I said, its going to disappear. Ill say it again, its going to disappear and ill be right. Does that discredit no, i dont think so. Ive been right probably more than anybody else. In her new book, mary trump that is a clinical psychologist says her uncles behavior goes far beyond garden have ryety narcissim. Purely on a factual basis. A few moments before we talked about being proven right, he said something wrong after Fox Chris Wallace pointed out this countrys abysmal mortality rate. When you talk about mortality rates, its the opposite. We have one of lowest in the world. Keeping them honest, hes wrong. Take a look. This is from John Hopkins University database. Mortality rates adjusted for population in the 20 hardest hit countries. The United States is third with under 43 deaths per 100,000 and by third, that means third highest, third worst. So wrong on that and wrong on this. Many of those cases are young people that would heal in a day. They have the sniffles and we put it down as a test. Many of them dont forget, i guess its like 99. 7 , people are going to get better and in many cases, they will get better very quickly. Just a few days ago, the president claimed the virus is 99 harmless and now 99. 7. According to Johns Hopkins data, covid is not 99. 7 harmless. Its 4. 6 deadly. If it is as low as the president cli claims thanks means in a country of 330 million, nearly a Million People will die if nothing is done to stop the spread. The president in that interview passed a Screening Test he had to identify a camel cannot seem to see the elephant in the room. This is the deadliest pandemic since 1918, which he continues to call 1917 and continues to say this. Hino country has ever done wt weve done in terms of testing. Were the envy of the world. Again, untrue. Unless being the enview is the longest lines at testing sites and long eest wait to get resul. The president is also wrong on that. Also, this. If we tested half as much, those numbers would be down. This isnt burning embers. This is a forest fire. I say flames, well put out the flames and put out in some cases just burning embers. We have embers and we do have flames. Florida became more flamelike. Its going to be under control. More flamelike he says. Allow me to translate. That means more than 9500 people are hospitalized in florida. Icus in miamidade say they are at 130 capacity, 92 new fatalities reported today. In los angeles county, daily hospitalizations hit a new high for the fourth time in the past week. Kentucky reporting the highest single day case total ever refrr refrigerated trailers in texas to hold the bodies and on this day in 1969 walked on the moon could not fly to the bahamas that announced over the weekend it is barring u. S. Travelers. In the meantime, the president is resisting language in relief legislation supported by senate republicans, yes, republicans funding more testing and tracing. Hes openly under cutting his own Infectious Disease experts with the exception of a tweet today and a visit to walter reed the other day, hes not wearing a mask in public and he has mocked joe biden for wearing one. His Campaign Staff removed signs at a tulsa rally telling people to social distance. Is this because hes so sure he will be proven right in the end or Something Else . This weekend the New York Times ran a piece with perhaps the most chilling assessment imaginable, the president got bored with it. Advisor to the Texas Governor greg abbott said of the pandemic, americans dying and hes bored. Maybe in an effort to spice things up a bit, he announced a return todayly coronavirus briefings and made it sound like hes doing it for the ratings. We had very successful briefings. I was doing them. We had a lot of people watching, record numbers watching in the history of cable television, television there has never been anything like it. Hes right. No president suggested injecting people with disinfectant as he did in his last coronavirus briefing. No president used a briefing to hawk socalled miracle drugs that turned out not to be. Nonhas ever boasted about ratings in the middle of a disaster with people dying. But, if hes right about anything, hes right about this. People will be watching tomorrow. And hundreds also will be making funeral arrangements. More on all this now from cnn chief White House Correspondent jim acosta. What is behind this big shift from President Trump when it comes to mask wearing . Yeah, john, the president is certainly eating some coronavirus crow. He has been all but scoffing at this idea of Wearing Masks and ridiculing joe biden for doing it in may. We understand talking to our sources the president has been urged for several weeks now he needs to embrace this idea of Wearing Masks, we saw on a Conference Call that mike pence had with the nations governors earlier today, mike pence had the virtues of Wearing Masks and dr. Anthony fauci said they should be used universally. The side of things he has been talki talking. For weeks now. The National Mandate people need to wear masks. No, i want people to have a certain freedom and i dont believe in that, no. I dont agree with the statement if everybody wore a mask, everything disappears. First they said dont wear a mask now wear a mask. As you know, masks cause problems, too. I didnt want to give the press the pleasure of seeing it. Somehow sitting in the oval Office Behind that beautiful