giroir. second big picture point. i aid with much of what admiral giroir had to say. it was terrific for him to talk about the value of asymptomatic test being, the value of surveillance testing. the problem is a couple of faults. one is it is in fact it contradicts the guidance out of the cd krvm the cdc still as of five minutes ago they do not recommend surveillance testing in schools, even though most public health officials think, especially in places with large outbreaks, that we need surveillance testing in schools so there's a bit of a confusion within the administration and a lack of clear guidance that persists. the second issue on this is no one believes that we have done everything we could. i think admiral giroir has a very difficult job. he has been trying his best, but he's in an administration that has not wanted to put the full force and u.s. industry towards testing. the idea that this is the best america can do, i reject that. this owes a lot of things we could have done better. >> this is the united states of america and we're having a conversation

[laughter] giroir: thank you, mr. president. we have performed over 111 million tests. on 13 days, we have achieved tests of over one million per day, and our average test numbers are now approximately 920,000 per day. we are now at an inflection point in testing. we now have available on average 3 million tests per day not counting pooled testing, which could multiply that number several full. nearly half of our tests are rapid point-of-care. all of the efforts of your administration including aggressive use of multiple uses millionsa, hundreds of of dollars of hhs and dod, and including over 200 fda emergency use authorizations, clear and for some discretion, and application of the press act have led to this inflection point, which brings us to why we are here today. on august 27, after months of dayning and only after one after the fda authorization, the trump administration awarded a million tor $760 abbott for delivery of 150 million of these abbott rapid tests. it detects the presence of the covid antigen. a specific nasal swab is used. that swab comes with the te

admiral giroir, dr. redfield brought up an issue that i know is cascading across the country, and that is, as some of our colleges and universities are opening, the incidents of testing and the incidents of positives have gone way up because of some behavioral issues and just the whole atmosphere at times in a college and university setting. so there's a great interest on tests, to get the rapid turnaround tests, the abbott test, i know, is of interest to the universities. how are you -- i know you're beginning to deploy these to nursing homes and highly, highly challenged communities, which i applaud. but how do you deal with a college and university setting in terms of testing, and what do you recommend here? what do you see in the future? >> so thank you for that question. universities generally have a very substantial capability to do testing in their research laboratories and their veterinary diagnostic laboratories. we have had multiple calls, seminars, technical webinars to allow the universities

giroir. you said in an interview that coordinated editing of the guidance that you coordinated editing of the guidance, the american medical association and the infectious studies of america and state health departments recommended testing for asymptomatic people. i want to ask you, on what scientific basis did members of the task force take a different position. scientific evidence. >> thank you, senator murray. i want to reiterate what dr. redfield said is that the original guidance that was published by the cdc with the -- >> i appreciate -- >> the approval of dr. redfield and the senior scientists did not, unequivocally, it did not recommend against testing asymptomatic individuals. in fact, it is important to test asymptomatic individuals, but in certain circumstances it's important to do that within the context of public health or medical supervision. that's all it said. it was widely misinterpreted. it was widely misrepresented and dr. redfield told the reason, we have done fda guidanc

i think admiral giroir also has things back wards. we should stop justifies why we don't need more tests. we know we need more tests. why don't we figure out, what is the number we need? and figure out a strategy to get there. and actually, admiral giroir does live in this dystopian world, because he's around the white house. we have major league sports, we have universities. this is something that's possible. as a parent, i would feel so much better about sending my toddler back to preschool if i knew the students and staff and teachers were getting tested all the time. if that's possible, why don't we aim to get there? >> i wonder if that's too much to expect. you mentioned the utopian society because he lives in the white house. should we have it for front line workers and essential workers? >> we absolutely should. we should have it for individuals who are higher risk as a start. if there are scarce resources we need to allocate to those who need to it most, but we need to elevate widespread testing. at least 50% of the spread of

admiral brett giroir asked by cnn's dr. gupta could you have done more early on? he said, no. >> are you preparing yet for your upcoming debates? >> march 12th, very important for people particularly in the audience to understand -- >> sending unsolicited ballots, it is really a corrupt system and you watch. >> i came here march 12th. i think it's very important for people particularly in this audience to understand that diagnostics were not emphasized at all. the national stockpile, not a trump administration, it is not an obama administration. it is a longstanding practice that diagnostics were really not emphasized and see the importance of them now. i have never been told to slow down testing. or to reduce our efforts. in fact, we have built on testing every single month. >> clearly had a glitch in the computer server there. my apologies to the president and the admiral and to you. another reminder today though the coronavirus disruption is everywhere. 884,000 people filing for first-time unemployment last week, in all more than 55 million americans lost jobs

