Who joins us. Reporter good morning to those of you watching and listening. Take a u. S. Map, you can throw a dart toward that map and no matter the region it lands the story is the same. No states in the u. S. Are heading in the right direction. As you just mentioned a short time ago about 36 states right now are seeing an increase, zero states reporting a decrease. Here in Wisconsin State Health leaders are taking steps to try to stop the spread. You talked about that alternative care facility, well, its set to open any moment now just outside of milwaukee here at the state fair park. Its on the state fairgrounds here in milwaukee. Here is the deal, its not a traditional hospital so if you are experiencing covidlike symptoms you cant just show up and walk in. You must be referred by a health care provider. The facility can hold about 530 patients, but when it opens today there will be staff to treat 50 patients. We are talking about patients who have acute cases, they need lowlevel care, or they are at the end of their treatment and nearing discharge. Governor tony evers said here in the state hospitalizations has tripled. He wasnt too happy about these numbers when he gave a covid update yesterday. This all comes as President Trump is planning to visit the state this weekend in jamesvi e jamesville. Governor ee verse also blames covid fatigue on the rise in cases. At the start of the pandemic people were wears their masks, they were saying at home and social distancing. Hes hoping we can get back to that. Poppy . Adrian broad does, thanks so much. Those pictures of those Field Hospitals reminiscent of new york earlier in the spring. Dr. Anthony fauci is now warning that the u. S. Could be entering a new surge nationally, a new surge of coronavirus cases, while noting, however, that Vaccine Development is on a good track. Lets go to our senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen. She joins us this morning. How and why are things getting worse . The fact that there is no green state on that entire map now of the u. S. , meaning no one is trending downward, how is this happening . You know, there are probably many reasons for this, poppy, but one of them is as the weather turns colder people spend more time indoors. Im sure we have all felt this or we know people have felt it, that you used to maybe get together with a small group of friends outside, socially distanced. Well, in some places you cant do that anymore, its jim sciutto too cold. So when people start heading indoors this is going to spread more quickly. So when tony fauci says that the trajectory is getting worse and worse, when dr. Peter hoe tess says were headed for a dark winter we should listen and continue taking whatever steps we can to avoid this virus. What we really need is a good vaccine and good treatment. Lets take a look at where Vaccine Development is going in this country. As tony fauci mentioned, it is going well and it is going well for two of them, but lets look at the two that arent going as well, Johnson Johnson has paused their trial, they paused because a participant became ill. Astrazeneca has been on a pause for more than a month, we are not completely sure why it is taking so long to get that one back up and running also because of a participant illness. Moderna started their phase three trial on july 27th, so did pfizer and both of those are still up and running. Lets take a look at the Johnson Johnson vaccine trial timeline. They started working in january on a screen in partnership with barta which is a government agency, in march they signed a deal to produce a billion doses, in july they started their phase one and two human trials. September 23rd they started those all important large scale tens of thousands of people phase three trials and then on october 12th they had to pause it. If you look at eli lilly they are actually making a treatment, its a similar treatment to the one that President Trump got. They started their phase one trials june 1st, on june 17th they started their phase two trials, they started their phase three on august 3rd and then on october 12th they also had to pause their trial. We dont know exactly why, but they just told everybody yesterday we have paused our trial. So this is while it sounds like there is a lot of pauses here and there are, this is what sometimes happens and hopefully they will be on their way soon. Jim, poppy . Its why you do the big trials, make sure its safe. Big question for poppy and i, yourself, others with children, is testing, right, of these vaccines on children, pfizer says its going to Start Testing on children as young as 12. How does that work and what can we expect Going Forward . Yes, its interesting. So all the trials that weve been talking about so far are adults. So this is moving into children. Its hopefully going to be helpful in two ways, one, while children dont get sick and die at the same rates az dults they do unfortunately sometimes get sick and die. We want to know if vaccines work in them. Also as the two of you know as parents and as i know, children spread disease. When my children were little my husband and i called our children our little disease vectors. We meant it lovingly, they are the lights of our lives but they would get us sick and thats one reason you want to vaccinate children is because they do tend to spread viruses and other infections to people who are older than them and who would be more vulnerable. My like common phrase at home is let me smell your hands because