Were reported in another 1962 lives lost yesterday alone. On moree, no deal yet economic aid from capitol hill. We want you to tell washington how the covid19 Pandemic Impact that has impacted your life. In the central part of the country, 202 7488000. Mountain and pacific, 202 7488001. Medical professionals, 202 7488002. Text at 202 s a 7488003. Us or post your comments on facebook. Com hcspan. Lets begin with Vice President mike pence yesterday at the white house. He and others held a briefing. Here is what he had to say. [video] as we begin this briefing increase insive testing in the last 10 months, with ppe and medical supplies and equipment available to the American People, the medicines and therapeutics and soon the vaccines available, america has never been more prepared to combat this virus than we are today. Our pledge to each and every american looking on today is we will work around the clock to keep it that way and make sure hospitals that are seeing patients coming in on an increasing basis know we will work around the clock to meet that need. You have our continuing pledge and the practice of experience we have had along the way. Host the Vice President yesterday. In delaware, Vice President elect joe biden held his own News Conference yesterday and talked about a lot of different things. Also the coronavirus pandemic. Here is what he had to say. [video] given the death toll now, 200 50,000 americans who lost their lives, you said you would support a nationwide shutdown if science is recommended. Pres. Elect biden everybody asks that question every time i stand here. It was a hypothetical question. The answer was i would follow the science. I am not going to shut down the economy, period. We will shut down the virus. Again, no national shutdown. Shutdown because every region, every area, every community can be different. There is no circumstances i can see that require total national shutdown. I think that would be counterproductive. But there are constraints in which the degree to which businesses cant be open. For example, it is one thing to say you can have in the state for the infection rate is not as high, you can have a gymnasium open. Four hours a day with x number of people. My church, 40 of the people can go into the church. Those are rational decisions. It is calibrating based on the trend. Host president elect biden yesterday. We want you to tell washington how this has impacted your life. Marvin in philadelphia, what has it been like . Caller horrible. I have been depressed. I really dont know whats getting t whats going on. Theres a medicine out there. The state of pennsylvania is about to shut down. Congress and the senate not working together. I dont see no financial help coming about. Twothe backside of that, the parties in the president dont want to sit down with the other president to catch him up. [indiscernible] if the election was illegal or whatever. You are getting two sides of news. Changed youre you daily life because of the pandemic . Caller dealey thing i do is try to protect myself more the only thing i do is try to protect myself more. This is the second time. Hello . Host yes, the second time. Caller this is the second round. It seems like it is worse. Before the government was working together then. Now they really aint working together. I am trying to save money. Hold back a little bit because it dont look like any time of relief is going to come. Unemployment. The or file foro back unemployment, i am not going to be able to get it. I have to live on my savings until at least next year. Host you were let go because of the pandemic . What did you do . Caller i am a construction worker. I am still working, god willing. Im thinking if things get drastic like it did before they shut down everything for six weeks or seven weeks, i have to have money aside to pay my rent. Host marvin in philadelphia. I will share with you the wall street journal this morning. The cdc calls on the nation to avoid holiday travel. Surge is prompting people to limit the people in households. Sending this tweet out this morning. Pfizer is seeking u. S. Emergency use of covid19 shot, starting the process that could bring some doses as early as next month. Dr. Fauci was at the white house yesterday during the briefing. He said help was on the way. Listen to what he had to say. [video] dr. Fauci telling you help is on the way. Which has two aspects to it. That means we need to actually double down on the Public Health measures as we are waiting for that help to come, which will be soon. We will be getting doses to people at the end of december. We are not talking about shutting down the country. We are not talking about locking down. We are talking about intensifying the simple Public Health measures we all talk about. Mask wearing. Distance. Avoiding congregate settings. Doing things outdoors instead of endorse. If we do that, we can hold things off until the vaccine comes. I use the metaphor that the cavalry is on the way. If you are fighting a battle in the cavalry is on the way, you dont stop shooting. Do you keep going into the cavalry gets here and then you might even want to continue fighting. Finally, one other final thing about it. The very impressive efficacy, 94. 5 and 95 of the vaccine should motivate individuals to realize this is something you want to participate in. We will talk to you about it likely here in the future about why it is important as these vaccine doses rollout. You have to do two things. Continue the Public Health measure and get vaccinated with the vaccine when it becomes available. Host dr. Fauci yesterday. Nicholas in spokane, washington. How has this disease impacted your life . Like probably everybody else i lost my job to it. Father passed away a couple of years ago. He had lung cancer. Different things that make people more susceptible to this disease has been on the forefront of my mind. Whereas other people are not as nervous. They want social gatherings. I keep my head on the swivel. I have been majorly concerned with what is going on on an international basis. Rates of tuberculosis were on the decline. Enemy ofd the biggest our health as of now is global poverty. When you consider certain nations do not have the accessibility to sanitation and things