I JUST DON'T THINK WE NEED TO
MAKE A PROJECTION WHEN IT'S
SUCH A MOVING TARGET THAT YOU
CAN SO EASILY BE WRONG.
JOINING ME NOW IS DOCTOR
EILEEN MARTY, AN INFECTIOUS
DISEASE EXPERT WITH FIU.
IS IT REALLY GOING TO GET TO
THAT POINT?
IN THE ORIGINAL MODELS, IF
WE HAD NOT APPLIED ANY OF THE
PUBLIC HEALTH MEASURES, WE
WOULD BE LOSING OVER 1 MILLION
PEOPLE.
SO WE ARE DOWN TO 200,000
BECAUSE OF THE CURRENT LEVEL OF
PUBLIC HEALTH MEASURES BEING
APPLIED.
BUT WE COULD GET LOWER THAN
THAT.
WE COULD HAVE LESS DEATH IF WE
APPLIED ALL OF THE AVAILABLE
PUBLIC HEALTH MEASURES.
FLORIDA NOW HAS MORE THAN
4200 CASES OF PEOPLE, 65 AND
OLDER HAVE BEEN TOLD TO STAY AT
HOME.
MOST OF THOSE CASES ARE
ACTUALLY IN THE 45 TO 54 RANGE
AND WE ARE SEEING THE SAME
NUMBER OF CASES IN THE 25 TO 34
DEMO AS WE ARE IN THE 65 TO 74
DEMO. WHAT DO YOU THINK YOUNG
PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW WITH ALL OF
THIS DATA?
I WOULD START WITH THE
REALITY, WHICH IS BECAUSE THE
WAY THE INFORMATION WAS PROVIDED
, THE PEOPLE 65 AND OLDER TO
GET THE HEART AND IMMEDIATELY
CURB A LOT OF ACTIVITIES AND
STARTED TAKING ACTIONS THAT
WOULD BENEFIT THEIR SURVIVAL.
WHEREAS THE INFORMATION, AS IT
WAS ORIGINALLY BROADCAST, LED
THE YOUNGER PEOPLE TO THINK
THEY WERE SOMEHOW IMMUNE.
WHICH NO ONE IS IMMUNE FROM
THIS VIRUS.
YESTERDAY WAS OUR BIGGEST
JUMP SO FAR, 737 NEW CASES IN
FLORIDA.
IS THIS SOLELY BECAUSE OUR
TESTING IS AVAILABLE AND THAT'S
WHY THESE NUMBERS ARE GOING UP?
OR DO YOU THINK THE VIRUS IS
STILL SPREADING RIGHT NOW? EVEN
THOUGH WE ARE SEEING A LOT OF
PEOPLE SOCIAL DISTANCING AND
STAYING AT HOME AND A LOT OF
CURFEWS BEING PUT IN PLACE,
LIKE IN THE CITY OF MIAMI.
RAY, BUT PEOPLE DON'T
UNDERSTAND, THE ENTIRE THING
HAS A LAG TIME. SO IT TAKES
TIME BETWEEN WHEN YOU ARE
INFECTED AND WHEN YOU SHOW
SYMPTOMS AND WHEN YOU GET
TESTED AND WHEN YOU GET YOUR
RESULT.
IT IS PARTIALLY THE TESTING,
BUT THE TRUTH IS, WE ARE STILL
SEEING AN INCREASE IN CASES
BECAUSE OF WHEN THE PUBLIC
HEALTH MEASURES WERE
INSTIGATED.
REMEMBER, WE ARE STILL NOT
DOING ALL OF THE PUBLIC HEALTH
MEASURES WE SHOULD BE.
WHAT ELSE YOU THINK WE CAN
DO AT THIS POINT?
I KNOW A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE
CALLING FOR FLORIDA GOVERNOR
RON DESANTIS TO SHUT THE STATE
DOWN THE WAY OTHER STATES LIKE
NEW YORK AND CALIFORNIA HAVE.
QUITE SIMPLY CHINA SHOWED
US, KOREA SHOWED US, SINGAPORE
SHOWED US.
WE HAVE TO IDENTIFY EVERY CASE.
WE CAN'T JUST TEST THE MOST
SEVERE CASES OR THE ONES THAT
ARE ABSOLUTELY LIKELY TO HAVE
IT.
WE ARE LIKELY TO IDENTIFY EVERY
CASE, ISOLATE EVERY CASE, TEST
EVERY CASE AND TEST EVERY
SINGLE CONTACT OF EVERY CASE.
THE OTHER THING WE'RE DOING
WRONG AS WE KEEP SENDING PEOPLE
HOME WHO HAVE THESE MILDER CASES
, WHERE THERE ARE OTHER FAMILY
MEMBERS, SO THE OTHER FAMILY
MEMBERS ALMOST INVARIABLY WIND
UP INCUBATING AND GETTING SICK,
SO THAT'S A BIG PROBLEM.
AND EVEN THOUGH THERE IS A
REALLY STRICT CRITERIA AT MOST
OF THOSE TESTING SITES FOR WHO
CAN ACTUALLY GET A TEST, THE
U.S. IS STILL LEADING THE WORLD
RIGHT NOW AND CONFIRMED
CORONAVIRUS CASES.
A LOT OF PEOPLE SAY YEAH WE
HAVE A BIGGER POPULATION, BUT
CHINA HAS FOUR TIMES AS MANY
PEOPLE AS WE DO AND NOW WE ARE
SEEING MORE CASES IN THAT
COUNTRY WHERE THE VIRUS
ORIGINATED.
YEAH COME ALMOST TWICE AS
MANY.
SO WE ARE REALLY SOARING IN OUR
CASES BECAUSE WE DRAG OUR FEET,
THAT'S ONE OF THE REASONS. WE
THEN TAKE IT AS SERIOUSLY AS WE
SHOULD HAVE AT MANY LEVELS OF
GOVERNMENT.
THE MEDIA. NOT YOU, BUT OTHER
MEDIA, DOWNPLAY THIS
ENORMOUSLY, WHICH WAS VERY,
VERY UNFORTUNATE.
THE MISINFORMATION THAT GOT OUT
IN SOCIAL MEDIA AS WELL, ALL OF
THAT, THE PROBLEMS WE HAD WITH
OUR TESTING PROTOCOL AND THEN
OUR WAY OF LIFE, OUR INDEPENDENT
WAY OF LIFE, WHICH IS SUCH A
WONDERFUL THING, NORMALLY, IS
AGAINST US RIGHT NOW. AND WE
ARE NOT USING ALL THE TOOLS.
WE ARE SIMPLY NOT USING ALL THE
TOOLS THAT WE HAVE TO OUR
DISPOSAL TO GET THIS OVER WITH.
JUST LESS THAN AN HOUR AGO
PRESIDENT TRUMP ANNOUNCED THAT
THERE WILL NOW BE NEW TESTS FOR
THE CORONAVIRUS THAT WILL GIVE
YOU RESULTS IN JUST FIVE
MINUTES.
THIS JUST COMING INTO OUR
NEWSROOM, THE PRESIDENT ALSO