Plus, agony and anger. Doctors in india forced to hide from relatives of Covid Victims after a series of beatings. Welcome to the lead, everyone. Im jake tapper. We start with the health lead. The united states is turning a corner in the battle against coronavirus. Thats the declaration from a leading Infectious Disease expert today, the usually quite cautious Epidemiologist Michael Olsterholm saying while there remains work to do, the u. S. , he says, should be celebrating the progress made thus far with vaccinations. One of the reason for his optimism . Record lows in the united states in the average of new daily cases, the lowest level since october. Covid hospitalizations, a low we havent seen consistently since last fall, and daily deaths from the virus, still tragically high, 776 Deaths Yesterday, but deaths have fallen to the lowest average since july of 2020. For context, there was a day just in january where we lost more than five times that number of americans to the virus in
Cheney . Lets get right to cnns gary tuchman, live from cheyenne, in cheneys home state of wyoming. Gary, what are voters there saying to you . Reporter jake, we talked to a lot of voters in cheyenne, wyoming. What surprises me a little bit, its been very difficult to find a loyal republican who says i like cheney, i like trump. Lets try to get it together. People are extremely dug in to their positions. What i can tell you at this point is that Anyone Weve talked to who says that who lies and says the election was stolen or it may have been stolen, they are shedding no tears for Liz Cheney. This dispute, do you think Liz Cheney has the right to be angry with Donald Trump . No. Reporter why . Because i dont think hes wrong. Reporter do you think the election was stolen . I think its possible, yeah. Reporter whose side are you on . Liz cheneys. Tell me why. She doesnt divide her thoughts along political lines. She speaks her truth and i appreciate somebody with that type of integrity. I