arts for illinois. orc. we would be remiss if we did not think the department affairs -- of affairs, along with the --hip gifts from foundation, as well as funding from the chicago community trust, the elizabeth charitable foundation,ield dorothy foundation, irving davis,foundation, kathy state of illinois and the foundation for american heart. if you are tired after hearing the list, imagine all of the work that went into getting all of the organizations in the understanding of how important artists and art organizations are to the state of illinois and our society. there is so much need in so many communities across illinois. we are hurting, our country as well as the world. this is just the beginning of what is needed. my fellow artists, i speak to you now. my hope is that this emergency fund can help you keep your until the next cell phone bill is due, or to put food on your table. this is a crisis but our hope is this will provide some beacon of hope. i know the pain you're feeling but i hope we can all

they are all all in for illinois. with that, i would like to turn it over. >> thank you so much, governor. good afternoon. as you all are aware, it is very difficult to share the information about the lives lost and all of the additional individuals who have contracted this disease. but it is important for everyone to remain informed and it is important for us to have a realistic picture of some of the dangers associated with covid-19. we are reporting 1287 new cases, including 73 individuals who have lost their fight against covid-19. that brings our statewide total to 13,549 total cases with 380 lives lost. while we know that our health care system is gearing up and preparing for this pandemic, we are getting more ppe, we are acquiring ventilators, and recruiting health care workers. let me give you some positive news. we have repeated our survey to identify individuals who have recovered post-receiving a positive test. we received approximately a 40% response rate, which is good, as electronic surveys go. of all th

illinois by contrast was a free state. they also rejected the idea that only a certain group of people should be in charge and they said they welcomed a lot of diverse groups to polis it best mate to participate. politicians aspiring politicians tried to go and get support from otherwise groups. both of which are serving in the state legislature at the time that the mormons arrived in illinois. so the first one, illinois was anxious to prove that unlike those hooligans in missouri we know how to take care of that out crass and the downtrodden. the second point about illinois this was a state that was evenly divided between the two political parties at the time. give the party of andrew jackson. they championed the rights of the self-rule and state law. the more enlightened sense of politics. maybe we need to find a way to strengthen the government. both of these parties are rather new. america's political system had only been around for about a decade by this point. the first national party convention had only taken place

in illinois, we have maybe in illinois, we have maybe received 10% of what we needed. so they have turned it back to the states and said, you are on your own. as you know, we have had to compete with the other states and other countries and even with our own federal government in order to get ppe. i did not turn to china, i turned to the world. wherever it is i could acquire it. whether it was in united states or elsewhere. it turns out most of the ppe that comes to hospitals and that is needed in the united states actually is manufactured in china. so we went to where the manufacturers were, acquired the ppe, and shipped it directly to the state of illinois. >> can you shed a little light on the details? how much, in terms of the supplies, is in illinois right now? gov. pritzker: we've acquired millions and millions of items of ppe. when we receive it, we distribute it. we have 102 counties and public health departments across the state. so we make sure they have what they need and then we back up the city of chicago and all the hospitals across the state, to make sur

of illinois. i cannot thank them enough. no community is getting through this alone. the fastest way through his mask maximizing our resources across illinois and these labs are stepping up to make that happen for all of us. i am also excited to announce that our new state run south suburban drive-through testing center will open early next week in the markham harvey area. we will be taking hundreds of specimens per day with test results coming back to patients must -- much faster than the federally contracted labs. as for the drive-through sites, we have secured an extension of our federal contracts while we work to transition these sites to run through state and local labs for faster results. testing is crucial, but we also need to talk about what happens after a person gets a test or does not get a test, but has symptoms or a known exposure to covid-19. how does that person protect themselves, their family members, their roommates, their loved ones? across the state, we have multigenerational f

