Moved to open businesses quickly. Now the governor, brgreg abbott calling a pause. Businesses that opened can continue to stay open, continue to operate within the thresholds given by the state already, but you wont see seizing of a easi restrictions. No word when texas can continue to open farther. This was a state that wanted to put people back to work. It has rushed and moved quickly to open up businesses again. Reluctance to use masks in the state and now you see numbers rocketing upwards over the last few days reaching record highness the last few days and hospitalizationations going up over the last 13 days. The governor admitting change needs to happen, that theyve got to get control of this virus, theyve got to stop this spread. Reporter alexandria, according to the Texas Medical Center website, 100 of their intensive care unit, icu beds, are now in use. Are they preparing for an even bigger surge of patients . Reporter yes. And mayors across this state have been sounding the alarm that this would happen in major cities. Ceo of the medical group, which represents the Hospital System across houston, four major hospitals, saying they have been preparing for months for the possibility of a surge and say their hospital compacts are not equipped by the very alarming numbers we see now. They say they reserved 15 of Hospital Capacity for covid patients, that they are working together, hospitals within the system are working together now, and they are saying they have the resources and the staff they need to deal with this, but certainly we have heard warnings that this problem could get worse if it isnt turned around quickly. Thank you so much. Joining me now is dr. Peter hotez who leads the Vaccine Development program at Childrens Hospital and working on a coronavirus vaccine. Doctor, thanks so much for joining us. We know hospitalizations and deaths usually get reported after surging in cases. Theyre a lagging indicator. How dire a situation is there in texas right now . No. Its pretty dire, jake. Weve got an enormous amount of community transmission. If you look at the curve of the numbers going up, its following what we call an exponential curve which it looks initially flat and then accelerates sharply. Almost vertically. Thats where were at right now. Youre absolutely right. Were not seeing deaths yet, but that will start, those deathless start to mount up, i would say in a couple ofweeks. The projections look pretty dire. They are models, but the epidemiological models suggest we could be at, by july 4th weekend, 4,000 case as day. Three or four times even this very high acceleration, very high flrate in houston. Similar things happening in dallas and all metro areas, dallas, austin, san antonio. So his is a a real i cant stress enough how concerned i am. The other piece were not really talking a lot about, weve seen in houston and some other texas cities, disproportionate number of people where its harder to do social distancing, higher rates of underlying diabetes and hypertension, and im especially worried whats happening to the africanamerican and his panic and latino populations in houston. We dont have data yet, but im guessing they are disproportionately affected like we saw in new orleans and will have to really double down on our help for the lowincome neighborhoods here in texas. So, doctor, the Texas Governor says hes pausing reopening plans, but restaurants are already in texas reopened to 75 capacity, with indoor dining. Gyms, bars, stores, water parks. Salons, all open already. Is it too late to say, were pausing reopening in texas . Well, remember, jake, a pause is really maintaining the status quo. Isnt it . So i dont see, a pause basically saying were not going to open further. On the other hand, things will be asis. So those numberless continue to accelerate. So i dont see how we avoid ultimately going back to doing a dialback, to actually shutting some things back up. Otherwise the numbers continue to rise. Im glad at least weve paused. Glad we now have mandatory masks taking place in the workplace and elsewhere, but i, quite honestly, i think thats going to be insufficient. These numbers will continue to accelerate and then were going see deaths in a couple of weeks. So we are going to have to take steps to bring this back. Reluctant to say exactly what to dial back. I dont want to tie the hands of our Public Health leaders in our major metropolitan areas but im almost certain theyre meeting at this point it look at next steps, because just maintaining status quo probably wont be sufficient. Texas was one of the first states to reopen, of course. Governor abbott has publicly said for weeks in his view the virus is under control. How difficult is it going to be to convince the public that has been told everything is fine, that now they need to start staying home and Wearing Masks . So we havent really done this very much. Have we . In the United States. You know, we we actually did pretty well in texas for a while. We saw what was happening in new york. We didnt want to reproduce that here. We wound up shutting things down towards the end of march in texas. And when virus transmission was only going on a couple of weeks where it had gone on four six weeks in new york and thats why in new york it was such a horrific epidemic. We never had anything of that level here in texas, and that was great. But then the epidemiological modelers said if you really want to bring one new case per million per day, keep it going to end of may and then you can potentially prevent it from sliding back upwards and we just werent prepared to do that for a number of reasons. We did it a month earlier and then didnt put all the Public Health systems specs that we needed to ensure that we could do that safely and now were in this situation again. Youre right. Weve never asked americans to do this twice. We dont have a lot of precedent to go on. More than a dozen states including some with republican governors are now requiring masks in public. In texas, its not required. Its just recommended. I know youre hesitant to be pro scriptive, but isnt that a mistake . Shouldnt people in texas where its surging be Wearing Masks and be required to do so . You erful state for science and productive in my science career here in the Section Center and baylor and texas childrens. We have a dark side in