Likely hit 8 million cases by the end of the week or 9 million by election day november 3rd. Even worse hospitalizations are also rising. Yesterday the number was 37,000, up nearly 10,000 from two weeks ago. And with nearly 1,000 deaths reported yesterday the death average kicked up slightly to 724 dead americans every day. 724. Wearing masks in public and socially distancing remains the best way to stop the virus from spreading and to protect other people from getting covid, if you contract it. Yet President Trump continues to undermine that effort. He completely misrepresented a cdc study just minutes ago telling this to a crowd in greenville, North Carolina. Again, let me reiterate before i show this clip, this is not true what the president said. This is false. Look at all the masks. They keep saying nobody wears masks, wear the masks. Then they come out with things today, did you see it cdc, 85 of people wearing the mask catch it. Okay . That is not true. 85 of people Wearing Masks do not catch it. That is a falsehood. The cdc study hes referring to was of people who had coronavirus and a High Percentage of them claimed they had worn masks. Thats true. But also more than 40 of them had had close contact with somebody who are covid, usually family members. The study was looking at how people got covid. They found restaurant dining is a key risk factor because its a place where people who wear masks take off masks. Its distressing the main source of false information about the pandemic continues to be President Trump who took an oath to protect the American People and is doing the opposite. A better source of information, dr. Anthony fauci is warning americans may have to, quote, bite the bullet and sacrifice some thanksgiving gatherings. Understanding that everyone has had traditional, emotional, understandable warm feeling about the holidays, we really have to be careful this time and each individual family evaluate the risk benefit of doing that. In wisconsin where theres a 21 positivity rate, four times the national average, the state for the First Time Ever reported more than 1,000 people hospitalized. Cnns adrian outside a Field Hospital right now. This is part of what the state is doing to prepare for an onslaught of new cases . It is part of the states effort. Just moments ago we learned there are more than 3700 new cases. More than 3700, jake. 17 more people have died since we talked to you this time yesterday. Listen, we talk a lot about the numbers but those numbers represent people and behind those people are families. Today Health Officials told us its only going to get worse. The governor has issued an emergency order allowing Health Care Workers from other states to break here in the state of risk to help treat the surge. Another record wisconsin didnt want to set, more than 1,000 people in the hospital. If you think about it, thats about a 25 increase of hospitalizations in the last seven days compared to this time last week. Thats all the information we got from dhs. The bottom line, the icus are strained. Every region of the state is reporting a current staff shortage or imminent staff shortages. Jake. Adrienne broadeace stay safe. Lucy kafanov, colorado seeing some of its highest hospitalization numbers since may. Thats right, jake. To the point officials are describing this as the third wave of the virus with hospitalizations surging across the state. Weve had cases in every single county across the state at the moment. Officials report 274 active covid19 outbreaks. These are largely concentrated around schools, daycare facilities, bars, restaurants, churches. Very concerning as businesses continue to operate and folks keep going out with numbers spiking. In terms of hospitalizations that is a major concern warned about. 317 confirmed patients across the state of colorado right now. Just to put that in context, a 60 increase since october 1st, less than the month finished, those numbers continuing to rise, and 77 of the states icu bed capacity currently in use. So this is very worrying considering the fact we are heading into the winter. Flu season is just around the corner. So that Hospital Capacity remains a very large concern, jake. Lucy kafanov in denver, colorado. Thank you very much. Joining us to discuss chief of Infectious Diseases dr. Wolinski. I want to start with this complete misrepresentation of the cdc study President Trump said today. Again, it is not true that 85 of mask wearers get the virus. It is completely not true. Explain how damaging this could be. Obviously Wearing Masks is the best way right now for us to get ahold of this pandemic. Good afternoon, jake. So i want to be very clear. This was a cdc study. They interviewed people who had gotten the disease and who had not gotten the disease. What they found in those interviews is people who did not get the disease wore masks more frequently than people who did get the disease. It is true they report some people who became infected with covid were Wearing Masks in public. It was also the case and top