-- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com hello and welcome to our viewers joining us here in the united states and all around the world. you are watching "cnn newsroom" and i'm rosemary church. just ahead -- >> they've got trump flags and they love our country, so i'm not telling anybody but you. but i'm about to make a little surprise visit. >> a covid-infected u.s. president plays pandemic politics. now experts warn his surprise drive-by may have put more people at risk. meanwhile, coronavirus cases are surging globally. we will go live to paris, where

french officials are placing the city under maximum alert. and then later, israel fights its covid crisis underground, building icu beds in parking spaces and traffic lanes. ♪ good to have you with us. well, hopes the u.s. president might take his covid diagnosis seriously may have gone right out the door on sunday. donald trump left walter reed medical center to stage this drive-by photo op for supporters. the move is being widely panned but fits right in line with the administration's mixed messaging on the virus and mr. trump's condition. the president wore a mask, as he waved to crowds. at least one member of his

security detail went further with a face shield and medical gown. but the confines of that suv makes social distancing impossible. a physician at walter reed warns every person in that vehicle will have to quarantine. and sunday's photo op comes amid a stream of confusing reports from the white house. among the most recent, president trump saying he had gone to covid school. the pandemic has lasted for the better part of a year and killed more than 200,000 americans. but the president says he's finally getting up to speed. >> it's been a very interesting journey. i learned a lot about covid. i learned it by really going to school. this is the real school. this is isn't the "let's read the book" school, and i get it. and i understand it. >> and in photos, the president has been shown working diligently through his illness. and his doctors say he could be released as early as today.

but they also admit he was given the steroid dexamethasone after his oxygen levels dropped two times. on sunday, mr. trump's physician tried to defend leaving out some of that crucial information a day before. >> i was trying to reflect the upbeat attitude that the team, the president, the course of illness has had. i didn't want to give any information that might steer the course of illness in another direction. and in doing so, you know, it came off that we're trying to hide something which wasn't necessarily true. and he is -- the fact of the matter is that he's doing really well. >> and for more, cnn's sarah westwood joins us now live from walter reed medical center in bethesda, maryland. good to see you, sarah.

so, medical experts are shaking their heads at president trump's photo op that put himself and others at risk. why did he do this? >> reporter: why is the key question, rosemary. it's not clear what the president hoped to gain by getting into the motorcade, driving by his supporters who were gathered here at walter reed. he's taken a fair amount of criticism for that trip and for risking the exposure of everyone who helped make that happen, but especially the secret service members who were riding in the suv. they can be seen in the windows wearing full medical gear. but they may have to quarantine for 14 days because they came in such close proximity to the president who is a contagious, actively infectious patient right now. a lot of risks involved in that drive-by. nonetheless, the white house says appropriate precautions were taken before the president got into the motorcade and president trump's medical team

cleared the decision for president trump to get into the car and do that drive-by. it seems to be part of trump's efforts to project a sense of health, including him tweeting out a video, sharing photos of the president hard at work all trying to keep up the perception that the president is still healthy and working, rosemary. >> yaerks it's all about optics, apparently. and sarah, what is the latest information you have on the president's condition. and of course word of his possible discharge today in perhaps a matter of hours? >> well, rosemary, we were getting mixed signals from the white house again today about just what is the true status of president trump's health. dr. sean conley, the president's lead physician and the team of health care providers working with the president did brief reporters here at walter reed on sunday morning. dr. conley disclosed that the president has had two episodes of what he described as transient drops in the president's blood oxygen level.

so, some concerning signs there. and dr. conley also acknowledged for the first time that the president has received supplemental oxygen since his covid diagnosis. and today -- yesterday now -- the president received a dose of dexamethasone, which is a corticostero corticosteroid that is given to some covid patients who have a serious case of the illness who are on ventilators or supplemental oxygen. despite those developments, dr. conley says the president is doing well and could be discharged as early as monday, later today. that doesn't really fit. that level of optimism doesn't really fit with the picture of a patient who is still requiring oxygen and taking serious medication. dr. conley sought to clear up the confusion by saying he was not trying to be evasive when he refused to say whether the president had up to that point had to use supplemental oxygen.

