From coronavirus, globally, is more than 87,000 deaths. Nearly 1. 5 million confirmed infected. And about 420,000 of those infected are in the United States. And while we cannot be sure of all the numbers being reported worldwide, and in fact theres plenty of reason to doubt what governments such as china are reporting, it is worth noting that based on the available data, the United States, with roughly 4. 25 of the worlds population, has 28 of the worlds confirmed cases of coronavirus and 16 of the worlds reported fatalities. Cnns erica hill reports that some states in the United States are bracing for an even higher death toll than initially projected. Reporter a blunt assessment from the top. Its going to be a bad week for deaths. Reporter for the second day in a row, new york state announcing a new high for singleday deaths. 779 on tuesday. With morgues overloaded, hardhit communities are bringing in refrigerated trailers and more help. In new york city, hundreds of National Guard members and more than 50 active duty mortuary military specialists are now assisting the medical examiners office, as states and cities reporting a rising death toll. There is some hope. Projected deaths nationwide now expected to be closer to 60,000 by august, revised down significantly thanks to social distancing. The message from officials, this is no time to let up. Were all looking to finally get out from under this. But its not that time yet. The progress confirms the strategy is working. Reporter washington, d. C. One of several cities now on the radar as potential hotspots. According to t according to the White House Task force coordinator. New cnn polling reveals the majority of americans feel the federal government has done a poor job preventing the spread. 80 feel worst is yet to come. More rural areas are starting to get hit. Im really worried because hospitals in those areas dont have as many icu beds, dont have the same capacity. Reporter with each day there is mounting evidence that the virus is impacting africanamericans at a much higher rate. Underserved communities also hit hard. Whatever the situation is, natural disaster, hurricane katrina, the people standing on those rooftops were not rich white people. Why . Why is it that the poorest people always pay the highest price . Lets learn from this moment and lets learn these lessons and lets do it now. Reporter new York Governor Andrew Cuomo said the state will Research Testing and research in minority communities starting today to better understand the disparity. The department of health and Human Services announcing gm will produce 30,000 ventilators for the national stockpile, costing nearly a half billion dollars. Those will be delivered by the end of august. As hotspots across the country face concerns about meeting the needs today. Meantime, the conversation about how and when to reopen the country is starting, with a focus on Antibody Testing to learn who was infected but asymptomatic. This makes a very big difference in really understanding who can go back to work and how they can go back to work. Reporter those tests could be available in the next ten to 14 days, according to dr. Birx, though in reality, there is no clear end date for this pandemic. Pennsylvania and new york following new jerseys lead, lowering flags to halfstaff in honor of the thousands lost to this virus. Jake, at the Javits Center just behind me there are 104 patients being treated here. Keep in mind there are some 2,500 beds. There have been a lot of questions why there arent more patients in those beds. Governor cuomo said today hospitals in the state are actually releasing more patients than are coming in. He said because there was so much preparation across the state, they are not needing as many of the beds at this moment. This is overflow space, as is the comfort. In his mind, thats a good thing, that not as many beds are being used at the moment. The search for silver linings. Erica hill, thank you very much. Joining me, as always, cnns chief medical correspondent dr. Sanjay gupta. This new model shows projected deaths down, at about 60,000, as anticipated by august. An earlier peak, revised down. Help us make sense of this. I think that both things can be true. These are still models that theyre looking at. As you know, when you look at these numbers overall, year seeing a sort of lag time, jake. Youre seeing these hospitalizations, people are tested, they go to the hospital, that takes some time, and if they sadly die, thats a week after that. So a little bit of a reflection of time in the past. When i really dove into these models and talked to chris murray, the one thats sort of helping author these models, hes taking input now from other countries as well. Initially the models were really based on china and saying, hey, if we do what china did, where were our models be, and realizing we couldnt necessarily do what china was doing in terms of stayathome orders. What i think is somewhat optimistic is that these other countries that have had stayathome orders, maybe not as strict as china or as early as china, have still had some benefit from that and thats informed these models. Jake, when i take a closer look, even state by state, ive looked community by community at some of these models, thats