♪ coronavirus hits the west wing. >> i'm not worried, no. i'm not worried. >> plus, many experts worry it's too soon, but reopen is the president's push. >> as bad as this has been, it's just the beginning. >> some people will be affected badly, yes, but we have to get our country open. >> and millions of jobs gone. only adding to the pandemic pain. >> you think at first it's not going to last very long. once you realize you're not going back to work for a while, it's pretty heartbreaking. ♪ welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm john king in washington. thank you for sharing your sunday. both the need to reopen and the risks of doing so are obvious this sunday wherever you live and wherever you work, including the white house.

three top trump administration scientists in quarantine because they came in contact in the west wing with a white house aide who tested positive for coronavirus friday. a military valet who works closely with the president also had a positive test this past week. and ivanka trump's personal assi assistant is a recent positive as well. they were not following face mask guidance and social distancing before these cases emerge and the president and vice president continue to ignore some government recommendations still. >> look, i get things done. i don't worry about things. i do what i have to do. we've taken very strong precautions at the white house. but, again, we're dealing with an invisible situation. nobody knows. all you can do is take precaution and do it the best you can. >> just consider this moment, three officials crucial to the government's coronavirus response were potentially exposed at work.

just as the president goes all in on selling the idea it is safe and in his view past time for all of america to get back to work. now in 14-day self-quarantine, dr. anthony fauci says he will adopt a more limited quarantine because his contacts were not extensive. here's more from the white house this sunday. >> reporter: this is not the conversation the white house wanted to be having right now. president trump itching to reopen the country. he even went to arizona last week as a trip that was meant to signal that the country was ready to start slowly reopening. now, just days later, as you said, three of the nation's top doctors are all quarantining in some way because exposure that they faced here at the white house. the white house says that they are going to up their precautions. they say that president trump, the vice president, any aides that are in contact with them

will be tested daily. and they sent out a memo to all staffers on the complex, really outlining what they were doing to stop the spread since the vice president's press secretary tested positive. that includes outside inside of getting your temperature taken, they're asking you about your symptoms. they also say they're going to have heightened cleaning, maximumed telework. but one thing that was not present in this outline was anything about masks. u.s. secret service agents around the president, we started seeing them wearing masks. but in a meeting with his top security advisers and military advisers, president trump not wearing a mask. they said everyone there was tested before the meeting but i want to point something out. the vice president's press secretary had also been tested positive -- negative and then positive. so that doesn't really make it clear. but also this message of broader to the american people, these people are scared to go back to work, they don't know right now

if it's safe. you're looking at a place that has daily rapid tests, something that most of the country does not have, and they're still having several cases here and white house staffers have told us that they're scared. >> very interesting days ahead at the white house. thank you very much. coronavirus in the west wing is a messaging disaster for a president who made clear this past week, his first, second, and third priority is shaking the american economy from its coronavirus coma. look at the map makes clear, this is a giant public health gamble. let's take a look at the map. this is the country. here's the color coding. the darker red, 50% increase from this past week to the week before in cases. three states have done that. ten states had an increase of 10% to 15%. 15 states holding about steady. you see them in gold. 21 states report a decline. a decline in the lighter green.

you see up here montana, a drop of more than 50% this past week. if you look at this map, 22 states heading down, 15 steady, 13 states heading up as the president says it's time to reopen. let's walk through a few of them. arizona, barbershops, hair salons opened on friday. restaurant service opens tomorrow. is that a good idea? one of the requirements 14 day trajectory of cases going down. that trajectory still going up as arizona reopens. let's look at north carolina. phase one began friday. retail stores at 50% capacity. restaurants got to stay with takeout and delivery. a more conservative approach, this shows you way. the original guideline said 14-day trajectory down, that's not what you have as north carolina reopens. let's move on to texas,

barbershops, hair salons reopened on friday. not required to wear masks when getting those services. theaters opened nine days ago. again, white house guidelines said you should be going down, texas is going up or flat, depending on your perspective but it's certainly not going down. the state of mississippi, hair salons, barbershops, gyms can reopen on monday. theaters, bars and gyms still closed. remember the initial white house guidelines to reopen. among them, 14 days headed down, a trajectory heading down. that is not a trajectory heading down. mississippi's governor says some risks, you must take. new york's governor says, not yet. >> there is risk every single time you leave your home. there will be risk should you choose to go to any of these businesses that will be

