Distancing and very few masks. Lets go to our chief white house correspondent, jim acosta. The president is putting a lot of stock in a vaccine that hasnt even been approved yet. Thats right, wolf. President trump trying to reassure pandemic weary americans his administration is making progress in its plans to distribute the Coronavirus Vaccine to every american as soon as possible. Today, the president predicted that there will be enough doses of the vaccine for all americans by april of next year. Mr. Trump made that claim, as you said, wolf, even though a Coronavirus Vaccine still hasnt been approved for use, but the president is facing a credible crisis on the virus. As the white house has repeatedly interfered with government scientists responding to the pandemic. With the u. S. Approaching the grim milestone of 200,000 deaths from the coronavirus, President Trump vowed a covid19 vaccine is coming soon. With enough doses for all americans by april of next year. Well have manufactured at least 100 million vaccine doses before the end of the year. And likely much more than that. Hundreds of millions of doses will be available every month, and we expect to have enough vaccines for every american by april. Thats sooner than the timeline laid out by the director of the centers for disease control, dr. Robert redfield earlier this week. If youre asking me when is it going to be generally available to the American Public so we can begin to take advantage of vaccine to get back to our regular life, i think were probably looking at third late second quarter, Third Quarter 2021. But the problems plaguing the administrations response goes well beyond mixed messaging, as recent news reports have found top officials pressuring government scientifics working on the pandemic. The New York Times obtained emails from two top aides at health and Human Services bashing comments from a cdc expert who advocated masks with one of the officials saying the doctors aim is to embarrass the president. She is duplicitous. The other official on the email, former hhs spokesman Michael Caputo who went on leave after accusing cdc doctors of sedition. Add to that the white house nixed plans to mail hundreds of millions of masks during the pa people for the virus. The cdc just rewrote the guidelines again. Due to the significance of the a asymptomatic, we need to test asymptomatic persons. I look at this as someone defacing a Historical Monument and writing graffiti. Joe biden hammering mr. Trump for downplaying the pandemic. He knew it and did nothing. Close to criminal. Inpresident is also taking swipes at his own fbi director, christopher wray, who testified on russian attempts to meddle in the upcoming election. I think the Intelligence Community has assessed this publicly to primarily to denigrate Vice President biden and what the russians see as kind of an antirussian establishment. Mr. Trump tweeted, but chris, you dont see any activity from china, even though its a far greater threat than russia, russia, russia. When the president was asked about that . You think you know better . Yeah, in many cases i do. The president also touted hiadministrations announcement of new aid to puerto rico. Glossing over his past blundered in responding to the devastation on the island left by Hurricane Maria three years ago. Im the best thing that ever h happened to puerto rico. The president s timeline on a Covid Vaccine still is based on whether. It may take until the third or Fourth Quarter for life to return to normal for most americans. Take a look at this video. This is from the president s rally comingp later this evening in minnesota. As we have seen at previous rallies in recent weeks. People are not practicing social distancing, theyre not wearing masks. Contrast that with the images we saw earlier today, people standing in line to vote in virgin virginia, yes, you can already start to vote for the upcoming election in virginia. People wearing their masks as they stand in line to vote. A contrast of the two americas that we see out in the country today when it comes to the all important tip coming from Health Experts that people should indeed wear masks to stay safe. And socially distance. Both so critically important. Life saving steps. So simple, yet unfortunately, a lot of people arent doing that. Thank you very much. Lets get more on the breaking news on the pandemic right now. Our national correspondent, erica hill, is joining us. Erica, the nation is facing yet another very painful milestone. Yeah, thats right, wolf. We are going to very soon hit a grim milestone of 200,000 lives lost in this country to coronavirus. The country currently averaging just over 800 deaths reported each day. And with numbers like that, we could pass that milestone in the coming days. Get tested, thats the latest guidance from the cdc for anyone who has been in contact with an infected person. Revised again after it was revealed changes last month that focused on testing those with coronavirus symptoms did not come from cdc scientists. All of this conflicting information and questions of political motivation are really hampering the efforts to take control of this virus and get back to our normal way of living. The virus is not under control. We are trending in the wrong direction. A blunt assessment as the country adds more than 44,000 new cases. And is about to pass 200,000 covidrelated deaths. We grow numb to the numbers. 200,000 deaths from this virus. Most or many of those deaths were avoidable. Cases are up in 30 states in the past week. Just four posting a decline. It is concerning. Like i said before, we watched this like a hawk. Georgia has now topped 300,000 total cases. The fifth state to do so. Wisconsin, where the president held a rally last night, with few masks and little social distancing reporting more than 1600 new cases yesterday. The most in a single day since the pandemic began. Two entire dorms of the university of wisconsin now under second week of quarantine. Its been crazy. I was hoping like this was the worst case scenario, but im glad theyre taking steps even though everything escalated quickly. Providence college urging students to stay home after more than 80 students tested positive in just two days. As schools at every level work to keep students and staff safe, a new study finds as many as 51 of School Employees may be at an increased risk for covid19 because of underlying conditions like obesity, diabetes, heart disease, and age. Low skilled support staff face the highest risk. And concern is growing about younger people passing the virus to more vulnerable populations. As societies have opened up, we are seeing outbreaks in younger populations. Part of that has to do with the way people are socializing, people are going out and about and living their lives and trying to get back to what is this new normal. A new normal that increasingly includes a lot of the old normal. Bars in nashville expanding to 50 capacity today. The Tennessee Titans announcing plans to welcome limited fans. We had months to prepare for this day and feel extremely confident in the safe stadium plan. As we learn ten people who attended last weeks Kansas City Chiefs game have been told to quarantine because a fan near them tested positive. Were also learning more about how this virus can spread on planes. Two studies out today show that on longhaul flights early in the pandemic, this was before masks were required, that