Im erin burnett. Out front tonight, the breaking news. The governments top Infectious Disease expert, dr. Anthony fauci, warning even if the coronavirus fades there could be another outbreak. Are you prepared for this to strike again, say, in the fall . I hope it doesnt happen, but were certainly prepared. In fact, i would anticipate that would actually happen because of the degree of transmissibility. However, if you come back in the fall it will be a totally different ball game. So that comes he fully expects it to happen as more than 500 deaths were reported today from coronavirus in the United States, which is the most deaths reported in a single day. It has been rising throughout the day. Each one a life, family, friends dying alone. It will be no funerals. So far there has been nearly 3,000 deaths, and that means nearly onesixth of all deaths in the United States occurred today. And the worst we are told is still to come. 13 more states reporting cases tonight. It starts with two, you may see nothing and all of a sudden its 4 and then 8 and thats how the math works. And now cities and states across the country are desperately trying to curb this spread. Nearly two quarters of americans are now at stay at home orders. Kaitlyn collins out front at the white house tonight. And the president laying out his vision for the next 30 days in terms of how americans are going to be living their lives. Reporter yeah, which is still a surprise given the fact, you know, last week aides inside the white house did not think the president was going to go along with their advice to not ease those guidelines. In the end of course he did. And we saw another turn in what the president has been saying today when he said the economy is now number two in his book as far as the priorities go. And thats not the message we heard from the president last week when he said he did not want the solution to be worse than the cure, the problem itself was in this situation. Of course talking about the impact social distancing is having on the economy. But two other interesting things from the president s briefing today in the rose garden when he was talking about testing suggesting the United States is now up to par with all the other countries there, comparing to the south korea. Something hes been doing several times in recent days as people have been trying to compare and saying, well, its not the same if you compare them per capita, the rates were testing compared to what south korea is. And the president trying to defend saying seoul, south korea is close to 40 Million People, and we dont have anything close to that. Of course the population of seoul is closer to 10 million which mirrors the population in new york city, of course 9 million. The president there trying to defend that, and we know some governors still have been telling the president theyre struggling to have adequate testing in their states, and thats becoming a problem in more rural states. And one other thing i want to point out the president said when he was talking about ventilators, he was saying essentially the United States soon in his opinion will be making so many and theyll be outpacing soon what we have here and he listed several of them. It comes as youve seen doctors and hospitals pleading with the federal government saying they do not have enough ventilators and theyre worried theyre going to have a shortage in the days to come. While we do know companies are getting in the process of making them, people like general motors, they also told us yesterday theyre not making them. Given they are such complex machines theyve got to retool their companies. Kaitlin, thank you very much. As she points what youve got to retrofit, retool and be able to build them and you may not have them when you need them. Later this hour were going to have a piece on a doctor whos found a way to use a ventilator for up to four people. Also tonight we have some new projections when the virus will peak in each state. Nick watt is out front in los angeles. Reporter a life lost in brooklyn, one of thousands now across this country. Id like to avoid it, but i wouldnt be surprised if we saw 100,000 deaths. Reporter today a Navy Hospital ship docked in new york city. The last time this great hospital ship was in new york was in the wake of 9 11. Reporter a Field Hospital now in central park and fines for those who refuse to social distance. The fines are in the range of 250 to 500. Thats obviously would be a violation of summons that would be provided. I dont want to see that happen. Reporter one Research Organization now projecting new york will reach peak death rate ten days from now at nearly 800 degs that day. Michigan will peak a day later. California 25 days from now, and virginia not until midmay. What you see us going through here you will see happening all across this country. There is no american who is immune to this virus. Reporter in michigan confirmed cases exploded from around 50 to nearly 6,500 in two weeks. Were also worried about detroit. Detroit is starting to show some signs that theyre going to take off. Reporter state to state travel restrictions also spreading. Rhode island now ordering all visitors to selfquarantine. They werent just stopping cars with new york plates, and new york state threatened to sue. From noon today anyone traveling to texas from these states and cities must selfquarantine 14 days. Hot spots in all those places. And now its time were told for more rural areas to brace themselves. If the metros and the rural areas dont take care now by the time you see it it