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 lock downs, including new york

city. good to have you with us. well, after being diagnosed with covid-19, the u.s. president is trying to turn his recovery eino a rally. donald trump briefly left walter reed medical center on sunday to stage this drive by photo op for supporters, despite the president still being infectious. he wore a mask as he waved to crowds. at least one member of his security detail wore a face shield and medical gown but the confines of that suv make social distancing impossible. a physician at walter reed warns every person in that vehicle will now have to quarantine. mr. trump was already making light of his condition even

teasing the joyride on twitter. and he says he's finally learning about a virus that's killed more than 200,000 americans. take a listen. >> i also think we're going to pay a little surprise to some of the great patriots that we have out on the street, and they have been out there for a long time, and 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, so perhaps i'll get there before row g you get to see me. when i look at the enthusiasm and we have enthusiasm like probably nobody's ever have, people that love the job we're doing. we have more enthusiasm than maybe anybody, so 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 isn't the let's read the book school, and i get it. >> he gets it. well, 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 position 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 during the course of his 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 were trying to hide something which wasn't necessarily true, and so he is, the fact of the matter is that he's doing really well. >> so let's go live to bethesda,

maryland, for the very latest. cnn's joe johns is standing by at walter reed medical center. good morning, joe. so medical experts are asking what president trump was thinking when he put himself and others at risk for that photo op with his supporters. how was this even allowed to happen? well, how was it allowed to happen? he's the president of the united states, and it's pretty clear that he does what he wants as you know, and he has many times against advice on a range of issues, but also if you want to sort of know the background, it starts with this twitter feed about 12 hours ago. the president tweeted out that he appreciated the crowd that was outside the hospital grounds here holding flags and so on, rooting for the president, in other words. and about ten hours ago, the president put out that other tweet. you showed some of the video of it where it indicated he was

going to go out and see the people. the president loves crowds, he loav loves the adoration that comes along with being president of the united states. he wanted to say thank you to those people. he popped into the sports utility vehicle, with special agents with full protective equipment. we could only see one but the others did as well. drove by, gave the crowd a thumbs up and kept moving. on any other day or situation or environment, that would not be a big deal but it is a big deal simply because the president is in all likelihood still contagious with covid-19 and possibly shedding virus that could reach people inside an enclosed space like an suv, even though they are wearing full protective equipment. so that created certainly controversy here in the united states. also important to say this isn't the further the president has in

one way or another put people in the secret service in harm's way as far as covid-19 is concerned. we have documented reports of a number of people who work for the secret service who have gotten sick or at least tested positive for the virus, including at the president's rally in tulsa some months ago, rosemary. >> it's a critical point, and joe, what's the latest information that you have on the president's condition? of course word, too, that he could possibly be discharged today. >> reporter: right. that's what they say, and the doctors say the president has been doing quite extremely well, but when you look at the number and types of medications the president is taking, that indicates the president's sickness is a little bit more serious than the doctors might be trying to lead us to believe. there is that steroid that the president is taking for

inflammation. it is the type of steroid that is recommended only in cases of severe covid-19. he's taking an antibody cocktail that we have talked about quite a bit, and he's also taking remdesivir, and that is something that he's supposed to get only under a doctor's care. presumably only in a hospital. now, how could he go home? it's possible because the white house could be outfitted with all of the equipment and personnel needed to monitor the president as he goes through this period of the virus. and it's possible, at least, that he could be going home today. it all depends on what the doctors say. interesting, though, that a doctor would suggest that before making the final determination, rosemary. >> very true. we will watch to see what they decide to do. joe johns at walter reed medical

center. many thanks. well, as president trump waved to his adoring crowds on sunday, some doctors harshly criticized the move, including an attending physician at walter reed, though he's not involved in the president's care. he spoke to cnn earlier about how irresponsible he found it to be. >> i have a hard time believing that without undue influence based on their chain of command that those physicians would have cleared that. when we take care of patients in the emergency department or the thousands of hours i've spent on the inpatient wards, we don't let people 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. the only reason why someone with covid-19, severe covid-19 causing hypoxy 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 getting. he's being treated by the premier military physicians in the world, augmented by doctors from johns hopkins and potentially elsewhere. why leave? what is the purpose of this? you're looking at the risk of transmission of covid-19. what we know is being in enclosed spaces is dangerous. masks or no masks, being inside of a vehicle that is medically sealed circulated virus inside and potentially puts people at risk. >> joining me is dr. ali kan, dean of university of nebraska medical center public of college health. thank you for being with us. >> thank you, rosemary. >> so what you're reading of the president's current medical condition and do you think his doctors are hiding anything as some have suggested? >> it's clear that we really 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 anti body cocktail. he's also taking the antiviral drug remdesivir and a steroid for those with the severest symptoms, yet 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 is 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 a moderate illness at this point and should be monitored to make sure he doesn't get the sort of second

