Significant comorbidity likely to be asymptomatic or mild illness. So one of the things you do when we look at these cases and a lot like to talk and it gets reported but when cases are reported to the state, you know, thats a positive test that could have been taken seven days ago, eight days ago, i mean, theres all these companies that do it. They report it. When that infection occurred is not even clear, some of these infections may have incurred two weeks ago when tests finally get reported from a private lab. So one of the things that you look at is, okay, i can get a certain amount and all kind of ways to look at it and all kind of ways that the data may not always, you know, come in and kind of a coherent fashion, but when you look at like e. D. Visits for people showing up to the e. D. Because they have influenzalike or covidlike illnesses thats evidence of what is going on and the more people that are doing that, you know, the more prevalence that you have so if you look at kind of what weve seen over the last few weeks, throughout the month of may, you know, it was very flat. I mean, statewide we were under 500 visits a day which for a state of 21 1 2 Million People is a small number of visits. Influenzalike illness, 250 or below. Pretty much more weeks and weeks and then even as we got into june it was still very low. You start to see it inch up as we get into that third when we get into the 6 14, it goes up. You start to see more visits and then the following week it escalates more and then at the end of the june, it escalated to where we were seeing more than 2,000 e. D. Visits a day for covidlike illness. Going to the e. D. Doesnt mean youll be admitted to the hospital but means youre showing up. Symptomatic, they are testing you. You know, now we have seen statewide, you know, this start to trend downward but, you know, you look at a couple of days and sometimes that can be more noise than signal. So we want to continue to look at that. I think theyll talk about here, the e. D. Visits have skewed younger and kind of that 35yearold range which obviously is a different, different kind of clinical cohort than the 65 and up. But that surveillance looking to see, that is instructive in terms of what were doing or what is going on in the state of florida. So protecting the vulnerable, you see the fatalities skew 65 and plus and really 75 and plus when you think about it. So this is something thats a priority. Given that you see more prevalence of this in the Community Today than we did, you know, say in the middle of may, you know, it is important for those in the at risk crowds and minimize the close contact with people who he dont live with. Now, of course, if youre in a mul multigenerational living arrangement there are risks and have seen that in florida where you have multigenerational housing, a lot of crowded housing lead to more outbreaks, but, you know, obviously theres only so much, you know, that you can do when those are your living arrangements and we understand that but there is the risk in this age group and underlying conditions, obviously if youre 65 and up, elevated risk but any age with some of these conditions, you need to take similar steps and avoid the crowds, minimize close contact outside the home. One of the things when you have folks 65 or really 50, the ones that have things like diabetes, more bid obesity, those are the ones that typically have a much harder time with the coronavirus and so just understand that and take whatever precautions that you can. We talked before coming out here about longterm care facilities, really significant component of this, when we started this in march, we obviously knew that the Nursing Homes were going to be ground zero because you got the moist vulnerable population and prohibited visitors so that was since the beginning of march. Thats a tough thing but feared they would see more introduction of the virus if you allowed that. We also prohibited hospitals from discharging covid positive patients back into the Nursing Homes. When that was done in other states that really had negative consequences and we felt that that was the better course of action. We required ppe like n95 masks and sent 10 Million Masks plus to longterm care facilities, face shields, gowns, gloves, all that and so we required them to use the ppe but we provided the ppe because we understood that was important to try to minimize it within those facilities but we also understood as we started to get into that, you know, even with doing those precautions you would still have it get in with a staff member maybe not wearing the ppe right or maybe it wasnt as effective as we wanted it to be so you would see cases there, we sent the National Guard to do a lot of testing in the Nursing Homes because we needed to understand cases before they could spread like wildfire. So we understood there was a need for some of these folks who if you do test positive and youre a resident of a longterm care facility you had to be isolated appropriately so you didnt spread it. Some of these Nursing Homes, longterm care facilities are just not set up to do appropriate isolation and so we said you need to transfer those folks, now, some of that was just sending them to the hospital where theyre basically just boarding because