critics say that the third phase human trials and the vaccine, the first to be approved by governments in the pandemic, remains risky. russian officials say a billion doses have already been ordered worldwide. >> thanks for joining us. hope to see you tomorrow. brianna keilar picks up our coverage right now. have a good day. john, thank you. i'm brianna keilar and welcome viewers here in the united states and around the world. more families are without their loved ones today after the deadliest day of the summer so far. 1,499. that is the number of american lives lost wednesday to the coronavirus. in fact, it is the 17th consecutive day the u.s. averaged more than 1,000 deaths per day and it's a stark reminder that the u.s. does not have this pandemic under control. and then while deaths are rising, testing is decreasing, just take a look at this.

testing in two major coronavirus hotspots decreasing and we are going to be exploring that soon. new today, the cdc chief coming out with a dire warning, take precautions or it will be the worst fall in u.s. public health history. dr. redfield is calling on americans to follow four simple steps. wear a mask, social distance, wash your hands and be smart about crowds. following that warning came this admission that we were underprepared. take a listen. >> we need to overinvest, get over prepared. i will say that in four, five decades of investment when this -- when the big one came, this is the greatest public health crisis to hit this nation in a century, that we were under prepared. we need to owe it to the children and grandchildren that this nation is never under prepared again for a public health crisis. >> just a short time ago a former head of the cdc warning

if we don't control covid it will control us. and this just in to cnn, the coronavirus is taking a toll on the mental health of americans. a new report out from the cdc finds anxiety, depression and suicidal thoughts have worsened in the pandemic. cnn's jaclyn howard is joining us now. break this down for us. we knew that so many people were struggling but tell us what the numbers are saying. >> reporter: yeah. anecdotally like you said, we knew this but the numbers are eye opening. what cdc researchers did is conducted an online survey from june 24th to 30th and they surveyed more than 5,000 adults across the country. and what the survey showed is that 40.9% of respond ents said that they've experienced at least one mental health or behavioral health condition during the pandemic. here are the numbers

specifically. 31% responded with anxiety or depression. 26% mention trauma or stressor related disorder. 13% increased substance use and 11 pistons said that they seriously considered suicide in the past 30 days. so this is really concerning and it kind of shows how there's this mental health crisis within the pandemic and these percentages are higher than numbers we have seen on mental health in previous years so this is really concerning, brianna. >> this report also says that certain groups reported having worse mental health outcomes. tell us about the findings there. >> reporter: yeah. that stood out to me. those groups of young adults in the 20s and 30s and black adults and hispanics and we know within those communities the pandemic is hitting disproportionately

significantly. and then what really stood out to me, brianna, if you look at the respondents who are caregivers and essential workers more than half of them reported tloes one at least one of these mental health conditions. 67% of caregivers of adults and 54% of essential workers. caregivers are looking after the older adults who are at an increased risk of covid and essential workers working to keep the communities functioning right now so this is really concerning. what lawmakers and policymake irs can take away from this is maybe look at the areas where we really do need mental health services specifically so this is important information and eye opening information. >> yeah. i think the trauma of caregivers and front line folks in the medical field we'll be seeing that be a long-term story here.

>> exactly. >> thank you for walk ing us through that. help is available to the national suicide prevention help line. 800-273-8255. joining me is executive vice chairman of emergency medicine at massachusetts general and, you know, first, i just want to get your reaction to dr. redfield admitting that the u.s. was under prepared for this public health crisis. we all knew this but what does it mean for him to just tell it like it is? >> brianna, as you mentioned, all of us knew what dr. redfield was saying to be true but that level of transparency we haven't seen before and i for one truly appreciate it. we knew this hit us like a bus and our systems weren't in place. we don't have a national strategy for distributing ppe, personal protection equipment,

