Alisyn camerota and john berman. Welcome to new day. This morning joe biden is president of the United States. Two weeks ago joe biden was president elect of the United States. I could keep going here. Whats different this morning is that the Electoral College met and officially gave its votes to joe biden. What is different this morning is that the president elect spoke to the American People and said its time to move on, and after giving the petulant, defeated president space to rant for weeks, biden had enough and called out donald trump by name for his sixth week assault on democracy and what is different this smormorning is that a numbf republicans are starting to come forward to acknowledge reality and stop lying about the election results. This morning were awaiting to see if Senate Leader Mitch Mcconnell joins that list. And attorney general william barr, what brought this loyal soldier so willing to break so many norms and precedents to finally split from the president. What w
Die of coronavirus. Now, i spoke with Michael Oster holm, one of the authors of this new study. He told me this is whats going to happen unless, a, theres a vaccine, or b, unless the Trump Administration begins what weve been discussing now for weeks, an intense program of testing hundreds of millions of americans repeatedly and then Contact Tracing and isolating those infected. But there has been little indication that the Trump Administration is attempting anything remotely like that. A stark warning as today marks more states reopening nonessential businesses. Dr. Anthony fauci telling cnn that communities can expect to see local spikes of coronavirus cases, and again emphasizing the need for widespread testing. But consider this. Today, on may 1, there is not even enough Testing Available for all of the 100 u. S. Senators who are returning to the capital to try to lead the nation out of the pandemic. The capitol physician says testing is limited and only available for those feeling
Years ago. What it has proven is that a drug can block this virus. Reporter very early results from trials of remdesivir suggest this hiv drug actually might treat covid19. The data shows that remdesivir has a clearcut, significant, positive effect in diminishing the time to recover. This is really quite important. Reporter this is not a cure. In studies touted by dr. Fauci today, it lowered mortality and shortened the duration of the illness. This has not been a proven therapeutic. Physicians would probably be reluctant to, if they had other choices, to use something that protected in such a marginally valuable way. But we dont have other choices. For an antiviral to work in a positive way in these very sick patients to me is indeed very good news. Reporter many states in this country now planning to reopen, and soon, despite dire warnings from dr. Fauci for the fall. It is more likely than not that we will see this again and again until we really stick the nail in the coffin of this