Past. He exerted more effort to try to demonstrate empathy towards victims in this crisis. That is something hes done a poor job of in the past and had the briefing that was much more focussed on the central issue. Which is testing. Well see how long that lasts. Drew, lets talk about that. Youre tasked with giving us the truth about testing. White house putting a system in place to improve testing. You have been covering the truth about testing. Is this more pr than an actual plan . Whats going on. Short answer is yes. This blueprint to fix the testing as one governor told us at least its a plan to eventually have a plan. It doesnt seem to address the key issues that were hearing from the hospitals, from various labs and points of care. The supplies that supply line is still not addressed. It seems like the white house is punching this down to the states who are clambering for federal leadership on this issue. I want to share with you a piece of a letter the association of american medical colleges wrote to dr. Burkes about this issue. Its about the supplies. Swabs and viles. Reagents that they just dont have. In the letter they wroi not one of the components is available in sufficient quantities to each lab that needs it. Which is why the soeshs says the government needs to take a clearer role in the assessment and manage want of the supply chain for key testing reagents and supplies. I didnt see that happening in any blueprint today. That is what is needed. Some kind of federal program to keep the states and hospitals and medical systems from having to compete against each other. For supplies. Which are in such short demand. The Vice President was asked about his claim on march 13 that they would have 4 million tests by the following week. Listen to this. When you said 4 million tests seven weeks ago you were talking about tests being sent out not actually being completed . Im confused. I think the precisely correct. In my first on this job, we were informed that hhs the vendor had distributed 1 million. Was distributing another 4 million. We believe they did. Again, those were tests that frankly, but for the president s leadership we would be waiting on to be done in many cases. Because they were tests that were designed to be run in the Old Laboratory model. What are the facts . I dont know what the Vice President is saying today about those tests. I know what he said back then. What he meant back then is we understood it. 4 million tests would be performed by the end of the week. White house said 27 million tests would be performed by the end offend march. We were nowhere near 4 million by that week. We are nowhere near 27 today. Were around 5 million. Theres some rewriting of history going on and we remain behind in testing. Although its improving. It sounded good. It sounded really good. Very authorityive and its a government approach. By this president s leadership. I didnt understand. We are im just saying. All right. Yeah. Okay. Multiple states are reporting a spike in people using disinfectant improperly after the president s comments. Kansas reporting 40 increase in cleaning chemical cases. According to the washington post. The president was asked about this earlier. I know you said they were sarcastic. I cant imagine why. Do you take responsibility . I cant imagine. Is there anything he is responsible for . Certainly nothing bad. He doesnt claim responsibility for negative consequences. Which you often see leaders do. The buck stops here. You can point to me if you have a complaint. Thats how people lead constituents out of crisis. The one thing he took responsibility for today was something that wasnt true. He said he built the greatest economy in the history of the world before the coronavirus hit. That is not the case. He of course inherited a solid economy from president obama. He didnt mess it up for the first three years of the presidency. And did some things that goofed it along. It was the same growth path and job creation path that we were on. Actually slightly slower. No, donald trump the nature of his psych is he calls himself a cheer leader. He likes to take credit for good things that have happened. If theres something negative that happens on his watch, his first i think stingt is blame someone else. Thats what he does consistently. Thank you. Appreciate it. I want to bring in a professor of Infectious Disease at vanderbilt. Thank you for joining us. I spoke with dr. Chris murray. Hes responsible for the modele used by the white house to forecast coronavirus. He told me hes increasing the predicted death toll to 74,000. Were seeing the steady rise. Youre seeing it in case numbers as well. Theres a lot of signs that were trending down, but there are signs here that things are not quite on the same trajectory they were a week ago or ten days ago. Whats the lesson . Whats the take away from the numbers going up to 74,000. We were trying to give some evidence some scientific basis for thinking about when social distancing might be relaxed. Theres always a risk. Multiple states are manning to reopen in the next few weeks. How concerns is that . Were all concerned of course. Because we want to make progress. Slowly. And carefully and safely. And with states opening up who in some of the states dont seem to have met the criteria in phase one. Thats