Coronavirus response was actually cancelled earlier tonight. This as the world health as just declared a coronavirus pandemic. There are now 118,000 cases and more than 4,000 deaths worldwide. Here in the United States, the number is growing. There are now 1,209 declared cases and 37 deaths. And the cdc said today it will get worse. I can say we will see more cases and things will get worse than they are right now. How much worse will get . Will depend on our ability to do two things. To contain the influx of people who are infected coming from the outside, and the ability to contain and mitigate within our own country. Bottom line, its going to get worse. And very clear there on that bottom line. Well, heres the president s solution thus far tonight. Were going to have to do something with respect to getting this getting rid of this virus as quickly as possible. And as safely as possible. Something. Well, according to the World Health Organization, that something included testing. The w. H. O. Says that early testing is the key. The key to making sure that things do not spiral out of control. But getting a test in the United States was close to impossible for weeks. Fewer than 6,000 tests were administered as of this past friday. And even now, as the Trump Administration touts that it is on track to have 4 million tests distributed by the end of this week, the context for that number is that there are 325 Million People in the United States. And the people who do get tested typically use at least two tests. Were not in a position where we can rely on the cdc or the fda to manage this testing protocol. We have been really hampered at the early stages of this because we did not have enough testing. Let me be clear about one thing. I am very frustrated with the federal government. We have not received enough tests. The illinois governor you saw that, he will be my guest later in the show. First, though, i want to go to Kaitlan Collins at the white house. So, kaitlan, the president going to address the nation tonight. What do you expect to hear . Well, erin, the president started pushing for that address this morning, though it had not been on the radar for aides who have been tasked with handling the coronavirus response. But it comes after he had been telling his Economic Team he wanted to do Something Big here. We know they havent finalized any kind of package yet for fiscal stimulus yet. The president has also been hinting, though, that he might take some kind of executive action when it comes to this instead of waiting on lawmakers. Because hes been frustrated there wasnt any consensus reached. There is also a chance he says something about china because his aides have been pushing him to be tougher on them. His top two National Security aides, hold them responsible saying they helped the world miss out on a lot of Response Time for this. But regardless of what the president says, this is an Oval Office Address during an outbreak that is spreading across the nation. And it is really going to be a test of his willingness to meet the moment here. And we should note that there is this sense of urgency inside the white house about this today. But what we are told by several people around the president is it seems to have more to do with the negative coverage hes seeing of their response so far than it does with any kind of reckoning hes had about this outbreak after downplaying it for weeks. All right. Thank you very much, kaitlan. Tonight, local officials are working hard to contain the spread of the virus at the site of the largest cluster in the United States. Eric hill is out front there in new rochelle, new york. Life is changing quickly and drastically. It is a scary time. Perhaps nowhere is that more obvious than in this new york suburb. Home to the states largest cluster of positive coronavirus cases. And a new onemile containment zone. We hope and expect that the measures that have been put in place will be helpful in mitigating the spread of the virus. At the center of that zone, the synagogue where the first positive case in new rochelle, a man in his 50s, attended Services Just before his diagnosis. And while the area is not on lockdown, large gatherings have been restricted and some schools are closed. We really need to take more aggressive actions. This is not going away on its own. The focus on large gatherings, worship services, school events, upcoming st. Patricks day celebrations, extends far beyond new rochelle. San francisco is limiting events to less than a thousand people. In three counties in washington state, the crowds will be even smaller. Nothing over 250 people, by order of the governor. And seattle schools will close thursday for two weeks. It is clear that our state needs a more vigorous and more comprehensive and more aggressive position if we are going to slow the spread of this epidemic. Meantime, the number of those infected exploded as more are tested. Ten longterm care facilities in washington state, now reporting positive cases. A canadian passenger from the grand princess, who was allowed to fly home because they did not show signs of the virus, tested positive upon arrival. Others from that ship, settling in for a protective twoweek quarantine at air base in georgia. They are among the more than 2,000 passengers who will be monitored