White house refreshingly not to fight over crowd size, but it turn his attention to the biggest crisis facing america, namely tackling the pandemic. For the past year we couldnt rely on the federal government to act with the urgency, focus and coordination we needed and we have seen the tragic cost of that failure. We didnt get to this mess overnight. Its going to take months for us to turn things around, but let me be equally clear. We will get through this. We will defeat this pandemic. Our National Strategy is comprehensive and its based on science and not politics and its based on truth, not denial, and it is detailed. We are in a national emergency. It is time we treat it like one. Together, with the National Plan, as the United States of america. Normal government. President biden signed a flurry of ten new executive orders today to combat the pandemic and part of a comprehensive National Strategy that includes invoking the defense production act, an increasing aid to states. A c
Begin todays Cross Connection with a new order. Majority leader Chuck Schumer has announced the second impeachment trial of donald trump will begin the week of february 8th. The house managers and the defense will have a period of time to draft their legal breathes just as they did in previous trials. During that period the senate will continue to do other business for the American People such as cabinet nominations and the covid relief bill, which would provide relief for millions of americans who are suffering during this pandemic. Its our first show with trump out of office, but there is a developing story from overnight. Another trump scheme revealed. The New York Times and the Washington Post report while in office trump allegedly plotted to fire acting attorney general Jeffrey Rosen and replace him with an ally who would take up trumps baseless claims, emphasis on baseless, that the election was rigged against him and pressure georgia lawmakers into somehow overturning the States
Combat mission, but President Bidens goals are daunting. The mission is off to a owners start. The covid19 czar said what we are inheriting from the Trump Administration is so much worse than we could have imagined. And while we were all focused on the inauguration, again yesterday the new cdc director that warned that the doth toll is expected to hit half amillion. They warned the vaccine will not be as widely available as the Previous Administration promised. I dont think late february were going to have a vaccine in every pharmacy in this country. We sad 100 million doses in the first 100 days, and were going to stick to that, but after 100 day theres is still a lot of americans that need vaccine. There are reports that they are inheriting no rollout at all. One big change already, dr. Fauci addressed the world health organization. He is also expected to be in the White House Briefing room this afternoon marking the return of information directly from the nations top scientists. As
Help to the Trump Administration. Nyu Langone Medical Centers dr. Marc siegel. All of that could have been helped by amazon, as you just said, helping to get it from operation warp speed and the federal government into peoples arms. That is something they could really help with, and its a disgrace that its taken so long. And that it seems to be political. John in just a moment well speak with republican senator Lindsey Graham at all of this, but first, Griff Jenkins live in washington with the very latest. Hi, griff. Good afternoon, john. Buried 24 hours and come out of the gate the nations second largest employer, amazon, is offering to help with the president s aggressive goal. As you mention, getting the vaccine in 100 million arms and 100 days. One day is already gone. The chief executive of amazon would lead consumer, dave clark, sent a letter yesterday congratulating the administration kept saying they stand ready to assist, writing in part, we are prepared to leverage our operat
Went up. The flu epidemic we had. Everybody in the city, there was a bed shortage for the first time in a long time. Our days per thousand, hospital days per 1,000. It speaks to the management to better coordination of their care in the outpatient setting. The average length of stay similarly. The average length of stay is down 10 percent which is remarkable. 30day readmission rate is down 7. 2 percent. We are not the only organization that has inspired the attention to readmissions. Medicare certainly had a lot to do with that but this means our members arent being discharged early, if they are being discharged, not early, but in the right amount of time, the medical group and hospital make sure that member has what they need at home and to stay home. The medications are filled, they have the right ament amount of help and they are not having to figure out things on their own. And medical and social workers are helping our members. The coordinated care is definitely improved quality.