we have a series of reports start, elizabeth cohen on health care. elizabeth. >> i think we have enough of an interview here. >> after president trump walked out of his interview with "60 minutes," his press secretary handed leslie stahl a binder. >> it's a little heavy. >> oh, my god. this is his health care plan? >> yes. >> okay. thank you. >> you're welcome. >> cbs says the president's so-called health care plan was a collection of executive orders and congressional initiatives, but no comprehensive plan. >> obama care is a total disaster. >> on the campaign trail, president trump promised to get rid of obamacare and he's still making that claim four years later. >> president trump has been promising to release a detailed plan for months. >> we're signing a health care plan within two weeks. a full and complete health care plan. >> why didn't you develop a health plan? >> it is developed. it is fully developed. it's going to be announced very soon. >> when? >> when we see what happens with obama care. >> if obamacare is invalidated, protecting peop

elizabeth cohen, what more are you learning? >> we have heard about the coming twindemmics, and we've been told, but many pharmacies will not vaccinate children. you know it's just easy to take it to a pharmacy in most cases. you don't have to take time off work or make an appointment, but look at this map. 30 states in the united states do not let pharmacists vaccinate children at all or vac nail children under a certain age, so you can't even go to pharmacies if you have children of a certain age. in august, the trump administration did something that was applauded by many public health experts. he said, look, pharmacists can give flu vaccines to thin ages 3 and plus, but this is where the investigation comes in. we called more than 175 pharmacies in those 30 dates, only about 30 of them would beling to vaccinate a child and up. even though the trump administration told them can you do it a small percentage were willing. we are almost at the end of flu vaccine season. the fda and cdc say best to get yew flu shot by the end of

. >> elizabeth cohen cnn's senior medical correspondent.'s walk through the cdc thubs, because you've got an estimated 299,000, almost 300,000 deaths. more deaths, than were expected. two-thirds of those attributed to covid-19. what about the other third? >> you know, we're actually not sure exactly what that other third is. could be a combination of things. probably is a combination of different causes of deaths. some of them might be because of delayed care during especially in the beginning of the outbreak, a lot of people delayed care, delayed cancer tests all of that. that might be also at play here. interesting here, when you look at these numbers, brianna, what you see is that the age group that's most affected was actually relatively young people between the ages of 25 and 44. in other words, when you look at deaths in that age group, 25 to 44, for this year, from late january until early october, compare it for the same time period for 2019 or '18 or back five years, the most dramatic difference is for that age group. so compared t

>> elizabeth cohen, thank you for all of that information. pep rallies, few masks and a crowd surfing politician in the middle of a pandemic. the president's campaign events fl flout cdc's guidelines. >>> plus coronavirus spread like wile fires in nursing homes. new reserve could explain why we'll have more of that ahead. change in plans. at fidelity, a change in plans is always part of the plan. this was the theater i came to quite often. the support we've had over the last few months has been amazing. it's not just a work environment. everyone here is family. if you are ready to open your heart and your home, check us out. we thought for sure that we were done. and this town said: not today. ♪ i'll be eating chicken tikka andmasala with garlic naan.ay. [doorbell chimes] cheers. i win again, patrick. that's siiir patrick. oooooow. sir. >>> coronavirus is ripping through the united states. there have been more than 8 million infections, nearly 220,000 deaths, but there's still a segment of the american population that is not taking this threa

let's begin this hour with our senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen. good morning, elizabeth. despite all of this, you've got these spikes that the doctors have been warning about for months. >> good morning, poppy. that is true, and now we are seeing what doctors have been warning about for a very long time, as dr. peter hotez has said. we are in for a dark winter and starting to see that. let's look at this map. if you look at the states in red and orange, that's where coronavirus cases are going up. that is 37 states, the numbers are going up, about six of them by a large amount, by more than 50%, when you compare last week to the previous week. the states in yellow where it's holding steady is only 13 states and in those states are the numbers going down, unfortunately. look to the far right of your screen. you will see that we broke a record on friday, and not in a good way. more than 80,000 cases in one day, that is the first time that we have hit that number. so the highest number of new covid cases since the pandemic began, even higher, poppy, t

i want to bring in cnn's senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen. elizabeth, the president has risk factors here. several. that could make him a candidate of more severe symptoms. >> that's right. he is in a much higher risk category than most americans. having said that, i will say the numbers tell us that chances are thank goodness he will be okay. he will recover just fine from this. however, he is at higher risk than most other people. first of all, he is obese and that triples the risk of hospitalization. also, he's 74. people in the 60 to 74-year-old age range a five times greater risk of hospitalization and a man and men tends to be more likely to get very sick or die than women do and he is treated for high close roholesterol. but again, to emphasize, the numbers tell us he is most likely going to get through this just fine. brianna? >> which is very good news. thank you so much, elizabeth cohen. >>> dr. matthew is a primary care physician, a public health specialist. thank you so much for being with us. we are hearing from the white house ch

