Tonight we're one on one with California's governor, and ABC is Matt Gutman, now from California.

Tonight, the virus continues to tear through the ranks of frontline workers.

I see you nurse Laurie's Anderson, the latest casualty.

The 46 year old mother of two, she'd been tirelessly treating Cove in 19 patients in New Orleans.

They're not trying to be superheroes.

They run towards, you know, tragedy.

Like when everyone else runs opposite way in some states upto one in five covert positive patients, our health care workers.

We've been following up with Dr Ed Latham for two weeks now.

When I'm coming home, I can take a deep breath and I can fill my lungs.

And and then all I want to do is cry because I don't know what else to do with the emotion anymore.

In Detroit, doctors say they are already juggling those lifesaving ventilators.

We are running out of ventilators, and I feel like we're playing musical chairs with the ventilators we have on right now that as the scramble for supplies accelerates.

So what do you say?

The health care workers adoring trash back.

So they're not getting enough.

It's unacceptable that they are, and all I can say is we hear you.

Which is why California's governor, Gavin Newsom, is telling us the state is buying as much pp as it can on the open market.

Are you finding yourself bidding against other governors and other states for peopIe eat?

No questions were a bit against the federal government, but that said, we also are one of the largest purchasers in the world.

We're the largest economy in the world on as a consequence, weekend out bid Most what states like California are not doing not waiting around for someone on a white horse to come save the day, either Federal government.

And yet every day flickers of hope that gauntlet of cheerleaders at Phoebe Putney Memorial in Georgia, their second patient off the ventilator.

We love seeing that image from Georgia today, Mac, up in with us tonight from California.

You're there in Sacramento, and I know that that state is scrambling to find that protective gear you just reported on for health care.

Workers are also facing another problem.

A huge leg and testing.

And it is a huge lag.

David the governor telling me it takes anywhere from 6 to 12 days to get results from testing, He says They're 60,000 people in this state right now.

Still awaiting results, something he says is simply unacceptable.

David.

All right, Matt.

Thank you again.

T.

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