ali khan, welcome to democracy now!can you respond to the last comment of president trump as he says he is not responsible for this? >> good morning, amy. thank you for the opportunity to join you this morning. before i responded the last comment, let's step back a little bit and think how unusual this would be if we replaced covid with polio or cholera or dysentery, that we would have a presidentialebate and two different opposing opinions about a disease tt the third leading cause of death in america now that was unknown 10 months ago and we would be having a debate on whether or not it is killing people and how it is killing people. it is unimaginable. if you just replace covid with anything else. but that is essentially what is happening. what covid has said very effectively is it has taken advantage of every splinter in our society. first, in terms of biologically -- elderly males we know are at higher risk than social politically and economically -- it is an extremely unfortunate circumstance of what is happening.

ali khan with colleges of public health. dr. khan, let's start with you, because nebraska is in the red. the states with record hospitalizations yesterday, iowa, kansas, missouri, nebraska, wisconsin. in terms of the positivity rate in some of the rural areas in the center of the country, i want to read those also, because they're just so stallering. wyoming, 40% positivity rate. south dakota, 32%. wisconsin, 22%. idaho, 22%. iowa, 20%. what are we supposed to do, dr. khan? >> so thank you, good morning, alisyn. good morning, john. i have to be honest with you, this is now unconscionable this late into the outbreak. for nine months into the outbreak, we know exactly what we need to do to control this outbreak. and essentially, this is predictable, right? the virus is still a contagious disease and 80% of americans are still susceptible to be snes infected. . and we have now explicitly stated that we're using a herd immunity strategy that's untested and unethical, which essentially means a no-response strategy. you couple the ina

ali khan is the dean of the university of nebraska school of public health.or of the c.d.c.'s office of public health preparedness and response. should any of those passengers been allowed to get on commercial flights at that point? >> khan: so those individuals definitely should have stayed in atlanta and been appropriately isolated or quarantined based on their circumstances. >> alfonsi: we knew enough at that point to know that was a bad decision. >> khan: oh no, not only did we know enough at that point, we had already acted on that knowledge multiple times. we know that what was the right thing to do was with the "grand princess" and other cruise ships, that those individuals need to get off the ship, needed to be monitored separately-- in quarantine before they could go out and about their way. >> alfonsi: the cruise line would not share the passenger list with us. but we were able to track down 64 of the americans. and of those 64, 45 of them told us they tested positive for covid soon after coming home. >> khan: this is what the agency plans for day i

but they're so talented, they're now enrolled with renowned musician ustad rustam ali khan.if you are hoping to get out and about this weekend, the weather may have an impact on your plans. it is looking decidedly unsettled. it will be windy, some heavy rain at times but not all the time. some drier and brighter moments as well. low pressure in charge of the weather at the moment. quite a big low and deep low as well. a lot of white lines and isobars quashing together. it shows we will have strong winds and the strongest of those will always be in association with this band of rain. the wet and windiest weather to start saturday across the western side of the uk, the rain band will push it eastwards through the day and you can see the bright green and yellow colours showing up, a short and sharp burst of really intense rainfall accompanied by the really squally winds pushing eastwards as we go through the day. largely dry in the southeast. sunshine and showers from the west. windy for all and strong winds along the lines of the rain band. and temperatures 17 degrees across t

ali khan, thank you so much for your expertise. we appreciate it. >> always a pleasure.asks 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 bide

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 h

ali khan, the dean of university of nebraska's medical center of public health. not much.bia university says you could have done at least 30,000 lives' worth of things. that is the opposite of not much. >> good morning, john. good morning, alisyn. i think "not much" better characterized the response to this outbreak than what we could have done. this is not surprising. the columbia study is basically giving an estimate to what we all know, which is that we've always had the tools to get this disease contained and if we had used those public health tools, at not just the national level, but the national, state, and local level, we would have had a marked decline in deaths. anywhere from maybe 10,000 to, if you want to take the worst-case scenario, france, you know, 160,000 deaths. so there's a whole lot of people who are dead in america that completely preventable that would not have been dead if we had used science and good public health tools. >> dr. khan, i guess we knew that intellectually, but seeing them qualify it with a death toll, with actual numbers of how many li

takes a little bit of a sting out of this california number but certainly accentuates how riasat ali khan rest of the world will have to be the longer term growth story on track for the half a million units, talking about it for next year next year is supposed to be up 40% from there that could become a big question if in fact they are losing momentum now >> all right >> go ahead, leslie. >> they have been chasing some of their policies changing their seven-day return and pared back their used car policy and some are talking about cannibalization of model y versus s and in the backdrop you've got all these strict restrictions in california because of the pandemic that makes it more difficult to buy a car, even a used car, and then people just don't have the wallet share that they did a year ago. >> the stock is teflon though. unbelievable we'll see if anything changes with earnings. still, keeping an eye on all of these trends. >> let's talk some revlon. this one is pretty fascinating things, unfortunately, are getting pretty reugly for the beauty company they are hoping investors trade i

ali khan. dr. he's choosing the place in the country that is having its worst experience with coronavirus to hold a rally -- two rallies. >> good morning, alisyn. you're spot on on this one. so wisconsin f you look at the data is having the most number of cases it's ever had, the most number of people in the hospital, the most people in the icu and the most number of deaths. it's also up around 400 cases per million per day so essentially very close to the peak we saw in new york early in the spring. so, without a doubt, you know, this is the hottest area, one of the hottest areas in the country. >> it's is begging with wisconsin to be careful. maybe even begging the president not to do this. the language out of a report from the task force on wisconsin says during the intense period of viral surge, large numbers of acutely infected individuals caused exponential growth in infections although young adults are the most infected groups currently spread to other age groups is inevitable. increase soci

ali khan, the dean of the university of nebraska medical center's college of public health. dr.with us. unrelenting spread. that is what the white house coronavirus task force now says is happening in the midwest, upper midwest, and the west. that seems to be a very bad place, with 79,000 new cases just today. >> good morning, john. good morning, alisyn. yes, there's no doubt that there's unrelenting spread, but for those who still believe this disease is a hoax, let's remind them that hospitals are currently being stressed. we're diverting people from hospitals across this area, and that there's 800 deaths a day occurring from this disease. i've characterized this previously as the greatest public health failure in our nation's history, but it wouldn't be a public health failure if we listened to public health. i think we need to admit this is the greatest failure since the vietnam war. it's unbelievable, the virus is no longer the enemy. we are the enemy. our friends, our neighbors, our politicians, it's extremely unfortunate. it's not just infected people, but we've infected