Were killed. Three days last week, we exceeded that. Reporter the u. S. Average daily death toll is higher than its been since april and record numbers of americans are now in the hospital. Our surge right now is intensifying. It is amplifying. Reporter postthanksgiving surge has not even hit yet and, soon, there could be another, but bigger. With christmas, it starts several days before. It goes through christmas. The week after christmas into new years and the new years holiday i think it could be more of a challenge than what we saw with thanksgiving. Reporter sunday night, a last hooray for several restaurants. Much of the state today is back to takeout only and back under stayathome orders. They say we feel we need to do this. What do you think . I said you really dont have any choice. Reporter the icu beds are getting scarce, too scarce. Today, new york city reopened some schools. The parents were so happy and so relieved. Reporter just hours later, a warning from new yorks governor. If we dont get the rate under control and you are going to overwhelm your hospitals, we will have to go back to shutdown. This surge is different than earlier surgeries because its not about ppe, its not about testing, its really about Health Care Capacity and certain places are just being overwhelmed. We have gotten vaccines coming but we want as many people to be alive to get them as possible. Reporter these vaccines are so new, we still dont know if people could still spread the virus even after inoculation. That is possible. We will know the answer to that as we follow people out longer. Reporter Fda Committee meets thursday. A green light for pfizers vaccine could come by weeks end. But that first shipment of vaccine isnt going to be anywhere enough to go around and not even enough for the First Priority group, the Health Care Workers and the longterm care residents. In the meantime, we have got a problem. Here in california, in the past two weeks, icu and hospital admissions are up by 70 . They are trying to hire more staff and california has appealed to the federal government for reinforcements. Jake . Nick, thanks so much. Appreciate. Joining me now, is the dean of Brown UniversityPublic Health dr. Ashe jaw. Thank you for joining us. A cnn analysis found that most states will not get enough vaccine doses for all Health Workers and longterm care residents for this first round. How should states determine who gets those first vaccines . Jake, thanks for having me on. Look. We are going to have to go through several rounds of shipments before those First Priority groups get it. I think a lot of states are trying to get it to Health Care Workers first because hospitals are under siege and we need Health Care Workers to be safe in order to discontinue to function. 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Lets pick up our conversation. Doctor, what is your message to people who may be letting their guard down because the vaccine is coming or just the general coronavirus fatigue that we are all frankly feeling . Yeah, we are all feeling it, jake. The way i describe this to folks is we are so close to the end. 100,000 students back to inperson learning this week. Los angeles county is halting all inperson learning which was down to about 4,000 students. Where is the science right now on schools being open . Not the emotions or the fears. What does the science say . The science on this, right now, jake, is pretty clear its safe to get kids back to schools. Schools are not a source of spread in the community. They dont seem to be there doesnt seem to be much in the way of things happening within so many parts of the country not following the science . Yeah, i think its implicated. I think its implicated by the fact it was deeply politicized. The president from sort of day one was just like get everybody back in, no mitigation, nothing. So i think that sort of polarized the conversation. The second is that the evidence on this has shifted. Over the summer i was more cautious but the evidence shows that schools seem to be ther reasonably safe. I have also shifted. I understand the teachers concerns but i say we need to invest and make sure testing and other things to offer assurance to people that it really is reasonably safe to get back to school. So many kids suffering from the lack of education and psychological support and the rest seems that the country really needs to Pay Attention to where the science is. Cvs is urgently looking to hire thousands of pharmacists and nurses and pharmacy technicians to help administer the covid vaccine. Is that safe in this expedited time frame . It is. I think our pharmacists are the most underutilized health profession. They really well trained and can do this stuff. We have to make sure pharmacists and others can be a part of this vaccination effort. This will be the most complicated vaccination effort our country has ever tried to pull off. We are doing it in a pandemic and a president ial transition. I think we can do it but we have to see Companies Take on these complex projects like cvs is taking on and i think they can do it safely. Dr. Anthony fauci said Christmas Holiday with everybody gathering could be a challenging holiday. How can you tell people whether or not to travel or attend small Holiday Gathering with close family and friends . What should people do . Jake, this is painful because essentially its the same advice that i was gig out at thanksgiving which is there is really only one way to be really safe and that is to have a small holiday break within your Nuclear Family that you live