just ahead, several u.s. states are backpeding amid a sharp increase in coronavirus cases across the country. the u.s. president says he was not briefed on the alleged russian bounty plot. a source tells cnn the intelligence was in his daily brief earlier this year. e.u. leaders will soon decide which countries they plan to allow into europe but the

u.s. isn't expected to be on that list because of its handling of the pandemic. we'll have a live report from brussels. good to have you with us. mixed messages, u-turns and a warning with the july 4th weekend looming, covid-19 isn't taking a holiday. now a top doctor tells cnn the country is in a worse place today than it was on memorial day. >> in parts of this country this has not been taken as seriously as it should be by all of the residents. when you look at where we were memorial day and so many states moving into the right direction with numbers of cases going down, parts of the country really trying to use public health guidance as the roadmap to opening up the economy.

and then in other parts of the country the message being get back to work, go out, enjoy your social life. there's nothing to worry about with this covid pandemic. when you see that clash of messages between some political leaders and every public health leader taking it so incredibly seriously. when you see that clash of messages, this is the outcome. >> the head of the world health organization warns this is no time to be complacent or careless. >> we all want this to be over. we all want to get on with our lives. but the reality is this is not even close to being over. >> the u.s. continues to lead the world in the pandemic accounting for about 1/4 of the 10 million cases and also 1/4 of the more than half a million

lives lost. infections are rising in 31 u.s. states and 17 of them are now pausing or rolling back their reopenings. among them, florida, which is center stage right now for its dramatic spike in infections. in california, los angeles is shutting down its beaches for the holiday weekend after coronavirus cases topped 100,000. nick watt brings us the big picture. >> reporter: because of this, this, and this -- >> somebody has known. people could die. >> reporter: we are now hearing this. >> arizona is on pause. >> we will continue to take action based on the data. >> the window is closing for us to take action and get this under control. >> reporter: and in states that still won't mandate masks, some mayors now making that call in nashville, kansas city, tu pepe

and jacksonville. is his no mask mantra now evolving? >> he encourages people to make whatever decision is best for their safety. he has no problem with masks and to do whatever your local jurisdiction requests of you. >> reporter: meanwhile, long lines for tests where case counts are six times what they were a month ago. so south florida's beaches will be closed again for the fourth of july. in only four small states are new case counts actually falling while in these six states covid-19 hospitalizations are now at an all-time high. bars across texas have closed again. >> 46% of our positives are 20 to 30-year-olds. we think that was a direct result of congregations in the bars. >> reporter: at least 80 cases connected to one bar in east lansing, michigan. staff wore masks but -- >> they did not require masks for entry and they did not

enforce wearing masks inside. trying to keep masks on young people in a dance bar is probably a folly. >> reporter: and infections mung a younger crowd create a problem. >> what you're seeing is community-based spread where 20 to 40% of the people who are infected tonight have any symptoms so the standard classic paradigm of identification, isolation, contact tracing doesn't work no matter how good you are. >> we need, say the experts, around 30 contact tracers per 100,000 people. cnn has learned right now florida has about 7, arizona about 5, and georgia as few as 2. >> dr. fauci says he would settle for a vaccine that's 70 to 75% effective but not everybody would be willing to take it making herd immunity -- >> unlikely and that's one of

the reasons we have to make sure we engage the community as we're doing now. >> reporter: here in los angeles county, home to about 10 million people, officials say they're worried they might run out of beds in the next few weeks. the case count is really ticking up here. in fact, one local official said unless we put the brakes on, this could become a run away train. nick watt, cnn, los angeles. arizona is hitting the pause button on reopenings in the state as coronavirus cases continue to soar there. the state has had nearly 75,000 cases and hospitals are nearing capacity with covid-19 patients. cnn's stephanie elam has more. >> reporter: arizona governor doug dousy saying they are going to keep on pausing reopenings as there are a record number of covid cases and also with icu

beds in use nearing 90% in the state. with that in mind, the governor says there's going to be a pause on some businesses. in fact, take a listen to what he says. >> today's executive order will pause the operation of bars, gyms, movie theaters, water parks and tubing. >> reporter: now the targeted reopening for these businesses is one month the governor said, however, they said they're going to be watching the data to see how the numbers are doing as far as coronavirus cases in the state and will adjust accordingly. it's also interesting to note that they're saying they will not be allowing large gatherings in the state of more than 50 people, however, he did say that local municipalities could allow for some of those larger events to happen as long as they make sure that social distancing measures are in place. also noteworthy, the state now pushing back the first day of school to august 17th and, again, they say they are going to re-evaluate that date as they

