. welcome back. you're watching cnn. i'm brooke baldwin. thank you for being here. right now. the white house is considering new cdc guidance that would make a dramatic impact on our schools and restaurants and churches and mass transit. specifics for you, which i'll pass along in just a second. two of the changes many of you are experiencing currently as a majority of states are in the process of reopening some businesses by the end of the week. the nation's leading infectious disease expert cautioning states not to move too quickly. but dr. anthony fauci also optimistic millions of doses of a vaccine could be ready by january, and just a short time ago, the president added this. >> i don't know who said it, but whatever the maximum is, whatever you can humanly do, we're going to have, and we hope we're going to come up with a good vaccine. johnson & johnson and oxford, lot of different great companies, representatives of

our country in some ways, and nih is working hard doing a terrific job. i hope we're going to have a vaccine and we're going to fast track it like you've never seen before. if we come up with a vaccine, i think, they probably will. >> let's start the hour in new york with cnn's erica hill. you're following how states are taking various approaches to reopening, but first, let me ask you. what's happening where you are because of coronavirus? it's my understanding the subway is partially shutting down. >> reporter: yeah, that's right, brooke. we're actually getting new details from the city on how this will work. starting may 6th, next wednesday, between 1:00 and 5:00 a.m., the subway is going to be shut down for deep cleaning. this has been a point of contention in the city. the subway, the buses are essential in this major metropolitan area for people to get to work. and those are essential workers. not just the people, the people who drive the trains and buses, who rely on public transportation as well to get to work as well as folks who are

delivering goods around the city and the tri-state area even. grocery workers that, of course, all the front line health care workers but there have been issues about the sanitary conditions on the subway. there's also been concern within the city of new york about more and more homeless people spending more time on the trains. so they'll shut it down. it affects 11,000 drivers in the four-hour period, so they're also putting together an essential quarter to help those workers get to their jobs in that time. we should point out though, overall, brooke, since the pandemic began, ridership for the mta for the subways here in new york down more than 90%. that's just one of the measures we're seeing here in new york city to get those subway cars to a place where people feel safe on them. they are not as concerned about getting ill so they can get to work to allow the city to open other parts of businesses here as we're seeing that start across the country. as more americans see a green light to move outside,

uncertainty grows. fearly o l nearly one in five filing for unemployment since the pandemic took hold. >> slowing but awful, every one of those numbers is a person who has rent to pay or a mortgage to pay tomorrow, may 1st and may still be waiting for unemployment benefits. amidst the heartbreak, some hope for the experimental drug remdesivir, a new coronavirus treatment that could see emergency authorization from the fda as soon as today. we still have to focus on those core public health measures of testing, tracing, building the public health infrastructure. the idea of remdesivir does not replace those elements, but it does offer some hope. >> reporter: federal guidelines to slow the spread expire at midnight. by the end of the week, 31 states will be partially open. many resuming elective surgeries and opening parks, stores and restaurants adopting new safety measures.

cnn obtained draft guidelines on reopening from the cdc which range from how to properly disinfect workplaces, to spacing school deaths to at least six feet apart and postponing all non-essential gatherings. the nation's top coronavirus expert urging officials not to rush. >> you can't just leap over things and get into a situation where you really are tempting a rebound. that's the thing i get concerned about. i hope they don't do that. >> reporter: florida moves into phase one on monday. though three of the state's hardest hit counties are excluded from the governor's plan to lift restrictions on restaurants and retail. along the gulf coast, ready for tourists to return. beaches tomorrow, limited to ten people. >> we reserve the right to flip the switch back off if we see a spike in illnesses or people don't be responsible to make good decisions. unfortunately, there's no play book. we know how to handle hurricanes. we've been through those before.

