Metro area where your care can a be provided. Its spreading virus more quickly around the United States. On capitol hill, nancy pelosi speaking out against the president s response. What the president , his denial at the beginning was deadly. His delaying of getting equipment to where it continues his delaying getting equipment to where it is needed is deadly. And now i think the best thing would be to do is to prevent more loss of life rather than open things up. A stark warning from dr. Fauci on just how Many Americans may die from this virus. Looking at what we are seeing now, i would say between 100,000 and 200,000 cases. But i dont want to be held to that. Excuse me, deaths. Were going to have millions of cases. But i just dont think that we really need to make a projection when its such a moving target that you could so easily be wrong and mislead people. What we do know, jake, is that we have a serious problem in new york. We have a serious problem in new orleans. Lets just look
In his words, much lower than the 200,000 predicted by some models thanks to people staying home. Lets begin our coverage at this hour with our chief White House Correspondent jim acosta. Jim, there are very intriguing comments from cdc director Robert Redfield about his prediction involving the death toll here in the United States. Reporter thats right, wolf. The white house has yet to offer many details about how the Coronavirus Task force arrived at that estimate, that 100,000 to 240,000 americans would die from the coronavirus. But Public Health officials are cautioning that the eventual number of dead could fall well under that figure as americans are practicing social distancing. Were learning a key factor driving the large estimate was a crucial assumption discussed by Task Force Officials that only 50 of americans would observe the governments stringent social distancing guidelines. In reality a much larger, 90 , are observing those guidelines. The director of the centers for D
Infectious disease expert with Johns Hopkins university. Kristen, i want to start with you. You had the reporting that todays briefing is supposed to be focused on test, and i say supposed to, because lets be honest, two days ago it was about the voice of america and we didnt know that was coming. I dont want to presume that this stays on track. What would the focus what is the announcement that theyre hinting at to you about testing . I appreciate the caveat, chuck. Its an important one. Youre absolutely right. We never know 100 whats going to happen until the president comes out and announces it. But based on our reporting according to three Senior Administration official, todays briefing is going to be focused on test, and we expect Task Force Officials to essentially argue that they do have the testing in place across the country to begin the phase one of starting to reopen the economy. Now, i also pate that theyre going to talk about and acknowledge the need to ramp up testing. Yo
It wasnt hit first. It wasnt that hard. Weve learned a lot from what those states have gone through and were going to apply it to protect our citizens. Reporter mr. President , do you still want the advice of dr. Fauci a dr. Birx . President trump they will be, and several other doctors and so will other experts in the field. We have learned a lot, as doug said, we have learned a lot. You can probably have fires here, doug, you will put them out. You will put them out and you will put them out fast. So yeah, we are bringing our country back. I think its going to happen, just said it a little while ago, youre going to have the Third Quarter we are going to have transition. Youll have a big beautiful, hopefully very good transition, very Successful Transition back into the real world and then youre going to have a Fourth Quarter that i think is going to do very well and then i think next year, i think were going to have one of the best years weve ever had because we have stimulus and we
Deaths. Those numbers are only expected to rise. One of the key models used by the white house now projects 137,000 u. S. Deaths by august. Thats 3,000 more deaths than the previous projection. The revised number due to what research us call, an explosive increase in mobility among the states thats reopened. Three top u. S. Medical officials may have been exposed to the virus. Dr. Anfauci, dr. Redfield and dr. Stephen hahn all under quarantine after coming into contact with white house staffers who recently tested positive for coronavirus. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is speaking right now about his countrys response to the coronavirus. Lets listen in. It is now almost two months since the people of this country began to put up with restrictions on their freedom, your freedom, of a kind we have never seen before in peace or war. And you have shown the good sense to support those rules overwhelmingly. Youve puts with all the hardships, that programs social distancing, because yo