The host of watch what happens live tells us about his successful battle against the coronavirus. Why he says the government is keeping him from helping others fight the disease. Hes got lots to say. First, heres todays eye opener. Your world in 90 seconds. All that progress we made by flattening that curve, we could lose that in a matter of days if were not careful. Despite growing numbers, several states prepare to start easing stayathome restrictions. We cant do this again. We cant afford to shut down, stop commerce again. Thats why were following those guidances, following the experts. Doing what we can to social distance. We have hundreds of calls coming in asking if it was right to ingest clorox. President trump did not hold a press briefing, but the president s comments about injecting disinfectants are still proving controversial. Doesnt that bother you that you have to spend any time discussing this . I think it bothers me this is still in the news cycle. The nba is opening Team Practice facilities for players in states loosening stayathome restrictions. All that family in michigan put up a sign in their yard making it mandatory to have a silly walk when passing by their home. And all that matters. Dr. Anthony fauci said if anyone had to play him on snl, he hoped it would be brad pitt. Will it happen . First, id like to thank all the older women in america who have sent me supportive, inspiring and sometimes graphic emails. On cbs this morning. Lean on me dozens of wellknown canadian comes together for a National Salute to front line workers fight cog vid 19 call me if you need a friend call me if you need a friend just call me announcer this mornings eye opener is presented by toyota. Welcome to cbs this morning. Lean on me, tony. Bill withers song has become an anthem. Too bad hes not here to see it. That song fits so many, so well in this particular time were going through. Yeah, gayle. I cant think of a lyric more apt for the moment than we all need a friend. Exactly right. Every time i hear it, it gives me a little chill. From our home to yours, as you see, we hope you are staying in if you can, on this monday. We made it through the weekend. I hope it was safe for you. If you are one of those essential workers, we thank you, thank you, thank you. We begin today with efforts by a rising number of states to reopen this week despite the in california, tens of thousands of people crowded the beaches over the weekend. It was tough to see. Even though a stayathome order is still in place in that state. In georgia, some businesses are now open to customers after a controversial decision by the states governor there. There are signs that social distancing is helping flatten the curve, but the numbers from the virus continue to rise. We are now nearing a million reported cases nationwide. More than 965,000. And the reported death toll is now more than 54,000. Mark strassmann is in atlanta where more businesses are expected to reopen today. Mark, the question on everyones mind, how is it going so far . Good morning, tony. Today is going to be interesting. This reopening, this next step in georgias reopening will gauge Public Attitudes about all of this. Movie theaters and restaurants like the waffle house behind me can now seat people inside. They have to maintain social distancing and its hardly business as usual. The weekend was a little slow. Reporter jason griggers held what he called a soft opening at his atlanta area salon. He served a handful of clients. His first in six weeks. Were trying to staring our clients and not just load them in here so theres not so many people in here. We can practice good social distancing. Reporter georgia is not alone. Elected officials are making similar decisions around the country. Sometimes against the advice of Public Health officials. Social distancing will be with us through the summer to really ensure that we protect one another as we move through these phases. Reporter with roughly 1 in 6 americans without a job, the prolonged quarantine has shredded state economies. Some governors say its time to move forward. Were always going to be data driven. Reporter oklahomas republican governor announced some businesses like gyms and restaurants will be free to open on friday. The two Guiding Principles i told oklahomans were going to use through this whole process was the health and safety of oklahomans number one and then mitigate the loss to our economy and get our workers back working as quickly as possible. Reporter that sentiment has bipartisan support. Colorados democratic governor jared polis announced his states stayathome order would end today. We know what matters a lot more than the date the stayathome ends is what we do going forward. If its not replaced with practices sustainable for the weeks and months that its likely to remain with us. Reporter at least 12 states are easing restrictions on restaurants, salons and some retailers. None has met the cdcs guidelines for relaxing social distancing rules. A 14day decline in hospitalizations. On sunday, new York Governor Andrew Cuomo said some businesses in his state could reopen as soon as may 15th. He called on them to think outside the box. This is not a onesided equation here. Businesses, you develop a plan on how you would reopen given everything we now know. Reporter hundreds of businesses here that could