i've fought for grew up in was asleep. >> we believe that there cameron and get a response from beth cameron . >> cameron, thank you. first and foremost thanks for your service. i appreciate what you've done for our country and i think you're certainly expressing frustration with this public healthemergency that many people have . first i want to say to your question about morbidity and mortality, your first question that yes, mortality is the number of people or the case of people die from the disease relative to those who are infected. and the infections rates is not the case fatality rate so there are many more people who are infected with this disease and who will die and i think when you say morbidity, what morbidity is the people who are affected by the disease, not necessarily the number including the people who died also including the people recover . so there are going to be way more people as steve mentioned with this statistic earlier about the number of cases versus thenumber of deaths . i do think that the number of deaths from this disease is quite high. it would have been much

beth cameron. guest: so i think that it's unfortunate if social distancing is being perceived as a political move. there are a number of prominent republicans who worked in multiple administrations including significantly the george w. bush administration where there actually a lot of the work that was done to determine how social distancing could be put in place the way that we're doing it now was actually pioneers by experts in that administration. and has been absolutely supported by officials who served in that administration and also in the trump administration. so i don't think that this is political. i think instead this virus has some significant differences from h1n1 and from influenza in that each person can transmit it to more people. it has a higher mortality rate, the ability to cause death especially in people who are older or have underlying medical conditions. and so i think when we look at the numbers of zetsdzes, first it's been the leading cause of death as steve said earlier for

marrazzo, beth cameron, thank you both very much for all of the information. >>> stay well. >> you too. you can join anderson cooper and dr. sanjay gupta for a coronavirus town hall. it's fast and fierce and live tonight at 8:00 p.m. eastern only on cnn. >>> violent and deadly protests in minneapolis over the death of george floyd. what will president trump say about the crisis. we have a new report in minutes. >>> just in to cnn. we're getting a first look at new video of the destruction in south minneapolis after a night of protests following the deaths of george floyd, the unarmed black man who died after an officer had a knee on his neck, floyd pleading i can't breathe. moments ago, says he thinks the death of floyd was murder. president trump asked them to expedite an investigation. >> mr. president -- [ inaudible ] >> very, very sad. sad event. [ inaudible ] >> you look at it, we're going to get a report when we get back tomorrow and we're going to get a full report. a very sad day. >> joining us now political analyst maggie haberman, white house correspondent. i've heard overnig

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beth cameron. guest: so i think that it's unfortunate if social distancing is being perceived as a political move. there are a number of prominent republicans who worked in multiple administrations including significantly the george w. bush administration where there actually a lot of the work that was done to determine how social distancing could be put in place the way that we're doing it now was actually pioneers by experts in that administration. and has been absolutely supported by officials who served in that administration and also in the trump administration. so i don't think that this is political. i think instead this virus has some significant differences from h1n1 and from influenza in that each person can transmit it to more people. it has a higher mortality rate, the ability to cause death especially in people who are older or have underlying medical conditions. and so i think when we look at the numbers of zetsdzes, first it's been the leading cause of death as steve said earlier for

this morning, beth cameron, former national security council member during the obama administration talksbout a long-term response to the coronavirus. and later, howard means discusses his book on the shootings at kent state university in 1970. we will take your calls and you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter -- on twitter. "washington journal" is next. host: good morning. the numbers and the heartbreak continue. now more than 66,000 americans have died as a result of covid-19. in fact, in the month of april, coronavirus was the number one cause of death in the united states. it is sunday, may 3, and as this pandemic is a back drop for a presidential election the november election is six months away. so many uncertainties between now and then, but at this point we want to hear from you. who is your candidate? president trump, former vice president joe biden? 202 is the area code.

. >> an assistant professor at the university of alabama birmingham and beth cameron, she was the senior director for global health security and biodefense on the white house national security council under president obama. thank you very much for being with us. beth, i want to start with this cdc guideline issue. this 17-page document that was being produced to give some guidance about how businesses, churches and what not should be reopened. cnn reported that it would be rejected and never see the light of day. deborah birx, inside the task force overnight seemed to backtrack on that. let's listen to what she said. >> those are still being worked on. no one stopped the guidelines. we're still in editing. i got my edit back from the cdc late yesterday. i'm working on them as soon as i get off of this discussion. so we are in constant work with the cdc and really value their partnership. as you know, they put up guidelines. >> this seems to be a reversal from inside the task force, let's be clear about that. what does it tell you that there is this tension about releasing these guideline

response to cameron,mic with beth former senior director for global health security and bio defense forhe national security council. and we look back 50 years to the antiwar student protest at kent state university, which erupted into a deadly c confrontation between students and the national guard. with howard means. be sure to watch c-span's "washington journal," at 7:00 eastern sunday morning. join the discussion. next, testimony before a senate panel on the challenges of remote voting. including new technologies, the constitutionality of moving procedures online, and security concerns. churches and schools are closed. health-care workers are working around-the-clock. in the last five weeks, based on the numbers i saw this morning, nearly 30 million americans filed for unemployment.