i wanted to get this thought in, sanjay.ardo pitchers for the red sox had covid and since recovered but now he has inflammation of the heart muscle. we know that's one of the secondary effects after recovery. and then i think of football players. obesity is a pre-existing condition. a generation ago you hardly saw a football player over 300 pounds. and now there are hundreds of them with bmis well in excess of what qualifies as obese. aren't they in particular peril? >> the nfl association has raised this as you know and looking at the stats this surprised me about 70% of nfl players would be considered vulnerable because of pre-existing conditions like that. so there you go. that's a real concern. >> bob, just on another sort of note on this the nba season restart opener tonight we saw both teams, players and coaches take a knee during the national anthem. nba does have a rule against this but the nba commissioner adam silver said in a statement he respects teams peaceful protest and he'll not enforce the rule. what does it

thank you, sanjay. >> take care.rmation we brought you tonight in cnn's global town hall, there is one more thing you should know yourself, how you can help yourself. >> for more information on that, you can go to cnn.com/impact. also, our impact your world team has put together an interactive guide of resources and that's at cnn.com/coronavirus. how to help. you can find that there. you can also find a list of organizations, resources, ideas, for where you can find help for yourself or a loved one. and also, where you can donate. >> and, sanjay, just, you know, i'm surprised where we still are on testing. i mean, we talked to the admiral. it's extraordinary to me that i don't quite understand what the problem is. >> i don't, either. i mean, this is -- this is probably the area where you think we should have had some of the biggest breakthroughs technologically, medically, from a public-health standpoint. i mean, there is no bigger issue in the world right now, than this, anderson. and there is this idea of what peop

sanjay gupta. it's terrific to see you. you've actually had a few days off, which is helpful for the soul, but i think it makes it hard to come back and see what's happened over the last few days. to come in today and see the number of new cases that are occurring every day. to see a record in daily deaths in california, at or near a record in texas, and the direction this is going in. it's alarming. >> yeah, i thought maybe it had just been a bad dream, john. i would come back, wake up, and it would all be the way it should have been. the numbers heading in the right direction, both in terms of case counts, in terms of hospitalizations. all of that. but we're not there, obviously. so john, let me show you something here that i think is interesting. you look at how things have developed over the last few months here in the united states, over 3 million people now infected. january 21st, the first reported case, 99 days it took to get to 1 million cases of coronavirus. 43 days after that to get to 2 million and just 28 days,

sanjay gupta, coronavirus facts and fears. st it's been seen around the world on cnn international and streaming on cnn.com. >> the most difficult health moment this country has seen since the influenza pandemic. according to johns hopkins university, there were 66,273 new confirmed cases yesterday. exactly one month ago writing in "the wall street journal" that we were, quote, winning the fight against the invisible enemy, vice president pence boasted of an average daily case count of 20,000. now the daily count is more than triple that. >> and anderson, today in texas and arizona, they started bringing in refrigerated trailers, the same as we saw in new york in the spring because then as now, the morgues are overflowing. the sad thing is, you know, we saw all this coming. we saw all of this the moment the cases started ticking up. we knew what would follow. it would be first the hospitals, then the icus filling up, then people dying and now we see too many for the morgues to hold and the funeral homes to handle. >> texas rep

sanjay gupta and michael osterholm. okay, sanjay, tell us what you just learned about the briefings. >> well, we have learned that they're best called briefings, not coronavirus task force briefings, because it's not clear that anyone from the task force, at least not the scientists or the doctors are going to be there. as of this morning, they haven't even been told, so not only do they -- do we not know if they're going to be there, they don't know if they're going to be there or not as well. this gives you an idea into how the white house is handling this. it's not going to be just coronavirus that's going to be discussed. and frankly, you know, the people that we should really be hearing from on this that will give us the idea of what's happening in the country and also i think more importantly the best path forward it's not clear at all that they're going to be there. they don't know yet, so it doesn't sound like they will be, but it could still change throughout the day. >> michael osterholm, let me tell you, in m

