Brennan but those areas and some new in states that loosened shutdown restrictions early on. They are now being bombarded with new infections rapidly growing hospitalizations and death rates. I dont think you can say we are doing great. I mean, we are just not. Brennan dr. Anthony faucis diagnosis on what is making the pandemic worse, partisanship. When you dont have unanimity in an approach to something you are not as effective in how you handle it. Brennan some mayors are overruling governors in a desperate effort to get the flareups under control. Federal guidance is vague. The Trump Administration is now pushing hard to get the nations 56 million k12 grade students back to school in the fall. So we are very much going to put pressure on governors and erybody else open s to g them open. Ool is somethie agrees should happen but can it happen safely . Lk exclusively wih Surgeon General jerome adams plus we will hear from phoenix arizona mayor kate gallego, and we will ask terry shaw about the situation in the sunshine state. Former fda commissioner scott gone athlete, gottlieb will also be with us, along with the president of kindercare, one of the largest providers, and how covid19 is impacting the president ial campaign in florida, texas and arizona. In our new Battleground Tracker poll. It is all just ahead on face the nation. Brennan welcome to face the nation. The news we woke up to this morning makes us feel like we have been here before, and we have. Coronavirus cases in parts of the country are spiking and there are reports of shortages of medical personnel. Icu beds and personal protective equipment. Testing demands in hotspots outweighs supply, the lines are long, and the labs are backed up. What is different . The regions we are seeing these spikes in are primarily not all socalled red states where President Trump won in 2016 and governors are primarily republican. What lessons were learned from the outbreak this spring . Did they move too quickly to reopen . Some scientists including dr. Anthony fauci say yes. Our coverage begins this morning with cbs News National correspondent Mark Strassmann in atlanta. For these texans, no masks, no distancing, no worries, despite another wave of covid battering the state. Record new cases in four of the s hospitalizations for 12 straight days. And the states deadliest week yet in the pandemic. We want this to end, believe me. And texans heard the spikes will only continue. We, what we have left to avoid having our economy shut down again for attorney use a mask to slow the spread. It is like before only worse. Across the south and west mostly in states that loosened covid restrictions early on. 12 states this past week recorded positivity rates higher than 10 percent. Seven states set single day death records this week. In houston, lines of people sweltered to get a covid test. In san diego, test results take 10 days. Risoa stehat set a new single day death record on thursday. Ppe shortages are again an issue. Florida has hired 1,000 people to help hospitals under siege. They have got beds, they can put down more beds, they just need to make sure they have enough folks to staff the beds. This week expect to see more restrictions. Louisianas do, starting tomorrow. Anyone anywhere in the state ages eight and up have to wear a task public. I want to people understand we have no reason to believe the to numbers we are reporting over the last few days are going to get even better over the next couple of weeks. In fact, they are likely to get worse. Here in atlanta, this Convention Center is has been reactivated for over flow Covid Patients, Atlanta MayorKeisha Lance Bottoms rolled back the citys reopening, most people are supposed to stay home again. But here. As in much of america there is mixed messaging, the states republican governor has told the citys democratic mayor only he gets to decide wh roll back. Margaret. Brennan Mark Strassmann in atlanta, thank you. We want to go now to Surgeon General, vice admiral jerome adams. The doctor joins thus morning from wolcottville, indiana. Good morning to you. Well, good morning, margaret, i wish i was here under different circumstances because as you mentioned case counts are going up in many localities and we are absolutely concerned about that. But there are two very important things i just want the American People to know, in number one we are in a very different place than where we were in february and march. We have over 300 percent increase in available ppe and thats not to say Mission Accomplished but we are in a better place. We have remdesivir, steroids, plasma, all which means if you actually get diagnosed with covid, your chance of dying from it is significantly lower than what it was in february and march and thats important for American People to know. The other quick thing i just want people to know is t oy out t th is anogequeio important people, though, the course is two weeks while we are seeing cases rise we can see cases go down just as quickly if the American People will do the things that we know slow the spread of this disease, including wearing a Face Covering. Critically important for people to know, covid stops with me, we have the power to turn this thing around. Brennan okay. Lets start there, then because you are wearing a mask. You are clearly tryinateginnings when the administration started telling the