cnn's elizabeth cohen has more now. >>> christine, laura, many infectious disease experts will tell that you this authorization never should have happened in the first place. let's take a look at the history of hydroxychloroquine and the fda. in march the fda issued an authorization for hydroxychloroquine to be used for certain covid patients. then a month later the fda and the nih warned not to use it. then in may two major studies, one in the new england journal of medicine and the journal of american medicine said hydroxychloroquine doesn't work. the larger of the two studies showed it increased the chance of cardiac arrest by more than two times. in june fda revokes authorization for hydroxychloroquine. in revoking the authorization, the fda acknowledged what those studies showed which is, one, it didn't work and, two, there was a chance of bad side effects including cardiac side effects. so now there's no more authorization for hydroxychloroquine. doctors can still prescribe it for covid-19 if they want to. it's on the market for other illnesses so they could prescribe it, but in ge

joining me to discuss cnn senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen. in four populations. one, people who are hospitalized with the virus. two, people who have symptoms of the disease but not hospitalized. plea, people who are healthy but at a high risk for infection. four, healthy people who have come into close contact with someone sick. explain more. what will the process be? >> it's interesting they are trying it in these groups. what this tells us, jake, they want to know does this drug work in people who are very sick, so sick they are in the hospital, or somewhat ill, they are at the virus and at home. and, this is the interesting part, does it prevent infection. for example, let's give it to nurses in the er. they have a high-risk of running into someone with covid. let's try to prevent it. these trials are for people already infected as a treatment but also as a prevention. almost in a way like a vaccine. >> so you're saying it might help those with the virus in the hospital by helping them recover. but healthy people at high risk because of th

cnn correspondent elizabeth cohen joins us now.ner also said today that they will provide guidance to vaccine developers so they could get a vaccine approved faster, is that right? >> reporter: that's right. and members of congress have been asking the fda for a while now, please tell me what requirements will you have for a vaccine makers, for example how many people will have to be in clinical trials and today dr. hahn was quite vague as the large scale trials start this summer. half a rear into the coronavirus outbreak, and the best bet to stop it, a vaccine. 17 teams around the world now testing covid-19 vaccines in human according to the world health organization. three supported with u.s. funding. yet there is no published data on how well the three vaccines are working in human studies so far. dr. fauci said data is coming out any day now. >> what i've seen thus far looks good. >> reporter: final trials are expected to start this summer with the goal to deliver 300 million doses by january. but the army general in charge of

cnn' elizabeth cohen sat down with dr. fauci for an interview. what was his message as we see these fires, as it were, i know he's used that image before, fires of infections spread? >> he is very concerned, jim, and his message is don't go out into a crowd. if you do, wear a mask. always practice social distancing. of course, a vaccine is our pathway out of this pandemic, and he said that there's human data that is going to be published soon, the first time we'll have published data on humans. he said that he has seen it. i asked him about it. let's take a listen. >> i doubt seriously that any vaccine will ever be 100% protective. the best we've ever done is me see measles, 97% to 98% effective. that would be wonderful if we get there. i don't think we will. i would settle for 07%, 75% effective vaccine, it would bring you to the level of herd immunity level. >> dr. fauci told me something that is truly disconcerting. a third of americans are saying they are not going to try to get a vaccine when it comes out even if it's inexpensive or even fre

elizabeth cohen interviewed dr. fauci and she joins us now. elizabeth, thanks for joining us. wearing a mask and social and physical distancing so important health experts say because otherwise community spread could happen when asymptomatic people are out in public. they don't know they have the virus but they're spreading it. what did fauci have to say about states that are telling their residents to do this, to wear masks, to practice distancing but still not seeing results? >> reporter: so in my interview with dr. fauci, he gave a personal message to the people of the states. he said to them, look, i understand you want to get out. i understand that lockdown has been really rough. but think of it this way, if you don't wear a mask and if you do go out in crowds, you might be fine and get infected spread it to someone to spread it to someone to a grandmother who dies and an uncle or aunt or somebody who somebody loves, a child with leukemia with a depressed immune system. why in the world would you want to be part of a chain that kills somebody. he was very, very strong on

here now is cnn's elizabeth cohen. >> reporter: the news on the vaccine front.niversity of oxford in england saying they're already in phase three clinical trials, the large-scale clinical trials when you really find out if the vaccine works. the university saying along with the pharmaceutical companies, they will be doing a trial with 42,000 tran tho,000 participant. moderna is going to do a trial with 30,000 people beginning next month. this is what the national institutes of health wants to hear. they want large trials with around 30,000 people so they can make sure that the vaccine is truly safe and effective. but the issue is that it's the food and drug administration that gives permission to vaccines to go on the market. and the fda has not committed, they are not said we will require that there be trials in at least 30,000 people. that has some scientists worried that president trump is going to put pressure on the fda to put a vaccine on the market before it's been tested out on the full 30,000, just to have a vaccine and get votes in november. >> elizab