line result of the study, if you got covid, you are 2 1 2 times more likely to have eaten in a restaurant the two weeks prior. That is certainly a place where masks are taken off. At President Trumps rally last night in iowa, lets put up some of those images, the crowd was mostly maskless. There was obviously no distancing. Everybody was bunched closely together. Fauci told me the other day this is asking for trouble. This is the exact opposite of what the president in any campaign should be doing right now. You as an Infectious Disease expert when you see this, President Trump barnstorming the country, going state to state holding these events, what do you think . The Trump Administration is now endorsing a plan that is moving towards herd immunity. That is people can get infected and well, therefore, get more people who are immune. I want to be very these rallies sort of suggest that. I want to be clear that herd immunity is a vaccination plan, it is not a mass infection plan. When i see footage like that, i worry. Let me tell you why i worry. We know theres been a massive amount of excess mortality over the last many months. A new study came out last week that demonstrated om about twothirds of that excess mortality is actually even related to covid. Theres been a third of that excess mortality that is simply related to the fact that people cant have access to medical care, Hospital Capacity is at its limits, and so they cant even Access Medical care for routine things that really keep them well. So if the president whether or not these rallies are part of a plot for infection to create this deranged herd immunity idea, which would kill between 1 and 2 million americans, youre saying the idea of more infections are unrelated to covid deaths. People who cant get medicine, cant go to the hospital, et cetera. It relates to massive deaths related to covid, some have called it mass murder. But its more than that. Even if you can protect yourself from covid, if you cant Access Medical care when you need it, then you cant protect yourself from other things. A heart attack, stroke, everything else. Experts have been warning that the colder months will almost certainly bring a second wave or surge into the coronavirus here in massachusetts. Im sure thats a concern. Now were seeing at least seven states with record high hospitalization numbers. Is this the second wave, or do you think its going to get even worse . Im worried its going to get quite worse, actually. We are seeing numbers that reflect infection rates that happened two weeks ago. Two weeks ago in many areas of the country, including the northeast, we were still able to be outside. I worry this has been laissezfaire behavior and going to get even worse in the weeks to come. Dr. Fauci is asking americans to reconsider any thanksgiving plans that they may have for november. He says people who may be coming from out of town, who may have been on planes and airports may pose a risk. Is there a safe way to do thanksgiving . If everybody got tested ahead of time, a week ahead of time, a day ahead of time, is there a way to do it . You know, i would agree with dr. Fauci. Certainly i think if people can get a test a week ahead of time, stay quarantined during that week, then we can talk about how it might be safe to gather. Again, when you start think how travel mixes in with that, it becomes complicated and not everybody that the capacity or the ability to take all that time off to be able to quarantine to do it properly. Can you explain how the risk of gathering with family also depends on what state you or your guests are coming from . What factors should americans consider . So part of the issue is sort of the local community. We know rates of covid and testing rates, for example, in wisconsin are over 21 . If you had family members coming in from wisconsin or for similarly high states, then you could imagine that you might be more likely to have more asymptomatic people at your dinner table than you would otherwise expect. Fourteen Public Health organizations condemned what you condemned, herd immunity, this deadly opinion proposed in the position paper the wlous has been praising. Fauci this morning said this. Take a listen. If you just let things rip and let the infection go, no masks, crowd, it doesnt make any difference, that, quite frankly, george, is ridiculous. Why do you think this idea keeps getting traction . Its now an idea thats been endorsed by the administration. There have been numerous epidemiologists who have endorsed this position. I want to be very clear this is what sweden did. This is what sweden did and failed. The position says you can take vulnerable people, take people in Nursing Homes and protect them, and instead let young people who otherwise wouldnt have severe disease get infected and reach herd immunity. The cdc has estimated that about 47 of our population is at higher risk of covid. How we could somehow protect those vulnerable communities is destined to fail, as it did in sweden. Dr. Walensky, thank you very much. Appreciate it. Who were they in contact with . What could this men for homestretch won. People getting up at dawn and waiting hours but it might be signs of more than just voter enthusiasm. Stay with us. Whoo. Im gonna grow big and strong. Yes, you are. Im gonna get this place all clean. Ill give you a hand. And im gonna put lisa on crutches wait, what . Said shes gonna need crutches. She fell pretty hard. You might want to clean that up, girl. Excuse us. When owning a Small Business gets real, progressive helps protect what you built with customizable coverage. 