51,000 in this country. it would have been a good day to ask questions to top scientists and to our leaders. that's what you might expect on a momentous day like this. but that is not what happened this evening at the coronavirus task force briefing. we were not allowed to ask questions. the nation's top scientist, dr. fauci and dr. birx, who were not even there because the president of the united states was afraid to take questions today during the coronavirus task force briefing. he took questions earlier today and lied. lied in such an obvious and blatant way, he knew he would be called on it this evening. so he cut and ran. the president of the united states did not answer one single question at his coronavirus briefing and, again, doctors fauci and birx were not even there. he read a few prepared remarks handed over to the fda commissioner, who took a single question and then the vice president, who didn't take any. and then, they all left. it has been a stunning 24 hours in the life and lies of this administration. a dangerous a disturbing debacle of the president's own making. this all began at the briefing last night.

the president, using out loud, to dr. deborah birx about using ultraviolet light or other kinds of light internally, inside our bodies, to kill coronavirus. and, also, musing about injecting disinfectant into humans to kill the virus. bleach, sanitizer, lysol, things that kill viruses on surfaces but should never, ever be injected into anyone or swallowed by anybody, as just about everybody knows. so here is what the president said. not taken out of context. his actual words to a dhs official, bill brian. this is last night at the coronavirus task force briefing. bill brian is seated off to his right, off camera. >> a question that probably some of you are thinking of, if you're totally into that world, which i find to be very interesting. so supposing we hit the body with a tremendous, whether it's

ultraviolet or just very powerful light -- and i think you said that hasn't been checked but you're going to test it. and then i said suppose 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. and then i see the disinfectant where it knocks it out in a minute. one minute. and is there a way we can do something like that, by injection inside or -- or almost a cleaning. because you see it gets on the lungs and it does a tremendous number on the lungs, so it'd be interesting to check that. so that, you're going to have to use medical doctors with but it sounds -- it sounds interesting to me. >> sounds interesting, he says. this notion of cleaning out the lungs by injecting disinfectant. what is interesting to him, it almost goes without saying, is toxic to people. and we say almost because the company that makes lysol was sufficiently troubled by the president's musings, to put out a statement.

it was titled "improper use of disinfectants" and in it, the company says, quote, we must be clear under no circumstances should our disinfectant products be administered into the human body through injection, ingestion, or any other route. the centers for disease control, also, tweeted. and i quote, household cleaners and disinfectants can cause health problems when not used properly. that's an understatement. health problems when not used properly. the federal government's own consumer product safety commission was a bit clearer, though a little bit more cartoonish. quoting now, cleaning products are poisonous, america, make sure you keep those cleaning products in their original bottles and locked up and out of sight and out of reach of kids. and, as absurd as it is to imagine a government's spokes fox having to remind the president of the obvious, there is nothing funny about any of this. words. especially the president's words have serious consequences.

maryland's emergency management agency today had to issue a warning against drinking or injecting disinfectants after the governor said the state's coronavirus hotline received more than 100 calls asking about it. doctors have weighed in against it, including on our cnn global town hall last night. bottom line, what the president said, it is ridiculous. it is dangerous, as any parent has told their child. and it's deeply inappropriate for any president to simply muse, out loud, about whatever thought he has about random experience on human beings. this morning, instead of acknowledging that concern, or that misstatement, white house press secretary said in a statement, and i quote, leave it to the media to irresponsible take president trump out of context and run with negative headlines. kind of avoiding the whole bleach-injected elephant in the room. keeping him honest, the president heard just what you heard him say. you saw him say it. you heard it with your own ears. in precisely the context we described after acting under

secretary brian gave his talk on what kills viruses in surfaces and in air, not inside the human body. that's all. that's it. it's in the white house transcript. doesn't matter, though, because by the time the president went before cameras earlier today, he clearly knew that people were outraged by his dangerous medical musings and were, also, laughing at him in some corners. which, as you likely know, is something this president cannot stand. that hurts him, probably, more than anything. so, today, he came up with a completely different explanation than his white house spokesperson. he came up with a blatant, boldfaced lie. >> can you clarify your comments about injections of disinfectant? >> i was asking a question, sarcastically, to reporters like you. just to see what would happen. and i was asking the question of the gentleman who was there yesterday, bill, because when they say that something will last three or four hours, or six hours, but if the sun is out. or if they use disinfectant, it goes away, less than a minute.

