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Her community in new jersey, but her favorite title was mom. She loved not only raising her children but welcoming all her childrens friends into her home. Joan swanson lived an extraordinary life and she was 89 years old. The news continues. Thats it for us. Cuomo prime time. Welcome to prime time. The president let another day pass without calling for a plan to fight this pandemic. Instead, he spent his time continuing his up is down strategy. Insisting the virus is under control and its under control because of his efforts alone. We stopped it. We did a travel ban in january. Like dr. Fauci said, you would have lost thousands of additional people if President Trump had to do that, and i was a crowd of one. Who . So now he draws on dr. Fauci to vouchy for him. He cites him as a trusted source. Do you know why, ladies and gentlemen . Because trump knows fauci is a trusted source. So given what just came out of his mouth, we have to ask, why is he trying to destroy fauci . And the answer is because fauci keeps telling you the truth about covid19. Now, if you want he was just nice about fauci. He said he likes fauci. Youre not being fair to the president. Okay. If the president isnt behind it, why is his campaign pushing out a staffer like Stephen Moore who is openly trying to smear faucis decadeslong service . The guys supposed to be an economic analyst. And what about this from peter navarro. Another trumper. He never wants to talk about anything outside his lane, but now hes a fauci critic . These guys want to talk about being trustworthy and a record of getting things wrong and yet they work for trump and never admit any of his legendary lies. And look at this. Proudly displayed by dan scavino. Just popped up for a second. It will come back now. White house deputy chief of staff for communications. He posted this cartoon mocking americas top Infectious Disease specialist on his Facebook Page as he calls him his colleague. So, yes, trump is behind this. And, yes, this is how trump and his trolls treat colleagues. More importantly, this is how trump goes after the people who let you know when hes lying and trying to divide and conquer. The truth is the man who promised to drain the swamp has created more stench and added mora more alligators. Thats what trump has done. Now, if im wrong, why doesnt captain carnage tell his sycophants to shut up . If he likes fauci and believes has a trusted source, why doesnt he say stop, why doesnt he correct it . Because he likes what theyre saying. He wants them to say it because he doesnt want you to believe the truth, unless it benefits him. So at the same time he says no mask, at the same time he says no testing, he then says we did the right thing and, here, even fauci says. See him for who and what he is. Trump promised to stop the carnage and yet every day he makes sure it continues. Now 136,000 dead. 136,000. It didnt have to be like this. The biggest states continue to reel. They didnt have to do it this way. And trump and co. Continue to watch. If im wrong, where is fauci . Its been 18 days since we last saw him at a Task Force Press briefing. Why do you need a. M. Radio to find his appearances . Why silence him during the period of the worst growth in cases . Think about it. If you think about it, you know why, why attack fauci. You do those things to give you a better chance of selling lies, lies that make the emperors new clothes as obvious as the big nose in the middle of my face. Trump wants you to think the problem think of this. The problem that we have right now, the reason the pandemic is getting us, testing. If we didnt test, you would have all the headlines. If we did half the testing, wed have half the cases. If we did another you cut that in half, weve had yet again half of that. He had to think about what half is, by the way. Like, half means half as many my 10yearold knows better than what he just said. By his theory, think about it, we should stop tracking any kind of problem. Then therell be less of them. We cured cancer. Just dont count the cases. Ridiculous especially now with school coming. No wonder the New York Times and cnn is reporting that the Trump Administration confirmed that starting tomorrow they want all hospitals to send them the covid data, to hhs, not to the cdc. Why . Why . Experts say that will make it hard for them to understand the data. It will make it harder to access and research the data. Why would the Trump Administration want hospitals to send the data to a place that makes it harder to access it and understand it . This is so obvious, so stupid, so dangerous, and all proof of why this president wont allow a National Plan for testing. Even trumps most determined defenders are waving him off of this. Listen. We dont have a dr. Fauci problem. We need to be focussing on doing things that get to us where we need to go. So i have all the respect in the world for dr. Fauci. I think any effort to undermine him is not going to be productive, quite frankly. Republican senator Lindsey Graham