Or spike again in the United States. This is a gamble as no state has reached the key benchmark the cdc has set forward to meet before reopening, that 14day decline in new cases. But for now its full speed ahead as more states begin easing restrictions today. You can see them right there on your screen. By the end of this week, more than 40 states will be at least partially reopening. With that in mind, here is where the numbers stand. The u. S. Death toll is now approaching 70,000. More than 1. 1 million confirmed cases of coronavirus in the United States. And even President Trump is now being forced to acknowledge the total number of deaths here is going to be higher than previously estimated. Were going to lose anywhere from 75, 80 to 100,000 people. Thats a horrible thing. I used to say 65,000, and now im saying 80 or 90 and it goes up and it goes up rapidly. Rosa flores is in miami. One of the few places that is not reopening. What are you seeing . Reporter were already seeing people are not following the rules in one city in florida. Ill get to that in just a moment, but about florida in general, today is the kickoff for phase 1 for reopening of most of the state, but that excludes the counties of miamidade, broward and palm beach. This is one of the biggest states in the union, and 30 of the states population are in these three counties, but they account for 60 of the cases and the deaths. Thats why the mayors of these three counties got together and decided to reopen simultaneously. Theyre excluded from phase 1, but they did reopen parks, waterways, golf courses and other green spaces starting on wednesday, but not everyone is following the rules. We learned from Miami Beach Police today that they tallied up all of the Warnings Issued friday, saturday and sunday, just this past weekend, and they say that they issued about 8,000 warnings to individuals for not social distancing, for not wearing their masks. Another 1300 people were not leaving the parks once they were closed, so they had to ask those people to leave. Now, when it comes to the rest of the state, phase 1 involves allowing restaurants and Retail Stores to reopen at 25 capacity. Restaurants will also be able to have outdoor seating, but the seating will have to be six feet apart. Elective surgeries will be allowed, and Governor Ron Desantis announced the opening of 80 state parks. But this is only phase 1, so schools are still closed, bars, gyms, hair salons are also closed. As the state looks forward at a possible phase 2 were only launching phase 1 today, but as they look forward, Governor Ron Desantis is mentioning that testing, kate, is going to be key. There are multiple efforts going on to try to expand that here in the state of florida. Kate . Its so important to roll through what phase 1 looks like where you are, because it is different everywhere, in every state. Everyone is different. Rosa, thank you so much. I really appreciate it. With the vast majority of states reopening in part this week, in states where stayathome orders remain in place, things are getting heated. In california, large crowds gathered in Huntington Beach and other Orange County towns over the weekend to protest the governors decision to shut down the beaches once again. Two other counties in california are defying the statewide restrictions by making moves to allow some businesses to reopen. Cnns Stephanie Elam is in los angeles. Shes been tracking all machinations of this as its progressed. Stephanie, what is going on there . Reporter a lot of different things, and its sort of the tale of two different californias, one of the most popular states in the nation, kate. You have Northern California counties, three of them so far, one in the far northeastern county, monmouth county, which has a population of about 9,000 people. On friday they decided to go ahead and open up some businesses, churches, schools as well. Theyre telling people who are 65 or older or anyone with underlying conditions, they should still stay at home, should follow those guidelines as well, but theyre saying, listen, we are different as a Rural Community in this part of the state. Then you have two other california counties, yuba county and sutter county, which i should add these two counties do have cases of the coronavirus, so theyre saying salons, gyms, restaurants, tattoo parlors can open up. Theyre saying social distancing still needs to be followed, and theyre saying any of these personal care businesses, after 30 minutes, you have to get up and move on and get out of there. But it is interesting to note that these are counties that have thousands of people in them, so very different north of sacramento. Whats not clear at this point is whether or not the governor is going to go after these counties to make them follow the order of the state which obviously is supposed to cover the entire state. And thats an issue here. The other issue, though, is that in the beach communities in Orange County, they feel targeted because of the fact that the governor said their beaches need to be closed over the week, and we saw Newport Beach file litigation that will be in Huntington Beach as well, because theyre trying to force getting their beaches opened