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call today to request yours. i am brianna keilar, this is cnn's special coverage of the pandemic. there is a growing disconnect between the public and the private phase of the president on how he deals with the spread. he tweeted today that coronavirus numbers are looking better and he and his vice president often refused to wear masks. after two staffers in the white house tested positive last week, sources say the president is irritated and frustrated that certain staffs have not been wearing masks. the president says he does not want to be near people who have not been tested. the university of washington modelling a team the white house often site increased its death
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projections to 137,000. this is up 3,000 from its previous prediction. more people are moving around and nearly all states started to reopen one of the people in the west wing recently infected is press secretary katie miller. she had contact with top health officials who were part of the administration. we know that the leaders at the cdc and fda and national institute of infectious diseases have all put themselves in some kind of quarantine. the names that you don't see here are president trump or vice president pence. let's go now to cnn's kaitlan collins at the white house. before we talk about how the white house has been trying to do contact tracing and looking at katie miller and tracing from there. you got breaking news about the vice president. tell us about it.
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>> reporter: yes, the vice president was at an event on friday at a food supply table in iowa. this is the trip you will remember. this is where we found out the press secretary had coronavirus and tested positive. air force two is set to take off and some staffers get off. ka katie miller tested positive and those staffers were worried about their concerns. then you see this unidentified staffer come into the room and she signals through other executives that they can take off their masks. brianna, it is not clear what was said. we are told she was there on behalf of the trump administration. she didn't tell them to take off their masks.
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she was signaling they could because of their distance between them and the vice president. it was not clear if they themselves were six feet apart in this video. it goes to show you, they were wearing masks and when the vice president showed up, they took the masks off to participate in this roundtable. this comes as the vice president himself and office announced that he's not going to be quarantining despite his secretary being one of the two staffers being tested positive. we see a slew of officials who came in contact with that secretary decided to quarantine according to the cdc guidelines. we were told over the weekend they're basically scrambling to figure out who katie miller was in contact with. contact tracing where health officials is so vital getting people back to work across the nation. they're trying to figure out who katie miller got the virus herself. whether or not it was someone inside the white house or west
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wing. they're trying to contain the outbreak here so no one gets it in addition to katie miller and the valet we reported on last week also had it. it is remarkable because what you are seeing what's happening here is at a much smaller scale at the white house. >> kaitlyn, thank you for that report from the white house. now one of president trump's top economic advisers is speaking candidly about what it is like to work inside the white house rieg right now. >> it is scary to go to the work. i was not part of the white house in march. i think i would be safer sitting at home than going to the west wing. it is a small crowded place. it is a little risky. you have to do it because you have to serve your country. there are a lot of things you can't do except there.
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>> our cnn special correspondent and dr. james phillips is a physician and professor at george washington hospital and he's also as cnn's medical analyst. i know you have been talking to senior officials who described what the risk is like. tell us what you learned. >> you know i think that what we just heard is scary. what i hope is when you go to the white house, you really are rolling the dice. if you are visitor going to meet with the president, you get tested but you don't know the results yet. they say you can leave and if you don't hear from us, you are okay. then you go to the oeb and you interact with people and you go to the west wing, you interact with people. this person says to me what was surprising to them was when you leave, this person saw no one
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wearing mask. no one social distancing and they were told, quote, "we don't have to social distance or wear masks because we get tested." we know the staffs does not get tested everyday, only guests coming in. this is what we saw with katie miller. one day you can test negative and the next day you can test positive. the person then went to meet with president trump as part an event and there was no social distancing that the president was in arm's lengths away. i asked the person did you feel pressure not to wear a mask? they said absolutely. they just got the message loud and clear. so this is what can we say? it is irresponsible. these are the white house's own
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guidelines that you are supposed to wear mask and social distance but clearly the president does not want to do that. >> dr. phillips, what's your reaction to that? >> i go to work everyday in the hospital. when we walk in the door, we are screened and expected to wear a basic surgical mask at all times. we have our support of the leaders within the hospital to curve the use of non pharmaceutical interventions such as social distancing and mask wearing and hand hygiene. i feel like the white house where our most important leaders are should do better modelling to these hospitals where the primary concern of this virus is infectious within ins ots own w. you still choose to protect the