did you hear about this yesterday? but i was asking a sarcastic -- and a very sarcastic question to the reporters in the room about disinfectant on the inside. >> number one, as you saw, with your own eyes, he was not talking to reporters. he was talking to his scientists. and there was no -- there wasn't an ounce of sarcasm. and that's what makes this so scary. he was serious. he thought, at the time, he was being smart. he actually even said that in comments later. he pointed to his brain about how, you know, smart he is. the dhs official the president was talking to, he certainly didn't think it was sarcastic because i want to replay what he said because it's off camera. you can't really hear it well. but just lis tten to what he sa. this is department of homeland security official when the president's talking about the idea of experimenting bringing uv light into someone's body to kill viruses and injecting them with disinfectant. listen to what the -- the dhs official said.

>> and then i said suppose that 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. >> we'll get to the right folks who could, he said. in other words, yes, mr. president, we'll get right on that. we'll get to the right folks who could. who are the right folks, who could use, somehow get light inside your body to destroy viruses? who are the right folks in the government of the united states who would inject disinfectants, like bleach and stuff, into human beings? who are those right folks? here's how task force coordinator deborah birx reacted. you kind of need to see her body language. i am going to drop the banner at the bottom of the screen. >> suppose that we hit the body with a tremendous, whether it's

ultraviolet or just very powerful light and i think you said that hasn't been checked, but you're going to test it. and then i said suppose that 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. >> we'll get the right folks who could. >> right. and then i see the disinfectant where it knocks it out in a minute. one minute. and is there a way we can do something like that by injection inside or -- or almost a cleaning? because you see it gets in the lungs and it does a tremendous number on the lungs, so it'd be interesting to check that. so, that, you're going to have to use medical doctors with, but it sounds -- it sounds interesting to me. >> i mean, he's nodding his head a little less than he was nodding it on the uv light thing but there were some head nods there on the injecting people. he was nodding the head a little

bit. does deborah birx, when you look at her in that, looking down at her hands, not making eye contact, not saying anything, does that look like the face of someone who's in on a supposed sarcastic remark or a joke? or does it look like a well-respected scientist who is horrified and embarrassed? the president likes to use words like strong and powerful. uses those words all the time hoping i guess that they will become synonymous with him. when you think strong and powerful u you'll equate it with h him. but what exactly is powerful about suggesting dumb and dangerous experiments on human beings and then shrinkilinking from any responsibility for what you have said and then lying about it? cnn white house correspondent joins us now. jim, any details on -- i mean, i know why the president didn't take questions this evening. it's interesting to me that kaylee, the new spokesperson,

who is over the top in her, you know, soviet-like praise of -- or -- or, you know, rewriting of history on things would say one thing. and, then, the president. they clearly didn't even coordinate their lies. >> they didn't, anderson, and i think we found out today that the president's words have meaning but they are also, at times, hazardous to your health. and i think that was part of what we learned today. and going to your point, anderson, there just isn't enough disinfectant at the white house to wash away what the president did. and the lies that were told to try to cover it up. i will tell you, anderson, one of the reasons why he cut short that briefing earlier this evening, my sources tell me, is because the president was upset about the flack he was taking over his comments. that people could use disinfectants to kill the coronavirus inside their bodies. but it goes beyond that anderson. we're talking to sources in the white house this evening and they are telling us there is a

discussion going on about paring down these briefings, limiting these briefings. making better use of these briefings is the way one white house official described it because they feel like the president is getting diminishing returns. but, anderson, just to go to show you the soviet-style, totalitarian-like lengths they were going to, they were trying to rearrange seats in the briefing room. so our colleague, kaitlan collins, would be stuck in the back of the briefing room instead of the front of the briefing room. that print reporter, chris johnson, thank goodness for him, refused to get up out of his seat. so it took almost an act of civil disobedience to foil the white house plans. there was a white house official who was saying we're going to get the secret service involved if you guys don't switch seats around. and so it's bizarre how far they're willing to go. >> kaitlan collins is suddenly a security risk, that the sec rig secret service will be involved. i mean, that's a good use of