public to wear masks. But just the last time you were with us here on face the nation, march 8th, you said this. Lets listen. Stay safe by washing your hands, by covering your cough, by staying home if you are stick, masks do not work for the general public in preventing them from getting coronavirus. Brennan the week before that you tweeted in all caps, serious bleep people, stop buying masks. You said they were not effective. Do you regret saying that . Well, it is important for people to understand that once upon a time we prescribed cigarettes for asthmatics and leeches and cocaine and heroin for people at medical treatments, when we learned better, we do better and brennan are you saying at that time you did not know because the cdc in february was looking at asymptomatic transmission of the virus. We were looking at that, but thedt maskswe effand even in mal asymptomatic spread, up to 50 percent of people who spread this disease spread it without having symptoms. And thats why the American People need to know that science is about giving the best recommendations you can. Brennan yes. And you learn more, you complaining those recommendations. Our recommendations have changed, now people of america, important to know you should wear a Face Covering. Brennan and we certainly do. Out in public. Brennan we certainly do take that advice but i think you have to acknowledge that this mixed messaging has created confusion and it has drawn into question some of the credibility of the aistration. Are you certain we will margaret. Brennan a shortage i would like you to clarify it. Were you saying that then . Yes. Because there just wasnt enough equipment . I was saying that then because everything we knew about coronavirus before that point told us that people were not likely to spread when they were asat at th d re wasotrned more. There also was as you mentioned a very real concern about hoarding of ppe and people dressing up in trash bags as healthcare workers. Brennan right. That was a a part of it but e primary reason is thats what the science said and i want the American People to understand we follow the science and when we learn more our recommendations change, but it is hard when people are continuing to talk about things from three, four months ago. I said consistently for the past three months, ad nauseam on the internet and in interviews, wear a Face Covering it helps slow asymptomatic spread and help us reopen churches and schools and have prom next year and football in the fall. Brennan right. Which is why i think leveling with the public is important. When you i want to also get terms of t that inarticular, h ack ame threselie from it. Yes. Than caucasians are. You said a few days ago one of the reasons that you had questions about mandating masks is because you said in the context of the black lives Matter Movement you worry about having a situation where you are giving people one more reason to arrest a black man. To be very clear, are you saying that racism makes it too risky to mandate masks and black americans, you are also prescribing for them Wearing Masks now . So to be very clear, i am not saying it makes it too risky. I am saying ie goio mask mandato understand that works best at the local and state level along with education. We need people to understand hy they are doing it and we need people to understand how they benefit from it. Because if we just try to foement mechanism and we arny different individuals to be killed for very minor off and that is an important consideration. As Surgeon General, i want people to understand why they should wear a Face Covering and they are going to be more likely to do it and more likely to do it willingly and more likely to do it when we are not watching which is important. Brennan i want to ask you about where we are as a country right now. In texas and in arizona, there are reports of refrigerator trucks being ordered because morgues are about to be overwhelmed. The two senators from texas are requesting a Field Hospital be set up because of concerns about overcrowding. This morning, the republican head of the National Governors association said there should have been a National Testing strategy and now this thing is out of control. Does the administration have this under control . Well, what i will tell you is that we are in a very different place than what we were in february. We are much better able to respond. We sent out ten teams to the most problematic areas and we have another nine going out this week to help with staffing to help with testing. We do have a National Testing strategy and we are working with states to give them all of the supplies that they actually ask for. So brennan but as you heard we are happy with where we are. Please dont mistake me with saying we are happy with where we are, what i am saying we are working with states to make sure we can respond to this incredibly contagious disease and part of that again is making sure we are slowing the spread by helping people understand the importance of wearing Face Coverings and good hand hygiene and staying home when they can. Brennan understood but i think, you know, the administration has talked about this tension between reopening the economy and dealing with the virus. The pain that people felt and took to their pocketbooks on the east coast and the west of this country when they shut down the