Trump: “I think we’ve done really well in Florida”

Anderson Cooper 360

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🗓️ 1 August 2020

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Florida just recorded the highest daily coronavirus death toll for the fourth straight day but President Trump says he thinks “we’ve done really well in Florida.” Dr. Aileen Marty is an Infectious Disease Expert at Florida International University in Palm Beach County, one of the hardest hit counties. She joins AC360 to react to the President’s comments and says the reality is “absolutely heartbreaking” and they’ve had many children die. Plus, as the world waits for a an effective Covid-19 vaccine, there are some promising therapeutics that have been helpful. William Haseltine, Chair and President of ACCESS Health International, tells Anderson Cooper if he was a betting man, he would bet 95% on drugs and 50% on vaccines as being the most effective way to handle this disease. Airdate: July 31, 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	Very good Friday evening to you, Anderson is off, but we begin tonight with something
0:06.3	that he said a while back that sadly fits this moment.
0:10.9	There is, he said, no better BS detector than the coronavirus.
0:15.8	It has a way of exposing the falsehoods, the magical thinking, the politicized nonsense
0:21.8	now surrounding it, and it does so with brutal simplicity by taking people's lives.
0:27.9	And there is no better embodiment of this notion than the president of the United States today.
0:33.8	He's been reading a lot of words lately, even drawing some praise for it about wearing
0:38.8	a mask, for instance, and social distancing.
0:41.6	But he neither wrote them nor meant them.
0:43.9	And we know that by his actions, by these actions, by this video of him arriving today
0:50.0	in Tampa, Florida.
0:51.1	Thank you very much everybody.
0:54.6	That's really great.
0:57.5	Thank you, thank you for being here.
0:59.6	It's a good crowd.
1:03.1	A good crowd, he says.
1:04.9	Note though, no social distancing, no masks.
1:08.2	He traveled to Tampa in part for a round table on the virus.
1:12.5	This is how we end this week, a week in which the virus went right on doing what it does.
1:18.4	A week that saw the death toll pass 150,000 Americans and infections top 4.5 million.
1:27.7	Against that backdrop, the House subcommittee on the coronavirus crisis heard from top
1:32.0	members of the president's own task force.
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