Coronavirus latest: Thursday, May 14

On Thursday, President Trump responded to Dr. Fauci’s warnings about reopening the United States, saying that the doctor’s answer was ‘not acceptable.’ This comes as the Wisconsin Supreme Court overruled the state’s Governor’s stay-at-home orders, deeming them ‘unlawful.’ Yahoo Finance’s Anjalee Khemlani joins The Final Round to break down the latest news about the coronavirus.

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MYLES UDLAND: All right, let's move on now to the latest on the coronavirus. Anjalee Khemlani joins us for the headlines there. Anjalee.

ANJALEE KHEMLANI: Thanks, Myles. Yep, we are looking at, unfortunately, a grave new milestone, 4.4 million cases globally, and we have now surpassed 300,000 deaths today. In the US, 1.4 million cases and nearing 85,000 deaths. And this comes as we are hearing President Trump calling out Dr. Fauci.

He was involved-- Dr. Fauci was in a Senate subcommittee hearing the other day and-- and talking really about the response to the outbreak and what the US needs to do and-- and really warning that many of these reopenings could be really hard for schools especially and for employers to really consider, you know, weigh the consequences of-- of reopening and going back to work right now when we're still trying to really get a handle on the pandemic. As we just heard, the numbers continue to rise. And even though they are growing at a slower clip, we are seeing still concerns, really alarming concern from the health experts.

We know Dr. Rick Bright also earlier today, ousted from leading BARDA, which is right now in charge of vaccine development, and-- and his warnings as well about how, you know, 2020 could be a real long winter in the-- in the history books and really concerned about what that means and how we're hearing this political messaging. While at the same time, the public health experts continue to sound alarms and where those two bridge and-- and really what the-- the economic world can take away from that. Myles.

MYLES UDLAND: Yeah, Anjalee, you know, it's interesting you mentioned school. And I was just thinking earlier that, like, until we have kids back in school, like, it really doesn't matter what happens. I mean, people can't change-- people can't go away from whatever it is they've settled into in the last two months until they have a place to send their kids. And so I think all these discussions about reopening, back to work, and so on for many people are kind of moot until we maybe get to-- to August and September and we can figure out what next school year looks like.

ANJALEE KHEMLANI: Well, yeah, and we've already heard, right, from the higher education. We know that in California, they're-- they're saying to remote, and a lot of schools are weighing what that looks like because that-- that could be the reality for the whole country. Everyone's, you know, got their hopes pinned on a vaccine that these health experts are also saying is really unlikely. Even if they do come up with something that's even plausible, that would go to health workers and other frontline and essential workers first. So the-- the broader public will not, absolutely not, see something until next year. And so for the foreseeable future, we're really going to be in this situation.

MYLES UDLAND: Yeah. And then questions about if you do shifts in a school, I-- I mean, is the place even sanitized? Like, one kid-- I mean, like, I don't even know if that really solves the issue. But I guess we have, like, three or four months or so to figure it out, at least here in the Northeast. All right, Anjalee Khemlani with the latest on the coronavirus. Always great to get your thoughts.