vaccinated can hug grandkids who have not. the rules don't go far enough for some. the airline industry which today pushed back on cdc guidance that recommends even the vaccinated avoid travel. >> every time there is a surge in travel, we have a surge of cases in this country. many of our variants have emerged from international places and we know the travel corridor is a place where people are mixing a lot. >> the guidelines state that people including those fully vaccinated should continue to wear a mask. today wyoming's governor joined those in texas and miss issippi announcing an end to the mask mandate. in an interview with politico dr. fauci can see the hamask mandate for those vaccinated pulled off soon but not this soon. the house is expected to pass a $2 trillion covid relief bill that contains money for vaccinations and schools and low income americans, children, the unemployed and make health care coverage more affordable. bernie sanders can join us to talk about that. on thursday, president biden is expected to deliver his prime time address commemorating the year since covid has been declared a pandemic. that is where phil mattingly, where is the crisis on the health front and economic front? >> cautious optimism is the best way to frame it. there is no question about it. they look at the met tricks they have been paying attention to over the course of the first 48 days in office and feel like things are headed in the right direction. 2.1, 2.2 million doses being delivered per day based on the last week. that's well above what it was. they know hundreds of millions of doses are coming online over the course of the next several months and the numbers on the death side have been trending downward but there is also very clear possibility that things could get worse. when you talk to white house advisors thanks i are concerned about a new surge. they are concerned about the var variants. some advisers are furious about the mask mandates. one called it the equivalent of spiking the football at the 20 yard line. you don't get points for that. they recognize things can go wrong and things will likely go wrong but based on the public health side of things and particularly with this covid relief bill on the economic side of things they feel like they are accomplishing the goals they laid out when they took off. >> when the relief bill does win final passage this week, do we know how soon americans will get the stimulus payments? >> what we know now they want them out the door by the end of the month. obviously, the payments have gone out in the last administration worked together a pretty good system to kick them out rather quickly via direct deposits in many cases. i think one of the key things to pay attention to over the course of the next couple of weeks is yes, administration getting to this point where the president is going to sign his corner stone legislative proposal into law is a huge accomplishment but advisors i'm talking to make very clear they know this isn't the end of the ball game. they actually need to implement this law, not just getting the direct payments out but the different economic relief here, which is transformative, short term when you talk about things like the child tax credit. it needs to actually work. they need to be able to put it into play so the popularity of the bill which is maintained over the course of the last several weeks actually sticks in the weeks ahead. >> and what more do we know about this address by president biden thursday night? >> it's one year to the day that president trump, former president trump gave his prime time address. you'll hear the president hit on a couple notes. in that year more than 525,000 people have died. president biden has made very clear that keeping those individuals, keeping those families in mind is something that he always wants to do when he talks about the pandemic but i think you're going to hear him talk about that bill, which he hopes to sign into law by thursday and one thing i heard repeatedly by administration officials is the idea if he talks about that bill when he talks about the bill in the prime time address, it won't be the end of the ball game for this bill. it will be the start of a process. administration officials know they need to keep talking about the bill. they need to keep selling the proposal. they need to keep informing americans what they believe are the merits of this proposal, something i hear a lot as members of the administration on the team back in 2009, when that stimulus bill was passed into law. they don't feel like they did a good enough job and change that this time around. >> appreciate it. the guidance from the cdc where we are in the fight against covid from the chief medical correspondent from dr. sanjay gupta to and chris murray, evaluation at the university of washington which push accomplishes a key model that tracks the spread of the virus. we talked about the cdc guidelines and what vaccinated people are able to do now. can you walk us through it again now? st what stands out to you? >> fully vaccinated means two weeks after your second shot if you received the pfizer or moderna vaccine or two weeks after your first shot, your only shot with the johnson & johnson vaccine. the key is, people are waiting for this guidance for sometime is what does that mean in terms of what you can do and the bottom line is you can do a little more. maybe not as much as some people would like but for example, if you are fully vaccinated and hanging out with another group of people who are fully vaccinated, you can have a basically normal gathering indoors. don't need to wear masks. don't need to maintain physical distance. shake hands, hug, things like that. if you're hanging out -- if you're vaccinated and hanging out with people unvaccinated but they are low risk, they are one household and low risk, sort of the same sort of, you know, rem recommendations apply. you can have a normal gathering. that's what we're hearing now. i talked to andy with the task force and he said a couple things i thought were interesting. first of all, he emphasized this is a first step and that future recommendations would be coming and they would be tied directy to the people vaccinated. 