What isolation looks like. Its monday, march 16th, 2020. Well have the latest updates on the coronavirus right after todays eye opener. Your world in 90 seconds. Its bound to get worse. It will get worse. It will get much worse before it gets better. The coronavirus outbreak consumes america. How much worse . What are the numbers . Its really going to depend on the effectiveness of our response. Shoppers have been going to the stores all weekend. Emptying out shelves, preparing for that big unknown. Buy more than they buy at christmas. Relax. Were doing great. It all will pass. Former Vice President joe biden and senator Bernie Sanders facing off one on one for the first time. Not surprisingly, the nights hot topic involved the coronavirus. This is bigger than any individual. This is bigger than yourself. This is about america. This is about the world. The canadian boy is going viral after a funny interview. The kid was looking forward to his Family Vacation at disneyland but the park was closed due to the coronavirus. Its closing for the whole month and we come from canada. Took a long trip to get here. All that. Cincinnati reds pitcher trevor bauer hosts a charity whiffle ball game to raise money for mlb staff affected by the coronavirus outbreak. Lets go and all that matters. Cover your cough with your elbow like this. Any time coach speaks, its hard not to listen. Everyone has a role to play as we face this challenge together. On cbs this morning. Individuals will be doing their best to spread good information online, including a number of social media celebrities on tiktok. None more delightful than this one. Its corona time. Hey, its corona time right now. Its corona time. I mean, that is excellent. That tiktok hamster is now my favorite thing in the world. Yes, i fully understand i have a wife and two children but ill say it again, that tiktok hamster is my favorite thing in the world. This mornings eye opener is presented by toyota. Lets go places. Its good to have a little laugh. You have to keep your sense of humor, right . A week unlike any other. Were all waking up to a new normal. The only thing we need to spread these days are humor, compassion and help. I think thats a really good way to go. Were open for business here, although a little changed. New seats. Fewer people in the office. Were practicing, its called safe distancing. We used to sis this way. I like it. And we have a minimal staff here. Virtually all of cbs working from home. A lot of people working from home. Social distancing it is. Here we go. Welcome to cbs this morning as we wake up to a new normal and life is slowly grinding to a halt and americas governments from coast to coast order new restrictions in the fight against the coronavirus. Americans are buying all the food and supplies it can find getting ready to stay at home for a long time. Business, travel and even family relationships all disrupted by the outbreak. Cities from new york to los angeles are shutting down. Schools, restaurants and large gatherings to stop the spread. The number of reported cases of the virus in the u. S. Is now more than 3,700. But the actual total number could be higher. We expect to hear more from government officials at every level responding to the newest developments in this crisis. We begin our coverage of the new normal in america with mola lenghi at new yorks Grand Central terminal. What are you seeing . Good morning, tony. Grand Central Station is typically one of the busiest stations, transit hubs in the country. Of course, this is not a typical monday morning. This is supposed to be the morning rush, but as you can see, not so much this morning. Schools are closed. Businesses are following suit, and more and more people are working from home, which is why Grand Central doesnt exactly look like Grand Central. A not so familiar site on bourbon street. Latenight fun coming to a halt by new Orleans Police enforcing the citys new ban on large gatherings. But its large gatherings converging on supermarkets across the country causing shelves to go empty and even hourlong waits at the stores. No more baby wipes, no more toilet paper or water. Reporter President Trump urged calm after holding a call with major retail and grocery executi executives. You dont have to buy so much. Take it easy. Relax. Reporter services that millions of americans rely on are shutting down including restaurants, gyms and bars. Other states are following similar measures, including Washington State, massachusetts, ohio, illinois and new york. It is quite clear that this crisis is growing intensely. After days of mounting pressure, new york city mayor bill de blasio announced the nations largest Public School system would close for at least a month, possibly the rest of the school year, impacting more than a million children. In california, governor gachb newsom is enacting aggressive measures to protect the states most vulner annual. Were calling for the home isolation of all of those 65 years and older and those with chronic conditions. Reporter though much of the country is being told to distance themselves, doctors and nurses are on the front lines. An emergency doctor in kirkland, washington, is in Critical Condition after catching the virus. Michael maron is president and ceo of Holy Name Medical Center in teaneck, new jersey, where all 40,000 residents have been asked to selfquarantine. Part of what were burning through it at 700 to 1,095 masks a day because were trying to keep our personnel safe. Reporter the top Infectious Disease expert is not ruling out a national lockdown. Americans should be prepared that theyre going to have to hunker down significantly more than we as a country are doing. Reporter more and more businesses continue to shutter. Ski resorts across the country are following the lead of the cruise ship industry and shutting down their operations. In las vegas, mgm announced the