and that's why i really wanted to ask admiral giroir about this today. and look, he conceded, asymptomatic people need to be tested, full stop, that's how he phrased it, being unequivocal about this. half the spread in this country is coming from people who don't have symptoms. that's why we say, wear a mask. you may not know you have the virus. if you wear a mask, it could at least help prevent you from spreading it to other people. but getting tested is so critically important. >> because asymptomatic people can clearly transmit this virus. >> that's right. >> sanjay, thank you very, very much. be sure to join sanjay gupta and anderson cooper for our new cnn town hall, "coronavirus facts and fears," 8:00 p.m. eastern only here on cnn. >>> just ahead, we'll break down the woodward bombshells with another journalist who has written a book about the chaos in the white house, michael schmidt of "the new york times" is standing by. we'll discuss when we come back. ♪ ♪ ♪ the personalized recipes are really great. it's super family friendly. the program does

i'll start with admiral giroir. you said in july that it was not a question that we would be soon running a million tests per day. we've gone from about 800,000 tests per day to 675,000 tests per day. what is happening? >> there is -- i want to be clear that we're talking about capability to produce tests and i think we need to always draw the distinction between how many tests we have that could be deployed and what the states are doing. in august, for example, the state's total, the state's combined goals were in the low 20 millions of tests which they exceeded to 25 million. but what we're seeing at some parts of the country is testing is going down. we're trying to change that. i know you're from hawaii. we have a surge site in honolulu right now to test 5,000 per day and moving to -- >> you're saying this is provisional. is this a supply chain problem or are you saying that states are individually deciding to do less testing? >> this is not a supply chain problem. we will have -- we had double the available abi

giroir,y azar, admiral and others, and work with governors like governor reeves and a testament to great companies like abbott laboratories and the thousands of employees who, mr. president, i know have literally worked around the clock since the early days in the pandemic, when you brought in the greatest research saidnies in america and that we need medicines known as therapeutics. we need a vaccine for america. and you also challenged them to develop a rapid point-of-care test that could be distributed all across america and enable us more effectively to slow the spread and flatten the curve, protect the vulnerable, and save lives. mr. president, today's announcement is really emblematic of the public-private partnership that you forged from the early days of this pandemic. as you said, we met today with the nation's governors, the white house going virus task force completed our 48th conference call with america's governors. but all along the way, from our very first meeting, you made it clear that we would spare no expense of the federal government. the full resources of the federal

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admiral brett giroir, white house coronavirus testing czar is joining the next. we will be right back. >> president trump: we want to have people not get sick, the vaccine is very important and it's a final step i believe, it's going to be the final step. it's honey honey? new nyquil severe honey is maximum strength cold and flu medicine with soothing honey-licious taste. nyquil honey. the nighttime, sniffling, sneezing, coughing, aching, stuffy head, fever best sleep with a cold medicine. liberty mutual customizes your car insurance, so you only pay for what you need. i wish i could shake your hand. granted. only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ >> president trump: today my administration announced we are awarding $200 million of care is act funding to all 50 states to prepare to distribute the vaccine to high-risk residents and we want to do that the instant it is approved. >> martha: big timeline on that, a short time ago president trump briefed the nation for the race on the covid-19 vaccine the same as his administration is prep

listen to admiral brett giroir, the testing czar, saying people who say we need daily tests are simplyiving in a dream world. >> it's great to talk about this utopian kind of idea where everybody has a test, every day, and we can do that. i don't live in the utopian world. i live in the real world and the real world had no tests for this new disease when this first started. we can return society without having everyone have a test every single day. we can do that and showing you can do that. >> bring in the cnn senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen saying he lives in the real world. give us context here because the admiral has said a number of things over seven months of testing and the availability and the reliability and turned out not to be true. we are we now? >> in the real world the situation is that things have gotten better, may not be saying much because they were a nightmare to begin with. if admiral giroir feels he needs a pat on the back i will officially give him that pat on the back that things are better than they used to be. they are not still not where they need

