Welcome to inside politics. Im john king. To our viewers in the United States and around the world, thank you so much for sharing your sunday. The coronavirus shattered records this past week, including new daily highs in the counts of new infections globally and here in the United States. Hospitalizations hitting new highs in more than a dozen states here. Yet it has been 12 days now since the president of the United States held an event focused on coronavirus, and this big summer surge. And the Trump White House is now fighting a proposal by Senate Republicans to give the cdc more money for testing and contact tracing. An adviser tells the Washington Post, the president doesnt ask much about the pandemic anymore, because he, get this, quote, doesnt want to be distracted by it. Doesnt want to be distracted by it. Keep that in mind as we run through the numbers now and map out a crisis that is screaming for president ial leadership and a National Plan to slow the spread. Lets go back and look at the numbers, we have 50 states with 50 reopening plans, 32 on this sunday morning heading in the wrong direction, meaning their case count is higher this week than last week. Thats an improvement. We have 32 heading up now, those are the orange. The red heading up by 50 currently than compared to last week. 14 States Holding steady. Thats the yellow or the base. Four states case count down compared to last week. But 32 states still heading up there. This past week just devastating. If you go back to the beginning, this is what we thought the peak was in april. Saw it flat line, a dip. Look at the past week, a week ago, 59,000 new cases on sunday, thursday, all time high, 77,000 plus. The line heading up in the wrong direction as the summer surge continues. Well look in the week ahead. The sevenday average of new cases, again, march as it began, april, many thought would be the peak, may and june stable, down a little bit from april, july has seen this surge averaging in the last week more than 71,000 new cases a day. And with the case count comes hospitalizations. Again, back in april, this was the peak, shy of 60,000 people in the hospital of coronavirus. A steady drop, were back up now almost, almost rivalling the april peak. We will see if this number goes up or down in this week ahead. 15 states, you see them here, 15 states have more than a thousand covid19 patients hospitalized right now to a hospitalization problem coming with the casing. Remember, remember when the reopening happened. The reopening happened, you had the inevitable increase in cases, the president , other leaders said thats okay. Hospitalizations are going down. We can manage this. We knew there would be more cases, we can manage this. There is a lag time. You have hospitaizations, cases, hospitalizations lag. 27 days later, you see hospitalizations now starting to go up. That is the problem now in many communities. Well discuss that in the hour ahead. The White House Well aware of this growing crisis. Even if the president refuses to acknowledge it. A document prepared for the Coronavirus Task force puts 18 states in a red zone. And says they should roll back their reopenings. But that document has not been made public. And we know the president wants the economies left open. That document also urges several states to enact mask mandates. The president opposes a National Mask requirement. I want people to have a certain freedom and dont believe in that, no. I dont agree with the statement that if everybody wear a mask, everything disappears. Dr. Fauci said dont wear a mask. Our Surgeon General, terrific guy, said dont wear a mask. Everybody was saying dont wear a mask. All of a sudden everybody has to wear a mask and masks causes problems too. With that being said, im a believer in mafbsks, i think mas are good. When the president speaks, a lot of that is misleading. Masks do not cause problems. Dr. Fauci and the Surgeon General did say months ago masks were not recommended, but they now say they are vital to slowing the spread. The president who right there called himself a big believer in masks almost never wears one. Kaitlan collins is live this sunday. The president s philosophy seems to be if i pretend the coronavirus is not happening, it will go away. Reporter and the question is, thats obviously not working based on the charts you showed us. Those are the same numbers that the Coronavirus Task force is looking at when they meet several times a week. So the question is, why is this no longer a priority for the president , why are they no longer doing events as you saw in march, in april, and instead this week the president s schedule could have been his schedule if there was not a pandemic going on. He did not hold a single event dedicated to covid19, john, and instead helped several other events on deregulation, on ms 13 briefing, several other things that the president did, he even went to atlanta to give a speech on infrastructure and didnt visit the cdc while he was there. Something that even several aides who work in the white house said could have been such an easy stop for the president to make since he had already flown down to georgia, but his schedule reflects his priorities. His aides would put an event on the schedule if the president was talking about it and if he wanted to see it, yet we did not see any of that materialize this week and hes actually not held a covid19 dedicated event since the