reopened. i'm doing this because i believe that i cannot allow our small businesses to fold. >> i don't want to do an oops we made a mistake. i don't have to have hundreds of more people die because there was an oops, because i responded to politics. >> any doubt the president puts reopening and re-election above science was erased this past week. on friday he said governors who are going slow are doing so because of 2020 politics, not because of public safety. >> you look at some cases, some people think they're doing it for politics. here we go again. they think they're doing it because it will hurt me the longer it takes to hurt me in the election, and i can see some of that because some of these -- some of these people are being unrealistic. they're being ridiculous. >> and white house actions speak louder than those words. the cdc wrote a detailed memo offering reopening guidelines, read those guidelines and it's clear that several states are

way ahead of what government scientists think is safe. the recommendations though were shelved by the white house. the press secretary told us the other day they never had the approval of the cdc director. but government emails obtained by the associated press prove that to be another white house lie. the cdc director did sign off on that document and he wanted to post it as public guidance. this effort to sideline science brought a rebuke from health experts. to back pedal now without evidence or resources indicating it is safe to do so would be dangerously irresponsible. the president of the infectious disease society joins us now. he practices in akron, ohio. thanks for being with us this sunday. when you say this, you say it's reckless. you're saying essentially the president is making these calls and putting lives of risk? >> john, this is certainly a

sentinel time as we reopen our communities and economy as you mentioned and we have to acknowledge that this pandemic has had a significant impact on both public health and the economy. we don't waall want the economy back but we have to do it safely. we still have to use the personal practices that have led us to the present state now where we're starting to at least, you know, flatten the curve and that means continue to use physical distancing, continue to use masks when we're out in public because until we have widely available antiviral therapy and a vaccine, the best defense is physical distancing. and we also have recommended that the federal government take a stronger role and try to standardize the approach the states are taking so that we don't have a backlash. we don't want that.

we don't want to go back in lockdown. that's going to hurt the economy worse. all of these practices that have helped us to get to this state, we need to continue as we go forward with reopening our communities. >> what do you say to the president of the united states who disagrees with you. he's encouraging states to reopen, even states that didn't meet the initial guidelines that included a 14-day downward trajectory in cases. i went through several states and there are more that are going up or are flat at best that are reopening. if you look at the guidelines that the white house set aside, they were clear, cautious recommendations for businesses, restaurants, mass transit systems. if you look at texas, georgia, some other states, they are nowhere near, they're way out over their skis. what should the president of the united states do? do you believe he's pushing science aside? >> well, john, obviously our society is very well aligned with the cdc. and the cdc is the predominant

policymaking expert -- should be listened to and we recommend what they state and i think it's important for all the policymakers in the federal government, in the state governments to look at their recommendations and as best as possible follow them. >> and what is the result if they don't? >> well, the concern is, as we just mentioned, there could be a potential backlash on the public health increasing cases. if there's an increase in cases and increase in admissions to hospitals, that's going to hurt the economy. you certainly don't want to go back to lockdown of businesses because that's going to hurt the economy worse. so the important issue is, to maintain safety as we increase and open up the communities. >> doctor, you're on the front lines every day trying to battle this coronavirus. one of the things we learned about this past week is that there's a small glimmer of hope with remdesivir.

we know the federal government is in charge of the distribution. it will give it to the federal government, the federal government decides who gets it, when they get it, how they get it. where does that stand? >> that's a positive development that we now have an antiviral medication that has shown to show benefit. it reduces the duration of disease. it actually suggests that it reduces mortality. that's important. and so the maker of the drug gilead has donated millions of doses to the federal government to be distributed. actually, last week, i had several contacts from several members of our society and they also contacted our staff as well indicating that they were unable to get it, even in these hot zones such as new york or boston. i'm happy to indicate, though, that yesterday the hhs issued a statement that there's going to be better transparency, better equity of how this medicine is going to be distributed over the

next several weeks to months. and so that's going to be helpful. once that supply is, i guess, finished, then we're hoping that gilead will ramp up commercial supply so we can use it in all of our patients who need it. >> doctor, appreciate your expertise this morning. best of luck in the days ahead. >> thank you very much. let me say, if our viewers want additional information they can go to id society.gov. and also, happy mother's day. >> thank you, again, doctor. i looked at the website. it's very informative. it's different from what we're getting out of the white house right now. next for us, coronavirus in the west wing. as we go to break, a flashback, the president three months ago sounds different than the president today. >> well, i think jothey're

