. a credibility crisis at the white house as president trump battles covid-19. he says he feels better, while his doctors and advisers can't seem to keep their stories straight. many more in washington now sick as well. we'll walk you through what happened in the rose garden last weekend. was this the super spreader event that started it all? plus, we are less than a month from election day now. you can believe it? inside the changes the campaigns are making in light of the president's positive coronavirus diagnosis. and welcome to our viewers joining us here in the united states and, indeed, all around the world, you are watching cnn

"newsroom." i'm michael holmes. snoe♪ welcome, everyone, the u.s. president's medical team is cautiously optimistic but warns that he is not out of the woods just yet. donald trump now spending a second night at walter reed military hospital as the virus that is defining his presidency is also potentially endangering his life. earlier, trump posted this video. >> i am starting to feel good. you don't know over the next period of a few days. i guess that's the real test. so we'll be seeing what happens over the next couple of days. >> now, trump's doctor later said, his patient made substantial progress since his diagnosis, having completed a second dose of ramdesivir,

losing his fever and being off supplemental oxygen. the doctor adding that the president spent a lot of saturday conducting business. the white house rae leasing some photographs of that. you can see there. but a source told reporters earlier, the previous 24 hours were not so positive, that the president's vital signs were quote very concerning, that the next 48 hours will be critical. the "new york times" and associated press identifying that source as the white house chief of staff mark meadows. now, later on saturday, meadows called into one of his boss' favorite fox news shows and painted a somewhat more optimistic picture. >> and the doctor is exactly right. he is doing extremely well. in fact, i'm very, very optimistic based on the current results and as the doctor said, he's not out of the woods the next 48 hours or so with the history of this virus, we know can be, can be tough.

and, but he's made unbelievable improvement from yesterday morning. when a number of us, the doctor and i were very concerned. >> and now the treatment, doctors say the president is getting ramdesivir for five days. a source close to the white house adding that trump definitely has had supplemental oxygen since his illness began, although, the doctor dodged, when asked about that. >>. >> reporter: has he ever been on supplemental oxygen? >> right now he is not on -- >> i know you keep saying right now. >> yesterday and today he was not on oxygen. >> so he has not been on during his covid treatment? >> he is not on oxygen right now. >> now, at that same briefing, conley had some heads spinning when he said trump wasifying nosed 72 hours earlier. he later released a statement

saying he misspoke and said it was day three of trump's diagnosis. one medical adviser said the briefing was short on facts and long on spriin. >> if you go out there wear ac white coat. are you a medical doctor. not a spin doctor. what we saw today was just spin. >> meanwhile, a senior official in the trump administration tells cnn, this tsunami of positive covid tests among republican officials can likely be traced back to what you see there, that white house event last week, where the president announced his latest supreme court bid. there was no social distancing and not too many masks, either. several attendee versus tested positive since then, including chris christie, who we learned has checked himself into a hospital as a precaution. the senior official says the next major concern will be securing capitol hill and protecting lawmakers. cnn sarah westwood is live from

walter reed medical center in bethesda, maryland. thank you for being with us. there is such confusion, contradiction, clarification needed on saturday. what itself the latest on what we actually know of the president's condition? >> reporter: well, michael, the latest comes from a memo that the president's physician dr. sean conley released this afternoon, saying the president made substantial progress since his diagnosis, that he did take the second dose of ramdesivir he is taking here at walter reed. he remained fever free headed into this evening. there was a lot of confusion after dr. john conley and the president's team came out. he painted a rosie picture. the president was if good spirits. he as you mentioned refused to answer questions about whether president trump had been on supplemental oxygen earlier before he came to walter reed or today. cnn is reporting that there was a point on friday when the president did have to receive

some supplemental oxygen. but then just after dr. sean conley wrapped up that press conference, a source told reporters that the president's symptoms over the past 24 hours were very concerning and that's a part of what led the president to being here at the hospital so some really mixed messages out of the white house about where exactly the president has been over the past 24 hours. but the memo that dr. sean conley released this afternoon says the president is not yet out of the wood, a key take from that conference, the doctors say the seven-to-ten day mark after the president's diagnosis, after anyone's diagnosis can be a window of concern, so suggested the president could be here for a while, meanwhile, we are awaiting test results from white house aides and advisers who may have come in contact. the white house medical unit conducts contact tracing for everyone at the supreme court nomination and a round of aides that have tested positive. we have been learning more of