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so with me now, elizabeth cohen.arting on the scene in the white house, where we're told by almost all of the medical experts to wear masks and president trump, the folks around him, just not wearing them. >> right. they're just blatantly saying, cdc, we don't care what you have to say. basically every health expert, we don't care what you have to say. why in the world would they do that. the only reason is it is a political move. it is pure theater. saying look everything is fine here. why are you making such a big deal. covid shmo-vid. hundreds are dying every day. i'm going to say that again because i don't think it is getting through. hundreds of americans are dying every day from covid. this is not the time to take off the masks or to stand close to each other. so when he does that at the white house, he puts out this message that is the wrong message. people should be careful. also it is important to note that people who come through those doors are tested. so maybe he has a little more leeway because he knows

peter hotez of baylor college of medicine and elizabeth cohen, cnn senior medical correspondent. doctor, you heard dr. fauci there warning of a disturbing surge in infections. what did you think? >> the point is that it's much more than a disturbing surge. we are in a public health crisis here in texas and oklahoma and arizona and the southwest portion of the country. i'm here in houston. we are having a massive uptick in the number of cases, this almost vertical rise, patients are piling in to our intensive care units in the texas medical ce center. we are opening the children's hospital for adults to manage the surge and unfortunately all of this both predicted and predictable and reflected the fact that the federal government largely abdicated the responsibility and left the states to their own and we have to recognize that what's happened in 2020 is the greatest public health collapse in the history of our nation. this is an epic failure and i understand the point of the hearings is to try to get an update on when's going on but it really just mostly chipped away at the stark

. >> here's cnn's elizabeth cohen. >> reporter: this is the last place terry ward thought he'd end upith covid-19. at age 29. >> went to a house party for a cousin's birthday. and three days later, everyone started texting saying that we all wasn't feeling well. >> reporter: jerry says ten people from that party in south florida, all in their late 20s and early 30s have been diagnosed with covid-19. what message do you want to get out to people your age? >> they should take it serious. only go to places that are as needed. such as doctor appointment, work, stuff of that nature. >> reporter: but some young people in florida are gathering in groups and not wearing masks. florida governor ron desantis noting that in march the median age of confirmed cases in his state was 65. now, it's 35. >> what we've seen, particularly over the last week is a real explosion in new cases amongst our younger demographic. >> reporter: some people like jerry have underlying medical conditions and need to be hospitalized. but most young people recover at home or have no symptoms but they can spread the vir

cnn's senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen is here with the details., final word on how hydroxychloroquine is a good treatment for the infected, but it is -- is it an open question on it as a preventive? what's the truth? >> reporter: you know, there's been one study that looked at it as a preventive agent, and it was really quite a good and large study and found that it did not work. i don't think there will be a lot of enthusiasm to do more studies. let's look at the four that have been cancelled, really recent within the past couple of days. pharmaceutical company giant novartis cancelled there. the national heart, lung and blood institute, part of the nih cancelled there, the national institute of alley and infectious diseases cancelled theirs and the v.a. was proposing to do a study and decided not to fund it. now, they give various reasons but the bottom line is they were having trouble people getting to enroll in this stud to, and the bottom line is it's really such a pity that so much money was wasted on this. there was no science to begin with

