so let me introduce you. joining us today to help you get answers is right now employment attorney angela wright and dr. peter hong, an infectious disease specialist at ucsf here in san francisco. good to see you both back with us. great to be back. thank you. let me start with you becaus this is very timely. protesters in big cities this past weekend gathered to demand that their governors open up the economy. some states like georgia saying today some limited openings will happen this weekend, but i read a new york times article saying that testing needs to triple before we can do that safely. so, what are your thoughts on that? kristen, we ve been talking about this on and off on this show and you know, we still haven t been at the levels of testing that we really need. and again, it s like we re operating in a black box all with waxen eyes. i mean, i can t tell you if our if we relax shelter in place how we would be doing because we don t have sensitive measur
immediate impact on families from. those who escape fighting are safer now living with friends and family on the kenyan side of a divided town but the situation remains fragile for a lasting solution experts say the ethiopian government must resolve the land dispute in more yalit but it is difficult to divorce the fighting in a small border town from the bigger tribal dispute between ethnic communities something that s been going on for years and cuts across international boundaries for now aid groups and local leaders here in kenya are trying to make sure that score settling doesn t bring the violence over the border. cuba s new president niguel diaz colonel is overseeing what s being called the modernization of socialism cubans have weighed in on a draft constitution which will be rubber stamped by the national assembly before a referendum in february is to see in human. after six decades the signs of decay in the western hemisphere s only communist country are evident and
administration a wake-up call, calling for an urgent strategy reset or risk losing credibility with the public. the president biden claims the white house is doing just fine. speak to what we ve been able to do is we have been able to generate significant federal help in terms of both coming into the hospital and administering all the help that the states need. that s what we are doing now but i m confident we are on the right track. dana: dr. anthony fauci and other top health officials getting grilled about president biden s handing out comic handling of the pandemic. frankly, you ve lost your reputation in the american people don t trust the words coming out of your mouth. i believe that s a real distortion of the reality. but perception is a reality and you are hurting the team right now. has any of this funding, this close to $83 billion that was supposed to be used for testing been diverted for other purposes? some of the funds have been used for mitigation
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but i have to disagree with that, because if you look at the thing that you just mentioned, the statistics, andrea, they are disturbing. we re plateauing at around 40,000 cases a day. and the deaths are around a thousand. as we enter and, you know, we turn the corner after the labor day weekend. i m hoping that we do not see a surge in cases as we ve seen following the fourth of july and memorial day. but when you have a baseline of infections that are 40,000 per day and you have threats of increased test positivity in certain regions of the country such as the dakotas, montana, places like that, what we don t want to see is going into the fall season, when people will be spending more time indoors, and that s not good for a respiratory-borne virus, you don t want to start off already with a baseline that s so high. so the thing that we ve all been talking about, i ve been stressing this over the last few weeks to a month or more, to try as best as possible to get that leve