positive tests, including the campaign manager, chris christie, kellyanne conway and others that helped the president prepare for his debate. >> sarah westwood, we'll check in with you next hour as well. thanks. now, this doctor is a professor at science university joins me from portland, oregon. what did you make of the medical news conference? confusing information, an optimistic tone. even as reporters were getting more sobering information about the president's condition, what was your take from what you heard? >> it was a completely confusing press conference with kind of incomplete and conflicting information and also frustratingly a lot of evasion around some key questions, these questions that i had as a medical professional. i mean, they kind of said he's not on oxygen now. that insinuated he had been on

oxygen. there was some mention of testing like doing serial daily ultrasounds. that was a puzzling thing when we haven't heard of a chest x-ray or a cat scan, that would be the more common tests to diagnose some early complications in covid disease and then at the end when the white house physician was asked about whether or not the president started a course of steroids, which is kind of the next thing we'd expect him to be treated with. he had pulmonary disease and required oxygen, the conference abruptly ended. so we left a lot of questions. i'm so sorry. it left a lot of questions rather than answers and that we certainly all kind of waited, waiting with baited breath to, to hear a little bit more from the white house. >> yeah. lovely kid, she can pop in any time, by the way. the fact is that even based on

what these doctors said in the revised form, i mean, the time line suggests, it is entirely possible the president could have been mingling while infectious and perhaps even knowing he was. if so, what does that show? >> yeah. he almost certainly was mingling while he was infectious. i mean if we count backwards, he started to have symptoms on thursday, it seems like, at least biff thursday into friday. and since we know that typically coronavirus symptoms begin four-to-five days into the disease, if you count backwards, it's likely that he had the disease. he most certainly was infectious at the top of that week and so that takes us into, you know, the time of travel. the debate, many private meetings after the debate and fundraisers. and so, at least open just a world of possibility for every

single person who crossed his path and also those who caught it at the same events and sort of went out from there and went along on their business with many other contacts. >> it certainly smacks of recklessness, go everyone the restlessness, what would you be looking for in the next few days? >> this is actually usually the slow buildup. we don't expect much. often, we will see patients early in the course of their disease and will say, we're sending you home, not because we are saying you are out of the woods, because there is nothing to do, you have mild symptoms of a cold or kind of a flu. we give everybody a warning that seven-to-ten days into the disease, they can take an abrupt turn for the worst and to just be, to be very cautious about that and to return to the hospital if things should get severe and we, of course, saw that in the british prime minister boris johnson became

precipitously ill nine days into the disease, which was kind of classic for covid. >> and it can hit hard later on. one other thing, we know from others. you mentioned a cardio gram and other tests, from other who's have recovered from initial infection, there can be lasting impacts, lung scaring, bur logical issues, so on. could those things be a risk for president? >> yeah, certainly. if he goes on to having severe coronavirus disease, that can affect every organ in your body. and those patients who have gone and are very sick and are in the hospital for a prolonged period of time or require icu care, their illness course can go on for many, many weeks. even months. we're still learning about patients who many, many months after the disease are still not recovered. but even patients with milder disease, this is not just like the flu. the friends i've had who have had it. even though they've stayed home

and didn't have to go in the hospital. it really knocked them down to the ground. they've really described this bone breaking fatigue. i've heard it compared to other diseases, to dengue gay and ebola. people say it has knocked me down like no other disease has had. there was a long recovery, even for people who weren't critically ill. so i'm anticipating his course will go well into the next month. >> yeah. we've done plenty of segments on long hallers and so on. it is a real problem. just quickly before we go, there was a senior administration source said the spread probably originated at that supreme court event or on capitol hill. if the origin was capitol hill and we've seen senators test positive, too, what should happen on capitol hill? should there be a shutdown? should there be mass testing? what would be urgent, in your view? >> yeah. it's so interesting from them to go from zero, not quite zero to

