with brianna keilar. i'll see you later tonight. >> announcer: this is cnn breaking news. welcome to cnn continuing coverage of the coronavirus pandemic. i'm brianna keilar in washington. and we have breaking news this afternoon. business leaders warning president trump today that coronavirus testing needs to be ramped up and widespread before anyone can return to work. sources tell cnn this. this was part of the first meeting of president trump's business council first reported by the "wall street journal" and signals some of the major hurdles that the president will face as he pushes to reopen the economy by may 1st. let's go to kaitlan collins live at the white house. kaitlan, tell us what else you're learning about this, what is a warning to the president. >> reporter: this is a first of a series of calls that trump is going to have today and on this call it was executives from banking, financial, hospitality services, restaurant, retail

stores and they had a message that the president before people are going to feel comfortable going back to establishments they're going to have to ramp up testing in the united states. that is the message that came through to the president in the call that we're told lasted about an hour and a half and they had extensive discussions where they were praising the president in his efforts so far but made clear that they need to see testing ramped up before they reopen the country. which is the primary reason the president is gathering business leaders together. you saw him yesterday list off about 200 people, some of them executives, critics of the president, some of them his friends that he said is part of the council that is focused on reopening the country. though it is different than what officials had imagined where they thought it would be a much smaller group. really this is a much larger group that we're seeing play out because there were dozens of people on this call and that is just the first of four calls that the president is scheduled to have today. but this is notable.

because for days the president has been insisting that testing is the best in the u.s. than anywhere else in the world and something we know is not true and he said he's not hearing concerns any more about testing and clearly today on the call that is one of the first things the executives wanted to bring up with the president. so a reality check as he moves forward with the plan of reopening the country as we're told he's still aiming to do by may 1st, a little bit starting that day. so the question going forward is does this change the president's thinking on this because this narrows what public health experts have been telling the president, they're not sure the testing is at the level it needs to be by may 1st. >> and is he a general without an army saying that the economy reopen and then businesses say no, we're not going to. kaitlan, did this get through to him? did he respond to this? >> reporter: it is not clear. they said the president was taking a leading role on the call and talking about testing and what they're doing moving

forward. but the question is, of course, does that change his thinking on this and is he listening and adjusting to factor into his decision-making because he's been saying he'll listen to the health experts but we know his allies have said listen to the business leaders and the executives and what they are telling because they want to get the country reopened but make sure they have the testing ready to do that first. so the question that we'll be asking the president this afternoon at briefing is whether or not this is a registered to him and if business executives are hesitant to move forward, that is a factor in the decision making process. it is not up to the president to open these businesses and open these states back up. it is going to be up to the people who own the businesses and the restaurants and retail stores and to the consumers and if they feel comfortable going into these places. that is going to be when you see the country reopen. >> indeed. kaitlan collins at the white house. thank you for that report. the fda approving two more

antibody tests that could detect if people had been infected with the novel coronavirus. this is abbott laboratories announcing the release of their own antibody test that was not approved by the fda. i want to bring in cnn drew givin. and drew, up until now you had a lot of the antibody tests that have not worked or as one lab official said they're just crappy tests. a technical term that we could relate to. so why were they allowed to be sold and where are we on getting the antibody tests that work. >> the first batch of tests, the fda relaxed the rules, allowed the tests to go out on the market as long as they didn't say that they have any kind of fda approval or emergency use approval but they did turn out to be crappy tests and just weren't responsive to what we need to know which is for sure did i or did i not have coronavirus. so we now have three fda approved under emergency use authorization. we a bunch more in the pipeline.

those are going to be coming out probably in the next week or so. actually the national cancer institute running tests on those tests to see the validity. it is very important to determine, especially for those people who have had novel coronavirus, recovered from it, and perhaps, we don't know for sure, but it is assumed, would have immunity. those are people that you won't have to retest over and over again to get them to work. so that is where we stand on the antibody testing right now. really in the initial stages. >> there is a new cnn analysis, drew, that found that corporate testing of coronavirus de -- decreased. >> there are so many theories on why it declined. it could be that social distancing is working and because we've only been testing the sickest of the sick with that level of sick