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Doing fine with coronavirus questioning if Wearing Masks really works and saying he doesnt get tested for coronavirus every day despite the fact his wife says opposite. President trump seems to be trying to lower expectations ahead of tonights town hall. Yeah. It hasnt started yet. Hes already claiming he was set up by the town hall his aides arranged and the president agreed to. Theres been a lot of backlash on nbc for scheduling this town hall at the same time as joe bidens but it will be a chance for viewers to see them side by side taking questions from voters which we know in the past hasnt been a strong suit from the president especially now that hes dealing with questions from voters on the pandemic, something that affected every single american. The way hes been framing the pandemic today has really been downplaying the effect its had on americans like he just did in North Carolina a few moments ago. Right now im fighting to eradicate the virus, and were doing a really good job. Were rounding the turn. Weve learned about the disease. Youve got to open up your businesses, open up your schools, get it going. We have incredible therapeutics, incredible drugs. Just a few hours before that the president was saying the u. S. Less affected than other countries by the pandemic even though 200,000 americans are dead and many have lost their jobs or struggling to pay their bills. It will be interesting to see how the president handles those kinds of questions hell likely get tonight. In addition to hosting this potential super spreader event in carolina and lying about the efficacy of masks, dr. Fauci was insulted again by President Trump. What did the president have to say. The president going after the top disease expert at the rallies saying everyone knows hes a democrat. When you look up Party Registration it says no party under d. C. Registration for dr. Fauci. Of course hes someone who worked under president s of both parties. The job hes holding now, lead of nih. The continued sustained attacks the president has on dr. Fauci, they have been ramped up after dr. Fauci objected to being featured in a campaign ad and criticized the event. He said if you look at the numbers, you can guess whats going to happen. A lot of people in one place with no mask and no social distancing. Lies and smears and desperation. Kaitlan collins, thanks very much. Appreciate it. President biden pulled Kamala Harris off campaign trail after two people in her orbit tested positive for coronavirus. Jessica dean is covering the Biden Campaign for us. How long is senator harris going to be off the trail. They have suspended her travel until sunday, which means she will resume campaigning on monday. This all comes after her communications director, as well as a nonstaff flight crew member tested positive for coronavirus. Were told senator harris did fly with a plane on october 8th. But they were wearing n95 masks. She was never in contact with either of them for longer than 15 minutes or closer than feet apart. They say this is out of an abundance of caution they are pulling her off the campaign trail for these days. She was supposed to be in North Carolina. That event has now become a virtual event. Weve learned she has since tested negative again today. She also tested negative yesterday. In a subsequent third test since october 8th. Shes now tested negative three times. We know Vice President biden has tested negative as of last night. Were told he was never in contact with these individuals. Hes going to continue on as planned. Hes got that town hall in philadelphia later tonight. Jessica, ahead of the town hall joe bidens Campaign Announced it broke fundraising error raising unbelievable figure, 383 million just in the month of september. Bidens Campaign Manager saying they have 400 million on hand. How do you spend that much money in three weeks. Incredible amount of money in one month and now to spend it in three weeks. Their Campaign Manager says its already working its way through the system. There are plans and programs. That includes voter education, making sure everyone knows how to vote, where to vote. Battleground operations. Obviously advertising this gives them a lot of money to go on the air in places. Another signature of the biden cam paper, they have been working very steadily and hand in happened with down ballot candidates in different states of the senate races. House, legislature, all the way down the democratic party. You can imagine thats going to get filtered through as well. They are going to do their best to spend that money. Thanks so much. Appreciate it. Democratic Vice President ial running mate senator Kamala Harris, Democrat California will join cnns don lemon tonight, 10 00 p. M. Eastern. 