United States coronavirus death toll tops 70,000; Ousted vaccine director says warnings about virus were ignored; Swedish official: Stockholm could reach herd immunity this month under anti-lockdown strategy; New human vaccine trials underway in the U.S.;

Erin Burnett OutFront

CNN

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4.4 • 706 Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2020

⏱️ 42 minutes

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White House plans to phase out coronavirus task force; Ousted vaccine doctor: Early virus warnings were met with "Indifference which then developed into hostility"; Trump blocks Dr. Fauci from testifying before house: "House is a bunch of Trump haters"; Herd immunity: A way to end the pandemic or far too risky?; New Human vaccine trials underway in the United States, Biotech CEO: "Millions" of doses could be ready by year's end; White House adviser: 20 percent unemployment possible, nearing depression numbers; White House adviser: Unemployment could hot 20 percent this week, unemployment among Asian Americans in New York up 6.900 percent; Asian Americans hot especially hard as unemployment soars; The comfortable power of music;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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0:32.5	Hotfront next, deaths in the U.S. topping 70,000, the number of new cases growing every day.
0:39.0	Yet the White House is looking to phase out the coronavirus task force. Why? Plus, some scientists say herd immunity
0:44.8	is likely the only way to end the pandemic. Herd immunity means a lot more people get this.
0:51.1	How many more cases and deaths does that mean? Two global experts on that subject
0:55.9	out front. And the major pharmaceutical company thinks it can have millions of vaccine doses ready to go
1:00.6	by the end of the year. Find out from them why they're so optimistic. Let's go out front.
1:08.0	And good evening. I'm Aaron Burnett. Outfront tonight, the breaking news. The death toll in this country from coronavirus is now at a staggering 70,000 people. It is a staggering number, no matter how you look at it. And think about it this way. It was just last week that the model used by the White House projected that we would have just over 70,000 deaths by August
1:29.7	4th. It is, of course, May 5th. And the number of cases continues to rise, now nearing 1.2 million.
1:37.0	So if you take a look at this graph, this is the number of new cases a day in the United States,
1:42.7	you can see that that's not yet going down. The U.S. is still
1:45.9	adding roughly 25,000 cases a day that we know of. And this does come as we're learning
1:51.9	that the administration is having conversations about winding down the coronavirus task force.
1:56.3	That's the group of people running the national response to the virus. The task force of,
2:00.4	obviously, Anthony Fauci, the top infectious disease expert in the country
2:03.4	is on it.
2:04.2	Deborah Birx is on it.
2:05.3	Dr. Deborah Birx, the director of the CDC, Dr. Robert Redfield, Health and Human Services
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