be mine ♪ ♪ would you be mine could you be mine won't you be my neighbor ♪ ♪ welcome back to our viewers in the united states and all around the world. i'm michael holmes. our top story, the growing divergence between the u.s. president and the virus. he's once again blaming testing for the spike in cases. health experts totally disagree because he's wrong. and say the soaring case count signals an ominous trend. but during an interview with fox news, president trump repeated his claims that the u.s. has done the most incredible job in the world when it comes to

testing. however, the botched testing rollout in the early days of the pandemic caused huge problems. and there is still a major backlog in u.s. test results, and not nearly enough tests are being done. president trump also suggested that fast-healing covid infections should not be counted, and that testing is just creating trouble. here's jeremy diamond with the details. >> reporter: coronavirus cases have been surging in the united states, yet president trump seems to still be denying the reality of the situation. the reality that cases are indeed surging, that new records are being broken every week, sometimes multiple times a week. president trump in an interview on sunday focused much more on defending his handling,

deflecting criticism, and making false claims. >> you still talk about it as burning embers. but i want to put up a chart that shows where we are with the illness over the last four months. we hit a peak here in april. 36,000 cases a day. >> cases, yeah. cases. >> then it went down. since june, it has gone up, more than doubled. one day this week, 75,000 new cases. >> that's right. >> more than double. >> that's because we have great testing, because we have the best testing in the world. if we didn't test, you wouldn't be able to show that chart. if we tested half as much, those numbers would be down. >> it's not burning embers, it's a forest fire. >> we have flames, embers, and we do have flames. >> reporter: while testing has been up about 37%, cases in the

united states are up 194%. and the gap in those two rates of increase is even more startling when you look at some of the hot spots like florida and arizona and texas. yet president trump, it seems, continues to make this false claim. it was just one of several from the president in this interview. he also tried to compare the united states' mortality rate to other countries favorably, and tried to compare it to what is happening in the european union, which hasn't seen the recent surge of coronavirus cases like the united states. also trying to downplay the advice of experts like dr. anthony fauci, even as he insisted there is no campaign to undermine fauci. but really it's about something broader. the president was also disagreeing repeatedly with the cdc, with the notion put forward by dr. robert redfield that

masks, if every american wore masks for the next 4 to 8 weeks, coronavirus could be in much better shape. the president rejecting that advice, and just the latest of the president butting heads with the science. some say that florida is now the epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic. officials reporting more than 12,000 new covid-19 cases on sunday. and in miami-dade county, there are no icu beds. cases have risen all month. florida with more than 350,000 cases. cnn spoke with miami's mayor, who explains one reason why florida is being hit so hard at the moment. >> the biggest factor is, since we got out of the stay at home order in april, we have seen

just an incredible growth in terms of the virus. people have essentially behaved as if the virus didn't exist. one of the things that this virus has proven, it's incredibly efficient at spreading. >> texas, one of the biggest coronavirus crisis points in the u.s. right now as well. that state just reporting 7,300 new cases, at least 93 deaths on sunday. that is better than the daily case numbers for the past six days, which all exceeded 10,000. but there are more than 10,000 people in hospital. and health care workers warn things could easily turn worse. los angeles health officials reporting the highest number of hospitalizations in a single day. more than 2,200 on sunday. positive test rates and hospitalizations on the rise in the country and in the rest of the state. and leaders are having to think carefully about their next steps.

>> reporter: one of the numbers the mayor is most concerned with are the hospitalizations. they're now at a record in los angeles county. jumping to 2,216 this weekend. what he has said is, he's going to numbers for about two weeks. and if things do not improve, he will go ahead and issue more stay at home or closure orders. >> how much worse does it have to get in los angeles before you issue another stay at home order? >> sure. well, i think we're on the brink of that. but as i've told people over the last week, the discipline, mayors often have no control over what opens up or doesn't. that's often at a state or county level. and i do agree those things happened too quickly. but it's not just what is open or closed, it's about what we do individually. >> reporter: about the notion of being on the brink of this, he wants to marinate on the numbers

over a couple of weeks. and he's said he doesn't want to take a cleaver to everything in los angeles. more so, a surgical strike. for example, if he saw a nursing home or, let's say, a construction site or apparel factory that he thinks needs to be shut down, he'll go after it. he recognizes the need for people in los angeles to get back to work. but he wants to see the numbers start to take a turn downward. one number he's more comfortable with, the positivity rate, that stands at 10% now. >> the 20-year-old son of a u.s. federal judge has died after a gunman opened fire at the judge's home. u.s. marshals and the fbi are searching for the suspect. investigators said the gunman wore what appeared to be a fedex uniform the judge's home in new jersey. the judge's son and husband, they opened the door and were

immediately shot. law enforcement officers say they don't know the motive yet. they're not aware of any threats against the judge, who was elsewhere in the home and unharmed. when we come back, some covid patients are facing long term symptoms. coming up, the health one long-hauler is giving to others online. we'll be right back.

