United States cases top 424,000, death toll surpasses 14,500; Growing confusion over who's in charge of distributing supplies; ICU doctor seeing more young patients who need ventilators;Trump: I want to reopen the economy with a "big bang";

Erin Burnett OutFront

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4.4 • 706 Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2020

⏱️ 43 minutes

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White House task force: Philadelphia, DC expected to be new hot spots; Top health official: "It's going to be a bad week for death"; Key model lowers United States death prediction to 60,000 by August, assumes states maintain full social distancing until then; White house coronavirus task force says social distancing is working; Cardiology groups: treating some coronavirus patients with anti-malaria drug comes with "potential serious implications"; Trump repeats voter fraud claim, says evidence being compiled; Congressional aide on federal distribution of resources, "No one really knows who's in charge"; Trump: Economy will reopen "sooner rather than later"; White House aides working on a plan to reopen the economy in May; Small business owners don't know when or if they'll get government help;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	All right. You've been listening to the Coronavirus Task Force briefing, the very latest update in the pandemic.
0:05.0	Obviously there, you were just listening to Dr. Fauci, but also, of course, the vice president, Dr. Berks, the chairman of the CDC, Dr. Redfield and President Trump also, and this comes on the same day.
0:15.0	The United States reports more than 14,500 deaths related to coronavirus. The White House Coronavirus Task Force is bracing for new hotspots tonight, and they were going through some of those.
0:24.9	Talking about specific areas, obviously the New York City metropolitan area, including New Jersey and Connecticut and Rhode Island, along with Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, D.C.
0:34.2	They're talking about a spike in cases in those areas as well.
0:38.4	The warning come,
0:44.5	as there are sobering new numbers out of New York and New Jersey. The deaths 779 in New York,
0:51.0	275 in New Jersey in just the past 24 hours. I want to go now to our panel, John King,
0:55.6	Caitlin Collins, Daniel Dale, and Dr. Sanjay Gupta. Thanks to all.
0:59.6	All right, look, so we were taking a lot of the questions and answers there. The president, of course,
1:05.6	was there for a time answering questions as well. John, and you noticed a difference in the way he was, you know, sort of interacting and addressing the members of the press in the room.
1:10.7	I thought it was quite remarkable, Aaron, how measured, even cautious the president was.
1:14.4	Yes, he was reckless and wrong when he was criticizing mail-in voting.
1:17.9	Mail-in-voting works. It does not have anywhere near the level of fraud.
1:20.4	The president was suggesting. Yes, he did exaggerate where the United States is on this day
1:24.9	when it comes to wide-scale coronavirus testing. But you remember, just think back
1:29.0	in recent days and recent weeks. He's often been almost coming out of his suit and agitating to
1:33.5	reopen the country, pushing forward, publicly disagreeing at times, or at least jumping in to say,
1:38.4	yeah, but we need to reopen when Dr. Fauci or Dr. Burke say something. Think about how measured
1:43.1	and cautious was tonight. The president himself said, we have to be Dr. Burke say something, think about how measured and cautious was tonight.
1:44.3	The president himself said, we have to be careful. He said, yes, the projections are down now,
1:49.5	not 100,000 Americans, not 80,000 Americans, but still 61,000 Americans likely to perish.
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