december 31st, the initial announcement from w.h.o. there was a novel coronavirus found in wuhan. >> there appeared to be 27 people that had this new pneumonia. >> so the question is -- what are we gonna do about it? >> we were already behind the curve. >> there were a number of people raising red flags. >> we were talking to everybody that we could find. we all understood that the failure on the federal level would have dire consequences. >> is blood on the hands of the trump administration? absolutely. everybody at the national level, state, local. there's a lot of blood to go around for the lack of response to this disease.

>> we are always at threat for the next pandemic. these viruses exist out in nature. as people go out in nature they get infected and then move their way back into humans. >> if we were to imagine the origins of covid-19 as a movie, it would begin at the end of the contagion movie. exactly that process of bulldozing down the forest, bats flying off infecting livestock that then we get infected. that happens every day, every week. that's how these things begin.

with yuhaith you wuhan is a majn the wildlife trade pathway. it's close to hot spot areas for new coronaviruses. >> ever since the covid pandemic hit, we've been trying to determine if anybody knew anything about a contagion sweeping through wuhan last fall and when did they know it. >> researchers looked at satellite photos of wuhan hospitals in october of 2019. and what they show are packed parking lots. all those red dots are cars. and we took those photos and we put 'em next to october of 2018. mirror images. and you can clearly see in some that shows that those hospitals were busy during this time. then they found another clue when they looked at baidu, that's the google search engine for china. during this time, there was an increase in searches for terms like "cough" and "diarrhea," two symptoms of covid-19. now, this is three months before china announces that they have a problem with the coronavirus. clearly, something was happening in wuhan.

>> on the 29th of october, we flew to wuhan to start the river part of the cruise on the yangtze. we were very excited. we had not ever been to wuhan. at the time, it seemed weird. the treatment of us, on this particular city, was different than other cities we'd been in on this tour. we're lined up to get onto the ship. they really emphasized, "stay in line. you don't have time to go wander anywhere." and once we were on the ship, nobody was allowed to get off. havi the uk, australia, canada, united states get sick and trace back to wuhan might have not been a good idea. we were immediately told that we would be leaving and -- bing, bang, boom. we were gone. >> 3, 2, 1, happy new year! >> so i was at home with my wife

and a couple of friends. we were cooking a dinner and celebrating the new year's. >> i was snuggled on the couch with my sons watching the ball drop in new york. >> they say close to a million and a half people gathered here tonight. >> it was the first time, in a long time, that i had an opportunity to get my whole family back together. and i did get a phone call from my colleagues at cdc, that there was a mysterious new pneumonia that appeared not to be flu. >> we have a brand new virus that's jumped species from an animal to a human. >> and immediately, that was an alarm bell. >> it was clear the threat was real. the threat was serious. >> but on new year's eve, if someone had told me a pandemic was coming, that wouldn't have surprised me. the world was overdue for one. and that's what's always kept me up at night. >> it is the perfect storm, and

my worst nightmare. >> at the end of 2019 into 2020, the trump white house wasn't focused on a global pandemic. but frankly, nobody was in washington. >> we do have breaking news tonight, president trump has just been impeached. >> first of all, the president had just been impeached. we were going into an impeachment trial. >> quite frankly, we were focused on iran that first week. >> the stunning sight, millions of iranians taking to the streets demanding revenge for the killing of their top military leader. >> there is a lot going on that is consuming all attention, the president's attention, the democrats' attention in congress, the military's attention -- beyond a global pandemic. >> chinese health authorities are still working to identify the virus behind a pneumonia outbreak in the central city of wuhan. >> there were reports of unexplained pneumonia cases in

wuhan, china and they were images of people in hazmat suits spraying down a seafood market. it kind of gave me a bit of a chill. >> reading about people being locked into apartment buildings, streets being closed off, entire streets being cord onned. that is a signal of how serious this pathogen was. >> happy new year. happy new year. we're going to have a great year. >> as we ring in the new year, president trump is in florida at mar-a-lago. >> when we wrote up our first situation report on january 1st, i had my first meetings to discuss this with the national security council on january 2nd. >> what's not publicly known is that behind the scenes, in the presidential daily brief, there's information being put in telling the president that there's something strange happening in the wuhan region of china.

