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The Lead with Jake Tapper

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🗓️ 14 August 2020

⏱️ 43 minutes

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At least 230 cases reported from schools; California first state to report 600,000; CDC: Death toll may reach 200K in three weeks; WH COVID-19 adviser claims “young people are not at serious risk” as cases among children increase by 90”; WH testing Czar: “Don’t get hung up on the number” of tests; Testing Chief: Appropriate to do about 800,000 daily tests, experts say U.S. should be doing 4-5 million tests daily; WH testing Czar: Government has done everything it can on testing; Trump to visit three swing states in biggest campaign push since June; Trump congratulates QAnon supporter on GA GOP primary win; Trump visits brother hospitalized in New York; Biden releases coronavirus ads after calling for mask mandate; Poll: 74% of Americans support national mask mandate; Post office warns govs some ballots may not be delivered in time; Trump admits he’s blocking postal funding to stop mail-in votes; Postal Service watchdog to investigate new changes made by agency’s leader, possible ethics conflicts; Russia says U.S. rejected its offer to help with vaccine; Russia claims U.S. companies are interested in its vaccine; 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	Welcome to the lead. I'm Pamela Brown in for Jake Tapper today and we begin with the
0:05.5	health lead. The CDC is now projecting the US could see up to 200,000 total
0:11.4	deaths in a matter of weeks.
0:13.6	The US has continued to average over 1,000 deaths every day.
0:18.4	For 18 days in a row now, take that in.
0:21.3	California just became the first state to mark 600,000 cases.
0:26.7	And Florida and Georgia lead the nation and the number of new infections per capita.
0:31.3	In fact, the White House Coronovirus Task Force has even urged Georgia
0:34.7	to adopt a mask mandate, according to the Atlanta Journal Constitution.
0:39.6	A CNN's Keung law reports that comes as schools and families grapple with the realities of reopening.
0:47.0	It was terrifying.
0:48.0	It was my worst fears had come true.
0:50.9	That's how this Georgia parent ends a traumatic back to school week. Her child
0:55.0	quarantine like the more than 2,000 students, teachers, and staffers across five states.
1:00.2	At least 230 positive COVID cases now reported from schools. The head of the
1:06.2	CDC says reopening schools can't be done quickly. Yeah we don't want to
1:11.0	pressure anybody. Our guidance is there to help them begin to open, as I said, safely and sensibly.
1:18.8	The timing of that is going to have to be decided one school at a time.
1:22.8	Given what he's seen, this Arizona teacher says he's quitting.
1:27.8	We weren't given the option to teach from home.
1:29.7	No.
1:30.2	It's a small room.
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