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Im erin burnett. Outfront tonight, were just at the beginning from the former director of the cdc, sounding the alarm as the death toll tonight stops 73,000. The number of cases, 1. 2 million. That death toll is now where the white houses model had estimated it would be in august. And the number of deaths and cases growing as more hot spots emerge across the country. There are only 13 states where the number of cases are going down and they do include, new york, new jersey and connecticut, three states hit especially hard by coronavirus and three states that currently are almost entirely closed. That is crucial because when you actually look at the number of cases overall in the United States, and this is an important point to make, can you see that line trending down slightly. Lets just remove the new york metro area. Lets just take it out, show you how the graphic looks. Okay. So this is a graphic from the New York Times which, as you can see, looks dramatically different. So the number of new cases nationwide when you just take out this metro area is increasing. You can see this yourself. And yet despite a top expert testifying before Congress Today that not one state, not a single state has met President Trumps own published criteria to reopen, President Trump himself is pushing governors to relax stayathome orders and get people back to work. I think people wont stand for it. I dont think our people will stand for it. We cant have our whole country out. Cant do it. The country wont take it, its not sustainable. Athena, some surprising reopening news tonight as we look across the country from los angeles. Reporter hi, erin. We werent sure that was going to happen but just in the last hour or so we learned that los angeles, the most densely populated county in california, will begin to reopen on friday along with the rest of the state. Trails, golf courses, Car Dealerships and florists are among those being allowed to reopen, along with retail shops for curbside pick up. States across the country rolling the dice as they begin to lift restrictions aimed at halting a virus the data shows is still spreading in many places. Hot spots include minnesota, nebraska and texas, where Dallas County has seen a jump in new cases. The governor announcing businesses like bowling alleys and miniature golf can reopen friday. By sunday at least 43 states will be partially reopened, despite signs that not only have not all of them met federal guidelines suggesting a 14day in decline in new cases before reopening but that some are seeing cases rise. This as experts warn that given the viruss incubation period, we wont know the full effect of these moves for weeks and that the gains states have made could swiftly be lost. You have states that are opening where you still are in the incline. I think thats a mistake. Reporter the reopening is creating a confusing picture for americans as recent state and federal actions suggest the epidemic has abated, even amid strong warnings of risk. In atlanta, people celebrating cinco de mayo, many not wearing masks. The mayor said they missed the messa message. They didnt get the par that this is still a deadly virus and you have to socially distance and wear masks. Reporter new york city shutting down the subway system overnight for deep cleaning. On governor Andrew Cuomos orders the States Health department issued an advisory to be on the lookout for a potential complication of covid19, a serious inflammatory disease affecting children with as many as 64 cases being reported. Symptoms include persistent fever, rash and cardiovascular symptoms requiring special care. And in the u. K. Eight children have been reported having the symptoms. And evidence the virus affected people late last year. The cook county coroner plans to review for indications as far back as november. The virus is killing more africanamericans in the u. S. Than any other group. The foundation for aids Research Using using data for midapril say counties with black populations account for more than half of the population and nearly 58 pr58 of the deaths. And leaders like new york congressman jefferies worry officers are using Excessive Force in black and brown neighborhoods while handing out masks to sun bathers. And one more sign of the viruss staying power, Governor Andrew Cuomo said today there is a new hot spot in two county up state, Madison County and oneida county. Another example of dense working conditions aiding its spread. Thank you very. I want to go outfront now to dr. Sanjay gupta. Youre the expert at johns hopkins. No state has met the criteria to reopen but 43 them are currently in the process of reopening, various degrees of that. The question that the country is going to find the answer out to but whats your instinct here . Were the reopening criteria a mistake to begin with . I dont think the criteria were a mistake to begin with. I think most people agreed with these criteria. They were fairly well spelled out, 14 days of downward trend of confirmed cases and 14 day trend of the symptoms but also having enough testing and hospital capacity. Youre going to have new infections any time you reopen. The question is how much and are you able to contain those new infections . Immediately test, isolate and contact trace. That takes infrastructure. As dr. Fauci has said, many states are just sort of spring boarding through this criteria. Even if people agree with them, theyre not following them. If you did that, youd have a much better chance of opening up as responsibly as possible. The major metro areas maybe have met the capacity with hospita hospitals, not there with testing, Contact Tracing and hospital capacity. When you look at the National Picture and i just want to get show these two charts because i want to understand what they mean. When you look at the overall numbers, you do see this plateau. When you compare it to other countries, they see a big drop. You dont see that in this country. You see this plateau, this tabletop. When you take up a new york city metro area, you