Fifth state to order its citizens to stay inside except to go out for essentials like groceries, doctors appointments and exercising alone and at a distance new york states executive order goes into effect tonight meanwhile, congressional leaders are expected to be back in washington later today to discuss a trillion dollar economic rescue package. Senate majority leader mitch mnelquote, mitchy close mcconnell said they are close to a deal. All told, 24,000 reported cases of covid19 in the u. S new york state has a third of them this morning, 297 coronavirus related deaths in the country. Jeff bezos says his company is looking to hire 100,000 people to help them deal with the demand and asking people to apply now. In a few minutes we will take your questions live to a pair of doctors who will give you answers about your health, and mental. Later in the spotlight staying connected in our new age of social distancing the suddenly booming platform that is helping to keep us together then in our sunday closer a look at the health care heroes, doctors, nurses, First Responders running into war with an invisible enemy but without the equipment they need to win and, later, we will turn to our sunday sitdown with oscar winning Octavius Spencer on starring in and executive productiving her new Netflix Series and a breakthrough performance in the health that earned her a statue she dreamed about. I remember watching the os considers wh oscars as a little girl. Everybody was sparkling and beautiful and got prizes and i dont know what they are doing to get that but i want that because they got to be shiny. Our sitdown with her and a live well lived that is personal to all of us at nbc later in the show. We begin with the latest on the coronavirus pandemic onequarter of all americans told to stay home and Health Officials warning some hospitals are reaching their breaking points nbc kathy parker is here with the latest good morning. Reporter good morning. Coronavirus pandemic is changing lives overnight as millions stay indoors for school and work. New york state now declaring a major disaster and this morning, signs that the outbreak is overwhelming the Nations Health care system like never before. Starting tonight, new york will be put on pause as the city that never sleeps and the entire state shut down all nonessential businesses statewide, people ordered to stay home. Across the country, more than 80 million are now under a virtual lockdown connecticut, illinois, new jersey, and california also under a stay at home order but some Young Californian arent following the rules. To the extent we see people stubborn we will outreach encouragement and we must inappropriate enforcement. Reporter overseas saturday was the deadliest day in italy 793 dead in one day. Sobering news as doctors and nurses fear the same fate american americans as critical medical supplies run dangerously at low. It keeps me up eight nigat nt we aring with low and no delivery in four to five days. Reporter the number of cases to spike even higher is predicted a warning. Not every Single Person in the United States needs to get tested when you go in and get tested, you are consuming personal protective equipment. Reporter but help is the way. Apple ceo tim cook tweeting we are donating millions of masks for Health Professionals in the u. S. And europe. Commercial testing is ramping up too including a new fda approved version that could detect the virus in 45 minutes. While its a race among researcherses to find a treatment for covid19, a vaccine likely wont be ready for at least a year. Late saturday, the governor of hawaii also announced sweeping new measures for the state, calling extreme action to stop the spread of the virus wheel keeping people safe. Starting thursday a quarantine requires to all visitors and returning residents. President trump is not ready to allow the federal government to direct companies to manufacture goods and supplies for the effort to fight the spread of coronavirus. Nbc Kelly Odonnell is at the white house with more that angle. Good morning. Reporter good morning. First update on the Vice President. Test results came back for mr. Pence and his wife karen ande t a staffer in thee coronavirus. Saturday, officials here said the National Availability of tests has increased but they urge that tests be prioritized for hospitalized patients and Health Care Workers to conserve masks and gowns and medical supplies the president is thinking about making need medical supplies i pressed the president why he has not used that defense act. He said its not needed and praises businesses that are voluntarily manufacturing these masks and other supplies officials have been unable to say when shortages would be eased but acknowledged it may take weeks President Trump is using his influence to launch a Clinical Trial in new york for patients already sick with the virus. Now although there is no Scientific Evidence yet, the president says he believes specific medications approved for other illnesses should be given to very ill coronavirus patients this has been tried in other countries with some anecdotal success. Dr. Fouauci said more evidence s needed but doctors can consider this as a treatment for their patients. Thank you, kelly. Lets bring in our medical doctor who is an Infectious Disease physician in the medical doctor of a special Pathogen Center and treated patients during the Ebola Outbreak in west africa. Thank you for your time, doctor. Lets start with the big picture where we are this changes weektoweek but daytoday and hourtohour. Youve studied outbreaks around the world. Where would you say the United States is in terms of containing right now this outbreak, this virus . Ive actually been really surprised at how behind the ball we have been at every stage of this, right . And ive worked in areas that have a lot less resources and you expect those constraints, you expect those pinch points. The issue here has been what we are not taking into account is if you have a disaster in one place, you can produce the items that are needed and you can plan ahead and make sure that that area is taken care of. This is a global disaster. This is a Global Pandemic so we expect supply chains to be affected and we should examine a lot more pinch points will appear from the beginning, we have gone from being raeseactive than proactive at every stage which is what we should have done. We need tot this is happening. Accep if we keept this is reacting happening. Everyone is hoping a drug can help with this the vaccine is a long ways off the president is touting as kelly said this malaria drug he believes may help fda said pump the brakes and dr. Fauci poured cold water on that as well. Where do we stand for this kind of treatment there is a reason why every new drug even when its a drug that exists on the market needs to go through the study period it needs to go through the Clinical Trials because we need to make sure that we are not giving people false hope we need to make sure that we are not getting into a situation where we start giving a drug with unintended consequences without realizing what those are. If we give to a massive number of people. So i agree with dr. Faucis