they are medically stable. So we felt that that wasnt probably the best use of hospital resources if we could help it and so weve now established 13 covid dedicated Nursing Homes in the state of florida. Nursing facilities that all patients are covid positive so if you have somebody who tests positive in a nursing home in Manatee County you can send them to polk or charlotte. Were working on bringing on a couple more of these facilities, but this way theyre able to be isolated and not spread it into their home facilities. We started the panamerican or miamidade care center last week. We think thats going to be filled probably within a couple of days and we have a number in south florida, central florida. Were also working under the tampa bay area. Theyve dealt with a lot of nursing home outbreaks particularly in pinellas county, thats been a concern. While carrington place is good we want to see if theres ways we can expand the footprint but this is an important tool to protect residents of longterm care facilities who are the most vulnerable but also, you know, not needing to if someone is stable or is symptomatic having a place to go where theyre not going to infect other people and can be cared for. So i want to thank the secretary for working hard on that and talk about the new nationfacili and additional beds for this. Just to show why this is important, so here in Manatee County, theyve had i think as of yesterday or as of this morning maybe 138 covidrelated deaths, 91 of them have been related to longterm care facilities. So thats 66 of the coronarelated fatalities have been linked to longterm care facilities. So thats not only just saying 65 and up but just 65 and up and then residents of these facilities. Sarasota county, close by, you know, theyve had 100 coronarelated fatalities, 65 of them were related to residents of longterm care facilities. So, again, 65 so this is really, really a significant part of this fight. Social distancing, we have a much better idea now than in march about, you know, what the virus likes and doesnt like and, you know, closed spaces and i think youre seeing a lot of this activity and throughout the entire sun belt and some people said its because when its hot, people would rather be inside and enclosed airconditioning spaces and the point is that if youre in an area where you have a crowd of people indoors, you know, in a party or Something Like that and the airconditioning, it is going to be a better vector for transmission. Theres just no doubt about it. Peoples homes. Obviously most people get infected from family members or friends. And in the airconditioning thats going to be secret that will be a good vector, the outdoor transmission is not as significant. The sunshine, heat and humidity are generally your friend when it comes to this virus. The virus doesnt typically like that. Would prefer to be in the enclosed environments, you know, big crowds obviously provide more risk and then the close contact settings, when youre in sustained close contact with people, you dont even need to cough or sneeze, you know, we think at this point if youre talking repeatedly and there for a long time, do it. So really the social distancing is very, very significant. You know, if you maintain appropriate social distancing, youre not going to probably infect anyone or get infected. You know, facial covering, if you cant do that, you know, there is a way that could mitigate some of the particles that you may cough or sneeze or talk with and could reduce some of the transmission. So if youre not in a situation where you can avoid the three cs or where you can appropriately social distance, you know, wearing the face coverings will help you and, again, low risk versus high risk. This is pretty well, i think well documented at this point. When we talked about flattening the curve back in march, part of the the main reason was to make sure that the Hospital System could cope with whatever happens in terms of the effects of the coronavirus and in march, this was a very new virus and, you know, we kind of knew in january it was out there and florida we were testing people as they came back from asia and almost all were negative throughout february. I think we got our first case at the end of february and now know there was much more widespread than we thought. I think it was the testing criteria that was very limited. But there was problems with ppe. There was problems with testing. There were all these things and now were in a situation where, you know, weve got a lot of test sites around the state of florida. The hospitals are all testing, private companies that are testing. Cvss are testing so very difficult to figure out how to test, and now its a little easier which is a good thing for people and, of course, we have drivethrough sites, walkup sites. Weve got all kinds of different ways people can test. Federal government just did three sites in duvall county and doing 3,000 tests a day. Theyre not going to do it for very long. Theyre moving around the country doing Different Things but thats been good and have free Antibody Testing at five of our drivethrough sites. Two in miami, the hard rock stadium, marlin stadium, the one in jacksonville at the jaguar stadium, Orlando Convention center and then the West Palm