you are watching cnn. i'm brooke baldwin. thank you for being with me. right now, i can bring you one of the best headlines since coronavirus took hold of the united states. here it is. the potential for a true treatment. now, there are no approved medications for coronavirus but just a short time ago, the nation's leading infectious disease expert said the result of the randomized control study of the drug called remdesivir is, according to dr. fauci, quite good news. why, you ask? because it showed remdesivir appeared to be effective to people recover more quickly once they were sick. here he was, dr. fauci today

from the white house. >> the data shows that remdesivir has a clear cut significant positive effect in diminishing the time to recovery. this is really quite important for a number of reasons, and i'll give you the data. it's highly significant. if you look at the time to recovery being shorter in the remdesivir, it was 11 days compared to 15 days and that's a p value for the scientifics who are listening of 0.001. so that's something, although 31% improvement doesn't seem like a knockout 100%, it is a very important proof of concept because what it has proven is that a drug can block this virus. the mortality rate trended towards being better in the sense of less deaths in the remdesivir group.

8% versus 11% in the placebo group. the reason why we're making the announcement now is something i believe people don't fully appreciate. whenever you have clear cut evidence that a drug works, you have an ethical obligation to immediately let the people who are in the placebo group know so they can have access and all the other trials that are taking place now have a new standard of care. this drug happens to be blocking an enzyme that the virus uses. >> let's go straight to our chief medical correspondent dr. sanjay gupta and, you know, you feel the optimism coming from dr. fauci. i know, let's live in the world of be realistic. 1 to 10, 10 being incredibly exciting and optimistic, where do you fall on this remdesivir study? >> i'm optimistic in the fact we haven't had any good news like

you framed it at the top of the show. i think you're right, there is nothing we can sort of point to right now as a therapeutic. let's be clear on exactly what dr. fauci was saying and i think we have some we can show you. first of all, the big question. does it improve mortality? are you more likely to live if you get this medication versus the other? placebo, 11% chance of someone dying. 18% with the remdesivir. a difference in numbers but actually, from a statistical standpoint, that's not a statistical difference or statistically significant difference between those two but look at the bottom thing, the duration of illness, remdesivir, 11 days, people on the placebo, 15 days. the reason that's significant is because the numbers, you may say, well, four days different duration, should we make a big deal about this? the biggest thing is it shows

that something can work, something can have an impact on the virus. it is a complicated virus. we haven't had good trial data showing benefit like this. so this shows proof of concept as he mentioned. i think there's a couple of question marks still. who should get it, brooke? should someone like you have received this early on in your illness or not? i was just talking to the former fda commissioner scott gottlieb who was following this for a long time and he doesn't know either but perhaps, it's for people earlier in the illness but clear cut risk factors like preexisting illness that makes them a special concern to something more considerable. we don't know. another question, does it reduce the amount of virus you're shedding? because that would be huge if you could actually reduce spread by taking a medication like this as well, that would cut down on the spread of the virus around these communities, so these are open question marks. as you said, brooke, i'm an

optimist. but i like to make sure we're presenting this data people understand. the world health organization, interestingly enough, just heard from them and they said too early for us to comment on this and i thought it was interesting, gilead, they have a quick sort of update on the web site to reflect what dr. fauci said, but they didn't have much more data up there either. so still some digging on this, brooke. >> dig away. i'm not going to let you go too far because i want some thoughts on what drew is about to report, so hang with me, sanjay. let's talk about testing. it appears, okay. and it appears the president's vision about where the u.s. stands on testing is not fully connected with reality. this admiral, the top administration official in charge of testing said in an interview with "time" magazine, quote, there's absolutely no way on earth, on this planet or any other planet we can do 20 million tests a day or even 5 million tests a day. hours later, the president

declared the opposite. >> you're confident you can surpass 5 million tests per day? >> we're going to be there very soon, if you look at the numbers, it could be that we're getting very close. i don't have the exact numbers. we would have had them if you asked me the same question a little while ago because people with the statistics were there. we're going to be there very soon. >> that wasn't the final word, just a short time ago, the president backtracked on whether we even need 5 million tests a day. >> somebody's throwing around 5 million, i didn't say 5 million. somebody said 5 million. i think it might have been the harvard report. they said 5 million. we will be there, but i didn't say it. i mean, i didn't say it, but somebody came out with the report saying 5 million. it sounds like a lot. deborah, what's with the 5 million? i think that was from the

