U.S. hits single-day record of at least 519 reported coronavirus deaths
Anderson Cooper 360
CNN
3.7 • 3.8K Ratings
🗓️ 31 March 2020
⏱️ 44 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | And good evening everyone. Today was the deadliest day yet in the coronavirus pandemic. According |
| 0:05.4 | to CNN Health, 519 people died in this country. That's in one day. Now to put this new number |
| 0:12.7 | in perspective, the total number of deaths from this pandemic is currently 2,948. That means |
| 0:18.3 | that about one in every six deaths happened today. The virus is clearly gaining momentum |
| 0:24.0 | and it is going to get much worse. On Sunday, Dr. Anthony Fauci told my colleague, Jake |
| 0:28.9 | Tapper that even with current stay at home orders, we could see between 100 and 200,000 deaths |
| 0:34.2 | in this country. We did caution that is a moving target and that the modeling for the virus |
| 0:39.2 | is imperfect. Still, total cases now at 160,000 and 10 and rising. More than three quarters |
| 0:47.3 | of Americans are now under stay at home orders. The governors of New York and California put |
| 0:52.3 | out a call for more health care workers today. Meanwhile, states saying they are still short |
| 0:57.6 | a wide array of medical supplies from gowns and masks to major medical equipment. Hard to believe |
| 1:03.6 | that in this country, we are short of the medical equipment, even hospital gowns and supplies |
| 1:09.3 | and masks that doctors and nurses so desperately need. It's unimaginable. This morning on CNN, |
| 1:15.5 | the lieutenant governor for Louisiana said they may soon run out of ventilators as early |
| 1:19.9 | as this weekend. President Trump had new announcements today on testing both in increase |
| 1:24.6 | in the amount and speed of the testing. We'll have more on that tonight. But as always, |
| 1:29.4 | we want to keep our eyes first on the public health and those fighting to preserve it on |
| 1:34.1 | the front lines. Erica Hill joins us first from New York City with the latest. Erica, you're |
| 1:39.6 | in Central Park, an extraordinary scene there today, a field hospital being set up in New |
| 1:46.6 | York Central Park. Yeah, it's a little tough to wrap your head around. Just behind me, |
| 1:52.0 | it's a little dark. You can't see it at this hour, but I was in those tents earlier. And |
| 1:56.1 | this is just one of a number of facilities that is either being built or converted in New |
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