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wrote the book about it, live from cnn world headquarters in atlanta, welcome to our viewers in the u.s. and around the world. i'm natalie allen. this is c"cnn newsroom"." thank you so much for joining us. friday's coronavirus briefing at the white house was notable for what did not happen. u.s. president trump refrained from dispensing dangerous medical advice. you recall on thursday he suggesting killing the virus by injecting disinfectants and he has been brushed back by harsh criticism ever since. meantime the pandemic is now exceeding 2.8 million confirmed

cases and almost 200,000 deaths. that is the latest count from johns hopkins university. the world health organization with sipt fr support with many leaders announced an effort to develop and distribute a vaccine as quickly as possible. realistically though, that could still be many months away. johns 407 continues now reports the united states has surpassed 900,000 cases, far more than any other place in the world. at least 51,000 people have died in the u.s. so far. yet some states like right here in georgia are itching to get their economies up and running again. but against the advice of disease experts. cnn's kim laue with the latest. >> reporter: as the death toll crosses 50,000 lives lost, some businesses reopened to a new world. >> when they come in, we will do

temperature checks, they will be required to have a mask and gloves on. >> reporter: in georgia, now allowed to operate are hair salons, gyms and bowling alleys. >> we're not trying to hurt anybody, we just want to get a business going. we have 25 employees that support families out of this bowling center and we're trying to get them back to work. >> reporter: defying public health warnings, sgrg ageorgia oklahoma allowed some businesses to open but many stayed closed. in texas, curbside retail is op open. >> i put it in the trunk or the front seat. >> reporter: and from the south, midwest and alaska, a real time experiment of the virus versus state policies. in south carolina, department stores are open with some restrictio restrictions. alaska, restaurants allowed to order at a quarter of capacity.

into the weekend and next week, more states open up. tennessee will be allowing restaurants to open at half capacity on monday saying it is time. >> our approach to rebooting the economy, it must be steady and methodical and in a way that doesn't jeopardize all of the strides that we've made so far. >> reporter: but other local leaders say that is exactly what governors are doing by opening now. >> this is a reckless decision on behalf of the governor. we know the risks are great and we expect to see another spike. >> reporter: new york's governor warn the country must learn from our very recent history as testing continues to be inadequate. >> what is the lesson? an outbreak anywhere is an outbreak everywhere. >> reporter: that is why michigan's governor facing small but vocal right wing protests to reopen is extending the stay-at-home order for her state

until may 15th. >> we know if we do it too fast, a second wave is likely. and would be even more devastating than the moment that we're in. >> reporter: in los angeles california, a grim announcement that highlights the toll of this virus. >> another dark threshold that we crossed is that covid-19 is now the leading cause of death in los angeles county. >> reporter: so what did reality look like as states reopened? cnn was across the state of georgia as businesses came back to life today. but that reopening was actually quite sporadic. a lot of businesses simply did not open, they have couldn't either find the bleach, the supplies, or it was too expensive to try to meet the state guidelines. if businesses did open, we saw lines as people were getting their temperature taken before they went in, but people were indeed getting their hair cut and bowling.

as we mentioned, doctors, scientists, government agencies and manufacturers are denouncing president trump's suggest that disinfectants could be injected as a possible coronavirus treatment. and as jimross repoosta reports is not the first ditime. >> reporter: president trump is finding is it hard to explain away his suggestion that americans could inject themselves with disinfect tants. >> i was asking a very sarcastic question to the reporters in the room about disinfectant on the inside. that was done in a form of a sarcastic question. >> reporter: but the president is not telling the truth. take a look at the video and the reaction on the face of dr. birx when mr. trump made the suggestion. he is not being sarcastic.

