In just three states, new york which has more than 92,000 cases with new jersey and california. We are also seeing disturbing surges in a number of other states weve been keeping an eye on and tracking including florida, michigan and louisiana. Here is the thing, the way this virus works is that not everyone will have exactly the same epidemic at the same time. The actual way the virus spreads in the community is the same everywhere. It the same virus. The same human bodies and that is why it is critical there is a cohesive federal national response. Last week the governor of alabama kay ivy who has taken some strong steps down there explained why she had not issued a shelter in place order for residents opting instead for less restrictive measures. He said quote, yall, are we not louisiana. We are not new york state and we are not california. Thats right. You are not. Yet. It is just a matter of time. New york city e. R. Doctor this morning offered a message to anyone that believes they might escape the worst of it. New york two weeks ago had only 300 cases. New york today has 30,000. Cities around america with 300 cases should realize the only difference between them and new york is two weeks. So far the places that have been hit the hardest like i said, fairly dense areas in blue states but the country as a whole is headed in that direction. This is the way the moath of ths work. It the way its been working here. Every state behind on that curve is a similar situation. You need ventilators, hospitals and personal protective and tas facing fatality numbers that seemed unthinkable a few weeks ago. A lot of states are refusing to see what is plainly in front of their face. These 11 states have not issued statewide stay at home orders. Some have localized orders in place one thing in common with all these states, they all have p repub clican governors. Georgia just issued orders. In florida after ron santos ordered it, he signed a religious exception blocking local governments closing down church and synagogue ceremonies during the out break. Georgia the state where the cdc is located, brian kemp issued it today saying he just learned people without symptoms can spread the disease. The New York Times reports areas where Public Officials resisted orde delayed stay at he orders, this shows where people were still traveling last week. Gray means no travel and red means closer to normal travel and you can see that much of the northeast there was essentially virtually no travel. Look at the south. Look at the plain states. You can see, people in Southern States were far less inclined to do that behavior because they were not getting the same messages from their leaders and there is reason to believe that parts of those states could get hit even worse than what were seeing in the worsthit states today, places like new york. As the atlantic points out they pose a unique risk where resident haves high rates of conditions like lung and Heart Disease and obesity that makes the virus more deadly. Take for example the state of mississippi. That state seems to have the nations highest rate of people hospitalized for the coronavirus at 31 . The virus there is not expected to peak for nearly two months. A week ago, the states republican governor over ruled, get this, he over ruled local Safety Measures to fight the virus. Reopening restaurants and department stores. The governor announced shelter in place order yesterday, which does not go into effect until tomorrow at 5 00 p. M. As a nation, we could have mitigated some of the worst with a strong decisive unified federal response. We just didnt have one. We know that. President donald trump refuses and refused and is refusing to take a leadership role, just today he was whining about state requests for lifesaving medical supplies and tweeting, remember, we are a backup for them. That is Donald Trumps idea of leadership. The federal government is a backup, kind of articles of confederation situation. And that is why this crisis is already, already far worse than it ever should have been. Joining me now is Global Health professor and the director of the harvard Global Health institute. One of the most informed people i know on this pandemic. Let me Start Playing devils advocate against myself in that monologue and see your response, which is look, the places weve seen these really bad outbreaks in new york particularly, these are very dense places with high levels of public transportation, people are living close to each other. That was true of the city in wuhan where we saw bad outbreaks. Maybe it wont be that bad in Rural America where folks arent that close to each other. What do you say to that . Yeah, its really remarkable, chris. Thanks for having me on. When the outbreak began in china, this is a china problem and said its an asian problem and for a little while, it was europe and crazy Health Systems and a european problem. Then last week we were this is a new york, california, Washington State problem. At some point we have to accept the fact its a human problem and it hits different places and different densities and different times but the idea that the number of people who are infected wont be the same in all these places, defies logic. The virus will spread. It might go a little