Wondering and soon well be in very, very good shape he said. The president spoke to california states that became hot but said well be quote very good, very soon. The same president told diamond and silk the virus would miraculously disappear by april, the one that keeps saying we have the best testing. Its remarkable how things can look from a biological bunker from inside the white house where everyone has to wear masks around you and get tested to come in contact with you. Its a bunker so secure not even the sound of your leading experts can penetrate it. The president says were in a good place. Dr. An nothony fauci said this yesterday. The current state is really not good in the sense that as you know, we have been in a situation where we were averaging about 20,000 new cases a day, two days ago, it was at 57,500. So within a period of a week and a half, weve almost doubled the number of cases. So of course, the president doesnt have to take it from the nations most trusted Infectious Disease expert, he would listen to other top members of his invisible Coronavirus Task force that acre knowledge tnol l ackn today. This is mike pence and dr. Debra birx. As youall have taken note, many Southern States have seen a rise in cases as of this morning. I think dr. Birx, if you want to give a brief summery we have nine with the district of colombia with rising cases, combined with raising percent of positives. Clearly, california, texas and florida, arizona and growing issues in South Carolina and georgia g and putting the word out there that both rising for positive and rising cases in oklahoma, iowa, washington state, d. C. And montana along with our concerns of increasing case numbers in louisiana, nevada, North Carolina and tennessee. Yeah, that sounds good. I mean, that sounds like a good place to be, right . California, texas, florida, arizona, South Carolina, georgia, oklahoma, iowa, washington state, washington d. C. , montana, louisiana, nevada, North Carolina and tennessee. Thats 14 states in the district of colombia. A good place. By the way, what you heard the Vice President say on that call acknowledging the rise in cases and percentage of positives, hes without actually saying it acknowledging when he said this a couple weeks ago, he wasnt being honest in States Administration pushed to reopen. We slowed the spread. We flattened the curve. We saved lives. We slowed the spread. We flattened the curve. We saved lives. That the from the last Coronavirus Briefing last month. He was talking in the past tense you might have noticed but he wasnt acre nol leknowledging tn cases. He has no choice. The president wants you to believe everything is good and talked about forcing schools to open and pretending that governors or School Officials might be wanting to open because they think it helps them politically. We hope most schools will be open and we dont want people to make political statements or do it for political reasons. It will be good for them politically. They keep the schools closed no way. And everybody else to open the schools. Very important. The man whose every decision is based on what will get him reelected and energize his base and appeal to peoples most primal fears is saying governors and School Officials dont want schools open because of politics. Because it benefits them poll ti politically. Were so deep down in a well of lies it hard to realize how dark this is. There is no political benefit keeping schools closed and kids upset and parents angry and parents unable to work because their kids are stuck at home. Oh, yeah, politically that will serve you really well by doing that. Right now outside of a few states, the entire country is dealing with the consequences too fast too soon and the president is urging as Vice President sense says, but without his leadership on how to do it safely, without his basic encouragement to wear a mask and social distance while opening. As of tonight, infections are rising in 31 States Holding steady in 15 and dropping in just four. In comparing states that rush to reopen to those who didnt under scores the point. Here is new york in green. Florida in pink. New york worked hard to get the cases down is cautious about reopening. Florida reopened quickly and now new cases rising. The number of people being hospitalized growing and in counties across the state intensive care units operating 100 capacity, no beds available. Yet against that grim backdrop, floridas governor reordered schools to reopen for in Person Learning in the fall and the president praised him as he said plans to hold the convention in jacksonville are quote flexible and as new modelling from the university of washington forecast more than 208,000 people in this country may be dead of covid19 by election day. Which the president still does not seem to think is all that bad. Because he is still repeating the same falsehoods as ever about testing and mortality which fell for awhile but once again sadly sickingly ticking up. Therefore we have more cases because were doing more testing. We have more cases. If we did half the testing, wed have far fewer cases but people dont view it that way. What they have to view, though, is if you look at the chart and maybe mike has it but we looked at it before, if you look at the chart of deaths, deaths are way down. What we want to do is get our schools open. We