>> and i said supposing you brought the light inside the body, either through the skin or in some other way. and i think you said that you will test that too. sounds interesting. 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 almost a cleaning. you see it gets in the lungs and it does a tremendous number on the lungs. so it would be interesting to check that. you have to use medical doctors, but sounds interesting. >> reporter: and the president was still trying to justify his comments. >> i do think that disinfectant on the hands could have a very good effect. >> reporter: the president was reminded that he was looking at dr. birx as he made the remarks. >> i was looking at the doctor, i was looking at some of the reporters. >> reporter: even one of mr.

trump's own advisers told cnn i wanted to hide, it was a tough moment to watch. dr. birx wasn't buying it. >> not as a treatment, but i've not seen heat or -- >> i think that is a great thing to look at. >> reporter: head of the food and drug administration trying to be diplomatic. >> no, i certainly wouldn't recommend internal ingestion of disinfectant. >> reporter: a maker of lysol said under no circumstance should our products be in the human body. and noting we have received several calls about the use of disinfectant. but there is another speed bump on the drugs that the president often touted at a cure. the fda said that hydroxychloroquine has not been shown to treat covid-19. they are being studied in clinical trials. >> look, i'm not a doctor.

the study has to be done. if it helps, it is great. if it doesn't help, don't do it. >> reporter: the president's doctors have been differing with mr. trump all week. on testing -- >> i'm not overly confident right now at all, but we're not in a situation where we say we're exact 4ri whely where we be. >> reporter: and on a second wave of the virus -- >> may not even have corona coming back. >> there will be coronavirus in the fall. >> reporter: and on whether the doctors are being misquoted. >> he was misquoted, totally misquoted. >> i'm accurately quoted in the "washington post" as difficult. but the headline -- >> this comes as the debate intensifies on when and how the states should open. for more about that, i'm joined by dr. peter dryback at the university of october forward. good morning to you.

>> good morning. >> let's take what president trump said and all of that brouhaha and leave it there and move on with the science, okay? >> sounds good. >> so here in the state of georgia, the governor has cleared the way for some businesses to reopen. they did so friday. but here we go again, and it always comes back to testing. without wide sbrspread testing, risky is opening up now? >> unfortunately, extremely risky. and before we get to testing, look at where we are with the epidemic in georgia. in some parts of the state, we're still he sseeing increasin positive cases. the federal government said you need 14 days of sustained cases and we're not seeing that in georgia. so really to talk about opening

back up seems a bit careless. and thin when you get to testing, we know widespread testing along with the ability to trace contacts and isolate infected people is really important. and the state is not there at all. >> right. and which makes me think of japan right now, which is having a second wave. it had its first wave, it tapered off, schools reopened and then it got hit again. and that shows the caution that needs to be taken here. does history give us a glimpse into whether third or third waves can be worse? >> if you look back at past pandemics, and are mostly influenza pandemics, we see second or third waves that can be worse than the first ones. in japan and singapore as well. and it is really humbling because it shows how fragile the

efforts are. so we go back to business as usual, we would expect to see a second spike in infections that could be bad or worse. we're still very early in this pandemic. in most cases only a few percent of the population has been exposed or infected. so if we ease off the gas pedal with the measures, we'll be in a very dangerous place. >> because really we're just at the beginning stages of this pandemic, aren't we? as you said, georgia hasn't even peaked yet. you can understand why people want to get on with it, start their lives, you know, rekindle their businesses. but it just shows what could happen if you move too quickly. >> that's right. and ultimately it beat this virus it is very likely that we'll need to try to hold firm and find a way to get through this until there is a vaccine

ready and we know that won't be anytime soon. we've been hearing that this will be a marathon, not a sprint. and we need to understand that we're in the first couple miles of that marathon. everyone of course is concerned about the financial crisis and the economic toll this is having on families, but the only way to end the economic crisis is going to be to get the virus under control. >> and one of the three key things is antibody testing, it is under way. however some are shown to be flawed so people think that they are immune when they are not. how challenging is antibody testing? >> it will be an important tool for us as it is rolled out further, but we have seen a lot of challenges with quality accuracy. particularly with the so-called point of care antibody tests, these are the ones that somebody could do in their home for a rapid result. most of those we've seen significant problems with accuracy. and then you run the risk of someone having a positive test when in fact it is negative.

they ared to are told that they immune when they are not. it is less of an issue with laboratory tests. we've seen some results from the survey in new york for example where you do a random sample of the population and you test for antibody to give us a picture of what percentage of the population may have immunity. but the point of care testing looks like it is still a ways off. >> we appreciate your expertise as always. thanks for giving us your time. >> thank you. as the uk's coronavirus death count reaches a grim number, the government gets creative in ways to outfit doctors. we'll go to london again in a moment with the latest on that angle. and plus around the world many schools have been closed for weeks. we talk about the effects covid-19 has had on students.