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most important of our government and not just that, as leaders of this crisis, as a commander of this crisis, the president has a unique opportunity from an optic standpoint to model behavior that his constituents should follow. this president has a unique ability to reach a constituents who model his behavior more than any other president in that lifetime. >> and dr. phillips, i know you are aware most of the top health experts on the coronavirus task force haves been exposed to someone who's tested positive for coronavirus. they're now in quarantine, that includes dr. fauci, he's doing what is described as a modified quarantine. no doubt his presence is very important on this task force but what does that mean to you, a modified quarantine. is there such a thing that's
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safe? >> first and foremost, i hope they are all okay and i hope they remain negative. daily testing they're going through is not a pleasant experience. i was tested yesterday and can attest to that. from his standpoint, first of all, i trust that he's going to make all tl right adjustments. what he means pie modified quarantine is that. when wu talk about exposure to this virus, he's looking at it in a healthcare setting, and his spokesperson told us a low risk encounter which is probably glancing. and in that regard, if he feels safe taking appropriate precautions and wearing a masks
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a i trust dr. fauci what he's doing to keep the people safe. >> thank you so much for pulling the curtain back on what's going on in the white house. we appreciate it. the numbers show more men are dying from coronavirus than women and there is as new study that may show why. new reports out of italy shows patients are seeing symptoms long after recovering and in some cases we are talking about weeks and weeks later. more and more americans returning to life assort of normal, one ice cream shop owner closed his store after verbal abuse from customers. he's going to join us life and tell us what's happening. this is cnn coverage. so you only pay for what you need! [squawks] only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪
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the federal government is announcing a plan to ration remdesiv remdesivir. a short strategiage of the drug putting hospitals in a tough spot. elizabeth cohen has been following all of this. >> brianna, it has been two weeks since the federal government says hey looks like remdesivir can save patients which is good news. the government has to ration this because there is not enough of it and now it is being called a bumble effort. >> remdesivir, the only drug shown to fight covid-19. given its price, the federal government has been doipulling
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out. >> new york city is administering 2900 people at 15 hospitals. >> reporter: there are about 7,262 coronavirus patients in new york hospitals. that same situation playing out around the country. this vile from the first shipment of remdesivir was used last week by massachusetts hospital. >> we know that the doses of this drug that we are going to get are not going to be enough to treat every patient that we have in the hospital now. >> reporter: so they had to make decisions about who gets remdesivir and who does not. >> this was hard. >> reporter: at mass general, they had about 200 patients and they had enough remdesivir for 65 patient and more patients are being admitted every and doctors
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don't know if they'll get more. >> this is not how we like to practice medicine. it is nearly an impossible situation to be in medicine when you think that you could and should be doing for somebody but you don't have it to give. >> reporter: the federal government did not explain which hospitals will receive remdesiv remdesivir. saturday the federal government says they sent it to some state health department and send it to all state health departments. they have not sent much to each state or their formula for determining those announcements. >> this administration does not believe in transparency. healthcare providers need to know about this. >> reporter: representative lloyd doggett has been following
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the remdesivir journey. doctors are trying to do their best to allocate the scarce resource. >> since doctors have to choose who's going to get remdesivir and who won't. naturally they want to know who would it work the best for. that information may be in this large study that was done. unfortunately the government has not published it yet. we are still waiting. br brianna? >> any idea when they'll publish? >> they say in the coming weeks. >> okay, we'll be watching with you elizabeth cohen, thank you very much. there is a new study explaining why coronavirus is hitting men harder than women. men's blood contains greater concentration of an enzyme that helps the coronavirus infects cells which leaves them more vulnerable than women. let's talk about this is now with dr. joseph at internal
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medicine at north wall health. thank you so much for joining us. give us a sense of how this is specific to this enzyme and why this is so significant in what we are seeing in gender disparities. >> thank you, glad to be here. men were doing worse and the enzyme to help facilitate entry of the virus and can't be implicated in the vile. the important thing is it givs s us a target to treat the virus and some medications that we use can be explained in that way. also, other medications that may affect this particular enzyme can be purposely used and looked at. it is an important set of
