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- Well welcome to the 700 Club.

Resurrection Sunday could take on

a double meaning this year.

President Trump is hopingto bring businesses

shut down by the coronavirusback to life for Easter.

Well meanwhile, Congressstruck the deal last night

$2 trillion will be flowinginto the U.S. economy.

So what does this meanfor you and your family?

Dale Hurd explains.

- A vote on the massiverelief bill to help keep

the economy running is expected today.

Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin says

the president willabsolutely sign this deal.

- It's good news forfamilies all across America.

At last we have a deal.

- To all Americans Isay, help is on the way.

- [Dale] Asian markets ralliedwhen the deal was announced,

that on top of a hugpop in the Dow Tuesday,

more than 2000 points on newsan agreement was at hand.

The rescue package would send $1200 checks

to most Americans, expandunemployment benefits,

and provide a $367 billionprogram for small businesses

to keep making payroll while workers

are forced to stay home.

It also includes $500billion for larger industries

including airlines and hospitals.

The deal came in spite of a push

by House Speaker NancyPelosi to load it up

with what one Senator calleda Disney World wish list

of funding for left-wing causes.

Majority Whip James Clyburn told members

of the House Democratic Caucus,

"This is a tremendousopportunity to restructure things

"to fit our vision."

Pelosi reportedly pursueddemands in a range

of liberal policies likeunions, the Green New Deal,

student loan forgiveness,federalizing elections,

immigration, mandates onbusiness, and Obamacare.

But after a scathing response,Pelosi finally gave in.

The biggest economic stimulus package

in modern American historycomes as the president says

he wants to reopen partsof the economy by Easter.

- Easter is our timeline.

What a great timeline that would be.

- [Dale] 3.4 million peoplefiled for unemployment

last week, nearly five times more

than the highest week ever,

and Trump argued on Fox Newsthat closing down businesses

for a prolonged period couldpresent another health threat.

- You're gonna lose morepeople by putting a country

into a massive recession or depression.

You're gonna havesuicides by the thousands.

- [Dale] Economists saythe U.S. is entering

a sharp recession with some projecting

that the Gross DomesticProduct could shrink

by almost one-third in the second quarter.

But health care experts warn the country

isn't anywhere nearready to drop quarantines

and return to normal.

- No one is gonna wanna tone down things

when you see what's going onin a place like New York City.

I mean, that's just goodpublic health practice

and common sense.

- Right now, worldwide casesnumber more than 428,000.

One of the latest,Britain's Prince Charles.

In New York City theinfection rate is doubling

every three days.

And the White House saysanyone who has recently

been in New York shouldself-quarantine for 14 days.

Dale Hurd, CBN News.

- Thanks Dale.

Well this package, we're veryhappy to see this coming.

And it looks like, what is going to be,

the House is not in session,

so they're going to do what'scalled a unanimous consent

to a proposal that has been put together

by the leaders of the Senate.

And if you have one Housemember that objects,

of course they could kill it,

but it's unlikely that's going to happen.

That one person wouldprobably be ridden out

of Washington on a rail ifthey did something like that.

But in any event, it lookslike it'll go through

and it was sorely needed.

We couldn't play around.

Y'know, people are out ofwork and they don't have jobs

and they're hurting.

And so this was adesperate move and I think

it's very important.

And what I do like is what'scalled forgivable loans.

In other words you get aloan as part of this package

and if you keep your employees on for,

say a period of a year or two years,

then the loan is forgiven.

That's a good way of doing it if they can.

But there's so many people out of work,

and this was desperately needed for those

who don't have jobs.

So it's something that I wantto just encourage everybody

that God is on the throne,everything is good.

And I wanna also talk about the Scripture.

There's something that Ifound in the 91st Psalm

where God says, "I will."

And one of the things that he says I will,

"I will rescue you.

"I will be with him introuble and I will rescue.

"I will be with himand I will rescue him."

So keep that in mind.

God is going to rescue us,

and this was a rescue passage.

Well joining us now is Dr. Frank Esper.

He's a pediatric infectiousdisease specialist

at Cleveland Clinic's Children's Hospital.

And Dr. Esper, President Trump said

he'd like to see thecountry back by Easter.

You want to give a medicalopinion on that timeline?

- You know I think westill don't know exactly

how this is all gonna play out.

This virus has beenthrowin' curve balls at us

from the beginning.

But it's one thing to say though,

is that it's not justone big epidemic here

in the United States.

It's a bunch of little mini-epidemics.

What's going on in NewYork is very different

from what's going on in Kansas.

And what's going on inKansas is very different

from what's going on in Florida.

And so each one, each state,

and even each city within each state,

is all gonna have littledifferent timelines

for which we can, y'knowhave to watch the virus

very closely and try to doour best to stem that tide.

But I don't know what the future holds,

and we can only hope that things

are gonna get better very quickly.

- What about these drugs that, y'know,

it used to be that if youhad malaria you took quinine.

That was the answer for malaria.

And now they have a- It still is.

- a quinine, is that gonnabe effective you think?

- You know, the answer, the answer is that

when we're in the middle of an outbreak,

y'know, we don't build newdrugs from the ground up

to fight this new infection.

That takes years, ifnot decades sometimes.

What we do is we dust offevery medicine that we have

on our shelves.

Things that were for a virus,

and things that weren't fora virus, and we try them all.

And what we're finding is there's a bunch

of different medications,one of which being

the chloroquine that a lot of people

have been talkin' about,

that seems to have someaffect on this virus,

and has been used in the past.

Now because we had SARSabout 15 years ago,

and we had MERS about seven years ago,

we also had drugs for them.

And so we took those drugsoff the shelf and said,

"Hey, can we work, use theseagainst this coronavirus?"

