Covid19 cases, having passed new york a few days ago. The coordinator of the White House Coronavirus task force saying, on friday, that rates were beginning to plateau in california. But the state is scrambling to get the situation under control. Cnns paul is in los angeles. Here, in los angeles county, they are testing fast and furiously. Including here, at the charles r. Drew university of medicine and science. They move people through, in cars and on foot. And the numbers in l. A. County, rising. This new batch shows that 3,628 new people have tested positive for covid19. There have been 53 new deaths. Now, we need to clarify that l. A. County was warning, all along, that they expected a spike in cases because there was a backlog in the system. They just hadnt counted all the cases, due to a glitch. And the 10 Positivity Rate is, also, better news. But there is still this sort of underlying thing that haunts people in the medical profession. And thats when some people talk about hoa
Spike, the country could see widespread suffering and death. That is a direct quote. Hospitalizations now at their second highest levels ever with eight states reporting record numbers of patients and for the Third Straight day, thursday, virus deaths topped 1,000. In a series of interviews today, dr. Fauci said that while he doesnt think a second nationwide shutdown is necessary right now, it is time, he said, for the hard hit Southern States to rethink their policies. My advice would be timeout and maybe go back to a prior checkpoint and from that point try to proceed in a very measured, prudent way, according to the guidelines. If we do that, i think we can control the surging that were seeing in those states. For the other states, i would say please take a look at the example of what happens when you open in a way that might be too quickly. Now, amidst all of this, the cdc is issuing new guidelines that push for American Children back into the classroom. Dr. Robert redfield saying
World with another day of soaring numbers. Also anger on the streets of america. The situation in the flashpoint city of portland, oregon, for you. Also, a hero os final journey. America begins a long, sad goodbye to the late congressman, john lewis. Welcome to cnn newsroom. Im michael holmes. Lets start with brazil. It recorded 50,000 new cases on saturday, for the fourthstraight day. The country already has the secondhighest case count in the world, according to johns hopki hopkins. Thats not stopping the president from taking off his mask in public. Mexicos president , meanwhile, says a mask isnt, quote, scientifically proven to help. So, he just wont wear one. Health experts disagree, strongly. That country, mexico, reported 67 new cases and has the fourthhighest death toll in the world. And it seems the threat is not over in vietnam. For the first time in 100 days, it has a locally transmitted infectio infection, after fighting the virus extremely successfully. The u. S. Reporting
How far theyve gone and what theyve confirmed. Joining us now, cnn senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen. Elizabeth, should we take this with a grain of salt here . You need to study vaccines over time on thousands of people before you can make reliable conclusions. Right, jim. I wouldnt take it with a grain of salt. I would take it with a shaker, maybe even a gallon of salt. Be extremely skeptical of this. The russians have put out no data. Were basically just taking putins word for it that this is a fabulous vaccine. He said my daughter took it and she was fine. It doesnt matter if his daughter took it. Thats one person. What you want to see is phase 3 trials of tens of thousands of people, and they havent even done those yet. Theyre very straightforward they havent even done those yet. How do we know this vaccine is safe or effective if they havent tried it out in tens of thousands of people . Scott gotly put it guest when he said i wouldnt take it. You make a very important
With each one of you to try to craft a longterm piece of legislation to guide our nations farmers and ranchers and give them the certitude they need. My home state is the home of over 48,000 farms, and we have over 1 billion in farm exports a year. So this is a pretty big deal to us. Im honored they gave me an opportunity to be here and work on it. We strongly prefer to keep the usda food safety and Inspection Service catfish inspection program. In addition, the setting of target prices, which are vital to many alabama farmers. I also support giving the livestock industry relief from the troublesome mandatory country of origin labeling mandates. The negotiations we face will be tough, and i am certain that not any conferee is going to go home with everything they want. But its important that we be responsible stewards of the taxpayers dollars by maintaining the programs that are working and reforming those that dont. I believe we can work through these differences in a timely and bipar