W.H.O.: there may never be a pandemic “silver bullet”; Trump attacks Birx after she said virus is “widespread” in U.S.; New report examines “how the pandemic defeated America”; Trump: U.S. will soon see great treatments & vaccine;
The Lead with Jake Tapper
CNN
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🗓️ 3 August 2020
⏱️ 43 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | And welcome to the lead. I'm Pamela Brown and today for Jake Tapper and we begin with the |
| 0:07.2 | health lead as the nation nears 5 million confirmed cases of coronavirus with more than 150,000 deaths. |
| 0:16.0 | The World Health Organization warning today that there is no silver bullet to end this |
| 0:19.9 | pandemic and there may never be. One top official leading the |
| 0:23.9 | coronavirus response for the organization is saying that everyone is |
| 0:27.8 | feeling the fatigue of this pandemic but quote we have a long way to go. |
| 0:33.0 | That reality, as the CDC projects, there could be up to 27,000 more people killed |
| 0:40.0 | before the end of this month. |
| 0:42.0 | And a CNN Sarah Sidner reports, Dr Deborah Burke is telling CNN the virus is more |
| 0:47.2 | widespread now in the U.S. than ever before. |
| 0:53.0 | It will be felt for decades to come. |
| 0:58.0 | The head of the World Health Organization predicting the effects of the coronavirus pandemic will last for decades. |
| 1:03.4 | Not only on the health aspect, but on social, economic and political. |
| 1:11.0 | The coronavirus is still spreading out of control in parts of the United States, |
| 1:16.0 | and death tolls are continuing to climb. |
| 1:18.0 | We are very concerned, and this is a very serious point, |
| 1:21.0 | and deaths will continue to increase for the next few weeks. |
| 1:25.4 | One reason why, the U.S. is in a new phase according to the White House's point person on |
| 1:30.2 | COVID response, Dr Deborah Burks. |
| 1:32.8 | What we're seeing today is different from March and April. |
| 1:36.1 | It is extraordinarily widespread. |
| 1:38.6 | It's into the rural as equal urban areas. |
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