hello, everybody. hope you're having a good friday. i'm john king in washington. thanks for sharing this day with us. another staggering coronavirus record. more than 77,000 new cases were reported yesterday. that is the ninth daily record of new cases in just the last month. our state-by-state trend map, well, it's sobering. you see it right there as are the numbers behind it. 38 states currently moving in the wrong direction. that means more new cases this week than last week. hospitalizations also trending um as are deaths in many states. the white house we now know knows how bad this is, but the president still refuses to take charge. his last official event about the coronavirus was july 7th. ten days ago. a document prepared for his coronavirus task force says 18 states, you see them right now, are in so much trouble they should roll back their reopenings but that document has

not been published or have its recommendations been published publicly by coronavirus task force perhaps because they run counter to the president's demands for full speed ahead on reopening. it's clear though that you at home across america don't like what you're seeing in our president. look at these new numbers. six in ten americans disapprove of how the president is handling the coronavirus. that's up 20 points from march. this novel thought today from the presidential adviser who coined the phrase alternative facts. solve the president's polling problems but bringing back the white house coronavirus briefings? my own view which is different than some people here is three things, one, president's numbers were much higher when he was out there briefing everybody on a day-by-day basis about the coronavirus, just giving people the information. i think the president should be doing that. >> a silent president at a moment of national governors leaving mayors and governors on their own and sometimes as you see they disagree. georgia's governor says wear a

mask and won't man tate it and is suing the mayor of atlanta because she is ignoring the governor and requiring masks to be worn in public places. >> mayor bottoms' mask mandate cannot be enforced, but her decision to shutter businesses and undermine economic growth is devastating. i refuse to sit back and watch as disastrous policies threaten the lives and livelihoods of our citizens. >> the marin keisha lance bottoms calls the governor's take propaganda and she says, governor, we'll see you in court. georgia is heading in the wrong direction. it the has way too much company on our map. let's take a look at the latest trends. 38 states, the orange and the red heading in the wrong direction. that means more cases this week than last week. 38 states, you can see them pretty much across the country. eight states, that's the beige yellowish looking color holding steady and four states heading down. just four states heading down. we're five-plus months into this and 38 states heading up as you see the summer coronavirus surge going from coast to coast.

let's take a closer look. sadly the death count also going up. this is a new map for us here. you can see 25 states, 25 states, 17 of them 50% more deaths this week than last week and 25 states in all reporting more deaths this week than they did last week. you get the case count and then you get hospitalizations, deaths usually a lagging indicator, 25 states, a sad map. 12 states holding steady and 13 states a lower death count than last week. remember, we knew it was inevitable as the economy reopened that there would be more cases but the question was would that overwhelm the hospitalizations? it was dropping as we went pay into june and now hospitalizations approaching 60,000. that's where they were at peak back in the middle of april. we'll watch this as it plays out. that's not the trend that you want. hospitalizations going up as you go through the summer being is. some people say well, it is what it is. it's not what it has to be. look at this. we've used this a lot.

european union, the united states is green. up the coronavirus hill about the same time, late march, early april but look at difference, look at the difference, the european union comes down and stays down, the united states flattens, drops a little bit and now the summer spike, the summer surge going back up. a different way to handle, it a different way, you can see what's happening here and just what happened here. that's the state of florida, hottest of the hot spots. florida, the green line early on as other states, new york and new england were going through this. florida was down here, but now it is experiencing the summer surge. you can see the european union spiked in march and has stayed down here. florida alone now reporting more cases on a daily basis than the entire european union. it keeps breaking the records this week for the number of new cases and the number of people dying reported in a single day. cnn's rosa fleres as she does many days starts us live with the latest from miami. rosa? >> reporter: john, the florida department of health just release the new numbers. those numbers are nearly 12,000,

