All right, thank you, Anderson. I am Chris Cuomo and welcome to prime time.

Ignoring a pandemic does not make it go away. That's why states like Florida are in such dire

straits. Listen to its governor, DeSantis, boasting last month about what great shape Florida was in.

You got a lot of people in your profession who waxed poetically for weeks and weeks about how Florida was going to be just like New York.

Wait two weeks. Florida's going to be next. Just like Italy. Wait two weeks. Well, hell, we're eight weeks away from that. And it hasn't happened.

What now?

Shh.

You're not going to hear him here.

You won't see him here.

Why?

Because he's got nothing to say.

When he had a chance to speak, he spoke too soon, he did too little, and now his state is suffering too much. New York's peak in daily cases was what? In April,

the five-day average of daily cases hit almost 10,000. Terrible. Things here still aren't great.

We're just moving in the right direction. Florida health officials reported nearly 10,000 new

coronavirus cases on Saturday.

It's highest single day since the start of the pandemic.

He made Trump happy, Governor DeSantis did, and now more Floridians than they can count accurately appear to be sick.

More than half our states have growing cases now.

Sixteen are currently having to pause or rollback

re-opening's because they did not do the right things, the right ways.

Texas, parts of California, bars have been directed to close back down.

The Secretary of Health and Human Services says the window is closing for us to get this

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