100. we need to do common sense things. of course, they should do contact testing and quarantine. really investigating who exactly came into contact with who. but it would also help if people stopped going to these close gatherings without masks. do the basic things that weren't happening at the white house. that's a flagreat place going forward. i hope very contact tracing. >> dr. chu and daughter, thank you very much. i appreciate it. >> thank you. all right. we'll take a quick break here on the program. when we come back, several people who attended an event together at the house come down with the virus. also the virus isn't spreading at the white house. capitol hill as well as we just said. why this could hurt president trump's chance of getting that supreme court pick confirmed before the election?

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gather a large, mostly maskless crowd in a pandemic. well, you get that potential super spreader event. the one we are talking about features seven most powerful people in the u.s. government. last month, president trump holding the ceremony in the white house rose garden to announce his nomination for supreme court. dr. sanjay gupta shows us how it became dangerous. >> reporter: what you are looking at is the origins of a likely super spreader event. at least eight people, including president donald trump, himself, are infected. that is among those who had the ability to get tested. you can't see the virus, but what is happening during a super spreader event? >> it's a rough analogy. if we think of a campfire and say that is a person who is infected releasing virus, it's not like it's the ring around the person that is actually going to be the risk.

it's those that are on the side where more of the virus is being projected, either it's through talking or the breeze or the air that's blowing it there. >> reporter: but it was also these moments that caught cnn medical analyst's eye. >> when the event finished. when they were all coming up hugging, shaking hands, saying congratulations, that's where if i was a betting person, i would be putting my money on where this occurred. >> reporter: we know the safety protocol for the event was to test anyone in close proximity to the president. but it wasn't required for everyone attending the ceremony. it clearly wasn't fool proof. again, take a look here where the people diagnosed as positive were sitting. not next to each other. which lead us to again look at what happened right before and right after. former white house counselor kelly yan conway closely leaning in to speak the attorney general william barr. lots of people closely

interacting with their guard down. it can be difficult to pinpoint these super spreader events. this one ceremony, though, is giving us a look at the anatomy, how it happens all the time. not just here, but any time people congregate in large groups in the middle of a pandemic. >> there is no doubt there has been transmission at the protests. the political rallies. it's just a fact that the virus doesn't discriminate. just because we haven't documented it, doesn't mean it hasn't happened. it's just that we've got an event now that is very invisible, well documented, well tested and we are seeing the outcome from it. >> reporter: dr. sanjay gupta, cnn, reporting. >> coronavirus is also putting president trump's plan for the supreme court under threat. three republican senators now testing positive for covid-19. now, that could potentially delay the confirmation. the confirmation of mr. trump's pick, judge amy coney barrett.

senator mcconnell is trying to make it happen before the election and the pushing for all senators to come back to work by the 19th. phil mattingly explains what's happening next. >> it's not just the white house that is grappling with the magnitude, the president is fighting coronavirus. on capitol hill, three republican senators have tested positive for coronavirus. there is obviously the public health issues there, trying to figure out how those senators will deal with it. two reported mild symptoms. there is also the question of what happens next on a massive issue. the nomination of amy coney barrett to join the supreme court. republicans made it clear they're working on a compressed time table. they want her confirmed, hearings are scheduled to start october 12th. well, two of the three republican senators, mike lee, tom tillis, they are on the senate judiciary committee. the committee that will move forward on that nomination.

they will need to be present if the committee is to vote. likely starting the process october 15th. so the big question now twofold, one is will those senators who tested positive be okay in time to be back to consider that nomination. the second one, this is what unsettles everyone, is anybody else going to get sick? right now, they don't have answers to those questions. they made clear they want to move forward on the nomination. those answers could change the calculation. phil mattingly, cnn, capitol hill. >> and jessica levenson is a professor at loyola law school. she joins us from los angeles. good to see you again. more questions than answers, speak to the opacity, the evasiveness from the administration on the key issues of the president's health. did you get any sense of transparency from this administration and how important is that? >> quite to the contrary. exactly the opposite. right. we didn't get a sense of

