Governor cuomo good morning. Happy st. Patricks day. I would use my brogue. Mercilessly. Ed but happy st. Patricks day, anyway. Sporting a little green just to carry on the tradition. Elatras, knows james m and dr. Zufer and our budget director. Let me go through an update. As you know the situation changes daily now, which is expected. This is an evolving situation. Numbers ramp up. Thats been the experience in every country that this has visited. So we want to make sure that you understand that as the facts change, our strategy changes, right . We have a plan. Were sticking with the plan. The plan adjusts or moves as the facts move. First stage was always testing. The testing is now first step was testing, and second step was containment. And they Work Together. The testing has ramped up. Its continuing to ramp up. It will be in the thousands per day that is going very, very well. The state is managing its testing capacity. Were working with the federal government on bringing on auto
This is an evolving situation. Numbers ramp up, that is the experience in every country this has visited. We want to make sure you understand that as the facts change, our strategy changes. We have a plan and we are sticking with the plan, it adjusts or moves as the facts move. Was always testing, the testing is now the first step was testing and the second step is containment, and they Work Together. Andtesting has ramped up will be in the thousands per day, that is going very well. The state is managing its testing capacity, we are working with the federal government bringing automated testing, that is going very well and the numbers are going up. Containment, we have taken a number of significant measures, and that is working very well. On the containment side we had a tristate strategy which is highly unusual, but highly effective. We worked with an etiquette and new jersey and announced we worked with connecticut and new jersey. You do not want people shopping different states bec
Toll could hit 211,000 by september 26th. That would mean about a thousand people in this country dying every day until the end of september. And frankly this is where weve been for more than a month. 18 states seeing rise in new infection, many including the midwest. Including iowa seeing the highest number of new cases in the United States, according to a Coronavirus Task force report, iowa is one of six states that we now know ignored urgent recommendations to enact mask mandates. Thats according to task force mandates released. The six states at the time were seeing alarming uptick in the number of cases, yet the governors refused to follow the expert advice, much like the president who has also rejected calls for a mask mandate. Also warning tonight from the nations top Infectious Disease expert. You dont want to see a repeat of the surges that we have seen following the Holiday Weekend, particularly as we go on the other side of labor day and enter into the fall. We want to go in
Campaign manager say, lets shift things around to october 29th and then a statement from Kate Bedingfield from the biden campaign, well, biden was in the air well only agree to what we said to the commission. Its a mess. Stick around. Well see you on morning joe and you guys can sign up for the newsletter at signup. Axios. Com. Thanks for getting up way too early on a friday morning. Morning joe starts right now. Well, the president is shall we say in an altered state right now. So i dont know how to answer for his behavior. So its been a very interesting journey, i learned a lot about covid. Im better, maybe im immune. Dont let it dominate your lives. I feel great, i feel perfect. I think this was a blessing from god that i caught it. This was a blessing in disguise. These people should be indicted. This was the greatest political crime in the history of our country and that includes obama and it includes biden. Well, id like to come back to the white house soon to do another intervie
Hospitalizations just yesterday, marking the 12th consecutive day of more than 100,000 people in the hospital. The second event unfolding moments from now, the Electoral College will confirm president elect joe bidens win, sealing President Trumps fate again, no matter what he says or which conspiracy theories he pushes. Electors from all 50 states in d. C. Will today follow the constitution and affirm what the voters decided on november 3rd. It is a process that is formally, well its normally a formality, but with an active attack to undermine democracy by the president and his republican allies well show you the vote from each state but first, we want to begin with the vaccine rollout. 189 boxes of vaccine vials are expected to arrive in all 50 states today. We have correspondents at hospitals across the country to watch who is getting the nations first doses and when. Sara murray is outside George Washington University Hospital in d. C. Where alex is aa czar and Jerome Abrams will o