Threatens to pull its funding. The u. S. Death toll from the coronavirus has passed another grim milestone. More than 90,000 americans have died with more than 1. 5 million cases now reported. Still the process of reopening the country continues, and over the next week all 50 states will have eased restrictions or partially reopened for business. This map shows the trends when it comes to new cases as states gradually get back to work. And despite the increased mobility, a key model has revised the u. S. Death projections slightly downward. Now forecasting 143,000 people will die by early august. That revision came as a surprise to researchers. Were expecting them to probably go up because of the big surge in mobility in the last two or three weeks that weve seen in cell phone data, but whats really been fascinating is its not a strong correlation between where mobility has gone up and the trend in cases in deaths. Even when we take into account the increase in testing. And our explanation for that is if you dig a little bit deeper and look into how the faction of the population that are wearing masks, we think thats the key difference there. The behavior and mask wearing. And a cautious glimmer of hope as one Company Reports progress in developing a Coronavirus Vaccine. Moderna says early results show participants developed antibodies against the virus. U. S. President donald trump welcomed that news. This was a very big day therapeutically, cure wise and vaccine wise. Tremendous progress has been made as ive been saying for two weeks because ive been seeing whats going on and spearheading it largely. This was a very, very some big announcements are coming and have just come out. Meanwhile, President Trump says he is now taking hydroxychloroquine, a drug he has tauted as a potential cure for covid19. He made that astounding admission at a briefing monday even though medical experts question how effective the drug is and warn of potential side effects. The front line workers, many, many are taking it. I happen to be taking it. I happen to be taking it. Hydroxychloroquine. Im taking it, hydro hydroxychloroqui hydroxychloroquine. Right now. Yeah. A couple of weeks ago i started taking it because i think its good. Ive heard a lot of good stories. If its not good, im not going to get hurt by it. Did the white house doctor recommend you take that . White house doctor didnt what do you think . Id like it. A lot of front line workers are taking hydroxychloroquine. Ive taken it for about a week and a half knew. Im still here. Can you explain, what is the evidence that it has a preventive here you go. Heres my evidence. I get a lot of positive calls about it. The only negative ive heard was the study where they gave it, was the va, people that arent big trump fans. Now as we noted, most in the medical community disagree with the president on this, including dr. Anthony fauci, americas top infectious expert who has warned against taking it before its tested. Even the u. S. Food Drug Administration has warned against using it outside of a hospital and Clinical Trial due to the risk of heart problems, and the president could well be at risk. He is 73 years old, and according to his 2018 physical, he has a common form of heart disease. His physician says they both agreed the potential benefit outweighs the relative risk. Here is cnns dr. Sanjay guptas take on that decision. Theres no evidence that it works. There is potential harm. This flies in the face of all of his own medical organizations including the fda which says this medication should not be used outside of the Clinical Trial or outside of patients that are hospitalized. Theres no evidence that it works for treatment or prophylaxis. During an interview with cnn, u. S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi took a shot at President Trump and questioned the drugs effectiveness. As far as the president is concerned, the hes our president and i would rather he not be taking something that has not been approved by the scientists, especially in his age group and in his, shall we say, weight group. Morbidly obese, as they say. So i think its not a good idea. Joining me now is dr. Ashish jahi. Thank you for being with us. Thanks for having me on. President trump now says he has been taking hydroxychloroquine for about a week and a half despite the potential risks and fda warnings, so lets just listen to what he said about this drug. The fda also gave emergency authorization for hydroxychloroquine. Were having some very good things happening with it. Its shown very encouraging, very, very encouraging early results. There are some good signs. Youve read the signs. Ive read the signs. I say it. What do you have to lose . I say it again, what do you have to lose . Take it. If things dont go as plant, its not going to kill anybody. It will be wonderful. Itll be so beautiful. Itll be a gift from heaven if it works. If some other person put it forward and say, oh, lets go with it. What do you have to lose . Try it if you like. Ive seen things that i sort of like. What do i know . Im not a doctor. Im not a doctor, but i have common sense. And he isnt a doctor but i want to talk to you about this, doctor. Your response to the u. S. President taking this drug and do you worry that the general population will try to do the same, as they have done in the past . Yeah, so if i were the president s physician, i would strongly discourage him from taking this medicine. I would not prescribe it. Look, theres no evidence whatsoever that it is helpful in the situation like this. There is evidence that the drug has toxicity. On balance right now the drug is not recommended clinically. Now there are Clinical Trials happening and if they show benefit, sure. We can change our approach at that point. Right now theres