phase of severe illness which usually occurs seven to ten days after on set of symptoms. >> 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 patients who have this disease on their x-rays, on their ct, you'll see these little abnormalities in their air sacs and he probably has the exact same findings, because he's clearly affected with sars coronavirus 2 and has covid. >> 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. >> dr. ali khan, thank you so much for your expertise, we appreciate it. >> always a pleasure, mask on. >> it is a very important message. well, one of the top democrats in the u.s. house of representatives slammed president trump's decision to go for a ride to wave at supporters. representative adam schiff tells our wolf blitzer, the president's actions were irresponsible. >> what on earth is he thinking? why would he imagine it's a good idea to go for a photo op joyride when he is sick? when he's on experimental treatments? and what's more, if he wasn't going to look after his own

health, what about the people in that vehicle that hermetically sealed vehicle, those secret service agents who are not in a position to say no to the president? it's irresponsible to them, and for what? i mean, i just, you know, after he was explaining how much he had learned about the virus, to go and do this, it's just unthinkable. >> yeah, it was really really amazing. you're a member of the so called gang of eight, the top leadership in the house and the senate, democrats and republicans. i take it you guys have not been briefed by the white house on any of this, the president's condition, is that so? >> we have not been briefed on it, and what's more, if foreign nations are looking at taking advantage of the president's potentially diminished capacity, we're not getting briefed on that either. maybe that's not happening. hopefully that's not happening. i would hope the administration would keep us in the loop, i would have to say, experience of

the last months where they have withheld or tried to muddy the waters in terms of the intelligence isn't encouraging in terms of their transparency. >> and democratic presidential nominee joe biden has once again tested negative for coronavirus. that's according to his campaign. a cnn source familiar with the candidate's testing strategy says biden plans to take a test every time he travels and he will make the results public. 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. you'll recall last friday shortly after news broke that

president trump had tested positive for the virus, biden announced that he was tested twice for the virus, and both test results came back negative. we learned last night, sunday night, that he had taken another test that also came back negative. i also 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 instead of 7 feet between the two candidates, we're going to see 12 feet. more space than originally planned, and the one thing that's entirely unclear right now because of the president's status is what's going to happen to the second presidential debate that was slated for later this month. back to you. >> thanks for that. and still to come here on cnn,

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the united states has seen its worst five-day period for new coronavirus cases since mid august. according to johns hopkins university, more than 232,000 new infections were reported between last tuesday and last saturday. that is an average of more than 46,000 new cases every day. los angeles county tops the list for the most covid-19 infections and deaths in the u.s. there are nearly 275,000 cases and more than 6,600 deaths. in new york, some areas of the city are seeing a resurgence of covid cases, and now mayor bill de blasio wants to reinstate some restrictions to help stop the spread of the virus.

cnn's evan mcmorris santoro reports on this big setback for america's largest city. >> reporter: after months of great strides forward in the city's battle geagainst the pandemic, a big step back on sunday, mayor de blasio proposing nine zip codes return to the kinds of restrictions we saw in the city in april, closures of schools and nonessential businesses and eleven other zip codes, new restrictions on indoor dining and gyms and pools. the idea is to combat a growing infection rate in those areas, in those nine zip codes, a seven-day, consecutive infection rate over 3%, and the eleven rising numbers that give the mayor great cause for concern. there's been a lot of good news in new york, but on sunday, the mayor said this was not that kind of day. >> so today, unfortunately, is not a day for celebration. today is a more difficult day. and i'm going to be giving an