tuesday before that when they sat down with chancellors and other School Administrators to talk about reopening schools and have instead continued that push. And clearly the American People are taking notice that the president seems to be tuning out what is going on because 60 of people in that abc Washington Post poll say they disapprove to how the president reacted so far and strongly disapprove of president s reaction. The question is do they change course Going Forward what are they trying to do to get the president to pay more attention to this and several aides have weighed bringing back the daily briefings where the president was often at the helm for hour on end taking questions and talking with the health experts. But there are other people inside the white house who do the not think thats a good idea. The last time he was in the Briefing Room taking questions for us in the corvid19 sense,e was talking about using disinfectants like bleach to try to create the coronavirus. The question is Going Forward what hes going to do and if it is too late for him to now start trying to make it a priority. Excellent question. Is it too late, if he does shift and will he shift . Hes been stubbornly refusing to. Kaitlan collins, thank you. Florida a hot spot, the miami area right now the epicenter of that states alarming surge. Miami beach, Miamidade County and neighboring Broward County all imposed new curfews this weekend. Miamidade trends take a look here are alarming. Positivity rate, 27 . Ventilators in use, 36 . The 122 capacity of icu beds. Miami mayor Frances Soares with us. Youre quoted in this New York Times piece. You say people follow leaders, people follow the people who are supposed to be the leaders. Second part there, supposed to be the leaders. How much is your crisis in miami, how much of it can you tie back to the white house and the way the president handled this . Well, public rule is a good example. And been urging the president to issue a public rool for tule fo state and the nation. There is a portion of our city that will only listen to him. I think it is important that they lead in moments like this. This san opportunity for the president in an Election Year to basically lean into this crisis and show leadership and i think thats what mayors across the country had to do because there hasnt been guidance from the cdc in terms of what to do with this resurgence. And so we had to cobble together our own experts, you know, talk to Hospital Administrators, talk to Hospital Administrators three times a week, i talked to my epidemiologist and biostatisticians and talking to the Business Community and explain to them how dire the situation is how we may have to make some very difficult decisions in the coming days. It would be great if we had a uniformity of message all the way up and down from an urban city like ours all the way through to, you know, to the president , of course. You talk about the difficult decisions you have to make in the coming days, youre talking about rolling back the reopening. There is a curfew in place. Florida, state wide in florida, newly confirmed de eed deaths. Cases will go up, and hospitalizations started to go up and now deaths start to go up, sadly. One thing in florida, you test this, the question is you do more testing, you want to get numbers down to say, hey, people can go back to work, go to restaurants, because there is not community spread. You look at the florida positivity number, 20 , higher in your community. In those conversations with the Business Community, are you saying another day or three of this, we have to shut down . Yeah, were telling them that, you know, things continue and this continues to be unmanageable, we have to make some restrictions. We have taken strict remediation measures, there is a county wide curfew. We implemented a mask in public rule. We just eliminated the warning for mask in public, so a fine accumulating. We have close indoor dining, the county has. There are remedial measures and we have to give it time to see if the remediation measures work. We have seen some flattening, 50 reduction in increase of new cases. Our percent positive rate which you just cited has flattened over the last week. Used to be 1 per day increase and now it is flattened to almost zero. And our hospital admissions have stabilized over the last few days. Thats a small sample size of data. Our experts are asking us to enforce this week and to stay the course and thats what our Hospital Administrator and epidemiologists have told us to do and thats what we do this week. Understanding that we are sort of on the precipice. On the precipice as you say, which is sad. Were asking the same questions we were asking in march and early april about testing, about if you have hospital beds available. You mentioned the curfew, we saw some evidence that foot traffic was down a little bit. This is from our friends at cubic looking at anonymous cell phone data. If you go back to june 10th, you saw 63 of people foot traffic at restaurants was at 63 of where it was a year ago. Getting back to where it was a year ago. Now it dropped to about 47 so it is about half of what it was a year go. Down in just the last couple of weeks. If you move it over here, this is foot traffic at bars. This was troubling to you. You got around june 10th, miami, ft. Lauderdale area, around 70 of where things were a year ago. Now dropped down to 57 . That