>> we felt that this had potential to be a very serious situation that had national security implications. >> dr. redfield at the cdc, he's on the phone with dr. fauci. >> it was ding, bing, back and forth. both of us agreed that this looks, smells, and almost certainly is a new coronavirus. and the question is what are we going to do about it. >> is this a pathogen that goes from animals to humans, or is this a pathogen that went from human to human? >> bob was trying to get information in real time exactly what was going on over there. the frustration is that he wanted to get his team there and to go to wuhan and find out what was going on. but the chinese were not allowing that. >> i had strongly suggested that we send some cdc folks in to help out. and the president actually made the request to the president of china that we be able to come and assist. >> and the chinese are stonewalling. they're not letting them have access to the key sites. >> we had literally, you know,

20, 30 people ready to go. >> the fact that they were not allowed to go there in realtime and see what was going on was very disconcerting to us. >> so on january 8th, the cdc issues its first health alert connected to the pandemic. >> and president trump heads to ohio, where he holds this big rally. >> make america great again. >> no, the president didn't publicly predict any danger. >> and america's future has never ever looked brighter, ever. >> in early january, china hasn't released the genome, or the genetic map of the virus. >> you need the genome of the virus to develop tests and drugs and vaccines, and there were significant delays in sharing it with the world. >> on january 12th, the chinese

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>> on january 15th, a man landed at the seattle airport.

>> he was in his 30s. no pre-existing medical problems. he traveled to visit family in wuhan, china. >> he took a ride share car home from the airport. and right away, the next day, he started feeling sick. >> after a few days of feeling poorly at home, he came to one of our clinics. he basically said, "i've recently traveled to wuhan. i've got a cough and a fever. and i'm concerned i might have coronavirus." they contacted the local health officer who recommended testing. they also involved the cdc to run the case through them at that point. >> we were not allowed to test at state public health and local public health departments were not able to test either. so if we wanted a patient tested, we had to first receive approval or clearance from the cdc. we had to make a case that the patient met their very strict criteria. >> so patient zero, his sample had to be flown overnight to the

cdc lab in atlanta. and he was told to quarantine. he was sent home. >> it was a big surprise when we got the call. >> the test was positive. it was january 20th. patient zero had been identified. and now, officially, covid-19 was on american soil. >> president trump is at the world economic forum in davos. he answers for the first time on whether he's worried about the growing pandemic in china. >> we have it totally under control. it's one person coming in from china. and we have it under control. it's going to be just fine." >> i never thought it would be just fine. 'cause i didn't think we were doing what was necessary to make it just fine. >> the administration were still saying this was a problem overseas. >> this is a serious health situation in china, but i want to emphasize that the risk to the american public currently is

low. >> i think in january and february there was a sense that we still had this under control. >> juaryasllour opportunity as a country to contain this virus before it spread like wildfire. and that opportunity was missed. >> at this point, covid-19 is on american shores. the question is, was there a plan for the federal government to deal with a pandemic? and it turns out that successive administrations previously had already laid the groundwork for pandemic response. >> you know, president bush deserves a lot of credit for what he did in 2005. >> in august, 2005, president bush goes to crawford, texas, to his ranch for what is supposed to be a long vacation. he reads a book about the 1918 spanish flu pandemic by john barry. and it freaks him out.

>> sometime prior to the spring of 1918, an animal virus killed between 50 and 100 million people. >> and he sees barry talking about how these pandemics happen every hundred years or so, you have something massive like this. he's looking at the calendar. >> we'll hear all of us soon. >> president bush knows personal experience things he did not anticipate can happen, and can cause severe damage, and kill a lot of people. lvn 9/11, kaert. could the next big one be a global pandemic? >> by then, we had already had the sars experience, and then so called bird flu which was pretty scary so that's -- that's a pretty good reason to get your attention. >> he challenged us to come up a government wide national, not just federal government, strategy for dealing with it, should it happen. >> the president of the united states. >> and they get congress to appropriate money, real money. $7 billion behind this plan.