there's no play book for pandemics. >> reporter: california moving in the opposite direction. a busy weekend prompting governor gavin newsom to close all beaches and parks indefinitely. one local official calling the move overreaction. in los angeles, the mayor says his city can now test all 10 million residents across l.a. county regardless of symptoms for free. >> we all know this is a silent killer. it moves quietly through the population, and why it's so important for people who don't show symptoms to get tested is because oftentimes, they're the super spreaders. >> reporter: health care workers have priority as the city's 34 testing sites which the mayor said can process 18,000 people a day. alaska, the latest state to announce students will not return to the classroom this academic year. 40 states have now cancelled in-person learning. it's not yet clear what will happen this fall. some colleges say they will bring students and staff back to campus, including the

universities of alabama, georgia, north carolina, vermont, and texas tech. boston university announcing a hybrid of online and in-person learning. and in new york city, a grateful sendoff from the nypd and fdny for the usns comfort as the hospital ship heads home to virginia. heading back to norfolk to wait for the next appointment, when the ship was first brought up here, brooke, it was there as an overflow facility to ease the strain and then converted to a covid-only treatment facility. brooke? >> i saw it leaving down the hudson as i was walking into the studio. how about that, erica hill, thank you very much for a look at all of it. the white house weighing possible new cdc guidelines detailing how businesses, schools and other institutions should reopen and cnn obtained a draft of the recommendations. this is what you need to know. in part, schools, looking ahead, should space students' desks 6 feet apart and that kids should

eat at their desks rather than in the cafeteria. they say that faith-based organizations should limit large gatherings and rely on virtual or outdoor services where possible. it also recommends changes at restaurants including the use of disposable menus, plates and utensils. cnn has reached out to the white house coronavirus task force to ask about the status of the draft recommendations but we have not yet heard back. let me go to atlanta now to dr. dave montgomery, a cardiologist at prevent clinic there in atlanta and a pleasure to have you on, sir. let me just get your reaction to the new normal. these recommendations from the cdc on handling the reopening. what do you think? >> yeah, brooke, i will tell you that i would be surprised and shocked if those recommendations are released. and i'll tell you personally, as a physician who is right there on the line seeing this affect

my colleagues and hospitals in urgent cares all across the country, but especially in georgia, my concern is that a guideline is mistaken for a commandment. there's a sense of certitude in these guideline recommendations if they come out just like we read them. boy, you get the sense that not everybody is going to take them like a guideline. when i was a baby medical student, brooke, they told us guidelines were just that, guardrails. you don't treat every vehicle on the road the same, but you don't want to go outside the guardrails. there's a lot of trouble on the side of the guardrails. you treat every vehicle on the road very differently, but you stay in the boundary. i'm not sure if we come out with a guideline like that, that the average american will take that and say, okay, let me look at my own case. i'm an 18 wheeler, different than a compact car on the same road within boundaries. should i be treating myself the same? >> i get it. not everyone playing by the same rules or guidelines.

what do they need to say then, doc, to say this is the deal? >> you know, i think that it's irresponsible that anybody say we have a high degree of certitude what's going to happen with this pandemic. i think that what we should be doing is saying the stuff we know works. what has been tried and true? it is keeping your distance. it is washing your hands. all of those core measures we've been talking about in terms of keeping people safe, let's continue to do that, and where there is some concern by individuals, if there is concern by an individual, stay at home. keep yourself safe. we don't make the same recommendation for everybody but i think you've got to treat yourself individually. >> speaking of staying at home because you're there in my home state of georgia and we know they're reopening and i'm curious, just telling your own patients, because they can now technically go out, go to a restaurant, are you advising them to do so? >> so i'm treating my patients

on an individual basis just like i mentioned to you a second ago and that is, people who have a high threat level. if their level ved ais red and predispositions for doing poorly, i tell them to stay home. if their threat level is a bit lower, i tell them to use caution. still cover up, still wear masks, wash your hands, clean your surfaces but maybe do other things. we just have to be -- we have to use common sense in this and use an individual approach. it's harder for the cdc to do that, but i think we do, at the front lines, have to make sure that patients hear that. >> and then just lastly, i think it's so important to shine a light on those folks in this country who are disproportionately affected by this virus. so a report from the cdc found more than 80% of hospitalized covid patients in georgia are african-american, and it's an alarming figure. so why are we seeing more black folks disproportionately affected by coronavirus? >> yeah, you know, just a quick

