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workers and gowns and masks standing firm, it's like this army of masked gowns are coming in with a united purpose, growing anger over how to address this crisis As cases continue to rise in new In hot spots like Boston, the World Health Organization guarantees that the worst may be yet to come, as we learned that the virus does not just attack the lungs, while President Trump goes after governors upset by lack of testing. The tests are something local, as the South Korean firm states. plans to send hundreds of thousands of kits to help with the shortage we are also seeing the unprecedented drop with our streets and skies practically empty there is such an abundance of oil producers that they are not willing to pay people to take them off their hands and with some of the largest U.S. wheat processing plants closed it could be harder to keep shelves stocked the economy continues in free fall as lawmakers negotiate a new relief bill but will a greeting from the on the other hand a hopeful glimpse of what life could be like here the Pope's coronavirus good evening everyone, I'm Lindsay Davis thank you very much for streaming with us The United States is no stranger to times of crisis, but in the past our darkest days have left us They have united, of course, is part of the sentiment behind the motto united, we are divided, we fall, but what we are. what we see right now are dividing lines being drawn in the sand protesters versus

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workers the president and governors now trading blows some governors and mayors are having a hard time coming to an agreement the unrest is now another tentacle of this deadly disease but As always, we look for the positives here and here in New York, deaths and ICU admissions in the hardest hit state have decreased, but in Boston the streets were empty today, the annual Boston Marathon was closed for the first time in more than a century.

Coronavirus cases continue to rise as they are. in other parts of the country, more on that in a moment, but with Johnson starting us off tonight with the battle raging across the country over how to reopen and whether it's safe to do so tonight, these stark images from Denver illustrating the difficult decisions they face. Leaders at all levels of government how to balance pressure to reopen with the need to protect public safety in New York's epicenter, where the pandemic has inflicted weeks of pain and anguish tonight, signs the state has turned a corner to the curve, look at the curve in recent months the number of people admitted to the hospital is trending down Governor Cuomo urges caution the question now is how long the decline lasts and how steep the decline is and no one knows a doctor who has seen that descent firsthand, well, we met dr.

Matthew almost a month ago described Mount Sinai Queens as a hospital under siege. You can see that all these hallways are very bad and empty. Now you can see that there is everywhere these days a different image. There are no patients in this hallway. It's lovely. Places to still see across the country, more evidence of Michigan's devastating toll Skyler Herbert, 5, became the state's first child to die from coronavirus Skylar's parents, both veteran first responders, her father, a a Detroit firefighter, his mother a police officer. They have been on the front lines and they have served with honor and integrity and they did not deserve to lose their son to this virus also tonight stories of hope in New Jersey jack allard, 25, who was admitted to the hospital five weeks ago and placed on a ventilator now recovered leaving the hospital alone in Louisiana a patient discharged in true New Orleans style the country is eager to get back to life but places like New York City stuck in a stalemate a Hudson River usually crossed by boats now eerily empty the mayor today canceled all parades through June, including iconic celebrations like the Puerto Rico Day Parade and tonight's pride march.

Consensus is growing that the key to reopening the country is increasing testing. This is one of the new walk-in testing sites that just opened in Harlem. A line already stretches down the block. The city is increasing its focus on minority communities devastated by the pandemic and vulnerable residents over 65. years New York, like many states, struggling to meet demand in Massachusetts health workers in full swing administering tests in Kansas a long line of cars in Tennessee same story across the country demand outstrips supply governor calls for help now They want us, the federal government, to do the testing and again the testing is: Local Governor Cuomo responds that the New York labs are ready to do the testing, they just need the president's help to get the supplies.

The big question about testing is whether and how to scale up the domestic manufacturing supply chain quickly. Maryland's Republican governor was forced to purchase 500,000 South Korean test kits that we each provided. governor with a list of the names, addresses and phone numbers of labs where they can find additional testing capacity within their states the governor of Maryland didn't really understand the list didn't understand much about what was happening tonight parts of the country is slowly reopening people flock to some Florida beaches in Georgia the governor declares that gyms, barber shops, bowling alleys can reopen on Friday some restaurants and theaters also with social distancing, day after day we are seeing back to work

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that erupt, some bigger than others, with many echoing the words of the president who has egged them on even as they violate the administration's own social distancing guidelines.

These are great people, but dr. Falchi warns that in

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, all those people gathering could be counterproductive. If you rush and get into a situation where you have a big increase in speed, you're going to back off and Johnson joins us now as we just looked at that. press conference or the president called the governor of Maryland saying that he doesn't understand the testing situation in his own state. Lindsey, Maryland's Republican governor, Larry Hogan, says he was already in contact with all the labs on the list that the White House government provided to them, but they told him that most are federally owned and that he did not have access, they were out of limits.