he would like to pose a question about the illinois state fair. given your concerns about summer events, do you think the fair should proceed as scheduled? gov. pritzker: we are going to have to make decisions relatively soon because contracts have to be signed. i think that was really the point i was making a few days ago when i talked about summer festivals. a lot of planning goes into these things and decisions have to be made. yeah, we are going to have to make some decisions. i have as much fun as anybody does at the state fairs and i am hopeful that we could have both i'm also fairs, but going to listen to the experts and make sure we do the right thing so we don't spread this covid-19 and that we don't have a spike in all of the hospitalizations and ultimately in people passing away. >> >> television has changed since c-span began 41 years ago but our mission continues. to provide an unfiltered view of government. already we have brought primary election coverage, the presidential impeachment process , and alec coronavirus coverage. listen

what are you doing in illinois? what are you doing specifically on the issue of illinois nursing homes publishing information about the case load that they're dealing with? >> well, let me start by saying that we've been on top of our nursing homes from very early on. naefg, before our stay at, in fact, before our stay-at-home order was in place i was on the phone with governor inslee in washington, i was on the phone with governor cuomo in new york both of which have had terrible times with their nursing homes, to learn what went wrong and what should we be doing to get it right, and so from early on, we created a strike team, each nursing home where something has flared up, we've thrown that strike team on top of it, made sure that they have the proper ppe, that they know how to use the ppe, that they separate out the covid-positive patients from those who are negative, and make sure generally that we've clamped down on, with a quarantine. now, we also closed down to visitors, very early on, and we've been taking

wednesday,ned on illinois received 15 rapid test machines. while we are still working to acquire the necessary materials, we are deploying these machines mannerlowing and are -- so that they are ready to go. machines aree going to the qualified health earlier andntioned the remaining three east st. louis and the surrounding region. another three will go to the illinois department of health , the schapiroices developmental center, and the elgin health center. the final five will go to the illinois department of corrections facilities. say that wewant to are making sure our plans reflect equity and access in testing and treatment. of healthing the same care providers across the state it is essential that health care institutions operate to fulfill their obligations to render health care in an ethical and nondiscriminatory manner. a crisis and providers may have to operate on their normal capacity and allocate limited health care resources. no one life is any more important than another's. guidance thated vulnerable and historically marginalized

what does the data show in illinois? we have notr: peaked. one of the interesting things is, as you may know, we were the second state in the united states to put forward our stay-at-home rule. people have really been abiding by it for the most part. so, the result of that has been the pushing out of what had been anticipated to be a peeking in the middle or near the end of april. it has been pushed out now according to the models to maybe mid-may, but at a lower level. so, we are inching toward that date. people are doing what they need to do in the state of illinois, staying indoors were staying at home. wearing masks outside, as i've urged everybody to do. making sure they are washing their hands and all the other things that we've asked people to do. the result is we have had many fewer deaths then were anticipated. our hospitalization rate is somewhat stable. climbing a little bit, but somewhat stabilizing. our ventilator needs have gone down. interestingly, partly because we have been to the curve, but also because the treatment, the wa

illinois, by contrast, was a free state. they rejected not only slavery but they also rejected the idea only a certain group of people should be in charge and this is a welcomed lots of diverse groups to participate in the political sphere and the sense of democracy in which the politicians tried to cross the port from other marginalized groups. the politicians like abraham lincoln, stephen a. douglas both of which are serving in the state legislature at the time they arrived in illinois. so the first one come illinois was anxious to prove unlike those in missouri, we know how to take care. this was a state decided between the two political parties at the time. on the website we have the democrats, the party of andrew jackson and martin van buren championing the rights of the state law and also those that believe in the more enlightened sense of politics. america's political system the first national party convention had only taken place in the 1830s. there are a thousand of us believers. illinois was growing rapidly populat