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sanjay gupta.his is our 16th cnn global town hal, coronavirus, facts and heres. >> it comes as the virus makes it clear not only has it left us, it's growing faster than ever before. which reminded us that it, not us, is in control. and until and unless we get our act together as a nation. >> people laughed about are we concerned about the second wave? i keep telling people, what are you talking about a second wave? we are knee deep in the first wave. we have never gotten out of it. >> dr. anthony fauci today warns we could soon be seeing 100,000 new cases every single day. he's been making the rounds on radio and podcast and said yesterday, any state that's having a serious problem should look at shutting down. today, he told the 528 podcast although some states havevirus, country, i don't think you can say we're doing great. we're just not. texas and california both today reporting the highest number of covid related deaths ever. 26% of tests coming back positive in texas. 28% in arizona. intensi

one other thing, sanjay. preliminary research published today suggests that skin rashes and rashes inside the mouth could be a symptom of coronavirus. but more study needs to be done. what would be the connection, if anything? >> i mean, this virus is behaving in such unusual ways. everything from the nose, you know, isolated loss of smell. jake, who would have thought that would be the sometimes sole symptom of this virus? covid toes, we've heard about that, just getting these lesions on the toes. my guess is skin's the largest organ in the body. this is causing significant inflammation. so these rashes that occur on the skin are quite obvious. about 12 days on average after people start to develop symptoms they are getting these mouth lesions as well. i think it probably has to do with the inflammation that's overall happening in the body. >> sanjay, stay with us. >>> coming up, dr. gupta is going to give us an inside look at how one school is preparing for the fall and the school year and the very real ris

sanjay gupta and dr. reiner the director of the katherine lab at george washington medical hospital and also advised the medical team under president george w. bush. he said the briefings are a great way to get information out to the public. everyone would agree. that is the whole point was to get information out to the public if they could stay on the same page meaning the president. but then we played the president's greatest hits from task force briefings in the past. do you think there is a benefit to having him restarting these briefings now? >> yes. if you take everything in total i think there is a benefit because when the briefings stopped, kate, for a lot of people it felt like this thing was over. it obviously has to come with the caveats and it was lieaid o pretty well. we want good scientific information going out and the level of seriousness, the gravity this requires. so overall it's a good idea but has to be done differently obviously. it is a good sign he is wearing a mask. all of these th

sanjay gupta and dana bash. sanj sanjay, we all watched the president yesterday, even as we watched the death toll continue to rise in the united states, 1,000 new deaths reported overnight. the president used different language on masks, but he also said that the administration issed in proceis in the process now of formulating a plan to deal with this. what was your takeaway? >> the same as yours, john. we are just hearing about the idea a plan will be formulated, but still didn't hear what that plan was. we didn't hear about galvanizing every citizen to do the right thing, to remind everyone that we're all in this together and all have a role to play here. what an opportunity to sort of lead. but i keep coming back. i've been talking about this since march. about testing and this idea that we need breakthroughs in testing, antigen testing, more widespread testing and i feel like we've been having these same conversations for several months now. what's the deal? has there been a real investment in testing? and

sanjay gupta. this is our 16th cnn global town hall coronavirus facts and fears. >> comes as the virus makes it painfully clear, not only has it never left us, it's now growing faster than ever before. it reminded us the last few weeks that it, not us, is in control. until and unless we get our act together as a nation. >> people asked about, are we concerned about the second wave? and i keep telling people, what are you talking about a second wave? we are, actually, knee deep in the first wave. we've never really gotten out of it. >> dr. apnthony fauci, today, warns we could soon see 100,000 new cases every single day. yesterday, he told "the wall street journal" podcast, quote, any state that's having a serious problem, that state should seriously look at shutting down. today, he said although some states have a handle on the virus, quote, as a country, when you compare us to other countrie countries i don't think you can say we're doing great. i mean, we're just not. texas and california today r