He says the White House says that will change soon. Meanwhile, Governor Cuomo in New York says that it is not the laboratories, but the materials that are in short supply to transport. After the tests, he will have the opportunity to express his

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face to face with the president tomorrow when they meet at the White House. Lindsey Wade Johnson will report to us tonight in New York as protesters push to reopen the state's economies. taking steps to do just that Georgia Governor Brian Kemp announced today that some businesses will reopen starting this Friday listen to what he said at a press conference today we are announcing plans to increase the e and safely reopen sectors of our economy Given the favorable data, improved testing and approval from our healthcare professionals, we will allow gyms, fitness centers, bowling alleys, body art studios, barbers, cosmetologists, hair designers, nail care, artist decisions, their respective schools and massage therapists to reopen their doors this Friday, April 24. as that announcement was made, there are still 19,000 cases of coronavirus across that state Keesha Lance, mayor of Atlanta Georgia, joins us now to learn more about what she plans to do as leader of the Saints' most populous city in response to the mayor-governor.

Thank you very much for joining us thank you for inviting me. It took a considerable amount of time for Governor Kemp to issue a stay at home order for Georgia, of course, you issued the same guidelines for the city of Atlanta weeks before he took action, so now he plans to do so. keep it closed despite the governor's order for some businesses to open as soon as this week Lindsay, that's what we're having our lawyers review now, it sounds like the governor's orders supersede anything he can do as mayor, but certainly I still have my voice that I can use and what I will continue to ask of Atlanteans is to please stay home.

I have great respect for the governor. We work very well together. I'm not sure what data the governor is referring to and helping him. make this decision I haven't talked to him, I talked to the mayor of the second most populous city in Georgia, Mayor Davis and Augusta, you haven't talked to him, so we don't know what the governor is looking at, but what I do know. is that we had almost 19,000 people test positive as of tonight, we also had a thirteen point eight percent increase and deaths as of tonight, so the best description I got with the smoke from dr.

Carlos Del Rio, one of the infectious disease experts at Emory University, said it's like climbing Mount Everest and just because you get to the top doesn't mean you can't die on the way down and there may be other peaks too. that we may have in this state, so I am extremely concerned about the announcement that the governor made. I hope he's right and I'm wrong, because if he's wrong, more people will die. I have access to the same numbers, the same statistics, why would he? Are they on the same page and did he let them know?

They had no communication before he made today's announcement. Well, again, the governor doesn't communicate regularly, so he didn't communicate with me about this and that, of course. it was his prerogative since he is the governor of this state but we did not communicate it is very clear that our thoughts on where we are with the deaths and the people who are testing positive and our testing capabilities are not aligned I would say . To the extent that we have had good

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in Atlanta it is because we were very aggressive in this city with a metropolitan area of ​​almost 6 million people, we have had less than half the cases in the state with more than half the population . but that's because we've been aggressive and one of the biggest hotspots that we're seeing in the state, as I understand it, is in Bibb County, Georgia, where they didn't close anything, so again I hope that the governor be right on this.

But I'm certainly worried. I just want to come back to this one last time last week. You said I think the biggest mistake we can make is to be so eager for things to get back to normal that we put people's lives at risk. I am concerned that the governor's plan to allow Georgia's stay-at-home order to expire in just 10 days could do exactly that and endanger people's lives. Lindsey, we have to live to fight another day and I understand that it is extremely worrying when people I don't know how they will eat or how they will pay their bills, but these are worries that you have when you are among the living and if we don't continue to distance ourselves if we don't pay attention to what we have seen happen.

In other cities, our population will be at risk. Our largest outbreak in the state came from two funerals overall in Albany, Georgia, so reopening places of worship seems a little premature to me. Atlanta, of course, has a large African American population with underlying conditions you also said some of the highest asthma rates in the country we know you have created an advisory board to reopen Atlanta what is your timeline for reopening and what is the criteria for doing so so good that's why I created an advisory board. I think it's something that we need input from people across the sector, from people who do business in the city, but also from our health experts, so I don't have a timeline.

My timeline will be based on what the data scientists say and if the data says we can reopen, we won't, but if the data says it's too soon, then it's nothing, then I, as mayor and with good conscience, I may be in a hurry to do it, I think where we can spend our energy is looking for ways that we can alleviate some of the difficulties in our communities. We have done this through small business loan funds. We are not disconnecting water service in the city. We are establishing a loan fund specifically for beauty. Shop at you, these and barbershops, so I think we need to continue to think about providing ways for people to feel comfortable staying home, but I think rushing to reopen our state could cost this life and ultimately, to the Kaiser family.