actually see an increase. Okay . And the slope seems to be of that line accelerating versus where it was just a bit ago. What do you read into these charts, doctor . Erin, i think that testing is increasing around the country and if you do more testing, youll find more cases, all indicating that this virus is more widespread out there than even now we have anticipated. So with this increased testing, well find more cases and that should make us even more cautious about how it is we open up. Weve got to do it carefully, just as sanjay has said. Social distancing must be the rule. Weve got to keep wearing our masks, hand hygiene and keeping away from people. Thats the only way now we have to try to reduce the spread of this virus. This virus is not going away. And, sanjay, to that point yesterday we were told the white house was winding down the Coronavirus Task force. Today President Trump changed his mind. He said it will continue its endeavor on safety on opening up our country again. It will be very focused on vaccines and therapeutic. This is a shift, okay . It certainly a shift and rhetorically its focusing on reopening and vaccines. Is this what it should look like . Well, if there was ever a time to be multitasking on something, erin, this is it. The idea that these states are starting to reopen i think is a significant concern. I think the idea that people are talking about i want to, you know, open up hair salons is going to seem like such a trivial thing a few weeks from now. I cant believe were even talking about that given what might happen in some of these places as we start to reopen. That has to be addressed and the think the Coronavirus Task force, they put out these gating criteria which are fairly easy to understand. Im surprised that part of the conversation seems to have been lost. Vaccines therapeutics continue to be important as well. Its worth pointing out there are places around the world that have gotten on the back end of this curve. You look at new zealand, much smaller. There are success stories. It doesnt have to be all gloom and doom. Theres a way to do this. Weve seen that even with this current pandemic. Doctor, obviously social distancing is not happening everywhere and to different e exte extent. Today Governor Cuomo was looking at people who were hospitalized and giving data about them, saying they werent working and traveling. But he notes that the people who are in there now are predominantly nonessential employees, and that means they were predominantly at home at the time of infection. He said they were not working or working from home. What does that say to you . Youve had people home here in this area of the country for eight, nine weeks, nonessential employees who are not going to work are getting infected. How could that be . Well, erin, you know we havent done really careful Case Investigation of these folks who have gotten so sick and you really need to know in depth exactly what their behaviors have been. Have they gone outside . Have they had visitors . How carefully have they adhered to social distancing guidelines . We really dont know that about these folks. The virus doesnt fly in through the windows, it has to come from close personal contact. They had personal contact with someone who had the virus, who might not have symptoms. All the more reason to keep up the social distancing and wearing the masks. Thank you both very. And next, the race for a cure. Pharmaceutical giant pfizer said theyll have millions of vaccine doses by the end of the year. Plus, the president is still urging the Supreme Court to strike down obamacare in the middle of a pandemic, even against the wishes of his own attorney general. And rockefeller is one of the most iconic buildings in america. Going back to work will mean thermal cameras and apps tracking your every move, would you allow it . Ill speak to the owner of one of the buildings there. Ok everyone, our mission is to provide complete, balanced nutrition for strength and energy. Whoohoo great tasting ensure with 9 grams of protein, 27 vitamins and minerals, and nutrients to support immune health. And nutrients to why accept it frompt an incompyour allergy pills . E else. Flonase sensimist. 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I do really think were talking about getting through to the end of the year and into early next year before we would have a definitive answer. Okay. So if youre doing three or four months, thats may, june, july august and then you have to do the efficacy part of the trial, that gets you to the end of the year. When the president has been backing off his prediction about having a vaccine to the end of the year, that jives with what youre saying. Part of it like so much else with this pandemic, erin, depends on whats happening. Its a very fluid situation. If we still have a lot of transmission in the autumn when these trials go to their efficacy stage, well get an answer quicker. But if cases are way down, it will take longer. You have to accumulate enough in the disease arm to see if the vaccine if effective. There has been an assumption in if youre in a trial youre exposed to the virus. Thats not how it works. You have to be naturally exposed to the virus. If that gets you the answer much more quickly, why not do it . Reporter the standard paradigm for vaccine development, phase one, two, three, tens of people initially establish safety. Vaccines are given most commonly to Healthy People to keep them healthy. They have to be safe. And then hundreds of people to get further safety data and look at the antibody response and finally thousands of people in the efficacy phase when you have half getting placebo and half getting vaccine. Thats the Standard Approach. Believe it or not, talking about a oneyear timeline here or maybe a little better if were very lucky, thats a blazing process for vaccine development. Youre starting to raise another question, which is about human challenge trials. Thats not the traditional method for developing vaccines. On the other hand, it is something that has been done for influenza, malaria, for