sanjay gupta is with us. sanjay, so what's your analysis based on everything we know? could the vaccine that all of us have been waiting for, could it be possible that it will come over the next several months? >> yeah, wolf. i think that there's nothing in this first peer reviewed study now, the u.s. vaccine candidate. there is nothing in the study to suggest that anything has derailed. but it's still very early days, wolf. very early days. let me just tell you a couple things about this. they basically gave a dose of the vaccine to 45 healthy individuals between the ages of 18 and 55. and then they gave a second dose about a month later, about 28 days later. so remember that. this is a two-dose vaccine that they're looking at here to try and get the response that they are hoping for. it seemed relatively safe, meaning that there were no significant side effects that actually stopped the trial. but let me show you some of the side effects they did see and they gave this medication at different dosings at the sort of middle dose and the higher dose, basically everybody

and sanjay, then there's this. we wake up to the news that the white house -- the trump administration no longer wants hospitals to release the data about the number of patients, about their hospital beds, about how many patients are on ventilators to the cdc. they now want it to go into the trump administration, under the umbrella of hhs. that could sound like a bureaucratic change or it could signify something more significant. what is that? >> i think they're making it more challenging for us to get the data. i mean, you know, we have been report on this from the start. originally we were going to the various departments of health and getting the data directly then we were told that the department of health would provide all of the data to the cdc. frankly that transition took a while longer than we would have liked. we had to go to the states ourselves and now, who knows? is the hhs, department of health and human services going to give us the data directly, only going to provide segments of the data? thankfull

sanjay gupta and beth cameron. she was the senior director for global health security and biodefense at the white house national security council under president obama. and, i'm sorry, i'm still blown away by what miguel showed us there. the level of stress inside this hospital in san antonio, at a point where it could still get worse. and i just want to play one piece of sound again from dr. velalope inside that hospital. listen. >> yesterday was probably one of my worst days i've ever had. >> why? >> i got ten calls, all of whom, young people who otherwise would be excellent candidates to be able to put on ecmo. they're so sick that if they don't get put on, they don't get that support, they're probably going to die. i had three beds. and just -- and making that decision, being able to figure out who -- who really is going to benefit, it is a level of decision making that i don't think a lot of us are prepared for. >> it's happening, sanjay. it's happening. it happened in new york months ago. it's happening now i

sanjay gupta. and sanjay, i understand you have some breaking news on whether or not dr. fauci will be at this briefing later today. what have you learned? >> yeah, well, what we've learned is that we don't know if he's going to be at the briefing. we don't know if ambassador birx is going to be at the briefing. and the news is that they don't know yet, as of this morning, whether or not -- they haven't heard anything! you know, the two most critical members of the coronavirus task force, arguably, have not been told whether or not they're going to be at this briefing as of this morning. so, that gives you a little bit of an insight. even though we've been hearing about the briefings, they've been planned for a long time. you just mentioned that these briefings are not going to solely focus on coronavirus. i think we're starting to get an idea of exactly what these briefings might look like, and they may not involve, i think, people that the country really wants to hear from. >> then what good will the briefings be, sanjay? >> yeah. that's the question, right? i mean, we

sanjay gupta and john harwood. sanjay, in terms of the type of event that is clearly not safe, an indoor convention is very high at that list -- on that list. so as a doctor, your reaction to the decision from the president? >> yeah, i mean, it was an inevitable decision, frankly. i mean, i say that, of course we saw what happened in tulsa and arizona. but i think at this point, given how much viral spread there is i think the public health communities have been pretty unified in their voice on how risky this is. you can look at one of the riskiest type of events and one of the lowest risk types of events and frankly, anyone paying attention over the last months, this is not a surprise. lowest risk is virtual events and the highest risk event, large indoor events, people coming from outside the local areas because that means they may disperse then to other areas, difficult to practice social distancing. i'll add into that there's no -- there was no clear mask mandates inside these types of events in the past. and p

you and sanjay share the distinction.you were more helpful to me than i was to you, but i want sanjay to hear what you and i are living. you don't have covid, but that doesn't mean that you are 100% well, does it? >> no, we are not well. first, i should correct, we took the antibody test and my little ones did end up having it. >> so they have the antibodies but they were asymptomatic? >> they weren't so asymptomatic. i think i was just super sick, so i didn't know, but i can pinpoint exactly both times when my little ones did have it. so, they had minor symptoms, but very minor, thank goodness. and now they're fine. the 15-year-old and i both have difficulty with our breathing still. she's a lot better than i am. i'm on two sets of inhalers, starting a pulmonologist next week. there is something wrong, especially at nighttime, i have difficulty getting that deep breath in. just doesn't come naturally and i have to stop. the 17-year-old still du not have his taste or smell back and my husband still has trouble breathing a

