But now to the coronavirus idea or sort of way of thinking pandemic itself and a turning through this, thats tough on point in the United States. Everybody as well. The u. S. Now reporting the most its tough no matter what. But that makes it even tougher. And sanjay, you and i have coronavirus cases in the world, been yelling this now for weeks more than 97,000. And weeks if not months at this that is more confirmed cases point. Than italy, which has so far the hospitals do not have what they need. They dont have the personal seen more than 8,000 deaths, protective equipment. They dont have the ventilators. In terms of the ppe, according though a top Italian Health to the Italian Association of official warns today that italy has not yet even hit the peak of doctors, 51 italian doctors who tested positive for coronavirus the pandemic in that country. Have now died. That is also more confirmed cases than the chinese thats a lot of people to die. Government is reporting, though and thats a huge shock to the of course an important caveat, Health Care System. Look, i mean, this was the Chinese Government has not exactly been a paragon of tragic. I was that alert come across, 51 transparency and candor for facts during this crisis. Decisions, 32 of them in this northern area. These are entire communities of in the United Kingdom, prime medical professionals whose minister Boris Johnson has lives are being lost, its become the first world leader to really sad, jake. Be infected in the coronavirus, this idea that people have been screaming, the italian medical he is in selfisolation as of federation screaming that they now. In the u. S. , the death toll is needed more ppe. This wasnt a precaution. Its protective equipment, it up 44 deaths in the last hour. Was essential. Just as many countries around the world did not Pay Attention weve already set the record since yesterday for most to italian, you hey, you hear f coronavirus deaths reported in just one day in the u. S. In spain i was talking to, yeah, we saw it over there, we didnt governor of new york andrew cuomo saying, quote, this is a think it would come over here. Moment that is going to change this nation, unquote. Precautions werent being taken. Hard to argue with that. And as cnns nick watt reports, 32 doctors in the Northern Region of italy alone. Everyone should listen to this because we can learn a lesson. Navy ships are adding Additional Support in the battle against we can better prepare. It wasnt precautionary coronavirus. Reporter with 1,000 beds on board, the mercy docked in principles, it was essential principles. In health care settings, in l. A. This morning. Hospitals, its a reminder that kwir confirmed cases here are thats where people are most climbing. If this rate of increase continues, in six days we will likely to get sick. Be where new york is today. You cant keep safe distance away from each other, the reporter a second navy patients are more likely to hospital ship, the comfort, aerosolize the virus in those expected to dock in new york settings. City on monday where the mayor we need to Pay Attention to believes more than half the this. And look, i know theres places citys population will catch around the country where they this virus. Say, so far were good, we have were going to seek to build enough ppe right now. The numbers are doubling every couple of days, jake. Their Hospital Systems have gone another four temporary emergency through months of their ppe in just weeks. Hospitals. Reporter more than 500 now so they really need it. Dead in new york state, among and we should heed the lesson them a nurse at mt. Sinai and an from italy. And lastly, sanjay, its been nypd employee. The governor says the rate of made very clear by not only dr. Increase now falling. Fauci but even Vice President peak infection still three weeks pence that this goal of opening away and more ventilators still needed. Up america so that church pews his advice to the rest of the country . Get the equipment and get it can be crowded at easter, which is just two weeks and a couple sooner. If you dont get it now, youre of days away, that thats not going to have it when you need it. Reporter detroit now among aspirational, which is another nice way of saying president the nations emerging hotspots. Trumps push for that is we think were still on the thats what he wants to happen but were not going to be able to do that and also save lives. Aggressive upslope. We still have several weeks to go as far as when we hit that when do you think there will be peak. Reporter more than 500 new at least some ability for the confirmed cases in michigan in nation to think about a return 24 hours. Do Health Care Workers have what to normalcy . They need to stay safe . You know, ive asked just about everybody that question, absolutely not. I have now got doctors and including fauci, including bill nurses on the front lines who gates last night, ive talked to are using one mask for their entire shift. Various Hospital Systems. Reporter one detroit Hospital System is preparing for you probably saw governor dewine possible life and death decisions ahead. In ohio, who was very a letter ready to send to aggressive, closing ohio state patients and families reads in university very early, people part, because of shortages, we said, what are you doing . Will need to be careful with he even said its looking like resources. Maybe end of april, may. Patients who have the best chance of Getting Better are our nobody knows for sure. First priority. We dont know exactly