Washington Post: Possible second wave of infections this winter likely worse; Georgia reopening gyms, hair and nail salons, body art studios, massage therapists, bowling alleys starting Friday; DC mayor revamps virus response for jails, mental hospital;

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3.2 • 866 Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2020

⏱️ 42 minutes

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New York governor talks testing and funding with Trump in "productive" White House meeting; United States death toll tops 43,000 as some states move to reopen; New study finds no benefits, higher death rate in patients taking hydroxychloroquine for Covid-19; Georgia, South Carolina and Tennessee move to reopen businesses, despite not meeting Trump administration's "phase one" requirement; Senate approves new $484 billion package to help small businesses; Director of key Trump administration vaccine agency suddenly departs; Abbott labs warns its rapid coronavirus tests can produce false negative under certain conditions; DC among United States cities reporting high rate of coronavirus deaths among African Americans; Nursing homes bearing brunt of deaths, infections; "An army of tracers" needed to control coronavirus spread; White House coronavirus task force briefing;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.
0:09.6	Welcome to our viewers here in the United States and around the world.
0:12.5	I'm Will Fletzer in the Situation Room.
0:14.3	We're following breaking news.
0:16.0	The Washington Post is now reporting that a possible second wave of coronavirus infections, this coming
0:22.8	winter, according to the Washington Post, will likely be worse.
0:27.3	We're getting details on what the director of the CDC has just said to the Washington
0:32.1	Post.
0:33.1	We're also standing by this hour to monitor the White House coronavirus task force briefing.
0:38.1	President Trump has just finished a meeting in the Oval Office with the New York Governor Andrew Cuomo,
0:43.7	whose state has been the hardest hit in the pandemic and who's frequently clashed with the
0:48.3	president.
0:48.7	Governor Cuombo says they discuss testing and state funding.
0:52.1	He describes the meeting as, quote, productive. As of this hour,
0:55.7	by the way, the U.S. death toll now tops 43,000 with more than 800,000 confirmed coronavirus
1:02.6	cases in the United States. Globally, there are now more than 2.5 million known cases and 175,000 deaths. But as the world searches for an effective treatment,
1:14.4	a new study shows the drug often touted by President Trump, a hydroxychloroquine, provided no
1:20.6	benefit to patients and actually a higher death rate. Also tonight, more states have announced
1:27.2	controversial plans to reopen
1:29.2	despite not meeting the Trump administration's own requirements. Seeing as Nick Watt is joining
1:35.0	us from Santa Monica, California right now, Nick got some very disturbing developments, this
1:40.2	latest statement from the CDC director specifically.
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