December is less than a week old, but the u. S. Has already reported more than 1 million new coronavirus cases this month. And more than 14. 5 million total cases since the pandemic began. The growth rate is climbing alarmingly. We just saw more than 200,000 new cases for the fourth day in a row. And hospitals are just about at full capacity around the country. More than 100,000 patients with covid19 are in hospital beds for the last four days straight. Medical workers across the country are getting sick, tired, and burnt out. The cdc tweeted out, in all caps, just wear the mask. Its the same message, but with new urgency, as Many Americans continue to refuse to comply. And heres a prime example. A trump rally in georgia on saturday night. Theres no social distancing, and very few masks. President trump was campaigning for two republican senators ahead of a special Runoff Election next month. He didnt actually spend much time addressing the medical crisis, of course, sweeping the count
Im michael holmes. Appreciate your company. This is cnn newsroom. It took only the u. S. The first five days of december to log more than a million new coronavirus cases. The nation has reported more than 14. 5 million total cases, now, and the growth rate is climbing. We just saw more than 200,000 new cases, for a fourth day in a row. Hospitals are just about at full capacity. More than 100,000 patients with covid19, in hospitals, for the past four days in the u. S. Medical workers, across the country, sick, tired, burning out. Not just from the workload, but from the heartbreak. I think that, sometimes, when you hear statistics like that, you become numb to what those numbers mean. But but for us, you knowin, e people that are taking care of these patients, every single number is somebody we have to look at and say, im sorry, theres nothing more i can do for you. And its just another family we have to call to tell them that their loved ones are going to die. Heartbreaking. The cdc tw
The u. S. Surgeon general making a startling comparison, likening the coming week to the two biggest attacks on u. S. Soil in living memory. This is going to be the hardest and the saddest week of most americans lives, quite frankly. This is going to be our pearl harbor moment, our 9 11 moment only its not going to be localized. Its going to be happening all over the country, and i want america to understand that. But i also want them to understand that the public along with the state and the federal government have the power to change the trajectory of this epidemic. We are struggling to get it under control, and thats the issue thats at hand right now. Just buckle down, continue to mitigate, continue to do the physical administration because weve got to get through this week thats coming up because it is going to be a bad week. The u. S. Death toll is now soaring toward 10,000 making up about 1 7 of all the fatalities worldwide. That is according to Johns Hopkins university. Globally
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Am simmons. We heard from Vladimir Putin a couple of times now within the last 24 hours. One of the headlines in russia saying . Reporter yasmin, good morning. Many are taking in the faces of Vladimir Putin that we saw in the last 24 hours. From angry to joke around. For me, some of the headlines including megyn kelly in the interview we will hear on nbc, Vladimir Putin suggests that perhaps the cia could have been behind the hacking of the u. S. Elections. This morning, the cia pushing back hard on that suggestion. Other headlines for me, Vladimir Putin seeming to align himself with the positions on pulling out of the Paris Climate Accord and nato. Within the next hour, we will have analysis and more on what president putin had to say when he was speaking here in st. Pet pet petersberg. We will have more with your run in with gorkov. That is dog ed reporting at its best. Here is what he told my colleague megyn kelly in the forum in russia yesterday. Take a listen. President putin, the