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Welcome on my interest in Cooper, New York. Hey, and I'm Dr. Sanjay Gupta. This is the CNN

Global Town Hall Coronavirus, Facts and Fires. It's our seventh one in as many weeks. Tonight,

White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator, Dr. Deborah Birx is going to be here to answer

your questions. She was also part of the process that led up to today's announcement by the

White House of suggestions for a phased lifting of some of the disease-fighting restrictions that

so many of us have been living under. It's of course up to each state to actually decide when

and how to lift any restrictions. President Trump says he wants it to start happening just

two weeks from now. May 1st, we've been sooner in some places. We'll talk to Dr. Birx about that

as well as whether the federal government is prepared to provide states with tools like widespread

testing to do it safely without risking a second wave of the outbreak. Also tonight, taking your

questions, Democratic presidential front runner and former vice president Joe Biden. Plus,

we're going to talk with Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg along with his wife, Dr. Priscilla

Chan, and how Facebook and the Chan Zuckerberg initiative are working now to combat the coronavirus.

At the bottom of your screen, as always, you'll see our social media scroll. You can tweet us your

questions with hashtag CNN Town Hall. You can also leave a comment on the CNN Facebook page.

A lot of you have also sent in video questions and will try to get to as many of those as we can.

We also have reports from around the country and around the world on the fight against the virus

and of course the effort to get back to business. We're going to start right where the country is now.

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