he was trying to reflect the upbe upbeat attitude of his patients. that episode has hurt his credibility as he briefs reporters every day at walter reed. >> sarah westwood, many thanks. joining me now is dr. ali ka cohn. thank you doctor for being with us what's your reading of the president's medical condition, and do you think his doctors are hiding anything as some have suggested? >> it's clear we don't have all the information on when the president first became sick, when his symptoms were, when his testing was done. but based on the therapy that he's been administered, it suggests that he's been hospitalized for moderate disease. >> interesting because the president has received supplemental oxygen at least two times, we understand. he's on regeneron, an

experimental antibody cocktail. he's also taking the antiviral drug remdesivir and a steroid typically reserved for those with the severest of symptoms. his medical team says he could be discharged in the coming hours. does that make sense to you? >> again, since i'm not part of his medical team, it's probably always prudent not to predict when somebody's going to be discharged until you have the opportunity to assess them before they are discharged. but everything that the medical team has told us suggests that he's had a moderate illness at this point and should be monitored to make sure that he doesn't get this sort of second phase of severe illness, which usually occurs about 7 to 10 days after on set of symptoms. >> so, would it be wise to send him home at this juncture? >> again, his physicians will make that decision. and we do know people with mild to moderate disease have isolated at home and done well.

as long as he has good follow up, it is possible to be at home while he's ill. >> right. and the president's doctor, sean conley, was directly asked what mr. trump's x-rays and ct scans show in relation to his lungs. and dr. conley said they showed expected findings. they were his words. what does that mean to you? >> what that means to me is that typically other patient who is have this disease on their x-rays, on their ct, you'll see these little abnormalities in the air sacs. and he probably has the exact same findings because he's clearly infected with sars coronavirus 2 and has covid. >> and why are they not telling us when president trump received his last negative covid test and explain to explain to us why that is so important? >> rosemary, obviously i have no idea why his physicians would

not disclose his last negative test. but the reason why his testing matters, and more so his symptoms matter, is because that defines b defines who his contacts were. so, two days two, and a half days before he became ill, those would have been his contacts who now need to be quarantined. so, that's really a critical piece of information. >> right. and we're not seeing any information that is indicating that very much tracing is being done at this point from that rose garden event on saturday. but as a doctor, what did you think when you saw mr. trump in his motorcade on sunday waving at his supporters? >> so, this would be highly unusual. we isolate all of our patients currently in the hospital. and unfortunately in most hospitals in the u.s., they don't even have access to their family members while they are being isolated. so, again, if you are sick with

covid for ten days, you must isolate without anybody else around you and not put anybody else at risk. >> right. and so you look in the car there and you can see the security detail in the front of the car. there's two, two gentlemen. how exposed would they be? they have got an n95 mask on and apparently other gear. but does that cause you great certain? >> i've not seen the images, rosemary, so i can't comment on it. but physician who is take care of these patients usually have a number of protective measures to protect themselves. and we do not usually allow patients out of their rooms while they're acutely infectious. >> all right. dr. ali khan, thank you so much for your expertise. we appreciate it. >> always a pleasure. masks on. >> it's a good message there. a new poll shows most americans believe it's president

trump's own fault he contracted covid-19. the abc news ip psoas poll finds 72% of americans think the president has not taken the risk of getting the virus seriously enough. and the same amount believe he did not take appropriate precautions when it came to his personal dealt. democratic presidential nominee joe biden announced that on sunday he again tested negative for the coronavirus. a cnn source familiar with the campaign's testing strategy says biden plans to take a test every time he travels. he's heading back out on the campaign trail this week, beginning with a visit later today to a key battleground state. cnn's mj lee has more. >> reporter: while president trump receives treatment at walter reed hospital for covid-19, joe biden's campaign continuing their normal campaign activities. later today we're going to see the former vice president travel to florida. and what the biden campaign has announced is that they are now