giroir, admiral giroir i worked with closely at hhs.science physician bringing top talent as well as so many people at hhs both in the administration as well as career folks who devoted their lives and careers at nih and fda. i can also say that certainly from the larger perspective, the administration, namely the president, went early ahead of the curve in terms of in insuring that travel between china and the united states which stopped early. that has a significant impact in terms of preventing even a worse situation. we know that, of course, extended to europe. as so many countries around the world have done it. i would just emphasize to your audience this is obviously a very serious time. it is a time to learn about this new coronavirus, which we have done the last seven months, came out of nowhere. it has its own unique characteristics. it's something you can't rely on. we had to learn about that. we had to get ppe together for medical health care community but also for folks, ventilators. also warp speed, therapeutics and vaccine

let's start with what admiral giroir said.s utopian to think everybody should get a test every day. first of all, who is making that argument that everyone should get tested every day? and what is a realistic goal that hasn't been achieved yet as it pertains to testing? >> yeah. i think that's a really good point. first of all, it is worth reminding people that major league sports, some of these leagues and the white house do testing every day on many, many people. this isn't a total fantasy land. that does happen in sectors of our society. and i think people are right to say, well, why is that just reserved for the white house and major league sports? what about the rest of the country, essential workers, people who are trying to get back to work, schools, nursing homes? >> my husband was trying to get a test, and he was told he had to pay $500 to get the results expedited. otherwise he had to wait five to six business days. there seems to be inconsistency across the board when it comes to that. >> yeah. it's very unreasonabl

admiral brett giroir, the testing czar, defends the administration and says we've got this. >> we do want to encourage more testing. we have sent surge sites, federal surge sites to 19 different cities, primarily focusing on the younger population that could be asymptomatic because we know they are very important in the spread of this infection. we're going to continue to surge. we're going to continue to support testing it, and, again, every week we send county level recommendations to states, we want to work with them to increase that. we do need more testing, particularly in the outbreak areas that we identify on a weekly basis. >> let's bring in dr. carlos del rio, of emery university medicine. i look at the numbers every day and get depressed looking at those numbers every day. it's unmistakable to me we're starting to go back up. i don't know if that's a new hill in the first wave or the beginning of a second wave but when you look at the data, the president says we've turned the final corner. is there any doubt in your mind that in recent days we've taken a turn for the worse?

giroir. you said in an interview that coordinated editing of the guidance, that you coordinated editing of the guidance. the american medical association, infectious disease society of america and state health departments recommend testing for asymptomatic people. i want to ask on what scientific basis did members of the task force take a different position, scientific evidence? >> thank you, senator murray. i want to reiterate what dr. redfield said, that the original guidance that was published by the cdc with the approval of dr. redfield and the senior scientists did not -- unequivocally it did not recommend against testing asymptomatic individuals. in fact, there are multiple sentences that said it is important to test asymptomatic individuals. but in certain circumstances it's important to do that within the context of public health or medical supervision. that's all it said. it was widely misinterpreted, it was widely misrepresented, and dr. redfield told the reason. we have done fda gu

redfield and then admiral giroir and dr. hahn. dr.come. >> thank you, chairman alexander, ranking member murray and members of the committee. i want to thank you for the opportunity to be here today. on behalf of cdc, i also want to thank you for your continued support of our public health professionals, and their life saving work that they're committed to 24/7. over 6700 cdc staff have been engaged in our agency's covid-19 response so far. and more than 1200 have been deployed to more than 200 locations, tribal nations and the united states and abroad. i know that you join me in expressing our collective deep gratitude to the women and men of cdc for their resilience, their dedication, and their service to our nation. throughout this global pandemic, cdc brought its science expertise to the front lines, grounded in science and data, conducting rapid investigations of disease outbreaks that identify the highest risk populations and settings and putting in place measures to prevent further spread of covid-19. understanding which popula

redfield and then admiral giroir and then dr. hahn. dr.e. >> thank you, chairman alexander and ranking member murray and members of the committee, and i want to thank you for the opportunity to be here today. on behalf of cdc, i also want to thank you for your continued support of our public health professionals and their life-saving work that they're committed to 24/7. over 6700 cdc staff have been engaged in our agency's covid-19 response so far and more than 1200 have been deployed to more than 200 locations, traveled to nations, in the united states and abroad. i know you join me in expressing our collective deep gratitude to the men and women for their resilience, their dedication to our nation. cdc has brought its science expertise to the front lines grounded in science and data, conducting rapid investigations of disease outbreaks that identify the highest risk populations and settings and putting place measures to prevent further spread of covid-19. understanding which populations are most at risk and how this virus spreads in vari