>> if we wait for a pandemic to appear, it will be too late to prepare. and one day many lives could be needlessly lost because we failed to act today. as with all outbreaks, we got the periodic increase and interest in public health, infectious diseases, health security. and then eventually the interest would wane. and then you see a decrease in funds. so it's a usual bust and boom cycle for public health, unfortunately. >> tonight, outbreak, a new and deadly strain of flu. >> the obama administration has to deal with an outbreak almost immediately after obama becomes president. >> every american should know that their entire government is taking the utmost precautions and preparations. >> t's dealt with pretty quickly. >> and you go back to the cycle of complacency. there are other problems that are more pressing. >> but five years later, 2014, ebola. >> an outbreak of the disease so

fierce, so deadly, even the word strikes terror. >> this scares the hell out of everybody. >> president obama and vice president biden have authorized an unprecedented whole of government response to the ebola crisis. and the good news is we're starting to see some results from that. >> when i was winding up my work on ebola, i met with the president and said to him, we need to build a permanent structure at the white house. >> the funding we're asking for is needed to prevent and deal with future outbreaks and threats before they become epidemics. >> and he set up a pandemic prevention office, in the national security council, to get us ready for that more deadly, more dangerous, more rapidly spreading epidemic that was going to come to this country some day. >> donald trump takes office. he has some people in his national security apparatus who served under president bush who see this also as a significant issue. >> more turnover in this white house than any other administration in recent history. >> the challenge is when you have had as many turnovers in this administration at the

cabinet and sub-cabinet level, a lot of that work that would have been done during the transition has been lost. >> but eventually president trump's third national security advisor, john bolton decides to do away with the section of the national security council that specifically deals with pandemics. just eliminates it. >> now the trump administration says they were just streamlining the national security council and that some of those staffers were reassigned but continued to work on the issue of pandemic preparedness. it's not like the government stops worrying about a global pandemic. but make no mistake, at this point this is not a major priority in the trump administration. >> one thing that the obama administration left was a pandemic playbook. and on page nine of the pandemic playbook, it said, "hey, here's something to worry about. a coronavirus." i don't know if the trump administration didn't pay attention to the playbook, i don't know if they didn't read it. what we do know is they didn't run the plays in that playbook and it would have made a big

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>> what's eerie about an it'slwqut.every outbreak i've nn >> in february the country was going along its way. >> on february 1st, the surgeon general even tweeted, "roses are red, violets are blue, risk is low for the coronavirus but it's high for the flu." >> february 1st, president trump, he's at mar-a-lago. >> he's playing golf, he's hosting a super bowl party. >> the first thing he does in february is he bans travel to and from china. >> the u.s. is closing the door to slow the spread of novel coronavirus. >> and he then goes on to

basically brag about it on fox news. >> coronavirus. how concerned are you? >> well, we pretty much shut it down coming in from china. >> it was a good idea to do travel restriction from china because it was clear that that's the source that was seeding us. >> the truth is, that the travel ban was probably already too late when it was put into place. >> and the world didn't know it, but the virus had already jumped continents because of that commerce very early on. >> as february develops, the president proceeds to downplay the virus. >> you know a lot of people think that goes away in april with the heat. >> but behind the scenes, a group of people, current and former senior federal government officials, top doctors, are engaged in a series of email chains called red dawn. >> i had seen the movie, yes. a pretty good, cheesy, 1980s classic.

