Two people close to Trump & Pence test positive for coronavirus; More devastating death and unemployment numbers in the U.S.; Harvard: U.S. should be testing 900,000 people per day by May 15th; Record 20.5M jobs lost in April; Ahmaud Arbery's father: His

The Lead with Jake Tapper

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🗓️ 8 May 2020

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Pres Trump confirms Pence's press secretary tested positive; 40+ states start reopening despite risk of fueling second wave; Jobless rate soars to 14.7%, worst since Great Depression; Majority if NYPD social distancing arrests were black New Yorkers; Manufacturer: Only enough Remdesivir for 200K patients worldwide; Doctor says it's not clear how govt will decide who gets Remdesivir; NIH Dir.: Abbott rapid tests have 15% false negative rate; Health experts raise concerns about accuracy of virus tests; Dr. Birx: I'm "very encouraged" about the increase in testing; New York paid $69.1 million for ventilators that never showed up; States band together to increase buying power & stop fraud; Remembering some of the victims lost to coronavirus;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.
0:05.0	Welcome to the lead. I'm Jake Tapper.
0:08.0	At this hour, 76,475 people in the United States, 76,475, have now died from coronavirus.
0:17.8	1.2 million in the U.S. are infected, including now two people who work closely with President Trump and Vice President
0:26.0	Pence.
0:27.0	Today, in fact, we learned that Pence's press secretary, Katie Miller, has tested positive
0:32.3	for the virus. This comes in addition to the man we learned
0:35.7	about yesterday, I have a personal assistant to the president being infected. Those two,
0:40.5	apparently a result of the routine surveillance testing that happens at the White
0:46.2	House. President Trump said today that, quote, she, meaning Katie Miller, tested very good
0:51.8	for a long period of time and all of a sudden
0:53.7	today she tested positive the president went on to say this is why the whole concept of
0:58.6	tests aren't necessarily great the tests are perfect and then something can happen." But that doesn't actually make
1:06.6	any sense. The testing has meant now that the White House knows that Katie Miller
1:10.9	has contracted coronavirus, and they are isolating her from others
1:14.4	so it doesn't spread at the White House. President Trump's own health officials say the opposite
1:19.4	of what President Trump just said, that this is why surveillance testing is needed to prevent the
1:24.5	spread. Take a listen to Dr Deborah Burks on CNN last night.
1:27.9	It's important to test those with symptoms but really to get out there and proactively monitor.
1:35.0	I really want to emphasize over and over again that this asymptomatic spread is key.
1:41.0	We have to be able to find it.
1:45.0	Of course there is routine testing happening at the White House looking for
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