There's several drugsthat are very promising.

Chloroquine is one thatwe've been using for decades,

so we know it's safe,

but we just don't knowexactly how effective it is,

or what dose we need to use it at.

That information is gonna be comin' out.

Other medicines like Remdesivirwhich is the medicine

that was directly createdfor coronaviruses,

we're gonna have early data on that

in a couple of weeks, and thenwe're gonna really find out

whether or not we havesomething that we can use

to help people who arereally, really sick.

- Well if a drug is designedfor a particular use

and it's used for another use,

is a doctor permitted todo that if he wants to?

- Yeah, yeah, welcome to pediatrics.

That's exactly what we do here.

Because nobody designs drugs for children,

and a lot of times they'redesigned for adults

and then we in pediatricshave to carefully,

cautiously and methodicallyuse medicines for children

who have very similar problemsto make sure that we have

the right doses, to makesure that they are able

to tolerate those types of medications,

we do it very carefully.

But yes, just because if adrug is allowed by the FDA

for one disease, it can beused for another disease

if you have a little bitof information suggesting

that it would work.

It can't be approvedfor that second disease

until it's gone throughall the FDA regulations,

which is what they're tryingto streamline right now.

The FDA says, you know, we need to know

how well it worksagainst this coronavirus,

but also what's the dose.

Are there new side effectsat that different dose?

These things still have to be learned.

- Well, we understand thatthe children who were being

pretty much spared theaffects of this coronavirus,

is that true or not?

- Well, I wouldn't use the term spared.

Children can get sickand we have seen children

get very, very sick.

Thankfully though, theyare not getting sick

nearly as often as adults are.

But that doesn't meanthat they're off the hook.

They can still get very, very ill,

and they can still get very sick.

But generally they tolerate this virus

much, much better than older adults.

And we just saw a greatreport that came out

from the Centers forDisease Control that showed

that young adults between20 and 44 were also

still getting very, very sick,

but they were able torecover from that sickness

much better than, y'know,adults 65 and older.

In the end, everybody needs to take care,

whether you're two yearsold or 102 years old,

you need to make surethat you care for yourself

and that you are trying to do your best

in order to prevent yourselffrom getting infected at all.

- One last thing, how the hospitals,

if there is a surge ininfection with this coronavirus,

are the hospitals able to take care of it?

- Y'know, every hospitalsystem is different.

I can certainly tell youthat here at Cleveland Clinic

we have been focusing on, y'know,

this potential surgeof patients ever since

we heard about this virusback in early January.

We have been preparing,we have been figuring out

new solutions to a possible surge.

If we need to, in 72 hourswe can open up 1000 new beds

that weren't there before.

We have mitigated, y'know,types of procedures

and surgeries that aren'tdeemed absolutely necessary

so that we can free up ventilators,

so that we can free up bed space,

we can free up all the masks.

We have been planningfor masks and everything.

So there's a lot of preparationthat goes on right now

and it continues to go on.

- Well congratulationsdoctor, thank you so much

for being with us on the 700 Club.

- It's been good.

Thank you very much.

- Thank you, Dr. Esperfrom the Cleveland Clinic,

a marvelous extra.

I mean, they're doing all kinds of tests.

Now, what is happening in thesenior living communities?

You know, the state of Washington,

this think apparently broke outin a senior living facility.

Well there's one herein Tidewater that is,

has been in lockdown and theyhave no visitors allowed.

So how can residents stayin touch with loved ones?

Mark Martin shows us onecommunity that's found

a unique solution to the lockdown.

- [Mark] The coronaviruscan lead to severe illnesses

for elderly people,

including pneumonia and possibly death.

That's why leaders here at the faith-based

senior living community,Westminster Canterbury

on Chesapeake Bay are taking no chances.

- Total lockdown.

No visitors on any level of care,

independent living, assistedliving and nursing care,

and it's simply to stop thevirus from getting on campus.

If the virus comes on campus as we've seen

from Washington State and othersenior living communities,

it can be deadly.

- With the campus being under lockdown,

signs are posted talkingabout coronavirus preventions.

For example, this one says,

"No outside visitors will be allowed entry

"to the Hoy Center atthis time due to strict

infection control prevention."

So besides a quick grocerydrop-off like this one

between a daughter and her mother,

how do those living herecommunicate with loved ones

on the outside?

Westminster Canterburyhad already developed

a video communication toolsknown as Birdsong Tablets.

Now during this time of socialdistancing and isolation,

the non-profit isoffering it free of charge

on all web browsers.

- So I'm just glad we have the technology

and it's just a no-brainer.

If you're the church, what do you do?

You serve.

We have a tool that wecan unleash that helps

connect people easily to their families

and helps distract and entertain them,

educate them, take their mind off things.

And so we're just gonna makeit available free of charge

on the web.

- There you are, hello!

- [Mark] Emily HarkinsFiler enjoys using the tool

to Skype with her grandson.

- It's a feeling thing.

I mean I, you may not have noticed it,

but I got a little tearful.

Just, there he was.

I miss him.

- [Mark] Mark Martin, CBN News.

- Well thanks to Canterbury,it's an incredible operation.

It's a huge plant, they'vegot a beautiful location

right on the Chesapeake Bay.

Ben Unkle is the head manover there and the residents

feel very well there.

They have all kinds of restaurants,

they have all kinds of physical therapy.

They have things for thepeople who are staying there,

a variety of help to getthem back from say a stroke,

all the way through to mobility.

And anyhow.

- And thank goodness theyhave the technology now

to see their loved ones.

- Isn't that great?

- And I know my parents,they're not quite up to speed

on that yet, but theywould love to have that.

- Well, what else you got?