infections were traced back to these flights, and one case, a woman who had symptoms when she got on the plane, which progressed during that flight, after she landed she was diagnosed. They tracked down 217 crew and passengers on that flight. Of them, more than a dozen people had fallen ill with the virus. In fact, 14, and one other crew member. They said the only way they could have contracted the virus was on that flight, wolf. Thats pretty sad information as well. Erica hill, thank you very much. Joining us now, our chief medical correspondent, dr. Sanjay gupta, and cnn medical analyst, lena wen. The president said they will have Vaccines Available for every american by april. Can anyone really say with certainty at this point Something Like that . No, wolf. We cant, because we dont even have the data yet to show that this vaccine is going to be effective. I mean, theres a lot of enthusiasm around a few of the candidates, but theres really been little data so far, and pretty audacious projections, wolf. You know, its interesting. I spoke to monsef slowey, this exact issue came up. Heres how he described how this might unfold over the next few months. If its shown in november or december, we dont have enough vaccine doses. We have a few million in november and maybe 10, 20 million of each in december. That would be enough to vaccinate certain populations. Start vaccinating certain populations, but not the whole population. And then the idea, wolf, of sort of trying to really scale up tenfold, 20fold from there is the real challenge. We simply dont know, and the data is double blinded. Theres nobody who right now is looking at the data and so far is saying yes, for sure, this looks promising. Theres going to be an independent entity thats going to do that, but we just dont know at this point, wolf. We all want a vaccine. We want to make sure its safe and effective. And that takes time to develop a vaccine like that. Dr. Wen, polling here in the United States now shows a big drop in americans willingness to get a Coronavirus Vaccine. Look at these numbers, from 72 in may down to 51 right now. How troubling is that to you . Very concerning because we know that its not the vaccine thats going to save lives. Its the vaccination. And the people who are now suspicious of vaccines, its not the same group who are suspicious of science and are the antivaxers. There are actually a lot of people who really trust science but are concerned there is political pressure thats driving the approval process. And thats why i actually think the more the president can stop talking about a date thats connected with elections and vaccine approval in the same breath, i think the better it will be. And i also hope that the president and everyone else will keep reminding everyone that the vaccine itself may not be the silver bullet. It will take many months for us to get the vaccine because availability isnt the same thing as accessibility, but we also need to figure out how we can live with this virus and institute these other measures like mask wearing, social distancing, that we do have control over right now. Yeah, as dr. Fauci told me himself that even if there is a vaccine thats safe and effective, it may only be 70 or 75 effective, meaning 25 or 30 of the American Public who get a vaccine will still be subject potentially to coronavirus. The cdc has now reversed course on testing guidelines. We were all confused why last month they narrowed the testing recommendations. Explain what is going on here because this is so, so worrisome. Yeah, this is worrisome, wolf. You know, theres the New York Times reported on this yesterday. We have corroborated the story that basically said that what typically happens at the cdc is the guidance emanates from the cdc, the goes through a strict vetting process. What seemed to happen here, and i want to show you what showed up on the cdcs website on august 24th. There was this guidance that appeared without having gone through this vetting process that basically said even if you have been exposed to someone with covid, if you dont have any symptoms, you dont need to get tested. That didnt make any sense. Public Health Officials were really confused by this because the concern is that even if you dont have symptoms, you could still be spreading the virus. In fact, some studies have said up to 50 of the spread is coming from people who arent showing any symptoms. Today, wolf, as you mentioned, they reversed course on this. The guidance now basically says, basically the opposite. If you have been exposed to someone with covid19, you have had contact with them, then you do need to get tested. Even if you dont have symptoms. So the good news is that the guidance has been updated, but wolf, this is the second time or maybe even more than two times this has happened where this sort of confusing guidance appeared on the cdcs website. We asked a lot of questions when this showed up. They said this had been completely vetted, run by the task force, including dr. Fauci. I subsequently found out drdr. Dr. Fauci was under general anesthesia the day this was run by the task force. It was very confusing, and at least its updated now, but the cdc, you know, is at least in these situations, has not had the opportunity to fully vet the guidance that we all rely on on its website. Doctor, i want to show you and our viewers some pictures were getting in from minnesota. Later this evening, the president is holding another Political Campaign rally. There we see tons of people who have showed up. No social distancing, i dont see a whole lot of masks right now. Sometimes they put people behind the president speaking wearing masks, but i dont see a whole lot of masks right there. When you see this, what do you think . Im worried about them. Im worried about them as a physician. I think about these individuals as they may be my patients. There are people coming from all over the country. Including from places where there is active viral surge. And they are Standing Shoulder to shoulder, not wearing masks, potentially spreading the infection to one another. These participants if theyre not wearing mafrks are probably also not following other types of Public Health precautions, and may be gathering in bars and other settings. And then they may go home, and who knows who theyll be exposed to, vulnerable individuals at home or because theyre asymptomatic spreaders, they could also be spreading it to other people in the community. So i think its really important for us to talk about. I know whenever we speak about the trump rallies, we public Health Experts are also accused of hypocrisy because people will say why arent you always racing the alarm about social justice protests. For many of these protests, people are trying to take every precaution. And i think thats the difference. This is a virus that does not discrimina discriminate. We really shouldnt be having Mass Gatherings of any kind, but if you are going, please make sure to protect yourself and those around you. Try to social distance and at least wear a mask. Not that hard to wear a mask. Its potentially life saving. Doctor, thank you. Sanjay gupta, thanks to you as well. Just ahead, the former Obama National security adviser susan rice is getting ready to respond to President Trumps attacks on his own fbi director amid new warnings of Russian Election interference in the current election here. 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