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here's cnn's elizabeth cohen. >> reporter: there's a race on to get a vaccine for covid-19.er than they ever have before. it's really quite unprecedented. let's take a look at some of the progress thus far. there are 133 teams worldwide that are developing a vaccine. ten are in human clinical trials, meaning they are actually trying them out in humans. 123 at preclinical stages meaning they are working with animals or in the lab. let's take a look at where these ten teams are that are in clinical trials. there are three in the usa, moderna and no ve a and novovax. one in the u.s. pfizer and biotech. astrazeneca which is teaming up with the university of oxford and five in china. it's unclear which of these is going to finish first and more importantly, it's unclear which of these are going to work. it's -- we know that some of them won't work. that's why we have so many shots on goal, so to speak. let's take a listen to what dr. anthony fauci of the u.s. national institutes of health had to say about this. >> it means at risk for the investment. so we're going to start manuf

elizabeth cohen, you will hear the president and the supporters saying this is an increase in tests, the facts are different. >> the facts are definitely different. this is an increase in cases and we know that because we see an increase in hospitalizations. but let's get to the entire country and take a look. take a look at this map, the states in red and orange are seeing increases in cases. the ones in red are seeing more than a 50% increase in cases week over week. that is a huge increase in just one week. and let's take a look at that compared to previously. so right now, as i just said there's 32 states that are seeing increases. and it used to be that there were 23 states. that is a big difference. so in other words, it is not only are the big spikes but the spikes are bigger, they're -- there are more states with the spikes than in the previous week. now, also, there's another way to look at this, and that's a seven-day average. forget about a spike for one day, let's look at the seven-day averages. there are 13 states that are seeing increases in their seven day average of c

elizabeth cohen, thank you for updating us on all things coronavirus. >>> we know wearing masks cutsn on the risk of contracting coronavirus massively. we have seen so many people and including the president they won't wear one and forcing people in industries to make hard decisions. western learning that house speaker nancy pelosi may make is a requirement for lawmakers to wear masks at committee meetings. many airlines mandate passengers to wear masks and they say not enough so they are upping the penalties. cnn aviation correspondent pete will join me now. what the changes that the airlines are putting in place and why are they doing this now. >> reporter: airlines say they have to put teeth behind the rules they have had in place a few months. now if you refuse to wear a mask while on board a commercial airliner, then you will be banned potentially from flying on that airline again. seven airlines have banded together to do this. industry announcement and not something from the federal government. they have not instituted any requirements for masks. the d.o.t. sports this but sto

cnn senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen joins us with an update. >> let's break down exactly those vaccines are because they're in different places. let's take a look. so there are ten vaccines that are in human clinical trials. in other words, they're actually being experimented on in humans in various stages, five are chinese, four in the u.s., and one is based in the u.k. in addition, there are 123 vaccines that are in earlier stages that are being studied in animals, in the lab. it's not clear when those will get to this final stage where you study in hundreds, and then thousands, if not tens of thousands of humans. we don't know when we're going to get a vaccine. the ones in human clinical trials is basically january till june of next year. john? >> elizabeth, the surgeon general saying he believes there potentially could be new outbreaks and new coronavirus clusters. explain what he means. >> right. so you just have to watch that video for just even a few minutes, and you can see that people are in a small area, outside, which is good, but they're in a relatively small

elizabeth cohen talked with 2 young adults who are warning other people about the deadly virus. >>this is the last place jeri ward thought he'd end up in the hospital with covid-19 at age 29. >>that's why house party for a cousin's birthday. and 3 days later in white star takes in saying that. >>we all wasn't feeling. well. >>terry says 10 people from that party in south florida all in their late 20's and early 30's have been diagnosed with covid-19. >>what message do you want to get out to people your age. they should take a series on the go to places that is needed. >>such as that was a point means work stuff of that nature. >>but some young people in florida are gathering in groups and not wearing masks. florida governor ron desantis noting that in march the median age of confirmed cases in his state was 65 now it's 35. >>what we've seen particularly over the last we is the real explosion in new months or younger demographic. >>some people like jerry have underlying medical conditions and need to be hospitalized. but most young people recover at home or have no symptoms but t