temporary shutdown of its hotels and casinos effective tomorrow. Anthony . Mola, thank you. An experimental Coronavirus Vaccine moves into human testing today. Its part of the push by scientists to find treatments and preventive vaccines. Dr. David agus joins us from los angeles. Good morning. I know a vaccine is at least a year away at this point. I want to get to the more immediate concern, which is, has been the lack of tests. Is the testing situation improving at all from what youve seen . The good is, there are more tests across the country. The tough part is, theres not an infrastructure to run those tests. Some of the reagents are in short supply. We are still testing a fraction of the people that need to be tested, and the tests many times can take three, four, five days until the results come back. Does that limit our understanding of what were dealing with at this point . With knowledge is power. And ride now we dont have that knowledge. So its very hard to do effective datadriven quarantines without the data of who is affected. If i tell you youre positive, youre going to stay home. We dont know what to do. What are the numbers in other countries tell bus about what w could face here. Does that give knus clue . Were scared. Were scared the numbers are going to skyrocket, that well have to put in stricter measures. Im proud of what america is doing. Were stepping up every single, you know, city is stepping up here. We may have to step up more. But its certainly an amazing week. Look at what weve done as a country. Doctor, at the beginning of this month, fewer than 100 cases. Now at 3,700. You look at our trajectory next to italy and iran, it seems frightenly similar. Are we on the path of, say italy. Its really hard to know. We have much better medical infrastructure than italy does. The drugs that are going to be able to treat this disease are in development and look very, very encouraging. So the hope is theres some really positive news there in the next week or two together with us expanding our medical infrastructure. Well not have what happened, what happened in italy. I think our leadership and infrastructure is going to do much better. What do you think were facing in the weeks ahead, david . What i think is somewhat stricter measures about trying to slow the progress of the disease. Thats the goal here. Theres no panic. Its slowing the disease. So that we can have our infrastructure in place. We have to protect our elderly. Below age 60, the death rate is almost zero. Above age 60, it starts to go up by decade. We as a country have to protect our elderly. Were all stepping up for people with medical issues and over the age of 60 to protect them. If you test positive, david, what is the recovery rate . Do we know . Well, that depends how old you are. The entry portal for the virus goes up by decade. If you test positive under the age of 60, the recovery rate is over 99 in countries like south korea. And it will be the same here. Every decade above 60, that goes up until its about 7 or 8 in the 80s. And so we have to protect people over the age of 60 and thats what were doing with these draconian measures going in across the country. Doctor, theres some things you want to spread at a time like this and that would be advice for what is effective treatment. When people walk into a doctors office, im curious, what is working . What are folks like yourself talking about and sharing with one another about how to get people back on their feet . Its a great question. Right now there is no National Database for what is working, how we all talk to each other in terms of treating this disease. That being said, there are some effective treatments we think will work. The Clinical Trials are ongoing but they look encouraging. And we as physicians are allowed to use the drugs off label. Were using drugs that block the virus from replicating. Were using drugs that temper down inflammation which is the main side effect of the virus to make survival significantly higher than its been seen before. Dr. David agus, thanks. Wall street opened the week with a huge drop after the latest action to try and protect the economy from the coronavirus. Trading was halted seconds after the opening bell after stocks fell close to 10 . That followed the federal reserves decision yesterday to drastically cut interest rates. Weijia jiang is at the white house where President Trump applauded the reduction. Whats led to the feds decision . Good morning. Chairman powell stopped short of using the word recession to describe whats ahead. But this surprise announcement is certainly a clear indication that the fed is concerned about how the coronavirus is going to impact the global economy. The fed cut its benchmark rate by a full percentage point to a range between 0 and 0. 25 and, starting today, the fed will start buying 500 billion in treasury securities and 200 billion in mortgagebacked securities in order to introduce money into the economy. Some economists express concern that by using the biggest tool in its arsenal at this point, it will not be able to significantly affect the economy down the line. Of course, Congress Also has a big role to play in dealing with the economic fallout of the virus. And today, the senate is expected to take up a house bill that was passed on saturday that would provide paid sick leave, help feeding families and boost medicaid funds. Gayle . Weijia, thank you. Many americans coming home from abroad waited in very long lines for several hours at major airports to have medical screenings. People, as you see, were packed together shoulder to shoulder, despite the cdcs call for social distancing. Kris van cleave is at Reagan National airport just outside washington, d. C. Kris, those lines were very jarring to see. The last thing you need at the airport these days. Whats being done to prevent these lines from forming again . Good