AR, AK, GA, TN and OK among states opening salons, restaurants this week; WH may scale back coronavirus task force briefings after wide spread criticism of the president's comments; Scientists, doctors struggle to understand how covid-19 kills

The Lead with Jake Tapper

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🗓️ 27 April 2020

⏱️ 40 minutes

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NY Gov Cuomo: 337 died in last 24 hours; death rate is "on the decline"; Birx: U.S. needs testing "breakthrough" to screen large numbers; Texas gov will lift stay-at-home order after it expires April 30th; White House cancels today's briefing, instead will allow small group of reporters to cover economic remarks; As part of twitter rant, Trump retweets claims rivals are inflating mortality rate to hurt him politically; Trump denies he is planning to fire is HHS secretary Alex Azar; Soon: Trump speaks in Rose Garden after meeting with CEOs; Study: 70% of hospitalized coronavirus patients in New York did not have a fever; Nearly 45,000 national guard personnel helping with coronavirus response in all 50 states; National guard not guaranteed medical coverage during pandemic; Three large meat plants latest to suspend operations; U.K. PM Boris Johnson returns to work, urges U.K. to "contain your impatience" for reopeningTo learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is CNN breaking news.
0:05.0	Welcome to the lead. I'm Jake Tapper and we begin this hour with the number of confirmed coronavirus cases in the United States now nearing 1 million with the number of
0:14.5	reported cases worldwide surpassing 3 million. The death toll in the US right
0:19.2	now is more than 55,000 that marks a huge acceleration and the number of lives lost since this time one month ago
0:26.5	when the death toll was 1,195.
0:29.8	Today we are learning the White House is weighing whether to issue new guidance on how to safely
0:34.0	operate businesses.
0:35.2	Sources tell CNN and the President is said to speak in the next hour as businesses in several
0:39.9	states are already opening.
0:42.2	You can now sit down at a restaurant in Georgia or in
0:44.4	Alaska. Residents in Tennessee and Arkansas will be able to do the same later this
0:48.6	week. Salons and barber shops are also open in Oklahoma and Colorado one barber shop
0:54.3	owner in Georgia telling CNN he had about 30 clients visit on Friday exclaiming
0:59.0	quote if I don't cut, I don't eat.
1:02.6	The economic pain out there is indeed very real.
1:05.3	And yet, if many Americans rush to reclaim their old lives too soon,
1:08.9	there remains a very real fear of deaths and illnesses and even longer that the US has to stay at home.
1:15.8	As the head of the White House Coronovirus Task Force, Dr. Burks, told me yesterday.
1:22.0	Are you concerned about a potential surge in new cases and deaths after these states take these actions?
1:30.5	You know, I'm always concerned and that's why we put out key gating criteria
1:37.4	It's unclear that any of the states and locations we've just mentioned have met those key gating criteria Dr.
1:43.9	Burks talked about, namely 14 straight days of declining cases and the ability of
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