with. I know that is so painful because Holiday Season is such a familyoriented thing. The key here is you want to keep people lialive and safe with vaccines so close by. Im worried that christmas and the holidays will end up being another superspreader event. The way it looks like thanksgiving is has been. We are starting to see that thanksgiving surge now. The Surgeon General says the previous surge is different because the main issue going right now is the Health Care Capacity. There has been more than 100,000 americans hospitalized with coronavirus the past five consecutive days. What needs to be done to make sure everyone who needs care has access to it . This is a huge problem. Ive been writing about this that we are seeing now that hospital care is starting to get restricted for everybody. Not just Covid Patients. Other people are having a hard time getting hospital care. There arent enough beds. Its not the beds per se, its the staffing, its nurses and doctors and respiratory therapists. Beds are not useful if we dont have those folks. Part of the reason for people being careful and not getting sick right now, obviously, we dont want people getting sick. Also there may not be capacity to care for everybody who needs it over the next fiew weeks. An antivaccine doctor is testifying on capitol hill tomorrow. Can you think of any reason the u. S. Senate should be lending credibility and a platform to somebody who is ignorantly speaking against vaccines at this point in time . Yeah. This is a problem, jake. You know, senator ron johnson is holding the hearing and held the first round of hearings about two weeks ago. I was the only person who testified about the value of science in that hearing. This is round two. He is really finding some very fringe members of the medical community who dont represent the mainstream views of what medicine and science is. I dont totally understand why senator johnson is doing this. I dont think its helpful at this moment. We need to have robust debates about safety and efficacy about vaccines and this is not how to do it with bringing in the fringe elements of this conversation. Dr. Jha, thank you. Today, president elect joe biden named the key members of his health team with a main focus on getting the raging coronavirus pandemic under control. One of his choices would make history after pressure from 9 hispanic caucus for more representation in the cabinet. Javier becera could become, if confirmed, the first looatino t lead the health and Human Services. Reporter president elect joe biden is filling in another piece of his administration announcing his Health Experts who will drive the nations quite against coronavirus. Right now during covid the last thing we need is americans left behind. Reporter Javier Becerra is the pick for health and Human Services and former member of congress is not a medical super but led the charge defending the Affordable Care act. A time we are going through covid19 pandemic, this is not the time to take away Peoples Health care. Reporter the rest of the team also taking shape with biden unveiling nominations for Surgeon General, head of the cdc, and a chief medical adviser on covid19. That post goes to dr. Anthony fauci who has become a household name as the nations top Infectious Disease doctor. Ive worked with all of them before and they are excellent choices. Reporter the dr. Murthy who served as Surgeon General in Obama Administration three years has been turned over the position and top adviser to biden throughout the year. Lives are on the line. The chief of Infectious Diseases at mass general will lead the cdc. Now is the time to redouble our efforts to pay more attention than we ever have before. Reporter their faces became familiar ones on cnn during the pandemic and just seven weeks, they will be responsible for overseeing the Vaccine Distribution and trying to brill the deadly virus under control. If confirmed by the Senate Becerra is the first latino so serve as hhs secretary. I think the Life Experiences we dont talk enough as a minority is important in the hhs as we tackle Health Disparities across the country. Reporter forming this new government is like putting a pu puzzle together. Two big positions are still looming, secretary of defense and attorney general. Several finalists for each post. Diversity is at the front of the questions but we may hear something later this week or certainly before the Christmas Holiday on both of those big pushes. Jeff zeleny, thanks so much. Negotiators are capitol hill are trying to iron out a few major issues for a stimulus package, including Liability Protection for companies. Some lawmakers are firmly against it including senator Bernie Sanders the independent from vermont saying its a get out of jail free card. But democratic senator mark warner of virginia who is part of the team negotiating the deal told me he disagrees. Senator sanders respectfully is not involved in these negotiations and his characterization is just not accurate. We are looking at trying to give some level of a timeout to allow states, if they want to put in place standards we have already for example in virginia, put in covid standards, that part of the discussion is vigorous and ongoing. Independent senator Bernie Sanders of vermont. What is your response to those comments by senator warner . Well, i have great concerns and i share those concerns with the aflcio and hundreds of organizations who understand right now workers around this country, especially in Meat Processing plants, have been treated absolutely shamefully. Amazon, i think, work