Any of us going through it will ever be the same. Reporter this is kaye. She asked us not to use her full name because she fears getting threats from patients family members who are not allowed to visit. Id like a mask like yours. Id like all of us to have masks like yours. And these white suits like you have, i dont have one. Reporter what is that . It looks like a garbage bag. Yeah. It is a garbage bag. Reporter kaye was not the only staff member wearing a garbage bag over her scrubs. Many people use sanitizing wipes to clean themselves as they work. This woman is an endoscopy tech. Shes been helping out in the icu. Many of her colleagues have fallen ill. It happened to her twice. Did you have covid . I had the sptoms. I had the chills, i had the headache. I didnt have the fever, but i had the chills, i had the headache. I had the shaking. I had the coughing, constant coughing, and the body ache, no appetite, no desire to eat, no taste in my mouth. And when i came back and i was getting shortness of breath and i went out again. So i just came back. Reporter wow. Wednesday. Reporter wow. Before we left, dr. Rosenberg went into the room of the man in his 50s who suddenly needed his breathing tube changed. For that rosenberg put on a replaceable gown and ski goggles as he went in to join the team. They were successful. This is serious. People are dying from this. Old people, young people, people are dying from this. It is lethal. Reporter 27 Covid Patients have died so far at that brooklyn hospital, ands, the bo loadednt tractortrailer which is parked outside. You heard nurse kaye ask for the face shield that i was wearing. She has it. I gave mine to her. We sanitized it and delivered it to her over the weekend. She will go to work better prepared today than she walked out on friday afternoon. Cbs news is a very limited supply which we are using to bring you stories like these. And her asking for that shield is a reminder that nurses here in new york city, and for that matter everywhere around the country, are asking for better protective equipment and more of it. David begnaud reporting from the front lines. In addition to equipment shortages and staff burnout, many hospitals have another problem. Theyre losing money during this pandemic. A government report identified a number of hospitals that are trying to reduce overhead by temporarily laying off staff. Anna werner reports. Reporter in florida at miami dade countys Jackson Memorial hospital, executives say they are taking pay cuts and other employees are being asked to go on temporary furloughs due to the financial strain. We were required to take time off. We were required to take our personal leave time. Reporter rn case manager Angela Presley fair child was surprised to receive an email saying she would be mandated to take a week off in the middle of the crisis. I couldnt understand it because all around the country theyre asking for nurses right now. Theyre asking for Health Care Workers to work in facilities that are dire need with the coronavirus and the increased numbers of coronavirus cases. Reporter the ripple effects of preparing for the coronavirus are hitting hospitals around the country. Boston Medical CenterHealth System temporarily furloughed some 700 employees. A Health System in sarasota, florida, said its revenue d by 16illion in march. Its furloughing some employees, trimming hours for others. Similar cuts are in place at a syracuse, new york, hospital. The problems are reflected in a new nationwide survey of hospitals from the Inspector General for hhs. Ann maxwell is an assistant i. G. In order to prepare appropriately for taking care of this infectious disease, the hospitals have staffed elective procedures which bring in money to the hospital, theyve stopped other procedures as well. So they are losing revenue. Reporter back in miami, the c. E. O. Of the jackson Health System which runs Jackson Memorial is carlos magoya. He said the answers are in the math. Again, were a public Health System. Our operating margins are really, really tiny. We dont make a whole lot of money and we dont have the huge working capital of a lot of forprofit health care systems. Reporter he said since his hospitals have stopped doing most elective surgeries, the hospital has lost 40 of its revenue and predicts it will lose 25 million in the month of april alone. So he says hes keeping front line doctors and nurses but cutting everywhere else he can. When do you think some of these hospitals might hit bottom . Were already hitting bottom. The moment the revenue stopped coming in, the bottom is already there. We just dont know for how long a period of time. Reporter some hospitals indicate that they can and will call workers back when the need becomes greatest here, but magoya says it would help them a lot if they knew when the federal stimulus monies hospitals are expecting was going to come in. He says it could take months. In response to this report by the i. G. , by the way, the health and Human Services spokesperson said they are working hard to support local communities. That was anna werner reporting. The cbs overnight news will be right back. My gums are irritated. I dont have to worry about that, do i . Harmful bacteria lurk just below the gum line. Crest gum detoxify, voted product of the year. It works below the gum line to neutralize harmful plaque bacteria and help reverse early gum damage. Gum detoxify, from crest. We aint stoppin believe me go straight till the morning look like we wont wait, were taking everything we wanted we can do it all strength, no sweat six weeks after the first coronavirus death in the u. S. , american industry is finally gearing up to address the ical srtepred offheine for kris van cleave got a tour of a newly transformed ford auto plant in michigan. Reporter