Beach site where at the spring training complex. If youre somebody who is not symptomatic, but you think you may have gotten this, the Antibody Testing may be better because if you got it a month ago youll most likely pop for antibodies then at least youll know you had it. The pcr tests, you know, you could have been infixed a month ago and still pop positive and you would no longer be infectious so take advantage of the antibody. Its not as easy as the pcr because it is a blood draw and takes more time but you get the result in i think 15 minutes and its instructive because if you have the antibody thats important to know. The ppe situation is much improved. You know, we speak with hospitals every day. Im not at any one say ppe is an issue anymore and the Florida Department of Emergency Management has sent a huge amount of ppe particularly to the longterm care facilities, but also around the state and thats very, very significant. I mentioned the remdesivir. That is we didnt have any of that in march. We now have the remdesivir. Theyre using this dexamethasone steroid, some of the doctors think thats been good. The convalescent plasma has gotten good reviews, all tools in the toolbox so if somebody comes in they can be treated for this and hopefully improve their success. Another issue that were working on are these lab reagents. The chemicals that are involved when you test the stuff. The problem is, the u. S. Is testing more on a daily basis than any country by far and it just the Lab Resources are backed up. Some of these turnaround times that are supposed to be 48 hours, some of the big commercial labs are running three or four days behind that. Some of the supplies are starting to run low and so im working with the white house to try to get some more reagents down for our hospitals. I have spoken to a number of them concerned about this. Part of the reason i mean were testing a lot of asymptomatic and a lot of Healthy People and, you know, those numbers add up very quickly and i think the consequence of that is that youve seen some of these supplies dwindle across so the lab reagents are something were really concerned about and thinking about. Ive mentioned before and hopefully will have an announcement by the end of the week we are sensitive to getting these test results back as quickly as possible. When we did our contracts with these private labs they were guaranteeing a 48hour turnaround. Well, thats just not in the cards really anywhere in the country for what were seeing. We do though have some companies that have the ability for us to do selfswab tests and then they can turn it around and they say 36 to 72 hours, thats what were doing with our longterm care testing. So we once we tested all the residents of longterm care facilities, we tested the staff, we said, okay, Going Forward we need to just test the staff every two weeks, because if theyre asymptomatic, they bring it in and infect and can spread in the longterm care facilities and have seen that happen so we have an arrangement where we do these tests, now every two weeks. So far theyve sent in about 130,000 tests. We have 86,000 test results and only a 2. 8 Positivity Rate per staff in longterm care facilities which is a little surprising because if you see the prevalence in other parts of the state some cases youre at 15 or 20 at pcr testing so to see the 2. 8 quite frankly was somewhat of a surprise but well get in 190,000 roughly, you know, test results every two weeks from staff of longterm care facilities. This is a good model. We want to be able to try to figure out how we can get people their results back as quickly as possible. Were focusing that on symptomatic people. Most of the people coming to test dont necessarily have symptoms. They just want to know if they have it. If somebody has symptoms, were going to work on dedicating some of the drivethrough lanes for those people and then have them do the selfswab and sending it to some companies that can turn it around a little quicker. I think that is something that would really make a difference and the thing about like testing the asymptomatic people is, if youre asim matic you can spread it so get tested and if you are asymptomatic you can isolate. If you dont get your results back for seven days, what are you supposed to do . Isolate if theyre not positive . Most people probably arent doing that so it made sense in theory but just given the resources, with what were seeing with commercial labs and then the contact tracing, you know, if youre is symptomatic and get a result in seven days it will be harder than to go back and Contact Trace who you were with, you know, two weeks ago. Its a lot different if you get a quick result and say two days ago i was here. So but the lab reagents are running down because of just the total massive amount of testing that is being done on a daily basis. Just not in florida. That is nationwide. So i want to thank everyone for coming. Well pass it around, folks can make some comments then well have a little bit of a discussion then well open it up to some discussions. Thank you very much, governor. Welcome to Manatee County. We appreciate you being here. Thank you, dr. Chary and ceo having us here at Blake Medical Center this morning. You know, i remember very clearly it was several months ago we were in session and you, governor, called me and said, bill, guess what, we have our first recorded cases of covid19 here in the state of florida and one of those was right here in Manatee County. All right. Well, the republican governor of florida there, ron desantis, speaking to a reporter in bradenton. This on a day when his state has reported a huge number of new infections, more than 10,300 new infections in the state of florida. Governor desantis talking about and really praising the states ability to as he said carry out a massive amount of testing. He said that so far 2. 