elizabeth cohen is there. pletely sidelined by this pandemic, so the fact they're holding this is surprising in itself. what do you expect to hear? >> reporter: we'll be listening for tone. we'll be listening to do alex azar and dr. redfield be wearing masks when they have been made fun of for wearing masks. how optimistic are they there is going to be a vaccine by the end of the year? jake? >> secretary azar and jerome adams both shared personal stories about how the pandemic has affected them. what did they have to say? >> reporter: yes, it was actually very touching, jake. so dr. adams talked about how his wife has cancer, sadly, and how they are diagnosis was delayed because of covid. so he shared that story. secretary azar revealed that his father had died during the pandemic and that he didn't get to spend his final months with him, and that he didn't get to mourn communally with other people as we like to do. so sharing those stories, i thought, was very touching, because people learn from people. and i

elizabeth cohen joins us with more. how significant? >> it is significant. be ready for authorization to put this on the market in december. i spoke with the president of the company, dr. steven hogue. he said they're more optimistic than before. let's talk about what happened. 30,000 enrolled in the trial, got the first shots and the booster shot a month later. remember, half of them got the vaccine, half got the placebo. no one knows who got what. when 53 participants get sick with covid-19, an analysis will be done. the people that got sick, did they get the vaccine or placebo. if 40 received the placebo. in other words, 75%, that means moderna will apply to the fda for authorization. let's look at where all trials stand. moderna says they can apply to the fda in early december. pfizer says they can apply for emergency use authorization in late november. astrazeneca, johnson & johnson, those trials are both on hold. participants, one in each trial got sick so they paused to see if they're going to go back or not. those are both on pause now. john? >> eliz

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let's discuss this with e l elizabeth cohen. you can look at the numbers and be numbed and what can we do about it? masks have become a flash in political campaigns but research says it works. >> that's right. this reinforces it. i think you're right. let's talk about what we can do. let's look at this study. what this study says is look, currently about 49% of americans wear masks. by wearing masks we mean in public and always reliably. if that 49% could go up to 85%, we could save more than 95,000 lives if we look at the time period from late september through the end of february. if we move it up to 95, we could save more than 129,000 lives. are masks perfect? no. do they help save lives, absolutely. john. >> elizabeth, cohen thank you so much. let's continue the conversation with dr. reiner, it's good to see you this morning. i want to go back first to the map and put the map up on the screen for people to see. you see 32 states trending in the wrong direction right now. the president said he does not see a dark winter ahead

elizabeth cohen has been tracking vaccine development. how big of a deal is it?> it is a big deal. the pediatrics academic has been urging that children be involved in the trials. so let's take a look at the trials. this pfizer trial with children has been approved by the fda. they have advised the childrens and teens into two groups, the older 16, 17, their responses may be similar to adults and a younger group of 12 to 15. there are a lot of reasons for testing a vaccine in children one is covid kills children and stu studies show that children do spread covid to household members. even though they get it less frequently than adults do, they spread it to adults. also children 10 and older may spread it as officiefficiently adults do. over time there's been this thought that children don't get coronavirus, they do, and it is a big deal. >> elizabeth cohen thank you so much. it's a legacy day for the president, a supreme court vote, and yet coronavirus casting a shadow even over this day. when i was in high school, this was the theater i came to quite often. ♪ th

first, though, let's begin with cnn's senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen on this warning about herd immunity from the surgeon general. this is important because the member of the white house coronavirus task force that the president seems to be listening to scott atlas has been pushing this publicly, you have the surgeon general pushing back hard. >> right. dr. atlas is not a seasoned public health professional and it shows when he starts advocating for herd immunity. herd immunity is the theory of just let it rip, just let the virus rip, protect the people who might be vulnerable, tell them to put limits on their lives and let the rest of us just live. it's a pretty, you know, enticing theory, the problem is it doesn't work. which is what dr. adams the surgeon general is trying to point out. there are many problems with it, just to name a few, first of all, when people espouse this theory like dr. atlas does there is this assumption that there is a small number of people who are vulnerable to covid-19 and that's not true. people over age 65 are vulnerable for serious complicat