transparency, in fact, what we got is the sense that there were doctors dodging questions about the health of the leader of the free world. again if mr. trump was just a private citizen and he didn't want to tell people about his health. then really, that's up to him and his family. but there are national security concerns when it comes to the president of the united states, the leader of the free world. and for the idea that we would have to ask, follow that thought. is the president on oxygen? has he ever been on oxygen? it shows the lack of transparency, not just with respect to this health crisis, but also it is systemic in the trump administration. the idea that the american people wouldn't have a full and fair accounting of the president's health 30 days before an election in the middle of a pandemic when we're dealing with wildfires across a number of states is really just

surreal. >> it is. you are absolutely right when you put it this way. this, of course, puts covid on the campaign forefront. donald trump stuck in a position he spent months trying to avoid, facing an election all about the coronavirus pandemic. no way to really change the topic. how does the diagnosis change the campaign dynamic? >> i think for the worse for president trump. the thing that was really strange when news broke is, of course, not everybody believed it. people thought, this is where we are in america in 2020. i should say in the world of 2020. people weren't sure when the president said we had a potentially deadly virus as to whether or not it was the campaign stuff. well, i think it's not one because we have to have so many people cover for them. but, two, because it's not a political winner for him. take aside the idea that, of course, we're worried about the health and safety of any human who contracts this virus. it's also bad for president

trump politically as he said the more we say coronavirus, the worse it is for candidate trump. now, previously, we were talking about, there's going to be another supreme court nomination. this really energizes the republican base. now the conversation is largely off of judge amy coney barrett except in the situation of talking about whether or not the announcement of her nomination was a super spreader event. that's not good politically. >> that is true. but to that point, the gop, of course, desperate to confirm amy coney barrett to the supreme court. you got these infections among republican senators, who are members of the judiciary committee. how might the timing of the hearing be impacted? i mean, if those two senators lee and tillis are absent due to illness, could the democrats not show up? prevent a vote? how important is that and what could happen? >> it's very important they show up. i will give everybody's least

favorite answer right now, is it's changing so quickly. we don't know if somebody else is going to get sick. how sick people are going to be. let's talk about what we do know. senator mitch mcconnell wants amy cone fibarrett to be judge barrett, excuse help, to be justice barrett within weeks. he does not want to leave this to chance. i think he's willing to lose republican seats over it and argue he may think it's more important than gaining the presidency. because he wants her on the bench for all these consequential decisions. she's 48-years-old. she could change the shape of american culture and society for decade. in addition, he wants her on the bench in case there is a another bush v gore, another election-reelthed case. they don't want to take their chances with a 4-4 court. i think we will see mitch mcconnell with record speed try to do anything he can, you know, completely throughout cdc warnings that you need to

quarantine for 14 days. i think we will see six senators on the floor voting. >> just before we go, you raise the affordable care act. healthcare for americans front and center. and i see a lot of chatter out there on social media about, you know, thousand president who reportedly paid $750 in federal taxes is getting, you know, a gazillion healthcare at the moment when this justice could be ruling and doing away with the affordable care act and healthcare for millions of americans. there is a lot of anger out there. this could be a part of that free election conversation. >> absolutely. of course, we shouldn't just look to judge barrett when it comes to healthcare. i mean the real beginning point is that congress has not passed and the president has not proposed anything other than let's just tear down obamacare? so, yes, it deeply matter who's is on the supreme court. isn't the question of whether or

not congress has the power to pass healthcare? clearly they do. and it's very popular with the american public. at some point, everybody is going to have to see a doctor. nobody wants to go bankrupt so this is something americans across the political aisles understand. and so, again, yes, it's going to be be every the supreme court. but it didn't have to be. congress has the power to change it. so i think there is a lot of anything tore go around. >> yeah, indeed. professor jessica levenson, aulgss a pleasure. good to see. >> you thanks for having me. >> we'll take a quick break on the program. when we come back on cnn "newsroom," how the president's coronavirus diagnosis is affecting the biden campaign. we'll discuss. eing a fan on a bt gets tough... ...our agents do the legwork,... ...so saving on auto insurance is... easy usaa. what you're made of, we're made for.

