Says it does not meddle in our elections so credibility is paramount here. Russia has not released the science so other experts can study it, nor has it put the vaccine through phase three Clinical Trials. A top u. S. Official today warning, do not rush it. The point is not to be first with the vaccine, the point is to have a vaccine that is safe and effective for the American People and the people of the world. We need transparent data and it has got to be phase three data that shows that a vaccine is safe and effective. And the numbers you see on the right of your screen, while they underscore the desire for a vaccine breakthrough, more than 20 million infections worldwide, more than onequarter of those right here in the United States. Six months in, the president still either doesnt understand the science or chooses to mislead you. He again today plugged a drug his own experts says does not work. And you can see it right here, the president shrugging off the some surge in cases, blaming it on more testing, not the lack of a coherent plan to corral the virus as so many other nations have done. As we look at the numbers this morning, testing is down in 24 states. Mondays daily case number came in under 50,000. But the sevenday average of new infections is back up just slightly above 54,000. Remember, the lowest the United States pushed down the sevenday average came back in midmay. At around 18,000. It is clear now that was not low enough. Reopening at a high baseline made the surge numbers even bigger. And we know the death count trails the rising case tally. For more than two weeks, the United States averaged more than 1,000 deaths per day and there are new warnings this morning about rising case and death numbers inside Nursing Homes. Lets look more closely at the national trends. And this map better than it has been, better than it has been still room for improvement. Seven states trending up thats the orange and the red. That means more cases now compared to a week ago. 23 states in the beige including texas and California Holding steady. Texas and california big part of the summer surge, Holding Steady at the moment. 20 states trending down, the states in green. They include florida and south carolina. Also big players in the summer surge numbers. At the moment, the map looking somewhat better. Again, this is a sixmonth lesson, even if this map improves, sometimes when you look at it in terms of deaths, it is bad, this map still has a lot of pain and sadness in it. 11 states trending up. 16 states Holding Steady, meaning about the same amount of death this week than last week. 23 states trending down, you see them in green, again, if this map gets better, you wait a week or two, and this map counting the deaths tends to get better, well watch as we go through the rest of august and beyond. The new case trend, we showed you a bit of this earlier, there is some evidence that the summer surge gets you up here, above 60,000 cases, there is some evidence in recent days of a plateau, even a dip a little bit. That is encouraging news, thats progress. We want to celebrate progress. But there is a bubut that comesh this, remember the new york state experience. New york peaked in early april, took two weeks, two months, two months from april to june to get down this hill. What do we know about the down on the hill . More than half of new york states cases, more than half of new york states deaths came on the way down the hill. Somewhat encouraging a plateau, maybe a dip, there is a long way to go down this hill, a lot of cases to count and beyond. The top five states now, california, florida, texas, new york and georgia. These have been right here. Florida, texas, and california, driving up the summer surge numbers. Right now on a plateau. Where are we watching . Georgia is among them. Illinois, south dakota and indiana. Not case numbers like california, not case numbers like florida, back a month ago, but states starting to see in south dakota, indiana, illinois, and georgia, up a little bit. All of this as people debate, is it safe for my kid to go back to school, should we have high school football, should we have College Football . The president of the United States saying when it comes to younger americans, he says much more safer. People dont realize it is a tiny percentage of people that get sick. And theyre old, just attacks old people, especially old people with bad heart, diabetes, some kind of a physical problem, a weight problem. Many people get it and they have, like, kids they get it, they have the sniffles. Young kids, almost none have a serious problem with it. Again, the big headline today, russia says it has hit on a coronavirus vaccine. But listen to a warning from the former commissioner of the fda. I wouldnt take it, certainly not outside the Clinical Trial right now. It appears that it only has been tested in several hundred patients at most. Some reports in as few as 100 patients. A lot of the situations you might only get one shot at taking a vaccine within a season. So if you put a vaccine on the market, it is not efficacious, it is going to be hard to revaccinate the population. You want to make sure it works. And you also want to make sure it is safe. With us now to share the expertise and insights, dr. Rochelle wolenski and dr. A dr. Nathaniel beers. It would be great if we could be celebrating a vaccine, no matter where in the world it was developed. Should we have, am i right to say be skeptical about what were hearing out of russia . Good afternoon, john. You know, i think certainly were looking for that golden vaccine, arent we . All of us are dying to have it. I dont think any of us have seen adequate data from phase one studies from this vaccine from russia, from phase two studies and sounds like the phase three studies have not been done. I think when we get a vaccine, we will be elated, but we will want to trust it, we will want to make sure it has been fully vetted through all the stages of vaccine safety and efficacy and i would be reluctant to move forward to trust it without seeing the data and certainly without seeing the data on a large scale. So, dr. Beers, let me come to you, as this plays out, parents would love to have a vaccine. Instead, theyre dealing with 13,000 School Districts across the country, having their back to school debate. You heard the president of the United States saying most kids get the sniffles, not a big deal. Listen to a contrary view, this is dr. William hazeltine last night on anderson cooper. There is every reason to suspect that this virus, even though it can kill you, behaves pretty much look a cold virus in terms of transmission. Who drives colds . Children drives colds. That such sounds much more ominous. The president says kids are healthy, they get the kecold, ty get the sniffles, no big deal. The doctor there says you put kids back in school, you spread the disease, sounds look a tom bomb th time bomb and they go home and spread it, so on and so forth. Whos right . Both components have some truth to them. What we do know is communities that try to open schools where they have not effectively controlled the spread of the virus will see escalation of cases and children will be part of the escalation of