10% of the country vaccinated. when we get to 20%, which could be ten to 14 days or so, you probably will hear another set of recommendations. so this is a first step as he emphasized over and over again. >> dr. murray, dr. fauci continues to warn that case levels are plateauing at unacceptable levels. is that what your models find? you hear wyoming joined the list of people opening up, no mask mandate, full business is at full capacity with texas and mississippi. >> you know, i think this is a very risky time. i share dr. fauci's opinion that this is not the time for us to be less cautious because we have b117 the u.k. very ariant surfa. it's leading to big increases and that can happen here and easily if people become too, you know, lose their vigilance against transmission. >> so, the -- so the reason -- when is an acceptable amount of time? is the met trick you used an acceptable time to have business at full capacity or no mask mandate? >> well, i think we would want to see the case rates in the community to be really low, so that we can really have a serious prospect that testing and, you know, following up and convincing people to self-quarantine would be anf effective strategy. we're a good ways away from that because there is a real risk that transmission can plateau for quite awhile. it can go back up if people become increasingly -- stop wearing masks and have large gatherings. so it's a ways away from our point of view. although, the signs do look good. >> sanjay, i know you have questions. >> along those lines, dr. murray, if you made this model back on march 6th, since then we've heard about texas and miss mis -- mississippi sort of taking away mask mandates. how much of an impact do you think that will have now? >> you know, it can have a lot of impact. it just depends if people actually follow that mandate. we're expecting that a lot of people will still be cautious, that they're not going to -- everybody is texas is going to wear a mask. if that happened, that combined with a lot of the u.k. variant circulating in the u.s. can very easily look like central eastern europe where cases are shooting up again. >> and it's been almost a year since life as we knew it changed, how many lives do you think would be saved if people continue to follow cdc guidelines, wear masks for awhile longer? what is the difference here that we're talking about? >> well, you know, we're already at a good level with masks so if we keep going with masks and, you know, keep scaling up vaccination, which is what we all expect is going to happen then we expect, you know, about 65,000 deaths between now and july 1st but the daily deaths should be steadily going down. if people stop wearing masks, then you can get much higher numbers of deaths over the time frame. >> what percentage of americans now do you estimate are wearing masks? >> you know, we're actually not yet seeing any decline. so we're still holding at about three-quarters of americans wearing a mask when they leave the home and we've been waiting for those numbers to start dropping. they started to drop in europe, but fortunately, they've held steady so far until the beginning of this week, which is the latest data and we're going to have to see what the new mandates coming off in texas and mississippi and elsewhere, what is the impact that will have. >> sanjay, where do you think we are in this? >> well, you know, i mean, everyone sort of talks about this idea of herd immunity, having enough immunity out there and, you know, there is a little discrepancy how many people have likely been infected but if you say 20 to 30% plus 10% of the country vaccinated, so far that's 30% and if we kept it the same pace of 2 million vaccine as day, 60 million people a month, you start to think may or so time frame is when you're starting to get to that -- that possible herd immunity where you have enough people vaccinated where the virus has a hard time finding a home. so where are we? pote potentially, we have long conversations but two months away from herd immunity. it's not the same linear thing. herd immunity and all is said and done. as dr. murray said you can bounce back against herd immunity going into the fall. you know, there is going to be vigilance that's necessary for sometime. a summer vacation, things like that maybe planned this summer, i think people will have a much better chance of doing those things. >> and dr. murray, you know, epidemiologist michael osterholm says there is going to be another surge because the next. >> our projections say that most likely thing wills steadily get better but in the worst scenario where people stop wearing masks faster start having gatherings faster you can see a surge in april. what is happening in the northern states of brazil right now is really scary. they're having an enormous surge and that's in a place where 60 or 70 or 80% have been infected in the past. so it does make us concerned that the risk is out there. >> and just quickly on brazil, i mean, that brazil variant or the brazil strain comes here, what does that mean? i know it's here to some degree but that becomes really wide spread. >> it's very rare here thank goodness. if it starts to spread a lot, all bets are off because not only does all that 20, 25% of people who have been infected in the past, they're not susceptible but the vaccines we have currently are less effective. put those two together, we really want to try to keep the brazilian variant from spreading too far but it's likely going to spread and we think in the fall we'll see more of it. >> dr. chris murray, san jay, thank you. nearly $2 trillion covid re l -- relief bill passed and negotiations and the 50/50 majority. the story that commanded attention, the startling allegations involving racism and the accusations against the u.k. tabloids from that interview with the duke and duchess of sussex, prince harry and meghan markle and oprah. with unitedhealthcare medicare advantage plans, there's so much to take advantage of. like $0 copays on virtual visits... ♪ wow ♪ uh-huh $0 copays on primary care visits and lab tests. ♪ wow ♪ uh-huh plus, $0 copays on hundreds of prescription drugs. ♪ wow ♪ uh-huh unitedhealthcare medicare advantage plans. including the only plans with the aarp name. most plans have a $0 premium. it's time to take advantage. ♪ wow ♪ for every idea out there, that gets the love it should ♪ ♪ there are 5 more that don't succeed ♪ ♪ and so are lost for good ♪ ♪ and some of them are pretty flawed ♪ ♪ and some of them are slightly odd ♪ ♪ but many are small businesses that simply lack the tool ♪ ♪ to find excited people who will stop and say 'that's cool'♪ ♪ and these two, they like this idea ♪ ♪ and those three like that one.