for example, but nice to see that transparency from dr. redfield. >> he shared a warning which is take precautions or risk the worst fall in u.s. public health history. i wonder if you think if there is still time to turn this around, especially with an eye to say the 1918 pandemic when we know that this was -- if we were back then this would be a tsunami coming at us and trying to avoid that. can we turn it around? >> we can still turn this around. but we don't have much time. with schools starting to open up, people are still out congregating in beaches and restaurants without masks. i'm exceptionally concerned but also still cautiously optimistic that if we focus over the next few weeks on the four things that dr. redfield implored us as a nation to do that we can turn this around and if we don't september, october, these are going to be bad months for us. >> and the u.s. yesterday saw just this very deadly day, the

deadliest day since mid-may. what is happening there? >> we are as a country just not listening to public health experts. the simple things we aren't doing them. there are states where masks aren't required, many states. and that in and of itself is fundamentally making it harder for us to combat this coronavirus epidemic. >> testing right now is down across the u.s. and that's also the case when you look at two hotspots, florida and texas, astounding to consider that when positivity rates are continuing to rise in 35 states. why are we seeing this drop in testing? >> part of it is availability but that availability should allow us to shunt tests to where they're needed the most. we don't need as many tests here in massachusetts and our hospital quite honestly is now having some trouble starting to get them because they're being shunted to hotspots but we fell

behind on testing and need to ramp up manufacturing and distribution of testing and needs to be done centrally by the government and not piecemeal. >> all right. doctor, thank you so much for being with us. >> thank you very much. thousands of students and teachers quarantined after school reopens in several states. what this real life experiment is showing us. plus, a sheriff bans the deputies or visitors from wearing masks. hear why. and anti-vaxxers are flooding social media with lies about the potential coronavirus vaccine including that it's a cia plot and that it contains monkey brains. not true, by the way.

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in ocala, florida, a local sheriff is dee kreeing if ycreek for him you cannot wear a mask. he says my order stands as is. working as my employee and representing my office, masks will not be sworn. but it doesn't stop there. anyone who walks into a sheriff's office in the district will believe asked to remove their mask or leave he says. rosa flores is joining us now to talk about this. rosa, how can he dictate that visitors take off masks in a sheriff's office? >> reporter: there are so many questions around this. i talked to the public information office for marion county saying that deputies learned about this in email and then supervisors reinforced the no mask mandate in the briefling. if a deputy is working at a

school or a hospital or a courthouse. however, it also says in the email that the moment that there is any sort of law enforcement activity where this law enforcement officer has to give someone a command that mask must come off and even though it is an internal protocol, like you mentioned, anyone who visits the sheriff's office is going to be asked to remove their mask and the question is why. according to the email because of this. quote, in light of the current events when it comes to the sentiment and or hatred towards law enforcement in the country today, this is being done to ensure there's clear communication and for identification purposes of any individual walking into a lobby. i asked the public information officer about this saying that it's also so that a person's full face is on surveillance camera at the sheriff's office but this begs the obvious question, what if someone wants to walk in to report a crime and for public safety to happen the

sheriff's office has to allow people to do that? according to the public information officer there is a phone outside of the building, brianna, where you can pick up the phone, call a law enforcement officer and that law enforcement officer from inside the building will then walk outside the building and talk to you face to face and at that point you can keep your mask on. i checked the positivity rate in marion county, the latest is between 8.5% and 23.6%. in the past two weeks. brianna? >> god help those police officers. rosa, thank you so much. as the race intensifies for a vaccine anti-vaxxers are spreading lies and conspiracy theories on social media. a look at the president's new coronavirus adviser who echos many of the president's unscientific claims. and the crowd of people not wearing masks takes over a new york city bus and throws a pop-up party.

