Hospitalizations continue to reach new lows and the Positivity Rate at 1 . While coronavirus rates differ across the country, one thing millions of americans have in common is an urgent economic crisis. The extra 600 unemployment benefit runs out this week and Senate Majority leader mcconnell said more relief is two or three weeks away quote hopefully. The House Speaker nancy pelosi says she is anxious to renegotiate for two months. But lets begin this afternoon in florida where today the state is reporting more than 9,000 new coronavirus cases. As we mentioned, this is the 23rd day this month that florida has seen at least that many infections. Cnn is also learning that in Miamidade Police issued hundreds of citations to people not wearing masks. Cnns randy kaye is in west palm beach. The mask issue continues to be a big problem. Reporter and the numbers certainly here state in the florida. 9,259 cases in the state and another 77 deaths so now more than 5,8900 floridians have died fro
Says she expects this bill to pass today with some republican support as well. Will it be enough to get this aid package beyond the house . Reporter some republican support being the key word, which would make it mostly not enough in order to move this beyond the house. It will pass in the house and there will be republicans who vote for it and i think the u. S. Postal service broadly as an issue is something that members have been hearing about repeatedly over the course of the last several weeks from their constituents. In some cases hundreds of thousands of calls from constituents who have seen very real delays in their mail. Where the two issues and where the two parties have diverged is on the issue of election mail. You saw louis dejoy testify that he believes the Postal Service is fully capable of handling whatever comes its way, theyre expecting 10 million to 20 million more ballots because of the pandemic and republicans have labeled democratic concerns which theyve raised a l
More super spreader events. Thats the warning from Health Officials who fear with millions traveling over the labor day holiday, the pandemic could spike, just as we enter fall, when the flu and other illnesses may come into play. We use labor day as a way to take the day off, but unfortunately the virus doesnt. We dont want to go into that with another surge that we have to turn around again. So it really is an important weekend. Reporter infections shot up in some places after memorial day and the fourth of july too. Despite warnings against big social gatherings. Like that motorcycle rally in south dakota, which produced dozens of cases, private parties in many places, and numerous family events, like the wedding reception earlier this year that left a new jersey woman and three of her children dead. For all that President Trump keeps mocking joe biden for wearing a mask. Did you ever see a man that likes a mask as much as him . Reporter still Health Experts say imagine an outdoor b
Most in four months. Maps from the White House Coronavirus task force show how the number of cases has exploded across the nation in recent weeks. In fact, weve seen half a million cases in the last three days alone. Meanwhile, the man in the white house, the president , donald trump, has not said a single thing. And get this. A new estimate from Infectious Disease experts say the official case count doesnt even come close to telling the whole story. Because it only includes people who have actually gotten tested. The experts say the real number of people who were infected and potentially contagious is probably over 3 million. In other words, 1 in every 100 americans. So while we wait for the vaccine, experts say our best bet is still wearing masks. And as of this morning, 36 states have imposed mask mandates. Some of the most notable holdouts are the republican governors of states like arizona, where the Positivity Rate is over 15 . And south dakota, where the rate is over 50 50, perc
Capacity and it is really impressive. It shows you what can happen when you unleash the full capacity of america. You can test a lot of people. It makes it all that more frustrating that we did not start doing that earlier. We should have been doing it a month ago like south korea. But the good news is that we are testing more day after day after day. Multiple Research Teams are starting to develop an Antibody Test to allow people to know if they had the virus in the past and now are immune. Thats good. Another silver lining, as confirmed cases and fatalities go up, both have been brutal, especially here in new york. The overall fatality rate is far below italy and spain particularly in per capita terms. We dont know why that is at this point. Some of it is probably demographics and it is something that can change in the future. For now, it is something to take some measure of comfort with. Today there is good news. Their curve is flattening out. Italy has an 8 increase in confirmed ca