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One player infecting at least 14 hiers with coronavirus during a game of players ages 19 to 23. Elizabeth, this was a small game, 22 players. Does this mean even small scrimmages without spectators should stop until theres a vaccine . Jake, no one is calling for a stop. Certainly when you hear these numbers, it really makes you think. I know i wouldnt feel safe participating in Something Like this. Lets look at the numbers and youll see what i mean. This was an ice hockey game indoors in tampa, florida, in june. 22 players between the ages of 19 and 53. These were not elderly people. They were not Wearing Masks or not the covid protecting masks. Fourteen of them became ill. So more than half of them became ill and it started one one player who got sick, started developing symptoms after the game. In other words, one guy feeling fine got 13 other people sick. He didnt know enough to stay home because he didnt get sick until the next day. As you can see the next person can do quite a bit of damage without even knowing it. Jake. Does the type of activity and the fact of whether or not they are Wearing Masks make a difference . It certainly does make a difference. So the problem with athletic kinds of things is its difficult to wear a mask. Youre going to be breathing heavily, its difficult. Its difficult to wear a mask. Something like tennis, youre very far apart from the other person, youre outside. Thats a really good example of an activity that would be quite safe. In hockey, youre inside, youre breathing heavily. Youre smashing into other people. Thats a whole different ball game, no pun intended. Lets talk about vaccine. Dr. Fauci said a safe and effective vaccine could be available by april. The World Health Organization saying young, Healthy People might not get a vaccine until 2022. Right. I think sometimes we think, theres a vaccine or ill go to my doctors office, local pharmacy and get it. No big deal. It is a big deal. Were trying to vaccinate an entire country and that cant happen all at once. There are efforts to prioritize. There are different schemes for prioritizing. All of them put young people at the end because they dont tend to get very sick from covid. They dont tend to die from covid. They spread it. First were going to protect first responders. Doctors and nurses and emts, elderly people, people in Nursing Homes. Young people come to the he said of the list. It could take a while to get them. Obviously if they have preexisting conditions. Good point. You have new information on the stalled astrazeneca trial. Whats up with that . This has been going on for more than a month. We started asking why is it taking so long and a source explained it to me. Lets take a look at the time line. Astrazeneca trials started, phase three trials started on the 31st. The pause on the 9th, didnt go on very long. It wasnt until the week of october 5th, a month later, that astrazeneca got their safety data to the fda according to this source. I was speaking to a former commissioner of the fda. He said, look, this is going to take a while potentially. The fda is going to have a lot of questions. Two volunteers have become sick. They have developed neurological symptoms, both of them. Thats a red flag. When you see there are the same kinds of symptoms in more than one volunteer, that is a red flag. The fda is going to have a lot of questions. Jake. Thats why we dont listen to politicians that want a vaccine released before an election for political reasons when theres Safety Measures to be taken. Thank you very much. Close to 18 Million People tested positive, just as many thrown into poverty since this began. That shocking number next. vo businesses are always making choices. Heres a choice you dont have to make the largest 5g network. Awardwinning customer satisfaction. Or insanely great value. 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Welcome to stimulus money muppet show, jake, where everyone disagrees with everyone. Youre right quite. President trump said he would go above 2 trillion. Within hours it was ruled out. Why would the democrats ultimately agree to a 500 billion next week when they have ruled out money that is so much higher than that. It leaves people simply without any hope of support coming any time soon. I dont think the bigger disagreement here is on the size of the package, its simply how the money is spent. While these guys continue to argue and dont act, people are simply left with nothing. Thats unacceptable. The recovery is slow, what recovery there was. Thats exactly what the data suggests, the data we got today. Another 898,000 americans, almost 900,000 americans claiming firstime jobless