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yesterday on the show i spoke with a woman whose words i just can't shake. she found her 31-year-old brother dead from the coronavirus just hours after he told her that he was going to be okay and didn't need to go to

the hospital. it was just a day after he was walking around and seemed to be getting better. robert ruse was beloved with the patients he worked with in the brain injury center and his family and working to lose weight to be around as long as he could for his 3-year-old daughter. robert's sister came on the show because she wanted people to take covid-19 seriously. why? because she didn't. >> i really thought it was just something the media was throwing around. i'll be very honest. i didn't really realize to take somebody who was 31 who never smoked, who never drank. >> six months into this pandemic, here in the united states a lot more people have died than had to die. the misinformation from the white house, the lack of clarity on what is happening and what americans should be doing to protect their health and that of their families and nabs has hurt the trust that americans have in

the information they receive from the government and from health experts. it's fertilized rumors about the virus and yes it hurt the economy but we now have the hindsight of the failures of the government to be an opportunity to right the ship and instead the president continues to dismiss the seriousness of the this killer and has just added a new official to the coronavirus task force who promises to be a faithful skipper on the s.s. nothing to see here, folks, that the president promised to take us on a three-hour tour. >> the gentleman you know, everybody, you know russell. this is scott atlas. do you know that? working with us and will be working with us on the coronavirus. and he has many great ideas and he thinks what we've done is really good and we'll take it to a new level. >> i'm an adviser, asked by the president to advise him and it's an obvious that the answer is

yes, sir and any way to help i will do so. >> dr. scott atlas, a trained medical doctor who attended the university of chicago school of medicine, a fellow at stanford, a long-time adviser to republicans and a frequent on fox news praised by the likes of rush limbaugh as countering fauci and now credentials may sing but the anti-science blatherring blows. here he is on fox talking about why football needs to return. >> i think we have to get a grip here. look at the science. understand who we're talking about here. there's not a lot of obese diabetic 78-year-olds playing football. >> so let's actually look at the science because experts who are beholden to science and not satellites of the president will tell you that data on young people is lacking. almost 100,000 children ages up to 18 tested positive for covid the last 2 weeks of july, a 40% uptick and doctors have noted an

alarming rise in a heart condition among previously healthy college athletes with mild infections or no symptoms from the novel coronavirus. this is what the team physician for university of washington huskies told us. >> it can lead to scar tissue within the heart muscle. that scar tissue can be a focus for an arrhythmia or sudden cardiac arrest. 9% of the sudden cardiac deaths in college athletes is from myocarditis. >> here's another statement from the president's doctor. >> this is a temporary issue. pandemics don't last for years and years. i'm sorry but that's never happens. >> what the hell is he talking about? the 1918 flu pandemic lasted from february of 1918 to april of 2020. that's more than two years and in that time it killed -- 1920 i

should say. it killed 675,000 americans. representable experts say we are in this for the long haul. reputable experts don't say this. >> you don't eradicate a virus by locking down. that is a complete misconception. >> no one likes locking down and it can lessen deaths. one study by researchers from uc berkeley shows it prevented 60 million infections and there are other ways. masks, social distancing, avoiding crowds. it's been prooumpb in other countries. it's been proven here. 4 out of 5 americans would have been infected without statewide social distancing measures so protective measures helped even

as the white house squandered the early shutdown failing then and now to come up with a testing and tracing plan to contain the virus. atlas' opinions on schools are some of the president's favorites. here's what he said about whether cdc guidelines should be followed coming to your children. >> it doesn't matter if children get the disease. they don't get sick from this. and the data shows that they do not significantly transmit to adults. >> they can get sick. they are getting sick in increasing numbers. 40% uptick since july and little kids carry more virus in the nose. are you familiar with children's noses? they're the gift that keeps on giving. >> this is a level of hysteria like -- this is something -- i feel like i'm living in a kafka novel. i get thousands of emails from all over the world, progress sos, teachers, mothers, they are