secret service resources. >> it's remarkable. dr. fauci, dr. birx, they weren't there this evening. we were talking to sources about some of this but i'll tell you, anderson, talking to our sources, the scientists who are on the president's coronavirus task force, they are leery of publicly disagreeing with this president. to the extent that they're worried about standing behind him and being on camera where their facial expressions can be caught on camera showing, you know, a reaction, one way or the other, to what the president is saying. and so it's no wonder inside the white house, they're talking about cutting back on these briefings because they can see, with their own eyes, what the american people are seeing at home. and, that is, the president imploding from time to time on national television when he is just lying about things and riffing about things that, in the case of these disinfectants that he's talking about people injecting in their bodies, could be hazardous to people's health. >> just to be clear, the history of these briefings started off with it being the vice president and the scientists. and, yes, the vice president

constantly said at the direction of the president and made sure to kind of constantly bow and bring the president's -- reference him in many sentences. and then the president saw the growing popularity of the scientists and the briefings and, therefore, then, you know, big footed his way in and became the centerpiece. the idea that now they're talking about limiting them because they think it's diminishing returns for the president. i mean, how about just like liberating the scientists to actually just discuss real, raw, f factual information? and even the vice president with the american people without the sideshow and let the president have his own briefing if he wants to. or, you know, white house daily briefing like most white houses would. >> there's no question, anderson. the president has turned these coronavirus task force briefings, which started off as a way to get the american people information about this pandemic. president has turned these briefings into his pandemic rallies. and there's no question about it, that there is a public

health risk in all of this. i was talking to a source close to the task force earlier this evening, who cared what the president said yesterday to recommending that people drink bleach at home. which, by the way, once again, we've said this a million times since the president made these comments yesterday, people should not use household chemicals in that fashion. but, anderson, what kind of bizarre, twilight zone have we been thrust into when we even have to say that about the president of the united states? and so i suppose, over the weekend, people will be thinking long and hard about the implications of all this. and hopefully some people inside the white house will as well. >> want to bring in cnn chief medical correspondent dr. sanjay gupta. dana bash. dana, the president making this claim on camera yesterday. then, today, saying he's being sarcastic. i mean, we've all seen. it's not surprising, i guess. but it is just -- it's deeply troubling. i mean, i don't know what sort of adjectives to even use. >> that's right, and you always

wonder, given the president's propensity for this kind of showmanship and when i say this, i mean the briefings. whether or not when he gets criticism, whether or not it sinks in. i talked to a source who -- an ally of the president, just before coming on, who said, oh, you bet it's sinking in. and that was obvious, as you mentioned, when he stormed out of the press conference. >> sinking in where, though? i mean, sinking in what? i mean, like, how thin does it sink? >> it -- that -- first of all, that's a great question. who knows? but in the -- in the -- in the here and the now, what happened this evening with the press conference, that's why he didn't take the answers. the source described him, it's like a child who touched the stove and realizes you're going to get burned. you don't go near the stove for a couple of days. so the question is, how long is he going to, you know, kind of stay away. the other concern i can tell you, just from the patterns we've talked about, there is concern among some of his allies

that he might at least bring up a distraction. that's another part of the trump playbook. that something is going terribly wrong for him and then he says don't look at this. look at the red ball over here. >> like he's going to ban all immigration. or, you know -- >> exactly. and there is concern among some that he might play that playbook and that is the last thing people around him want him to do, given the obvious intensity and scary situation that we're in of this pandemic. >> yeah, sanjay, i mean, the fact that the cdc had to put out guidance about the proper use of disinfectants. again, just from a medical standpoint, i mean, this is dangerous. >> we're -- we're one of the top countries in the world when it comes to basic science research, anderson. i mean, some of the people that we're talking about that are in that room, ambassador birx, tony fauci, they weren't there today. but, you know, people who are on his task force. stephen han was the head of the