saying Something Like that is like you deciding to eat your own hand. It better be pretty important to even consider doing such a thing. But this is that important. This plan of divide and conquer, of lie, deny and defy is killing us. We have more dead than this pandemic would have cost us if we had been doing the right thing sooner, things that this president denies. Measures that he defies. And facts upon which he lies. Dont you see, thats what this is . Thats why hes attacking fauci. Fauci is different. Hes not going to stay silent like too many weve seen on his team. Theyre not going to hes not going to say nothing now and then hell leave and then there will be a book in a couple of months because now he wants to make his witness. Hes going to take the heat. Because hes bigger than politics. Hes going to stick because hes about the health of people like you and me. Obviously, the more you test the more youre going to pick up, so increase in testing is going to give you incareens, ret there is no doubt there are more infections and we know that because the percentage of the cases that are tested are positive is increasing. Therefore, unequivocally, youre seeing truly more new cases. And if you dont want the scientific genius answer, you can have the regular guy answer. If its about testing, why are hospitalizations going up . Why is the governor of florida not wanting to release hospitalization data . If its about testing, why are more people getting sick and going to the hospital . Thats it. Its the end of the debate. There is no debate because this isnt about the facts. What fauci just told you is the truth. Thats why trump finally covered his mouth this weekend. You know if he waited this long to let us see him in a mask, he knows were in trouble. His own cdc director is getting more bold and saying things that are obviously about him. Im glad to see the president wear a mask this weekend, the vice president. We need them for to set the example. Now, this many weeks and months in . Thats dr. Redfield. He also said today, if everyone wore a mask in america, this pandemic could be under control within four to eight weeks. Just think about that. If you take nothing else from the show tonight, okay . Thats trumps guy. He said it until they started throwing him under the bus. If everybody wore a mask in the places that you need to obviously if there is no case spread then thats different. This idea that all of us are having our liberty stripped and theyre going to bind our mouths. If youre in a place where there is case spread, thats what were talking about. You want to go live up in the mountains and theres nothing going on, god bless. Its for people in congested communities where you have case spread. If everybody does it where you need to do it, four to eight weeks, wed change the calculus. Imagine if this president had stopped his bs a month and a half ago about masks when fauci and birx and everybody were begging you to do it. Arizona, texas, are requesting refrigerated trucks. Why . You saw it here in new york. Morgues are running out of room for bodies. Hospitals. Icus. Theyre running out of beds. Florida broke another record for the most deaths in a single day. 27 states have had to roll back their reopening plans. Why . Because we didnt do it right. 37 states have rising cases. You know where this goes. Ive been there. It sucks. It will take things from you and your family you may never get back. And thats if youre lucky. And you have mile to moderate cases. We know what we need to do and i cant believe we have leadership that has been trying to get us not to do it. We need the best warriors we have to help fight this. We need all of us invested. Now, heres the good news. Despite the president s perfidy, his lies, he denials, his attacks, we still have a chance to get this thing under control. We can still have our kids go to school in some form, in some way in many of the areas. Community by community. But, yes, we can still do it. Masks, distancing, washing, be careful now. Despite these efforts to weaken fauci, thank god he is only stronger in his resolve. The issue at hand is so important that i think walking away from it is not the solution. I think that would just make things worse. Ill tell you, i was surprised. I was surprised. Why . Hes been doing this a long time. His legacy is secure. And for him to have to get trash talked like this . With this kind of incompetence . You know what kind of mix tour that is for someone like fauci to have to take, a bunch of dumbasses trashing you . Imagine how bad it would be for us and for trump if fauci were to change his mind. So lets start here. Lets bring in the man who got that answer from fauci. Another Public Health expert, dr. Abdul l. Sayid. Hes the host of the Crooked Media podcast america dissected. Great to see you, andrew chris whoa. That hurt me worse than covid. I must look terrible. I did it on purpose. So does my mom. Let me ask you this. The idea that the Administration Says hospitals all over the country dont send the data to cdc. Send to us at hhs. Why do