has penetrated your Community Pretty significantly. Reporter louisiana today reporting 485 new cases and 34 deaths. Still hundreds reportedly attended this church sunday. The church is the most essential thing in all the world. Reporter a pastor in florida who once prayed over the president was arrested today for continuing to hold large services. Doctors from the front line begging us all to stay home. You can think of it your lungs are filled with fluid like youre drowning and once you get to that point where youre drowning you need a ventilator to stay alive. And were running out of equipment for people. A young patient was presumably healthy before they came in. This is not something thats isolated to the old. Reporter now, there are no federal Domestic Travel restrictions in place, but as i mentioned the states are pretty much taking care of that themselves with these mandatory quarantines on people coming in. And today what i think is a first, the governor of kentucky has now banned all nonessential travel out of the state. They have a relatively low case count, and the governor doesnt want people leaving kentucky, catching the virus and then bringing it home. All right, nick, thank you very much. I want to go now to dr. Sanjay gupta, and a professor at social and Natural Science and internal medicine and biengineering at harvard. I want to start on this issue of testing. We just heard the president in the rose garden. He kept talking about u. S. Tests and how accurate they are. More than a Million People have been tested. Alex azar said theyre testing now more than 100,000 people a day. Look, thats a huge improvement and they say its more than anyone else of course per capita its a very different picture, right, but overall. Are we now at the place we need to be for testing . I dont think thats still something we can say, that everybody that wants a test can get a test. I mean we are a lot better off clearly than we were before, but theres a couple of points, erin. One is that this isnt something you can necessarily fully catch up on. When youre testing like this jow look at germany, for example, theyve had a lot of people who tested positive for coronavirus. Very few deaths. I think early testing really helped there. So its not just the number of tests, its when theyre performed. The other thing i thought very interesting. If you listen to this News Conference ambassador burkes said youre starting to look at this early date from states who have few cases, they are really following the same curve weve seen in some of these places that are considered hot spots. The problem is we dont know for sure how many tests how many people have the coronavirus in those places because we havent tested sort of more uniformly or provided those sorts of testing everywhere around the country. So a lot more but still very late. Thats going to make a difference, and still not in all the places that need it, erin. So doctor, when you hear dr. Fauci says he does think 100,000 deaths in the u. S. Is very possible, and obviously he and dr. Burkes had talked about a range of 100 to 200,000, this would be happening over a very short period of time, over the next weeks if not month plus. Is that realistic, do you think . Yes, i do. I think theres a range of possible levels of mortality we might see. And its difficult to think of a single number to articulate. I think at least 35,000 americans are going to die over the next year or two years during the pandemic. Probably more than 100,000 and could be more than 2, 3, or 400,000. I think that 100,000 is certainly a conservative estimate over the coming months. Wow, a conservative estimate. So, sanjay, then the president says that these masks he brought up the masks and the shortage of equipment, right . And his says they have a technology now. Theyre going to sanitize the masks that will make them as good as new. Will it really . And when you hear about they say its in a couple of states is that relevant to doctors who are on the front line in a hospital . What do we read into, whats the truth here behind that claim . First of all this was a technology basically just approve bide the fda to basically be able to sterilize these masks. Ive heard weve done a little bit of digging into this they say they can sterilize up to 80,000 mask, even 100,000 masks. If thats true it would obviously be a benefit. One thing i want to point out, erin, is that the demand for masks in the midst of a pandemic if you look some of the projections its in the billions of masks that are necessary, billions. You know, obviously all these technologies help, but, you know, working in a hospital myself i can tell you that every time you go see any patient, im not an Infectious Disease doctor, im a neuro surgeon, but all the patients we see now, you have to sort of think they might have this coronavirus. What does that mean . It means your entire team have to wear personal protective equipment for every patient you see. So, you know, the magnitude of masks and all the personal protective equipment thats necessary goes up exponentially, 20, 30 times what it used to be. So this new Technology May be there, it may help. And i admire american engiingen in situations like this. Again, its all about when you have it. If you dont have it in the window and you need it, it doesnt matter. We now are looking at sanjay points out, you know, the curves of each of the states and some of them are very nascent, their numbers are extremely low. But even if you map out the data points you see day by day you have them following a chart as you would