questions. the abcs of covid-19 airs tomorrow morning, t: 9:00 a.m. here on cnn. thanks for watching. i'm wolf blitzer in "the situation room." erin burnett "outfront" starts right now. and thank to you, wolf. "outfront" next, trump refusing to answer questions tonight after the cdc state governments and even lysol have taken the extraordinary step of telling americans not to take the president's advice of injecting disinfectants. georgia opens up for business today. we'll talk to two business owners and a vaccine that scientists claim could be ready by fall now u is being tested on humans. so how ryu patients responding? one of the lead researchers is my guest this friday. let's go "outfront." >> and good evening. "outfront" tonight, president trump refusing to answer questions tonight at the white house coronavirus task force briefing.

a brief iing where his two top medical experts were absent. no sign of doctors anthony fauih or deborah birx. the reason like ly the blowback president trump is getting for his shockingly irresponsible comment suggesting a person could try to inject a disinfectant. the cdc, multiple states and cities warned americans not to listen to his medical suggestions. they are comments president trump attempted to walk back earlier today. >> i was asking a question sarcastically to reporters like you, just to see what would happen. >> but twit was not said in sah chasm and he wasn't asking him team to look into it. let's just play. here is what president trump originally said. >> supposedly hit the body with a tremendous, whether it's ultraviolet or just very

powerful light. and i think you said that has -- but you're going to test it then b i said supposing put the light inside the body through the skin or in some other way. and i think you said you're going to test that, too? sounds interesting. right then i see the disinfectant where it knocks it out u in a minute. one minute. and is there way we can do something like that? by ingestijection inside or alm cleaning because you see from the lungs and it does a tremendous number. it would be interesting to check that. you're going to have f to use medical doctorses, but it sounds interesting to me. >> okay. so it is what it is. that's what he said. that's what he meant. he wasn't being sarcastic, but if he was, why didn't he say so when it came up again minutes later. >> the president mentioned the

idea of cleaner, bleach, there's no scenario that that could be injected into a person, is there? >> i'm here to talk b about the find we had a -- we don't do that within our labs. >> talking about almost a cleaning sterilization of an area. >> more than 50,000 americans have died from this virus. and we are quickly approaching a million diagnosed cases. kaitlyn collins begins our coverage at the white house. the president, you hear what he said, he was not being sarcastic. he was laying it out and he wanted them to look into it. clearly tonight, e he had no intentions of answering any questions about it. >> yeah and dr. birx who was seated in the briefing room last night offered a different defensive of him he was being sarcastic, which is what he said today or what the white house said which is that his words are being taken out of context.

she said he was digesting information in real time, saying the president likes to talk out loud ideas when he's been presented with information though of course that's what the president was doing on television cameras in the briefing room where millions of people were watching. so today, he has faced backlash over this. the president came into the briefing room. did not take any questions tonight. which is incredibly rare for him. and typically, these briefings are at least an hour long affair. this was a very brief one tonight where the president didn't even speak that much. he instead let the fda commissioner and vice president do a lot of talking and didn't seem to want to talk any other questions on the backlash he was facing on the remarks. you've seen the cdc and even the surgeon general saying people should consult with their physicians before they take any steps forward for any treatment for coronavirus. >> all right. thank you very much. and i want to go "outfront" now to the los angeles county public health director.

and i appreciate your time. we just played again what the president said. is there a way we can do something like that by injection inside or almost a cleaning, talking about a disinfectant, saying gets in the lungs, so it would be interesting to check that. today, you have taken an extraordinary step to warn los angeles residents, just moments ago, not to inject or ingest disinfecta disinfectant. did you ever think you'd have to xw give a warning like that? >> i don't think we expected we'd be spending today talking about that because really what we want to talk about is what should we do to prevent more people from being infected. how do we slow the spread. we have an enormous task in front of us. the entire country, and we need the stay focused on this. there's ins that tells us what we need to be doing right now to prevent people from dying and to slow the spread and you know that's what we wanted to be doing. i do want to make it clear that you know people in the public need to understand it would be