m.d. anderson cancer center, one of the most renowned cancer centers in the world. and this is what we're talking about. it is -- it is a shame. you know, i can't even believe it. these -- these -- all these folks have more important stuff to be doing, obviously, in the midst of a pandemic. the entire world is sort of pinning their hopes on what these scientists are able to do, in terms of therapeutics, in terms of vaccines, in terms of figuring out how to best test, how to contact trace. all the things that we should be talking about. and they got sidelined and sidetracked by -- by this whole thing. it's -- it's really quite shocking. i'm reminded of that term. i can't remember -- i think it's reality distortion field. when you were playing that clip of president trump talking to the dhs official. i mean, respond that way, why? is there some sort of reality distortion that goes on in that room? i don't know. everybody knows it was a bad idea to be suggesting that disinfectant be ingested or injected in some way. and, yet, they didn't seem to

respond that way. so it's -- it's -- it's a waste of time is what it is. >> jim acosta, i remember james -- james comey wrote, in his book, about the dinner he had with the president, of course before he was fired. and he writes about, you know, and my memory of this, i read it a long time ago. but i just remember him writing about his concern about does he nod? because if he's nodding, does it -- or if he remains silent, does the president view that as acquiescence? and people around the president have to think about do you respond? if you stay silent, are you then co-opted? and that's something these scientists probably have to figure out every single day. >> anderson, that is one of the sad lessons we have seen throughout the trump presidency. as he attacks different segments of american society, whether it be the press, the intelligence community, now he's going after

the scientists. who are the people that speak out and say, no, this will not stand? there is a real concern among scientists if they speak out publicly against what the president's saying, that they'll be thrown out of the ball game and then you lose that expertise. the american people lose that expertise and that is, obviously, you know, what some of these scientists are thinking. in they disagree with the president publicly, they may get tossed off the task force. and then what happens to the task force? but no question about it, anderson. what we saw at the end of this week was sort of like turning 2020 into a sequel of 1984. i mean, it just defied all credulity. but i talked to a trump advisor earlier today who said i wanted to hide after hearing what the president said. so even people inside the president's own orbit understand how badly he messed things up yesterday, anderson. >> comey was talking about the lies i think was his term. sanjay, dana bash, jim acosta,

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his command of the carrier theodore roosevelt. captain was fired after warning of coronavirus outbreak that was spreading through the ship. huge uproar ensued. the acting navy secretary who swung the axe was, himself, subsequently fired after calling captain krozier either naive or stupid. now, the navy is recommending he be reinstated at the tr's helm. barbara starr joins with more. what is the status of the naval recommendation tonight? >> good evening, anderson. earlier today, the head of the u.s. navy, four-star admiral, recommended to the defense secretary that crozier be reinstated to his command of the aircraft carrier theodore roosevelt. but esper did not expect the recommendation, at least not yet. esper is saying he wants to read

the whole investigation report. and make sure it's, you know, his ai his aides are saying he want toss make sure it's thorough and comprehensive. but, to be very clear, that is not the way the day started out. here, at the pentagon, the word was out that that recommendation was going to be made, and there was every expectation that esper was going to accept it. >> any sense of what -- so the calculus for secretary esper would be? >> well, you know, we don't know. you know, is he going to accept it? it will be a real test of whether or not he has confidence in the navy leadership. and he is willing to accept their recommendation after they investigated it. the big unknown, anderson, is whether there is any white house calculus in this. is it that secretary esper wants to run this past the white house, and see if president trump wants to get involved? we've seen him get involved in

pentagon matters before. and, tonight, there's really no answer to that. >> and what about the sailors on board who had the virus? do we know the latest on their condition? >> as you said, more than 800 now have tested positive. very sadly, one did pass away from the virus. captain crozier, himself, tested positive. but we are told, in the last day or so, he is no longer in isolation in guam. it's really interesting. the pentagon and centers for disease control have a medical investigation going on right now, trying to figure out how that virus spread so widely through that ship. more than 800 sailors testing positive, and this is really the biggest outbreak the u.s. military has seen so far. they're asking for help from the cdc, in trying to figure out exactly what transpired. >> barbara starr, appreciate it. thanks very much. joining us now, friend of the captain's, former naval aviator, brett odom. i know you have been in touch with captain crozier today since