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elizabeth cohen, thank you. >>> rosa florez is in miami. florida is one of the states that closed late, opened early. the governor there first blamed, like the president, the surge in testing. now heed as mitts thatdmits tha. >> reporter: you're right. governor desantis finally acknowledging the increase in florida is not just due to increased testing but due to community spread. he says this is spreading in the young population, so much so that the median age is plunging. it used to be 65 back in march. now according to the governor, most of the cases are between the ages of 18 and 35. the governor saying they are not social distancing, not wearing masks. what is the governor doing? he's going to publish psas and send inspectors to businesses to make sure they're complying with covid-19 guidelines. here is what the governor is not doing. he's not shutting down the economy, not requiring masks statewide. he said instead that's going to be up to local governments. the other big metric, hospitalizations. according to the governor, there are p

cnn medical correspondent elizabeth cohen explains. >> some news on the vaccine front.versity of oxford in england saying they're already in phase three clinical trials. those are the large-scale clinical trials, where you really find out if the vaccine works. university of oxford saying that, along with the pharmaceutical company astrazeneca, they will be doing a trial with 42,000 participants. moderna, they say they are going to do a trial with 30,000 people. and that will begin next month. now, this is what the national institutes of health wants to hear. they want large trials, with around 30,000 people, so they can make sure that the vaccine is truly safe and truly effective. but the issue is that it's the food and drug administration that gives permission to vaccines to go on the market. and the fda has not committed. they have not said we will require that there be trials in, at least, 30,000 people. that has some scientists worried that president trump is going to put pressure on the fda to put a vaccine on the market, before it's been tested out on the full 30,

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elizabeth cohen, cnn, reporting. >> very important report there. for us the house takes its turn at debating a police reform bill. >>> we're taking you live to the korean war memorial here in the united states. the president and the first lady you can see walking in. it's a somber yet understated but beautiful memorial. the president and the first lady laying a wroet on thieath on th 70th anniversary and the beginning of the korean conflict. let's watch the first lady and president as they walk in. if you've never been it's really a sight, beautiful, small, but very moving memorial. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> you can see the president talking to korean diplomats on hand as well as veterans of the korean conflict. the fighting lasted three years, 1950 to 1953. that mar never officially over. never an official end between the north and the south. more than 33,000 american combat deaths in the bloody korean war. you can see the president and the first lady. they are spending some time on the national mall. not far from the world war ii memorial, an incredibly somber me

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let's begin with cnn's senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen made med headlines this week and fauci testified he has concerns of how bad things could get and his fears that the u.s. could see 100,000 new cases per day if we don't stop the spread. just stop there. 100,000 new cases per day. that is a startling prediction. >> brooke, i have been interviewing dr. fauci many years now. he does not try to scare people. he does not exercise in hyperbole. when he says something he means it. he can see where we are heading and i will tell you in my discussion with him a dfew days ago i sense a certain urgency and even sort of sadness, how did we get to this point? we were headed in at least a somewhat kind of right direction. we are now really headed in the wrong direction. you mentioned that there's 36 states that have rising cases. i want to show you a number i think speaks volumes. right now 36 states that are seeing rising case numbers. last week only 23 states seeing rising case numbers. that was bad enough and you can see here how we are headed in the wrong direction. each time

elizabeth cohen will be watching this testimony with us. florida is one of the recent states in the coronavirus case surge. the latest numbers just olt and rosa flores joins us live from miami. rosa? >> reporter: malt mayors here in miami-dade requiring masks out in public. that's why i'm wearing one right now. they require masks that cover both your nose and your mouth as well. now, they cite an increase in hospitalizations and an increase in the number of people needing ventilators. they are moving forward with that message. as you and i have talked about that before governor ron desantis have not made that statement statewide but according to public leaders you must wear a mask. according to governor desantis the latest uptick in cases is due to young people, out in public, not social distancing or wearing masks. he surveyses that that means that there will be fewer people that will need to be hospitalized. the state of florida with the number of hospital beds in the state. right now that stands at 28%. now, that number is difficult to u

. >> senior cnn medical correspondent elizabeth cohen joins us now. been learning so much about this, doctors have, as we go, how easily it's transmitted but how to treat it. tell us what we've learned in this data? >> jim and poppy, this really is a good example of learning as we go. doctors noticed in china, actually, that patients who have hea heartburn seem to be doing better than patients who didn't, but only people who were low income with heartburn. it turned out they were taking a very low-income drug called fomotadine. this study looked at ten patients who were at home. it looked at people who took fomotadine did get better. this study is not important in some ways for the study itself, it's only ten patients which is super small. it's important because it tells doctors, you know what, let's do a larger clinical trial where you take 100 patients at home and you have half of them take fotomadine and half of them don't take fotomadine and see who does better. >> elizabeth, can you tell us about these studies retracting hydroxychloroquine becaus

our senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen takes us inside. elizabeth? >> reporter: john, this is how bad this has gotten. some states saying, hey, forget about coming from other countries. that's bad enough, in some cases, but people even with the united states, we're going to quarantine them when they cross into our state border. take a look at the list of states who, where people will face a quarantine if they come in to new york, new jersey, connecticut. those states are alabama, arkansas, arizona, florida, north carolina, south carolina, washington, utah and texas. now, john, we e no the expression, the devils in the details. perhaps it's never been more true than with this situation. how are they going to know when people come in to new york or connecticut or new jersey from one of these states? stopping people on highways? in case they're driving in? when they fly in, going to ask people what states have you been in, in the past 14 days? are they going to trust their answers? this is not a situation where you have a passport that you can look at.

elizabeth cohen tells us. >> reporter: there is a race on to get a vaccine for covid-19.scientists are working faster than they ever have before. it is really unprecedented. let's take a look at some of the progress thus far. there are 133 teams worldwide that are developing a vaccine. 10 are in human clinical trials, 123 are at pre-clinical stages manying they are working with animals or in the lab. let's take a look at where these ten teams are that are in clinical trials. three in the u.s., there is one that is in the u.s. and germany, one in the united kingdom, and there are five in china. it is unclear which of these is going to finish first. and more importantly, it is unclear which of these are going to work. we know that some of them won't work, that is why we hahave so many shots on goal. let's take a listen to what dr. fauci had to say about this. >> it means at risk for the investment. so we'll start manufacturing doses of the vaccines way before we even know that the vaccine works. we may know whether it is effective -- efficacious or not by maybe november/dec

let's talk about it with our senior medical correspondent, elizabeth cohen. orning, elizabeth. how big is this? >> it's certainly good news that these vaccine trials will start this summer. we've actually known that for some time. they'd been talking about july. we thought we were led to believe that more trials would be starting in july, but now it seems like maybe just one, maybe moderna which is the company that's been working all along with the national institutes of health on coming up with a vaccine, but what fauci told jim earlier is moderna and astrazeneca which is making the vaccine that was designed by the university of oxford and also jansen which is a division of johnson & johnson that those will be happening in the coming months. it is said that this will be on 30,000 study subjects. it will be interesting to see if that indeed does end up happening and there was some concern that there will be cutting of corners and that they won't end up being done on 30,000 and that it will be fewer. >> we'll continue to watch that. i want to ask because as sta

elizabeth cohen has more.e jeri ward thought he'd end up in the hospital with covid-19 at age 29. >>that's why house party for a cousin's birthday. and 3 days later in white star takes in saying that. >>we all wasn't feeling. well. >>terry says 10 people from that party in south florida all in their late 20's and early 30's have been diagnosed with covid-19. >>what message do you want to get out to people your age. they should take a series on the go to places that is needed. >>such as that was a point means work stuff of that nature. >>but some young people in florida are gathering in groups and not wearing masks. florida governor ron desantis noting that in march the median age of confirmed cases in his state was 65 now it's 35. >>what we've seen particularly over the last we is a real explosion in new months or younger demographic. >>some people like jerry have underlying medical conditions and need to be hospitalized. but most young people recover at home or have no symptoms but they can still spread the v

cnn's elizabeth cohen has more now. >> reporter: christine, laura, news on the vaccine front. university of oxford saying they're already here. university of obvioxfordoxford. moderna based in massachusetts says they're going to do a trial with 30,000 people and that that will begin next month. this is what the national institutes of health wants to hear. they want large trials with around 30,000 people so they can make sure the vaccine is truly safe and truly effective, but the issue is that it's the food & drug administration that gives permission to vaccines to go on the market and the fda has not committed, they have not said we will require that there be trials in at least 30,000 people. that has some scientists worried that president trump is going to put pressure on the fda to put a vaccine on the market before it's been tested out on the full 30,000 just to have a vaccine. >> thank you for that. >>> students around the world are adjusting to a new normal. in hong kong hundreds of thousands are returning to school after a four-month absence. the city emerged in relative