at amazon have developed 20,000 cases of covid. We dont know how many have died. What we need to do is to tell corporations that they have got to treat their workers in a way that is safe and healthy. They cannot be irresponsible, and if they are irresponsible, there are going to be consequences. If we go forward and grant this time of immunity what they will say all over the country we dont have to do anything to our workers, they cant do anything to us. Youre giving a green light for irresponsible behavior and something i dont want to see happen. But in addition to that, jake, i have real concerns about this bill or this proposal which we have not quite seen yet to be honest with you, because it does not address the economic crisis facing tens of millions of families in this country. We are, right now, in the worst economic shape since the Great Depression and this proposal does not include that 1,200 dollar direct payment per individual and 500 for kids that we desperately need in order to put working families back on their feet. It would be a real help. We dont have it and im going to fight to see we get that included. Its not included in that compromised proposal right now. I understand that you spoke with republican senator josh halle of missouri over the weekend. He wants that included and thinks the bill should be vetoed if it doesnt include it. I wasnt aware that josh was in favor of direct payments. Are there enough republicans on your side on this, on the direct payment part of this, that it could make a difference . Because, obviously, republicans still control the u. S. Senate. That is what we are working on right now. Right now, im working with my democratic colleagues to make it clear that we should not go forward unless we do what the American People want. Right now, jake, as you well know, i mean, we got half of our People Living paychecktopaycheck and Something Like 20 of our population now is either unemployed or earning less than 20,000 a year. People are facing eviction and hunger is at a higher level today than any time in recent history. We have got to address those issues. And it concerns me very much that this bill is far, far less than the other proposals that the democrats have brought forth. Let me play devils advocate for a second, because, look. I dont doubt your sincerity and i dont doubt that this legislation could be much, much better for all of the americans in desperate need. But the fact of the matter is donald trump is still in the white house and will be until january 20th. Republicans control the u. S. Senate and at the very least will be in charge of the u. S. Senate until january 5th, if not afterwards as well. Are you making the perfect enemy of the good . No, im not. Look. As youll recall, trump, himself, has agreed in the past to, i believe, 1. 8 trillion dollar bill, including these 1,200 dollar direct payments and something trump has already supported. What we need is a compromise. I know i cant get everything that i want. But this bill really is not a compromise. It gives the republicans almost everything that they wanted and one of the interesting parts about it, as i understand it, i have not seen the proposal yet but mitt romney is one of the republican negotiators said that over 500 billion of this 900 bill in the bill is not new money. Its money being shifted away from the old cares act and money has not yet been spent so looking at 350 billion new dollars when democrats talked about over 3 trillion in new money to help working families in this country. So i dont think this is much of a compromise. I think we have got to do a lot better and negotiate a lot harder. You talked about 1. 8 trillion dollar bill that the white house Steve Mnuchin the treasury secretary was working on with the House Speaker nancy pelosi. The democrats walked away from that bill. Thats right. Because they wanted 2. 2 trillion and they walked away from 1. 8 trillion. Was that a mistake. Thats what im saying exactly what im saying here was a proposal, much, much larger. Democrats say, no, not good enough. Now we are prepared to accept a proposal which has, i think, 350 billion in new money and which has, i believe to the best of my knowledge, corporate immunity language as well. So that is my point here is that i dont think this is much of a compromise. I think the republicans have probably gotten 90 of what they want. Our job is fight and get 50 50 deal. Before you go, senator, let me ask you this about the fact that president elect biden tapped tanden to head the office of management and budget. Last year you accused her of belittling progressive ideas and malaligning your Campaign Staff and she takes issue and disagrees with that. You could be the chairman of the Budget Senate if the democrats win runoff elections in january. Where do you stand on Neera Tandens nomination . We will give her and i hope no matter which Party Controls the senate, every nominee of the president elect biden deserves a fair hearing. All of the nominees have got to answer some pretty hard questions and that is true for miss tanden and everybody else. Youre not in favor or against right now . Youre just giving her a fair hearing . That is correct. Lastly, the fact is that your governor in vermont is a republican. Does that complicate the idea of you getting a role in the Biden Administration given that your republican governor would replace you with a republican . No, thats not true. Actually, the governor has said that he would replace me if that were to happen. I dont know that it will. But if i became a part of the Biden Administration, what the governor has indicated is he would replace me with somebody who would caucus with the democrats. Oh, okay. So that is not a real excuse if they dont actually offer you a position . 