>> will wufl ver eens? >> our group has been referred to as the wolverines, you know, how i guess we're the group in the movie that saved the united states. >> these signs were out there pretty early. the surprise, to us, was that folks weren't learning this out of the official channels that should have been broadcasting that information. on my email, some pentagon officials had essentially written off this pandemic as a bad flu. and so, this was my somewhat tongue-in-cheek response to that. and i described napoleon's retreat from moscow, just a little stroll gone bad. pompeii, a bit of a dust storm. and wuhan, just a bad flu season. >> the red dawn group ultimately becomes fixated on a cruise ship in the far east, the diamond princess because of an outbreak of the coronavirus onboard. >> today 70 new cases of the virus have been confirmed onboard the ship. >> reading from the red don

email chain, the case count is now up to 136. this is unbelievable. we are so far behind the curve. >> so the diamond princess was one red flag amongst a sea of red flags at that point of what we should have been doing as americans to be prepared. as you know in those early days, we still had not ramped up testing in the united states. >> when there's a new pathogen like this, you know, the cdc sets out to develop a test. >> that's routinely what we do, and we do it very well. which they did, and they did in record time, seven to ten days. >> and initially we were all flooded with relief. we can test. >> and they immediately came across a problem. >> the initial samples that came from the cdc that were sent out didn't work. so they had to call them back. >> and so the cdc then had to send out a second batch of test kits, which also had a problem. and as the weeks ticked by, we were running out of time to contain the spread of this virus, and we knew it. >> it took us about, close to

four to five weeks to figure out the contamination, and within five weeks we got the test to the health departments throughout the nation, which i would still say is pretty record time. >> in an outbreak scenario, every day matters. our chances to contain this virus were gone. >> we could have brought in the gigantic manufacturers of diagnostic tests, and our failure to take that approach with a homegrown test out of cdc has cost us lives. >> i don't think cdc will manufacture tests in the future. i think what we'll do is we'll contract a manufacturer to manufacture the tests. >> this is pretty much the most critical time in the outbreak for us to be flying blind. the virus was seeding america, and sadly, lives were lost. >> on valentine's day weekend, i was part of a number of square

dance of events where i and many others contracted covid-19. if we had known, we could have taken some precautions or we might have been able to cancel or we might have done something different. within two weeks, the first person in the square dance community would be dead. >> it was a very sad -- it was a very sad time. and it still is because these people were good people. and they were my friends. and they were taken from us. >> by the middle of february, the federal government was only processing about 100 covid-19 tests a day. meanwhile, alarm bells are ringing all around the world. >> so far, 454 cruise passengers have been infected. >> and then as february developed, president trump held a series of campaign rallies --

>> i think it's going to work out fine. i think when we get into april and the warm weather that has a very negative affect on that. >> near the end of february some of the testing becomes more available. >> the cdc began to ship out the new version of the test. >> in kirkland, washington, dr. francis riedo decides he's going to randomly test two of his patients. and, shockingly, they both come back as positive for coronavirus. >> i knew this was -- this was the event. this was now the beginning, everything changed at that point. >> and that's when we first started realizing the first community spread that was not related to aidentifiable source. >> without a doubt february was a lost month for this nation's response. >> it's going to disappear, one day, it's like a miracle, it will disappear. >> meanwhile, the cdc is confirming the first covid-19 death in the united states. >> the disconnect between what

the president was saying and what we knew to be the science, it was frightening. >> obviously there was a failure of leadership in dealing with this pandemic, without question. >> it was too late. the outbreaks were already out of control. there was no way to stop it at that point. we had missed our chance to contain it. >> there was a parade of ambulances coming from lifecare. are made with farm grownal apples as the first ingredient. and key nutrients you want.

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>> tonight, coronavirus spreading in the u.s. the death toll now rising. >> this disease is running rampage through this facility. >> a state of emergency issued in washington state. >> march is the month that we will never forget. that's when the pandemic really hit our shores and things started to explode. >> my mom was living at life care center of kirkland in february of 2020. >> officials in washington losing patience with the nursing home where most of the fatalities from the coronavirus occurred. >> and cdc hadn't shown up on the scene yet to be support. staff clearly wasn't able to deal with it. and i got a phone call from the nurse saying that mom had passed. >> doctors said, "how do you know so much about this?" maybe i have a natural ability. maybe i should have done that instead of running for president. >> there wasn't a lot of urgency

