that's what we're going to be looking out for once this presidential funeral wraps up going into next weekend. >> appreciate it. thanks. the news continues. want to hand it over to chris for cuomo prime time. i am chris cuomo. welcome to prime time. deep denial. now we made ourselves sick. that is the story of america and the pandemic. and we are writing another dark chapter right now. all 50 states and washington, d.c., all of us are reporting rises in new covid cases from a week ago. that's the first time it's happened since january, all 50 of us. 38 of them are seeing at least a 58% increase. hospitalizations way up, deaths up. why? two reasons. one, the obvious. we're out, we're in contact. we knew this would happen. the second one we have to focus on, the real problem. the hope was the vaccine would even the stakes.