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neighbors in New Jersey, Michigan, California, Louisiana, in terms of how we are operating, how we are handling the situation, as we know, the hospital system basically has a three-legged stool, it depends on the number of beds, the number of staff and the number of teams. beds we have started with a system of approximately 53,000 beds statewide we have approximately 90,000 beds available, so we have more than enough beds available staffing has been an issue staffing health care staff are getting sick they are overloaded work your stress is under great emotional stress you know, think about these healthcare workers you are working in a hospital in an emergency room that is overwhelmed you are worried about your own health then you go home you are worried about bringing a virus home if you are infected at home is under stress like all homes are under stress.

Around 7,000 new employees have been hired from the group we have identified. These are retired healthcare workers who showed up. These are people from all over the country who showed up. The state has a pool of potential. Hospitals hire employees from that group and to date they have hired about 7,000 pieces of equipment, that is, protective equipment, ventilators, where we are, we are stretching and moving, but each hospital has what it needs today and then we balance the load of patients among all hospitals, so no. A single hospital or system becomes overloaded and that is a daily adjustment that requires tremendous cooperation between all healthcare institutions.

I thank you very much for what you are doing. Then we have the overload relief which is the 2500 bed Javits Center and the US Navy ship Comfort the US Navy ship Comfort had a capacity of 1000 beds. It was originally for non-kovat patients. What ended up happening was that we don't actually have non-kovat patients. We close the society. There are fewer traffic accidents. Crime has gone down, so the original plan, which was comfort would take Nan Kovac cases from the hospitals, didn't really work because the hospitals didn't have nine Kovac cases. I called the president yesterday morning and asked him to talk to the Department of Defense to see if they would change him to Kovac president. his credit moved quickly he called me yesterday afternoon said they would make the comfort nan Kovac ovid when they make that transition the capacity of the ship drops from 1,000 to 500 beds because Kovac patients require a larger treatment area, more space and so both ship capacity dropped from 1,000 to 500, it's still a tremendous benefit, so between Javits and Comfort it's 3,000 beds, which is a welcome relief from overload for the already extraordinarily stressed hospital system, but today I spoke with General Shaughnessy, who we spoke to through Comfort and Javitz. the Department of Defense has been fantastic and the number of military personnel they have sent here and the speed with which they have sent them and this is a difficult task to manage such large facilities and to accelerate and manage so many Kovac Patients in a new center of emergency.

This is a really difficult task and they have been, they have been really fantastic. I want to thank you all and I want to thank the president for acting as quickly as he did. We are working on a tri-state cooperative, as I mentioned, I spoke with Governor Murphy of New Jersey, I spoke with Governor Ned Lamont of the state of Connecticut, we coordinated the closure, so to speak, when we did schools, businesses, etc., because This really operates as a tri-state area. A lot of people who

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in New York and work in New Jersey or Connecticut, so we talk about the tri-state area, which is true, and we try to operate as best we can as that regional collaboration. and that has been working well for us in schools, in the economy, in health care issues, we have to start planning, restart life, we are not there yet, but this is not a light switch that we can press one day and everything goes back to normal.

We're going to have to restart that economy, we're going to have to restart a lot of systems that we shut down abruptly and we need to start planning for that and I talked to Governor Murphy and Governor Lamont about coming up with a tri-state metropolitan regional approach to do just that, How do we do it when we get to that point where we're not there, but how do we restart our economy and get everything up and running as quickly as possible? My personal opinion is going to go down. As good as we are at testing, you're not going to get rid of the infection and the virus before you start restarting life.

I don't think you can afford that luxury, how can you reactivate the economy? How do you start getting back to work? as quickly as possible everything will come down to testing, you will have to know who had the virus, who solved the virus, who never had it and that is going to be tested and that is a completely new field that we are developing now. Right, New York State developed an antibody testing regimen that the Department of Health approved for use in New York State and that needs to be expanded and the Department of Health is going to work with the FDA to do precisely that.

This tests your blood to determine whether or not you have the antibodies, which means you had the virus and it resolved it. Therefore you would have the antibodies for the virus, which would mean that you are no longer contagious and cannot contract the virus. virus because you have antibodies in your system, which means you can go to work and go back to school, you can do whatever you want, but you have to get tested and you have to get tested on a scale, right? You have 19 million people. in New York state just think about how many people you would need to be able to test and test quickly, so the antibody test is part of that also rapid testing to determine whether or not you have the virus.

There is now a so-called 15 tiny tests that are commercially available, but again they need to be scaled up, no private company has the ability to scale them up, so speaking with Governor Murphy and Governor Lamont, we are interested in working with private companies that they can actually implement this testing capability. scale and scale quickly because again, if you have the antibody test that's part of it, then you can test if a person is positive for the virus and you can do it that day and you can get those results in 15 minutes, that's also another way to get back to life and do it quickly so we are very interested in that New York then it was New Jersey then it was Connecticut these are private companies they have these tests again everything is at scale we are starting them in the state of New York, but we only have a capacity trial of around 50,000 people, which is good, but it's not on a scale that's really going to make a big difference, so private companies that are interested in entering this space and quickly moving up to the scale that we interested. those companies and we are interested in investing in those companies and you should contact us at Empire State Development Corporation and also restart the life of the state budget, not just this state but all state budgets, has been decimated by the situation where you shut down the economy, people are "They're not working, they're not paying income taxes, businesses are not working, so our budget just collapsed, our income just collapsed.

If you want to restart the economy, you have to help restart local governments and that will be federal law. I'm not." I do not have the ability as

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has to positively generate revenue from an economy that is not working. That's going to be a federal stimulus bill. There is no other way to do it and it has to be a stimulus bill that you really understand. There are state and local governments that must catch up and function if this restart of the economy is to be facilitated. The federal government passed some laws, as I said at the time, that were woefully inadequate from New York's point of view. then I've had some time to study the legislation, it actually gets worse when you read it and it's not even what was initially represented to us, so today I'm sending a letter to our congressional delegation saying that the legislation passed was good for the nation.

I certainly provided help to a lot of people in places that needed it, but it wasn't fair to New York and that has to be remedied in any legislation that closes the last bullet. I know it's been a frustrating 37 days, but it's only been 37. The days, on the other hand, I know feel like a lifetime, it's been so upsetting, bringing us something so terrifying, so disorienting, but it's only been 37. days, everything in context and everything in perspective. I know it's hard to get up every day and this is like Groundhog Day, living this strange reality that worries you is even harder.

I think with the weather changing and you feel the seasons changing and it's getting nicer and you start to open a new book of possibilities and you know now the weather is getting nice and I should be going outside and I should be doing this and I should be doing this. I understand, but it's only been 37 days and I started by saying that that number of cases is not arbitrary. What we do affects the number of cases. Our behavior affects the number of cases we are generating, the cases are not descending on us from the sky, it is our behavior, so it's been 37 days, the 1918 pandemic we talked about peaked in New York for six months, it occurred in three waves and peaked during In six months, 30,000 people died in New York during that pandemic.

Why didn't they react like we did? They didn't know as much as we know today. They didn't have the same drug therapies, but we're bending the curve on that. that growth of the virus you see that stagnation that is due to what we are doing, if we don't do what we are doing, that is a very different curve and that is what happened in the past, so social distancing is working well, you close all businesses. I know you closed every school I know of, but it's working, that's why you see those numbers go down, if we were doing the same engagement rate those numbers would still go up, so to the extent that we see a flattening or a possible plateau. that is what we are doing and we have to keep doing it I know it is difficult but we have to keep doing it and to the extent that it requires effort remember at this moment it is not about us and it is not about me I know what I would like to do I I'd like to go It's motorcycle time for me It's time to get out on the water It's time to hike in the Adirondacks I get it It's not about me It's not about me What I do It will affect other people It will affect my family It will affect other people It will affect to the people in those emergency rooms who kill themselves every day to keep other people safe I get infected I will affect them so that we all talk about society and community and interconnectedness and interrelationship and family and life is bigger than us now it is the time to live that now is the time to live that so when you feel that need I have to do this it's not about me, it's about us and what's good for all of us and my health is in your hands and your Health is in my hands and the health of healthcare workers and first responders and all those people who have to show up to work every day to keep society running, we are also responsible to them.