sanjay, thank you. i know that john harwood, john berman and i think we're brain surgeons but you really are. >> yeah, i go home and take a nap after the show and sanjay goes and operates on people's brains. >>> stimulus talks in the senate have stalled and they stalled inside the republican conference. what does that mean for the millions unemployed and in need of help? there's an art to listening. it's the ability to hear more than what's being said. to understand the meaning in every pause. and to be able to offer the answers that make someone feel truly heard. i understand, let's get started. that's what you get when you talk to a dell technologies advisor. >>> the question that millions of americans are facing -- will the money run out in just days. the boost in $600 unemployment benefits is set to expire and talks among republicans in the senate and the white house on the next stimulus package have stalled. cnn's phil mattingly live on capitol hill with the very latest. phil? >> yeah, john, i thin

sanjay, we'll come to you in the medical proof on this. but john, the politics here, it is astounding. the president's obsession with this is astounding and more astounding is that he seems to think that this two-minute rant makes him look good. >> it is astounding, john. sort of like if i were to touch my finger to my nose or walk in a straight line for ten yards that i would stand up and that proves i'm a world-class athlete. no, it proves that i can pass the test the police officer gives to see if i'm drunk. this is a test that is administered to see if people have brain injury or dementia. and the fact that the president believes that it flatters him to repeat that story raises more questions than it answers. especially when you tie it to the president's conduct in other ways yesterday. that he came out to this briefing and said that evidence shows that the kids do not -- school kids do not bring the virus home and transmit it to others when as you have noted we have a fresh study showing from age 10 to 19 you do it as much as adults d

sanjay gupta. as well as william haseltine, former harvard researcher, author of "family guide to covid, questions and answers for parents, grandparents squrand children." professor, if i could begin with you. you look at this new projection by the cdc predicting 140,000 deaths by july 25th. just over three weeks away. i wonder if that factors in fears about july 4th weekend. memorial day. we are now seeing the result of that in increase in infections. what is july 4th? how does that factor in, going forward the next month? >> july 4th factors in for people who are planning to get together, without masks, without social distancing, indoors, to celebrate. it is a frightening prospect. let me just look ahead, a little bit, from where we are now. if this epidemic doesn't get under control, we're not talking about 150,000 deaths. we're talking about a million deaths over the next year. this is deadly serious today. i can tell you, every time i hear those numbers -- every time i hear those numbers -- i

sanjay gupta, professor william hazeltine.jay, even with the president being intransigent on the scope of this problem, you are hearing slightly different messaging from folks in the administration, acknowledging that the increase in cases is not just about the increase in testing. even the president now saying he doesn't oppose masks at least. do you see the slightest move of recognition there from the white house and the administration on the scope of this problem right now? >> yes. and i think that you're seeing some of that, for example in texas with the governor talking about now mandating the masks as well. i think the thing about it is, i think you could predict at this point that even if florida, they'll come around at some point. i think it's become a question of what is it going to take? how much are they willing to tolerate before they go ahead and do what everybody knows needs to be done? that's the thing. masks, increased testing. just come right out and say indoor settings where a lot of people cluster together,

sanjay gupta. also, william haseltine, former harvard researcher and recent author of "a family guide to covid, questions, and answers". >> still no plan from president trump and the federal government. i mean, does -- i mean, we have had this conversation over and over again. and with good professor haseltine as well. but without federal engagement, i mean, you know, professor haseltine in the past has said the answer is each of us doing all we can. citizens and -- and everybody else, stakeholders, being involved. but, without federal government, does this get better? >> i think it's -- it's very hard for it to get better. clearly, the status quo is not working, anderson. the numbers continue to get worse. i think what we're seeing, now, is we're seeing a pattern. the reason that the federal sort of guidance is so important is because what happens in so many communities now, and states, is that things get into a real crisis situation before action is taken. i mean, people know what to do. the publ