cnn's elizabeth cohen takes a closer look at the sharp contrasts between the candidates' approaches. win nebraska. >> reporter: as president trump. >> folks, it's go time! >> reporter: and former vice president joe biden make their closing arguments in the final week of the 2020 election campaign more than 270,000 people in the u.s. have died from coronavirus. >> he died by himself and it hurts my heart! >> reporter: in more than 40 states, cases are on the rise. despite this, tuesday night, the white house listed ending the coronavirus pandemic on a list of the trump administration's accomplishments. the campaign's press secretary wednesday refusing to admit that this just saisn't true. >> i'm not quibbling over semantics. the fact is we are moving in the right direction. >> reporter: joe biden said -- >> we will let science drive our decisions. >> reporter: the two candidates have two different approaches for handling the pandemic. >> i took rapid action to ban travel from kichina and europe. >> reporter: it wasn't a ban but the president said aggressive action early on saved many

let's bring in senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen. what are the treatment options and are they different for the president and the first lady? >> john, let's talk a little bit about the president's health status. he is 74 years old and putts him in the elderly group, the highest risk of complications from covid-19. he weighs 244 pounds which means he is clinically obese, that is another risk factor of complications and treated for high cholesterol. now let's look at treatments. when someone has mild to moderate illness, the president and his wife said to have mild illness, you take medications just for fever, for pain, just is the symptoms. you are just helping with the symptoms. if the illness is so bad it requires hospitalization then there are other hopgss, remdesivir, an iv anti-viral drug, convalescent plasma, blood products from people that recovered to get their antibodies and steroids. but again, to emphasize, we are nowhere near those options. from what we have been told this is mild disease and we wouldn't be near the option

let's go our senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen. there are a number of complicating factors for the president. he is 74 years old. he is technically deemed obese in terms of his weight. and that comes with increased risk. there are things that we do not know about his medical history. how at risk is the president? >> there's much that we don't know about his medical history, poppy. let's go through the risk factors that you mentioned one more time. as you mentioned he's 74 years old. so he is elderly. he weighs 244 pounds which makes him clinically obese. he has been treated for high cholesterol. at one point he took hydroxychloroquine when he was exposed to a different white house staffer who had covid. we don't know if he continued to take it or if he's started to take it again. now i want to stress, this definitely puts him in a very high-risk category. elderly and clinically obese and he's also male. most people even if they're in the highest risk category do survive and do do okay with covid-19. so that's important to remember.

correspondent elizabeth cohen has more now from new delhi on that defense relationship between india and the united states. this time around they managed to sign the 4th and final of what's called these foundational foundation defense agreements between the 2 countries this one which allows the sharing of high end when the tree technology maps and sascha is one that's eluded previous u.s. governments because the previous government in power and via the congress was for law and to sign such an agreement they thought it would be giving up something of its strategic autonomy but the trumpet ministration is one that's very close to the b j p government here and dia and they decided that to expedite the signing of this deal when president trump wants in india in february so this is very much a sin the defining of the defense relationship between the 2 countries of course it's coming at a time when relations between india and its neighbor china have been at an almost all time low that something that secretary of state referred to in his address he referred to the killing of 20 indian soldi

we are very honored that elizabeth cohen at cnn is leading this conversation. as reminderel you can submit questions when you register and were happy to get to this question as part off this conversation. thank you all, and welcome, elizabeth. >> peggy, thank you soeg much ad up so glad to be here with all of you wonderful panelists thatt we arerf going have with us. nearly ten months into this outbreak covid-19 is exposing deep inequities in health care systems worldwide and there are hopes of vaccine will really change things because right methods by risk has killed more than 1 millionca people worldwi. it's infected more than 44 million people, builds up and left without work and economies have been left many of them in terrible shape. so how do we ensure that vaccine development and distribution process is unhindered by domestic and international geopolitics? i'd like to introduce my guests. kathleen sebelius is one of america's foremost experts on national and global health issues. ceo of civilians resource that should provide strategic advice to companies,

joining us now, cnn's senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen. h, transparency is very important. what have you learned? >> reporter: you know, jake, not only do we not know those details that you mentioned about what happened to this patient, what kind of illness, there are even more basic and straightforward things that the company isn't telling us and that the fda says they are legally prohibited from telling us. for example, we don't know the answer to the basic question, did this recipient get the vaccine or a placebo? they say the experts don't even know, but it seems we should know that by now. it's been more than a week. the second question is, is this the first pause for the trial? it's possible this is not the first pause. when you ask that question, you don't get an answer. to point out why this is so important, there are only four phase 3 clinical trials for covid vaccines going on right now. let's take a look at them. pfizer and moderna both started july 27. johnson & johnson and astrazeneca were paused and didn't go on for very long.

