Out. I dont own a casino. The mayor of las vegas put Safety Measures in the hands of business ones owners as she pushes to reopen casinos and hotels. We will talk to the head of a union who has lost 11 members to covid19 in las vegas alone. The United States now accounts for almost 1 3 of the worlds 2. 6 million cases of coronavirus. As tens of thousands of new infections are confirmed almost daily, yet even as the number of cases and deaths keep rising, the republican governor of the u. S. State of georgia plans to begin reopening some businesses on friday. The u. S. President says its too soon. I told the governor of georgia, brian kemp, that i disagree strongly with his decision to open certain facilities which are in violation of the phase 1 guidelines for the incredible people of georgia. The medical community is focused on developing an effective treatment or vaccine as quickly as possible, yet the u. S. Official responsible for providing a viable vaccine was pushed suddenly out of his job on tuesday. Dr. Rick bryce says he ran afoul of pushing unapproved drugs. I am speaking out because to combat this deadly virus, science not direct politics or cro cronyism has to lead the way. I want to ask you about rick bright, the head of the federal agency in charge of getting a vaccine out to americans once it is ready. He said it is pushed out of his job because he raised some questions of hydroxychloroquine. I never heard of him. You just mentioned the name. When did this happen . This happened today. I never heard of him. If the guy was pushed out of a job, maybe he was, maybe he wasnt. I dont know who he is. The president also is trying to tamp down predictions of a possible resurgence of infections in the fall, a view at odds with his own medical vices. May not come back at all. Hes talking about a worst Case Scenario where you have a big flu and you have some corona. If it does come back, its not going to come back. Ive spoken to ten different people. Not like it was. Its all possible. It is possible it doesnt come back at all. We will have coronavirus in the fall. I am convinced of that because of the degree of transmissibility that it has, the global nature. What happens with that will depend on how were able to contain it when it occurs. Joining me now is michael head. He is a Senior Research fellow in Global Health at the university of south hampton. Thanks so much for being with us. Good morning. Thank you for having me on the show. So dr. Birx says states can decide for themselves, but even President Trump said wednesday he strongly disagrees with the georgia governor whos set to open up close contact businesses on friday. Mr. Trump saying its too soon for hair and nail salons and gyms to open up. That is a lot of mixed messages, isnt it . It hasnt changed the fact that some of those workers will return to their jobs on friday. Whats your reaction to a state opening up these sorts of businesses before infections are declining . Yes. I think the mixed messaging is extremely unhelpful. I dont think there is any real good evidence for georgia to be opening up its businesses at this point in time as cases are increasing at the rate they are. I think they would be best advised to follow the Public Health messaging that has come out saying lockdowns remain in place. If we had extensive covid19 testing across the country, those that were sick could be isolated while the healthy could go back to work. The same goes with antibody testing. Those immune workers could go back to their jobs. Testing is key here, isnt it . Yet were not seeing the appropriate level of testing in the United States or the united kingdom. Why . There is too little testing going on. That is in part because there are too few tests available. There are supply issues in the u. K. , perhaps in the United States as well. Countries like germany is doing fairly well, but the u. K. And u. S. Have a shortage of tests. Theyre not able to scale up at this point in time to the level they would like to see. Why is that . Whats right at the core of this . Here in the u. K. The core is being the supply chain issues. Getting enough reagents and materials to be able fro ses the tests. We are scaling up capacity. There is a target of reaching 100,000 tests per day at the end of the month. That is looking a little optimistic. In the u. K. Thats a key issue. I want to share what the w. H. O. Chief has said about the virus. Lets bring that sound up. Make no mistake, we have a long way to go. This virus will be with us for a long time. One of the greatest dangers we face is complacency. All right. So we musnt be complacent. Then we hear President Trump suggest on wednesday that the virus may not come back in the fall, but his medical expert dr. Fauci contradicted him, reminding everyone that the virus will return along with the flu. With that in mind, what is the smartest way to open up an economy while living with this infectious virus that wont go away until we are testing it . I think we need to listen to the Public Health experts i think in each country and in the u. S. In each state. We probably will see some phased openings of businesses as we go through. Increasing the level of testing so that we know how many cases were dealing with and it will be the key going forward. Until we get to that end point where we have a vaccine distributed widely. Very quickly, how far away do you think we are from getting that vaccine . Is it going to be accelerated . Are we going to see those trials accelerated . I think they will be accelerated. The university of oxford has been on tow mitt