So to the extent that it is difficult, I understand that, but maybe if we think about it through a different lens, a broader lens, it will be a little bit easier, so let's not be complacent, we have to stay disciplined, we have to Be smart, we have to stay safe. and we do it by staying home and we will get through this through this together questions to General Shona spoke to the President I spoke to the Vice President and I spoke to North. Well, it's helping to manage comfort when transitioning non-COBIT patients to Kovac, the ship's capacity goes from 1000 beds to 500 beds, but it can treat 500 Kovac patients adequately and safely and that's which we are transitioning into operation now that we have a Wodsworth test lab that we have developed and are working to scale. that now, over the course of the next week, we will be able to determine how many we can execute.

We hope to expand it not only here in our laboratory, but also for other laboratories to do the same. Well, that's where we'll have to work with the FDA to approve it. The FT has already approved some private antibody tests. Is there any way the C can work with them or do I have to look at them? Some antibody tests measure immunoglobulin G. and others measure immunoglobulin, the difference is that some suggest that a new infection is occurring in the IgM and others show that the infection has been around for a while, so it is important to make sure that the test we are measuringshow that people have the infection, don't have the infection, and still have it, so it's important to make sure it's the right test.

Our test measures immunoglobulin G and says they have the infection and it resolves. Did you get that? Thank you, so there are There are a lot of tests that companies are doing, there are two types of tests in Munich, one that says the infection is still there and you are starting to generate a response, which happens with the antivirus and another, your body It also produces an immunoglobulin afterwards. your infection resolved or developed, it resolved, that's the one you want to measure; otherwise you may be measuring something that actually says you still have the infection in your body, so you want to measure the one that says this result and that's the one that We developed a test for Yes, that was good.

I almost figured it out with Mark, so I'm sure it's Borough Park Brooklyn. Right, I'm sure the NYPD will do whatever it takes. I made it clear yesterday that these social distancing regulations are not just, please, they are regulations, you can be fined for it, we increased the fine to make it clear that the point was serious. I'm sure the NYPD will enforce it, but people also have to understand. I understand religious gatherings. I understand the Orthodox community. The Orthodox Jewish community. I am very close to them and have been for many years and my family is very close to them, but Now is not the time for large religious gatherings.

I mean, we've already paid this price, we've already learned this lesson that was New Rochelle in Westchester, so please, now is not the time to know when a service is due. This gets worse and infects more people, Joseph, there have been reports that communities of color have been particularly hard hit by the virus. Do you have a section that has been the case in New York? So the hospital did it. There has been a delay that we understand people want. That information we also want that information and we will have it this week, so one of the challenges is that some of the communities have challenges with their overall health, they are more likely to have some of the challenges with asthma and diabetes. and so every time someone who has underlying medical conditions ends up with this virus and the other virus, it puts them at greater risk, there's progress there and we'll have that new interface operational on Thursday and we've actually worked with Verizon on a big part of the problem. it was the law, the lines we are collapsing because the volume was so extreme that we have now moved 80% of the incoming calls from the Verizon system to the call centers, so you should start to see some easing. that today and again we just ask people to be patient while we figure this out, I promised an executive order on Friday on the redistribution of ventilators and I think that executive order was also going to cover other things that haven't come out yet, is there any reason for the delay no, I am going to issue an executive order today regarding everything I have mentioned, the fines, etc. today, what else will that cover that will cover everything we have discussed to date?

It was always the hospitals that told us what they quoted. -in quotes available means not used and they are not going to use it in the foreseeable future, so it was always the equipment that you think your hospital thinks is available if the state would loan 20% of the available units, as you define , which would be available. being five hundred and five hundred ventilators was a big deal, especially two weeks ago, frankly, since then other things have happened, we have a thousand ventilators from China, California released 500 ventilators, Oregon sent 140 ventilators, Washington state released, I think 400 ventilators or something like that. that we have also acquired 500 additional ventilators, so we are not in the position we were in, but that is what it always was, a hospital says that we have available, by their own definition, unused inventory that we will not use in the future foreseeable 20 percent of that, leaving them with 80% of what was not used were 500 ventilators.

No, that's where I was saying that it's something that I think is going to come up and I think it's something important to consider. I would also like to find a way to say thank you to these health care workers who are there every day, you know, we talk to them on the phone, but to achieve what they have done is just incredible, just incredible, and not just the health care workers. health, I mean, health care workers just think mentality going into that emergency room every morning putting on these gowns putting on all this protective clothing having to change protective clothing multiple times a day seeing people pass away and then going to home and dealing with stress at home, but also with the first responders, the transit workers.

If you look at the illness rates, I mean, they know what they're exposing themselves to and they're still doing it. I mean, God bless you, we're

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ing. that continually I don't think there's anything new about that right now, but it's something that we're exploring all the time plans that you're considering or anything that we've done, but nothing at this point, is there anything that we've done? about 700 parole violators across the state, those are people who were considered low risk to public safety and also higher risk took Ovid and that's what we've done so far and we continue to evaluate it on an ongoing basis, we promised that they were around 400 people. would be released from Riker so far, there have been approximately one hundred and thirty people who have been released.

There are reasonably two hundred and forty of Riker so far out of the 700 stay, but can we give you the exact numbers and the Governor in a safer form of psychological philosophical question seven hundred and thirty people died these numbers keep appearing but it is easy would seem insensitive to these types of statistics , you know, how to counter that, how to impress on people that these are human lives that this is a huge human catastrophe, you know, Jesse, if I hear the point, I guess one could become desensitized to numbers, which is why I said, remember. , every issue there is a human being behind it and a family for me.

I can tell you the last thing I do. it's numbing, I can tell you that for the hospital staff that's going through this they're not numbing out for the families that are suffering they're not numbing out the pain is increasing the pain is increasing I mean you see those images on television of coming to a situation in which corpses have to be put on trucks in parking lots. I mean, how can you become desensitized to all this? I said, I can't, I can't imagine, especially as New Yorkers, that we lose the humanity of this. something I struggled with every day.

I try to think of the opposite: you know we're doing well because you can't stop, you can't stop, you can't save everyone, this virus is very good at what it does and it kills the vulnerable. people that's what they do and they do it very well and we can't help but the question is are they saving everyone they can save and the answer is yes and I take some comfort in the fact that our healthcare system is working when not I don't think we lost a single person because we couldn't provide care. The people we lost we couldn't save despite our best efforts, but no, no, I don't see, I don't see the numbness and no.

I think New Yorkers see the numbness. I think the frustration of an individual situation can lead you to do irresponsible things, go out more than you should, ignore social distancing. I think that's a problem and that's what I've been trying to do. they refer to sports 25% of the time I don't know, it's a good question, I think it goes back to my opinion, it's not a fact, I think, and that is that we are working on a plan with Connecticut and New Jersey because when we go back , we go back together, I think if we go back with people who have tested negative or people who have tested that they have antibodies, which means they had the virus and are immune to the virus, or we go back with the younger people going first, we still protecting and isolating the vulnerable, but if it's waves, I think those are the waves, so generally when you have a virus you develop antibodies and you don't get it again.

There was a report from China where they suggested that maybe there were some cases, but that has not been confirmed yet, a significant number of patients know that they are now increasing the Javits Center and the Comfort, you are talking about the Javits in comfort, well, there are two separate situations when I say we have a capacity of about 90,000 beds, we brought additional beds online in two ways, number one, each hospital had to increase the capacity by 50% with a goal of one hundred percent, each hospital increased the capacity at fifty percent, that's why you see hospital beds in conference rooms and lobbies, etc.

We previously built temporary emergency facilities primarily in downstate New York. They may or may not be used depending on whether or not we need the Javits and Comfort beds that we are using and are increasing now. I'm going to talk to The hospitals, thank you okay, Governor Andrew Cuomo of New York on Tuesday just a few moments ago, if you were watching this press conference reiterating the situation here in the state of New York, recording the largest increase in deaths in a single day, the total number of deaths. here in the state of New York five thousand five five thousand four hundred and eighty nine, but there was a flash of the governor of New York saying that it seems that things seemed to be flattening out for lack of a better word than the number of deaths while Yes we have recorded a very large increase, the largest in a single day, social distancing and other measures that New York officials have implemented are having some effect, we will have to see how that plays out in the future.

