Shut off at the moment. Millions of americans are filing for unemployment. Their stories and the Federal Reserves plan to help. So there has been another surge in reported deaths in the u. S. The United States is now the worlds epicenter for the coronavirus. More than 60,000 people have died according to Johns Hopkins university. Theres also signs of hope as the nations top Infectious Disease doctor explains. At the same time as were seeing the increase in deaths, were seeing rather dramatic increase in the need for hospitalizations. Like i think yesterday was Something Like 200 new hospitalizations and its been as high as 14 o00 at any given time. I say that and i always remind myself when i say that, that means that what we are doing is working and, therefore, we need to continue to do it. So theres also more hope for those hurting financially. The Federal Reserve is pledging to put trillions more into the u. S. Economy. Nick watt is tracking it all for us from the increase in deaths to the path ahead. Nick . Reporter more than 16,000 have now died nationwide. In detroit, Health Workers say people are dying in e. R. Hallways. This chicago jail now americas largest known site of infection outside medical facilities. 400 plus cases among inmates and staff. In new york, military doctors now deployed not just to field hospitals but inside city hospitals. What theyre suffering from is doctors getting sick or nurses. Reporter this city, the crossroads of the world now, has more confirmed cases than any other city on earth according to data from Johns Hopkins university. Its been 18 days since we closed down new york. I know it feels like a lifetime. Reporter new york states curve is now flattening. The numbers are now encouraging, but the message stays the same, do not stop social distancing. Because we cant handle the worst case scenarios. We cant even handle the moderate case scenarios. Reporter the president regular regularly hails his closing travel to china. I cut off china. It closed our travel to china which was heavily infected. Reporter nearly 17,000 americans have filed for unemployment in the past three weeks, thats more than 10 of the total work force. I already cant swim and i literally feel like i am drowning. Reporter air travel down a stunning 96 year on year according to various metrics reviewed by cnn. Dr. Fauci says we might still be able to take Summer Vacations this year. It can be in the cards, and i say that with some caution. We have to be prepared that when the infections start to rear their head again, that we have in place an effective way to identify, isolate, Contact Trace and make sure we dont have the spikes that we see now. Reporter this summer might be very different than the last. Listen in to the santa claire valley supervisors meeting. I dont expect well have any sports games until at least thanksgiving and well be lucky to have them by thanksgiving. Reporter for now a drive by show of support for 90yearold byron johnson, it just killed betty, his wife of 60 years. I didnt get to see her. I didnt get to hold her hand. I didnt get to tell her goodbye. Reporter a political and now legal battle escalating in kansas tonight. The governor wants to limit all religious services to 10 people or fewer in the run up to easter sunday. Some of her political opponents disagree so thursday afternoon the governor had to file a suit in the states supreme court. The battle goes on. Nick watt, cnn, los angeles. Thanks for that report, nick. Dr. Peter drovick joins us now. Thanks very much for joining us, doctor. You just heard that record but really experts saying its the virus that will decide the time we go out. We shouldnt be trying to put dates and deadlines on it here. Yeah, none of us has a crystal ball. Thats difficult to predict. We can make innovations that do bend the curve. It will be difficult to know when that is going to happen. If we look at places that are further ahead in the epidemic than the u. S. , even in spain and italy, they will see a flattening in the curve. Still a spike in deaths. Theyre getting there. You look further ahead to china, wuhan where after 11 weeks they were able to lift a lockdown. It is possible and we will get there in the u. S. As well but it will take some time. Lets talk about social distancing perhaps. In many ways people will be let out of their house. The whole concept of social distancing could go on for much longer and perhaps suggested it should do. Thats right. Sometimes im uncomfortable with the word lock down because it gives the impression that all forms of social distancing is the same when in reality there are lots of different degrees of social distancing. The more extreme or significant we can make them, the more we can bend the curve. When we start to think about how to relax them and open up the economy and society, it will have to be a gradual process rather than suddenly just going back to normal. If we were to do that, we would be at a very high risk for a second surge in infections. What im asking about is how people manage each other in the coming weeks and months as people try and come outside, you know, its less about hand shakes, more about waves or do you think the whole concept of parrots and getting together is delayed . Where are we in terms of how people can think about this . Yeah. One of the