extroaordinarily dangerous for them to ingest or try to inject any of these disinfectants and we worry because we want hope right now. every single one of us wants out, we want life to go back to normal. we're also look for miracles, but that isn't an appropriate step for anybody to take and i think right now, we just need to stay the course. work hard and do what we know. >> just to make the point, the fact that you had to say something at all is obviously because you had concern. i would assume some people, somebody b might have seen that and tried to follow up on the president's suggestion and that could have deadly consequences. >> yeah, i mean we always worry about misinformation. you know we spent three months trying to make sure that people have good information. that they're getting information that's reliable and that they can use that information to take steps to protect themselves. i think this was just a case of us wanting to make sure that

nobody took that information seriously. that nobody really tried to figure out you know can this help me. i really would like something to be able to help me or fix me or make me feel better and that's just not the way this would work. disinfectants are extraordinarily powerful and they will just harm a person's body if they're ingested or even if you tried to rub it on yourself, it could be dangerous. >> it's called poison control. because they're toxic for human beings. yesterday you announced that the virus has now become the leading cause of death in los angeles county u. which i just think is just for people to take a moment to think about this. the leading cause of death. more than cancer, more than heart attacks and that is with shutting down your economy and social distancing. do you see this changing anytime soon? >> well, right now, more people die every day in los angeles county from covid-19 than they die from any other one disease. so if you look at even our

leading cause of death, which is you know u, related to cardiac, coronary heart disease, about 31 people die a day here from coronary heart disease and right now, we're averaging about 44 people dying a day here from covid-19. and without having a they are put ic medicines right now, and without having a vaccine, we've seen sort of that number of deaths every day for the last few weeks and we anticipate we'll continue to see a relatively high death rate. so yeah, it's extraordinarily concerning to us. we do hope that people understand that while the vast majority of people don't die from covid-19 and many people are asymptomatic -- >> it looks like we just lost the connection but a stun stunning thing to think about that statistic. i want to go now to dr. rheiner who advised the white house cal team under george bush. so thanks for being back.

so the task force briefing tonight, it was 22 minutes. the shortest one that we have seen thus far. no questions. and the top doctors that we are accustomed to seeing, usually one of them, if not both, dr. birx, dr. fauci, both not there and a source close to the task force tells jim acosta that president trump was upset about the flak, his word, or the word the source used, that the president's been taking for these injection of disinfection comments and that's part of the reason why the president cut short the briefing. what do you make of that? >> the president has an enormous voice. in fact, as he's tweeted many times, these briefings have enormous ratings. so things that he says carry tremendous weight. and it's one thing for the president to promote an unproven yet unproven strategy like hydroxychloroquine. it's another thing for the president to you know, mention something that is frankly toxic

an that if use ed as he directe would kill people. but on a different level, this is really a distraction. and as dr. ferreira was saying, it does distract us from the things that are important right now. it distracts us from the fact we stil don't have enough tests. from the fact that we don't have enough ppe still for our health care providers or that the public can't get a proper mask. and most importantly, it's distracting us from the fact that this virus is killing thousands of americans and that by next time this week, it will have killed more people in this country than died during the entire vietnam war. so it's a terrible distraction. >> and you know when you make that point, there is this question though when things like that are made or when the these briefings as they do, daily, go in the direction the president wants about whatever you know thing of the day he's talking about, what the doctors can do to bring it back to where it needs to be b.

okay. and as i mentioned, dr. birx was not at the meeting and it's perhaps because of this. her reaction is getting a lot of attention today. i want to show you a reporter in the room was able to video her while the president was saying that. so the president is talking about someone inject a disinfectant to kill coronavirus. let's just watch her while he says that. >> supposing we hit the body with a tremendous, whether it's ultraviolet or just very powerful light and i think you said that has -- you're going to test it then i said supposing you brought the light inside the body, which you can do, either through the skin or in some other way. and i think you said you're going to test that, too? sounds interesting. right then i see the disinfectant where it knocks it out in minutes. one minute and is there a way we