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in the uk in applauding health care workers. this was the heir to the throne first public appearance since he recovered from the coronavirus. and the uk is approaching a grim number, close to 20,000 deaths. officials are pushing to get supplies to hospital and health workers and starting next week, britain will begin using drones to make those deliveries. meantime the british government is assuring citizens its new website for essential workers to book coronavirus tests will be available again today. the site went live early friday, but it shut down just hours later when an poinppointments g fully book bed. nina dos santos is joining us live from the kuchuk. >> reporter: and the uq is facing similar questions that it has faced the last three or four

weeks. without more substantial answers. one time after another, there appears to have been an embarrassment on the testing front here. you were pointing out the website that went lie yesterday. but to the embarrassment of the government, it had to shut down after it became completely overwhelmed with people, people trying to book their slots. 16,000 slots got booked within the first few hours and then the site had to close. why is it embarrassing? despite the fact that the uk remains steady in being able to test only 20,000 people at the moment, all of those largely key workers, police officers, people who work in the national health system, teachers and so on, people on the front line here. and more likely to be exposed to the virus. and people who could be concerned about passing it on to vowel r. vulnerable members of the community, about 10 million people would qualify, but it has been difficult rolling them out,

getting them tested, getting them to drive-thru centers to be tested. at the moment the government despite the fact that as i was saying they have been doing 20,000 test consistently every day, they have promised that they would ramp it up to 100,000 tests by the end of the month. that still hasn't happened and we're only days away from that target and the government hasn't backed down from that target. so we'll have to see how the website fairs later today. and there appears to be disparities between the availability of some of these tests, whether the home tests that you were discussing with the guest before the break, or whether or not they are more significant laboratory tests where people have to go through sites to try to have a nasal or throw swab taken by a nurse. >> nina dos santos, thank you for that update. the pandemic has had a unique effect on students, particularly kids. around the world, nine in ten

students are stuck at home because of school closures. something cnn's isa soares is trying to get a ham ndle on wit her own sons. >> reporter: parenting in a whole new light. the coronavirus pandemic has transformed or lives more quickly than anyone thought possible and that includes me. as i like so many others balance the demands of doing my job as a journalist and schooling my 4 and 2-year-old sons. a shocking 91% of the students around the world are out of the classroom because of school closures. so when will it end? and how will schools reopen? here in the uk we're still not sure when schools reopen, when our children will eventually go back to schools and nurseries. but it is a very different story in other parts of europe. >> when they come home from

school, they are hungry and -- >> reporter: mike lives in denmark and their daughters, 3 and 7, are now back in school. across europe, some schools are open. some opening soon. some closed indefinitely. >> they divided the playground into five areas. and then they divided the kids into groups. wil while in the classroom, they are sitting apart, they don't have as many desks and chairs as they usually have. so they are -- >> they are spaced two meters apart. they focus on hygiene and hand sanitizing or washing their hands, they do that lot. >> reporter: the young parents were surprised that primary schools reopened so quickly. they know children are less vulnerable and are happy that they can be with play mates their own age. >> so they feel like there is something different, but they

can't reflect so much about what and why. >> reporter: and the pandemic is exposing fault lines. in new york last month, students formed long lines to pick up laptops for remote learning. a survey found 17% of students in the u.s. couldn't finish homework because of an unreliable internet connection. and that number higher for low income families. the virus bringing to the surface all the inequalities. >> this will have a detrimental effect. it is clear that there are families that don't have the devices, don't have the bandwidth, it z clear that there are districts that couldn't provide the professional development. >> reporter: when and how to get students back to school will be about weighing risks.

