And dr. Anthony fauci is warning that we have not even begun to see the end of this pandemic. While, of course, the white house is conducting a Bizarre Campaign to undermine fauci. The nations top Infectious Disease expert. White house deputy chief of staff posting this deranged cartoon attacking fauci, putting this on facebook. And as the president is set to speak next hour, let us take stock of another time that President Trump addressed the nation from the rose garden to talk about the coronavirus, specifically, three months ago today, april 14th, when the president at the Coronavirus Task force briefing made a series of assertions that were not true then and continue to be flatout wrong. Starting with the spread of the novel coronavirus. In almost all cases, its all starting to come down. It is certainly not starting to come down. Not then, not now. Infections are skyrocketing. Were averaging 60,000 new cases a day compared to the peak of 36,000 back in april. Heres President Trump on the death toll, which three months ago was just over 25,000. The minimum was 100,000 deaths. And i hope to be substantially under the minimum, meaning we all hope, midke, right . We all hope to be substantially under. Here we are three months later, more than 136,000 people in the United States have lost their lives to coronavirus. The u. S. With less than 5 of the worlds population has nearly 25 of the worlds coronavirus deaths according to numbers compiled by Johns Hopkins university. The u. S. Government response is imperically a failure. And sounding the alarm today that the death toll is expected to climb. To bring that down, of course, we need to isolate the virus with testing. So, what did President Trump say about testing three months ago . We will be utilizing our robust Testing Capacity for the governors. Well be giving them what they need if they dont have it themselves. Giving them what they need. When is that going to happen, mr. President . Testing in the u. S. Remains grossly inadequate, as your own former acting chief of staff, mick mulvaney, just acknowledged this week after his family was personally impacted by testing lags. Testing and Contact Tracing is nowhere near where it needs to be to isolate and contain this virus. Three months ago the white house Coronavirus Task force presented strict guidelines for how states, when ready, could begin to reopen. And President Trump suggested the federal government would step in if any state did so before it was safe to do so. There are some that want to open up almost now. Now, if we disagree with it, were not going to let him open. Were not going to let him open. The white house didnt do that. In fact, quite the opposite. President trump attacked democratic governors for trying to keep their states locked down. And the president pressured states to reopen. And states flung open the doors even though Health Experts said not one state, not one, met the white house guidelines at all. The federal government has been lying to you about the coronavirus. But, more importantly, the federal government has been failing you with fatal results. And now with these failures naked before us as cnns erica hill now reports, state and local officials in at least half the country are having to start to shut the country back down again. Reporter across the country, reality setting in. This is the problem. There is no road map, no plan for the country. Reporter the u. S. Now averaging more than 60,000 new cases a day. 20 state reopening is paused or in verse in more than half of all states. Philadelphia just canceled all large events through the end of february 2021. And south florida continues to break records. Miamis now the epicenter of the pandemic. What we were seeing in wuhan six months ago, now we are there. Reporter the Positivity Rate in Miamidade County which accounts for nearly a quarter of the states cases is almost 30 . Nearly 200 employees at jackson health, the areas largest hospital system, are out sick with covid19. People arent respecting this virus, especially younger people. Reporter california setting new records for hospitalizations and icu admissions with the majority coming from los angeles county. In harris county, texas, home to houston, hospitals are approaching surge capacity. Officials there urging the governor to let them bring back a stayathome order. The longer we keep this going, pretending like these incrementalist restrictions are going to solve the problem, the longer its going to take to recover. Reporter getting testing is still an issue months into the pandemic. If you swab and you get the results back in seven days, thats not ideal. And particularly if you have symptoms. Reporter 40 of infected cases are asymptomatic according to the cdc. Yet, the countrys testing is encouraging some americans to hold off. In places like arizona and texas, if you wake up in the morning and just feel like you want a test, you might not need to do that, right . We need to think about those who are in highrisk situations. Reporter schools a flash point as the administration insists inperson learning must be the standard, though, without offering a strategy. The countries that managed to safely reopen schools, they have done so with declining infection rates, not rising infection rates. Reporter well, i mean and there is indemand testing available. California has neither of those. Reporter san diego, los angeles, and atlanta announcing plans to begin the year online, as new polling from axios and ipsose shows most parents say it would be risky to send their kids back in the fall. Cdc director Robert Redfield is optimistic. I actually think a majority of counties would meet the criteria, provided that the teachers have the confidence to reopen, the administrators have the confidence to reopen, and the parents. Reporter weve actually heard a fair amount from dr. Redfield today in a separate webinar with the journal of the American Medical Association just a short time ago, he was asked about predictions and he said hes really reluctant to predict anything with this virus because he just got to know it six months ago. He was one of the people early on who thought we would see it die down in july and august. He went on to say that he is very concerned about the fall and winter 2020 toting overwhelmed is really going to define how this is handled. All right, erica hill in new york, thank you so much. Speaking of new york, new yorks democratic Governor Andrew Cuomo seems to be on something of a victory tour congratulating the state and himself for defeating the virus, even selling this poster, which shows his state getting over the mountain by bringing down the curve during the 111 days of hell, as the governor put it. The there are no illustrations, however, of the more than 32,000 dead new yorkers, the highest death toll by far of any state. No rendering on that poster of criticism that Governor Cuomo ignored warnings, no depiction of the study that he could have saved thousands of lives had me and mayor de blasio acted sooner. No painting there on the poster of his since rescinded order that Nursing Homes take all