experts like you shake your head at that . Its Just One Agency versus another. Whats the big difference . No, the cdc is the Nations Health department. It has been tasked with counting and analyzing disease since its inception. Thats what it was in part created to do. Right. The fact that youre seeing the cdc being marginalized out, both in terms of its presence on the stage of direction for folks, but then also now in terms of Data Analysis shows that there may be an alternative choice about what they want to do with that data. Of course the president s been trying to tell a story about covid19 for a very long time, and, of course, the cdc has been telling the honest truth about it. Its an apolitical organization. Now, theyre realizing that if they really do want to tell the story they want to tell, it would be a lot easier for them to have the data firsthand and bypass the cdc. This is a really frustrating situation because it opens the door to propagandizing this pandemic. Thats what hes doing. I know its absurd on its face. Literally my 10yearold knows better than that, but it works when it keeps getting repeated because people want this to go away. Nobody wants a pandemic to be worse. We all want it to be better so people are susceptible. Trump knows that. But then the calculus becomes kill the truthterrelllers. He has to go after fauci. Hes not doing to directly because the guys too popular. Lets be honest. The idea that faucis being attacked for telling people the truth, whats your take on what and what did you feel when you talked to the man himself . Well, ill tell you, Anthony Fauci is a legend when it comes to Public Health. Hes somebody ive looked up to since i opened up a textbook about Infectious Diseases and his name was right there as one of the authors. He has been through this before. He served six president s and his resolve is clear. Ill tell you this, though, he is 79 years old. He could easily walk out into the sunset and the reason hes not is because he believes in his work. He could make way more money doing something else. He could be more famous if he decided to step out and write a book about a storied career. He is sticking in because he believes in the publics health. And ill tell you one point here. At the end of the day, you dont do this kind of work, you dont do Public Health and Public Service for money. You dont do it for glitz and glamour. You do it because you believe in people. At some point in your life there was something about the empathy of being able to heal somebody that you knew mattered. And so you stuck in. Hes been doing this for 32 years. There is a reason that we believe him. There is a reason that so many in this country look to him for leadership. Its because hes provided it for so long. This effort to undermine him, frankly, undermine science and evidence in in this administration. I think bodes really poorly for for the future of this pandemic. And weve seen what that kind of an administration and that kind of leadership that sidesteps science what it creates on the ground, 136,000 people dead and some of the fastest transmission in the world. We didnt have to be here. We shouldnt be here. With people like dr. Fauci at the fore, we could have prevented ourselves from being here. If theyd actually followed his directions. No question to me why hes been silenced during this most important period. Lucky we get access through people like you and get the word out there of what the realities are out there. Doctor, always a pleasure. Be well my friend. Chris, thank you so much. God bless. The president claims parents and students are dying from the trauma of not going back to school. Again, tonight is a night to actually focus on whats being said. Thats what he said. Not going back to school is killing people. The president of these United States said that. So why are big parts of california planning to have no kids in school when it starts in a couple weeks . The state schools chief is here. What does he think of trumps notion . And also, back to reality. What california could mean for your kids. Next. [ thunder rumbles ] [ engine rumbling ] [ beeping ] [ engine revs ] uh, you know theres a 30minute limit, right . Tell that to the rain. [ beeping ] for those who were born to ride, theres progressive. Tnow that sprint is a part ofd. 