Tonight there is reason to be optimistic and reason to be hopeful. Dr. Deborah birx, shell be joining us in just a moment. We are inching closer and closer to beating this virus, restarting the single most powerful economic engine in human history, and solving what is a Serious Public Health pandemic. This is the president from earlier tonight. Lets take a look at. We are going to have a rough week. Maybe have a rough little more than a week. But this tremendous light at the end of the tunnel, i said it last time, set it last night, tremendous light at the end of the tunnel. With therapeutics, with vaccines, with things that we really want. Deborah, tony, they are all working so hard on this. Hannity tonight, i want to make one thing clear before we begin, well get through this. We are the United States of america and as we do we also need to remember that the cure cannot be the wars and the crisis itself. We cannot put paralyzing panic and over practical precautions over americans working. When not practical. What does that mean . It means getting the country back to work doing what we do best as safely as possible. It means doing everything we can do to find treatments and a cure. Like i said, the idea of an Economic Task force seems like the right path to me. Bring in the minds like steve moore and businessmen and women who understand wall street and main street. Also tonight, we have big, big developments on hydroxychloroquine. Dr. Oz is here with that. Also dr. Birx for first, i have an Important Message for the governor of new york, andrew cuomo. Earlier today, Governor Cuomo said the state may have a plateau because new data shows that new hospitalizations saw a sharp drop in just the last four days. By the way, weve also known that predictions, the models didnt live up to what they told us it would be, significantly lower. Thats good. Socks surging on the news that the outbreak may be closer to a peak, and so weve never before witnessed a health care mobilization effort like the one we are witnessing now across the nation. The president has change the rules on how you will forever fight pandemics here and worldwide. Frankly, andrew cuomo, all new yorkers in the country should be thinking the president. See all of this . Because while andrew cuomo wasnt listening to his own Health Care Task force, that strongly recommended in the saying, will need this and we can predict this is going to happen and he did nothing, and complaining the president was taking action, delivering all the needed aid to new york, and, by the way, and the country, donald trump came to the rescue of new york state and did what cuomo shouldve been preparing for, what de blasio should have been preparing for. 2 million surgical masks, hundreds and thousands of face shields, and, yes, thousands and thousands of ventilators, over 5,000 to new york alone. Also building new hospitals in addition to the Emergency Hospital at the Javits Center, which is the largest hospital now in the country, originally not billed for covid19. Now they are taking in covid19 patients. The president has also staffed the entire Javits Center with his personnel, our great military running that hospital for new york and for the governor who was illprepared. You have the u. S. And is comfort in new york harbor which will now treat covid19 patients as well. The lack of state and new york city preparation is shocking. After 9 11, after the First World Trade Center bombing, numerous terrorist threats, knowing new york state, new york city in particular has the highest concentration of people in the smallest geographical areas making new york city the most vulnerable to any pandemic as cuomos own Health Care Task force warned him about in november 2015 in detail. Let me tell you something about new york, new york city. Its been an epic fail on all levels of new york government. State and city. A disaster. There is no excuse after 9 11. No excuse after being warned by a task force. And you had in years to fix the problems. New york needs to know, while the president was, welcome working around the clock to make available millions of doses of hydroxy clerk s be 22, all talk noaction govs putting up dangerous barriers between patients and doctors. Finally, well, Governor Cuomo was asked about the drug hydroxychloroquine, heres what he said earlier today. Weve allowed usage of the hydroxychloroquine with azithromycin packs in hospitals at their discretion. We have a 14 day limit to how much you can buy because so many people were trying to buy it. If the federal government increases the supply to new york, which they said they are going to do, we could lift the 14 day limit. Anecdotally, youll get suggestions that it has been effective. But we dont have any official data yet from a hospital. Sean yes, andrew. Hes providing hydroxychloroquine, just like to provide you all the masks, all the ventilators, and building the hospitals, no staffing hospitals because you didnt listen to your task force. Weve been calling on the governor of new york to immediately lift the pharmacy ban on getting this drug. In other words, pharmacies, because the executive order of cuomo, they can no longer fill a prescription for hydroxychloroquine if the patient and a doctor think they need it. I wrote an oped this weekend for foxnews. Com. This should be a decision between the doctor and the patients, not Governor Cuomo or, or comrade de blasio. And as dr. Oz will explain in moments, this is not anecdotal anymore. We are now beyond that point, in spite what the mob in the media are telling you. Countries all over the world are seeing positive signs including in france and china and turkey and india and israel, and many other countries in between grade 73 of patients in spain have been using it. But let me be clear, im not dr. Hannity. My mother wanted me to be a doctor. There are risks, side effects include headaches, dizziness, stomach pain, rash, and you should always make an informed decision with your doctor. This is about science. This is about being a medical doctor. Shouldnt be about politics. The federal government has tens of millions of