Pres. Trump publicly criticizes WH Task Force Coordinator Dr. Birx

Anderson Cooper 360

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🗓️ 4 August 2020

⏱️ 46 minutes

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President Trump criticized White House Task Force Coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx in a tweet after she said the pandemic is “extraordinary widespread” in the U.S. Trump said he thinks “we’re doing very well.” California was one of the first states to shut down and was relatively successful at containing the virus but since the state re-opened, it has overtaken New York for the most Covid-19 cases. Dr. Desmond Carson is an Emergency Medicine Physician in California and he tells Anderson Cooper “people are selfish and self-centered. Just wear a mask. Wash your hands. Practice social distancing.” Plus, Georgia’s largest school district has reported around 260 employees have either tested positive for coronavirus or have been exposed. Many parents are grappling with the decision whether or not to send their children back to school. Becky Stone, Director of Schools for Alcoa City Schools, in Tennessee and Brian Woods, Superintendent of Northside Independent School District in San Antonio, Texas join AC360 to discuss the difficulties they’re facing and what they’re doing to keep the students and staff as safe as possible. Airdate: August 3, 2020 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	Good evening, while the country may be in a new phase in this pandemic, President Trump
0:05.3	certainly is not.
0:06.7	There's no new phase, no new tone.
0:08.6	There are, as there always have been serious medical experts offering the best information
0:12.3	they know the time they see it, people like Dr. Anthony Fauci.
0:16.0	Today, explaining that this new phase that Dr. Deborah Birx mentioned on Sunday is about
0:20.3	the increase in community spread.
0:22.2	It's not just the largest cities or closed areas like meatpacking plants or prisons.
0:26.7	No, it's bars, it's restaurants, it's people who are spreading it, who have no symptoms at all.
0:31.4	And that, Dr. Fauci says, makes it more difficult, more insidious to use his words.
0:36.7	But not according to the President who talked up how wonderful this new phase is.
0:42.1	The virus is receding in hotspots across the south and west.
0:46.5	We must focus on new flare-ups in the states with the case numbers of risen,
0:51.9	including Georgia, Mississippi, Tennessee, Oklahoma, Missouri.
0:55.3	And I think you'll find that they're soon going to be very much under control.
0:59.3	I think that we have done as well as any nation.
1:04.0	If you really look, if you take a look at what's going on.
1:06.3	We're doing, as well as any country, said, well, there was no mention of a national strategy
1:12.0	or the 155,000 who have so far died or that most days we are adding new cases across the
1:17.1	country in the low to mid 60,000s.
1:19.1	No reason, according to the President, to change habits at all.
1:23.0	As if to emphasize his lack of interest in the pandemic at 907 AM Sunday morning,
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