get closer but obviously saying these numbers are going in the wrong direction. this is a bit of an evolution for the governor who at one point was showing up to meetings without a mask and now saying masks are very much a crucial part to fighting the coronavirus. stephanie elam, cnn, phoenix, arizona. >> cnn medical analyst dr. sanju matthew is joining us now. he is a public health official. thank you for being with us. >> nice to be with you, rosemary. >> the world health organization says the pandemic is not even close to being over. that is what we're seeing in america where 46 states have either increased or a flattening of cases. only four states are seeing declines in cases. this map shows the situation is worse now than it was back on may 25th, on maine mrl day.

how is that even possible when other countries are back to normal? >> as a public health care specialist i'm disappointed. i mentioned how upset i am. i always said i don't want to be an alarm mist but we're in a public health crisis, a public health disaster and i think it boils down to this one thing. we opened too early. we didn't follow the task force metrics of two weeks of cases that had to go down, dwindle to such a small number that we could actually do contact tracing and isolation. at this point with the numbers surging in a few states, it's going to be really difficult to do that. we just didn't follow the metrics in my opinion. >> the window is closing to get a handle on this and control the virus, but the one thing that could do that is the wearing of masks and while the vice president is now telling people to do just that, the president is not and he's not wearing one. he's not taking the lead on

this. so those mixed messages are confusing people. what is your advice and why can't people understand it? >> i hope people are finally getting it. at least a few days ago dr. birx mentioned how the mask not only protects other people from me as the mask wearer, it also protects me as well. and i'm really hoping, and i tweeted this the other day, that i'm hoping finally with that message people will understand, okay, if i don't want to protect you, at least, hey, i could protect myself. we've gone over the numbers. a decrease in 50% of transmission, rosemary, when you wear the mask. as you and i talked about the last time, if 95% of americans wear the mask, by october we can cut down deaths by 40,000. i don't know how a else to say it. it's really simple and people should just do it to save lives.

>> not sure why that message isn't getting through, but infectious diseases expert anthony fauci warn a vaccine will only be about 75% effective. his concern is about 1/3 of americans say they won't even take the vaccine when and if it becomes available. what could that mean for this country in terms of herd immunity and living a normal life? >> i'm a primary care doctor, and i'm telling you i already dread the fall when we're going to have both flu-like illness and influenza combined with covid-19. i have difficulty convincing my patients to get the flu vaccine. it's going to be difficult to convince americans to get a brand-new vaccine. i'm encouraging our viewers listening all over the world to start talking to your doctors about your concerns regarding not wanting a vaccination. i understand a lot of the

concerns, you don't know about the safety, will it work, but ultimately the only way out of this pandemic other than good antiviral medications, rosemary, is a vaccine. >> yeah. only 45% of adult americans take the flu shot so that is a real concern, too. just very quickly, how ready is this country for more hospitalizations and will there be enough personal protective equipment for medical staff this time around? >> i worry about that a lot. i worry about the states in florida, in california, texas right now where there are surges. i've actually talked to kw50i9 a few e.r. physicians in georgia and a couple of states in the south. the big worry is while the government is saying we're going to send this to you, will they have it right now as the need arises? and the bottom line is it depends on which hospital you're talking to. if you're talking to places like in georgia where we don't see the cases, yes. a lot of the hospitals are ready.

but if you talk to hospitals in texas and florida, they're concerned. they're really upset and not really sure if they will actually have the equipment ready to go as the patients come in. >> it is a real worry but we thank you, doctor, for all you do. dr. matthew, thanks for talking with us. >> thank you, rosemary. well, president trump denies ever being briefed on alarming intelligence that russia offered to pay the taliban to kill u.s. troops. two officials say that intelligence warning was included in one of the president's daily briefings. the defense department says it has no corroborating evidence to prove the reports but continues to investigate. cnn's barbara starr has details from the pentagon. >> reporter: the president's daily briefing is a notebook of information essentially that he is given every day. it's up to him to decide how much he wants to go into it all, how much he wants to read.

