now there have now been over 10 million
reported cases of corona virus worldwide
and more than half a million people
worldwide have lost their lives on
average more than 4,700 people are dying
around the world from covered 19 linked
to illnesses every 24 hours that's
according to Reuters calculations based
on the average for June that equates to
196 people per hour or one person every
18 seconds so in the time it takes to
watch a 90 minute soccer match 293
people would have died on average the
u.s. the worst affected country by far
has more than 125,000 deaths with the
number of new cases surging in the south
and the West Florida reported a
staggering nine and a half thousand
infections on Saturday and another eight
and a half thousand on Sunday the
figures have increased fivefold in just
two weeks with officials blaming the
increase on a rush just socialized again
after weeks in lockdown the average age
of people infected in the state is now
33 down from 65 two months ago in Texas
the number of daily cases has risen from
an average of about two thousand to more
than five thousand which the state's
governor has called a swift and very
dangerous turn during a visit to Dallas
on Sunday the US Vice President Mike
Pence urged Texans to wear masks have a
listen wear a mask wherever it's
indicated or wherever you're not able to
practice the kind of social distancing
that would prevent the spread of the
corona virus and we we would strongly
reiterate that today I know that roughly
half the state is under local ordinances
strongly recommend if your if your local
officials in consultation with the state
are directing you to wear a mask we
encourage everyone to wear a mask in the
affected areas and where you can't
maintain social distancing wearing a
mask is just a good idea
Mike Pence say let's go straight to
Laura Podesta from CBS News who joins me
live from New York Laura
to see you we were hearing there from
Mike Pence reiterating where a mas
several stuff as times there this has
become a political issue so is this now
a political shift it certainly is a
changing course yalda for the vice
president to say wearing a mask is a
good idea because I don't forget along
the vice president the president really
anyone from the White House would with
deflecting any comment regarding a mask
and really leaving it up to with the
governors to make decisions about mask
wearing on a state-by-state basis we are
seeing governors in California in Nevada
in North Carolina mandating that their
residents wear masks when they're out in
public or when they cannot be within six
feet of another person but so far there
has not been any form of federal mandate
saying everyone here in the US has to
wear one third we're also seeing a surge
in in many southern states just tell us
about this u-turn especially when it
comes to reopening absolutely u-turn is
a great word because in places like
Florida where all of the beaches were
open at one point now we're hearing that
some are going to be closed ahead of the
very busy July fourth holiday weekend
this coming weekend so a real reversal
in in course for the Republican governor
there to say that there is an issue an
issue that he says was brought on mostly
by young people that have contracted the
disease but could potentially pass it on
to the elderly and the more susceptible
in Texas bars are no longer allowed to
be open and restaurants have to be at 50
percent capacity it's a similar story in
California where Governor Gavin Newsom
has shut
all bars in Los Angeles and several
other counties so really this is a
state-by-state situation where some like
here in New York City we're seeing
phases to reopen moving forward but in
the southern states that are being hit
hardest now we're seeing that u-turn
Laura we're also hearing from the
pandemic task force saying they're
better equipped now when it comes to
dealing with the pandemic compared to
where the US was three months ago is
that what you're hearing yes and I think
there's a multi-faceted answer to that
question we know that hospitals now are
better prepared with PPE for their
doctors and employees with ventilators
we know that doctors who have been
treating patients for months with
coronavirus now have better treatment
options they know what works and what
might not work
there's also better contact tracing
there's more testing going on nationwide
so even though we're seeing increasing
numbers a lot of that is because so many
people are being tested and a lot of the
people that are becoming positive
testing positive for coronavirus are
younger people so that's why we're not
seeing death rates skyrocket as the
number of positive cases skyrockets I
also think we have a more aware public
back in March when everything was
shutting down we didn't really know that
coronavirus had landed in
so you had people walking around
touching things breathing on one another
talking to one another in close
proximity
I've been contracting it now if you are
someone who's elderly if you have our
asthmatic or susceptible in some other
way you're going to be much more careful
so overall yes treatment and just
knowing what's out there
we're just more aware more educated
you're Laura thanks so much for bringing
us up-to-date there that was Laura
Podesta joining us live there from New
York City