people being reduced the testing is not being done. the big commercial labs tell us they have the capacity, they're just seeing their orders reduced. now that contradicts local public labs and state labs that are still having trouble getting swaps, reagent supplies and other things to run the tests. but overall, you could still get tests, it is just for a variety of reasons these tests have overall reduced in the last couple of days. >> it is' i have interesting trend that we've seen in our analysis. drew griffin, thank you for your report. let's talk about this now with a cnn analyst dr. amy compton phillips. what is your reaction to seeing this decline in testing? do you have a sense of whether this is a positive or a negative indicator? >> well, i think it is actually a positive in the sense that we had put artificial constraints on the number of those tests going into the commercial labs. and that they were really for --

as drew said the sickest of the sick patients. so people in the hospital or under suspicion and needing to have their care determined by a positive or negative test. so because we put the artificial constraints on it, it is a sign that we're probably over in most parts of the country the peak of the wave and the sickest of the sick are starting to go down. that is great. now we open up the bottleneck and allowing more people to get tested for lesser symptoms or even for screening. >> and that's the thing is, there just aren't the tests needed. we just heard from business leaders that if you want us to reopen, people need to be able to test. what is going on with the testing? where are we with that? >> we are -- we are better than we have been and not anywhere near where we need to be with broadly available testing for anybody on demand. and the whole rational behind that is the tests are like cars,

they're re-agents. the tools are like the gas that goes in the car and those re-agents are the supply chain constraint. we rapidly shot up the number of these kind of tests that are needed across the globe and the supply chain hasn't caught up. it is kind of like ppe, it takes a while for the supply chain to catch up for this newly-manufactured demand. >> and i want to talk to you about a study that was just released in the nature medicine journal and it found, this may be the issue of why testing is so important, that people may be most infectious before they even show symptoms. so as we're looking now, we're looking ahead to easing restrictions, i think a lot of places are still far off but trying to come up with plans. how could people protect themselves and others if there may be no symptoms. >> well, and that is exactly why broad testing is needed. particularly if you think about the highest risk people and that is health care workers and first

responders and grocery store clerks and bus drivers, people that have had to be out in the public, those folks all need to be screened and they need to be screened regularly. if their immune and have antibodies, great, maybe they don't need ongoing screening but other wise they need screening because they could be the asymptomatic carrier and continue to spread the virus to others unless they know that they have it. and how do we at least get everybody screened in the highest risk professions and then start moving out beyond that. but right now we don't even have that supply for those highest risk professions. >> abbott laboratories has announced they're going to release a non-fda approved antibody test. is that a test that you personally would be confident in without having fda approval? >> i think that it's really critical to make sure that we're doing the testing for the appropriate sars co-v 2 antibody

and that is why we look to fda approval to certify that are we testing for the right coronavirus. there is other cousin coronaviruses that cause colds and the big risk is are we testing for the cousin coronaviruses or are we testing for sars co-v 2, the covid coronavirus. and abbott is a reputable lab. but you heard junk science labs out there. my presumption is the abbott test is probably very valid. but i will feel even more confident when something is fda approved. >> i want to ask you, there is a lot of scientists who say if there is no vaccine, americans could be practicing social distancing until 2022. what is your assessment. >> my assessment is that it's going to be gradually reopened and so we're not going to go away from valid hand washing, highly -- it is probably a while

before we're comfortable shaking hands again and that might be until we get a vaccine. but between now and then, we definitely will be doing some degree of being out into our communities again, going back to work again. but it is going to be with some constraints and that is making sure that we're staying slightly more separate and less touchy feely than in the past. >> the new normal. dr. amy compton phillips, thank you so much. >> thank you. new york governor just issued a new order for every new yorker going out of their home then how major league baseball is playing a role in a key study to determine who has been exposed to the virus. eds a cfp®- confident financial plans, calming financial plans, complete financial plans. they're all possible with a cfp® professional. find yours at letsmakeaplan.org.

