Key model predicts 135K U.S. deaths, double previous projection; NIH to study rate of infection among children & their families; Florida releases questionable data on coronavirus deaths; Pompeo: "enormous evidence" virus originated in Chinese lab;

The Lead with Jake Tapper

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🗓️ 4 May 2020

⏱️ 38 minutes

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NYT: New internal Trump admin. document projects up to 200,000 cases and 3,000 deaths a day in June; Cuomo: virus decline not as fast as we'd hoped for; CA Gov Newsom: retail shops can begin to reopen on Friday; At least 42 states will be partially reopened by Sunday; Gilead CEO: Remdesivir could be ready this week; Remdesivir showing some promise as possible treatment; Trump: we think vaccine could be ready by end of the year; 300+ nursing homes & assisted living facilities in FL had staff or residents test positive for covid-19; Trump admin blames China; Pompeo claims China hid info about severity of virus & stockpiled supplies; Chinese state media calls Secretary of State Pompeo "evil" after Pompeo says virus originated in Chinese lab; How Greece managed to keep coronavirus deaths below 150; No doctors, nurses infected with coronavirus at hospital in capital city Athens, Greece; SBA: $175 billion in small business loans gone after first week of program relaunch; Report: most minority businesses shutout of fed. loan program; Remembering NYPD traffic agent Stanley HenesonTo 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
0:03.2	the end breaking news.
0:06.5	Welcome to the lead. I'm Jake Tapper and right now the number of deaths in the United
0:11.2	States from coronavirus continues to climb. It is now up to of death
0:13.3	in the United States from coronavirus continues to climb. It is now up to 68,326.
0:18.1	At this time a month ago, the death hole was 8,162.
0:22.3	And we have some breaking news just in.
0:24.0	Two new projections indicate a sharp increase in coronavirus cases and depths.
0:30.0	The leading model from the University of Washington, frequently cited by the White House,
0:35.0	has revised its projected death toll from 72,000 deaths in the U.S. by August to nearly double that 135,000 deaths.
0:43.9	President Trump is also now openly estimating
0:46.8	that the US could see up to 100,000 people die
0:49.8	from coronavirus.
0:50.6	That would be more than all of the American lives lost in the Vietnam
0:54.9	and Korean Wars combined. Plus, a separate internal document obtained by the New York
1:00.8	Times reveals that the Trump administration is expecting an acceleration
1:04.8	in how many people are infected and killed from this virus predicting up to 3,000 people in the
1:10.5	U.S. dying every day by June in a new document from the Centers for Disease
1:16.2	Control and yet as CNN's Caitlin Collins reports for us now President Trump
1:20.4	says some states are still not reopening fast enough.
1:27.0	As states ease restrictions and start to reopen,
1:30.0	the administration now privately estimates that the number of daily deaths from
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