And broadway beautiful. The stars of the hit carole king musical prove youve got a friend, even if theyre so far away. So nice. But first, heres todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. This will be a week of heartache. It also is a week of hope. The toll of the virus is hard to fathom. Experts say we should brace for things to get even worse. If back to normal means acting like there never was a coronavirus problem, i dont think thats going to happen until we do have the situation where you can completely protect the population. We are at red line. People cant work any harder. Staying at this level is problematic. President trump offered his best wishes to Boris Johnson who was moved to icu after his coronavirus symptoms worsened. Americans are all praying for his recovery. Hes been a really good friend. Hes been really something very special. Strong. Resolute. Doesnt quit. Doesnt give up. President ial primary in wisconsin will go ahead after the u. S. Supreme court blocked attempts to delay the vote due to the pandemic. People should not have to decide whether they can vote or be sick. Thats just not a good choice. The Japanese University decided to go ahead and have graduation with robots and have their faces on these ipad screens. Major League Baseball working on a plan that could have the regular season beginning as soon as some time in may. All that stanley cup champion of the st. Louis blues working out with his son. The little guy tries to match dads every move. Both of them even going shirtless. Adorable. And all that matters. Things are getting a little bit tense at my house. Last night, i told my wife i want to see other people. And she got upset. I said, no, i want to see some other people. So shes on tinder now. On cbs this morning. The cdc issued a new guidance because after months of advising americans not to wear masks, now theyre advising all americans to wear cloth or fabric face coverings which can be made at home when entering public spaces to prevent spreading the infection to others. We were supposed to be covering our faces this whole time . Oh, my god. Billy porter tried to worn us. This mornings eye opener presented by toyota. Billy porter, as usual, always ahead of his time. Welcome to cbs this morning. Which you know by now were coming to you from our house to yours out of an abundance of caution hoping you are staying home, too. Even with social distancing, please note we are committed to keep bringing you the news that you need during this crisis. And thats where well begin, the crisis. We begin with new hope the coronavirus curve is starting to shift, it seems. U. S. Officials report more than 368,000 cases of the virus, though the real number could be much higher than that. The death toll has reached around 11,000. But as case loads skyrocket nationwide, tony, there are potential signs of progress here in hardhit new york. Yeah, they like what they see here in new york. The numbers of new hospitalizations and intensive care admissions are falling. In addition to that, fewer patients need breathing assistance. Though Health Officials do warn its still very early in this trend. Our lead National CorrespondentDavid Begnaud is near the comfort deployed to help new york city hospitals. As if to underscore the risks these front line workers take, the comforts first coronavirus case was one of its own workers . Thats true. And that worker is isolated, separated from the rest of the people on the ship for their safety and the workers safety. Listen, the governor of new york had asked President Trump, can we start bringing Covid Patients on the ship . Not just noncovid . And the president has agreed. And patients will not only come from new york, theyre going to start coming from new jersey, which is just right across the river behind me. And thats to help relieve some of the pressure on the new jersey hospitals, too. Around the country this morning, some Health Systems are being pushed to the brink. In what could be the most critical week for the Coronavirus Crisis yet. At ems coordinator told us he got an emotional reaction when he helped to bring in emergency staffing at an overwhelmed new jersey hospital. There were tears in their eyes. And easily to see because about all youre showing when youre with full protection are your eyes. Reporter in illinois, they added more than 1,000 cases in a single day. Bringing the total there to more than 12,000 cases. In michigan, the Detroit Free Press reports the states largest Hospital System has 1500 workers all showing covid symptoms. Meanwhile, the Henry Ford Health system in detroit says at least 700 of its workers have already tested positive. The army corps of engineers is now transforming detroits Convention Center into a 1,000bed field hospital. It will be 1 of 22 field hospitals across 18 states. We hope to be done by the 9th of april. That includes putting beds into it. Reporter in pennsylvania, a nursing home reportedly says all 450 of its residents are presumed to be positive. At a longterm care facility in maryland, 14 deaths have been reported. And at a Rehab Facility in virginia, theyve lost 28 patients due to the coronavirus. I think what weve learned over the last month is just how much asymptomatic transmission seems to be contributing to the outbreak. Reporter in new york, military personnel are now treating coronavirus patients at the javits Convention Center in manhattan. Were mobilizing in the same way that we mobilize to go to war. Reporter around the country, some Health Care Workers have told cbs news that their hospitals are warning them