up despite what the governor said. You saw big protests there over the weekend. People are very mad. I was there on friday, kate, and i can tell you there is a lot of anger about the fact their beaches are closed sor, so they fighting to get that changed. You can see weve been at the stayathome order longer than any other state in the nation, and the fatigue is there. And now that the weather is getting nicer, its really beautiful now, people want to get back outside and youre seeing that fight now. Thank you, stephanie. There is a stark warning coming from the federal commissioner saying despite the data and what any reporter is reporting, social distancing to date has not worked as well as expected. An adviser who served under president obama is advising the white house. Weve seen a rising number of cases, illinois, texas, indiana, virginia, tennessee, have a lot of new cases on a daily basis. While mitigation didnt fail, i think its fair to say it didnt work as well as we expected. We expected we would start seeing a more significant decline in new cases and deaths around the nation at this point, and were just not seeing that. We may be facing the prospect that 20,000, 30,000 new cases a day diagnosed becomes a new normal, and a thousand or more deaths becomes a new normal as well. Dr. Leana wen, weve gotten to a point that makes your eyes glaze over. But if 30,0,000 new cases a dayd 30,000 deaths a day becomes the new normal, what should people be watching . Kate, these are sobering numbers to say weve reached a plateau. At least were not increasing exponentially as we were, but that plateau is terrifying. I think what it reflects is there are different outbreak curves happening around the country. In the new york area, those are leveling off and decreasing, but were seeing hot spots in other parts of the country, including rural areas that dont have a Good Health Care infrastructure in the best of times. And i worry about what happens when we lift these social distancing measures . Even with that aggressive mitigation, were at best seeing a plateau, which means this virus hasnt changed. We still dont have a vaccine, we still dont have a cure, and what happens when these measures are lifted is that we are going to see an explosive spread. And that, at this point, seems inevitable. And smart folks like yourself continue to point out that a virus is happy to wait you out if you dont have new measures put in place. President trump, in talking about the numbers and the projections, President Trump is now revising his projection of the death toll back up to Something Like 100,000 people. These estimates, they were far lower weeks ago. Now even donald trump is saying the projection is getting worse. What do you think this change reflects . I mean, i think it reflects reality, because President Trump had previously said were looking at 60,000 deaths and now weve surpassed that number. But heres what im most concerned about, is that there are actually things we can do to change the trajectory of where we will be. We can rapidly ramp up our testing, our tracing capabilities, we can do a lot more to strengthen our health care system. So if we know that this is where the numbers are going, lets at least look at what we can do to prevent them from getting even higher. I think that requires this National Effort that were just, unfortunately, not seeing to date. And to be clear, this projection, as weve been talking about these projections, this is the death toll just through august. This is not the total death toll of this crisis before there is a vaccine. I think thats an important aspect that needs to be pointed out over again and again. Then you have, as you talked about, as folks are opening up, clear evidence over the weekend that even states with stayathome orders in place, people are not doing that. If thats whats happening in may as other states start experimenting with reopening, what do you fear that means for june . As i said at the top of the show, mark your calendars for memorial day. Thats right, and im glad you mentioned this lag in time because i think thats the problem, that people are not seeing that the impact of their actions are not immediately reflected. Its not like you go out today and were going to see a spike tomorrow, but rather because there is a lag of time between when you get infected and when you start showing symptoms. Another lag of time between that and when people become very ill or succumb to the illness. I think thats the problem, that were not seeing whats going to happen until weeks or even months later. But i think everybody should keep on doing their part. If you dont have to go out, please stay away, please keep on practicing these Good Public Health hygiene practices. Dont congregate, dont gather. We can at least do our part in keeping ourselves and others around us healthy, too. I almost think its the instant Gratification Society running up against science, the kind of collision happening. There is a huge drug Company Roche that says they just got approval for release of a new Antibody Test. They say its more accurate than most on the market. Puck, translate in english for the rest of us. They say their test captures 90 of those who