Days and weeks ahead, the news from New York from Governor Andrew Cuomo to the extent that the Governor said we see a flattening or a possible plateau, that is because Governor Cuomo says what we are doing and we have to continue doing it good. let's take a quick break, more news on the other side of that break, you're streaming CBS, you can watch CBS n 24/7, we have an incredible story to share with you, let's talk about the latest developments out there . There are so many levels to this, we have a CBS News exclusive, fires in California, what happens next and how it all plays out, we are on a mission with that, so I understand you have some breaking news, it's not over yet and In short, this is a massive operation, it's quite an adventure here at CBS, it's been a day to tell the whole story, it means going where the story is, listening to when people are suffering, getting to the heart of what matters, what is who Maura is? is what Nora does on the CBS Evening News nor O'Donnell from Washington DC Good morning to you and welcome to CBS this morning.

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That's who Maura is. What Nora does on CBS Evening News nor O'Donnell from Washington DC, the funeral industry is struggling to keep up with the rapidly rising death toll caused by the corona virus pandemic. Already around 11,000 people have died from the virus in the United States and dozens of thousands more lives are projected to be lost. The numbers have created an unprecedented bottleneck in morgues, funeral homes and cemeteries. Graham Cait spoke with several funeral directors in New York City, which is the epicenter of this outbreak here in the US, and Graham joins us now. no, Graham, I remember, I think it was maybe last week or we could go to the president talking about Ellmers Hospital in Queens and he was very familiar with it and he saw a video of what he described: their body bags were lying in the hallway and freezer trucks approaching.

I came in because ofmorgue overflow and you could really tell he was taken aback by those images, but after those body bags leave the hospital, they have to go to the morgues in the area, they have to go to the funeral homes in the area, how are the morgues and funeral homes in New York? They are overwhelmed, they think of funeral directors as the end of the front line in terms of those who have to interact directly with people who have contracted the virus and could still transmit it as respiratory germs and they are saying that we have more cases of the that we can handle and just like in hospitals we are running out of personal protective equipment and they point out that you know fuel directors will be the last in line of frontline workers to get that equipment because it is very It is important to communicate this to medical workers first, and Grahm funeral homes are also enforcing social distancing.

What's it like to change the nature of what you do once the business model has completely changed? In many cases, bodies go directly to a crematorium or directly to a grave without any possibility for loved ones to go and pay their respects in the way we think, such as standing in front of a coffin and taking our time right there. In other cases where there may be a service in In a funeral home there are strict rules that have been put in place for me, maybe it is shifts so that four or five people can come at a time and then the next four or five people and everything has to be very orderly and very supervised and then, Of course, there are your virtual services, so people get together via Zoom or FaceTime, but they can't do that personal service that we're used to seeing and the funeral directors said that in It's actually very difficult, they take pride in you.

Don't get into the funeral business if you're not trying to give people a very good opportunity to grieve the way we expect and right now they have to tell people we can't do that. So. maybe you hoped you could do it for this person or that person may have hoped you could have done it, but we have to make the most of it right now. Yeah, I think it's a very good point to mention to Graham that for funeral directors it's You know, handling and caring for the body is one thing, but they also focus on being supportive, being honorable, stepping in when you know that maybe a family is falling apart and be a stabilizing force and I and a lot.

That probably has to do with, you know, being intimate, touching someone, hugging them when they need a hug, giving them a tissue when they're crying and can't do any of that, and then there's just the basics. Kind of like I said managing bodies, but the basic things you need to do, like finding a place for the body to go. Cemetery plots, are there enough cemetery plots? So I don't really have a number of cemetery plots. in New York, but what we do know is that they are coming and so fast that yesterday as they were talking about we have to create temporary internment sites and there was a discussion among officials about whether that will happen in New York City. actually has an island that over the course of about two centuries they've used as a potter's field and this would be the first time that it's not just for unidentified people who would be talking about using that or just the overflow of bodies. and of course there's been some discussion about whether cities are actually considering it or not, but there were several officials who said that, long term, this is a plan that they've always had and that we've never implemented before. then when you talk about where funeral services are held, these guys are exhausted, they say we're not even sleeping because it's just funeral after funeral after funeral and we want to make sure we can do the best we can. and that takes time, let me ask you grandma, where are they, I mean the funeral directors, the people who work in more or less are essential services, but where are they in line for protective equipment?

They say they're at the back of the line and They say they understand it well, so I talked to the president of the New York State Funeral Directors Association and he said I understand that hospital workers and medical employees need the PPE, personal protective equipment. Anyone said that we need it too and we are the last. to get it and every single funeral director I talked to said I still have some supplies but they are running low and I can't tell where I'm going to get the next shipment. Contact places that sell. them and they said you're on the list now, but there's no estimate of when you might get it and they're relying on their state association to figure out where to get a very large supply of masks and gloves and all the equipment, you see the conscious medical staff and I He said you know, even my regular providers say you're not the top priority right now.

Wow grandma thank you so much there are so many different ways this virus affects the way we live things we had taken for granted before I really appreciate your report. Thanks thanks. So the US Surgeon General says efforts to flatten the curve are a couple to make a difference. He's talking about social distancing. He insists that it is still very, very. crucial and important and he also says the country needs to do a much better job when it comes to testing dr. Jerome Adams talked about this on CBS this morning. I started the week by telling Americans that it was going to be a really difficult week, but I also wanted Americans to understand that when we have faced difficult times in the country, the country has recovered and and what we are seeing now is that the country is recovering. recovering, we are seeing that in New York and New Jersey hospitalizations are leveling off and starting to decrease, deaths are starting to decrease and stabilize, and that is important because it tells us that the mitigation is working. tells us what the American people are doing by staying home by social distancing and practicing good hygiene and the 30 day guidelines for America are really effective and will help us get to the other side of this unfortunate tragedy, dr .

Adams, how can we be sure that mitigation is working as well as we hope it will when we don't know, to put it bluntly, how many Americans actually have this virus because we don't have widespread testing, to put it more bluntly? How do we know when we are safe and can return to normal if we don't know how widespread this is? Well, there are two questions there and I'll go through them quickly. The most important thing is that we know that the mitigation is working because when we look at the Washington curves in California we see that they have been very flat and that coincides with the establishment of aggressive mitigation.

We see Italy in Spain descending on the downward slopes of its curve coinciding with its beginning. mitigation so we know mitigation is working now you mentioned testing is a concern we're doing 2 million tests this week and it's increasing rapidly with the commercial industry coming in. We're also seeing more people doing antibody testing, so what? I want the American people to know that I spoke to Admiral Joe why I speak to him every day. He is our testing czar and he assures me that by the end of this month we should not only be doing diagnostic testing but also having good surveillance testing across the country on 2 million people by the end of this week, we are getting very close. to South Korea's initial testing surge numbers, and we're actually doing surveillance testing in some parts of the country where they haven't seen a big surge in cases, so we're not there yet, but we We are moving in the right direction and of course surveillance testing is very important.

I want to touch on another point of concern and that is the death rate among African Americans in Louisiana that we heard about. the governor says 70 percent of the deaths are people of color in Chicago, we heard from the mayor more than 70 percent in that city his response to that and whether the CDC or the federal government is tracking this virus demographically to warn the people, absolutely the CDC and the federal government should and are tracking this virus and trying to break it down into different demographic groups so that we can help people understand, but my office, long before Kovan 19, has been talking about health equity , has been talking about the need to help people understand. when they are at risk of intervening and when we look at being black in America, number one people are unfortunately more likely to be from a lower socioeconomic background, which makes it harder to socially distance, number two, we know that black people they are more likely to have diabetes, heart disease, lung disease and I have personally shared that I have high blood pressure, I have heart disease and I spent a week in the ICU due to a heart condition, then I actually have asthma and I am prediabetic, so what they represent that legacy of growing up poor and black in America and I and many black Americans are at higher risk of contracting kovin that's why we need everyone to do their part to slow the spread so doctor I imagine it's frustrating for you to hear those numbers. percent of deaths in Louisiana people of color African Americans, is there any particular recommendation that you have for that community recommendation?

My recommendation is that you understand that you are at risk, that you are not immune and my recommendation is to all of America that we are really doing this to protect not only ourselves but each other, every person who stays home, whether white , black, brown or yellow, is a person who is not spreading kovat and is a person who can protect their neighbors when wearing a cloth face covering. If you go out, you do it to protect your neighbors and now is really the time to come together and say, look, I'm doing this not just for myself and my family, but for my community and all the communities across the country and it's working, We will get through this, we are seeing progress, but the United States has the power to change the trajectory of this epidemic.