what does the data show about illinois? has illinois peaked or is it ready to reopen? gov. pritzker: we have not peaked. you may know we are the second state to have put forward our stay at home rule. people have been abiding by it for the most part. the result of that has been the pushing out of what had been anticipated to be a peeking in the middle or near the end of april. it has been pushed out according to the models to maybe mid-may but at a lower level. we are moving, inching toward that date. people are doing what they need to do in the state of illinois. wearing masks outside as i have urged everybody to do, making sure they are washing their hands and all of the other things we have asked people to do. the result is we have had many fewer deaths than were anticipated. our hospitalization rate is somewhat stable. climbing a little but somewhat stabilizing. our ventilator needs have gone down partly because we bent the curve but also because the treatment, the way doctors are treating the people who seem likely need to go on ventilators is different than it used to

of illinois. -- served the seventh district of illinois. thanks for your time this morning. guest: thank you so much and we are so delighted to be with you. we are going to like this, we are going to do it. optimism is the key. >> today, president trump and members of the white house coronavirus briefing held a response to the coronavirus. we'll have a life coverage on c-span c-span has round-the-clock coverage of the federal response to the coronavirus pandemic, and it's all available on demand at c-span.org/coronavirus. watch white house briefings, updates from governors, track the spread throughout the u.s. and the world with interactive maps, watch on-demand anytime, unfiltered, at c-span.org/ coronavirus. tonight, on real america. >> it frequently happened that the medical officers on marine hospitals were the first positions to diagnose diseases as cholera, fever, or smallpox, which affected the public. it became of such increasing importance to the country, congress extended its duties unti

>> i was on the board of the illinois education association. we were going to have the national convention in new orleans and one of the board members came up to this skinny, skinny man with a black beard and said, you know, if you dressed, we could all come on the floor of the convention and they would know illinois had arrived. and i was intrigued. and i said let's try this, and that was the only thing i did in 1986. but then worked at freeport with the debate and such. >> people won't understand the reference to freeport and the debate. will you tell that story? >> the debate site, second debate site. >> 1858 debate series. >> with stephen douglas. my whole life was a parking lot with a boulder dedicated by teddy roosevelt. long-time resident said we can do better. we turned that into a green space, life-sized statue of lincoln and douglas in debate. >> to set the stage for people, 1994, c-span went to all the towns in illinois and asked them if the towns put on the debates, we'll bring the cameras and televise the debates in its entirety. h

is the same in illinois and other states -- it is the same in illinois and other states. we are talking about how we can come back and do elective surgeries. i was on a call friday with the ceos i represent, and one of the ceos had been in contact with legal. -- how do we safely begin to open up surgery and all of those areas. we are trying our best to lay the groundwork. we wish we had that magic wand to make everything right at this point, but i understand the gentleman's concerns. host: let's talk to ben from hogans berg, new york. ben is in the health care profession. what do you do in health care? caller: i am a family practitioner in rural upstate new york. way up near the canadian border, where the coronavirus has been fairly a small amount at this point. however, i think we are talking about a different thing. small hospitals were in big trouble already, well before this pandemic. and everybody is talking about they cannot survive without "elective surgery." that is almost an anomaly. if it is elective, why would you run to surgery. see patients all the time that

the institution survived in certain instances for instance in the southminds of southern illinois. and a loophole and illinois law allowed slave owners to bring the property to the state as long as they kept them there for less than a year. as you'll recall, the case is about that in which lincoln represented a slaveholder who was trying to retreat his runaway slaves. they ran away because he had kept them in the state for two years. he had run afoul of the law and lincoln had presented him because he believed everyone deserved representation. lincoln's own family had moved from kentucky to indiana and eventually to illinois with a hope to find sufficient cheap labor, cheap land and no competition from slave labor. as southern whites moved into free territory, their racial prejudices migrated with them. by the 1850's, some of the midwestern states including illinois have passed anti immigration laws aimed not at the irish were german newcomers to america but against american-born blacks seeking economic opportunities close to them in the east and you get the instance where you have