and that's where leadership becomes really critical. >> so we're part of dealing with this crisis, not leading it at that time, but obviously in support. it was my belief that this would have to be a bigger response. >> if the virus is in china, didn't someone expect that the virus was gonna get on a plane and travel? and it did. and it wasn't in china anymore. it went to europe and it went to italy and it went to france. >> tonight, the world health organization declaring it a global pandemic. >> the nba overnight suspending its season until further notice. >> breaking at this hour, the financial markets in freefall. the worst day since black monday crash of 1987. >> my fellow americans to keep new cases from entering our shores, we will be suspending all travel from europe to the united states for the next 30 days.mitae natu o thel restriction. he sai banning erypac.it led to thousands of people coming back

from europe who didn't need to come back. >> people ended up in -- in those crowded hallways for a long period of time and many were exposed. and reportedly have passed because of their exposure waiting to clear customs. >> and by the time we -- we realized europe threat and shut down travel to europe, there was already probably two or three weeks of 60,000 people coming back every day from europe. >> i'm a registered nurse. i work in an emergency department in new york city. there was not enough tests to test everybody that wanted a test. >> the u.s. badly trailed the world in march on the testing situation. >> the situation with the cdc and the testing had become so extreme that, by march 13th, on the red dawn email chain, dr. james lawler sounded the alarm. >> how are you supposed to know when you have community transmission when they haven't been able to provide a diagnostic assay that can be

used. >> we were talking to everybody that we could find to communicate why we were concerned and what we thought we needed to be doing as a nation. >> we always knew that there were a lot more cases out there than we were diagnosing. 23% of people in new york city have antibodies. so a quarter of new york city was infected with this virus. >> it was inevitable that this novel coronavirus would show up in new york city. what they didn't expect was that it would be transmitted silently in the population and then they had no tests. >> anybody that needs a test gets a test. we -- they're there. they have the tests and the tests are beautiful. >> it's not true 'cause tests are physical objects, we can count them. we didn't have enough. >> when the pandemic first began, i chose not to stay home because my bills still had to be paid. and i'm a grocery worker and that's just -- that's what i do. >> what was needed was a way to make essential work safer. estimates are that something

like 40% of the workforce continued working. essential workers were at the end of that long line. >> everybody wanted to know, "hey, how can i get tested? and where can i get tested?" >> march 12th, i get put in charge of testing. it had been decided at some point in time, not in this administration, that test supplies were not gonna be part of the stockpile. so when i looked to see what was there, there was nothing there. this was no game plan. there was nothing. >> thank you very much, everyone. thank you. to unleash the full power of the federal government, this effort today, i am officially declaring a national emergency. >> across america almost 22,000 schools shuttered, forcing 15 million kids to stay home. >> major areas of american life shutting down to stop the spreading coronavirus. >> there's images of health care workers in other countries that are fighting this virus wearing full on hazmat bunny suits. meanwhile here, we are wearing

garbage bags and week old n95s. i did not feel protected. i did not feel safe. >> we need those masks, those gowns, gloves and we need them now. >> one of the things that people don't realize is that the manufacture of personal protective equipment, or ppe, the majority of that production is offshore, not in the united states. >> so we're going to put out an executive order today, new york state on pause. >> the defense production act or dpa allows the federal government to order manufacturers to produce supplies needed. >> and the calls were growing louder by the day for president trump to invoke this act but he was really hesitant to do it. >> he's used it 600 times as president. so when there's something he wants to do, he's willing to use that power. >> and whatever the states can get, they should be getting. i say we're sort of a backup for the states. and some of the states are doing really well and some don't do as

well. >> the president's position was the states were in charge. states, the governors, the governors, the governors. you know, i'm calling china to buy ppe. every governor is calling china to buy masks. right? it made no sense. >> what do we want, ppe. when do we need it? now! >> nurses were getting put on ventilators. we were dying. and what angers me the most i think is that these deaths were 100% preventable. >> fema says we're sending 400 ventilators. really? what am i -- what am i going to do with 400 ventilators when i need 30,000? you pick the 26,000 people who are going to die because you only sent 400 ventilators! where's the ppes? where are they? the president said it's a war. it is a war. well, then act like it's a war! >> typically, the world production of ventilators is about 30,000 ventilators a year which sounds like a lot. but when you're in a pandemic