The public really needs to continue doing their part. America's Best Doctor there for more interviews like this. CBS this morning weekdays at 7:00 ET right here on CBS n the British Prime Minister's health minister, rather than Boris Johnson, has worsened as he continues to fight Kovat 19, we'll have the latest about his condition after a short break keep him here you're streaming CBS and you understand the world we're about to start breaking down start with the right questions when the police discover a motive does the president have a red line here what are converters? expect to see today every morning this is a major development this is a very, very serious situation CBS this morning you can watch CBS n 24/7 we have an incredible story to share with you let's talk about the latest developments there are so many levels For this, we have a CBS News exclusive on the California fires, what happens next and how it all plays out.

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Hello, good morning everyone, it's a pleasure to see you, it's Tuesday and I'm Anne-Marie Green, run by GTA and we're coming to you from our home studios, that's right amber e, it's great of course to be with you and our viewers, thank you so much for being with us and following all the latest developments and we have every reason to be hopeful this morning. Preliminary evidence suggests good news coming out of New York: The state has been hit especially hard by the

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, but now officials say the number of new hospitalizations is declining, yes, but we still have a long way to go, more of three hundred and sixty-eight thousand. people across the country have tested positive 19 have recovered and the virus has claimed 11,000 American lives Carly ma best Riley Carlson has the latest a crew member of the Navy ship Comfort tested positive for kovat 19 just days after docking in New York, the Navy said it will not affect the mission of the hospital ship The news comes just hours after President Trump authorized the comfort to treat people with the corona virus, hopefully that will be a great help to both states the comfort was intended for other patients, but the governors of New Jersey and New York said they needed the beds, we don't need the accommodation for non-kovat cases, the number of deaths has gone down in New York, but Governor Andrew Cuomo is still extending the state's stay-at-home order runs through April 29 and the numbers appear to be changing.

Yes, it's over, no, no, members of the White House

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task force are optimistic the national death toll may end up lower than expected. I do not accept that every day we have to have hundreds of 200,000 deaths. President Trump said he was saddened to hear that British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is now in intensive care. All Americans are praying for his recovery. He has been a very good friend. Johnson has been fighting the corona virus for almost two weeks. Stay home. A spokesman said the 55-year-old man entered. the ICU as a precautionary measure in case it is necessary the ventilation department is in good hands with the brilliant team that Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab has been appointed to take over if necessary.

There is an incredibly strong team spirit behind the Prime Minister. Johnson last appeared in public on Thursday to applaud. support of British healthcare workers Riley Carlson CBSMeanwhile, the news is that President Trump is downplaying the results of the inspector general's report, the IG report found that hospitals are being hampered by a delay in test results Koban 19 testing and also because hospital staff are not getting the protective equipment they need, so Ben Tracy is waiting at the White House, Ben, we actually talked to you about this report yesterday, but now we're hearing from the president. say how he is reacting well.

He's basically dismissing the essence of that report which shows that these critical supplies in hospitals are running low and becoming much more concentrated. about politics, he said our politics is involved in this report, yes, he was asked about this at the White House yesterday at the press conference and he said well, who is this inspector general under what administration were they appointed? Do you think politics is part of it? This all comes down to the president's real distaste for inspectors general throughout the government. Keep in mind that it was last Friday that the president fired the inspector general of the intelligence community, who was the person who handled the whistleblowing report that was sent to Congress that became central to the president's impeachment, for which the president tends to view people in these positions as members of the deep state, especially if they are handing out information he doesn't like, so Ben, after weeks of dismal numbers, officials seem to be sharing now. some cautious optimism that there might be hope on the horizon if the nation has been making progress when it comes to flattening the curve yes, maybe a little bit of good news the numbers in hotspots like New York and New Jersey appear to be flattening in the In a couple of days, governors are saying it's probably still too early to know if this is a true flattening of the curve or if it's just temporary, but we heard some cautious optimism from the podium here at the White House.

Dr. Anthony Fauci yesterday basically said that he is seeing encouraging signs that he believes we could reach below those models that showed between 100,000 and 240,000 Americans dying in August from coronavirus. He's now he's seeing signs that he's hopeful that maybe it will get to that level if we can flatten this curve faster than we thought and he attributes that to social distancing and he says Americans are doing it and it's working. I want to ask you about a New York Times report that indicated that a White House adviser, Peter Navarro, actually warned the president. and the White House about the devastating impact of the corona virus in January and Rosalie sounded the alarm a couple of times, this would have been around the same time that the president was assuring the American people that the corona virus was basically under control alone there were a handful of cases and there was nothing to worry about, yeah, so a lot happened in this particular time period.

This report says that Navarro wrote two memos, one at the end of January and another towards the end of February, which now seemed very prescient, basically warning that many Americans were going to die, that there were going to be shortages of personal protective equipment and that the government really had to be prepared for this, both in terms of stockpiling supplies but also warning that it was going to take a lot of money from Congress to offset what this could do to the economy, all of that has now come true, the moment It's interesting, so Navarro apparently wrote the first memo on January 29, which is the same day the president was formed. the coronavirus task force, but at that time there was still this disconnect because the president also, as you mentioned, was downplaying the impact of this by saying that soon the cases will be zero, this really won't be an issue here and he was resting in his laurels of having cut off travel from China thinking that maybe that was enough and the only thing he had to do it is not clear if the president read this memo from Peter Navarro we will have to ask the president that today at the briefing and see what he says It is interesting that Peter Navarro is a business advisor;

He's not at all on the health side of the White House, so he was someone who was very in tune with what was happening in China because that's his focus. Man, let me ask you about Iowa and Nebraska, two states that have not yet issued stay-at-home orders, the governors of those states had a conversation with dr. Anthony okay yesterday now she has advocated for a national stay at home order what does the governor say about his conversation? Well, it's pretty interesting that after that conversation the governor came out and said we're all on the same page, this really isn't a problem, which we found curious because for weeks Anthony Fauci has been saying that he really wishes we had a national stay-at-home order for all of these governors to follow the program and do that, but then the doctor was asked about it at the press conference and she said after talking to these governors, what they're doing in the ground in his states and how people are responding is functionally equivalent to a stay at home order, they may not call it that, but he says at least in those two states and those are the only two governors he says he has spoken and that he feels confident that what they are doing is enough right now, but there are about seven states left that do not have a stay-at-home order and she says wrong. he thinks it would be better if everyone had one, but he's comfortable thinking that what's happening in those two particular states is enough When I see another conversation between President Trump and a Democratic candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden, what do we get? you can count?

Mind you, it's interesting that the coronavirus brings people together on a phone call who wouldn't normally expect to have a phone call, so apparently the president and Joe Biden, the former vice president, spoke by phone yesterday about the federal coronavirus response from any of the parts. is providing a lot of details, the president said the two agreed not to publicly share what they talked about, but the president said the former vice president did offer some of his thoughts and opinions on how the federal government should respond, which is quite interesting, president Trump. described it as a warm and wonderful call and said: I've always thought Joe Biden is a very nice man, he's a very nice man, so he also didn't use the phrase sleepy Joe Biden when talking about him here at the White House.

After all, there was good news yesterday, let me ask you, for the past few days we have been following the story of a naval captain who was removed from his position over a letter about Koba 19 on his ship that was leaked to the media. I have received comments from the Secretary of the Navy, who has since explained to us exactly what happened, what the Secretary of the Navy said, and how the White House is intervening now. Yes, this has been quite a saga, after the captain. from that ship, Bret Crozier was fired last week. When he left the ship, he received a very loud applause from the ship's crew and then the Acting Secretary of the Navy went and addressed the crew over the ship's public address system and really attacked the former captain of this ship, he said that He thinks he was too stupid or too naive to realize that if he wrote a letter detailing the problems with this coronavirus outbreak on his ship, it wouldn't leak. to the media he even went so far as to say that maybe he did it on purpose, which did not go down well on the ship and in this audio recording that was leaked after he used the words too naive or too stupid, you can hear one of the sailors. he shouts what the hell you really question why he is saying this and you know I really miss reading the audience there on the ship you can hear another time another sailor say he was just trying to protect us so clearly it didn't go well then the Le The president was asked about this here at the White House and the president even said those were some pretty harsh comments.