harvard report. but we are going to be there in a certain point. we'll be there, but we're more advanced than any country in the world on testing. >> sanjay, let me actually come back to you on this. when you hear this from the president, what are you thinking? >> well, he was asked this question yesterday about the 5 million tests and to give a little bit of background, this was part of the harvard global road map in terms of how we sort of come out the backside of the curve on this pandemic, and what they were saying is that in order to get there, we have to have more widespread testing and we want to put a number on that, what does widespread testing mean and they said, by june, we need to be at 5 million tests a day. now that's what he was asked, are there other people who suggested other numbers in terms of the amount of testing needed, so obviously, i don't know if there was a miscommunication or a misinterpretation of what he

thought the question was, but one thing i want to point out, brooke, we're not necessarily talking about 5 million people being tested every day, it's 5 million tests and people who may get tests more regularly depending on their line of work, front line workers or health care workers, whatever it may be. ultimately in the same road map that harvard put out, they said, ultimately, we need to get to 20 million tests day, which is obviously huge because if you looked at the white house plan that was put out a couple of days ago now, they talked about testing 2% of the country a month, if you do the math, that's 6 million tests a month versus 20 million a day, which is what the road map from harvard puts out. a magnitude of difference in terms of the type of testing that people think we need here. >> let me move from testing to, we've got some breaking news coming out of florida where in florida, the state medical examiner's commission said that it has stopped releasing its list of coronavirus deaths as

the florida health department now stepped in, all coming from this reporting from the "tampa bay times." state officials apparently told the medical examiners they needed to review it and they may review causes of death and case descriptions. why would they do that? >> i just saw this news come across as well. i don't know what exactly is motivating that. >> is that odd to you? >> it is odd because data is more crucial than ever right now. i mean, we need to have the data. so one thing that's driving, i think, a lot of the policy decisions and helping guide how we best come out the backside of this curve, how many people are infected, how many people are hospitalized and how many people are dying? when we look at this data, brooke, on a daily basis, right, we get pretty granular about it and sometimes, it's grim. and i always hate just talking about numbers because there's always people behind these numbers. >> of course. >> i think ignoring some of

these potential deaths from covid, i think, i don't know how that helps move us forward in terms of drafting the plans that need to happen. now, if they're suggesting in some way, and again, i don't know what's motivating this decision, if they're suggesting we're not confident that these deaths that they're talking about in florida were actually due to the coronavirus, maybe that's it. obviously, tests we can do for this, so i really don't know, but all i can say at this point is that we need to have the data. florida needs to have the data. obviously, they're making some significant decisions right now in how best to reopen, what guides those decisions, and there's been a lot that's been written about that. guidelines that have come from the white house, what guides those decisions is the data. >> speaking of the data, you're in georgia. starting to reopen, but that's not supported by the data. not one state has met the white house recommendation with the declining cases for 14 days and i know we're talking about a

bunch of models but this is happening. this is the model from the university of washington that increases the death toll projection. we talked about this yesterday, up to 74,000. why are states disregarding the data? >> this is an inflection point, i think, as you might guess between the economy and wanting to open up the economy and what the public health sort of guidelines are and the recommendations are. i will point out these are recommendations that the federal government put out, but they were very clear, very easy to understand that in addition to having a 14 day downward trend, no state has, a 14 day downward trend in what we call symptoms, you know, people who have not necessarily tested positive but they have the symptoms that are similar to coronavirus, and having adequate testing in place. we don't have those things right

now, so i think what we're starting to see here in georgia, it's just been a couple of days, brooke, while people can go out, even the restaurants and to movie theatres now as of monday, there's a lot of people who still aren't. there's a lot of fear out there because people don't know whether they may have the virus in the system, may spread it or if they don't the virus, they may contract it, bring it home, even if they don't get sick. it's tough. i think psychologically more than anything else, it's been tough, but you're absolutely right. states, including the one i'm living in, are defying the data. the data is clear. the data doesn't lie. dr. fauci said regarding georgia, i would advise against reopening. the president obviously said, he disagreed with the decision. ambassador birx said, look, we made it easy to understand as possible. here's why we put in these guidelines and this criteria and obviously, that's not happening here in georgia. so it's a problem, and again,

brooke, as you know, that the impact of what's happening now may not be felt for two or three weeks because it can take time between exposure and people developing symptoms or needing hospitalization. >> right. i understand the desire to get out and feel normal again, but how can you go to a restaurant if people start getting sick and especially you down there, we need you well, sanjay. please stay in a bubble. i speak for so many people here at cnn and viewers too. sanjay gupta, thank you very much. >> yeah. just a reminder to all of you. jake tapper is investigating the u.s. response to the pandemic. the pandemic and the president airs sunday night at 10:00 eastern. coming up, shopping malls reopen across several states despite warnings that infections could rise. speaking of the data and it comes as we learn new details about the devastating impact this is all having on the economy. details on that ahead.