he gets briefed on key matters, and now two officials are telling us this russian plot in fact at some point was included in what you call the pdb, the president's daily brief, but that he was not briefed on it. the question is why and that's still to be determined. apparently the white house's reasoning is because the intelligence was not fully verified and corroborated, but here's something else. we have also learned that the national security staff had a meeting about the plot to decide and to begin to discuss some potential response options that they could eventually take to the president. so if it wasn't verified, if it wasn't corroborated, if it wasn't all that serious, well, the nsc staff was already looking at response options. we've talked to a number of officials across the government about this, and what they say tonight is it's a little bit still mistie phiing wphiing, th

involves the fate and death of potentially u.s. troops on the front line. it involves their families perhaps wondering if their loved ones were killed at the behest of russian cache being spread around. there's quite a bit to be answered here. why wasn't the president told and why if he was told didn't he express more interest in finding out what's going on. >> the white house national security advisor explained the briefing gap in a statement monday writing, and i'm quoting here, because the allegations in recent press articles have not been verified or substantiated by the intelligence community, president trump had not been briefed on the items. national security advisor was one of the officials who briefed a group of republican lawmakers at the white house monday about the russian bounty allegations. the democrats are expected to send a delegation for a briefing

in the coming hours. congress is demanding the trump chairman explain what it knew. we are told that jim acosta has more questions on why the president was not wreebriefed oe matter. >> is this a concern speaking truth to power that donald trump doesn't want to hear anything negative about vladimir putin? because after all the president was inviting russia back into the g8 and it's unfathomable that he would do that if he was knowing of the fact that his friend vladimir putin and the kremlin or russian intelligence services were offering a bounty on the heads of american troops if these are accurate. now to an exclusive report,

president trump was so repeatedly unprepared, outplayed by adversaries and hostile towards traditional allies that some senior u.s. officials concluded the president himself posed a danger to national security. sources say the calls convinced former top trump deputies, including national security advisors h.r. mcmaster and james bolton, james mattis, secretary of state rex tillotson and james kelly that the president was often delusional. several sources noted he pursued goals aligned with his own agenda rather than the national interest. >> when it comes to putin, he was almost slavishly seeking putin's approval, trying to prop himself up. trump is a great businessman.

demeaning his predecessors, george bush, barack obama in foul terms, calling them incompetent, now that he, trump, was there, that they could deal directly. the overall tenor of calls show the president of the united states in terms of allies bullying them, almost is a disstickically dealing with women on the call, namely angela merkel and theresa may. those calls with those women are described in almost issadistic terms. the spokesman for the german embassy here and in the united states saying those calls were very concerning and problematic. >> you can read carl bernstein's full story on our website. that's at cnn.com/politics. still to come, news reports say beijing has passed a controversial security law for

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we are tracking some major developments out of hong kong where local media report china's parliament has passed a controversial national security law for the city. state media in the main land have said the law would criminalize acts against the central government, like what it calls secession and terrorism. critics say the law attacks political freedoms and protesters marched through hopping congress over the weekend to make sure officials were aware. the law's potential reach is still unknown since potential details has not been released yet. i'm joined by cnn's will ripley standing outside the. what more are you learning about the new law? >> reporter: hi, rosemary. minutes ago we heard from hong kong lawmaker michael tien who

is known to be pro beijing of the mind set you should work with china versus against china. he was in a meeting with hong kong officials and chinese officials trying to hammer out more information and details about the national security law. they did not discuss specifics of the law so it is now in effect and still a secret to everyone who lives and works here, including the hong kong government and chief executive carrie lamb although they expect to be briefed. once they get details what's inside the law, we will pass it on to you beyond what you've just stated in the intro there. those acts will be outlawed with the maximum penalty of life imprisonment. it's significant we say life imprisonment. certain cases could be tried in mainland china where they have the death penalty. however, people arrested here in hong kong under the national

security law will not face the death penalty, maximum punishment will be life imprisonment. this is key here. the law is not retroactive. theoretically he could not face charges for what he has done over the last five years as the face of the pro democracy movement here. it's all about what people do moving forward. also, there will be cases where there is not a jury, and in those cases we're told there will be three judges. that's it in terms of specifics. again, we don't know what's going to cause people to get arrested. we have a good idea based on what happened one year ago yesterday when protesters on the july 1st handover anniversary, the anniversary hong kong was handed over from british rule to chinese rule. there was a huge protest in hong kong last year, one year ago tomorrow, and protesters, hundreds of them, they basically

