Im chris cuomo. Welcome to a bonus hour of prime time. The questionable news, good or bad it will be dependent on the out come. 31 states are going to be reopening some way by the end of the week. None of them appear to have met the white house benchmark saying 14 Straight Days of declining cases. We are bending the curve. Why arent we adhering the way other countries that dug out of this did . Look at the Financial Times chart. Death tolls are at their peak. Or falling in many western countries. So many have turned a corner with new case numbers in decline. We have the highest number of new cases globally. What are they doing right that were doing wrong or not doing right enough or not doing long enough. Lets turn to doctor director of the Harvard GlobalHealth Institute and jermy, seen your policy i know your name. Policy fellow with the center for global development. Good to have you both. First, from a Public Policy perspective, am i being unfair to the United States . And looking at how other western countries have dealt with this vs. Us and the chart we put up there. Do you agree with the assessment were not doing as well as others . Well, its clear from the data. We have been at a plateau for really the whole of the month of april. On the first day of april we had 25,000 cases in the country. Today in the last day we have 27,000. Through the entire month, we have hovered around those numbers in the 25 to 30,000 range. My fear is that we have in effect wasted april much like february. And in february we wasted it by failing to prepare for what was coming. Here in april we have wasted it by not taking all the measures we need to do in order to not merely platen the curve but bring it down. We see certain states are making head way on that. New york is making head way. New jersey. Others are not. Other states are going un. As a country we are basically flat. We have yet to get to the kind of Public Health measures and the kind of serious government effort that will be needed to bring this under control. Quick follow to you. Youre too harsh a grader. The president says its a success. Jared kushner says its a success and hes in charge of middle east peace. The reason is the projections had this much worse. And we stopped the spiking. People stayed home, case growth is going down. And people are starting to reopen because were actually flattening the curve and thats good enough as long as you reopen with smart safety measures. Do you agree with the analysis . No. I dont. Were in a holding pattern. We have had a transmission number of one. Roughly every case creates one other case. Thats better than three. But its not enough to get us anywhere close to zero. If were averaging 25,000 cases and each is producing one more. We can stay at the number for a listening time. That would mean that in effect we have done just enough to freeze it. But not enough to suppress it and bring it down and get the country back on the track to reopening our economy. We are not yet at a point where we can safely reopen. And i fear with all that we have done, we have gotten that number down to one case per existing case. We need to get it below that to be winning. Okay, lets stay with this. And come to you, doctor. You dont have to get it underneath that. Its hyper conservative. Not a perfect world. We have to deal with a certain number of cases thats the reality. Well reopen in a smart way and continue to go down well continue to do smartish things and get a cure soon and have a vaccine maybe by january. And thats going to really change. By the way all the numbers are wrong and theres much more herd immunity than people think and well be okay. We dont have to get any lower and reproductive rate than just the one. Were okay. Thats a great story. Its a mix of hope and magical thinking. And unfortunately thats not the reality we have. The reality we have is were kind of flat here. And flat is not good. We want to bring the case in your opinions down. We were flat through april and 60,000 americans chied during that month. We dont want to replicate that in may and june. I think we can open up when the data says we can. And that means case in your opinions have to decline substantially. Testing has to get up substantially. And then if we open up we can stay open. If we open now, we are going to find ourselves with exploding case numbers, hospitals overwhelmed. Having to get shut down again. Thats what we have to avoid. So the push back becomes harder to make. Let me bring it this way. Which is i understand the logic. But it has not played out in practice. The hospitals have been able to handle it. They werent supposed to be able to handle it as long as they have. And in a lot of places you have new york city, still very hard pressed. A will the of the hospitals are burning the midnight oil. Not once you get outside the city. Theres a relativism that we didnt expect. You are not giving full benefit to. Is that a fair push back . Okay we wont open everywhere the same way. We dont have to do this as conservatively as you want everywhere. Well, ill give you half a point. Heres the thing, there are states, montana, wyoming, alaska, where they have very few cases. They are testing is good. Pretty good. If those states open up carefully thats probably okay. But large parts of the country, georgia, certainly not. Texas and florida, thats not where the data are. Are there any places in america that can open up safely and carefully . There are. There are large parts that cannot. This is not just a new york story. Vaccine in january. Wheres the love . Why arent you feeling that. That changes the game. No one would be happier than me to see that happen. Im not going to start counting those chickens before they hatch. Im glad to see the government is doing this sort of big push the warp speed plan. To generate a vaccine. The New