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CNNW Erin Burnett OutFront July 13, 2020

Milestone the number of coronavirus globally now 13 million and the number of deaths more than 570,000. In the United States, only 4 of the worlds population, makes up nearly onequarter of those deaths, 135,512 dead americans tonight. The number of the cases in this country headed for another single day record. As of tonight 35 states are going in the wrong direction in case count, too, including california the most populated state in the country just announcing rolling back measures today. And while dr. Anthony fauci meantime and President Trump are on completely different pages. Here it is. Its happened. Your worst nightmare. The perfect storm. It is truly historic. We havent even begun to see the end of it yet. We havent even begun to see the end of it. That is not the message President Trump wants you to hear. He knows it reflects poorly on his leadership at this point and highlights a failure to get the pandemic under control. That is why trump is yelling the opposite as loudly as he can and in this case the opposite is blatantly untrue. We test more than anybody by far and when you test you create cases so weve created cases. We have the lowest mortality or just about the lowest mortality in the world. Were doing a great job. As usual it is necessary to spend some time here putting facts out there because the president did not. First, the mortality rate. He says the best in the world or about. That is not true. The u. S. Is the ninth worst mortality rate according to john hopkins. Second, the claim that when you test you create cases is false. New cases are at a daily all time high, nearly 50,000 today. That vastly out paces any increase in testing. Here are the numbers. Since june 12 there has been a 37 increase in testing in the United States and over that exact same time frame the number of cases has gone up 152 . So the president s claim on testing is factually incorrect as it has been every single time he has made it. And because he ma iks that claim, almost every single day, and it is corrected almost every single day on this program and others, at this point it is fair to say he is lying. He is not misinformed. He is not unaware. On this he is simply not telling the truth. His top doctor does tell the truth on the facts, the figures, the data. So even as trumps team tries to put out a list of mistakes fauci has made and trump publicly has slammed him we are left with the reality that fauci opens his mouth with facts and trump opens his mouth to say anything that makes the virus seem small and not a problem. Well, i think we are in a good place. Were facing a serious problem now. We are almost up to 40 million in testing and 40 Million People which is unheard of. I think what we do need is better screening, broader screening in the country to get a feel for really what the penetrance of the infection is. You look at the deaths. Deaths are way down. It is a false narrative to take comfort in a lower rate of death. So we were able to close our country, save millions of lives, open, and now the trajectory is great. In some states we went from shutdown to complete throwing caution to the winds. Talk about cognitive dissonance. This is much more than that. This is one person sharing facts and the other not. As for faucis point about some states throwing caution to the wind take florida. A state the president praised for reopening when it did so without meeting the White House Coronavirus task force guidelines. The state recorded more than 15,000 new cases yesterday which is the highest number in a single day for any state at any point during the entire pandemic. Florida has more cases than most countries on the planet. More than 8,000 people are currently hospitalized in florida. Infectious disease expert in miami saying, quote, miami is now the epicenter of the pandemic. What we were seeing in wuhan six months ago now were there. So when the president says were doing a great job, what exactly does he mean . Well go outfront near the white house to begin our coverage tonight. Even as we laid out, as i said, the facts and fiction here, the Trump Administration is going out of its way now to discredit fauci who is the top Infectious Disease doctor in the country in charge of this. I think that is really one of the big takeaways for people sitting at home wondering when they are going back to work or when schools are going to reopen and if it is safe to send kids back. You were seeing people inside the white house go behind dr. Faucis back and distribute this anonymous list of things that he said publicly several months ago compared to what he is saying now. Things like when he initially said there wasnt guidance to wear masks, something the Surgeon General also said and told people do not go out and buy masks yet those statements werent included in the list the white house sent around over the weekend and neither were the many false claims of the president himself that he made about the virus like the one about testing you just pointed out. It has been pounted out to him many times by his own Health Officials that is just not the case. Weve seen this for months. The white house tried to deny there is any kind of tension between President Trump and dr. Fauci. They say they get along when theyre in person. Theres never raised voices in the same room. It is pretty clear what