stormed the legislative council office and they spray painted and vandalized inside slogans like who chong kong is not tryi destroy the chinese communist party. that would have been a minor penalty could now result in a life sentence. a huge turn and that's why possibly we haven't seen any huge protests despite people gathering and demonstrating in opposition of this law. >> very disturbing changes there. will ripley reporting live from hong kong. many thanks to you. steven, let's go to you now in beijing. how big a win is this for president xi jinping? >> reporter: well, rosemary, even without the official confirmation of the passage of the law or official announcement of details, this kind of hard line policy especially on national security issues, especially related to sovereignty always plays well

with the people here. the ongoing pandemic, governments around the world are too preoccupied with containing the virus and domestic issues than to stand up to china over hong kong. from beijing's perspective, this is long overdue. almost 23 years after hong kong's sovereignty returned to china. the hong kong local authorities have tried several times to enact a similar law themselves but failed. the last time they tried in 2003 triggering huge protests on the streets of hong kong and since then we have seen many such protests on the streets of hong kong against beijing, including the latest protest movement that began last year that really shook the beijing leadership and reinforced this notion in their minds that hong kong had become a bastian of anti-china sentiment and anti-china authority instituted by foreign powers, including washington. that's why they decided to take the matter into their own hands

to get them to pass this law because they think this is the only way to defend their core interests in the law, that is sovereignty and security. >> steven jiang there, will ripley in hong kong. many thanks to you both for your live report. appreciate it. take a short break. still to come, will you be able to vacation in europe this summer? the e.u. is deciding who's allowed in and who's not right now and our sources are giving us a sneak peek of that list. back in a moment. $9.95? that's impossible. hi, i'm jonathan, a manager here at colonial penn life insurance company, to tell you it is possible. if you're age 50 to 85, you can get life insurance with options starting at just $9.95 a month. okay, jonathan, i'm listening. tell me more. just $9.95 a month for colonial penn's number one most popular

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in just the next couple of hours the e.u. is set to agree on the new list of who exactly

will be allowed to travel to europe, and americans are not expected to be on it. that is according to two e.u. diplomats speaking to cnn. so who will be allowed to get in? here is a proposed list of 15 countries right now. some you might expect to see like new zealand but others might surprise you like china where the virus originated. so let's go to frederick pleitgen in brussels at e.u.'s headquarters. good to see you. >> fred:. what's the latest on this and what's the justification for including china on the list? >> reporter: hi there, rosemary. first of all, the list is going to be okayed most probably and then announced in probably 1 1/2 hours from now. we do expect that to happen fairly soon. you're absolutely right. china is an interesting case on that list. first of all, it does seem european officials do believe the situation with the coronavirus is by and large under control in china despite the fact that, of course, that is where the virus most probably

originated. so they do believe that the authorities right now have that outbreak -- have those secondary outbreaks that happened there, for instance, in the beijing area under control. but if you look at the sort of draft list that we've seen, the interesting thing about china on that list is that the european union speaks of reciprocity being one of the preliminary things that they want to see from china in order to include china on that list. that means china needs to allow travelers from the european union to travel to china if they can travel to europe. it's one of the cases on the list that is a bit of an outlier and certainly quite interesting, china being on that list. the other part of that list, actually, is also interesting because it doesn't have nations like china on it but it kind of shows that nations don't necessarily have to be extremely wealthy and have well-funded medical systems in order to be successful in beating back the coronavirus pandemic. you have, for instance, algeria on the draft list, georgia on

the draft list, morocco, tunisia, serbia. countries that have been successful in beating back the pandemic despite the fact that they don't have the best well funded areas in the world. the u.s. is not on that list. it could be quite an embarrassment for the u.s. the e.u. continues to say all of this is medical parameters that are there for us and they believe right now the situation with the coronavirus in the united states simply is not under control, rosemary. >> it is a wake-up call for this country. hopefully someone is listening. frederick pleitgen bringing us the latest from brussels. many thanks. remember early in the coronavirus pandemic when the u.s. was still relatively unscathed and no one wanted to wind up like italy where things were out of control and life was shut down? well, fast forward a couple of months. now italy has a handle on things and is getting back to normal. the u.s., however, has a bigger

problem now than it did in may. ben wedeman reports on two countries going in opposite directions. >> reporter: italy was the canary in the coronavirus coal mine. proof that the virus would not stay in china, i saw it firsthand. you just need to look at the death notices here. this woman died on the 7th of march. this man died on the 8th of march. this woman died on the 7th of march. americans looked on in horror. the u.s. surgeon general warned them to take heed. >> we have the same number of cases now that italy had two weeks ago and we have a choice to make. do we want to really lean into social distancing and mitigation strategies and flatten the curve or do we just want to keep going on with business as usual and end up being italy? >> reporter: comparing the two countries from the start of their respective outbreaks, it's clear american cases spread much

