Country and everything that we have fought for and hold dear its almost like this election is shaping up to be church, work, and school versus rioting, looting, and vandalism. So this morning the United States leads the world in coronavirus cases and deaths. Somehow that wasnt discussed overnight. There was a Major Development on that front. The fda commissioner admitted that he mississippi characterized the data about the effectiveness of convalescent plasma as a treatment for the virus. He still supports the use and says the data backs it up, he says he got it wrong when he presented it. What does this tell us in terms of what we can trust in claims about a possible vaccine . Also new this morning, dr. Anthony fauci is warning about the risks of rushing through the approval process of a vaccine which the president insists could happen by election day. Meanwhile, this morning more colleges are reporting coronavirus clusters. Chapel hill has a Positivity Rate of over 30 . Joining us no
But they werent given a lot of reason to believe in trump, the virtuous president. Trump, the good man. Even the president s own son couldnt seem to come up with anything that would humanize his own father. Instead, this was a typical, political play, even from the president s son. Ignoring the problems of this man by saying, but the other guy is a bum. Hes pledged to repeal the trump tax cuts, which were the biggest in our country. After eight years of obama and bidens slow growth, trumps policies have been like rocket fuel to the economy. And especially, to the middle class. Biden has promised to take that money back, out of your pocket, and keep it in the swamp. That makes sense, though, considering joe biden is, basically, the lochness monster of the swamp. For the past half century, hes been around in there. Then, he disappears and doesnt do much in between. Just one thing. When you say, often painted as, hes painted he does a pretty good job, chris, of doing that, himself. I dont
Wonder if the timing might have more to do with politics than sound Public Health. Late new detail the on that in just a moment. First, though, the president s effort as in kenosha to talk about anything but the matter at hand. More than 185,000 lives lost to the pandemic. The one that shall not be named. The case count is at best plateauing at a shockingly high level and at worse, it is spiking in yet another new region. This time the midwest. Here is the governor of iowa, one of the president s staunchest supporters by the way doing what the president apparently cannot. As you may have seen in the News Headlines in recent days, iowa had the highest rate of increase in covid19 cases nationally last week and the fifth highest Positivity Rate increase in the country. Growth of new cases has accelerated especially as social activity among young adults and on college campuses. Now she wont issue a mask mandate but at least she admits the Positivity Rate around the university of iowa tripl
Again. And partisan gap and death tolls and hospitalizations is getting more stark. Showing the intentional political divide thats been created. Health care workers have spent nearly two years in the trerchgs of the virus, and theyve hit their states like florida are going further to back the guidance of Public Health officials. Well dive into that and more. Theres been some activity as i hinted at before in the rittenhouse trial. When we have facts, thats when well bring them to you. Today was the day the house has nearly passed the 1 . 7 trillion social spending package. Well dive into the fate of that legislation going forward. But were going to begin with the pandemic. Its the albatross around not just the administrations neck, all of necks. Our inability to get past this as a country, were hurting ourselves. Well say this. As covid goes, so goes the biden presidency. Right now the presidency is not going well, and if you look at covid, it may be because covid is not going well. We
The 3rd week of May was just a teenie-bit better than the second week, but, better is better, we'll take it. Your Bowie County Sheriff's Deputies had 90 total arrests last week, 32 of which were by BCSO, and another 58 were turned over by other law enforcement agencies to Bowie County.