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that you can come to. that safest place is now a coronavirus hot spots. who aides who work with the president and vice president tested positive last week and three top scientists involved in the coronavirus response are among those now in quarantine because of potential exposure in the west wing. the timing could not be worse for a president pushing the country to reopen and insisting it is safe to go back to work. wi josh, i want to start with you and put up a couple of the headlines from the reporting here. as death mounts, trump tries to convince americans it's safe to inch back to normal. the timing is horrible for the president. what is the mood in the west wing as they deal with quarantine and is the president insisting, no, go back to work. >> the president wants to hit the road and travel and go out

and about and do some political rallies even this summer and signal to different states it's time to reopen and he's ready to go. his own valet and the vice president's press secretary were diagnosed within 24 hours. the white house is pretty battled by this. you have lots of folks who have said, were you in contact with either of those people, you have people who were sent home. you have a contact tracing operation happening right in the walls of the white house. so you have a president who is publicly signaling to the country, you know, this is under control, even as deaths top over 78,000 and inside you have them trying to make their own workplace safe. >> to that point, the most unique workplace in the world and yet it's not that much different from many other's people workplace. it might not be 1600 pennsylvania avenue. here's the boss's office, the number two, the vice president,

he's down here. here's the chief of staff. there are meeting rooms here, the press secretary has an office here, people are familiar with seeing these on tv. and you have these narrow corridors with railings, desks, doorknobs. if you work at the white house, you have no choice, especially, it's cramped, tight, people are moving around in some ways. it's a surprise maybe that this didn't happen sooner. >> absolutely. i actually have been surprised that it's taken this long and of course we don't know whether these are the first cases in the west wing or whether there may have been cases prior to this that we weren't aware of. one thing you notice in the west wing, it's a lot smaller than most people think it is. it is tight quarters. a lot tighter than some professional office environments. and by necessity, people are working very close together, they're in meetings, at tables, in chairs with speaker phones and the like that -- there's

plenty of opportunity for a virus like this to spread and spread rampantly and particularly because there appears to be, at least in public, we can't speak knowledgeably to what they do in private meetings. in public, there's been a call to wear masks. there hasn't been a lot of attention to social distancing at the task force briefings. people are not standing that far apart. anthony fauci may be one exception to that. he's tried to keep his distance. but they have by necessity a lot of mitigation steps that they could have been taking that we have not seen them take and that tone is set from the top. the president said he didn't want to wear a mask. he didn't think he should have to wear a mask and we haven't seen a lot of the measures that are being taken at other workplaces as the virus continues to spread. >> and so now faces we're familiar with from the white house briefings which have become less and less common, dr. redfield says he's going to work from home. he's going to testify on capitol

hill remotely. dr. hahn is going to testify remotely. dr. fauci is going to have a more limited but still a quarantine. if he goes into the office, he said it will only be if no one else is there. this all fits in, josh, the president's attitude, you see the quarantining, they're following the rules. if you come in contact with someone who tested positive, you should self-quarantine. the president and the vice president are not because the president is determined, he keeps using the words "warrior" saying, yeah, it's a little bit risky, but this is america, go back to work. >> now it's time to open it up. you know what, the people of your country are warriors. >> our country is now in the next stage of the battle, a very safe phased and gradual reopening. >> we have to be warriors. we can't keep our country closed down for years. >> right now we're all warriors. >> the science is not on his

side. he's trying to make the psychological be on his side. >> he's trying to convince people that it's time to do this. the difference, though, is that the unemployment rate on friday, 15%, you have tens of millions of people out of work and the president is messaging about that, but he's not messaging about the deaths on the other side of, you know, the opening too prematurely. as you saw on the chart earlier, some of these states are ready to go, but some of them aren't. and the president's rhetoric is across the board that it's time to essentially reopen now. you have folks in this administration who still would like to be a little bit more patient and concerned about doing this because if you start reopening now, even if he keeps saying warriors, you're going to have a spike in cases. >> and julie, we question why

does -- what does the president make his priority. and this morning he's treating mostly retweeting he's getting great marks for handling the coronavirus. mostly about the investigation, fake news. the american people are worried about a pandemic and the president is tweeting about grievances. >> i think the frustrating part for him is that you see the polls, you see the consumer numbers, as much as he may talk about wanting to get past this and reopen, people are scared and they're still not in a place where they're ready to assume life as normal. that's going to be a problem for many, many months to come. >> many, many months to come. appreciate your reporting. up next, coronavirus is a jobs killer. house democrats say it requires trillions more in federal spending. we are reminded the statistics count people and count pain. >> a lot of my co-workers are

