Over the past 24 hours, 40% of the new cases were here in the United States and is testing ramps up.

There's a clear divide between the president and the medical community.

The president is eager to see Americans return to normal life, while the experts fear doing so too early would drastically increase the spread of the virus.

Hears and Mark Adriano.

President Trump addressed the nation on the Corona virus today and said he wants to reopen America's businesses by Easter.

It's such an important day for other reasons, but I'll make it an important day for this, too.

I would love to have the country opened up and they're just raring to go.

By Easter, the president and his crisis team maintained a social distance for his virtual town hall on his favorite network, Fox News.

Our country is not supposed to be, you know, it's that it's not built to shut down.

Our people are full of vim and vigor and energy.

They don't want to be locked into a house or an apartment or some space.

It's not for a country that we're not.

We're not built that way.

The president's suggestion that he may scale back some of the social distancing restrictions that are crippling the economy is causing an uproar.

First Order of Business is save lives, period, whatever it costs.

I think any any doctor or public health official who looks at this.

If they're being completely honest, it doesn't make sense to hear the president talk about how we're going to be scaling back restrictions at a time when we have exponential spread of this disease that's killing.

It killed 100 people in the last 24 hours.

It just really doesn't make any sense.

But some medical authorities are on board with the president's plan.

My hope, what the president is saying is let's see data every day and see where we are and then make a decision based on the data.

Let's not say in advance that it's gonna be X number of weeks and that I buy into.

We ask Dr Oz what he thinks Easter that's 19 days from now, and that would actually give us enough time.

So I think, achieved most of our goals.

And where is Dr Anthony Fauci?

The nation's number one expert on infectious diseases, was absent from his usual spot on the podium with the president Monday night, and he did not take part in the virtual town hall.

Today, this image of a milk carton with the doctor's face on it is going viral on social media there, speculation he is being shunted into the background because of disagreements with the president.

25% of all of the Corona virus cases in the US are here in New York City, the epicenter of the crisis, with authorities worried they have only half the number of hospital beds they will need in the coming weeks.

The Javits Convention Center on the West Side of Manhattan is being converted into a 1000 beds hospital on former presidential candidate Amy Cole.

Machar is speaking out today about her husband, John, who is hospitalized with Covert 19.

Today he's still on oxygen.

His the reason he was hospitalized, he had pneumonia, he was coughing up blood and his oxygen levels were dangerously low.

But she says she is not getting tested.

Why would I get a test when other people who are sick aren't getting tests.

And so that's how I approached it.

I thought I'm gonna be treated like everyone else.