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Were going to take all those Family Moments and package them. Hmm. [laughing] that works. President trump is spending his final weeks in office ignoring the scale of the covid crisis publicly and instead he is defying every shred of evidence and insisting even today that he won the election and were rounding the curve. Neither are true. Kaitlan collins reports, the outgoing president is consumed by the fight to overturn the election results. Thank you very much for the victory. Reporter still fuming about the election, President Donald Trump compared the u. S. To a third world country today as he appeared to acknowledge that his legal efforts to change the results have gone nowhere. This was like from a third world nation and i think the case has been made and now we find out what we can do about it. Reporter the case has not been made. Trump and his allies have lost or withdrawn 40 court cases since the election. Now sources tell cnn that between those court losses and fast approaching deadlines and his top attorney general being hospitalized with coronavirus, the president s legal efforts might end soon. Well, i think the case has already been made if you look at the polls. Reporter this were two more blows to the president s efforts today. Federal judges in michigan threw out the latest attempt to overturn the result there calling trump ally sydney powells lawsuit, quote, nothing but speculation and conjecture. The state of georgia recertifying its results for recounting president ial votes a third time and confirming joe bidens win despite what trump claimed in a rally on saturday night. You know we won georgia . Just so you understand. Reporter he awarded the medal of freeman to dan gable today, trump attempted to compare their records and wrongly claimed he had won two president ial elections. Well, you know in politics, i won two, so im 20. And that is pretty good too. But we will see how that turns out. Reporter trump also provided an update on his personal attorney Rudy Giulianis condition after the 76yearold was admitted to Georgetown UniversityMedical Center with coronavirus. Rudy is doing well. I just spoke to him. He is doing really well. No temperature. Reporter giuliani has been crisscrossing the country to push trumps baseless claims about the election and he often greeted people with a handshake and no mask. While trump has refused to acknowledge bidens win or even call the next president , cnn has learned he is already plotting his next steps. And some staffers are now speculating he may not return to the white house after going to florida for the Christmas Holidays. Though, no final decisions have been made. There are some people who believe no way the president doesnt come back to the white house after the christmas break because he has been trying to get so much done before he leaves office to burnish his legacy. One place we know he is going back to georgia ahead of the Senate Runoff in january to campaign. When he was there on saturday night, it was a lot more of him talking about his election loss than it was campaigning for those two republicans who are going to control which Party Controls the senate. Obviously, we are expecting the president to sandwich in a number of pardons as well. Thank you so much. Lets discuss. Abby, President Trump traveling again to georgia. What else might be next for President Trump if his legal challenges come to an official close . I think all of this is really about what he does after he leaves the white house. Its about trying to set up a Political Committee that will fund his political future down the road. I wouldnt be surprised if as we have reported the president considers even just straight up relaunching a sort of reelection bid for 2024 as he is leaving the white house. This is all about trying to make sure that he secures his pleas within the Republican Party, that he keeps republican lawmakers who are currently serving in line understanding that he still has sway over his base. That is what this whole thing is about and i think that youll see the president pretty soon after really planting a flag and saying, i am the future of the Republican Party and warning other republicans who try to break from him that he is not going anywhere. He is establishing simultaneously as his legacy the fact he is the worst sorest loser in american political history. Ron, while President Trump is largely ignoring this horrific pandemic, at least in his public comments, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani has become infected. Yeah. So in a weird way obviously, we wish the best for mr. Giuliani, but its possible that coronavirus will be the downfall of his election fight. Yeah. You know, the clock is running out and certainly Rudy Giuliani going into the hospital doesnt, you know, help his cause. But the cause has already been sunk by the lack of evidence that has caused him to lose lawsuits all over the country. Striking both of these things are happening at once as you eluded to. We are on pearl harbor day and having a pearl harbor day every day in the United States in terms of the number of casualties from the coronavirus. And, yet, virtually, i dont think any leading republican has complained about the president essentially walking away from the fight and leaving americans on their own to face this as we deal with the highest