Dr. Fauci: “We’re going to be doing more testing, not less”

Anderson Cooper 360

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🗓️ 24 June 2020

⏱️ 42 minutes

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White House Coronavirus Task Force Member Dr. Anthony Fauci testified in front of a House committee on the Trump’s administration’s response to the pandemic and directly contradicted the President. “We’re going to be doing more testing, not less,” said Fauci. Dr. Richard Besser, former Acting Director of the CDC, tells Anderson Cooper the mixed messaging could result in some parts of the country slipping back to a worse situation than they were several months ago. Plus, Democratic Senator Kamala Harris joins AC360 to discuss police reform and explains why she thinks we need to “reimagine public safety.” Airdate: June 23, 2020 To 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	Good evening for a second time in just a few days the president held a large indoor gathering
0:04.3	in the middle of a coronavirus hot zone.
0:06.7	This time at Omega Church in Phoenix which enticed people to come by promising a new
0:10.9	air purifier they installed would kill the virus and keep people safe.
0:16.7	That actually happened.
0:18.3	It's called the Dream City Church.
0:20.2	Here in the real world doctors and scientists called BS on the miracle purifier and that's
0:25.2	really where we begin.
0:26.3	Keep it in a honest with the clash between the reality of where we are with this virus
0:30.1	that's killed more than 121,000 Americans and it's not even July.
0:35.8	The alternative reality that the president is inhabiting or wishes he was inhabiting.
0:40.9	In the real world Arizona is right now experiencing the kind of steep growth in cases you once
0:44.9	saw in New York at the beginning of the outbreak.
0:47.8	Look at that chart.
0:49.6	Here's the growth in the number of people sick enough to be hospitalized.
0:53.5	Again, not a good sign.
0:56.0	New York's purifier is heavily low.
0:57.6	Look at Texas.
0:58.8	New cases rising there just as sharply and again not just for more testing.
1:04.3	So many people are getting sick that in Houston, Texas Children's Hospital tells CNN it's
1:09.2	providing additional ICU and acute care beds now for adults.
1:13.9	The Governor Greg Abbott, a staunch supporter of the president, is telling Texans that the
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