cases. And youll note that the cdc put out a report that suggested that together with the aap and the Childrens Hospital association noted that over 97,000 additional cases in children occurred over the last two weeks of july. And that suggests where we dont have Good Community spread, we do get spread this children. So certainly as the American Academy of pediatrics has noted, in order to reopen schools, you have to first control community spread. And that is where other countries around the world have been able to successfully reopen schools and contain escalations of community spread, even when children were in school. And to that point, dr dr. Walensky, where the United States is now, and if you look at the last several days, quote unquote, some progress, but it is shoving a baseline down to 50,000 cases a day. We were at 18,000 cases back in may. Florida, just today, reporting a record of 276 deaths. That beats by several the states previous high. I gave new york as the example in the sense that if youre coming new york, as it was coming down the hill, still had more than half of its cases and more than half of its deaths. If were starting down the second hill in the United States, at 50,000 cases, what does that tell us about the weeks and months ahead . Yeah, i want to be very clear that we have nothing to celebrate because were down to 50,000 cases per day. Thats we have a huge amount of morbidity and mortality at our feet right now and in the weeks ahead. We have had a thousand deaths per day in this country for the last two weeks. So our death toll, i envision, you know, the 70,000 cases we had in the middle of june, we havent seen all the deaths associated with that. So, yes, i do think we have some really sad, sad days ahead, from the numbers that we were just from the numbers that were seeing now. And even at 18,000 cases per day as you noted in midmay we were unable to really squelch this. So i really want to emphasize that were now at a time in this country where this is as good as it is going to get. The weather is good, we can be outside and were not in the middle of a flu epidemic. Or a flu outbreak. So, you know, now is the time to buckle down, before all of our kids are back to school, before we all have to be inside in colder weather, before we have influenza at our feet as well, to really to really be able to clamp down on this and were just not doing that. Dr. Walensky, dr. Beers, thank you for your time and insight. We have a long way ahead, nothing to celebrate, couple of days of progress, a good thing, but there is a long way to go if, if we continue down. Doctors, thank you so much, well continue the conversation. Up next, very nasty and very dumb, those words from the president of the United States today, his new comment about the nba and players who decide to take a knee in protest. Find pants that arent sweats. Find your friends. Find your sense of wander. Find the world is new, again. At chevy wed like to take you there. Now during the chevy open road sales event, get up to 15 of msrp cash back on select 2020 models. 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So what you hear a lot of these in these interviews is something that the president says normally, things he makes he says about covid, talking about cases being up because testing is up, something that even his own Health Experts have said is not the case, but also the way the president views this as hes acknowledging that his response to the pandemic has affected his poll numbers. Now, he sees it differently and blaming china and hes saying that it is essentially not his fault. His aides tell a different story, though, behind closed doors, theyll concede that the president has not handled it the best, from a messaging standpoint, and thats why they believe theyre trying to get the president to stay on message when he is talking about covid now because they realize how that affected him and the president argues a little bit differently as you can tell from the interviews. Right. And the more trump motto from him, he thinks he alone as he said before can change these things, is very reminiscent of 2016, people around him thought he was losing, a lot of people around him thought he had to change his message and the president kept going and some of the days were outrageous, he kept going and he won, which in his mind he says i can do this. One thing hes trying to do now is he doesnt like to talk much about the coronavirus, likes to talk about other things. This has become a staple at his rallies, he cant go out and do big voter rallies, but hes talking about joe biden, trying to win back suburban voters and decided now to name a certain name. Listen. They want to put low Income Housing in the suburbs. And i ended it. I signed three weeks ago, i signed a regulation, which will end it. And the suburbs will be the suburbs again. Biden wants to reestablish that program, but make it much worse. And they recommended cory booker to be in charge. Cory booker is going to head it up. Hes going to be the one that tells you what to do and destroys your housing and your area. Correct me if im wrong, but my First Campaign was 1988, and lived through the willy horton ad, naming a black man seems pretty clear to me what the president is trying to do, senator cory booker, democrat of new jersey, am i wrong . It is pretty clear what the president is trying to do, first of all, no evidence that cory booker is going to be in charge of suburban housing, hes a nor from new jersey, the mayor of an urban city, the idea that he would even be sort of put forward really scratches your head unless you sort of see that the dog whistles that the president is pointing to talking about low Income Housing, talking through code words of suburban housewives having their housing threatned and their safety threatened by low income people coming in their communities is very clear hes looking at this through a racial lens, trying to scare some moderate white voters who may be on the fence about his campaign and may not like his rhetoric but hes trying to say, ill the only thing protecting you from, you know, tons of people coming into your neighborhood and making it look not like it used to look. He said hes going to maybe the suburbs great again and sort of this throwback to the 1960s and 1970s, and the country just doesnt look like that anymore, the suburbs are very diverse, a lot of the white voters that the president is trying to appeal to are actually thrown off and push back by his very clear and thinly veiled racial rhetoric and it is not clear the strategy is going to work outside of some thin margin of winning over some voters who this appeals to. But pretty clear what hes trying to do and it is a throwback to some of those types of ugly campaigning that we saw back in the 80s. Right. It is a throwback and it is, you know, be afraid of them is what the president is trying to say as you note. The country changed, the suburbs have changed. It is clear, kaitlan, again, a lot of people on the president say, sir, this is dangerous, the president likes the culture debate here. Im a big fan of the nba. Im a big fan of the first amendment. The president clearly not. Listen. 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