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Erin Burnett OutFront

United States coronavirus cases top 456.000, death toll surpasses 16,000; Top health official: Summer vacations may be "in the cards," if the United States takes measures to prevent a "resurgence"; Studies: New York's outbreak came from Europe;

Erin Burnett OutFront

CNN

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4.4706 Ratings

🗓️ 10 April 2020

⏱️ 32 minutes

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New York reports 799 new coronavirus deaths, most in a single day; Trump: Testing all Americans is "not gonna happen"; Top health official: reopening country "not one size fits all"; Fauci: "It's just not surprising" studies find New York's outbreak came from Europe;Trump: United States coronavirus testing "highly sophisticated"; Federal government blocked private labs from using coronavirus tests in January only to eventually allow them anyway; Connecticut governor says schools, restaurants could re-open by May 20; Connecticut faces testing shortages, high hospitalization rates; CDC: Connecticut hospitalization rate among highest in United States per capita; Nearly 17 million jobless claims filed over three weeks; Economists: Job losses so severe, it's as if entire populations of Minnesota, Michigan and Wisconsin are out of work;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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0:29.9

I have the Coronavirus Task Force briefing for today. They were giving the latest update on the

0:35.0

pandemic. And it came as the United States has now reported more than 16,000 deaths related to coronavirus.

0:41.5

There are, though, some new signs of hope and the state hit the hardest.

0:45.1

In New York, just as you had nearly 800 people die today, you also had only 200 new hospitalizations, which is down from 600 the day before.

0:55.7

Obviously, you can see that as an improvement and admissions to the ICU at the lowest level since March 19th there.

1:02.1

But as I said, the death toll still a record all-time high, 799 new deaths in that epicenter

1:09.9

here in New York today. I want to go straight to Dr. Sanjay

1:12.8

Gupta. Sanjay, they had a lot of interesting topics here that just came up in the question

1:16.7

and answer with doctors Fauci and Berks and the vice president. Let me just start with one key

1:23.4

point to you. And that is, they just came up this whole question that they don't seem to know at this

1:29.6

point still how many people one person can infect. One reporter was citing a recent study saying

1:34.5

one person could infect six. Originally we had heard two. They were very open, Dr. Barks at least,

1:43.2

saying they still don't know. Yeah, I mean, that was interesting. I had not

1:49.0

seen the study that showed one person could infect six. I mean, typically this term, which is

1:54.3

R not, a lot of people know this term now, but basically means how many people can one person

1:58.7

likely infect. And for coronavirus, it's thought to been somewhere between two and three people.

2:03.6

So, you know, two and a half people with flu, it's slightly above one.

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