Maybe I have to get involved here and see what's going on. He said I heard this captain was a really good guy and we don't want someone's career to be destroyed because of one bad day, so after that, just a couple of hours later, we got this apology from the Acting Secretary of the Navy saying that In fact, he doesn't believe that Captain Crozier is naive or stupid and that he actually goes back on what he said. too bad, I know we'll have a summary soon, but let me ask you if you think the acting Secretary of the Navy's job right now is safe.

It's hard to say. I mean, clearly, the president was not happy with what he heard the The Secretary of the Navy said the president didn't come out and directly criticize him, but he did call it a harsh statement, harsh words, saying, "You know, this is hard for someone's family to hear. I'm going to get involved in this, so I think once the Acting Secretary of the Navy heard the president say, I'm going to get involved here and see if this is really where it's supposed to be. happening. I'm sure he got the message pretty quickly that it was time to apologize and Tracy from us at The White House has been as always, we appreciate you, my friend, we appreciate it, thank you.

We move now to Michigan, where two of the state's largest hospital systems report thousands of healthcare workers suffering from symptoms of Covid-19 between Henry Ford and Beaumont Health, at least 2,200 employees, including 500 nurses who have tested positive or have symptoms of coronavirus, it is unclear if the employees contracted the virus while at work or through community spread in a statement to CBS News Beaumont Health said it is following CDC guidelines and asking employees who are unwell or have symptoms of Cova 19 should stay. at home for at least a week where they will continue to be paid as of this morning there are more than 17,000 confirmed cases statewide and at least 727 people have died Oklahoma will immediately resumemajority of abortion procedures, as reported by a federal judge lifted that state's temporary ban on the procedure, the ruling comes in response to the state's ban on all non-essential procedures, including abortions, due to the pandemic, in In a statement, the judge argued that the abortion ban caused an undue burden on women and went on to say that the state acted in an unreasonable, arbitrary and oppressive manner in imposing the ban, now turning to the civil rights icon of the 2020 race. and Democratic Congressman John Lewis has endorsed former Vice President Joe Biden.

The news comes as Wisconsin voters head to the polls for today's election. Social distancing scheduled for the Democratic primaries will be in effect at polling stations, but the state's Democratic governor says Republicans are forcing people to choose between their health and their right to vote. O'Keefe explains that there are not two presidential primaries on the ballot today there are hundreds of Local elections in a competitive race for the state Supreme Court and what is happening in this key battleground state of Wisconsin could be a preview of the looming court fights between Democrats and Republicans across the country over how to vote in the midst of a pandemic.

Wisconsin is under a stay-at-home order. and Democratic Gov. Tony Evers asked the Republican-led legislature to reschedule the primary to early June for security reasons, but Republican leaders and eventually the state Supreme Court refused, and last night the U.S. Supreme Court did too. rescinded a plan to allow absentee voting. to be accepted by next Monday they must be mailed today, but the results of today's votes will not be published until Monday, April 13. The four liberal members of the courts disagreed. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said voters will have to challenge the polls that endanger their own safety and the safety of others or lose the right to vote.

Senator Bernie Sanders called this decision potentially deadly, but he trails former Vice President Joe Biden in the polls in Wisconsin by wide margins and is also trailing hundreds of delegates in the race to be the Democratic presidential nominee even though he has yet to win. There are signs that Sanders plans to drop out of the presidential race and Riaan Flynn. Funeral homes across the country are definitely feeling the pressure as the corona virus spreads in the epicenter of New York City. accumulation of bodies, so one of our reporters, Graham Cates, spoke with community directors in New York City to find out how they are coping, what they are doing to help those who have lost loved ones.

We'll talk to him after the break, so stick around. All around you is streaming CBS s CBS News always on, you can watch CBS n 24/7, we have an amazing story to share with you, let's talk about the latest developments, there are so many levels to this, we have fires CBS News exclusives in California, what happens next and how it all plays out, we're on a mission with that, so I understand you've got some breaking news, it's not over yet, in short, this is a massive operation, it's Quite an adventure here at CBS, it's been a Good morning to you and welcome to CBS this morning.

Understanding the world we are about to break into begins with the right questions. The police discovered a motive. Does the president have a red line here? What can voters expect to see today? Join Gayle. King Anthony Mason and Tonio Tecopa on CBS this morning we know a little more this morning this is a major development this is a very serious situation more news every morning on the show everyone is talking about we have a lot more news ahead for you CBS this morning The British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is now in ICU and this comes two weeks after he was diagnosed with the corona virus.

He is 55 years old and was placed in intensive care last night after being hospitalized earlier this week. Downing Street says Johnson is not on a ventilator but is receiving oxygen treatment UK and coronavirus cases have soared to almost 52,000 more than 5,000 people have died as the country works to control the crisis for more information on this, let's bring to Elizabeth Palmer, she's joining us now from London, so Liz, what's the latest on the Prime Minister's condition? Officials have said his symptoms have worsened in recent days. or they have said that they said when they transferred him to the ICU yesterday that his doctors had warned him that because his condition had worsened they did not specify but we can infer that he was having difficulty breathing now we know that he is not undergoing treatment. ventilator, but apparently they moved him to the ICU in case he needed a ventilator, so what about the job of running the country?

Can you do his work from the ICU? He formally handed over key decisions to Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab. there is no such thing as the job or role of the deputy prime minister in the uk government and so on for the foreseeable future mr. Robb will chair the meetings, but the cabinet will operate by consensus or at least make decisions as a result of discussion that will help us move forward. I guess everyone is wondering when the big decision will come and the one looming is how we will get out of this lockdown. What is the exit strategy?

It would be much preferable if mr. Johnson was once again well enough to participate, but of course no one knows exactly how this is going to go. Liz. I note that the Queen, when she gave her inspiring speech in the United Kingdom, it was only an hour after the Queen's speech. She heard the news of the Prime Minister's situation and I wonder what she is hearing about whether or not the cabinet was informed that Boris Johnson was being moved to intensive care. The Queen's speech, I should say, was recorded several days before so that the Queen would not be there.

She said yes, but they did give the cabinet the basic news that he had gotten worse and that he was going to go to intensive care and it is interesting that they underestimated the seriousness of Mr. Johnson's condition throughout last week and he himself made a couple of videos on Twitter where he didn't look good, but he was obviously well enough to speak to the country and say, look, you know, stay the course, this is working, locks are working, etc. then when they sent him to the hospital, they described it as a precautionary measure, so they were trying not to alarm people, which is understandable, but some of the critics here have been saying, listen, they missed an opportunity to say to everyone in this country, no matter who. you are susceptible, look, it has happened to the Prime Minister, he is seriously ill, he is in hospital, this is the time for all of you to really make an effort and cooperate because this disease does not discriminate in the long term, it will be very interesting in the future . briefing this afternoon they have regular briefings in the afternoon or where one or another of the cabinet members speaks whether there will be a change in tone because it is clearly very worrying that mr.

Johnson ended up in intensive care, sorry Liz, when it comes to the UK's response to coronavirus, give us a little snapshot, you know, here in the US we're still dealing with some shortages when it comes to concerns about protective equipment. ventilators, whether or not there will be enough once this country gets to APEC and of course concerns about the evidence of what is happening in the UK we are in, you could call it a liberal lockdown for people to participate As you can see, it is glorious. In the spring weather, people are exercising, which allows them to walk, they can go to grocery stores and pharmacies, and that seems to be working.

It seemed like the number of deaths was plateauing and over the weekend there was a drop, so everyone was hopeful. However, it appears to have been a glitch, today's figures are as bad as last week's seven and a half deaths, so they may be leveling off, but it is still rising, as from the beginning the British government was trying to identify every person with symptoms and do the contact tracing that has been so successful in South Korea, but they lost control very quickly and since then they have only been testing people who have been taken to the hospital.

