I know you are there. Dr. Fauci i am here, judy. Good to be with you. Miss woodruff lets start with the basics. Where are we right now in the country in the battle against covid19. If you are asked for a status report, what would you say . Dr. Fauci i would say it is a mixed bag. The numbers are very serious and very concerning. We have had now over 185,000 death, sixplus million infections. The country, a large country, there are some areas doing very well right now, got hitarly those that badly early on. For instance, the new york metropolitan area has for at least one month now been less than 1 test positivity. In contrast in other parts of the country, particularly what we saw in some of the Southern States that had big surges when they tried to open up the economy, that brought our baseline number of daily infections up from 20,000 a day to as high as 70,000, we are back now to 30000 and 40,000. In those states, they are starting to level off and come down which is a really good s
Thank you for having me. Dr. Fauci, you are there. I will plunge right in. I dont see you yet on the screen but i know you are there. Dr. Fauci i am here. Good to be with you. Judy lets start with the basics. Where are we as a country in the battle against covid19 . If you are asked for a status report, what would you say . Dr. Fauci it is a mixed bag. You can look at the numbers and they are very serious and concerning. Deaths,d over 185,000 six plus million infections. If you look at the country, a large heterogeneous country, some areas are doing really very well right now. Particularly those hit badly early on. The new york city metropolitan area has at least for a month now have less than 1 test positivity. In contrast, in other parts of the country, but we saw and some of the Southern States that had big surges where they tried to open up the economy, that brought the baseline number of daily infections up from 20,000 to as high as 70,000. We are back down now to between 30000 an
Dr. Fauci it is a mixed bag. You can look at the numbers and they are very serious and concerning. Weve had over 185,000 deaths, six plus million infections. If you look at the country, a large heterogeneous country, some areas are doing really very well right now. Particularly those hit badly early on. The new york city metropolitan area has at least for a month now have less than 1 test positivity. In contrast, in other parts of the country, but we saw and some of the Southern States that had big surges where they tried to open up the economy, that brought the baseline number of daily infections up from 20,000 to as high as 70,000. We are back down now to between 30,000 and 40,000. And just as those states are starting to level off and come down which is a good sign, we , are starting to see the beginning of surges in places like montana, the dakotas, michigan, minnesota, iowa. So it is really a mixed bag. Some areas are doing really well. Some are still threatening to have surges. I
You might say better late than never. Adam that is exactly what i would say. Better late than never but also powell and Richard Clara for the process. There is a reality going back to well before the Global Financial crisis that the phillips curve has been flat. This is a fancy way of saying you can have deviations in inflation deviations in employment to the upside and you do not get that much inflation for it. Then you combine that with the reality we have seen in japan for a long time and in the u. S. And europe for the last 12 to 15 years that when youre too close to zero on your Interest Rate balance, you cannot react as well as you should to policy and adjust policy. Fomc powell and the they unanimously adopted the statement before he spoke what jay powell and the fomc are saying is they are catching up with reality. And jay powell was framing this as we have to be realistic and pragmatic. This is how the economy has changed in our process must reflect the way the economy has cha
And wisconsin. We took up that challenge and delivered a resounding yes. Democratic governors not only one big and purple states like michigan and pennsylvania, they also one in ruby red states like kansas, kentucky, louisiana. Democratic governors have one in in six stateswon n in 2016. D trump woo now that they are in office, they are fighting for these values. I am so honored to be introducing todays panel that includes some of these incredible leaders. All of these governors were elected in 2018 and 2019 in those blue waves. We could not have a better moderator. Former gubernatorial candidate stacey abrams. The discussion will focus on what this work looks like in todays political landscape. We cannot stop there. We have critical races in montana, missouri, New Hampshire to name just a few. We need you by our side to add more states to our list. We need you to help. Please text us. We need you to stay with us. We will continue to make a difference in blue states, purple states, red