not to talk to the media about the lack of personal protective equipment or hazardous work conditions. But Michael Pappas from mt. Sinai hospital in new york city believes he has a duty to speak out. I do not want it to be on my conscience that i didnt speak out about whats going on in these hospitals. I would rather get sick and die knowing that i spoke out, whether or not im targeted, whether or not i lose my job. Reporter strong words from the doctor there. Listen, the governor of new york has extended the stayathome order through the end of the month and hes upped the fines for people caught violating that order and not socially distancing to 1,000. Thats what youll pay if you are ticketed by the police. Also, the mayor of new york city is looking at what would happen if the morgues here in the city become overwhelmed. Theyre not there yet. There was a wild rumor that bodies would be buried in parks. Thats not the case, the state and city says. Theyre looking at one place in the bronx which is an island where bodies could be buried if the morgues are overwhelmed but we are not there yet. Anthony . David, thank you. Coronavirus hot spots around the u. S. Include new york, new jersey, massachusetts, michigan and louisiana. The governor says the curve could be starting to flatten. Janet shamlian is at the louisiana texas border where texas officials are stopping drivers coming in. Janet, what exactly is happening there . Anthony, good morning. So were along interstate 10. Drivers are being dweriverted o the hoyas they come into texas. They line up here. They are being questioned by state troopers about where they plan to spend the next 14 days in selfquarantine as mandated by the governor. There are now checkpoints like this one at all major crossings between louisiana and texas. Its part of an effort to stop the spread of the coronavirus because, as we know, cases in louisiana are spiking. Most of them in the new orleans area where on monday a 1,000bed hospital opened as sort of a makeshift area to help ease the overcrowding on local hospitals in that area. 1800 more than 1800 new cases reported on monday. That brings the states total number of coronavirus cases to almost 15,000. And now 512 deaths are reported in the state of louisiana. On monday, Governor John Bel Edwards released a sobering statistic. Of those 512 deaths, 70 of those people were africanamerican. Gayle . Were starting to hear more about that, janet. Thank you. Dr. Tara narula joins us from her home in new york city. Good morning to you tara. Really good to see you. Good morning, gayle. Were all craving always nice to see you. We are all craving some kind of positive news. And it looks like maybe were seeing it here in new york where they say there are reports of a leveling off of hospitalization and deaths in this city. So what exactly does that mean . And what happens after an area starts to peak . Well, you heard the Vice President , his words that this is going to be a week of heartache and hope. And i think thats how were all feeling here. Were certainly seeing this leveling off of icu admissions, hospitalizations, intubations, all of which is very encouraging, whether were at the peak or about to be at the peak. Its all good sign. However it should not be taken as a sign to let up on those mitigation and social distancing efforts. Those are exactly what have gotten us to this point. And dr. Fauci and dr. Birx yesterday being very clear on saying, if we continue with those aggressive mitigation efforts, we may not reach those estimates of 100,000 deaths in the United States that the models have predicted. So this is a time for americans to understand that hopefully were moving in the right direction in new york. Its too early to claim victory but we need to keep up those hard efforts at social distancing. Yeah, Governor Cuomo very clear about that. You heard in davids piece, hes talking about 1,000 fines and he said now is not the time to let up. You look outside in central park. People are sort of getting closer together because of the weather is warming up. Now the White House Task force is offering new guidelines for social distancing. What does that mean . What are they . Well, it means that we need to continue to make that effort to stay six feet away. That if you are going to leave your home, as dr. Birx said, to go Grocery Shopping or to the pharmacy, you maybe want to send one person instead of the whole family going and try to limit the number of times youre outside of the house and around other people. If you venture out as the weather gets nicer, you want to try to do it at offpeak times or in areas like your backyard or in large patches of central park where were bringing our kids to get exercise every day. Were not around other people. So again, important to keep that in mind. You dont want to be congregating in big groups. Cdc has a new report on the effects the coronavirus has on children. Can you give us some information on that . Well, this was really the first cdc report to look solely at children in the United States. They looked from february to april at over 100,000 cases in the United States and they found that less than 2 of those were in a pediatric population. The median age affected was about 11. And, in fact, similar to the data in china, less hospitalizations in children. Children did have fever, cough and shortness of breath but to a lesser extent than in the adult population. So important to stress that while we see kids being hit less hard, they can still be affected. They are still hospitalizations and there were three deaths in children that