. >> elizabeth cohen is with us. good morning, elizabeth. >> good morning. >> in addition to the spike in cases, these record hospitalizations in 14 states, are happening. >> let's look at a map that shows us those 14 states. these are -- again, this is so important to remember. it's not just the cases, it's the hospitalizations that we also want to focus on. so record hospitalizations in these states, and if you look nationwide, you can see what we're unfortunately headed back up to that very high hospitalization rate that we had in july. that is not the direction we want to be going on, especially since we're headed towards winter when more people will be indoors so the virus can spread more easily. let's look in particular at some of the states experiencing those record hospitalizations. across the country, it's more than 37,000 reported yesterday. ohio, had more than 1,100 in their state. oklahoma, kentucky, montana, nebraska are following. and i think, you know, one of the things to remember here is that the unit

elizabeth cohen jones me now. the death toll could be between -- not 222,577 if there had been an adequate government response, elizabeth. >> that's right. just to try to describe how inadequate the government response has been, it is tough. we're going to try to boil it down to a couple points. again, this report from columbia university saying there could have been tens of thousands fewer deaths if different things had been done by the federal government. let's look at those. they said there was insufficient testing, lack of a national mask guidance. the trump administration young played the pandemic and mocked masks. masks saves lives, and mocking them does not help. pakistan, hon during rattle and malaysia had more successful responses, and it was pointed out that trump advocated for solutions that didn't work, for example, hydroxychloroquine, so that also added to the death toll. brianna? >> tell us about the cdc revision on was considered close contact with someone infected with coronavirus. what is the chang

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cnn senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen joins us now. abeth, have we learned anything new at this meeting about the development of a coronavirus vaccine? >> jake, what we've learned actually is something the cdc plans to do once the vaccine comes out on the market. they have planned for this cell phone-based application where people who get the vaccine will be followed. they will get text messages, they will get e-mails saying, hey, how are you doing post vaccine? they will get a text or e-mail every day for a week and then every week for six weeks. after that asking them are you having any side effects, et cetera. i think this is really aimed at further increasing or doing anything they can to increase confidence in the vaccine. we know they are following up on the first group, mostly essential workers, hopefully means we'll get more information about whether this vaccine is as safe as they want it to be. >> also on the vaccine front moderna with a major milestone in phase three clinical trials, it has in rolled 30,000 participants. expl

my college elizabeth cohen was getting some of those details. the trial was halted in the united states, but then resumed in the uk, so it does seem like a mishmash. but i do think there's an independent monitoring board and they're really the only ones who are supposed to un-blind data. the researchers don't know, 9 v the volunteers, they don't know, so you're supposed to have an independent entity that can un-blind the data. we're hoping they release the data, but as of right now, all we know is there was a volunteer in the trial who has died. we don't know much more in specifics in terms of anything about the person, age, preexisting conditions, most importantly we don't know if they received the vaccine or not. as we get the details, which i think we will, we'll certainly have a bit clearer line on exactly what happened here. >> dr. gupta, thank you so much. >>> record-shattering voter turnout as both campaigns are pitching close messages to voters and president obama hits the campaign trail. >>> coronavirus cases surge in boston, forcing th

i want to bring in elizabeth cohen with me now, and i want to dive into those findings, but first there's a professor at john hopkins who now says hearing loss should be added as a symptom. tell us more about this. >> that's right, doctors are finding many patients are saying they have suffered hearing loss. i spoke to two patients, one age 42, one 23, so both young, completely healthy, got covid, didn't get very sick, but did lose their hearing in one year. for one of them it came back, one it didn't. this guy has ringing in his ear probably for the rest of his life. there haven't been a lot of studies on there, but there has been one taken in the uk that looked at 138 covid patients eight weeks after they were discharged from the hospital. 13% said that they had experienced a change in hearing, hearing loss of some kind. in fact autopsies on people who died of covid found in the inner ear they found virus. so another reason you do not want to get this virus. there is also news around mothers who tested positive about coronavirus and how close they can get to their newborns. >> there had

we're very honored that elizabeth cohen of cnn is leading this conversation. and as a reminder you can submit questions when you registered. they're happy to get to those questions as part of this conversation. so thank you all and welcome elizabeth. >> peggy thank you so much i'm so glad to be here with all of these wonderful panelists that we are going to have with us. nearly ten months into this outbreak, covid-19 is exposing deep inequities in healthcare systems worldwide. their hopes are the vaccine will really change things. because right now this virus is killed more than a million people worldwide. it is has infected more than 44 million people. millions have been left without work. and economies have been left, many of them in terrible shape. so how do we ensure the vaccine development and distribution process is unhindered by domestic and international geopolitics? i like to introduce my guest. kathleen is one of america's national human services in executive leadership as ceo of the resources, she provides strategic advice to company investors and n

senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen has been going over this data. break this down for us, elizabeth. >> brianna, this is so interesting how these numbers work out. let's look at how many americans are wearing mask dependably, only 49%. what this study found is in 85% -- if we could get that number up to 85%, we could say 95,000 lives. if the numb abouter were even higher, to 95%, we could would save 129,000 lives. masks are not perfect, but you can see they help enormously. >> let's talk about remdesivir, which i think so many folks have been hopeful would be extremely wonderful, right? that it would very much help people. it just became the first covid-19 treatment to receive fda approval, who is this going to be given to? >> let's talk about the technicality. they received emergency authorization back in may, so people have been getting is since may, including president trump. not just the president, a lot of people. so now that it has full fda approval, that really doesn't mean anything for patients. it was authorized before, now it's approved. it

cnn senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen is standing by with details. abeth, i think i speak fire lot of parents when i say i want my kids to go back to school ndk learn in person. i want them to do it safely, of course. what can schools do to make it safe? >> jake, it's so interesting, these physicists for the university of new mexico said let's simulate a classroom and do all sorts of different things to that classroom and see what ends up happening. let me show you a picture, basically, of what they did. they looked at a classroom of nine children, obviously classes are really much bigger than that, and they placed them -- or the fake children were placed 7 feet 10 inches apart and also the teacher was that same distance apart from the nearest student. i want you to focus on that child in the middle, because that will be important in a minute. what they found is, even if kids are spaced that far apart, unfortunately particles containing the virus can still go from person to person even if it's more than six feet. what helped is opening windows, using

cnn's senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen is here. izabeth, what's behind this combination of factors, fatigue, people being indoors more? why are we seeing this? >> i think you just named the two big ones, jim. that people are having fatigue, it is tough to keep up these masures, although it is so, so important and also as the weather gets colder more people are going indoors. so what used to be a picnic or barbecue where you could be outside and spaced apart now those people are all in one person's living room and that is not good even if you are wearing a mask that is problematic. let's take a look at these trends. if you look at this map you can see 32 states are in orange or dark red. that's a lot of states in orange and that means that those states are going up, the cases are going up, more last week than the previous week. the yellow ones the numbers are stable. there's only one state headed in the right direction, only one state where the numbers are going down and that's oregon. now let's take a look, six states are showing th

our elizabeth cohen is reporting that moderna has now reached its target of 30,000 participants in a phase 3 trial of its vaccine. that means all volunteers have received the first shot. the participants receive a second injection four weeks later. this is, of course, the moderna that is doing this in conjunction with the nih, one of the more promising trials. >> they had trouble getting enough minority participants, so it seems like they reached that number. the cdc is forecasting there will be 245 to 247,000 coronavirus deaths in the u.s. in the next few weeks. with us is dr. lina wen. good morning. it's a hard number to get your head around. the fact it's colder outside, all of these things. you have the schools in boston all closing. we'll talk to the mayor about that next. what do we need to buckle up for? >> we need to be prepared for a difficult winter ahead. we don't have just one or two hot spots. we have virus hot spots surging all across the country and it's not that cold yet. some parts of the country may be cold but many parts people can still easily be outdoors. so i'm

let's begin with elizabeth cohen. the numbers are growing, right, and it's not just because we are testing. because the positivity rate is going up as well. meaning more people are testing positive when they do test. why is this happening and what can be done about it? >> there are a couple of thoughts about why this is happening. why these numbers are going up. one is that as the weather gets colder in the summer you get together with friends do a barbecue, picnic, stay separate from each other outside. well, it's too cold to do that in many parts of the country. let's look at what the results of that are. 37 states are seeing an increase if you look at last week over previous week and six of those states are seeing more than a 50% increase. that is dramatic. those are red and orange. the yellow, that's 13 states holding steady, only 13, and no states are seeing a decrease, in no states are the numbers going down. if we look at this graph, the numbers are just going up. on friday we hit the highest number of cases ev

. >> i'm elizabeth cohen in atlanta.university of new mexico simulated a classroom of 9 students and one teacher to see how covid-19 might spread. what they found was even when all of the people were placed almost eight feet apart, the particles that contained the virus could go from person to person so what they suggest is open the window and also put a shield in front of each desk, a glass shield or a plastic shield, and also keep the ac or the heat running. they said that those dramatically reduced the spread of those particles from person to person. >>> i'm chloe malos in new york. las vegas is bringing back some of the live entertainment. seven shows will reopen on november 6th. among the entertainers that are going to return to the stage are magician david copper field and comedian carrot top. mgm resorts include the billagio and mandoley. and they will be performing in front of a live audience. mgm resorts has announced the new safety measures which is adhering to social distance guidelines, requiring everyone to

our senior medical correspondent liven cohk -- elizabeth cohen ih me today.everity of it wears off with hearing it every day but this is huge because it's moving into the colder days of fall and winter which would make it worse, right? >> that's right. it makes it worse for a couple of reasons because people tend to stay indoors more. you are indoors with people and could make things worse. take a look at the map. it's going up in 37 states. i know we said the saying something very similar yesterday but that is the case. it is still going up. those are the red and orange states you're seeing. twelve states are steady, the numbers are not going anywhere. only one state going in the right direction and that is washington. not great to go into the winter with these numbers. take a look at another chart. look to the far right of this chart, you'll see the case numbers are going up and have hit an all-time high, highest numbers, daily numbers since the pandemic began. poppy? >> elizabeth, it's hard to digest such bad news but we need it so thank you for that. jim.