secretary azar, admiral giroir and others. a testament to the partnership we forged with governors like governor reeves across america. it is a testament to great companies like abbott laboratories and the thousands of employees, who, mr. president, who literally worked around the clock since those early days in this pandemic when you brought in the greatest research companies in america and said that we need medicines known as therapeutics. we need a vaccine for america but you also challenged them to develop a rapid point of care test that could be distributed all across america and enable us to more effectively slow the spread, flatten the curve, protect the vulnerable and save lives. mr. president, today's announcement is really emblematic of the public/private partnership that you forged from the early days of this pandemic. as you said we met today with the nation's governors. the white house coronavirus task force completed our 38th conference call with america's governors but all along the way from our very first meeti

doctor, he says everybody is right when we just heard from giroir?l probably have a vaccine december or sob for health care workers, first responders, doctors and nurses work in hospitals. that's not the same as having a vaccine to the general public? almost half of the americans under the age of 65 have preexisting conditions. some are not diagnosed, because not everybody goes to the doctor regularly, but there's a huge proportion of americans at risk who will not get risk to the vaccine until many later than their. >> i want to play you me also about how many doses they need? >> from my perspective, even a few million doses in early november or december, if we have 5% or 10% we can vaccinate, we can get 80% or 90% of the the if we vaccine workers in the nursing homes, we could -- >> do you agree with that statement? >> well, i suppose it depends on how you define 90% of the benefit. but you know, as i was saying, if you look at such a large proportion of the u.s. population, being at risk for severe covid if they get it, there's no way that the mat

redfield and then admiral giroir and then dr. han. dr. redfield, welcome. >> thank you, chairman alexander, ranking member murray and members of the committee. and i want to thank you for the opportunity to be here today. on behalf of cdc i also want to thank you for your continued support of our public health professionals and their lifesaving work that they're committed to 24/7. over 6,700 cdc staff have been engaged in our agency's covid-19 response so far. and more than 1,200 have been deployed to more than 200 locations, tribal nations in the united states and abroad. i know that you joined me in expressing our collective deep gratitude to the women and men of cdc for their resilience, their dedication and their service to our nation. throughout this global pandemic cdc has brought its science expertise to the front lines, grounded in science and data conducting rapid investigations of disease outbreaks that identify the highest risk populations and settings, and putting in place measures to prevent further spread of covid-19. unders

i know admiral giroir, we worked together in texas when i was there. he's doing good work.right. this could be scaled. and we're using it again to get to those students who don't even know they're sick. the ones that are sick will go get tested and they will take themselves out of circulation. it's the asymptomatic individuals who have no idea they're spreading this virus like crazy. >> that's it for "inside politics." hope you can catch the show weekdays as well. >>> and up next "state of the union" with jake tapper. his guests are white house trade adviser peter navarro, los angeles mayor eric garcetti, and democratic congresswoman val demings. thanks again for sharing your sunday morning. with the ww app, our weight loss program is easier. it doesn't feel like work. it does feel really easy. and you have all of the tools you need to be successful. with hundreds of zeropoint foods, i've lost 91 pounds the personalized recipes allow us to make some quick, healthy, and that we know we'll enjoy i feel better, i'm healthier, it's just incredible. myww your weight loss and wel

i would like to ask you, admiral giroir two come up and demonstrate how these tests are performed.o this very nicely, hope you don't positive. >> thank you, mr. president. as of today, the nation has performed over 111 billion tests for the virus causing covid. we have achieved tests over 1 million per day in the average test number is now approximately 920,000 per day. we are now at an inflection point for testing, we have available on average 3 million tests per day, which could multiply that number. nearly half of our current tests are rapid point-of-care. all the actions of our administration including aggressive use, hundreds of millions of dollars in hhs and dod investment and regulatory flexibility including over 200 fda authorizations, and application of the prep act have led us to this inflection point. which brings us to why we are here today. on august 27th after months of planning and only after one day, the trump administration awarded a contract of $760 million to abbott for the delivery of 150 million of these abbott rapid tests. the test reflects the presence of the