12,000 new more cases in just the past 24 hours. all this as we learn that 12 employees from the florida eoc, the office of emergency management, have tested positive for covid-19. this is an office in tallahassee. they have been testing these employees, four of them tested positive just yesterday. this triggered the closure of the main office of the eoc, of course, all of this from the communications director in the florida division of emergency management who also says that the covid response has not stopped because all of these employees, of course, are still working from home here. here in miami-dade county, the 14-day average positivity rate is at 27%. icus are functioning at 107%. that's according to data released by miami-dade county. the good news is that the county has more than 400 beds that they can convert to icus but here's the deal. the main goal, the official goal

from the county was to operate at 70%. well, now they are at 107%. now, of course, what does all this data mean and what are politicians and leaders doing with it depends on who you ask. just yesterday city of miami mayor photographsis suarez telling cnn saying that this meant that there were a few days or perhaps a few weeks from shutting down. i just asked miami mayor carlos gimenez what this data means to him, how close is he? and he says under these numbers he still has more room. it will can still sustain the county for a while, so these, john, are two mayors looking at same data coming out with two paths forward and just days having a meeting, as roundtable with governor ron desantis about the need for one unified message. john? >> disagreement makes a complicated situation all the more so. rosa flores, grateful for your

live reporting, the hottest of the hot spots in florida. romania 18 states described as a hot zone. you can see is the 18 states there. the document was obtained by the nonprofit center for public integrity and recommends those 18 states roll back their reopenings until they get the virus under control. florida is also one of 11 states on a second list. rosa just talked about the numbers. florida in the red zone on that second list for high positivity rates in the coronavirus test results. the document though is not public and its recommendations we know run counter to the president's wishes. joining me now are cnn's chief medical correspondent dr. sgupt a. i want to start there. you just heard rosa talk about the florida governor and some of the mayors disagree. you live in georgia. the governor disagrees with the mayor of atlanta and some of the other mayors. at a sometime when we have a summer surge in cases, the president has not had a public event specifically designated to the coronavirus in ten days. we know this document exists. they get it. they get it.

now we know what we're going to say. we get lots of documents and lots of recommendations but they have documents saying 18 states should prol back their reopening because we have a problem. where's the president? >> you know, the president is absent on this, and i think that the problem has been that there's a desire to minimize this prock. that has been the problem since the very start. i think what strikes me about this document now that the center for public integrity sort of was able to get their hands on is that it is reflective in many ways of the criteria that were put out from the white house itself about how states should put open and as part of the gating citeiat they did include these triggers for when states should go back into an earlier phase, so, for example, you needed 14 days of downward numbers to graduate, if you will, to the next phase, as part of one criteria, but if you had five days of increasing numbers of community spread, you might have to go back to an earlier phase. there were a few different

triggers there, john, but those are sort of the basic ones so that the broad strokes of that not only were they out there, but they came from the white house itself. it was publicly announced, you know, at a press briefing, so generally speaking it's out there. the other thing, john, you listen to rosa flores describe what's happening in florida. we tend to think of these things linearly. we're seeing a two-dimensional graph and numbers go up day after day. what a lot of public health officials and i got off the phone with one of them earlier this morning. what they look at is the pace these numbers are growing, not just that they are growing but the pace. think of it lying a big steamship moving through the ocean. the as it gains more and more speed it's going to be harder and harder to stop. you can hit the brakes now, but that thing is going to keep moving for a while, it's harder to steer and harder to stop. that's the analogy a lot of people are thinking about, and that's why you've got to act now. you've got to hit the brakes now if you want this thing to stop a few weeks from now. >> we'll watch as that plays

out. sanjay, another dominant conversation around the country is parents can my kids go back to school and if they go back to school how is it safe? we're learning more about how the virus behaves in kids. tell us what we know and connect is to the school conversation. >> yeah, john, as you might imagine, i mean, this is topic number one in my house hold. i've got a tent, sixth greater in my house. i spend a lot of time reading the data and talking to authors of recent journal articles that have come out. first of all, i think we can reasonably and reliable to say at this point kids are less likely to get sick. let me show the numbers. this data held up from wuian. if you look at the percentage of kids that are actually representing cases in the united states, about 6 president 5% roughly are in kids 17 and upped, but 1% only of hospitalizations and smaller and then going to deaths .3%. that's encouraging, right. it does suggest is that these

