One-on-one with Dr. Anthony Fauci; U.S. coronavirus cases top 3.8 million, nearly 141,000 dead; Senate GOP battling WH, not Democrats, over new stimulus plan; Florida, Texas lead nation in daily coronavirus deaths; Trump to hold briefing, unclear if task force members will attend;
The Lead with Jake Tapper
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🗓️ 21 July 2020
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Fauci on not attending today’s briefing with Trump; Dr. Fauci: As a whole, we need to improve testing; Dr. Fauci: I consider myself a realist rather than an alarmist; Dr. Fauci: I would not wait to see if one vaccine is better than another; Dr. Fauci: We should try “as best as we can” to get children back to school; 3 million more infections and 86K deaths since President Trump last held a coronavirus briefing; CDC number of Americans who’ve had COVID-19 could be 6 to 24 times more than the official count; Texas reports several days in a row of over 10,000 new cases; Surgeon General: U.S. needs to lower COVID-19 transmission rate; 54 hospital intensive care units have reached capacity in FL; Drugmaker says Astrazeneca/Oxford vaccine could be ready by Sept.; Meadows on stimulus negotiations: “At our own 20 yard line”; Top WH officials meeting with lawmakers on next economic deal; McConnell supports another round of direct payments to Americans; 1,100 inmates with virus at federal prison in Texas; 500+ women with virus at another Texas facility; While Trump publicly attacks China, the Trump Org has bought more than 8 tons of goods from China; City of Houston lost three employees in one week to virus; Texas border county orders people to stay home as cases surge;
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| 0:00.0 | This is |
| 0:01.0 | This is CNN breaking news. |
| 0:05.0 | Welcome to the lead. |
| 0:06.0 | I'm Jake Tapper. |
| 0:07.0 | In just about an hour from now, President Trump is scheduled to hold what the White House is calling |
| 0:11.0 | a coronavirus briefing. |
| 0:13.0 | It will be the President's first since April. |
| 0:15.1 | That month, the President of course, |
| 0:16.9 | infamously mused about Americans injecting themselves |
| 0:20.1 | with disinfectant. |
| 0:21.7 | About 86,000 Americans have died since the president last |
| 0:25.2 | addressed the nation in a briefing specifically focused on coronavirus on |
| 0:29.2 | April 27th and almost 3 million more Americans have tested positive for this virus |
| 0:34.8 | with the rate of daily new cases now almost double what it was that month in April |
| 0:38.8 | which we thought was the peak but it is no longer. |
| 0:41.6 | Other countries have managed to significantly reduce the spread of the virus you can see in this graph how the European Union and Canada and the UK have all been able to dramatically so that slow the spread while the US, |
| 0:54.4 | that's the one in green, is adding tens of thousands of new cases each day in just |
| 0:59.5 | minutes. Dr Anthony Fauchy, the nation's top infectious disease expert, will join us in an exclusive interview |
| 1:05.8 | to talk about the escalating coronavirus crisis in this country, though it's unclear whether |
| 1:10.4 | he or any health experts on the coronavirus task force will attend today's briefing, |
| 1:14.8 | it doesn't seem so, meaning it's possible if not likely that this event after our show may be |
| 1:20.4 | less focused on the pandemic and possibly more focused on the president in his |
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