have been infected and detects 100 of those who are not. A specificity of 100 . Can you translate that for me . Sure. Roche in this test are saying they are very effective in identifying both individuals who test positive, meaning that if they test positive, they actually have the antibody and that they are very effective at finding those who are negative. So a true negative result reflects that they have not had this exposure. I think the problem, though, we still dont know what the Antibody Test really means even we have an accurate measure of the test result. We dont know if having the antibody means that youre actually immune from getting the virus. It may be a better measure of exposure than actually whether youre protected, and i think we should be very careful until we know what that really means. Thats such an important point. 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And in todays difficult times, making sure patients have access to our medicines matters more than ever. Find out if youre eligible at abbvie. Com myabbvieassist this morning President Trump is projecting optimism about a test for the Coronavirus Vaccine and the seemingly ridiculous timeline the administration has set. We think well have a vaccine by the end of this year, and were pushing very hard. Were Building Supply lines now, we dont even have the final vaccine. Johnson a johnson, they are doing it, and Many Companies are, i think, close. I meet with the heads of them and i find it a very interesting subject because its so important. According to sources, right now the white house has identified 14 potential vaccines to focus in on for development. Lets talk to one of the researchers working on a potential vaccine right now. Joining me is dr. Cavon. Hes director of research. Thank you for joining me. Im very curious, everybody is. Theyre talking about a timeline to get an urgent vaccine to market safely and today, right . Where are you all in terms of your vaccine . I think the important thing for people to understand is our institute is one of the oldest Research Institutes in the entire u. S. Government. Walter reed Army Research institute has been working on vaccines for 125 years. We actually have developed half of the vaccines that are licensed today. And so were building on a lot of that experience, and particularly we were working on coronaviruses for the past several years as well. So we were able to pivot that on the day that the sequences of this new virus were published to start working on a vaccine, and ever since weve been working 24 7 around the clock. Absolutely. Where are you in terms of that project, in terms of trials . Our vaccine study is in animals right now, so we have a whole landscape of many different approaches. You mentioned 14 that are being prioritized but there are about 100 vaccine candidates out there. Our role is not to recognize our own approaches but to work with academia, ministry and other vaccine partners to be able to use one of our approaches to advance their vaccine candidates. So weve been in discussions this whole time with all those different partners to see where we can insert and help them go much faster as well. That is fascinating. As you mentioned, the institute and you as well have worked on vaccines of many types. Ive seen you talk about your efforts with the zika virus. You called the timeline even for that unprecedented at the time, bringing the vaccine to Clinical Trials in nine months, and then you look at a timeline of getting a vaccine through trials in 12 months is even faster. What does that mean or look like for someone who is in the thick of it . Every single time we have dealt with one of these crises, we have gone faster and faster. Each time its unprecedented, and so what weve seen, i think, is because of the sheer volume of different groups coming in, all the political will, the efforts on this project, weve seen timelines i never could have imagined getting a vaccine from sequence to Clinical Trials. The moderna group was able to do it in 14 days. So its not inconceivable that we could go much, much faster than we have before. How do you make sure that youre not moving too fast, that safety isnt being compromised for speed . That is a critical point. And im glad that you brought that up. There are areas where we can compress the timeline, but the key point that people should understand is there is no shortcut that were going to take that compromises safety. Im a physician and our first principle in medicine is first, do no harm. So were going to focus on safety first and make sure that we have a safe vaccine and then an effective vaccine. What do you think the chances are that ive seen some talk about this that more than one vaccine is actually going to be needed. For example, one for older people as their immune systems have reacted to the virus differently than younger people. We call that product tracking profiles, and as you said, there are different populations with Different Levels of vulnerability to the disease. Some vaccines we might need that might be good with preventing transmission. Some vaccines might be better at preventing severe disease, as in the elderly population. Some vaccines might be better for He