In their cases. The stakes becoming more clear by the day. New modeling showing thousands more dying in the coming months if Current Trends hold. Thats key, right . Its not just about increased testing but about people getting sick. More dying. More than 30,000 lives could have been saved these models show if 95 of americans wear masks. Yeah. And we can all still do that. Even as calls for mask wearing grow, more and more bipartisan as republican voices in texas and florida join the chorus. The president is visiting yet another state today, likely without wearing a mask if the recent trips are any indication. Lets begin with our correspondent lucy kafanov in dallas. Good morning. Good morning, look, texas, is bracing for what could be a third consecutive day of record breaking numbers. Both in terms of new cases and hospitalizations. Officials and hospitals here are worried now about potential capacity if these kinds of rates continue. Houston, for example, is facing such a surge that even the Childrens Hospital there is now making room for adult patients. Covid patients that could be transferred in. The mayor of austin telling cnn if the current rates continue, he could run out of hospital beds by mid july. And take a listen to the alarming warning from one of the nations and states top Infectious Disease experts. Our big metro areas seem to be rising very quickly and some of the models are, you know, on the verge of being apocalyptic. Out of the university of pennsylvania, the numbers say that well have a fourfold increase in the number of daily cases by july 4th in houston. So this is obviously a major concern, the governor here did make an aggressive push to reopen the state in may. Hes now facing this Public Health disaster. He is urging folks to stay home, to try to not be out on the streets. But we have seen reports of jampacked bars. Folks out and about. And with that 4th of july holiday coming up those numbers, guys, could be going more and more up. Guys . Wow. Well, lucy, thanks for that. Lets go to our correspondent, Stephanie Elam. Shes in california. You have a state that saw 7,000 new cases in a day. A state where it is, right, mandated to wear masks inside and outside in almost every circumstance. Thats true, poppy. Thats statewide here and that was early on. A lot of what has been done happened early. We were the first state to go into the stay at home order and there was a thought that california was in the lead of beating back the coronavirus. But the numbers from yesterday thats sky rocketing from the previous number of new cases which is about 5,000 the day before that. I did ask Governor Newsom about those, about the perception that california was ahead and now seems to be slipping behind. He say that the state has really crushed the curve and that when the stay at home order went into effect the state wasnt prepared for an onslaught of cases and for people to be in the hospital in icu beds but he says now they knew this was going to come, that this number was going to continue to rise as the state opened back up as you see more people out mixing and going back to work. But hes saying theyre prepared and theres a controlled rise, only 8 of the hospital beds for covid are occupied right now. One thing thats also worth noting, here in Los Angeles County which is basically the epicenter of the outbreak in california that they are now saying that they are increasing their testing. Now saying that theyll be able to test some 13,700 tests a day, taking the number up from about 7,700. Still, as the numbers sky rocket, people are concerned. Poppy and jim . Consistent story in a lot of states. Stephanie elam, thanks very much. Rosa flores is live in miami where the mayor there is trying to find a way to require citizens to wear masks. Though without the statewide order from the government, marco rubio said just wear a damn mask, his exact words there. But still, no statewide move. Youre absolutely right. Yesterday on the day that florida broke its record, Governor Desantis doubled down and said he wont require a mask statewide. Heres how one expert put it, its very simple. She said, look, there a lot of young people in florida who are out partying, not Wearing Masks, not social distancing and then going home and intermingling with their parents, their grandparents and then going to work and doing the same with their coworkers. Look, i checked the numbers here in miamidade. The Positivity Rate yesterday was 27 . The goal for the county is not to exceed 10 . They have exceeded 10 for the past ten days. Jackson health is reporting a 108 increase in the number of covid19 patients in the past 16 days. Miamidade mayor jimenez announced yesterday there was an outbreak in south miamidade. He says that theres an outbreak in farm workers there. They dont need hospitalizations but they need to isolate and they live in very close quarters. So the county is going to be offering hotel rooms to these individuals until they get better. And the city of miami mayor upping the ante saying not only does he want to require masks, he wants to impose civil fines. Jim and poppy, but again, this is all done locally. At the state level, Governor Ron Desantis saying he wont require masks statewide. Hard to understand why. Rosa, thanks. Joining us now to talk about this and the Record Number of cases also in texas, dr. Shaw, the executive director of the Harris CountyPublic Health department, the third most populated county in the u. S. , home to houston, which what theyre seeing is down right scary. Is it time for mask mandates everywhere . First of all, thanks for having me and yeah, this week the county executive judge issued requirements for masks in businesses and thats a good first step and theres a lot that were concerned about as we see these increases in numbers, both in cases. The Positivity Rate of testing as well as whats happening in the Health Care System. That concerns all of us. Let me ask you this. Is there a middle ground between a total statewide lockdown and reopening which allows you to have some economic activity, right, but still stem the spread of this. I know its difficult to judge and you would have to ratchet things up and down as warranted. Right, but thats the essential debate here, is it not, and in texas as well, is can you have a middle ground or to get a handle on it, for now, folks, stay at home . I think thats been the key issue. Even in reopening, its not that can you cannot reopen, its that you have to reopen with both health and safety in mind and you and i talked about this. This not just about either or. This is an and. You can reopen but reopen with health and safety in mind and make sure were doing it slowly enough that were not layering effect of seeing the reopening as well as other Milestone Events like holidays and other activities and all of that comes together in making sure that reopening is safe. So its the same in the reverse. That if you are looking at how do you go back where if you feel gone prematurely or too much in one direction, then you dial it back. Its note an either or. This is not a black or a white, there are grays in between but we have to work with our state partners to be able to have those kind of authorities and thats been the challenge. Right now, the local authorities outside of the authority to have the masks for the pates are on and the Staff Members