can do something like that? by injection or almost a cleaning. it does a tremendous number. it would be interesting to check that. so you would have to use medical docto doctors, but it sounds intere interesting to me. >> and you know, when you can also zoom in on her face and see it. look, she was extre dismayed. she was upset. she was, it was clear. but you know, to the point here that this matters, it's not just that what they should be talking about wasn't being talked about. it's that some people might listen to this. in late march, a couple heard the president talking about hydroxychloroquine and they decided to ingest a fish tank cleaner. the husband died. the wife was in critical care. so should dr. birx be at that moment stand up, interrupt, say something tor not to correct the president? >> i admire dr. birx and dr. fauci enormously and they have

an essential job. we need them for our families and for this country. but they have to walk a r very tight line. they have a boss that does not like to be countered and he does not want to be shown up. he has a very thin skin. but yet they need to keep their jobs so they have a very, very difficult job to do. so i don't envy her. i wouldn't want to be in her shoes. i think she handled it as best as could be. >> all right. thank you very much. >> sure. >> and next, much of georgia opened for business tonight, but are businesses ready to open their doors? we're going to talk to two business owners that went through this today. what happened? what are their opinions? plus the fda respond tog a cnn report that the agency allowed more than 100 antibody tests to be sold despite having no proof they worked. plus, a new vaccine now beginning human trials. researchers say it could be

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all have the governor's blessing to reopen. the mayor of the state's largest city urging residents to stay home. >> nothing has changed. people are still getting infected. people are still dying. we don't have a cure to this virus. the only thing that's helped us is that we have stayed apart from one another and i'm simply asking people to continue to do that. >> customers weighing health concerns as owners must also confront mounting bills. >> i'm going to try it. i just feel like us as a country we're going to have much bigger problems financially if we don't. >> meantime, b about an hour south, cars lining up for food at the atlanta motor speedway. neighboring north carolina is not'ing easing up yet. >> we love our friends in georgia but we're really concerned about how quickly this is happening and we want to make sure that we keep our numbers as

low as possible. >> oklahoma moving forward with a plan similar to georgia's. the mayor of tulsa noting cases in his city are still on the rise. and expects that will continue. >> waiting on those cases to decline as people for 100 miles in every direction are being encouraged to ease social distancing would be futile. >> golf courses opening in wisconsin friday. libraries and craft stores can offer curb side pick up. the state reporting 23 people who voted in person or worked the polls at the primary there earlier this month have now tested positive for covid-19. curb side pick up is available today at retail stores in texas. colorado's stay at home order will end sunday. though not in denver. >> nothing will change until may the 8th or at least midnight on may 9th. >> tennessee state parks have reopened, florida breaches and diners are eat at restaurants in

alaska. the capacity is limited to 25%. patchwork response unfolding as experts warn the country is is not out of the woods. >> people are keeping you know, talking about -- the end game. it is not the end game. it's simply a model. >> california announcing a new partnership to get restaurants back online and deliver meals to at risk seniors. >> it's not just about the meals. it's ab about a human connection. it's about someone just checking in as they're delivering those meals and making sure people are okay. >> a chance to reconnect and to help as this crisis continues. we also learned tonight the california state fair and food expo which was set to take place in mid july through august has been canceled. we should point out, too, that that venue space is being used for drive through testing at the moment and also as an isolation space for some homeless folks as they deal with covid-19. >> all right, thank you very

much. and i want to go "outfront" now as erica was reporting on what happened in atlanta today, in georgia, to two georgia business owners. tim is the opener of salon gloss and christopher owns the plaza theatre, the only independent movie theatre in atlanta and i know can seat up to 500, so you've got a big venue there. i want to start, tim, with you though. you admit you were as shocked as anyone when you heard the governor say go ahead and reopen today. but you did decide to open. why? >> well as you said, i was extremely shocked when i heard him say that. i expected him to lengthen the time we had to be closed actually. well after he made that announcement, i got with my team. my team has been suffering. they've been out of work. they're not getting any assistance. no unemployment. no stimulus money for the business and these are real people with real problems and they have to put food in their

