Stores and they had a message that the president before people are going to feel comfortable going back to establishments theyre going to have to ramp up testing in the United States. That is the message that came through to the president in the call that were told lasted about an hour and a half and they had extensive discussions where they were praising the president in his efforts so far but made clear that they need to see testing ramped up before they reopen the country. Which is the primary reason the president is gathering Business Leaders together. You saw him yesterday list off about 200 people, some of them executives, critics of the president , some of them his friends that he said is part of the council that is focused on reopening the country. Though it is different than what officials had imagined where they thought it would be a much smaller group. Really this is a much larger group that were seeing play out because there were dozens of people on this call and that is just the first of four calls that the president is scheduled to have today. But this is notable. Because for days the president has been insisting that testing is the best in the u. S. Than anywhere else in the world and something we know is not true and he said hes not hearing concerns any more about testing and clearly today on the call that is one of the first things the executives wanted to bring up with the president. So a reality check as he moves forward with the plan of reopening the country as were told hes still aiming to do by may 1st, a little bit starting that day. So the question Going Forward is does this change the president s thinking on this because this narrows what Public Health experts have been telling the president , theyre not sure the testing is at the level it needs to be by may 1st. And is he a general without an army saying that the economy reopen and then businesses say no, were not going to. Kaitlan, did this get through to him . Did he respond to this . Reporter it is not clear. They said the president was taking a leading role on the call and talking about testing and what theyre doing moving forward. But the question is, of course, does that change his thinking on this and is he listening and adjusting to factor into his decisionmaking because hes been saying hell listen to the Health Experts but we know his allies have said listen to the Business Leaders and the executives and what they are telling because they want to get the country reopened but make sure they have the testing ready to do that first. So the question that well be asking the president this afternoon at briefing is whether or not this is a registered to him and if Business Executives are hesitant to move forward, that is a factor in the Decision Making process. It is not up to the president to open these businesses and open these states back up. It is going to be up to the people who own the businesses and the restaurants and Retail Stores and to the consumers and if they feel comfortable going into these places. That is going to be when you see the country reopen. Indeed. Kaitlan collins at the white house. Thank you for that report. The fda approving two more Antibody Tests that could detect if people had been infected with the novel coronavirus. This is Abbott Laboratories announcing the release of their own Antibody Test that was not approved by the fda. I want to bring in cnn drew givin. And drew, up until now you had a lot of the Antibody Tests that have not worked or as one lab official said theyre just crappy tests. A technical term that we could relate to. So why were they allowed to be sold and where are we on getting the Antibody Tests that work. The first batch of tests, the fda relaxed the rules, allowed the tests to go out on the market as long as they didnt say that they have any kind of fda approval or emergency use approval but they did turn out to be crappy tests and just werent responsive to what we need to know which is for sure did i or did i not have coronavirus. So we now have three fda approved under emergency use authorization. We a bunch more in the pipeline. Those are going to be coming out probably in the next week or so. Actually the National Cancer institute running tests on those tests to see the validity. It is very important to determine, especially for those people who have had novel coronavirus, recovered from it, and perhaps, we dont know for sure, but it is assumed, would have immunity. Those are people that you wont have to retest over and over again to get them to work. So that is where we stand on the Antibody Testing right now. Really in the initial stages. There is a new cnn analysis, drew, that found that corporate testing of coronavirus de decreased. There are so many theories on why it declined. It could be that social distancing is working and because weve only been testing the sickest of the sick with that level of sick people being reduced the testing is not being done. The big commercial labs tell us they have the capacity, theyre just seeing their orders reduced. Now that contradicts local public labs and state labs that are still having trouble getting swaps, reagent supplies and other things to run the tests. But overall, you could still get tests, it is just for a variety of reasons these tests have overall reduced in the last couple of days. It is i have interesting trend that weve seen in our analysis. Drew griffin, thank you for your report. Lets talk about this now with a cnn analyst dr. Amy compton phillips. What is your reaction to seeing this decline in testing . Do you have a sense of whether this is a positive or a negative indicator . Well, i think it is actually a positive in the sense that we had put artificial constraints on the number of those tests going into the commercial labs. And that they were really for as drew said the sickest of the sick patients. So people in the hospital or under suspicion and needing to have their care determined by a positive or negative test. So because we put the artificial constraints on it, it is a sign that were probably over in most parts of the country the peak of the wave and the sickest of the sick are starting to go down. That is great. Now we open up the bottleneck and allowing more people to get tested for lesser symptoms or even for screening. And thats the thing is, there just arent the tests needed. We just heard from Business Leaders that if you want us to reopen, people need to be able to test. What is going on with the testing . Where are we with that . We are we are better than we have been and not anywhere near where we need to be with broadly available testing for anybody on demand. And the whole rational behind that is the tests are like cars, theyre reagents. The tools are like the gas that goes in the car and those reagents are the supply chain constraint. We rapidly shot up the number of these kind of tests that are needed across the globe and the supply chain hasnt caught up. It is kind of like ppe, it takes a while for the supply chain to catch up for this newlymanufactured demand. And i want to talk to you about a study that was just released in the nature medicine journal and it found, this may be the issue of why testing is so important, that people may be most infectious before they even show symptoms. So as were looking now, were looking ahead to easing restrictions, i think a lot of places are still far off but trying to come up with plans. How could people protect themselves and others if there may be no symptoms. Well, and that is exactly why broad testing is needed. Particularly if you think about the highest risk people and that is Health Care Workers and First Responders and Grocery Store clerks and bus drivers, people that have had to be out in the public, those folks all need to be screened and they need to be screened regularly. If their immune and have antibodies, great, maybe they