at multiple bases for the next 14 days. Whenever you have an outbreak that you can start seeing Community Spread, when you have enough of that, then it becomes a situation where youre not going to be able to effectively and efficiently contain it. It makes the challenge much greater. Erin, part of that challenge, as you pointed out, is the testing. Governor cuomo say a satellite testing facility will be set up here in new rochelle as part of that containment zone. Just to illustrate what folks are dealing with here, i spoke with a woman earlier today who said she was feeling symptoms for four or five days. Once she realized there was a containment zone, she was in it. She wanted to make sure she wouldnt affect anyone in the community. She called her doctor, who told her to call the hospital coronavirus line. She did. She said they seemed to be using a questionnaire and criteria from weeks ago. She said it sounded like something from february. They told her to call the county department of health. She did. The county department of health sent her back to her primary care physician. She said she couldnt get an answer. She couldnt get a test. And while shes feeling better, again, her concern are all the other people in her community. And she wants to make sure she is being responsible and doesnt want to infect anyone unknowingly. All right. Erica, thank you very much. And i am going to go now to sanjay gupta. He is here with me tonight along with director of the Stanford Health initiative and former cdc control detective and dr. William schaffner professor at Vanderbilt Medical Center. So what does that actually mean in practice . Is this words . Or is this more . We dont know. I mean, theres been president ial emergencies declared before. You typically think about them in the wake of storms and things like that. And in some ways, this is being treated like a storm. You know, we can sort of see whats coming. We got to sort of prepare for that. But i think theres two big issues. Erica just brought up one of the big ones weve been talk about for weeks. The testing. We still dont know exactly whats gone on with the testing. Why its still so slow. Obviously, people still having trouble getting tested. In the middle of the biggest cluster of the United States unable to get a test. Im getting calls from colleagues or physicians who are saying this exact thing. We want to be able to do this. We think this person deserves a test based on the criteria, cant get them. Is there something that can be done to accelerate that process once and for all . The second thing is something, again, that we have talked about is like whats going to happen to these hospitals as all these patients come in . Are there enough beds . Is there enough intensive care . And breathing machines, in particular. Weve done the calculations. We seem short right now. 100,000 around the country. Thats the limit on those. On the beds, theres about 100,000 icu beds. Predictions are that we will need close to 200,000. We have about the right number of ventilators but a lot of them are being used because its flu season. So i think those types of things might be a good use if this happens, a National Emergency, to put that National Emergency good direction. So, dr. Yasmin, you heard dr. Fauci of the cdc at the beginning of the program. He said this will get a lot worse. So what exactly what does that mean . When you hear him say that, what does that mean to you . On one hand, we know the number of cases is going to increase, erin, because now we are starting to do a bit more testing. It still seemed delayed and a lot less than we would like but its normal in the course of an epidemic where we start to reach a peak where we have the most number of cases and we then start to see a decline. The question i keep being asked is when will we reach that peak . How many people will become infected and have died at that point . At this point, its a new virus and we just dont know. What we do know, erin, is that the first days, first moments of an epidemic response are absolutely crucial in framing how you are going to get a handle on this. And we have seen delay after delay. Particularly, with the testing. The virus moves fast. And were not moving fast enough. Doctor, i know someone at Vanderbilt Medical Center has tested positive for coronavirus and i believe is at home recovering. But do you feel like youre able to get all the texsts that you need even for the people on the front lines . Well, testing is underway both at my Medical Center and the state health department. Were not testing people without symptoms. Were testing people who have at least some symptoms. Testing is very important. We need to find out how widely distributed this virus is. Not only in my state but across the country. And then when we get a handle on that, we will have a better idea of where to focus our interventions. Sanjay, the World Health Organization, today, declared it a pandemic. I want to be clear you actually did that a few days ago. So so what does this mean when you are looking at just the spread and the numbers of what were talking about, where were going versus where we are . Well, i think theres one important thing to remember about pandemics. Its its really talking about the spread, really, alone. Not necessarily the lethality of