4 million floridians have been tested. That is one out of nine floridians and emphasized many of the cases are coming from a younger population, those who are under 55 years old. I want to get to our experts. We have cnns Randi Cay Kaye an have anne remoin. I want to go straight to you, randi. You have been covering florida very carefully. The state, i understand, has revised its death toll reported earlier today which was a record. Now theyve revised that and also what did you hear from the governor there that stood out to you . Alex, let me first address that revision from the state. The department of health had released there were 188 deaths in the last 24 hours and then a short time after that after we had reported that as well they came back and said they were mistaken. They had combined july 10th and july 11th, so the actual number of deaths in the last 24 hours is now 95. Not 188 so certainly our hearts go out to those families but down from 188. In terms of what i heard, i heard a lot of the same from the governor today. He did point out that there were 400,000 people tested this week. But once again, he does pin those higher Positivity Rates which are certainly too high in this state on expandeds itting. He did say that the Positivity Rate is manageable and talked about what we saw in midjune which is 9. 6 then 12 and now in some places 14 but said it is plateauing. But if you look at the numbers we saw 1200 increase in the average number of new daily cases since the state reopened on may 4th and in terms of it plateauing we saw a 28 Positivity Rate in Miamidade County so while it may be plateauing in some areas its certainly not enough for everyone. The governor would like to see that Positivity Rate down to 4 but on a bright note he did say were getting more remdesivir which helps treat covid19. We spoke to Jackson Health in miamidade. They were running low and said they had enough but they really didnt want to wait until the end of the month so now the governor says it will be coming here much sooner. If i could just touch on the number of hospitalizations as well because we are just getting that starting last night, the governor first began to release that information. He had been pressed certainly by cnn and others for the state to release numbers. They had never done that statewide. Now we understand there are more than 7200 people hospitalized in the state of florida with covid19 including more than 1600 in miamidade and more than 560 in Orange County where orlando is where disney is opening today. The number of infects goes up with the more people you test. Thanks to you, randi. Dr. Remoin, when you hear testing figures. Is that where florida should be right now, do you think . You know, the problem with necessary testing numbers people have to wait days for results so dont know where we stand right now. We know the lags in reporting of testing results are up to a week in certain places so what were talking about today is a reflection of what has happened several days previously. So so i feel like the results are cherrypicked data nicely presented to put a spin on where things stand where in fact there are places that have Positivity Rates that are totally unacceptable. Miamidade being one of them. You know, the bottom line is we dont have borders between any of these places and people are continuing to do things like opening up disneyland or disney world, excuse me, where you are encouraging people to be mixing when we have high rates of virus in florida. Its the epicenter for essentially the world since we here in the United States are, you know, we have more cases than anybody else and florida has more than anyone here right now so i really think that what the governor should be talking about is how were going to be able to get these numbers down and the way we get these numbers down are social distancing, Wearing Masks, hand hygiene. I think that really needs to be what we need to be talking about right now is how we are going to be getting these numbers down. We dont need any positive spins on data. We need to be forcing these numbers down. Yeah, and the governor also emphasizing even with young people or younger people, i should say, resulting in most of the cases there, he said that the fatality rate means that will be lower, of course, that completely ignores the fact that younger people can still suffer greatly from this horrific virus. Randi kaye and dr. Anne rimoin, thanks for joining me. We will continue to monitor the great big storys News Conference and may bring you any new updates as they come in as news warrants. Now in the meantime, despite the skyrocketing number of cases in florida, disney world as you heard