dont need ongoing screening but other wise they need screening because they could be the asymptomatic carrier and continue to spread the virus to others unless they know that they have it. And how do we at least get everybody screened in the highest risk professions and then start moving out beyond that. But right now we dont even have that supply for those highest risk professions. Abbott laboratories has announced theyre going to release a nonfda approved Antibody Test. Is that a test that you personally would be confident in without having fda approval . I think that its really critical to make sure that were doing the testing for the appropriate sars cov 2 antibody and that is why we look to fda approval to certify that are we testing for the right coronavirus. There is other cousin coronaviruses that cause colds and the big risk is are we testing for the cousin coronaviruses or are we testing for sars cov 2, the covid coronavirus. And abbott is a reputable lab. But you heard junk science labs out there. My presumption is the abbott test is probably very valid. But i will feel even more confident when something is fda approved. I want to ask you, there is a lot of scientists who say if there is no vaccine, americans could be practicing social distancing until 2022. What is your assessment. My assessment is that its going to be gradually reopened and so were not going to go away from valid hand washing, highly it is probably a while before were comfortable shaking hands again and that might be until we get a vaccine. But between now and then, we definitely will be doing some degree of being out into our communities again, going back to work again. But it is going to be with some constraints and that is making sure that were staying slightly more separate and less touchy feely than in the past. The new normal. Dr. Amy compton phillips, thank you so much. Thank you. New york governor just issued a new order for every new yorker going out of their home then how Major League Baseball is playing a role in a key study to determine who has been exposed to the virus. Eds a cfp® confident financial plans, calming financial plans, complete financial plans. Theyre all possible with a cfp® professional. Find yours at letsmakeaplan. Org. Welcome back to cnn. In hardhit new york, Governor Cuomo said the stress on the Health Care System is stabilizing. The threeday average of hospitalizations and admission news the intensive care unit are down. But he said new york is in no way out of the woods. Erica hill is joining us now from new york city. And erica, as the governor there, hes ordering all new yorkers who go out in public to have their nose and their mouth covered when they cant maintain social distancing. Tell us about this decision. Reporter yeah, thats right. He announced an executive order for everyone in new york state. As you point out, when they cant maintain social distancing, as he said if youre out for a walk and youre by yourself and the only person on street, you dont have to have your face covered but if you cross the street and someone is in close proximity to you, less than that six foot social distancing, then you need to have your face covered. New yorkers have three days to prepare themselves before that order going into effect. The governor also talking today about when there could be an easing of some measures. As everyone taurks about reopening the economy, business, schools, the state. Here is his take. When is this over . I say, personal opinion, its over when we have a vaccine. S it over when people know im 100 safe and i dont have to worry about this. When does that happen . When we have a vaccine. When do we have a vaccine . 12 to 18 months. Reporter sounds like an easy solution the governor points out there that that vaccine is of course still in development and still likely at very least a year away, brianna. And he said, erica, that hes had a blueprint for a phased reopening in new york state but this cant be implemented until more testing is done. This is the refrain were hearing from so many places including Business Leaders talking to President Trump. Tell us about what he said. Reporter youre right. Weve heard over and over again from the governor here in new york, Governor Cuomo saying it is not about the diagnostic testing. That is still important and we should point out new jersey openk the first saliva testing site today but it is the Antibody Testing. And he has said we know that the new York State Department of health has an Antibody Test, they are ramping up testing but he has millions of people in the state of new york who need to go back to work and he stressed without the tests to know who may have had this, but was perhaps asymptomatic and to know who has hopefully some form of immunity, he cant move forward and stresses the federal government needs to move in here so that we could scale it up quickly. Erica, thank you so much. Now today the irs said that the 1,200 stimulus checks are going out in record time. I want to bring in business anchor julia chatterley. And direct deposit money may be going out ahead of schedule but the president s signature is impacting the process to issue paper checks. What is going on here. Let me try to explain. For the First Time Ever a u. S. President is having his signature placed on irs checks going out to people. Its never happened before. It is an Election Year after all. But politics aside, there are criticisms coming even within the irs that are saying this is going to create delays because the Computer System needs to be updated. The treasury is denying that saying the paper checks will go out next week and that is ahead of schedule. On the other point to make here and the treasury is talking about it if you go back ten years to the financial crisis, they made 800,000 payments to people in around two months. What weve seen with the help of direct deposit is 18 million payments made in just two and a half weeks. Thats impressive however you look at it. And, julia, the irs launched a new portal today so americans could track the stimulus check but social media is flooding with complaints this is not working. Theyre pointing to overwhelming demand. It was two days early. It was meant to be up and running on friday so perhaps they should have waited. But millions of people trying to get online to update Payment Information with direct deposit details. It is also people just trying to get a sense of when theyre going to get their money. The only message now is to people, keep trying. And today there was this dose of reality, retail sales down 8 , almost 9 . This is the worst drop on record, julia. A number that drives home. People are buying what they need right now. Certainly not what they want. No. This is what spending collapse looks like to your point, these numbers show an overwhelming tightening, people arent spending so much but they are buying essentials, medicines and hoarding groceries and buying liquor, we werent buying nonessentials like cars of course and clothes and visiting bars. But the bottom line for this number is we only spent half of the month of march in a lockdown situation, were going to do the whole month in april it looks like. So as bad as this number looks, brianna, i think april is going to be a lot worse and it circles back so why people need these checks and money an they need it now. 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Well it definitely wont be that we would basically say, okay, now everyone could go back out and move forward with our lives as we knew it before the pandemic. It is definitely going to take easing our way back into some level of what we remember as normal. And the governor is right, we want to get people ready for the realities of what the new normal looks like here in the city. Even in San Francisco, way back in 1918, the spanish flu that basically took millio