going to make sure that biden is tested more frequently for the virus than he had been previously. and you'll recall that last friday, shortly after news broke that president trump had tested positive for the virus, biden himself announced that he was tested twice for the virus and both of those test results came back negative. and we also learned last night, sunday night, that he had taken another test. that also came back negative. i also just want to point out heading into this week that the big political event that is coming up is the first and only vice presidential debate. this is going to be between vice president mike pence and senator kamala harris. and what cnn can report is that the biden campaign had raised some concerns about the amount of space between pence and harris on the debate stage. and after talks and negotiations, where they landed is that instead of there being seven feet between the two candidates, now we are going to see 12 feet. so, more space than originally

planned. and finally the one thing that is entirely unclear right now because of the president's status is what is going to happen to the second presidential debate that was slated for later this month. back to you. joining me now is larry saab toe. he is the director of center for politics at the university of virginia. always good to have you with us. >> thank you so much, rosemary. >> larry, despite being infected with covid-19, president trump took advantage of a photo opportunity, taking a drive past supporters gathered outside the walter reed medical center, many of them not wearing masks as they wave back at him. what was your reaction to that image beamed across the country and the world? >> horror and also a little bit of thinking about just how selfish donald trump is. remember he exposed the people in his car and probably some who helped him get in the car unnecessarily. the poor secret service and others who were in there. what can you say?

this was completely unnecessary. trump shouldn't have done it. but he wanted his photo op, and he had his maga supporters out there who were going to back him up 100% and show him how much they didn't care about masks and social distancing either. >> right. and then of course meantime the presidential race is less than a month away and "new york times" and college polls for two battleground states show support for joe biden in florida at 47%. that's compared to 42% for trump. while in pennsylvania biden is at 49% and trump at 42%. what do those and other battleground numbers reveal at this juncture, and how might donald trump's covid infection expose the race? >> rosie, you would much rather be joe biden that donald trump. biden is doing better in the key swing states than hillary

clinton was four yearsing a. that doesn't guarantee him a victory a. i lot of things can happen. this has turned into the black swan campaign. you never know when another black swan is going to land in the lake. having said that though, i think biden is in a pretty strong position. he's doing the right thing, which is counterintuitive. he isn't campaigning extensively every day. nor should he. the old rule applies, when your opponent is in the midst of committing suicide, you let him do it. you don't interfere. >> joe biden has pretty much taken all the negative ads down, but the trump campaign said we're not doing that. so, in a sense, they're taking advantage of joe biden, and should he allow himself to be taken on this ride given what played out in the presidential debate? >> a lot of democrats think it was a mistake to take down the negative ads. but i can see why biden did it. it makes him look gentlemanly.

it makes him look concerned about the president of the united states regardless of party and their differences on issues. but i don't think that'll last too long. the trump campaign has kept negative ads up. i've seen them all day long, targeting biden and biden's positions. give it a few days. and particularly if president trump is discharged from the hospital as quickly as some of his doctors suggest, then i think we'll see those biden ads again. >> yeah, they are suggesting he would go home monday. but we'll see what happens with that. and just quickly, how important is it at this juncture that the president and his team recognize just how contagious this virus is and learn from this unfortunate experience of an infected president and his white house and convince americans to protect themselves by wearing masks and social distancing? >> rosie, that's what should happen. in a logical world, it would be happening. and yet today, a number of

reporters, including your own, have come back to us and told us that many of the trump people in and around the white house are still not wearing masks. so, you know, at some point, you just throw up your hands. most americans learned to wear masks and to social distance and to wash their hands months and months and months ago. and apparently there's a segment of america, the vast majority of them apparently supporting donald trump who simply don't want to do it. fine. >> we should watch and see what happens in the coming hours. larry, good to have you with us. >> thank you, rosie. and make sure to join us for the vice presidential debate. senator kamala harris faces off against vice president mike pence. cnn's special coverage begins at 7:00 p.m. wednesday on the u.s. east coast. that's midnight thursday in london and 7:00 a.m. in hong kong. and still to come, the uk admits it failed to report thousands of new coronavirus

cases. how did that happen? we're live in london for the detai details. back in just a moment. we have dak prescott joining us.

