people to get the vaccine. we re moving from that phase, the survival phase, really into the phase of taking action yourselves. but also collectively, investing in ourselves, beginning to ask the question that why it was so many americans were so close to being on food bank lines when had their jobs disappeared and beginning to make choices about setting ourselves up for the future. van jones? look, help is on the way. help is on the way. and i think it s not good enough just to win, it you ve also got to spin to win. he s going to do that tonight. progressives like this, which it s hard to please progressives. and republicans like it so much they voted against it they still want the credit. 50 days in this is really about joe biden s legacy as president of the united states. this is the largest anti-poverty program in decades. he s talking about ending a pandemic and most of all in many ways he s trying to tell people that government works, government can work for you
and it was certainly. nearly 30 million more cases, nearly half a million lost lives and millions of lost jobs. now with federal relief choengs the way, three vaccines on the market, but deaths still averaging about 1400 a day. president biden addressed the nation. good evening, my fellow americans. tonight i d like to talk to you about where we are as you mark one year since everything stopped because of this pandemic. a year ago, we were hit with a virus that was met with silence and spread unchecked, denials for day, week, then months. that led to more deaths, more infections, more stress, and more loneliness. photos and videos from 2019 feel like they were taken in another era, the last vacation, the last birthday with friends, the last holiday with extended family. while it was different for everyone, we all lost something. a collective suffering. a collective sacrifice. a year filled with the loss of life and the loss of living for all of us. but in the loss, we saw h
Colorado s emergency medical services just reactivated crisis standards of care, protocols that health care providers assist those who need it most, during public health emergencies. doctors in kansas say they might soon have to do the same. one of those doctors is steven steitz, he s the chief medical officer at the kansas emergency health system. doctor, thank you so much for getting up early with us. we appreciate your time. help us understand what it would take to cross over the tipping point for you to implement the crisis standards of care? you bet. i think our challenge is we obviously have a lot of covid patients, lots of hospitalizations and we re impacted by the coronavirus in our staff. so, we have a lot of people who are out sick. that s even true in our glance services. for example, in our rural access hospitals, great bend hospital, we had a patient in an emergency room, we couldn t get an glance crew to transport that patient
Variant waves. however the benefit of a reduced rate of hospitalizations has been offset with profoundly increased numbers of cases. and therefore, an increase in absolutes of people requiring hospitalization, especially among the unvaccinated. you capitol physician says, quote, this situation has led to an unprecedented strain on medical centers. and our local region, where hospitalizations have more than doubled in the past ten days, at least six large hospitals have declared crisis standards of care, and states of emergency, and watch health care providers are petitioning their states governors for various emergency declarations to prioritize and allocate medical services. governor larry hogan of maryland has advised maryland residents to prepare for the worst part of the pandemic during the next 4 to 6 weeks. medical centers face unprecedented pressures of relentless demand for services and wellness and exhaustion to pleading their staff. other essential infrastructure
Many american cities. new york, 40 hospitals in new york just canceled elective procedures. the d.c. hospital association where i work has asked the d.c. government for permission for hospitals to enact crisis standards of care. and that s coming to every city in the united states. it s going come in a wave from north to south in this country. and it s going to last hopefully not much more than a few weeks, but it s going to be a tough january into the first part of february, and then hopefully it will clear quickly. but the country should understand that the virus is not going to go away. the pandemic is going to go away. and going forward, we re going to have to start to think about having low level of covid, the same way we have low levels of influenza well, we have high levels of influenza every year, but we re going to have to face, you know, this notion that this