calling for the maximum telework posture so we don t know what that will mean to senators plans and plans for senate staff this week. thursday the day of the anniversary is also the day of the funeral for former republican senator johnny isakson who died last month and whose memorial will be in his home state of florida on thursday this week senator isakson served two decades in between his time in the house and the senate. he is very well known in fact lake on capitol hill. a lot of senators will be attending his memorial this week the day of the january 6th it is hard to know exactly what capitol hill will be like at this point. that day on thursday, the house his, house representatives as opposed to the fan and they are not technically in fashion that day, or in fact all this week. but her house speaker nancy pelosi, the house has nevertheless planned a day of remembrance on thursday.
essentially the doctor for the house and the senate, advising a maximal telework posture for congress. the senate is supposed to be in session this week. we will see how that plays out. and we ll have more a little later on this hour as to what s going on with hospitalization numbers. we have seen over the past couple of weeks as case numbers have just gone off the charts. but infectious disease experts, including dr. anthony fauci, have been telling us now that we ought to be watching the hospitalization numbers much more closely than we re watching the case numbers. if we want to get a sense of how much this thing, this new wave is really going to take us apart, we really need to watch hospitalization numbers, not just case numbers. and when you do start looking at the hospitalization numbers, what you re seeing might surprise you. it does not necessarily comport with the sort of common wisdom and common anecdotal discussion of what s going on with this wave. you re going to want to
in this show in the next hour. on wednesday this week we know attorney general merrick garland is expected to give a major address to doj staff, interestingly it is an address to the staff of the justice department, about the progress the department has made in prosecuting crimes that took place at the capitol on january 6th last year when supporters of former president trump mounted that violent attack on the u.s. capitol to try to overthrow the government and stop the transfer of power to the new president. the one-year anniversary of the u.s. capitol attack is of course this week, it s thursday. honestly, it s starting to look like it s going to be sort of a strange day on capitol hill. the senate, as i said, is technically in session this week. but the capitol physician today did tell senators they shouldn t be doing anything in person that they don t have to do, they should be teleworking, they should be working from home as much as possible. he s calling for that maximal telework
services are similarly impacted by coronavirus in the workplace, such as air travel, childcare, mass transportation, ambulance services, fire, and police. capitol physician then tells the senate leadership in this letter today that all members of the senate, often it is and their staff need to upgrade their masks. quote, blue surgical masks, cloth face masks, and gator style masks must be replaced by the more protective k and 95, or k and 95 masks. and 95 masks, or kn95 masks. bottom line is telling the senate that they should stay home right now. congressional offices, committees and agency should immediately review there are operations to adopt a maximal telework posture. reduce impressing meetings and an office activities to the max month extent possible. electronic means to facilitate all virtual or hybrid type meetings or hearings should be
emphasized. again, this is the letter from the attending physician of the congress of the united states. brian monahan who is essentially the doctor for the house and senate advising a maximal telework posture for congress. again, the senate is supposed to be in session this week, we will see how that plays out. we will have more later on this hour as to what is going on with hospitalization numbers, we have seen over the past couple weeks as case numbers have just gone off the charts by infectious disease experts say now that we are watching the case numbers and we need to watch hospitalization numbers not just case numbers. and we do avoid having might surprise you does not so comport with common wisdom and