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welcome back. many coronavirus patients who

were diagnosed months ago are still sufficieering from seriou symptoms, with long term effects like fatigue, breathlessness, and brain fog. and there are no clear answers on when those symptoms may ease. places like the uk and italy are beginning to offer rehabilitation services for covid survivors, and they will need to be wide-ranging. research suggests the coronavirus is a multisystem illness that can damage multiple parts of the body. the patients are so-called long-haulers, and amy watson is one of them. she had a fever for more than 100 days and created a support group on facebook. i talked to her about the symptoms patients can face. >> pretty much any symptom is --

it seems to be more vascular in nature, and it's impacting pretty much every system in the body. i have a chronic fever, 127 days running. burning nerve pain, profuse sweating, intense fatigue, headaches, loss of appetite, pleurisy, other cardiac conditions like tachycardia, brain fog, shortness of breath. i can go on and on. >> it goes on literally for weeks and weeks. did you say 127 days of fever? >> 127 days today, yes. >> what goes through your mind when you hear the president say in 99% of cases, covid is no big deal? >> white rage, perhaps. you know, he's ill-informed.

and he's not tuned in to the reality of people out here in the world that are living with this. you know, it's not a matter of you either die or recover. you know, many of us recover, but never fully recover. and we are all wondering, is this permanent? do i now have a chronic illness? >> do you feel you'll have it forever? do others in the group feel that way? >> absolutely, it is a fear. there are people in our groups who have recovered, and about 95% are still having some symptoms, and getting better day by day. a lot of the progress is so i increment incremental, you notice slowly. when we come back, eu leaders will begin their fourth

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all right. let's take a quick look at u.s. features. and you can see there several red arrows. nothing too dramatic. about 1/4 of a percentage point down for the s&p, the nasdaq and the dow. let's have a look at asian markets now. and a little bit brighter news there. shanghai up 2.25%. eu leaders have hit a wall trying to work out a recovery fund to kickstart europe's economy. a deal may still happen when they come together monday afternoon. let's bring in john defterios in abu dhabi to break it down for us. trying to close some pretty serious gaps. why is it proving so difficult?

and are we looking -- fundamental differences are they? >> well, michael, this is three days of grinding away, and as you suggested, they called day four. this is a challenge because you have to have an absolute consensus to proceed ahead, and this is one of the challenges of the european union structure itself, and the european commission out of brussels, trying to get 27 states to land on the same page is not easy. we're talking about serious money here. $2 trillion in terms of the budget. but about over $850 billion for the supplemental plan on the covid-19 recovery. and the fundamental issue we have here right now, they have the four frugal states as they call them, austria, the netherlands, sweden and denmark, who want to have direct loans to the south, the poorest states, and not grants. then you have the other camp, italy, greece, spain, portugal, cyprus who are saying we need direct support from the european union to proceed. and in the core you have france and germany trying to bridge the

cap here. emmanuel macron and angela merkel, the chancellor of germany, trying to unify everybody. here is emmanuel macron in day four with the challenges they have on the table. >> translator: here are the major topics ahead of us and which we have to find compromise in the next hour. i think it is still possibly, but compromise, i say it very clearly, will be done at the expense of european ambition. this is not about the principle. it's because we're facing an extraordinary health, economic and social crisis and because our countries need it and european unity needs it. >> let's call european disunity, michael. and there is another complex matter on the table. it's called the rule of law mechanism. this is, again, going to core values of the european union. they're suggesting states like hungary under victktor orban ar trampling on the judicial system. if they're going to do so, brussels does not want to lend the money.

this a particular sticking point for the dutch prime minister. >> lawmakers trying to get that stimulus package done before the summer recess. a lot at stake for a lot of people out there. what are we looking at? >> yeah, this is crucial, michael. they want to get it done before the august break and then have it ready for september. $3 trillion in the first round. $1 trillion is the republican proposal. so we have mitch mcconnell visiting donald trump this week, along with treasury secretary steve mnuchin. one of the things the president's been insisting on is the payroll tax cut to encourage companies to rehire individuals who have better than 50 million for unemployment benefits right now and more funding for schools. again, he wants them to open, michael, by the autumn and looking at $70 billion on the table plus additional unemployment benefits. >> john, thank you very much. good to see you, my friend. john defterios there in abu dhabi. >> thanks. now, sweden wanted to spare its economy from the impact of a hard coronavirus lockdown, but

things didn't work out as intended. phil black with that story. >> reporter: this is the image sweden is recently famous for, living well while much of the world is locking down. but it's deceptive. scratch the surface and you still find great economic pain. these boats would normally carry hundreds of people every day during summer. >> enormous impact. counting march, april, our turnover went down 93%, and it's still around the same. >> this restaurant opened just weeks before the virus surged here. >> looking at the numbers, of course it's minus, minus, minus. >> reporter: and just like the hotels in heavily locked down cities around the world, those in stockholm have sat mostly empty for months. >> we are actually bleeding, and everyone in the hospitality industry in sweden is bleeding heavily at the moment. >> reporter: and it's many other industries, too.

nearly 50% of sweden's economy is like this designer shoe brand largely built on selling stuff to people in other countries. so even while many swedish businesses could stay open, the global crisis destroyed international demand for their products. >> the biggest hit was obviously export. and the biggest hit is obviously u.s. the u.s. is our second largest market. >> reporter: and swedish manufacturers were also cut off from international supply chains. volvo should down its plants for three weeks because it ran low on parts. it all means that sweden's economy is predicted to contract this year by more than 5%. with hundreds of thousands losing jobs. >> we have never seen a crisis hitting this broadly within the economy. or this deep within the economy. >> reporter: that's on top of a disturbing covid-19 death toll. more than 5,500 in a small

country of just 10 million. so some swedes are now asking, was staying open worth it? >> i think the price paid in terms of lives lost has been too high. that's, of course, a value judgement, but i think it's a rather sensible value judgement. >> reporter: swedish officials have always insisted their key goals are protecting live and the health system with economic considerations further down the line. >> a very important part of our strategy to try to create an awareness within the population and to have it over a longer term, because i think that's more viable than trying to shut down. >> reporter: sweden's soft-touch experiment pushing personal responsibility and social distancing is still being watched around the world as governments desperately try to find the right balance. but the early results suggest an obvious conclusion. there is no pain-free solution to living with covid-19. phil black, cnn, london.

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