our richard engle is in sweden and drones delivering prescriptions to your home and smart watches that can tell when you are getting sick, the solution sa-- the solutions that are high tec pandemic >>> good evening, everyone, with nearly million confirmed coronavirus cases, parts of america are moving on tonight. the simple touchstones of life as we remember it from shopping in a store to dining in a restaurant rapidly returning in a country dividing over how far to go to halt the spread of the virus. which has claimed over 55,000 lives here. once again, our team is in place, and we begin with blaine alexander. >> reporter: tonight a glimpse, of life altered, more states start the process of getting back to work it's going to be very exciting in mississippi the stay-at-home order reviced. >> everyone that came in made a purchase today, that has been exciting >> reporter: in texas, the governor announcing he is in the renewing the ta stay-at-home order others can open doors as quickly as possible >> a more strategic approach is required to ensure that we don't reopen only to have to clo

richard engle, my friend, great to see you, as always.now to bill karins tracking that curve for us and those numbers across the country and, of course, the weekend weather, bill. >> yeah. i have a new map for you. i'm going to start tracking testing. we need to know who has the virus, right? so let's take a look first at the national number. we're done about 2.12 million tests nationwide with a population in our country around 330 million. we've tested .7% of our total population so far. and some of those people were tested more than once, so it may be a little skewed, a little high. new york, louisiana, almost getting up to 2% of testing in their total populations. then massachusetts, vermont and washington. all of the gray states that you see on this map have tested less than .5% of their population and the lowest in the country, texas, .3%, oklahoma .3%. kansas .3% of their populations. that is it. that's how many tests have been reported by their health departments. so we'll continue to track this. these numbers will grow, obviously,

for more on this, i am joined by richard engle for us. richard, good morning to you. great to see you today. we know with the uk, right, they proposed this herd immunity at one point. there were supporters of it. that back fired on them. how does the swedish government explain its different course of action? and is the data backing it up? >> so the proof is in the streets right now. they are taking a very different approach. if you look around stockholm, i'm in central stockholm right now, you can see people are out. the shops are open. they do have some recommendations. so they're not obliging people to stay at home, they're not obliging shops to close, but they are giving guidelines. they are suggesting that if people go to restaurants, they don't crowd the restaurants, that they keep tables separated. schools are still open for children. and their approach is to basically protect the elderly and vulnerable and let everyone else be responsible for their own lives, take their own decisions with these guidelines. and they say so far it is working. they have had 2,000

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