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Not travel abroad. Canada has closed its borders. The u. S. And mexico are working on a similar plan to restrict travel across that border. As of yesterday 45 states have closed schools, affecting at least 53. 7 million students. Offices shuddered and Many Americans have been laid off. Predicting the employment rate could rise to 6 by mid 2021. 3 million jobs could be lost by summer. Hospitals all over the country are overwhelmed and undersupplied. Doctors and nurses need lifesaving ppe, persona...

La alarm in the rapid spread of coronavirus. In an hour we will hear from the white house about the federal governments response to the pandemic. Rand paul is the first senator to test positive for coronavirus. Announcing today hes feeling fine and in quarantine. Two members of the house tested positive in the past week. There are more than 29,000 confirmed cases of coronavirus in the United States and 368 people have died. New milestone today, estimates show nearly a billion people across the w...

Payments of 500 per child. The vote prompting a sigh of relief from Senate Leaders and President Trump. The strange new reality has forced our nation to Something Like wartime. A proud moment of the United States senate. And for the country, and were going to win this war. Hopefully we can have ultimately the same bipartisanship. President trump send to bill to my desk for signature without delay. Ill sign it immediately. Sandra the u. S. Seeing its most deadly out break so far. The deaths are p...

Washington. Throughout the hour, kristen, obviously we will get the latest news and get some folks questions answered by our team of doctors. Kristen im kristen fisher. Also in washington, just in a separate studio. Were practicing our social distancing just like all of you at home. The number of coronavirus cases, also of course on the rise nationally. More than 26,000 infections confirmed here in the United States. And at least 340 people have been killed by the virus so far. Our Steve Harriga...

States health care system. Now, both the governor and the mayor are saying they cant keep people alive with what they have. This is just an impossible situation to manage, if we dont get the equipment, we can lose lives that we could have otherwise saved if we had the right equipment. Were not getting shipments. Were not getting the stuff we need. If we dont get more ventilators in the next ten days, people will die who dont have to die. Its as simple as that. Governor cuomo repeated today that ...

U. S. , the usns comfort arrived in port today where officials hope the floating hospital will relieve the burden on the citys health care system. Lets go to cnns nick watt, joining us with more on todays coronavirus developments. There have been some very dramatic developments, nick. Give us the latest. Reporter well, wolf, here in california weve seen the number of hospitalizations double in just the past four days. Pretty much any expert you talk to will say this is still going to get worse b...

Work hard, and we go home. This is going to be weeks and weeks and weeks. This is going to be a long day. And its going to be a hard day. And its going to be an ugly day. And its going to be a sad day. This is a rescue mission that you are on. The mission is to save lives. Thats what youre doing. The rescue mission is to save lives. And as hard as we work, we are not going to be able to save everyone. And what is even more cruel is this enemy does not attack the strongest of us, it attacks the w...

With mitigation efforts, standing up resources, testing and supplies are in effect. We went from a prevention strategy the president acted on before the month of january was over to a Mitigation Strategy which continues to this day. If i could also say, to every american, and the president and our task force are preoccupied with those issues and working with governor s hour by hour to meet those needs. If americans could put into practice these guidelines for another 30 days, they will do their ...

About 1. 5 million cases globally, and more than 83,000 deaths worldwide. Dr. Anthony fauci of the White House Task force says he wants to keep the pace on measures like a social distancing. Its critical. Its going to be a bad week for deaths. Driving that and ahead of that is the fact that we are going to start to see the beginning of a turnaround. So we need need to keep pushing on the mitigation strategies, because there is no doubt that is having a positive impact on the dynamics of the outb...

Developing Serious Problems in other areas. So although people like to model it, lets just look at the data of what we have and not worry about these worstcase and bestcase scenarios. Right now, the number of confirmed cases here in the United States is over 135,000 and more than 2,300 people have died. All of this as the white house is reviewing new proposals that potentially could lead to reopening some parts of the country. Cnns Jeremy Diamond is standing by. Hes in the white house rose garde...