Thank you for your time today. I like your happy thanksgiving. Happy early thanksgiving. If you have a question the doctor, go to Facebook Live and well try to get them answers. Doctor, the tsa has screened five million travellers since friday. How nervous does that make you, given what were facing right now . It makes me very nervous, kristen, because we know that in previous holidays, even in the united states, memorial day, etc. , it was accompanied by a predictable increase in cases in two weeks. Not only cases but concerningly high hospitalizations. You hook at what happened in thanksgiving in canada, i think the writing is in the wall. Well see increased numbers in two weeks, even above our current surge. Lets try to do our part and one piece of that is having smaller gatherings. Dr. Fauci was asked whether the risk from small gatherings has been exaggerated . What does the data show . Can we do a small gathering without a surge . I think what the contact data tracing shows is it
We want to hear from you this morning. What is it like where you live. If you live in the Eastern Central part of the country, 2027488000. Mountain pacific, 2027488001. You can also text us with your first name, city, and state at 2027488003. You can send us a tweet at cspan wj or post your comments on facebook. Com cspan. Start dialing in, we will get your thoughts in a moment. We will begin with yesterdays meet the press and Michael Osterholm, who served on president elect joe bidens task force at this to say about the coming week. Let me ask you this. We are seeing the accidental rise that you sadly predicted would happen in covid cases. We going to plateau anytime soon or is this trajectory going to keep going up and up . Thank you again and let me just say the outset that our future is in our hands. Right now for at least the next three weeks, cases are in the pipeline, of these numbers are going to go way up. Our job is to imagine what the world could be like if we do make the ch
What would your role or what has been your role during this pandemic . Its been very involved in this pandemic and how the frontline response so the organization i work for works closely with them supporting response and on researching issues for them and also on communicating to other stakeholders like the centers for Disease Control in congress and the administration. What are your thoughts on rent headlines about the spike . In covid cases . Wall street journal describ it as everywhere. It is very concerning and it is something that we knew there would be the likelihood can happen as we move into the fall months but you kw, as everyone knows we are seen levels of infecon weve not seen before in this country and when you look at whatappened on the east coast back in t spring and how quickly we got to the situations where we almost went over t capacity of the hospitals and now is across the nation and its concerning. For that reason, we cant let ourselves get to a poi where you dont h
Host we are back with marcus. What does your organization do . Guest we are a professional organization who represents the anderships of state Territorial Public Health departments across the state. United states. Guest in every state the public of department has a commissioner Health Official and they are main constituents. ,hey have Leadership Teams running things on a daytoday basis. What would be your role or what has been your role during this pandemic . Guest states have been very involved in this pandemic. They have been the frontline and so the organization of been working for has been working closely with them while researching issues for them and also one communicating also on communicating with others. What are your thoughts on recent headlines about the spike in covid cases . The wall street journal described it as everywhere. Guest it is very concerning. Its something we knew that the likelihood could happen. Knows we are seeing levels of infection we have not seen before
U. S. Economy unprecedented move secretary of state pompeo in israel, making a controversial visit to settlements in the occupied west bank these are impressive times. Reporter r. Plus, how the new work from home culture is pressing many people to take a permanent vacation. Announcer live from nbc global heads, the fact, the news with shepard smith. Good evening. The coquid predictions are all coming true, more people are sick, hospitalized and dying than ever before 252,290 americans killed like 849 11s, double the american death toll in the first world war. Doctors and scientists warn that every day ahead will likely be morse. More of everything will shut down, bringing business failures, jobs lost, and no relief from congress in the works. Our lives will be up ended in ways we can foresee and in others we cannot yet imagine says one Missouri Health director you will meet live tonight, we can keep up. Its an uncontrolled spread. Warnings and more warnings what else can we try amber e