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I would tell parents and teachers that you should find yourself a new person, whoever is in charge of that decision because its a terrible decision. Because children and parents are dying from that trauma, too. Theyre dying because they cant do what theyre doing. Seriously . And even if you did believe that in lala land or whatever color the sky is in his universe, wheres your plan to help them do it . Lets bring in California School superintendent tony thurman. Tony, im not going to take up your time opining as to whether or not people are dying from not going back to school. The decision to go back to school is all about how, making this determination to start off Remote Learning is a function of what . Good evening, chris. Its a function of using an abundance of caution to make sure first and foremost students are safe. I applaud our larger School Districts that have made the decision to open in Remote Learning. Because right now the data suggests that our schools, if they had to open tomorrow, would not be safe to open. Why not . Its always easier to go back to inclass instruction. For now we have to be cautious. Lets talk about why not. You know what the counter is, now i cant go to work. Now i got to stay home because my kid is remotely learning, which is a nightmare for the parent at home because now were teachers and parents, so whats the calculus there about why its worth it . No question, you know, kids need to go to school and thats so important for them. Parents need to go to work and thats so important, but not at the expense of the safety of our children. We have to keep our schools safe. We have some counties that can open safely because they have very low rates of infection and they have lots of space to maintain the six feet of social distancing that you were talking about. But unlike those counties, many our counties are dealing with space limitations right now and theyre seeing high percentages of cases and right now people are doing the right thing. We have to be cautious. Right now safety has to outweigh everything else. But superintendent, kids dont get that sick, says the president , and when they do get sick, theyre asymptomatic and we dont think they are as contiguous as adults are, says the president and his people. Why dont you take comfort in no those notions . Well, like you said, were seeing an increase in infections of young people, and, quite frankly, the science isnt settled that kids cant transmit to those with vulnerable conditions. To cut off funding to schools is reckless and dangerous. Right now what we need is for the president and congress to really say were going to send more resources to our schools so we have more personal protective equipment. We have more computers so our kids who have to be in Distance Learning can still learn and do so safely. How much contact have you had with the federal government in terms of how to reopen schools, what the risks are and how they can help you manage that . You know, its been limited. I would say that weve had great california congressional delegation. Theyve been very focused on how to get us more resources to help us with reopening, to help us with Computing Devices for our students. In terms of the department of education or the administration itself, very limited. I mean, weve reached out for more support, even around providing meals to hungry kids. We provide meals to 5,000 youre not going to provide meals if they cut the federal funding because isnt it true that federal funding for state education largely affects the neediest kids, including school meals and access to school for the neediest. Isnt that where the money goes that the president s threatening to pull . Absolutely. And right now this state is leaving millions of dollars on the table that are needed to feed hungry kids. Right now we need action from the federal government thats going to keep us safe and allow us to address counselling needs and basic needs of our students while we figure out how to educate them safely. Once we get into the school year, i already know that part of the california plan is to deal with that gap of lack of attendance but still getting the meals. Its hard. Delivery is hard. Having to keep schools open so kids get them, but how do you keep it safe . I know its hard. I know youre working on it. Im not going to go at you about it until i see it in action. Come back on and well talk about the realities in your state. Superintendent, thank you. Thank you. Thank you for getting the message out, continue to be safe and be well. And just remember for you at home, when you hear the president sound strong and say, hey, ill pull the funding, remember who he would punish, not tony thurman, the neediest kids and the food that they get that so often their best chance at nutrition for the day. Thats the strength that hes suggesting. We cant forget about the fight in this country. The pandemic is an extension of the overall fight for opportunity, for safety, and social justice. Those who are getting the most sick are the same people crying out for social justice. The president reminded us today of the need to stay aware. When he said that asking why blacks suffer at the hands of police was a horrible question, and wait until you hear what he said the real problem is. Ill give you a hint. His feelings are toxic and theyre spreading like a hate virus. The facts are the cure and we have them. Next. You cant predict the future. But a resilient business can be ready for it. 