stunned that we are willing to just simply destroy our children out of some bizarre notion that's completely contrary to the science. >> okay. first off, dr. atlas clearly wouldn't know science if it kicked him in the atlas and people wanting the families to be healthy is not hysteria. we are seeing real life experiments of schools opening up across america and already just a week or two in here depending on the district thousands of students and teachers are back home quarantined because of clusters breaking out. >> k-12 teachers in the united states, half of them under 41 years of age. they're not at risk. 82% are under 55. if there is a handful which there are some teachers and the high risk category don't they know how to protect themselves with their so-called six-foot spacing and mask rules? if they're still afraid even if they don't want to do that then

they can teach from home. >> said by someone protected in a huge beautiful bubble of constant testing which was recently expanded at the white house by the way. maybe dr. atlas sees things differently from the inside of a classroom where teachers tell us social distancing is impossible with 37 kids in a room not required to wear masks, mo windows this open or good ventilation because investments in school infrastructure like heating and cooling systems are historically lacking. here's what's really happening in schools according to teachers. >> right now teachers are scared, going out there writing the wills. i know teachers older than me choosing to retire early, younger than me changing careers. >> i'm terrified. if the research is wrong maybe we look silly wearing masks of

our faces but if they're right we're potentially saving lives. >> these teachers are telling us they don't like distance learning either, they don't think it's as effective as in-person. going back to school to a lot of them is worth a risk but not unmitigated risk. these are the nation's children, our nation's educators. they're my son who's in pre-k, my sister who teaches fifth grade and probably someone who means a whole lot to you, too. moments ago, joe biden and kamala harris sat down for a briefing from public health experts and briefly spoke to reporters. let's listen. >> how's the first day within with senator harris? >> it's been great. been great. she and her husband and jill and her husband, friends before this. >> yes. >> have become closer friends. we had a great, great day and talking today, i've been doing these briefings with two of the four docs up there, dr. laurie

and dr. smith are quoted in the briefings often but this is -- joining us today. we'll get what i get four times a week, a briefing on the state of coronavirus here and around the world and should and shouldn't be doing and usually takes somewhere between an hour and hour and a half and so i just wanted to now -- the senator will be with me getting it. >> i'm looking forward to it. these are some of the brightest minds not only in our country but internationally and as the vice president is saying since the beginning of this pandemic it should be the public health professionals that are leading policy in our country to address this lethal pandemic. and so i'm very much looking forward to this briefing and to catch up with the vice president on the briefings he's been having so far.

>> come on, guys. >> will -- tying to mail-in voting. what do you think about that? >> pure trump. >> let's go. let's go. okay. let's go. come on. let's go. let's go. you guys, let's go. come on. >> all right. senior washington correspondent jeff zeleny is joining me now. a couple notes, jeff. one, not a whole lot of questions from reporters there. we keep pressing the biden campaign and needs to be more questions from reporters but just interesting about the scene is that they're clearly trying to provide alternative and a choice to americans about, hey, this is what our coronavirus briefing would look like. >> a stark contrast. never mind the campaign rallies set aside because of coronavirus and the biden campaign is clearly using this as a moment to show the serious nature of this and they are having briefings and heard the former vice president say there he is having the briefings some four

times a week or so for more than an hour every morning and now bringing in senator harris few a briefing and learning more this afternoon after the briefing and deliver remarks but this is a central theme of this campaign. no question. the contrast is real for voters and people to see what the president is saying at the white house and what joe biden is saying. it is not exactly the oval office. doesn't exactly have the power of incumbency and doing the best they can to replicate that and the question at the very end there from our own reporter who's a pool reporter today who asked the former vice president about the president's comments on the postal service saying it's pure trump, he doesn't want an election. they should do more questions but that was one quick question there. >> certainly. go, arlette! let her ask the questions. jeff, thank you so much. >> you bet. >> she has good ones. the u.s. government slow to respond as anti-vaxxers spread