no evidence that he should be doing what hes doing. So why do you think the president keeps pushing with this telling people its beautiful, its wonderful, try t. Hes now apparently trying it. Why would he be doing this . It really does baffle me. Im not sure. I dont know what it means for a drug to be beautiful or wonderful. I know drugs are safe or effective. This drug is reasonably safe under monitored circumstances for the right patient population, but we dont know if its at all effective. The safety is really under very monitored circumstances so people should not be out there taking it on their owns. It does have toxicities and should be monitored by a physician. Lets move on to some very positive news, what we hope certainly in the end were seeing promising results from the u. S. Moderna vaccine with them developing neutralizing antibodies. How positive are you about this very different vaccine . Its very early days. If you are going to be hardnosed about this, youd say its phase 1. Phase 1 wasnt meant efficacy. Eight patients showed neutralizing antibodies and we dont know. Thats all the skepticism and thats all scientifically true and we should have that. That said, i look at this and i say, hey, this is good news. It does seem like the vaccine may be working. A lot can happen between now and all the way to approval day, but ultimately what i think when i see this is it gives me confidence that we will develop a vaccine thats going to be effective. I dont know if it will be the moderna one, a different one, but it gives me confidence that we know how to induce an immune response in people and thats good news. I think what people want at this moment now is some sort of hope, particularly when the who and the u. K. Business secretary was saying we might not ever get a vaccine. Of course, on this one, the moderna vaccine, there will be large scale Clinical Trials in july and it could be on the market, they are saying, by january 2021 up to mid next year. Does that sound possible to you . And what about manufacturing and distribution . Because thats a whole nother part of this equation. Yeah, i think january 2021 is very ambitious. It is, i mean, theoretically possible, but i certainly wouldnt bet on it. I would think that could be very difficult to achieve. Part of it is you have to produce hundreds of millions of doses. You have to do that safely. You have to make sure the vaccine is safe and effective in various populations. Were not going to give it to kids until we know that its safe in kids. Older people are at the highest risk of covid19. Theres a lot of work to be done before this vaccine is widely available to the whole population. Im hoping as early as 2021 as a realistic time line. Well keep our fingers crossed. Always a pleasure to talk to you. Thanks for having me on. President trump is threatening to make his temporary freeze for the World Health Organization permanent as he directs criticism for the who and its leadership. He tweeted out this letter which calls for major improvements within 30 days or risk losing funding for good. The u. S. Health and Human Services secretary was also critical of the w. H. O. While speaking at the World Health Assembly. In an apparent attempt at least one member state made a mockery of their transparency obligations with tremendous costs for the entire world. We saw the w. H. O. Failed at sharing and transparency when Member States do not act in good faith. And in the coming hours, members of the World Health Assembly are expected to vote on a resolution calling for an independent review of the Global Response to the coronavirus pandemic. More than 100 countries have already voiced support for an inquiry, including china. Cnns steven jiang has more. Reporter china is supporting this resolution, which include this International Inquiry into the pandemic. The way beijing is framing this, this is not an International Inquiry, instead, this is a partial evaluation led by the w. H. O. Based on science and professionalism and only to be conducted after the pandemic has been brought under control. The chinese president xi jinping also highlighted the positive role played by the Chinese Government in this global fight against the virus. Translator all along china has acted with openness, transparency and responsibility. We have provided the information to the World Health Organization and relevant countries in a most timely fashion. We released the genome sequence at the earliest possible time. We shared control and we have done everything in our power to support and assist countries in need. Reporter mr. Xi pledged to donate 2 billion and ensuring the flow of medical supplies around the world, especially to africa where theyre helping to build a penn Regional Health headquarters not to mention debt relief for african nations. All of these moves to be strategic especially by u. S. Officials with some of them calling the 2 billion pledge as a token to describe costs for a growing number into Chinas Initiative and countering backlash from beijings efforts and recent reports of africas nationals. One thing is clear that this forum has become a showcase of growing tensions between beijing and washington and now with mr. Trump, the u. S. President threatening to pull the u. S. Out of the w. H. O. , this has created an opening for the Chinese Government and mr. Xi for them to step in and their influence and as we have seen for them, increasingly successful and reshaping the global institutions that have long been dominated by washington previously. Rosemary . Thank you so much for that statement. As weve mentioned, the race for a Coronavirus Vaccine is picking up, and some promising news about a potential break through has markets soaring. We will have those details for you in just a moment. These