doses and made millions of doses available even more this weekend to the new york governor. Governor i say it again, let the people of new york and the doctors decide. Not you. And youre getting it for free. I get it. I understand. We all want longterm trials, Clinical Trials. At the same time, as dr. Oz has been saying, you go to battle with the army we have. We dont have time in the middle of a pandemic to have a two year Clinical Trial. Hold on, virus, we need a Clinical Trial. It doesnt work that way. Doctors all around the world are using it. We have more new incredible data, probably the single most, well, knowledgeable experts in the country on this, going to get to that in a minute. Remember, Governor Cuomo, he failed to act on multiple fronts. This is the difference between talk and action. The president built the hospitals, the president s in the ventilators, the masks, the gloves, the gowns and everything they didnt prepare for in new york, but andrew cuomo was willing all the way back in the member 2015, what would happen if we had an influenza panic in new york and how he would need t boldly and they had an obligatin ethically and otherwise to save the life of new yorkers by acting now. This is a foreseeable problem as that study said. When it came the ventilator shortage, addressed explicitly. In the november 2015, new york health apartment report read, during a severe influenza pandemic, there is likely to be a projected shortfall of 15,783 vallen enters during peak week demand, a shortfall of nearly 15,000 ventilators. Cuomo point up over his shoulder, request to purchase 15,000 ventilators because he didnt request them at the time. Request them what was the response with hisoe telling him he needed to do it, nor was his urgency after slush and expose a warning that new yorkers would die . Governor cuomo refused to act. He did nothing. He bought zero ventilators. Get this, the cost of purchase the needed ventilators, yeah, its expensive. It was only 0. 4 of his 201516 budget. To those of you you might want to criticize sean hannity, let me say this im in long island in new york, ground zero right now. Born and raised here, lived all around the country. But my family lives here. Thousands of new york cases on long island where i still live. People i know fighting for their lives and hospitals right around here. But i cant go visit after reading that report. In every new yorker needs to be furious, they need to be held accountable. You want a task force, we need one to invest get why cuomo failed to act after that dire warning. While he prepared nothing. Why did de blasio prepare nothing. After seeing a governor put up a wall between doctors and patients, im apoplectic. Everything the report predicted five years ago is now happening. This is that week they are talking about. What we witnessed from the governor and the mayor . Dereliction of duty. January 24th, he was saying the risks to new yorkers is low. February 27, claiming catching the flu right now is a much greater risk than anything that has to do with coronavirus. The fact was cuomo was warned over and over again and he was wrong over and over again. I have more later in the show. We turned to facts without fears segment right now. According to john hopkins, the u. S. Has recorded over 10,000 thats from coronavirus with confirmed infections of over 350,000. With swine flu, that pandemic, we had 20 million americans that contracted that virus. And in that pandemic, hundreds of thousands hospitalized. Nearly 17,000 people sadly died there. Pandemics are scary. The worst hit areas including new york right now, detroit and new orleans. President trump announced that tonights briefing, that fema has distributed look at this, 11. 795 millio11. 7 million and 94. 4 surgical gowns, their 2. 6 million gloves. They now have available 29 million doses of hydroxychloroquine. They now have over 10,000 ventilators they are disturbing to states on a per needed basis. California, oregon all announcing they are sending hundreds of ventilators from the federal stockpile to other states. Led by democratic governors in washington as well le we are learning the u. K. By mr. Boris johnson has in fact been moved to an intensive care unit at his symptoms sadly worsen. Our prayers are with him. The prime minister, our allies and friends in the u. K. And anyone who is contracted virus. Also a reason tonight to be hopeful that tonight the key coronavirus model, which was a model of the ih and e model that you saw in the White House Briefing room with a coronavirus drastically been shifted and changed and reduced in terms of their projected deaths from just a few days ago. Now, remember, they were predicting over 250,000 people dead. They said if there was no travel ban, no quarantine, no mitigation efforts, 2. 2 million americans could have died, not below 200,000. Thats more than 150 deaths they were predicting just days ago, this day of predicting the possibility of 250,000 americans dying. Thats not all. The model now predicts 140,000 hospitalizations at its peak, thats in decline of 121,000, almost half of whats expected. From their model. Here to explain more as our own trace gallagher. A relief, thank goodness. Why were they so wrong . Sean, its important because the model estimates are key to this whole scenario not only because they are cited by the white house, they are also used by states and hospitals across the country to set policy. But the more data we get, the more models tended to lower their estimates. For example, just four days ago, you are talking about this for the university of washingtons institute predicted more than 92,000 americans would die from covid19. That estimate now below 82,000 with a lower range below 50,000, and there are numerous scientists who believe that i those numbers are still way too high. Also analyze the impact of hospitals and ill back the expected need for overall hospital beds, icu beds, and ventilators. The bottom line here is fewer people will die because people if you are a critical element people will get critically ill. The model still protects that april 16th will be