Republican Senate Leadership roy blunt and newly elected congresswoman Nicole Malliotakis and nancy mace coming up. The country is crying out for healing. As President Elect biden fills his cabinet. Who will have chrome of the senate to potentially confirm them . Ill speak to georgia democrat candidate jon oshoff ahead. Hello. Im dane ma bash in for jake tapper in washington. The state of our union is preparing for the worst. Americans finish an unusual thanksgiving weekend, the nation is heading into what is expected to be a devastating month for the pandemic. Already 4 million new u. S. Covid cases and more than 34,000 deaths this month alone. We havent even begun to see the effect of thanksgiving travel, dinners, or black friday shopping. One Infectious Disease expert is now warning that the postholiday case surge will be destabilizing for the u. S. Health care system and the economy and Homeland Security with some projects of deaths will double double before vaccines are able to be
Its going to be a very hard thing to concede. What will be left of the Republican Party when he is gone . Ill speak to a member of the Republican Senate leadership roy blunt and newly elected congresswoman Nicole Malliotakis and nancy mace coming up. Plus, power play. Democrats and republicans face off in the last election of 2020. The country is crying out for healing. As President Elect biden fills his cabinet, who will have control of the senate to potentially confirm them . Ill speak to georgia democrat candidate jon oshoff ahead. Hello. Im dana bash in for jake tapper in washington. As americans finish an unusual thanksgiving weekend, the nation is heading into what is expected to be a devastating month for the pandemic. Already 4 million new u. S. Covid cases and more than 34,000 deaths this month alone. We havent even begun to see the effect of thanksgiving travel, dinners, or black friday shopping. One Infectious Disease expert is now warning that the postholiday case surge wil
china claims taiwan as part of its territory, despite having never controlled it and repeatedly warned against pelosi visiting the island, vowing to take resolute and forceful measures if the visit goes forward. john kirby addressed the trip on cnn last hour. there s no reason for the chinese rhetoric, there s no reason for any actions to be taken. it is not uncommon for congressional leaders to travel to taiwan. it is very much in keeping with our policy and consistent with our support to taiwan under the taiwan relations act. we shouldn t be as a country, we shouldn t be intimidated by that rhetoric or those potential actions. this is an important trip for the speaker to be on. we re going to do whatever we can to support her. cnn is on capitol hill, but we begin with will ripley in taipei, taiwan. will, what can you tell us the latest about this announcement of the speaker s trip? reporter: well, for one thing, this is not going to be, you know, a fueling brief stop
5% of patients or even in the double digits, approximately 10%. it s not quite correct to say that it s rare, but it still is uncommon. i even had covid recently in the past six weeks. we re not sure if maybe i experienced some rebound symptoms. we just didn t catch it with serial testing. so, it s happening, it s out there. if you have any inkling that you have a resurgence of symptoms or if you re doing serial testing, go back and isolate. so many questions about this. first of all, is the increase in rebounds related to the new variant? second, is this the reason for people to be cautious about taking paxlovid? i took it when i had covid and it helped my symptoms. or is it something that will actually still benefit you even if theirs a rebound case in terms of the severity? let s emphasize for everyone in the public. if you are at risk for severe disease, that could be because of age, that could be because of chronic health conditions, you should take paxlovid. you should take p
more normal accommodation in living with this virus? well, when we talk about where we have failed as a country and the cdc and our national policy, i mean if you look across to europe, they re mailing rapid antigen tests and have been for six, seven, eight months to everyone in the united kingdom so that they could be testing at home to try to make some intelligent decisions. we re now talking about we might start getting a billion tests available which would last us a couple of weeks in our country. in a perfect world every american would have a quality antigen test probably is a buck or $1.50 each and test monday, wednesday and friday. and everyone would know when you do that serial testing whether you or your kids going to school or going to see your graup have