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  • as we find ourselves in the midst of a pandemic, the likes of which we have never seen before.

  • Tonight we're gonna dig a little deeper into what we can all do.

  • Right now, the entire globe is trying to come to terms with this new way of life.

  • And as we just heard moments ago, residents in Los Angeles County must now do the same.

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  • A mayor.

  • They're announcing a sweeping, safer at home order requiring tens of millions of America's second largest city to stay home.

  • With few exceptions, he said, the order is because human life is precious and at this point, this is way beyond hot spots on the map.

  • Here in the U.

  • S.

  • The number of confirmed cases continues to rise, with more than 13,000 testing positive.

  • And here's what's being done.

  • Large sporting venues like Citi Field here in New York, transformed into makeshift triage zones in anticipation of a crush of cove in 19 patients.

  • It is an effort from coast to coast.

  • This soccer complex in Washington state also turned into a temporary hospital.

  • The entire nation of Italy is on the brink and on lock down as The death toll now surpasses that of China and the defiance spring breakers on America's beaches, initially refusing to stay indoors.

  • Now they have no choice but to get off Florida beaches forced to come to terms with this prices, as so many of us are right now.

  • And our wit Johnson leads us off with the very latest, with the number of infections in the U.

  • S soaring in New York alone by 3000 in just the last 24 hours, the mayor giving this new warning.

  • But the federal government does not do all in its power immediately.

  • There will be people who die.

  • Oh, didn't need to die, adding, This is going to be one of the most difficult moments in the city's history.

  • This as the White House is making an ambitious promise to fast track medical treatments for patients with Cove in 19 it shone very encouraging very, very encouraging early results, and we're going to be able to make that drug available almost immediately.

  • President Trump touting the malaria drug Claure Quinn or Hydroxy Claure Quinn, which doctors say have already delivered promising results in China to alleviate symptoms.

  • But right now, the FDA is still studying the drug.

  • I think it could be the game changer and maybe not and maybe not, but I think it could be based on what I see it, the White House says.

  • Another therapy for Ebola is already being tested on Americans with Cove in 19 but it's still unclear when any of these treatments will be widely available or if they're effective.

  • This as doctors and nurses have been sounding the alarm for days, saying they're running out of critical supplies.

  • The CDC even recommending using homemade masks like a bandanna or scarf.

  • As a last resort, nurses are working with inadequate protections, and that ranges from head coverings, respirators, eye shields, appropriate gowns.

  • But Vice President Pence, claiming a company that makes his vital and 95 Mass, is ramping up production to 35 million per month, adding that the government has now identified tens of thousands of ventilators as well.

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  • Doctor Steven Anderson telling us they need ventilators in Auburn, Washington We need ventilators.

  • I have ventilators this morning, but the hospital up the street from me is out of ventilators at the moment.

  • The growing pandemic now revealing the risk for young people may be worse than previously thought.

  • New numbers from the CDC showing nearly 40% of American patients hospitalized for Cove in 19 were between the ages of 20 and 54.

  • Still, thousands of college students have been descending on Florida beaches, but 29 year old Terek Sola Mon wants young people to realize just how dangerous it is.

  • He's sick with the virus and has pneumonia unable to breathe.

  • I just want to say that it can come to anyone, and it can also be severe for a lot of young people, the governor of New York today leaning on his 22 year old daughter.

  • What does the one line I used to say?

  • Risk reward toe urge young people to heed the warnings.

  • These pictures of young people on beaches, thes videos of young people saying, is my spring break.

  • You know, I'm out the party.

  • This is my time to party.

  • This is so unintelligent and reckless.

  • In New York, Governor Cuomo, now tightening the restrictions on businesses mandating that 75% of their workers must stay home and in nearby Freehold, New Jersey, an unimaginable loss for the Fusco family today, the fourth member of the tight knit family dying all within days of each other.

  • Three others hospitalized.

  • Nearly 20 family members.

  • Now on quarantine.

  • Daughter Bridget telling People magazine, I am no, I don't believe what is going on and what Johnson joins us now with such a tragedy for that family, and some of them are still in the hospital.

  • That's right, Lindsay.

  • At least three of them still in the hospital.

  • We know that 20 or more are now on self quarantine.

  • As a result, that number could go up depending on how many people they've had contact with.

  • But this is really unthinkable example of just how contagious this virus could be, especially in large groups.

  • The New York Times is also reporting that matriarch died well on a ventilator in the hospital, never knowing that our two oldest Children had already passed, really is unable to mourn properly together the deaths of their relatives and loved ones with Johnson.

  • Thank you for that.

  • Hi, everyone.

  • George Stephanopoulos here.

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as we find ourselves in the midst of a pandemic, the likes of which we have never seen before.

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