norovirus. Human challenge trials can be done but that is not the Standard Approach and thats not what were talking about with when we talk about a Vaccine Program like the one we launched this week. Okay. So, look, i know youre optimistic. Because theres been so much focus on your particular trial and company, youre saying april 2021, a year from now, or may 2021 would make sense and maybe you can do a little better. Your research chief told reuters you could distribute 20 million doses by the end of this year. Two very different perspectives. Is he assuming the virus is way more active in the fall . What accounts for that difference . I think were talking about a couple of different things. One is how quickly will science provide us with an answer. You know, its going to take some time. The other question is how quickly can we move in parallel to ramp up production so that as soon as we have the answer that this vaccine or any vaccine is one that will be useful, that should be deployed in populations that we have the ability to ramp up quickly. So a lot of things are happening in parallel that normally would happen in series. Were doing things in months that normally would be done in years. So i think thats what were talking about, doing things sort of at the same time. But were still going to you said im optimistic. It really doesnt matter. Science will give us the answer. We do the wellcontrolled clinical trial, well know without a doubt if the vaccine works or it doesnt and that will tell us if we go forward with deploying millions of doses or not. Dr. Mulligan, i appreciate your time. Thank you very much. Youre welcome. Next, more than 20 million private sector jobs gone as the nation braces for one of the worst jobs reports in american history. 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They want to get everybody ready for how grim the news is going to be on friday. Thats why theres so many questions about whats going to be next by the white house and congress. Is there going to be a another bill . When will it come and whats going to be in it . The president has made clear his priorities are a payroll tax cut and deduction for businesses for meals and entertainment and things like that. Democrats said they dont believe thats what people need right now. Of course republicans have even been incredibly cool to the idea of a payroll tax cut saying thats not going to help when you have millions filing jobless claims. The question is are they going to come to an agreement . So Many Republican senators want to take a step back and look and decide whether or not theres going to be any more spending, house of representatives there should be, whether or not theyre going to replenish that Small Business loan program once again and they dont seem to be on the same page with the president and they dont seem to be on the same page with each other. This is incredibly important to americans who want to know what theyre going to do as theyre waiting, especially if they dont have a job and are not getting paid. It doesnt seem like any progress has been made on that but well keep you updated. I want to go now to the Senate Minority leader chuck schumer. I appreciate your time. The numbers here are terrifying and terrible and something we never would have thought we would see and yet we aredictionn job losses. The white house economic adviser says this is going to be the worst Unemployment Rate since the Great Depression. Were going to go from one of the best rates to the worst in weeks. I know youve been speaking to speaker pelosi. What are you planning to do about this . We need a big, bold answer to this. I am just appalled that leader mcconnell, leader mccarthy and the president himself say let wait back and see whats happening, maybe we dont have to do anything. We have the biggest economic and Health Crisis we have had in decades, as you have mentioned. We need big, bold action and we need it soon. We need action to help those who are unemployed deal with their lives and not lose everything, their homes, their ability to feed their kid, their ability to get heck. We need to maour businesses to the help they need and our local gfl governments and our firefighters and bus drivers and Police Officers not to be laid off. And our republican friend seem to be twiddling their thumbs. Tonight amazingly enough the president said he and the Republican Party are sticking with repealing the aca. The Affordable Care act. We have millions of people losing their health care. We have so many people who have preexisting conditions who need help. They say get rid of all that in the midst of a crisis. How tone deaf can they be . How removed from the statistics youre mentioning can they be . And each statistic represents a personal heart break for somebody. How can they do this . I am just utterly amazed. They stick to this rightwing ideology which helps a few very welltodo people and say to the rest of america lets fiddle . It what theyre doing while america is in many ways burning. You said as part of this big and bold plan you want to hope states and local governments. Gary cohn told me he believed large amounts of borrowing and spending could turn into the next crisis. Youve already got 3 trillion on the tab. Thats bigger and bolder this was the gary cohn who led a 2 trillion tax cut that mainly went to the wealthy and highincome people. The bottom line is very simple. This crisis is horrible. It is so bad that if we dont take big, bold action, our deficit will be worse. There will be fewer people paying taxes and contributing to the national wealth. It will be worse. We dont have the situation where we can sit back and say let things unfold as they are without proossibly moving into depression. Yet thats what trump, mccarthy and mcconnell seem to be saying. I guess the question to you is 3 trillion that has been allocated is an hugely insane amount of money. We need to look at the problems and solve them. Thats what we need to do. That is the number one goal that should happen for the good of health care, for the good of the economy. We