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as the race to develop a safe and effective coronavirus vaccine continues anti-vaxxers are flooding social media with lies that it contains monkey brains -- it doesn't -- or it's a cia plot to take over the world. it isn't. and yet to create a public education campaign to fight the disinformation. senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen is joining us now. you know, elizabeth, how important is it for americans to have confidence in a vaccine? >> brianna, it is so important. if too many americans don't have confidence and decline the vaccine, it will be very hard to get out of this pandemic so i sat down and talked about this with chelsea clinton, not only does she have a public health degree and an adjunct professor but in addition she herself is the victim of anti-vaxxers and

knows what they're capable of. >> i think it will be a very effective vaccine. that is my prediction. >> reporter: this doctor head of operation warp speed the government's program for a covid-19 vaccine says the vaccine could be 90% effective or higher and could be on the market as early as december for those at high risk. but -- what if people refuse to get it? a recent cnn poll found one third of americans said they would not try to get vaccinated against the coronavirus even if it's widely available and low cost. >> you don't need the vaccination. >> reporter: anti-vaccine advocates working hard creating fear of a future coronavirus vaccine and lies appear online that the vaccine will leave an invisible digital trackable tattoo, that dr. fauci a leader in the vaccine effort is actually satan, that the vaccine is part of a conspiracy to

control the world. and it will turn you into this -- so now former first daughter chelsea clinton is sounding the alarm. pollingi polling has shown many americans won't get the covid-19 vaccine when it comes out. does that worry you? >> terrifies me. >> reporter: the clinton foundation clinton is a leading vaccine advocate. have anti-vaxxers called you hateful name? >> a murderer and a fearmongerer. i get quite a bit of hate. >> reporter: clinton knows personally how strongly ancy vaxxers feel. when she was pregnant with her fist child a woman approached her in a coffee shop. >> she looked like deep into my eyes and said please tell me you won't vaccinate your child. i was so taken aback. i said of course i will vaccinate. she said something along the

death and damage will be on your head. >> reporter: she said the government needs to work fact. what do you think of the job of the cdc in this yaer? >> they're not doing a job. nothing really is doing anything on this front from our government, kind of from the cdc who is a natural and historic leader in these areas. >> reporter: the cdc did not respond to requests from cnn for comment. the public health information campaign will soon focus on vaccine safety, efficacy and hesitancy. clinton says this should have been done months ago and the message needs to be loud and clear. >> it is isn't like i iced coffeed and my husband like iced tea. this is a debate about life and death. >> now if anyone has doubt about the power of the anti-vax

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more than 2,000 students, teachers and staff members across several states are in quarantine after at least 230

positive cases of covid-19 were reported in school districts that resumed in-person learning. in georgia alone nearly 1,500 students and staff are back home after multiple districts reported outbreaks and we find similar stories in mississippi, alabama, indiana and oklahoma, all reporting a spike in positive cases since classes began. and as parents coast to coast weigh the risks of sending the children back into the classroom some like my next guests don't have a choice. as part of california's mandate, public schools that are in counties with rising cases above a certain threshold cannot hold in-person classes and they have to meet strict criteria to reopen and that mandate prompted christine and jesse to file a lawsuit along with some other parents against the governor with the first hearing on this scheduled for monday. they are joining me now. thank you so much to both of you for being with us. >> thank you for having us. >> so this lawsuit alleges that

students will not receive equal ok access to education. tell us why you decided to move forward with this lawsuit. >> sure. i have three boys, two with a diagnosis of autism. my middle son has autism. my younger son has higher functioning autism. they're hands-on team and work with a team, teacher, professionals, behavioralist, and without that team to do that hands-on learning they're just languishing at home. there's no type of education going on. they cannot sit in front of a computer screen and do zoom meetings all day long. it is just regression. it is profound and detrimental in our children. my children are very cog nnitivy behind and pushed them so much and now with this type of