stick. They will have a vaccine ready in six months. I dont share that optimism. We are a few months away from having a vaccine available that will be scaled up and widely distributed. All right. We should watch that very closely. Michael head talking with us there. Appreciate it. Thank you. And as we just heard, researchers in oxford, england, will begin testing a vaccine on humans today, in fact. Its based on a weakened version of the common cold virus found in chimpanzees. The British Health secretary says the government will throw everything into the hunt for a vaccine. So lets turn to cnns nic robertson. He joins us live from london. Good to see you, nic. Everyone around the world wants this vaccine. How much hope might this bring . Reporter well, Oxford University and professor Sarah Gilbert whos having the study have experience with this vaccine because they have used it in a trial for the mers coronavirus a few years ago. So they have knowledge of what theyre handling. Obviously everything is being excel ler raa accelerated to the best that they can do and the government will provide and allow for. Normally it takes vaccines many, many years to go into trial and then meet clinical approval. All of that is being fast tracked. What theyre setting out to do in the first phase here is involving several hundred people. Thats to make sure this drug is safe in people. Now having tested this to agree previously, they should have some knowledge of that. What Oxford University is saying is that by fall if the initial tests go well, then they should be able to scale up the vaccine to a more Wider Population but, again, it will still be in the testing and Research Phase when they do scale it up. So its two steps. So safety and then more of a fully fledged clinical trial. Thats whats expected at the moment, rosemary. I speak for all of us when i say the sooner the better. Nic robertson, thank you very much. Appreciate it. Now to the original epicenter of covid19. David copper reported from wuhan, china. Was it a wet market as the chinese insist or a laboratory . He takes us to both locations. Reporter you can just look at the street behind me in wuhan, china, you can tell that traffic is coming back onto the roadways. Life is starting to resume albeit amidst a cautious optimism. A lot of people are optimistic this is gone for good. Many believe this could be a second wave. Cnn back at the original epicenter of the Novel Coronavirus outbreak, wuhan, china, and the more than 11 million residents navigating this post lockdown uncertainty. Among them christopher. Lets switch out masks. Reporter he suggested we update our masks. I was married here, had a baby here, ive been here for the past ten years. This is home. This is home. Reporter christophers home is slowly emerging from a brutal 76 day lockdown. Im real happy to see people keeping their distance, getting around, going about their day. Reporter two weeks after the reopening, some are closing the gap on social distancing. Many stores and restaurants keeping people from going inside but thats not stopping crowds like this one Standing Shoulder to shoulder. In places like our hotel there are noticeably different measures. Staff spraying us down, inside the elevators telling you where to stand and offering you a tissue to touch the buttons. We are afraid there is going to be a second wave. I think everybody here knows. Reporter you are fine . Absolutely. Reporter there is growing skepticism of where the first wave actually originated. This is where Chinese Health officials believe this is where the Novel Coronavirus started. They believe other things may have been sold here, hence, the transmission from animals to humans of this virus. You can see its all closed off still. This has now been since january 1 that they shut it down. However, i want to take you now to the lab where u. S. Intelligence is getting into the possible origins of this virus having gone there. We drove to the lab just down the street from the market. This is one of the labs within wuhan. Not too far from the market either. Its an origin theory chinese officials quickly dismissed. They pushed back at claims that their reported number of claims and deaths is far less than reality even as numbers have been revised upward to account for under counts. Last week another 50 was added to the wuhan death toll alone. Whether or not they want to share that information with the public doesnt really concern me. Im really more concerned about my family and what we can do. Reporter and others like this convenience shop owner, more worried about resurrecting their businesses. Im a bit worried. I dont know when we will resume completely. As china claims to get the virus under better control, in places like wuhan theres greater concern of people coming in elsewhere, from our arrival into the city to this interview out in the city, we were questioned repeatedly. Im from the u. S. But i live in beijing. Reporter a group of plain clothes and police being uneasy of our being there. A mounting mistrust of foreign media. A walk in the park. Reporter it is interesting to know that as you walk around wuhan, you begin to assess Different Levels of complacency. Some folks are very comfortable wearing a mask, which is part of the law, it is mandatory. And will often go into crowds and be shoulder to shoulder with others. Then you have others wearing protective gear head to toe. They are not in the medical community. They do not trust the virus is gone for good. They want to protect themselves in as many ways as possible. They protect themselves and also those they could come into contact with. David culver, cnn, wuhan, china. 