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First coronavirus vaccine. Joining us now, cnn chief medical correspondent dr. Sanjay gupta and medical analyst dr. Rochelle rolinski from mass general hospital. Sanj sanjay, when we learn theres been a 90 increase in coronavirus cases among children the last four weeks, that is a lot. It is a huge increase. You saw the raw number of about 100,000 new cases the last two weeks of july, and it really does cause concerns as we are in some areas reopening schools. Yeah, no question about it, john. I mean, i think the number of children becoming infected is increasing, and its increasing at a more rapid pace. I think theres two things that are happening here. I could just tell you a little bit from reporting but also from personal experience. Up until recently, its been harder to get the younger people tested at all. You had to be symptomatic to get tested. It was mostly adults who were symptomatic. So i think the increase in testing among younger people is driving some of this. But i think ....
Morning in the race for a vaccine. Russias president , Vladimir Putin, claims his country now has one without providing any evidence. Russia approving its version without completing a phase three trial as well. Well get some perspective on that headline from our doctor on duty in just a moment. Here at home, College Football is in flux because of the pandemic. Multiple conferences are meeting to decide whether they will go ahead with the fall season. President trump now jumping into the fray, calling a cancellation a tragic mistake. We start, though, in florida. That state shattering its record for weekly hospitalizations. The state recorded more than 3,000 hospital admissions from sunday, august 2nd, through monday. That makes florida one of the biggest coronavirus hot spots in our country. Right now it is also making decisions about schooling even tougher for some parents ....
Brunhuber. We are following breaking news at this hour. U. S. President donald trump suffered a great personal loss. He says his younger Brother Robert trump died saturday at a new york hospital. Cnn Kristen Holmes has been traveling and filed this report for us from bridgewater, new jersey. Reporter President Trumps younger brother, robert trump, passing away late saturday night. A night after President Trump had gone on an impromptu visit to new york city. The press had known he was going to new jersey at the last minute. They told us he was going to a hospital in new york to visit his Brother Robert. We had known he had been ill but not illness he had. He had been in hand out of the hospital since the spri ....