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india has been seeing a steady fall in new daily coronavirus cases. that's according to figures from the country's health ministry. and the government has just outlined an ambitious plan to vaccinate 250 million of its citizens by next july. meanwhile, new zealand's prime minister says restrictions in the city of auckland eased. that means schools and businesses there can reopen. but in paris bars are set to close for at least two weeks starting tuesday. the french prime minister has con frmed the capital will be elevated to the country's alert level. and in the uk, officials say a technical issue meant that more than 15,000 new coronavirus cases went unreported last month. so, let's bring in cnn's melissa bell. she's live in paris. and cnn's scott mcclain joins us from london. scott, let's start with you. what more are you learning about

this technical issue that meant thousands of cases were not included in september records? >> hey rosemary. so, we don't have a detalled explanation. but we know the cases were underreported over a nine-day period but a pretty critical period. if you would have asked me on friday how things were going, i would have told you batessed one data, they were looking pretty good. case counts were starting to flatten. but this glitch was caught overnight friday into saturday and it showed that about 15,000 cases, more than 15,000 cases, with underreported. so, the good news is that everyone in those cases was actually notified of their positive test result as per normal on time. the bad news though is that it throws the progress this country has been making into doubt and makes it hard to assess. we can show you a graphic showing the 7-day rolling cases.

that tyke at the end is the technical glitch where things are added in. the prime minister says the uk is not out of the woods. >> they're furious with me and furious with the government. but in all candor, it's going to continue to be bumpy through to christmas. it may even be bumpy beyond, but this is only the way to do it. >> so, one of the biggest krit sechls of the government and of the prime minister on these new restrictions is one that forces pubs and restaurants to close at 10:00 p.m. the opposition labor party had supported it. they're calling for the government to release evidence of why they believe it'll be working. the prime minister this evening didn't offer any evidence and ak nonled that some of the rules are illogical and contradictory but said it is still important for people to follow them. >> so, melissa, let's go to you

now. more closures are expected in paris. what's the latest on that? >> that's right. further tightening is what no one wanted to see but what is inevitable just because of the covid-19 figures. now authorities have laid out a series of criteria which determine whether a region past sbie superior category. that's been reached several days ago in paris. things like the incidence rate, the number of people in icus. we've hit the figures in the great greater paris region. from tomorrow we enter the maximum alert category. that brings a fresh set of restriss. bars and cafes will close altogether. we had expected we had seen in the category for the last couple of weeks it had seen restaurants close altogether. we had expected that to be announced for paris as well. restaurants will be allowed to open again. that gives you an idea of how strong the pushback was from restaurateurs.

they simply couldn't prepare the economic punishment of having to close for a second round of lockdown measures. so, cafes, bars, they will close from tomorrow. also fresh restrkss on things like universitys and the amount of people in lecture halls. so, a fresh set of restriks. for the time being, it has to be said no sign that the recent timing in restrictions has had much of an impact in the number of people reaching icus, reaching worrying heights with the number of hospitals struggling to cope. france is once again seeing very difficult figuring that are threatening its health care system, especially in some specific regions like the greater paris region. and for the time being, further tightening of restrictions have not yoeldielded what the torte are hoping to see. >> tough but necessary measures there. many thanks to both of you. the u.s. president is