. >> narrator: when this cunning comptroller diverts more than $53 million of dixon, illinois' money into her horse empire, she leaves a city on the verge of collapse. >> people are gonna have to lose their jobs to balance this budget. for what, a horse? for a trophy? are you kidding me? >> narrator: in the fall of 2011, as autumn leaves begin to warm the landscape of the picturesque town of dixon, illinois, a cold reality is taking hold. >> the city was drowning in debt. there were streets that went unpaved, there were sidewalks that went, you know, unfixed because the city, as they believed, had no money to take care of those sorts of things. >> narrator: dixon mayor jim burke hears the message of distress year after year from the city official pulling dixon's purse strings -- comptroller rita crundwell. >> she would present the figures for the annual budget workshop and would show that it was gonna be nip and tuck because of the financial situation. >> narrator: but this fall, crundwell is taking vacation time to prepare for a quarter horse exhibition. she's hoping to add to her a

lincoln's own ♪ family had moved from kentucky ♪ to indiana and eventually to ♪ illinois with a hope to find ♪ ♪ sufficient cheap labor, cheap ♪ land and no competition from ♪ slave labor. as southern whites ♪ moved into free territory, ♪ their racial prejudices ♪ migrated with them. the 1850's, ♪ some of the midwestern states ♪ including illinois have passed ♪ into immigration laws aimed not ♪ at the irish were german ♪ newcomers to america but ♪ against american-born blacks ♪ seeking economic opportunities ♪ close to them in the east and ♪ you get the instance will you ♪ have fairly recent immigrants ♪ passing laws that discriminate ♪ against american-born people. ♪ it's astounding. those free ♪ blacks who defied the law faced ♪ fines as much as $50 for the ♪ offense. the inability to pay ♪ ♪ what was considered a ♪ significant amount of money at ♪ that time subjected them to the ♪ auctioning off of their labor. ♪ those who legally resided were ♪ denied the rights accorded to ♪ the right -- white ♪ counterparts. we can

she spent about four months in a private sanitarium in illinois. she never forgave her son, robert, for having done that. so, a tragic, a tragic episode in the life of mary lincoln. this is another relic from the assassination. these are the gloves that were in abraham lincoln's pocket on the night of the assassination. he kept gloves, it was the custom of the time to have these in your pocket when you shook the hands of people at official events. you would have on kid gloves. these are a pair of white leather gloves over time, where they have probably shrunk a bit. a sense of his hand. he's six feet four inches, still president in american history. he kept these gloves in his pockets and when booth fired the the back of mr. lincoln's head to that horrible night at ford's theater, the doctors that enter the box couldn't immediately identify where the wound was. it took several minutes for a doctor prodding around before he found a entry wound on the back of mr. lincoln's head. blood wasn't coming out of the until the doctor placed his finger inside

i said give me a lifrs the couple things we've done in illinois and we're building a 2,500 bed hospital in mccormick place. that is the big convention center in chicago. and we're helping to staff it and will end up staffing it because he's not able to do what you're supposed to be able to do as a governor. he has not performed well. >> the premium on 2020 of being appreciative to the president. this is exactly what we were just talking about in our previous segment. the president expressing his displeasure with the duly elected governor of illinois during his afternoon briefing at the white house yesterday. and you can only imagine it had something to do with these comments, perhaps, by illinois governor j.b.pritzger just a few hours prior. >> i've said this over and over again that if action had been taken earlier, a lot fewer lives would be lost. today, you know, we're all competing against each other. states one against another, federal government competing against states, other countries competing against states for us to try to save the people of our states, to try to protect the

by the 1850s some of the mid western states including illinois had passed anti-immigration laws aimed not at the irish or german newcomers to america and those seeking economic opportunities close to them in the east and you get the instance where you have fairly recent immigrants passing laws that actually discriminate against american born people. just astounding. those free blacks who defined the law faced fines as much as $50 for the offense. the inability to pay what was considered a significant amount of time at that time subjected them to auctioning off of labor. those who legally resided in the state were denied the civil rights accorded to their counterparts. they were barred from testing in court against white residents or serving on juries or exercising their elective franchise. moreover the taxes for public schools that their children were barred from attending. while lincoln had declared his anti-slavery position early in his career, he did not offer any robust objection to these disabilities placed on black illinoisians and i feel roger bridges standing up now and saying

