The data as well as what it is that goes into the decisionmaking process about approving a vaccine. Nine of the Companies Competing against each other to develop a vaccine have also tried to reassure the public today by promising to follow the science and not rush the process to get a vaccine approved. But not even a vaccine will be an instant fix for the coronavirus and a harsh reality set in today for millions of children across the United States as 14 of the Largest School districts started a new semester this morning fully online. Another demonstration for the American People that their government has failed them and is failing their children by not taking the steps necessary to contain the virus and stop its spread and by not having Testing Available all over the country so that schools can be open and be safe. Nearly 190,000 americans have died from coronavirus at a rate nearly double that of the European Union despite the e. U. Having 100 million more residents. Cnns erica hill starts off our coverage. Reporter buses, backpacks, masks, back to school in the age of covid. My daughter is thriving to be around other people. Reporter minnesotas governor on hand for the first day. Its definitely a different year where its the new backpacks and new shoes. Now we have the batman mask and the elsa mask. Reporter 16 of the nations Largest School districts start today. Of those 14 including chicago will begin the year online. As we said from day one, were going to be guided by what the Public Health numbers tell us. Reporter the first day in hartford, connecticut, postponed after the city was hit with a cyber attack. This was, however, the most extensive and significant attack that the city has been subject to certainly in the last five years. Reporter more colleges forced to move classes online, including West Virginia university, which also suspended more than two dozen students for covid19related violations. Warnings across the country as cases and indoor gatherings increase. At the university of illinois, everyone is tested twice a week using a saliva test developed in house. Two weekends ago we did have some students who made some really bad choices about their socialization behavior. And it did cause a problem. The really good news is because we were testing everyone fast and frequently, we saw this very early. And we were able to make quick corrective actions. Reporter more ads trying to recruit more diverse volunteers for vaccine trials. Someone like you who wants things to go back to normal. Reporter as nine pharmaceutical Companies Working on those vaccines issue a rare joint pledge in the face of mounting political pressure from the president. Were going to have a vaccine very soon, maybe even before a very special date. You know what date im talking about. We will develop our products, our vaccines using the highest ethical standards and the most scientific rigorous processes. Reporter pfizer is partnering with a German Company whose ceo tells cnn its vaccine could be ready for Regulatory Approval by october. We believe that we have a safe product and we believe that we will be able to show efficacy. Reporter new cases over the past week are Holding Steady in nearly half the states. 15 posting a decline. But among the 11 seeing an increase, the states in red, two former hot spots. Arizona and florida where the number of new cases is up 20 over the last week. And after a busy labor day weekend, many officials are watching and waiting. This is a virus that is still among us. It ebbs and flows. The virus is certainly on the university of Tennessee Knoxville campus. The chancellor saying she is getting disturbing information specifically about fraternities saying she has learned fraternity leaders are giving them ideas how to have parties so they wont get caught, how they can avoid the police. Also in some cases telling members not to get tested or if they do, to do so in a way that the results are not shared with the university. She is calling any effort to avoid isolation and quarantine reckless, noting that this behavior will of course jeopardize the semester for all the students on campus. She also says the school may soon need to take more drastic measures. All right, erica hill, thank you so much. Joining us now to discuss, cnn chief medical correspondent dr. Sanjay gupta. Sanjay, you heard dr. Fauci say that Health Officials need to regain the trust of the community. Obviously, this doesnt happen in a vacuum. President trump has politicized the process, pushed the fda to approve things that otherwise wouldnt have approved. What needs to happen in order for the public to regain trust in the vaccine when its ready . Well, i think a lot of this probably has to do with being very transparent about the data. I think theres been this sense after hydroxychloroquine, about the exaggerating of the data around convalescent plasma that, you know, people are sort of in the dark on this stuff a little bit. Were not seeing how these decisions are getting made. Jake, as part of our reporting we went back and looked at other pandemics and tried to understand what was the level of trust at that time. I could show you i think we have this graphic going back to 2009, for example, during h1n1, and basically asking at that time what would be your willingness to get an unapproved vaccine . Less than around 9 of people said that they would actually do it at that point. Point being that there is always been this hesitancy about taking a vaccine that has not gone through the fully approved process, which is understandable. But take a look at what they found subsequent to that when they said, well, what would actually increase your trust, increase your willingness to take it . And its that bottom line. Close to 70 said they would take it if it was information and the vaccine given by their health care provider, which maybe goes without saying, jake. But heres the point is that the medical community right now really needs to be led in on how this vaccine is being made, what the various metrics are for approving it. And really Encouraging Health care providers to become educated about this if they are going to potentially encourage their patients to do so. That needs to be happening now as opposed to just thinking this is sort of top down from the federal government vaccine process. President trump tieing it to the election its going to come before a very special day. Hes talking about election day. That doesnt make anybody feel safe. That has nothing to do with when the vaccines going to be ready election day. Its either going to be ready according to the medical and Health Community or its not. Right. I mean, look, its seemingly impossible to disentangle anything from politics. And on one hand you want pressure because you want things to move fast and medical innovation, the pace of it has been faster than ive ever seen before. But this idea that there is this target date like this i think makes people, lots of people nervous. And ive been talking to people who work at these vaccine companies, people within the federal government. Theyre nervous. This typically takes a much longer time. And what you saw from some of these vaccinemakers today, this pledge that erica was just talking about, they say specifically theyre only going to submit for approval or even authorization after the phase three trial is done. That just takes time, jake. We also saw these Nine Companies coming together joint statement promising they will