point you cannot make this recommendation at the medical level until you have better dated. For the malaria drug you mentioned there is small studies have shown some promise and with any of these emergin if we take gut reactions would you the evidence we could cause more harm than good. Quickly, doctor, before i let you go two critical areas testing and getting medical equipment into the hospital. Where do we stand on those two questions . Every hospital and all of my colleagues across the country im talking to are holding their breath because they are worried that they are already seeing their supplies dwindling and if thenumber of cases keep increasing, we are going to have issues i honestly think by the time we ask more production to happen, we will already be in drier strai dire straits and that needs to happen now in terms of the test you may have heard a company that produces a flu test and other common tests has come out with a test that turn around for 45 minutes. But to do that testing, you still require Health Care Workers and you need the personal protective equipment. So i think for while we will still see if the sickest in home the test will make a difference and who we will try to test first. We are so grateful for your insights on a day like this. Appreciate you being here. Chuck todd is joining us now good to see you. The president has been leading these daily briefings every day. We get another one today you got Vice President pence and various doctors up there as well the president has been engaged in this sort pingpong we watch where he makes a claim and says something is cleared by the fda or says this drug works or says i havent heard about people not being able to get tests. Then dr. Fauci or dr. Birx rebutts gently what the the president just said. How does the president see himself in all of this i think he just wants to be seen as run leading the response and i think why is he gravitated to these but the end of the day, the federal response feels its two steps forward anprident pars a singular onestep backward instigator and confusion over the defense production act he invoked it and using it and not using it and there is confusion on that. So look. Its been like with everything with President Trump, he wants to be the singular point person on everything, if that is where the light is shining brightest and, right now, those coronavirus daily briefings is where the light is shining the brightest. We have seen the president got warning signs in early january and february and trying to ignore them and have confidence publicly. The country is anxious and no getting around that. Talk to any friend or go to any house. How is the the president behind the scenes people you talk to how he is handling this privately . Not very well at all. He ispanicked about it he is constantly looking for ae know, which is why early on, he kept saying he would hear about, well, this thing will burn out when spring turns to summer. He is constantly hoping that there is some miracle around the corner that sort of erases this whole thing. I mean, he had this whole obviously, its all tied into his reelection. He viewed the stock market and economy as basically his life line to getting reelected that has been totally obliterated by this crisis and he knows he is judged how he handles this and i dont think he is prepared for that kind of campaign yet as with everything he does, he makes it about himself and i think that is where he finds himself creates more problems for himself than he needs to. He said this will magically disappear and perhaps Wishful Thinking on his part thank you, chuck todd. We will look for more on meet the press when chuck is joined by new york city mayor bil good morning. 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Lots of questions coming in from facebook for you. Lets start with jill who wants to know, can i get coronavirus if i order food and the person who prepares the food unknowingly has the virus . I think this is a question a lot of people have because theyre being told, dont go into the restaurant but why is it better to get it as takeout . Good morning, willie, youre right, a lot of people are ordering food. As they pick it up they think, is there something i need to worry about . We know coronavirus are last on cardboard for 24 hours. The concern is not food preparation itself because restaurants are doing a good job that no one is sick preparing it but its on the actual cardboard container. If youre getting fruits and vegetables you definitely want to wash them off to make sure any food borne illnesses arent on it. With the container, use utensils and put it on a plate, throw the container out, wash your hands and go ahead and eat the food. If you have immuno issues or high risk, you can order warm food because thats more than likely to kill the virus and microwave it for 30 seconds, because that will kill it itself. Overall, very, very low risk. Continuing on the theme of food, molly on facebook asks, should i be concerned contracting the virus picking up groceries or ordering online from amazon, target or walmart and having them delivered . Again, you have a thirdparty touching the boxes and delivering it to you. Whats the risk there . You know, its the same thing with the delivery because the cardboard containers could theoretically have it. Again, you want to be careful when handling those. Take everything out of the box and wash your hands. The other concern is could the delivery person be sick, could they be having an issue . One thing is you can have it deliver outside your door, leave it there. They go away, you go outside and pick it up. Same thing, once you handle the containers, take everything out, wash your hands, throw the containers out, wash your hands and go about your business doing whatever you need to do with the things you ordered. These are just steps to make sure you stay extra healthy and make sure youre protected from the virus if you are getting deliveries. And the safety of the delivery person as well. Another question i heard of a lot is, what about keeping getting outside and keeping your distance. We talk a lot about distancing from each other. But there are an awful lot of people outside, playing in the park, playing basketball. They think theyre being distant. Are they doing a good enough job of it . If im outside taking a walk or run, do i need to maintain the distance there, too . You definitely need to maintain that distance when youre outside. Thats that sixfoot distance. If youre going for a walk or run, you dont want to be shoulder to shoulder. Basketball, you should not be playing basketball right now because youre not able to take that distance. Tennis is okay but youre handling the same ball so you have to make extra sure you wash your hands if you touch your face. The name of the game, inside or outside s keep that sixfoot of separation because we know thats how far the virus can go. Dr. Er torres, i know this it in your wheelhouse but thats about general anxiety. Not just for adults but kids getting bits and pieces of news right now. Social distant causing people social anxiety. What would you say about that broad question in our culture right now . Willi