been laid out in the national plan. Were of course worried that this coronavirus which cleverly knows how to be transmitted from person to person will have a field day. As people get out and about and get close to each other. And get a little more lax in social distancing. That will result in more people coming in to the hospital. White house official is telling cnn that their goal is help each state reach the ability to test at least 2 of the residents. Goal is 2 . Thats very low. Well, it is very low. And many states are not anywhere near close to that at the present time. Fortunately tennessee now if you want a test you can get it. So were opening up gently at least in our rural areas. But the metro areas are staying locked down for a while. We know many people with coronavirus are asymptomatic. How are states supposed to safely reopen without everyone being tested . You cant test the whole population. What well focus on still is people with symptoms and some of the worried well who come in and then finding those case, making sure they have medical care and doing contact tracing. That is the key. Testing, finding the people with who are ill, getting them care and contact tracing. The mayor of new york city says selfswab testing for coronavirus will be available in new york city this week. Can you really get an accurate result by doing this yourself . I havent seen kits. I was tested and its not a pleasant experience. And i dont whether people are going to put that swab which is what i assume its, sufficiently high up in the nose to get a good sample. You might get false negative results. In other words the patient actually has the illness but the test comes back negative. And theres the patient out spreading the virus among others unaware they have the disease. Thats the concern. I hope this test has been very carefully validated. The World Health Organization is warning there simply isnt enough research to determine what coronavirus antibodies mean for immunity. How long will it take to get an answer to this crucial question . Even if you have them is it enough and how long do they last . If they do protect you. Well, i know exactly what you mean. The antibodies that are being tested are in part being determined by tests that havent been completed validated. First of all you you need good tests. What does the test result mean. We think it means the patient is protected. We havent identified that yet. And then of course we dont know for how long this protection will last. Will it be short, begin to wane after a year or so, or the protection last longer . We need a vaccine. I think youre saying we need a vaccine. Thank you, doctor. I appreciate your time. The governor of texas announcing his state will reopen this week. Hell allow retail stores, malls and theaters to open friday. At 25 capacity. Joining me now mayor of dallas, texas. Its busy for you. I want to thank the mayors for steppi stepping into the void. Coronavirus cases in texas continue to rise. Dallas county reported 90 new cases this morning. Do you think the governor made the right call . Well, ill tell you this much, in texas, we have a law that we passed in 1975 called a texas disaster act. And it gives these types of decisions in the case of an emergency a declared emergency not governor. The reality is we are where we are now. The governor made that decision, it supersedes any orders like myself as a mayor might issue or at the local level. My thinking has shifted to how do we make these new orders a that will take effect friday work . And how do we make them successful. Being you can seszful in this case means saving lives. We are not going to have people die who dont need to. Or shouldnt be passing away needlessly. My focus now is on doing everything we can to make sure what the governor said he wants to allow to start opening friday actually works. Thats my thinking now. Ill encourage my city to do everything we can to continue to social distance and good hygiene. And try to get everyone to understand how important it is to keep our vulnerable population at home. Our Senior Citizens have been especially hard hit and affected by this. We want to keep them and under lying conditions at home. And make sure everyone who i know has been on the show for several days now saying the same thing. Theyre right, we need more testing. More contact tracing. Thats something ill work over time to help achieve. My thinking shifted to lets make it work. Governor is not mandating people wear masks. Do you think people out and about in the city should be Wearing Masks . I think they should be. Thats something ill continue to encourage people to do. I think that what the situation that were in here is we have to do everything we can as mayors and folks at the local level to make this new statewide order work. To protect our people. And so, yes, i will be telling everyone to continue to do things whether its someone tells you you dont have to wear a mask or not. At the state level. Ill tell my people in dallas they should do that. Its not a requirement under the state order. Its the smart thing to do. Its the conscientious thing to do to keep your neighbors safe. And well continue to encourage those things here. Mayor johnson of dallas. Thank you. Good luck. Stay safe. 