wide variation, jake. New york, i looked at the variation, somewhere between 300 to 1,800 people who may die during the peak days. So, significant variation at each level. Weve still got to be a little humble with regard to these models. Right, theyre not facts, theyre just projections based on the input of facts. Dr. Deborah birx who heads the Coronavirus Task force at the white house, she said today that the philadelphia and washington, d. C. Areas are expected to be the new hotspots, and she also said shes closely watching houston. Is this just the virus making its expected way through other parts of the country . Is there Something Else going on . I think theres a few things that are sort of informing that. One is, are these areas where you have Big International airports and that was relevant because its likely that there was introduction and seeding of the virus, you know, going back to january, early february . And even now, a couple of months later, you may start to see a Significant Community spread, we hope not, but you could see that. Obviously more densely populated areas, areas with public transportation, those are the sort of things theyre focused in on, learning obviously a little bit from what has happened in new york. Jake, to your point, rural areas cannot necessarily breathe a sigh of relief yet. We know if you have a couple, three cases in these communities, within days it will start to spread, youll see increased numbers. This is the time to be vigilant no matter where you are in the country. Yeah, people need to remember this all started with one person who came into the country with it. Johns hopkins university, which tracks coronavirus cases worldwide, changed its trending designation overnight to down for the United States, meaning the number of cases is going down on the fivestate rolling average or fivestate information. Its similar to current trending status for italy and spain. Is that significant or do we need to see what the next few days bring . I think that the next few days are going to be really important. But this fiveday rolling average i think is a really interesting indicator. Ive been following it for some time. Its worth pointing out, as you say, the United States is down, so averaging the five days sort of made sense, looking at the numbers. The three countries ive been following are actually fiveday rolling average up. China is one of them, uk is one of them, and belgium. China we have to Pay Attention to, right, jake, because were talking about sort of emerging from the shutdowns. Now, the numbers are still small, but you are seeing a fiveday rolling average going up. So that could be concerning, and it may sort of prompt some more reinforced lockdown recommendations again. Well have to see what happens over there. President trump said yesterday he wants to open the economy with a bang. Dr. Fauci told lawmakers today that the task force is working on a framework to return americans to, quote, normalcy. What are the metrics youre looking at to determine how and when governors and others should remove their stayathome orders . Well, there are some very specific metrics. And again, some of the people creating these models are releasing these metrics. You have to make sure Hospital Capacity is there to take care of those who come to the test. The cornerstone is testing, testing was always important, it was important at the beginning. We had an inadequate response. Its harder to trace people who come in as positive now because of the community spread. But at the end, the downward side of this curve, testing, isolation, Contact Tracing will be very important to get there as well. As far as coming out with a bang, jake, really from a medical standpoint, and i think dr. Fauci has made this point, others have made this point, until you have a vaccine, you probably cant say that. I think that up to a certain point, unless theres an amazing therapeutic which people feel very comfortable with. I think for some time, we will reemerge, schools, universities or similar businesses, but teleworking will still be a big thing. Older people will still be told, limit the amount of time youre spending out in the community. I think there will be some basic thought still about reemergence until that vaccine comes or a really effective therapeutic, jake. All right. Dr. Sanjay gupta, thank you so much. Ill see you tomorrow. Be sure to listen to sanjays daily podcast, coronavirus fact versus fiction, wherever you access your podcasts. Its a mustlisten during these troubling days. Coming up, a brandnew cnn poll out just this hour about coronavirus and your money. Plus Bernie Sanders drops out of the race after cnn learns hes been talking about former president obama. Stay with us. Announcer the lead with jake tapper brought to you by Tractor Supply company, providing pet food, animal feed, and gardening supplies. burke at farmers insurance, weve seen almost everything that can happen to your home. Or car. Bundle home and auto with farmers and you can save an average of twenty percent. So get a quote today. We are farmers. 