young people are far less likely to die certainly and even less likely to get infected than the general population and that's been september data. what we still don't know clearly, john, and as a major question is how much are they likely to spread the virus? we know they can contain the virus in their mouth and noses at the same similar levels as adults but it doesn't mean they will spread it as much. hard to study, john. i've looked at large data trials, thousands of patients and sometimes they only include 40 or 50 kids. why, because kids have mostly been at home since mid-march in this country so they have been harder to study. but let me show you one cautionary tale that came out of israel. israel, you know, they sort of had a significant downward trajectory of cases may 17th. schools fully reopened, and lock what happened. the case numbers went significantly higher. i think the bottom line is this, john. i think kids are probably likely to be lower spreaders than adult, but if you're living in a community where the virus is already spreading rapidly going

back to that steamship analogy, opening the schools is going to add more speed to that ship instead of slowing it down. >> dr. gupta, one of the many conversations we'll continue to have as we go through this summer surge. sanjay, appreciate your insights, appreciate your data. data and the facts should drive this, not the politics. up next the legal showdown in florida over the big question of wearing a mark of, and should it be a mandate? elieve me♪ ♪go straight till the morning look like we♪ ♪won't wait♪ ♪we're taking everything we wanted♪ ♪we can do it ♪all strength, no sweat we know you're always at univethere for them.x, that's why our advisors are always here for you. learn more at phoenix.edu.

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wear a mask and repeated urges residents to do so, but he refused to mandate masks and is forbidding georgia's cities to do so to the point of filing suit to stop atlanta's mask policy. the governor says a mandate is not enforceable and in his view not necessary. >> i'm confident that georgians don't need a mandate to do the right thing. instead of issuing mandates that are confusing and unenforceable i'm asking all local leaders to enforce the current executive order. >> cnn's diane gallagher live for us in atlanta. diane, georgia's case count is going up. in the middle of that you have a fight over government power and masks between the governor and the mayor of the largest city. >> reporter: that's what this is, jop. it's a fight over government power and language and just how far the local smaller governments can go to, in their eyes, to protect their own citizens. now, according to the governor this is sort of a two-pronged lawsuit that is against

individually mayor keisha lance bottoms and the members of the city council, so not against the city of atlanta here, and there's a mask mandate portion of it which we'll get to in just a second, but it's also the fact that the mayor wanted to roll back the reopening efforts back in atlanta back to phase up. that's what the governor has focused on repeatedly when asked about this lawsuit saying that they have to focus on lives but also livelihoods. he claims that businesses just cannot survive shutting down again and what they would need to do to go back to phase one, but the mask mandate is in there explicitly and mayor keisha lance bottoms and the city of atlanta are not the only places where masks are mandated in the state of georgia. there's about a dozen different smaller communities including like the city of athens and savannah. their mayors have said we're going to keep our mandates for masks because we think that that's the best thing to do. mayor keisha lance bottoms says this seems political and maybe

the governor should be focused on other more pressing matters. >> the people in our state are dying, and perhaps the governor doesn't know anyone who has lost a loved one to covid-19. i do. i talked with a widow yesterday, one of our city employees who lost her husband to covid-19. perhaps he's not had to make those telephone calls as i've had to make. i would hope that if he has done that and that he would have a different perspective on this dpz and what it's doing to our communities, and he would better understand why mayors across this state are asking and mandating that masks be worn. >> reporter: now, again, governor brian kemp not an anti-masker, john. he just says that the mayors and other leaders in the state of georgia need to follow the executive order and the language as it is in his order instead of trying to pass their own.

