there is good news, both new york and new jersey are not seeing a drastic increase in hospitalizations just yet. a few minutes ago, we spoke to a hospital official here in new york who says stay calm. this isn t 2020. he says they still have plenty of hospital capacity. telling you it is not a crisis. those are good things to hear. president biden, meantime, later today, he s going to lay out a new strategy to fight the covid resurgence. this strategy centering on testing. the president will announce the purchase of half a billion rapid tests along with a plan to distribute the tests, free of charge, to americans who request them. his other important message, fully vaccinated americans don t need to cancel their holiday plans despite the rising case count. joining us now, dr. peter how t hotez, dean of the national school of tropical medical at baylor college of medicine. always good to see you. let s start with what we re going to hear today from the president. 500 million, half a
if you want to live and you don t want to die from this virus, there s a simple solution. it s two shots. of any of these vaccine. i don t care what you get. you don t have to die from this. no one wants to be the last person to die. and almost every death in this country in the last few months has occurred in a patient who is unvaccinated who could have been vaccinated. this isn t 2020, when no one could be vaccinated. we did the best we could, and hospitals struggled to pull these folks through. we have a simple solution that will keep you out of the hospital so you can move on with your lives and look forward to good things. and we need to get more people to just understand that, these are safe and incredibly effective. thank you, doctor. i appreciate you joining. have a good night, don. chicago and its police union suing each other over vaccine. this is the only city dealing with a police force that doesn t
yes. the one thing i think that big and bold but a backbone. big and bold but urgency. big and bold read the room. this isn t 2020. he said it within our capacity. it is. but democrats have to get real and figure out what their bottom line is. they need to get out of their own way. they need to push the president s agenda across the finish line without getting so bogged down in the details and winning small little battles. when the democracy is at stake. when people went to the polls in 2020 democracy, okay, maybe it was at stake. right? you thought it was at stake and
big and bold read the room. this isn t 2020. he said it within our capacity. it is. but democrats have to get real and figure out what their bottom line is. they need to get out of their own way. they need to push the president s agenda across the f finish line without getting so bogged down in the details and winning small little battles. when the democracy is at stake. when people went to the polls in 2020 democracy, okay, maybe it was at stake. right? you thought it was at stake and fine, all right. democracy is at stake but we have someone else in the white house and that s solved. then the big lie, then january 6th. democracy in greater danger. we re trying to save our democracy and they are operating
pence s story before we get into a response? please, can we not cover the 2020 campaign when we re in 2017, it s like kids yelling are we there yet when you haven t pulled out of the driveway. maybe this isn t 2020, maybe they re getting ready for 2024. is it conceivable that the disruptive nature of the trump presidency is creating a reality we haven t seen before, where people are hedging their bets, yes. but if we start focusing on this now, everybody s going to be in a rest home before the iowa caucuses begin. it s true that the vice president is in a uniquely challenging situation. if the president is in the kind of serious trouble that on some days it looks like he might be, particularly with the special counsel. the vice president, the way i would sum it up is this, the vice president needs to end up at the end of this process, if he s going to become the president of the united states,