economy, they were told that was to mitigate the spread. They were told that was so people could get ready for heusring sounds like what we saw in april, shortages of ppe, waiting time for test results. What happened and who is in charge of fixing that . Well, i think it is a little bit unfair to say that this is exactly what happened in march or april, again, 300 percent increase in personal protective equipment, we are doing a much better job of protecting the vulnerable. Thats why you have seen the age a of cases being diagnosed dropped by over a decade and a half, a much lower fatality rate brennan the cdc dirds one t aistr wel da. Knowledgg tha e arest day and i will agree with you that in certain areas we do need to do more testing and thats why we have these strike teams multidisciplinary teams of Health Experts going to th problem areas. The other thing to understand is if you look at arizona for instance, arizona is a state is steady but when you look at phoenix area, Maricopa County that is increasing, these increases you are hearing are very regional and so we have a very targeted approach to make sure we are getting the resources to the people that need it the most so that again we dont see the fatality that we saw in march and prepared till april which 0 anthony fauci, dr. Redfield, myself, no one on the Task Force Wants to see that and we dont think we will see that because we are better prepared to respond but it has to beoupl evention i know p harng this bu wowerslhego to msite bi nd a . Just two to three weeks if everyone does their part. The studies showing the effectiveness of Face Coverings. Brennan two to three weeks for what, exactly . I am sorry. The course is two to three weeks, basis have seen cases skyrocket we can turn this thing around in two to three weeks if we can get a Critical Mass of people wearing Face Coverings, practices at least six feet of social stancing, doing things that we know are effective and it is important for the American People to understand when we are with talking about the fall, we have the ability to turn this around. Brennan right. Very quickly if people will do the right thing. Brennan and i think everyone in america wants you to turn this around and wishes you the best of luck in doing that. But a lot of American Parents are very worried about accepting their children back into classrooms in the middle of increasing cases in hotspots in large parts of this countthe pr schools are very tough and expensive. They are asking schools to do very impractical things. But cdc guidelines say you cant sanitize 50 percent alcohol and put barrier between desks and have kids six feet apart. What part of this is too tough and too expensive . Well, thank you for that question. I have a 16, 14 and a tenyearold and i want them back in school. We know that kids who are not in school are more likely to be obese, to misuse substances, there is less reporting of sexual abuse and of child abuse. There are real Health Implications to not being in school but it has to be done safely. Brennan right, it is the how. The cdc guidelines are out to talk about best Case Scenarios and i will give you a very specific example they say every kid should write in their own lunch so you asked for a specific example we know some School Districts, in Many School Districts over 50 percent of kids are eating lunch at school and dont have the ability to bring their own lunch so thats one case where we need work directly with local School Districts and help them figure out, okay if you cant do what is the Gold Standard best Case Scenario can you do something that is a compromise to safely reopen . Thats what we are talking about when we talk about issuing new more specific recommendations that we can look at, School District by School District. Brennan and we will get those this week . To do the Gold Standard. My understanding is that cdc will get those out and i know they are working with individual School Districts. I actually am here talking this morning with my sisterinlaw who is a principal at a local school here and they have got a plan. Thats what is important for each district to have a plan to figure out how to do this safely. Brennan right of. And i think there are a lot looking for a national plan. Doctor we wish you well and thank you very much for your insight today. We will be back in one minute with a lot more face the nation. Dont go away. And you the bag. Simple. Done. This smells so good. Big thanks to you guys at home. Were here right now. We adapt and we change. I mean you just figure it out and well do like we do as safely as we can. I got a new job. Weve just been finding a way to keep on pushing. Were lookin for a day at a time baby. Brennan we turn now one of the nations hotspots, phoenix, apartments, mayor kate gallego joins us, good morning to you, madam mayor. I read that your county has been ordering refrigerator trucks, in the expectation that mor give us a reality check of what is happening on the ground . It continues to be a very difficult situation and and in e greater phoenix area and we are seeing positivity rates above 20 percent. We continue to have a real challenge with testing, although there was some very good news this week about Additional Resources that are coming. We are setting records of the type you dont want to set for the use of ventilators by Covid Patients, acute care