There is clearly a huge shortage of reliable testing kits, although they say they will be testing a hundred thousand people a day by the end of the month, although by then we may be over the worst of it, so they were pretty slow on ventilators in hospital capacity. The news is much better: pop-up emergency hospitals were built here, as I know they have been in the United States, and so far there are many empty beds in them, so it doesn't look like critical care facilities will be overwhelmed in the future. less not yet and as for ventilators there is a shortage but the mood from the medical officer is that they believe they will be able to meet the need as it grows, as for the peak they were thinking maybe this would be over the Easter weekend , but Of course, it's been pretty unpredictable and the results have been disappointing time and time again, so it's anyone's guess, just silently hoping it's okay, Liz, thank you so much for that

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, of course we're thinking about sending energy positive to the PM there and also for the note.

Queen Elizabeth, who would have thought? There is magic in television, we can record things before they air. I hope we appreciate it as always. Liz Japan has declared a state of emergency over the coronavirus pandemic that will last at least a month. This comes as hospitals in some of the country's largest cities begin to fill with patients fighting the virus. There are almost four thousand confirmed cases. in Japan and more than 91 people have died ramune Ascencio is following the latest in Tokyo life will only change here in Japan, as much as its citizens, will follow that state of emergency declaration because it does not allow the type of forced lockdowns that we have seen in many countries, from China, India, the Philippines, France and Italy.

It does empower local governments to require their citizens to stay home, but there is still no legal situation that actually forces them to stay inside, so on the streets of Tokyo, along with several other prefectures under this declaration, there is still you can see a lot of people walking as well as a lot of cars still driving on those roads now under that declaration. and places may be asked to close department stores, cinemas and sports stadiums, of course, the more closed they are, the less reason people will have to be away from services considered essential, although they will remain open now, which includes supermarkets, pharmacies and public transportation, but they could work.

In limited hours, the government can also take advantage to establish emergency medical facilities. They could suspend medical supplies like masks if they deemed it necessary. Now, geographically, this current statement does not apply to all of Japan. It does affect Tokyo in three surrounding prefectures, as you can imagine. of them as jurisdictions similar to the US. states that an estimated 35 million people are affected, that means about one in four people in Japan are affected and by the way, an interesting tech note on adjusting to life here, it's spring graduation season and One university used remote-controlled robots, that's right, robots that let students graduate from the safe, social distance of their homes.

Those avatars were dressed in caps and gowns and their robot had a tablet, of course, with the faces of each of the students, but the anxiety is real and growing and on Twitter the phrase escape from Tokyo was As a trend today, the government has asked people to stay where they are to try to stop the spread of the infection, but due to the nature of that state of emergency declaration, they can only ask Inocencio CBS News Tokyo that a strict lockdown is being implemented in Israel ahead of Passover, this is a holy week for both Jews and Christians.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced strict restrictions on public movement and travel between cities until Friday morning. The Jewish holiday observed over the course of a week begins tomorrow night and officials fear people will continue celebrating. large gatherings common despite growing virus threat lockdowns strict lockdowns have been implemented in ultra-Orthodox communities where case numbers have skyrocketed Israel's military is also helping to enforce new restrictions Italy is seeing signs of progress as The country works to combat the coronavirus Officials yesterday reported the smallest increase in cases day by day with almost 3,600 newinfections. More than 16,000 people have died from the virus nationwide, but new reports suggest the number may be underestimated.

Chris Livesay takes a closer look at conditions in the northern part of Italy victim after victim 33 in this nursing home in misty Mahoney a housekeeper who loved walks in the garden giulio bonne AMI a carpenter and a mouse library These are the empty beds that used to belong to the patients who died from Koba 19 doctors say, but the disturbing thing is that they were not tested before they died, so they do not appear in the official Koba 19 death toll In Italy, the virus hit so hard and so fast that they never reached a hospital and only those who died in hospitals are counted in the national count, even authorities acknowledge that the real number of deaths may be much higher.

Nami, which killed three residents a day at its peak, says dr. badabada kodály and she could still hit the fifty-two surviving residents, but have they been tested? No and neither do we. She tells me that there may be kovat because two co-workers have died and many others are sick at home and it is at home or there are also countless victims. dies unexamined and uncounted like Alice and Alberto Manley the police rush to collect his oxygen tanks now they are in short supply this disease is destroying the generation that built everything around us says his son is you or your father or anyone in your house examined kovat under 19 report that the death toll is common even in NIMH, brother, a city that already has the highest per capita death rate in the country.

We spoke with the mayor, who analyzed the numbers. What is Laura's death toll? According to our analysis, it is four times higher, most deaths simply are not counted, she says, but the families and friends who remain believe that every life matters and should be remembered. Cardinal George Pell is free from prison after Australia's highest court overturned his landmark sex abuse conviction on The High Court said reasonable doubt should in part have been considered during the appeal now that the former Vatican treasurer was released yesterday. The ruling ends a five-year legal battle that began when a man accused his friend of molesting him as a child in the mid-1990s.

Part of the decision will see the Cardinals' name removed from the sex offender registry. Pell was the highest-ranking Catholic official to be publicly accused of sexually abusing children under Australian law. The ruling cannot be challenged. Stephanie Grisham has resigned as White House Press Secretary Grisham will return to the office of the former. dame as chief of staff and spokesperson for melania trump effective immediately now that she held a formal press conference during her nine months as press secretary and cbs news has confirmed that caylee mcenany will take over the press role. secretary coming after the break tens of thousands of coronavirus tests are being processed labs are struggling to keep up with demand we'll tell you what that means for those still waiting for answers stay with us they're streaming CBS n CBS News always on You can watch CBS n 24/7, we have an incredible story to share with you, let's talk about the latest developments, there are so many levels to this, we have a CBS News exclusive, fires in California, what's happening next below and how it all works.

We're on a mission with that, so I understand you have some breaking news. It is not over yet. In short, this is a massive operation. It's quite an adventure here at CBS. It's been a day. Good morning to you and welcome to CBS. This morning, understanding the world we are about to begin to break down starts with the right questions the police discovered a motive, does the president have a red line? here what converters expect to see today join Gayle King Anthony Mason Antonio Tecopa on CBS this morning we know a little more this morning this is a major development this is a very serious situation more news every morning on the show everyone's talking about we have many more news ahead CBS this morning the funeral industry is struggling to keep up with the rapidly increasing death toll caused by the corona virus pandemic already around 11,000 people have died from the virus in the United States and it is projected that Tens of thousands of lives will be lost plus the numbers have created an unprecedented bottleneck in morgues, funeral homes and cemeteries and Graham Cait spoke to several funeral directors in New York City, which is the epicenter of this outbreak here in the US, and Graham, you're joining us now.

No, Graham, I remember. I think maybe it was last week or we could go to the president talking about Elmhurst Hospital in Queens and he was. very familiar with him and watched a video of what he described: body bags lying in the hallway and freezer trucks coming in due to a morgue overflow and you could really tell he was taken aback by those images, but after those body bags they left the hospital. they have to go to the area morgues they have to go to the area funeral homes how are our morgues and funeral homes in New York coping are they overwhelmed they think of funeral directors as the end of the front line in terms of those who have to interact directly with the people who have contracted the virus and who could still transmit it as respiratory microbes and they say that we have more cases than we can handle and just like in the hospitals we are running out of personal protective equipment and they point out you know that the directors of funeral homes are going to be last in line for those frontline workers to get that equipment because it's very important to get it to the medical workers first and Grahm funeral homes are also enforcing social distancing how does that change the nature of what they do once the business model has completely changed in many?

In many cases, bodies go directly to a crematorium or directly to a grave without there being any chance that a loved one can go and pay their respects in the way we think, such as standing in front of a coffin and taking the time there and then in other cases, when it is possible to have a service at a funeral home, there are strict rules that I have put in place, maybe it's shifts so four or five people can come at a time and then the next four or five people. and everything has to be very orderly and very supervised and then of course there are declared virtual services, so people meet by zoom or FaceTime but they can't do that personal service that we are used to seeing and for funeral directors , they said.

That's really, really hard, they pride themselves on not getting into the funeral business if you're not trying to give people a really good opportunity to grieve in the way that we expect and right now have to say. For people, we can't do it the way that maybe you expected to be able to do it for this person or that person may have hoped to do it, but we have to make the most of it right now, yeah, I think it's really It's a good point to bring up Graham that For funeral directors they know that handling and caring for the body is one thing, but they also focus on being supportive and honorable, on intervening when you know that maybe a family is falling. separating and being a stabilizing force and I, and a lot of that has to do with, probably, you know, being intimate, touching someone, hugging them when they need a hug, giving them a tissue when they're crying and can't do any of those things. and then there's the basic kind of, like I said, managing the bodies, but the basic things you have to do, like finding a place for the body to go, cemetery plots, are there enough cemetery plots, so no?