cnn medical correspondent elizabeth cohen explains. >> reporter: laura, boris, remdesivir is the only approved in the united states to treat covid-19. so far gilead has been donating it, giving it away for free. now they've set a price. let's take a look at what that price is. $2,340 for a five-day treatment which is the typical amount of time a person takes it. for private patients, $3,120. this price was lower than expected but still some said it was too high. taxpayers gave a considerable amount of support to develop this drug and some said that gilead should have given a lower price point. laura, boris? >> elizabeth, thank you for that update. >>> the supreme court pinning a very big win to advocates of abortion rights but there could still be a way for states to restrict access in some cases. cnn is at the supreme court next. want to brain better? unlike ordinary memory supplements, neuriva has clinically proven ingredients that fuel five indicators of brain performanc: memory, focus, accuracy, learning, and concentration. try our new gummies for 30 days and see the difference. t

anthony fauci spoke to cnn's elizabeth cohen about that difficult path ahead. t's an important interview at a critical time. elizabeth is joining me right now. elizabeth, what did dr. fauci tell you about what has become known as herd immunity? >> you know, it's interesting, kate, despite all the talks about vaccine we've yet to see any human data come out of studies, yet to see any human studies with human data and dr. fauci has seep the data and says it does look good so let's take a listen. >> i doubt seriously that any vaccine will ever be 100% protective. the best we've ever done is measles which is 97% to 98% effective. that would be wonderful if we get there. i don't think we will. i would settle for 70%, 75% effective vaccine because that would bring you to the level that would be herd immunity level. >> if only 70% to 75% of americans are willing to get the vaccine and it's only 70% to 75% effective, will that get us to herd immunity? >> unlikely, and that's one of the reasons why we have to make sure we engage the community as we're doing now to get co

cnn's elizabeth cohen is joining me now to talk about this. fourth daily case record here in the past week, elizabeth. that is significant. how are state leaders responding? >> they're responding by saying, you know what? we need to go back to doing more social distancing. people need to wear masks. it's been a really heavy emphasis on wearing masks. there's also been an emphasis on leaders saying to people, you know, it's not just these mass events when people get together, for example, for a protest or even when people get together in bars. a lot of this is for, say, people getting together for graduation parties a couple of weeks ago when young people were graduating. it's people getting together in individual homes, that we all need to think about how we're leading our daily lives. and this is so hard because it's been going on for so long. but just because we want to be able to, you know, have a graduation party for our children doesn't mean that we should. >> i think we're all seeing that anecdotally where we live, elizabeth. i see in wa

. >> let's go to our senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen with more. good morning, elizabeth. if you could walk us through what we're going to hear today and perhaps an update on that dual test. >> reporter: good morning, let's start with this dual test. this is the first we're hearing about it. if it works out that would really be terrific. come flu season people will if to the doctor or emergency room with symptoms, headaches, achiness, temperatures and doctors are going to go how can we tell if this is covid or the flu because there will be a lot of flu running around once the winter hits. one test that can do it all would be great because all the patients need to be tested for both, so one test would save time, would save money, would save lives. we're very interested to hear when this test will be ready to roll out, and then there was also -- there were also -- we're expecting talk at the hearing on other types of testing, especially testing of vaccines. the hope is that we'll have a vaccine out as soon as possible. three phases, three trials. that

let's go to elizabeth cohen who joins us with more. what more can you tell us? >> we just heard from rosa and lucy about what's happening in the hot spots, the terrible surges in florida and texas and one way to mitigate is to require that people wear masks but unfortunately we're not on the same page. our policies are all over the map about what to do for masks and let's actually take a look at that map and you will see exactly what i mean. the states in yellow do have statewide requirements for masks but that's far less than half the states. the states that are in orange sometimes have policies, sometimes don't. just depends on the county, depends on the group of people. the ones in red, they have no statewide policies on masks. that is 19 states that have no statewide policies on masks. and there's no reason for that. why would you not want to do that? masks can help protect you, even more they can help protect the other person. when you don't wear a mask, what you're saying to the people around you, i don't care if i get you sick. any of us could have covid.