faster. today italy has flattened its curve, the united states has not. while the death rate in italy was slightly higher, american health experts say it is a lagging indicator. >> it is turning out america took it less seriously than italy. while we did lock down maybe a little earlier, we just -- we didn't sustain the lockdown. we didn't really ramp up our testing as much as we needed and then we opened up way too early and way too aggressively. >> reporter: just like italy before them, some american hospitals are now running out of beds reliving italy's mistakes, but the government in rome took on a centralized response. we managed, the prime minister says, to get through the lockdown because we developed a national plan. >> what we have right now in the united states is a president that -- federal government that has decided to throw in the towel and let every state figure

that out on their own. that is slowly returning to normal. >> reporter: why didn't the united states see what was happening here and learn those lessons? >> very difficult to understand. >> reporter: dr. chardi advised the italian government throughout the crisis. he has confidence in american scientists, america's leaders maybe not so much. >> some of the best researchers and professionals are in the united states. i think some decision makers underestimating the severity of this disease. >> reporter: ben wedeman, cnn, rome. the u.s. supreme court has blocked a controversial abortion law from going into effect. rights groups are cheering the ruling but the decision could open the door to future cases. we will have details next. only $11. dealdash.com, the fair and honest bidding site. an ipad worth $505, was sold for less

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tense scenes in st. louis, missouri, over the weekend as an armed couple brandishing weapons and yelling profanities confronted protesters walking outside of their home. the couple who live on a private street told a cnn affiliate that a mob forcefully broke a gate and that they feared for their lives. it's not clear how protesters entered the private street but we do know they were making their way to demonstrate outside of the mayor's house. the st. louis metropolitan police department is investigating the incident. well, the trial date for the former police officer charged with killing george floyd has been tentatively set for march 8th of next year. three of the four former officers charged with aiding and abetting floyd's death appeared at a pre-trial hearing on monday

while derek shauf vin charged with second degree murder appeared via video. and we're watching more and more companies pull the plug on advertising on facebook. in just the last few hours huge spenders like pfizer, puma, adidas, h.p. and ford all announced they plan to suspend their spending on the site. they are joining the long list of major players boycotting what they see as failure to stop hate speech. to break this all down, we want to go to cnn's john defterios. we are seeing increasing momentum in the stop the hate campaign. is it fair to say it may seem odd if companies don't sign on now? >> reporter: yeah. it's almost we're at the point, rosemary, it's a must do for companies, particularly the larger ones. there's been a parade over the last five days of the fortune

500 companies saying i'll make the minimum commitment. why are you doing it the month of july. the latest wave of companies, like, for example, pfizer, ford, adidas, denney's the dining chain all suggested they're going to stop their advertising on facebook and the affiliated company instagram for one month. then we have another category of companies, large ones, that have taken a different strategy. microsoft started back in may frustrated by the platform itself and what was percolating on facebook. then we had clorox come out, a household product maker that's done very well during the pandemic saying we're not just stopping until july, we're going to carry it on throughout 2020. then there's the perception that mark zuckerberg is behind the curve. there's 3 million postings a day for hate and they're trying to

eliminate them all here. is it too big to manage is the question i think it's worth raising. 2.6 billion users a month. 1/3 of the world population is on facebook and now, rosemary, we talked about it yesterday, is it time for regulation? common sense media, which is one of the players behind this movement, is saying yes. they want to go to brussels to the european union which they think is more sympathetic and say, look, tv, radio, print, it's all regulated. why are we not doing this in social media? i looked at the numbers. facebook had $7.2 million worth of revenue and it's a billion agency today. >> see what impact it ultimately has. john defterios joining us from abu dhabi. many thanks. now to a major victory for abortion rights advocates in the united states. the supreme court has dropped down a louisiana law meant be to make obtaining abortions more

difficult if not impossible. the law barred doctors from performing abortions unless they had admissions at a nearby hospital. chief justice john roberts broke with his fellow conservatives and sided with the court's liberal members and the supreme court declared the law unconstitutional in a 5-4 ruling. joining me now is jeffrey rosen, president and ceo of the national constitution center. he also teaches at george washington university law school. thank you so much for being with us. >> thank you. >> so how significant was the move by supreme court chief justice john roberts to side with liberal justices to black the louisiana abortion law that would have closed most clinics in that state? >> chief justice roberts' decision to side with the liberals in the abortion case is