and i also want to echo the congratulations to the team, the task force, admiral giroir in particular who worked very hard on the testing. this is a remarkable day because we have state of the art testing. this is not the typical point of care test even. this is new. this does not require any kind of machine. it is very rapid and. this is not one of those deep swab things that people are reluctant to use. so i think we're, we're really making an advance here to do what testing is supposed to do, that is to save lives. as the vice president mentioned we know that there are areas of the country that have more cases. this is to be expected with more social mingling and the testing but particularly protecting the vulnerable is the key here. we have not seen hospital overcrowding. we're doubling down now with testing to protect vulnerable people, not just inside of nursing hopes but in residential settings, senior day-care centers this is a remarkable advance. i anticipate as, as this virus, as we get toward the end of this pandemic, and the vaccine is being developed as quickly as it has

let's go to doctor redfield and then doctor giroir and doctor hahn. doctor redfield, welcome. >> thank you members of the committee. i want to thank you for the opportunity to be here today. on behalf of the cpc, i also want to thank you for your continued support of our public-health professionals and their life-saving work that they are committed to 24/7. over 6700 cpc staff have been engaged in the agency's covid-19 response so far and more than 1200 have been deployed to more than 200 locations, tribal nations in the united states and abroad. i know you join me in expressing our collective deep gratitude to them women and men of the cdc further gazillions, dedication and service to the nation. throughout this global pandemic, the cpc has about its finance expertise to the front lines grounded in science and data and conducting rapid investigations of outbreaks that identify the highest risk populations into settings and putting in place measures to prevent further spread of covid-19. understanding which populations are most at risk and how the vir

i will bring in admiral brett giroir, at the u.s.man services and to lead for a covid-19 diagnostic testing services. it's great to have gone. thank you for your time today. >> great to be here with you. >> bill: is the headline with modernity or some other company? >> we are all optimistic. we have four companies with four other vaccines that are in phase three trials. that is the final exam before authorization or approval. we know that all of the vaccines in early trials it generated a immune response that was very good just like you get when you get the real virus, and sometimes even better. the news today, i only have the headlines. i've not seen all the data. but it is just a great breakthrough to note that older americans can actually generate an immune response. because sometimes they can't. if they can generate an immune response and be protected, then we know that we can target that vaccine and early doses to those who are most at risk. it's really, really good news. >> bill: i take that is very positive. the 1st of october

so let me ask admiral giroir, would ending testing end the spread of the covid-19 disease? >> no, sir. >> could you explain the president's explanation last night, does it make any sense to you? >> i didn't hear -- >> we've heard this over and over again. come on. he is repeating what he said over and over again. >> so let me just clarify that the number of cases will be the number of cases. we do more testing so we can detect more and more cases. that is a good thing. we want to detect as many cases as we can so that they can be appropriately isolated, did contact tracing, et cetera. it is true that the more testing you come, t you do, the more cases you discover. >> you talked in your testimony about expanding testing. and i couldn't endorse it more heart heartedly. but the president says the opposite, if you wouldn't have des, you wouldn't have cases. don't we want to create the mindset that regular testing to make sure that we're not positive and not spreading this disease should be routine until we come to grips with a therapy or vaccine to deal with this? >> i do want

and it was interesting, sanjay, to hear you speak with admiral giroir, today.eemed to indicate a lot of the blame lies with the schools, themselves. >> yeah. i mean, that was a little surprising, given that there's just simply not enough testing, period. you know, brianna, i remember, in july, a lot of teachers writing -- writing their wills. so frightened they were about returning to school in the fall. it was really heartbreaking. and now, we know educators in at least three states have died from covid after the fall semester began. i'm just -- i'm just curious. how do these school districts respond, then, when an educator dies like this? >> they respond with heartache and tears and obviously concern for the parents and students and the nurses and school staff that have to return as well. and you're right. we have now confirmed that three teachers have passed away, in three states. and i just want to give you their names. and tell you a little bit about them. 34-year-old ashley was a middle school teacher in missouri. she passed away after suffering from thre

our guests including testing czar admiral brett giroir and kirsten gillibrand. it's sunday.ou can follow me on facebook, instagram, twitter @ jaketapper. you can tweet the show @thelead. i will see you sunday morning. and to those celebrating, happy new year. >>> this is cnn breaking news. >> welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer in "the situation room." we're following breaking news. the number of americans dead in the coronavirus pandemic is now nearing 200,000, with more than 6.7 million confirmed coronavirus cases. and right now cases are trending up. look at this. in 30 states, seven of them have seen an increase of at least 50%. and just a short while ago, over at the white house, president trump claimed there will be enough coronavirus vaccines for all americans by april. but his new time line comes amid growing concern the administration is politicizing the