where we are on that curve. A Company Spokesperson telling if we see a few days where that cnn this letter is part of a larger policy document developed doubling number starts to come down, thats going to be a good for an absolute worst case scenario. It is not an active policy. Sign, saying weve gotten close to the peak. I think most people are saying every major Hospital System that the entire cycle is probably eight to ten weeks of in new york, detroit, chicago, the peak, maybe four or so, five weeks into this. Seattle, are having exactly these conversations internally. Dr. Sanjay gupta, thank you so much. Reporter chicago another as always, well have this growing hotspot. Conversation again on monday. A refrigerated trailer now in have a great, safe, and healthy the cook county morgue, increasing capacity. Weekend with you and your family. The president still talking you too, jake. About opening up at least parts coming up, were continuing to monitor the white house where of the country for easter. President trump is about to hold well, i think that the a signing ceremony for the president was making an stimulus package. Well bring that to you. Aspirational projection to give he did not invite the House Speaker, nancy pelosi, even people some hope. Hes listening to us when we say though the president is we have to reevaluate it in real constantly talking about the feed for the country to pull time and any decision we make together, he is not inviting the person who got the bill through has to be based on the data. The house. Plus breaking news on the defense production act. Well bring that to you next. Stay with us. Reporter that is the 1,000bed Mercy Hospital ship behind me, a straight sight for peacetime. The mayor is visiting it at lunchtime. The plan is to get regular patients out of los angeles hospitals and put them on the ship to clear space for the expected covid19 wave. We just got some updated numbers from l. A. County. They say the confirmed cases here tripled in just the past six days and those numbers are expected to continue to climb, you wouldnt accept an incomplete job from anyone else. Jake. All right, nick watt, thank so why accept it from your allergy pills . You so much. We should just note, we sartart flonase relieves your worst symptoms which most pills dont. Get allinone allergy relief for 24 hours, with flonase. This baud caroadcast, the death is now 1,505, weve passed the thats why lincoln offers complimentary pickup grim milestone of 1,500 as the and delivery servicing. Well pick up your vehicle death rate keeps going up. And leave you with a lincoln loaner. Cnns dr. Sanjay gupta joins us thats the power of sanctuary. Now. Sanjay, an internal memo from a burke atthat can happen to your wehome. Or car. T everything Hospital System has been getting a lot of attention, detailing bundle home and auto with farmers how theyre preparing protocols and you can save an average of twenty percent. For life and death decisions that might have to be made so get a quote today. During an emergency, who gets a we are farmers. Bumpadum, bumbumbumbum ventilator, who does not, how long does somebody get to stay on a ventilator. Part of the letter, to quote from it, quote, some patients will be very sick and unlikely to survive their illness. Even with critical equipment, treating them would take away resources from patients who might survive. The henry ford system says none of their hospitals are not anywhere near having to enact such protocols. None of them are at capacity with coronavirus patients. But weve seen what happened in italy, and were tracking, the u. S. Has been following italy by ten or 11 days. It could happen. We need to be honest about that. Yeah, look, i think we do have to be honest about that. I can tell you, jake, first of all, michigan is my home state, i know many of the doctors there, ive been speaking to some of them off the record on background today. A lot of things really struck me. One, as you point out, this is a real letter. They all knew about this, they all knew this letter was being circulated. There was no degree of surprise about this at all, based upon what the physicians are hearing and the projections are hearing. When you hear about a doubling rate every couple of days, thats exponential growth. You cant sit here at any point in michigan or any of these places around the country and say things look okay for now, you just cant think that way. I think when the numbers are growing that quickly. So they are talking about this, many physicians, many physician groups are talking about these. Thats are real conversations that are happening in the country right now. It is challenging, obviously, because a lot of people, especially those who are not in the Health Care Profession are hearing about rationing decisions which is what this is, theyre hearing about rationing decisions up front in a way that theyve he evnever probably eve heard before, its jarring, i admit it, but its real, jake, not just there but in many Hospital Systems. To be most successful, connectivity is vital. Ive seen some people verizon, really for us, has been a partner for years. Criticize members of the media for even covering this, covering allows us to stay connected to our it as if were fearmongering. 80 plus locations across the country. We use verizon throughout our entire day. Its very clear were not at its an integral part of how our practice runs. That point. But its also clear other we need our project managers western countries like italy have reached that point. And our superintendents to be able to communicate. 