folks, they dont have time to go to the post office they have businesses to grow customers to care for lives to get home to they use stamps. Com print discounted postage for any letter any package any time right from your computer all the Amazing Services of the post office only cheaper get our special tv offer a 4week trial plus postage and a digital scale go to stamps. Com tv and never go to the post office again in the coming hours, the chairman of the Federal Reserve and the u. S. Treasury secretary are set to address the Senate Banking committee. Jerome powell and Steven Mnuchin will testify on the governments payments of hundreds of billions of dollars in Coronavirus Relief aid. On sunday mr. Powell said the fed and congress could do more to help stimulate the economy. His outlook along with promising news of a potential covid19 vaccine have u. S. Markets surging. The dow finishing more than 900 points higher on monday logging its best day in six weeks. And heres a look at the dow futures. You can see there just down very slightly. So lets get to cnns john deftarios from abu dhabi. The u. S. Chairman and the fed secretary will talk on u. S. Banking aid. What can we expect . Reporter the main event especially for Financial Markets is happening at 10 a. M. Eastern time. What investors are looking for, to see if theres any daylight between the two, the fed chairman Jerome Powell and Steven Mnuchin. Powell suggests we have to do a little bit more because of the shock of this recession were seeing right now. Steve mnuchin suggesting theres 3 trillion pumped into the system, lets give it more breathing room. We know u. S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has another proposal for 3 trillion. Weve never seen a crisis like this since world war ii. We have an excerpt here if we can take a look. Hes suggesting that Economic Data shows a sharp drop in output and an equally sharp rise in unemployment. Key point for him. He says this is without modern precedent and are significantly worse than any recession since world war ii. Hes correct. Jobless claims could hit 50 million by the end of june which is extraordinary by any measure. He sounds like a man of the people as the fed chairman. Thats very unusual to try to separate themselves from main street and focus on wall street and washington policies. He has changed the dynamics of the Federal Reserve, but the markets went higher on monday because of this reason. Two key factors. Potential vaccine break through and we saw manuel macron, the president of france and angela merkel, the chancellor of germany come together and say this half a trillion dollar plus plan is now coming forward, the stimulus plan. Germany was resisting such a measu measure. That is amazing. The asian markets continuing the rally, most of them at least. Japan, the south korean market and also hong kong. The gains of 1. 5 to 2. 25 . I find this an interesting twist to the investor sentiment. The imf managing director says we arent going to see a recovery until the end of next year. A full 19 months away, rosemary. The investors are focused on the short term and economies opening up again with the two breakthroughs i was talking about. Definitely day to day, isnt it . Well see what the reaction is as the market opens and then closes for tuesday. John deftarios, many thanks to you. Appreciate it. Across the u. S. States continue to ease restrictions from opening up their beaches to allowing diners back into restaurants. This comes even as some see a rise in covid19 cases. Cnns erica hill has the details. Reporter gyms in multiple states are open today including texas. The state is moving into phase 2. One thing that we all know, an important part of reopening is access to child care, so starting immediately Child Care Services are able to open. Reporter summer camps and youth sports can return may 31st. Bars and bowling alleys can open friday. Texas posted the highest single day spike in cases over the weekend, two days after easing restrictions. We do have more testing thats happening, but at the same time were also recognizing that we have reopened and people are mixing and so we dont know how those two equations coming together, how that really is impacting the overall equation that we have. More than 1 3 of the new cases are connected to Meat Processing plants in the state. Overall, texas is seeing a rise in new cases over the past week. 18 posting a decline, including massachusetts which Just Announced its plan for a phased reopening. Californias new cases is holding steady. We recognize the conditions across the state are unique and distinctive depending where you are. Churches may be allowed to meet in person in the next few weeks. In person retail could open next month. Automakers returning to michigan with a few changes. Im pretty comfortable with the precautions that ive heard that theyre taking. While across the country, beautiful weather, cabin fever and more reopenings made for a busy weekend. Its been steady. Better than i thought it would be. I am beyond excited to be shopping again. Reporter in scottsdale, arizona, packed bars and restaurants. I have no more fear than contracting the flu, a cold, a virus that they havent named yet. Lines in the mall and outside this casino though not everyone is ready for the crowds. You go to walmart, everybodys on top of each other. People in the bars are high fiving. People you dont know. They try to get too close. Reporter the university of South Carolina will reopen the campus this fall, but after thanksgiving classes will move online over fears in a possible spike in cases in early december. Purdue and Rice University is adopting a similar plan while Creighton University will end the fall semester before the holiday. One vaccine in the works is showing promise. M