max mail in votes. you got it. so that is the key number here. and that litigation that you re talking about, i think is going to decide how close to 5400 we get in terms of mail-in votes that get counted here. the expansive reading and everything you re talking about, if you end up counting all of the ballots that didn t have the date, but did have the signature, i think you could get close to 5400 mail-in ballots and that number could come down some if they don t get counted. mccormick, he s filing that suit and doing better than oz when it comes to the mail-in ballots so he needs as many counted and if he could get them counted and he needs to win them by an even bigger clip than he s been winning by to erase the 987. but we re in that automatic recount zone. if you re within a half a point, there is an automatic recount that gets triggered.
capacities and vaccination capacity, and we are seeing a correlation between those that are hospitalized and them being not vaccinated. bret: florida senator marco rubio pushing back a little bit on the hospitalization characterization. he tweeted out: there is no omicron hospital surge in phenomenal. people admitted for noncovid reasons get counted as a covid patient. the majority of the 5400 patients in florida are in the hospital for non-covid reasons. mayor, what do you say to people who accuse republican elected officials of downplaying the rise and spread of covid and hospitalizations? well, what ill say is, you know, just look at the facts. what senator rubio s saying here is a fact, right? it is a fact that there are many cases of people that are coming to the hospital with covid as opposed to because they have covid. and i think that is something you highlighted in your prior segment. there is a differentiation, you
new details to send 10 million covid-19 tests to k-12 schools nationwide every month. both rapid antigen and pcr test will be supplied and overseeing that effort and the entire federal government s testing program is the newly named senior adviser to the white house covid response team somebody quite familiar to us in 2020. the hypercontagious omicron variant pushes schools and hospitals to the brink. data shows almost 5,400 schools had to cancel some form of in-person learning last week. and nationwide more than 150,000 covid patients are currently hospitalized, that means one in five hospital beds in this country is currently occupied by a covid positive patient. covid is spreading so rapidly at this rate most people are going to get covid. joining me now is msnbc
of new cases and with the spiking number of cases, of course, there is a spiking increase and the demand for testing. anxious americans are standing in long lines and stairing at empty shelves in the scramble for scars covid tests. the rush feels like omicron s rapid spread. a lot of people are walking around with mild illness or asymptomatic infections who don t know it tarnd spreading it. new covid cases are soaring with 98 percent of americans livering in areas at high risk for infection. hospitalizations are up nearly 30 percent. straining many medical centers. i don t know when it will be, i don t see one. when millions of kids return to school tomorrow, they will face covid cost staff shortages and increased infections. more than 5400 schools reported disruptions of in-person learning. it is completely empty. it is pretty crazy. there is no one there. as chicago stalemate with teachers to return to class drags into a second week, the nation s largest school district
capacities and vaccination capacity, and we are seeing a correlation between those that are hospitalized and them being not vaccinated. bret: florida senator marco rubio pushing back a little bit on the hospitalization characterization. he tweeted out: there is no omicron hospital surge in phenomenal. people admitted for noncovid reasons get counted as a covid patient. the majority of the 5400 patients in florida are in the hospital for non-covid reasons. mayor, what do you say to people who accuse republican elected officials of downplaying the rise and spread of covid and hospitalizations? well, what ill say is, you know, just look at the facts. what senator rubio s saying here is a fact, right? it is a fact that there are many cases of people that are coming to the hospital with covid as opposed to because they have covid. and i think that is something you highlighted in your prior segment. there is a differentiation, you