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well welcome back to our viewers here around the united states and around the world. you are watching cnn "newsroom." i'm michael holmes. president trump is saying mr. president trump is not out of the woods but he has made substantial progress, since his coronavirus diagnosis and the medical team is quote kaushtscay optimistic. donald trump posting this messthanking all of the incredible medical professionals, the doctors, the nurses, everybody at walter reed medical center. i think it's the finest in the world for the incredible job they have been doing. i came here, wasn't feeling so well. i feel much better now.

we will beat this coronavirus. whatever you want to call it. we will beat it sountdly. so many things have happened, if you look at the therapeutics, which i'm taking now, some of them are coming out, frank little, they're miracles if you want to know the truth. they're miracles. people criticize me when i say that we have things look like they're miracles, coming down from god. so i want to tell you that i'm starting to feel good. you don't know over the next period of a few days, i guess that's the real tests so we will be seeing what happens over the next couple of days. i just want to be so thankful for all of the support i've seen. whether it's on television or reading about it. i most of all appreciate what's been said by the american people, by almost a bipartisan consensus of american people. it's a beautiful thing to see and i very much appreciate it

and i won't forget it. i promise you that. >> but earlier, a source told reporters that the president's vital signs over the last 24 hours were quote concerning and that the next 48 hours will be critical. the "new york times" and associated press saying the source of that was the white house chief of staff mark meadows. meanwhile, the virus continues to strike more people in president trump's orbit. cnn learn ac short time ago, one of his personal assistants nicholas luna tested positive. luna is often in close contact with the president. it has been a harrowing weekend in the u.s. so far, number of confusion and mixed messaging from the white house. tom harwood breaks down what we do know about the president's condition and what we do not. >> reporter: more than two days after we learned via a presidential tweet that president trump contracted the coronavirus, we still do not have clear, credible information

about the president's condition or his prognosis. here at walter reed medical center today, a team of doctors, led by white house physician sean conlip, gave a press conference, but it was extremely evasive about specific details. dr. conley did not say how high the president's fever had been, whether he had taken supplement am oxygen. though we later reported that he had taken supplemental oxygen or whether he had experienced damage to his lungs. dr. conley also confused the time line of when the president had contracted the coronavirus, which is a full day before he traveled to bedminster and would have put at risk donors that he met with at his golf club in bed min stir. later, dr. conley clarified and said he meant to say the diagnosis occurred on thursday that he had misspoken. now, this press conference was so unsubstantial that subsequently, a white house official came out on background

later identified by the "new york times" as white house chief of staff mark meadows and said the president's vital signs had been concerning on friday and it was unclear exactly what the president's prognosis was, the next 48 hours would be critical. we only got that news on camera from the president, himself, when he released a four-minute videotape taken from walter reed, where he acknowledged, help had not been feeling well when he came to walter reed. he said i'm starting to feel good. but he also displayed a note of vulnerability and said, we don't know what's going to happen. we will have to wait and see for the next 48 hours. and we in the news media are going to have to wait and see whether the physicians decide to provide any more candid information in detail as we move forward in the course of the president's treatment. john harwood, cnn, bethesda, maryland. well, depending on the timing of president trump's diagnosis, which we still aren't

clear about, of course, he may have knowingly been in close contact with aides and supporters, attending rallies and fundraisers and traveling on air force one. i asked cnn global affairs about how reckless that would be. >> he's shown recklessness throughout this crisis. he has not done enough to address this pandemic. as a result of that, we have the greatest number of fatalities from covid of any country in the world. more than 200,000. there is nothing inevitable about that having happened. now we can't even get the straight story son when was the president infected. when did he know about it? there are so many conflicting stories from differ people in the white house from the president's physician, from his chief of staff. it's very confusing and but that's really emblematic of the chaos and the deceit that has characterized the white house

