yesterday. 149 americans have died. this chart on your screen shows how the number of cases has steadily risen since last week as testing has ex pachbded. developing overnight, new data showing people of all ages can get seriously ill from this virus, not just the elderly. the cdc reports that nearly 40% of the patients in the u.s. who were sick enough to be hospitalized were between the ages of 20 and 54. the head of the coronavirus virus task force is pleading for the young people to take this seriously. >> we spent a lot of time on this. it really needs to sink in. we're hearing new pleas from health care workers about a shortage of protective gear. officials in wes chester county new york releasing a bulletin saying for all registered nurses, including retired nurses to volunteer services. the president signed one emergency funding measure overnight and is discussing details of the $1 trillion economic package that could be finalized early next week. two members of congress have now tested positive for coronavirus. both of whom were mingling and voting with colleagues as recently as saturday morning. there is one hopeful sign from china this morning. a potential milestone if it's to be believed. for the first time, china is reporting no new cases from inside the country. it will be some time before we get there in the united states. let's go to cnn's brynn gingras. she's live in new york where the number of known cases really spiked overnight. brynn? >> reporter: that's right, john. new york city seeing a sobering numbers this morning. a thousand cases over the last day. governor cuomo thinks this state will see tens of thousands of cases. yes, part is due to more testing. it reemphasizes the impact this is going to have on the health care system. we're really seeing that everywhere. as you said, john, more nurses are being asked to come out of retirement and states all over. we're seeing army hospitals going to both coasts. we're seeing a hospital in georgia having to make their own surgical masks. the president along with other government officials are saying we are at war with this virus. >> president trump signing a w new -- >> it's the invisible enemy. always the toughest enemy, the invisible enemy. we're going to defeat it. >> the navy deploying two ships, one headed to new york city where the mayor says there's a dire need for additional medical support. >> 2,000 cases right now in new york city alone. that's going to cause a surge into our hospitals. they're going to be using up supplies rapidly in an unprecedented manner. >> he insists to avoid an order in place. >> we want the 50% of the workforce today. obviously the flip side is the more you close down businesses, the worse on the economy and on individual incomes. >> but nearly 10 million northern californians are experiencing just that. asked to only leave home for necessary activities like buying groceries. >> the people in san francisco are definitely permitted to go out, to run, to exercise, to ride bikes. so many of our residents are complying with this order because they understand it impact on public health. this is about public health. this is not a vacation. >> but in florida, some beaches are still packed with young people celebrating spring break, ignoring calls to practice social distancing. new cdc data shows adults between the ages of 20 and 54 make up nearly 40% of people needing to be hospitalized because of coronavirus. officials begging young people to take precautions. >> there are concerning reports coming out of france and italy about some young people getting seriously ill and very seriously ill in the icus. >> we cannot have these large gatherings that continue to occur throughout the country for people off work to then be socializing in large groups and spreading the virus. you have the potential then to spread it to someone who does have a condition that none of us knew about and cause them to have a disastrous outcome. >> president trump disagreeing with his treasury secretary, steve mnuchin who warned the country could see a 20% unemployment rate because of coronavirus if there's no intervention. >> no, i don't agree. that's an absolute worst case scenario. >> meantime, many people feeling the sting of the pandemic in their pockets. the trump administration and capitol hill are working on ways to help, including a $1 trillion stimulus package with up to $500 billion in checks into the hands of some americans. a $50 billion bailout fort airline industry and up to $300 billion to support small businesses. >> we have to help everybody. it was nobody's fault. >> reporter: that plan is still being negotiated. doesn't look like it will be finalized until next week. this as day by day government makes more closures. just in this area, pennsylvania has been banned with the tristate and added shopping malls to their list of mandatory closures. >> every morning it is something big that you report on, brynn. thank you very much. we'll check back would you. doctors have an urgent warning for young people this morning. you are at risk of getting seriously ill from coronavirus. the new numbers changing our understanding, next. the network has to be prepared to absorb whatever is going to come its way. we're always preparing. make sure that the network is working all the time. 