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are. american economy experienced the worst quarter since 2008, shrinking by 4.8%. a presidential decree and many resisting a return to businesses. cnn's nick watt is live in beautiful santa monica and i know you've been tracking how states are trying to restart economies. what are you finding? >> reporter: well, brooke, i want to just talk about the governor of iowa because the decision that she is facing is pretty much the decision that almost every elected official across this country is facing in one form or another. iowa just saw its highest daily death count, but as the governor says, this lockdown is just not sustainable for them. when you look at unemployment, when you look at food security, so they are going to start opening some businesses. it is a balancing act.

when to open to save jobs, how much to stay closed to save lives. many states in this country now planning to reopen, and soon, despite dire warnings from dr. fauci. >> if by that time, we have put into place all of the countermeasures that you need to address this, we should do reasonably well. if we don't do that successfully, we could be in for a bad fall and a bad winter. >> reporter: parks reopened in miami this morning. florida's governor, who was late to close, will today unveil his plan for reopening the state. in colorado, office workers can go back monday, but like many places, masks and distancing will remain. >> we're really facing a public health crisis here, but it's time to enter a more sustainable phase. 32 days, colorado has done an amazing job. >> reporter: right now, it

doesn't all appear any state meets the vague white house guidelines that call for a downward trajectory of documented cases within a 14 day period before any reopening. haircuts are already allowed in colorado and georgia and california, we're told that's still months away. by a governor now feeling pressure from those earlier openers. >> there's no question, it puts pressure. i'd be lying to suggest otherwise. i'm worried we can erase all the gains in a very short period of time. >> reporter: he said there will be no true normal until we have a vaccine. pfizer now said it will begin testing one in the u.s. shortly and claims it could supply millions by the end of the year. meanwhile, a new poll shows 65% of americans think it's a bad idea for people to return to work without further testing. and 91% think we shouldn't be holding large sporting events yet. >> i hope there's some form of baseball.

i mean, it's for the country's mental health. >> reporter: around 2500 attended the funeral of a popular rabbi in brooklyn. 12 summons were issued for violating social distancing and refusing to disperse. the city's mayor called out the entire jewish community on twitter and was criticized. >> our regret is the way i said it in any way gave people a feeling of being treated the wrong way. that was not my intention. it was said with love, but it was tough love. it was anger and frustration. >> reporter: felt by many. first quarter u.s. gdp dropped to 4.8%, biggest drop since the great recession. >> it is the tip of the iceberg. these numbers reflect, essentially, the impact in the last two weeks of march. >> reporter: more pain to come. even from within the white house said the second quarter could be even worse. and thousands more of us will die, that often cited by the

white house as 74,000 will have died by august 4th. could be sooner. we're already nearing 60,000. and brooke, we have just got an update on yet another outbreak aboard a u.s. navy ship. the uss kid was out on counternarcotics operation. the first confirmed case medevaced to shore, the ship now docked in san diego. 78 positive cases on board. that's nearly a quarter of the ship's company. right now, crew members are being isolated and quarantined in the base on shore. >> 78, wow. please let us know how they're doing. thank you, nick watt, for a look at everything happening in this country right now and i want to go back to something we were talking about just a few minutes ago about president trump and his flip-flop on whether the country needs 5 million tests a day to safely reopen the country again. let me play something for you.

this is something his senior adviser and also son-in-law jared kushner said about testing. >> dr. fauci and dr. birx gave the innovation team and admiral jawar goals they'd like to see hit on testing. we've been able to so far exceed those goals for the month of april. somebody asked me why it took so long. i said, you should look at how did we do this so quickly? >> senior correspondent drew griffin with me now. where does the country stand on testing right now and was that victory lap a bit premature? >> brooke, i honestly don't know what he is talking about, what goal they set internally and what they have said they have met. i just don't know. we're nowhere near the testing even the white house said we would have at this point, so any kind of victory lap that mr. kushner is taking is certainly premature. i just want to amplify what dr. sanjay gupta was saying. these numbers, you kind of get

lost in the numbers but if you can't get a test when you need a test, where you need a test, what is the point? and that's what we're finding out from hospitals, from state labs, small laboratories all across the country who say, yeah, the big clinical corporate labs are getting the lion's share of the materials and the supplies they can run the tests but we can't because we don't have those supplies on a consistent basis. and so, we have to take our patients, send them to a lab, 2 or 3 days later, get the results and that's slowing down the process and prevent testing all across the country. that, brooke, has been consistent theme since february. they have not solved the supply issue and therefore, any numbers that jared kushner is talking about are irrelevant as far as i'm concerned. >> yep. thank you for your perspective on that and it does go back to february. thank you. nearly 50 malls across several states are gearing up to reopen on friday.