sanjay gupta. sanjay, let me get your thoughts first of all on the return of this coronavirus task force media briefing that we're supposedly going to be hearing from the president shortly. dr. fauci just told jake tapper he wasn't invited to attend this briefing. can these briefings really be informative without the presence of medical expert, dr. birx, dr. redfield, dr. fauci? >> i think we absolutely need to hear from these folks, wolf. i don't think i'm just saying that as a medical person. i think there is a major public health crisis going on, the biggest that we've seen in our lifetimes. this is the biggest issue really in the world right now. and some of the people that you've just named, wolf, they are people who the world turns to. other countries like to solicit their advice and how could it be that dr. fauci hasn't even briefed the president today before this type of meeting? i think we absolutely need to hear from them. i also think that they would be talking about a path forward, wolf

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sanjay gupta and dr. jonathan reiner, director of the cardiac cath lab at george washington university and advised the medical team under george w. bush at the white house and of course gloria borger. the president retreats, calls governor cooper of north carolina backward and behind and too bad for you. now cancelling that convention in jacksonville. but still pushing to reopen schools and saying i've got $100 billion but i'm only going to give it to you if you reopen. these are two completely seemly diametrically opposed messages. are they? >> yeah, they are, and they're also at odds with what the coronavirus task force has been saying. you know, when they talk about schools, i mean they've been very clear on this issue, the same guidance that they've been talking about with regard to florida. if you have a lot of viral spread in your community and the numbers are going up, going up in the community at least five days in a row. that is not the time to open schools. we do know as you mentioned, erin, we

and that's a problem. >> sanjay?some of these tests, i mean, it depends which specific testing mechanism you're using. it's more about the type of test. the swab, whether it's the nose or the mouth, you know, they can be pretty accurate but it depends on what the type of testing system you're using. one of them has about a 15 to 20% false negative rate. that means you had the virus but you were told you were negative. the other issue with this particular test, think of it like this. what they're trying to find is a little piece of genetic material of the virus, okay? that's what they're really looking for. you're not actually finding the virus itself, you're finding a little genetic material from the virus. they take that with the swab, use a reagent to remove the genetic material, then amplify it over and over again to see if they can get a detectable level. if they find it, it comes back positive, they say you have it. but it might just be a little bit of the genetic material, the debris. you have to correlate this

sanjay gupta. sanjay, i know you spoke to dr. fauci over the weekend. he has read these attacks, this opposition research put out by the white house on him. what is his reaction? >> i think it's very disspiriting for him. most of all, he's a public servant. he's bebeen doing that for 40 years. the briefings going away and out-of-sight, out-of-mind sort of thing. not that anybody is mad at him but don't want to see him because he reminds them of this problem, but that transitioned as you point out to the much more overt sort of attacks and trying to go back and find interviews that's done in the past and say hey, this is where he got it wrong. this is where he got it wrong. that's wheat they're spending their time doing as opposed to dealing with the numbers on the right side of the screen. let me give you one quick example. i don't know if we have this still of some of an interview they wanted to show the white house wanted to show about dr. fauci to show that he got it wrong, but they selectively cut it. let me show you at least what the white house ha

thank you, sanjay. appreciate that. more now on the president's announcement today that the jacksonville, florida portion of the republican national convention will not be happening. jim across ccososta joins us. it was originally supposed to be else elsewhere, jim. >> reporter: some of this started on monday. the local sheriff in jacksonville announced to that community down there he did not have the resources available, the staffing available to police essentially and provide security for this republican convention in jacksonville. and i talked to a convention official earlier this evening who said the sheriff making that announcement, and that sheriff being tied to local politicians in that area who also had concerns about this, that some of those concerns were being relayed to republican officials down in jacksonville. that was being communicated up to washington inside the trump campaign and over to the white house. and i talked to this convention official earlier this evening, anderson, who is describing a scene o