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>> well, we've already observed this in seattle, which is the area that was hit hardest and first here in the united states. we saw 30 and 40-year-olds on ventilators out there. just because the data may show that the mortality rate, so the risk much dying may be higher among 70 and 80-year-olds and so on, that doesn't mean we -- i'm in my mid 40s and people in their 30s couldn't get very critically ill. being on a ventilator is no small thing. that can leave lasting damage in many different ways to the body. >> we can put this up on the screen so people can see it. it shows you that 18% of the cases, are -- you do the math there, i mean, that's 36% in this group that isn't over 64 at least. not to mention the people 20 to 44. younger people are getting this. nearly half of the patients admitted to intensive care units are under 65. some of the people getting really sick are under 65. dr. kan, i want to go to you on the other urgent matter being delt with and that's the fact that the surge seems to be happening. we're getting shortages of supplies and shortages of medical workers in some of these emergency rooms around the country. just tell us what you've experienced. >> sure. good morning. that's right. there is definitely shortages of supplies throughout supply chains. i'm hearing reports from my colleagues in different communities in the united states, luckily in the hospital system we work in, we have adequate supplies for now. but given the surge of patients that's occurring, it's very important that we take care of the supplies that we have and use it judiciously. >> what are you most concerned about? what are you in most need of, do you think? >> for the moment, it's ppe, gloves, masks and gowns. these things are used rapidly. they're changed in and out between different patient encounters. in a single day, a hospital can go through a lot of this equipment. >> dr. kong, are you seeing lots of young people, since you're on the frontlines? >> yes. we have actually seen a lot of young people. i want to echo what's already been said on your show. while it is true that mortality is associated with more advanced age, that does not preclude from younger people having serious illness. this is absolutely something -- >> i'll reiterate, of the study done so far, this is brand new, nearly half the patients admitted to the icu are people younger than 65. doctor, this makes the images so confounding and upsetting. pictures of people on spring break in florida, on these crowded beaches. then you hear statements like this. i'll read this out loud. this is from someone from miami yesterday. if i get crone a, i get corona. i'm not going to let it stop me from partying. i think they're blowing it way out of proportion. how dangerous is a statement like that? >> well, i think it's profoundly dangerous. you know, i think maybe trying to steer the young who think they're invincible may not be the right strategy. trying to convince them of why they need to be caring for others in their communities, their parents, their grandparents and others that they care about may actually be the better way to leverage their good actions. >> dr. gounder, we also hear from senator ron johnson trying to put this in a different perspective. i want to bounce this off of you because i want your perspective on this. he said we don't shut down our economy because tens of thousands of people die on the highways. it's a risk we accept that we can move about. we don't shut down our economy because tens of thousands of people die from the common flu. does he have a point that this is -- would you put this, the coronavirus in the same category as automobile accidents and the common flu and that we go about -- or try to go about our regular business? >> so first of all, automobile accidents and the flu cause about 50,000 deaths per year. this is on a completely different scale. second of all, i would argue that the economy is going to shut down whether we like it or not. the only way, actually, to get that going again is to address this issue with the coronavirus pandemic head on. and that's what's going o help us in terms of rebooting the economy. >> dr. kong, one other bit of news in the last 24 hours, this naval vessel, the comfort is going to come to new york. this is a hospital vessel. the goal is to assist with the overall medical need to the community. not specifically coronavirus. in fact, it won't be housing coronavirus patients. but explain wha when it gets here. isn't coming for a while. how it will be of assistance. >> with the flood of coronavirus patients coming in, most seriously affected of us will require higher level care past icu level care. in the united states, it's postulated something in the order of 100,000 icu beds. if there's a great surge of patients in the united states, they may not have the capacity to deal with them all at once. what would happen, not just the coronavirus patients need icu level care or serious medical care, but all other patients who ordinarily come to the hospital, they would need care as well. so a ship like that coming to new york, floating hospital essentially, extra hospital could provide that care for those patients. >> it won't be here until april. but obviously people are grateful that it's on its way. >> doctors, thank you for sharing your expertise with us. >> and thank you for what you're doing. president trump signing an economic relief bill overnight. what is it in it and how it might be able to help your fami family, that's next. you wouldn't accept an incomplete job from anyone else. so why accept it from your allergy pills? 