we are going to try this again, but it is another requisition order, the illinois governor signed another order to remove joseph smith, he goes into hiding once again, the arresting officer pose as mormon missionaries, knock on the door of joseph smith's family, where they are trying to have a private vacation, arrest joseph smith and are marching to missouri with joseph smith in their custody, the mormon prophet seems to be out of luck finally but an aspiring politician, a lawyer nearby named cyrus walker goes i am running for the new congressional seat this fall. the mormons, this is my chance to finally do that. he gets together some friends including the county sheriff and these illinois officials arrest the arresting officer for false imprisonment and they are like what is going on? while they are trying to figure out what to do the nauvoo lesion intercepts this group and marches them back to nauvoo where they receive a military escort, a grand band performance and with the newspaper calls exquisitely dressed ladies who are celebrating joseph smith's survival. they have a big banquet

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washington 8% and illinois and colorado are about 16%. pennsylvania which is also new to the graphic is at about 12%. next slide please. we can go back one -- i am sorry if you will go back one slide, one more. all of the states here, those are 38 of the states. 38 of our states have less than 50 cases per hundreds of thousands. they are still testing. our laboratories are less than 5%. this is how we are tracking of both cases reporting and more mortalities and tracking it with the laboratory. the new york metro area and new jersey and louisiana and a series of washington have all tested greater than italy and spain, i know many of you are tracking that. we pushed out a lot of those at the beginning of the last two or three weeks. i want to thank admira admiral and hhs. just to give you an idea of how we are looking at this, we look at cases everyday and i want to thank my data team, they spent all evening come part-tipilinin. i get about 2:00 in the morning. it looks like all these metro areas by their grandular counties. we sccan see c

illinois is going pretty well. we are seeing a lot of new cases every day, more than we want to see, and the university of chicago has about 100 patients admitted on average every day with coronavirus. we are doing just fine. ppere stretched with our but have enough to get us through this time now. we prepared for the surge of patients and are prepared should the numbers get higher. the stay-at-home order in illinois is making a difference. see it helping to us flatten out the curve, and a steady run in the hospital to be able to manage those patients. we have a lot of critically ill patients across the state of illinois, and you have seen the demographics that suggest illinois and chicago, the demographic is affecting our african-american population a lot more than some of our white neighborhoods. takee doing our best to care of them and provide outstanding care. i think you wanted to know when this will all end, and that is the question of the day. one important thing for people to understand is the point of flat

so i'm deng to the people of illinois to make sure we have what weeed. i hate the idea i'm competing against others in the united states, other grnors even, to try to get what we need, but this is what president trump hah done to e country. >> woodruff: do you think your dispute with the president has in any wty hindered your abi to get what you need from the federal government? >> no, and i want to cedit the president and the military. he has assigned the military to help us out, the army corps of engineers which has gone to new york, california anod cme here to chicago. they helped us buildt mccormack. it was the army corps of engineers that led theor eff i am grateful to them and grateful to those who helped stand up some o our drive-through testin facilities.my problem is not wit with the leadership at the top, the people making the decisions. remember, this all came very late. the president knew in january that the panmic wa its way and did nothing and even as late as early march was saying this is a hoax of some sort or liker the gh, itill pass ove