beds, our Health Care Workers are telling us they are already tired and they are worried that there could be an additional growth after the 4th of july. There was a little bit of flattening in the rate of growth, so maybe too early to celebrate and we dont have a firm trend yet, but i am looking for positive news. Brennan well, i read that the city of phoenix does not have its own health didnt, but given that the pandemic it this east and west coast of this country so hardback in february, why wasnt there more planning to surge testing to your city and to your area . We really have had huge issues. We have had people waiting, eight, ten, 13 hours. Back in april i started requesting federal support for additional testing. At the time our pier cities such as houston, which is the fourth largest city, we are the fourth largest were getting federal support for mass testing and at the time i said we didnt have sufficient caseload. Now we clearly have sufficient caseload and i began making the requests again and again. It came up at the White House Press briefing this week. I think they felt, the term they used for me was out of tune but the good news is they finally decided they will be bringing that federal testing to our community and it cannot come a moment too soon. Brennan the governor in your state has now made some accommodations. He has limited indoor capacity at restaurants to 50 percent, bars, jims movie theaters, water parks have all been ordered to cease operations what is it you want to do in phoenix that you cannot do right now . What needs to be done to get control . I joined mayors from across arizona to ask the governor to put in place significant expansion and safety precautions. We do not have a statewide requirement for facial coverings in arizona and we need one. We would love to see additional protections including moving restaurants completely to take out. We would also lake to have some of the riskier personal care situations like nail salons, we think that is just not right necessary right now when you are seeing such high levels of the vrus. Brennan the governor did say this week that he is going to push back school reopenings. In your city, in your area, is en schtricts i thecan saf coming weeks, given the numbers you are seeing . We have separately elected School Boards and we are now seeing many of those elected leaders say we cant open until at least october with the levels of the virus so pronounced in our community, they just dont feel like it is a safe environment for teachers to go in and they are concerned about our students as well as spread of the virus. I hope there will be full Financial Support for knows School Districts, including digital programming. Brennan , you know, there the is so much Financial Hardship right now and in looking with what is happening. Within your state the moratorium on evictions expires july 22nd. Do you have a sense of whether the staill extend that moratorium and in your city are you expecting a spike in homelessness and what do you do with that in the middle of an outbreak like this . The best advice that Public Health professionals give is to stay home, but thats difficult if you dont have a home or are about to be evicted from it. I am deeply worried about the expiration of the eviction order. What we are hearing is particularly renters are at risk, many Mortgage Companies have been willing to say we have a 30year mortgage we will add a few months at the end but if you are in month six of a year lease, you are at huge risk offing with he being evicted and i feel for our landlords we have many retired couples who own a duplex and thats a big part of their retirement, so we need to think about landlords as well. Brennan okay. What we are hearing is that our communities of color who are already so hard hit. Yes. 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And to help us all emerge from this, weve opened our supercomputers and patented technologies to scientists around the world, accelerating the search for a vaccine. This isnt easy. But as you adapt and move forward, were here with the people, financing, and technology, ready to help. Brennan some of our stations are leaving us now. When we come back, we will take a look at the hospital situation in florida. It is one of the states now struggling to contain the virus. Yesterday they reached a quarter million cases. Stay with us. Brennan florida is one of the states now struggling to contain the virus. Yesterday they reached a quarter million cases. The same day disney world officially opened up two of their parks, one more example of the tension between reopening the economy verse the threat to americans health. Adventhealth is the biggest, biggest hospital chain headquartered in florida, terry shaw is their ceo and joins us from orlando, good morning to you. Good morning, margaret. So you have about 30 hospitals in the state of florida. You know, in other states in arizona and texas, there are these reports of morgues being close to being overwhelmed. Are you at that point in florida florida . It is a very stressful time in florida, margaret, but no, we are not at that point. I am thankful we have had several months to learn how to treat the disease. We are much better prepared in july than we were in march. We have adequate personal protective equipment. We have a stockpile of ventilators and we have an amazing