Name, city and state, or you can orto twitter, cspanwj, facebook. Com cspan. I want to begin with governor governoromo, them of new york yesterday, he talked about working with other states to help find and confine those with the virus. [video clip] 25 , 30 of the workforce that comes into new york city comes from outside new york city to work. Who is supposed to trace me, westchester or new york . If i turn up positive, yeah, my residence in his is in Westchester County but i worked in new york city and i would have contacted many more people in new york city than i did in westchester. City,ork in new york thats when contacting people. I workedn suffolk, but in new york city. Im a Police Officer who has a work in rockland, but i new york city. Im a firefighter that lives in rockland but i work in new york city. I live in new jersey but i work new york city. I live in the city, but i work in connecticut. Right . These interconnections, if you are going to do these tracing operations, you cannot do it your own county. You will quickly run into people who are crossed jurisdictional. So, understand that going in, blur the governmental jurisdictions. They dont really make sense. Put everybody together, work together. Have you been impacted by covid19 . We want to talk to you this lovedg, or if you have a one or Family Member who has contracted the disease. Marvin, philadelphia. Who of your family and friends has or had covid19 . Caller two of my cousins. , they was living in new york city, but they survived it. Did they have to go to the hospital . What was it like for them . Cousin said she had to go to the hospital and felt like it was she was ready to die. She started using asthma medicine, they just told her to walk home. So did my other cousin, when he went back to pittsburgh, he was down for like six days or Something Like that and he started, every time he lost his breath he would use the asthma medication to work them through. He, did he get the asthma medicine from a doctor . Did they have it on hand . Caller he didnt get it from a doctor, he got it from a store. It was like a vaporizer or something. He said he added a tough time breathing every time he went under and he just started fighting it, i guess, i dont know. At the time when he caught it, this was before the pandemic even like, before they started shutting down the country, you know what i mean . Weeks before they started shutting down the country. Host do they know how he contracted it . Was in new york, she was in new york. They got it from someone down there. When he went back to pittsburgh, hes a construction worker, so he worked at the refinery that wentclosed down, but he back to pittsburgh and was down for like six days. She ran a daycare. She was down for little while, to. Host did they infect others . Caller i dont know. Host were they able to get tests . Caller no. Host how do they know they had it . Caller thats just what they said they had. I dont know. They didnt get tested or nothing. They just said that they work through it. They said they felt like they were ready to die. The cold, the sweats. I dont know. Host when was this, what month . Caller this was like somewhere in the middle of january. Host all right. Lets go to vincent, in the middle of january. Instant has a loved one who has or has had covid19, vincent . Vincent, you are on the air, you have got to turn on that television, just listen and speak through your phone. Vincent, im going to put you on hold so that we can get this straightened out. In the meantime, lets show the viewers henry mcmaster, South Carolina governor, noting yesterday that schools would be closed for the rest of the year because of the pandemic. [video clip] when i issue that order, to be next week, it will provide a number of things. One of them is flexibility for the district and for the superintendent and others involved, teachers, to allow for specialneeds classes for children, perhaps some summer teaching of some kind, and other flexibilities that will allow them to do things that they need to do. Help offset the threat that opening the schools backup would do. Also, we will encourage the School Districts and the schools , the principles, the teachers, the parents and all involved to find ways to have graduation ceremonies. We have heard of a lot of imaginative, innovative plans as a part of american life. Thats important to families and students as well. Graduation, we understand that. We think it is very important. We will find ways that that can be accomplished. We know that is on the minds of everyone. Republican South CarolinaGovernor Henry Mcmaster talking about shutting down the schools because of the pandemic. We are getting personal stories this morning. If you had covid19, or if you have it now and are battling it at home, what is it like for you . If you have a friend or loved one infected. Medical professionals this morning, we want to get your well. S on this as bill is one of those medical professionals in norcross, georgia. Go ahead. Caller first, i would like to say that im a pediatrician. I think this whole thing is overgrown. Destroying the lives of children. , high seen teenagers school, they are falling behind in their schooling. Areknow, the children who old enough to understand something but they are scared, they are not doing anything for them. So scared, they are not getting their babies theinated, not making sure children are getting proper medical care because they are afraid to go outside. This is not good for kids. Its terrible. Get through the computer for the children with learning disabilities, again, not good. Children are not effective at all. What about the children who have asthma . Caller they are fine. Children with asthma are fine. In fact, when theyre having asthma attacks, they are not getting proper care because parents are scared to bring them to the office and have them checked out. Host how do you know if they are fine because when they have covid19 . I have diagnosed them with covid19 and they were fine. Under thein children age of 19 euros and the state of georgia. I fully applaud the governor for starting to change things. We will see what happens