Keep us safe. What i hope we will be able to we will get through this. Do and i believe we will be able thank you for putting your life to do, is respond to that in a on the line. Th very vigorous way, because we will have had several months to this is an nbc news special get all of these cards in order, report on coronavirus pandemic. All of these things ready to go. Coronavirus pandemic have you are correct, it could happen. New york has been hard hit. Claimed nearly 30,000 lives half the governor said looking at the of those in new york city. Numbers, that he believes there has been a plateau, he believes they revised their count upward today. There is debate on how and it is on the decline. Broadening that out to a country when to reopen the country as a whole, do you feel the without a resurgence of cases worst is behind us . And death. We will be talking to right now, given what we are doing, the worst looks like, for dr. Anthony fauci and will hear from our panel of experts the most part, with a couple of answering your questions. Exceptions there are still a and how smart people at m. I. T. Have found a way to get more protective gear to workers. If you look at the new york metropolitan area driving this and a way to keep the faith through the country and then during this challenging time. Look at the country as a whole, tonight the country is bracing there is no doubt what we have for the long haul. Seen over the last several days as evening fell in new york, is a flattening out, and even a staggering update on deaths, when you get to new york, it is 3700 deaths, patients who never starting to come down as far as admissions, hospitalizations, tested positive, but now believed to have died from it. Needs for intensive care and intubation. Hopefully that trend will continue. The death toll is at more than i am a cautious person, but we 10,000. Are seeing light at the end of at his daily briefing, the the tunnel. President indicating it will be i think i almost heard you say the perhaps the worst is governors will decide when to over with many, many caveats. Sorry. Reopen their state after pru previously suggesting it was his decision. Thank you, dr. Anthony fauci. I dont want to put pressure always appreciate it. On any governor to open. Thank you for having me. And the president said he is a lot of folks have questions. Putting funding of the world why dont we bring our panel in Health Organization on hold. And we will answer your questions about where we are in the fight. The president said we wish there was a light switch to turn the economy back on, but it will happen more slowly. I spoke with the Federal Reserve bank. Weist dr. Jo have dr. John t the longer this goes on, the and more people affected because we we have the bases covered. Have to regain confidence ourselves. The idea we will immediately they will be with us for the hour. D get back to full restaurants, full bars, full playgrounds is getting a flu vaccine have something everybody seems to agreet isn agree isnt going to happen. Helped in recovery of the covid19 . It is predicted the world the flu vaccines and pneumonia vaccines are something economy will be affected by the you want. And if we have a second wave coming in the fall, you want to greatest amount since the great look at it. Depression. Massive widespread testing for it will keep you healthy, but the coronavirus will be the key in the reopening process, but wont eliminate the risk of thats far from reality. Having coronavirus or covid19 because thats a different in los angeles, authorities have begun testing residents at virus. If you have those it will random to see if they have antibodies for the virus. Prevent you from getting it is the first baby step in an secondary infections and if you attempt to see how many people do get coronavirus, you have a can safely go back to work. Better chance of fighting it off. California governor newsom. Because you have practiced if a person is tested for the antibodies, do we know yet if stay at home, you have bent the curve in the state of that is enough to assume california. Immunity . When to reopen schools. There is one Antibody Test thats currently been approved the problem many School Administrators have is that they by the fda in the united states. Cant give that their kids it will come online, but not for would be safe going back to the quite sometime. Classroom. Until there is a vaccine, they the first one will develop afterwards, igm antibodies and plan to continue remote learning. The second time are igg around private citizens are trying four to six weeks after you develop your infection. Those are the protective antibodies. To aleve the pandemic damage. Probably you will be immune and the National Guard is helping probably those will be protective, at least from laboratory studies, and thats with taxi cab drivers to deliver food to home bound. Why the Antibody Test is so so far more than 90,000 meals important, to know you are have been delivered. Those at the front line and immune yourself or you can their patients face the most donate your serum or plasma. Anguish. Its hard to view and see and we have an economic question. From jim on twitter. Feel the desperation in the any word on what happened to family for their loved ones. Those 1200 payments . Nurse Mary Halladay in new york said its especially difficult. Yes, i have a good word, jim. When i am in the room with they are on the way. The patients i see myself as one for people who have direct of the family. Deposit set up with the irs, the director of the national meaning you file your taxes online. A good chance you will see that institute of allergy and money in your account as early as this week. Infectious diseases. If you dont and are expecting dr. Anthony faurz fauci. To get a paper check, that could good to be with you. Take a few weeks. The president said some a third option is you could go states will be ready to open up to irs. Gov and put in your bank even before may 1, even before account information so you can this 30day guideline period expires. Get it deposited in a few days. Is that prudent or advisable . I am certain even though i havent discussed