Clinical Team that have taken best practices from around the globe and put them into our treatment protocols. And i will give you an example. Our link to stay in our icu for Covid Patients has dropped in half. The number of people coming in to our hospital with covid that need a ventilator, we have also been able to cut that in half. And because of those things, our death rate has also been cut in halfthimpeio oseve months and our cl donen amazing jobning how to care for piople better today than they were just even three months ago. Brennan well, the state of florida has only just this friday started reporting officially hospitalization data. But you know what you are seeing in your own facilities. Know when you think the peakhat of hospital stations will be . Based upon the testing, my guess is that the peak is some time in front of us in july and that would assume that people do what they need to do from both a distancing perspective and from a masking perspective to slow down the spread of the virus. Covid gets passed from one person to the next and we can all do a better job making for sure we are caring for one another by just wearing a simple mask and staying six feet from a distance perspective from the brennan i am sorry. So from what you are laying out, do i hear you saying that you currently have enough supplies, ppe, you have enough medical staff to deal with the surge that you say is still in front of you . Yes. So in april, so march and april, we spent an enormous amount of money on ppe and we continue to have stockpiled pen that we s desperately need right now and so no we are not short on ppe. Remdesivir is also coming in. We just not a shipment in from our State Government this weekend. We were running low last weak. But we have enough of that to continue to care for people. Our icu capacities are running about eight give to 90 percent but we have the ability to turn some of our Progressive Care units into icu units if we need to do so. Also, as a multistate system, we are working with with one of our sister states in colorado where we have facilities to bring clinicians from colorado to florida to help us staff up if we need to on an ongoing basis. Brennan i want to ask you specifically about that, because back in the spring in new york you saw tha ereally i the thing monan cin from out of state. Are you calling for that . Do you need more personnel specifically what do you need and on remdesivir which you just said you are about to get more of, how much supply do you have . How long does that last . So the remdesivir that i am just talking about we got in this weekend and we are supposed to get another shipment in this week and at this juncture i think we have enough as a system across our 30 hospitals to care for the people that would e coming in to our one of our facilities for care. Relative to staff, it is very important that you have the ability to move staff around your state. One of the things that we did back in march was develop and program a Staffing Program that allowed us to move Critical Resources around our organization both within the state of florida and then move people outside of the state of florida to florida or vice versa based upon where spikes were coming and where people would be needed the most. Brennan i was looking at some of the state reports on icu capacity at your different facilities across the state, disney world is in orlando as many people know or in orlando area and reopened yesterday. I know your company has been hired by them to advise on how to open safely but when i look at icu availability in that area it is pretty tight is it a good idea to open theme parks . So as a healthcare provider, my job is to help people do things safely. Whether it is mass car or disney, we have strategic alliances with those organizations. We have worked very closely wit thlm deermine way to reopen and do that safely. I will tell you based upon the way disney is approaching this with limiting people in, doing all of the screenings that they are doing i am personally a disney season ticket holder. Brennan yes. I would hesitate to go to disney as a healthcare ceo based upon the fact that they are working extremely hard to keep people safe. Brennan all right. Thank you very much. Good luck to everyone working in your hospitals. We go now to westport, connecticut and former fda commissioner dr. Scott gottlieb, good morning to you. Good morning. Brennan last sunday when you were with us you said we had four major epicenters of spread and you predicted we would get to about 60,000 infection a day thats about where we have been for at least the last three days you said within two weeks we would be at 1,000 infections a day. Excuse me, 1,000 deaths a day. What do we need to be prepared for next . Well, look, i think things are going to get worse before they get better, there is private modeling floating around shows this is possibly going to peak in the next two or three weeks. You see google mobility data and ecne i these Southern States with these, where these dense epidemics are happening and economics, what you are likely to see in the south which is different than new york, new york really followed the pattern of italy where it was a sharp up, a huge epidemic but it came down rapidly, i think in the south you are likely to an extended plateau, we dont have a National Approach here, what we somewhere