TAPPER: Welcome to THE LEAD. I'm Jake Tapper. We begin this hour with the health LEAD and the coronavirus pandemic and a warning from the World Health Organization that no country can just ride this out until there's a vaccine. And, yet, amid no new national strategy in the United States despite a clear failure of the government to isolate and contain the virus as other parts of the world have been able to do. The CDC Director Dr. Robert Redfield is now saying that middle America is getting, quote, stuck when it comes to the pandemic that places such as Nebraska and Oklahoma are not seeing cases fall. Though the overall number of cases in the United States is declining from the peak last month and Dr. Redfield says he expected the number of daily deaths to also begin dropping soon. Experts have long said that the true number of cases in the United States is likely many times many times higher than what has been reported. And now Dr. Redfield is saying it's possible up to 60 million Americans have actually contracted the virus, more than ten times the reported number. As CNN's Athena Jones reports for us now there are at least 19 states dealing with new outbreaks at colleges and universities.</s>ATHENA JONES, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): As college students head back to campus, coronavirus outbreaks at universities in at least 19 states leading to concerns about scenes like this. A large gathering of students at Penn State that prompted the school's president to ask those flouting the rules, do you want to be the person responsible for sending everyone home? Mississippi's Governor urging college students to be careful.
W.H.O Says No Country Can Just Ride This Out Waiting for a Vaccine.