Wash your hands. They dont do it. They think it is a hoax. Anybody thinks this is a hoax should come spend the day with me here. Once again, we begin the show with sound from medical workers on the front lines of the pandemic. Welcome to wednesday. It is mtp daily. The u. S. Is battling a record surge of covid cases. We crossed 3 million cases. Hospitals are being pushed to the brink of capacity, and yet the president is publicly dismissing the warnings and recommendations of his top Infectious Disease experts while also threatening to cut funding to schools if they cannot reopen. It has been a head spinning 24 hours. The u. S. Set another record of confirmed cases at more than 60,000. Hospitalizations hit record levels in arizona, alabama, california, georgia, mississippi, north carolina, nevada, oklahoma, south carolina, tennessee, and texas. The situation in the south continues to deteriorate. Cases are still exploding. Hospitalizations are still climbing, and deaths have begun tick