update that gives me no joy at all. in fact, it pains me to be putting forward this approach that we'll need, but in some parts of our city, in brooklyn, and queens, we're having an extraordinary problem, something we haven't seen since the spring. >> reporter: the mayor's proposals now have to go to the governor for final sign off. for those of us in new york city, this gives us a bad case of deja vu. even mcmorris santoro, cnn, new york. >> india has been seeing a steady fall in new daily coronavirus cases. that is 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 will be 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 confirmed the capital will be elevated to the country's maximum 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 for us in paris, and cnn's scott mcclain joins us live from london. good to see you both. so scott, let's start with you, what more are you learning about this technical issue that resulted in thousands of cases not being included in september records? >> hey, rosemary, so we don't have a detailed explanation of what exactly this technical issue was, but we know that it impacted a 9-day period of counting right up until friday when it was caught, and this is a pretty critical period of time. coronavirus cases have been on the rise in this country, this second wave of the virus has really been hitting the uk full

force, and it's come a couple of weeks after new restrictions came into place to try to curb the spread of the virus, like closing pubs early, and new restrictions on social gatherings. on friday, based on the data, things are looking rosy, the daily case counts are starting to flatten and new restrictions are starting to have an impact. now all of that is thrown into doubt. the good news, though is that everyone that did actually have the virus was notified on time. the bad news is it makes things really hard to assess. look at this graphic showing the rolling seven-day averages and all of a sudden you have this spike at the end, which makes it pretty hard to read as to how well this country is doing as far as getting a handle on the virus. the prime minister warned that things could be bumpy for a while. listen. >> you know, i've got to tell you, in all candor, it's going to continue to be bumpy through

to christmas. it may even be bumpy beyond. but this is the only way to do it. >> reporter: so not a whole lot of confidence there from the prime minister. he also said that the vaccine, he is hopeful there could be a vaccine by the end of the year, but tit's not a certainty by an stretch of the imagination. one of the things he has been criticized as of late is the decision to close the pubs at 10:00 p.m. the opposition labor party supported this, now they're calling the government to release evidence showing that it might actually work. the prime minister didn't offer evidence over the weekend, even acknowledged that some of the rules and restrictions were illogical, maybe hard to follow, maybe even contradictory in some areas. look, if this country is going to get a handle on the second wave, people need to follow the guidance. rosemary. >> absolutely right. thanks for that, scott, and melissa, let's go to now you, and more closures expected in paris, what's the latest on

that. >> reporter: that's right. from tomorrow, cafes and bars will be closed, this as paris enters officially that maximum alert category that masse had been in already. restaurants won't be closed. we had imagined they would. that is a measure of the strength of the pushback from restaura restaurateur reluctant to have a second period when their establishments had to be closed. fresh restrictions as authorities try to get the figures back under control. to give you an idea issue one of the criterion for entering the m maximum alert category is an incidence rate of more than 250 people sick per hundred thousand. give you an idea, it is 272 here in paris now. and amongst the young, people between 20 and 29 years old, it is more than 540. that gives you an idea, first of all, of how bad things are in the greater paris region, second of all, it is the young that

have been droifg thiving this, young going out to cafes, bars, socializing and, not taking the measures they needed to protect themselves. the question is whether this fresh round of restrictions will bring the figures under control in time for the health system to be able to cope. >> all right. many thanks to melissa bell in paris, scott mcclain in london. appreciate it. well, if you were hoping to catch the next hollywood block buster in theaters, you may have to change your plans. movie theater giants cineworld is closing operations at its regal cinemas in the united states, and the cine world in the united kingdom, blaming covid-19. super spy james bond may have also had an impact. the decision comes after the next 007 movie got its release date moved to next year. it is the latest high profile film to face a delay. well, the u.s. president is

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the president is still infectious and put everybody in the vehicle at risk. his doctors and staff are also sending mixed messages about his condition. cnn's kaitlan collins reports from washington. >> reporter: well, on a day where the president's physicians revealed that his levels of oxygen had been fluctuated over the last 48 hours, he actually started to be administered a steroid in addition to that other antibody cocktail that he had received a day before. this is the day the president decided to leave walter reed for a few moments to participate in a drive by of his supporters that were standing outside the hospital. the trip started immediately raising questions about whether or not the president was putting the secret service agents who were in the car with him at risk. as you can see as he was driving by and waving to supporters, the secret service agents were wearing face shields, medical grade masks, and gowns over their clothing.