In amazement, the Foundation founded a study published last week: Georgia ranks low in the number of citizens who have been tested. Do you think that increasing the number of people tested aspart of the key to reopening is absolutely key because in this state? I'm sitting here now, we're still not testing asymptomatic people or even people with oral symptoms and so until we can, generally speaking, everyone who I think has been in contact with someone who tested positive or that you have reason to believe that you have been exposed. I think we will all be at risk and again, I cannot replace the governor's order.

I am the governor, he is the governor, I respect his position and I have enjoyed a close working relationship with him, but I certainly cannot say in good conscience that I agree with his order and will continue to use my voice as mayor of Atlanta to ask people to continue to stay home, follow the science and exercise common sense, Mayor, thank you very much for joining us tonight, we appreciate your time, let's now move on to Washington, where that debate over when and how to reopen the country continues to rage as the small Businesses are waiting for Congress to approve much-needed funds to help them stay alive.

Terry Moran joins us now live and Terry, I want to get his response to this debate. In Georgia and other states that are moving forward with reopening, how is the White House responding to these efforts and what do they see as the role of the federal government as states begin to make these decisions? This is fascinating to watch Lindsay because it's a experiment with this virus that develops in real time. The federal government under President Trump sees its role primarily as encouraging the country to return to economic action and through its coronavirus task force coordinating that response by offering very general guidelines on how to do so while the president uses his pulpit to encourage and pressure. , let's do this.

One of the things that caught a lot of people's attention about those guidelines that the White House put out is actually how vague they were. specific benchmarks for when the infection rate reaches this level, you can open up to this level and when the testing reaches this level, then you can move to the

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step, that's essentially what Germany is doing, but they have much more testing solid. program for their population, so what you're seeing is different governors responding to different constituencies that look at the data differently, everyone follows the data, but this is a completely new virus in the world, it's very confusing, there are hints of that many more people have been infected than we originally knew, so we will see in real time different approaches on how to get out of our

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s and try to restart a society before most of us have any immunity to this virus and Terry, let's talk about some of the protests that we've seen in some states, how significant these protests are.

I mean, do they represent a real surge or is this just another way in which this pandemic has become politicized? That is absolutely true. Lindsey, you called it a battle to reopen and we see it as a political battle as well as a debate about how to do it. I don't think these protests based on what we're seeing in the polls are representative; Indeed, substantial majorities of Americans still have confidence that we should slow down, as most public health experts say, but there is no doubt that the protests represent genuine sentiment among the people. The economic and social devastation of the blockade in our country and in countries around the world is something that affects a lot. of people concerned about the debate that the protesters are driving is one that every governor wants to hear, that every mayor wants to hear the yes that he just spoke with the mayor of Atlanta and that every citizen and every home is having when can we do this?

What's safe? This is a deadly virus for some, but it may be deadly for many. Not how you handle something that has only existed in the human population for a few months. It is a very challenging problem. Very complicated questions. Terry Moran, thank you very much. much and as division develops over whether or not to keep most businesses closed, the fight against kovat 19 is now being fought on new battlefields, the Boston Marathon should have taken place today, but instead , that city is trying to counter a surge in cases. Our David Wright reports today is Patriots Day, the state holiday in Massachusetts when they run the Boston Marathon, not this year, it would be a petri dish here for that marathon today with all the people this morning early in line departure in Hopkinton.

There are no crowds at all, it's very different, a bit in the Twilight Zone. Our affiliate WCVB saw only one runner being dropped off by his family and quickly disappeared into the darkness. It's not a great achievement, you won't be celebrated for it, no one will. I'll be applauding for kovat 19 city officials convinced the Boston Athletic Association to postpone this year's marathon until September, a significant change for an event that has been celebrated every Patriot Day since 1897, not even two world wars and a bombing stopped it, but this year Boston Strong has a different meaning here's the mayor's warning on Friday if you try to run the Mount on Monday you're not a champion you're not really helping us you're putting people at risk not only were they worried about the coronavirus spread the first time The first responders lining the 26-mile route to Copley Square are needed elsewhere today.

They are busy with the crowds of a very different marathon. We still see Kovat all day, every day. It feels like we're in it. We are simply inundated with greed. I hesitate to use the word surge because I feel like, at least for me, that word gives me a little bit of anxiety, but we're definitely in the middle of this every day, we fill the hospital every day, we move people every day. We're in the hospital every day, we transfer people, people keep coming in and people keep coming in sick enough to need admission, so I don't know when it will end.