welcome back to cnn. in hard-hit new york, governor cuomo said the stress on the health care system is stabilizing. the three-day average of hospitalizations and admission news the intensive care unit are down. but he said new york is in no way out of the woods. erica hill is joining us now from new york city. and erica, as the governor there, he's ordering all new yorkers who go out in public to have their nose and their mouth covered when they can't maintain social distancing. tell us about this decision. >> reporter: yeah, that's right. he announced an executive order for everyone in new york state. as you point out, when they can't maintain social distancing, as he said if you're out for a walk and you're by yourself and the only person on street, you don't have to have your face covered but if you cross the street and someone is in close proximity to you, less than that six foot social distancing, then you need to have your face covered. new yorkers have three days to prepare themselves before that order going into effect. the governor also talking today

about when there could be an easing of some measures. as everyone taurks about reopening the economy, business, schools, the state. here is his take. >> when is this over? i say, personal opinion, it's over when we have a vaccine. s it over when people know i'm 100% safe and i don't have to worry about this. when does that happen? when we have a vaccine. when do we have a vaccine? 12 to 18 months. >> reporter: sounds like an easy solution the governor points out there that that vaccine is of course still in development and still likely at very least a year away, brianna. >> and he said, erica, that hes had a blueprint for a phased reopening in new york state but this can't be implemented until more testing is done. this is the refrain we're hearing from so many places including business leaders talking to president trump. tell us about what he said. >> reporter: you're right. we've heard over and over again from the governor here in new

york, governor cuomo saying it is not about the diagnostic testing. that is still important and we should point out new jersey openk the first saliva testing site today but it is the antibody testing. and he has said we know that the new york state department of health has an antibody test, they are ramping up testing but he has millions of people in the state of new york who need to go back to work and he stressed without the tests to know who may have had this, but was perhaps asymptomatic and to know who has hopefully some form of immunity, he can't move forward and stresses the federal government needs to move in here so that we could scale it up quickly. >> erica, thank you so much. now today the irs said that the $1,200 stimulus checks are going out in record time. i want to bring in business anchor julia chatterley. and direct deposit money may be going out ahead of schedule but the president's signature is impacting the process to issue paper checks. what is going on here. >> let me try to explain.

for the first time ever a u.s. president is having his signature placed on irs checks going out to people. it's never happened before. it is an election year after all. but politics aside, there are criticisms coming even within the irs that are saying this is going to create delays because the computer system needs to be updated. the treasury is denying that saying the paper checks will go out next week and that is ahead of schedule. on the other point to make here and the treasury is talking about it if you go back ten years to the financial crisis, they made 800,000 payments to people in around two months. what we've seen with the help of direct deposit is 18 million payments made in just two and a half weeks. that's impressive however you look at it. >> and, julia, the irs launched a new portal today so americans could track the stimulus check but social media is flooding

with complaints this is not working. >> they're pointing to overwhelming demand. it was two days early. it was meant to be up and running on friday so perhaps they should have waited. but millions of people trying to get online to update payment information with direct deposit details. it is also people just trying to get a sense of when they're going to get their money. the only message now is to people, keep trying. >> and today there was this dose of reality, retail sales down 8%, almost 9%. this is the worst drop on record, julia. a number that drives home. people are buying what they need right now. certainly not what they want. >> no. this is what spending collapse looks like to your point, these numbers show an overwhelming tightening, people aren't spending so much but they are buying essentials, medicines and hoarding groceries and buying liquor, we weren't buying nonessentials like cars of course and clothes and visiting

bars. but the bottom line for this number is we only spent half of the month of march in a lockdown situation, we're going to do the whole month in april it looks like. so as bad as this number looks, brianna, i think april is going to be a lot worse and it circles back so why people need these checks and money an they need it now. >> julia chatterley, thank you so much. california governor just laid out his plans to start reopening the state. the mayor of san francisco will weigh in on how she's preparing to implement the plan next. ♪

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california governor gavin newsom announced a six-part road map for reopening the state giving a window into what life may look like when things return to normalcy. getting your temperature taken before entering a restaurant, waiters in masks and disposable masks on the restaurant front. joining me is mayor london breed. thank you for joining us. as a large city there in california and you've gotten credit for the way san francisco has handled this pandemic,

shutting down and trying to really flatten that curve. i wonder, let's talk about the timeline in just a moment, but first what would reopening look like? what would life look like in san francisco as you move toward implementing this plan? >> well it definitely won't be that we would basically say, okay, now everyone could go back out and move forward with our lives as we knew it before the pandemic. it is definitely going to take easing our way back into some level of what we remember as normal. and the governor is right, we want to get people ready for the realities of what the new normal looks like here in the city. even in san francisco, way back in 1918, the spanish flu that basically took millions of american lives and people all over the world, here in san francisco we took the same precautions. we were praised at that time for what we did to really flatten