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So we now know why President Trump wont discuss systemic racism. Its because he doesnt believe it exists. Lets talk about george floyd. You said George Floyds death was a terrible thing. Terrible. Why are africanamericans still dying at the hands of Law Enforcement in this country . And so are white people. So are white people. What a terrible question to ask. So are white people. More white people, by the way. More white people. All right. This stops now. First, side observation. Trump and the word truth share the first two letters. They have the same total number of letters. But they share absolutely nothing else. Of course more white people die at the hands of police. Why . We are 70 of the country. Thats why. And when we talk about people shot by police, just so you know, white people are more likely to have a gun. But when you talk unarmed people being killed by police, the numbers reverse and quickly. Were talking about a larger percentage of the black population dying at the hands of those who are sworn to protect, and, yes, you can and should love the police, and at the same time hate the abuse of force. Blacks are less than a quarter of the population, but are almost a third of these tragedies. Well, but thats because they commit more crime, right . Thats the secret, isnt it . Violent crime rates are higher in black communities, but why does that mean that there should be more Police Shootings . Even when you adjust for things like time of day, you see blacks are more likely to be singled out by police. Those encounters are more likely to come with higher levels of suspicion. Bottom line, black people are between about 2 to 3 1 2 times more likely to be killed by police. In some cities, its up to six times. 2 to 3, 6, why not one number . Ill tell you why. Its hard to track. Because we do not track these events nationally well. Why . The only conclusion i can draw is we dont really care. Four years ago the head of the fbi said this. We need to collect actual accurate and complete information about policing in this country so that we have informed debates about things that matter enormously. Enormously. So what happened . The feds launched a database on police use of force. The first report was supposed to be this year. You know what they released . Nothing. What you see on camera is orwellian double speak in the hands of a demagogue in the form of President Trump trying to distort a reality too many have lived for too long. The truth is asking about why blacks still suffer is not a horrible question. It is his answer that was horrible. When we talk about schools reopening, were talking about families that are going to be forced to make a very difficult choice. And thats if no one in the family has been infected. Im going to talk to sanjay gupta about that. 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We have an update to a story we brought you in april, a family of six battling coronavirus. Lauren thomas mandel, mother of four, her husband, a doctor treating covid patients. He came down with the virus. Hospitalized. She ended up getting infected as well as her two oldest kids. Teenagers. Now the family is coronavirus negative, but heres the story that i asked lauren to help me tell, okay . The battle isnt over yet. I know i told you that they dont have covid anymore, but that doesnt mean that its over. Lauren, welcome back to prime time. I brought in the big gun, sanjay gupta. You look great. Ive missed talking to you. Thanks. It was nice checking in. You were very helpful to me. I want the audience to know that. You and sanjay share the distinction. You were more helpful to me than i was to you, but i want sanjay to hear what you and i are living. You dont have covid, but that doesnt mean that you are 100 well, does it . No, we are not well. First, i should correct, we took the Antibody Test and my little ones did end up having it. So they have the antibodies but they were asymptomatic . They werent so asymptomatic. I think i was just super sick, so i didnt know, but i can pinpoint exactly both times when my little ones did have it. So, they had minor symptoms, but very minor, thank goodness. And now theyre fine. The 15yearold and i both have difficulty with our breathing still. Shes a lot better than i am. Im on two sets of inhalers, starting a pulmonologist next week. There is something wrong, especially at nighttime, i have difficulty getting that deep breath in. Just doesnt come naturally and i have to stop. The 17yearold still du not have his taste or smell back and my husband still has trouble breathing and still gets tingling randomly throughout his body for no reason. Weve done tests. Weve done blood work. Weve done everything and this is whats coming up. The blood is, what, okay . Yeah. And you never had problems with asthma or anything like that . Youre not a crazy allergy suffers or anything like that . So i am a crazy allergy sufferer. I started with my allergist. They wouldnt let me in for a while. I did everything they said. Had my second set of shots a week ago and i still cant breathe. He put me on two sets of inhalers and told me a week later if im not feeling better, make an appointment for pulmonologist. Can you exercise . I chase after my kids. And then i do sit down. They know. I dont have the same energy level i used to. I