we want to go to elizabeth cohen for what we know about the pfizer vaccine trial. is anything in terms of what they're doing of release of public information and getting an outside panel to double check the results, is any of that unusual? >> the outside panel as it's described in the letter doesn't seem to be anything different. all the trials have to go to the food and drug administration, they also have to go through the data and safety monitoring board. this board is so independent they won't tell you who's on it because they don't want anybody to try to influence them. that's good. that's the standard way of doing it, the good way of doing it. we're seeing pfizer and other companies getting smarter and emphasizing not speed, but safety. we can see in the polls they get worse and worse each month, so many americans not trusting the vaccine. so now the companies are getting smarter and emphasizing safety. i want to look at a sentence from this letter from the pfizer ceo. there's a word that gives me pause and should give all of us pause. this says, assuming posi

elizabeth cohen explains what we know. >> reporter: rosemary, pharmaceutical giant eli lilly has put their trial on pause. they said the pause was requested by the data safety and monitoring board. that's a board overlooking the trial to make sure that everyone stays safe. the company didn't say exactly what happened, but usually when trials are put on hold it's because a participant, a study subject has become ill, and they need to make sure to see did someone get sick and sometimes the vaccine had something to do with the illness so this needs to be investigated. eli lilly has already applied to the u.s. food & drug administration for permission to put their drug on the market. it's not clear what this pause might mean for this application. what we know is that if, indeed, this is because a participant became ill, safety experts will do an investigation and they'll try to figure out was the illness a fluke or was it related to the vaccine? rosemary, back to you. >> thanks for that, elizabeth. >>> countries across europe are looking to strict new measures to help stop the spread of

elizabeth cohen is with us. good morning. something seemed different in some of the responses from dr. fauci yesterday. what did you think? >> it did. i think it seemed more intense. i've known dr. fauci for many, many years. and he really is quite even keel. he's worked for presidents of every stripe since the 1980s. and this seems more intense. he seems more direct. and more like he's speaking his mind. i think it's very clear what he's feeling now, which is that as you said from the beginning, this should have been some kind of an organized response rather than various officials talking here and there and contradicting each other, leaving americans sometimes really not knowing exactly what to do. >> definitely a difference in tone. let's talk about vaccines. pharmaceutical companies making these things. looking back they made predictions that haven't panned out. that said, nationally we are making progress. where does that stand? >> so where we stand now is that there are four trials going on in the u.s. two are much furth

i want to bring in our cnn senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen. i think we all expected first wave, second wave, but it feels like we never got out of the second wave, that it is two waves with barely a trough between them. what does that mean for the months ahead. i think that's a perfect way to put it. you can think of it as sort of surge after surge. what it means for the coming months is really not good. there was a lot of hope over the summer. let's try to get these numbers down so that we go into the winter with the lowest possible case load, but that's not what's happened. if you take a look at cases across the united states, most states are seeing an uptick. there is a 16% increase in cases nationwide from the previous week with more than 50,000 cases, new cases every day. and the reason why we want it to be in a good position for winter, which we're not, but the reason why is really two reasons. one, once it starts getting cold, you can't have those nice socially distanced picnics or barbecues. it's too cold to be outside, so people are g

with me now, elizabeth cohen. we all choose how to spend our time.he president deciding to mock, call an idiot and disaster, again, not saying dr. fauci is always right, he has given more than 40 years of his life to this. >> that's right, john. we know when president trump feels vulnerable, he lashes out, attacks. ess he is attacking someone that saved countless lives telling us to wear masks, encouraging social distancing, by speaking truth to the president's lies. dr. fauci saved lives. he has been doing this job since 1984. he served six presidents because, guess what, when you do your job well, you get to keep it. john? >> and dr. fauci was giving an address, taking questions earlier today. i understand he made some news when it comes to race for a vaccine. >> he did. he said something that was accurate. let's listen. >> one of the problems we'll face is getting people to take the vaccine. it would be a terrible shame if we have, and i think we will have, a safe and effective vaccine, but we're not able to widely distribute it, particularly for