point about that survey, brooke. that survey was done from 8 hospitals in the georgia area. seven of which are in the atlanta metro area. you have to remember that 15%, more than 15% of the atlanta metro area is black, african-american. so some of those numbers are skewed, but we do know that african-americans are disproportionately affected but some of the reasons that we're uncovering people to understand. p predispositions to diseases, underinsured or people who just don't feel like they have the agency to use their insurance, you know, unconscious bias, things like that. we know there's some reasons for it. but for us, i think we have to look at those people and say, hey, if your threat level is red, you should be staying home. not making, asking everybody -- >> and that is what you're telling your patients, i understand, like you said. dr. montgomery, thank you for all you're doing. i appreciate you. thank you, dr. montgomery there in atlanta for us. let me get to this breaking

news. cnn learned senior government officials are reportedly exploring proposals to demand financial compensation from china for its handling of the coronavirus pandemic. sources telling cnn these senior officials from multiple government agencies strategizing about options. many health officials believe it was first transmitted from animals to humans at a so-called wet market in wuhan, china. let's go to cnn national security correspondent kylie atwood there at the state department. w what are you hearing from sources about possible punishments for china? >> reporter: u.s. sources in multiple agencies working on potential consequences for china, essentially formulating what would be a long-term plan for china to pay a price to the coronavirus that has spread throughout the world and become a pandemic. u.s. officials have pointed their finger at china for that virus repeatedly. we have heard secretary pompeo

bluntly say china needs to pay a price, but what is interesting here is that there are real efforts under way, and some of the discussions have focused on options such as sanctions or cancelling on u.s. debt obligations to china and new trade policies. now, nothing is set in stone right now. these are still ongoing conversations, brooke. and it's also important to consider that it is really pivotal to consider this moment in time, the u.s. cannot move too quickly if they want to inflict a cost on china. that is because a lot of these medical supplies, their supply chain which the u.s. is reliant on, duothrougo through china. one u.s. official said it would be irresponsible for the trump administration to drive too quickly with this effort, but there are efforts under way to try and put some specifics on how china could pay the price. >> kylie atwood, thank you very much. we'll stand by and see what that update may be.

also today, "the new york times" is reporting the top officials in the trump administration have pushed u.s. intelligence agencies to, quote, hunt for evidence linking the coronavirus to a chinese lab and that has some intelligence analysts concerned that pressure from administration officials distort assessments about the virus. cnn senior national security corresponde corresponde corresponde correspondent alex marquardt with me now. they don't know the origin of the viruses, tell me more. >> we should highlight how remarkable this statement is. both from who's saying it and what they're saying, as you say, what they're not saying. this is from the entire intelligence community. this is not from one agency or another. this is from the office of director of national intelligence which is essentially the assessment as it stands right now from the entire intelligence community. and what they're saying is that right now, we don't know really what the source of this virus is, whether it came from a lab,

or whether it came from the market. the reason that this statement came out in the first place is evidence that they are between a rock and a hard place. you have the intelligence community that is hearing this narrative that is being pushed by the trump white house that it's possible that the virus came from a lab, and at the same time, that is not their assessment. so this is a remarkable statement in that they're coming out saying we don't have an assessment. we don't have a smoking gun. we don't have a determination. what we do know, they say, in this statement, is that the virus is from china and that has never been contested by anybody. w th they also go on to say the intelligence community conquers with the wide consensus it was not manmade or genetically modified. the intelligence community will continue to rigorously examine emerging information and

intelligence to determine whether the outbreak began through contact with infected animals or if it was a result of an accident at a laboratory in wuhan. if you read between the lines in the last part of the statement, and then look back at what we're hearing from the white house, it's clear that the trump administration feels that china is more on the hook, more culpable if this virus escaped from a lab rather than originating in a market, but at the end of the day, for now, the intelligence community does not have a solid assessment about that, and i spoke, in fact, with a foreign official earlier who was part of the so-called five eyes intelligence sharing group with the united states, and this official told me no one's able to say one way or the other. we just don't know enough, brooke? >> hearing that from a lot of people, aren't we. alex marquardt, thank you very much. coming up, the first doctor to treat coronavirus with remdesivir. the drug remdesivir is a drug that's showing positive signs