the illinois governor saying the peak will likely come in mid-may. meantime, south carolina lifting restrictions.ds at beaches toda georgia, tennessee, texas, colorado, all moving to reopen. hair salons and gyms reopening in georgia friday. amid outrage from mayors saying it's just too soon. we'll get to it all tonight, including the words from the head of the cdc, reportedly saying there's a possibility the second wave of this next winter could be even worse. why he suspects that to be the case. but we begin with whit johnson in new york. >> reporter: tonight, as america considers its future beyond the pandemic, chaplain rocky walker of mt. sinai hospital in new york warns of a second wave of suffering. >> and that is a wave of depression, exhaustion, and weariness on the part of the health care workers themselves. >> reporter: the chaplain witnesses doctors and nurses giving everything to this fight. >> i see god in their reaction, their response, their courage, their faith. >> reporter: and today, a shining example of what health care workers are

the same thing will happen in illinois and in california. the question is how these governors assess that risk and exactly what the current lockdown measures are designed to do. i think very often, they do a poor job explaining when they say flatten the curve, that was designed to prevent the capacity of the health care system from being exceeded. was not designed to prevent everybody from getting in the first place. that's just not going to happen. the testing regimen that people are talking about prevent spikes but again prevent the health care system from being overwhelmed. they are not designed to prevent huge numbers of people from getting it over a long period of time. understanding that allows people to be more sane in their risk assessment and to be more rational about what exactly society is going to look like coming out of this because it's a rosy optimistic picture is a danger and i think similarly, a pessimistic version of what this looks like is also going to be a danger. >> dana: there was also this problem that if you reopen a

it can't be literally new york has the equipment, illinois has none, and we run to illinois with the equipment. it can't be that literal. but essentially, it would work. the alternative is also true. not everybody should have to buy everything. once we get through this and we have whatever we wind up with, 15,000 ventilators and 50,000 ventilator splitters, 1100 by caps, if we can help someone else, let's help somebody else. new york city police officers called in sick this morning. are you worried about staffing of law enforcement in new york city? would you consider sending help? >> i'm worried about staffing, yes. you will see it with health-care workers, all first responders. youru are out there, chance of getting infected is very high. need todo whatever we backfill. i would do that. about performing some sort of consortium. is that still possible? iswhat's happening is it almost impossible to buy a ventilator. to the extent anyone is successful in buying ventilators, fema basically came in and is now capturing the market. the ventilators are coming out of china. basically big b

and then illinois, colorado are at about 16%. pennsylvania, which is also new to the graphic is at about 12%. next slide, please. so if we could go back one, i'm sorry, if you could go back one slide, one more, all of the states here, those are 38 of the states. 38 of our states have less than 50 cases, per 100,000. they are testing. their laboratory results are consistent with that. their positivity rate for their laboratories are less than 5%. so this is how we're tracking and triangulating both case reporting, mortality, or fatalities and also triangulating that with the laboratory. the new york metro area, new jersey, louisiana, and washington state have all tested at a rate greater than italy and spain. i know many of you are tracking that. remember many of us, we pushed out a lot of those assays at the beginning over the last two to three weeks and i want to thank admiral and hhs who have been working very closely to make sure that the states that were having an outbreak had access to all of their assays. next slide, please

in illinois, 95% of our employers are small businesses. they're drowning, and the last bill that we passed, many of the big banks gaimed the system and actually sent money to large corporations that didn't need it. in this version, we are-- we put guardrails around it and set aside money to go to small business and. very important for business in the south side of chicago, minority-owned businesses that need this money just to survive. and third, we need to make sure we are able to reopen the economy-- for there to be an economy to reopen. let's take care of the first responders. let's make sure there is testing. let's make sure there is money for small business. and that is something i think we can all agree on. >> trevor: it really feels like more than ever citizens need the protection that their government can afford them. because, you know, we're learning so many things about how the coronavirus adversely affects communities. are you a senator representing illinois. chicago is one of the hardest hit cities in america. and what we've al