We don't actually have a number of cemetery plots in New York, but what we do know is that they are coming and so fast that yesterday they were talking about we have to create temporary internment sites and there were some discussions. between officials about whether that will happen New York City actually has an island that over the course of about two centuries they have used as a potter's field and this would be the first time that it's not just for unidentified people like the ones we'll be talking about. of using that or just the overflow of bodies and of course there's been some discussion about whether the city is actually considering that or not, but several officials said that, look and long term, this is a plan that you've always done. we've had and we've never really implemented it before and then when you talk about where there are funeral services, these guys are exhausted, they say we're not even sleeping because it's just funeral after funeral after funeral and we want to make sure we can do the best possible and that takes time, let me ask you grandma, where are they?

I mean the funeral directors, people who work and more as they are essential services, but where are they in line for the protective equipment? They say they're at the back of the line and they say they understand that, so I talked to the president of the New York State Funeral Directors Association and he said I understand that hospital workers and medical employees need the PPE, personal protective equipment. Someone said we need it too and we're the last to get it and every funeral director I talked to said I still have some supplies but I'm running out and I can't figure out where I am.

If you are getting the next shipment, you contact the places that sell them and they tell you it is now on the list, but there is no estimate of when you might receive it and they are relying on your state association to determine where. get a very large supply of masks, gloves and all the equipment. You see the medical staff is aware and he told me, you know, even my regular providers say you're not the top priority right now. Wow, well, grandma, thank you. There are so many different ways this virus affects the way we experience things we previously took for granted.

I really appreciate your report. Thank you. The US Surgeon General says efforts to flatten the care curve are making a difference. he is talking about social distancing, he insists that it is still very crucial and important and he also says that the country needs to do a much better job when it comes to testing dr. Jerome Adams talked about this on CBS this morning. I started the week by telling Americans that it was going to be a really tough week, but I also wanted Americans to understand that when we've faced tough times in the past, the country has bounced back. and what we're seeing now is that the country is recovering, we're seeing that in New York and New Jersey hospitalizations are leveling off and starting to go down, deaths are starting to go down and leveling off, and that's important because it tells us that the mitigation is work tells us what the American people are doing by staying home and social distancing practicing good hygiene and the 30 day guidelines for America are really effective and will help us get to the other side of this unfortunate tragedy, dr.

Adams, how can we be sure that mitigation is working as well as we hope it will when we don't know, to put it bluntly, how many Americans actually have this virus because we don't have widespread testing, to put it more bluntly? How do we know when we are safe and can return to normal if we don't know how widespread this is? Well, there are two questions there and I'll unravel them quickly. The most important thing is that we know that the mitigation is working because when we look at the Washington curves in California we see that they have been very flat and that coincides with the establishment of aggressive mitigation.

We see Italy in Spain descending on the downward slopes of its curve coinciding with its beginning. mitigation so we know mitigation is working now you mentioned testing is a concern we're doing 2 million tests this week and it's increasing rapidly with the commercial industry coming in. We're also seeing more people doing antibody testing, so what? I want the American people to know that I have spoken to Admiral Jawad, I speak to him every day, he is our testing czar and he assures me that by the end of this month we should not only be doing diagnostic testing but also having a good surveillance. testing nationwide to 2 million people by the end of this week, we are getting very close to South Korea's initial testing ramp-up numbers and are in fact conducting surveillance testing in some parts of the country where they have not seen a huge increase.

In some cases we are not there yet, but we are moving in the right direction and of course surveillance testing is very important. I want to touch on another point of concern and that is the death rate among African Americans in Louisiana. The governor says that 70% of the deaths are peopleof color in Chicago. We heard from the mayor over 70% in that city his response to that and if the CDC or the federal government is tracking this virus demographically to warn people, absolutely the CDC and the federal government should and is tracking this virus and trying to break it down into different demographic groups so that we can help people understand, but my office, long before Kovan 19, has been talking about health equity, has been talking about the need to help people understand when. are at risk and they really need to intervene and when you look at being black in America, people number one are unfortunately more likely to be from a lower socioeconomic background, which makes it harder to socially distance number two, we know that black people They are more likely to have diabetes. heart disease, lung disease and I've personally shared that I have high blood pressure, I have heart disease and I spent a week in the ICU due to a heart condition, then I actually have asthma and I'm pre-diabetic so I represent that legacy of growing up poor and black in America and I and many black Americans are at higher risk of contracting kovin that's why we need everyone to do their part to slow the spread so doctor I imagine it's frustrating for you to hear those seventy numbers percent. of the dead in Louisiana people have called our African Americans if there is predation that they have for that community recommendation my recommendation is that they understand that they are at risk they are not immune and my recommendation is for the entire United States that we are really doing this to protect ourselves not not only ourselves but others, every person who stays home, whether white, black, brown or yellow, is a person who is not spreading kovat and is a person who can protect their neighbors when they wear a face covering of cloth if you go out, you do it to protect your neighbors and now is really the time to come together and say: look, I'm doing this not only for myself and my family, but for my community and all the communities across the country and it's working, we will get through this, we are seeing progress, but the United States has the power to change the trajectory of this epidemic.

The public really needs to continue doing their part. America's Best Doctor, so there will be more interviews like this on CBS this morning. weekdays at 7:00 ET here on CBS n the British Prime Minister's health aid minister, instead of Boris Johnson, has taken a turn for the worse as he continues to battle the situation at 19, we'll have the latest on his condition after a short break keep it here you are streaming CBS, you can watch CBS n 24/7, we have an incredible story to share with you, let's talk about the latest developments, there are so many levels to this, we have an exclusive of CBS News fires in California what happens next and how it all plays out we are on a mission with one so I understand you have some breaking news but it's not over yet bottom line this is a massive operation it's quite a adventure here on CBS n It's been a day Good morning to you and welcome to CBS this morning.

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Jericka Duncan has more on that. I think you want to know what's going on with your body and then what you might be facing. You know later. Mike Hoffer says he was left without answers for eight days after taking 19 Kovan tests oh, you're in this constant worry, you know, you know, he'll wake up in the morning, he won't wake up in the middle of the night, gasping for air, said his wife Lisa. The lack of information also left friends and family wondering if they were exposed in the meantime. Not only can we not get answers, we can't give answers to our employers, to our friends, to our family members, to the people we had been with in the previous two weeks.

Mike's test was administered by his local urgent care center, but even national groups like LabCorp report turnaround times of four to five days and Quest Diagnostics told CBS this morning that it is still working to remove eighty thousand tests from its order book, compared to 160,000 tests in almost two years. Weeks ago, should private laboratories do more? I think everyone should do more and then private laboratories are part of the solution. My feeling is that they are working as hard as they can. Dr. Ashish Ja is the director of the Harvard Global Health Institute on evidence. You don't know how much disease there is.

You can't isolate infected people. You cannot make treatment plans for infected people. Hospital officials say testing helps, too. they manage resources like betting availability and personal protective equipment or PPE when it comes to lab testing, turnaround time is PPE dr. Jeff Baird is the interim chair of laboratory medicine at UW Medicine in Seattle. In-hospital testing can process results within hours, helping them save valuable resources for the inpatient or patient tested in the emergency room or clinic that we need. Treat all those patients when they come in as if they have it because if they have it we need to be protected and if they don't we can relax our PPE standards and treat them in a more appropriate way, but it's not just about private companies.

Struggling to keep up as Sunday, more than 14,000 people in California are awaiting test results from public and private health laboratories. Many other states have yet to report specific numbers on testing delays. The inconsistencies between states inspired the Kovach tracking project that collects all state data. by state in one place Alexis Madrigal, writer for The Atlantic, is a co-founder, we feel that if you are part of the National Response to this epidemic, then you owe the nation transparency, what we need from them not perfection but transparency honesty and openness okay let's bring in Jericka Duncan now to talk about this surgery, clearly it looks like we have a lot of work to do when it comes to getting the results of these tests back, what are the commercial labs saying about the backlog?