in a. Eek or two if nothing happens, he will be right and everyone else will be wrong. This is our governor making an attempt to save our children. Thats the most important thing. Host what do you make of the president yesterday at the briefing reversing course, saying its too soon for georgia governor camp governor camp to reopen the state . Kemp to really mistake . Caller may i speak now . Hes not a doctor, hes a builder. He doesnt understand that we are destroying the lives of children. What Governor Kemp is doing is trying to make an attempt to get things back to normal so that our childrens lives, physical or mental, get back on a normal routine. Host got it. Beaumont, texas. Who do you know that has covid19 . Grandfather,e a hes a truck driver and he went on a truck trip. Hes in good health, works out and everything. He came back here and he got sick. Room. T to the emergency they said he had pneumonia. He went back home and got worse. Then they said he had the virus. Hes back home now and hes doing good. What did he tell you about what it was like . Eight he was aching cap he was aching, paining. Host fully recovered . Caller hes getting around. Thank the lord. How many weeks would you say that he was inflicted with the disease . You know, unable to operate like his normal self . Caller weeks. Isolated. Host do you know if he had anybody around him that could have been affected or was caller not that i know of. His wife said she was tested and said she didnt have it. I guess he got on the road when he was driving. Sonja, pennsylvania. Good morning. Host sonja, pennsylvania. Tell us your story. Years i was in miami and then around january 15 , the weekend of the 15th i was down in tampa. Years, sorry,ew for the super bowl for my birthday i went down to hollywood, florida. Well, when i was in new york i was fine. Ok . And i normally always suffer from sinus infections, but when i got to florida i developed a cough and it was really bad. I always have a little cough. I have nonhodgkins lymphoma. My birthday, my parents took me down to miami. Like i said, to hollywood, florida. Illuary 6 i was so deathly that my parents took me im a veteran, they took me to the v. A. Hospital in miami. I told them not to come back with me because i knew it would be a minute and they took me to the back room and they gave me an xray. Basically to get a cat scan. It was freaking me out. The last time this happened i got diagnosed with cancer. They said i had a severe upper respiratory infection. They gave me a Patent Medicine that was absolutely remarkable because a got rid of the cough i have had all my life. It was kind of weird, everywhere i was has now come down with corona. Even then, they were calling it a flulike, sars like, h1n1 novelty like. Even though china at that point was already talking about coronavirus, they were not using that word when you saw the doctors . Caller no, maam. Not at all. When i went down it was super bowl sunday and we were thinking, should we go . But we couldnt get a refund, so we went. Host has it been confirmed . The v. A. Will not confirm it at all, but i have the discharge papers and i have the wording on it. I could send you a copy. Host did you go home to ride it out . Weler my dad is a veteran, stayed in the hotel, he didnt want to go to the v. A. , so all the medicine that i got, he got, my mom got him like the overthecounter versions. But im the one that got sick. I got better within four days. My dad, he stayed sick for like two weeks. But my mom never got it. My dad had tonsils and i think they make a difference. I have tonsils, too. Barbara, i got stuck, georgia. Barbara . You, too, also contracted covid19 . Caller yes, i did. Host when and how . Caller for my 60th birthday my children sent me on a cruise. They went with me. I came back and i had this horrible cough. Couldnt breathe. Doctor for times and he kept telling me i had bronchitis. It wasnt bronchitis. For the whole month of march all i did was cough. I couldnt stop, i couldnt breathe. They told me to keep taking my asthma medicine. Im on three different ones. They gave me something to stop the coughing and they gave me cough syrup, for a whole month to be like that. Host you were never tested . Caller they would not test me at all. Host because why . Caller they didnt have a test. Host they didnt have one. Caller correct. Host could you go get tested now to see if you have the coulddies . Caller i probably go get tested now. But its like a thing where you have to sign up. My daughter did sign me up. But i never got a response back from that. Eleanor, colorado springs. You have a friend or loved one . Caller yes, a friend of mine died yesterday from the covid virus. Host im so sorry. Sister was his friend, said he had a hard time breathing when she spoke with him. The family had to step in and bring the police. Home, they were trying to hide it, wouldnt let the family see him. He got to the hospital and was diagnosed with it and yesterday he passed away. Do your Friends Family think that it was because he didnt get proper care . Im not sure, i havent talked to his family directly. This is just my sister passing me the information. Wouldnt allowe the people to check on him because they noticed he was having a hard time breathing and we kept pushing and got him to the hospital and he was diagnosed with the covid19 virus. Host front page of the wall street journal, senior homes struggling to get the testing confront to outbreaks. Kim, louisiana. When and how did you get the disease . By 21 days of march i was out sick, in the flu, as with the flu, in the emergency room with respiratory pneumonia. They tested me in the hospital. My Family Doctor said it was the flu, but ive had the flu before. , it respiratory pneumonia was something i had never experienced before in my life. Im 62 and i thought i was going to die. I had to go to the emergency room that night. Tamiflu, thethe zpak, some pet of antibiotic is really strong that had crazy side effects. That was about 21 days in march. Host you did not have to be intubated, be on a ventilator, none of that . Caller this is before they were testing. Especially in the small