the curve, whatever term they used back then. and we opened the doors the next day. we celebrate it and thousands of people a few days later died and it basically -- the virus at that time, the spanish flu came back with a vengeance and what we have to be careful about is we don't let history repeat itself and get too comfortable. we have to make sure that we are communicating with the public clearly, we're listening to our health experts on what the best methods are in order to keep people safe because this thing is not just going to go away. it is going to take time. but we do want to try and do what we can to get the city reopened. >> and where are you on testing? because it is really almost impossible to commit to a timeline without knowing what your testing time line is. >> yes. and part of what we definitely had like the rest of the country, we've had challenges with access to testing. more specifically the swabs used

to collect the samples in order to administer the test. and we've had a real challenge there but we've expanded our capacity. we're testing a couple thousand people a day. and it is really been incredible. but we would like more because there are a lot of folks, unless you meet the criteria, unfortunately we can't test you. so now with contact tracing, when we start making the phone calls to people who have been in touch with someone infected, we need to make sure that we have the capacity to test those people to eliminate them as a potential person who is in fected with the virus. so we definitely need more testing. >> you unveiled a contract tracing program for the city. this is something that you were just explaining there. i wonder as you look at your big challenges here, specifically the homeless community, how that will help you attack that

problem because this is the challenge for you, is fighting the pandemic with the city's homeless community. >> i think you're absolutely correct in that because what i think i want people to understand about our homeless population, the challenges that so many of our homeless population faced before this pandemic have gotten even worse as a result. and it is even more difficult to make significant changes and to get people who sadly suffer from substance use disorder, suffer from mental health and sadly down on their luck. it is very, very difficult to adjust. and to also, as other people who are working in the shelters, working in those hotels, working in these places with this particular population, you know, they are in fear of their own lives because it is difficult to get some people to comply with wearing masks or wearing gloves or following the social distancing orders. so it is a very complex problem that has been made worse as a

result of this pandemic. but it doesn't mean that we can't continue to try. we've placed over 700 homeless people in hotel rooms in san francisco. we're continuing to thin out our shelter systems. we're continuing to do our outreach and our work and to get people who work for san francisco at disaster service workers who work in our libraries, who work in other city departments to help staff up the hotels, we want to make sure they're training and they have the equipment necessary to protect themselves. so it is a very, very complicated problem, one that i think many of the folks here who are working hard on it are doing a great job in light of the circumstances. >> mayor, thank you so much for joining us. san francisco mayor london breed. we appreciate it. >> thank you. we have some breaking news. the coronavirus model that the white house is often relied on has just been updated and we'll have a look at the new predictions. the coronavirus. what would joe biden do differently?

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while the doors may be closed, the kitchens are open for delivery. today the fda issued emergency use authorizations for two new antibody tests. these might be ail to detect if a person had coronavirus and had recovered. i want to bring in cnn senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen to discuss this. this makes three of the antibody tests with fda authorization. but each one is coming with a warning. tell us about this. >> reporter: well, brianna, i want to tell you, this is good news because we need more of the antibody tests so that we could

see who might be immune and who isn't and then people could start going back to work accordingly. the question mark here is that the tests will tell you if you have antibodies. it will tell you, yes, you have coronavirus, you recovered and now you have antibodies. will those antibodies protect you from being infected a second time? that is the question we don't know the answer to. it looks like they will. but it is not clear for how long. for five months, six months, until next year, we're not sure. it is not like something like measles where you have antibodies, you're immune to measles. we're not sure about this kroern coronavirus. >> and researchers found that hydroxychloroquine, a malary drug that the president touted, it doesn't help coronavirus patients. tell us how they came to such a definitive bottom line here. >> reporter: yeah, this is a very important study. people are getting -- with coronavirus are getting prescribed this medicine so the

french research everts said let's look backwards and see how they did sand the numbers are quite telling. there were 84 patients who took hydroxychloroquine, 97 who did not and these are hospitalized patients who were quite ill. they had similar death rates. there was not a significant statistically difference in the death rates and also unfortunately eight of the people who took hydroxychloroquine developed hart problems which is a known side effect. so the bottom line of this study is not only did it not work, it actually hurt patients. >> oh, my goodness. and the cdc, elizabeth, is saying more than 9200 health care workers have been infected with coronavirus. why do experts think that number actually doesn't tell the whole story. they think this is underestimating it. >> they do. and the reason why, brianna, is because for statistical reasons. the total number of cases the cdc was looking at.