peaks of this outbreak in the same way that virtually no republicans in congress, even to this point, are calling out the president , you know, poisonous fantasy of voter fraud and suppression that led to death throats not only in georgia and arizona against the secretary of state but kind of a mob of armed protesters outside the home of the michigan secretary of state last night and still Mitchell Mcconnell and Kevin Mccarthy cant say this is wrong, this is dangerous, this is not grounded, in fact . Really remarkable. And honest about where we are going in terms of our ability to function as one cohesive country. Its worse than that, ron. Abby, tomorrow, a vaccine denier is going to testify before the Senate Security committee and cnn is now also learning that some of the president s biggest allies on capitol hill, his most sick friends are urging him not to concede even after biden wins the Electoral College vote next week. Jim jordan, republican of ohio say this could have a debate on the house floor. President elect joe biden not only won the Electoral College officially but he won the popular vote margin by if not 7 million votes. What do you make of this . The big picture of this is a Republican Party being swallowed alive by conspiracies and being allowing itself to be completely taken over by that element of its base. We cant in fact, we cant really call it that. Its some sort of, you know, the sort of base element of the Republican Party. This is the party. Sitting United States senators inviting a vaccine skeptic to come and testify and someone who is pushizing pushing the hydroxychloroquine to be a vaccine and it is is not. You have people elected to join the congress. It should not be a surprise you have sitting members of the house senate supporting the president in an effort to build a Conspiracy Theory around this lex that he can live off of for the next four years. This is now what has become of the Republican Party and if people dont want that to be the case, they should probably start speaking up about it now. Ron, what is happening to the Republican Party . Like, where do they go from here . Yeah. Well, look. This is kind of a form of succession from shared kind of shared reality in the u. S. Where you have this the willingness of virtually all republicans. Kelly loeffler in that debate in georgia last night the Georgia Senate debate refusing to say joe biden won the state and donald trump was within his rights to pursue every legal means. He is trying to pressure the governor to throw out the results of the vote and have the state legislature appoint electors in his favor. I dont think you can overstate the extent to which we are watching the Republican Party, i think, refuse to accept that blue america has legitimacy when it outvotes them. You know . Its not as if donald trump is an outlier here. The broad range of Congress Supporting him and a lot of Republican Voters are spo supporteding him. 75 to 80 saying the election was stolen. When joe biden talks about union if is the country he has to deal with a Republican Party moving in a direction far worse than it was under obama or bill clinton. That is depressing. We now when president elect biden will nak name his secretary of state and secretary of defense. That is next. 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Reporter its widely agreed upon that front line Health Workers and longterm residents should get vaccinated first. We are learning that states will not have enough vaccine to cover everybody in that top tier and states have to prioritize within that group now. The conditions are really stark in california. It says it will not have enough vaccine initially at least to cover 1 in every 10 front line Health Care Workers. Do we know more vaccines will be available for the remaining Health Care Workers and longterm care residents . Reporter this is a bit of a rollout and what remains to be seen whether this is smooth, quick, or slow and rocky. States say they will keep vaccinating that top tier as they get more vaccine shipments in but this is going to be a process. Pete, youve been inside these cargo planes that can hold up to 500,000 doses of the vaccine. How is this distribution going to work . Its going to be tricky. 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Rare access inside hospitals in venezuela revealing a crisis and describing this as disgusting would be an understatement. Dirty dilapidated hospitals with no Running Water and no electricity and people are afraid to get care. A morgue where the smell of dead bodies is unbearable. The scene makes venezuelas government numbers questionable. Only 104,000 covid cases since march and 919 deaths that is according to the venezuelan government but doctors brave enough to speak up the truth is far, farce worse. They blame their president and his socialist government and his years of corruption and mismanagement for the worsening crisis. We have a look at the unimaginable conditions in this cnn exclusive. Reporter in this Public Hospital in caracas, remnants of once wealthy nation lies strewn on the floor and hiding what the venezuelan government doesnt want us to see. Here covid19 has unmasked venezuelas open wounds and pretty much every floor the hospital is empty tells me this hospital worker who prefers to remain anonymous. [ inaudible ]. Reporter its a risk only a few dare to take. This is the covid19 ward, only this part of it is functional. The rest is completely run down after years of mismanagement. So its no surprise many would rather face the pandemic outside these