the doctor mention there is welcoming fans back to orlando today for the first time in 116 days. Cnns natasha chen joins me now. What can disney visitors expect as they go into the park today . Reporter well, alex, its a whole different experience. In fact, josh dimauro, the chairman of disney parks resorts and experiences spoke to frank, my colleague, about the fact that it is a new world out there and they have been aggressively training all their employees on how to welcome the guests back and he feels safe and ready to do so. As a reminder, he points out that disney was one of the first to close its parks in the beginning and now one of the last to reopen. So in the orlando area other theme parks have all been open for about a month now and disney is the last large set of theme parks to reopen this week. So what guests can expect is that its not so easy to walk in anymore. In order to reduce the capacity significantly, disney is requiring that even if you have a ticket, you have to reserve your attendance to let them know what day youre coming so they can keep the numbers low. Then when people arrive theyll be met with a temperature check. Those with 100. 4 or above are not invited in and then, of course, people have to be carrying face masks, not just the gator or bandanna type but a face mask with loops around the ear, of course, theres social distancing throughout the park, hand washing, hand sanitation stations and people loaded separate in other parties. Heres a local resident, the producer of disney fan blog talking about how he feels going into disney versus going into any other establishment in the orlando area. We feel safer at theme parks than we do at any other normal store or restaurant. Whether its universal or going to walt disney world, to disney springs, it feels safer at the theme parks because theyre putting in the extra effort so while cases are spiking and continuing to rise, its like we have these little bubbles that are entertaining and have plenty of enjoyment and plenty of good dining and shopping and its a safe space. So it is something that i feel like were all attracted to right now because it does feel like a perfectly safe area. Reporter the Orange County Health Officer said thursday hes less concerned about open spaces and theme parks like disney right now that have careful plans for this and enforcing those plans versus what hes observed in places like indoor gyms where in the orlando area they say theyve observed people not following cdc guidance at all and that is their focus of concern right now. All right, natasha chen down in orlando, disney world open after 116 days, thanks so much for bringing us that report. Now, coming up, the mixed messaging on masks. You would think it would be very simple. What the president is saying about wearing one today on his trip to walter reed medical center. Thats coming up. Technologies advisor. Me too. Me too. And if youre a small business, were with you. Standing by you every step of the way. Bye bye. 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Youve worn them yes. Will we see you if youd like to. Yes, absolutely. Reporter joining me to discuss it is Ron Brownstein and senior ed for for account the atlantic and Jessica Chambers from mcclatchy. We understand the white house staffers around the president had to plead with him for months to wear a mask. And particularly for this visit to walter reed medical center. Why do you think it took so long to follow his own administrations guidance, the cdc guidelines . Well, we still havent actually seen the president wear a marv. He said he will wear it later but its important to know how this visit is going to go down. It is closed press which means reporters will not be allowed inside. And unless he opens that pup which we do not expect we wouldnt even see him wearing a matching inside. The white house would have to send out pictures of their own of that or unless he was wearing it on his way outside inside. That would be critical as to whether or not he wears it and a place where reporters can see it or the white house distributes photos after the fact of the president wearing a mask. Yeah, thats a very good point. He is visiting a hospital sore easy for him to say he did have to wear a mask in that circumstance but perhaps not elsewhere. Ron, to you, there is a Retail Trade Group cha asked President Trump to institute federal, nationwide mask guidelines at Stores Across the country as the country continues to reopen, experts will saying masks do save thousands of lives in the coming months. Do you see a scenario in any chance in which he would issue that . I think the short answer is no and for a revealing reason. He is in a trap of his own construction. On coronavirus, we talk about all the time about how President Trumps base is bonded to him, immoveably. Hes also bonded to the base in the other direction that he is very reluctant to get out crosswise with a base that includes the kind of people that showed up at the michigan capital to protest lockdown without Wearing Masks and waving confederate flags and carrying automatic weapons. On all of these issues, he has he plays as someone said to me he is playing to the short side of the field because he is so reluctant to get out away from the portion of the