United States On Brink Of 200,000 Coronavirus Deaths, Rate Rises

The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer and Pamela Brown

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3.2 • 865 Ratings

🗓️ 22 September 2020

⏱️ 51 minutes

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The United States on brink of 200,000 coronavirus deaths as the rate of new cases rises in 28 states. The CDC abruptly reverses new guidance on airborne coronavirus transmission and claims that the update that was posted just days ago was "in error." The United States could top seven million coronavirus cases by the end of the week. A key model lowers the forecast for covid deaths by January 1 to just under 380,000. Trump gives himself an A+ for the handling of coronavirus as deaths near 200,000. Bill Gates says that the "best case" scenario is that the pandemic will end in 2022. Trump says that he'd "much rather" senate vote on a Supreme Court Justice nominee before election. McConnell says that Trump's nominee "will receive a vote" from senate. Wolf one-on-one with Bob Woodward. Woodward talks about Trump's focus on vaccine and dismissal of masks. Woodward talks about the CDC's reversal of coronavirus guidance. Woodward talks about his biggest fear for fall and winter. Woodward talks about the supreme court vacancy fight. Woodward talks about his conclusion that Trump is the "wrong man" for the job. Woodward talks about the former Trump administration officials' concerns over the president's handling of security threats. 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	This is CNN breaking news.
0:10.0	Welcome to our viewers here in the United States and around the world.
0:12.6	I'm Wilflitzer in the situation room.
0:14.4	We're following breaking news.
0:15.8	The US right now on the brink of surpassing 200,000 coronavirus deaths
0:21.7	with more than 6.8 million known cases.
0:25.0	And tonight the number of new cases is on the rise in more than half the country, 28 states.
0:31.0	Also breaking more confusion about the virus as the CDC abruptly reverses
0:36.0	guidance that just went out on Friday on airborne transmission now saying
0:41.1	that guidance was posted in error and we're also following the
0:44.9	battle over filling the seat of the late US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader
0:48.7	Ginsburg. President Trump saying moments ago he'd much rather the Senate vote on his nominee before the
0:55.0	November 3rd election. We're going to talk about all of the breaking news this hour
0:59.2	by one-on-one interview with the veteran journalist Bob Woodward, there you see him.
1:03.4	We'll discuss all of these issues live that's coming up.
1:06.4	First though, more on the breaking pandemic news.
1:08.9	Our national correspondent Athena Jones is working the story for us from New York.
1:13.0	Athena, the country is about to mark a truly terrible milestone.
1:17.0	High Wolf, that's right, a terrible milestone of 200,000 lives lost to COVID-19.
1:24.6	But we're also seeing an uptick in new cases, and that highlights what our doctors and
1:28.3	experts have been telling us for weeks, months, really, that there is no national strategy and without one you can
1:33.8	tamp down the virus in one state, it pops up in another, and so no state is really
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