outside of that we do not have member of those authorities left. So this is really now at the state level. So let me ask you about what new york, new jersey, connecticut, the tristate area instituted yesterday and that is if you, doctor, wanted to fly from houston to one of those states youre going to have to go into the 14day quarantine. Anyone seeing a spike in florida, arizona, et cetera, will have do that. Its a big Public Awareness push and telling hotels to people that arrive they should do this. But i wonder about having teeth to it and enforcing it. You know, i think thats one of the biggest things about this entire aspect of the pandemic. For several months, this is not just been about the education. Its also about the enforcement. Its about not just you know, we have been blue in our face, if you will, to do everything to make sure our Community Knows what they should do in order to fight this pandemic. By and large, we have to give credit to our community. It has fought this pandemic successfully. You know the numbers have shown that. The case rates, the death rates to date have shown that. But now that we are at this new phase where were seeing increases what i call the abcs. Its the awareness, but its the bc part which is the behavior change. And thats a really difficult thing. So when you say to people, wear a mask or wash your hands its one thing for people to hear the message. The behavior changes to actually do it. And i think there are big policy issues here and individual actions that people can take and we need to do both. Because guess what . Were running out of time. Where the runway is short and our Health Care System is filling up and we need to do everything we to fight this pandemic. Listen, and the leader of the country is not willing to spread that message. Thats notable and seems to have an effect. Thank you very much. Just inconsistent messaging from the federal, state, local, that impacts the individual Community Maybe who gets complacent or decides no, im not going to do it. 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Right now, dozens of secret Service Agents are in quarantine after working the president s rally in tulsa last weekend. Cnn white house correspond end john harwood joins us right now. This is remarkable, right, because it gets to risks to the president , these are people who work closely with the president , but gets to the question of have the president s events in public, in indoor arenas without masks put the secret Service Detail in danger themselves . Well, clearly, they have. We had not only eight advanced workers test positive from the tulsa event but two secret services and as a result, you have a couple of dozen secret Service Agents being in quarantine now. Now, the secret service says they have got enough agents that it doesnt impact their ability to protect the president but obviously, infected secret Service Agents pose a risk to the president and also the more events the president has, if you get more confirmed cases then you have to quarantine more officials, then you start to get just as you may have exponential spread of the virus, if you have exponential spread of quarantined secret Service Agents then you do impact the protective ability. As of now the secret service says that every agent what goes on a trump event is going to be tested 24 to 48 hours ahead of time for covid. We do not know whether there are confirmed cases from the phoenix event as of yet. The president goes to wisconsin today. But this is clearly something to watch and the president s insistence on not embracing mask wearing both with his audiences and in his own modeling for his supporters is something that has real world consequences we are starting to see. And Real World Health consequences. Thanks very much. Lets speak to from william shofner from vanderbilt university. Dr. Shofner, youre a doctor, but i purely i want to ignore the politics here. I want to get at the Health Effect of the president , the commander in chief, being in denial here about the facts. He says the virus is going away. Its not. The numbers dont lie. He says that the cases are only rising because of increased testing. Thats also false because the positive rate, that is the percentage of people who test positive is also rising and face masks make a difference, but the president wont wear them and doesnt require them at his events. Are the president s statements and behavior endangering lives . Well, whats happening, jim, obviously is were not getting Clear Communication and clear modeling from the highest office and thats really something that we need. Its been a confusion of communications about covid from the beginning. And that really impairs what it is that local people can do. Because they simply are confused. Theyre getting conflicting messages. Sure, we need absolutely leadership to show us that we all need to wear masks when were out and about. Six foot distancing. All of thats very, very important. Avoiding those large group events. Okay. So you have had dr. Jonathan reiner, hes a professor of medicine at Gw University say yesterday something that was striking and he said, going out in public without a mask is like driving drunk. If you dont get hurt, you might kill somebody else. Its true, except if you drive drunk youll get a dui at some point and there are major consequences for that. My question is how do you compel people to do what they need to do to keep other people safe without really consequences other than maybe a possible fine . Well, poppy, first of all, you have to model it. You have to make Wearing Masks a social norm. Every business has to have a sign outside their door that says, if you wish to patronize us, please come in with a mask. If you havent got one, well give you one. And then everybody who works in the business has to wear it. Religious leaders have to preach that to all faiths, all the time. We need chambers of commerce coming out. Local political leaders, all harmonizing with that message to normalize that behavior in our society. And on occasion, you may indeed have to mandate it. Thats not happening, sadly. Its not. And the president seems to be doubling, tripling down on this approach. Its become a political issue, so i wonder from a Public Health perspective without that kind of leadership and Broad National strategy as opposed to state by state strategy, can the u. S. Get a handle on this . Because countries who have in europe included, south korea are ones that had a National Strategy and required a lot of these behaviors, et cetera. I mean, without that, are we stuck in this, you know, constant, you know, growth in cases . Jim, i think we are. Look what happened. Initially the virus was introduced from china and it went to major metropolitan areas and of course we develop some hot spots there. Then over time, it began to go to medium sized cities and now over the summer its going to smaller cities and its now getting out to rural areas. So where is whereas it was rather geographically constrained initially now its spreading out across the country and when the fall comes, and influenza takes off and covid takes off, all of a sudden its going to take off all across the country and were going to be stuck in a very bad place. The time to normalize Wearing Masks and social distancing behavior is now so that we get used to it by the time the fall arrives. And