It's still a bit overwhelming, more than 38,000 infected and more than 1,700 dead, including at least 50 veterans at the Soldiers' Home in Holyoke in Massachusetts, like so many nursing homes in other states, have been severely affected and are now believed to be Massachusetts is peaking. The catastrophe left Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker speechless. My best friend lost his mother. to kovat and when you talk about where the numbers are going, what I'm really thinking about is all those people who won't get the chance to say goodbye among the many who have stepped up to help those higher up. U.S.

Army officer General James McConville, a Quincy native returning home to a different kind of battlefield, we are in a war against an invisible enemy, we remain a strong Army, strong Massachusetts and Boston strong, it's a great state, it will prevail against this virus and we will. defeat this virus Patriots Day is about the Commonwealth standing up for its own today is the beleaguered Boston Police Department losing officers in the line of duty to an invisible invader and healthcare workers are on the front lines to almost every other marathon can wait today that lone runner crossed the finish line at the Boston Public Library there was no one in the race beautiful day for all the wrong reasons he had the course to himself David Wright ABC News New York our thanks David for that and for joining us now to talk about the city's response to the crisis is Boston Mayor Marty Walsh, Mayor Walsh, thank you very much for joining us, thank you for inviting me tonight, yesterday, the task force of the White House on the coronavirus said they are very focused on Boston, what does the The response is seen from your office and across the city right now if they focus on Boston.

I want you to listen to this. We need proof. We need support. We need equipment. We need to make sure we continue to stay ahead of this virus right now. 5,749 cases were reported in the city of Boston, 187 people lost their lives, we are in the, I guess in the middle of the big surge, if you will, I think the person who spoke and I couldn't. See if she was a nurse or not. I want to thank the first responders and frontline workers for their great support. You know, this is every day, a new battle. Here we wake up and do it again trying to keep these numbers down. what we are trying to do so that the support of the federal government is welcome if they want to send it to Boston in Massachusetts because they feel that it is still missing.

I mean, every day, for much of the recent press conference, we heard the White House say there's enough evidence, are you saying that's not true in Boston? We certainly don't have enough testing in Boston. I know we don't have enough testing in Massachusetts. Know? I think we have tested 1% of the population in the country so clearly it is not enough to get the information that the data to support how we as a society get back to work and restart our economy and I think not having enough information is key and we will focus in the city we are in.

As we expand the testing locations in the city of Boston to our health centers, there are nine that will be doing this in the

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few days, so I'm already up and running, the hospitals are doing it, which is great, but we really have to do it . do mass testing while we think about returning. I heard MIA Bottoms talk a few minutes ago about the governor opening up Atlanta for trying not to be open. We really need me as new data to look at it and see if it's safe. to get people back to work, of course everyone wants to get back to work, but it's making sure it's my responsibility to keep people safe and to a large extent at this point you've repeatedly told people not to run the risk. marathon race today even though today Of course, it was scheduled to be the Boston Marathon and earlier in a press conference he said that people gathered over the weekend on golf courses and also in parks.

What is social like? How is the city enforcing social distancing? Most people are paying attention, but when people go out and whether a person runs the marathon or shows up and the soccer fields or the golf courses, we do it not only putting yourself in danger, but you are potentially putting your loved ones in danger. and you could come into contact with someone who has a corona virus and bring that virus into your home and that virus has proven to be a killer and cause serious damage to your home and it really is a social and physical issue.

The distance thing today is Patriots Day and I'm very proud of the city of Boston and generally we get together and celebrate the marathon and I would probably come home right now if it were a normal day, but today we ask the people who celebrated. staying home but maintaining social distancing washing your hands making sure that when you go out you wear a mask or something on your face at nine o'clock tonight we're asking when to be home from 9 9 pm. until 6 a.m. we have a recommended curfew and most people are not paying attention but we are still seeing too many cases where people are not people failing lastly mayor your biggest concern my biggest concern is that we are rushing back and I think in Boston the economy was incredible before the corona virus we were setting records we had record low unemployment we had record construction projects but my concern is that we all focused too quickly to come back and we are in the same situation similar situation within the Next, you know, three to five months, 3 to 6 months later, right now, it's about social isolation, physical isolation and doing everything we do to stop the spread of the virus, Mayor Walsh, thank you very much for coming to the program.

