Duringal 2008 financial crisis and nearly 27 million already lost their jobs as a result of the strain of the coronavirus and the strain its placed on the National Economy over the last five weeks. Now as states across the nation push to reopen their economies to get people back to work, the governor of colorado is worried about a second wave. The United States approaches nearly 1 million cases. We have more on this. How surprising was it to hear a white house official paint such a grim picture of the economy in contrast with the treasury secretary . Reporter well, it was surprising, because what the president has been doing in his daily briefings is painting a very rosy picture, telling the American People the economy will experience what he likes to call a vshaped recovery essentially suggesting reopening the economy will be as easy add shutting it down, and we already now looking at how the states are approaching reopening that that is not the case. Most states are taking a phased approach, meaning that Certain Industries can open before others. So what kevin hassett, the official that you just played sound from, what he is saying is that there is more pain ahead, because hes looking at the Second Quarter growth estimates for the economy, and that time period starts in april, and thats when youre going to see the economic pain that americans are feeling right now. Listen. I think the next couple of months will look terrible. Youre going to see numbers as bad as anything weve ever seen. I think gdp growth in the Second Quarter is going to be negative, big number, wall street estimates are negative 20, negative 30 annual rate, because weve done something thats unprecedented. Basically stopped everything. So output has gone to zero for huge swaths of the economy is. That unprecedented move gives a really, really big negative shock. The good news, all the policies adopted have hopefully built a bridge to the other side of that. Reporter now treasury secretary Stephen Mnuchin spun it very differently today and that is not entirely surprising, because he has been the face of these efforts to turn this around and really try and mitigate the pain of the economic fallout were seeing. Listen to his statement today. I think as we begin to reopen the economy in may and june, you are going to see the economy really bounce back in july, august, september. And we are putting an unprecedented amount of Fiscal Relief into the economy. Seeing trillions of dollars making its way into the economy and i think it will have a significant impact. Reporter fredricka, you heard him right there. Betting that all stimulus efforts that have gone into the economy, the 3 trillion that congress approved, will make an impact and mitigate the economic pain. But its certain at this point the longer that the shutdowns go on, the harder it is to get that vshape the president is hoping for heading into november. Of course, its going to impact his reelection, but the one thing trump is not going to be able to do is spin the economic story for the American People, because the American People are going to feel whether or not theyve had the job security and the confidence to make the purchases. By the way, you know consumer purchases, the consumer, is the backbone of the u. S. Economy right now. All right. Christine alesci, thank you so much from new york. And today Governor Andrew Cuomo announced his state is starting to make plans to reopen thanks in large part to lowering numbers of confirmed cases and hospitalizations the state is seeing. The descent continues, and thats a very good starting place. We are now back to where we were on march 31st, before we started this dramatic increase in the number of cases. Were still watching, big question is how fast does that number continue to come down. And more proof of that today. All patients onboard the usns comfort were discharged from the ship. Cnns evan mcmorrissantoro is there with the comfort docked in new york. How significant is it all have beendischarged . Was the number ever very high . Reporter hi, fred. At the unss comfort. Fo fo forgive me for not hearing. But what i have, no patients here. Stay here dock add fed a few mos as the crew cleaners it up and gets ready for its next occupation. Never was up to the full capacity it had. Moving on to the next thing. Shifting to new york. A story where the new york pause began five weeks ago today. Thats the thats the stayathome order put forward by Governor Cuomo. Theres been a lot of controversy what would may mhap may 15th when its supposed to come to an end. Speculation mostly, but today Governor Cuomo mentioned in his press conference there actually might be light end of the tunnel when that may 15th date comes. The pause is statewide until may 15th. Right . Then you have the cdc guide that says hospital, total hospitalization is declining for 14 days. Okay . So we get to may 15th. What regions have seen a decline for 14 days . Well, were assuming we will have seen a decline in the state for 14 days, but what states what regions of the state declined for 14 days, thats where you will start the conversation to get to phase one. Reporter so its important to note here that what were talking about is not the reopening of the entire state at one time. Most people who are home from work right now and home from school right now, will remain at home from work and school at may 15th but beginning a phased process potentially that could happen. The first phase, reopening of manufacturing businesses and construction businesses followed by other businesses that that have plans, that they can reopen. Fred, still awaiting more news on that. Looks like a possibility some opening could happen after may 15th. Right. Thank you, evan. Based on a lot of conditions specialed out by the governor. Evan mcmorrissantoro, thank you so much for that. One of the top medical experts on the president s task force tried to downplay the president ial controversial remarks about injecting disinfectants as a way to treat coronavirus. Today d deborah birx dismissed the controversy as just a dialogue involving the president. That was a dialogue he was having between the dhs scientists and himself. For information that he had received and he was discussing. We had made it clear and when he turned to me i made it clear and he understood that it was not a treatment. I think that kind of dialogue will happen. Lost in there, is very unfortunate i think, in what happened next is, that study was critically important for the American People. You say, why was that important . Because we had an m. I. T. Study just from a few weeks ago that suggests when people are talking and singing, air sal avied coul be transferred. I think ive answered the question, and i think the president made it clear physician hs to study this. I think ive made it clear this was a musing as you describes, but i want us to move on, to be able to get information to the American People that can help them protect each other and also help them understand how devastating this virus is to different age groups and different symptoms and different more dbiditie morbidities. Did that make it every better . Reporter it confirms everything weve been hearing from aides and evenfrett w if the president wag he was supposed to be giving information to the American People. People who are scared, depressed, in their homes. They know theyve lost their jobs. Theyre just trying to figure out what is going on. That leads to a larger question why exactly it was he got this information as we know about 15 minutes before the briefing. And then was pondering it onstage in front of cameras. Weve heard from aides and allies this is a big reason why they have said either to President Trump or behind closed doors theyd like him to stop having these briefings, or at least very, very