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information. all patients were heart failure patients. it remains to be seen and the same is seen who got heart failure. >> what this is telling you if you have more of these enzymes, you will do worse, that's telling you there is as way to tackle that enzyme or attack the availability of the enzyme than you can help people to get better, is that accurate? >> yes, that's accurate. >> the world health organization has found that in some severe cases of coronavirus people are not just bouncing back and their recovery can take a long protracted time. we should expect when people are discharge that their recovery continues. i guess how people behave once they are out of the hospital or
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even once they are clear of the virus but they are at home. >> so we learned so much of this virus in the early months of its effects so this virus manifests so many organ systems, the kidney and heart and gi track. patients are reporting symptoms and we see patients fatigue and after they have been treated recovered afterwards. we have seen some of the virus measures up to three or four weeks out. we need to follow these patients and particularly primary care physicians because of the very many manifestations and it is not just in the lungs. to see how it works out and giver patients some reassurance
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and they'll eventually get better. what we don't know is what we are seeing is directly from the virus or from the after effects of the immune response from the virus. >> yes. >> we are learning that johnson and johnson right now is looking to produce a billion coronavirus vaccines next year. they're starting clinical trials in september. they're hoping to have data by the end of the year. is that a realistic timeline in your view? >> that's ambitious. it takes at least a year or two to get a vaccine up and running. i think the trick here is going to be make sure that safety is not compromised and be ready to make sure that the vaccine is assessable once they feel it is right. >> such great insight from you dr. joseph, thank you. >> thank you very much. an ice cream shop owner
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frustration over social distancing is reaching a boiling point in some parts of the country. an ice cream shop owner in massachusetts closed one day after reopening because angry customers were not following safety guidelines and many of them began harassing employees. at one point things got so mad that an employee quit that same day. tl owner describing the insults that were said, some of them as young as 17 years old with
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vulgar language. that owner martin lawrence is joining me now. you plan to reopen and serving ice cream while trying to maintain social distancing and in the end this was ruined for you and it was not what you expected to go. what happened? >> we had everything we had was planned and i work closely with the national association of protocols. i talked to different owners at ice cream shops around the world in our facebook group. i pretty much took all the best precautions. i thought i had a good plan and
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everything was going well and people were ordering online at least an hour ahead. but by 5:00 so a group of kids pulled in and in a space about 40 minutes, my 50 spot parking lot was full and we were only expecting 20 audience for that particular time. so we were basically the wheels fall off the bus because we could not produce that is much product to get out the door in a timely enough fashion. people start to get very agit e agitated. we had curbside pick up and some people would get out of their car and we are leek ike get bac your car, we don't have ice cream. we are supposed to close at
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8:00. the last customer got served at 9:30. and the young lady -- i got a text from the young lady saying she's resigning because of how customers were talking to her. we should not call anybody some of the words that's being used. i apologize. why didn't you tell me? she says i didn't want to disappoint you. >> i know that you said, mark,
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one of your employees was called the c-word, we can use our imagination that this is inappropriate language. you are talking about kids. >> yes. >> yeah, and this is the lowest feelings that i know you ever had. i know people would not social distance. they were not having patience, where do you go from here? >> i posted on the page that we closed. this is not working. pretty much i got my daughter created an online form and tweaked the form that we had so we had time slots and we cut up certain time. it works really well. i made a whole new facebook page of a hidden group and sent the
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invitations out to see how we'll do on saturday. saturday was a whole new ball game. it was wonderful. people ordered and they came when they are supposed to came and some people came and didn't and they drive by. by now they see that things are different. >> it was like you let the wolves out after being locked down on 7 or 8 weeks and they took it out on this 17 years old girl. people are nasty to you, too. oh yeah. we got everything thrown at us.
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don't talk to me like that. 17 years old young girl, okay, i will go to the next. this young girl, she's the kind of kid that does not want to be at the center of attention. i talked to her once or twice a day she's like finished. >> you know, mark, i think that you're sort of a test case of a lot of places of what they are going through. we really appreciate it and we wish you the best of luck as you move forward. >> thank you, mark. >> thank you. a top meat packing union says at least 35 plant workers died from coronavirus. more than 10,000 infected. we'll hear what they are demanding.
