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welcome to our viewers in the united states and all around the world. this is new day. the u.s. will cross 100 million vaccine shots since joe biden s inaug inauguration. that s 42 days ahead of the biden pledge. the u.s. is averaging 2.5 million coronavirus vaccines a day with 35% of americans partially or fully vaccinated. now, there are plenty of folks that noted that 100 million was a very low bar to begin with, but if you do the math going forward, at the pace we re going, we ll cross 200 million vaccinations within the first 100 days, and honestly, you would have been hard-pressed to find anyone that optimistic. but and this is hugely important there is concern this morning the u.s. may be on the verge of a new surge. the drop in hospitalizations, i want you to look at that graph. you can see it was going down steeply for weeks and weeks and weeks, but that decline has stopped. it s completely stalled right now. hospitalizations static and may be ticking up slight
to help bail him out. he has moved from one thing to another without having kind to really face the kind of sinsequences that other people might have in similar circumstances. so this is acircumstn unusual mo he looks enraged. i mean, i thinokk the what i see there. there s a pathos to that look. there s an anger to that look. and, you know, donald trump haps kind of thrived on the anger of a certain demographic of americans. he spent days rehearsing thate sp pose. that s the picture that he wanted. phei can t help but wonder if he practiced that pose. but they weren t finished yet. the media also going crazy over trump s reported height and weight measurements. which stated weight that he s six feet three inches tall and weighs £215. 2 we re told that that out his staff filled out that form in advance, which is why he s listed a the height of 632 15, which probably hasn t been since since the wharton school