is happening here and they are trying to undermine dr. Fauci at times by distributing statements like this that he made and then denying today at the press briefing they were doing that. You know, it is one thing to do it and to just say you did it but they are denying they are actually pushing this out there and saying they are just answering questions when theyre not. It was on background. It was not attributed to any official inside the communications shop. This comes as youve seen several Television Programs including cnn say they tried many times to get dr. Fauci to come on air so they could do an interview to only be rejected by the white house. He is doing some of the print interviews like the one last week where he revealed he had not briefed the president in over two months. It does reveal this gulf between the president and one of his top Health Advisers no matter how much the white house is trying to deny that anything is happening there. All right. Thank you very much. I want to go now to our dr. Sanjay gupta and dr. Jonathan reiner director of the cardiac katherine lab at gw also advised president george w. Bushs medical team for eight years in the white house. The white house has been making a concerted effort to discredit dr. Fauci. The president and fauci havent spoken in months. Fauci has been left we just saw him at this panel, these sort of panel events think tanks or universities are holding. That is the only way we hear from him not in interviews on television. How much does this concern you right now . It is very destructive. If youre trying to get the public to believe a fantasy you have to discredit the Truth Tellers and that is what the president is doing. Over the last few months, the White House Coronavirus task force has really been pushed to the side. A lot of the initial functions of the task force in terms of coordinating a nationwide response have been out sourced to the states. So the states are primarily responsible for testing now. Although the cdc and the federal government issued guidelines, really careful guidelines for opening the statements. The states were given the authority to open on their timeline and the president tacitly encouraged them to speed that up. Weve also heard that from people like Jared Kushner that the Strategic National stockpile is for the federal governments use not for the states use. So in some ways the Coronavirus Task force has become marginalized and when you see the leader of the task force discredited by the president , it is for a purpose. Sanjay, dr. Fauci said about coronavirus today, you know, we havent even begun to see the end of it yet. And he said that this is clearly the most challenging Public Health crisis he has ever dealt with in his many decades career which included hiv, anthrax, zika, ebola. But the president obviously doesnt care. One of the comments the white house pointed to from fauci as theyve been trying to discredit him was this one. Right now at this moment there is no need to change anything youre doing on a day by day basis. That was of course very early on. Then he went on, sanjay, to say this. This is what they left out. This is what he then said. Right now the risk is still low but this could change. Ive said that many times even on this program. You have to watch out because although the risk is low now you dont need to change anything youre doing. When you start to see Community Spread, this could change and force you to become much more attentive to doing things that would protect you pr spread. That was in february. Nbc still promoting the olympics. Okay . He said if you see Community Spread this is all going to change. Guess what . We saw Community Spread. He was very clear as to what would happen for him to change his point of view. They left that part out. How harmful is this effort to discredit fauci . It is really worrisome. You know, i think obviously the briefings went away. That took away a certain seriousness. I think if the briefings went away a lot of people thought this thing is essentially over. The states are starting to reopen. The briefings have stopped. At the same time our reporting, we knew people were saying as you pointed out it wasnt that people were necessarily mad at fauci. He just reminded them of the pandemic so it was an out of sight out of mind situation for a while. Now there is this active sort of very unfair these chop edit sort of things being released to make him look bad. The country is confused. Theres a lot of whip lash going on. People still think, there is still a segment of the population that think this is a hoax or over whatever it may be. If they discredit fauci who is saying hey we are still in the early days of this, its harmful. Were not going in the right direction. We know that. We see the numbers. This makes it even worse. Here is what the president said today on testing in full. We test more than anybody by far. And when you test you create cases. Weve created cases. It is a big factor that we have a lot of cases because we have a lot of testing. Far more than any other country in the world. And its also the best testing. As i made the point you dont create testing cases by testing number one, dr. Reiner. New cases are vastly out pacing any increase in testing. Number two, were not testing enough. Right . We know that. Number three, Quest Diagnostics admitted tonight it is taking more than seven days for nonpriority tests. The