>> we'll watch the court fight play out and the political back and forth. diane gallagher, appreciate the live reporting in atlanta. let's move on to colorado and a current change of heart when it comes to masks there. the state mandating mask if you're in a public public space and cannot keep yourself safe from others. the governor of colorado resisted a mandate until now because you had doubts that it could be easily enforced. i want to be clear to your viewers you've talked about selfish bastards who won't wear a mask, told people they should wear a mask and why did you decide after being reticent that you're going to go into mandate? >> we had had about 60% of our state including den per, layer per county and boulder county that had municipal or mandatory mask mandates for several weeks or months now and what we found that changed my opinion very clear. the areas with mask requirements had is a% to 20% more people who wore masks and even more

importantly they had substantially recused spread in the areas where the mask requirements were, so i decided it's pretty obvious, you know, what the other 40% of our state needs that level of economy. we care about our economy and savings livings and we need to learn from our cities and counties that led the way and mask-wearing economy. >> so you saw data and you changed your mind, shocking. >> it's all too rare these days but i try to be data driven. >> it is -- well, it's rare in some places. i shouldn't say it's rare everywhere, but it's rare in some places. i just want to put the case count up in colorado because we're watching this. this is 38 states now with more cases this week than last week. it's not just cased. we shouldn't obsess about cases. the question is how much is the growth and can your hospitals handle it and the like, but you see the colorado case count, the seven-day moving average starting to go up there. what's happening? if you look at the middle of june, a month ago, you were down into a better place and now you're heading back up. what do you see is at main

causes here? >> so the modeling which is certainly getting better by the week, there's better modeling of this disease now than there were several months ago show that if coloradoans didn't change their behavior we would risk overwhelming our hospitals in early september. we have a brief moment of opportunity, need to not just wear a mask, masks isn't enough and reinforce the need for social distancing. coloradoans and americans -- colorado is son a better trajectory, we need to live like we were in may, everything was open and people were more careful with social distancing and avoiding large groups. we need to go back to that way of living if we care about keeping our businesses open and savings living. >> and we're watching the 50-state experiment playing out. i'm talking to you after we had the conversation about what's happening in georgia where the governor, to his credit, wears a mask and tells people to wear masks but he says, he's a conservative republican saying i'm not going to mandate it. i don't think it's enforceable or necessary. he's in a court fight with the mayor there, so you have -- you're listening to mayors following what's happening in your city. we learned "today," because of this reporting from the center of public integrity, there's a

white house coronavirus task force that lists 18 states in a red zone and says they need to roll back their reopenings because of the rising case count. that document has not been made public. the president of the united states has not had an official coronavirus event in ten days. what does that tell you? >> well, it -- what i know as governor is that we have not been able to rehigh on the federal government to rise to the occasion battling this pandemic. every country that's battled this successfully and i do say this successfully, european nations have been successful, other nations have opinion successful. america has the highest case count and highest per capita death count of almost any nation in the world, and this is pathetic because we're a wealthy industrialized nation. the reason for that is clear. we've lacked a coordinated national response, national testing is still in disarray, and i understand -- it was in digs array in may and maybe took us unaware and they should have figuresed it by now.

doing whatever we can at the state level, republican and democratic governors and at the end of the day we're a nation happened need to work better together so that our country can get through this quickly. >> and you -- you are reticent about the mask mandate because you thought it would be difficult to ennorse, and, you know, you've got a lot to do right now. professional health officials are busy and law enforcement professionals are business but you watched these other cities and see that it's working and decided to mandate it. talk through the enforcement part. does the business have to call for help, a citizen call for help if someone is wandering around without a mask? >> the enforcement is not a big factor in the increased mask-wearing. cities have had this for a couple of month and a couple of counties have had this for a couple of months. they have had nelg jabal enforcement and generally speaking the reason the mask orders lead to greater mask wearing and it's moral clarity, it's messaging clarity rather than bickering over the legal words of what's mandatory where we say just wear a mask. it's a much more clearer message when the ars calls say why isn't

mandatory here or there? we're seeing it's the pofn public officials. in our state i was joined by the republican mayor, democratic mayor saying this is for this mandate, broad bipartisan support. some of the counties that have it have republican leaders, some are democratic. it's not a political thing. the virus doesn't care about party. masks stop the spread of the virus and this is a simple thing we can do about asking people to wear masks in public. >> masks do help candor today. best of luck in the days ahead. >> thank you. up next for us, very important news out of the pentagon putting out new guidance on whether the confederate flag can nye on military installations.