dont spend active money on testing in our hospitals. Youve seen that there are hot spots popping up all over the place right now. What will be the result there . More people will lose their jobs. More people will not want to go out. More businesses will fold. This is a crisis. This is not simply you take out a page out of a conservative play book, conservative economics handbook of 2017. This is new. Adapt to the times. Let me say something. When we had the Great Depression, there were people who said lets sit and do nothing. They didnt go down in history very well. Frank Franklin Roosevelt did. Youre back in washington. Weve seen some senators wearing masks. But not all of them. One not wearing a mask is senator rand paul. Senator paul said he already got coronavirus and so he cant get sick again. Obviously we dont know if thats true or not. Should he be wearing the mask . I think that the senator should set the right example. All the medical advisers tell us we should wear masks. I dont wear the mask when i do an interview but i wear it all the rest of the time and so should everybody else. Right. And i wear one in and out of he here, too. I appreciate your time tonight. Thank you very. Thank you very much. Appreciate it. And next, what is behind a sudden drop in heart attacks around the country amid this pandemic . Dr. Jonathan reiner is outfront. Plus one of the most iconic building in new york is getting ready for employees to head back. What does that mean . Thermal cameras and apps tracking everything you do. Farm. And if youre on the roads for us, well, were here for you, too. Theand we want to thank times, the Extraordinary People in the healthcare community, working to care for all of us. At novartis, we promise to do our part. As always, were doing everything we can to help keep cosentyx accessible and affordable. If you have any questions at all, call us, email us, visit us online. Were here to help support you when you need us. Take care, and be well. To learn more, call one eight four four cosentyx or visit cosentyx. Com with Td Ameritrade tools, and help from pros. Its almost like youre training me to become an even smarter, stronger investor. 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And all over the world physicians noted a decrease of about 40 in patients presenting with heart attacks. It was really very hard to explain. Some people suggest that maybe there was something about, you know, our new daily routine, the lack of commute, maybe the cleaner air, more sleep that was reducing heart attacks, but i think what weve really come to understand is something much worse, which is we think many people just arent coming to the hospital and people are staying home. Places like new york have seen up to a five, six or sevenfold increase in outofhospital deaths. We think many patients are not coming to the hospital for fear of contracting covid19. So theyre dying just outside the hospital and maybe they wouldnt have died if they had come to the hospital where could you have helped them. Thats right. The New York Times published an analysis of all cause of mortality, data from the cdc. If you compare basically mortality in places like new york since mid march, theres been this huge excess in death, 23,000 more people have died during that period than last year, but only some of that can be accounted for by covid19. So either were undercounting covid19, which is possible, but also just as likely other things are happening. Cigna accomplished utilization data and theyve noticed appe appendicitis and mini strokes and they think whats going to happen is this is going to be Collateral Damage to the viral infection is people havent sought medical help for serious illnesses over the last two mont months. Its a pretty incredible statement. You could be undercounting covid19 and having the excess is so enormous that both things could be true. I realize that. But, but, you do believe the bottom line is that is it possible that you have more people, and i would presume the answer to this yes, it possibs possible you have more people dying than you had before, we just arent categorizing them that way. Were seeing in new york in new york city there would be 35 out of hospital deaths and now theyre seeing 200 per day. Some of that may be covid deaths but a lot is other illnesses not treated in the hospitals. You and i were talking about brazil. Everyone is talking about the warmer countries and what that means for the United States in the summer. In brazil where the president has called this a little flu, hes been going to massive rallies against social distancing. He has done this at a level that perhaps no one else has. We had a huge spike in the past 24 hours. The numbers just came out, 10,510,5 10,503 new known infections in just 24 hours in brazil. Its a huge surge. What is the significance here in terms of its clearly not under control there and theres very little effort to control it. Well, its obviously a cautionary tale. Hes been a president who has denied the significance and doubted the significance of the coronavirus. Hes gone to rallies to shake the hands of the protesters. Hes called the virus a little flu. That resonates through the population. Look, what we know works is mitigation strategies such as stay at home and social distancing and when people start to move away from that, the virus spreads. Youre seeing that happen in brazil now. We need to think about that as we start to open up the United States economy. We immediate to use that as an example of what happens if we lessen our guard and we open too quickly or imprudently. Thank you. Sure, my pleasure. Next, an app that tracks your every move. Is that going to be the new normal . Plus jeannie moos on a father and son practicing baseball and look how it paid off. 