Well, they're saying they've increased their testing capacity and I think when you look back at these two major companies that we looked at with Quest and LabCorp, who in total have done over a million tests, they were the first ones out there. The door that first week of March, March 5 and March 9, is when those companies started testing and I think there was such an influx that they didn't realize how much testing material they were going to need and that, In fact, they weren't. I'm going to be able to do all of these tests within the 5 to 7 days that they said at the beginning, now it's 4 to 5 days on average to get the result, but after this story first aired on CBS this morning, I have I got a few tweets from people saying my results took two weeks.

Someone said that their result took three weeks. I have a close friend whose sister, according to her, is still waiting for her results, so she will find places and people all over this country that are waiting. For the results and the problem with that is twofold: it's peace of mind and not knowing because then you might be spreading it or infecting other people or you start to wonder who I may have been in contact with and then of course you know more. The more we know who is infected, the better we can treat them, although many doctors will tell you that the treatment plan does not change even when people test positive for koban 19, a doctor will usually tell you to stay home and quarantine, so Of course, unless you have respiratory problems that I personally have experience with and I couldn't get a test, but I know that because of the shortage of tests, they are telling people, of course, to go home and get on quarantine, especially here in New York City, but they are keeping track of the backlog.

I think it was simply a matter of at first they didn't realize how many tests they were expected to perform in a short period of time, so Jurika, what about the gentleman at the beginning of your story Michael Hoffer, did he ever Did you get your results? It's a great question. He got his results back and it came back negative, but a day after receiving the results, his symptoms worsened. He found it difficult to breathe. In fact, he went to the hospital and then they did it. I decided to test him there again and it came back positive so it becomes a separate story from people who get tested and actually have coronavirus but maybe it's a false negative test so I'm sure We will be investigating that. more, but he tested negative in the first test and received treatment again.

The hospital tested him and, in fact, he had coronavirus, but as you saw in the article, he is much better. Now I got the proof back. Sorry, I'm in the emergency room. that again blind, okay, sorry, there's a delay. I just wanted to know what his family had to say about the test results when they got that. Well, at first it was kind of a relief again, it's that idea of ​​a peace, quiet, but then it's like you have to listen to your body and pay attention to those symptoms that we keep hearing about and then of course you find out that your family member actually has coronavirus, well so all the family members who have been in contact with him and his immediate family were naturally worried, as far as we know they are all fine at the moment, but you know what's so complicated about the Coronavirus: You may not show symptoms for days at a time or you may have someone in your home who does.

Symptoms and other people have symptoms or they don't have symptoms and then you have symptoms, so I think it depends, but the family is doing well, but it was certainly frustrating for them at first not knowing and then finding out. to discover that, in fact, mr. Holford had coronavirus. I hope you get a chance to follow up with that second story that you were talking about, which is this, you know, false negative or maybe well, I mean, maybe when he tested weeks and weeks ago we didn't have it, but in the meantime So, he took it up again.

I think it's a really interesting story. I can't imagine how stressful it is for his family. Rica, thank you very much for speaking with us. Yes, it's one we're working on, so stay tuned. Well, in the meantime, a New York doctor hopes her very creative video of her will give people an idea of ​​how quickly the corona virus can spread. Jenna DeAngelis from our CBS station in New York, WCBS reports on that person who enters an office or the home of an NGO. This is what happens using accessories in the Long Island office. Ageless MD dr.

Roxanne Carrefour explains to us how quickly the corona virus can spread. The person sneezes, places their own violence, locks on the floor, grabs onto anything they can, from someone's credit card to their drink, the floor, and the next person who walks in is waiting. so that the next body comes in, that's where it says to disinfect your shoes, clean surfaces and of course wash your hands constantly and the only way to start is by staining dr. Carrefour, who was certified in regenerative and anti-aging medicine, is trying to stress the younger population by demonstrating in another Facebook video how aging cells are attacked this time using eggs.

This is a young cell. Here you see that the yolk is the inside. The cell, the outside of the cell, is called the lipid layer. Every cell in your body has a lipid layer to protect you. The younger cell has that protection and the older cell, if you look at this bud, doesn't have that protection, so look what happened. Now and destroys the cell, she hopes the two videos of her send one main message, the other is to stop the spread by staying home. Jenna DeAngelis cbs2 news so that video almost reminds me a little bit of you remember the drug war video. where you know this is your brain this is your brain high on a frying pan like there's something about an egg in a frying pan it's very very vivid hopefully people get the message meanwhile I have some breaking news often right?

I'm sure it worked out fine, clean and sober, yeah, like thatWe have some breaking news for you. Stephanie Grisham has resigned as White House press secretary. We just found out today. The news comes as President Trump's new chief of staff reshuffles. staff in parts of the West Wing now Grisham will return to the first lady's office serving as chief of staff and spokesperson for Melania Trump effective immediately in a news release from the first lady's office Grisham said her replacement in the House Blanca will be announced in the next few days, so we found out a little bit about this Vlad, I think earlier this week, and in fact, I think some journalists called him at his house, she was in quarantine and asked him if it was true and she said she hadn't heard. anything, but after all, she was in quarantine and it turns out the news was true.

Yes, I'm Maria and you know, I'm pretty sure Stephanie Grisham never held a formal press conference, so it would have to be a fact. -I checked the historical background, but I think this would make her the only White House press secretary in modern times. She would not have held a formal press conference. I could be wrong about that, but you know, so many things have happened over time. recent months and yet, as we know, the President of the United States has always said and many believe that he is the best communicator, as his administration and his followers think that he is the one who communicates his message most effectively . but it's notable that she never actually held a formal press conference, so the news coming out of the White House that CBS News has confirmed is that Stephanie Grisham will return to the first lady's office and we'll wait to find out who will be the one. next press.

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I'm Paula Ebben. There is new hope that social distancing may be working in New York, Coronis, the epicenter of the coronavirus in the US. Hospitalizations are down for another day, but new hot spots are emerging as numbers across the country continue increasing. There are over 300, 68,000 reported cases of the virus and the death toll has reached over 11,000 here in the US. Michael George has the latest military medical report. Workers are treating coronavirus patients inside New York City's Javits Convention Center. We are mobilizing in the same way we mobilized to go to war in this war with an invisible enemy.

The New York Times reports that it took a month for 5,000 people to die in the United States, but there are only five days left until another 5,000 people die, more than 40% of the deaths have occurred in New York, but the governor says the Social distancing is working and has a double definition for people who get too close to people they don't live with now. we are projecting that we are reaching a plateau and the total number of hospitalizations and you can see the growth and you can see it starting to flatten out. Field hospitals are now helping to ease the strain on New York hospitals.

A new one opens today here at Billie. The Jean King Tennis Center, home of the US Open, has 350 beds for non-critical coronavirus patients. There are now at least 22 field hospitals open or about to open in 18 states, including this one that will be built inside the Detroit Convention Center. sick people here and you know that Louisiana reported more than 1,800 new cases on Monday, bringing the total to nearly 15,000 of the state's 512 deaths. 70% are African Americans. If you look at being black in America, the number one people are unfortunately more likely to be. low socioeconomic status, making social distancing difficult number two, we know that black people are more likely to have diabetes, heart disease, lung disease, and in Wisconsin, social distancing voting, the presidential primaries are taking place in the battleground state despite Democratic efforts to delay it.

The state's Democratic governor says Republican lawmakers are forcing people to choose between their health and their right to vote Michael George CBS News New York Hospitalizations have stabilized in New York in recent days, but many cases could go undetected US Surgeon General Jerome Adams addressed this concern on CBS this morning dr. Adams, how can we be sure that mitigation is working as well as we hope it will when we don't know, to put it bluntly, how many Americans actually have this virus because we don't have widespread testing, to put it more bluntly? How do we know when we are safe and can return to normal if we don't know how widespread this is?

Well, there are two questions there and I'll go through them quickly. The most important thing is that we know that the mitigation is working because when we look at the Washington curves in California we see that they have been very flat and that coincides with the establishment of aggressive mitigation. We see Italy in Spain descending on the downward slopes of its curve coinciding with its beginning. mitigation so we know mitigation is working now you mentioned testing is a concern we're doing 2 million tests this week and it's increasing rapidly with the commercial industry coming in. We're also seeing more people doing antibody testing, so what?

I want the American people to know that I spoke to Admiral Cho because I speak to him every day. He is our testing czar and assures me that by the end of this month we should not only be doing diagnostic tests.