the news broke. can you say anything about his reaction to all this? >> yeah, and i should just make clear that i'm not speaking for him, and he is clearly not speaking to the media. so, you know, i'm comfortable talking about his general attitude and where he is. >> fair enough. >> there's been a few of us, close friends, we've had a chat group. we stayed in touch and talked to him. and throughout this, his entire attitude has been, you know, he did the best that he could. and he stood by his decision, and he's kept his sense of humor and has really taken everything in stride. so, you know, i think he was -- my sense of his reaction is he's deeply humbled. and -- and -- and deeply grateful for the way the navy, the way they've handled this. from what i gathered in our conversations, everything's been incredibly professional. the navy's done an incredibly good job of taking care of him and his family. and so i think his attitude is that, you know, obviously, i

expect he's probably very glad to be vindicated by the recommendation of the cno. >> i'm, also, guessing that he is incredibly concerned about all the -- i mean, 800 people aboard that ship, more than, coming down with the virus. i'm sure he's -- continues to be concerned about them as he, himself, as been in quarantine. do you know, is he able to -- i mean, i guess he's able to get updates about -- about them. i would assume. >> i know he's talked to a lot of folks. we have some classmates in guam who have kept in touch with him. i'm sure he's in -- in connection with folks in the navy. you know, he says he had a lot of phone calls. we didn't get into the details. but, certainly, any skipper and commanding officer of brett's caliber would be deeply

concerned about the crew. and, you know, i know they're first and foremost in his thoughts. >> i don't know, again, you say what you can say but is he hopeful to retake command of the uss roosevelt? >> well, like i said, i think the news today, i gather he did not have any forewarning. i sent him a link, and spoke to him shortly after. my -- my sense is that he's -- he's humbled. he is excited and, again, this is a man who's put 32 years of his adult life into the naval service. it's a calling. it's a vocation. and if he has the opportunity to lead the greatest sailors on the -- in the -- on the planet, i'm -- i think he would be happy and grateful to do that again. >> you're a navy man yourself. i mean, for you, what do you think the lesson in all this is? is there a lesson in this?

>> you know, i -- we've talked about this becoming a leadership case, at the naval academy. our group of classmates. i have no doubt this will be taught. again, i'm not speaking with any inside information. just looking at it, from the outside. i think it's a situation where you got a fast-moving virus, you had asymptomatic carriers, a long incubation period. and a ship environment as the diamond princess, the peer-reviewed article he quoted in his memorandum, it's nearly impossible to contain this in that situation. so i think that you could get to a point in cold analysis where everybody did right thing and maybe there was a breakdown in communication. but i think he's comfortable with the decision that he made. >> yeah. brett odom, i appreciate you coming on and talking about -- about your thoughts on this. thank you so much. >> happy to do it.

thank you, anderson. >> take care. just ahead, the latest on the vaccines now in development to treat coronavirus. dr. sanjay gupta's going to join us again for an update when we continue.

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the global death toll from the pandemic continues to rise, currently, almost 196,000 people are dead. the world health organization says it's launching a new program to accelerate the development of the many covid-19 vaccines and therapeutics now in development. here's sanjay with a report on what's happening. >> did you ever worry about those kinds of side effects? >> yes. but those potential risks are outweighed, i think, by the potential benefits.