and every -- again, every country in the world was looking for ppe and ventilators, it doesn't last too long. >> so you have 50 states competing to buy the same item, it's like being on ebay with 50 other states bidding on a ventilator. >> it should not have been left to each state to figure out what to do. we're all connected. i mean, honestly, this is one nation. we need one response. >> the u.s. now has more cases of coronavirus than anywhere in the world. ink,ases soaring, hospations doubling every >>hipacked emergency room at hoyo city and doctors describing new york hospitals as a war zone. >> i had maybe 12, 13 patients, and they were all super critical. they were all dying. and our numbers started to dwindle, because nurses started to get sick because again, lack of ppe. >> this is something that has been talked about and warned

about and studied and anticipated by experts in republican and democratic administrations for years. >> okay, thank you very much. moments ago, i directed secretary azar and acting secretary wolf to use any and all available authority under the defense production act. >> ultimately, he did end up invoking it and forcing some companies to help in this process of making ventilator parts. but at that point, the damage was done. a lot of critics said these ventilators had been needed and a lot of companies were already making them. they didn't need the act to tell them to do it. >> and president trump didn't invoke the dpa for ppe, that was needed the most. and he still hasn't evoked the dpa for that. and it's left essential workers to deal with it themselves. >> we're not even at the peak yet. the death toll just keeps rising and rising. ♪ ♪

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>> my mom was goofy. like, she was really fun to be around. march 18th. she woke up, she wasn't feeling well. her first thought was that it could possibly be covid. when i went to see her, she looked like she was deteriorating. i spoke with her doctor. and he just pretty much just flat out, like, you know, this isn't -- this isn't gonna turn out well. and just hearing those words just put me in a horrible place. she was 63. and she was healthy. she was healthy. >> local jurisdictions, not the federal government, start noting that they're seeing big racial,

ethnic disparities in mortality. >> while this pandemic is impacting every one of us, it isn't impacting everyone equally. >> the headlines about the disparities were beginning at the end of march. >> among chicagoans with covid-19, more than half are african-americans. >> 70% of all the deaths in louisiana are of african-americans. >> 80% of washingtonians who have died from this disease are african-american. >> thank you very much. it's showing up very strongly in our data, on the african-american community. and we're doing everything in our power to address this challenge. it's a tremendous challenge. it's terrible. >> it should not have been surprising, historically we do know that minority populations,

low-income populations, are at increased risk for exposure we saw it with hurricane katrina. we saw it with h1n1. we published in 2009, targeted, tailored, interventions to reach the most vulnerable. you don't stigmatize these populations. you enable them to follow the recommendations of staying home. >> my administration is closely monitoring the data on the virus's impact on our cherished african-american communities. >> the president said he was concerned about this. his task force said they were concerned about this. but i could never get the sense that there was any significant action plan. >> the whole thing from the federal point of view has been failure to take responsibility. >> we put out a civil rights

bulletin, to make sure that -- the resources that were delivered to those impacted by covid-19 was done in a fair way. i think we were pretty proactive. >> the role of the federal government in this pandemic is very, very clear who's missing. leadership that mirrors the diversity of the united states population. when you see that then we'll probably see different outcomes. >> i don't think we've made enough progress in dealing with disparities in health in order for african-americans, hispanics, and native americans to respond to any kind of challenge to their health, like a pandemic. >> those deaths could have been prevented. and that's the most troubling part. >> president trump just moments ago saying it is time for the next front in this war. it is time to open up america again. >> april 16th, dr fauci stands in the white house briefing room and say here's the plan for