this is a first look inside the ford plant in michigan as its converted from making car parts to making lifesaving ventilators. Ford expects to Start Building the devices like this one this month, ramping up to 7200 a week. They promised to deliver 50,000 by july 4th. Help ford admits may come too late for cities with an urgent need for ventilators now. Its built into reporter fords adrian price. A lot of people when they heard the noum were like, thats great. But why does it take three weeks to start work . There is quite a bit that goes into taking and designing what is currently being produced at two a day and scaling that to make over 7,000 a week. We use the building for Automotive Products and scaling to produce Something Like a small ventilator requires different sourcing and components and different capability. Reporter americas auto makers are already helping those on the front lines of the coronavirus fight. Ford is making face shields at a rate of one every ten seconds. We were there as they delivered hundreds to First Responders in the detroit area. That will save not only the lives of our firefighters and paramedics, but the lives of the public. Reporter ford made miracle. Reporter the effort by ford and General Motors is reminiscent of world war ii when detroit built trucks, tanks, even planes. The plant where ford will assemble ventilators is just down the road from the air field where ford once built b24 bombers. This week General Motors is validating its manufacturing process for these ventilators. Production starts next week. Hundreds of employees will be back at work, and will need to be kept healthy. Dr. Jeffrey hess is gms medical director. Whats the biggest challenge to running Something Like a factory while battling coronavirus . The biggest challenge is making employees comfortable coming back to work. Right now theyre in their homes, a safe environment. They can control it. Maintain 6 feet between individuals. Reporter this could be a new normal for american workers. Temperature checks at the door, mandatory mask wearing and workstations 6 feet apart. The stations will be disinfected before and after each shift. Measures aimed at protecting devices to help heal an ailing nation. We have to do this. This is vitally important to the American People and those who are sick. Reporter democratic lawmakers sent a letter to President Trump march 13th imploring him to implement the defense production act. He did that two weeks later ordering gm to make ventilators. Critics say that whole effort should have started weeks if not months sooner given the time it takes to ramp up mass production and the warnings coming from overseas about shortages particularly around icu beds and ventilators. Starting next week, hundreds if not thousands of these ventilators will be rolling off the l e first with movie theaters from coast to coast shuttered by the coronavirus, Hollywood Studios are having to rethink how they do business. Some big budget films have had their openings pushed back and other movies are going straight to the internet. Chris martinez has that story. Reporter as movie theaters are across the u. S. Shut their doors, studios in hollywood were left scrambling to make a new plan. The solution for many . Bypass the box office and head straight for the small screen. Take, for instance, trolls world tour, the animated musical originally slated for Theatrical Release may 10. Will instead get a digital release on that same date. And other movies that were in theaters as the pandemic took off are now getting early digital debuts. Im sonic. Reporter sonic the hedgehog which arrives in theaters mid february has already had a home release. I know for people shut inside its been a life saver. Reporter variety magazine Matt Donnelly said movie studios are having to rethink how to reach audiences and make money which could have a lasting effect. He thinks home release could become the new normal for many midbudget movies. If youre looking at a film that costs anywhere between 30 and 100 million, that might not be about superheroes or cars that fly off of the eiffel tower. You can probably see those a lot more of those going straight to streaming platforms. Reporter but not every movi ma stu are taking their big titles out of the mix entirely. Choosing instead to shuffle their release schedules. Some of those, like marvels black widow, have been postponed by a matter of months, with others like the latest fast and the furious being pushed to next year. Donnelly said these wouldbe blockbusters need months in the theaters globally to reach their full financial potential. These are really strategic business decisions, and also i think in the long term will be good for the health of the movie business. Reporter that strategy proving one way or another, the show must go on. Chris martinez, cbs news, los angeles. And that is the overnight news for this tuesday. For some of you the news continues. For others, check back with us a little later for cbs this morning and follow us online any time at cbsnews. Com. Reporting from the cbs news studios in washington, im jeff begays. Captioningors odonnell brng news, grim milestone. The u. S. Death toll passes 10,000 at the start of a week that the nations top doctor says will feel like pearl harbor. And tonight a scathing new government report says our hospitals face severe and widespread shortages of essential supplies. This is an enemy that we have underestimated from day one, and we have paid the price dearly. Odonnell tonight we ask the Surgeon General if we are flattening the curve and which cities are americas next hot spots. Also breaking news, british Prime MinisterBoris Johnson admitted to intensive care. His coronavirus symptoms worsening. Plus the queen makes a rare address to the nation