Three vaccine trials show early promising results; Trump downplays virus threat, reappears claim it will “disappear”; Florida reporting more than 10,000 new COVID-19 cases; Los Angeles County breaks daily record for hospitalizations;

The Lead with Jake Tapper

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🗓️ 20 July 2020

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Still no new national strategy as U.S. nears 141,000 deaths; Trump tweets photo of himself wearing a mask, calls it “patriotic”; Death toll up week over week in at least 20 states; WV governor: multiple outbreaks linked to seven churches; MO gov on schools: infected kids will “go home” & “get over it”; Source: white house objecting to more funding for CDC and for states to increase testing, contact tracing; Trump says he’ll bring back briefings as his approval ratings falls; Miami to begin fining people for not wearing a mask; Emergency rooms overwhelmed, Miami-Dade ICU bed capacity at 130%; California reports 6,800+ new cases today, rise in hospitalizations; Air force medical team deploys to CA hospital amid surge; CA battling new surges despite being first state with shutdowns; What went wrong in California, as cases continue to surge; Los Angeles mayor: “on the brink” of another stay-at-home order; Gunman in NJ shooting identified as a lawyer; Had appending case in front of federal judge; Feds use tear gas on Portland protesters; Navy vet beaten & sprayed by federal officers in Portland; Mayors of five major cities call for removal of federal troops in joint letter to Trump & Barr; Trump announces plans to send more federal law enforcement to cities run by democrats; Longtime DC radio host Patrick Ellis among COVID-19 victims 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.
0:08.0	To the lead, I'm Jake Tapper, and we begin today
0:09.8	with our health lead and some major news
0:12.2	in the search for a coronavirus vaccine.
0:14.6	Three trials now, three, showing that participants in the studies had a promising immune
0:19.6	response to the vaccines.
0:21.6	Health experts say the United States is in desperate need of a vaccine
0:25.0	because President Trump and other leaders have so seriously mishandled any serious
0:31.0	attempt to contain the virus within our borders.
0:34.0	As of this afternoon, the U.S. is nearing 4 million confirmed cases in the United States,
0:39.0	and that's growing.
0:40.0	Almost 141,000 lives have been lost.
0:42.0	That number is also, sadly growing. And the lack of national leadership
0:46.7	that has been apparent since the beginning of this crisis is only seeming to get worse, with the
0:50.9	mayor of Washington, D.C DC today calling for the federal government
0:54.5	to step up particularly when it comes to an aggressive national campaign to test Americans
0:59.7	which with quick results and then conduct immediate contact tracing so as to
1:04.3	contain the spread of the virus. We can't have our national leadership throwing up
1:10.7	their hands. This may be a time to re-enter and reset.
1:17.0	Today President Trump announced that he is bringing back the White House
1:20.3	coronavirus Task Force briefing saying he'll now quote get involved
1:24.6	due to the surges of the virus in Texas and Florida but we have already seen months
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