here in the uk, authorities have made clear they are not reopening until it is clear that the crisis has eased. jeff barton whose union represents school principles and administrators agrees this is not something that you can rush into. >> you won't be able to have all of your staff there because some of the staff will be vulnerable to the virus anyway. they might be diabetic, some are living with people who are vulnerable. >> reporter: and so it is all a work in progress. in denmark, parents drop their kids off outside, inside the masks come off. in the netherlands, they split the weeks so only half the students are in on any given day. so how do we open schools? well, it is a learning process. isa soares, cnn, london. so parents of young kids at home, listen up here because we have something for you. why not a cnn and sesame street are hosting a town hall for kids and parents. big bird will john dr. sanjay

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welcome back to our viewers here in the u.s. and around the world. i'm natalie allen. we want to bring you the latest developments in the coronavirus. the u.s. death toll has soared above 51,000. the grim milestone comes as the white house tries to walk back president trump's suggestion that people could inject themselves with dtisinfectant t fight the virus. mr. trump now claims that his remarks were sarcastic, but he walked out of friday's daily briefing without taking any questions. meantime several states have begun to reopen their economies despite warnings it might be too soon. perhaps the most important thing desperately needed in a crisis, clear, concise and accurate information coming from the top. but in this crisis, many state and local governments across the

u.s. are finding that just doesn't exist. cnn's jeff zeleny reports. >> reporter: as states across the country inch toward reopening their economies, there is one thing governors have learned they can count on. mixed messages from the white house. >> we're starting to open our country again -- >> reporter: that much may be clear, but the question is how and when. in the absence of clear and consistent direction from president trump, a messy patchwork of state by state rules are now emerging. case in point is georgia where governor kemp led the way by allowing several businesses to reopen on friday. from gyms and salons to take the due parlors and bowling alleys. he thought he had the president's bleszinpresident president's blessing until he didn't. >> i wasn't at all many. but i'm saying let the governors do it, but i wasn't happy with brian kemp.

spas, beauty parlors. tattoo parlors? no. >> reporter: you can get a haircut in georgia, but not in south carolina. it is the culmination of weeks of confusion over who is calling the shots. first trump said it was him. >> i have the ultimate authority. >> reporter: and then it was not. >> governors will be empowered to tailor an approach that meets the diverse circumstances of their own states. >> reporter: but the president's condemnation of kemp could offer the closest signal yet for what other governors should and shouldn't do in trying to bounce back from their coronavirus fight. >> i told him very distinctly, i said -- mike was there, i said you do what you think is best. but if you ask me, am i happy about it, i'm not happy about it. >> reporter: but the presidential rebuke is reverb brail brating across the country where governors are desiring how are far and fast to go. >> i'm as eager as anybody to get our economy back open, but

again, we have to be careful and cautious in what we're doing. >> we want to go as quickly as we can, as safely as we can, to restore our economic vigor while also restoring our personal health. >> reporter: it is a complicated balance of studying health models, the rate of new cases and anticipating the president's own reaction. >> a lot of the governors have done a terrific job. some i don't think have to be honest. rurt b >> reporter: but in oklahoma, the governor allowed personal care businesses like barber shops to open friday, a decision that did not draw the president's ire. one unquestionability dynamic at the center of navigating politics is pleasing the president. in florida, governor desantis has made clear from day one that he is eager to be in trump's good graces. >> make america great again. >> reporter: and that loyalty could now play a role in deciding how fast to start up

the florida economy. with some beaches reopening, the governor has made clear he is itching to move quickly. >> for those who say you are morons, i'd take you over the folks criticizing you any day of the week and twice on sunday. >> reporter: what is less clear is what signals could be coming from the president. aides to several is governors say they are watching and listening to the president's words very carefully hoping to avoid a rebuke that georgia governor kemp received. the president of course has been all over the board. no question, the road to reopening is a bumpy one that will be playing out for weeks and perhaps months to come. jeff zeleny, cnn, washington. world health organize is spearheading an effort to develop and distribute vaccines and treatments for the virus. it announced a global partnership on friday. >> the covid-19 pandemic is an

unprecedented global crisis that has been met with unprecedented global response. we're facing a common threat which we can only on defeat with a common approach. >> some world leaders were there to pledge support but the u.s. was noticeably absent. that may come as no surprise. a little more than one week ago, president trump suspended u.s. funding for the organization. he blames the w.h.o. for not doing enough. >> had the w.h.o. done its job to get medical experts into china to objectively assess the situation on the ground and to call out china's lack of transparency, the outbreak could have been contained at its source with very little death. very little death. and certainly very little death by comparison. this would have saved thousands of lives and avoided worldwide economic damage.