benefits. There still remains uncertainty about californias true numbers. The Labor Department is using estimates while they deal with fraud and a backlog of claims. There are all sorts of gray clouds coming out. Jake, youre quite right. The risk is californias numbers are higher. Lets be clear, the claims number we saw today is the highest level its been since august. Even the Silver Lining here, the number of people getting their hands on cash, socalled continuing claims dropped. But the positive on that to some degree is offset by the number of people who are maxing out on the amount of benefits they can collect so they drop out of the numbers. You just showed the key figure here. 25 million americans are claiming some form of benefit for job loss as a result of what weve seen in this pandemic, and we have now got covid cases rising. Were approaching flu season and any benefit of Financial Aid is simply fading and here we are. Now two studies are saying poverty is higher now than before covid hit. The stimulus worked for some time but i guess it dissipated fairly quickly. Exactly right. Short time it worked really well. 18 million held out of poverty in mei. Fast forward to september and the benefits of the aid off, bump up in 600 in benefits dropped and that number dropped to around 4 Million People. Take a look at the poverty rate today. We have 16 of people right now living in poverty, and it is way, way worse for people in minorities compared to the white population in america. Its around a quarter of blacks and hispanics in poverty. They cant pay their rent, cant pay their bills, cant feed their families. That answers your first question. Its desperate. Its awful. Thank you so much. In our 2020 lead, huge lines and battle grounds in North Carolina, first day of early voting. Senator Kamala Harris had to cancel the tar heel state after two staffers tested positive for covid as the Campaign Provided detailed account of staffers and infections in stark contrast with the trump white house, which still hasnt disclosed when the president last tested negative and whether he infected ohio, minnesota, new jersey before announcing his infection. Not that he was concerned. Trumps rally ended in North Carolina. Its a sign North Carolina is a state very much in play and remains confusion around mailin ballots, as cnn pamela brown reports for us now. I want to come out here first thing in the morning and get my vote in as soon as possible. Good morning. Today voters are camped out outside polling places in the battleground state of North Carolina. Some telling christi paul they are voting in person because they had second thoughts about vote by mail. We didnt want our ballots to get lost, misplaced, thrown in the trash or whatever was going on. So to be on the safe side, just come on in, stand in line, be prepared, and here we are. Some joe biden supporters are even admitting they changed their mind on vote by mail after the president lashed out against it. Mail ballots are a very dangerous thing for this country. And over concerns the Postal Service cant handle the crush of ballots. But a new court ruling is causing Election Officials in the tar heel state to scramble. A federal judge handed democrats a win upholding a policy allowing ballots through november 12th to be counted if they were mailed on or before election day. The same judge also handing republicans a win in a ruling that makes it harder for voters to fix absentee ballots with missing signatures. Both rulings may be appealed. In georgia, massive lines earlier this week, some even eight hours long have started to ease up. It sucks but id rather be out here doing my civic duty than not. Today secretary of state seeing improvements caused by a statewide capacity problem after the States Election vendor increased bandwidth. With just 19 days to go, more than million americans have already voted. This according to data from 45 states. So far the states with the most ballot returns, florida, texas, and california. And the golden state, republicans have until the close of Business Today to remove unofficial ballot dropboxes set out in four counties. But the state Republican Party says it will egg nignore cease desist by secretary of state to remove them. I certainly help they comply with cease and desist orders. Were inviting people to submit information if they continue to see these very problematic fake dropboxes. Jake, a source familiar tells me that republican officials do plan to appeal over that North Carolina case when the ballots should be received by. Just to put this all in perspective, were less than three weeks away from election day and there is still ongoing litigation in key battleground states. You have North Carolina but also pennsylvania and wisconsin over which ballots will actually get counted. Jake. Pamela brown with the latest in our making it count series. Politics keeps its boot on the neck of science. Youll see first on the lead what cdc official calls a cluster f as covid began its killing spree in the u. S. Stay with us. False alarm. Only pay for what you need. Liberty. Liberty. Liberty. Liberty. Want a hamburger, some fries, a drink, nuggets . Got a taste for a deal . Boom, rewarded with the wendys 4 for 4 perk on grubhub. doorbell chimes grubhub. upbeat music it was 1961 when nellie young lost her devoted husband. Without him, things were tough. Her last option was to sell her home, but. Her home meant everything to her. 