boy, that is a nice image. the president is also asking americans to continue to do their part, to get vaccinated, not to let their guards down in the coming months, like wearing masks. john harwood is at the white house. and john, the president, other top officials, they re going to hit the road and promote this. i m sure they have the experience of the 2008 rescue package in mind. started popular, not as pap lar as this. and you see republicans attacking the package around the edges here. is the intention to try to keep this popular. absolutely. and they ll get some help when the checks start arriving in bank accounts this weekend, $1,400 for adults and children in families with incomes under $150,000. so that is going to help them. but they do have to make sheer the other benefits of the plan including new benefits for small businesses that haven t been touched by previous rounds of paycheck protection. but this is a was a speech last night where the president was no
a massive fire inside of an apartment building in the bronx. 19 dead, dozens hurt. i was scared, that s what really hit me. liright now, australia court considers whether to let tennis champion novak jdjokavich to defend his title. right now, wasn t clear about the responsibilities, what the expectations were. tonight, omicron surging rapidly across the country, hospitals struggling to deep up. large portion of the population unvaccinated, that sets up a large pool of people who as they get infected will end up straining the resources we have in the hospitals today. i m joe mattingly in
it is more like the seasonal flu but we re not there yet. as long as we have a significant portion of the population unvaccinated, and that s true across the united states, and across the globe, there is a chance for such a variant to arrive. a if you days ago we saw the governor of florida berating students for wearing masks. it turns out that one of the students wearing a mask has a grandfather who is immuno compromised. today it was represented that healthy children in florida not get the covid vaccine of the completely at odds with cdc recommendations, which advised children 5 and older, all of them torsion get vaccinated. what did you make of that announcement by the surgeon general today? the anti-science propaganda is really deadly and we in public health, and more broadly in the health care community, we need to stand up and push back with quite a bit of pressure against that. we know that anti-science kids
variant. i personally wear a mask when i go to the post office or grocery store. i don t dine inside of restaurants because of that. i think it is a small precaution. we spent 16 or 17 months fighting this. we have to get our arms around it. as was said, we still have over half the population unvaccinated. the administration is trying to do everything it can to counter that. that s key. elizabeth, what do you think the public response will be to this reinstated mask mandate. i think people vaccinated will get it. ironically, the unvaccinated people may be the ones who try to cheat it. it is so easy to wear a mask. it s incomprehensive why this
surge happening again when we have made this a preventable disease. it is projected that hospitalizations will increase over the next four weeks after months of decline. the cases are younger, almost predominantly unvaccinated. they are also people who made the choice not to take the life raft we have been throwing at them. what kind of decision is it to infect other people, including other people s children. 12 to 17 year olds have the lowest vaccination rate of any age group, only 30%. i am worried about those numbers. i am worried about every demographic. but that will take more than a new push from health experts in washington. i wish i could say there was a single solution, but it is