is state approaches that are creating regional effects so those regional effects are different and new york experienced mirrored italy, i think Southern Experience is more likely to mirror brazil where you are likely to see more of an extended plateau once we reach the apex and you could reach the apex in the next two or three weeks. Brennan the next two to three weeks which is the same time frame Surgeon General referenced there. But when we talked to you throughout this pandemic, you had been warning, take new york as a lesson upon what you need to be doing. It was a message to other governors, for ppe, for preparing to get ahead of this. Why did the southern and wte stat not appear to be prepared prepared . Well, look, i think that they felt they were out of the woods after that first wave passed but this is really has been a regional experience in the united states, and what happened was they reopened against the backdrop of what was a lot of spread. They hadnt. Brennan too early . Too early in my view and people became complacent, especially younger people, they were going out and not taking precautions, older people were taking precauses, they were protecting the Nursing Homes and the vulnerable but inevitably what happens is the younger people go out and get infected because they are not taking those precautions it will get back to a more vulnerable population and thats what we are seeing right now. You are seeing rises cases in nursing home and positivity in these states is actually declining in the younger population, but rising in the older population. And if you want sort of a proxy for that look at iran, they had a major epidemic and came way down and had a second peak, mostly in younger people and said dont worry it is younger people so we are not going to see the same level of deaths but eventually the infection seeped into an older population thats what you are starting to see, you are seeing more outbreaks in Nursing Homes, so tragically we will see deaths start to rise and thats why i said two to three weeks when you see deaths get back above 1,000. Brennan you have spoken before about this question of whether the virus is spread through ear pistol tran mission, transmission and now we know the. World Health Organization is looking at it, should schools be changing their Filtration Systems . I think this is something they should look at, it is not binary or either airborne or droplet transmission, this is, this could be mainly crop met spreading but you get something that approximates airborne tran mission and what are those conditions, it is enclosed spaces, spaces with recirculated air, air condition add spaces, so in optical conditions in in indoor you may get the kind of spread patterns that approximate airborne transmission and we should be thinking about trying improve conditions, putting in help pa filters and uv light in the air Conditioning Systems and these are things we should be looking at and many be hiss are looking at retrofitting, you know, air condition aing is also. In some cases it is not very pensive to do that. In other cases it might be more expensive. Brennan well, perhaps we should ask about with schools and the education secretary on another network said this morning that there was a lot of data to suggest that kids are not spreaders of covid19. She was talking about putting kids back physically in a classroom five days a at this five days a week in your medical opinion is that data definitive and convince something. Well, look, the data isnt definitive but it is certainly suggestive and what we learned from this virus is it surprised us, we both underestimated it and over estimated it at the same time so we need to be prudent. Things that are important to give discretion to local districts to take steps to try to dedense guy students, and when i talked to republican and democrat governors they are in fact doing that but i think districts need discretion to try to put in place measures to keep kids safe no. Other country with the exception maybe of sweden reopened their schools or kept their schools open against the backdrop of so much spread that we are attempting to do in this country so we do face a unique risks and while the balance of the data shows that kids are less susceptible to inthe exshun and less likely to transmit it, less susceptible doesnt mean they are not susceptible and sometimes in some of the disisd show they could con compensate for the decline in susceptible by their propensity to spread infection, by their behaviors that is more likely to propagate inthe exshun. One final point here if we look at the 2018, 2019 flu season, many became symptomatic, many tragic deaths, we have not seen 11. 