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increases across the country change and new data emerge. we re also keeping a close eye on capitol hill where the house is debating, you see kevin mccarthy there, get ready to hold a historic vote on president biden s $1.9 trillion covid relief package, a monumental piece of legislation that offers aid to almost every part of life right now. $1400 checks to individuals, unemployment boost, child tax credit, funding for schools. joining me now for the state of play on where things stand there, manu raju is on the hill joining us from the white house and director david chalian is joining us as well. manu, walk us through what is about to happen in the house. we do expect final passage to occur late in the 12:00 hour in the east, 12:45 or so is when we expect that vote to begin. republicans have tried to delay, specifically one republican, marjorie taylor greene tried to delay the vote by forcing a motion to adjourn the house. that was rejected. a lot of republican colleagues
that have to report positive tests are way behind because of the holidays, and so those case numbers are artificially low inherently. we have well more than a million cases, but what we really need to look at and the sort of weak link in the system at the moment as your reporters have pointed out, is the health care system. we look at hospitalizations, hospitalizations where people are requiring oxygen for covid, that s a much more important measure, and again, as your reporters have pointed out, 3/4 or more of the patients in the hospital with covid are patients who are unvaccinated. and as you get sicker and sicker in the hospital into the intensive care unit, into the intensive care unit with a breathing tube, you know, more and more of those patients are the unvaccinated. and that s really what we have to look at. we just got a three-minute warning to the president. i want to get through a couple more questions with you as quickly as we can. testing, a lot of people are relying o