British Prime Minister Boris Johnson handing over control of the government here in the U.

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Expectations.

This will be the toughest week yet.

You're on the front lines inside in New York City hospital, ground zero for this pandemic.

While other hot spots, including New Orleans, continue to flare.

That city has some of the highest cove in 19 death rates anywhere.

And yet we continue to see images of packed public places.

In rare instances.

Churches still holding service, some refusing to realize flattening the curve requires cooperation from a soul.

Good evening, everyone.

I'm Lindsay Davis.

Thank you so much for streaming with us.

Well, this is the week it is being compared to Pearl Harbor, D Day and 9 11 While top officials warn that we will see the worst of the pandemic this week, it is also Holy Week, and regardless of your religion or belief system in the midst of fear, there is hope here in hard hit New York.

Both the governor and mayor of New York City, suggests it is possible we're starting to flatten the curve.

The U.

S death toll now tops 10,000.

And then there's this astounding number in New York state this weekend, a victim of Corona virus died every 2.5 minutes.

We begin here in New York City, the epicenter of this worldwide pandemic.

Governor Cuomo's message today the curve might be flattening, But don't let down your guard.

ABC News Live anchor Tom Thomas leads us off tonight with a look at the battle being waged inside hospitals across this city tonight, a look inside the cavernous Javits Convention Center in Manhattan.

Nowthe largest hospital in the nation.

Teams of military doctors taking in patients checking temperatures, monitoring ventilators.

But New York Governor Andrew Cuomo says even this will not be enough.

He's calling for the Navy hospital ship the Comfort to start accepting covert cases.

Today there are only about 40 patients of any kind on the massive ship.

I'm going to call the president this afternoon and ask him to shift the comfort from non co vid to covert, The surgeon general says.

The U.

S.

Is now entering the period.

We have all been dreading.

The next week is going to be our Pearl Harbor moment.

It's going to be our 9 11 moment.

It's gonna be the hardest moment for many Americans in their entire lives.

In New York state, more than 4700 have died from the Corona virus.

It's very hard to see the number of deaths were having.

It's frightening, and it's disturbing that amount of loss.

Still, today, a glimmer of hope.

The death rate here may be slowing the rigorous social distancing possibly paying off.

The governor say New York is nearing the apex and the curve, maybe flattening total number of hospitalizations or down the ice.

You admissions air down and the daily intubation zehr down those a roll.

Good signs.

But Cuomo also warning, we get reckless.

Uh, we change or we're not compliant on social distancing.

You will see those numbers go up again.

But even so, hospitals here are overwhelmed, pushed a capacity and beyond pretty much the entire emergency departments of hot sound of this trial, Dr John Marshall took ABC News inside my monitors hospital in Brooklyn.

Ventilator update for the morning 50.

Right now, the doctor's team now includes volunteers from a SW far away is Utah.

We're working on the assumption it almost every picture from at this point, one of the health care workers on the front lines.

Nurse riff commence Her day starts at 5 a.m. Managing other nurses and caring for endless patients work that stresses the mind, body and soul.

Has a patient with covert ask you?

Am I gonna die?

Absolutely.

Absolutely.

And it's scary.

I mean, we don't know the answers across the country off battle to save lives This is Dr Ali Raja in Boston.

Just a couple of days ago, in 18 hour shift, I intubated 10 patients, which is more than I've ever done it.

One shift in my entire life to Dr Michael Cuba in New Orleans.

The only mistake we could make as a as a department in the emergency room or a hospital or health system in this region is to be under underprepared and things to continue to get worse.

New Jersey today reaching a grim milestone, 1000 deaths.

This is not over.

And not by a long, sharp ABC.

Stephanie Ramos out with E.

M.

T s in Teaneck, New Jersey, working around the clock, this crude just picked up a person who has tested positive for Pope in 19.

They tell me they're how that person is having some trouble breathing.

Right now.

They're taking them to the hospital.

But they say they respond to calls like this every couple of minutes.

Throughout the day.

Each case is different.

In Iowa City, Irena Yoder brought her 18 year old son, Dmitri, to the E.

R.

I wouldn't let anything happen to my son.

We're fighting right now for him.

Twice they went, and twice Dmitri was admitted, his mother says Doctor sent him home, not wanting him to possibly infect other patients there.

She says he later tested positive, but slowly he got better.

I'm just glad to be recovering finally, and Tom Yama joins us now from Brooklyn.

So Tom Howard, doctors and nurses of the Brooklyn Hospital, describing the situation that's playing out in front of them every day.

You know, Lindsay, it stay.

Say it's like something they've never seen before.

One doctor here, the head of the surgery department, says it's both inspiring and terrifying.

I asked him what he means.

He says it's inspiring to see his workers, his staff come here 30 days without a day off and treat endless patients.

But he says it's terrifying because of the way this virus attacks some people and how in tax So quickly.

Lindsay.

Terrifying I could imagine.

In tonight, Governor Cuomo announced that the president agreed to make additional hospital beds available to treat Kobe 19 patients.

Yeah, that's right.

You gotta remember the comfort has 1000 beds in that naval hospital ship.

But when we checked early today, there were only about 40 patients.

So Governor Cuomo made it crystal clear.

They need that ship to be able to see Kobe.

19 patients.

The president approved it.

The president also saying patients from New Jersey will also be brought in.

So that's great for both states.

But, Lindsay, we have to remember the ship came here with a different mission to treat non covert 19 patients.

They're gonna have to adapt like so many across this country who are now meeting this challenge.

Tommy Thomas for us in Brooklyn, New York, tonight.

Thanks, Tom.

And now to the hot zone that is New Orleans, the city with the highest death rate in the country, streets typically vibrant with music and tourists empty tonight.

