Trying to prepare for a safe return to school. Its all ahead this hour and we are live from cnn headquarters in atlanta. Welcome to our viewers, here, in the United States and all around the world. Im Natalie Allen and this is cnn newsroom. Thank you for joining us. It has been months since the coronavirus reached the United States. And instead of things calming down, several states are breaking records in numbers of cases and deaths. Overall, the country has recorded more than 4 million cases and rising. And more than 146,000 people have died. Florida is recording big, new numbers. It now has the secondmost infections in the country. It just passed new york, which was an early epicenter. Hospitals are getting overwhelmed, now. And positive test rates are rising. But as all that is happening, florida officials are thinking about when to reopen bars, of all things. The mayor of miami beach explains why that is the wrong foc focus, right now. Every day, in Miamidade County right now, abo
The coronavirus is spreading so quickly around the world at Johns Hopkins University Says it infected 1 Million People in less than a week. 16 million cases have now been documented since the pandemic began, the biggest drivers are the United States, india and brazil. For the fourth day in a row, brazil recorded more than 50,000 new infections. Rio de janeiro canceled the annual new years celebration on copacabana beach. And Even North Korea is reporting its first suspected case. State media says it was someone who entered the country illegally from south korea in recent days. Now, the United States, the death toll from covid19 has surpassed 1,000 people four days in a row. California leads the nation with nearly 450,000 confirmed cases. And in hard hit los angeles, the mayor warns another shutdown might be needed. Heres cnns paul vercammen. Reporter here in los angeles county, they are testing fast and furiously, including here at the charles r. Drew university of medicine and science
The United States and all around the world. This is cnn newsroom. Im michael holmes. A warm welcome, everyone. Coronavirus cases are climbing. The crisis is deepening. And time is running out for millions of jobless americans now just days away from losing special Unemployment Benefits theyve been relying on during this pandemic. Senate republicans are set to roll out a 1 trillion relief package on monday, but theyve been fighting for weeks over the size and scope of any new unemployment aid, and there could be a lot more wrangling before any money actually gets to the people who need it. The u. S. Has about a quarter, as we said, of the 16 million covid19 cases worldwide, and this week the country could hit another mark no one wants to see, it marches towards 150,000 lives lost to the virus. On sunday, texas announced it had topped 5,000 deaths, and now parts of the state are facing yet another disaster, reeling from the aftermath of hurricane hanna. Florida is the second biggest epic
My daughter has autoimmune disorder, so i try to protect her as much as i can. They said, it must be tough you dont see your family for a while. I thought to myself, it could be worse. It could be a situation where i dont go home at all, ever. So thank the lord that im still okay. Now is the time to toughen up, everybody. We have to fight. We have to fight and win. Ill continue to fight alongside of my fellow nurses and doctors and r. T. S and Environmental Service people, everybody in the hospital. We will win. Fight on. That is manny khodadi. Hes an emergency medicine nurse working in southern california. Heres dr. Ratan. Hes a trauma surgeon. He works to save the lives of covid19 patients now in south florida. One of the things that keeps coming up is an analogy to the aids epidemic in the early 1980s. This was before we fully understood the disease, we fully understood the transmission risks, and when there were no medicines that could treat hiv. If you look at the past 40 years of
Have a good weekend, grizzly. Thanks for joining us, im happy to have you with us on this fry nig friday night. I would like to introduce you to an e. R. Nurse who works in southern california. Another shift over, fourth one of the week. Not too bad. Today one of the patients asked me, so do you stay at a hotel, do you go home . I told him, no, i dont go home, i stay somewhere else. My daughter had autoimmune disorder so i try to protect her as much as i can. And they said it must be tough, you dont see your family for a while. I thought to myself, it could be worse. It could be a situation where i dont go home at all, ever. So thank the lord im still okay. Now is the time to toughen up, everybody. We have to fight. We have to fight and win. Ill continue to fight alongside with my fellow nurses and doctors and rts and Environmental Service people. Everybody in the hospital. We will win. Fight on. That is manny, an emergency medicine nurse working in southern california. Heres dr. Ritan