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important news just into us, the pentagon now out with a new policy that lists what flacks will be allowed at u.s. military bases. the confederate flag not on that list. cnn's barbara starr live at the pentagon for us. barbara, this is a big move.

>> reporter: it is, john and what you said is the perfect way to put it. defense secretary mark esper issuing a memo this morning that specifies what is allowed on u.s. military bases, confederate battle flag not on that list. what is on that list is the american flag, flags of state. authorized military unit flags, flags of military commanders. by not putting the confederate flag on that list it does essentially bar it. now what we know is that the secretary's gotten legal advice essentially. let the services take care of it. that will help with any legal challenges to so-called freedom of speech arguments about the confederate flag or any other legal arguments that someone may make. esper already endorsing the marine corps move to ban the flag. he's well aware, of course, that the entire joint chiefs want to see that flag off of military bases and the secretary is not owe mowsing that, but he wants to have a policy that are much

forward looking that will stand the test of time. let me read more of what he says about it. he says, quote, i'm committed to fielding the most powerful military force the world has known by strengthening the bonds of our most valuable resource, our people. that is why we honor the american flag which is the principal flag that we're authorized and the encouraged to display. flags we fly must accord with the military imperatives of good order and discipline treating all our people with dignity and respect and rejecting divisive symbols, so what the secretary is doing here is speaking to american military history in the years to come. he is putting into the military record why this is so important. what he's trying to do is to stay out of the trump world of political fire and a the president's crosshairs. still to be decide, of course, what will happen with those military bases named after comfort generals. john.

>> as you say stay out of trump world but the president the other day say a lot of people like that flag. we shall see if the commander in chief rekts a. stopping words from the defense secretary. barbara, appreciate the important reporting from the pentagon. up next, president trump had a press conference about deregulation yesterday and he wanted to talk about joe biden and the suburbs.

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the president's official white house events are sounding more and more like campaign rallies. the coronavirus is preventing or limiting. yesterday's promised focus at the white house was deregulation, but the president again went off script, at times went way off script and went after joe biden, this time with an eye on a glaring trump weakness, that additionally republican suburban voters who have revolted against this president. >> your home will go down in value and crime rates will rapidly rise. joe biden and his forces from the radical left want to significantly multiply what they are doing now and what will be the end result is they will totally destroy the beautiful suburbs. suburbia will be no longer as we know it. people have worked all their lives to get into a community

and now they will watch it going to hell. not going to happen. not while i'm here. >> with me now the senior editor at "the atlantic" ron brown teen and correspondent abby thrill in. ron, you're more of a cookie geek than me. this is not a new argument for reapins can a. the willie horton ad pack in 1988 george w. bush going after them by scaring them about crime. but suburban voters have revolted against this president. this is why nancy pelosi is speaker and why the electoral map tilts in joe biden's favor. is that going to get them back? >> right, look, first of all, these are not richard nixon suburbs, and these are not ronald reagan's suburbs. they are a lot more racially diverse than they were 30 and 40 and 50 years ago this. are a lot more college graduates than there were decades ago in the suburbs and the pattern is unmistakable under trump n.2016 he lost 87 out of the 100 largest counties in america by a combined margin of is a million

votes, including not only the center cities but many of the big suburban counties around the country. 2018 those people moved further away from the republicans, not only in the places that had already been trending to the democrats like northern virginia and new jersey, but new terrain, richmond, houston, dallas, atlanta, charleston, salt lake city, and i think all evidence, john, is that 2020 is looking even worse at the moment for the president in the suburbs. his numbers among college-educated white voters, his deficit is larger i think in most polls than in any data source that you can look at for 2016, and to me one of the key findings is that many of these white collar voters in the suburbs who might have believed that richard nixon could have delivered law and order to them as he promised are looking at trump and saying he is making the situation worse. one quinnipiac poll, college educated whites by 2-1 said they feel less safe rather than more with trump as president. >> abby, the challenge of the moment for many americans, if