Meantime, the hospitals are filled and rapidly running out of supplies.

15 years after Hurricane Katrina, residents are hunkered down once again in their homes, weathering a radically different storm.

Our markets more reports.

The narrow streets of New Orleans are empty.

Boards block the sun rays that ordinarily would shine right into the now shuttered stores and shops here, the balconies above, lonely and the unmistakable sound of New Orleans, the birthplace of jazz, silenced.

It was much like this 15 years ago when Mother Nature's fury came in the form of Hurricane Katrina.

Today, the city is enduring a different kind of storm, this one invisible but no less crippling nor vicious.

And the health care workers on the front line of the raging war against Kobe, 19 are embroiled in the struggles of a city on the precipice of catastrophe once again.

And each day you think, OK, it's the hurricane here.

Is this it?

And you don't know if it this is it, and it's gonna be a Category three or if it's coming and it's gonna turn into a five or way, don't know.

Louisiana is one of the epicenters of the global pandemic for than 14,000 cases reported so far across the state, most of them right here in New Orleans, this city known for its charm and attitude.

The virus has killed at least 512 people statewide, the death toll up 38% over the weekend.

One economics professor telling the Wall Street Journal The virus is killing 38 out of every 100,000 people in New Orleans and is nearly twice as much as New York City.

And in their fight to save lives.

Health care workers one of the potential for the hospital system to be overwhelmed by cases.

It's the reason the city's mayor in Louisiana's governor have ordered residents to stay home at this time.

We need you to stay at home.

The obvious question is why, why so many cases in Louisiana and this remarkable city?

Health officials fear that Mardi Gras that brought thousands of people right here to Bourbon Street may have helped to spread this highly contagious virus.

Now the tourism industry the city depends on for about 240,000 jobs is left stagnant and life in the Big Easy is getting harder every day.

Being inside as much as possible has been, unfortunately, right.

Middle of crawfish season normally, when you're going to boils all the time, But as the local economy, like in so many other cities, hemorrhages jobs, doctors at ash no hospitals describe an onslaught of Corona virus cases.

Every single icy you bet at their West Bank hospital is taken.

The patients all suffering from Cove it 19 the convention center once again being transformed to take care of the needy, a virus that discriminates neither by race nor age.

We've intubated 23 year olds.

We've put, uh, put 27 year olds on the ventilator.

One of the sickest people I've seen since this all began was the nicest 42 year old manager of a hotel downtown.

And he just came in feeling kind of tired, just tired, Doc.

I just feel tired.

And he was on a ventilator within about 24 hours, 24 hours, and as they meet the challenge every day, they're faced with the real possibility that they themselves could get infected.

It's a scary time for everybody.

I think that it's scary because we are seeing so many of our patients get so sick.

It's scary because we recognize that we made ourselves get sick.

And it's even scarier knowing that our friends and our family and our loved ones have the potential of getting sick as well.

The enormity of it all is exhausting.

Often working 14 hour days.

The losses are justice taxing.

Seeing the numbers of patients that are getting so sick so quickly does impact us both both physically and emotionally.

You know, it's it's psychologically draining at times.

But once again we understand that that is our duty.

And so I think that we in health care are going to continue to press on.

We're gonna fight the fight.

They certainly know about fighting in this city.

After having endured one of the most devastating storms in recent memory, I think it's actually worse than Katrina.

Given the uncertainty given the nature of how long will this go on the acuity of patients that we're seeing in our hospital?

It certainly is a big challenge for nurses, a big challenge for a physician, but the doctors and nurses keep coming back and much like 15 years ago, when the music stopped and the streets emptied, the flood waters did recede.

Many of the shops reopened and life returned.

A new find threatens the city once again, but the belief here is this, too.

Show Pass.

Marcus Moore, ABC News, New Orleans, Our thanks to Marcus for that report.

And as we mentioned at the top of the show, some stunning news from overseas.

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson is now in intensive care after being hospitalized for Corona virus.

Ah spokesman said that his condition has worsened and he was admitted this evening.

Local time.

ABC is James Longman has the latest from London tonight.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson, now in intensive care less than 24 hours after being hospitalized in his battle with Corona virus.

Just hearing at this moment that the prime minister has been taken into on intensive care unit Downing Street, saying Johnson's condition has worsened over the course of this afternoon and he's been moved to the i c.

U.

On the advice of his medical team.

Officials say the 55 year old prime minister was conscious and did not require a ventilator at the moment, but was moved as a precaution.

In case he did, Johnson asked Britain's foreign secretary, Dominic Raab, to temporarily take over his duties while he's hospitalized.

President Trump offering support tonight to his ally.

We're very saddened to hear that he was taken into intensive care this afternoon, a little while ago and, uh, Americans aerial praying for his recovery.

But when you get brought into intensive care, that gets very, very serious with this particular disease.

Just hours earlier, Johnson was tweeting that he was in good spirits, adding, I went for some routine tests and I'm still experiencing Corona virus symptoms.

And it was just three days ago he was posting from his home.

Asshole Have a temperature.

The stunning turn for Johnson comes as more than 50,000 covert 19 cases have been confirmed in Britain over 5000 now dead the Corona virus crisis, prompting the queen to make just her fifth address to the nation outside her annual Christmas Day message.

We should take comfort that while we may have more still to endure, better days will return.

We will be with our friends again.

We will be with our families again.

We will meet again those last words inspired by lyrics from a World War two era song evoking Britain's fighting spirit.

And James joins me Now live outside of the hospital where Johnson is right now.

James.

We know he's 55 years old, but it's unclear if he had any underlying conditions.

We do know that his fiance is seven months pregnant, and she's experiencing some symptoms as well.

Yeah, it's a very worrying time, I think, for her and for the country.