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Breaking news, after months of governors begging him to do it, weve just learned President Trump has finally invoked the defense production act for the first time. This comes as President Trump is set to sign the historic 2 trillion stimulus package that just passed the house. An aide tells cnn that House Speaker nancy pelosi, who of course helped shepherd the package through the house of representatives, has not been invited to the signing ceremony, in fact it appears that no democrats have been invited to the white house. Cnns Kaitlan Collins is at the white house. Kaitlan, its start with the defense production act. What are you learning, what might this mean . Reporter jake, this is notable. For weeks weve hearn these confusing statements from the president over whether or not he had actually used the federal powers he had granted to him by signing the defense production act. He would say publicly that he had used it and then aides would later tell us no, weld r, we ac have not used it to compel companies to make any of these needed medical supplies. But now we have an official statement and the white house that the president has used it. Its notable the situation hes using it in. From the statement they say that basically they are granting using the authority that they have, that General Motors must accept, perform, and prioritize federal contracts for ventilators. The president says in his statement, our negotiations with gm regarding its ability to supply ventilators have been productive but the fight is too urgent to allow this give and take to go on, and says more blunt, gm was wasting time. The background is that the white house and gm and other companies who make ventilators had been in talks for joint production of ventilators. The talks were stalled because the companies thought it would cost too much. Theyve been reassessing the terms of that. But jake, i spoke to several people about this this morning, they were still hopeful this would pan out and there were not plans to use the defense production act this morning. Now, a few hours later, theyre actually stwoeinvoking it. But people should remember that signing the dpa is not a magic wand, its not going to make factories ready to make ventilators by tomorrow in the amounts that states and governors have said they need. Gm has to retool their factories because they currently dont make ventilators at this plant in indiana. The question will be the timeline, whether these companies will be able to produce this in time for the hospital who need to treat people who have coronavirus. These are machines used for people who cannot breathe on their own, the worst end for coronavirus patients. Thats right, and kaitlan, on the signing ceremony it appears no democrats have been invited to President Trumps signing ceremony despite the fact that every now and then he says that the country needs to come together, how great it is that the bill passed the senate 960. Is there a strategy behind this, is he trying to make it seem as though only republicans are bringing this wellneeded aid to the American People . Or is this just pet ulance and pettiness . Reporter it depends, this morning the president said working with democrats is hell, thats what he said in a tweet when a republican was trying to have a vote where people have to come in person. That did not happen, they got it passed pretty quick after the drama subsided this morning. But yeah, no democrats have been invited, its only republicans if you look at the list the white house gave us. The most obvious person missing is House Speaker nancy pelosi but also Senate Minority leader Chuck Schumer who the treasury secretary spent a fair amount of time with as they went back and forth on these negotiations. They spoke multiple times, as did nancy pelosi and the treasury secretary speak multiple times as well. Both sides of the aisle realized they had to get something pass or there would be political hell to pay on the other end of this. It is notable that the president does not want nancy pelosi here, we know from manu raju that they have not spoken in five months and it doesnt look like today will change that. Thank you so much, Kaitlan Collins, for that report. The administrations response noted today, compared to four weeks ago today, thenacting white house chief of staff Mick Mulvaney publicly questioned journalists who were covering what is clearly now a pandemic, one that has now killed more than 1,500 americans. The press was was was covering their hoax of the day because they thought it would bring down the president. The reason youre seeing so much attention to it today is they think this is going to be what brings down the president. Thats what this is all about. Thats obviously a lie. It was not about that. This is about sounding the alarm about a Public Health crisis that now has a devastating body count. Mulvaney made those remarks, we should note, a conservative caucus, cpac, just outside washington, d. C. The Washington Post reports that mulvaney, before he made those comments, had been tested for coronavirus, and thankfully he tested negative. Moreover, per the post, at least three attendees of that very conference at cpac have since tested positive for coronavirus. One of them had contact with high profile players including five lawmakers such as senator ted cruz who then had to selfquarantine. It really is hard to imagine anything more emblematic of how the white house d