resolute desk, i think wearing a face mask as i greet president s, prime ministers, dictators, kings, queens, i dont know, somehow i dont see it for myself. They learned about face masks, the good and the bad, by the way. It not a onesided thing, believe it or not. And of course, what was driving these advisors to urge the president to change his mind on Wearing Masks, that would be the poll numbers, john. They have been tanking for sometime now. The president has been saying that that was not the case but of course, we know what the reality is if the president wont acre knowlednol l acknowl thank you very much. Perspective from dr. Sanjay gupta and Florida International university Infectious Disease specialist dr. Eileen marty. Sanjay, i want to start with you. This pivot from the Trump Administration or more specifically from the president himself on Wearing Masks comes after months of really undermining that very message. We just played a montage there. How easy do you think it will be to unring the bell on that for the president s supporters and how important is it to unring that bell . Yeah, well, you played that montage so of usualyoul obvious hearing messages for a long time. Its important, john. Im glad hes doing it. This is critical. This is one of the important sort of ways to potentially navigate our way out of this mess. I got to say, john, im a medical reporter, not a political reporter. You cant help but disintangle. I live in georgia for example and its clear certain governors like our governor very much take their kqueues from the presiden of the United States. Our governor suing the mayor of atlanta about a mask ordinance. Now that the president said this, maybe hell back off. Maybe where dr. Marty is in florida, maybe Governor Desantis will be more amenable to masks, well. For these conas a rule luvolute. Maybe. They are culling for cuts to funding and tracing and cuts to republicans and congress are asking for as part of the next stimulus plan. Is there any legitimate medical reason why there shouldnt be more funding at this point for testing . Why there should be more should not. Of course i disagree with that. That has no basis in the reality that were facing. No basis in the fire thats completely a wildfire out of control. We have 513 people in icu in Miamidade County alone. We are completely swamped and we need to do all the comprehensive things that we need to do to get this pandemic under control which means you have to do each and everything in a coordinated racial planned fashion and that costs money. To your point, in florida, Miamidade County reporting hospitals, icus are 130 capacity at this moment. During a press conference, Florida Governor ron desantis was heckled today. Lets listen to that. There has been infection dr. Marty, what needs to happen in florida today to make things better . This is a really challenging question because we have multiple we have a perfect storm of problems. We have a rip roaring out of control outbreak specifically in south florida more than anywhere else in florida that has to be tamed but at the same time, especially if the bills arent passed that need to be passed, were facing an Enormous Economic problem that could lead to Food Insecurity issues and r rioting that could in turn lead to more problems with the p pandem pandemic. So were weighing our options as carefully as we can but ultimately, we all in the state of florida, in the country, in our individual communities need to come together and have a National Strategy for dampening this horrific pandemic. Sanjay, there was a ray of good news in terms of the vaccine research. Initial results released around the vaccine being developed by oxford indicates the vaccine is both safe and induced an immune response. How significant is that and what do you think the next step is . Yeah, no, i think these are optimistic findings. There was actually two Journal Articles in the lance. One from oxford and another one from a Chinese Company kansino. Similar types of vaccines. We talked a lot about moderna, thats a messenger rna vaccine. This is a different type of vaccine, a much more well established sort of platform for vaccines and the results were encouraging. I would say two things, john. The question of how long would the immunity last and how strong would the immunity be . These are always the basic questions. After you correctly mention the side effect profile is low. With this adno virus, the length of how long it should last, should last awhile this vaccine. What we dont know, what we actually need to know is how strong is the immunity that these vaccines will provide . We still dont know the answer to that. What will happen now like with this oxford as tra ztrazeneca v, you have significant amount of viral spread and getting into phase three results. They can prove that a certain segment of the population isnt getting it, thats getting the vaccine. A segment of the population that isnt getting the vaccine is not protected, youll start having results maybe by the end of the year. Hopeful. We can hope. It is promising at least today. Thanks so much, dr. Sanjay gupta and dr. Marty we appreciate you being with us. Well look closer to the political dimensioning including def sta devastating polling on the president s handling. Next, the risk for your children of bringing the virus home from school if and when they open up again and later, all were learning about the shooting that left a federal judges son dead and her husband badly wounded. Okay, give it a try. Between wisdom and curiosity, theres a bridge. Between ideas and inspiration, trauma and treatment. Gained a couple of more pounds. Thats good for the babies. Between the moments that make us who we are, and keeping them safe, private and secure, theres webex. Beautiful. To visit all the places we didnt know meant so much. S to get out and go again. 