York Times had a good piece today laying out just how difficult that would be. I have yet to see a good explanation from the government of how to plan to compress the time line that much. The hard part to compress here is the human trials. And you have to take a certain amount of time for human trials in order to ensure that you have a vaccine that safe and effective. Thats very hard to compress. Its a fixed amount of time. I think its a good idea they are talking about trying to manufacture at the same time or at least build a manufacturing capacity. Great theyre doing that. What im frustrated by is they can invest in warp speed for vaccine but not investing in warp speed for testing. Or contact tracing. Those are the things that can pay off now that begin bringing numbers down now. Not waiting until january before we get a hope for a miracle that may or may not pan out. That i have a problem with. I cant believe that the best we can come to the rosy the riveter mentally is one company in maine making this swabs with the tips. One. Is all we have been able to figure out. Thats the bad fact. I dont understand why the desperation isnt there. Its extraordinary. This is where you lose. Fatigue. You are not paying attention to the biggest metric. Fatigue. We have had it. Thats what the president is banking on. That if he keeps giving little suggestions, i dont know that testing is necessary. Liberate your states. It doesnt matter what he says about testing being good and tracing being good. When he floats that out there hes feeding fatigue. You saw michigan today. People are scared. They want to get back to work, people die. People get sick. Its part of reality. Were not all going to die or get sick. Were past the fear. And we want to get back to life so we can take care of our families. That could be tough to over come no matter what the numbers are. Thoughts on that . You give me the president and the protestors in michigan and ill give you the American People as my response. Latest survey, 80 to 90 of americans are not comfortable going back to work. Not comfortable sending kids to school. Not comfortable going to restaurant without additional testing, without additional evidence it is safe to do so. I see the small minority thats loud. Lets get going. I sympathize with them. The vast majority of americans are saying not until its safe. It wont be safe until we have a testing regime that can identify people who are sick and isolate them from society. So everybody else can go about their daily business. Thats where the American People are and theyre being smart about this. All right. Gentlemen, thank you very much. Six months they are saying for a vaccine. Well see if it happens. Doctor, thank you very much. You rightly cite the polls. Patience wanes. And often out rage gains. Well see if that comes to play in this situation in terms of pushing action. I appreciate your perspective, thank you. Stay blessed sp healthy. A region exercising caution as others are relaxing their rules. Youll see the kinds of splits. We have to examine them why theyre happening and the net effect. Massachusetts extended its stay home order. Why when everybody else is pushing to go in a different direction . 21 states reopening. Why not them. Mayor of boston, next. All right. So this is an interesting piece of information that goes against the reopen now trend. The Massachusetts Governor baker extended the stay at home order until may 18. Even before that was announced boston mayor made clear the city wasnt going to open reopen any time soon. We have the mayor. Marty walsh joining us now. Welcome to prime time. Thank you for taking the opportunity. Thanks, chris. Thanks for having me. I know the city. I know the anxiety level there is real as well. They are hearing people and watching people reopen. Why do you not feel the fer ver . Its not the right thing to do. My job is keep people safe and keep people alive. And rushing whats happening in other states quite honestly and talking to the mayors you had one on today from atlanta, they know its the wrong thing to do. People are afraid. I heard other guests prior to me being on as well. They make good points. My responsibility is mayor of the city of the boston and i our responsibility as governors is keep the people safe. Were in the middle of a pandemic. Like wf never seen. And its our responsibility to do the right thing. The president is beating a drum that people are listening to. Angry enough to do what people are doing in michigan today. Going to the governors office. My money is short, i need this for my family. Life isnt perfect. Dont make the cure worse than the disease. Whats your response . Thats why the stimulus bill and recovery act through congress with Unemployment Benefits for three months. And our legislature and governor are passing legislation around evictions for three months. There has to be a well thought out plan on how to get business back going here. I understand the Small Businesses the restaurants. The golf courses and flower shops. All of those businesses that are hurting in my district and my city. I know my businesses are of color are affected by this as well. They have less operating cash. We have to be careful because one of the previous guests said if we do this wrong and i hope to god down the states that doesnt happen, the second surge is worse. Emergency rooms sp hospitals will be overwhelmed. Boston, massachusetts, we dealt extra space in the Convention Center. Like new york did for additional capacity. We have people in there. We have been able to come up with a plan to shelter our homeless folks and they get covid19 they have a safe place to go. We have been able to send chrome books home to kids and teach them e learning. If we get it wrong, the next september and october, were in a situation thats worse. Its more detrimental to