Source: business leaders told Trump U.S. needs to ramp up coronavirus testing before people can return to work; Pelosi to challenge Trump's "illegal" decision to halt W.H.O. funding; Ohio Gov: life will not be normal "until we get a vaccine"

The Lead with Jake Tapper

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🗓️ 15 April 2020

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Study: people might be most infectious before showing symptoms; N.I.H. hopes to have vaccine for frontline workers by fall & rollout to public by spring of 2021; California reveals grim blueprint for life after reopening; Trump: some states may be ready to reopen before May 1st; IRS: last-minute order to add Trump's name to paper stimulus checks will not delay delivery; Source: small business loan program likely to run out of money today; Pelosi: Trump's coronavirus misteps "caused unecessary death"; Retail sales in March fell 8.7%, deepest drop on record; Strip clubs, lobbyist sue to get small business loans; Los Angeles Mayor says city may not allow concerts, sporting events until 2021; What will the new normal look like when states reopen?; Ohio Gov: life will not be normal "until we get a vaccine"; Experts warn 400,000 people in Japan could die if virus not contained; Inside the place with the highest per capita death rate, and it's not NY;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	This is CNN breaking news.
0:04.0	Welcome to the lead, I'm Jake Tapper.
0:07.0	Right now, there are more than 2 million confirmed coronavirus cases around the globe.
0:11.0	More than 600,000 in the United States alone. The
0:14.4	worldwide death toll, just over 132,000 dead. The death toll here in the United
0:20.3	States now eclipsing 27,000. That's nearly double what it was one week ago.
0:25.4	Yesterday marked the deadliest day in the United States for coronavirus after days of
0:30.9	trending down the number shot back up with 2,405 people losing
0:35.6	their lives to this disease in a single day in a single country.
0:40.0	Breaking this afternoon and a call with President Trump today business leaders
0:44.0	said that testing needs to be dramatically increased across the country in
0:48.8	order to boost public confidence before relaxing any restrictions and attempting to open up
0:55.0	the economy according to a source. Dr Anthony Fauchy, the nation's top infectious
0:59.5	disease expert, of course, has warned that without increased capacity for testing, so as to be able to isolate the virus,
1:06.4	May 1st, which the president has set as a possible deadline, is overly optimistic to reopen the country and could in fact cause a resurgence of the disease.
1:16.0	The head of the CDC today cautioned the same thing, saying that more testing and contact tracing is necessary before any American goes back to work.
1:24.5	It's a sentiment that was echoed by New York's governor Andrew Cuomo earlier today.
1:29.6	The more testing, the more open the economy. We need the federal government to be part of this.
1:37.8	Testing capacity to me is like what ventilators were over the past month.
1:45.4	Let's start with that warning from business leaders to President Trump today.
1:48.5	The testing needs to be ramped up significantly.
1:51.4	It needs to be far more widespread before any discussions
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