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Lets discuss. Doctor, good to see you. Thank you so much. When you see what jet blue is doing, do you think well see measures like this across airlines and even for travel on trains and buses . My question though, if youre telling passengers and others they need masks is where is this ppe going to come from . Its not enough to tell the public these might be the new measures. We need to hit every point. How the public will be supported to follow those guidelines. And i think well have to really radically reimagine what this new normal will look like. The question i get asked the most every day is when can we go back to normal. I have to tell people it normal was the set of circumstances and systems that got us into this mess i dont want to go back to that. It was not being prepared and not having enough ppe. Not being quick enough with testing. We have to really think about a new normal. One where maybe restaurants and bars reopen at the right time and allow half the people in. Schools think about reopening in a radically different way. With physical distancing. Disinfectant use frequently and masks as well. The president suggesting that schools could open during this school year. Listen to this. Youre seeing governors get out and want to open it up. Many are thinking about the school system. Not a long way to go for the season. For the year. But i think youll see schools open up even for a short period of time. Is that a smart idea . If young people are unknowingly spreading the virus. A couple months ago we were saying its good kids dont seem to be affected. Or dying. And how quickly we learned thats not the case. A few hours ago the National Health service tweeted out an alert they are seeing an up tick in kids with a disease where their blood vessels get swollen and leaky that might be linked to covid19. And toxic shock system and immune system conditions. That might be linked to covid19. Im really concerned were rushing to reopen and go back to normal and not learning lessons history taught us. 100 years ago with the pandemic we dropped the containment measures after the first wave. Ten of millions more died in a deadly second wave. I had the dallas mayor on. We talked about this before you a moment ago. The Texas Governor letting some businesses like theaters reopen. Only 25 capacity. At least two theater chains tell us theyre not planning to open. Safe to say businesses, patrons and the government may not be on the same page about readiness to reopen. We are being sold a false die cot my. Public health very the economy. Going back to pandemics sp history in america the cities in the last hispanic flu pandemic that closed earlier, that stayed closed for longer. Guess what . Their economies bounced back in a much more robust way than those cities that didnt shelter in place early enough or long enough. No surprise its because you have good containment measures you have to adapt. Work force isnt as affected. We have seen the virus gets in to the facilities where workers are closely together. And you can start new cluster quickly. Even once you have seen that first wave end. Whatever we say about reopening we have to do it methodically and gradually. And an eye for the second wave. You mention that. Tyson food chairman putting o a full page ad in newspapers this weekend. Warning that meat could disappear from the supply chain and consumers could be limited in options. How can we keep the food supply safe and reliable for everyone and also the workers. Thats the first priority. It should be. Absolutely. Speaking of tyson, there were 150 workers in plant in iowa who were infected with covid19. Another meat packing plant in south dakota. That became the epicenter of the largest covid19 out break in the u. S. Very recently. And thats why groups for meat packing plants have been saying close these facilities down. Once the virus gets into them it spreads like wild fire. And the staff and work force are vulnerable. Theres been great reporting from agricultural journalists and big food journalist saying Companies Like tyson and the Meat Industry has more frozen meat stockpiled than since 1960. And they think that will over see us in terms of temporary closure. The priority has to be on the work force. Making sure were not putting businesses ahead of people. Thank you. Appreciate it. Coronavirus ravaging communities with fewer resource, what do under served communities need most right now . Van jones, lisaling. They are joining together for that mission. They will tell us about that. They are next. Now, simparica trio simplifies protection. Ticks and fleas . See ya heartworm disease . No way simparica trio is the first chewable that delivers all this protection. 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Joining me now the people behind all american. A andrew yang, van jones. Lisaling. The good guys. Youre like superheros. Thank you for doing what youre doing. This is really great. We know the need is out there. It is so great. Particularly among marginalized communities. How did this come together . We lost lisa. Well let her dial back in. So did this come together . I was talking to the ceo of the text line. She shared with me that Asian Americans were using the crisis text line at two and a half times the rate of the rest of the population. And so ma