carefully plan them. Something that there is an optimistic approach, new, good numbers, something President Trump comes out for, but otherwise, to leave it to the medical professionals. Nobody in the white house or at least nobody that ive spoken to, wants to be talking about President Trumps remarks. However it is important to note that President Trump stood up there with medical experts and said in front of cameras to the American People watching, that it could happen, suggested there could be some sort of testing in which lysol, breach or disinfected was injected or ingested into your body and killed out coronavirus leading to several companies as well as Health Departments saying, dont do this. This is incredibly dangerous. Although theyd like to change the tajopic, these are presiden trump himself said during a medical briefing. It even meant there were Poison Centers in several states starting to receive more phone calls from people inquiring about ingesting disinfectants. So also i understand you have new reporting on a possible shakeup at the white house with discussions under way for a plan to replace potentially the health and Human Services secretary alex azar . Reporter thats true. Hearing from a Senior Administration who says there are talks among white house officials to replace azar. This, of course, comes after several different events. One, President Trump making Vice President pence as leader. Two, azar having a bad relationship with seema, a member of the task force and very close ally of Vice President pence. Also comes after we really havent seen azar in a public briefing in weeks. So i want to note those things first. That is the argument were hearing from Senior Administration officials. On the other hand what we are hearing is that there is a blame game going on. Coming out after weeks of negative criticism from americans, from state leaders, on the handling of this coronavirus, and i should note a Senior Administration official stressed this decision would come from President Trump. Thank you. Larry hogan, governor, raising concerns about the president s comments an injects or ingesting disinfectants is in any way effective. Hundreds of calls on our hot line people in maryland people asking about injecting or ingesting these disinfectants, which is hard to imagine that people thought that was serious, but people actually were thinking about this. Was it something you could do to protect yourselves . Dr. Julio frank president of former minister of health for mexi mexico. Good to see you. Nice to see you as well. Thank you. How is this misinformation about disinfectants, ingesting them, ho you has that become a distraction to people . Well, you know, when i worked at the World Health Organization we used to say there are communicable diseases, like covid19 and then communicated diseases. The spread of misinformation, rumors, et cetera, that very often accompany emergencies. Thats why a key element more than any other element, testing, Contact Tracing is a coherent, clear, concise and credible communication strategy where you dont see contradiction between political figures and scientists, where people get clear, nonambiguous information, and it is a very qualifier to maybe trying to deal with any emergency but particularly a pandemic like this one. And then theres the issue whether someone has immunity after they have contracted coronavirus, and the white house has taken one position. Dr. Deborah birx described her position, studies are ongoing. Mowntime you heard the World Health Administration put out its warnings, no evidence there was immunity. What do you believe people should take from the issue of whether immunity, you know, can come from whether immunity is something that a victim of coronavirus can expect . You know, by definition anytime theres a new germ, like this coronavirus, we have unsinu uncertain uncertainty. Because its the first time that germ encountered humans. So we are learning as we go along. And a defining feature now, its Getting Better and better because were getting more and more information. Thats one element that were getting more information. At this point, we do know that you can measure antibodies to see if a person has been exposed to the virus. Then the question is, does that provide protective immunity, which is a key element as we think about reopening the economy, because obviously if it provides protective immunity to themselves, meaning they cant get the disease, but also to others. Meaning they cannot get others those people could be back in the workforce. At this point were learning the more testing we can do the more rapidly we will learn. Communitybased largescale sampling was done in new york that were actually doing right now in miami with a team from the university of miami, is essential. Thats exactly the sort of largescale testing. This is a testing not to see if you have the disease but if you have the antibodies, because the more we can establish that that provides protective immunity, the quicker we can have all of those peoples rejoined into the labor force. Sound like, dr. Franks, you might be in agreement with what d birx said earlier on the issue. Take a listen. The cdc is not only measuring antibodies but looking and seeing whether that antibody is neutralizing, a functional antibody in our functional assets. Same time through the fda and working with hospitals theyre collecting plasma and giving plasma and recovering antibodies, recovered peoples antibodies back to sick people to see the impact it has. So all of that data together, i think, is going to create a very clear picture about antibody. I think what w. H. O. Is sigh iay we dont know how long that effective antibody lasts. I think thats a question we have to explore over the next few months, and over the next few years. So are you in agreement with that . How do you understand that . Yeah. Exactly right. And the more we do, the more we will learn, and be able to solve this. Meantime, your general doing of more testing is good, and we need tests that are approved, reliable. That is a key part of the strategy. And then you talked about the university of miami and its Research Teams studying the virus. How optimistic are you about the findings, the potential findings . I have no doubt that the way were going to win this war is through the instruments of science, that comes from scientific research. And its just a reminder how important it is to invest in science. Its tests, its drugs and its eventually the have. We have teams working on the frontlines and how it is communicated effectively. An approach allowing us to arm the Public Health professionals with how to control this and future pandemics. There will be other pandemics. And what weve found frustrating over the years, a lot of paying attention, and then it wanes down soon as the emergencys over. I hope this is a wakeup call we need to sustain those investments, have the platforms tore testing of drugs and vaccines ready so as soon as theres a new pathogen that appears, and there be others in the future, you can immediately plot that particular jeangenome delve out the drugs. Dr. Frank from the university of miami a another great city i once lived. 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Talking to someone off camera seconds ago who is from los angeles county, he went a few miles into this county. Saw friends he had not seen in six weeks but they maintained their social distance. Now, whats happened throughout Southern California this weekend during this first test, weather test, after covid19 breakout, you have different rules for different counties. Just to the south of us, mere miles, l. A. County, you cannot be at the beach in any way, shape or form. Law enforcement officers are all over this right now and not allowing it. What were hear