More than 25 million confirmed cases of covid19 and more than 430,000 deaths across this country. Accounting for 25 of of the confirmed cases and 20 of deaths worldwide. While cases hospitalizations and deaths at have slightly decrd in the last few weeks, the numbers continued to be staggering. Now there is great concern of varied and more transmissible strains of the virus may become dominant over the coming weeks leading to a further worsening of the pandemic. Todays report comes as president Bidens Administration launches an aggressive effort to combat the pandemic and Congress Considers additional aid to bolster the Public Health response and jumpstart the economy. The future of Health Care Initiative released its first report of bipartisan prescription for Americas Health care in february 2020 Offering Practical Solutions designed to make healthcare coverage more affordable without adding a growing Systemwide Health expenditures. Todays report was led by a Bipartisan Group of heal
Centers event on the nations response to the coronavirus pandemic. I serve as the chief medical advisor. Today the Bipartisan Policy Centers future is releasing a new report. You can find this report at bipartisanpolicy. Org. That is bipartisanpolicy. Org. Since the beginning of the pandemic a year ago, there has been more than 25 million confirmed cases of covid19 and more than 430 cases deaths across the country, accounting for 25 of deaths worldwide. While cases, hospitalizations and deaths have slightly decreased, the numbers continue to be staggering and there is great concern variants, more transmissible strains of the virus, may become dominant over the coming weeks leading to a further worsening of the pandemic. Todays report comes as president Bidens Administration launches an effort to combat the pandemic in Congress Considers additional aid to bolster the response and jumpstart the economy. The initiative released its first report, bipartisan subscription for health care in
House task force and dr. Atul gawande now advising the biden team. Plus, former National Security john bolton. And former Homeland Security jeh johnson on the lack of white house conversation. With all eyes on georgia the Senate Majority hanging in the balance. We talk to Democratic Senate candidate jon ossoff. Announcer from abc news its this week. Here now coanchor martha raddatz. Good morning and welcome to this week. 306 to 232. That is where the Electoral College stands with projections now in from all 50 states and d. C. Joe biden with the same number of electoral votes donald trump claimed victory with four years ago. At the time trump called it a landslide. As we come on the air this morning, after refusing to accept the results, the president seems closer to admitting he lost. Trump tweeting his opponent won because, quote, the election was rigged. He did use the word won. Although he has not conceded and the president continues to spread falsehoods without evidence. It comes
Watching to washington dc people pouring into the streets saturday to celebrate the victory of now president elect joe biden but now its time for the Incoming Administration to begin the hard work of dealing with a wide range of issues theyll be inheriting. From a surging pandemic to a fragile economy and a nation demanding racial justice. Its not going to be easy. Good morning. Everybody, thank you for joining us. It is sunday november 8th im Marty Gonzales will begin this morning with a look at how the new administration celebrated its historic win and what comes next, alexander le mon is live in wilmington delaware with that part of our coverage this morning. Hi alexandra. Good morning and it was a big celebration here at the chase center last night a celebration that president elect joe biden supporters waited for 4 days, but that fight and waited for for 32 years biden first ran for president in 1988. Joe biden addressed his supporters for the first time as the president elect of
Today, i will talk with two guests. Dr. Peter navarro, the white house director of trade and manufacturing policy. Then we will be joined by lisa blunt rochester of delaware, a the national cochair of the Biden Campaign. Reported johnson, who in 2016 on voters, now paying attention to democrats in texas and latino voters. We will get an update from her at the end of this program, and at least at the end of the interview with dr. Navarro. A few headlines to get you up to speed. The big thing to Pay Attention to is travel, travel reveals a lot about politics. Why are people making decisions to go certain places . The midwest is the battleground. We hear about the deep south, the sunbelt,a nd there is no doubt those are competitive areas, but when you look at today President Trump, the democratic nominee joe biden, they are going to the midwest today. Both of them will be in minnesota and wisconsin. Biden will also be in iowa. President trump will be in michigan. Vice president mike pence