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Were trying to create a tool so as people come through our buildings, people can feel safe, know theyre safe, have transparency of whats happening in our buildings and make sure not only are they safe but colleagues are safe. In the morning youll get a notice as to your Overall Health and wellness of the building. Well have a code. Weve before working with Public Health officials to develop where you take information in terms of temperatures of people in the building, air quality of the building, humidity, a whole series of data points if youre who is susceptible, or pregnant, you ma i y decide to work from e that day as opposed to coming into the building. If as an example, theres just a couple of examples of how this app will work. Right. Look, these are things that make sense. They do make sense, right . Youre going to have temperature checks as well. Is, of course, the question, though, that people have which is they may want to comply. They want these things. But there are blinding tracks. Theyre going to know where i am, im giving up my privacy to do this. Are you worried about that, that this you know, as a concept, going to be too invasive for people . First and foremost, were protecting all of our customers privacy. Were working with microsoft and the absorb product which is the same people that protect the privacy of the pentagon. So privacy comes first. The data that were collecting is anonymized data so we really cant identify the actual person. We identify generality. So well identify there will be no way for you to say its my phone even though im not social distancing as an example . Exactly, i wouldnt know its your phone. Theres no facial recognition. Its really just tools that people can have. If there is information that would help someone, it would actually just be given to them. Were looking at the data in general, it will be anonymized data for us to look at just to see about the health and wellness of the building, the compliance of the social distancing, the compliance of the capacity. Because when we open, were not going to be able to open buildings at 100 . Were probably going to open our buildings at 20, 25 . Were going to start trying to teach people how to operate in those buildings to be as productive as possible, but maintain the social contact and the sense of community of being in those buildings. So what are you doing about all the legal questions . Dr. Fauci this week was saying and were seeing it in new york data. Obviously we dont know what we dont know about peoples situations. The people that seem to get this, say theyve been staying at home, they have been working from home. Dr. Fauci said this spreads much more efficiently than influenza does. It takes one elevator button, you know, and youre deep cleaning every ten minutes. Somebody is in in that intervening time, right, and there you go. How do you deal with that . I mean, that exactly you emphasize so important why were being proactive. With this app, peoples workplaces are clean, theyre going to get a notice that night that their workplace was cleaned. If anyone wants a deep cleaning, they can request that deep cleaning. Were going to do it on a weekly basis, random spotchecks of the surfaces in the offices to see if we pickup the virus. I think in the beginning our objective, because of the concerns and because there is so much unknown, were going to hit it with everything weve got so that our customers feel safe in the buildings, are safe in the buildings, and have transparency as to the health and wellness of the building and the people around them. As we learn more, well adjust and well adapt like weve all done as we go through this experience. Scott, i appreciate your time tonight. Thanks. Thank you, erin. 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This tonight in the face of this crisis, its worth celebrating the small things. Heres jeanne. Reporter it was the home run that hit home, not so much because of the ball. Going over the fence. As for the dad going out of his mind. Corey willig himself a former professional baseball player and now instructor celebrated his sons first home run. Celebrated it for longer than it took 4yearold asher to circle the bases. I was he cecstatic because iw how much went into this. I know how many swings hes taken. Reporter during our interview asher was the mvp of mugging for the camera. Giving a look at his mouth, his teeth, even showing a little shoulder. Father and son had spent quarantine time practicing in front of their home. Asher hitting with such gus toe, someone wondered how are the windows still intact . The home run happened the same day georgias stayathome order was lifted. He had so much energy built up and he just wanted to get out there and go. Reporter asher has plenty of swagger on deck. He likes to tap the plate. And he loves to flip the bat. This baseball prodigy went viral once before at 22 months. His bat handling got him invited on Jimmy Fallons show for a hitting contest with arod. Contest that asher ostensibly won with arod predicting his react to the slugger few words, pronounced himself. Happy. Reporter his fathers pitching as. Best. Reporter and what he wants to be when he grows up . A junior. Reporter that would be ronald acuna, jr. , star outfielder of the Atlanta Braves who applauded ashers home run with emoji. But watch your back, acuna. Bombs away. Reporter its bombs away all right. Even if its his dad who detonates. Jeanne moos, cnn, new york. You did it you did it you did it i like how hes all uniformed up and everything for that big first day out. All right, thanks so much to all of you for joining us. Ac 360 as always with anderson starts right now. And good evening, everybody. 43 states expected to be reopened to some degree by this weekend. 43 states. I want to show you a map right now compiled by cnn of where we are as a country in terms of reopening and in terms of the virus itself. There you see the map. The darker states, those are states where the numbers of coronavirus cases are actually going down. The orange and the lighter color there where they are either going up or about the same. You can see the vast majority of states, the numbers are still going up or about the same. I want to check in with cnns nick watt in los angeles for a round up of the latest. Nick . Reporter well, anderson, good