this with separate portal so you with him hes talking about some track wher of the states that have a very low level, particularly states pork Processing Plant is closed with low density of population due to coronavirus. And large amount of land. She wonders if that means the i believe he responded that that meat is contaminated. Was the kind of state he was no. Referring to. Can you think of any state the meat would not be con tam dated. That would be ready to do that, it was closed down because 200 lift those guidelines before may 1 . Or more employees were infected it would probably be a with covid19. Rolling entry into it with some states doing nothing different remember, fda is saying right because they are still in a now there is no evidence that difficult situation and you would not want to relax any of Food Packaging is associated the physical separation with this coronavirus. Guidelines and others that would be doing much better. That being said, the best thing it will not be a one size fits to do is wash your hands after all and im pretty sure thats handling any Food Packaging. What the president was referring to. Good questions to start us off. We have more to come. With the understanding that when we come back, protective every state of the country and face shields on the fast track. And later, a special region is different, what about performance just for us. The prerequisites that every state must have in place in a shout out for those on the front line coming straight from order to lift the guidelines. Sheryl crow. That is a great question and we have discussed that many times. The minimum thing is that you have to be able to identify, open. Isolate, get out of circulation remember having that feeling for the first time . And do adequate and appropriate the first day you opened. Contact tracing as new cases arise. The first day you had a customer, there is no doubt to a great the first day you taught a class, had a client, a patient, a session. Earth or lesser degree, depending upon where you are and open. Remember the night before you opened . What the penetrant of infection who could ever sleep . Is in your community, there will open. Be infections. But theres a different question the real proof of the pudding of we are being asked now. Are you going to remain open . The success of this is how even when your doors are closed . Quickly and effectively you open. Thats how we show who we are. Identify them, get them out of circulation, give them care and theres another way to be open, to pull together where needed and do contact or push, depending on the door. And we are making it work tracing so that you dont have a and we will continue to make it work together. Beginning of a peak. Then you may have some difficulty. Thats what we are concerned because open we stand. About. You told the Associated Press earlier today we are not there yet in terms of the tracing necessary to contain new outbreaks wit raises the question. What does an apron have to do with insurance . How far away are we from getting there . An apron is protection. We are rapidly approaching. The people responsible for an apron is not quitting until youve helped getting the tests out there make something better. What does an apron have to do with insurance . Showed a chart at the task force for us, especially right now, everything. Meeting which was really quite impressive if you look several weeks to a month ago, several tests were out there. I believe the last number we spoke about was close to or beyond 3 million tests. Thats far, far greater than we were a couple of weeks ago. Right now they are developing the capability of even welcome back. Necessity is the mother of invention and there has been none greater than protecting front line workers with the gear they need. A team of engineers and doctors are getting badly needed face shields to some of those who need it in the country. In boston, they are stamping out a solution to at least part of americas ppe shortage. 8,000 to 10,000 masks fer hour. A simple idea dreamed up by some of the great minds in america. The countrys Health Care Workers kroig o workers crying out for more facemasks and protective gear. Marty sprung into action. My modest title is a joke. I dont have that much power. We will let you decide after you see what culpeper and his m. I. T. Colleagues. We felt if we could build face shields quick enough, it would be a double whammy. Give me the timeline of this. The days are blurring together. We went from a sketch on paper to the first prototype within a couple of hours. I am in my basement. This is where we cut the first prototype. My daughter modeled the first version. It worked perfectly. It was fabricated flat. After you fold it up, it turns into this. It is useful they can be shipped flat. We can deliver 1,000 of these in a prius easily. They are making 7,000 shields every seven days, the kind of ingenuity m. I. T. Is known for. The Massachusetts Institute of technology has long been on the lines of solving problems. Americas synthetic rubber problem nears a solution. During world war ii they sauld t solved the rubber problem. Afterwards they helped with robots and helped the u. S. In the space race. This is what we were meant to the do. The director of m. I. T. , also taking care of covid19 patients. This image shows it in its up position. When i go in the room i will move it down. He was instrumental in getting many Health Care Workers to test the shield out. Its great if you build a face shield, but we may need to tern to the side and if somebody coughs, thats a problem. We went through the course of 28 revisions in the course of a week to ten days. Is American Ingenuity up to the task . I dont think we have lost our edge. People still come here from all over the world to learn. If anything, the difference between what happened in 1918 and 2020, is the Global Pandemic has had a Global Response because of technologies that we have invented and people we have educated. Do you have Something Else in mind . We have a couple of things in the pipeline. You are not going to stop . No. This is a long fight. M. I. T. And the manufacturer have already given 100,000 of the face shields to massachusetts Health Care Workers. They are going to sell them for just about what it takes to make them, 2. 