reopen are staying shut. Their owners think its just too soon. And the number of mayors in georgia agree with that decision to stay closed. They are worried that reopening could lead to a second wave of infections. Anthony . Mark, thank you. President trump did not appear in public over the weekend to address the crisis. He did speak out on twitter. A Senior Adviser tells cbs news some of the president s aides and allies outside the white house have urged him to scale back the daily briefings on the coronavirus. As ben tracy reports, one of the president s top scientific advisers says testing still needs to be dramatically improved. We have to have a breakthrough innovation in testing. Reporter dr. Deborah birx says a different type of coronavirus test similar to those needed to test for flu, is adequately needed to screen the u. S. Population. The test would more likely and cheaply detect the bodys response to the virus. Allows you to screen large numbers of individuals quickly. Reporter birx also said the white house is working with states to increase testing capacity, despite the president saying states are responsible for their own testing and bragging about the overall u. S. Response. Weve tested far more than anybody else anywhere in the world. Reporter the president is now often contradicted by his own Health Experts and even some in his own party are criticizing his daily press briefings. Some of the messaging has not been great. Reporter larry hogan, a republican, says his States Emergency Management Agency was flooded with calls after President Trump said this on thursday. I see the disinfectant, it knocks it out in a minute, one minute. And is there a way we can do Something Like that by injection inside or almost a cleaning . I think its critical that the president of the united states, when people are really scared and in the middle of this worldwide pandemic that in these press conferences that we really get the facts out there. Reporter after the blowback this weekend on twitter, the president questioned the purpose of having white house news conferences. Adding, not worth the time and effort. But its his own comments that have forced his team to spend time clarifying. And dr. Birx expressed her frustration with the media coverage. Sometimes i worry that we dont get the information to the American People that they need when we continue to bring up something that was from thursday night. Reporter cbs news learned the white house plans to focus more on the economy in its messaging and that Public Health information from dr. Birx and dr. Anthony fauci will take a back seat to that. There is a press briefing scheduled here at the white house for this afternoon, but its unclear if the president will attend. Tony . All right, ben tracy, at the white house, thank you. Moving overseas. Britains Prime Minister is back at work three weeks after the coronavirus put him in intensive care. In his first Public Statement since returning to london, Boris Johnson urged the british people to be patient saying they are making progress. If this virus were a physical assailant, an unexpected and invisible mugger, which i can tell you from personal experience, it is, then this is the moment when we have begun together to wrestle it to the floor. Britain has lost more than 20 this to people to the coronavirus. Johnson had been criticized for not taking stronger steps sooner to prevent it from spreading. Were learning new information about how the coronavirus affects patients. Our dr. David agus joins us from los angeles with more on that part of the story. David, lets start with the cdc reporting that there are new symptoms possible new symptoms to diagnose this coronavirus. What are they . The cdc had a list of fever, cough and shortness of breath as the symptoms. If you had those symptoms, you could be tested in most places in the united states. Theyve expanded those to include chills, shaking with chills, muscle pain, headache, sore throw the and loss of taste or smell. Critically important because now it means more people can be tested as places that require symptoms for testing and also to educate people that if you have these, you have to consider having the coronavirus. Since we keep getting new information, does it make it harder to fight this virus effectively . Its such a moving target, it seems. We started from scratch. We didnt know what this virus would do, how the human body would respond, how we should respond in fighting. And literally every day were learning more. Were learning about what it can do to the body. New signs and symptoms that in some cases are dramatic that we didnt expect but were getting better. And the treatment protocols are being spread across the country and how we care for the virus is improving on a daily basis. Over the weekend, dr. Deborah birx said we need a breakthrough antigen testing. What exactly does that 19amean . We have a pcr test. It looks for about 100 of the letters of the 30,000 letters in the code of the virus. And it takes awhile to amplify that and look at it. And thats why the test is complex to put across the country. An antigen test looks for a yes, no is it present . Is it protein in the virus present in whatever youre swabbing. Its how we do a pregnancy test. Its how we do the admitting the flu test. With that test if we have it, thats specific for covid19, we