We appreciate it. We now want to turn to a doctor who works in Boston on the front line in the fight against Kovat 19 dr. Daniela Lama See is a pulmonary and critical care doctor at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston and has dealt with the daily onslaught of coronavirus cases in recent weeks, so over the course of 2:12 during 12-hour night shifts in the ICU, recounted what he saw how patients cope and what he is learning about how to confront this deadly enemy on Thursday, April 16 around 6:40 p.m. and I just got back from my 7:00 to 7:00 a.m. shift.

We need to wear a drop of masks every time we are in the hospital We fill out this short survey before entering Do we have a bracelet? sore throat, we have lost our sense of smell, if the answer to that is that there are no symptoms, we get what is called a koobideh pass, which allows us to work during the day or all night and in return we receive a mask, the hallways are different. Every time that surprises me these days is the fact that there are no families and that gives the hospital this feeling of silence.

It's also harder to talk to people when we wear these masks, soWe smile with our eyes and wave a little. but it's quiet, it's strange, it's like we're a masked army coming in with a united purpose, so I head to Kovat's ICU, it's called the special pathogens ICU, hence PICU. Tonight I'll be on the green team. all of our teams are given colors like the strangest kind of summer camp ever and we'll see what happens. It's nine hours into my shift and it started out as a difficult one, in fact we got into a new sick admission and then transferred from another. hospital and then in a koba dress The Patrol failed, he bled gastrointestinally, he called his family and they were devastated to know that he might not make it, of course they couldn't come, they asked, we told them and you know, over the course of the night, in reality it is.

It's gotten a little bit better, so it's been hopeful, surprising, you know, tonight I've been going back and forth, someone's doing well, sometimes poorly, and what really brings them all together is that they're all in respiratory failure due to this terrible, terrible virus. from my shift some observations patients are already improving we have learned more we have learned about the benefits of tilting people back to their chests to significantly increase oxygen levels we have learned about how to better manage volume status we have learned when to wake up people to extubate them and I think we have really learned to do all of these things despite our fear and that fear is real and it is present, but I think we are learning.

To live with this, it's a little hard to keep track of the day for everyone these days, but especially when you're into the nights and then the days. Anyway, it's Saturday. I guess around 3:00 in the morning we got this new patient tonight. He is very sick, he is septic, in shock and in very deep shock, receiving a lot of support with medications to raise his

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pressure and with the ventilator, and his family cannot come to see him, that is why I offer you the opportunity to talk to him . by iPad and we have iPads in the ICU for this purpose I will put him in a biohazard bag I brought him to his room and warned them that he would look different, he would be asleep with the sedative and the pain. and kill the medications that were going through him, he would have a breathing tube and his mouth on his throat and they were ready so I took the phone on FaceTime and I was wearing all my protective gear and then I turned it to him and one by one.

Each of these family members told him things they wanted while I was there, I said, you know, pretend I'm not here and they seemed to be able to do that when they approached their loved one, their father, and gave it to him verbally. what they couldn't give them in person, which was saying I love you, which was making few jokes, that they only had expressions of love and I stayed there with my protective equipment with a mask and obviously my n95 with a visor with a dress holding this iPad standing there and listening while they gave these wishes to this man that I will probably never fulfill, sounds like a great guy, you know, finally leaving home it's 9:00 am. m. on Saturday, April 18 after a long shift and the shift was a little longer because I allowed myself to take some time to make an unexpected visit this morning which I will tell you about but first you know that it is always difficult to leave the ICU, I know that you won't be back and I won't be back for a couple of days and I'll leave these people who I've never met like people who can talk but who I've gotten to know over the last few days and who I've come to care about and so on.

At the end of this shift I went to visit my first patient with Kovac, who had been sick for weeks on the ventilator, she finally came out about a week ago and I wasn't sure what she would be like after weeks of sedation, paralysis and pruning. In his belly, I'm sure he's weak, but you know what's there, like he just bit my ear and he's a fun, interesting person and he thanked me, which I knew he would, which felt good even though It wasn't just me, right? I was part of a great team of people who cared for her during those weeks, but that reminded me that ICU care and ICU success is measured in these small increments that we take step by step and ideally we will get novel therapies.

For coronavirus we will find a magic solution, but until then it is meticulous and careful care in the ICU that will make people better and as I head home to wash up, the ICU takes the kovat away from me. I will remember it, I will bring it with me and we will remember it. your service many thanks to dr. daniela lamas for that powerful account and all the hard work she and others are doing when we return as we have been reporting that meat processing plans are now one of the hot spots for kovat 19 with hundreds of workers testing positive in multiple plants that closed.

