating and circulating only since late last year. For more on what the study means, dr. Sanjay gupta joins us now. Now, this is one study. I know, sanjay, whenever we talk about this, i s...

Continues to slowly lift its lockdown. One day after President Trump suggested the Coronavirus Task force would be winding down, the president reversed course in what other way but a series of tweets saying the task force would continue on indefinitely. It has been nearly two weeks since their last formal news briefing. Joining me, coanchor for the next two hours, katy tur. I want to start on the last thing. This is classic donald trump gut reaction watching the fallout. Here it was at 8 00 this...

In a significant war with an enemy. If this was a traditional war where there were soldiers outside of our doors in the streets and people would be risking their lives to be outside of their homes, no one would think about the need to go to work. No one would think about getting their dog groomed. The death toll in illinois cook county is among the top five in the nation with more than 1,900 lives lost. The city of chicago reached what the mayor called the sad milestone of 1,000 coronavirus deat...

Disproportionate black death. Yet again we were reminded this week that even as covid19 has been cast as an equalizer, supposedly a disease that does not discriminate in who it harms, the data bears out that black americans have born the brunt of this pandemic in both health and wealth. But also outside of these metrics, theres the politics of the pandemic. Weve seen disturbing images emerge, like armed white protesters storming statehouses and screaming on sent ibscenitiw enforcement officers, ...

The fact that they are out, mitigating, social distancing, they all know that, they are washing their hands a lot, but we have to get our country open. We have to open our country. Dana the president also said that the nations leading Infectious Disease expert, you know him, dr. Anthony fauci will testify about the virus in front of the senate we begin with ed henry, coanchor of americas newsroom, wonderful to have you, ed. This is a big moment for the country, quite symbolic, with the president...