cnn's senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen is standing by with the details. eth, break down the numbers for us. exactly how do they arrive at this number? how do the authors describe widespread mask use? >> so, jake, this is a group out of the university of washington that has been doing much of the modelling we've been talking about. they're modelling using statistics, what would happen if. and here's what they came up with. they said if everyone always wore a mask in public, or most people, this is what would happen. right now about 49%, about half of americans report always wearing masks in public. if we could get that 49% number up to 85%, we could save 95,000 lives from late september looking forward until the end of february. if we could get that number up to 95%, we could save more than 129,000 lives. it is so unclear why anyone, including the president, keeps dissing masks. it doesn't make sense, they save lives. this study, this modelling shows it. other kinds of studies have shown it and there is no downside to masks. jake? >> what sdoes the study sa

let's bring in cnn's elizabeth cohen for more. so that delay concerning.w any more details about what caused concern about this person's symptoms? >> you know what, jim, there is dr/so many questions here. there's so many things that are not clear. let's first go through the sequence of events. so this astrazeneca trial started on august 31st, big phase three tile with tens of thousands of participants. on september 9 so really quite soon afterwards this pause was announced, the company announced it, last week, the would he can of october 5th that's when a astrazeneca got their safety data to the fda according to the source that i spoke with. i want to note here that the course said he thought it was a technical issue, that there were records in the uk that weren't in the same format as in the u.s. because the patient was in the uk and of course the fda is in the u.s., but i will say that the commissioner of the fda, dr. steven hahn, he told bloomberg news yesterday he wouldn't comment on this particular situation but he said that in safety situation there

. >> our senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen is with us.confusing to me reading, and i went back and read that study. is it really the case that we may not know if some of the vaccines work at all until they're being distributed? isn't that whole point of fda approval? >> it is confusing. the studies that are going on currently are in tens of thousands of people, these phase three clinical trials. so let's say typically around 30,000 people. you can learn a lot about a vaccine with 30,000 people. you can determine if it works and you can determine if it's safe, however, once it's put out there on the market and it's taken in millions and millions of people, you can learn even more about the vaccine. now, hopefully these studies will be right and the vaccine does work and it is effective. that's typically how it does work. but sometimes you do learn more about a vaccine because you're giving it to more people. but i don't think anyone should take this as, wait a minute, these trials are useless, we're only going to know if it works once it's

let's begin this hour with our senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen. good morning. the numbers are going in completely the wrong direction and i think that really lays it out that it took almost 100 days to get to a million cases at first and now it's just taking two weeks to get a million more cases. >> that's right, poppy. i think when you see this map that we have coming up that it will show you sort of why this is happening. let's take a look at this map. what you are seeing is a sea of orange and dark red. those are the states that the number of people with covid is going up. the dark red is where they're going up at an especially fast rate. but in 43 states the number of covid cases is going up. in the yellow states just five of them the numbers are holding steady, in the green states just two of them the numbers are going in the right direction. so in 43 states the numbers are going in the wrong direction. now let's take a look at just one day. let's take a look at yesterday. records set in just one day. nine states hit their record highs for the number of pe

cnn senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen joins us now. those comments, contradictory, of course, because the white house claiming we're turning the corner, the president, the actions pointed by this president, and experts say it is not true. the concern as we look at the graph we have 100,000 new cases maybe a day if things don't change. tell us why they believe that. >> jim, sometimes you just have to call a spade a spade. when we hear the administration saying, oh, we're turning a corner, oh, the pandemic is going to be over very soon, it is just bologna and bologna is my checked choice of words. i'll show you some maps that explain exactly what i mean. when you take a look at this map, you can see that case numbers are going up. they're going up in all of the states you see in orange and red and this is basically a sea of orange and red. 40 states are showing covid rates that are going up. they're not steady. they're not going down. they're going up. how in the world can you declare victory when 40 states have rising case numbers? now

. >> i'm elizabeth cohen in atlanta.port from the american academy of pediatrics and children's hospital association shows a 13% jump in the number of children with covid from october 1st through october 15th. that's a jump from about 657,000 children to 741,000. now children do tend to stay healthier with covid when you look at hospitalizations. children represent only between 1 and 3% of hospitalizations depending on the state. >>> i'm jacqueline howard in atlanta. the coronavirus pandemic continues to hit the black community hard. a new study finds black covid-19 patients are more likely to be hospitalized than white patients are. there's a 1.7 fold difference. the study found no significant difference when it came to icu admissions or deaths, although other previous research has. the new study included data on 5,000 people tested for covid-19 in michigan and the researchers call for more investment in testing and prevention efforts across racially diverse communities. >> all right. thank you so much for those reports

