The month of january is memorable wednesdays as you know. January 6 our nation witnessed one of the worst assaults on our democracy and our constitution in the history of the republic. The following wednesday the house impeached donald trump for inciting the insurrection that we saw. In just one week he was impeached. The wednesday after that t, joe biden and Kamala Harris were inaugurated as president and Vice President of the United States. It has been history making in so many respects. Yesterday we celebrate the one week since inauguration. In that one week, President Biden starting on day number one have driven a bold agenda for progress and justice issuing transformative executive action from the coronavirus, Racial Equity in so many ways and again addressing the climate crisis. Legislatively those executive orders we have been working on our committees that are diligently working on the Coronavirus Relief legislation as a basis for reconciliation. We will pass a reconciliation b
Thanksgiving. I believe we are going to have to make many of those same arrangements into the christmas holidays. Why dont we go to the first slide . Ok. Today, we have 1684 new cases. That brings us really to a startling yearly 100,000 cases statewide. 97,095 total cases. Today, we have an additional 28 deaths. That brings our total to 1568 total deaths statewide. This is really the grimmest part of these updates for everyone on the state of new mexico team and i know for all new mexicans, i gave personal condolences to some families who shared their information with me this morning in this incredibly painful, of course, these are unnecessary deaths and we all must do better. I do want to alert folks that in the details of the emails we send out about the new mexicans we lose to covid, we lost two individuals in their 30s with no underlying conditions. And i dont report this, and we dont put it in our daily updates that go out via email or on our websites and in the media, to provide
Hospital . Doctor weve been dealing with a Public Health crisis for 10 months now, and our Health Care Workers have been at the tip of the spear in battling the pandemic, in dealing with short supplies, and dealing with a patchwork of policies that could control the virus. I think if you look at the hospitals in america, many of them are at the breaking point. Some may have broken. We have had some challenges in the last couple of weeks in nebraska, but by working together, we were able to navigate that to make sure that care was available to everyone. Brennan a video from one of your nurses went viral last month. In it she describes the staffing shortages, and her own personal frustration that she cant just rush in to help a covid patient. It takes time to put on the p. P. E. Required to even enter the room. Can you describe what it is like to be a covid patient right now . Doctor everyone should want to avoid being a covid patient. Not only for the experience that they are in the hos
Has said the talks will continue until wednesday but no further you can say whether or not that is the final deadline for these trade and security in negotiations and deep both sides have said they will keep talking up until the final minutes indeed coming out of downing street in the u. K. Today they say theyll talk as long as it takes so long as we think that it deal is to be done and they have admitted though that these talks really are going down to the wire and of course just to give you a sense of that british newspapers today one saying history has its eye on wrecks it say remains to be seen of course whether or not that deal can be done in the coming days but the public here among those that weve spoken to there is a sense of fatigue now as these negotiations drag on and on theyve been going on and in one form or another for years now take a listen to what people on the streets of had to say. Im not worried about it because we need to get something so detailed. We need to make
Look at the really disinflationary dampening you are seeing in the bond market. I dont want to make a big deal about it, but yield gives way to lower yield. Im looking at fiveyear, fiveyear breakevens, and there is a little bit of an ebb, an increase in the disinflationary tendency. That claimsort number at 8 30. Francine a really important one, and we have some great interviews coming up from the Bloomberg New Economy Forum focusing on health today. A conversation also with bill gates. Lets get to first word news in new york city with ritika gupta. Ritika joe biden warns that the delay in starting the president ial transition could set bet the effort to distribute the coronavirus vaccine. Could setback the effort to disturb the coronavirus fencing. Trump thent Trump Administration is being urged to begin working with biden. Wisconsin Election Officials have ordered a partial vote recount that was requested by the top by the trump campaign. There will be recount in two heavily democrat