not most americans is the coronavirus. we know particularly apockets suburban women a lot of them are the driving force in their house hole. they have to get their kids to school if they can get them to school and run the finances. the president giving the argument, he has 108 days. this is the "washington post"/abc poll disapprove the president's handling of the coronavirus. 45% at the end of march and 60% now. six in ten americans, meaning a lot of republicans. this is more stung. do you trust what trump says about americans say yesterday. two-thirds, just shy of that, 67%, abby, say no. the question is will the voters who have turned on him now listen now? >> reporter: yeah. even within that disapproval number, the number of people who strongly disapprove of the president's handling of coronavirus is over 50% in this moll. it really suggests that the president has a very deep problem here with trust, a deep problem here with voters' perception of him as a competent

leader, and -- and i -- one -- the interesting thing about this whole suburban appeal to me is that it is so explicit in its aim to -- to scare a certain segment of white suburban voters about the prospect. in this case what he's referring to in these clips are regulations aimed at desegregating the suburb, making them more equitable, a fair housing regulation but one of the things about the suburban voters as ron knows is they are very sensitive to these racial appeals on president's part. they have been sisified satisfied with his handling not just of the coronavirus over the summer but also of the issue of race in this country and so i have a lot of questions about this strategy because it is almost like taking a sledgehammer to this electoral problem that they have in the suburbs, and i'm not sure that it really is subtle enough to make some of these suburban voters feel like they are not

actually being sold some kind of bigoted policy appeal. i think that's really a tricky strategy, and i'm not really sure it's going to work. >> subtle is not usually this president's thing and sometimes blunt has worked for him, let's be clear, but to the subtle part. bill steppien, helped. >> colin: g-- helped chris christie get elected in new jersey. the cook political report moving 20 house races towards the democrats, not owl in the suburbs, but a good number of them in the suburbs and the cook political race say never have we moved so many races in one way in one time the democrats away so the climate looks very good and we know this from the data. the focus groups after 20 is, the suburban voters see the president tweeting every day and see his grievances and his anger and focusing on things that they don't think are relevant issues. in the middle of the pandemic when the voters have to juggle

life and school and everything else. this is part of the president yesterday, if he wants to focus in the final 100 days he has had a chance but you get this instead. >> my hair, i don't know about you, but it has to be perfect, perfect. our entire economy and our very way of life are threatened by biden's plans to transform our nation. the american dream would be sniffed out so quickly and replaced with a socialist disaster. they just want to destroy our country. >> it's -- it's a question. i mean it as an open question. the vice president today has a speech planned in wisconsin where he hits hard on the socialist thing. can they sell it? >> well, look, before the pandemic, you know, you looked at the suburbs and those voters were doing well economically, but trumpet was still underperforming, and he was underperforming at that point because so many of them felt that he offended their values the way he talked about minorities, the way he talked about women, the volatility, the

belligerence. what's happened though this year is all of those -- all of the characteristics, ernl about characteristics about trump that they didn't like, now have an enormous and very tangible consequence, and, you know, the -- the core reality of this election, again in "the washington post" poll today as abby was alluding to, 60% of the country or more say he's failed on the coronavirus. 60% of the country or more says he's failed on handling race relations. those numbers are at least that high among college-educated whites and that high among suburban voters, and i think it's very hard for him to regain the ground that he's got by amplifying doubts about biarden. the polls that came out this week that showed biden with double digit leads, in both of them his personal favorability is net negative and that underscores the limits of the ability of the president to regain ground solely by trying to, you know, stick abilities on the former vice president. he has to change the perception of how he is handling his job and that requires him -- that's reality, john. i mean, ultimately his reality