trend is heading in the right direction. You get people out of the places, mr. Mayor, where you have these large spread events if you will. Do you need to push those numbers down lower . Look, you know, like you said that is positive, you know, data. Were looking at all the data and i would love for your producers to accepted s ts to can get the cell phone data. I would love to see that, to be more targeted in terms of the remediation measures were taking. So, yes, the answer is yes. Of course. We want to reverse all these trends, go from an increase Positivity Rate to a downward sloping Positivity Rate and were getting close to that, but we havent gotten there yet. The only thing we have seen able to do that is the stayathome order and thats one of the reasons why we have never been able to take this off the table. The second thing is the percent positive rate is incredibly important in our community because thats an indication of how widespread the disease is. Thats incredibly important. That cell phone data you cite, i would love to see it. That is that is something we can use to target a lot of the stuff we do runs to some level of privacy restrictions. Hipaa, you know, in terps ms of getting medical information from the department of health. Whatever data you can send my way, id appreciate it. Well work on that. I wish you the best in the weeks ahead. It is sad that more than five months in, i wish you the best of luck in the days and weeks ahead. The summer surge part of the first coronavirus wave. Fresh problems with testing and dire warnings about the fall and the winter. Im not hungry youre having one more bite no one more bite kraft. 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The first case was confirmed on january 21st. It would take 79 days, 11 weeks plus, for the case count to hit 465,000. Last week alone look at that number, in just seven days, 465,488 new infections confirmed right here in the United States. It is just functioning on adrenaline. This is a really serious problem. It is truly historic. We havent even begun to see the end of it yet. Until you get it completely under control, it is still going to be a threat. I am worried. I do think the fall and the winter of 2020 and 2021 will be in one of most difficult times we experienced in American Public health. With us this sunday to share their expertise and insights, dr. Ashish jha and dr. Megan ranney. You hear dr. Fauci and dr. Redfield, they get it, they get it. We know about this white house Coronavirus Task force document that is not to be made public, others get it, dr. Jha, to you first, as we have this conversation, im asking questions, i was asking in march and april again, 27 states, we can show you a map, now beginning to roll back because the governors and the mayors in these states can count. They see what is happening in the case count, this he see what is happening in hospitalizations and yet theyre rolling back. The white house objects to the Senate Republican push for more cdc money for coronavirus testing and contact tracing. Now, if it were a House Democratic proposal, you might say it is just politics. These are Senate Republicans trying to get more money for testing and tracing. How can you oppose that . Yes, good morning, john, thank you for having me back on. It is baffling. It is baffling. Look, the governors are starting to roll back because what theyre seeing is people in their own states rolling back. Were seeing very clear data, people are not going out to restaurants in the same way. People are not people are not heading out as much as they were before. People are voting with their feet and the governors are taking notice. In terms of the federal government, and the opposition to testing and tracing, it is one thing when they leave it to states and say were not going to help, but when they basically decide that theyre going to oppose supporting states, it gets beyond me, i no longer understand what the strategy is coming out of the white house. And dr. Ranney, one of the problems now is you can get a test and by the time you get the results it might be ouseless to you because of the delay. For a normal person who gets test, youre waiting five to seven days, were limited in how quickly we can add capacity, Global Supply constraints continue to be an issue, there is limited surging demand in the United States and globally. How can this be true, five months in, that, number one, some people are taking a test and it is useless by the time they get the results because it is dated and were talking about the supply lines. It is mystifying. Dr. Jha and i have been talking for months now about the need to ramp up production of testing. There is no way we can get this virus under control if we cant offer tests not just to everyone who is systematic, everyone who has a sore throat, fever, cough, but also to a random sample of people who are asymptomatic because we know this virus can spread before or without ever having symptoms. We have been asking for increased production within the United States so that were able to count on domestic manufacturers and here we are with commercial labs running out of capacity again, in my home state of rhode island, were seeing wait times grow, were seeing the Positivity Rates grow across the country. It is truly inexcusable. This is a National Disaster and we need a national response. Were in the middle of july, heading closer to august and the cas