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Johns hopkins says it expects to lose 100 million for the 2020 fiscal year due to the pandemic, and it could lose as much as 375 million next year. The universitys president blames a loss of tuition fees, a loss of revenue from its clinics and decreasing donations. And Johns Hopkins is one of Many Employers under financial pressure. In just a few hours though were about to find out how many people filed new unemployment claims across the United States in the past week, and cnns Christine Romans joins us now live from new york. Good to see you. Hi, rosemary. So everyone is feeling financial pressure right now, but no one more than those losing their jobs and filing for unemployment. How bad is this looking . These thursday mornings in the u. S. Have become a grim mile marker of where we are on the road here to this pandemic to finding a solution to this pandemic. Were expecting maybe another 4 million jobless claims filed in the most recent week. I mean, that number alone is astonishing, and in normal times would be just simply unheard of. Even in crises before a number like that is unheard of. Put it altogether, thats under 5 week. Thats more than 26 Million People either furloughed or laid off over the past five weeks. That shows you what it looks like when you slam the brakes often a big chunk of the american economy. Those numbers, each one of those numbers on your screen is a person who has bills to pay and a person who is now concerned about where the money will come from going forward. So those numbers i think are really important to put into context. Even heading into today. Not including the most recent week of layoffs and furloughs. Youre talking about more than 13 of the labor market has lost its job in just the past four weeks alone. Really, really important to put those into perspective for each person who is filing for unemployment benefits, to get the extra benefits that the stimulus, the emergency bailouts are allocating. They want some clarity about when theyre going to get back to work. Yeah. Most of those people need food to put on their familys tables and theyre lining up to get that. It is just horrifying. There are lots of problems with the Small Business program. Whats the latest on those funds . Reporter we know theres another 300 billion that will be put into that piggy bank from the sba, the Small Business administration. There are no Strings Attached from getting the Public Companies from taking the money. Shake shack took the money and gave it back. That was admired. The other Big Companies who have other ways to tap the Public Markets for money should not be trying to raid the piggy bank thats supposed to be going to Small Business. 60 billion is going to be steered directly to Smaller Community lenders. Credit unions and the hope there is that they already have business ties with Small Businesses who dont bank with the big, big banks and theyll be able to quickly get money to small main street businesses that way. Look, it cannot come soon enough. That money has got to start flowing. Thats really why there was one of the problems getting that money out the door. Senator marco rubio said they wanted expediency. They didnt want restrictions. They wanted to get the money out the door. By doing that some of the big guys could jump in there and get the money, too. Some of the bigger businesses need to return that money before some sort of action was taken. We werent told what action but it doesnt sound good, right . Christine romans, thanks. The pandemic is taking a huge financial toll on american hotels. According to the Analytics Company str, hotels reported last week that more than 3 4 of their rooms were empty. Thats down 64 from the same time last year. Slightly higher than what weve seen in recent weeks, but thats likely because the rooms are mostly being used by workers responding to the pandemic. The u. S. President has tweeted and new threat to iran saying he has ordered the navy to shoot down any iranian gun boats that harass u. S. Ships. The threat came after tehran announced it launched its First Military satellite into orbit and the u. S. Navy says u. S. Ships tested boats in the iranian sea. They use the same technology to fire intercontinental ballistic missile. Iran says it will not hesitate to defend its territory. U. S. Oil prices jumped after the president threatened. John deftarios joins us. Talk to us about the impact back and forth, the increased tension between the United States and iran is having on oil. Reporter i think we could frame it as a combination of gunboat and twitter diplomacy, rosemary, and its bringing the middle east region back to the forein terms of security and it impacts the oil market. To remind our viewers, 1 5 of the global supplies come here from abu dhabi in the strait of hormuz. Thats why we see the price going up. Were seeing gains of 5 to 7 . In the last two hours of trade it was 10 to 12 . This is a far cry of where we were in the last 48 hours of 10 to 15 a barrel. Weve had a rise in inventory which means they could run out of storage by the period of late june, which is going to strain the system overall. Theres no place to put this extra production. In the context of the iranian situation, rosemary, remember back in january with the killing of the iranian general, this left prices up to 68 a barrel. We saw a shift in the parliament. The hard liners took control. The response with speaking with the spokesman from iran wa