Republican Base that views all of this either as a hoax or as an infringement on their liberty. When you poll threequarters of americans say they support mask wearing. I suspect there will be a majority support when people start asking it there should be a National Mandate especially with what were seeing in the states. Worth noting his words and deeds on this not only affect the National Policy but if you look at states like south carolina, georgia, florida, texas and arizona, you have enormous outbreaks, 30,000 cases alone yesterday and governors who refuse to mandate masks in part because they dont want to get out in a different position than President Trump. And saying they want to leave it up to the localities. We are seeing local, right. Were seeing Vice President mike pence set to travel to florida today, in fact, to give a speech after President Trump traveled to that state yesterday. Francesca, when you look at the travel plans by the president and Vice President , does it seem to you that theyre sending the right message in this moment . Well, the president is keeping kept his events relatively small, which speaks to the fact that there is even a concern about the president being in large groups in a state like florida which has experienced a surge of the coronavirus, very limited people around him, people have to get tested before he was before they were allowed to be around him but also spoke to the fact that he very much wanted to get back to florida, a state critical to his ability to win reelection and look at the types of events he had yesterday. He had a fundraiser and a round table with venezuelans who live in south florida which has very Large Population of venezuelans so that is, again, showing that hes trying to find ways to get to florida, the state that is very huge in the election this an official capacity in the very least if he cant have the Large Campaign events that would not be advisable by many experts at this time. Yeah, campaigning in a time of covid. Extremely complicated. 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Reporter for months School Districts nationwide have been scrambling trying to figure out just how to reopen safely as the acting superintendent of the Houston Independent School district showed cnn back in may. If you think about two students per table or one per table as we think about having 11 students in a classroom at a time. Reporter since then more districts have announced similar plans, most recently mayor bill de blasio telling new york citys more than 1 million public schoolchildren they should only spend one to three day a week inside the classroom, the other held online. Some points of the week youre learning in person in the classroom. Other points youre learning remotely. Reporter local officials have relied on guidelines issued by state and federal Health Authorities as well as the cdc. One of its top recommendations has been to maintain social distancing among students. The hybrid model where children would be divided into smaller groups rotating hours and days this class seems to be among the most feasible. But after months of inaction, the Trump Administration is now pushing hard for schools to reopen full time in the fall, an endeavor made more challenging as numerous states continue to see spikes in cases. In florida, the education commissioner issued an emergency order this week requiring all schools to open at least five days per week for all students. If you can do home depot, if you can do walmart, if you can do these things we absolutely can do the schools. But some educators in the state are now saying they wont follow the order if cases dont start to go down. I think it would be counterintuitive with positivity cases increasing, with restaurants just this week being shut down again for us to pack up schools. Reporter in Texas Governor greg abbott said schools would offer more flexibility. 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I said i need some slack on pump three down on his threat to pull federal funding from schools that dont fully reopen this fall and hes doing it as educators across the country are scrambling to try to find a way to bring back more than 50 million children into the classroom safely and theyre getting few clear answers about how to do that. The Atlanta Public School system is recommending Virtual Learning to start the year, which is a decision that has already been made by the Phoenix Union high School District. We have the district superintendent. Thank you so much for joining me today. Lets start with that news. What led you to this conclusion, this decision already as others are still trying to figure out what theyre going to do, that you cannot start the school year in person, that youre going to continue this virtually . We made a commitment to our community a while back that we will not open until its safe and reasonable and responsible to do so. And two things are really pressing. One, youre hopefully very aware that here in arizona we have a massive increase in covid19 cases. Were also a little unique in that school in arizona does not start in september. We start in october. And we are just three weeks away from the start of the school year and our parents and our community and our staff were really clear that they