3 million kids get symptomatic covid yet because we largely sheltered the children and we dont want to see it, we have got to make measures to make sure it doesnt become epidemic in children like flu becomes epidemic in children because we dont know what the impact will be on kids. Right now the kids have been sheltered i would guess the infection rates among children has been relatively low in this country. Brennan okay. All right. We are definitely going to talk to you again about that, as you said, he we just dont know with kids. So it is something we will be tracking as the science develops. We will be right back with a look at the challenge faced by working parents of young children. Childcare. So to help even more, geico is giving new and current customers a fifteen percent credit on their motorcycle policies with the geico giveback. And because were committed for the long haul, the credit lasts your full policy term. The geico giveback. Helping riders focus on the road ahead. Because despite everything thats changed, one thing hasnt and thats our devotion to you and our communities. Our priority will always be to keep you and our associates safe, while making sure you can still get the essentials you need. Come on in, were open. All we do is hand you the bag. Simple. Done. This smells so good. Big thanks to you guys at home. Were here right now. We adapt and we change. I mean you just figure it out and well d i got a new job. Weve just been finding a way to keep on pushing. Were lookin for a day at a time baby. Brennan we go now to tom wyatt the ceo of kindercare, a company that operates about 1,500 childcare and early a childhood education facilities in 40 states. He joins us from seattle, washington. Good morning to you. Good morning, margaret. Brennan i want to ask you about some of the lessons you have learned, but just right off the bat, i see that there have been reports of clusters of covid cases in some Childcare Centers in charlotte, north carolina, just this week. Out west as well there have been some. How doendendlouhis . And how many have you seen in your facilities . We h seen a few. What we do, let me take you through the health and safety process. We keep children in one pod. We keep them in one classroom. We feel that is very important because we dont want to have people be exposed to different people, different teachers, what have you. So we keep them in pods, and by doing so, we have two forms of, if you will, generation of transmissions. One is if we have one case in a center, we will close that center for 72 hours. We will disinfect it, then we will reopen it. If, in fact, we have more ct,e y close a center for 14 days. We have closed in the last three months, we have closed about 70 of our centers for 14 days and we have closed 120 of them for 72 hours, and we feel like that means that our process is working, our protocols are working, which we work very closely where the cdc and candidly we are above what their requirements are because we actually feel very strongly we are taking care of the most precious asset a family has. Brennan i am sure every parent would agree with you in that. But specifically what does that mean . What kind of protections are you giving your staff . Are you testing them . And if so, how regularly and is there any data that you have that shows that kids are spreading it or not spreading wf our teacher wear masks, all of our teachers that are in states that are offering essential workers testing we encourage them to do so. We actually gave shields to our newborn and infant features because we wanted the children to actually see the expressions of their teachers because they connect that way. We do a Temperature Check every time a child comes to a center every single day. We also have a question questio, questionnaire for the families too fill out, we dont let families take their children back to the room. We actually have a teacher that will come from that pod to escort the child back to that room. As i say the children stay together. We sanitize the playgrome and when the children take naps during the day, we actually position them in a way that they are actually six feet apart. So all in the preservation of health and safety. Brennan so mackenzie says about 27 million workers, 16 percent of the workforce s dependent on childcare in order for them to do their own jobs. But we know there are lower income workers who had frontline jobs and it is difficult to afford childcare, even at a facility like you are saying, you are trying to keep open. Right. Brennan what is the solution to this since this is part of reopening the economy when you talk to people in washington, are you suggesting that congress provide subsidies to childcare . I mean, the federal government doesnt do that for Early Childhood education. Very, very good question. Let me tell you a couple of things that we are in conversations with congress on, and we feel like we will be a part of, we hope will be a part of phase 4 when they return on the 20th of july from recess. Two things that we have asked them for is, we are operating at a compromised state. State mandates have been a certain number of children in a room, much less than we have had in the past. Our centers have given those mandates can only get to 45, 50 percent of their capacity, which candidly we dont make money at that rate. So we need to relax those over time and when it is safe to do so. So we have asked for a rebound grant fund and that fund is for the next six to nine months, we are asking for between 25 and 50 million to help us get through the additional costs of ppe, the additional costs of training, we have more labor, more labor in the center than we had precovid. We have a dedicated and master for health and safety which is an additional head count, and all of that with less than 50 percent of the children that we had precovid. Brennan well. Thats one. To answer your question. Brennan well, i am sorry. I have to leave it there. But we will be tracking what happens with you and childcare on this program ahead. Thank