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victory lap over the administration's response to the crisis. >> is it fair for the voters to take into consideration your handling of the pandemic when they assess whether to reelect you in the fall? is that fair? >> i think they have to do a number of things. they do have to do that and maybe focus to that because i think i've handled it, and not me, i think our whole group has been spectacular. we have ventilators, we didn't have any. we built them. we have thousands, tens of thousands right now under construction, and we've given more ventilators than anybody in the united states. new jersey didn't barely have any. there was never a person who didn't need a ventilator who didn't get one. not one person that needed a ventilator, so we didn't say, he didn't get a ventilator and somebody passed away. somebody didn't make it. now we had a mask problem. now we have so many masks, we don't know what to do with them. we had a big problem. and you have to understand, we took over the coverage, and the thing that frankly, it's not as

tough as the ventilator situation, we're the king of ventilators but what we have done is on with the likes nobod ever seen before. >> he's not just touting his own perceived success. this morning, the president attacked sweden for its response to the crisis and tweeted, dozens of times about things that have absolutely nothing to do with the pandemic. about tv shows and james comey among them. the erratic messaging included praising states that are reopening in open defiance of the white house guidelines and downplaying the need for nationwide testing his own experts are calling for. much is a push to get the economy going again and some because it's an election year. some getting concerned. david purdue warned a group of gop activists his deeply red state is in play this november and those kind of headlines have led to tension at the white house. here's what we've learned at cnn. that president trump erupted in

a phone call with his campaign manager, set off largely by sliding poll numbers. with me now, david chalian and gloria borger. do you have any ideas which polls set the president off? >> well, yes. jeremy diamond reported this, brooke, it was the internal polls, the trump campaign and the rnc, their own internal polling in specific battleground states critical to the president's chances of reelection that set him off but let me just say, the internal polls match what we've seen publicly. we saw a recent set of polls out of michigan and pennsylvania and florida that the president is at a deficit. he's at a pretty big deficit in michigan and pennsylvania and in florida, he's running behind joe biden too. what we see publicly is what his own tell him but also public

polls. >> what does it say about how he handled the pandemic? >> look at the latest pbs news hour poll that asked the question. 55% disapprove now, up from 49%. only 44% approve of his handling of the coronavirus pandemic. so he, as time has gone on in this after he got the initial bump, the brief rally around the flag that wasn't that big of a rally, his numbers have been heading in the wrong direction and this is exactly what his team was sort of briefing him on about changing the approach. >> gloria, what do you think of this? >> well, i think the president understands polls. he doesn't like them. he's lashing out about them because he has himself to blame for the polls but likes to blame other people. as you know. and this is a president, dale carn carnegie, you have one chance to make a first impression and he hasn't made a good first impression. he had a little rally after he

gave his initial speech declaring a national emergency and then as david is saying, his polls are heading in the wrong direction because he's giving the american public mixed messages. he says he wants to be a cheerleader. he just said yesterday that he wants the new normal to be going back to where we were, and everybody kind of knows that isn't going to be the case, including his own new cdc guidelines that could be issued very, very quickly, and so, in an effort to be this kind of cheerleader, the public believes they're not getting the truth from the president. remember, he wanted to reopen around easter. that didn't happen. and he's saying some governors are good and some governors are bad and then he's lashing out at the media. even his own experts saying they didn't know what was going to occur and the public is watching this and saying, this is erratic and this is not leadership. >> but, you know, the bottom line, the public is watching him and obviously, a lot of americans support what he's

doing and so, when he mentioned that he may travel to arizona next week to go tour the honeywell aerospace facility, americans say, oh, okay, the president is traveling. what kind of example might that set? >> i don't know what david thinks the polls would show about that but the west point graduation, how about that? asking cadets to come back and go into quarantine. everybody, a lot of people are still kind of self-quarantining or under lockdown in big cities and then the president is going and traveling because that's what he feels he needs in order to campaign. that's where he gets his juice but the public is looking at that and scratching their heads and saying, well, okay, does this mean we can open up? does this mean we can be a little more lax or could we

