Links, in which he wasnt wearing a mask, during a visit to walter reed medical center, trump donned a medical mask in front of cameras for the first time after almost half a year. Maybe he got the message. Or maybe not. Maybe its got more to do with the growing number of americans who disapprove of his handling of the epidemic. As more people suffer from the disease, its harder to believe its a hoax, as he has said. Cases have skyrocketed. Trump says it hasnt translated into more deaths. Thats a lie. Some states have seen their deaths rise to record levels. California had a 29 increase in covid19related deaths in one week. Florida, up 35 . Texas saw a 106 increase in deaths. So forget the nonsense that youre hearing from people that this is some kind of weird new covid that doesnt result in deaths. South carolina, meanwhile, has confirmed the states first death of a child under the age of 5 from covid19. You have to protect the kids, make sure they have their masks on and follow the pr
Coronavirus infections this weekend and all the states in orange and brown are watching the numbers go wrong way. Deep south and southwest struggling with surging infections right now. Georgia and North Carolina Health Officials reporting record high numbers of new cases and alarming news from florida, dozens of hospitals now say they have zero intensive care unit space available. These hospitals and people that work there are clearly being stretched to the limits. Frightening number of people are sick and dying in arizona. More people passed away from coronavirus in one day in arizona than in any day since the pandemic hit in january february. And this just in to cnn, just in the past few minutes, announcement from the government of the bahamas that that country is now closed to people from the United States and other coronavirus hot spots effective wednesday. Still accept visitors from canada, u. K. And European Union so long as they test negative for coronavirus but not people from
And hospitalizations. The New York Times reporting it was one of at least nine states that set singleday case records on friday. The same day the United States, as a whole, recorded a singleday total of 70,000 new cases, for the First Time Since july. Trump then traveled to michigan, which also set a new oneday record for coronavirus cases. While playing to his base in muskegon, michigan, he took aim at the democratic governor of michigan, the victim of a recent foiled kidnapping plot for her efforts to fight covid in the state. What youre doing in michigan has been amazing. Now, youve got to get your governor to open up your state, okay . [ cheers and applause ] and get your schools open get your schools open the cooschools have to be open, right . [ chanting lock her up ] lock her lock em all up. Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer fired back via twitter, quote, this is exactly the rhetoric that has put me, my family, and other government officials lives in danger while we try to save
Hospitalizations, how are you doing . Good morning. Thanks for asking. Our data is relatively constant in the past week or two at the highest levels weve ever seen. Between 3,000 and 4,000 new cases in a state of just less than 6 Million People is one of the worst areas in the country. So thats translating into strained Hospital Capacity in all of our health care regions. Were hearing places talk about Health Care Worker shortages and were talking about icus that are reaching or were trending toward reaching their capacity. So when we hear that, it immediately brings you back to the spring, and what the concerns were in new york in the early days. The fact that you seem to be stuck in this place in wisconsin, what is it you think that maybe people are not understanding, because these numbers are out there and especially when we talk about hospitalizations, doctor, that really tends to put it in perspective for people. It does, and its a little unclear why the message is slow to take on
Leading up to election day from a vital battleground state or city or county across the country, listening to voters all o all sides spectrum. Some of the things i heard were surprising. Well have more on my voter panel later in the show. We were right at the border, thats the border wall behinds us. Ive been to minneapolis, kenosha, kenosha, wisconsin, cities central to the racial equality and Police Reform movements. I stopped in pueblo, colorado, for its conglomeration of cultures and views, and two of the more influential and traditional swing states. I was in ohio and last week was on americas northern border in michigan. While just as influential, arizona is a far less traditional swing state. Its the home of john mccain who once epitomized the american republic, at least before the era of trump. With the exception of voting for bill clinton in 1996, arizona has voted republican in every president ial election dating back to 1948 when the state went for democrat harry truman. And