table. have single parents this don't have gas money. so we got together and we asked a lot of tough questions. had some tough answers and decided it was in their best interest to get back to work. so that they could buy the essentials. and from a business standpoint, you know, i worked about nine years on my brand and i'm at the point where i have to do something. it's i'm about ready to lose my business if i don't. so we followed the safety stapf dards set by the georgia state board of koz me toll ji and opened our doors today. >> how was business? how many people came in? >> we were fully booked today. we've been now we're booked for three weeks out. >> wow. and fully booked. so i'm sure they're very grateful for that. so how are you doing things? there have been some video out of hong kong a few weeks ago where people literally having

six foot long brush they had built just for this. at the time, people thought it might be satire, but it was reality. what were you doing? is it the same proximity but masks and gloves and do the customers wear them, too? >> not the same approximate pro. we have really put a lot of space between each of our stations. we're about 14 feet apart. we're not running on a full staff. we're doing split shifts so we can have the distance between us and when a client enters establishment, they have their temperature taken. they answer a series of questions. they sign a certification saying that they have not been exposed, been around to their knowledge or taken care of anybody with the virus. they are given gloves, masks, my staff has gone through the procedure and we go through the added protection of the face shields. >> so can you, can you keep your business in i know you mentioned you were not able the get assistance from the small business program. when you're saying you're

running not at full capacity, but fully booked at what you have, are you able to, are you able to get through this then financially with the math and numbers that you have? >> we could. it could be a stretch, but we could do it. you know and hopefully as the summer progresses and we can get a little, you know, few more staff members in there and slowly hopefully eventually get back to where we were. >> all right. well tim, thank you. i want to bring in christopher now. as i mentioned, your theatre is big. nearly 500 seats. 485, b i believe. you could open on monday with reduced capacity, but you can open. those are the rules in your state, but you have decided to stay closed. how come? >> well it comes down to the difference between what you can and should do, really. for us, both for the concern and safety of our staff, our customers, despite all the measures we were taking going into this to try and operate as

safely as possible just doesn't seem to make sense at this time. we're looking for clear signals from our mayor, who is leading intelligently with a lot of informed decisions as well as public health officials, so instead, we're looking at doing other things that we can do to operate safely in a way that doesn't compromise that. >> how long do you think it will be until you can open up? a matter of weeks, days or months perhaps? >> yeah, i would say it's at least weeks or months to operate in terms of having people in the space and you know, keep in mind the atlanta film festival would normally be starting in a few days. this place would be packed with hundreds of people at a time, thousands over the course of a day, but we're getting creative and working with property owners here and a number of different partners. we're going to be doing a drive in. doing different options like that, where we can operate in no contact manner. those are the kind of things along with the incredible

support from the community that are going to potentially allow us to weather this storm. >> that is i guess the crucial question. do you think you will be able to weather it financially? this is a family business. will you be able to weather it? >> and it looks like we just lost that audio. my apologies for that, but thanks very much to both tim and christopher. and next, consciogressional lea accusing the fda of letting companies flood the market with antibody tests that are just may not work. the f drda responding. plus, researchers developing a vaccine and human trials are underway. they have been saying this could be ready by the fall. by september. is that real? one of those researchers is my guest tonight. at bayer, we make medicine like aleve that provides strong,

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new tonight. f drda commissioner on the defe moments ago at the coronavirus task force briefing after congressional leaders accused the agency of failing the to protect the american people by allowing more than 100 antibody

tests to be sold to the public despite having no proof they work. drew griffin investigates "outfront." >> slammed by criticism and slowed down testing during the earl lly coronavirus outbreak, the fda sped up the process for the next step. by allowing dozens of antibody tests to go straight into the marketplace. most without fda authorization. >> president trump asked the fda to remove all unnecessary barriers. >> and the test is supposed to detect whether someone has a novel coronavirus infection and recovered with no symptoms but except for a handful f which have been authorized by the fda, hard to tell which of the tests work. >> basically, the results could be catastrophic for so many people. just imagine someone who thought they are somehow immune because the presence of antibodies then they go out and expose themselves and get other people sick. >> illinois democratic congressman is chairman of a

