This is CNN breaking news.

Welcome to the lead on Jake Tapper and this afternoon a top expert at the World Health

Organization said this coronavirus may never go away that it might simply join

the various viruses that kill people every year and we all must remain on

alert and stay the course. Plus, a dire economic warning coming from the Federal Reserve Chairman today,

calling the pandemic the quote, biggest shock our economy has felt in modern times, unquote.

Predicting a multi-year recession if there's not more help from Congress

and the White House.

This as food prices are surging and schools are debating whether to open in the fall.

Now the leading model from the University of Washington has once again raised its projections

by 10,000 projected deaths to 147,000 people in this country dying from coronavirus, and that's just by August 4th.

In part, the modelers have up the death toll, projected death toll because of relaxing social distancing

measures happening all over the country. As CNN's Erica Hill reports now,

while the number of new cases is thankfully trending down overall nationwide, mayors of of major cities,

cities including Washington, D.C. are concerned about a surge in new infections

and have in fact extended stay at home orders.

Shopping restaurants, the beach.

Signs of pre-Covid life returning

as experts warn the virus itself may be here to stay.

This virus may become just another endemic virus in our communities.

And this virus may never go away.

This picturesque college campus will be quiet in September.

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