there is probably more cases in the general population. in addition the cdc was looking at reports of forms where you could check off if someone was a health care worker or not. but not all of the forms basically have that check -- that place where you could check it. so not every case could you tell if someone was a health care worker or not. so in the -- in this review they did find the 9,200 people who are health care workers and had coronavirus but that is probably a dramatic underestimate. there are probably many more than that. >> and you know, elizabeth, that cnn went through this analysis, right, and found that when you look at the numbers, there is a 14% drop in commercial lab testing this week compared to the week before. break that down for us. >> reporter: right. there is a drop somewhere in the 500,000s for the previous week and last week it was in the 600,000s and it drops to the 500,000s so there was a drop. but you have to be careful.

it may be the way the records were kept and it is unclear whether that drop is real or not. and we know, governor cuomo said, they've been doing so much testing in new york. it is unclear what this drop actually means. >> we'll be keeping an eye on and see if we could make heads or tails of that. thank you so much. and across the country, the nation's capital is extending the state of emergency. thousands of major league baseball employees are joining a coronavirus study and we have our reporters covering all of the angles and more. i want to start with omar jimenez at a new outbreak for a shelter for children. >> in chicago, at least 37 children at a shelter for immigrant youth have now tested positive for coronavirus. the shelter houses kids that came to the united states as unaccompanied minors and officials at heartland human care service say they're operating on the assumption they're going to see more positive diagnosis as they get

test results. the first wave accounting for more than half of the kids at this particular shelter. now so far the shelter said the kids are in good condition and that they've been in touch with the chicago department of public health throughout this. >> i'm alex marquardt in washington, d.c. where the mayor just announced that the public health emergency has been extended until may 15th. that means school closures, business closures, the stay-at-home order, all pushed until mid may. the mayor calling that a check-in day when city officials will assess. as the death toll continues in d.c. african-americans continue to be affected. according to the mayor's office, three quarters of the 72 coronavirus deaths so far are african-american. while they make up just under half of the city's population. the good news is at the peak when the curve is expected to flatten out, it may come sooner than previously thought. the mayor now saying that that peak is expected to come mid to late may, around a month earlier

than she had previously said. >> i'm diane gal agoner atlanta. as the impact on the u.s. food supply chain, there is growing concern about the workers inside of the meat processing plants across the country. with likely thousands already impacted by the virus. in colorado, the union said a third work from that jbs plant in greeley has died from the virus. this comes as the governor now said they will keep it closed as long as it takes, he would like to see testing of all employees before it is reopened. >> reporter: i'm andy scholz in milton, georgia. 10 through employees in major league baseball have been part of the first antibody study. the test could tell if a person was infected in the past. if they have, scientists believe they may have built up temporary immunity and researchers say the

goal here is to get a better sense of the infection and death rates across the u.s. and i picked major league baseball because the teams are spread out and could do it quickly. it has no bearing on when baseball returns, it is done solely to give back to society. >> well the coronavirus has left millions of american kids wondering what school is going to look like going forward. the former education secretary under president obama will join us to discuss that. open. remember having that feeling for the first time? the first day you opened. the first day you had a customer, the first day you taught a class, had a client, a patient, a session. open... remember the night before you opened? who could ever sleep? open... but there's a different question we are being asked now.

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as the conversation begins on how to reopen america, one area of particular concern for many is just how to safely bring

students back to school and will the two largest school districts in the country have decided they will stay shut down for the rest of the school year, there are others wondering how they adapt in the post pandemic world. i wan to talk with former education secretary under president obama arne duncan, thank you for being with us. >> good afternoon. thank you for having me. >> i come from a family of educators. my sister is a fifth grade teacher in california so i've been talking with her as she's going through the process of learning how to distance teach while also being a parent and one of the things that it sounds like teachers are hearing from parents right now is this question of really what should we expect out of our kids, how much should they be learning. is it your opinion that the expectation is different for them right now than it is for if they were in classrooms, and if so, what is the