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we are learning the coronavirus are much more severe for some children than initially thought. two children have died from an inflammatory illness may be link ed to the virus. inflammation of blood vessels going into the heart. juliet had to be air lifted to the hospital suffering heart failure and thankfully she's okay now. she's joining us now to talk with us along with her dad, shawn daily, and the doctor that treated you. thank you so much for all of you who are joining us of what a happy ending to no doubt a very
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scary story. juli juliet, i am so glad to see you are doing well. tell us what it was like when you realized you were not feeling well. what was it like? >> it was not a common cold or flu. it felt like i could not breathe and do anything because i was a lot of pain. it all started early in the morning so you can kinds of imagine how hard it is to get up. >> what was it like for you shawn, what was it like for you, dad? >> well, it was scary. i we thoug we thought she may have had the flu or something. it progressed into another day. she had blue lips and her
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extremities were cold so there were something very off, that's why we decided to take her into the doctor. >> so you go into the doctor, sean and then what happens from there? >> we took her into a pediatrician and he thought something was off as well so he went to the emergency room across the street. they noticed she had low heart rate, that's when they begin to diagnose it was a heart condition that affected her heart. >> doctor, you treated juliet and when you saw her whart did you think and at the end what did all this attributed to? >> when we first saw juliet, we recognized she was quite sick. her heart was not beating correctly so the top chamber of her heart was not communicating with the bottom chamber of her
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heart. we had one of our hospital for children intensive care who was able to help with intubation and she needed cpr after that. she was air lifted to us and we were able to get her stabilized quite quickly. >> so juliet, you needed cpr. did you remember much about being in the hospital? >> no, because i was sedated the whole day and i would remember being in the hospital for three days. the fourth day is when i started to remember everything and my mom told me about everything and
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what was happening. it was whhard to comprehend and lot. >> julia, it is amazing to see you take this in such stride. i am sure in a patient, doctor, that was something helpful for you. when you look at juliet's case, you notice some other kids had been suffering problems, trigger like this from the coronavirus, what do you want patients to know? sean made the right call and he got her to the pediatrician, other parents need to know what to do. >> what we are seeing is a syndrome that's related to the coronavirus which is what juliet had. she was over reacting to the virus or some cases we were seeing kids had the virus previously and they did not know this and they had this hyper-immune response to the
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virus. they should talk to their doctors or seek medical attention. >> juliet, we are so happy for you. wonderful to see you both there doing so well. doctor, thank you so much for taking care of juliet. thank you all. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> there is one border town that seen businesses closed on one side of the street and stores across the street is reopening. a tribe in florida set up check points to control the coronavirus but the governor gave them 48 hours to remove them. what amtrak is requiring passengers starting today? e's nr story than your story.
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customers dining inside but on this side of the street in virginia, phase one of reopening may not start until friday when restaurants can do outdoor dining. this has created confusion and frustration for one community split across two states and now experiencing two different economies. >> i'm in miami where officials in miami beach are reopening south point park, a week after closing the park due to social distancing concerns. the city there said it had issued hundreds of warnings to park goers for not wearing masks or not social distancing. palm beach county joining florida's 64 other counties in phase one of the reopening plan which means restaurants and retail stores will be able to reopen at 25% capacity and barber shops able to open there today. two counties in florida still under full restrictions. that is broward and miami-dade. >> i'm sara snyder in this sioux reservation. the governors are battling over
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checkpoin checkpoints. the tribe says they need this for the safety of people and checking to see if people are coming from from hot spots with lots of covid cases or whether or not they have symptoms. what are they doing here? asking qaens try to contact trace anyone who is allowed to come onto their reservation land. the governor says these are illegal and wants them removed and demanded they be removed within 48 hours but they are still here. the tribe says they are not going anywhere. while the governor says if that is the case she is going to take them to federal court saying that these are state and federal roads that cannot be impeded. >> thank you so much to our reporters for that. the west wing on edge as staffers test positive but some officials are refusing to quarantine. new details on why stroke and heart problem hospitalization numbers are way down since this pandemic began. when you shop for your home at wayfair
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♪ top of the hour now. i'm brianna keilar. this is the continuing coverage of the coronavirus pandemic. new details about the vice president in the hours after he learned that his own press secretary tested positive for coronavirus. this video from his event on friday in