reaction to the coronavirus from the start. i mean, remember, president trump is on tape with bob woodward talking about how he understood what a serious disease this was back at the beginning of the year. but that's directly opposite to what he has been telling the american people then and now. >> we'll have my interview with max boot next hour on the program. do join us for that. many health experting warning mike pence should be self isolating. there he is circled in yellow at that white house rose garden event. he was seated close to others who tested positive no covid-19. pence says since he tested negative since the president's diagnosis, that is. under cdc guidelines, he should be isolated for 14 days. he said on monday, he's going to travel to salt lake city ahead of the vice president debate, which is scheduled for wednesday. on thursday, mr. trump expected

to attend a campaign event in arizona, not quarantining. and the democratic vice presidential nominee colokamela harris, she toured the place, this is the place, it honors the latter day saint pioneer who's came to the area in the 1,800s. now, president trump and several others have tested positive for covid-19. the democratic nominee joe biden, well, he's going to get tested more often. that's what our sources are telling us. the nominee, himself, says he does not want to protect the first lady over the diagnosis. but he would have handled the pandemic, fundamentally differently. have a listen. >> for so long, washington left our state, cities and transit agencies to bid against one another. if that's not the president's responsibility. what the hell is his responsibility? not my fault. i have no responsibility. go to your mayor, your governor,

your employer. it's unconscionable. >> alex sines is following the campaign for us. >> reporter: joe biden is moving forward two his in-person campaigning and officials say will be tested more regularly for coronavirus. this follows the news that president trump tested positive for coronavirus as well as several other people in his orbit. the biden campaign says they will release the results of the tests each time he is tested. biden last received his last negative test results on friday and told supporters that while he wasn't tested on saturday, he will be tested for coronavirus on sunday morning. now the biden campaign has always adhered to social distancing and safety standards at his campaign events. officials believe that the way that they've structured these events have promoted health and safety, not just for their candidates but also those involved in the events and for the general public. biden is always wear ac mask

when he is at these events. and they have people at social distances from each other and him and those are protocols that they plan to move forward with as he continues to campaign in person. on monday, biden is heading to south florida and on thursday, he will travel to arizona, his first visit to the bat sample ground state and his running mate kamela harris will be joining him. kamela harris is set to face off aainst mike pence. we are learning there have been some changes to the way that debate will play out. the two candidates will be seated down and originally were slated to be 7-feet apart. they will now be 12-feet apart as this debate plays out. we have learned that masks will be required for everyone in that debate hall, except for the two candidates and the moderators. this fochl lows tuesday night's president -- follows tuesday night's presidential debate when many on the trump side were not

wearing masks. going forward, anyone in that debate hall must wear a mask f. they fail to do so they will be asked to leave. one of the many changes occurring due to the coronavirus pandemic. cnn, wilmington, delaware. well, the next debate will be against the vice presidential nominees. kamela harris and mike pence. it begins wednesday on the east coast. midnight thursday if you are in london, stay up for that and 7:00 a.m. in hong kong, get up for that. china reacting to news that president trump testing positive for coronavirus. up next, a report from shanghai on what president xi and oughts are saying. and one model is predicting, get this, 2900 covid-19 deaths in the u.s. per day in december, unless americans do one simple thing. you can guess what it is. we'll have that and more when we come back.

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welcome back. throughout history, many presidents and many of their aides or supporters have tried to hide presidential illnesses from the public and the press. since president trump's coronavirus diagnosis, reporters and the public have had to piece together often confusing and conflicting information about mr. trump's condition. there was a time when reporters willingly went along when asked not to publish details about a president's declining health. renowned presidential historian doris goodwin spoke with cnn about trust and transparently, particularly with this president. >> well, the conflicting time tables i think is a miniscule example of the fact that we've lost, in many ways, trust in the president's word. it's the most important thing the president has.