>> within sean doyle's body, within his blood, may lie the path to a vaccine for covid-19. less than one month after the novel coronavirus's genome was sequenced, vaccine trials began. there are now at least six vaccine trials underway, including this one at emery university. part of the national institute of health's first human clinical trials. the vaccine is called mrna-1273 and sean is one of 45 people in atlanta and seattle that are part of the first phase in the study. testing it for safety. >> i think to myself, if you were my son and you came to me and said i want to do this, what would i tell you? did you ever have a conversation like that with your parents or anybody else? >> yes. there were conversations that i had with friends and family. but they trusted my judgment. >> so here's how it works. >> i gave some blood samples to be used as a baseline for assessing my health after

getting the vaccine. and to, also, use a baseline to determine whether or not there was any sort of immune response my body was able to generate in response to the vaccine later. >> if it's successful, it may not only help get the world back to normal but it could also be a game changer for other therapeutics and vaccines. why? because of its technology. instead of using the actual virus, which could inadvertently cause an infection or even an inactivated form of the virus, this vaccine relies on mrna. emergen messenger rna, which is just a genetic blueprint of the virus. it directs our cells to make unique spiked protein, which is the virus's key to unlocking doors into our cells. once the body recognizes that, our immune system should be primed to create ant bodies. if it works, it's a potentially safer and faster path, shortening the process from decades to years, or even

months. >> getting it into phase one, in a matter of months, is the quickest that anyone has ever done literally in the history of a . >> after all, it is a new technology. >> it's possible there's no actual production of antibodies in which because either the mrna didn't get into the cells. the cells didn't make the proteins from the mrna or the immune system didn't recognize those proteins or the dose is too low. >> dr. evan anderson is the lead investigator for the trial at emery university. >> there is a theoretical possibility that you could actually see an enhanced immune response that's actually a problem in the setting of subsequent covid-19 exposure. >> that's called sensitization, and means the body would overreact the next time it is exposed to the coronavirus. causing a storm of potentially

deadly inflammation. plus, anything new will have unknowns and risks. >> you can have some pain or tenderness at the site of injection. you can have nausea. you can sometimes develop fever. severe reactions could also occur in which you have something called an fiphylaxis. but that only happens to about one out of 4 million people. >> just to be clear, once you've studied it. >> yes. for that particular vaccine, it was no one knew at the time. >> as part of the trial, sean gets two doses of the vaccine. his second, just this past week. and he's followed up with check-ins and blood draws to measure potential changes to his system for the following year. >> it really felt just like a flu shot. and after the tenderness subsided after about a day or two, i really felt totally fine afterward. >> and dr. sanjay gupta joins us now. also here is michael, the

director for center of disease research. sanjay, what are the challenges in doing this faster than scientists have ever done before? >> well, you know, the big one is we don't know if it's going to work. i mean, because instead of using the virus or even an inactivated form of the virus, they are basically using this blueprint of a portion of the virus, and using that to try and teach the body how to make these antibodies. it'd be great if that works. it would be a lot faster, and i can tell you that, part of the reason they can move as fast as they did, because they gained some knowledge with previous attempts at coronavirus vaccines with sars and mers. didn't have to make those vaccines, ultimately. but so that helped accelerate this process. but i mean, the big question is, is it going to work? and, you know, from sean's perspective, is it going to be safe? it should be safe. but, you know, obviously that's why you do these trials. >> michael, i mean, the idea of having a vaccine in 18 months. how difficult will that be to achieve? and what -- it's harder, i

think, for people like, you know, me, who don't really understand much about the process. to think, well, is it just people will just work harder and that's what makes it go in 18 months? >> well, you know, it's kind of like the iowa farmer that wants to harvest his corn in half the amount of time and thinks he can plant twice as many acres. doesn't work that way. it's a situation where sanjay's laid it out very nicely what we have to do. i think safety is going to be a big issue down the road in terms of this acute antibody enhancement that we talked about. the idea of sensitization piece. and that's going to take many thousands of people to study before we'll know that. but then the other thing that we haven't really factored in yet, once you do get a vaccine that's approved, licensed, effective, you then have to manufacture it. and everyone in the world, all 8 billion people, are going to want this. in addition, you then have to distribute and you have to administer it. we are up against the clock right now with this pandemic because the next 16 to 18 months are critical.

