Name: USA could be next virus epicentre - as it spreads through New York ‘like a bullet train’
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the mayor of New York City inspects an emergency warehouse and a delivery of 400 ventilators.

But in the city, where infections doubling every three days, they'll need a least 30,000 they say, to cope with the expected influx.

Sometimes people use words that are too dramatic.

If New York State is the epicenter of the pandemic in America than New York City is the epicenters epicenter 16,000 cases in Manhattan alone and nearly 200 deaths and the worst is yet to come.

You might not know it to look at Central Park with joggers and cyclists out in force, the state's governor said today he'd open up the streets to pedestrians to force them to spread out and slow the rate of infection and hospitalizations.

But the most pressing issue of all is this.

Carmakers like Ford and General Motors have stepped in to help ramp up supply, but of war that because of the late start, they want to live a new equipment until June, get ventilators and these business consortiums put together Supply Chain design Team ramped up and delivered a 30,000 ventilators is an extraordinarily difficult tasks.

They have set up emergency blood donation center.

Places like this were initially shut down to reduce the risk of spreading the disease.

But now a severe blood shortage means they've had to reopen.

It's inside, maybe, or feel like you're not able to contribute.

This is definitely a way to do it on a massive shortage of masks across California lead these women to shut down their clothes, workshop and make medical masks instead.

This is a small thing that we can do, and I think everybody feels the same way I do.

California is another hot spot, but across America the rate of growth is accelerating and likely under reported.

Some predictions have cases reaching 250,000 within two weeks, with the death toll potentially breaching 10,000 by Easter.

What a great time line that would be Just when Donald Trump envisages packed churches and businesses were raring to go just a beautiful time, a beautiful time, a beautiful time line.

I'd love to see it come even sooner, but I just think it would be a beautiful time.

Like his top infectious disease advisor looked awkwardly on when asked if he approved of the plan concluded.

You could look at a date, but you got to be very flexible and on on a literally day by day and week by week basis.

It seems very fast in eight, probably dangerously fast.

We still don't know exactly how far this disease has spread.

We don't really know the number of cases.

Testing has been so woefully inadequate that we have only a very thin grasp on state of the disease on the ground.

If that's anything to go by, it seems crazy that he's more worried about getting Wall Street down the road back up and running.

He's being advised to do it by business people who he often trusts more than economists.

But I'm almost, you know, to ah, to an economist, they're saying this is incredibly risky because of the economy of trying to engage a normal business will be huge because the public health risks are so great.

His business friends on Wall Street were certainly happy today.

Shares soared as the Senate finally passed a $2 trillion package for stricken businesses like airlines and workers struggling to make ends meet.

But even before the ink was dry on the bill, there were those who said the next one would need to be even bigger.

Well, joining me now from New York, his special pathogens expert, Dr Sire Um Edad, Doctor, Madam, thanks very much for joining us.

Just tell us, from your perspective, what is the situation in New York City right now?

Well, as you know, you know, New York City and New York State is one of the epicenters for corn, a virus disease in the United States, over 30,000 cases and county.

So certainly a very large caseload and it's only going to increase were so very early on in this current epidemic that we're facing here across the state.

We know there will be many more cases to come in the pipeline, so we are making sure people understand what it means.

Thio do social distancing because there's only two options here.

Either we overwhelm the health care system or we do long term social distancing.

And quite honestly, if we overwhelm the health care system, everybody knows the outcome is gonna be a lot more morbidity and a lot more mortality.

So people, obviously this need to understand that everyone will have a role to play, and we need to make sure that we're not creating new chains of transmission and reducing the number of cases.

So that way we can keep up with the volume.

I mean, Governor Andrew Cuomo has sounded increasingly desperate in his plea for federal government to give him more medical supplies.

It was just one of those things Time will tell.

I mean, there's forecasts being thrown out there from a state standpoint office, even across the nation.

The numbers are very daunting in terms of what to potentially expect at the peak of this current epidemic, not a lot more supplies need to be put into place more, stopping a lot more bed a CZ you know, we're always not in this alone.

There's always states across the nation in the same boat.

But everyone's working together and a collaborative format.

The governor has done an amazing job being a leader and speaking with one voice, providing the facts and the truth and what we need, what we don't have on DSO.

Everyone's working around the clock and making sure that we have a needed resource is.

And many people would say we've seen it here.

Governor Cuomo has been very direct talking about the virus ripping through the state like a bullet train.

But you have President Trump saying only yesterday that he was hoping the U.

Would be up and running for business by Easter.

I'm just wondering, from a medical standpoint, how dangerous do you regard that mixed messaging?

Well, this is obviously an outbreak, and we're in it for the long run.

So there, you know, this isn't obviously as I mentioned, you know, other types of Florence, not a light switch that you could turn on and off and think in two weeks this outbreak is gonna be over.

We need to make sure that we can continue to reassess every couple of weeks every couple of days.

But there, you know, we're not going to help us.

For hands with obviously this outbreak, this is something of a significant issue across the world, not just here in the United States.

And we need to make sure that we're putting in our all because obviously, if you start opening up the economy, start opening up, you know, and then losing so far distance and you're going to see a lot more cases and a lot more death.

And so, you know, you need to make sure that we're looking at it from a public health standpoint and not from it, just an economic standpoint.

Do you get this The sense that people on the ground across the country get the seriousness of it, that they are beginning toe socially distance.

So you know, all the response of the local level is different across the nation, and certainly I can speak for here at the state of New York.

A lot of leaders from the scientific community and even politicians speaking with one voice, making sure people understand what it means thio to do.

Social distancing and even a fascination.

Ah, lot of elected officials have been obviously harping on this name.

Message on it is up to the individual person to make sure that they're abiding by it.

And so there's a lot of messages going out in terms of no one is invincible.

This virus can infect everybody, even the healthy, even those that are obviously the elderly, those that have comb abilities.

As you can see, the United States and large portion of individuals that are actually in the ice you that are actually hospitalized are not even in that hybrids category.

They're not even over the age of 50 or have called.

Morbidity is These are healthy individuals that are young, but they're still ending up in my super long stay.

So, you know, again making sure that people understand everybody has a role to play in.

Dr Simon, Dad, thank you very much talking to us there from New York Now, Corona virus has now claimed 16,000 lives across 195 countries, and the United Nations says individual countries can't respond alone, calling for the world's richest nations to provide $2 billion to help the world's poorest survive in Italy.

Another 685 people died in 24 hours, while in Spain more than 3400 people have now died in the outbreak.

Here's our foreign affairs correspondent Jonathan Rugman.