like that, it is no wonder why people around the world are in a deficit because of that. Dr. Fauci said it best. The cavalry is on its way but you have to keep shooting. We have been shooting against poverty and things like tuberculosis and certain diseases in the pacific that are affecting minorities around the world. On theefinitely been incline. Takingdefinitely been social distancing seriously. I dont want to be inadvertently affected. Host you lost your job. What did you do . Know, i kind you of looked at the positive. Programd an internship with certain people. Kind of like a little hamster at home, exercising and getting my cardio up so im not susceptible to some stuff. Just the worries, the doubt. Not knowing what is going to happen. Maine. Oe in caller thanks for taking my call. I dont think i ever got on anyway. It is my first time with you. I am retired and like everyone else there is the social problems with not seeing family with the holidays coming. York whenack to new the doctors in new york when the outbreak first came out im not going to blame anyone but the doubters were saying it was was justhoax and he the democrats doing it to get trump. Crying,ctors were pleading with people to listen to them. It is nine months later and 250,000 deaths later and i think the people mostly responsible are the senators and the congressman who have ignored gaetz with his mask on on capitol hill. Do people remember that that . Host this is the world section of the Washington Post. In europe, every 17 seconds someone dies from covid19 according to the world health organization. Baltimore, how are you impacted . Caller i lost my job. I worked in a restaurant. The restaurant has not gotten back to normal yet. They are open a couple of days oa week. I have preexisting conditions. I have a father who is 88. He has not been out of the house since march, the end of march. My brothers and sisters take food to him every wednesday. He does not want anybody in the house. Then it is not bad enough we have this going on, the unrest in washington makes it difficult for people. Conditions. Xisting it certainlyt but has impacted our lives. My wife is a teacher. She is not working. There is some stress on the family. Host do your unappointed benefits run out at the end of this month . Caller yes. Host how much were you getting and how far did that go . Caller 200 a week. Know, we are, you we dont have a lot of money but we are making it. Host jim in grand forks, north dakota. You are next. Caller hi greta. Host what has it been like for you . It made national news, grand forks. It is spiking here and people are worried. I guess it finally reached all the way out to hear. Beginning ofhole the thing it wasnt really a big deal with me. I wear my mask all the time. I work in the mill. But today a lot of schools are closing. They opened but they only made it a few months and they are closing. A lot of the parents, including people i work with cannot afford daycare. They wonder what they are going to do with their kids. Some people may lose their jobs again. The restaurants are open here. Some bars are still open. Met, for the first time, i bumped into people at a local mall who had older people and some people that work there who had the disease. Every one of them said the same thing. For threeachy and bad days, five days, one week, and they all came back. I have not met anybody that died but i le met a lot of people with symptoms of a bad cold. They were young people and old people who walk at the local mall. They came back and are perfectly fine. They are walking again. Sometimes we lose perspective. We have to remember about 3 million americans will die at the end of this year. 2. 9 million died last year. Hundreds of thousands will die of cancer. 75,000 will die on the roads. The automobile has killed hundreds of thousands. We lose thousands to murder, thousands to accident. 220,000 is really in north dakota, 80 are over the age of 82. Oreilly got in trouble for saying this on his podcast but they are people who would probably be dead by the end of this year anyway. It is horrible but it is true. Mark is earliest said aurelius said death is around you and 10,000 forms. In 10,000 forms. Host a headline about the state from the press harold. Air force nurses have been deployed to north dakota to address the hospital staffing crunch. Rocky in englewood, ohio. Caller good morning. Old. 78 years i have been laid up at my house for the last 16 months. Pneumonia andth influenza some 16 to 18 months ago. Andugh the course of time all this deal i have been sitting right here in my little easy chair not doing much of anything but trying to watch all this on tv and listen to what is going on outside when i get some information. Two handicapped individuals in my household with me. One goes the day school and is handicapped. Came home the other day and said they called and said somebody there had it. Here for 14 days fending for ourselves, but we could do what we could do. Strenuousa very, very insulation. Other than that we are getting along. I do believe the stimulus ought to be given to people. It is there money. The lieve that it is it is their money. I believe i would be fortunate to get the shots because i believe i have more life to live. Host congress and the white 11se have until december when they are scheduled to leave around that time, middecember, they are scheduled to leave washington to go back to their home districts and states. They have until then to come up with some sort of deal for economic aid if they will at all. On top of that, they face a spending bill spending deadline to fund the federal government. That is december 11. A lot on their plates in washington. We will talk about that with two members of congress coming up on washington journal. How has covid19 Pandemic Impacted your life . Deborah and chester, arkansas. In chester, arkansas. Has not really been impacted because i live alone in the woods, except for not being able to volunteer at the nursing home. It has impacted everybody around me though. You see the stores. You wonder if they will be able to hang on. Children. Ed about the they keep talking that it doesnt affect the children. S to affect children with weight problems and other health issues. That is