is he's running against the virus at this point and he's losing. >> and the psychology of an election when you're an incumbent for the voter is very, very different. the president sometimes hasn't quite grasped that. abby philip and ron brownstein, appreciate your insights. we'll continue the conversation. up next, georgia is among the top five states in the uncan try when it comes to new cases. a doctor there joins us live over masks and the virus. m an ar here at amazon. when you walk into an amazon fulfillment center, it's like walking into the chocolate factory and you won a golden ticket. it's an amazing feeling. my three-year-old, when we get a box delivered, he gets excited. he screams, "mommy's work!" when the pandemic started, we started shipping out all the safety stuff that would keep the associates safe to all the other amazons. all of these are face masks, we've sent well over 10 million gloves. and this may look like a bottle of vodka.

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moments ago, the top infectious disease expert in the country giving his advice as the country goes through the summer coronavirus surge. 38 states heading in the wrong direction. a new daily record yesterday for

coronavirus cases, new infections. dr. fauci says do this. >> i can say as a public health official that i would urge the leaders, the local political and other leaders, in states and cities and towns to be as forceful as possible in getting your citizenry to wear masks. >> defining as forceful as possible is a fight in the country including in georgia. the governor says wear a mask and won't mandate it. let's go straight to georgia. assistant professor of georgia's state school of public health. doctor, thank you for your time today. you hear dr. fauci. we know that masks work. in your state cases are heading up and the governor and the mayor in a spat over a mandate. what is your take? >> what's my take is that we are seeing consistent behavior of the governor. i would say at every step he's

failed to show the kind of leadership that we need to appropriately respond to this pandemic. i think if you look at what's been going on in georgia candidly it is not differently from nationally. there's been a failure of both the political and the public health leadership to do what needs to be done to address this pandemic so in georgia we were slow to close the state back in the spring. we were the first to open. there was an opinion piece in "the wall street journal" touting the georgia model and public health people warned at that time if we do that we can reasonably predict that in two to three months we will be looking at surging cases, surging hospital saegizations a here we are. i think, you know, it's hard to fathom that something as straightforward as mandating masks has become a political issue when the public health data about the importance of that is compelling.

>> i want you to listen. this is just this morning, kathleen toomey talking about kass, hospitalizations, death rate, she is saying the positivity rate is going up. listen. >> our test positivity rate on average is 13.6%. which reflects community spread at this time and hospitalizations have increased 39% over the past week. we continue to see outbreaks in workplaces, in businesses, in congregate settings, daycares, camps, fraternity houses, many churches. >> it's the list, it is the list there. this is not a meat packing plant, not one church, it is everything, everywhere. how do you bend that curve, sir? >> what's stunning, john, is that in the face of this surging pandemic there is a failure to adequately respond. i mean, you know, there was

narrative both in georgia and across the country about, well, you know, we are doing more testing. that's why there are more cases, they're younger, not ending up in the hospital. now the hospitalizations surging but they're not dying. guess what. now they're dying so that there's in continued effort to change the narrative. again, the fact that our commissioner of public health can say unequivocally that this is out of control where their own containment strategy and contact tracing is only reaching about a third of cases is just unbelievable. the way you bend the curve is that you apply the policies that we know that work. number one, you walk back the reopening. you know? if you think about the settings they just talked about, churches, we have amusement parks, camps, we need to walk that back and in a meaningful way, mandate masks and support

local leaders to do what they need to do to protect their population. the number one responsibility of government is to protect the safety and security of their population and we are utterly failing. >> doctor, appreciate your time today. georgia and the rest of the country goes through this summer surge and hope very much that the numbers change soon. appreciate your time. the troubling national trends and the white house response and first a moment to give you an update on our 2016 cnn hero of the year. he had to close his center for disabled youth in columbia but quickly reorganizing the efforts to ensure that children and families get the support they desperately need. >> this is their second home. and they really, really miss the foundation. we're su we're supporting the families and children first of all with

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