house oversight subcommittee investigating the antibody test market. it's preliminary report obtained by cnn says a lack of enforcement by fda has allowed manufacturers to make fraudulent claims that the fda is unable to validate the accuracy of antibody tests that are already on the market. and fda has failed to police the coronavirus antibody test market has taken no public enforcement action against any company and has not conveyed any clear policy on the tests. the fda tells cnn it is policing problem tests, citing a statement by its commissioner the day after the fda met with the committee. we have and will continue to take appropriate action against firms making or distributing unvalidated tests or those making false claims. such as issuing warning letters requesting that companies stop their unlawful promotion. still, the democrats on the committee insist the fda's actions have led to a free for all. tests popping up on the internet

for sale. the congressional committee citing a report that the texas emergency room spent half a million dollars on 20,000 tests from china that were worthless. the congressman says the fda needs to act immediately and stop unverified tests from being sold. >> they should clear the market. >> while the fda has not banned sales, it has is set up two pathways to approve u tests. just four of those have received emergency use authorizations so far. though dozens of others have applied. meantime, companies are allowed to sell tests as long as they're clearly label as not fda approved, to be only in a laboratory setting but according to chief sign tifb officcientif tricore laboratories, the rules are vague and require doctors to read fine print. >> i've seen some e-mails from marketers, sales people, who are quick to sell their devices and

honestly, some of them are very deceptive. they make it, they don't make it clear that these should be performed in a laboratory. >> health experts say antibody tests are crucial in reopening the country, advising the public who may or may not be susceptible to further infect n infection, which is why the chairman is adamant about making sure the tests for sale work. >> i fear that a lot of people are going to continue to buy these tests based on faulty assumptions then get faulty conclusions that could lead to dangerous life decisions. >> erin, the fda says it's constantly reviewing its policy, but right now, this remains non approved tests are on the market even though the fda can't say they work. >> all right. thank you very much, drew. and i want to go now peggy, former fda commissioner of the obama administration. i appreciate your time. so the fda gives its seal of

approval to just four antibody tests, but has allowed more than 100 different types to be sold to the american people. is this a serious failure? >> in this critical time, it's extremely worrisome and maybe even reckless i think to have these antibody tests out there that don't have proof that they work. i think it is appropriate that fda wanted the move swiftly to get important diagnostic tests out into the marketplace for use, but i think one can move swiftly but still have rigor to still require some data for validation that the tests tell you what they claim to tell you. because otherwise, as was note ed in your story, people believe that they have information that may not be accurate and that may

result in them doing things that they shouldn't be doing based on faulty information. we don't want people to think that they somehow are protected when in fact the test isn't accurate. there are other reasons why they may not be fully protected as well. don't fully know what your antibody status means in terms of your immune protection. but all the more reason why we need to have tests that work. so that we can also drill deeper into that underlying science of what do antibody -- >> the fda commissioner was asked about this moments ago. you know he said the f drda provides as much information as it can to consumers, but look, just the reality of understanding the situation that a test that's 99% accurate in a population that's only 1% infected is not an easy thing to just tell consumers and have people understand what that is

and how that could be, but that's what he's saying. what do you think is the reason? is the reason that the f trda d this this? allows 100 antibody tests to go out when they only really approved four of them. >> well i think the fda's always operating under enormous pressure and scrutiny. i think especially since our testing in this country got off to a slow start, there was a lot of pressure to move swiftly, to remove unnecessary barriers and to make tests available. i was surprised when the decision came out that it, that for the antibody tests, there wasn't going to be a requirement for data to be submitted to the fda. i think that you know, puts us in a dangerous place now and again in fairness to the fda,

they don't have all the resources that they need to be able to move through everything. and to be able to track down fraud tests in the marketplace et cetera. so i think that as congress rightly raises concerns about these tests being out there without validation, they also should be thinking about providing more resources to the fda so that they can actually pursue this with more rigor. >> all right, thank you very much, doctor, i appreciate your time. former fda commissioner. next, a team of researchers beginning human trials op a vaccine they hope to have ready to go on a mass basis in just a few months. a year faster than any other vaccine. so what are they discovering? one of the lead researchers out front tonight with the latest and b joe biden warning donald trump is trying to postpone november's election. what is behind such a claim?