needed is more testing, more robust testing, it's interesting you say that today given that admiral giroire united states says testing is not a utopia, getting tests to everyone, that's never going to happen. we've got to get beyond that. what about that messaging? >> first of all, i think the way to bring this epidemic to a rapid close in the united states is to identify everybody in the country who's contagious and help them isolate. that's what we need to do. there are some people who stand at the deep bottom of the valley and look up the mountain and say, i can't climb it. there are other people who stand in the same place and say, i will get to the top. those are the people we want to support. those are the people that should be helping us out out of the valley that we're in. it is possible, i think, to have affordable, home saliva tests that give you an answer in 15 minutes and cost about 50 cents each. that is a possibility. other countries have done it. let me give you one example. egypt tested everybody in their country for hepatitis "c" using an american test that cost 50 cents a

joining me now a member of the white house coronavirus task force admiral brett giroir. we're now on the cusp of reaching 200,000 coronavirus deaths in the u.s. i want you to take a listen to what president trump said on march 29th about that number. >> if we can hold that down as we're saying to 100,000, it's a horrible number. maybe even less, but to 100,000 so we have between 100 and 200,000, we all together have done a very good job. >> forgetting for a second the bizarreness of the claim that 1 to 200,000 deaths is a good job, given that it's the highest number of deaths in the world. we're about to pass this metric. bill gates said this has been a mismanaged situation in every way. why? >> so, thank you for having me on, jake. look, every death is a tragedy. i am a pediatric icu physician. i have worked with patients who have died and their families every single day. that's why we're working every day to reduce that. where we are right now, we know so much more than we did early on. from the peaks in early july and late july, the number of cases are down by 41%. th

on hand during the press conference to demonstrate just how easy they are to use was admiral brett giroirtesting on the us coronavirus taskforce. this will generally be done by a health care provider, but it can be done supervised. it's this easy. one, two, three, four, five. into the test, twisted three times. the adhesive is pulled off and you wait 15 minutes. that is the test. let's speak to our correspondent in washington, nomia iqbal. ido i do not know the result was, but millions do to be shipped out this week and targeting schools in the elderly. that is right and no, we do not know the result of the test is. there is no detail yet on how much million tests are going to be shipped. you know 50 million are going specifically to vulnerable communities, such as nursing homes and it is worth mentioning that many schools across the us. they have said that this is about reopening the economies and this may be the path of doing that but the numbers you're path of doing that but the numbers you' re really path of doing that but the numbers you're really sobering. yesterday, 7 million, more

on hand during the press conference to demonstrate just how easy they are to use was admiral brett giroirsting on the us coronavirus taskforce. this will generally be done by a health care provider, but it can be done supervised. it's this easy. one, two, three, four, five. into the test, twist it three times. the adhesive is pulled off and you wait 15 minutes. that is the test. for more on the plans for the new tests i've been speaking to our correspondent in washington — nomia iqbal. there is no real details yet on how the 150 million tests are going to be shipped out. there is under 50 million in terms of specifically to vulnerable communities, such as nursing homes. it is worth mentioning that schools, many schools have already opened across the us and our previous guests said that this is about reopening economies and that is what donald trump wants to do and this will be a pathway to doing that. but the numbers are really sobering. yesterday, 7 million, more than 7 million cases of coronavirus were reported. more than 200,000 people have died so far, health officials are expecting t

admiral giroir dr. redfield brought up an issue that i know was cascading across the country and that is a the sum of our colleges and universities are opening the incidents to testing and the incidence of positives have gone way up because of some behavioral issues than just the whole attitude at times in the college and university setting. there's great interest in the rapid turnaround test and they have the test is of interest in the university. iro know you're beginning to deploy these in nursing homes and highly challenged communities which i applaud. how do do you deal with, you call at the university setting come in terms of testing of whaw you recommend for the future? >> so thank you for that question. universities generally have a very substantial capability to do testing in their research laboratory and thereby generate diagnostic light of -- laboratory. we have had to pull calls and seminars and webinars to allow the university to turn on their research equipment. we have done the waivers an