. >> let's go to our senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen. she joins us this morning. how and why are things getting worse? the fact that there is no green state on that entire map now of the u.s., meaning no one is trending downward, how is this happening? >> you know, there are probably many reasons for this, poppy, but one of them is as the weather turns colder people spend more time indoors. i'm sure we have all felt this or we know people have felt it, that you used to maybe get together with a small group of friends outside, socially distanced. well, in some places you can't do that anymore, it's jim sciutto too cold. so when people start heading indoors this is going to spread more quickly. so when tony fauci says that the trajectory is getting worse and worse, when dr. peter hoe tess says we're headed for a dark winter we should listen and continue taking whatever steps we can to avoid this virus. what we really need is a good vaccine and good treatment. let's take a look at where vaccine development is going in this country. as tony fauci mentioned, it is goin

elizabeth cohen is with us to talk about what we're seeing. researchers are learning more about the virus eve day, including a possible role that vitamin d could play in a patient's outcome. tell us about this. >> this is an interesting study out of spain. published in a medical journal. they looked at patients who had covid and found that they were often deficient invite minimum d. let's look at the actual findings. they looked at 200 covid-19 patients, found 82% of them had a vitamin d deficiency. that happens sometimes. when compared to people that did not have covid, only 47% of those had a deficiency. we know that vitamin d deficiency may impair the immune system. so what this researcher says is you know what, vitamin d supplements might be helpful for some populations. should people in nursing homes, often deficient and high risk for covid, should those folks take supplements. it is not a recommendation for everyone to take supplements but certainly interesting research. i think there will be more work on this. >> and there's new evidenc

elizabeth cohen joins us now. we watched that map and i suppose this is what experts have been warning about for months as that we come into the fall, as people get exhausted with coronavirus restrictions, we might see a rise like this. >> jim, i think we're seeing two things. one as you mentioned exhaustion with the restrictions. it's hard to keep this up month after month. also the weather is getting colder. before you could go outside and have a pick thick with your friends socially distanced. it's hard to have that picnic or that barbecue. it's just getting too cold. people head inside and that means the virus can spread more easily. let's look at a map that we have that shows that the cases are rising, heading back in the direction to the peak that we had last summer, that is the wrong direction. that is not the direction we want to be heading in and while all of this is happening, the president of the united states is making fun of people who wear masks. last night dr. jonathan lapook on cbs asked dr. anthon

elizabeth cohen joins us now. what is this new research?as if there were any doubt, what these numbers show is the devastating effect this pandemic has had in the united states. let's look at what the numbers show. it's found march through july of 2020, just that time period, there were 1.3 million deaths from all causes in the united states. that's 20% more than the same time periods in each of the years 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019. so 20% more than each of those years. so that's incredible for one disease to have that much effect is devastating. let's look at the death rate in the u.s. compared to death rates in other countries. this isn't total number of deaths this is death rates. in the u.s. what another study showed is that there have been 60.3 deaths per 100,000 people. compare that death rate to canada, 24.6 deaths. australia 3.3 deaths. as you can see, the u.s. is not doing a great job here. now, john, president trump has said that the u.s. has the best mortality rate in the world. as you can see from the numbers that's n

elizabeth cohen is here to walk us through findings. >> this is interesting.s at university of new mexico invented a simulated classroom to see what would happen. look at the classroom they simulated here. you've got a teacher, nine students. everyone is almost 8 feet apart. well beyond the six feet that's recommended. put your eye on that poor kid in the middle. i'm going to reference that child in the middle. these are nine students and one teacher, nearly eight feet apart from each other. this is what they found helps. opening the windows, turning on the ac or heat to get circulation, and shields attached to the front of the desk, can be plastic or glass, some kind of shield. recommendations are to keep people away from the ac or heat outlets. apparently particles can congregate there, and also reduce middle seats. that child that was in the middle that i pointed out, that child could transmit to every other child whereas if you're on the periphery, you have fewer people to transmit to. i think the bottom line is that apparently you can transmit further tha

. >> elizabeth cohen thank you for that sad but important reporting as we try to learn what we're dealingcommissioner for european union issuing dire pronouncement. she said in some areas coronavirus situation now more important than back in march and control measures don't seem to be working. cnn reporters from around the world bring us more. >> scott mclane where the wave is showing no signs of slowing. germany reported more coronavirus deaths in the last week than in the entire month of august. worst hit are netherlands, belgium and czech republic. yesterday czech health minister made masks mandatory almost everywhere outdoors. this morning prime minister after an emergency session of parliament conceded current restrictions in place simply have not worked. so starting tomorrow the czech republic will go back into something you might describe as a low clouddockdown. movement will be restricted to essential trips and to work. with the country's health care system nearing its capacity the czech republic will be accepting doctors from u.s. national guard in nebraska. the prime minister pr