Alisyn camerota and john berman. Welcome to new day. This morning joe biden is president of the United States. Two weeks ago joe biden was president elect of the United States. I could keep going here. Whats different this morning is that the Electoral College met and officially gave its votes to joe biden. What is different this morning is that the president elect spoke to the American People and said its time to move on, and after giving the petulant, defeated president space to rant for weeks, biden had enough and called out donald trump by name for his sixth week assault on democracy and what is different this smormorning is that a numbf republicans are starting to come forward to acknowledge reality and stop lying about the election results. This morning were awaiting to see if Senate Leader Mitch Mcconnell joins that list. And attorney general william barr, what brought this loyal soldier so willing to break so many norms and precedents to finally split from the president. What w
No doubt, regular readers are probably somewhat surprised that I didn't discuss the antivaccine rally scheduled to be held in Atlanta last weekend that I wrote about last week. As you might recall, this rally consisted of two crappy tastes that taste crappy together, namely Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and the antivaccine movement together with the Nation of Islam.
Asian flu vaccine being shipped by helicopter across the US
Credit: Walter Sanders/The LIFE Picture Collection
In 1957, writes Niall Ferguson, the United States was hit by one of the deadliest pandemics in history – Asian flu. More than a million died worldwide. Yet there was no state of emergency; no lockdowns; no school closures. Hospitals were cleared for the sickest, and the rest were told to stay at home and drink fruit juice. President Eisenhower asked Congress for just $2.5 million in aid to public health, a tiny sum compared with the several trillion spent in response to Covid-19. But the most striking thing about the pandemic of 1957 is that no one remembers it, that it left almost no mark on its generation. Why?