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front pages this weekend capture the economic pain. jobless rate is highest since the 1930s, off the charts is another way to look at it or the jobs report from hell. let's take a look at the numbers, number one, just this, 20.5 million jobs lost in just one month, the month of april. the unemployment rate at 14.7%. it's higher than that. a lot of people left the workforce because of this. 15% and heading higher. nearly half the jobs in hospitality gone, 13 in

construction, gone, manufacturing, education and health services, jobs wiped out by the coronavirus. you see that drop? this goes all the way back to the 1940s. jobs up, jobs down. that's the swing. never before have we seen anything even close to that. you look at it here, remember the financial collapse of 2008, 2009, almost 9 million jobs lost. 21.4 in march and april. the other day i spoke to the chief economist from moody's analytics he says, even if we start to come back, it's going to be years to get those back. >> does businesses reopen across the country over the next two, three, four months? we'll get a bounce and it's going to be a slog. i don't think the economy kicks into gear until we get a vaccine or a therapy and even then it's going to take several years to get those jobs back. and so it's really not until d

middecade that we get back to the 3 1/2, 4% unemployment. >> michigan is among the states hardest hit. debby dingle is with us this sunday. i wish the circumstances were better. you know the numbers. you know them in michigan as more painful than most. 25% of your state unemployed. one of the questions is, what can washington do to help? at the moment, republicans are saying, let's wait. we don't want to do another stimulus package until at least we get a better sense of what's happening out there. listen to your leader saying, oh, no, we need it a lot and we need it right now. >> i think the american people are well aware of the need for us to do more in that regard. i'm optimistic, but we'll move forward in a big way because we have a big challenge to our country. >> with all of that, is there a an estimated price tag?

>> we're working on it. big. >> a trillion? 2 trillion? >> you're getting warmer. >> 3 trillion? >> what are we looking at? >> i think nancy's word "big" is probably the right description for the moment and there will be a lot of discussions this week. you got to break this down into two categories. i've been working in both of the categories intensely, one is how to take care of people's immediate needs and we keep the structure of a civil society that that people are able to access unemployment, we're still trying to move ppp funds for the small business owners, restaurant owners, give economic security. people who have rent payments and mortgage payments, how do we keep them safe, and make -- keep that structure of the civil society so people don't have to worry about basic needs. i'll talk to you about we need to fix the health care system.

but i've also -- i've been working every single day from the time this started to the closing of the auto industry to the reopening of the auto industry. in michigan, those numbers that you talk about are very much impacted by those figures. and the reality is, it's going to be a slow opening. and i would divide this into three phases for the autos. 25% number will go down when you start to build the industry back up. and also incentivize demand. the workers have to be safe when they go back to work. safety has to be the number one priority. they've totally revamped the plants, revamped the processes. you have to answer ten questions, you're not allowed in the plant if any of them are positive. they're taking their temperature. you have ppe in the plant, workers need to listen to what they have to do, the spacing there, plexiglass has been installed and workers -- we open

slowly this week. workers are going to be educated about what those changes are. >> you see -- >> and then you have the supplier -- go ahead. >> automakers, april sales forecast versus this time last year. feet chrysler down 50%. general motors down 39%. i get the economic need, you talk about all of these steps that are being taken in these plants. are you sure they're enough because they have access to rapid testing at the white house like that and coronavirus is in the west wing. are you confident you can open a general motors plant or ford plant or chrysler plant and not three weeks from now see a spike in cases? >> john, no one can give you that answer. i think it's going to be important for this to be a partnership, a team. i'm as nervous about anybody else, but you're going to have to make the decision at some point, when do you reopen? i sort of say that -- and i'm -- look, i talk to the president of the uaw every day and we both

are working with everybody else, companies are worried about whether they're going to be able to survive. life is more important than anything. but ensuring employers are answering the questions right that they know, if they have symptoms, they could be sick, they will have paid sick leave and they abide by the protocols that have been put in the plant, will be really critical. >> you talk to a lot of people that's why i like to talk to you because you're a reporter who is a congresswoman when you're home in your district. we focus on how big will the next stimulus be, how big will the fight be with republicans, i want to lift our heads a little bit. the historian was quoted in "the washington post" saying i have no doubt that the fear and is grievances that people are experiencing right now are going to shape our politics for the next generation very much as what happened after 2008. after 2008, we got the tea party, after 2008, we got in your party, the democratic party, a lot of the liberals say, wait a minute, why is all