more slowly in a rural area than a dense city but its coming to a town near you, and like the lesson, we keep having this denial of its going to be somebody elses problem and i think finally this week i got a sense that more orless eveor le o or less every american and political leader started realizing the problem is theirs as well and not just a new york or california problem. So we have now hit a point where weve kind of ramped up testing, although plateaued and the death rate is growing at an unspeakable rate that i just find really upsetting profoundly. Where are we right now on this trajectory as of today . So i think there is a National Number and we have to realize what we have done because of a welcome of federal leadership is we have turned this into 50 outbreaks. And different states have different patterns. So nationally, we are still early days, exponential rise in number of cases, long march towards more and more deaths, unfortunately until we plateau but its going to shift, right . So i think in new york, were going to see a peak there is some evidence the number of cases are starting to plateau. We have seen fabulous progress in Northern California and washington from the shelter in place orders. Yeah. I am deeply worried about florida and georgia, deeply worried about louisiana and south carolina, we just saw some data this afternoon, their hospitalization rates are picking up. You showed the data for other states. So this is going to become a 50state game its not a game. 50state epidemic and thats a much harder thing to manage than a Single National epidemic. This is what it seems to me what im sort of losing sleep over is i think about this problem here distinct from other places is other places had regional outbreaks, south korea and wuhan and lombardy and the north in italy and then the National Government sort of maybe tried a regional lockdown and realized that wouldnt work and implemented a national strategy. No place has had the kind of multi geographic spread to deal with. I thinki i think its fair to say than we have. We have something distinct now that no other country has really had to wrestle with. Is that a fair characterization . It is. Look, there are im trying to look at positives here. There are a few upsides of that regional approach. We had some states that moved pretty early, well before the federal government was ready to move and again, were talking about california, Washington Statement. Ohio with this republican governor, other places have moved early yes i think the citizens of those states will do better. This is no way to run a pandemic response. Well, i guess, the final point here is one could imagine the one other benefit of this, to the extent there is one, it hard to see one, you could move resources around. If you have different places peaking at different times and new york right now needs, you know, ventilators and ppe and needs actual front line medical workers and then six weeks from now, thats the case in alabama, you can imagine a universe in which the federal government was coordinating moving those resources, right . Yeah, so ive actually made that case. So we need to do that. Again, it one of the Silver Linings in this is new york is going to be next. Lets put our resources towards getting new york through and then when new york is through its peak, lets move the resources. I think new york doctors and nurses will be happy to go elsewhere to catake care of people. We can turn that fragmentation to our advantage. It requires coordinator and somebody looking at the entire National Picture of helping make this happen. Right now its ad hawk one on one. Its veryinefficient. Thank you for your time. I want to turn to someone who has been fighting to keep the people of his state healthy in the midst of this crisis. Governor of colorado. Governor, first, let me ask you where your state is right now, how you assess where you are in that sort of time lapse were seeing between, say, new york out front and maybe some other states that are much further behind. Yeah, colorado is closer to new york in that. Over 3700 cases. That the just the confirmed positives like many other states, we havent even been able to keep up and we expect the number of positives is probably between 8 and 15,000 or more coloradoens. We know that 25 to 50 are mild, if at all symptomatic. Were approaching about 100 deaths. I think we have 99. Well probably have the 100th today. A Deputy Sheriff in El Paso County passed away today, younger man in his 40s. Younger than me. Were working on surging the hospital capacity. We have been on a stay at home order ex briand bringing everyb along is critical. Not so much about the order but the psychology, the social license for that order and really convincing people and maximizing the likelihood and individual decisions they are staying at home. Has that been a challenge for you . It been the real dhchallenge ben hind this. One thing i said is the ultimate enforcer is the grim reaper. Youre putting yourself and your own line on the line and lives of neighbors, aunts, uncles if youre not staying home and engaging in social isolation. Were doing what we can with local authorities to close playgrounds and sites people might congregate but we have to bring the country, our