Good Morning And Welcome to Way Too Early, the show that would drag race against President Biden and probably lose. Im Jonathan Lemire on this friday, august 6th. Lets start with the news. As the Delta Variant rages across the country, Hospitalization Rates are surging. According to the cdc, the number of people in the hospital with covid has almost quadrupled in the past month to over 45,000. Florida has a new record for the sunshine state. Over 2,500 of them are in intensive care. Florida has also seen a rise in pediatric cases. Texas is the only other state to conform more pediatric cases than florida. There, 142 children are hospitalized. A war of words between governor Ron Desantis and President Biden continue. Yesterday desantis was asked about the criticism of him when it comes to covid. Heres how it played out. Just two states. Florida and texas account for one third of all new covid cases in the entire country. I say to these governors, please help. If youre not going to help,
Critically low on i. C. U. Beds. Patients underwhelmingly vaccinated. Yesterday in florida alone, more than 2,000 people were hospitalized can covid. 2,000. Just one state in one day. Florida also now leading the nation with Hospital Admissions of children. And here is what is so upsetting. There is a way out. More shots and more eligible arms. Ment White House did have this little bit of hopeful news today. And we are seeing results. Over the past 24 hours we recorded 864,000 vaccinations, the highest in a day since july 3rd. And importantly, 585,000 first shots. Thats the highest since july 1st. Moving in the right direction, but not fast enough to stop needless suffering and deaths right now. Lets begin with Cnns Nadia Lomero in baton rouge. Nadia, whats the latest there . Reporter Ann A the state just updated us on the statewide numbers for covid19 and it just keeps getting worse and worse by the day. Lets dive in. Hospitalizations, theyre up. People who need to be in the i. C. U.
Embarrassment. The governor must go. If you want to fight for our military you will have to soon be vaccinated. Directive comes a day after biden urged all federal employees to get the Covid Vaccine. Just pardon the mccloskey. Made my wife and i realize this country was in a serious state. We made a vow to do everything we can to the rest of your lives to save this country. Met you in the summer brian michigan where Gerald Ford once called home i believe thats where the Ford Library is. Its a fantastic library if you are ever in the area, just drop. In please knock first before you waltz in and make sure its open. Steve first, you have to pay the admission. Brian right it all goes for a good cause have you been there at the Gerald Ford museum isnt it fantastic. Steve steve i went to college with fords daughter. We went to Journalism School together. Outside the door was a secret Service Guy with a uzi. Brian was he out of office. Steve he was president of the united states. Evidence ca
Welcome to mtp daily. I am chuck todd. I have been saying it for months, how covid goes in the United States, so goes the biden presidency. As pandemic numbers increase, the president s numbers are starting to decrease. More than a month ago, President Biden declared independence from the virus, covid cases in the United States flat lined to 10,000 a day. We are now averaging more than 100,000 cases a day, 10 times jump. Cases are rising in all 50 states, and in places with low vaccinations rates. The administration announced a plan to encourage children over 12 to be vaccinated by the time school starts in fall. The Education Secretary will be at the white House Press Briefing, expected to begin any minute. Well keep an ear on what he says. We have an idea what theyre proposing, all of this as most of the country is experiencing substantial, High Transmission of the virus. Some hospitals and states like arkansas, mississippi, louisiana, florida are breaking records, Running Out of bed
And its going to be fun. Itll be a bit of honest competition in our world, rachel. We talk in politics a lot about competition and how so much of it is rigged. Were going to watch honest competition for the next couple weeks and im excited about that. Theres a reason why we all Love Sports and its because we love merit cratic competition. Theres a reason we love it and theres no shame in that. Have a good night, rachel. Tonight were sounding the alarm. Now is the time to protect the right to vote, everyones right to vote, not next week or once the nonsense in texas is over or the fraudit in arizona is going to be done. But, in fact, now. Each moment wasted is another moment for republicans to stop more of us from exercising that right, and thats how its going to go. In a brandnew report, the Brennan Center For Justice finds that just since the start of this year, 2021, 18 states have passed 30 laws to restrict voting access, 18. Were only halfway through the year. You can bet more are