the medical team did clear the trip but didn't say which physician had done so. dr. sean conley is his private doctor, and the comments he has been making at briefings they have held have raised more questions than they have answered. he has typically tried to avoid certain questions, specific questions about the president's vitals, even though they are crucially important, and even in a press conference on sunday, he revealed that a lot of this has to do with the patient he is treating saying he wanted to reflect the upbeat mood of the president, though of course he's a doctor, and that is certainly not a requirement. it's more to provide an accurate assessment of the status of the president of the united states. that's something that has raised several criticisms out of the white house as well as the white house staff, including the chief of staff and the press secretary who would not say if president trump was tested before he went to that debate before joe biden in cleveland on tuesday or if he was tested before he went to that fundraiser in new jersey on thursday which of course we now

know he had already learned his top aide hope hicks had tested positive. kaitlan collins, cnn at the white house. and president trump supporters briefly shut down new york's busy 5th avenue sunday morning. a caravan of vehicles drove to trump tower with supporters honking their horns, cheering and waving trump 2020 flags. they say they will keep fighting for the president as he fights the coronavirus. >> how do we feel, we love him. we know he's down for a little bit, but we know he's going to be fine. he's a fighter. he took on an impeachment, he took on a phoney russian hoax. he took on every phony piece of news, the left it come up with. he's not going to stop. he's going to fight for us every day, and we're not going to stop fighting for him. >> 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.

>> 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 he has shown them, for the support that he has, for the hundreds of people outside walter reed medical center. >> but he's also done that in videos that he has put on twitter, without having to endanger lives of secret service managers being in a car that's hermetically sealed in order to do the drive by. >> we know secret service takes great care of their agents, makes sure there's an extra layer of precaution. >> we know secret service agents have contracted the virus in the course of their duty. >> but we also know that secret service takes great care of their agents, they take extra precaution. i'm not part of white house operations or the medical unit, the exact logistics, i can't speak to. i know the secret service takes this seriously and 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 a new poll shows most

americans believe it's president trump's own fault he contracted covid-19. the abc news 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 didn't take appropriate precautions when it came to his personal health. joining me now is larry sabato, the director of politics. great to have you with us. >> thank you so much. >> 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 not wearing masks as they waved back at him. what was your reaction to the 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 sienna college polls, for two battle ground states show support for joe biden in florida at 47%. that's compared to 42% for donald trump. while in pennsylvania, biden is at 49%, and trump at 42%. now, what do those and other battle ground numbers reveal at this juncture and how might donald trump's covid infection impact the race?

>> you'd much rather be joe biden than donald trump, and biden is actually doing better in the key swing states than hillary clinton was four years ago. now, that doesn't guarantee him a victory. a lot of things can happen. this has turned into the black swan campaign. you just 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 counter intuitive. he isn't campaigning extensively every day. nor should he. the old rule applies, when your opponent is in the midst of committing second-degre committing suicide, you let him do it. you don't interfere. >> at this point, joe biden has pretty much taken all the negative ads down, but trump campaign said we're not doing that. so in a sense, are they 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 will last too long. the trump campaign has kept negative ads on. i have 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. >> we shall watch and see what happens in the coming hours, larry sabato, thanks, good to have you with us. >> thank you, rosemary. coming up, we'll take you inside israel's giant new hospital to treat coronavirus patients which was built

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israel has recorded more than 266,000 coronavirus cases, and with thousands of new infections being found every day, when a hospital is taking the fight underground. oren liebermann is in jerusalem and joins us now live. good to see you, oren. tell us about this hospital you visited and bring us up to date on israel's lock down efforts. >> reporter: we visited the hospital in northern israel, the largest in northern israel and one of the largest in the country. because of how dire the situation is here in terms of the coronavirus crisis, decided to turn its parking garage into the country's largest coronavirus department, and the numbers here remain bad. there was a dip in deadly infection rates over the weekend, but it's probable the dip in cases was simply a dip in the number of tests being carried out over the weekend when the numbers tend to be

lower. crucially, the positive rate of pests remains high, above 10%, according to the ministry of health data, and that suggests that the underground hospital we visited may be in use for quite some time. in the largest hospital in northern israel, the covid-19 crisis has gone underground. 60 feet underground. 25 feet below sea level, rumbum hospital has turned a parking garage into the country's largest coronavirus center. despite the undeniable wow factor, this 5 acre medical facility is very much part of the country's emergency plan. the hospital has moved all of 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, this area is supposed to be clean and the outside is under a chemical