dont want week by week decisions. So we made an announcement that we will go through Remote Learning all the way through october so that our community can plan better for child care, employment and our teachers can be more prepared to serve our kids. I dont know if you saw it today, but theres a pretty powerful op ed in the new york times, an editorial, rather, saying that schools need to get creative, as they said, to get kids back into the classroom. They say what is needed to reopen is not just a lot more funding, but also creating the space to do it using other facilities like gyms, cafeterias, open air spaces for classrooms. So even with more money, which is obviously far from a foregone conclusion and hard to come by, how practical a solution is it for School Districts like yours to simply look for other spaces to use as classrooms . We actually spent the last couple of months working on four innovative models for our community, a virtual model, an inperson thats much safer for our students, a hybrid model, even Evening School for our students that need to work during the day. We had nine task forces working on making sure all of those models were safe. We realized over the last couple of weeks that we were spending so much time on how many kids fit in a bus, how would we do temperature checks for tens and of thousands. We got away from the core of our work, which is teaching and learning and wellness of our community. We decided we were ignoring the inevitable, as we see cases rise, and certainly here, that it was time for us, despite the calls for innovation, that it was time for us to focus on Remote Learning so we could support and serve our community as best as possible. Youve put a ton of time and thought and resources into figuring out what is safe and what is not. When you hear floridas Governor Ron Desantis saying if you can do home depot and walmart, then you can do schools, what is your reaction . Well, not many people are going to home depot for eight hours a day, five state days a week. When we talk about open air, its going to be 120 degrees here in arizona pretty soon. So we dont have many spaces here where were going to be able to accommodate our students. And we have to remember that there are schools across our nation here in arizona that have 1,000, 2,000, 3,000 students. Again, its not just about students. We have Staff Members and those Staff Members have families and we need to be able to protect our entire community. Were going to have here on cnn tomorrow morning education secretary betsy devos. Shell be on state of the union. What do you need to hear from her . What do you need in terms of resources from her to get students back safely in school . The reality is precovid, School Systems across our nation were underfunded. When we talk about the innovation of these models, and we heard today even on your show that class sizes might need to be smaller, run a and b schedules, and at the same time send kids home for Remote Learning. And that requires laptops and hot spots. Theres a crippling Digital Divide in our nation and our nations leaders like betsy devos needs to understand that innovation is important, but costly. So as we talk about the launch of school, it shouldnt be about threats of a lack of funding. In fact, there should be support for more funding so that our School Systems can spend more time worrying about teaching and learning. How would your School System be affected if the federal funding is pulled as the president has threatened to do to places that dont open in the fall . Federal funding for a system like ours is millions of dollars, and so it could have a crippling effect. But ive been really clear with our local community that im more worried about funerals than funding. And at the end of the day, we are called not just to educate our children, but were called to protect our kids, our staff and our broader community. So safety and wellness has to come first. Im wishing you all the best. Thank you for joining me this afternoon. Very welcome. Thanks for having me. Now the uncertainty around whether or not schools will reopen is inducing all sorts of anxiety among parents, teachers, the students themselves. How will they safely reopen . Is that an option . Is it possible . 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Once again seeing new coronavirus cases soaring. Johns Hopkins University now reporting more than 66,000 new cases across the country, setting a new singleday record. U. S. Now with more than 3. 1 million total infections, by far the highest of any country in the world. Another big point of concern, the rising number of deaths and hospitalizations. All of this as the debate over opening schools rages on. Several states saying classes will resume in the fall, but a new report saying that one in four teachers faces higher risks of serious illness if they catch the coronavirus. We have full coverage in the hardest hit areas all across the country. Lets first go to florida and randy kay, where the state is reporting another 10,360 new coronavirus cases this morning. Also, 95 additional deaths. Speaking in the last hour, Governor Ron Desantis said the reason his state is seeing a surge is because of more testing. Take a listen
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