A deadly tear. Again. Nearly every state reporting a rapid surge in new cases and with that we are also seeing the death toll rise sharply. More than 10,000 covid deaths reported in the United States in the past week. Right now nationwide more people are in the hospital with coronavirus than at any time sense the pandemic began. Leadership from the white house, even as the pandemic gets worse, is not there. President trump at a golf course today and could have participated in a g20 conference session focused on the global pandemic. The president however chose not to but he did choose to send multiple baseless tweets today about voter fraud in the election that he lost to joe biden. The president s one passing reference to the coronavirus today on twitter about his son donald trump jr. Who is also now infected. The countrys case numbers are growing more bleak as the president digs in refusing to help facilitate a transition of power. Lets go to Jeremy Diamond and arlette saenz. Jeremy,
Captions by vitac www. Vitac. Com you are live in the cnn newsroom. Im erica hill in new york and we beginning with breaking news this hour, another horrific milestone crossed. 12 million. Look at the number on the side of your screen. More than 12 million coronavirus cases in this country alone. 12,019,960 people either currently infected or dealing with the aftereffects of coronavirus. Thats where were at now. There is no other country in the world, none, with as many cases of covid19 as the United States. More than 255,000 people in this country have now died as a result of the virus, and again, just confirmed by Johns Hopkins university, the number of cases reaching and then surpassing 12 million. This pandemic is just one major emergency the American People are facing today. The other, its a crisis of leadership or a lack of it. Americans are becoming sick. They are dying in surging numbers across this country. The president of the United States is not talking about the virus. Hes