♪ ♪ and that's 'cause personalized ads ♪ ♪ find good ideas for everyone ♪ up at 2:00am again? 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>> anderson, in my view, this is the most significant legislation for working people that has been passed in decades. and what this legislation is about is looking out around our country in the midst of this terrible pandemic, the economic decline, the fact that our education of our kids has been disrupted, that people are facing eviction, families are facing hunger. we've looked at all of these issues and said what can we do? what shocks many in the establishment is we wrote a bill to address the crisis facing working families and the middle class and low income people and not the wealthy and large corporations and their lob lobbyists. this bill is enormously significant. and at the top of our list is the understanding that the american people know to be true is that we're not going to get our kids back to school safely. we're not going to get our economy humming the way it should be and create the millions of jobs we need to create unless we crush the pandemic and we are putting billions of dollars into making sure that we are producing the amount of vaccines that we need and we're developing a mechanism to get those vaccines into the arms of the american people. the biden administration i think in the last month has made real progress but we have a long, long way to go. because every day that somebody is not getting a vaccine is a day that that person may get the covid virus and die. >> in terms of the $15 an hour minimum wage, how do you want to proceed with that because clearly that's something on your agenda? >> that's on my agenda, anderson. if you want to ask the great crisis in the economy today, we can talk about a lot of things. to my mind, the fact half of our people are living paycheck to paycheck and that many millions of people are working for starvation wages, $8, $9, $10 an hour, you can't live on that. minimum wage has not been raised by congress since 2007 and it stands today at $7.25 an hour. so we are developing a strategy and if anybody thinks that the vote that we had the other day on the minimum wage is the last vote taking place this session, they're going to be very, very wrong. >> there are some democrat whose did not want that. >> i know. believe me, i know. but at the end of the day, the american people want it. overwhelmingly large numbers of people support raising the minimum wage. the $15 an hour, eight states have already voted to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour. many communities and cities have done the same. so we're going to do what the american people want and in one way or another we are going to pass the $15 an hour minimum wage. >> i want to go back to something you said at the beginning that you think this is the most significant piece of legislation in decades. can you just talk more about why you think that is and what does it say that, you know, the first relief -- at the beginning of this pandemic got overwhelming republican support, as well. this got no republican support, what does that say to you? >> it says to me the republicans have turned their back on the needs of working families. they use the reconciliation process a few years ago to give a trillion dollars in tax breaks to the top 1% and large corporations. they use the reconciliation process to try to repeal the affordable care act and throw 30 million people off of the health care that they had. what we are using reconciliation for is to address the crisis facing working families. what does that mean? it means that hopefully within a couple of weeks some 85% of american households will receive a direct payment check. that direct payment will be $1400 for every working class adult, individual $75,000 or less. couples 150,000 or less. plus your children, family of four gets help of $5600. and in the midst of this crisis, god only knows that millions and millions of families desperately need that boost. what this legislation does, anderson, is it addresses a crisis that this country has ignored for too long. we have one of the highest rates of childhood poverty of any major country on earth. this legislation will expand the child tax credit and lower childhood poverty in america by up to 50%. yeah, we're going to pay attention to the kids in america. many of whom are struggling for a variety of reasons. this legislation says in the richest country in the history of the world, people should not be going hungry in my community vermont, hundreds of cars lined up for emergency food packages taking place all over this country. this legislation provides help so that when the moratorium on evictions ends, people will get assistance to stay in their homes whether it's a rental unit or your own home. this legislation more than doubles funding for community health centers. in my state about 25% of people get their medical care. they get their dental care. they get low cost prescription drugs, mental health counseling through community health centers with more than double funding it putting money into getting doctors into under served areas. we're putting money into making sure that millions of workers do not lose the pensions that they were promised. so this legislation