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In just one months time, when people are asked, what do you make of the Economic Conditions in the country today, only 39 said theyre good. 69 said that a month ago. Thats a drop of 30 . What is really interesting, jake, people are optimistic it will be good a year from now, 67 in this poll say the economy will be good a year from now. Thats about exactly where that optimistic number was just a month ago. So while it impacted their immediate assessment of the economy, americans are still quite optimistic a year from now they will be bouncing back. Thats interesting. David, almost half of those in this poll say that coronavirus has caused them financial hardship. The numbers are even more stark, of course, when you break it down according to income. Yeah, were seeing so much about sort of socioeconomic status play out in this, jake. If you look at people who have an income of less than 50,000 a year, obvio60 of them tell us this poll theyre experiencing hardship due to the economic fallout of the coronavirus pandemic. When you look at people who earn more than 50,000 in Household Income annually, its still 40 , four in ten of those are experiencing hardship. Half the country says theyre experiencing hardship but you do see the divide there economically. Congress passed that unprecedented 2 trillion stimulus. President trump signed it into law to help individuals, to help Small Businesses, to help companies. How are people reacting to the legislation that has been passed to help them . More than four in ten americans, 44 in this poll say its not enough to help people like them. 46 say it is about right, thats a pretty good sign. But that 44 number, jake, who say its not enough, thats why i think you see the congressional leaders very much already talking about the stimulus phases to come, that theyre not done with this yet. All right, David Chalian, thank you so much. In our money lead, as the layoffs stack up and Congress Continues to try to help the public, a new video shows a Small BusinessAdministration Official calling out the big banks, big banks that took free bailout money in 2008, and this official accuses them of now turning their backs on Small Businesses. The new video was obtained by the washington post. Here is a little clip. The same banks that basically took billions of dollars with one page from paulsen at treasury at the time are the ones saying the documentation isnt clear enough for them. What theyre saying is, i dont give a hoot about the Small Businesses, what i care about is whether or not theres enough paperwork. Its just crazy. That was the Small Business administrations district director in a webinar this past monday. Lets bring in cnn business anchor julia chatterley. Julia, that sba official specifically named bank of america, wells fargo, and chase. He says big banks are only offering loans to existing Small Business customers, leaving others with no way to get this money. Are the banks doing that . And are they breaking any rules . The lenders of all shapes and sizes, jake, are saying, look, the rules keep change even on a daily basis, as late as last night we were seeing tweaks. Theyre right that the big banks are lending to known customers, they say, look, we have the data, we can prevent fraud in this case, and ultimately it will be quicker, which helps. But there are many Small Businesses falling through the gaps. These big banks have lent billions and billions over the last five days but it doesnt mean they cant do more and others cant do more. One banker said to me, this is our opportunity to say sorry, but the system needs fixing here too. Banks have committed 98 billion in loans since the Stimulus Program launched only last friday. 349 billion are available, 349. Weve heard about this overwhelming demand. Why isnt the number of the dollars given out already, why isnt it bigger . Its a great question. That 98 billion is for just the three largest banks alone. Wells fargo will boost that. But there are immediate fixes required. One, u. S. Treasury needs to send a written note to the lenders saying, get the money out there, you will not be fined. The second thing, the Small BusinessAdministration Needs to process these loans quicker somehow and open up access to the Community Banks to let them lend more too. Finally, to davids point, cash. Congress needs to get more cash to these businesses, promise more, and then everything will calm down. And you heard David Chalian talking about our new cnn poll, only 39 of the American People polled say that Economic Conditions are good. Thats down 30 points in only a month. Obviously its been a horrible month. From your perspective, do you see any way this number can improve anytime soon . Not in april. This reflects the shutdown, it reflects the millions of job losses were seeing. But key for me, and this is the good part of this, twothirds of people think the shock were seeing is temporary, that it will get better too. We have to protect that confidence at all costs. And we need to get cash to people, to businesses, to states, and we need to do it as fast as possible. We need a fix. Cnn business anchor julia chatterley, thank you so much as always, ill see you tomorrow. Theres hundreds of devices sitting unused that could be used to run a million coronavirus tests. Why are they sitting unused . Well talk to an expert about that, next. 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