Hall. No one town hall is more significant than the other. Tonight is unique, though. The federal guidelines that recommend social distancing and brought a virtual end for public life for most expired tonight. What that means for our physical and Mental Health and whether now is the appropriate moment to let them end, at least from the federal perspective. That is going to be a major theme for tonights program. Its up to governors to decide in their own states how much to loosen them or if to loosen 24e7 them. At the bottom of our screen youll see the social media scroll. Use cnn town hall and leave messages on the facebook page. Many of you sent in questions. Well get to as many of those as we can. We have questions on how those at home and abroad are fighting the virus. First where we are in the nation and the problems we still have to confront. The u. S. Has now had more than a million positive cases of the coronavirus. More than 62,000 people have died. New modelling shows this pan
Coronavirus cases are still spiking. Meanwhile, a new report predicts this pandemic may continue to spread for up to two years. It says we would need 60 or 70 herd immunity to get it under control. And breaking just moments ago, joe biden, the Presumptive Democratic nominee for president is denying in his own words an allegation of Sexual Assault in the 1990s. We have much more on that coming up. We begin with the latest on coronavirus and cnns chief medical correspondent dr. Sanjay gupta joins us. Sanjay, lets get to those the death tolls and the trends that john was just outlining there. I still need your help understanding why they plateaued at such a high level. Were still bouncing around as we have for two weeks between more than a thousand and more than 2,000 deaths every day in the United States. And, you know, i brought this up in the last hour, i still need some clarification, we have been at stay at home orders now for weeks. So these deaths, are these the people who cant sta
United states and the world at large is going to need to do to accomplish when it comes to testing and the deployment of a possible vaccine. This is our ninth global town hall. No one town hall is more significant than the other. Tonight is unique, though. The federal guidelines that recommend social distancing and brought a virtual end to public life for most expired tonight. That means for our physical and Mental Health, and whether now is the appropriate moment to lift them and at least from the federal perspective thats going to be a major theme during tonights program. Of course now its up to governors to decide in their own states how much to loosen them or if to loosen them. Yeah. And at the bottom of your screen youre going to see our social media scroll. We want to hear from you. Tweet us your questions with the cnntownhall. You can also leave a comment on the cnn facebook page. Also a lot of you have sent in video questions all around the place. Were going to get to as many o
Question after a nurse tested positive for ebola right at the hospital. More breaking news on her identity and the treatment. Her name is nina pham. Shes 26 and she treated Thomas Eric Duncan while he was here at Texas Health Presbyterian hospital. Duncan died last week. We just confirmed that she received a blood transfusion from an ebola survivor, dr. Kent brantly. How did a Health Care Worker contract ebola even with the protective gear and precautions in place for a hospital setting . And what does that mean for potential future cases . Well hear from doctors and other experts about the protocols for treating ebola patients and about whether this countrys hospitals are actually ready. Well also hear about how the fear has been ratcheted up here in dallas now that its home to the first person to contract ebola in the United States. We start with Elizabeth Cohen who is here with me live. You just got the latest on her condition, correct . Reporter right. Weve still been told that she
News. We have new pictures from inside of the plane that nina pham flew from dallas to a new hospital. The National Institute of health in maryland. This is the picture. It is inside a gulf stream g3. That is the cdc private plane. And look at the Health Care Workers, three of them, none of them are wearing hazmat suits. It is a stark contrast of them loading her on to and off of the plane when they were in full head to toe hazmat gear. During the three hour flight pham flew in a specialized containment. It took a toll on her. The doctors downgraded her saying she is fatigued because of the trip. And the second dallas nurse that contracted ebola, and they have now identified up to 16 people up from 12 who were in close contact with vinson. The person at the highest risk, her stepfather. She traveled from dallas to cleveland and back on Frontier Airlines. Frontier notifying passengers on her two flights and the same planes shortly thereafter. Sanjay gupta begins our coverage tonight. An