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>> every time i talk about bailing out the airlines or the hospitality, my email box overflows with people using vulgarities about over the top. this is not the time to go over the cliff on a matter of principle that you don't want to bail out some fat cats. that's the long and short of it. get over it. you're going to have to bail out boeing. you have to bail out the airlines. there's simply no other way to do it. you may put strings ont you may -- each one has to follow best practice on executive pay. but if you do not want a full scale depression with the collapse of the airline industry and transportation in this country, then think about not bailing out the airlines. i promise you it will happen. don't hang yourself on the principle of executive banks. >> as you understand it, when will americans begin to get checks? >> they want to go quickly. in the next couple of weeks the treasury secretary says he wants to do it very, very quickly. we did it in 2001 and 2008. the difference this time is those checks don't necessarily get deployed right away in the economy. you're not going to go to a bar or restaurant and spend that money. it's going to help you with your rent and stay solvent. but it might not have the impact it has had in pastimes. because the economy is shut down. >> and the evidence of the last time it was used, it was relatively successful. but it wasn't a rip roaring success. many people didn't spend it. they saved it. it wasn't made available to certain immigrant communities and certain households. by no means was it the golden bullet it's being portrayed. >> i have to say, one of the things i'm hearing consistently from friends and people all over different sectors of this country is how do we know that this business that goes under, how do we know that this sector that's so badly hurt is going to come back? it's this anxiety, christine. >> that's what you see in the stock market. this is a crisis of a completely different set of circumstances. i heard one economist say there is light at the end of the tunnel. everyone knows that the economy can come back. we don't know how long the tunnel is and what else is inside that tunnel, right? so this uncertainty is really just kind of a desperate situation moment and you're seeing that in the stock market. the dow is more than 30% off of the most recent peak. that is the speed of this crash has been stunning and taken everybody by surprise. we just don't have any clarity what this is going to look like. the unintended consequences of stopping an economy. we're stopping the american economy on purpose. the global economy on purpose. then what is it going to look like when we restart it? we don't know. >> i'm intrigued by that. since you taught us that, christine. richard, the whole concept of we're shutting it down for our own protection. this is voluntary. we're shutting down bars and restaurants and theaters and all of our daily life for our own protection. so doesn't it stand to reason when we flip that switch again, it can come roaring back? >> i like the use of the word can as opposed to will. because we don't know. it's like planting seeds in the garden. you plant lots of them. but you don't know how many will come up. when you switch the economy on again, what about the restaurants that didn't survive who laid off the workers, who now haven't got tuition money for their children. you don't -- we don't know how much. with that in mind, it's just very difficult when literally the whole world is in exactly the same position. there's no engine of growth. >> guys, christine, richard, we always appreciate talking to you. thank you so much for all of the information this morning. >> now to some more numbers for you. 149 americans have died from coronavirus. up next, we'll tell you about some of the victims. 