Different stages of the outbreak and points on the road back to normal. Were going to talk about what that all means tonight in real world terms for you. With one of his colleagues on the Coronavirus Task force, commissioner steven hawn, well be taking your questions. Well talk about what the president said at the briefing about using ultraviolet light inside the body or injecting a disinfectant to kill the virus. Also joining us Governor Andrew Cuomo. Nearly 14 of new yorkers have antibodies to the coronavirus. For new york City Residents, the figure was even higher, 21 . Also joining us tonight Chef Jose Andres whose world central kitchen is doing everything they can to help feed the hungry in america. Also tonight, Alicia Keys Joins us with her new song just released today dedicated to the front line workers keeping us all safe. Healing the sick, keeping the country running. Its a beautiful song, inspiring. Youre going to hear it in full and alicia will be with us well. As always a
Monitor the white house they are saying now some states may wait longer to safely reopen and that includes the state of georgia, which is model says has to wait until june 22nd to safely reopen. The plan is starting to reopen, unless that changes overnight, tomorrow morning. The association of Health Laboratories just said Public Health labs still cant meet demand to coronavirus testing due to supply chain shortages. Dr. Fauci the top disease specialist says, i am quoting him, hes not overly confident right now, he says with test capacity in the United States. It tops 47,000 people with more than 850,000 case, world ride there are 2. 6 million cases and 187,000 confirmed deaths. Lets grin p begin from los angeles, nick, the university of washington model frequently cited says georgia is still about two months away from being able to safe live reopen. Absolutely, washington, they just tweaked their model and pushed georgia three days further down the lines to june 22nd, which as you sai
Welcome back to prime time. Im chris cuomo. Hard to believe tonight guess what number were nearing in lives lost . Stolen by the virus. 50,000. Put it in context. Two months ago we were at zero. And now i dont know if thats the right starting point anymore. I suspect it is not. We know of at least two cases in california of death that happened weeks earlier. And i think the more we learn about where the virus was and the more blood sampled from people in hospitals before then, well learn its been around. Lets be honest again, we dont know what numbers were really talking about. Why . Theres not enough testing. They dont test people in places that are a symptomatic. Even though the transmission is real thing. And could be most contagious before you get symptoms. We have progress. A new model from northeast university. What does it show. This virus was silently infecting tens of thousands of people in new york and other major cities way earlier than previously thought. It is backed up by
All safe. Healing the sick, keeping the country running. Its a beautiful song, inspiring. Youre going to hear it in full and alicia will be with us well. As always a reminder you can tweet us your questions with cnntownhall or leave a comment on the cnn facebook page. Well get to as many of your video questions we can. You can see there are plenty of them in. We thank everybody for sending them in. Knicks we have reporters across the country and around the world tonight including wuhan, china where people are cautiously emerging from months of lockdown. We begin, though, with this critical moment as dr. Fauci put it here at home as the viruss grip eases in some places, as the death toll nationwide approaches 50,000. There are now more than 860,000 positive cases of coronavirus in the u. S. More than 49,000 people have died. And though the number of cases across the country is currently declining, there are fears a second wave could be even worse than what weve seen so far. We will have
Newsroom. Our top story, a senior aide to u. S. Vice president mike pence is the latest instance of the coronavirus slipping into the inner circle of the trump administration. Katie miller who is married to trump steven adviser Stephen Miller serves as the Vice President s press secretary. She tested positive on friday, one day after a personal valet to President Trump also tested positive. And a personal assistant to e n ivan ivanka u ivanka trump also tested positive. And steven hawn is selfisolating is for two weeks after he had contact with someone who tested positive. Both the virus and unemployment are taking a heavy toll. The u. S. Government reports a staggering 20. 5 million americans lost their jobs in april. Wall street would normally take a dive on such news, but investors pushed the dow up more than 450 point, perhaps optimistic the u. S. Will soon reopen. We get the latest on that from nick watt. I have two teens to raise up, we have to keep up the good spirit, but were a