79 apiece, all over the country to other hospitals and Health Care Workers. They expect to produce soon. Its remarkable. We want to bring our panel back in and keep our focus on what is going on during this crisis. We have a question from chris on facebook. If you think you may have had covid19, how long until you are no longer contagious. The answer is how severe your symptoms are. If you only have mild coronavirus, only about two weeks and you are okay to go out. If you have symptoms that are more severe, usually its three to six weeks and unfortunately, those are folks who end up in icu on a ventilator. So it could be two weeks for moderate cases up to six weeks for severe cases. Small business loans. Laura rights what happened to all of us who went to their bank and they had all of their applications they were allowed to take. This has been confusing and upsetting to a long of people. These are ppe, forgivable loans, meaning if you adhere to the rules, you get free money. People like free money. There is a rush to get applications in. They have gone to their bank and they say we have reached our cap, or they go and they say we are only doing business with our existing clients. It is not that they are turning you away because they think you are allowsy client. The banks have self imposed framework because they need to protect themselves. They know there is an onslaught of applications and more importantly, there will be fraudulent ones. And in a few months when they turn to the treasury and say we need to be paid, they need to be sure you are a good applicant. So many banks decided they would only offer these to businesses they knew. And wells fargo said we have a cap. The government said time to raise that cap. And they extended to other lenders like papal. Go to the site and see who is lepdi le lending because they have broadened that. The government is trying to get a bigger loan program out there. They are trying to offer another 250 billion. When there is more money available, it will get easier. But i get it, laura. Im glad you explained it. Later, we are going to drop in on jimmy fallon, keeping our spirits up at home. slow music plays laughter baby coos laughter man on video chat hey man chasing dog oh no no no no baby crying im original. One of a kind. You feel me . Love ya. Oop you look cute. Better than you wherever drama pops off pop my 100 allwhitemeat classic or spicy popcorn chicken combo for just 5. 99. And that is the burrough of queens. The church and the school are now more important than ever. 17 stops from the New York Times square, number 7 subway pulls up in the heart of queens, americas melting pot, a place where generations of americans have made their start of the american dream. Today its at the epicenter of the spot that shares its name, the scourge. It is all around. You feel it even when you are walking on the streets. You know your neighbors and community are struggling. Reporter since 1872 our lady of saros sorrows Catholic Churc been here. Usually the pews are filled for easter sunday. But not this year. The pastor was just out of the hospital with covid19 himself found the strength toish shoot an easter message. I wish you much peace and joy today. Reporter elana helps to run the church and school. We dont need to be inside a box. I just hope it makes us stronger. Reporter nearly a third lived here before the pandemic. Now a third have lost their job to the virus. What is especially difficult for the students and teachers is not being together. Over the weekend, the principal scrambled i paipads in hot spot. Why was it so fortunate get up and running quickly. We cant afford to wait. Reporter dedication to the sids so strong, three teachers have kept teaching even while being sick with coronavirus themselves. Reporter how much students have lost somebody . 35 i think. So many live in one household, it hits them hard. Reporter lack of Health Care Puts them at risk. People of color are dying at twice the rate. For their children its hard to understand. When you see their faces as they pass by, we miss them. They feel alone. Some of them have said its hard and its not fair. Reporter it was time to show her students the love. Happy easter, guys we love you and miss you. Reporter it was hard to know whose smiles were bigger, the kids or the teachers. What do you think this will do for the school after this is all over . I think we will be closer and tighter, if thats possible. We miss you is that not just the perfect principal of the school . These educators, parents recognize what they do every day. Lets go back to our panel. We have joe on facebook wanting to note is the wearing of fagloves out in public important in stopping the spread . No, it is said it gives a false sense of security. Remember, the cdc says you cant penetrate through your skin. You see people touching their phone and touching product, the gloves are getting just as contaminated as the product. Dont touch your face, wash your hands frequently. And if you wear gloves, you have to know how to take them off. Thats funny, my story says you have to have a mask and gloves before you go in. Another one, how safe is it to bite food from restaurants right now . Right now, the cdc as well as epidemiologist says takeout food is relatively safe, but you want to take certain precautions to try to limit contact as much as possible. Using google pay, apple pay. Dont use cash because that puts you in contact with people exchanging money. Remember, when you are getting a delivery, ask them to leave it outside your door. If you have to go inside to pick up the food, try to keep six feet of distance to protect yourself and the worker. And always wash your hands after handling the packaging. Put your food on a plate or bowl and then throw away the packaging. After someone is admitted to the hospital, what is the proper way to clean the home . Use a product that can properly disinfect and kill the virus. If you dont know, on the back there is an epa registration number. You can