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actions seem to contradict that message of understanding. shortly after saying he gets it, mr. trump decided to leave the hospital and take a ride to wave to his supporters outside. health experts rear he risked the lives of his security team by going on this drive while infected with covid-19. critics say it was another moment of negligence from the president. a senior administration official tells cnn the president was most likely infected with the virus at the white house supreme court announcement. most in attendance were not wearing masks or social distancing. on sunday when pressed by cnn's ana cabrera, the trump campaign defended the president's decision to leave the hospital for a photo op. take a listen. >> i don't think this was a stunt at all. i think this was president trump showing people that he's very gracious for the hospitality

they've shown him, for the support he has for the hundreds of people outside walter reed medical center there. >> but he's also done that. >> he's ready to get back into it. >> he's also done that on videos on twitter without having to endanger the lives of secret service members to do this drive-by. >> but we know that secret service always takes great care of their agents. >> we also know secret service agents -- ana, hold onnen. >> have contracted the virus in the course of their duty. >> i think it was great president trump was able to get out there and show he's ready to take this virus head on. >> and cnn's white house correspondent kaitlan collins has been following this story for us in washington. >> reporter: well, on a day where the president's physicians revealed that his levels of oxygen had been fluctuating over the last 48 hours, he started to be administered a steroid in addition to that other antibody cocktail he had received a day

before. this is the day the president decided to leave walter reed only for a few moments to participate in a drive-by of his supporters who were standing outside the hospital. the trip started immediately raising questions about whether or not the president was putting the secret service agents in the car with him at risk. as you could see as he was driving by waving to his supporters, the secret service were wearing face shields and gowns over their clothing t. white house did say the president's medical team cleared the ship. dr. sean conley is his primary doctor and the comments he's been making at two of the briefings he's held in recent days have only raised more questions than answered. he has typically tried to avoid specific questions about the president's vitals even though they are crucially important. and even in a press conference on sunday, he revealed a lot of this has to do with the patient he's treating, saying that he wanted to reflect the upbeat

mood of the president. though of course he's a doctor and that's certainly not his requirement. it's more to provide an accurate assessment of the president of the united states. that's something that has raised several krit seccriticisms out white house as well as the chief of staff and the press secretary who would not say if president trump was tested before he went to that debate on tuesday or if he was tested before he went to the fund raiser in new jersey on thursday. which we learned his top aid hope hicks had tested positive. kaitlan collins, cnn at the white house. and as president trump waved to his adoring crowd sunday, some doctors harshly criticized the move, including an attending physician at walter reed, though he's not involved in president's care. he spoke to cnn earlier about how irresponsible he found it to be. >> when we take care of patients

in the meremergency department,e thousands of hours i've spent in the inpatient wards, we don't let patients leave the hospital when they're sick unless they sign out against medical advice, offering some bit of protection to the medical staff and the hospital itself. in the emergency department if the patient wants to go smoke a cigarette, we can't let them leave the hospital to do so. there's risk to the public and the patient themselves. the idea this would be clear without any medical indication is absurd. the only reason why someone with covid-19, severe covid-19, causing hypoxia on multiple iv drugs should be leaving the hospital would be in an ambulance to be transferred to a higher level of care. there is no higher level of care than what our president is currently getting. he's even being treated by the premiere military physicians in the world, being augmented by doctors from johns hopkins and potentially elsewhere. so, what is the purpose of this? certainly you're looking at the

risks of the transmission of covid-19, what we know is that being in enclosed spaces is dangerous. masks or no masks. being inpseudoa vehicle that is h hermetically sealed surk lates virus inside and its people at risk. let's take a look at how the markets are reacting as president trump remains in the hospital following husband coronavirus diagnosis. you can see there all the futures heading up into positive territory. and we've got the dow futures up .39, nasdaq up .47, and the s&p500 adding .28% there. john defterios is with us from abu dhabi. john, the market's in positive territory now after positive sell off. what is driving this? do you think it's reaction to president trump's apparent

improvement, or his widened joe biden's lead in the polls? >> i would say it's a combination of both, if you will. no matter who is sitting in the chair at the white house as president, to see that shock we had friday with the announcement of the covid-19 positive indication for the president, not withstanding the joyride which was a bit unusual, bit does remove some uncertainty. but i think the biden poll, in terms of long term investment horizons is more important here. it's 14 points in the latest walt walt journal nbc news poll here and that starts to remove the real cloud of uncertainty about a hung election here and the president's sitting would lead after the mail-in ballots and the question mashlgs he's been putting out there ahead of the polls. so, you have the u.s. futures. let's take a look at asia. this is equal recovery to the losses on friday. most of the markts have three of the four up about 1 and 1 and a quarter percent.