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tonight, researchers at oxford university have begun

human trials of their potential human coronavirus vaccine. they say if it goes well, they could have a vaccine ready to go, in production, being given to people this fall. fall of 2020. that is at least a year and frankly, more than a year, of what most experts pr jekt with any other vaccine. "outfront" now, one of the lead researchers working on the vaccine. it's good to have qulou back, professor. we spoke with you last week before the trials began and you were very optimistic in that conversation. now you're two days in in terms of human beings getting this vaccine. how are things going so far? >> really well. you know we waited to get a lot of data to start our clinical trial. more than the regulators required. maybe more than any other groups have done and they look really positive so just starting this clinical trial tells you we're very encouraged what we've seen preclinically and we've been given permission by regulators

to proceed really at quite a rapid rate. certainly for a first in human trials, so over the next couple of weeks, we'll probably enroll as many as 1,000 people into this trial. partly because we've used this type of vaccine before for other indications and partly because we believe the safety profile should be very good. the other exciting thing to know is that we're probably in a location that has one of the highest levels of covid transmission anywhere. certainly in europe, at this time. so we've got a fair shot at getting an efficacy result over the next three months and to do that, you need to have quite a few cases around. >> so just to be clear, b obviously most trialing i know we talked about this before, but so people understand, usually in this stage you're in now, a lot of people would only be giving it to stay 40 people but you're giving it to so many because the type of vaccine has been used other times, right, so you're

better aware of the safety profile. >> absolutely. so yes, we're pretty confident that this should be safe as well. but obviously we'll be monitoring people extremely carefully. we started with two yesterday. f six tomorrow then we'll rapidly escalate to larger numbers per day. >> and you said three months, so that gets you to july. does that mean you think this will be ready to if you were able to get approvals, but starting to literally you know come out of manufacturing in july or still september? >> well, even finishing the trial by july would be pretty good going. nobody knows when we'll finish because it depends on the dense of cases in the study and there will be a safety monitoring board looking regularly at those numbers and they are to stop the trial and declare it over depending on whether the vaccine works, which would be a great result, of course, but it could

also stop it for what's called futility because there's no real difference emerging because the results somewhere in between, they will not stop the trial and might well run longer than july into august, september, maybe even october. so we're not sure when it will finish. if there are a lot of cases still in the uk over the next couple of months, we might finish early. if not, just going to take longer. >> so you know, last week i sort of asked you about it just sounds too good to be true. you were explaining how the type of vaccine has been used before which is what gave you more confidence. one of the safety concerns i've seen raised with vaccines related to coronavirus is something called antibody dependent enhancement, which means the vaccine could make you more likely to get the disease instead of protecting you from getting it at all. it is something your team mentioned in what appears to be b an announcement of being

awarded to grant to study the virus. do you have any concern about that? is that a possibility at all that something like this could end up making you more likely to get it instead of protecting you from it? >> it's a theoretical risk. we think it's a very tiny risk, particularly with this type of virus and this type of vaccine. it has been seen with vaccines for denghe where it was well-known about and studied. it's been little seen from this antibody dependent enhancement in coronavirus models. we're aware of it. the regulators are aware of it. our volunteers are aware of it. it's in the information they get about the trial so that's something we'll be monitoring carefully, but as i said, i think it's pretty unlikely and that's one of the reasons we waited to have animal data in two species including nonhuman primates. >> so what is the biggest fear

that -- [ inaudible ] >> the fear, but it would be frustrating if suddenly, the control of the disease was so effective in england that we ran out of cases. great for the general population, not good for this trial. that is a worry and that could happen. i think the odds are against it, but you know, this pandemic has been thoroughly unpredictable so far. >> dr. hill, i appreciate your time. good to have you back, sir, thank you. next, joe biden says quote, mark my words, trump is trying to, mark my words, that's the quote. trump is trying to delay the election? what is behind such a serious accusation? at&t knows you have a lot of things on your mind. staying connected shouldn't be one of them. that's why we're offering contactless delivery and set-up on all devices. and for those experiencing financial hardship due to this crisis,

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