cnn's elizabeth cohen takes a look at where we stand with vaccine development. >> reporter: there ise on to get a vaccine for covid-19. and scientists are working faster than they ever have before. it's really quite unprecedented. let's take a look at some of the progress thus far. there are 133 teams worldwide that are developing a vaccine. ten are in human clinical trials meaning they are actually trying them out in humans. 123 are at preclinical stages meaning they're working with animals or working in the lab. let's take a look at where the ten teams are that are in clinical trials. there are three in the u.s.a. -- moderna, inovio, nova vaccine, one in the u.s. and germany, one in the united kingdom, teaming up with the university of oxford, and five in china. it is unclear which of these is going to finish first. more importantly it is unclear which will work. we know some of them won't work. that is why we have so many shots on goal so to speak. let's take a listen to what dr. anthony fauci of the u.s. national institutes of health had to say about this. >> it means at risk for

anthony fauci, top infectious disease expert talking to elizabeth cohen. what do you make of that? >> if it is a 70 to 75% effective vaccine and everyone takes it, that's going to be a good thing. we will get to herd immunity. the rest of the conversation with elizabeth was that right now you have about a third of the country in polling that says they're vaccine hesitant or say they wouldn't take it. which means you won't get to herd i mmunity. it has to be more protective or more have to take the vaccine. you might get to a situation where enough people get infected and develop and the bodies, that could create herd i mmunity, thn you're left with more getting infected than should. >> what about the spike, it is a four week lag time. is this because in may all of these governors just reopened businesses way too quickly, not adhering to the white house's guidelines, cheered on by the president that wanted to get the economy going, not wearing masks, going into bars, lots of group activities, is that why we are where we are? i heard some people say some of it is the protests, althou

here's our senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen. >> reporter: laura, christine, there's onlyment shown to be effective against coronavirus, remdesivir. it's only given to hospitalized patients. now gilead says they're going to try to study it in an inhaled form and see if that works. that would broaden the number of places it could be used, not just the hospital and you could give it to people earlier on before they're hospitalized. gilead will try using remdesivir to see how it works in combination with other therapies. we do know remdesivir has been shown to work with covid-19 but it is not by anyone's definition a wonder drug. what it showed in studies in the intravenous form is that it cuts down on a hospital stay by about four days. a good thing but, again, not a wonder drug. christine, laura? >> thank you. the u.k. reporting its lowest daily death toll since the pandemic began. prime minister boris johnson is expected to lift lockdowns including for pugs. when can the british public enjoy a pint? >> reporter: well, some are enjoying pints already but only if they're a t

cnn's medical correspondent, elizabeth cohen, it's up to the fda to make the final decision on which vaccines are safe to go to market and be used by people like you and me and our families. what is the concern about political pressure on this time line? >> jim, every day, more and more i am hearing concerns from scientists saying we are worried that the fda is going to cave to political pressure from president trump. look, wouldn't it make trump look great if in october he could say, guess what? we have a vaccine, we have our path out of the pandemic, but october is just too soon according to every scientist who i have talked to and they fear that he's going to push it. one of those scientists who was worried about political pressure is major general dr. phil russell. he used to head up the vaccine efforts for the military for decades. he's not saying trump will, but he's saying if there's political pressure, that could be terrible and he says that trump is not a very good scientist. that is the basis of this concern. we know that trump doesn't care about science. so in october, whe

le let's bring in elizabeth cohen. you interviewed dr. fauci about the status of things and the path forward. when dr. redfield said that they're so concerned because hospitalizations are now going up in 12 states, and now they're seeing the death rate now going up, in arizona, what did you take from the tone, the tenor of what you heard from dr. fauci today in when he said that the country's headed in the wrong direction? >> kate, it was a very similar tone to what i heard when i spoke to him a few days ago. he genuinely sounds sad. i have been interviewing him for years. hiv, h1n1 and a man of great energy and a man of great we can do it attitude and you still hear that but i also hear a certain sadness like how did this happen. none of this is surprising, kate. that's so important to remember. experts have been on your show, on cnn for months saying, hey guys, watch out. it may feel like the first wave is over and we are going to hit a lull but that's not the case. this could get much worse and predicted by many, many people. i have sa

senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen is here. talk about the significance of that particular test, it can test for both covid and the seasonal flu. >> if this could make this happen, it would be a big help come fall or winter and here's why. it's often similar symptoms and doctors need to rule out both of them. now it's not such a concern but once flu season starts it could be either. so to be able to test for both in one test would be huge. it would save time, it would save money. it would probably end up saving lives. so this is a test that would test for an "a" strain of flu and "b" strain as well as covid. we'll hear about the need to get a flu shot. we hear this every year and we'll hear that it's especially important this year. we already have a huge strain on our health care system with covid. if we have covid and flu hitting our health care system at the same time, we just heard from rosa about strain on ventilators, on all parts of the system, that is going to get even worse if people don't get flu shots. right now, not

