Concerned about kids returning to classrooms are statements that could be wildly misleading about the risk. I would like to see the schools open, open 10 100 and well do it safely and carefully but when you look at the statistics i read having to do with children andimpressive. They have very strong immune systems. You wouldnt understand the children go back to school, they go back to home and some live with grandparents, this is a risk. They do say they dont transmit very easily and a lot of people say they dont transmit and were looking at that and studying, john, very hard that particular subject, that they dont bring it home with them. Now, they dont catch it easily. They dont bring it home easily and if they do catch it, they get better fast. Were looking at that fact. That is a fact store and were looking at that very strongly. Well be reporting about that. Keeping them honest, a new large highly regarded study out just this week from south korea cdc the president might have ment
Policing u. S. Streets. And a familiar face weighs in on the race for the white house. Good to have you with us. Well, the United States is rapidly closing in on 4 million cases of covid19. Thats a million more infected people than just two weeks ago. Nearly 69,000 new cases were reported on wednesday and for the second straight day the death tolls surpassed 200,000. The virus exploded from coast to coast. More than half the country has halted or rolled back reopening. Facemask requirements are in place or planned in at least 41 states. That could help save thousands of lives in the coming months according to the latest computer model and the u. S. Says it will pay drug maker pfizer nearly 2 billion to produce and deliver millions of vaccine doses if its proven safe and effective and if its approved. So cnns athena jones has the message. Reporter as the nation battles to get coronavirus under control, signs of progress on the vaccine front. The federal government reaching whats been ca
Second highest number of new cases over the last 24 hours. More than 1,000 coronavirus deaths for the second day in a row. That hasnt happened since may. In whatever scripted words the president is saying in his new briefings, hes way offscript in other places, insisting that testing, which Scientists Say is key to fighting the pandemic is overrated. But other republicans apparently disagree. Overnight, they reached what they call fundamental agreement with the white house on a Coronavirus Relief bill that does include money for new testing. 143,000 americans have been killed by coronavirus. But President Trump is pushing hard for schools to reopen, making false claims about children not getting sick and not transmitting the virus. A new poll finds that just 8 of americans think that schools should reopen, as usual. Most people want some adjustments or a federal plan, which the white house has not offered. But the president can repeat the words person, woman, man, camera, tv. He says h
The president also made no mention of these new, revised guidelines for reopening schools, which were supposed to have seen by now. Which are being rewritten, dont forget, because the president considers the existing ones too tough. What we did hear with parents and teachers and School Administrators increasingly worried about kids returning to classrooms with statements that could wildly mislead about the risk. I would like to see schools open 100 and well do it safely, well do it carefully. But when you look at the sta ti tibtices i just read having to do with children and safety, theyre very impressive. They have very strong immune systems. Some live with their grandparents. There is a real risk. Well, they do say that they dont transmit very easily. And a lot of people are saying they dont transmit. And were looking at that. Were studying, john, very hard, that particular subject. That they dont bring it home with them now. They dont catch it easily. They dont bring it home easily.