Vast majority of americans are worried that a vaccine is being rushed to the public. Nearly half now say they will not get a vaccine when one is ready. This is a big deal. Vaccines dont work unless the popration trusts them. Cnns senior medical correspondent Elizabeth Cohen joins us now. Okay. Tell us first about the testing guidance because this confused everyone when it happened. I was talking to dr. Fauci on the air. Clearly not in line with his thinking. How did this happen, and has it is been corrected since then . Reporter it has not been corrected, and i think that we should all keep an eye on cdc website to see if they do correct it. Heres sort of the of the narrative of what happened. The cdc all of a sudden a few weeks ago said, you know, what you dont necessarily need to get tested if youve been exposed to someone with covid as long us a dont have symptoms, so youve spent, you know, 15 minutes or more near someone with covid, so youve been exposed but you dont have symptoms,
Display. In fact, heres just one example of how each of them talked about simply wearing a mask in this pandemic. As far as the mask is concerned im good with masks. Im okay with masks, i tell people to wear the masks but they came out with a study that shows 85 of the people who wear a mask catch it. They didnt say it. I know that study. Thats what i heard. Thats what i saw. The words of the president matter. Absolutely. No matter whether theyre good, bad or indifferent, they matter. When a president doesnt wear a mask or makes fun of folks like me when i was wearing a mask for a long time, you know, then people say it mustnt that important. Lets go to the campaign trail. Mike memoli is in detroit, michigan, and Josh Lederman is in ocala, florida, where the president will be this afternoon. Mr. Memoli, what is the Biden Campaign saying about his town Hall Performance on thursday night and whats the message that hes tailoring to voters in michigan today . Reporter well, craig, the bide
Adds another 72,000 people who will be killed by january 1st. Thats around the corner. The u. S. Also set a new record for people hospitalized with coronavirus. Another 2,000person increase in one day. That means that almost 107,000 people are waking up in the hospital this morning. An fda panel meets in the next hour to decide on emergency use authorization of the pfizer Coronavirus Vaccine. If it gets the go ahead, the first doses could be administered within days. That new cdc average, they are projecting those deaths by january 2nd, they say we will average they say more than 3,000 deaths a day. Average. More than 3,000 deaths a day for the next several weeks. And what is the president doing . He is trying to overturn the election in public. He just joined a lawsuit, we just spoke about this, a lawsuit that ben ginsburg gave a solid f from the attorney general of the state of texas asking the Supreme Court to invalidate millions of votes in battleground states. 17 republicanled sta
100,000 more people in this country than all the american troops killed in the second world war. More than half a million deaths. President trump is the one liking this. He called himself the world time president. That was a long time ago. Those were the days he wanted to be seen as kmacommanderinchie and stop listening to doctors who knew what they were doing. The president is not concerned. If anything he seems like a deserter. Hes absent. The American People have given him leave, voting him out of the ballot box but he still has some weeks left. He chosen to go awall. He decided to join the fight against covid, hes not rallying anyone to wear a mask or talk about it, it is particularly gone given so many of us are now sick or died. December 8th, president roosevelt says there is no blinking that our people, our territory and our interests are in grave danger. He even spelled it out for us. August 4, 2020, here is what this president told bob woodward. Nothing more could have been do
Shannon breaking tonight, problems already mounting for the incoming Biden Administration. A Migrant Caravan trying to force its way north encouraged by what its called inviting signals from president elect biden. Iran sentenced an iranian american businessman for ten years for spying without a trial, complicating mr. Biden support for renewing the iran nuclear deal. When he was Vice President , north Korea Tested Nuclear weapons, isis launched his reign of terror, trying to build bases, russia invaded the crimea, iranian prosecutors attacked american troops in iraq. President trump built a wall to reduce the flow illegal immigration, pushed bys i suspect. There are calls tonight for mr. Biden. Two days from now the inauguration will be held inside a military encampment essentially, reminiscent of baghdads green zone as democrats and some republicans think about removing President Trump from office after he is left potentially ensuring who could not run again. Part of a process of canc