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Officials were responsible for the enormous death, suffering and economic losses they inflicted on the world. a crucial element to reopening the economy is coronavirus testing, something the governor of new york has been urging the president to step up. after a meeting with mr trump at the white house, andrew cuomo said a deal had been reached to increase testing capacity in new york. to quantify that situation in the state of new york, we now do, on average of about 20,000 tests per day. our goal, which is very aggressive and ambitious, but set it high and then try. our goal is to double the ...

Testing capacity in new york. we do on average of 20,000 tests per day. algol, which is very aggressive and ambitious, but we sit at high, algol is to double the 20,000 to get to 40,000 tests per day. that is our goal and it was a very productive conversation. the governor and the president also agreed that new york no longer needed a us navy hospital ship which was sent there to ease the burden on city hospitals. the ship, comfort, will move to its base in virginia in case it is needed for other locations around the country. the un's world food programme has warned of famines of biblical prop...

Alarms on medical equipment are going off. a nurse telling us what is happening, a patient is having extreme trouble breathing. they need to flip her onto her stomach. this is the moment doctors face around the clock, life or death in the hands of this medical team. within minutes, dr. pascal comes out. they've stabilized the patient. he tells us what just happened. >> what happened just now is an absolute emergency, a life or death situation. unfortunately that's what we're seeing with a lot of our patients here. we run around this unit many times just putting out fires. >> reporter: with hos...

Best we can. we just worry what's going to happen with another 30, 40, 50,000 patients showing up on our hospital's door. >> reporter: the sick are coming so fast, the city could need 5,000 care beds by next week. michael dowling runs 23 new york area hospital where's one out of every four covid patients is in intensive care. >> every hospital right now is a covid hospital. every hospital is unbelievably ousy and preparing to get busier because the numbers keep escalating. ew new york is in crisis. >> reporter: today, governor ordersigned an executive order to to transfer ventilators from faci...

We're told the "comfort" tonight has fewer than five patients, again, none of whom are coronavirus patients. the defense secretary said today in washington that that could change, that if calls upon that hospital ship would be willing and able to take people with coronavirus. but so far it's not. a source familiar with the situation tells us, "the reason for that is because the federal government is not allowing coronavirus patients to be admitted to javits or the "comfort." the hospitals and state and local governments are ready to go, but it is the federal government that thus far has been s...