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have the daily coronavirus briefings anymore with just the health experts, with birx and fauci and giroir and azar. i would love to have that just so i have a better idea as somebody trying to report on this and somebody trying to live through this with my family where we are and what's being done and we don't have that and i think that if president trump were to bring back those coronavirus briefings that might help restore some faith of biden but i don't think he's capable of doing that without participating in them which, of course, was the problem to begin with. >> thank you so much. jake tapper. you can catch the full exclusive interview with democratic presidential nominee joe biden today at 4:00 p.m. >>> the senate is expected to vote on the so-called skinny gop stimulus bill. what happens next? we'll be live from capitol hill. >>> plus, another revelation out of bob woodward's book, love letters exchanged between president trump and north korean dick tar or the kim jong-un you really have to hear these. febreze car vent clips stop hot car stench with up to 30 days of freshness. ge

. >> meanwhile, on the vaccine front the white house's testing czar brett giroir arguing -- >> vaccine as early as soon as possible even in a few million doses will be a godsend in terms of outcomes, hospitalizations, morbidity and deaths. >> reporter: still bill gates warning of a long road ahead even after a vaccine is approved. >> if the vaccine approvals come by early next year as i expect then by next summer u.s. will be starting to go back to normal and by the end of the year our activities can be fairly normal. if we're also helping these other countries. the end of the epidemic, best case, is probably 2022. >> reporter: all this as the influential model from the university of washington now lowering its forecast for total u.s. covid deaths by january 1st to just under 380,000. down from more than 415,000 last week. citing steeper than expected declines in deaths in several states. but the model still predicts more than 3,000 deaths a day by the end of december and says a universal mask mandate could keep total deaths to around 263,000 by new year's day. athena jones, cnn, new y

admiral giroir said that the trump administration is saying that $10 antigen states will be sent out in september, but it's unrealistic to think that everyone will get one. >> nick valencia, thank you. >>> now to florida, where six counties are in quarantine or isolation. rosa flores is there in miami with more. what percentage of the bigger school population does this represent? >> you know, jim, we have been trying to find out the answer to that question and we have asked the florida department of health repeatedly and we have not heard back yet. but we do know from thereat leao counties that they're in quarantine, martin and hillsborough counties, the seventh largest in the country. today is day three of virtual schooling but the first two days have been mired by connectivity issues. according to the superintendent there, there's a software malfunction and a cyber attack that just floods the network and doesn't anybody to get into the school network. the superintendent yesterday during a press conference was very frustrated and angry because of this. take a listen. >> i am not onl

you heard admiral giroir saying testing will go up.re are we today especially as we see the rise in new daily infection count? are we testing enough people or are we still missing stuff? >> it really depends on how we want to be using the test. as a surveillance test to keep a pulse on the country, we have enough testing the know our cases is going up or down but to use testing as a real means to identifying infected people, pull them out of the population before they have a chance to infect other people and stop transmission chains i would say we're still woefully inadequate in the number of tests we need given that we haven't done a good job at social distancing and mask wearing. >> it's sad to hear that seven months in. woefully inadequate. let's hope we hear a sign of progress from the wte house. you tally the new infections, we dipped a little bit on sunday but back above over 40,000 new infections a day now. 15 states with positivity rates over 10% in the last 7 days and the darker the blue, the deeper the shading, the bigger the

here is admiral giroir in an interview with dr. sanjay gupta this morning. >> now that we have $5 easy tests to do, we're going to deliver millions every week to governors, to support reopening of schools and critical infrastructure. we now have that available and we need to use it. if you want to call it assurance testing or screening it's really the same thing. it's testing asymptomatic individuals to give an idea that we know that there isn't widespread circulation that we need to up the game and test everyone at that point. we're doing it for nursing homes and for assisted living home health care. we'll do it for k-12. >> there are more than 6 million confirmed cases in the united states and jillian michaels is one of them. she spoke up this week about contracting the virus several weeks ago and she's joining us now to talk about it. you look great, you look very healthy which we are happy to see you but you said you let your guard down for an hour. tell us what happened and how this all played out for you. >> yes. very, very c