cant play outside with them like i used to. I find myself sitting down, you know, a lot more often than i did. All right. So, sanjay, how often are you hearing stuff like this and what does it mean to you . Yeah, i mean, well, first of all, lauren, im sorry that youre going through this. I remember, you know, hearing your story back in april. And this does linger, you know . And we hear this quite a bit. I mean, even in people who, as lauren, i think youre alluding to where either asymptomatic or minimally symptomatic, even they can have these lingering symptoms. If you look at the studies and, again, these are early days. Were going to learn a lot more about this in the months and years to come, but in the early day, they same some 30 to 40 seem to have persistent symptoms more than a few months. We dont really know any longer than that. Thats one of the longest followups we have. Chris, we went back and looked at sars data, sudden acute respiratory superdome. We looked at that because that was also, as you may know, caused by coronavirus. 25 of people did develop persistent sort of lung problems in the form of either Pulmonary Fibrosis or difficulty with pulmonary longer term. I realize as im saying this thats got to sound a little jarring to you guys since you both have had it, but this is some of the data that they showed. They were able to detect this by doing ct scans afterwards. Right. You know, after the person was covidfree. Thats a level of testing we have to see, but i got to tell you something, mandel and i have a pretty good bond. Neither of us is surprised to hear it because we think that were not special. Now, theres a term that i dont know if the doctors have used with you, lauren, but youre going to hear it at some point. Its called myalga encephalitis. Its a fancy way of saying Chronic Fatigue syndrome and can have an overlay of the lung stuff because of this particular virus. Im done with the lets live a situation through chris. Thats why i wanted to bring in you and there are a lot of other people feeling this. They are now offering that up to me to explain whats going on with me. Ive got brain fog that wont go away. Ive got an onset of clinical depression, which is not sadness, but it is depression. People keep saying to me, dont be sad. Im not sad, im depressed. Its different. I cant control it. I cant control my mood. Im deal with that with my doctors. I never had it before. I have it now. I cant recover from workouts the way i did before. So everythings relative. I hear it from more people than i dont, sanjay. Lauren, i want to give you last word, though, on what you want people to know about what the familys still dealing with in terms of the tail of the tornado. Its real. People, you know, you need to wear your masks, you need to protect yourself, you need to protect your family. Its out there and i think once its into your house, it doesnt it just doesnt go away. Like our house, its all about covid. Even my little ones. My 7yearold has shes nervous all the time. She wants to make sure that were safe. Are we Wearing Masks . Are we not . I have 5 and 7yearold zero problems wearing a mask because they know how it can protect them. Were scared and theyre scared to get it back again. They saw what happens. I mean, its really, sanjay, the idea if you get it, probably have a mild case, youll be fine. Yeah, i just dont know that it goes away after that. Yeah. Once they give me some more lung testing, i know theyre going to find something. Thats why ive been delaying it. I dont think were special. Mandel is special. Shes a phenomenal mother. I cant believe how she dealt with this. Every time i called to check on her, i wound up talking about myself 80 of the time, but i dont think were special, sanjay. Yeah, i have to say this. Hey, man, why dont i just get this and power through it and get the antibodies and be done . You probably hear that as well. Not a good option. We dont know. No. Exactly what this virus does to the body. Affects everything from the toes to the nose and we dont know how long it lasts. You dont want this if you can avoid it. I feel bad for both of you that you got it. Im glad youre recovering, but its a long process, you dont want this if you can avoid it. Lauren, lets do this. Stay in the loop. Ill come at you every few weeks and see where youre going and you let me know if there are any updates worthwhile in your opinion, all right . All right. Sounds like a plan. I know better than to offer you anything. Youre going to say no. Im not getting into that trap again. That ive learned. Right. But i appreciate you and your family. I wish you the best. I hope it continues to get better and soon. Okay . Yeah, you too. You too. All right. God bless. Doc, as always, thank you. Be well. Ill check in with you soon. Ill call you, chris. All right. Please. All right. We got some breaking news for you out of alabama, a nice window into the strength of the president within his party. Next. Welcome back, to that same old place that you laughed about well the names have all changed since you hung around but those dreams have remained and theyve turned around whod have thought theyd lead ya back here where we need ya welcome back, america. 