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David ruben, director of the policy lab at Childrens Hospital of philadelphia and dr. Nguyen, i want to start with you. In florida in general, given the state of the pandemic there and the surge in cases, how dangerous would it be to reopen schools there next month as the governor continues to want to do . John, i cant imagine schools being reopen in florida next month at the rate that were going when there is escalating, explosive spread throughout the state. We keep on asking the question of can we keep schools free from covid . There is no way to keep schools free from covid if a community is a hot bed of infection. What we need to do now if the goal is to reopen schools next month, we need to implement strict guidelines to the point of even having plays lock downs again. If florida does that at this moment, it would take at least three to four weeks for us to even see the change in the infection point, for us to see a decline in the number of infections and that really must be done now in the window for that kind of intervention is closing. Dr. Ruben, i want to play a clip of something missouri governor mike parson said about children returning to school. Listen to this. These kids have got to get back to school. They are at the lowest risk possible and if they do get covid19, which they will and they will when they go to school, theyre not going to the hospitals. They dont have to sit in doctors offices. They will go home and get over it. They will get it. It. As a pediatrician, what do you make of that statement . Well, you know, children dont live in bubbles. They rely on their parents, grandparents, we got 95,000 of them caring for kids in pennsylvania alone. The teachers, you know, kids are a foundation to a working community and the idea that kids live in a bubble doesnt work. If we dont get Community Transmission rates down to acceptable levels to make it safe to reopen schools, i just dont see a path forward. But is willing to accept kids just getting it, is that a Public Health policy . No, because the reality is while kids may be less likely to get severe disease, their parents and grandparents and teachers are not. This is about public confidence. This is about being able to say to a teacher they can enter a classroom and know that his or her health wont be in jeopardy. That parents dont need to, you know, to live with anxiety that their children may be bringing home illness that could actually confer pretty serious consequences within their families or throughout their extended family. So, dr. Nguyen, there are certain articles or studies i read as a journalist and others i read as a parent. When i read the south Korea Centers for Disease Control study on kids and transmission, i read that as a parent of 13yearold boys and when you read that 10 to 19yearolds pass the virus just as frequently or more so as adults, whats the take away there . Do you make of this study . Yeah, i mean, its a well done study with a lot of people. It actually included up to 60,000 people in the study but there are some limitations to it including that it only looked at symptomatic individuals. We know that children even more than adults may be asymptomatic carriers. I think it also a problem if we look at children and how often they interact with one another even if they are just as likely as adults are to transmit the disease, they may be in contact with far more people. I really worry about the impact not only on children and to your point, it is not harmless. There are children who have died. There are children who have gotten this toxic shocklike syndrome with multiorgan damage and were talking about vulnerable teachers and staff and so many others who may be infected if we do not get this right, if we try to take a shortcut and dont follow Public Health guidance. Dr. Ruben, what do you think a reasonable expectation is for children wearings masks at school . What ages do you think they can do it . How realistic to ask them to do it much if not all of the day . When i talk about public confidence, we talk about masking but i begin with other elements like distancing. Its about ensuring that we are not cutting corners like dr. Nguyen said. With regards to over populating close rooms with too many students and putting children and teachers in unsafe situations. There is also an important emphasis if you look at european reoffi reopenings of the schools, the investment of hygiene and disinfecting and masks. We have to look at masks and realize they are an additional barrier, iffy can lower the occupancy in the room and have youth Wearing Masks but separate them considerably, we can think about at times a low circulating infections, times when kids can take breaks but recognizing parents worked really hard in many circumstances to teach our children, adolescents how to wear themfectieffectively and protect others in the community and disregard