you for sharing your insights, tom wyatt of kindercare. We will be back with some politics in a moment and how the virus is impacting campaign 2020 in those hot spot states. For the sweaty faces, and the hidden smiles. The foggy glasses, and the muffled laughs. A simple piece of fabric makes a big statement i care. Wear a mask. Lets all do our part to slow the spread. It is just over 100 days until election day. And a this morning, we have a new cbs news Battleground Tracker that looks at the president ial rates in three states heavily impact bid the coronavirus. Thats arizona, texas, and florida. Results show former Vice President joe biden will becoetl three states. Mr. Biden and President Trump are tied 4646 in arizona. President trump is up 4645 in texas. And the former Vice President is up by six points, 4842 in florida. Cbs News Elections and survey directer joins us from his home in westchester can county, new york. Thank you, director, good to have you back. Good morning, margaret, thank you. Brennan so these states are level impacted by the virus itself but is that influencing votes . In a short answer a, yes. Rse ctext askow. Pople if their state reopened and reopened the economy too quickly or at the right speed and a majority in all of them they thought their state wt too quickly. And then they also told us that they felt that the state did that because of pressure from the Trump Administration. So you combine that with the president s low approval for handling covid in these states, and he may be paying something of a political price, at least for the moment there. And then the other thing that struck us is that people in these states are concerned about getting covid. And the more concerned that someone is, the more likely they are to say that they are voting for joe biden. So that is the personal connection we see in relation to the policy and it is forward of what is reshaping the sun welt and putting some of these states in play, maybe reshaping the overall electoral map, margaret. Brennan but what we rings te viewing this as sort of a vote against trump rather than enthusiasm for joe b is it enough for biden to be this opposition candidate . I think thats a central question to watch Going Forward when you look at people who say that they are for donald trump, they are voting for him because they like him, but a comparatively larger percentage of joe bidens voters say that they are voting for joe biden to oppose donald trump, to vote against donald trump. So that is a dynamic, srt of a classic case in any election, is it enough . We will have to look and see. It also might translate into enthusiasm, the president has very enthusiastic supporters and i would add this too as we start to look at the economy, well, that is a place that the president still does at least relatively better on the economy than he does on handling covid, margaret. Brennan thats interesting because of course covid and the economy are intertwined because the economic crisis has been triggered by that, you have this skyrocketing jobless rate. Joe biden this week came out and made a big economic speech saying he can be the guy to best rebuild the economy. Can President Trump make the argument that is more convincing to voters that he can do what he did before and do it again as he keeps saying on the campaign trail . Well, so far in these states sightly more feel that the president s policies would help the economy recover, more so than hurt it or hinder it. So that is one thing relative to his handling of covid that is in his favor. And the other part of in is that by and large, voters across the political spectrum say that the economy is still a top issue. Ye, covid is very important for atth ve, for re ans agret is important so that is so that well could be central Going Forward, margaret. Brennan you are a data guy, there is not a lot of data about what it looks to try to go out and vote in the middle of a pandemic. The president says he is against mail in ballots. Do we know what this election is going to look like in terms of turnout . Well, the indication wes get from having watched these later primaries where we saw people by the tens of thousands requesting mail ballots, turning in mail ballots and then as polling pl wced to close because they couldnt find enough poll workers, well, that led to longer lines. People standing in line for hours in order to cast votes. If that happens again in november, and every indication is that it will, then the old line that it all comes down to turnout goes double or triple in these cases. I think it shifts the entire dynamic of this campaign and what happens if voters cant easily get accs, can easily t a mail ballot, cant easily geto a pling place. And i think as we watched the polls going argued, this is an election about intensity and access. Brennan we will be right back. Brennan thats it for us today. For face the nation, i am margaret brennan. Captioning sponsored by cbs captioned by Media Access Group at wgbh access. Wgbh. Org this week were touching down in utah, high in the wasatch mountains. The west was won long ago, but theres still wide open spaces where the scenery is pristine. To behold utahs rugged beauty is to adopt an appreciation for all the natural riches of this mountainous playground. Golf resorts international is next. 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