infected patients in. Here is what Governor Cuomo had to say yesterday. What we went through and what we did was historic. Because we did tame the beast. We did turn the corner. We did plateau that mountain. And then we came down the other side. And they will be talking about what we did for decades to come. Here to discuss this and more is cnn chief medical correspondent dr. Sanjay gupta. And, sanjay, look, i know a lot of new yorkers are happy that the infection numbers are down and, you know, we all hope that they stay down. But lets be clear, this is revisionism. A lot of the crowing and Governor Cuomo going on late night is offending a lot of new yorkers. Are people going to be talking about what Governor Cuomo did for decades to come in the way he hopes . Uh, unfortunately, i dont think so, jake. I mean, were very early days in this. Were looking at the first few pages of the history books. And i think theres a lot more to be written. Im a little surprised by that poster, i got to tell you, because i think, if anything, what this virus has taught us is that we need to have a significant amount of humility. This virus surprises us over and over again. Theres no place in the country thats not vulnerable. And i think that we shouldve learned i think we have learned that victory laps are not the thing to be doing because were not through this by a long shot, sad to say, even in new york. I think theres two ways of sort of looking at this. One hand, the house was on fire, and Governor Cuomo helped put the fire out. But we also heard from a lot of our medical contributors today, Infectious Disease specialists who say, look, part of the legacy, part of the story will be that did new york act too slowly as well initially . The house went on fire. Why did it need to go on fire . The flipside, i think, jake, as the governor is alluding to, is that if you look at the country as a whole right now, new york is the place, at least within the United States that people will point to and say theyve done a good job. Thats the place that has at least given a little bit of inspiration to other places that they can bring these numbers down like you see on the screen. But i got to tell you, jake, weve heard from a lot of people today. Some of it solicited, some of it unsolicited. And most everyone had this tone of, look, lets slow this down, this victory lap. Were very early dayscomplacencn other countries around the world, weve seen it here in the United States and weve seen it throughout history. That can be a real problem, jake. Humility at the very least called for. Cdc director redfield says he does not believe that the explosion in cases in the south is because of reopening. He said it all simultaneously kind of popped. He pointed to the increase in travel during the memorial day weekend holiday. What do you make of all that . Yeah. I mean, and dr. Redfield, ive interviewed him before. He was under the impression, as erica hills piece just pointed out, that there would be a little bit of a lull with the warmer weather. A lot of people sort of thought maybe that would happen. Clearly that didnt happen here. I dont know, jake. I was a little surprised by dr. Redfields comments here because clearly you can look at the trajectory. You can look at the data. You can see that there was an impact of closing. And then there was an impact of reopening. The only thing i would say is that when you look at the mobility data around the country, part of the reason you had such increased mobility to the Southern States including where i live here in georgia and florida is because these states reopened. Same thing in south carolina. So they became destinations even more so than normal in the spring months. So i think, you know, hes right. There were several things that were happening at the same time. But there was increased mobility and part of that increased mobility was happening because these states were reopening. Theres no question that that fueled it. And youve got to point to the reopening. Because we understand the impact now pretty clearly from the data of what happened at least when we shut down. Not saying that we need to do that in all these places again. But clearly that helped break the cycle of transmission. Sanjay, listen to what the task force testings are as of this morning. Even though were turning the corner on the current outbreak and it looks all indications are that we have that, we wont see the benefit in hospitalizations and deaths for at least another couple weeks. We are not there yet, but we are seeing some early light at the end of this tunnel. Are we seeing early light at the end of this tunnel . It doesnt seem that way from where i sit. This is baffling a little bit, jake. We look at the same data here. This is an objective sort of story that were taking. We can look at the numbers. We can look at whats happening in these places. And weve already had a little bit of history here. We see the case numbers go up, followed shortly a couple weeks later by hospitalizations. And then, sadly, by deaths. I dont know. If there is a light at the end of the tunnel, which i hope there is, were going to get through this. Its a long tunnel still. We are all looking at the same data. I think what were going to see, again, unfortunately, i dont relish saying this, but i think its going to get worse before it gets better. The admiral seems to be indicating that, look, we are seeing the early indicators that hospitalizations are going to go down. Death rates are going to go down. I think most people in the country now, not just public Health Experts, sort of understand that when you see the case numbers going up and the pace at which theyre going up, hospitalizations are going to shortly there follow. Death rates will come as well. They may not be as high in proportion as they were in the past because we have learned a few things, jake. We know how to better care for these patients. There is a younger demographic thats being affected right now. But we know that this is going to continue to spread. Yeah. 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Meanwhile, the president of the Infectious Diseases society of america, which represents 12,000 medical professionals, also issued a statement calling the campaign from the white house to undermine fauci disturbing, and to beat the virus, america must stand with science and with dr. Fauci. But the president , of course, continues to be at odds with science and scientists and doctors. And as Cnns Kaitlan Collins reports to us now, polls show that many do not like how the president is handling this pandemic. Reporter cases are rising in the u. S. , but there are new questions today about whether President Trump understands the crisis facing the nation. Despite scenes of americans waiting in line for hours for covid tests and accounts from his own former chief of staff about delayed results, trump has refused to acknowledge the national surge. Theyre always talking about the number of cases. Well, it is a big factor that we have a lot of cases because we have a lot of testing. 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