cnn medical correspondent elizabeth cohen has more takeaways from that hearing. >> reporter: dr. robert redfield head of the cdc said they developed a new test that can test for two strains of flu and for covid-19, all in one test. now this is really important. this could save a lot of time for labs, a lot of resources, could even save lives because it can test people more quickly. the symptoms for flu and covid are so similar that many people will need both tests now they can do it all at one time. dr. redfield talked about the importance of guesting a flu shot every year but especially this year. that's because having flu on top of covid could be a real disaster. it will certainly place a stress on our hospitals and our health care system. only 45% of american adults gate flu shot. dr. redfield urged more to get a flu shot this year. >> this fall before the seasonal circulation of influenza increases i encourage the american people to be prepared and to embrace flu vaccination with confidence for yourself, your families and the communities. this single act will save lives. >> r

senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen joins us first on this surge of cases. it's so key. about testing more. jim pointed out importantly those 13 st

elizabeth cohen explains. >> reporter: officials at the world health organization are clarifying somements they had made earlier about asymptomatic transmission. on moan they said asymptomatic transmission, meaning transmajor leagues without feeling symptoms happen rarely but then on tuesday they clarified and said we don't know how often it happens. both sets of comments had many infectious disease experts scratching their heads. they said it's clear that asymptomatic transmission happens. in other words people don't realize they have coronavirus because they have no symptoms or only mild symptoms but they transmit it to someone else. as a matter of fact the u.s. centers for disease control and prevention says a third of coronavirus infections are asymptomatic. this is why various organizations including the world health organization are urging people to wear masks. people should wear masks because they don't know if they have covid and capable of spreading it. that's why you should wear a mask and socially distance. these world health organization organization comments have infectio

elizabeth cohen joins us with details. what happened? >> good morning, alisyn.est study looking at hydroxychloroquine in hospitalized patients. it was quite stunning. i was on your show a couple of weeks ago. not only didn't it work, but it increased the chances that people would die. the lancet, a journal out of england, they are retracting it. it's because the database that the author used, it was an international database, a huge database, it was found to have been maybe not reliable. there are questions about its reliability. they're retracting it. to be clear, prior to this one, there were two major studies that looked at hydroxychloroquine that found that it didn't work, one even found it increased the chances of cardiac arrest. those have not been retracted. they did not use this database. those still stand. the nih and fda saying don't take hydroxychloroquine if you have covid unless you're part of a clinical trial. alisyn? >> what about this new study on the use of pepcid as a potential treatment? >> right. so it's the use of the active ingredient in pe

. >> elizabeth cohen is with us. so what does this mean to us?other companies heading for clinical trials. eli lily appears to be the first. they take antibodies from people who recovered from covid, and instead of just giving those antibodies right to other people in the form of convalescent plasma, which we all heard about, they call the very best of them and use the strongest ones and turned it into a drug. so it's really hoped this is going to work. because we're not going to have a vaccine immediately. so it's hoped that this might be in addition to a vaccine or a bridge to a vaccine. but there are several companies doing this, and it's worked well for other diseases like cancer. >> okay. hydroxychloroquine. there have been so many confusing messages about this from the president, politicians, et cetera. the science has been very clear on it. as a treatment, no sign of benefit, even negative consequences, but the commissioner and d.a. sending mixed messages? what is he doing and what sthhod america take from this? >> the clear message is if

seen your medical correspondent elizabeth cohen joining us now to discuss that. umber bowls you over, it is huge, elizabeth. >> it is huge and many people suspected this was the case but to see this in writing? you know? from the cdc is really stunning. this was something that dr. redfield talked about today on this call meaning that ten times more people are spreading this virus around than we thought. that's huge. just the -- even the numbers as we know them is huge and ten times more people spreading the virus than we thought tells you how difficult it is going to be to get this under control and, brianna, in that eloquent essay you read you talked about the mistakes made in the past, moving forward we now know that we are dealing with an even bigger challenge. we have ten times more cases to get under control. >> and as we see experts kind of -- they almost learn day-to-day of new information with risks of coronavirus. this has to do with having coronavirus while being pregnant. what can you tell us about that? >> right. there was a lot of question marks here,