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>> alisyn there's a reason my doctor's office sent an email saying if you're mildly symptomatic, don't come in. we don't have tests. the supplies are simply running out. >> in the cascading shortfalls of the national response to coronavirus, testing labs across the country are sounding next alarm, telling cnn there are shortages. not just in tests but components needed to conduct the tests. the head of a 51-hospital network in the west says key parts are missing. >> in certain cases the chemicals that are used and even in certain cases, it's just the availability of the appropriate swab in order to take the sample. >> it's the same story at new york's presbyterian hospital. >> there do continue to be some challenges around expanding the testing significantly at this point. >> at the university of nebraska's testing lab. >> we're in the situation now where we don't have the reagents to do the extraction from the samples so that we can run the tests. >> health officials in multiple states tell cnn they do not have enough tests for people who need them because of a shortage. minnesota, the state health agency is limiting testing to only the highest priority specimens due to a national shortage of covid-19 laboratory testing material. the ohio department of health told cnn, they're only testing our most vulnerable patients due to a global shortage of supply. in west virginia, the state health officer says she had to scrape together supplies from flu tests. >> the chain of testing. there's swabs, there's extractions, et cetera, et cetera. there are shortages on many pieces of it. >> west virginia still has a critically low number of tests. military veteran kenneth hawthorne has been to the emergency room three times in the past two weeks, sick with a cough, fever but tested negative for flu. he says he cannot get tested for covid-19. >> they keep telling me that my wife and i, we're at low risk. so we weren't priority to take the test. >> a major test maker, roche diagnostic corporation says demand for the tests is greater than our ability to supply it. >> how did this happen? >> well, i think we needed to rethink how we're going to deal with an ep dim i can or pandemic in this case. it should have started a sequence of events going after china. as everyone is saying, that's the history. but what are we doing now? >> industries are responding. ramping up production at both lab core and quest tell cnn that they're greatly increasing the number of tests they can process per day. in the meantime, the ceo of the association of public health laboratories calls the situation a huge problem. i'm really concerned that we are not going to have the capability to test those who really need and should get a test. >> john, the food and drug administration tells us they're aware of these shortages, trying to provide alternative sources for some of these people that need testing products. but really, this is akin to the whole toilet paper run. until that manufacturers can catch up with this ever increasing demand, we'll be in the same situation. laboratories, health departments, et cetera are looking for supplies anywhere they can get them and they're not available. >> if you don't mind me saying, the difference with toilet paper, no one will die if they run out. people are going to die if there's not testing that needs to happen. we've been hearing from people all morning. you'll hear more from hospital and emergency rooms, at this point they're assuming people are 60 because they can't get the test -- your reporting is crucial this morning, drew. thank you. 149 americans have died with coronavirus. we want to take a moment to remember some of them. 84-year-old john knox, a retired new york city firefighter, marine, passed away on monday. after the september 11th attacks, he worked at ground zero coming out of retirement. his son spoke to anderson last night. >> it was just a very -- he was just a very kind and sweet man. he always looked out for his men and the people around him. if you needed him, he was there. >> 77-year-old richard curran passed away after falling ill last week. he lived in an assisted living facility with his wife of 57 years. a chicago native survived by his wife, daughter and two grandchildren. and one new jersey family has been devastatingly hard hit. three members of the fusco family have died. it's believed seven members contracted it at a family dinner more than a week ago. the 73-year-old matriarch passed away last night without knowing that her two eldest children had also died in the past few days. three of the siblings are still in critical condition this morning. she was a mother of 11 and grandmother to 27. we'll be right back. cake in the conference room! showing 'em you're ready... to be your own boss. that's the beauty of your smile. crest's three dimensional whitening... ...removes stains,... ...whitens in-between teeth... ...and protects from future stains. crest. healthy, beautiful smiles for life. you met on an app. why? 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>> reporter: that's right, john. i'm standing here in -- anyone who has been to london has probably visited this place. normally it would be hundreds of thousands of people milling around this area. now you can see basically just a handful of people. if we walk over here, we can take a look and you'll see that the tube station here, it's now completely shut. it's one of a number of two stations that have been shut. but none of these restrictions, john, seem to be doing anything to alleviate the vicious spread of coronavirus across europe. a shocking statistic today that we're learning now is that across europe, the number of deaths and number of cases have actually now surpassed china. this is certainly a grim milestone if ever there was one. that is in large part because of italy, which you pointed out. 475 deaths yesterday alone. the biggest spike that italy has seen so far. other countries showing signs of being hot on italy's heels. 