Filed for Unemployment Benefits this week. American businesses say theyre not done laying off yet. 1. 7 million coronavirus cases worldwide, and its still barely touched some of the leastprepared nations. And 95 of americans are under stayathome orders, orders many of them simply cannot afford. Velshi starts now. Good morning. It is april 11th. Im ali velshi. The world reached a new milestone surpassing 100,000 deaths from covid19. Here in the United States there are now more than 496,000 confirmed cases of coronavirus, and 18,651 deaths. New york is now the covid19 capital of the world. New york state has more confirmed cases of the virus than all countries reporting positive test results. And new yorks death toll stands at 7,844. In the past two weeks ive probably seen as much death as ive seen in the past three years. Its bad. Its really sad. I feel at this point everybody we intubate, its terminal. I dont it almost feels futile. Almost feels futile. As you can see from this map, th
exactly what needs to happen. and as a doctor, alicia, and a public health advocate i think you re going to hear a sigh of relief. it s one step. but people now need to follow these recommendations, alicia. fran, let s talk about the leadership dr. roy was just talking about and let s talk about your state specifically because along with the devastating numbers that we re seeing in florida we re hearing baptist health hospitals in jacksonville say their hospitals are at maximum capacity, that emergency centers have reached a critical point. meanwhile, your governor, governor ron desantis, is in utah essentially on the trail, giving a speech at the american legislative exchange council mocking the cdc, reaffirming his continued resistance to mandates. how do you square the reality of what is happening in florida with the governor s performance in utah? well, alicia, what s happening is a human tragedy unfolding before our very eyes. i m actually on the ground right now here in jacks
pocket begging the people of kentucky to get their vaccines. this was long overdue. this was necessary. but i think team biden and the administration have now got it under control and it s a huge contrast to the human tragedy that s happening in my home state of florida. dr. roy, what is so interesting as i listen to fernand is we have seen republicans make something of a pivot when it comes to vaccinations and talking about the vaccine but that means in some ways masks have become even more politicized. this has been an enduring flash-point in this pandemic. you have republican lawmakers like senator ron johnson putting masks on trial saying in a statement, do masks even work? do they do more harm than good? time to reclaim liberty and end this state of fear. so dr. roy, first of all, i would love you to speak to that pint. but also to speak tonight medical consequence of something like masks being so politicized. it is so infuriating, alicia, to still see this pandemic, this in
dystopia. they should not be consigned to live, regardless of which state in the union, consigned to live in a faucian dystopia in which we re governed by the whims of bureaucratic authorities who care little for our freedom, little for our aspirations, and little for our happiness. no more. we can t let it happen going forward. joining me now, dr. lippi roy, medical director of covid isolation and quarantine sites for housing works in new york city. and ferdinand amandi, democratic pollster and an nbc political analyst. good to see you both. dr. roy, i want to start with you. let s start with the remarks from the president just hours ago encouraging vaccinations for americans, requiring them for federal employees and co asking states and cities to offer $100 vaccine incentives. from a public health perspective, is all of this going to put us on the path to having a such number of