all. Host lets listen to deborah birx, dr. Deborah birx encouraging folks to limit indoor gatherings over the upcoming holiday. [video] surgerx we stopped the in the south through targeted mitigation that started with masks and physical distancing, but also include decreasing those friends and family gatherings where people come together and unknowingly spread the virus. I want to thank the mayors dove miami, miami city and miami county. They were the ones that first found how much asymptomatic spread was occurring in household gatherings. As you bring together individuals, remember with the Vice President talked about. Every american needs to be vigilant in this moment because we know when you are we can mitigate this virus and stop the spread together. Host are you being vigilant . We want to know how this is changing your life. Jennifer and plant city, florida. Caller good morning. How are you . Host how have you handled this . Caller i have my mask. I have a sign on my window in my apartment that you have to wear a mask. I was impacted due to coronavirus because my mother passed away in may of this year and i was not able to go to the carolinas due to the coronavirus. My sisters and brothers went but i chose to stay home because of my diabetes. When they say it is safe to travel, i will go see my mothers resting place. I hope everybody stays safe. Listen to what the people in washington say and the doctors because it is critical at their. Two weeks ago i lost a cousin. I thought we would grow old together but i was not able to go to that funeral also. I just want everybody to stay safe and thank you for taking my call. Host i am sorry for your losses. For those of you thinking of traveling for whatever reason, you might want to check out this piece in the New York Times. They have put together statebystate what restrictions the authorities in those states are putting in place. Com, putgo into nytimes. In the state and you will know what you need to do to cross borders. Judy and union city, pennsylvania. Isler the television driving me crazy. They tell that geary, pennsylvania has had almost had, pennsylvania has county,n crawford noren and chautauqua one has ever gotten over it. I know it is a bad thing but they should tell the truth about people who have covid. When i tried to find out i called the governor, i senators, congressman, i even called the Health Department and no one can tell me why. We news channels keep saying have had no one get better in any of these areas. Could somebody in this world give me an answer . Host ok, judy. I would say check with your local officials on that. Jerry in colorado, springs. What is it like out there . Caller it is pretty mellow actually. Everything masks and seems to be going pretty well. Although they had 600 more people yesterday that had it. Days. Aths in the last two but alleen kind of mild this not knowing what is going to happen next and people anding the masks sometimes being cavalier about not wearing it. You run into those people. For the most part Colorado Springs has been pretty lucky. We have not seen that. I keep a watch on my friends and they watch me and i stay home as much as possible and where my. Ask wear my mask older and i have a medical condition. I wear my mask and take care of myself. I drive a school bus. We are out right now until after thanksgiving break. We are supposed to be going back. I am worried about that because kids are good carriers of anything. The flu is coming around the corner as well. Colorado springs is kind of lowkey for this, knock on wood. Host as a bus driver i want to show you and others with dr. Robert redfield said yesterday about what he believes is the importance of keeping schools open and having kids go into the buildings. Should dr. Redfield we be making datadriven decisions while we talk about what we are doing for institutions or commercial closures. For example, as was mentioned, the cdc did not recommend School Closures last spring. Nor did we recommend closures today. I will say back in the spring it was limited data. Today there is extensive data that we have we have gathered over the last two to three months that confirm k12 schools can operate with face to face learning and they can do it safely and they can do it responsibly. The infections we have identified in schools when they have been evaluated were not acquired in schools. They were actually acquired in the community and the household. Today our big threat for transmission is not the public square. It is small family gatherings. Family gatherings were people become more comfortable. They remove their face masks when they get together. It is a silent epidemic that begins to transmit. It is not interschool transmission. The kids k12, one of the safest places they can be from our perspective is to remain in school. Host michael and danville, illinois. In danville, illinois. How has this impacted your life . Caller very little. If you took the virus away and it never existed, i still took precautions. I did not go lay down in the middle of the interstate. I did not drive it 100 mile per hour. I took care of my health. I am a retired high school teacher, 65 years old. The more concerned about condition of our country, especially of our government. And democrats who have this concept we have to have a texas deathmatch, winner take all. The fact there is no compromise scares me more than the virus because i do take the precautions you are to take. I respect my health but i also respect the health of others. And i guess that is about it. Host rusty from bel air, maryland, sends us this text. We are trying to help our sons who opened the business. We send the money to help them. Frustrating to see senator mcconnell posturing but not helping. Here is another from alan in huntington. I decided to forgo looking for a semi retirement job. I dont think it is worth the risk. I have a pension that provides adequate income. I have become disillusioned with the significant percentage of my fellow americans. So many seem selfish, ignorant, shortsighted, and easily gaslight. Lauren in baltimore, what do you do . Caller i am a nurse. Host are you helping Covid Patients . Caller sometimes. I work in labor and delivery. Pregnant people get covid. We are taking care of Co