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This is a race that is another chapter of the humiliation for Jeff Sessions that President Trump has dished out. He gave up his senate seat after being the first senator to endorse him four years ago to become attorney general. Of course he recused himself in the russia probe and the president never forgave him for that. President trump gave a blistering almost daily deliverance of Jeff Sessions and supported Tommy Tuberville in the race. We are projecting that the former auburn football coach well known in alabama. Although only lived there a brief period of time. Was a florida voter, resident a year and a half ago or so. Is going to be the republican nominee. Will face senator doug jones the democratic senator the most imperilled democratic senator in the senate this fall. President trump is already tweeting about this this evening. Praising Tommy Tuberville. It. Wow, just called, Tommy Tuberville won big against Jeff Sessions. Will be a great senator for the people of alabama. Well keep an eye on this race. Jeff sessions who won four races to the u. S. Senate, often without opposition. Humiliated tonight in alabama. Trump power in alabama. No doubt about it. No disrespect to tuberville. A popular guy in the region of the country. Being a coach at auburn is a big deal. Reporter it is. Especially there. But obviously this is the power of trump and in large measure and sessions learning a lesson. Its fealty, not loyalty. If you dont follow the rules this is what you get. Thank you for reporting. One more step down election road. Infectious disease experts in miami are begging for help. They are calling miami the new epicenter of the pandemic. The reality is eight hospitals in Miamidade County have maxed out icu capacity. Rates are still climbing. What are they going to do . Situation on the ground with the mayor. Good to see you. Sorry its under these conditions. Its not the conditions we want to be seeing each other under. First, politics and practicality. Politics, there is no matching your message with the governors message. He doesnt acknowledge the raeld there, its a pocket, there are problems, but it goes up and goes down. Thats what this is. How can you and he see things so differently on the same batch of numbers . Im not sure. We had a meeting today he was at a variety of different mayors were there. And the idea was for us to try to unify the message. For him to listen to voices that dont always sing the same tune. It was important for him to be there. We certainly were able to get him to convey in miami the last couple days wearing a mask in public is important. Thats a rule that we have in the city. And Miamidade County. Its something were hoping will help us start flattening the curve once again. The situation is dire. Hospitalizations at alltime high, icu beds are double what they were in april and trying to find ways to increase capacity. Over two to four weeks. If things dont improve over the next week, we could be forced to take very dramatic measures like reinstituting a stayathome order. What do you do with capacity . What is the plan the governor offering any relief . Is the federal government offering relief . If you dont have beds thats the end of capacity. How do you expand . Who is offering to help . Were getting some help from the state. They sent 100 nurses over the last week. We havent gotten necessarily any federal help. What the Hospital System is doing is creating flexibility by having less noncovid19 patients obviously we have about the ability 2,000 covid19 patients in the system. And we have the ability to create some flexibility by we shut down nonelective services. Elective procedures. And also a shift in some patients from that are not covid19. And making sure we have more capacity for covid19 patients. Thats what Hospital System is doing to increase 50 over two weeks. Thats a big number. Huge number. I guess you have to cross index that with the case growth. How long do they think they have . They think they have about four weeks if assuming numbers dont abate and to create the kind of capacity they think they can create. I think if things dont start to change materially in the next week or so we have to take dramatic action. Its masks, social distancing, if it doesnt work you have to take a step back and reduce the options for people to be out in public and stay home until numbers come down. Thats leadership. Nobody will like anything that we said. Thats the job you wanted. When things get to normal, people will be normal in terms how they see the measures that got them there. You have a tough job ahead. I promise you, this platform remains open. And i hope you see change and quickly. I hope so too. Mayor francis suarez, stay healthy, stay righteous. Well take a break. Well be right back. Just over a year ago, i was drowning in credit card debt. 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