so what we got to accomplish with vaccine has to get done pretty much in that time. so this is a challenge but i think sanjay's laid out very nicely here what the potential is for this one. i just hope it's in time if it works. >> sanjay, is it possible there won't be a vaccine? >> yeah. i mean, look, that is possible. you know, i -- i know people will hear that and be very discoura discourag discouraged but there's been other infections we've tried to develop vaccines unsuccessfully. hiv-aids. even rsv, i don't think we have one because it suffered from the problems of sensitization. meaning the next time you got infected, it was actually worse, not better, from that. so, yes, it is possible. obviously, i hope that doesn't happen. >> and i would agree with sanjay. i think he's right on the mark. and that's where he and i both talk about hope but we both know hope is a not a strategy. >> yeah. and, michael, i know you believe

i think you said in the second inning of this pandemic. what do you think is to come? i mean, do you have a sense of what is ahead for us? >> well, you know, first of all, just understand this virus is very infectious. it is at least as infectious as influenza and likely more. and, you know, you've seen the studies even in the last week may be slightly flawed. but they are telling us that no more than 5 to 15% of the population's been infected to date. and think all we've been through. this virus, because of the way it's transmitted and the infectiousness of it, until you have at least 60 to 70% of the population infected, it's not going to slow down. it's going to keep coming and coming and coming at us so think how much we have left to go. so we need a vaccine. very very badly. but i worry that the way we're going to end up having an immune population is not from the vaccine but from enough people getting infected. some dying. some being severely ill. and the rest of us, hopefully, develop an immunity. that's why i said we're up against the virus clock.

we're not in human time right now, we're in virus time. >> is there' any way to know or predict how long it would take to get that 60 to 70% immunity or antibodies? >> that's where we're really challenged right now. the model we are using is pandemic influenza which, if you look, there have been ten pandemics in the last 250-plus years. two started in our winter. two in the spring. two in the summer. and three gnin the fall. every one of them had a big peak about six months after the original start, that was much larger than all the original activity. we even saw that in 2009 with h1n1 which wasn't that large. but the peak, first, was in february-march. then we saw the bigger peak in august, september, october. so we don't know what we're going to see here. this is coronavirus. is it going to act like that? but i can tell you it's not going to stop strtrying to find people to get until we get to that 60-07% mark. >> michael, i really appreciate your expertise and, sanjay, always, thank you. up next, the heartbreaking story

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jonathan was 32 years old. a cancer survivor but in good health when his wife said he began showing symptoms of coronavirus about a month ago. he underwent a series of treatments, was intubated. doctors told katie they expected him to survive. he didn't. katie was called into the hospital in the middle of the night the day before yesterday. her husband suffered cardiac arrest and she later learned that jonathan left her a note in his phone about his devotion to her and their two children, one of whom has a serious medical condition. katie joins me now. katie, i am so sorry for your loss, and i thank you for being with us. how are you holding up? >> thank you for having me. >> how are you holding up? >> it comes in waves. it's very surreal. but it -- it -- i just -- i keep

thinking, in my head, there's going to be a time where i've been without my husband longer than i've been with him. and it -- it hurts a lot. >> yeah. i've reached that point a couple of times in my life and it's a very strange feeling, and i'm sorry that you're going to experience that. tell me about jonathan. what was he like? how did you first meet? >> we met in college. he was in a fraternity and we just became really good friends. we would actually go on double dates with, like, significant others that we had had in college, and he was just always my -- my go-to person. he had a really amazing way of making everyone feel safe and his smile and his hugs just made you feel really secure and, like, around 2011, we just had

-- we were just, like, why haven't we been dating each other this entire time? and it just was like, oh, this is why we didn't like each other's exes. so we -- >> that's funny. >> -- we started dating and i remember him saying to me we -- he took me to dinner one night and he said, you know, you're my end game, this is it. >> wow. >> so i'm in this for good. and he was my best friend. and he was just funny. he was like a really goofy guy. and he was very quiet at times, but he was just -- if he loved you and he cared about you, you knew it, and there was no way to doubt that. and he was just an infectious person. he just loved everyone and was so pure, so, so pure. >> you created two beautiful children. i mean, just looking at your pictures, that's so adorable. what a family. >> yeah. yeah. we -- we make cute babies.