are being investigated as possibly related to covid19. Can we talk about treatments for just a second. Are we any clearer on what treatments actually work on this disease . On this virus . Theres no question that therapeutics are going to be a big part of turning the tide. And when you look at what the main frontrunners are, its the antiviral drugs, remdesivir. Drugs like hydrox chloroquine that weve spoken about and the antibody class of drugs. Similar to what weve discussed in terms of taking plasma from people who have been affected and giving it to others but wed bioengineer these antibodies. Tara, thank you. Tony, lets go to your house. All right, thank you, gayle. Now is not the time to let up, although that spring sun is shining. Weve got to keep practicing that social distancing. We want to bring you an update on a story were following overseas. Britains Prime Minister is in intensive care this morning after his fight with the coronavirus took a troubling turn. Boris jrngs johnsohnson, a key was taken to the hospital after a persistent fever for more than a week after testing positive. Elizabeth palmer reports from london. Britains Prime Minister spent the night in intensive care getting oxygen, but downing street says hes not on a ventilator. Late last week, Boris Johnson emerged briefly from his residence to applaud health workers. But in a twitter video admitted he wasnt well enough yet to end his isolation. I still have one of the symptoms, minor symptom of, i have a temperature. Reporter that was clearly an understatement. 48 hours later, johnson was in the hospital. Early in the outbreak, he fronted the uk campaign to promote hand washing. But also boasted about shaking hands with coronavirus patients which suggests multiple exposures. Johnson works to stay fit. Hes a keen cyclist and tennis player, but hes also 55 years old and male which elevates his risk of complications from coronavirus. His pregnant partner Carrie Symons had coronavirus symptoms, too, but shes recovering. Boris johnson has handed over the running of the uk government to dominic raab as britain passes another grim milestone in this pandemic. More than 5,000 people have now died here although there is some evidence that the spread of the infection may peak this coming week. Anthony . Elizabeth palmer in london, thank you, liz. A white house memo reportedly warned back in january that the coronavirus could be devastating. President trump repeatedly downplayed the threat in public for weeks afterwards. Now as ben tracy reports, hes giving a thumbs down to new internal warnings about efforts to fight the virus. Most of the critical needs are being more than met. Reporter President Trump insists the federal government is rushing supplies to hardhit areas, but he dismissd an inspector generals report released monday showing hospitals are lacking critical supplies and dealing with long delays for coronavirus test results. Give me the name of the inspector general. Could politics be entered into that . Reporter the ig report was based on phone interviews with adm sfraer administrators from 323 hospitals across the country. Were the federal government. Were not supposed to stand on street corners doing testing. Reporter the number of coronavirus deaths is still expected to spike in the coming days. But dr. Anthony fauci says if americans stick with social distan distancing, the most dire models may not come true. We can make that number go down. I dont accept every day that were going to have to have 100,000 to 200,000 deaths. Reporter virus crisis on the phone monday with his expected 2020 opponent joe biden. Mr. Trump described that as a wonderful and warm conversation. Anthony . Ben, late last night, acting Navy Secretary thomas modly apologized for some comments made on board the uss theodore roosevelt. What did he say . So that ship is dealing with a coronavirus outbreak. They are testing the sailors. And we dont yet know how many are infected but the Commanding Officer of that ship, captain Brett Crozier was fired last week after writing a letter about conditions on the ship that leaked to the media. On monday, modly addressed the crew in a speech broadcast over the ships public address system. He defend his decision to fire crozier, but it did not go over well with all the sailors on the ship, as you will hear. He didnt think that information was going to get out into the public, and this Information Age that we live in, that he was, a, too naive or too stupid to be the Commanding Officer of a ship like this. What the it was betrayal. I can tell you one other thing. Because he did that, he put it in the publics forum and its now become a big controversy in washington, d. C. And across the country. He was only trying to help us. Modly criticized the crew for giving crozier a heros farewell and said they should think about the worry he created instead of cheering for him. Now in the apology that he made last night, modly doesnt actually think captain crozier is stupid or naive. President trump says he may now get involved to find out if captain crozier really should have been fired. Anthony . Ben, thank you. Ahead an exclusive look inside an italian nursing home badly hit by the coronavirus. Why the countrys massive death toll could be even higher than with less asthma. Thanks to dupixent, the addon treatment for specific types of moderatetosevere asthma. Dupixent isnt for sudden breathing problems. It can improve lung function for better breathing in as little as 2 weeks and help prevent severe asthma attacks. 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