see for new york, california, april 25th, florida, may 3rd, virginia not until the middle of may. And there are other states that could be further out than that. You wrote a best selling book, called blueprint, the evolutionary origins of a society. You have to have people stick with this way longer than they think they need to and by that i mean social distancing. Are people going to be able to do this for 6 weeks, for 8 weeks more. Unfortunately those are the limited tools were going to have at our disposal. Were not going to have effective drugs for quite some time, so we only have classic means of responding. These are things people can do other than drugs on their own, for example washing their hands, keeping distance, not shaking hands, maybe wearing masks. Or as a collect chb r, for example, closing public schools, banning public gatherings, stopping traffic. Those are things we unfortunately have to do if we want to slow the epidemic. The alternative is willing to tolerate a great number of deaths in a short period of time. And those are the unpleasant choices before us. What were doing is flattening the curve. Were trying to stop transmission of the virus to buy time so that our Health Care Providers can be ready, so that our personal protective equipment, which we unfortunately didnt prepare for the last 2 months are ready, so our ventilators are ready, and so that the public is prepared to make the necessary sacrifices once we begin to resume a normal life. Thank you both very much. And out front next the number of First Responders testing positive for coronavirus is up sharply. 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The fdny says the last five days have been the busiest in the departments history with calls surging by about 50 . And the demand is increasing as more First Responders are getting sick. 5,000 nypd officers are out sick, which is nearly 15 of the work force. It is five times the normal sick rate. Out front now an ems lieutenant in new york. He tested positive for uniform union. And vincent, look, thanks so much for coming on. I know you just tested positive a little more than a week ago. How are you feeling now . A lot better than a week ago. Thank you. And you feel like youre fully on the mend . Is that how you understand it at this point . Yeah, i well, a week ago i had high fever, bad cough. Ive been four days now with no fever, but i still get an occasional cough, a little bit of shortness of breath. But its far better today than i was last week. I know obviously youre grateful and will be lucky to fully recover as obviously many are not, and some of your colleagues i know are very sick. The fdny received nearly 6,000911 calls yesterday alone and obviously thats a huge jump. Tell me how incredibly grueling this is . How are you all managing to do this with so many people are getting sick and getting sick people going in to help . Its really tough out there. An average day was maybe 4,000 calls a day. Maybe in the summer peak at 5,000 a day. Here in march were well over 7,000 calls, and on top of that we were short staffed before the crisis. Now with members going out sick we have less members with a higher call volume. So its just exacerbating the problem. And i know that your teams are you know, their dedication is incredible. And they are going out, and they are going in peoples homes who have coronavirus. Theyre doing it often, they dont even have all the gear they need and many of them i know are so worried about spreading it that theyre even sleeping in their cars between shifts. Yes, theres a big concern because were also short on n95 masks though share rationing these masks, and many members are afraid to go home and either expose their family to this, or some of them are positive, and they have elderly relatives at home or they have children and a wife at home with a small apartment and they dont want to expose their families so they were staying in cars. As recently as today we may have found some places where these members can go to and get some relief and stay inside. I want to ask you about something, vincent, i saw that really surprised me. The fdny has told First Responders they are required to work even if they are exposed to coronavirus as long as they dont kw that a lot of people without symptoms can spreadou i know believe you may have gotten coronavirus from a fellow ems worker. Does this policy concern you . I mean if someone is i guess youre responding to calls from people who have coronavirus, and if you dont have symptoms and youre supposed to get a test still its disturbing. We have for testing for ems and all members of fdny from day one moch its important to our members so we know so we dont have to deal with the patients. Because if the patients were picking up are sick and have underlying conditions and we are positive, were only hurting that patient. Well, vincent, i appreciate your time. I hope the city hears this, and im glad you are feeling better. Thank you. So do i. Thank you very much. I appreciate it. And next a growing number of people rushing to the hospital thinking theyre having a heart attack. Theyre calling 911 for a heart attack, but they find out it is actually coronavirus. Former Vice President dick cheneys is my guest. And he was the first person to be diagnosed with coronavirus in washington, d. C. Just when he thought things were Getting Better and he was out of the woods he took a serious turn for the worse. Three weeks later released from the hospital father tim cole is out front tonight. Wow thats ensure max protein, with high protein and