wide in illinois. watch c-span's "washington journal," live at 7:00 this morning. join the discussion. russian president vladimir putin delivered an address on the government's response to the coronavirus pandemic. he said he was extending the week long no work order to april 30. he said workers will still regular wages. speaking russian] translator: friends, my fellow russians, the week i announced as the nonworking week is coming to an end. this is a very tense schedule that we are seeing doctors, nurses, still working. all the medical staff of health institutions. they are all struggling. ward, every infectious hospital, they are on the front lines. they are treating and saving people. they prevent -- general prevention. and i'm sure that all of the russians would appreciate what we are doing. and there are other industries that are working hard. i would like to sincerely thank all of you, without any exception, and i would like to say thank you to the volunteers, all the people who are not in diffe

so my optimism is that we're solving it here in illinois. but, honestly, i don't know if we are going to be able to solve it fast enough. because i can see this curve moving. i can see us moving to the peak here in a relatively short order. and my great concern is we will run out of icu beds and we'll run out of ventilators. then we'll have people dying because -- >> what does that look like? >> unfortunately as i said, with efeed 4,000 ventilators. and i spoke with the vice president earlier today. when i said that and repeated that to him. he said, well our modems show that maybe you need 1,400 ventilators. well, i hope he's right. but i said to him, give ne 1,400 ventilators then. because we're only a couple weeks away from the peak, truly. if we don't have those ventilators delivered in the next week, we're not going to be prepared across the state for the kind of onslaught that we are going to see and again i'm looking all over the world looking for ventilators. i'm purchasing every ventilator that i can find. but we're buying them in 0

and then illinois, colorado are at about 16%. pennsylvania, which is also new to the graphic is at about 12%. next slide, please. so if we could go back one, i'm sorry, if you could go back one slide, one more, all of the states here, those are 38 of the states. 38 of our states have less than 50 cases, per 100,000. they are testing. their laboratory results are consistent with that. their positivity rate for their laboratories are less than 5%. so this is how we're tracking and triangulating both case reporting, mortality, or fatalities and also triangulating that with the laboratory. the new york metro area, new jersey, louisiana, and washington state have all tested at a rate greater than italy and spain. i know many of you are tracking that. remember many of us, we pushed out a lot of those assays at the beginning over the last two to three weeks and i want to thank admiral and hhs who have been working very closely to make sure that the states that were having an outbreak had access to all of their assays. next slide, please

pritzker of illinois. we wish you the very best. thank you. >> thank you very much, judy. >> woodruff: the number of coronavirus cases in the middle st has risen to nearly 60,000, double the amount only one week ago. special corresponden ferguson reports from beirut on systems are bracing themselvese against the pandemic. >> reporter: another victim of the coronavirus limps out of his apartment building. lebanese red cross volunteers have dressed him in protective clothing to keep the disease from spreading. his elderly mother is not allowed go with him." that's my son, my son,"he tells us." they took him to the hospital before and let him go again. maybe, maybe they know something i don't know!" its very likely she's carrying he virus. we cannot stay ar her story, or offer any comfort. she left behind in the street, watching, helpless. the lebanese red cross is the only option for people here when they need an ambulance the country's healthcare system doesn't provide the service. these firsresponders are mor >> most of our vols are

he did not mention new york, new jersey, and illinois. he may have misspoked but i'm wondering, did we play any role at all in deciding where those ventilators would go? >> we did. 100 going to new york. 100 going to new jersey. 100 going to illinois. vice president was correct, ventilators are going to d.c., delaware. ventilators are going to maryland and likely nevada. so that was the determination. it was done through the collective wisdom of our partners at fema and i will remind you, we have extraordinary partnership with fema both from the acting director peter gainer and our regional director bob fenton. it was done in collaboration with their expectations in need of what was required of the moment on the upon that data and that collaborative engagement we made those determinations working together including with the vice president and his task force. >>> hi, thank you. i'm trying to get a bit of clarity on the number of open hospital beds that there are statewide. not just the total that the system could handle. is it thousands? a

