Discovery, one that if true, could turn the whole pandemic around. This missouri woman, her name is patricia durgess, was licensed in missouri as an assistant physician. She had done med school at a school in the caribbean but she hadnt been accepted into a residency. She wasnt a full doctor. The rules say a person with midlevel professional accreditation like hers can only do so if they do it in collaboration with a fully accredited doctor. Theres nothing wrong with being a physician assistant, theres lots of room in our system for lots of different licensed professionals. But i think its safe to say that april 11, just about a month into the coronavirus pandemic, this is not the person you would expect to be announcing that in fact she had discovered a cure for covid19. But there she was, april 11, on facebook, quote, this amazing treatment stands to provide a potential cure for covid19 patients that is safe and natural. And wouldnt you know it, she would be happy to sell it you to.
Americans had already died from covid and we all knew it was going to get so, so much worse. The future was looking then, and would turn out to be, incredibly grim. On that same day, april 11, a woman in missouri said publicly she had made an important discovery, one that if true, could turn the whole pandemic around. This missouri woman, her name is Patricia Derges, was licensed in missouri as an assistant physician. She had done med school at a school in the caribbean but she hadnt been accepted into a residency. She wasnt a full doctor. The rules say a person with midlevel professional accreditation like hers can only do so if they do it in collaboration with a fully accredited doctor. Theres nothing wrong with being a physician assistant, theres lots of room in our system for lots of different licensed professionals. But i think its safe to say that april 11, just about a month into the coronavirus pandemic, this is not the person you would expect to be announcing that in fact she
Charge of the recovery act and it was hard as hell to get the votes for it to begin with. And then it was hard as hell to get the number even we got. But one thing we learned, is we cant do too much here. We could do too little. We could do too little and sputter. Real live people are hurting and we could fix it. And we could fix it. That is has been his message from the beginning. And President Biden is focused on this today. Hes expecting to speak live later this hour and on how ep plans to revised the economy in response to covid. And the latest jobs report came out this morning showing only 49,000 jobs were added last month across country. And still there is more. On capitol hill, republican freshman Marjorie Taylor greene, shes about to hold a News Conference and at the moment im going to use the term News Conference loosely as we will see if she actually takes questions from actual real reporters which she has long avoided. Greene now without any Committee Assignments after the h
White house is underscoring this troubling statistic. 2. 5 million women have been driven from the workforce since the pandemic hit. On the medical side of this whole thing we now have news on Johnson Johnsons oneshot vaccine. Its moving closer to authorization for Emergency Use so that is a step in the right direction. Also that i had Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor greene once again defending her controversial rhetoric one day after her colleagues voted to remove her from her committee assignments. Going forward ive been freed. I do. I feel freed because you know whats happening on these committees . You see, we have a basically a tragically controlled government right now, the democrat. How does her party move forward now that trump is out of office . Her response. It doesnt. And i want to tell you, republican voters, support him still. The party is his. It doesnt belong to anybody else. Lets start there with our cnn Congressional Correspondent jessica dean who had quite an
Has had with lawmakers this week. This is what he said in the last hour. We cant do too much here. We can do too little. We can do too little and sputter. The end result is, its not just a Macro Economic impact on the economy and our ability to compete internationally. Its peoples lives. Real live people are hurting. We can fix it. We got the first jobs report out under President Biden. Its a better report than december. Overall though, we have a long way to go. 49,000 jobs were added last month. The Unemployment Rate fell to 6. 3 in january. We will take a closer look in moments. I want to start with the action in the capitol. We have monica alba at white house, jo ling kent with the jobs report and leigh ann caldwell. President biden will deliver economic information later this hour. What can you tell us about the president s economic focus today . Its the first event, the fact that the white house is having these coronavirus briefings now three times a week from Health Experts and o