regression and escalating behaviors i'm very worried about how their outlook, future will be, how will we ever catch up? what is this going to -- how much damage will this be doing in their lifetime? >> i think that is a complaint to hear from a lot of parents whose kids have ieps and not being fulfilled, not getting that hem they need. tell us about your family situation and why you're moving forward with this lawsuit. >> sure. i'd like to thank the center for american liberty who is backing the lawsuit. i'm fair of two boys including a 6-year-old and i noticed a significant decline in engagement and motivation and just overall getting restless around the house. that age, social interactions are such a crucial part of learning and the wife and i are lucky that she can stay home with him but a lot of the working parents are not so fortunate and this creates such an inequality of the working

class and affluent parents with private schools or tutors or child care and keeping out -- keeping the schools closed will affect everyone. especially and high-speed internet and needed technology. h hospitals are reporting higher cases of child abuse. a teacher would notice bruises or ask a kid how he's doing and find out something's going on in the home. and students who rely on school meals are being left without proper nutrition. we believe the negative effects far out weigh the risks. >> and so, i want to go through what california is doing here, so our viewers understand, especially those not in california or don't have kids there. california is going county by county. they look at a county and the rate cannot be over 100 in

100,000 for infections for schools to open. and so if you're in that category, in that bracket, schools can't be opened and schools have to go past that threshold to have a lower rate than that for a certain period of time before they can reopen. so, strilct criteria they have o meet. you are in los angeles county, correct? >> correct. >> so, you're at 324.8. so, you're well over it. and jesse, you're in my beloved orange county. >> right. >> so, you're at 197. you're at almost 200 per 100,000. so, you are as well considerably above that threshold. how do you negotiate that knowing the state have saying, look, we don't think this is a safe threshhold, you're in areas that are in hot spautz. are there other possibilities?

maybe seeking out special considation for students who need that additional help? and i think no one is arguing your kids do not need that. >> sure. l.a. county is one -- probably the second largest county in the united states. we have 88 cities, 140 unincorporated towns. it should not be a blanket all statement for all our schools. the city i live in has low covid numbers. our school district was prepared to open august 11th. they had to decrease the student population by 50%. and especially for our special needs children, who have a smaller class size. so, i think the governor should have maybe let the local cities, local school districts see are we prepare snd are we following the local county guidelines, protocols and procedures?

so, we should have been allowed to open. my special needs children should not be lump in with the general education students because that's not to how they learn and that's exactly what's happened. >> i want to say what the state is saying here. they responded to your lawsuit. they argue you're relying on inaccurate and inadequate believes that school-age children do not spled covid-19. and you said in-person learning does not meaningfully increase the risk of spreading covid-19. let me ask you about that. because there is evidence that they do meaningfully spread that. we've seen in georgia, where places have had to roll back. even as you make this case that, they're very sympathet took the case, and you're saying you need be on the microscale about how you're going to approach closing or opening schools.

what do you say that-you say it does not meaning fefully increa the risk? >> we need a microapproach to this. this should be a local decision. there are districts that have no cases. there are districts that have very few cases that wouldn't meet that threshold. but having grown indiana orange county, vyou have to realize there's a vast difference between north and south county. this is 3 million people we're talking about with nearly 30 school districts. so, for the governor to take this away from the local authority is really unfortunate because i can tell you our district came up with mitigated efforts to bring down the risk. 50 slides in the last schoolboard meeting that talks about temperature checks at the doors, different issues, face masks for teachers. these are smart people. look, we have robots driving around on mars.

i think we can figure out mhow o open the school safely. a lot of people are working from home and some are looking for work, some are single parents. and it is realistic to potentially ask you to watch your kids and play teacher for the next year or should the government do their job and find a way to safely open the schools? >> i hear you. if you're alleging this does not increase the risk of spreading, you're going to have to deal with that in court, so i know you'll be prepared for that. i appreciate this conversation. it's on the minds of so many parents and teachers. just in, dr. anthony fauci speaking, being the second of the president's task force members to contradict him.

i want to welcome viewers in the united states and around the world. more families are without their loved ones today after the deadliest daof