>> mr. trump's moves have drawn widespread criticism, but others have also questioned the organization's response to the crisis. let's talk about this now with laura spinthere. y, author of the book pale rider, how the spanish flu changed the world. one would imagine, laura, your book is being sold quite a lot these days. we hope so. good morning to you. >> good morning. >> you write in your book about how the spanish flu led to greater global corporation in finding pandemics and eventually the creation of the world health organization. let's talk first about how the spanish flu changed the world as you write in your title, put it in historical context for us. >> so the spanish flu was a pandemic that struck in three waves between 1918 and 1921. it infected one in three people on earth and killed at least 50

million. and i think the world emerged from it with a realization that the only way to fight a global health crisis like that was with a globally coordinated response. and so you see the birth of international health agencies starting from the 1920s, the league of nations had a health branch to start with which was dedicated to fighting pandemics. and eventually that gave birth to the w.h.o. in 1947. >> we are seeing pictures from way back when and we see people, you know, with their face covered in masks.distancing was encouraged as well. when you look theat these, it i reminiscent of what everyone is doing now. what was learned from that pandemic as far as encouraging people to do what they can? >> you hit on something really important, which is that governments play their part, but people have to do their

individual part as well. there is to be a bottom up response too. and that means everybody wearing their masks. the response was not that much different then to now before we have a vaccine. and so it means everybody obeying public health measures, staying at home when they are told to stae at ho stay at home. if everybody does it, we can control or at least slow the spread of the disease. if only some people do it, we do a less good job. >> as you say, it is a biological issue and this is a social issue as well. and you also write that there was a third wave to the spanish flu. talk about that. because right now you are seeing that states are itching to get on with it, to get people back out there, when really we're still at the beginning stages of in in some respects. [ phone ringing ] >> someone is seeing you on cnn

and saying you're doing a good job. that's all right. we can wait. these things happen. so talk about the fact that there was a third wave way back in 1918. and here we are early on and some economies, some leaders are you wering to get on with it. we understand the desire for that, but what about it? >> so actually the worst wave in 1918 was the second wave. but, yes, it is really impossible to know what is going to come after the first whiave, how the pandemic would evolve. and to know when you can lift the restrictions. obviously we're seeing that now. but the difference today is we have mathematical modelers who are telling us what will happen next. but the key point is it really depends on human behavior. one thing we know about this coronavirus, it mutates less than the flu virus. so if there is a second peak, it

will probably be of us, of how we behave from now on. and what is really, really critical is that countries coordinate their response, that they come out of lockdown in a coordinated way. and that means that they speak to each other, that they follow the same play book. and it will be great if the quhoquh w.h.o.'s playbook was that playbook, but every country would need to listen to the w.h.o. >> and they have been warning about this for years and years. and the president of the united states said we didn't expect this to happen, but if you were listening to the w.h.o., you would expect to happen. talk about the sponsor the lack of response by some leaders. >> so i mean i think we've been -- experts have been predicting another pandemic for a very long time and we thought it would be flu. we didn't expect to be a coronavirus. but that doesn't mean that our pandemic preparedness plans such as they are aren't useful. they are extremely useful. and again, it is about realizing that this is a global problem

and that we need to act together to solve it. your previous report was about how the response between the u.s. states has been uncoordinated and that has been unhelpful. the same operates at the global level. >> let's talk quickly about the function of the world health organization. it lacks funding today. we know the united states, president trump, pulled funding recently. and there is a criticism that it has become bureaucratic. is it still vital, is it needing reform? >> i mean that is a good question. it is actually going through a reform at the moment. it went into a reform process the year before this started. i mean i think a lot of people would agree that it is far from perfect. it is big, it is bureaucratic, sometimes slow moving. but i don't think that anybody would suggest that we didn't need some kind of global health agency to coordinate a response in a crisis like this. so something is needed in its place if we don't have the w.h.o. and i have to say i think it has done a pretty good job in this