let's take a listen to who white house task force member brett giroir had to say on that point. >> in front of the center dr. redfield and i both said that a vaccine widely available in hundreds of millions of doses would not likely happen until mid-2021, that is a fact. >> it takes a long time to distribute a vaccine to the entire country and, remember, this is probably going to be a two-dose vaccine so you've got to distribute it not once by twice. jim and poppy. >> we're joined by the emergency professor of emergency medicine at brown university. doctor, always good to have you on. so a spike in cases. i mean, notably we're almost right on the nose two weeks out from labor day weekend and we saw spikes after memorial day and july 4th weekend. is that the most likely explanation for what we're seeing now in this country? >> there are a couple of explanations for why we think that we're seeing a spike in cases. the first is absolutely labor day. as you said, we did see those spikes after july 4th and memorial day. we know that people were getting together, having family gatherings an

it's a busy news day and in a few moments we'll hear live from admiral brett giroir, the point man forhe's taking questions from cnn's medical correspondent dr. sanjay gupta at the american research forum. one certain topic is the new bop woodward book and the recorded interviews in which the president makes clear he knew early on how dangerous the coronavirus was and that he deliberately and repeatedly played down the threat on purpose. today the president insisting there's nothing to see or nothing to read here tweeting that if his words were so bad or dangerous woodward who have shared them sooner and not wait for his book to be done. good and approximate you see it right there, good and proper is how the president frames his answers. well, there's an election just a few weeks ahead

. >> reporter: meanwhile on the vaccine front, the white house's testing czar brett giroir arguing. >vaccine as early as possible even in a few million doses will be a godsend in terms of outcomes, hospitalizations, morbidity and deaths. >> reporter: bill gates still warning of a long road ahead even after a vaccine is approved. >> if the vaccine approvals come by early next year, as i expect, then by next summer, u.s. will be starting to go back to normal, and by the end of the year, our activities can be fairly normal if we're also helping these other countries. at the end of the epidemic best case is probably 2022. >> reporter: all this as the influential model from the university of washington now lowering its forecast for total u.s. covid deaths by january 1st to just under 380,000. down from more than 415,000 last week, citing steeper than expected declines in deaths in several states. but the model still predicts more than 3,000 deaths a day by the end of december and says a universal mask mandate could keep total deaths to around 163,000 by new year's day. and i should note th

we can show you clips of admiral giroir going back seven months and some have turned out not to be truecan they rapid tests be distributed quickly enough to make a difference? >> well, i do think that having more tests rather that be fewers tests is a good thing, and we should also celebrate this concept of rapid point of care test, the 15-minute result because that's the direction we should be going. here's my earn can. 150 million tests sound like a lot but when you consider that we need to be doing tens it of millions of tests every single day that uses up the 150 million pretty quickly and so what we really a need is to have this comprehensive strategy where there's 150 million tests as part of the whole instead of why justifying 150 million is a lot. if you need to be westing kids twice a week and employees twice a week before they go into school and work you use up that 150 million within a week or two. >> that's quick math there. where are we there, which is a question we ask a lot, and i think it's more flitting to ask today because you see a strange spot in the new infection co

collins personally and you talked to admiral giroir yesterday who is in charge of testing in this country and it was really interesting to hear him discuss testing with you now. i have to say it sounded an awful lot different from things i have heard from him in the past. >> yeah, no question. there was a distinct change in tone and i have to tell you that, you know, what you have heard from him in the past, look, we don't test our way out of this and there's been a constant sort of minimizing of testing. when i asked him specifically about the numbers of test that we need going into the fall, listen to what he said. >> and what i want to do is create as many tests as possible. there will be a day where there will be at-home tests that are widely available in the hundreds of millions that are cheap, that we can test as frequently as we want. >> and we had a little bit more of a conversation about that. it would be sort of this world where you can imagine having tests at home in the morning when you're brushing your teeth you can test yourself. if it came back positive you'd stay home that

for those wondering about testing and brett giroir who says the white house is announcing $5 antigen tests to be sent out to states in mid-september and it's unreasonable for everyone to think that they'll be able to get one. >> nick valencia, thanks. cnn's omar jimenez, the task force calling for tougher restrictions and a big concern there are all these students coming back to universities. >> that's right, jim. the white house coronavirus tank force issues these reports once a week to governors on a state by state basis and this last report puts iowa in a red zone, so to speak, as defined by the task force and showing that over the course of the last week, it has the highest new case infection rate in the country and when you look at their positive rate, it is now top five within the country, as well. so obviously, these are concerning numbers and also with these reports come with a set of recommendations that the task force sends to the states and among them is to put in place a mask mandate in the state of iowa. iowa governor kim reynolds has been reluctant to put that in place