NYC Tells 8 million + to be prepared to shelter in place; Trump: U.S. could "Be Rolling Again" if restrictions done right; Top Official to young Americans: Don't put loved ones at risk; Obama tweets about ER doctor's family facing coronavirus threat;

The Lead with Jake Tapper

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🗓️ 17 March 2020

⏱️ 39 minutes

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NYC Mayor To Residents: Be prepared to shelter in place; Top Official to Young Americans: It's up to you to help slow coronavirus spread by creating social distance; Top health official urges young Americans to create social distance, says "we can't do this without" them; Top health official urges young people to protect older Americans; Quarter of Americans 65+ live in three states; Top official: "Weeks" to know if we're slowing coronavirus; Top Health Official: "Several weeks or maybe longer" to know if efforts to slow coronavirus are working; More than 7 million in Northern CA ordered to shelter in place; ER doctor treating coronavirus patients forced to self-quarantine in garage, away from wife and kids; Trump shifts tone on coronavirus crisis as U.S. cases increase; DOW up 1,000+ points after WH pushes economic relief package; Trump admin working to send checks directly to Americans "Immediately" to offset economic fallout; New York Governor rolls out more coronavirus measures as Trump walks back criticism;To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	President Trump says he's angry with Americans who are not social distancing.
0:08.0	The lead starts right now.
0:10.0	The mayor of the nation's largest city tells its residents to be prepared to
0:14.3	possibly shelter in place. This as health officials say we might not know for
0:18.9	weeks if these extreme measures are working and I'll talk to a mother of three young kids one just three
0:24.5	weeks old about social distancing even distancing from her husband an ER doctor
0:29.6	treating coronavirus patients plus the president's new tone on the pandemic. What's behind it?
0:41.3	Welcome to the lead, I'm Jake Tapper. We start today with our health lead. We are all now all of us including
0:46.5	President Trump facing a new reality on coronavirus as the number of Americans confirmed
0:51.3	as infected has jumped by more than 1,200 in just the past 24 hours.
0:56.8	5,359 Americans are now confirmed infected with that number assuredly higher in reality given the significant
1:05.8	lag in testing.
1:07.8	And this sad landmark, 100 in the US are now dead from this virus.
1:13.0	Over the course of a one hour and 24 minute news conference earlier today, President
1:16.6	Trump said that if Americans follow the new guidelines, things could get back on track fast.
1:22.1	It's 15 days from yesterday.
1:25.0	We'll see what happens after that.
1:27.0	If we do this right, our country and the world frankly,
1:31.0	but our country can be rolling again pretty quickly.
1:35.7	In order for things to be rolling again, not only do Americans need of course to embrace the
1:40.9	new social distancing guidelines,
1:43.0	the Trump administration says the economy will require a major boost.
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