the economy. And the president will wish at that point that he shut things down earlier and kept it extended because it will be right up to election. What do you say to the push back, it turns out this wasnt as bad as they said it was going to be . Do you believe theres a basis for that suggestion at this time . No. Too many people have lost lives. Theres too many people in the hospital right now seriously ill. Too many families have buried loved ones. You look at it if we didnt do the social distancing the numbers would be worse. If we didnt have the world class hospitals we have in the United States. The numbers would have been worse. And i think that a lot of work has been done to actually spare a will the of save a lot of life. If we dont continue down the same path here in boston and massachusetts and across the country, well be in a worse situation. At the end of the day i made the very beginning of this i made decisions cancelling a parade. We cancelled marathon. School. We did a lot of things that some people might not have been supportive of. Certainly now fast forward not that long, eight weeks later. We have nearly 10,000 cases of coronavirus in boston. And we have over 300 people lost their life. Why would i change course and open things up when all i can see it getting worse down the road. What do you pick up in terms of the shift in feel . You mention something that may fly past a lot of people. Not me because i have been following this. People are starting to make homeless a touch stone for the frustration. People talk about homeless like they were rats in new york city talking about how many homeless are on the trains. Theres no capacity in the shelter and cant be in the hospital. Theres nowhere to go. You made smespecial accommodati. That was humane and tactical. People use that as an index things have gone too far. What are you picking up in your city in term of feelings about how long this has gone and the reinking thing to do is . I think theres no question the segment of the population wants to go back to work and its not as serious as it is. The greater majority of people are concern. You made a point talking about schools. One of the things saw happen here in boston was as soon as we got to five or six coronavirus cases, people started panicking about kids in school. Lets quick news flash, by september when schools restart that will be six months where kids havent been in physical school. And boston. If we dont take all the precautions today, theres going tor coronavirus in september. And chance kids dont go back to school. That wont help society or children. That wont help a lot. We have to continue to take this very seriously. We dont have that negative necessarily labeling of the homeless population. We did build out space for quarantine, for Additional Space in the shelters and physical distance. And we have at the Convention Center and Boston Medical Center we have hospital beds with healthcare for the homeless for the the homeless that are covid19 positive. You guys are in the hash tag boston strong. And this is a very different kind of test than the one you showed amazing endurance to make it through. Well be watching your city. Because once again, you are doing things that call for strength during a time of great fear. And frankly weakness. Mayor, stay blessed and stay healthy. Please be aware you have this platform. Its a phone call away. To tell people how its going and why youre doing what youre doing. Thanks, chris. Good to see you better. Im watching you go through this. It was interesting to see. And hope you stay safe and god bless you. Thank you. It became Proof Positive that i am the weak link in the family. Because the mrs. And my son blew through it. It knocked me down like i was nothing. So thank you. I appreciate the good work. 30 million americans have a filed for unemployment. 30 million. All right. That is obviously the biggest number we have seen since the Great Depression. 20 of the work force. Im not trivializing the desere to come back. Im not saying its about a burger and a beer. Thats part of it. Money is tight. Peoples families are jeopardized by this. Not just their health. But wellness as a function of financial stability. I get it. The white house predicts a rocking economy by july. How . How the heck could that happen. One of the great financial minds next. Oft . 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Again this is not just about wanting to reopen for a burger and beer. That is unfair to families all over the country. Somebody who can put in perspective what this means for our economy and how fast you can get it back, what that would take and what the need is right now for the families. Shes actually working on an analysis but on answers. Financial expert and a lot more. Its great to have you back on prime time. Its great to see you, chris. So, 30 million. 20 of the work force. Filing unemployment. Most since the Great Depression. What are the numbers mean . In terms of Economic Impact and hardship. It just demonstrates the degree of the catastrophe we have truly witnessed in the economy. Its unprecedented times. We have never seen anything like this. The rate of o job loss is completely unprecedented. Just to give you an idea during the Great Recession in 2007 to june 2009 we lost 9 million jobs. It has taken us since june 2009 up until last month. 22 million jobs were created in that time dur reinking. About a decade. The idea of losing 30 million jobs in six weeks, and the belief is for many economists that we are actually shortchanging that number. That there are upwards of maybe 10 million more who have not been able to file claims or have given up. The expectation of course those numbers are going to rise in the coming weeks and we will see an Unemployment Rate like we have never seen since the depression. Its goi