Next, the question arises: when will that affect what you buy at the grocery store? Plus, as demand for testing soars in the U.S. is turning to South Korea for help, we visit a plant that says it could produce 20 million tests by the end of the month and the new warming side effect of this deadly disease, but first our myth of the day may contain zinc and tonic water. help treat kovat 19 the most powerful stories of our time at any time Nightline right now how do you make sense of everything now? afternoons on ABC a place with a good union of information we are all in this together and we will get through this to get pandemic what you need to know afternoons at 1:00 Eastern Time 12:00 Central and Pacific on ABC thanks to the doctors, nurses, health professionals and first responders thank you all for keeping our supermarkets, pharmacies, gas stations running, thank you all the essential workers for everything you do, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you for everything you do and with every challenge, question, worry, we will be here for you every day, every day, every day, because we will get through this. together next night mounting evidence that kovat 19 not only attacks loans Broadway actor Nick Cordero, a father and husband, had his right leg amputated over the weekend, more than two weeks after being hospitalized, as Steve Osunsami reports that doctors are informing more and more. cases of dangerous

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related to the corona virus, doctors trying to save the lives of patients fighting the corona virus are seeing more of what happened to Broadway actor Nick Cordero, a blood clot that in his case cost the Tony nominee his right leg on Saturday.

He had to amputate it and is still in the ICU tonight. His wife explains that it was a complication from COBIT 19. He is struggling. Every minute he counts right now. Scientists have known all along that the deadly virus attacks the respiratory system, but in outbreaks around the world. They are also seeing a large number of patients with blood

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. Blood clots that reach the heart are the most worrying. These are lung and heart scans from a patient in his 30s from New Orleans who was struggling at 19 and this area here is the one a large blood clot that threatened to stop his heart if he had waited to get the scan or If it had gotten as far as we hadn't, we wouldn't have diagnosed the pulmonary embolism and we might not have started anticoagulant therapy.

We are also learning that the virus itself can damage the muscular layers of the heart. Our thanks to Steve Osunsami and much more

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The price of oil is falling as demand rises today, a surprising first in history. A key US oil benchmark fell below zero, meaning some sellers are now actually willing to pay to get rid of crude oil due to oversupply. Here's a look at oil and gas prices by the numbers - $37.63 cents is the cost of a barrel of crude oil delivered in May based on the West Texas Intermediate crude oil benchmark, this means space is running out of storage that some sellers are actually willing to pay to unload crude oil crude oil scheduled for Deliveries in June also fell, but remained in positive territory $20 43 cents a barrel according to a benchmark a dollar 77 cents a gallon is the average national gasoline at the pump, down 38 percent from the previous year according to Gas Buddy;

Prices vary widely, but in three cities, gas has fallen below a dollar on average. Gas prices across the country are on track to fall to around a dollar and fifty cents in the coming weeks, according to analysts, and there is still a long way to go in the terrifying storms that hit the South as a A tornado touched down in Central Florida and a wild goose made Connecticut police's pig chase very elusive, but first, here are some of the trending headlines on ABC News. Don't worry right now, how can you make sense of it all if You're like me searching the internet all day and scrolling through social media, it can be scary and that's why we're now broadcasting on ABC News live, a place here for you with the good information you need, how do you help your family and your children? your friends are dealing with all this by answering all your questions together and together we will get through this pandemic, what you need to know, broadcasting everywhere on ABC News live at 4 p.m. and 8 p.m.

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As hundreds and even thousands gather this weekend in Texas, California and beyond, health experts and governors agree that the only way to safely reopen is to ensure widespread testing is available. Governors wanted to have full control over opening their states, but now they want to have us. The federal government does the testing and again the testing is local, they can't afford lawmakers on Capitol Hill to imply that they are close to reaching an agreement on a new emergency funding plan. New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker told ABC that he hopes Congress will pass it. this week I'm in the trenches of these negotiations yesterday around the clock the bipartisan agreement would include approximately three hundred billion dollars in funding for small business loans, seventy-five billion dollars for hospitals and billions more for loans for disaster and coronavirus testing, but Trump's economy Advisor Larry Kudlow says he doesn't know how long this second round of aid will last.

The first one was like hot cakes. The second could be hot cakes for British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, and he said he is cautious about easy lockdown restrictions in hopes of avoiding a second wave. Italy, for the first time, has seen a decline in the number of new infections as the country moves cautiously to reopen some small factories and bookstores this week. Today Denmark opened its doors to small shops and hair salons after a month-long closure here. staggering death toll in worst mass shooting in Canadian history, man dressed as police officer on rampage in Nova Scotia killing at least 18 people, including Officer Heidi Stevenson, a 23-year veteran of the force police officer and mother of two, as families mourn the loss of a loved one, all Canadians are on their feet with severe storms that will continue to hit the south for the next few days.

