I think that at some point, thats going to sort of just disappear, i hope. You still believe so . I do. New cases of the virus are surging with the daily number topping 40,000 in recent days and moving north of 50,000 over the past 24 hours. New cases. The New York Times reports infections in this country are now up 80 over the past two weeks. In 38 states and puerto rico are grappling with covid spike. The south and the west are new epicenters with arizona, california, florida, and texas posting the highest number of new cases. Bloomberg news reports intensive care units in houston are now at 102 of capacity. Propublica reports many of the citys Health Care Workers fear that hospitals may soon be overwhelmed with virus patients. Georgia also dealing with a major increase in coronavirus cases. The outbreak now straining that states testing infrastructure. Today one House Task Force member said discussions are under way to flood those states seeing major outbreaks with even more testing
Our government and more specifically the president of the United States. There is no other conclusion you can reach at this point. We have lost every last charitable explanation for failures, that the disease itself is challenging, which it is, that its hard to fight, which it is, that its torn through all different kinds of cultures with all different kinds of cultures and governments and institutions. There is nothing left to say but that donald trump has gotten americans killed and will get even more americans killed in unfathomable numbers. When the pandemic started, i warned on this show, as did everyone we talked to, that the president could not just wish the virus away as much as he wanted to or tried to. Now, the virus that were talking about having to do, you know, a lot of people think that goes away in april with the heat. Because of all weve done, the risk to the American People remains very low. When you have 15 people and the 15 within a couple of days is going to be down
Rising. We are now around 50,000 new ones a day. This is the american exceptionalism that donald trump has achieved, and there is no plan to turn it around. No. There is just a plan to try to convince americans this is normal, this is fine. Thats what we get from a guy who inherited a bunch of money from his daddy and then spent decades of public life bsing and bullying and tieing people up in litigation and acting so shamelessly he was eventually able to get over on people, wear them out. Its not been a huge success, companies have gone bankrupt. But it has been enough to con his way through. Now hes up against the virus and all these tools hes used in the Business World hes tried to apply them to the virus and it doesnt work because the virus doesnt care. You cant shame it or wait it out. You cant spin it or draw it out in litigation or file for bankruptcy or distract people away from it. That doesnt make it go away. None of his tricks work. You cant b. S. A virus. And, so, hes left
Situation in florida in just a moment. Amid this spike in new cases, the president is being widely criticized for making this false claim about the virus over this past weekend. Now we have tested almost 40 million people. By so doing we show cases, 99 of which are totally harmless. Earlier today White House Press secretary Kayleigh Mcenany was asked about that particular bit of fiction. The president was noting the fact that the vast majority of americans who contract coronavirus will come out on the other side of this. Of course, he takes this very seriously. Of course, no one wants to see anyone in this country contract covid, which is why the administration has fought hard to make sure thats not the case with our historic response effort. Nbc news, among other news organizations, reporting the Trump Administration will begin new messaging soon on the coronavirus. They plan to tell americans they simply need to learn to live with the virus. And the Washington Post adds this bit of r
And he is in many ways the donald trump of brazil. A foul mouth he joked about restoring the military dictatorship, said a female politician was too ugly to rape. Hes also a big donald trump fan. They have make brazil great again merchandise, which they give to President Trump back in march. The president of brazil reacted the same way to the coronavirus as donald trump did, saying dont worry about it, nothing to see here, its just a bug, just total incompetence, complete denial. He was angry when Rio De Janeiro shut down its beaches. Hes fought with governors across the country for taking proactive steps to fight the virus. Sound familiar. His last Health Minister quit in protest after only four weeks on the job, after president bolsonaro pushed to reopen gyms and beauty parlors. Sound familiar . Its not surprising that were in the company of brazil, as the two countries with the worst coronavirus responses. Its also not surprising that the president of brazil Jair Bolsonaro now has t