of this government money going to businesses. it should be going to people. what's changing out there on the streets? >> well, for starters, making sure that the money goes to the workers and people i think is something that's very real and that you see more people across the political spectrum looking at. i think you've seen microscope put on a number of problems, fractures that some of us have been talking about for a long time. health care system totally broken. what are we going to do? only industrialized nation in the world that has some of the problems that we have. i think the only very significant change we're going to see is that people now understand what's happened with shipping the supply chain overseas and as we deal with our economic problems, we're going to bring that supply chain back home. ppe is front and center, but our medicine. 80% to 90% of our medicines are made in china and india.

and i think that will be -- i think you're going to see people -- i don't like the world nationalism, but i do think because i'm somebody who thinks we need to bring jobs back home and we need to make it in america. >> we'll see as this conversation plays out and we'll continue the conversation in the days and weeks and months ahead. appreciate your time this sunday. >> thank you. be safe. >> thank you. you be safe as well. up next, a medical perspective as america reopens with a mix of relief and caution. nt a sugar cookie... wait... i want a bucket of chicken... i want... ♪ it's the easiest because it's the cheesiest. kraft. for the win win.

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flattening the curve is one of the terms we're all learning together. flattening means progress and here's what it looks like. in new york and new jersey, two of the states hit by coronavirus, going down there. the average case count nationally in the united states, flattens, yes, but look at that in a stubborn and telling plateau. >> just calculating forward from the number of people whose infections have already been documented, there will be at least 100,000 deaths from covid by the end of this month. >> we're in the second inning of a nine-inning game. all the things we're doing to control it will help, but it's going to keep moving like that. that's what these viruses do. >> i think we're going to get out four or five years from now and there will be not a single aspect of our lives that's been

unchanged. >> with us this sunday to share their expertise, dr. ashish jha and dr. megan ranney, emergency room physician. thank you for being with us this sunday. dr. jha, the conversation you've tried to push the country to accept is the need for more testing. you were saying that you thought your estimate might be conservative. now you say we need even more testing. the gold states meet the minimum standard, the light red states are close, and the dark red states are way behind, far fewer testing than you believe is necessary. even governor cuomo saying his state is making progress. where are we in testing? >> the good news, john, is we are making progress. testing is better now than it was two weeks ago. and -- but we are for many, many states far behind. the reason we have to update our numbers is because all the models have changed and the number of cases and the number

of deaths has gone up and so you have to have more testing the bigger outbreak you have. one of the things we learned this week, john, as the virus has hit the white house, the white house coming out and admitting that testing is a really key part of keeping businesses safe. they're testing all of their folks every day, and i support that by the way. i don't think all americans need to be tested every day, but it's an acknowledgement that we have been behind on testing. when the president says there's plenty of testing, it's not true for most of the country. >> it's still not true for much of the country if not most. dr. ranney, you're in a 50-state experiment. from where i live in d.c. up through new england hardest hit, new jersey and new york the hardest of the hardest hit. and rhode island's governor i believe first in the northeast, i'm going to start to reopen. listen. >> our plan is to go slow. our plan is social gatherings limited to five, wearing your

masks, doing everything that we've learned how to do. but that's exactly why -- you put your finger on exactly why i'm imploring the people of rhode island not to do too fast in this first phase. the risk of going too fast in the next couple of weeks is enormous. >> let's look as you jump into the conversation as the five-day rolling average of cases in rhode island. it's flat and it's coming down a little bit. it's not dropping precipitously. are you nervous, or is your governor making a safe call? >> i think my governor is doing a terrific job of leading from a data-driven perspective. since the beginning of this epidemic, john, he's been ahead of the curve in terms of her leadership in conjunction with the doctor who runs the department of health. we shut things down early, we stopped schools. we put social distancing? place. we shut down most businesses and restaurants but still allowed restaurants to do takeout and now as she watches the data, she is doing phase one, testing the