i can smell if the soap is on them and if they washed their hands. Right. Good move. Kind of all i say to them these days. Thanks very much. Lets talk more about all of this dr. Jonathan reiner is here a professor of medicine at George Washington university. Good morning. Good to have you. Good morning. Thanks for having me. Cc director robert red field now is warning against even small family gatherings as we approach the holidays saying particularly with thanksgiving coming up we think its important to stress the continued mitigation steps in the household setting. What is your medical advice for families . Does that mean we dont have cousins, aunts, uncles over Going Forward . I think for the short term we have to hunker down. Right now when we have a gather we have a couple people over in our backyard, we sit 6 to 12 feet apart and we make do that way. We dont have folks in our house. If you are lucky enough to live in a part of the country where the weather will be moderate in november do an outdoor thanksgiving. But i think in the north and northeast, places in the country where winter comes early, i think you have to really be careful. The consequences of this virus, particularly for older folks, the people that we really want to gather with on thanksgiving, can be really dire and frankly id rather do a zoom thanksgiving with people that i love than expose them to something that might kill them. So we have to get through this season. Next season will be much better. Next year will be much better. Lets get through this and lets get through it safely. Dr. Reiner, you have talked both the new york times, Washington Post report that the white house discussing the idea once again of herd immunity as a strategy Going Forward. Tell us what that would actually mean in terms of numbers of cases in this country and then the number of deaths, sadly, you might have to expect if you went down that path. Right. So herd immunity is this notion that if you expose enough people in the country to the virus, lets say most people think that its about 70 of the population is required for herd immunity, which in the United States would be somewhere between 230 and 250 Million People, thats how you sort of stop the virus. In fact, when we vaccinate the country, when we will start vaccinating the country relatively soon, thats what were going to do. Were going to try to create vaccineinduced herd immunity, but naturally occurring herd immunity infecting 200 to 250 Million People would result in the death of using a conservative estimate between 2 and 3 Million People. 2 and 3 Million People are going to die. The other piece about herd immunity is that no one is heuer whether the immunity you get after exposure to the coronavirus is permanent. So this may not be like measles where, you know, once youve either been separattraigh vacci exposed youre done with it. We could have recurring herd immunity every year where we lose millions of people so its a foolish idea, propagated by dr. Scat atlas who has wrote about it and it has to stop. No Serious Public Health official is promoting herd immunity. Its capitulation with dire consequences. Not to mention the fact that there will be reinfections. We have an epidemiologist coming on who did a study about people getting reinfected. When you hear the president say this about immunity last night i wonder what you think. Lets roll the tape. Who has had it here . Who has had it. A lot of people. A lot of people. You are the people i want to say hello to because you are right now immune. Is that putting americans in danger . Yeah, absolutely. So we are starting to see thankfully rare cases of reinfection. I think reinfection is rare, but, you know, were still only eight months into this pandemic so as we go further out we will see how frequent that event is. Rather than thinking about immunity, because we dont really understand what that means with this disease, think about if you recently had the infection, you are resistant to reinfection for a period of time and we dont really know what that period of time is. So the best policy is to, again, limit your footprint. And also we dont really know exactly when your inn if he can tift ceases. The president feels like superman, but we dont know exactly if hes still infectious, probably not, and we dont know how long his resistance to acquiring the virus will last. I think people need to be a little bit more humble when it comes to this disease. Dr. Reiner, thanks for cutting through it all for us, always good to have you on. My pleasure. There are new developments overnight here in washington, a Justice Department probe involving the issue the president had repeatedly ceased on is now done without any bringing any charges. Joe johns joins us this morning outside the white house with more. The investigation into a practice known as unmasking, thats what i think a lot of americans have heard the word used over and over again, unmasking, it ended without a public report . Reporter thats right. No public report apparently and, look, this is about the president and his allies up on capitol hill taking a fairly routine practice in the government, essentially hyping it up, politicizing it and turning it into a federal case, if you will, claiming its a huge scandal. At the end of the day nothing found. This unmasking is the kind of thing that top officials in the hospital use to try to learn the identities of individuals who are referred to in intelligence reports, they simply unmask the name after they