the apex for covid19 deaths in United States and april 15th will be the peak day for the use of hospital beds. Bottom line, we are getting there. Sean . Sean trace, good news. Every life lost is tragic. Every infection needs to be taken seriously. These are huge developments, huge trends in the right direction. The fact should be of every american home, especially as we continue to move ahead on potentially lifesaving treatments. Now look at this in the exclusive letter obtained by dr. Oz, hell join us a second, highly respected Los Angelesbased rheumatologist who he trusts when you see his contract and trolls, they are unbelievable, named the daniel lawless sent a letter to the fda explaining hydroxychloroquine is a very safe drug. Its been given to tens of millions of individuals in the world since its approval in 1955 for that 65 years ago. Model therapy has not been associated with any deaths and the recommended dose and 42 years of practice, no patients of mine, taking over the largest lupus practice in the country, has ever been hospitalized for nhc q complication. Added, quote, rheumatologists do not obtain ekgs before letter hc queue. No treatment guidelines. Hydroxychloroquine rated the most aquatic element of effective therapy for doctors by coronavirus and according to a new survey, in michigan doctors are seeing success. Out of los angeles, youve got a name down at dr. Anthony cardio. California did a great job. Got to get californias gavin newsom credit. He is handling far superior to what they did in york. Hes saying, by the way, promising supports in prescribing hydroxyl chlorine in combination with his ink with patients really ill with the virus. He said every patient i subscribed it to has been really ill, they were basically symptomfree. Michigan state rep resented of get democrat karen woods is crediting hydroxychloroquine and the president s bold efforts for saving her life after her battle with rotavirus. We are doing well youre doing well, cumbersome and i guess the state rep. Heres the question. Lets let doctors and patients decide. Give them all the tools they need to succeed. Access to potentially lifesaving drugs and supplies and equipment. Of course, there are people in the democrat party, the mob, and the media, they continue to smear the president with sick, ugly, twisted ways. An ohio state lawmaker who said the president touting hydroxychloroquine is a crime against humanity tweeting, ive been to the hague, im making a referral to crimes against him. Todays press conference was the last straw. I know the need for prosecution referral when i see one. If that isnt nutty enough, Conspiracy Theory tv says the president has financial interest in a lifesaving drunk, even in a national pandemic, that they cant help themselves. Why is the president so convinced that this is a medication that needs to be stockpiled. What is in it for him . Speak of this is the death of expertise. This is when the idiots have been exposed to. The drug the president keeps pushing, a lot of people would say follow the money. There is not to be some sort of financial tied to someone somewhere that has the president pushing this repeatedly. This was a 9 1 9 11 level fae of the federal government. It was. He needs to be talked about and covered and scrutinized that w way. Sean anyway, not even worth listening to these people anymore. Instead of railing americans together to fight this disease, seeing the very best out of the mass majority of people, youve got the people whove been lying for the last three and a half years trying to pick republicans against democrats. Hates to tell you, this virus does not discriminate, trying to turn every single waking moment into a public trial against the president. Its sick, but its their playbook. Flatout wrong. What we need is unity, strength, real solutions. Not the same part dell next partisan smears. Dr. Oz, you have on your Television Program dr. Daniel wallace. Let me read as condensed roles, Cedarssinai Medical Center los angeles, inherited this largest lupus practice in the United States in 1955. Currently cares for 2,000 patients with lupus. A majority of these patients taking hydroxychloroquine. He has authored 400 peerreviewed papers, written in the lupus textbook, past chairman of the Lupus Foundation of america and i can keep going on in and with these credentials. He points out, his words, and very safe drug thats been given to tens of millions of a vendor weakens and individuals throughout the world for six to five years, no patients of mine have ever been hospitalized for any publicatios to this medicine and taking 4 milligrams of letter hc queue following 6 milligrams letter hc queue says the risk is nil,unless you. Im watching people on television and im getting attacked and the president s getting attacked that this is dangerous. Well, i would say this guy knows more than everybody commenting about it and youve been talking to him and others. Tell us what youve learned. Im very impressed by him and hes one of the premier rheumatologists in the country. I did not know much about this drug until covid19 hit this country. I suspect that almost everyone commenting on this certainly is true of the broadcasters who i believe are alarming americans, not on purpose, but because they are parroting back what they are hearing. I actually thought there are all these issues we had to be careful about. When im at home and talk to other rheumatologist, i realize these guys know this, they are the ones prescribing it, not the heart surgeons, neurosurgeons, its actually the rheumatologists giving it to these 600 lupus patients. We actually called to make sure we arent hurting the lupus patients because we know they are running short of these medications and hes the one who said, by the way, as an aside, you guys know that youre completely off base when you talk about side effects. I said, why . He said, we in the business know this is not true but we dont check ekgs. We have guidelines what to do. We are not told to do anything about this medication. Obviously a patient and the doctor will make their own deal, there might be o