sanjay gupta. this is our 18th cnn global town hall. it's been seen around the world, cnn international, cnn espanol, and streamed on cnn.com. >> the experts warned it could come to this and now, sadly, it has. cases today, crossing the 4 million mark in this country. not so long ago, it was 15. not 15,000 or even 1,500 people. it was 15 people. and the president was saying it would soon be zero. instead, tonight, it is 4 million, plus. >> and the pace of growth is also accelerating. it took 99 days to reach to a million confirmed cases. 43 days to go from 1 to 2 million. 28 more days to add another million. and anderson, we have gone from 3 to 4 million in only 15 days now. >> wow. the president spoke late today. made no mention of that milestone or the 144,000 of those 4 million plus, 144,000 people in this country who have now died. he did, however, cancel a portion of the republican national convention in jacksonville, florida. no surprise there. he also continued his push for classrooms to reopen, without really a national plan. an

sanjay gupta. sanjay, let me get your reaction first what jim has just reported about the coronavirus task force briefings possibly returning. what's your reaction to that news that they might actually come back maybe even on a daily? we haven't seen that in quite a while. >> i think it would be important, wolf. i think when those briefings first started, i mean, i think it gave a certain level of seriousness to this, as a daily reminder of things. there's going to be some days where there's really important news that the country needs to hear from this task force. i think, wolf, when the briefings went away, i think there was a lot of people who sort of thought, well, look, this thing is sort of over now. we were hearing from them every day. we're not now. we must be sort of through the woods on this. so i think we're clearly not, and i think the coronavirus task force briefings coming back would be a signal that that's the case. >> and what's your reaction, sanjay, to the in eyewitnesses that the

sanjay gupta and guide to covid. sanj sanjay, another day goes by, america is dying. no plan from president trump and the federal government. we had this conversation over and over again and with the good professor hazeltine as well but without federal engagement. the professor said the answer is each of us doing all we can and citizens and everybody else, stake holders being involved but without federal government, does this get better? >> i think it's very hard for it to get better. clearly, the status quo is not working, anderson. the numbers continue to get worse. i think what we're seeing now is we're seeing a pattern. the reason that the federal sort of guidance is so important is because what happens in so many communities now and states is that things get into a real crisis situation before action is taken. i mean, people know what to do. the public health sort of strategies actually not that complicated here. we've seen it work in certain states in this country for periods of time and countries around the world. i mean, we don't have to remind people there ar

sanjay gupta. thanks for being with us, san y sanjay, as well. you and dr., you've known him for more than three decades and spoken to him regularly, even today. first of all, how do you describe how he's doing. does he talk about the reaction to the white house attacking his credibility? how is he holding up? >> yes, but first, we haven't spoken since your stork arrived so i just wanted to congratulate you. >> oh, okay. yes. thank you. thanks. >> yeah, he is deeply, deeply frustrated. i think that feeling is shared by many americans today and baffled with deaths rising by over 50% in a week. he sees this as a ridiculous side show. it makes no sense. to have anonymous opposition research generated by the white house against our country's top infectious disease expert during the worst pandemic of our lifetimes makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. and he gets up every morning wanting to fight this virus, wanting to save lives and this is just a major, major distraction. we all need to get back to work. >> peter, the audience just -- for people that don't know

sanjay gupta and cnn political director david. sanjay, let's talk about this test. the one we know about that's been publicly disclosed is this cognitive test for the president that was in 2018. that was the montreal cognitive assessment. what do we know about that test, and what does it mean exactly to ace it? >> right. well, that's not a term that i think most -- the medical community would use to describe doing on the test. it's not like the s.a.t. or something or a test that you take in school. it's more of a screening test. we can show you some of the types of questions that are asked here. it's trying to find whether someone is suffering from some cognitive dysfunction that they themselves may not recognize. so, you know, the top of the test, you get a sort of sense, the one goes to the a. the 2 is go to the b and three is going to go to a c. can you draw a cube? can you draw the face of a clock? can you identify animals? it's a pretty basic test. and it's really more of a screening test. so, you know, when we're talking about trying to evaluate someone's cogn

