At least 43 states expected to partially reopen despite death toll continuing to rise

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🗓️ 7 May 2020

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Many states are beginning to lift their stay-at-home orders and reopen restaurants, stores and other public spaces. Caitlin Rivers, a senior associate at the John Hopkins Center for Health Security, testified on Capitol Hill about the pandemic response. She joins AC360 to explain why she told members of Congress that none of those states have met the White House's guidelines to reopen and why increased testing is crucial. Plus, a pregnant New York City nurse contracted coronavirus and gave birth to her baby after a COVID-19 related heart attack and had other complications. Shirley Licin speaks to Anderson Cooper about her sister's condition and how people can help. Airdate: May 6, 2020To 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	And good evening everybody. 43 states expected to be reopened to some degree weekend. 43 states.
0:10.4	I want to show you a map right now compiled by CNN of where we are as a country in terms
0:16.4	of reopening and in terms of the virus itself. There you see the map. The darker states,
0:23.2	those are states where the numbers of coronavirus cases are actually going down. The orange and
0:29.1	the lighter color there or where they are either going up or about the same. You can see the vast
0:35.9	majority of states, the numbers are still going up or about the same. I want to check in with
0:41.5	CNN's Nick Wat in Los Angeles for a round up of the latest. Nick. Well Anderson, good news. We just
0:50.1	heard for the 10 million people here in Los Angeles County. It will start reopening on Friday. We're
0:56.7	told that among the first things to open are going to be some trails and golf courses, some
1:01.4	non-essential businesses, including florists and car dealerships. But we are being warned that it
1:08.3	will be slow and not all the news out of California this afternoon is good. We've also heard from
1:13.8	the governor who says that across this country we are going to be seeing depression,
1:19.4	era, unemployment numbers. He says that over the past three days alone, California has paid out
1:26.1	more than two billion dollars in unemployment benefits. Whatever we do, however we do it, we
1:32.2	are going to be feeling some pain for some time to come. The New York City subway closed overnight,
1:41.4	first time in over 100 years, to clean the cars. We have turned the corner and we're on the decline.
1:49.4	You take New York out of the national numbers. The numbers for the rest of the nation are going up.
1:57.8	What we're doing here shows results. Across the country as a whole, the new case count is not
2:04.2	falling, hovering somewhere over 20,000 every single day. I think that we need to understand this
2:11.9	may be the new normal. We may not be able to get transmission down much more. I hope we can.
2:17.3	But many places reopening anyway. Hot spots now growing in cities like Dallas.
2:22.4	Some more rural flare ups too, like those in Nebraska and Minnesota, but better testing might
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