pandemic so far. given that nobody on earth today can predict when a pandemic will declare itself or how bad it will be, i think it has handled it pretty well. >> and that is what we've got right now. last question for you. when the spanish flu finally ended, what did it do to people's mental health? there was depression search. and today we're all dealing with uncertainty and that is all we know. >> yeah. difficulty about saying what happened after the pandemic in mental health terms is that there was also a war at that time. so people were reacting to the war as well. four long years of a terrible war. but we do know -- i mean, this is a difference possibly between the flu virus and the voen. the flu virus can in-frequent depression on people. and there was it looks like from what we can tell a sort of wave of depression that passed over the world in the wake of that pandemic. how much of it was do with bereavement, with social

upheaval, with the war, how much was due to the pandemic is hard to say. but you're right that uchb certa uncertainty, fear, stress, that is not good for any of us and confinement itself is known to havedown is known to have adverse effects on a lot of people. >> and here in 2020, there is a good part of social media enkube encouraging us all to talk to each other. we really appreciate it, laura. thank you. >> thank you. for weeks italy was the deadliest epicenter for the coronavirus. but even as new cases are dropping and hope is increasing, there is a disturbing report on the impact the virus is having on italy's health care workers. we'll have a live report coming up. mucinex cold & flu all-in-one. fights... oh no. no-no-no.

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coronavirus is taking a staggering toll on health care workers in italy. the italian association of doctors says at least 150 doctors there have died from the virus. and it says health care workers constitute 10% of all coronavirus infections. but after weeks of being the deadliest epicenter in europe, italy's number of active cases continues to drop. that is the good news. now totaling just over 106,000. and in the midst of the pandemic, italy on saturday marks liberation day, but this year the celebrations will be scaled way back. let's bring in barbie. there is nothing liberating about a pandemic, but today is indeed a holiday. >> reporter: that's right. you know, which means that there are even fewer stores open, reasons for people about to go

outside. but the mood here i think is optimistic and continues to be so as the number of active cases drop. the death toll is still very high, authorities say that is because it is a little behind the decrease in cases. but we're still expecting here on may 4th to enter phase two and people can leave their homes and more people with go back to work and i think that is giving people optimism. but on a day like today normally, there would be a celebration in the morning, a flyover by the military and then even would go to the beach for a lovely lunch at the seaside. none of that of course is happening. >> one can understand. we're seeing pictures of people in the hospital. and when i read that 150 doctors had died from the virus, that must be putting a terrible pall over the country still. >> reporter: the effect on the

health care system, the total number of deaths in this country is something even when the pandemic is over, even when people go back to some sort of new normal, that will weigh on them, families who can't gather to mourn them. so people will realize how much they have lost in this pandemic. >> barb bie, it looks like a lovely day to social distance. thank you. coming up here, a cosmic wonder. it is a stellar nursery. we'll have more on this remarkable view and why we're getting to see it. ow is the time to do money. without the commission fees. so, you can start investing today wherever you are - even hanging with your dog. so, what are you waiting for? download now and get your first stock on us. robinhood.

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back. >> since 1961, earth has lost the equivalent a block of us 16 feet thick. >> and that is just a snippet of a revealing report. be sure to watch it saturday, the road to change, america's climate crisis, it is 10:00 p.m. eastern, 10:00 a.m. sunday in hong kong right here on cnn. well, we are celebrating the anniversary of a heavenly owon r wonder. >> liftoff of the space shuttle discovery are the hubble space telescope. >> it has been 30 years since the hubble was launched into orbit. it has shown us some will of the most spectacular sights in the universe since. that is a lot of time to be working up there. to commemorate, as strong peas

released this stunning view. and the giant stars at their cores have blown away the glowing red hydrogen and blue oxygen gases that once surrounded them. again, pictures kom s complimen the hubble. i'll be back with another hour of "cnn newsroom." everyone is working a little differently now.

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♪ 5:00 a.m. here on the eastern coast of the u.s. hello, everyone, we're live at cnn headquarters in atlanta. welcome to you and around the world. i'm natalie allen. multiple sources are telling cnn of a strong push in the white house to end president trump's daily coronavirus briefs. administration officials are said to be alarmed by the president's habit of promoting dubious, even dangerous medical