town i live in. I have the antibodies and i guess eventually i will get checked for it. Host have you looked into how you will get checked . Yet. R i havent i have some good contacts that i can check out. I can find out how to get tested, i just havent yet. Im trying to let this all died down some, you know . All right. Raymond, who do you know has or had covid19 . Caller three of my friends. [indiscernible] my pastor died yesterday. Its terrible. I also had two friends before that in the hospital, they had to put them in a coma. Right now my wife has problems. But she to the doctor doesnt meet the criteria. They wouldnt give her a test. So i dont know. [indiscernible] in detroit the Police Commissioner and his wife, their daughter, five years old died. [indiscernible] raymond there, southfield, michigan. More of your calls, coming up. First this moment from yesterdays White House Coronavirus task force briefing, making the front pages of the newspapers. Here is how the Washington Post, puts it. Scientists can speak as long as they told the line. Heres the moment from the briefing. [video clip] a good jobo has done for us, dr. Robert redfield, misquoted about the media. Talking up the fall season and the virus. Totally misquoted. Spoke to him, he said it was ridiculous. He was talking about the flu and corona coming together at the same time and corona could be some flareups that we will take care of. We will knock it out fast. Thats what he was referring to, coming together at the same time. Rather than waiting, i would ask dr. Redfield to come up and say a couple of words to straighten it out. Explosion. Ay big the headline from the Washington Post was totally inaccurate. The statement wasnt bad, but the headline was ridiculous. As i say, its fake news. Crazy,fake news like they had the wrong story, they were asked to change it and they wouldnt do it. It was false. That theuoted you assault of the virus will be more difficult than the one we just went through. When i said this to others, they didnt understand what i meant. Were going to have a flu epidemic and coronavirus epidemic at the same time. Is that what you said . Thats what i was trying to say just a minute to go the issue i was talking about, about being more difficult, is we will have two viruses circulating at the same time. The spring that we just went through, we had the benefit of having the flu season ended. We could use all of our flu Surveillance Systems to say that this is coronavirus. Next fall and winter we are going to have two viruses circulating and we will have to distinguish between which is the flu and which is the coronavirus. The comment i made is that its more difficult. Doesnt mean more impossible. Doesnt mean more, as some have said, worse, it just means difficult because we have to distinguish between the two. What i wanted to do and what i want to do again here is appeal to the american public. They can really help with mitigation. I need them to help now to best prepare us by getting the flu vaccine and taking the flu out of the picture. You may not even have corona coming back, just so you understand. Thats the quote from the Washington Post, you were accurately quoted . Im accurately quoted in the Washington Post. Followed up by dr. Fauci saying that we will have coronavirus in the fall. Take a look. When you look at an outbreak, opposingdynamic forces each other. If you leave the virus to its own devices, it will take off if you do nothing to stop it. If you put into place the kinds ,f things that we talk about first containment and then hopefully you dont get the mitigation but containment is important, those forces will determine whether you have a big outbreak. What dr. Redfield was saying, first of all, is that we will have coronavirus in the fall. I am convinced of that because ofthe degree transmissibility it has, the global nature. What happens with that will depend on how we are able to contain it when it occurs. What we are saying is that in the fall we will be much better to do the kind of containment compared to what happened to us this winter. Host dr. Anthony fauci, yesterday. We are getting your personal stories about battling covid19, whether you have battled it yourself, you had a loved one or a friend who battled it, or you are a medical professional. Amy, new york. Do you know when you contract that it . Caller contracted it . I was exposed to my doctor in new york city on march 30. Sorry, march 9. He died on march 30. Wasnt told by then i tried to find out if thats why he died. I called the hospital he was affiliated with, len exhale. They were not able to find out. I called my personal family dr. This last week to try to get an Antibody Test. I havent heard back yet. Minor. Had some symptoms, loss of taste, things like that. But im not concerned because i didnt have severe reaction. But i would like to know. My status. Im very upset that the Doctors Office lied to me and told me that he did not die, that he did not have coronavirus when i spoke to them, when i got the news that he died a few weeks ago. Host what have you been doing to protect yourself and your loved ones around you . Caller my background is science. I have a masters in teaching chemistry, which is the same realm, but im still very scientifically minded. I have been very careful since mid february. Of this sinceare january. Stop going to restaurants of my friends in february. Stop going to times square, to airports. To big arenas. Movie theaters. Weeks, andast few before, i think the general population got on board, just staying away from people. Not writing public transportation. Wearing a mask and gloves. Trying to stop the crosscontamination when i come home. Just growing going to the Grocery Store once every two weeks. On not to put a strain manhattan and the people out there doing their best to help us. Thats what we need to do. Im very alarmed that people are still gathering and not practicing six feet physical distance along both sides of the river, central park. I went to the Grocery Store this past wednesday, at my trader joes. They had a deep clean on tuesday. I figured i would be better off. I was there an hour early, could g