not rush the vaccine process with President Trump suggesting that it might come before election day. This seems pretty significant to me. I mean, you cant really get nine pharmaceutical companies to agree on much. No. I agree with you. This is significant for that reason. And also because theres been the sense are these Companies Competing against one another . Which they are. You got to be certain of that. But they also can police each other and sort of make sure that the other companies are being clear about the data they are presenting before they are trying to get this emergency use authorization. Giving an authorization for a vaccine is very unusual. I mean, typically you think about authorizations for a medicine for someone whos in the hospital dying, has no other options. Thats when you typically think of eua for a therapeutic. For a vaccine, basically youre saying, hey, look, wed like to get this done as quickly as possible, everybody would, but the alternative to the vaccine is that we wear masks and keep physical distance for a few months longer until we really have this nailed down. Thats going to be the Decision Matrix that i think a lot of these companies and the fda will eventually have to balance. Some possibly promising news. Today the head of biontech said the vaccine they are working on with pfizer could be ready to submit to the fda by the middle of october. If they make that date, when would the public start being able to see this vaccine rolled out obviously to Health Care Workers first . Well, first of all i think thats a really hard date to make. I just want to set expectations because i think once the dates out there, people think, well, why isnt it done . Its a hard date to make. On one hand youve got tens of thousands of people receiving the vaccine. Tens of thousands of people getting a placebo. In a strange way, jake, youre banking on the idea that there will be a lot of infections in the Placebo Group to prove that the vaccine is actually working. So its a little counterintuitive, but thats what you need. And that can just take time. But, to your question, for people watching who say, look, what does this ultimately mean for me, the idea that youre going to have vaccine available to the general public, youre still talking about probably spring of next year despite all the conversation that were having now. Still got to be manufactured, has to be done at a very pure level. You need hundreds of millions of syringes and things like that. And that may sound almost silly to talk about in this context. But, remember, we got sort of stymied by nasal swabs at one point, jake. So we got to make sure we have enough of the core supplies to have this happen as well. Theyre starting to work on this stuff. But this is the biggest sort of vaccination project weve really undertaken this rapidly. Billions ultimately of doses around the world are going to be necessary, and its just going to take time. Sanjay, a source in the white house specifically mentioned you by name according to the Washington Post saying that they would be willing to share data with you about the vaccine ahead of time. What do you think . Yeah. I mean, i saw that, and i would love to see the data ahead of time. I think there has to be full transparency here with this. This is the biggest Public Health issue that any of us have dealt with in our lifetime. There has to be full transparency. Im happy to look at it and im sure other Public Health officials would like to look at it. Are there potential side effects . The side effect profile for some of them were concerning at the higher doses of the vaccine. Are we seeing any of those side effects . Are they rare side effects that may become more common as you do more and more people . And then obviously how well does it work . Theres objective ways to look at that. All right, dr. Sanjay gupta, thanks as always. Good to see you, my prend. 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And in our 2020 lead, President Trump says he will spend whatever it takes to win and that may mean millions out of his own pocket to fund his campaign. We should note, he is claiming hes willing to do this. There is no evidence hes actually going to do this. Today a new report from the New York Times says the Trump Campaign war chest is, quote, dwindling. And now with two months until the election, the president is trying to boost his campaign and make up for that story in the atlantic magazine and the fallout that claimed he disparaged veterans as losers and suckers, as Cnns Kaitlan Collins reports. Reporter with labor day behind him, President Trump is back on the campaign trail in two states that were critical to his 2016 election. Florida and north carolina. Were going to florida, were going to north carolina, were doing a double stop. Reporter but in between his two stops, the president is still dealing with the fallout from a report in the atlantic claiming he disparaged americans killed in war and insulted the service of military members. Who would say a thing like that . Only an animal would say a thing like that. Reporter new cnn reporting reveals that trump was visibly distressed over the fallout from the story this weekend fearing it could erode his support within the military. Trumps anger was evident as he vented from the front steps of the white house yesterday where he accused Senior Military Leadership of being beholden to defense contractors. Im not saying the militarys in love with me. The soldiers are. The top people in the pentagon probably arent because they want to do nothing but fight wars so that all of those Wonderful Companies that make the bombs and make the planes and make Everything Else stay happy. Reporter sources said that comment was sparked by the president s fwer that more pentagon leaders didnt defend him. Mark meadows claims he wasnt talking about mark esper, who was once the top lobbyist for raytheon, one of the Biggest Defense Companies in the world. Those comments are not directed specifically at them as much as washington d. C. Reporter meadows did not mention how trump has bragged in the past about a massive arms sale to saudi arabia. I believe its the largest order ever made. Reporter trump is on the road today as his campaign is facing a potential cash shortage after spending heavily in the early stages of the race. Trump said today hes considering funding the race with his own money like he did in the 2016 primaries. But if we needed any more, id put it up personally, like i did in the primaries last time, in the 2016 primaries i put up a lot of money. If i have to, ill do it here. Reporter so, jake, well actually see if the president does end up putting up some of his own money. But he was in florida today. Its his 11th trip there this year. And while there, he announced he is going to sign an order extending that moratorium on offshore drilling on the gulf coast side of florida. But the president said hes extending it to the atlantic side and the coast of georgia and south carolina. Thats a pretty big reversal from just two years ago when the administration was considering moving forward with allowing new drilling to happen, something that they dropped and reversed their plan on after there was serious pushback from officials in florida. So keeping the obama ban on offshore drilling in effect. Interesting. And, kaitlan, the newly renovated white house rose garden, it just reopened, but its under repair already . Reporter yeah. Its only been thr