Large tornadoes were observed in Florida earlier today, including this tornado that you see right there, this was in Seminole County and Sumter County. The tornado attempted to form near the highway. At least four tornadoes have been reported across the state so far. Images from the steps of City Hall in DeLand, Florida, show the strong wind turning the rain sideways. Emergency crews worked to restore downed power lines across the region. Thousands of residents between Mississippi and Alabama were still without power today after strong winds and rain hit this weekend causing flash flooding and there is another severe storm threat for parts of East Texas through Louisiana and Mississippi with some super cells that could unfold Wednesday night.

Now, at a major intersection of two fronts of the coronavirus crisis, meat processing plants are now major hotspots for the virus. The CDC is investigating the Smithfield Foods pork facility in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, as we learn about more Smithfield facilities with confirmed cases at others. states threatening major disruption to supply chains our Matt Gutman is in South Dakota with the latest on this story tonight these assembly lines are turning out to be some of the largest Kovan hotspots in the country now there are outbreaks in meat plants in seven states, including South Dakota and me, which saw its largest increase in a single day, most of it in meatpacking plants, but so far the governor refuses to close them and without them, the lives of people and our clothing, our food supply will be affected, we must do our part to support them. open safely and responsibly here in Sioux Falls, where the governor has not issued stay-at-home orders in the nation's biggest hot spot and in just a couple of weeks the number of people testing positive at this plant went from a handful to more than 700 and activists fear the infection could be much more widespread.

We are starting to get reports now from family members and secondary and tertiary contacts of Smithfield employees who are testing positive, the ripple effect in the community is severe and with the outbreak emerging in the Midwest, doctors here warn that no place is immune, there is no part of rural urban America. America that won't affect is just part of who we are now. Our thanks to Matt for that in South Korea in the United States they reported their worst cases on the same day that South Korea did all the testing and avoided a huge Well, the United States now leads the world in deaths, but now some of those kits tests are arriving here from South Korea.

Could this help the shortage crisis we face now? ABC's Joo hee Cho presents this report from Seoul dr. Chung Jonghyun, a former molecular biology professor turned businessman, was ready with a test kit in hand even before South Korea reported its first Kovach 19 patient in late January. Thinking ahead, his team of 130 biology and computer scientists developed a test capable of detecting the new coronavirus, the South Korean government fast-tracked the permit and within four weeks saw Gene launching tens of thousands of test kits. while the country was fighting the worst days of the pandemic. The small box covered eighty percent of all tests conducted in South Korea thanks to Aggressive and Widespread Testing South Korea is flattening its curve faster than most countries with a global testing shortage.

Countries around the world are turning to South Korea for help, including President Trump, who personally called the president of South Korea for help last month. Huge border music every day. Sometimes they ask us at the embassy or in some government or some president who send it to a directory by email. You know there's so much pressure so far. CG tells ABC News they have exported more than 10 million children to more than 60 countries and that their children have provided 70 percent of all tests used so far in Italy France Germany Spain and Israel say Jean says they will launch 20 million test kits by May and more tests will soon be sent to US children that will include the chemical reagents needed to analyze the collected samples. the states can do the testing, but when I go back to the manufacturers they will tell me I can't find the reagents, the chemicals that are used in the test, how do you get more reagents?

I have to get them in China. I have to get them from this country at the Gen C headquarters in Seoul. The PhD scientists and doctors who normally work in fancy labs are now all on the production floor. Coronavirus testing cases have skyrocketed in recent weeks, so the company brought them on. In biology and IT department researchers to help with packaging, they shipped around a hundred thousand test cases to the US last week alone once these tests arrived in the US. See gen says to perform the Real testing for the masses is not impossible. The mission tours universities and hospitals in almost all countries are configured with mass testing according to the gene.

The challenge is to bring everything in one place and make it work 24/7. The C Gene Medical Foundation shares this step-by-step system they established. This is where you start, but there is no this process, can we continue? Yes, 17 new acid extraction machines please, nine sets of liquid handling machines for mixing samples and reagents in a chamber and approximately ninety minutes on these fifty-five sets of PCR amplification machines with This process, the gene C, says that the results of about fifteen thousand people appear in just five to six hours, so we realize that this system is working spectacularly well to cover the cup in nineteen diseases, especially when it receives tons of samples.