states, our residents, republican, democrat, independent with us in this journey to see the urgency of staying at home. There are three states near you that dont have stay at home orders. Utah, wyoming, nebraska. Is there any regional concern about spillover effects if there are states that continue to have folks sort of out and about . Absolutely. In fact, were even worried about that within our state. We had to several times warn our denver metro area residents dont go to your second home in the mountains. Not only do some of those mountain and World Class Community haves a higher infection rate because they have International Travel leading up to this, but that will further spread the virus. Of course, were worried about people from neighboring states or other states that dont have that stay at home order that might come to colorado. Just as were also worried about travelers from across the world. We have it here so the First Priority is reducing the spread in colorado and the best way we can do that is step up, testing, isolation in the meantime, stay at home. Final question is about the states budget and economics. We saw the 6. 6 million claims for unemployment today. States are going to have to put budgets together and have 40, 50 hits to roevenue. I have no idea, paying out employment insurance. Andrew cuomo is cutting medicate and every statement has to balance the budget. What is your thinking about the finances here . It seems to me unless there is significant rescue money for state, were going to take this and compound it over years and create an enduring recession. Well, im even more worried about families that cant make rent or put food on the table or return to work. That the why staying at home is important so people can get back to work sooner and get back to earning a living sooner. It important to point out economic productivity and work is not the enemy here. It physical proximity. So we need to maximize the opportunity to earn a living and maximize the economic output without increasing physical proximity and worried about the hole in the state dbudget and city budgets but starts with families and works up. Were glad there is some help in the aid package the federal government passed. 1200 for families and money for state governments and hospitals. We know congress will need to do more in the days and weeks ahead. Yes. They will need to do more. Governor of colorado, thank you for taking time with us this evening. Next, Chuck Schumer on administrations willful ignorance that escalated the emergency and many warnings they ignored along the way and what to do now. Ignored along the way and what to do now. 9. 95 . Thats impossible. Hi, im jonathan, a manager here at Colonial PennLife Insurance company, to tell you it is possible. If youre age 50 to 85, you can get Life Insurance with options starting at just 9. 95 a month. Okay, jonathan, im listening. 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Lets party people one more time republican governor, Georgia Governor Brian Kemp is being ridiculed widely because just yesterday after weeks of wall to wall Media Coverage of the coronavirus, he claimed he just learned that people without symptoms can still spread the virus. This led to the social media cdc is in atlanta trending today. The very agency that has been explaining the risks of the virus to american people. The centers for Disease Control is in georgia, about a 20minute drive from the governors mansion. Here is the thing, we have known about asymptomatic transmission of the coronavirus for months. On a briefing january 31st, 6 two days ago dr. Anthony fauci said we know in the beginning we were not sure if there were asymptomatic infection, which would make it a broader outbreak than we were seeing and we know for sure there are. On march 6th. Governor kemp toured cdc headquarters with president truf trump and the director of the cdc. This is one example of the insane aversion to repeat scientific warnings by experts about precisely what were encountering now. Missignal after missignal after missignal. Three years ago. Penal the pentagon warned the white house about a respiratory disease which is what coronavirus is. Yahoo news reports in 2018 the cdc warned the country was not ready to respond to a pandemic and just tw mono months ago the. Army projected between 80,000 and 150,000 americans could die if the coronavirus got out of control. Thats two months ago. U. S. Army. They knew what was going to happen. And now the white house is modelling that up to 240,000 people could die if we do everything right. The u. S. Armys worstcase scenario has become the best case scenario. Joining me now, someone who did call for early action, Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer of new york who back on january 26th called for the department of health and Human Services to declare a Public Health emergency over the coronavirus. Senator, first, i want to start with your exchange with the president. The president had a lot of harsh words for you today. He wrote you a letter that was strange in the way that everything he writes is strange. Why was he so angry with you . What was this about . Let me give you a little backgrou background. I heard throughout new york and america, the desperate shortag