want to get them open quickly, beautifully in the fall. Dr. Fauci calls the mortality claims a false narrative. In any case, those numbers they had begun rising. More than 600 fatalities compared to 250 a day over the weekend but the president nodded of course and agreed and praised the president for his leadership because thats what he does and tried to spin the president s lie about 99 of covid cases being totally harmless. The Vice President tried to reinterpret that lie. Look, the American People know President Trump is an optimists and believes in this country and believes the American People deserve to have the whole story. What does that even mean . The president doesnt want you to know the whole story. If he wanted you to know the whole story, he wouldnt have stopped the virus task force daily briefings and silenced dr. Fauci and others from appearing on Television Like he used to. He wouldnt claim that we are in a good place. President trump is not an of optimis optimist. Hes a fab list. It doesnt make it so. Its lipstick on a pig mr. Vice president. The American People do deserve the whole story. They deserve the whole truth, as well. In a moment, two Public Health experts and two hard hit states, texas and florida but first more on the big picture from cnns nick watt. Reporter big tex taking a break for the First Time Since the world war ii. The texas state fair just cancelled as the military sends medical personnel to san antonio to help. The four days leading up to the fourth of july combined were the four deadliest days to weve had. My concern is that we may see greater fatalities Going Forward. Reporter in florida, icus in 43 hospitals are now full. Especially we need to look at our younger population that we know had a tremendous spike in their positivity rate, which in turn has infected other people. Reporter florida still wont reveal how many covid19 patients they have in hospitals despite the governors claims today. All the data that goes into this is all available. That data is not available. Reporter Miamidade County does release cove hospital numbers and they are up 90 in just two weeks. Still, the state just issued an order for schools to reopen next month. There is push back. We cant go on this path of putting our teachers in this petri dish of danger. I will not open the schools august 24th if the conditions are what they are today. Reporter the states capitol closed after five lawmakers tested positive. Test lines are getting longer. All of this just makes it so much harder to manage this disease. Reporter Quest Diagnostics says last months results were taking two to three days and now four to six. Quick results are key in effectively isolating the infected. The cases are rising so rapidly that we cannot even do Contact Tracing anymore. Reporter undiagnosed silent spreaders might be responsible for around half of all cases according to one new study and as cases claim, nearly half of states now slowing or rolling back reopening. If they keep moving up, well dial back if we have to. Thats the last thing any of us want. Nick watt joins us now. The Trump Administration made good on the previous threat to begin the formal withdrawal from the World Health Organization today and says it will take place in 2021. When is the withdrawal complete and is it i assume irreversible depending on the next election. Right. So anderson, a state Department Official confirms to us that the letter was sent to the u. N. And the u. S. Will formally leave the World Health Organization 2021. President enabled chinas coverup of the origins of covid19. Plenty of lawmaker haves been critical of the w. H. O. But also very critical of the president for leaving the organization in the middle of a pandemic. Robert menendez tweeted this afternoon, this wont protect american lives or interests. It leaves americans sick and america alone. But yes, a u. N. Diplomat confirms to us that this is reversible. Remember, it doesnt kick in for another year so long after the november election and just one more add, anderson, i seen it cross now, the u. S. Set a new record for the number of covid cases in a single day. 55,274 today. Yeah. In this case wa nick watt, appreciate it. As nick said, that is breaking news. The single today, the single highest day of covid infections. 55,274 cases reported that breaking just moments ago. Joining us now, dr. Peter hotez dean of the tropical medicine at houstons Baylor College of medicine. Dr. Hotez, i mean, a grim Record Number more than 55,000 new covid infections today. President trump said were in a good place. Is this a good place . Anderson, today we broke that record 55,000 in two days were going to break that record again. And then in two days from then well break the record again. And then well break it again. This is theres nothing to stop this train. There is nothing to stop this steep acceleration in the number of cases. So next week well have this conversation well be over 60,000 cases. So we have to really reconcile with the fact that this is not going its not even just a question not going well, this is a Public Health crisis and Public Health disaster. People are piling into hospitals and Emergency Rooms and multiple states and the other thing were starting to see happen now, anderson, multiple states in the south is the Health Care Staff are getting exhausted. Its exhausting