This country ever. More than the initial peek of the pandemic. The days of over whelmed hospitals and makeshift morgued. And President Trump is still claiming that the United States has rounded the corner of the virus. He said it again last night along with the misleading claim that he saved millions of lives with preventive action. A new study from Columbia University shows that 130,000 lives, nearly half of the lives lost in this country, could have been prevented if the government had responded better to the pandemic. Dr. Anthony fauci made it clear we have not rounded the corner with my colleague chuck todd just last hour. Our baseline of Community Infections that you see every day. From 20,000 to 65 to 70. Then to 40 and 50, and now back to the record that you spoke about yesterday at over 70,000 nap is a precarious place to be for a couple of reasons. Because if you look at the map of the United States and several of the states right now for a number of reasons that we could disc
It does feel like the news is coming through a fire hose, but we have all got to pace ourselves and this is no time to check out and this is getting close enough to the election that we are starting to realize that whatever it is that the candidates, each of them, might want to focus on in terms of making their best case, whatever they feel like is their strongest ground to stooand on, events are overtaking them. What this election is going to be about is actually whats going on in the country right now. Not what either of the candidates might do or say. To that end, i would like to introduce you to kyle doshen. He is an icu nurse. He works in duluth, minnesota. Its just after midnight. I am just getting off a really busy shift in the covid19 i icu. Tonight i wtaking care of a couple of covid patients. Man, there seems to be no end in sight with this pandemic right now. There is no end in sight for this virus. There is no vaccine. There is no true therapeutic that destroys this virus l