Ex-FDA chief warns U.S. may not be able to lower infection rate; Trump claims virus will pass with or without a vaccine; Medical workers fighting COVID-19 face a mental health crisis;White House press secretary holds briefing

The Lead with Jake Tapper

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3.5 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2020

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Cases spike in prisons, food plants & nursing homes; As more states reopen, avg. plane now carrying 23 passengers, up from 17 last week & 10 in early April; U.S. cases surpass 1.2 million, death toll tops 72,000; Trump claims virus will pass with or without a vaccine; Trump changes his mind on keeping coronavirus task force, now says it will continue "indefinitely"; Medical workers fighting COVID-19 face a mental health crisis; Insomnia, anxiety, lingering fear: what it's like to be a frontline workerTo 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.
0:04.0	Welcome to the lead. I'm Jake Tapper.
0:06.0	The coronavirus death toll in the United States right now is 72,233.
0:11.0	It's a continued steady loss of about 2,000 people.
0:15.8	Neighbors, friends, family members dying every day in this nation from this virus.
0:20.8	At this point a month ago, the death toll was just over 10,000. Now President
0:25.5	Trump has announced he is reversing course saying that the coronavirus task force
0:29.0	will continue explaining he had no idea how popular the task force was until he saw the
0:34.8	backlash about phasing the group out moments ago the president also confirmed that
0:38.9	Dr Anthony Fauchy and Dr Deborah Burks will continue in their current roles on that task force.
0:44.9	This as I'm learning that some on the task force and in the administration have been urging
0:49.3	President Trump to take the lead on an ambitious national testing program so that the virus can be quickly
0:54.9	identified and isolated and society can responsibly take steps to reopen.
0:59.9	This includes surveillance testing so workers could go into say a nursing home
1:03.8	and test everyone and gets results back very quickly. But that would require
1:08.1	President Trump to invoke the Defense Production Act to force companies to manufacture tests and reagents mandating that labs
1:16.2	hire and expand their ability to test.
1:19.0	And President Trump so far has rebuffed those suggestions. He is opting instead to listen to voices on the
1:25.7	task force and in the administration that say that such a move is not necessary,
1:29.2	that private industry will certainly do this on its own, voices that are eager to reopen the economy at least partly motivated
1:36.0	to boost the president's re-election chances.
1:39.0	Today a former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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