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property group announced plans to reopen 50 of the shopping malls starting this weekend. cnn's martin savidge in georgia with details on what that will look like. >> reporter: i'm martin savidge in georgia. small businesses have begun to reopen. now some malls will too. simon property group, the largest operator of malls in the united states says it has plans to open 49 of its properties in ten different states starting on friday. security will be on hand to make sure shoppers keep their distance from one another and the food court will reflect social distancing changes as well. just because the mall's open doesn't mean your favorite store will be. that decision is left up to the store or store chain. >> martin, thank you, in georgia. right now, the state of iowa with more than 6,000 confirmed coronavirus cases and the numbers there, 148 deaths. 12 of those just in the last day, the largest one day jump so far, and despite those numbers, iowa's governor is taking steps to reopen businesses and if

people fail to work, she said there will be consequences. >> if you're an employer and you offer to bring your employee back to work and they decide not to, that's a voluntary, what's the word i'm looking for? pardon? quit. it's a voluntary quit, and so therefore, they would not be eligible for the unemployment money. >> by the way, iowa isn't alone in doing this. texas is also considering doing something similar, so for more on this, tammy luhby with me. our cnn senior business writer. is this even legal and if you're a worker and you don't feel safe going back to work, what recourse do you have? >> right, well, we have 26 million americans who filed for unemployment in the last month or so, so there's a lot of people in this situation, but it's not quite as cut and dry as the governor said.

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a four stage approach. flattening the curve. then opening lower risk like manufacturing, retail, child care centers but months before stage three, personal care facilities like hair salons and gyms could reopen and then the last stage, stage four means concerts and live crowds, sporting events. governor newsom that will come only, as he says, once therapeutics have been developed to treat coronavirus. and so joining me now, joey gonzalez, ceo of the workout chain berries. it's no joke but totally different that we're all trying to do the do from home. first thing's first, joey, thank you for being on. when you hear from governor newsom, it's months not weeks before places like berries can reopen, how do you feel about that? >> i would say it was definitely a bit of a gut punch. i think a lot of us being here in california and seeing some

positive results, as a result of them taking early action, we were hopeful and optimistic we might be slowly and very carefully opening our doors in the early summer, maybe june-ish. so that was definitely news yesterday. i would say that as a result, we're just strategizing ways in which we can continue to elevate our barry's at home product and maintain the connection within our community. our mission is to inspire people to work out hard, have fun, find their strength and be their best. so we're just working on ways to innovatively deliver on this promise because i think people need it now more than ever. >> as you're innovating and people are moving and grooving and lifting weights in front of their tv and laptop, what have you, because i know you're doing this now virvirtually, really, is that going and are you making

any money? >> so you have to kind of separate the fact that we are -- we have turned on revenue, but we have not turned on profitability, and they are two very different things. and what i mean by that, i'll start off by saying our commitment has been, first and foremost, to the safety of our employees and our clients. and we most definitely put that above revenue from the very beginning. we proactively decided to shut down all our studios across the country, prior to any governmental mandates, and once we shut down, we continue to support 100% of our employees the first couple of weeks of closures. beyond that, we sadly had to lay off part-time staff but we did keep on and still today have 60% of our full-time employees, at a slightly reduced compensation. and we're actually the only boutique fitness company that i know of our size to have offered

to keep every single trainer full-time, part-time, all of them employed and paid throughout the past six weeks of closure. and as you can imagine, continuing to support an employee base of this size is very challenging, with no meaningful revenue coming in, so unfortunately, we're in a position now where if we can't resume in the next few weeks or month and a half, we'll have to continue to make some additional difficult decisions. >> i'm sure people can find information about how to do the virtual barry's and good on you for being able to keep as many people employed during all this as possible. joey gonzalez, i appreciate you. thank you. >> thank you. just in to cnn, the uk has revealed a huge spike in the number of people who have died from coronavirus. we have that update. we'll take you there, and more on breaking news back here at home. "the new york times" reports the fda is expected to issue an emergency authorization for the drug that dr. fauci said is

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breaking news out of the uk. the country's just revised its death toll and it's a grim development. over the last two months, more than 26,000 people have died from coronavirus. that is 4,000 more than the previous count and that surpasses spain and france. this is happening as russia deals with its own crisis. let's take you around the world. >> reporter: i'm matthew chance and the kremlin acknowledged acute shortage of ppe.