morning, gayle. Youre exactly right. This is what americans are being told to avoid. The acting Homeland Security secretary says they are working to increase capacity and speed up the wait times. Take a look at some of this video. We know that very long lines and long wait times hit 3 of the 13 airports screening passengers returning from europe saturday night. This follows travel restrictions going into effect for most of europe. The uk and ireland are being added to the list. These social media pictures show a crowd at chicago ohare waiting for hours. The slowdown appeared to be a combination of staffing, the new Health Screenings and new forms passengers have to fill out. Yesterday a flyer returning from finland on a virtually empty flight described confusion getting back into the u. S. Our experience getting back home was one of everything going on time, although every time wed ask a question like whats it going to be like when we got back to the u. S. , no one could answer it. It was rapidly changing. We saw what was happening at ohare. Americans coming back from europe, china, iran, are being asked to selfquarantine once they get home for 14 days. President trump is telling americans, if they dont have to travel, not to. And that is causing airlines to start shedding capacity. At united, they said theyd cut 50 of their capacity by april. They are facing the possibility of losing at least a billion dollars. 1. 5 billion this month alone. Guys . Kris, theyve said its worse than 9 11. In europe, three of the countries hardest hit by the coronavirus have each recorded their highest single day death count. France, spain and italy, where the spike came despite a national lockdown. Over the weekend in italy, obituaries for victims spanned ten pages of a local newspaper in bergamo in the northern part of the country. Imtiaz tyab reports how they are fighting to contain the spread. Reporter europe continues to convulse from the coronavirus outbreak. Cases in spain are surging with reported infections over 8,000. This woman just lost her husband to the virus. She, too, is infected but was denied treatment from doctors for not being sick enough. Desperate to console their mother, her children risking exposure to themselves. Across the continent, more than 100 Million People are now on lockdown. Police are even using drones to enforce it. Germany is the latest to slam its borders shut, while in france, cafes and bistros are closed despite local elections going ahead. The British Government is now warning it, too, could ban public gatherings and also enforce months of isolation on the elderly. Its just scary. Reporter but its italy that continues to suffer the most. With a record oneday death toll of 368 people on sunday alone. Still, that didnt stop pope francis from walking the streets of an eerily empty rome to pray for the sick. Prayers which may have been heard as soons of hope slowly start to emerge elsewhere. Like in china where this all started. And in south korea, also with large outbreaks, the numbers of infected are at record lows. Inspiring some italians to take to their balconies this weekend to sing songs of solidarity. Including puccinis classic nessun dorma. He sings, i will win. Consider cbs this morning, imtiaz tyab, london. So beautiful. How about that for the human spirit. Goose bumps to hear that. Very nice. Beautiful thing. Back here in this country, the coronavirus and the federal governments response dominated the president ial debate. Former Vice President joe biden and senator Bernie Sanders stood at a noticeably safe distance from one another, about six feet, as they argued about why they would be the best person to lead the country in a crisis. Ed okeefe reports from washington. This is bigger than any one of us. Reporter in their first one on one debate, joe biden and Bernie Sanders said theyd respond to the coronavirus better than President Trump. Undermining the doctors and scientists trying to help the american people. Its unacceptable for him to be blabbering with unfactual information which is confusing the general public. Reporter but they disagreed about whether a governmentrun Health Care Plan should be part of the solution. You have a single payer system in italy. It doesnt work there. One of the reasons that we are unprepared and have been unprepared is we dont have a system. Weve got thousands of private insurance plans. That is not a system that is prepared to provide health care for all people. That has nothing to do when youre in a National Crisis. The National Crisis says were responding. Its all free. You dont have to pay for a thing. That has nothing to do with whether or not you have an insurance policy. Reporter both in their late 70s, the candidates were asked what theyre doing to stay healthy. I am very careful about the people im interacting with. Im using a lot of soap and Hand Sanitizers. I do not shake hands any longer. I do not engage we did the same thing, our staff is all working from home. We are not doing rallies any longer. Reporter on the topic of a Vice President ial pick, sanders said hed likely pick a woman and biden made a commitment. There are a number of women qualified to be president tomorrow. Id pick a woman to be my Vice President. Reporter ed okeefe. Made news. Very civilized conversation. No audience. Well have more on the coronavirus, of tracking white rain, pushing across parts of the bay area this morning and as we head to the afternoon, looking through scattered showers, some of us will be in the mid 50s. A cool afternoon ahead. Daytime highs right around 54 in San Francisco, 54 in fremont and 56 for san jose. Keep those umbrellas today handy for today and tomorrow. Dryer, and a little bit more mild for the rest of the work week. Announcer this National Weather report sponsored by toyota. Lets go places. Weve learned cbs news Foreign Correspondent seth doane tested positive for the co