potentially have more problems in the fall as a result of that? >> when the president was asked about what the new normal might look like and we've been reading these cdc guidelines of what that may entail, the president's response was, new normal is what it was three months ago. that doesn't reflect what his own experts are saying. >> not even close, brooke. not even close. look at what dr. fauci said the fall may look like. we are not going to look like we did. this is not, as the scientists said, turning a light switch back on. i mean, that's why a place like arizona, where governor ducey extended the stay at home order until may 15th but starting on monday is allowing some businesses to come back. this is the gradual, the gradual return that a lot of scientists and a lot of governors are employing what is crucial for the president as a leadership test when he goes out there and arizona is no accident, he's right, this is campaign season-related. it's a state he desperately needs to keep in his column but

it's a leadership test. does he set the example for the country about what that gradual comeback is or does he give an example that this is all behind us the way jared kushner was talking about and the way he seems to think we can return to something that once was just a couple of months ago? >> exactly, exactly. thanks for the conversation, you two. good to see you gloria and david. coronavirus, the numbers on the screen right now has proven to be deadly, but especially for people battling cancer. coming up next, we'll talk to a woman who's beating the odds. and the doctor believed to be the first in the world to treat a patient with that promising drug remdesivir. he will explain how it helped one man recover.

a new study conducted in china with help from u.s. researchers found that cancer patients are three times as likely to die if they're diagnosed with covid-19 and the risk especially heightened for people with blood and lung cancers or those with tumors that spread throughout the body, but there are stories of hope. cancer patients battling covid and winning. my next guest knows all about that. eliza paris with me now. welcome. >> thank you so much for having me. >> i am so happy to see that you're on the other side of covid. i know that you have stage iv appendix cancer diagnosed at age 25, two years ago, and then you were seeking treatment, you got sick with covid. how tough was that fight for you? >> it was a very tough fight. you know, i thought i'd been through everything that could be thrown at me with cancer and then covid came in and it's just a whole other battle.

and i think one of the biggest parts about it is it's just so unknown. there's not a lot of research out there, and there's not data, a lot of data behind it and the symptoms are a lot different too. not being able to catch your breath is a very scary feeling and being totally isolated because of how contagious it is was a whole different experience for me because i was used to having my support system around me in the hospital and this is a battle i had to go through totally isolated and alone. >> that's awful to begin with, but then to have to isolate yourself, and i know a sliver of what that isolation feels like and you want to wish it on anyone. i know you getting coronavirus disrupted your chemotherapy appointments. it's my understanding that today, it's your first day back and of course, the world renowned cancer hospital sloane kettering, what was it like though to hear your chemo had to be stopped because of covid? >> it was defeating.

going to chemotherapy is what keeps me going because i know it's controlling the cancer and it's letting me live longer and live a fulfilling life and knowing had to stop and the risk of the tumors to grow was upsetting but i know my oncologist knows best and she studied cancer for decades and knows my body needed to get stronger to fight the cancer and that meant taking a break and getting over covid and my body strong again and so now i'm just ready to get back to fighting cancer after beating covid. it gives me a little more determination, if i can beat covid, i could take down cancer as well. >> i am hopeful for you right along with you, and i mean, as we talk, i'm so aware. we know so many americans are battling cancer right now whose lives have been totally disrupted because of coronavirus, so eliza, what would you say to them in those darker moments? you are obviously so brave and i

love your optimism but what would you share with them right now? >> i think the biggest advice i have for them is to advocate for yourself. if you're not feeling well, go to the hospital and make sure that they know that you have an underlying condition or cancer, the medications you're on and what you need and to get in touch with your oncologist. when i was at kenneth stone in atlanta, they talked to my oncologist at sloane kettering every day and collaborated to come up with a plan and i think that's how i got over covid and got back and ready so quickly to fight cancer again. so i think to advocate for yourself is very important, and i also think for those that are hypersensitive to us, to wear masks and wash hands, follow the guidelines so we have a better chance at this. if we act as a community, we can get through this together. >> couldn't have said it better

than myself. you are a warrior. eliza paris, thank you so much. >> thank you too. the fda expected to quickly approve emergency use of remdesivir after promising results on recovery time of coronavirus patients. coming up, i'll talk to the first doctor in the world who actually tried the treatment. look, this isn't my first rodeo...