putting taking on and off ppe every day and multiple times a day. A lot of the hospital staff across sthees states a s a lot of the hospital staff across sthees states tates are. Its staff problems. Everyone is focussing on the number of hospital beds or icu beds. Its not just that. The staff are starting to see the beginning of Staff Shortages because people are getting sick. This is a full blown health crisis. We have to recognize it and deal with it. Dr. Marty, the white house, you know, Vice President pence is saying the President Trump is an optimist when 99 of covid cases are harmless. How seriously should they take the virus if people are being told 99 are harmless. In terms of what youre seeing in florida, doesnt seem like harmless is the accurate word. What is this situation you are seeing . What wooeere seeing is frome 26th of june until today, weve doubled the amount of covid admissions and covid icu beds. Were stressed and exhausted and very significant percentage of the patients that were seeing and admitting to hospitals are younger people. So it isnt just old folks that are ending up in our hospitals and icus. And dr. Marty, from what i understand in florida what you are seeing in terms of when they do Contact Tracing on these cases, what is the focus of the spread . I understand its kind of family interactions, groups, parties, social interactions; is that correct . Thats what weve been able to determine with the tools we have. One of the problems that we have for managing the outbreak is that our Contact Tracing questionnaire doesnt give us the finesse to identify exactly many of the original sources of disease because theyre not even part of the questionnaire. So what we do know is that a very significant portion is, as you say, from personal parties, personal gatherings, graduation parties, et cetera. Those are things were able to determine because thats what is in the questionnaire. Were trying to change that so we can get better data and therefore, a better action because thats why we do Contract Tracing to do the right action. This is an obvious question but why is there a bad questionnaire for Contact Tracing at this point where four months or more into this pandemic . So the entire process is managed out of tallahassee and the way that we do our Contact Tracing for this out braebreak hasnt b tailored for this disease and the reality that we know that this is an infection where a very significant portion of individuals are transmitting when they are presymptomatic aasymptomatic and the questions dont ask details of where individuals were in certain situations, nor is it demanded that individuals have to answer, which they really need to. I dont want to force anybody to do anything but we need to help that let them help us to help them back. Dr. Hotez, its the idea that were so far into this pandemic and i mean, the doctor there is saying the very questionnaires they are asking dont even get to the critical information about this pandemic and i know we talked you and i talked last night. Youre saying at this point in texas, there are so many cases, Contact Tracing may not even be possible because there is too many cases. Thats right. We just dont know if the measures that have been put in place in the states where the cases are accelerating the most, mostly in the south across the south but now were starting to see cases climb steeply in tennessee in the northern parts of the midwest. The measures being under taken are going to be adequate. This is the problem with the lack of strategy by the u. S. Government. We are basically leaving it to the states to figure it out. Well provide backup support but the states dont have the horsepower. They need the full force of the federal government behind them and its clear that were not so farseeing significant and substantive action from the executive branch or white house or agencies. We have to look what other options we have and is there Something Congress can mandate to get a federal response underway and this is something that im hoping to start looking at, as well because business as usual is not working and its not a question of waiting for regime change in november. We there is going to be too much permanent damage if we dont intervene over the next few weeks. Now is a critical period for us. Dr. Hotez and dr. Marty, appreciate your time and i wish you the best in the battle ahead. More on the new projection on more than 208,000 fatalities and the one simple step that could save tens of thousands of lives. Later, what the book the president did not want you to see reveals about his character according to a psychologist that wrote it and shes also his niece happened to see it all up close. Im a performer. Always have been. And always will be. Never letting anything get in my way. Not the doubts, distractions, or voice in my head. And certainly not arthritis. 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All those come together to give us the numbers for first of november. So just schools, kids going back to school, if that happens, that means more people will die . Well, its kids going back to school but all the other stuff around and all the interaction that happens and we seen mobility data and contact but their parents are more likely to go to work when kids are at school and after school ac activities and a package thats a big contribut