U.S. death toll surpasses 100,000

Anderson Cooper 360

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🗓️ 28 May 2020

⏱️ 45 minutes

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More than 100,000 people in the United States have died from the coronavirus, almost twice the number of Americans lost in the Vietnam War. Dr. Anthony Fauci says he’s hopeful for a vaccine by the end of the year. William Haseltine, Chair and President of ACCESS Health International, tells Anderson Cooper many of the deaths in this country “didn’t have to happen if we had been prepared.” Plus, Democratic Senator Kamala Harris joins AC360 to react to the grim milestone and says President Trump “is not a leader.” Airdate: May 27, 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	It is hard to say good evening tonight.
0:04.5	A hundred thousand people in this country have no died of coronavirus.
0:08.4	Mothers and fathers, grandparents and children, brothers and sisters, friends and neighbors.
0:13.8	Tonight the president has yet to say a single word about this stunning milestone, about the
0:17.5	hundred thousand lives lost or about all those who might have been spared.
0:21.8	He returned from his trip to Florida tonight and kept silent today about the dead.
0:26.0	As you know, he and others around him have suggested that COVID hasn't really killed all
0:29.3	those people, though every public, nearly every public health expert will tell you that
0:34.1	the actual numbers of victims is likely higher.
0:37.0	The first death we now know of was on February 6, less than four months ago.
0:41.4	Imagine that.
0:42.7	The virus has moved that fast and it continues to kill.
0:46.2	We may have grown tired of us.
0:51.3	How to think about a hundred thousand deaths?
0:54.5	It's more than have died in all our wars from Vietnam till now.
0:58.1	This virus has now become as deadly as 50 Hurricane Katrina's.
1:03.0	But comparisons fail to tell you of the pain and the sadness and the grief, grief that so
1:08.2	many of us now feel.
1:10.5	The president who talked of America first has when it comes to COVID reached that position.
1:15.2	We are at number one out of all the other countries in fatalities.
1:19.2	We're number one.
1:20.6	The US has about 5% of the world's population, but nearly 30% of the deaths.
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