things were learning, paerkts festivals, gatherings of people like that have been big drivers of this epidemic. Super spreader. Sort of super spreader events, exactly. Thats something we have to take into consideration when we begin to open things up again. Dr. Fauci has said maybe handshaking should be a thing of the past. In the near term we need to make it an event. It will be a learning process to be honest. Were all figuring it out, south korea, china, japan are doing those experiments right now. Whats going to be very important in the u. S. Is that testing can be ramped up so we can have a better sense of intelligence and be able to identify new cases and isolate them early. Well talk about them a little bit more after we say goodbye to you. There is a lot of controversy around that in the United States. From your perspective, how important is it for death rates to be reported correctly . Are you concerned that we dont have a real sense of the fatalities . All of the indicators we have are uncertain. We know that reporting cases is difficult where testing hasnt been very widespread. Deaths tend to be more accurate. Were missing deaths at home. Now if were missing deaths in the same way over time, then kind of uncertainty will be consistent so you can still measure the trends and thats probably going to be one of the more accurate indicators where the epidemic is going and also a very lagging indicator because people tend to die a month or montpelier after the initial infection and so a social distancing intervention started today may not actually show up in the sort of trends and depths for several weeks. Thats an excellent point. Great to speak to you, dr. Peter drovick. Live from oxford. Have a lovely weekend. Thank you. As we were saying with peter there, this is an issue thats certainly a touch point. After much criticism about a lack of testing in the u. S. , the president says more than 2 million tests have now been done but hes not looking to carry out mass testing besides calls from Health Experts to do so. Take a listen. We want to have it and were going to see if we have it. Do you need it . No. Is it a nice thing to do . Yes. We are talking about 325 Million People and thats not going to happen, as you can imagine, and it would never happen with anyone else either. Other countries do it, but they do it in a limited form. Well probably be the leader of the pack. Please. So cnns Caitlyn Collins has that issue from washington. Caitlyn . Reporter well, as the president is focusing on getting the economy back open, hes now saying he doesnt believe there needs to be mass testing in order to do so, even though Health Experts have said if they want to reopen the u. S. Economy, theyre going to have to test people and test people to see if theyve had coronavirus and also do Contact Tracing so if someone does get it once they return to work, they can easily isolate the people they came in contact with so we dont have the outbreak issue like we had in several cities. The president said he doesnt see the need to test everyone. He said falsely the u. S. Has the best testing system. We know thats not true. Its a claim hes made recently. The u. S. Still does lag in testing per capita. They are ramping it up and they are trying to make the rapid test, the one that produces results in 15 minutes or less. More widespread throughout the nation. Still though some governors say right now testing in their states is not at that level. Now this comes as the president has his eye on may 1st. That is when the guidelines that they put out for the month of april are going to expire. We know the president is pretty set on opening the country by then, at least in part. His team has been meeting behind the scenes in order to find a way to achieve na. Hes even about to announce a second Coronavirus Task force. This one solely focused on reopening the u. S. Economy. Unlike the one for the Public Health aspect of all of this, this will include administration aids and private sector Economic Experts as well. The president is keeping his eye on may 1st. The question is ultimately going to be made, several sources said, right when those deadlines are set to expire at the end of april. Caitlyn collins, cnn, washington. Thanks, caitlyn. For that. As caitlyn mentioned there, experts say the coronavirus testing is absolutely necessary before even considering a return to normalcy. Cnn has now learned that as early as january private labs were trying to develop effective tests but they were blocked by the federal government. Drew griffin explains what happens and also what didnt. Reporter as coronavirus was silently racing around the world in late january and early february, the federal government not only failed to use the massive arsenal of hundreds of laboratories across the United States for emergency testing, it actually left roadblocks in place to prevent nongovernment labs from assisting. That is according to documents obtained by cnn and interviews with more than a dozen scientists and physicians involved in coronavirus toasting. At the very beginning of this pandemic it was the federal government that had the sole ability to do testing and made it very difficult for private labs, University Labs to make their own tests based on certain regulatory hurdles. Several hospitals told cnn they saw the pandemic