text. We do have this very vocal, very aggressive antiscience move nant go after me about vaccines because i wrote a book called vaccines did not cause rachels autism about my daughter and i defend vaccines and they go after me about that, but now theyre adding to their remit protests against Contact Tracing, against social distancing, against testing. All of the few tools that we have, and they have a lot of influence, and that has, that is making things very hard as well. All right. Dr. Peter hotez, thank you so much. Appreciate it and in our thoughts and prayers, everybody in texas. Breaking news from another hot spot. California. The new case numbers came out. Thats next. Later, moms and momstobe, listen up. New details linking pregnancy, coronavirus and ventilators. Stay with us. On the awardwinning ww app, you can take a personal assessment to get a customized plan. The assessment takes things into account that matter to you the most. Ive lost 101 pounds. Its incredible. 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The governor announcing the second highest day for new cases also talked about hospitalizations. Announcing it is a new record. 4,240 people in the hospital because of this virus. All of this, a frustrating slide backwards for the state of california. I have three lanes waiting. Reporter if you thought the covid crisis in california was over its not even close. Many this say the People Living with the impact at this los angeles food bank. I feel like with Stores Opening there may be people that feel its out, but in reality its not. Its not safe. Reporter what do you say to people in california who think that this problem is over . Stay home. Reporter the numbers paint a stark picture in california. After weeks of keeping the spread largely in check, new infections have shot up, shattering records on multiple days. Los angeles county now has the most infections of any county in the country. Californias democratic governor gavin newsom says closing the state for a second time is on the table. We dont intend to do that. We dont want to do that, but i want to make this clear. We are prepared to do that if we must. Reporter how did this happen . California was the first state to shut down. About two months of closures cratered the economy, stabilized infections. Then the state moved forward in phases to restart the economy, even as testing lagged. Each day were gettingalities smarter. But each day the threat is still there. Reporter los angeles Just Announced an additional 6,000 tests across the citys Testing Centers to keep up with demand. Epidemiologists say tests and Contact Tracing is still a struggle. They need it to scale up quickly. Were always chasing behind the virus instead in front of it. Reporter meanwhile, infections in Nursing Homes and prison population never stopped. And when the economy reopened days of protest over the death of george floyd where we saw masks but little social distancing. The governor and county Health Officials say this may be a factor in the current surge of covid cases. Everybody hold hands reporter is there a lesson to be learned from what year seeing now in california . Just because we had flattened the curve here in california early on does not mean we are out of the woods. Reporter live here now in los angeles. This is the food bank. 2,500 cars expected to come through here. Theyre prepared for 3,000 families to be fed, and this is something weve been seeing throughout the day. A stretch of cars, one small snapshot of the economic fallout here in california. The Governor Also Announced a massive budget deficit. In just a few short months, he went from a 21 billion surplus, that the state was expecting to now a 54. 3 billion deficit, jake. This, again, just happened because of the virus fallout. Jake . All right. From los angeles, thank you so much. Floridas department of Health Reporting more than 5,000 new cases of coronavirus just today. That state hit record levels twice in just the last week. Cnns rosa flores is in hardhit miami florida. Rosa, in addition to increased cases of coronavirus, also there are, of course, other numbers to look at, including the percentage of those tested who test positive for the virus. Reporter absolutely right. The Positivity Rate here in Miamidade County where i am just yesterday, 27 positivity. Ranked, jake, goal for the county, stay below 10 . The county exceeded that the past ten days. Now, here in Miamidade County, the mayor announcing yesterday that there was an outbreak in an Agriculture Community in south dade where farm workers that had been very, in very close quarters had an outbreak. The mayor saying these workers dont need hospitalization, but they do need a place to isolate. So the county has stepped in offering hotel rooms so that these farm workers can isolate until they get rid of the virus. Im here at jackson hill. Jackson hill system report ag 108 increase in the number of covid19 patients. Very concerning, just the increase in the number of people having to go to the hospital. Some of them very young. Jake . Rosa, yesterday floridas republican senator, senior senator, marco rubio accepted everyone should just wear a damn mask. His words. Is governor desantis, also republican, considering instituting a mandatory requirement people wearing a masks in public as many other governors, democrat and republican, have been pushing . Reporter you know, not at all. The rationale he said yesterday was most of the transmission happens in metro areas not rural areas. Jake i just mentioned. 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Today the president accused the black lives matter leader of treason sedition and insurrection while simultaneously the president is defending monuments and tributes to individual racists who actually can be said to have committed treason, sedition and insurrection. Namely, confederate generals. This instead of any sort of Aggressive National leadership to lower the number of new covid19 cases, and save american lives. Cnns Kaitlan Collins is live from the white house. Katelin, t kaetlyn, the president is in wisconsin. Leading with voters is joe biden as compared to the president. Why is the president seemingly focused on divisive rhetoric and his reelection than on the pandemic . Reporter looking at numbers like those and the New York Times poll out today that h