needed for front line health workers battling the covid-19 pandemic. president putin said protection of protective suits has increased from 100,000 in march to an expected 150,000 by may but that's still not enough, he says, to meet the growing russian demand. this as the official number of coronavirus infections rises to nearly 100,000 in russia, amid strict lockdown measures extended until mid may. >> reporter: tensions high in lebanon following another night of violent protests after nearly two months of the coronavirus lockdown protesters are back on the street in what is being described as the hunger protest. lebanon's fragile economy hit hard by the lockdown over recent weeks, the lebanese lira tanked. the price of food skyrocketed. people are angry, hungry and

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heartbreaking parts of the pandemic is it is forcing families to say good-bye to family and loved ones on the

phone or through facetime. one couple's was a little different. mary and her husband tested positive this month and admitted to the hospital on easter sunday and passed away the following saturday. after a lifetime together the couple with beds next to one another got to say i love you one last time before dying six hours apart. and joining me now is their son mike keppler. so thank you so much for being with me and i'm so sorry for the loss of both of your parents. >> thank you very much. >> does it at all ease your grief knowing that unlike so many other covid patients who have been alone, at least your parents were together until the end? >> well i think it eases it abit. obviously it doesn't ease it entirely but at least some small measure of comfort arising from that. >> i had read one family member was quoted saying they essentially were the glue that held your family together.

i mean 73 years of marriage, holdi holdi holding hands between hospital beds. that is incredible. >> we're very happy that they could do it and we give all credit to the feeta hospital for making that happen. my dad had been in an icu unit but moved to the same floor where my mom was and they had the idea of putting them in the same room and putting them together so that was very nice of them. >> did you get a chance to say good-bye, facetime or otherwise? >> i did. i think it was the day before they died, they put both my mom on. my mom was able to communicate and say that she loved me. my dad, he was barely awake but he did make some motions with his mouth. he didn't say anything. i did get to say good-bye to my mom. >> and i know your family hasn't been able to have a memorial service yet because of the --

the odd existence, social distancing, it sounds like you have a pretty huge family. how are you all doing and then how do you plan on honoring your parents? >> well, i think it is pretty tough for us to do it. it gets better day by day but still there are some bad days and today is one of them because it is my mother's birthday. she would have been 93 today. >> i'm so sorry. >> but we do plan to hold a graveyard ceremony sometime in the future, they've got their stone already erected and we'll put their remains under the stone. >> can i ask, mike, just for everyone watching, i mean 73 years of marriage. what was their magic? >> well, it's in some ways there is a little bit of tolerance that has to go on with each one's foibles but my glue that held the family together. during the last five meres my

dad was in ill health and they were able to live at home because my mother was able to act as the nurse maid for my dad and herself. so a lot of credit to my mother. >> who would have had a birthday today. mike kapler, again our condolences and thank you so much for sharing. >> you're welcome. thank you much. and we must never forget those on the front lines. doctors and nurses and other medical workers risking lives to save others and in one tragic case a doctor taking her own life. dr. lorna breen died by suicide monday morning. she recovered from covid-19 and continuing to care for virus patients and chris cuomo interviewed her father. >> she was a doctor every bit of the word that a doctor should be. she put her life on the line to take care of other people. she was in the trenches, so to

speak, right in the front line as people were dying left and right around her and she contracted the virus herself, went home sick. had proven that she did have the virus and, indeed, stayed home for just a little more than a week which i don't think was enough in hindsight. but she -- i think she felt a overwhelming sense of wanting to help her colleagues and her friends who were still fighting the good fight and so she strapped on her hardest and took the bit in her mouth and she went back. and she talked to her -- just before the final 12-hour shift and during the time she was on that shift she basically went down into the trace like a horse that had pulled too heavy a load and couldn't go a step further and just went down. so she went down. she was retrieved and brought back by her family to charlottesville, virginia, where

she was hospitalized for a brief period of time. judged well enough to be out on her own but clearly was not better. and her sisters told me that you could see in her eyes that there was something not there. >> our thoughts and prayers for that family and her hospital community. thank you for being with me. our special coverage continues now with kate baldwin. hell, everyone. i'm kate baldwin. thank you for joining us this hour. the numbers continue to be staggering. now over 59,000 americans have been killed by the coronavirus with well over a million people in this country infected. that back drop makes this news all the more important. for the first time we're able to say there is optimistic news on a possible coronavirus treatment. dr. anthony fauci announcing from the white house just a short time ago new data on a