go through a process. The Trump Administration uses it, the Obama Administration also used it, but the president and his allies up on capitol hill suggested there was something nefarious about the way the Obama Administration used it. So they brought in this senior prosecutor from the Justice Department named john bash to look into it and now we have the report in the Washington Post that there are no charges being filed, there is no report being filed, there was no substantial wrongdoing. So at the end of the day you look at this thing, its another example of the president calling on the power of the United States department of justice to essentially go after his enemies and to come away at the end of the day with nothing. This case obviously gets thrown into the trash heap of conspiracy theories. Back to you. Well, joe johns, thanks so much. Good to have you at the white house. We are seeing, again, this morning long lines, i mean, incredibly long lines of people, hours long in some cases, but people still determined to vote. Some waited as long as ten hours to cast their early ballots in this brit cal election. They even brought a chair as you see there. Texas is seeing record breaking turnout. 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Realize whats possible. Welcome back. Just look at these lines, long lines, at polling places in georg georgia. Early inperson voting started on monday and folks are turning out. More than 126,000 voters showed up to the polls. In tacks early voters shattered turnout records there. In Harris County alone y yesterday, thats home to houston, more than 128,000 ballots were cast. Ed lavandera joins us in dallas, amara walker it s. In georgia. Amara, what are causing the long wait times . Its good to see the electorate engaged in voting but no one should have to wait ten hours. Reporter yeah, and actually this location, poly, isnt so bad right now, its only about an hour, hour and a half wait time. I say only because we were at another polling location yesterday where the wait time was between six to eight hours. But i can tell you the long wait times in general are because of record turnout. The georgia secretary of state gave those numbers of 130,000 georgians voting on the first day of early voting, that is a record turnout. And a 40 increase from the last record in 2016 on the first day of early voting. You can see the line here, we are at an early voting site in fulton county, the line has been building since 6 00 this morning. The wait time about an hour and a half, not bad compared to use when the wait time was about three hours here. I want to introduce now you to a couple voters who have been in line, ashley reed and dwayne newman. You guys voted, you voted in dekalb county, you waited in the line for that and came here with your boyfriend to vote here in fulton county. Overall and youve been waiting for about an hour and a half now. Tell me your experience, what it was like to wait in line this long to cast your vote and how do you feel about that . I mean, i honestly feel proud to do it, but its freezing out here so its a little frustrating, but we definitely wanted to make sure we stayed and got it done. When we came to this location and saw how long the line was we almost wanted to turn away but we want to make sure that we are, you know, making sure our vote is counted. Reporter dwayne, tell me about this particular election, why youre willing to brave what you say is the cold weather. Its not that cold here, and wait in these long lines. Its more so its important. I think its important that everybody, you know, does their due part and making sure theyre getting out here and voting today. There is a lot of tension thats going on in the country right now so i feel like, you know, every vote counts, if we want to make a change and, you know, kind of change the narrative as far as how the country is being ran right now, i think, you know, it is important that everybody comes out here and independently make their voices heard and so that we can make a change in this country. We have to we have to its very important to minimize a lot of the racial tension thats going on right now. Reporter well, we appreciate you, ashley and dwayne for joining us and thank you for exercising your civic duty. Local officials are encouraging people to go to a super voting site at the state farm arena. They say the wait time there is 15 to 30 minutes, over 300 Voting Machines if you want to get in and out. Good to know that. A lot of nba stadiums will be Voting Centers this cycle. Lets go to ed lachb dare a ra in texas, Harris County. Thats a big county. For man 4 Million People but it only took seven hours to surpass the total number of votes cast on the first day in 2016. Remarkable turnout there as well. To the to get into the whole texas ego kind of thing here, but more people voted in Harris County yesterday than in the state of georgia. So that gives you a sense of just how enthusiastic the turnout has been. Record setting day across the state. We are in Collin County in the town of allen, texas, and this is a significant area that republicans here in this state will be watching very closely. Its the suburbs of the major cities of dallas and houston and you know the president is sensitive to what is going on here last night because President Trump told a crowd yesterday in pennsylvania saying suburban women, will you please like me . And that is why there is a great deal of concern about what is happening here in the suburbs of