sanjay, dr. fauci is warning today that based on if we don't do something, we don't turn this around, people don't start wearing their masks, the united states could see 100,000 new cases a day. >> yeah, you know, i mean, it's mind-numbing to hear a number like that, right? it's really frightening. i was not surprised at the number. we're seeing the growth of these cases. it's like a big, you know, freight ship in the middle of the ocean that's gaining a lot of steam and it will be hard to slow down. i think that's what he was referring to. what i was surprised about anderson, was that he gave a number. he's so careful with these things. he typically doesn't give a number because he doesn't want to be pinned down to it and if he does, it's usually a conservative estimate. it was a couple months ago we heard 60,000 people were likely to die by august 4th according to one of the models you and i were talking about. and that was horrifying, right? and now we're here at the end of june and it's doubl

sanjay gupta. follow me on facebook, instagram, twitter, @-jake tapper.e on cnn continues. i'll see you tomorrow. the truth is out there. >> announcer: 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. president trump about to speak from the white house as the u.s. approaches 4.5 million confirmed coronavirus cases. the death toll in the united states now more than 151,000 people after the country yesterday recorded the highest one-day number of deaths since may, 1403 americans died yesterday. that amounts to one american life lost to the virus almost each minute. wee

sanjay gupta and dr. jonathan reiner. sanjay, you have to go through calendar here.t looks like the china ban didn't make a difference in the u.s. the virus was circulating before the european ban took effect. >> and then we lost a month because all this stuff was happening and we didn't act. and there was plenty of evidence at that point, especially based on the evidence coming out of china. we didn't do anything about it. we stint start testing. we didn't start thinking about lockdowns, proposals for lockdowns in certain areas were made in february but largely ignored by the white house. so, i think it was that month. we go back and look at this, erin, you know, most of february, a little bit of march, where we just lost that time. it wasn't until the middle of march where they finally started to talk about stay-at-home orders in ernst in some ways. so, lack of testing, lack of action for those four or five weeks were important. >> and still paying the price here as 138,000 deaths and climbing, a number which seemed incomprehensible at that time. today when we look

sanjay gupta is joining us. sanjay, right now as we've been reporting, the president is in the country's epicenter for the virus, florida. and yet is not addressing the crisis the state is facing, the nation is facing. does that make any sense to you at all? >> this is the biggest public health crisis the world has faced for most of us in our lifetimes. so, no, it doesn't make any sense at all. this is issue number one and affects everything else i think that is happening in our lives. also, wolf, we saw what happened in oklahoma, right? you send a lot of people in, and then people can become infected, as happened with the secret service agents in oklahoma. the president does a trip like this. there's a lot of people that have to go ahead of time. they have to go to the hospitals to make sure hospitals are ready. they have to use personal protective equipment. they have to set aside resources. so, it's a significant demand in a state that already has significant demands because of covid. from randi's reporting y

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sanjay gupta is here with us.u were hearing this and notable and the mayor makes the point that the governor is suing her personally. right? but set the politics aside as a doctor here, you know, the -- how a mask mandate helps control the outbreak. let's talk about what works. let's forget the politics. in other countries who have gotten a handle on this unlike the u.s. have mask mandates made a difference in saving lives? >> 100%, no question at all. we see that in terms of looking at large populations of people. in the other places, they don't have some magic pill that we don't have here in the united states. they wore masks, they have been doing it and it's made a huge difference. there's now scientific evidence in how much of a difference, it can decrease transmission five to six fold with the masks in terms of actually decreasing the likelihood of the virus spreading from somebody. jim, you say put aside the politics for a second, frankly, what we are seeing unfold here is a purely political story. just to b

sanjay gupta, and we'll get to that in a moment, sanjay. first, i just want to ask you about this tension or whatever is happening with dr. fauci. the preeminent expert in our country in infectious diseases, like this. and president trump. you know, the reporting is that dr. fauci hasn't been able to brief president trump in more than a month. president trump has stopped going to the coronavirus task force meetings. and now -- and i know that you spoke to dr. fauci this weekend. i'm just wondering, was he aware that the white house is releasing this list of basically opposition research about him? his so-called mistakes that the trump administration wants reporters to be aware of? >> yeah, he's very aware of it, alisyn. i talk to dr. fauci regularly. and i will say even though we don't see him on television, he does remain accessible to me and a few other folks, as well. he's still very interested in getting this information out there. but you're absolutely right. there's sort of been this crescendo. at first, you know, it was the task forc