11,000 cases in germany. nearly 10,000 cases in france. really, john, no sense of where this this ends. where does the peak hit as europe finds itself in the eye of the storm? >> carissa, we're waking up to the news, to the revelation or reality that young people are not immune to this. people younger than 65 can get sick, in some cases very sick. this is also a lesson that is being learned in europe, correct? >> reporter: absolutely. it's such a crucial point. because one of the real issues, particularly in the united kingdom. each after the government told people, please stop going out on the streets, stob going to pubs and bars, young people, particularly were continuing to go because of this misguided belief that they were resilient and wouldn't feel the symptoms as much. we're learning from france of all countries that of the 300 people who are currently being treated in icu, in intensive care units, 50% of them are actually under the age of 60. 7% of the total deaths in france have been under the age of 65. so it is foolishness of the highest degree for anyone to take it cavalier attitude towards the virus while it may be targeting the elderly, it certainly affects the young, too. alisyn. >> that's important information, claris clarissa. thank you very much for reporting for us. developing overnight, a major milestone for china where the coronavirus first took hold. the government reporting no new local cases. david culver is live in shanghai with the latest. can they be believed, david? >> reporter: this is interesting, alisyn. i know a lot of folks are looking at this and trying to glean optimism from what we're hearing out of the national health commission. they're the ones who monitor for the release of numbers. they're suggesting the most recent update is that there are no new cases out of either hugh vey province or the rest of mainland china. but there is an increase of 34 days. where does the 34 come from? imported cases. this is the big concern here. the cases that they say are coming from other countries. you go back just a few weeks and china was the nation that everyone else was blocking out. it was in its own globally imposed quarantine. people didn't want travelers going into their country, now it's the reverse. china doesn't want anyone else coming in and bringing with them the potential to spread the virus and expose to others. what are they doing here? in beijing, for example, all international travelers will be funneled through and put into government forced quarantines. government designated facilities. they'll be there for 14 days and they can move about mainland china after they've cleared that. even though the numbers are under control, this cautious approach from the general public and really from officials too, as to just resuming life as it was. little by little, john, what we're seeing is that they're still increasing hospital capacity. which is really interesting and they're continuing to manufacture ventilators. >> that's really interesting. they're still taking this very seriously. still at war with coronavirus even as the news comes and they have no new local cases. again, if that can be believed, it's something we can look at in the united states a sign of hope. although the measures taken in china, nothing like what we're doing here, not yet. >> david culver thank you for your reporting on this. >> the coronavirus crisis, so much a part now of all of our lives. it has brought out the best in many. including arkansas landlord shawn clay -- joe clay young who heard that one of his restaurant owner's tenants might not be able to pay next month's rent. young not only waived his april rent, he did the same for all his tenants. this is what he told us. >> you got hourly employees, you got single moms. we're going to get through this together. i said let's do april on one condition that you take care of your employees. >> there's also country star brad paisley, the nashville grocery store he opened regularly provides free food to people in need. they're now delivering a week's worth of groceries to seniors who are homebound because of coronavirus. a therapy dog making the rounds at a texas senior center even though the center is not accepting visitors. tonka, the great dane and his trainer are cheering people up from the outside during these days of no touch. and social distancing. they're saying hello from the other side of the glass. >> now, tonka is a great name for a dog as opposed to. >> we came up with it last night. we got a rescue dog during the days of the kids being home. we just last night at dinner had a family vote. we've decided teu la. >> should meet tonka and -- >> you're much bigger than i. >> right. >> okay. americans who have loved ones in nursing homes have so many questions this morning. there's new data just out that shows that one in four coronavirus deaths have been linked to a single facility. we'll dive into this next. >> i'll put a picture right now on instagram. else. so why accept it from your allergy pills? 