former white house chief of staff Mick Mulvaney came out today and said we still have a problem in this country because it took his son five to seven days to get results. His daughter couldnt even get a test. According to the New York Times only 12 states actually meet the testing target. Florida, texas, arizona, california, epicenters . None of them none of them meet the testing criteria. How big of a problem is testing right now . Its a big problem. All around the United States were seeing these significant lags in the return of tests. So you can imagine if youre trying to contain a virus and you go for a test and it takes a week to get the results back, you dont really have the ability to quarantine that person until they know they have the test. You would hope they would do it anyway but it doesnt work that way often. Look, the president either lacks the cognitive ability to understand how tests work during a pandemic, or he is intentionally misinforming the public. Either way it is unacceptable. It is like telling the country if we did half the number of mammograms wed have half the amount of Breast Cancer. It doesnt work that way. And the big difference using that analogy is that in this case the people that you dont diagnose are giving the disease to somebody else. Actually on average about two other people. So the president really has to stop repeating that nonsense. It is nonsense and very destructive. Right. It creates this sense that testing is unneeded and over rated. Right. It does. It absolutely does. And sanjay the president went on today to retweet a tweet. But in this tweet he accused a whole lot of people of lying so let me just see. It said the most outrageous lies are the ones about covid19. Everyone is lying. The cdc, media, democrats, our doctors. Not all but most that we are told to trust. I mean, lets take a deep breath here. He is accusing doctors of lying. I dont know for what purpose but just accusing them of going out and lying. I want to make it clear the cdc had no comment today about when the president spoke with dr. Redfield. Obviously he says they are lying as well. You know, what do you make of this . Its very destructive. I called the cdc. I called my source at the cdc after the president retweeted that and said am i missing something here . Are they referring to something in particular . They have no idea why that tweet went out. Why the president retweeted it. Its a real problem. And, you know, we are in the biggest Public Health crisis of our lifetime and this is the sort of stuff thats going out there. I mean, i feel for the people who are confused to some extent by this now. Its confusing if youre being told by the president that the doctors trying to give you the scientific information are lying. Thats what he accused them of today. So i it is not a medical story, erin. It is not. Unfortunately, it has become a political story with deep, medical implications of life and death for many and that is the true tragedy. Thank you both very much. Next, the mayor of houston pleading with the governor to shut back down. Plus schools should be open. Kids want to go to school. Ill speak to one teacher who is terrified to return fearing it could put her and her husbands life in jeopardy. An alarming new study finds the coronavirus antibodies may only last you a few weeks. Youre clearly someone who takes care of yourself. 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Reporter california shutting down again as cases skyrocket. We are now effectively, rather effective today, requiring all counties to close their indoor activities, indoor operations in the following sectors restaurants, wineries, tasting rooms, movie theaters, and the shuttering of all bars. This is in every county in the state of california. Reporter miamis mayor warning his city could be next. Florida reporting more than 15,000 new cases on sunday. More than any state in a single day since the pandemic began. We have to get control of these numbers. These numbers are out of control. Reporter it is not just florida and california. The majority of the country is moving in the wrong direction. I think the lesson to be learned in texas is you cannot open up the economy in ways that look like the economy was open before. Reporter 19 states posting their highest seven day average for new cases on sunday. Hospitalizations are up. Icu beds a growing concern. We are at an icu capacity of 103 and then if you just carve out the covid icu, it is 180 . That is a 26 increase from last monday. Reporter atlanta now moving back to phase one which includes a stayathome order the mayor joining new York Governor Andrew Cuomo today. He told us very clearly if we didnt do things differently in our cities and states we would find ourselves in the same situation that new york was facing and, unfortunately, you were correct. There are things you can do now physical distance, wearing a mask, avoiding crowds, washing hands. Those things as simple as they are can turn it around. Reporter in the nations former epicenter there is one bright spot. For the first time in months, new york city did not have a single covid19 related death. Its something to make us hopeful but it is very hard to take a victory lap because we know we have so much more ahead. Erica, just looking at the point about new york, no death today for the first time in months. 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