australia had a gain because similar stimulus pack and has been introduced by the government on infrastructure. we have the european gains similar, slightly higher than u.s. futures. they were up 3/4 of 1% in the first hour of trade. they're starting to stabilize right now. one of the things we're worried about here because of covid-19 and the spike of cases, rosemary, is the fears about demand in the future. for example, like commodities and oil. oil prices collapsed on friday better than 4%. we now see them trading up. we're still below or just around $40 a barrel for the international benchmark. that's not great because it's not a price that allows profitability for international oil producers at this time. and other commodities are seeing similar falls and uncertainty. there's two things on the horizon that we should watch out here, number one, the global economy's gotten very dependent on stimulus packages and what happens after those are removed in 2021. that is a huge question mark. number two, near term, at least,

we still don't have a package formalized from the u.s. house of representatives or the u.s. senate and the white house. they say it's near. it's coming any day. it hasn't materialized and that does create uncertainty for investors. >> zewe'll see what happens in e coming hour. many thanks. so if you were hoping to catch the next hollywood blockbuster in theaters, you may have to change plans. movie theater giants is temporarily suspended all operations at its reegal cinemas here in the united states. it's also closing its c,neworld in the united kingdom blaming covid-19. "super spy james bond" may have also had an impact. news of the release of the latest movie has been moved to next year, becoming the latest

high-profile film to face a delay. well, coming up here on "cnn newsroom," we will take you inside israel's giant new hospital to treat coronavirus patients, which was built underground. that was right. we're back with that on the side of the break. stay with us.

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another life-changing technology from abbott. so you don't wait for life. you live it. israel has recorded more than 266,000 coronavirus cases. and with thousands of new infections being found every day, one hospital is taking the fight under ground. our oren lieberman joins us from israel with more on this. talk to us about the latest on israel's lockdown, because this hospital, it's intriguing. what did you find when you toured it? >> rosemary, we're now two or three weeks into israel's second general lockdown. and the numbers remain high. yes, there was a dip in the number of daily infections over the weekend, but that appears to

be a function of fewer tests being carried out over the weekend. crucially the rate of positive tests remains high according to ministry of health data, above 10 k approximate. it's because of these surging number. let's not forget last week we saw a record of more than 9,000 cases in 24 hours, that the israel government decided to take the operation underground. in the largest hospital in northern israel the covid-19 crisis has gone under ground. 60 feet underground. 25 feet below sea level. the hospital has turned a parking garage into the country's largest coronavirus center. despite the undeniable wow factor, this five-acre medical facility is very much part of the country's emergency plan. >> we are entering the intensive care area. >> the hospital has moved all its covid treatment into this 1,500 vehicle parking structure. this isn't just a garage. it's a shelter against bombs and chemical warfare, built after

the 2006 lebanon war. >> in the war scenario, these are supposed to be clean and the outside is under chemical cloud. and now it's exactly the opposite. so, this area is contaminated and outside the clean. >> the hospital now has 770 beds strictly for coronavirus patients built into parking spaces and traffic lanes. about 80 beds are full. >> because this was designed as a parking lot that could be converted into a shelt e all the connections here were built into the wall. the electricity, oxygen, tubes, all that was here. within 72 hours, they turned into tht largest underground hospital in the world. there's no sunlight down here and few creature comforts. >> this is a regular parking garage. >> there is an infant ward here

rmt it's empty, at least for now. around the corner is the maternity ward. this woman is about to undergo a c section. she has coronavirus and won't be able to see her baby for at least two days after the birth. >> the plan was different, to be with the family, with my mom, with my husband, with people around. but suddenly to come here alone, it is scary. >> when we last stepped in the coronavirus ward in april, israel was among the world's best at containing and controlling the spread of coronavirus. there are a total of 14,000 cases in the first two months of the pandemic. now there are that many cases every two days. israel's entire health care system is under pressure. more than 40 kt approximate of the internal medicine departments have been converted into coronavirus wards and more changed over every week. elective surgeries have been delayed and the ability to treat problems other than coronavirus is diminished. 7 months into the coronavirus