reopening. >> you go into phase one if you get no rebound then you go into phase two. if you have no rebound, you go into phase three. >> the next day the president is tweeting people to ignore his own experts' plan. >> are you more concerned about the economy? it should be the people first at all costs. >> african-americans are a core part of the essential workforce. i think if the data showed that high-income whites were contracting the virus at a higher rate, we'd be looking at a different response from government officials across the country. >> the reopening from a health perspective it was reckless. >> problems of leadership can be very dangerous because it affects how everybody else responds. >> so with the masks, i'm choosing not to do it. >> and i'm not doing it because i woke up in a free country. >> president trump's announcement that he wasn't gonna wear one, i think we're still suffering from that. >> it's all about freedom.

>> what you see by the end of april is complete chaos. >> let us work, let us work. >> as coronavirus cases in the us approach 1 million, more states rolling out plans to open up. >> when you mix science and politics, you get politics. you're gonna get deaths that could have been avoided. >> my dad was a first-generation mexican american who grew up in the cantaloupe fields. may 15th was when arizona officially opened up. so my dad, in listening to the advice of people in charge thought it was safe for him to resume normal activities. on june 11th, my dad woke up with extreme exhaustion, a cough and a fever. >> mark anthony urquiza passed away on june 30th. his death is due to carelessness of the politicians who continue to jeopardize the health of

brown bodies through a clear lack of leadership, refusal to acknowledge the severity of the crisis and inability and unwillingness to give clear and decisive direction on how to minimize risk. if we really wanting to address structural racism in this country, we need to get real with ourselves about the impact that coronavirus is having on these communities. >> things that we can do now is to try and concentrate resources, testing capabilities, access to care. >> when we get out of this, we've gotta do something about the social determinants of health. that's a long-term problem that we should make a long-term goal. mipo cdys george floyd. >> that case exploded into the national consciousness. thousands of people taking to the street. >> we go from this, this disease is making you not be able to

breathe. and to him, saying, hollering on national tv that he can't breathe. so -- and then you look at the climate of the country. i'm saying, "well, maybe look at the correlation." >> we essentially had awareness of two sort of important public health events simultaneously, the virus, which we had been experiencing and the racial pandemic that was with us all along. >> we got hit by the virus that came from china. and we've made a lot of progress. our strategy is moving along well. >> when you open, you have to open safely. right? and we never, ever got this right. we now have the greatest public health failure in our nation's history. [beep] ♪ [whoosh]

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>> 99 days after the cdc made its mask recommendation, president trump wearing a mask in public for the first time. >> florida now has more new cases of coronavirus daily than most countries in the world. >> there is a very heated debate underway across this country about schools. >> deaths from the virus now climbing in 27 states as nearly half the country either pauses or reverses re-opening. >> july is only half over, but it's already been the worst month for coronavirus cases in the u.s. >> the story of the summer is february and march in the northeast has become july and august in the sunbelt, in particular in florida, in georgia, and arizona. >> we have made missteps. people are dead because of those missteps. >> we were late to the game. the virus had taken hold in the country.

there was a lot of lost time. >> it's a very challenging thing, the missed opportunities that ultimately led to the deaths. >> we've just experienced a systemic failure. we really need to figure out how to prevent this from ever happening again. >> in order for every american to participate in the solution, they have to first understand the reality of the threat that we're facing. >> even if we can't seem to get it right in washington, i would love to see american citizens come together and say, "we're gonna fight this. we're gonna be united in how we approach this disease." >> the current state of affairs is not our destiny. we can get this disease under control using strategies that have been used all over the world successfully. so message number one, mask on, okay? any time you're out in public, wear this thing. >> it may take sacrifice. but now is the time for sacrifice.

>> the biggest challenge we face is leadership. the way you tackle a pandemic is by listening to your publi heal lders. >> receiving mixed messages from different elected officials is confusing. >> it's been a rollercoaster, really. in some ways, we're going through the cycles of grief continuously. >> if we don't get this under control, we're just gonna continue to see these surges and hopscotching across the u.s. >> the united states is currently spiking in cases, and the cost of that is human lives.

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