The sister system is perfectly excellent. for mass screening of infectious disease CG says they want to share their process for the good of humanity, but warns that challenges remain in this global war against covert nineteen, like all other viruses, there is a possibility that the new virus corona mute, meaning consistent investigation and guidelines for testing processes will be key to flattening the curve worldwide The suspect is a pig. He was seen fleeing from police and leading them on a 45-minute chase through a neighborhood. Officers employed a variety of tactics to try to distract him when they posted the video online.

The police department said it is very aware of the situation. jokes about the scenarios that come to mind here, the final confrontation concluded with the pig running towards one of the officers and sliding him through his legs when another officer, Frank, the pink one covered in the trash can, screeched the sign of success and when we return, what could life be? what it will look like when companies finally open up again a glimpse of our future potential, courtesy of Denmark right now, how do we make sense of all this now? Afternoons on ABC, a place where the good information you need, we are all in this together and we are going to get through this pandemic together what you need to know afternoons at 1:00 Eastern Time 12:00 Central and Pacific Time on EBC on Friday nights and at 9:00 8:00 central time true crime a real life cinematic drama is impressive follow the clues the search for the real quantum 2020 that Freddie needs you may need central on ABC the world may feel out of your control but your happiness doesn't have to be learning the secrets of happiness listen to the 10% Happier podcast for free on Apple Podcasts ABC News Honored Winner of the Edward R Murrow Awards, including the most prestigious for overall excellence in television.

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We are in Copenhagen, Denmark. It's a beautiful day, many people are enjoying it. Many businesses have now reopened. Smaller stores. Hairdressers. Massage parlors. Places where one or two people would go instead of larger businesses. The most important thing is that the schools have also reopened for children under 12 years old and today we went to meet some of the people who are returning to school, the children, the teachers, to see them return to their normal lives, does everyone like to be back at school? We spoke to an 11-year-old girl live. You will see that she is a lovely and articulate young woman and she really spoke her mind.

Beautifully I thought about meeting our friends. It's a pleasure to be there for the first time, but it's better to be at school because of your friendship. I probably think all the kids at home miss the difference right now, so yeah, it's really nice to be back. Is it difficult to maintain? Social distancing rules at school are very important, my friend, it's nice to hug my friends. I miss my friend a lot. What has it been like to reopen the school? There has been a sense of excitement because we are teachers and we want to be. around the students, so when the students came back it was really good to see their faces because they seemed to be very, very happy and they seemed to have it already embedded in them that they needed to keep their distance and then they had to wash their hands.

We do it in such a way that yes, we are constantly on service, but what kind of service with a smile to remind you that this is what we have to do to continue returning to school. There is still pretty strict social distancing. There are guidelines in place here in Denmark and they are trying to observe them at school. We have seen children lining up to wash their hands, but still have to stay a couple of meters away when asked for recess. They are asked to write.of meeting in groups of three and no more than that, and many of the lessons these students and teachers learned while they were locked down are being used now that they are back in school, but I hope that Denmark can slowly return to normal.

I must say that it can only do this because they instituted their lockdown, so before there are only about 600 cases and one death and that is why Denmark is now slowly coming out of a long period of lockdown. We also went into other businesses to see how they are getting along including a hairdresser I was tempted to cut my hair myself saying you have an open back yes how that feels very good it has been very boring at home how long has it been since you got a haircut until one two months Yes, and how do you feel today?

You have to use this. What other measures do you have to take when we use all this alcohol to clean older things? Clean the seats and everything and clean up around here and the towels and throw them in the trash. It was only used once, so it's really lovely to see Denmark getting back to normal elsewhere as usual. The good news is that we are highlighting some of the people who have been fighting this virus and beating it, and we take a look at this couple from Madison Wisconsin, both hospitalized for the corona virus and discharged together on the same day.

We leave you with our favorite moments from the last few days, where people greet our healthcare workers fighting on the front lines every day, that's all from us in Denmark, maybe a little glimpse of what our own lives in the coming weeks and months but for now stay safe and be good to each other so we are happy to see your faces in Denmark without masks maybe we will get there soon but before we leave tonight while I have seen some protests in this country. See protesters in Israel taking to the streets of Tel Aviv trying to maintain proper social distancing.

More than 2,000 people participated in the demonstration against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as he plans to form an emergency government with his boss. rival as he faces corruption charges that's our picture for the day and that's our show for this hour be sure to stay tuned to ABC News live for more context and analysis of the day's top stories I'm Lindsay Davis thank you so much for streaming with us and have a good night