pandemic in israel, doctors and medical teams have learned much more about the disease and its treatment. still, the number of patients and infections are soaring. >> we pray. we pray that we have the strength to go on and that the people outside understand the situation, the severe situation that we are in now. >> for each doctor and nurse on the floor, there's another waiting outside. they switch every two or three hours. a shortage here is not of medical supplies or beds, it is of manpower. if these beds fill up, hospital officials will struggle to do anything else. >> it's really tough work to be here, mentally and physically. and when you see the country, the rate of positive infection, people know that it's going to be only worse before it gets any

better, if at all. >> there is hardly any silver lining here, no real good news to help the country get through this pandemic. the only light at the end of the tunnel is another patient arriving. >> two other warring numbers according to the ministry of health data, first there are nearly 900 serious cases throughout the country and 215 patients on ventilators. remember, rosemary, this is a small country and both of those numbers are very high. >> that is an incredible report. many thanks to oren leeb rman for that. and much more ahead on "cnn newsroom." do stay with us. y memory supplements... neuriva has clinically proven ingredients that fuel 5 indicators of brain performance. memory... focus... accuracy... learning and concentration. try it today with our money-back guarantee!

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a book that you're ready to share with the world? get published now, call for your free publisher kit today! welcome back everyone. well, the fashion world is now navigating through a new normal amid the coronavirus pandemic. and those challenges are currently being felt in paris as designers look to promote themselves during a very different fashion week. cnn's gene bittermann is in paris with more. >> reporter: earlier this years in prepandemic times, this is how the house of dior put on

shows. for business that's very much about, the coronavirus has presented some unique challenges. big name designer like dior, for example, would have had 1,500 fashionistas on the invite list. this season it was 350, all carefully socially distanced. those fashion houses with staged physical shows were in the minority. many design plus only showed their creations on the internet. in fact only 20 of the fashion houses went to the expense of a physical show which can run in the millions. >> fashion is all about emotion, the emotion transmit to people. that emotion is the real thing when you have a performance where the actors perform without the safety net. >> adding to the stress in what is already a high stress industry was a last-minute

change in government rules on public gathers because of an uptick in coronavirus cases. this season's collection was about showing fewer but higher quality designs. >> the situation change. every day we need to change our space. every day we need to adapt. we're young. we're smart. we're very agile. and we adapt ourselves in a really positive way. >> for the fashion crowd, something else that needed adapting to was the absence of the party scenes. trendy bars are closed. for models used to flying around the world for shows and photoshoots a i little of the glamour has gone out of the business. >> after the show you usually have a after party nouchlt you're just going odo the show and go home. >> but there's a larger question

here, perhaps a more existential one for the entire industry. that is buy people buy fashion rather than just clothes to be seen in bars and restaurants or at the restaurants. if there are fewer social gatherings and people are working from home, perhaps there's less demand for fashion than there once was. that's the question that remains out there. people are to dream don't they? an observation that no doubt rings very true, someone working from home. jim bittermann, cnn, paris. >> a very different year for everyone. thank you so much for joining us. i'm rosemary church. be sure to connect with me on twitter @rosemarycn and i'll be back in a moment. so you're a small business,

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hello, and welcome to our viewers joining us here in the united states and all around the world, you are watching cnn newsroom. and i'm rosemary church. just ahead, this motorcade is causing a lot of controversy. reaction to donald trump's trip outside walter reed hospital just to wave at supporters. and democratic presidential hopeful joe biden has pulled his negative advertising for now. we will look at what mr. trump's covid-19 diagnosis means in the race for the white house. and the latest in the global fight against the coronavirus, several hot spots could face new