. >> when professor hazeltine points it out like that, it's true.he estimate is 6,000 could be dying a day as opposed to 1,000 dying a day if states loosen up more than they currently are. i mean, that's a terrifying prospect. >> it is, and remember what's going to also fuel this, the nice fall weather will be coming soon, people will be engaged in more events. the other thing that's happening, the cdc pushed hard about going back to school, whether or not there was high levels of transmission and that's going to happen, that's going to create new cases as well, and new outbreaks, that's going to fuel this lack of respect for schoolteachers. that's also going to accelerate us toward 310,000 deaths. and you know, i've spoken to some of the people for health metrics. they point out, one of the other big failings, beyond the testing is, we've never geared up for contact tracing. contact tracing has never really caught up, because the level of transmission has been so high, it's been impossible. it exceeded the capacity, this is going to accelerate us t

widespread is how she put, it we also heard something very similar, another warning from professor hazeltine on cnn this morning. let me play how he put it. >> regardless of what plans people have made this epidemic is now out of control, and it's out of control mostly because of our own behavior. >> if the epidemic is now out of control in a way that birx and hazeltine are describing, what does that mean in terms of where we are, how hard it is going to be to crawl our way out of this moment? >> well, kate, we've been warning, public health officials and doctors and others like myself, have been warning for months now, for months, that this was a disease, that this was an infection that would spread out of the cities, that was going to ripple out to suburbs, to rural areas, and it was only a matter of time, and, unfortunately, a lot of people put their heads in the sand, were in denial about the situation and didn't take the measures to really prevent the spread, and while we had a lot of big outbreaks in the beginning in places like nursing homes and meat packing plants and it's not to say

william hazeltine, thanks very much. >> you're welcome. thank you. >> just ahead this hour, gary tuchman takes us to the first day of school at a district in georgia that decided to open classroom doors without a firm mask mandate and despite the concerns of parents and children, and the emotions get very raw and real. you'll want to watch that's when "360" continues. verizon knows how to build unlimited right. start with america's most awarded network. offer it at a price built for everyone with the most advanced iphone yet. iphone 11 pro on us when you buy one. because everyone deserves the best. this is unlimited built right. and look, it feels like i'm just wasting time. that's why td ameritrade designed a first-of-its-kind, personalized education center. oh. their award-winning content is tailored to fit your investing goals and interests. and it learns with you, so as you become smarter, so do its recommendations. so it's like my streaming service. well except now you're binge learning. see how you can become a smarter investor with

. >> william hazeltine, joe biden weighed in on how he would recommend mask usage. let's hear what he had to say. >> every single american should be wearing a mask when they're outside for the next three months at a minimum. every governor should mandate -- every governor should mandate mandatory mask wearing. this is america. be a patriot. protect your fellow citizens. >> william, do you think a national mask strategy where governors are all having mandates across the country, could that be a game changer, do you think? >> it would certainly be a big help. there are a number of things that can help. first of all, you just heard the voice of a leader, which we need to hear in this epidemic. we need the voice of a clear leader. the second thing is we need vastly increased testing. the good news is that some very rapid tests that allow you in on 15, 20 minutes if you're contagious. we don't need to know if you've ever been infected by the virus, we need to know if you're contagious. there are new tests that everybody can use. it should be cheap enough to have tens of

william hazeltine, the author of "a family guide to covid." welcome. >> thank you. >> what do you think about the latest with regard to going back to school, this research from the american academy of pediatrics, concern over more deaths in the state of florida, how does all of this shaich up, as you see it? >> well, the first thing i would like to say is congratulate that family, the regans. lovely family. they have made a very grave decision, and it's a good decision for them. i have written a second book called a "covid guide to back to school." in it i lay out three fundamental things to do. the first thing to consider is how many people are infected. second, is there anybody in your family that has an elevated risk. that's their immunocompromised child. the third is to look at what the facilities available are, and they went out and found the best thing they could, which is humanschoolihuma homeschooling. if they followed my guidelines in the book, they would have reached the same conclusions. i was very happy to see that story. it's a ve

william hazeltine, president of access health international, infectious disease expert and author ofdbook of "a covid back to school guide" questions for parents and students. when you see outbreaks in schools across this country but in places like mississippi and georgia, what do you think went wrong? >> well, what's going wrong is we haven't controlled the epidemic in the country. and as it spreads from one part of america to another, that puts enormous pressure on schools and even more pressure on individual moms and dads. it's up to them to make decisions. up to local school districts, as you've heard, and up to moms and dads and what to do for their children. and it's chaos, as a matter of fact, across the country. there's really chaos because people aren't given clear direction. that's why i wrote the book to help individuals do the best they can make decisions and so it gives some very simple guidelines for things to look at. >> at this point, which states do you believe are in a good position to reopen schools? new york has an infection rate of less than 1%. >> right. i think

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overnight here on cnn, one expert, william hazeltine warned that children can spread coronavirus as easily as the common cold which is a coronavirus. >> there's significant developments involving college sports. mountain west postponing all sports and espn says a big decision can come today. >>> also, vladimir putin is claiming that russia has created the first coronavirus vaccine. california records the highest daily case count after the state's stop health official resigned. let's begin with stephanie elam, live in los angeles this morning. good morning. >> good morning, erica. what is not clear is whether or not dr. sonia angel stepped down because of the backlog. however, what we can tell you is that there is a record number of new cases that the state has t put -- i should say johns hopkins's reporting for this state. that number being 14,485. this is likely due to the back lock, an issue that they realized july 25th that had 250,000 to 300,000 cases that needed to be worked through the system. now they're getting the counties to basically attest to those results and getting that data

joining us now is william hazeltine, the chair and president of access international and a professor at harvard medical school. also "a covid back-to-school guide." we'll talk about getting back to school momentarily, but first, the testing. why? why is it down? is this about capacity? is it about lack of interest on patients' parts? do we have any sense of what's happening? >> first of all, let me congratulate both you and john on being back in the studio. must feel good to get back to work in a familiar location. >> thank you. it does! everybody is congratulating -- >> everybody is so happy we're six feet apart. it's fantastic. >> it's good news. the testing situation is not good in the united states. what we're not picking up are people who are contagious. that's the right word to use, contagious. we're probably missing 8 out of 10 people who are contagious. and any decrease in testing is worrisome because we're already not doing well. and if you don't pick people out of a crowd who are contagious, the epidemic spreads, as you have reported and we have se. this emdemsick still spr

william hazeltine last night on "anderson cooper". >> there is every reason to suspect that this virus, even though it can kill you, behaves pretty much look a cold virus in terms of transmission. who drives colds? children drives colds. >> that such sounds much more ominous. the president says kids are healthy, they get the kecold, ty get the sniffles, no big deal. the doctor there says you put kids back in school, you spread the disease, sounds look a tom bomb th time bomb and they go home and spread it, so on and so forth. who's right? >> both components have some truth to them. what we do know is communities that try to open schools where they have not effectively controlled the spread of the virus will see escalation of cases and children will be part of the escalation of cases. and you'll note that the cdc put out a report that suggested that together with the aap and the children's hospital association noted that over 97,000 additional cases in children occurred over the last two weeks of july. and that suggests where we don't have good community spread, we do get spread this ch

overnight here on cnn, one expert, william hazeltine warned that children can spread coronavirus as easilyold which is a coronavirus. >> there's significant developments involving