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CDC warns of "worst fall" ever if coronavirus guidelines are ignored; Officer rescues man stuck on train tracks
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CDC director Robert Redfield warned that if people do not follow the coronavirus safety guidelines, the upcoming flu season could make things even worse. Meanwhile, more than 1,500 students and staff from nine districts in seven states are in quarantine after positive cases were reported in schools that had just reopened. Manuel Bojorquez has the latest.
CDC Director Dr. Robert Redfield joins "CBS This Morning" to discuss the state of the coronavirus pandemic, just a day after President Trump announced he would be cutting funding to the World Health Organization. Redfield, a member of the White House coronavirus task force, credited WHO as a "long-standing partner" and said the CDC was "poised to provide assistance" to states in expanding testing and working to reopen their economies.
Dr. Robert Redfield said he believes the coronavirus may have escaped from a lab.
As Congress spent the weekend working on economic relief for the country, President Trump was taking meetings focused on overturning his election loss. CBSN political reporter Caitlin Huey-Burns and Washington Post political reporter Eugene Scott join CBSN's Tanya Rivero on "Red & Blue" to discuss where the Trump legal challenges could head next.
The Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis said "efforts to interfere with scientific work at CDC were far more extensive and dangerous than previously known."
The head of a House oversight committee questioned whether CDC Director Robert Redfield interfered with coronavirus guidance.
They watch the agency's director, Dr. Robert Redfield, as well as scientists, as the administration tries to downplay the pandemic, the sources say.
White House officials pressured the CDC to downplay the coronavirus to encourage reopening schools, CBS News confirmed.
"This research clearly confirms that despite high rates of COVID-19 in the United States ... we haven't come close to achieving herd immunity," said study author Dr. Julie Parsonnet.
CDC Director Robert Redfield is urging Americans not to let their guard down after preliminary findings from a new nationwide antibody study showed about 90% of Americans are still susceptible to the virus. David Begnaud reports.
His warning comes as President Trump continues to talk about so-called herd immunity.
CDC Director Robert Redfield testified before a Senate committee that studies show a vast majority of Americans remain susceptible to coronavirus infection. Watch his remarks.
A USA Today investigation that looked at tens of thousands of internal records and conducted over a hundred interviews found that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention repeatedly minimized the coronavirus pandemic under political pressure from the White House. USA Today investigative reporter Brett Murphy joins CBSN's Elaine Quijano with more.
President Trump said Friday that there will be enough vaccine available to protect every American against the virus by April. His claim comes two days after he criticized CDC Director Dr. Robert Redfield, who told Congress that a vaccine won't be widely available until next summer. Paula Reid reports.
Health experts point out that we don't yet know how effective a vaccine will be – but we do know masks help stop the spread.
Trump has publicly contradicted the CDC director's timeline for vaccine distribution, saying that Redfield "made a mistake."
President Trump has been publicly disputing the statements of his top medical advisers about the coronavirus vaccine timeline, as he faces more criticism from a former task force aide. CBS News White House correspondent Weijia Jiang joins CBSN to explain the latest developments.
President Trump is at odds with the nation's top health officials over the timing of coronavirus vaccine. It comes as a former adviser Vice Pence Mike Pence who was on the Coronavirus Task Force criticized the administration's response to the pandemic. CBS News White House correspondent Paula Reid joins Lana Zak to discuss.
Federal officials have rolled out plans for how to distribute a COVID-19 vaccine to Americans free of charge, and top health officials were questioned about it at a Senate hearing Wednesday. Internal medicine physician Dr. Shoshana Ungerleider joined CBSN with more.
The president contradicted CDC Director Robert Redfield's timeline for a vaccine. Redfield said a vaccine would not be widely available until the second or third quarter of 2021.
Just hours after CDC Director Dr. Robert Redfield testified about the importance of wearing masks and a potential vaccine timeline, President Trump openly contradicted him at a White House press briefing. The president insisted the doctor "made a mistake" and "misunderstood the question probably" during his testimony to Congress. Weijia Jiang reports.
CDC director Robert Redfield contradicted President Trump during sworn testimony Wednesday. Redfield said face masks are an effective tool in fighting the coronavirus and a vaccine would not be widely available until sometime next year. Paula Reid reports.
"This could be the worst fall from a public health perspective we've ever had," said CDC Director Dr. Robert Redfield.