waters. we are the ocean state. we have very, very limited reopening, but only in the context of adequate testing, contact tracing, protective equipment for front line health care workers, hospital beds and other public health measures. the other important part, john, is that she's saying she's going to pull back if we start seeing number go up. from the point of view of those of us on the front lines in the hospital, this virus is not going away. as everyone as said, our goal is not to stay shut down forever, it's to reopen intelligently placed on science. and i think the governor is trying her best to do that. >> i'm going to put some graphics on the screen. you see on april 7th, you see all this dark blue, those are people staying at home. the dark blue means you're staying at home. you see april 30th here, you see more movement around the country. the lighter means people are getting out. part of this is states are

reopening, the american people are losing patience with these stay-at-home orders. dr. ranney talked about the data-driven approach. the white house shelved cdc guidelines. the president says we have to reopen. let's be warriors. when you see the much lighter map, people moving around, does that concern you or are we ready for this? >> john, first of all, i think the white house came up with its own plan about two or three weeks ago. and that was pretty good. that was pretty science-driven. i think if most states follow those guidelines, we will be in much better shape. it's been unfortunate that the president has abandoned his own plan on this. as i see those graphs, it makes sense to me that people are getting restless. what most americans are saying, they want to get back to work safely and they're hoping their government can help in getting testing and tracing and all the things we know are going to make workplaces safer, up and

running. that's what i'm saying is a bit of antsiness, but americans want to be protected when they get back to work. >> very quickly as a parent, you hear about this kawasaki syndrome. we thought that kids are safer, are they? >> so i think that we're going to see more reports of this kawasakilike syndrome in the days and weeks to come. there are other infections that cause inflammatory syndrome in kids. the take home is still, i have to keep my kids safe from covid-19 not just because of their own health but because of the health of the larger community. i hope that we won't see more kids die, especially today on mother's day. i want to reassure other moms out there that this will be rare, but it is a -- going to be a real thing. so may we all keep our kids and our families safe. >> doctors, thank you both again. appreciate it. see you again soon.

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a global look at the reopening debate now beginning in the uk. >> reporter: i'm nick paton walsh in london where boris johnson is expected late sunday to announce slight tweaks to the lockdown policy. people may, i'm told by people close to the deliberations, be allowed to mix in outdoor groups. outdoor exercise may be permitted and perhaps stores will open. a lot of people in central london are taking advantage of the better weather as you can see behind me. but the changes, i'm told, will be slight. >> reporter: i'm melissa bell in paris. citizens are looking forward to the stay-at-home orders beginning to be lifted. the government is very much hoping it can get the economy

back to something like normal although, again, there's crucial parts of life, cafes, restaurants, that will remain closed for the foreseeable future. >> reporter: here in naples where we are, one of the most obvious changes is the city's famous pizzerias are open again but only for take away and delivery. they were closed in mid-march on orders of the local governor who was worried if there was a massive outbreak of coronavirus, the local health facilities would have been overwhelmed. fortunately that didn't happen. >> reporter: across asia, schools have been closed since late january, but finally they are starting to reopen including here in hong kong. and let me tell you, this city is ready after reporting more than two weeks of zero local new infections. schools here will start to reopen on may 27. in south korea, schools will reopen on may 13, starting first with older students, then all students by the end of the month. in japan, schools in big cities

like tokyo and nasaka will remain closed through may. south korea is a case study in reopening, schools reopening as you saw there, but also a new outbreak. will ripley has more. >> reporter: 34 cases, the highest single-day spike that south korea has seen in a month, all of them or at least many of them tied to the nightclub district in taiwan. somebody was at the club, interacting with hundreds of people, now people are starting to test positive. bars and nightclubs in the city are shut down until further notice. china also seeing its biggest double digit increase including in wuhan, the original epicenter. there's a lot of concern in asia about that second wave, people getting complacent and letting their guard down. >> japan is known for technical

innovation yet your reporting shows their response to the coronavirus has stalled because of the use of fax machines and snail mail. >> reporter: i talked to a japanese doctor who was so frustrated because he had to fill out this complicated form by hand, put it in the fax machine, it gets sent to the health department, they have to put their hanko seal on it and then put it into the computer. this is a throwback to the '80s but this is part of the reason why japan has been accused of a slow, inefficient response. just this week japan is starting to allow doctors to input that information online. it's not just the government. it's also businesses that still rely on the fax machine, basically refusing to go electronic because they like to have that hard document in front of them. it's really been fascinating. in america we write checks, though, and they think that's weird in asia, when you can do all that electronically and on your phone. >> will ripley, we appreciate the great reporting. that's it for us. we're here at 11:00 a.m. and

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