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>> there are three reasons why nursing home residents are at such increased risk. one is almost every single person in a nursing home is in one of our high risk groups and a high risk group for severe covid-19 illness. the second is in many, many nursing homes people share rooms. so that the risk of spreading from one person in bed a to the other person in bed b is very high. finally, in nursing homes, the nurses aide cares for, on average, about five people. five residents. a nurse can care for up to 15 to 20 depending on its day or night. so unless rigid infection control processes are put in place, even health care workers can spread covid-19 from one resident to the other. >> americans, we like to try to fix things right away. i know a lot of children of older parents who might be in nursing homes might be thinking, i'm just going to get them out. if it's so risky, i'm going to get them out. why isn't that the right way? >> i wish that could be an option. the reality is most people in nursing homes in the united states don't want to be there and are there because they have to be. they're there for two reasons. one is that their family can't provide the 24-hour seven day a week care that they need because they themselves work or have young children that they're taking care of. the second reason is that most people in nursing homes, the overwhelming majority have medicaid which pays for nursing home care where medicare doesn't. the reasons they have medicaid is they've spent all their savings on health or personal care before they entered the nursing home. >> what can you do to make the facilities safe? >> there are a number of things we can do. many are already in place. the first, which is very hard is rigid restrictions on visitors. really, the only people that should be allowed in that don't need to be there are there because their relative is dying and we need to provide that type of compassionate care. the second is that we need to follow rigid, rigid infection control processes. that now is not the time to be a little bit -- the third, is we should be routinely and rigor s rigorously screening every single resident at least twice a day for respiratory symptoms and for fever. if any of those develop, those people should be isolated immediately. >> doctor, it's so sad, right? i don't want to beat around the bush. we can't beat around the bush. now is the time for brutal honesty. one of the biggest fears that older people have is the fear of dying alone and isolation is terrifying to people. how do you square this circle? if people are terrified of being alone, yet they know how dangerous it is to the other people, how do we accommodate it. >> it's a real fear. there are things we can do to help. the first is frequent phone calls and phone calls from different people. other than covid-19 when you're making the phone calls. focus on things happening every other day when we wouldn't be in this epidemic. video visits are really, really helpful. streaming, movies, watch tv and don't watch the news 24/7. finally, you're right. depression is a risk. we should be looking for it. the things we should be looking for in older adults are weakness, fatigue, loss of appetite, weight loss, trouble with memory and finally, problems with sleeping. in the elderly, sadness often is not the major complaint for people who are depressed. if those symptoms develop, call your doctor right away. >> dr. morrison, you have been so helpful the last few weeks. we're going to lean on you going forward. the older population at such great risk, which is why the news this morning that younger people are getting more sick in higher numbers than we believed is so alarming. it means potentially they could pass it on to their parents and grandparents too. we've been talking about that all morning long. dr. morrison, thank you. >> thank you. there are alarming new figures on young people becoming severely ill with coronavirus. new day continues now. it's going to get a lot worse before it gets better. >> a coronavirus relief package signed into law by president trump. >> you have societal responsibilities to make sure that you don't inadvertently pass on the infection to someone who would not fare as well as you fare. >> our lifestyles necessarily. -- >> i hope they listen to what we've been saying over the last period of time. we don't want them gathering. >> this is not a vacation, noot a time for a play date or party at your house or bringing people together. >> this is new day. with alisyn camerota and john berman imt. >> welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world much this is new day. the reported number of coronavirus cases has spiked overnight. this is the reality we knew would happen, but it is still jarring to see. the u.s. now has nearly 9,000 confirmed cases. that's a 45% increase since yesterday morning. 149 americans have died. you can see how the number has steadily risen in the last week as testing in this country has expanded. though not nearly enough. perhaps the most important development overnight, new data shows that it's not just the elderly at risk. please pay attention to this. the cdc reports that nearly 40% of the
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