can dramatically scale testing. Theres so many asymptomatic people and we have to test them if we want to open appropriately in every state and being able to quarantine off people who have the virus. So a new test is critical. She talked about being in the works. And i hope and pray that happens soon. Yeah, everybody hopes that. You know, recently we keep hearing about possible blood clots that could lead to strokes in younger patients. What do you know about that . So, this virus is causing blood clots. We classically see blood clots in more elderly individuals. Clots in the leg that can go to the lung. Clots in the heart that can go to the brain. Were seeing it in 30, 40 and 50yearolds and often people that are not that symptomatic with the virus. So this is new. This is something that obviously has us on alarm. Its very, very rare. So i dont want everybody thinking they have this, but if you do have any symptoms, what it means is go right away to the emergency room. The earlier we treat, the better the outcome. All right. Information is power. The more we know, the better we can deal with all of this. Thank you david. Anthony . Thanks, gayle. There are reasons for hope this morning in hardhit new york where strict social distancing rules are still in place. Yesterdays death toll here was the lowest this month and less than half what it was during the pandemics peak. Hospitalizations are down as well, along with the number of people put on ventilators. In another sign of progress, the last patient has been discharged from the Naval Hospital ship comfort which will soon depart after nearly a month docked in manhattan. We want to share a touching tribute that a connecticut man left for his family. 32yearold jonathan koelho died due to cardiac arrest from the coronavirus. He wrote a note on his phone to his wife and two young children. Our lead National CorrespondentDavid Begnaud spoke to coelhos wife. Good mog. Morn jonathan spent days in the ho bef he alone. And before he was placed on a ventilator, he wrote a note to his wife which she read at the hospital after he died. He wrote in the note what he wanted her to tell their two children two are too young to remember their father. To his 2yearold son braedyn he wrote, tell him hes my best bud and i am proud to be his father. To his 4monthold daughter penelope he wrote, let her know shes a princess and she can have whatever she wants in life. And to his wife katie, he thanked her for giving him the best life he could have had. And then he said this. If you meet someone, dont hold back because if they love you and the kids like i, do then i love that for you. You think he knew . I think he did. I think he was scared. That was written the day before the few hours actually before he was intubated, and we were still texting and communicating during this time. You dont fight for 28 days and think that youre not going to come home. So i dont think he gave up, but i think he knew that if it was going to be that bad, that i wasnt going to talk be able to talk to him again, and he knew that i would need something. And my kids are so young, and theyre not going to know their dad or remember their dad. So were going to have to share with them what a great person he was. And i think he wanted them to hear from him how much he loved them and how much he cared about them. So beautiful that you i hope you i hope you have what he wrote to you etched in some kind of stone or artwork and hung somewhere because those are his final words written to you. Yeah, and his actually his bean at our wedding found my husbands wedding vows he had emailed to him the day of our wedding, which i havent seen or heard since the day we got married. And he sent them to me, and seeing the words he said the first day we became husband and wife and then the last words he said to me, it just echoed how much, like, the love has just increased and it was just so you could see from start to finish my husband worshipped us. And i am so thankful i have those words, but theyre also very haunting as theyre all i have left. You know, jonathan survived Childhood Cancer twice andieys several times they thought he was going to pull through. At one point, the doctors told her his lungs appeared to be cleared of the virus. But the virus had wrecked some of his vital organs. Gayle . Oh, boy, david. Its such a gift that she has those words, and from what i was reading about the story, he was such a fighter. Its so hard to hear it, too. And in her words, it is haunting. How is katie doing . How is she going to move forward . Did she say . This is tough. You know, she 800,000 has been donated by strangers to help her. But i was haunted by the fact that when we finished the interview, she had to start getting the kids ready for bed because life moves on. Now that she is a widow and a single mom. Yeah, yeah. And jonathan fought to the very end. Thank you very much, david. Ahead a new warning from the World Health Organization to people who have recovered from the coronavirus and at chickfila, we know a little thing like staying in can make a big difference. Thats why its our pleasure to come to you. With delivery right to your door. Order through the chickfila app where possible, or our delivery partners, doordash, uber eats and grubhub. We cant wait to serve you. 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