All right, I'm Chris Cuomo and welcome back to a bonus hour of primetime.

CDC guidelines for how to safely reopen are still in the editing phase, according to Dr.

Birx of the White House Task Force.

That is an excuse for why those guidelines weren't being made the baseline for how to reopen

according to a senior official at the CDC.

Okay?

Now, let's take on this discrepancy with Dr. Ashish Jha, director of the Harvard Global Health

Institute. Always good to have Harvard in the House.

Welcome back to primetime doctor. Listen, with all due deference to Dr. Berks, she's welcome on this show.

I don't like her side of this controversy. The idea that it's in the editing phase would not prompt a CDC official to say they are ignoring

us because as you probably are aware, people are worried inside the CDC. They think that they are not

being taken with the same kind of weight as the economic exigencies. What is your perspective

on what matters here? Yeah, absolutely.

So thanks for having me back on, Chris.

A few things.

First of all, the Open Up America Again plan that the White House released, as I've said

before, was directionally right.

It had the right principles.

One of the things was I said, you know, it's pretty vague. It doesn't have a lot of details.

So guess what? The White House asked the CDC to fill in the details. And the CDC did. And they put together an evidence-based approach.

And then it sat around for three weeks. And I don't know what it means to be in the editing phase.

But what I know is that the American people aren't getting to benefit from the advice of the CDC, and that's a problem.

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