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Its a new stunning investigation out from propublica describing the crisis and handling of the pandemic with internal emails and interviews that report details how white house pressure left cdc officials muzzled and how politics and missteps at cdc, one revealing frustration over revising guidelines on reopening churches, cdcs head of coronavirus respond told his colleagues, quote, im very troubled on this sunday morning there will be people who will get sick and perhaps die because of what we were forced to do, unquote. I want to bring in Propublica Patricia callahan among the journalists breaking the story today. Youve interviewed more than 30 cdc interviews, contractors, Trump Administration officials. Youre reporting opens with that frustration from cdcs chief official on Coronavirus Response around memorial day over changed guidance on church reopenings. Describe what led to that email. The center for Disease Control cd head issued safety advice for houses of worship earlier in the spring. The white house fought over that language and didnt put it out. The president , right before memorial day weekend started blaming democrats for keeping churches closed and suddenly the cdc found itself on his front bumper and had a very short period of time to reconcile the differences with the administration and put their guidance out. And they did that in sort of going through the lastminute edits from the white house they rejected one that said that churches that the administration wanted to delete a line that said, you know, that churches and mosques and synagogues should consider suspending the use of choirs because their own research had shown that a single choir member singing can infect an enormous amount of people, can lead to a superspreader event. And they wanted to make sure people understood that something, you know, that brings people great comfort in their faith can lead to injury, illness and death. They wanted to include that line. The white house, after the guidance went up called and said that this was insubordination, that they should not have made these changes, that the white house changes were not optional, they were mandatory. So the cdc had to take that guidance down and replace it with a version that didnt mention that singing would lead to illness and death. Incredible. And the head of the cdc response at the time, you could just hear the anguish and anger that hes pouring out into this email to his colleagues. And you write about white house meddling notably from ivanka trump and jared kushner, the president s soninlaw and daughter. We heard from people who said there were a lot of sort of young men in, uh in suits with, uh it was, you know, red ties and beards who seemed who were sort of proteges of the president s soninlaw, who would show up to these meetings, you know that had absolutely no experience in Public Health and um, uh, we also saw that um, uh, the president s daughter weighed in on guidance for reopening schools. There was this constant cast of characters that had nothing to do, no backgrounds in Public Health that were weighing in on these decisions that would influen influence, you know, the safety of the American People. And you described cdc officials as muzzled by the white house and Coronavirus Task force. You quote a senior cdc official saying, quote, when it mattered the most they shut us up, a senior cdc official said. The threat is clear. If we ever want to be able to talk tomorrow, next week, no next month or whatever is dangled in front of us, you stay inside the lines. It wasnt just about their jobs but the white house cutting off communication with the cdc. Yeah. There was always this threat that if you stepped outside the lines, you would lose your seat at the table. I think this is something we heard over and over again from people, some of whom wept when they talked to us about it, because it put them in this position where they had to decide, do you go along . Do you speak up, or do you put your head down and go along . And there was Intense Division among cdc staff about which was the right way to which was the right road to take. And whether that acquiescence was part of their undoing. This agency thats a model for the world had just so thoroughly lost its way that one person said to us, you know, the coward es and the caving are just disgusting to me. Patricia callahan, thank you so much. A chilling report from propublica about the cdc. You may not have to worry about your uncle talking about what he saw on facebook this thanksgiving. 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