think of it, the president is the person that has to tell us we need to go to battle. why it's important to do so roosevelt, fdr had to tell people why rationing was essential during world war ii, so there would be equitable resources. you have to believe him. if you don't believe the time table of what's happened, what knows what's when, is what the history is about. the fact that we have a conflicting time table raises the larger question of what president trump knew about the seriousness of the virus but didn't think the public could hear it. thought again the public would panic. it's the same thing all over again. >> well, president trump, of course, has long blamed china for the coronavirus. inside china, news of mr. trump's illness is met with both sympathy but also criticism. chinese president xi jinping sent get well wishes to president trump and first lady melania trump for a speedy

recovery. >> reporter: between a rage of responses coming from officials here in carolina. the original epicenter of the outbreak as well as state and social media. as far as officials are concerned, you got president xi jinping putting out a diploma c diplomatic, compassionate well-wishing to the first lady of the u.s. state media taking a different approach. partially criticizing president trump and one editor of the state-run tabloids putting out a very harsh critique on twitter saying that president trump and the first lady have paid the price for his, referring to the president, gamble to play down covid-19, going on to say the news shows the severity of the u.s. pandemic situation. that coming from the editor of the global times. social media is echoing that to some extent. it's creating rise in nationalism as china is in the golding week and traveled from beijing to shanghai. we feel we are living in a bubble that certainly state

media wants to portray as a safe and sound environment. albeit one that is not easily penetrateed from folks traveling from other countries coming in, rather challenging. for that reason, china believes they have been able to contain the spread of this virus. daily reported numbers have ranged from single digits to upwards of 20. no more than that. of course, all of that, according to central government. so the juxtaposition from what we are seeing ocean here as life has gone pretty much back to normal to life in the united states and the president, the leader of the free world, himself, now being diagnosed with this virus is quite striking. nonetheless, the reaction is expected to continue over the coming days as folks here are closely monitoring how the president, first lady and other officials in the u.s. are able to move forward with this diagnosis. david culver, cnn, shanghai.

now, the u.s. is currently averaging more than 700 covid deaths per day. 700 people according to johns hopkins university. cnn's anderson cooper spoke predicts 2900 covid deaths per day in december, not far off, but he says we do have an effective way to fight the virus. >> given what we know about the effectiveness of masks and given what we know about half of americans wearing a mask when they're out, we think that about 86,000 lives can be saved if we can get mask use way up. so it's very much in our control as to what's actually going to happen. >> on saturday, the state of california surpassed 16,000 total deaths from coronavirus. officials in kentucky reporting the highest number of new cases

for the state since the pandemic began. plus, a record high case count in wisconsin. overseas, a new daily record in france as well, nearly 17,000 cases in a 24-hour period. that's almost a thousand more than the previous record set just over a week ago. and the uk reporting more than 12,000 new cases. but blame the spike on a, quote, technical issue. the government said unreported infections from last week made the number so high. the 12,000 new cases more than doubled the uk's seven-day average. the government says it has resolved that technical issue. one of the top football stars in the united states, positive for coronavirus. when we come back, what that means for nfl games this weekend and beyond. you're watching "cnn newsroom." we'll be right back. where we can find it. with flexpath from capella university, move at your own pace. you can even finish the bachelor's degree you started

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♪ "hmm's and ahh's" heard in-call. ♪ we continue to see the impact of the ongoing global pandemic on the sports world. now the new england patriots' quarterback, cam newton, testing positive for covid-19, according

to the nfl network and espn. the 31-year-old who was most recently with the carolina panthers has played three games with new england in this season. the patriots were scheduled to pay the kansas city chiefs on sunday but the nfl decided to postpone the game after players on both teams tested positive. they hope to play either monday or tuesday. the patriots took to twitter but didn't name newton by name but did confirm a player is self-isolating and added that any players, coaches and staff who came into close contact hadden about tested and that the results came back negative. this is actually going to be the second game this week postponed due to the coronavirus. on friday, the league rescheduled the tennessee titans-pittsburgh steelers game after several tested positive. thanks for spending part of your day with me. i'll be back with more "cnn newsroom" after the break.

this is cnn breaking news. >> hello, and welcome to our viewers here in the united states and all around the world. you're watching "cnn newsroom." i'm michael holmes, appreciate your company. the u.s. president's medical team is cautiously optimistic but warns he is not out of the woods yet. donald trump now spending a second night at walter reed military hospital as the virus that defines his presidency also potentially endangers his life. earlier, trump posted this video. >> i'm starting to feel good.

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