tremendously significant. it shows that he's willing to take precedent very seriously, even in a case that people believe was wrongly decided doesn't matter. in that sense it provides a strong sense of how he could wait and in that sense it should give great comfort for those who want to side with liberal justices recently upholding the immigration program that allowed dreamers to stay in the country and he sided with an opinion that extended antidiscrimination protections to lgbtq workers. is he becoming the new swing vote on the supreme court? or is that being overly simplistic here? >> chief justice roberts is at

the center, the median justice and it's very much the roberts court. he has taken the court into his own image and he's made clear that he cares deeply about the institutional legitimacy of the court. in all of these cases he believed that siding with the progressives was the right thing to do legally but also that it was important for the court institutionally. he has not become a liberal by any means. he voted with the conservatives to strike down the consumer protection mantle board that elizabeth warren put up. he is an institutionalist. when he thinks what will appear partisan by having a 5-4 vote on liberal versus conservative lines, he wants to avoid that. that's why this is so tremendously significant. >> and since taking office, president trump has named and appointed two conservative

justices to the supreme court. supporters of abortion rights were fearful that this would strengthen the conservative majority and put landmark opinions like roe versus wade in jeopardy as you mentioned. justice clarence thomas said in his dissent monday that row should be revisited. what will likely happen when it is? >> we can't know for sure what will happen in roe. justice gorsuch said roe is not at stake in this case. this case is a decent indication that the four other conservative justices are willing to consider overturning roe. chief justice roberts seems less willing. he said it is important that they have reliance. people structure their lives and come to rely on that decision and the court should be hesitant to overturn it even if they think it was wrong. too soon to either celebrate or

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the u.s. state of illinois is now allowing people to dine indoors and workout in gyms despite having one of the highest number of coronavirus cases in the country. one of the states early outbreaks inside chicago's cook county jail. cnn's omar jimenez went behind bars to see how they're now keeping inmates and staff safe. >> reporter: inside chicago's cook county jail there's a delicate balance at play. now more than ever weighing the usual demands of being one of

the biggest jails in the country against the potent reality of the coronavirus pandemic. >> we're walking into a particular pod here in cook county jail where like all of them they had to cut down their population about 50% as a precaution for the coronavirus here. there are just some things you can't control in a jail but what you can do is try and spread people out. >> reporter: sheriff tom dart says if they see a spike of detainees in the summertime as they quickly do, that balance gets thrown off. >> there are interlinking parts where there's not unlimited beds, unlimited space, unlimited correctional staff to watch them. which means dart says they may have to go back to putting two in a cell, specifically those who have recovered from coronavirus like robert cook. >> i couldn't taste anything. my head was hurting real bad. >> reporter: he's being housed within a guaranteed camp created

by the jam for til for the pand. >> make sure you keep everything. i hope you're comfortable real soon. >> reporter: the camp became crucial as the numbers began to explode. >> we knew it wasn't going to be if coronavirus was going to come to the jail. coronavirus is in the city of chicago, it's going to come to the jail. >> reporter: you expected it to hit but you couldn't anticipate how hard it would hit? >> when i look back, it feels like the fog of war. we were in a fog of war. >> reporter: the number of cases went from 38 detainees in march to over 250 a week and a half later. in total since the first confirmed cases in mid march, more than 500 detainees ended up testing positive, seven of them died, along with over 400 employees testing positive with three of them dying. at one point the jail was labeled by one newspaper as the largest known source for coronavirus infections in the country, a label dart said was

unfair. >> no one else was testing. we're all saying, what did we do wrong? we literally did everything based on be science and logic. the only thing we did wrong was we were transparent. >> reporter: now the numbers have changed dramatically going from what was once a 90% positivity rate down to less than 1. even in-person visitations have revoould sumd for the first time in nearly three months. a lot of it stemming from here. >> just relax. >> reporter: does this test make you feel any better at all? >> the fact that we get results makes me feel better. >> reporter: testing is one of the biggest weapons the jail is armed with. >> i don't have it. you may not be sick but you may have covid-19. >> you don't have to be symptomatic. you don't have to have a risk factor. we are going to test you for covid. >> omar jimenez with that report. thank you so much for your company. i'm rosemary church. "early start" is up next. you're watching cnn. have a great day.

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