this. Immediately is one of those terms that couldnt jnjures up understandably. People think of death. You think of death. And i dont want to minimize it because obviously there are people who are getting very sick and even dying from this. This was really about the spread. When we did the calculations, looked at the evidence of Community Spread in countries around the world, it met the criteria for pandemic. But i think more practically speaking, you know, while there is still maybe communities around the world where containment is sort of the name of the game, i think this is an acceptance that this is spreading. And the numbers are going to increase everywhere around the world. And we need to be prepared. I mean, thats the whole thing. People keep using this term flattening of the curve. What that means is, you know, luckily, hopefully, we dont see this big peak of cases. They all come at once. You know, millions of cases at once. Youre trying to spread out when it happens. Its still going to get through the whole population. It is a matter of how quickly. In a more grated sort of manner as opposed to all at once. Dr. Yasmin, when the World Health Organization is talking about testing being crucial to stop the spread, how much more testing, right . They said 4 million. They have been saying that by the end of the week, thats what we are going to have. You have 325 million americans. Obviously, some of them are at risk of getting very sick and many are not. How many tests d do you need to able to adequately test the United States, given that each person uses a couple of tests on average . Yeah. Very important question. And its not just about the availability of the test. Its also about the testing protocols. And who youll allow to give a test to and what i am hearing right now from very frustrated physicians and nurses, erin, is that they want to test more people and theyre currently being guided to. So right now, the protocol seems quite narrow and the concern is that even with the availability of more test kits, hopefully, that they still feel like with those guidelines, theyll missing many of the people that could be infected. So, doctor, when you look at this and people at home are trying to understand and you look at the numbers now with a few thousand cases and not much testing. Everyone knows its more widespread than that. Then you look at scenarios such as sanjay lays out where you could have many more people than you do have room for beds. Whats the timeline here for when were going to know if that is the scenario were looking at and overtaxed Healthcare System across the country . Well, i think well see a lot in the next week, week and a half, two weeks, three weeks. And itll be very important to see whether we can, as sanjay says, dampen that curve so we can stretch things out so the Healthcare System can deal with it. Weve done this before. Weve done it with hong kong flu. Weve done it with 2009 h1n1 so weve all got pandemicpreparedness plans ready. Weve rehearsed them. And were putting them into place. Ready to go. All right. Thank you, all, very much. Of course, 2009, right, h1n1 swine flu, 61 million americans were exposed to it. 12,000 deaths. But this country did get through that. Next, a top Homeland Security official says u. S. Travel restrictions for europe are now under discussion. Their words, as seattle announces its closing all Public Schools. And breaking news about one of the biggest Sports Events in the United States. Ncaa banning fans from attending march madness games. Plus, how one person may have led to dozens infected without having any idea. We have new details from inside the new rochelle containment zone. 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Nhl and nba still planning to have games here. Still planning on hosting fans here. But itll interesting to see if they move forward with that. Which is what the wizards and the capitals teams owners is the plan. Who will actually show up given the really stern warnings the city has put out. The mayor says any mass gathering, thats anything above a thousand people, should be postponed or should be cancelled. To give you an idea, this is an arena that, at capacity, is about 20,000. So this is big. Big for businesses. Also, big for the people, should they show up, who will be sitting right next to each other crowding concessions, and bathrooms, et cetera. Mayor saying this type of event doesnt really help the overall goal, which is to flat ten that curve and contain this virus. But for its part, the teams are saying, look, we are taking extra precautions when it comes to cleaning. We are following the League Guidelines when it comes to the locker rooms. And until the leagues update their guidelines, we will do so accordingly. If they update them, they will update. The mayor, today, in a News Conference asked about this, and she insisted she was very quick to emphasize she has the power to shut it down. Shes not doing that just yet. Urging people to voluntarily take precautions and letting the public know that shes a fan of the teams, not a fan of these events right now. So well have to wait and see tomorrow as the game is scheduled if itll look more like this or if there will be fans pouring in and out. Thank you very much. Leyla points out 20,000 people in the arenas. You could look at th