so we will keep track of, whether it is chicago, illinois or danville, illinois, or louisville, or georgetown. wherever this is coming from, and i am not suggesting that it is, but it will factor in. that is why we stay in contact. that is why we are talking how -- are tracking how methodical and aggressive we all are. up,s not just about opening it is also about ideas they may have in terms of obtaining resources that we may need. today ona lot of time the phone with the governor of ohio and kentucky, talking about the scientific project we announced yesterday. this is going to start happening around the country. we are just kind of at the front of the line. but it is going to help us .nform we are looking at the tip of the iceberg, but how big is that iceberg? so when we are able to share practices or test on much we are ohio,g, compared to kentucky, illinois, michigan, the rest of the states, those best practices matter. you have to stay in close communication. elizabeth binion, pbs. question from instructors and students in local hygiene programs. pandemic, live patient clinical examinati

so, my optimism is that we're solving it here in illinois. but honestly i don't know if we're going to be able to solve it fast enough because i can see this curve moving. i can see us moving to the peak here in relatively short order. and my great concern is that we'll run out of icu beds or run out of ventilators. >> what does that look like? >> and there are people dying because -- well, unfortunately, as i said, we need 4,000 ventilators. when i spoke to the vice president and repeated that to him, he said our models show maybe you need 1,400 ventilators. i hope he's right. i said to him give me the 1,400 ventilators then because we're only a couple of weeks away from the peak. truly if we don't have those ventilators delivered in the next week, we're not going to be prepared across the state for the kind of on sleuougt that wee going to see. i'm looking all over the world for ventilators. i'm purchasing every ventilator i can find but we're buying them in 100 lots, 200 lots. i'm taking them 50, 20, 10, wherever i can get them. we're goin

we were closed by the city of illinois on the 16th. i immediately went to the sba website at that point and applied for the disaster loans that are available because illinois had been declared a disaster at that point. spent two days pulling all those documents together. up loading everything. i received a confirmation on the 20th saying that my loan will be processed. i hear nothing. then 10 days later i get another email from the sba saying now that they're going to redo my application because i think this was after the cares act had passed but that as an incentive they would be giving businesses $10,000 grant would be within three days of finalizing the application. so of course that was a huge incentive. i redid the application. i got an approval. not approval. i meant confirmation it was processed. it is 10 days later. i don't have the $10,000. if you go to the sba website they're not talking about the $10,000 in the same way. it is between one and $10,000. and that it is not going to be paid in three days. so that is kind of my w

because illinois is still shut down. take a look at this map. illinois is opening not til next week in terms of golf courses. other states will remain shut down for a while, so sometimes people go over the border so that they can play there. michigan, by the way, just -- governor just signed a new order to open there, and wisconsin opened today golf courses as well. ceo of one of the course groups in illinois saying this is the ideal sport for social distancing. you've essentially got, and i quote him, 70 people spread over 200 acres. it's safer than going for a walk or a run. we talked to one with of those folks today who, well, he says, yeah, i'm happy to socially distance. it's not a problem. in fact, there's some side benefits too. the listen. >> this is a perfect sport for people to stay away from each other and get fresh air. >> reporter: get fresh air. i think the president said something about sun light that. 's a good thing. it's a good thing in journalism, sunlight, and golf courses and coronavirus and all that sort of thing. melissa?

illinois, colorado are at about 16%. pennsylvania, which is also new to the graphic, is at about 12%. next slide, please. if we could go back one, i'm sorry, go back one slide, one more. all of the states here, those are 38 of the states, 38 of our states have less than 50 cases per 100,000. they are testing, there laboratory results are consistent with that. their zero positivity rate for the laboratories are less than 5%. this is how we are tracking and triangulating both case reporting, mortality or fatalities, and also triangulating that with laboratory. the new york metro area, new jersey, louisiana, and a series, in washington state, have all tested at a rate greater than italy and spain. i know many of you are tracking that. remember, many of us, we pushed out a lot of those assays at the beginning over the last two to three weeks. i want to thank admiral gerard and hhs who have been working closely to make sure the states that were having an outbreak had access to all of their assays. , please. in the next one. t