More than 25 million confirmed cases of covid19 and more than 430,000 deaths across this country. Accounting for 25 of of the confirmed cases and 20 of deaths worldwide. While cases hospitalizations and deaths at have slightly decrd in the last few weeks, the numbers continued to be staggering. Now there is great concern of varied and more transmissible strains of the virus may become dominant over the coming weeks leading to a further worsening of the pandemic. Todays report comes as president Bidens Administration launches an aggressive effort to combat the pandemic and Congress Considers additional aid to bolster the Public Health response and jumpstart the economy. The future of Health Care Initiative released its first report of bipartisan prescription for Americas Health care in february 2020 Offering Practical Solutions designed to make healthcare coverage more affordable without adding a growing Systemwide Health expenditures. Todays report was led by a Bipartisan Group of heal
Centers event on the nations response to the coronavirus pandemic. I serve as the chief medical advisor. Today the Bipartisan Policy Centers future is releasing a new report. You can find this report at bipartisanpolicy. Org. That is bipartisanpolicy. Org. Since the beginning of the pandemic a year ago, there has been more than 25 million confirmed cases of covid19 and more than 430 cases deaths across the country, accounting for 25 of deaths worldwide. While cases, hospitalizations and deaths have slightly decreased, the numbers continue to be staggering and there is great concern variants, more transmissible strains of the virus, may become dominant over the coming weeks leading to a further worsening of the pandemic. Todays report comes as president Bidens Administration launches an effort to combat the pandemic in Congress Considers additional aid to bolster the response and jumpstart the economy. The initiative released its first report, bipartisan subscription for health care in
Rer. Today happens to be National Coffee day where you can score some sweet deals. Early today starts right now good morning im Frances Rivera im phillip mena. The stakes are higher than ever as they deliver their dualing futures. It will cover everything from coronavirus to the integrity of the election itself. Tracie potts joining us with a preview from d. C this may be one of the most anticipated debates ever this could be the debate. President trump and joe biden on the same stage for the first time in this fall president ial debate we are looking at debate prep but also expectations. A lot of the president s prep happens when hes quizzed by reporters frequently but we also know he has been working with Rudy Giuliani and Chris Christie to do some debate prep hes been drilling down on policy but also doing some homework on twitter and moat were asked about their expectations for tonight the debate is coming up how are you preparing specifically i think i prepare every day when youre
Antitrump bias in the democrats impeachment bench. Now one of their Legal Counsels who had testified, he said last year attacking trump planning, quote, is nothing in the steele dossier that is false. This as attorney general william barr ripped into the fbi and the Obama Administration for their constitutional fisa abuses, using that steele dossier and being the first in u. S. History to probe a Political Campaign. Ag barr also tore into the, quote, irresponsible press today. The media, for hyping the farfetched steele dossier and being inaccurate, misleading and wrong on their report on the fisa abuses at the fbi. This as the Senate Judiciary will question doj Inspector General horowitz at a public hearing tomorrow on the abuses of power under the Obama Administration. We found more much more, what the cia has warned the fbi, and when the fbi knew the steele file was inaccurate, farfetched. When the fbi knew it was all politically motivated. James comey trying to take a victory lap,
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