yeah, they're -- braden is our son. he is 2 1/2 and penelope is 10 months old. >> when -- i know you were able to talk to him on facetime for a couple of minutes when -- for some time, but the last two days, i know you weren't able to because he would get anxious when the facetime call was ending, and because he was coming -- he thought he was going to come off the ventilator, you didn't want to make his anxious. you got that call at night and, i mean, it was -- i can't imagine getting that call at 2:00 a.m. did you -- you knew something had happened? >> they had always said with the hospital if you don't hear from us, it's a good thing. and they would give us daily updates, and, of course, you could always call and check in, and i would call multiple times a day and i would facetime and he was as this last week had progressed was being taken off

the sedatives more and more. so he was much more alert and he could nod his head yes and no and point and was able to answer my yes and no questions. and tuesday they trialed him off the ventilator in the sense that they took the pressure away. so he was really just breathing on his own and the idea was wednesday morning he would go off the oxygen part of it. trial it for the day and then i was told thursday or friday he would be off the ventilator completely. and i spoke with the nurse tuesday at 9:00, and she said he did fantastic. >> hmm. >> that they gave him a little bit of a sedative to sleep, and i asked if i should -- if i should facetime him or let him rest and she said, you know what? why don't we let him rest. i'll tell him you called and if he wakes up, i'll call you. just didn't want to set him off

and 2:04 wednesday morning, i woke up to my phone ringing, and it was the hospital -- and before i even answered it, i just said, oh, god. >> he wrote a note that he -- that he left in his phone, and part of it reads, "i love you guys with all my heart and you've given me the best life i could have ever asked for." sorry. >> that's okay. jonathan's good with his words, huh? >> yeah. >> um, do you have friends and family around you? >> i've been able to have -- because my kids tested positive and i was never tested, but they said it was safe to assume that

i was positive because my entire family was. we've been able to have people come and help us as long as they're -- they were masks and gloves. they've just helped with the kids greatly because the last two days have been really hard. and i'm really trying, but i don't think i'm doing as good of a job as i wish i could. >> yeah. how -- i mean, obviously your kids are so young, they don't really know what's gone on. >> no, i think that's the double-edged sword in it. i'm glad that they're so happy and they're loving and getting played with, and they think it's so much fun, but it's also -- they don't know that they are -- lost the greatest human being and they'll only ever know their

dad through pictures and memories and videos. and this note. and, to me, i feel like that's the worst part of this, is that they won't feel the love that i felt for the past ten years with my husband. they'll know about it, but they can't say, like, i remember feeling that. and anyone who has never had the feeling of jonathan loving them has seriously missed out. and it breaks my heart. and i know he was so scared to miss out on them growing up, and that's one of the hardest things, too, is i know he didn't want this. i know he didn't go feeling like he had done everything he needed to do. i know he left feeling scared and not wanting to go. >> i can tell you my dad died when i was a little kid, and i know he really tried not to die because he didn't want to leave my brother and i and not have us

know him. the only thing i can tell you is that they will know him through you. and the love you have for him, it will feel like they know him because i know you'll tell stories about him as they grow up and for the rest of their lives. >> yeah. my daughter -- my husband for my birthday this year made me a photo blanket, and my daughter every night unprompted crawls over to her dad's picture and just, like, starts hitting it because she just likes his picture. and the night my husband -- the night prior to my husband passing, my son got his adaptive communication device and his speech teacher, who is amazing, made a tab was so that he could speak specifically to my husband when we could facetime him. and i sent a video to the hospital, and it's my son touching -- i asked him, what do you want to say to dad? and he hit, my dad's my best

friend, and that's the last video the nurse showed my husband before he went into cardiac arrest. >> well, katie, i am -- to say i'm so sorry for your loss seems so small, but i think there are a lot of people who are praying for you and thinking about you and whose hearts are breaking with you and -- >> thank you. >> i wish you peace and strength in the days ahead. >> thank you. i appreciate it very much. thank you for telling my husband's story. it means a lot to us and him. >> katie coelho, thank you. >> thank you. >> i just want to let you know a gofundme site has been set up for katie's family. it's

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