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  • laborers lineup coffins along trenches in New York City's Heart Island, a desolate strip of land accessed only by boat and use since the 19th century to bury those with no known next of kin.

  • Normally, 25 bodies were laid to rest here each week.

  • But since the covert outbreak gripped New York, they're burying almost that many a day.

  • It's normally manned by jail inmates, but even they can't work now after an outbreak of the disease at the city's main prison.

  • And this is why they need it.

  • Dead bodies being wheeled in procession from a hospital in Brooklyn.

  • As across New York, the death toll from Kobe 19 continues to rise.

  • I think the phrase we know what we signed up for because as much as we may have known we didn't know this way, haven't seen this.

  • No one has seen this, Um, but we know why we signed up for this.

  • Across New York, the rate of hospitalizations is falling, giving a glimmer of hope the worst could be over.

  • That's certainly how President Trump wants to view the national picture.

  • Pretty sure we're at the top of the hill, and hopefully we're going to be opening up.

  • We could go opening very, very, very, very soon.

  • I hope the markets are hoping that's the case, preferring to listen to an optimistic president than look at the mounting millions of job losses.

  • American people want to get back to work.

  • That's what they do best.

  • Fox News is listening as well and repeating the president's message to the party faithful.

  • Mass unemployment is almost certain to cause far more harm, including physical harm to the average family than this disease.

  • But one of President Trump's most trusted advisers warned yesterday that now isn't the time to loosen restrictions.

  • What we are doing is working, and therefore we need to continue to do it.

  • I know I sound like a broken record.

  • That's good.

  • I want to sound like a broken record.

  • Let's just keep doing it.

  • The governor of New York agrees.

  • Today he used a video of social media posts showing New Yorkers living in lock down to urge them to stay strong and stay put.

  • All they're asking us to do, it's not that that's why nationally, before the rules of relaxed, there's still a big push to Testa's many people as possible even in places like California, where the virus is more under control.

  • A different type of testing at this New York hospital, where 35 critically ill patients have been given blood from people who have successfully recovered from Cove in 19 in the hope their antibodies may help the sick fight the disease.

  • Luckily for this patient in Georgia, it didn't come to that.

  • As Mrs Jones became the first patient to recover enough to leave intensive care, staff took a moment to line the corridors and cheer her on her way.

laborers lineup coffins along trenches in New York City's Heart Island, a desolate strip of land accessed only by boat and use since the 19th century to bury those with no known next of kin.

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