approaching, developing their own tests as early as january to detect the virus, but the red tape with the fdas regulatory process prevented them from moving forward, meaning labs sat idol. Rather than enlisting the tremendous strength and power of the u. S. Laboratory capacity, getti getting everybody working on this, getting widespread test availability, we had cdc trying to run everything by itself. Reporter the federal government was prepared to enforce the rules sending this memo on february 6th telling state Health Departments to actively police against labs using their own coronavirus tests. The reasoning behind the tight regulations were good, assure the safety and efficacy of tests, but dr. Glen morris of the university of florida said the fda rules were written for normal situations, not a crisis. When we suddenly hit the point where we were looking at china and seeing what was going on there, what we needed was extremely aggressive leadership. Weve got to move fast because otherwise were going to run into a problem. Reporter the problem developed as soon as the cdc rolled out its own test, it didnt work. Weeks passed as the cdc scrambled to make a new test. We were in a basically on a pause within a few weeks in the Public Health system and meanwhile the academic laboratories who developed their own tests were not able to test because the regulations didnt allow it at that time. Reporter whats even worse, in 2018 after the zika outbreak the cdc came up with a plan to avoid the very disaster thats happening. Cnn obtained a copy of this memorandum of understanding that was supposed to increase National Laboratory testing by engaging early in the response. If didnt work. Dr. Karen kaul from evanston, illinois, was pushing to use its own tests and was stopped. It seems like this has been a bit of a failure. I do think theres definitely room for improvement. Whats happened is weve had a number of laboratories, a number of manufacturers and groups that are not all working together in a coordinated fashion. In a statement to cnn the fda insists there was nothing wrong in its process and instead blames individual lab delays where labs did not understand the fda process and mistakenly believed there was more work involved. Despite that, the fda is publish new guidelines on february 29th allowing labs to begin testing. Experts tell cnn it was just too late. Reporter in a written response, they said they did keep them up to date, informed on what was happening but the cdc did not answer questions as to why they didnt pursue those laboratories getting involved in this massive Testing Program sooner. Drew griffin, cnn, atlanta. So this as a panel of top u. S. Scientists are sounding the alarm on testing. Its telling the white house that the tests now being used to tell if someone is infected from the coronavirus are far from perfect. In one study, tests missed about 30 of the patients who are infected. The panel says tests to detect immunity are imperfect as well. Youre watching cnn. Boris johnson is out of intensive care. Thats good news. What they are saying about his condition. Thats next. Were live in london. Otected lim an annuity can help your Retirement Plan ride out turbulent times. Learn more at protectedincome. Org. It wont wait for a convenient time. Or for hospitals to get back to normal again. Thats why, at Cancer Treatment centers of america, we arent waiting. Were right here, still focused on the only thing we do, providing worldclass cancer care, all under one roof. Because cancer isnt just what we do, its all we do. Cancer Treatment Centers of america. Call now for an appointment. 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Shes pregnant, isnt she . She is pregnant. Shes been suffering from the virus herself. This has been a really trying time for the family, as well as the government and the wider world as well. Having its leadership back. Stanley johnson telling me at bbc warning the country not to expect boris to rush back to work or certainly not back to downing street just yet. He needs time to recoup perfect rate. He also said this, quote, robyn, to use that american expression, he almost took one for the team. While weve got to make sure we play the game properly now. So this is a call out to the public. Weve been talking about it all week, of course, not to go out this weekend, respect the lockdown. It ties in with a Government Campaign being launched today, awareness campaign, telling people they can still create a risk by going out and socializing unnecessarily. The key message from it, robyn, is pretty harsh when you see it play out. Dont accidentally kill someone. By sunbathing or going to the pub or whatever. Yeah. I think its a strong message. So spain is extending its state of emergency until april 26th amid hopes coronavirus there is coming under control. Now the Prime Minister told an almost empty parliament, look at these images on thursday, that the country has reached the peak of the pandemic. He warned the public not to be complacent. Spain has been one of the hardest hit countries. Al goodman is in madrid with more on that. Hi, al. How are you doing out there . Reporter hi there, robyn. Well, the Prime Minister and Health Officials are cautiously optimistic because the rate of increase and deaths, its slowing down. The rate and percentag