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sanjay gupta. sanjay, you know, we've talked a lot through these last weeks here. and i've measured your rising exasperation in recent days, with some of the comments and lack of leadership, frankly, coming from washington. so the president says today, again, the coronavirus is going to disappear. you heard the lieutenant governor of texas saying he's not going to listen to dr. fauci anymore. what does that mean for the country, when you still have that kind of resistance to the facts before us? >> well, it -- it's -- it makes you feel like you're going backwards, jim. i mean, at a time when we need to go forward more than we've ever had to go forward in our country, we're going backward because of this sort of stuff. and let me give you a little peek behind the curtain, jim. you know, the president says the virus is going to go away. let me concede this point. nobody knew anything about this virus at the beginning. that's the nature of a novel coronavirus. there is a lot that we've learned, and there's a humility. but back in february, i interviewed the head of th

thank you. >>> if we could, let's start on schools, sanjay. did that great town hall and we heard from dr. redfield talking about schools. the fact that he is saying now that it is the public health benefit. if you weigh the pros and cons, he seems to be saying, you know, the benefit outweighs the downside of having kids in school nationally and in school physically in the fall. >> yeah. i know -- i'm a parent here. i'll put on the parent head. you are as well. that makes sense. the american academy of pediatrics, a few days ago said the same thing. the benefit of having kids physically in school is obvious. it's important for their development. i think it's got to be taken in the context of this pandemic. if you look at the guidance that the cdc put out and we can put that up for people to see. most people following the story of coronavirus at all, these recommendations will make sense. you're encouraging hand washing, masks, cloth masks, trying to do everything you can to not have kids congregate and stuff like that. modifying seating layout

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sanjay gupta who is with us as well. sanjay, i don't know if the president appreciates, kids are less vulnerable, can be asymptomatic, have minor symptoms, but they can especially if 10 and older according to one study from south korea, they can pass along the virus to parents, grandparents, other adults with underlying health conditions as easily as adults can transmit the virus. i don't know if the president appreciates that. >> no, i think that's the critical point here. i think what has held up since we looked at the initial early data from wuhan is that young kids in particular do seem less likely to get ill or certainly seriously ill from that. that is different. you think of flu virus. typically it is the very young and very old that are likely to get sick. this virus, this respiratory virus behaves differently than other respiratory viruses. wolf, you're right. it was an interesting, well done study out of south korea. they did contact tracing, they traced kids of all different ages and found kids 10 and older we

sanjay gupta and anderson cooper pour for a cnn town hall with their guest dr. tom frieden here at 8:00 p.m. >>> up next, republic governor slams president trump's plan. and another slamming local governments for mandating that masks be worn in public. we'll be right back. last night's sleep, interrupted by pain? tonight, silence it with new zzzquil night pain. because pain should never get in the way of a restful night's sleep. new zzzquil night pain. silence pain, sleep soundly. >>> we have more breaking news coming into the situation room right now. texas just reported 129 people died of the coronavirus in the past day. that's a new one-day record. but president trump has very little to say about the pandemic. let's discuss the political and the medical fallout with cnn white house correspondent john harwood and biology professor aaron brohmich who teaches at the university of massachusetts dartmouth. john, hospitals are becoming overwhelmed right now. morgues are actually running out of rooms. portable coolers have to be brought in. is the president in denia

. >> joining us we have cnn chief medical correspondent sanjay gupta and dr. minor. dr. minor, obviously, dr. fauci has not been as available on tv shows but he has been more available on sorts of these teleconferences and zoom calls. so what were the headlines, what did he tell you? >> well, dr. fauci spoke about the importance of community engagement. the importance of observing the guidelines that had been announced and that we know to be effective and that is wearing a mask, social distancing. you know, we're seeing a spike -- maybe we'll talk about florida in a moment. we saw a spike initially in young people. now we're seeing old people becoming infected too. younger people may have minimal symptoms from the disease but because of their interactions with older people, those people are getting infected and their illnesses are much more dangerous. that's what dr. fauci spoke about yesterday. >> we read about the former directors of the cdc. that's a powerful statement, saying stop, stop trying to undermine science which is something that dr. fauci spoke about a lot r