Thank you, steve. Youve been listening to President Trump on his way to visit a ford plant in michigan where theyre demanding that he wear a mask. His response there as to whether he will, he said hes not sure, then he wants to, quote, normalize the country and then he pivoted to open churches. He said hes almost finished with the unproven drug two weeks hydroxychloroquine which is a preventive measure for coronavirus. Its still in clinical testing for that. His comments also come as a model shows nearly 40,000 american lives could have been saved had the u. S. Acted earlier. John king is with me now. John, lets start with the mask situation because hes just refused over and over to wear masks. And it seems that the folks around him have started picking up that process. He also seems frustrated to talk to people with masks. You just heard him do something there that hes done to reporters a number of times when theyre asking a question where he says, i cant understand you because youre
And im poppy harlow. Track the virus or catch a second wave of this. That warning coming directly from cdc director Robert Redfield who raised the possibility of another lockdown just months from now. At the same time, new modeling shows we could see a surge in those states who loosened their restrictions early, particularly some southern states. As states open up, all 50 of them, we learned that if the u. S. Had locked down sooner, tens of thousands of american lives could have been saved. Were talking just a couple of weeks sooner and this pandemic might have looked a lot different here in the u. S. Lets get to senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen. Lets take a look at this modeling. Again, its modeling, so its using the best Data Available making an educated guess, in effect. What difference does it say a lockdown would have made earlier . It says that it makes a lot of difference, a big difference, jim. So several other countries locked down, so to speak, before the United S
Americans. It really did. We learned that as States Reopen and another study warns that we could see a surge in cases, especially in southern states, frankly something were already beginning to see in some this hour and today the president is just hours away from a trip to michigan. A state facing loud opposition to tight restrictions in place amid the pandemic. Also the state the president threatened to withhold funding from in a clash over mailin voting, a move to keep people safe. Were at the ford plant that the president will go to today. Lets begin this hour with our senior medical correspondent Elizabeth Cohen for more on the medical headlines. Good to have you. Lets talk about pharmaceutical giant astrazeneca announcing an agreement to make at least 400 million doses of a potential vaccine. Is that right . Thats right. And astrazeneca is making the vaccine that has been developed by university of oxford in england. So we have various players here, theyre one of eight vaccines th
Well look at it. A lot of people have asked me that question. I want to get our country back to normal. I want to normalize. One of the other things i want to do is to get the churches open. The churches are not being treated with respect by a lot of the democrat governors. I want to get our churches open. And were going to take a very strong position on that very soon. Thats his position right now on masks. So whats his message then to the ford plant workers in michigan today . Were about to find out. Katelyn collins is live at the white house but lets start with omar jimenez. Whats the very latest there, omar . Reporter the president is inside the ypsilanti plant. Were expecting to hear remarks from the president. The question is whether the president will be wearing a maverick which we havent seen him do up until this point and its also significant because its fords policy that anybody who is inside has to wear a mask, which is something they say they have communicated to the white
Cohen with more on these new details. We already had some studies that showed no benefit from taking this for Covid Patients. What is different about this is that it is large, but shows real danger here. Well, actually, one of the ones we already heard about showed danger. The largest study before this one was published and done by the university at albany in the new York State Department of health and that one showed not only didnt it work, but it increased more than twofold the chances of someone having a heart issue. This new one is much larger. This new one looks at 671 hospitals over six continents. The one before was looking at 25 hospitals. So we have gone from 25 hospitals to 671 hospitals on six continents. This is a very, very large study. And what they found was increased risk of death and increased risk of heart issues. These were hospitalized patients, some quite ill. What President Trump had to say about that issue is, hey, i took it when i when i wasnt sick. And so these