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a federally funded trial of the anti-viral drug remdesivir showed it helped improve recovery time in coronavirus patients, which is great. the fda has not yet approved any drugs for the treatment of coronavirus. and dr. anthony fauci was, however, optimistic about the

study's result and doesn't think it will be long before the drug is approved for treatment. >> well, it's going to be really quickly. i was speaking with the commissioner of the fda yesterday evening, and he's moving along quickly. they have not made a final decision or announced it yet but i project we'll see that reasonably soon. >> my next guest has used and seen this drug firsthand. dr. george diaz heads the infectious disease in everett washington. you were the first in the world to treat a patient with remdesivir after getting permission from the fda. how did you even think to use remdesivir and how did it go? >> well, first of all, i'd like to thank the cdc. they were with us when the patient arrived, they provided a lot of on the ground expertise for us to manage this patient

and the ones to advise us on this potential experimental therapy. we reviewed it with the patient and fda, got approval and the patient was willing to receive treatment based on the reports coming out of china. before he got treated, he was having really high fevers. he had oxygen, evidence of pneumonia on his x-ray. shortly after starting treatment, he improved quite a bit. able to come off of oxygen and his fevers went away. and was able to go home in a few days. our experience with the first patient was very, very positive. and that certainly made us very optimistic and we certainly are looking forward to these results that are coming out now. >> how optimistic are you? i mean, since you've seen this firsthand and to hear you say he was able to leave the hospital in days is extraordinary. do you think this could be it? >> well, i think dr. fauci said this is not, at this point, a home run. he, thankfully, in his study,

saw some benefit in recovery times and they won't be enrolling patients in the placebo anymore. it's not ethical anymore to give someone a placebo for this disease. there was a second announcement that came out yesterday from the manufacturer gilead that gave us preliminary results from another study that they've been working on that we've been participating in as well, looking at treating patients with remdesivir in severe pneumonia and in that study, there was a difference in terms of being able to send people home when the treatment was started early versus late. and so that, i think, sort of makes sense that patients are treated early in the disease are able to go home sooner than those treated much later with the disease and so both of these studies that have not been published yet give us a lot of optimism that this may be an

effective treatment for coronavirus. >> let's go back to your experience with the patient. i want to know specifics because we hear, i mean, all these stories of folks in the hospital for weeks and weeks, fortunate enough to get healthy again and get out. it just takes, the virus takes really assault to your immune system. so i want to go back to you saying just a couple of days, this guy was able to leave the hospital. explain more about that compared to other coronavirus patients that i know you're treating as well. >> yeah, i think there is a variation in how patients present to the hospital. some patients will come in not that sick, and early treatment of those folks may result in sort of rapid recovery, and then there's people that become quite sick, requiring a ventilator and then potentially die. and so what we're trying to tease out at this point is really, when is the right time to treat patients? and it seems though earlier likely makes a difference, and

also, it seems that any treatment also improves your time of recovery. so i think that our patient, when we treated him in the spectrum of disease, although he had pneumonia and was on oxygen, he was not among the sickest of the patients we see in the hospital. so we certainly are waiting for further information about people that are sicker and really, i think what we'd like to know is, is there a difference in mortality? are we seeing any improvement in people with remdesivir in respect to whether or not they survive and we think hopefully those studies will be coming out soon. >> we'll be looking for them. we'll be talking again. thank you, dr. george diaz, for everything you're doing. >> thank you so much. we're getting in video in that marks an interesting change to the vice president's public appearance. he wore a mask today when touring the gm plant in kokomo indiana, seen on the right of your screen and then of course, we talked about this the other day, received all kinds of

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