>> well, let me say, the goal right now for schools, school districts and individual schools across the country is to feed kids. there are so many kids across the country who are hungry now, unfortunately hundreds of thousands of additional families who are out of work. right now we're working really hard in school districts around the country to feed kids and their families and the community at a massive level. the second thing is to take care of kids' mental and emotional health. we have school systems do an amazing work, i'm talking to telehealth counselors, psychologists, teachers calling students at home to see how they're doing. it's a lot to deal with, a lot of stress and trauma. and then we get to the education part. we have to do everything we can to maintain education. this is a different environment. it's hard. it's difficult. we already know about summer slide. we don't want to lose too much

ground now. amazing, hard working teachers like your sister across the country work to move into this space. we're smarter together. every single day people are working hard and collaborating. we have to do everything we cannot to let kids fall further and further behind, particularly the most disadvantaged, the most marginalized who are always the hardest hit. >> you make such an important point, that learning is really just one piece of this pie because of the emotional stability, because of food insecurity being an issue. of course for parents to return to work, their kids have to return to school. so when you're looking at reopening schools, i wonder what that really looks like for you in terms of the timetable, in terms of maintaining social distancing. what do you think? >> i think we all desperately want to get back to school for a whole host of reasons including helping parents get back to work. but honestly, i don't know how we do that without a massive,

massive testing system across the country. and we know our children are carriers of this virus when they're asymptomatic, maybe when they don't show any symptoms. we can't allow them to get each other sick, teachers sick, custodians sick, lunchroom workers sick. we as a nation have to commit to massive testing. very honestly, the lack of leadership here at the federal level is stunning, it's mind-boggli mind-boggling, and it's leading to death. this virus is a pandemic. it doesn't know state borders, it doesn't know school district borders, this thing can spread anywhere, any time. so we have to come together, test at a massive scale. and if we do that, we can talk about a slow and gradual reopening of schools and doing it in a smart, thoughtful way that keeps children and adults safe. without that we're just slowing the time, delaying the time before we can reopen our doors

and get back to a sensitive normalcy. >> we've heard from the governor of california, he's talked about a staggered reentry for students and also this idea of practicing social distancing. how do you do that if, say, you have two children and one's in junior high, one's in elementary school, maybe they're not even in a unified school district where the timetables actually coincide. and then also this idea of, i mean, can we realistically expect kids who haven't seen each other for months to go about practicing social distancing? >> i think we have to do this, again, very thoughtfully, very gradually, and with huge discipline. this is not like a nice thing to do. this is about nice and death. this is about trying to save lives. unfortunately here in chicago our communities have been hit really, really hard. i lost a very close friend saturday night. and this thing is no joke. it does not discriminate. and so we have to do this, again, in a very thoughtful way. we may be going back to school and then having to leave school

again, the ebbs and flows in this, we have to think about this differently. it's a very challenging time. again, the absence of leadership at the federal level is unbelievably disturbing. what i'm seeing from local superintendents, teachers, principals, governors like you talked about, at the local and state level, that leadership has been fantastic. let me just add, while this is a really hard time in education, it's also a time to reimagine education, and to think in a much more broadway. broad way. for far too many children around the country, normal wasn't good enough. what this pandemic is doing is slapping us in the face with the huge inequities in our country. we have to close the digital divide once and for all. is a nation we are committed to giving every child a device but also access to wi-fi, the internet, so children can learn anything they want, any time, anywhere, any place. my children have access to this.

i'm sure your children as they get older will have access to that. that's not the normal around the country. we have to commit to creating something better than what existed before and have the courage to do that. that's right. that's a very good point. former education secretary arnie duncan, thank you very much. coming up, a look at containing the virus with dr. sanjay gupta, next. plus house speaker nancy pelosi will join jake tapper live to discuss president trump defunding the world health organization and whether another stimulus package is on the table. stick around for that. shouldn't you pay less when you use less data? now you can.

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a single country. breaking this afternoon, in a call with president trump today, business leaders said that testing needs to be dramatically increased across the country in order to boost public confidence before relaxing any restrictions and attempting to open up the economy, according to a source. dr. anthony fauci, the nation's top infectious disease expert, of course has warned that without increased capacity for testing so as to be able to isolate the virus, may 1st, which is the president has set as a possible deadline, is overly optimistic to reopen the country and could in fact cause a resurgence of the disease. the head of the cdc today cautioned the same thing, saying that more testing and contact tracing is necessary before any american goes back to work. it's a sentiment echoed by new york's governor andrew cuomo earlier today. >> the more testing, the more open the economy. we