cloud, and now it's exactly the opposite. so this area is contaminated and outside is clean. >> reporter: the hospital now has 770 beds strictly for coronavirus patients, built into parking spaces and traffic lanes. about 80 beds are now full. because this was designed as a parking lot that could be converted to a shelter, all of the connections here were already built into the wall, the electricity, the okxygen, the tubes, all of that was here already. in 72 hours they cleared out the cars and turned this into the largest underground hospital in the world. there's no sunlight down here, and few creature comforts. >> on the other side a toilet. >> reporter: there is an infant ward here. it's empty, at least for now. around the corner is the maternity ward.

amor 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, the truth is that it's scary. >> reporter: when we last stepped into a coronavirus ward in april, israel was among the world's best at containing the spread of coronavirus. now there are that many cases every two days. isra israel's entire health care system is under pressure. more than 40% of the country's internal medicine departments have been converted into coronavirus wards and more are being changed over every week. elective surgeries have been delayed and the ability to treat problems other than coronavirus is diminished. seven 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 already people outside that understand that the severe situation that we are in now. >> reporter: for each doctor and nurse on the hospital floor, there's another waiting outside and they switch every two to three hours. the shortage is not of medical supplies or beds, it is of manpower. if these 770 beds fill up, hospital officials say they will struggle to do anything else. >> it's really tough work to be here, you know, 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. there are two other worrying numbers in israel. that's the number of serious cases, which is nearly 900, 878, the government is considering what to do with the lock down, should it ease restrictions, that seems unlikely or continue with an extended lock down to try to do what it can to limit the spread of coronavirus throughout the country. it seems so far the numbers are not dramatically coming down if at all. >> so many problems for so many countries. oren liebermann, many thanks for bringing us up to date there. alexander svrev played his match despite having covid like symptoms. he was feeling sick and running a high fever before his fourth round defeat. the french tennis federation

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get published now, call for your free publisher kit today! japanese fashion designer kenzo takata has died of complications from covid-19. he made his mark in the competitive fashion world in paris, creating the international luxury brand kenzo which debuted in 1970. he sold his clothing brand in 1993, and retired six years later. he was 81 years old. he left his mark on the fashion world which is 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 jim bittermann is in paris with more. >> reporter: earlier this year, in pre-pandemic times, this is the way the house of dior put on display its latest fashionings. for a business that's very much about creating demand and excitement, the coronavirus has presented some unique challenges, big name designer like dirksor, would normally ha 1,500 fashionistas on the invite list, this year, 350, all carefully socially distanced. those fashion houses which staged physical shows were in the minority. many designers only showed on the internet. only 20 went to the expense of a physical show, which can run in the millions. >> fashion is all about emotion. emotion that you're able to transmit to people, and that

emotion is the real thing when you have, you know, a performance where the artist performs without the safety net. >> reporter: adding to the stress of a high stress safety industry is the change in the rules of public gatherings because of an uptick in coronavirus cases. for koche, this was about showing fewer but higher quality designs. >> the situation changes, every day we need to adapt, but we're young, we're small, we're very agile, and we adapt ourself in a very positive way. >> reporter: for the fashion crowd, something else that needed adapting to was the absence of the usual party scenes, there was very little of this this year. trendy bars are closed. for models like mira lee, used to flying around the world for photo shoots, a little of the glamour has gone out of the

business. >> after a show, you usually have an after party or something. now we're just going to do the show and go home, and that's it. yeah. >> reporter: sad. >> it is but in a way we have to do it. >> reporter: there's a larger question here, a more existential one for the entire is there any, and that is people buy fashion not just clothes to be seen in bars and restaurants and the office. there are fewer social gatherings and people are working from moehome, perhaps te will be less demand for fashion than there once was. optimism is the whole cloth of the fashion business. people have to dream, don't they? an observation that no doubt rings true to someone working from home. jim bittermann, cnn paris. >> and thanks so much for your company. i'm rosemary church. early start is up next. you're watching cnn. have yourselves a great day. so you're a small business,

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