United States coronavirus cases top 783,000, deaths surpass 41,000; Georgia to begin easing restrictions this week; Germany eases lockdown restrictions, some shops reopen as country starts large-scale antibody testing;

Erin Burnett OutFront

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4.4 • 706 Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2020

⏱️ 41 minutes

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United States death toll doubles in a week; Georgia and Tennessee to begin easing restrictions, neither has seen 14-day decline in cases, per White House guidelines; Frustrated by lack of testing, Maryland governor secures 500,000 test kits from South Korea; Pence tries to reassure governors about helping with test supples even as Trump says "testing is local"; Birx: We have asked every Governor to follow the guidelines; Georgia governor approves of gyms, bowling alleys, body art studios and salons opening as early as Friday; Protests erupt in multiple states against stay-at-home orders; Fauci: No real economic recovery without virus under control; Germany eases lockdown restrictions, but Merkel cautions "it would be tragic if we knowingly relapsed"; Professor: United States is just at the beginning of this pandemic; 29-year-old gets last rites but makes miraculous recovery; 29-year-old with no known pre-existing conditions nearly dies from virus, but makes miraculous recovery; 29-year-old man spent 10 days on a ventilator battling virus;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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1:02.3	You have been watching members of the Coronavirus Task Force giving the latest update on the pandemic.
1:06.3	You were just listening to the president there. And this comes. The president's making the argument that it was
1:12.6	right to do the shutdown or the death toll could be 10 to 25 times more than it is now comes,
1:18.0	as Georgia's governor is just announcing he's ready to go and ready to go ahead of the White House
1:23.2	and is doing so. A very aggressive plan to reopen the economy there. Jims, salons, massage therapists can
1:28.9	reopen this week, even as Georgia reports, hundreds of new cases. Tonight, the death toll in the United
1:35.0	States has doubled in the past week. Now more than 41,800 people. John King, Jim Acosta, Daniel Dale,
1:43.4	Dr. Sanjay Gupta, join me now.
1:46.0	Sanjay, I want to start with you just because the president was just laying out this case.
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