walls. Choosing, instead, their homes over these decrepit rooms where darkness ma literally taken over. This is intensive neonatal ward. The reason im holding up this light right here is because there is no electricity in this hospital. Have a look around. Bare bones. And what ive been told by doctors around caracas and outside of caracas is this is a situation day in and day out. Even in the morgue, death comes shortages. There is no pathologist here. With intimate in the city, the stench is unbearable. Imagine having to face a pandemic in these conditions. Its why doctors like this one are no longer afraid to speak out. I have friends of mine who have been criminally charged, he says. Why . For protesting the conditions in which they have been forced to practice. So he doesnt hold back. In venezuela, he tells me, there are only as many recognized covid cases as the regime wants. With testing limited to three governmentcontrolled labs, he says its impossible to paint an accurate picture. With regards covid, he says, we dont know where we are. The government, however, claims the pandemic is under control, saying its strategy has worked. A government worker shows inside this hotel where patients are kept in quarantine up to 21 days. A lockdown strategy employed by china which the government of maduro has shown. Venezuelans have showed an immunity of this virus. 272 Health Care Workers have lost their lives in venezuela as of november 30th. At hospital morgues in caracas, you can see why. They are overworked, and not protected. This whole area here . [ speaking in Foreign Language ] reporter this is evident all around. As i walk this ward, i stop to speak to a patients daughter. She tells me her frail 69yearold father is here because of malnourishment. The same state that we have seen across venezuela. His immune system is compromised yet he shares this ward with a covid19 patient. He needs medicine that the hospital doesnt have. Look at this. This is what they have to work with here nurses and doctors, syringes. Outstanding. They have got nothing. Reporter there is a vast emptiness all around and a sense of dissolutionment and surrender. Painful, no doubt, for those who saw this once oilrich country as one of the wealthiest in latin america now on the brink of survival. Jake, cnn reached out to the venezuelan government for comment on really the state, the conditions in those two Public Hospitals as the criticism you heard in our reporting from the Health Care Professionals and, to date, we are not heard anything. There was an election yesterday. It was boycotted by many venezuelans. In it, several maduro supporters are claiming victory and control of venezuelas congress. Do any of these individuals publicly recognize the dire conditions . Have they made any promises to help matters . Reporter on the election, first of all, jake, it is not just his supporters or anyone who backed maduro but his party, himself, which secured the biggest percentage of the vote, just over 67 according to figures from the government appointed National Election council and that is important to state. What we saw in the last 24 hours here in venezuela, jake, is really maduro taking control of the last of venezuelan democracy which until now has been in the hands of somebody else who was controlling the National Assembly and he is seen by more than 60 countries as really the rightful president of venezuela. But on the question of the conditions, you wont hear anyone from maduros government acknowledging that. They blame the u. S. Sanctions. They say u. S. Sanctions is to blame. Medicine isnt coming into the country. The medical equipment isnt coming into the country. That food isnt coming into the country because of u. S. Sanctions and that simply is not true. One, because u. S. Sanctions are very recent. Two, because u. S. Sanctions are very targeted, they target at individuals and also Big Corporation likethe cashcow of venezuela. What we are seeing here really, jake, are years of mismanagement, years of corruption that really covid19 is bringing to the surface and that is something they simply will never acknowledge. The doctors with whom you spoke, what do they say about these relatively low covid numbers that the corrupt maduro regime continues to put out . What do they say the actual number is more likely to be . They dont assess those figures. They tell me already we are seeing second wave of covid infections. They think the figures are looking at four times more than what is being reported and its simple. Only three government controlled labs and they tell me they are controlling the labs and the numbers. If they control the numbers, they control the narrative. So they are taking note of what they are seeing and really keeping track of that but they do not Pay Attention to the numbers. They simply do not trust it. Again, jake, question of transparency. Thank you for you and your team doing incredible work covering the tragedy that is the madurocontrolled venezuela. Follow me on facebook, instagram, and twitter at jake tapper and tweet the show at the lead. Our coverage on cnn continues right now. Announcer this is cnn breaking news welcome to our viewers here in the United States and around the world. Im wolf blitzer in the situation room. We are following breaking news. U. S. Coronavirus death toll now topping 283,000 people as the country closes in on 15 million confirmed cases. On this pearl harbor anniversary, covid19 is killing almost as Many Americans on average every day as the attack that left 2,400 people dead. Health officials are extremely worried about the