When the u. S. Is a laughing stock or the subject of pity around the world. Look at this chart of daily new confirmed coronavirus cases. The European Union along with countries like indonesia, japan, australia, they have all gotten their cases down. Some are at or near zero. And then there is that dark line going right up. That is us, our case are skyrocketing. Our governments response is a failure. We are living in this tragedy, this National Humiliation for all to see. We keep setting records for new cases in a day, five times in the last eight days we have set a new record for cases. And yesterday another record. The u. S. Report being 50,000 new cases in a single day. Only one other country in the world of any size has ever reported more than 50 could you sayes in a day, and that is brazil. The u. S. And brazil, thats it. The first time around back in march when the virus first hit, it was bad, and both the Trump Administration primarily and some local leaders reacted poorly. But it was also the case that so many other countries were getting hit hard, too. Italy was one of the worsthit countries with the virus just overwhelming hospitals. It looked like the situation was completely out of control there. They imposed a National Lockdown for over two months. Italy has come out on the other side, at least for now, with less than 200 new cases a day. They did what they had to do and now life is getting back to some semblance of normal. Kind of life before the pandemic. Go its not just italy. We are seeing scenes of societies emerging from the pandemic all over the world. In denmark, High School Students just celebrated the end of school. And not virtual school. They had physically been in classes in person. They have the amusement parks open there as well, which this girl appears to be quite happy about. In ireland they have bars back open along with some movie theaters, museums and all sorts of other things. New zealand where they have almost zero cases, theyre back to playing rugby. In japan, the malls of tokyo are open and the streets are as crowded as the streets of new york city once were. The only difference being that everyone is wearing masks. In the czech republic, they just had a huge party in prague to celebrate the easing of coronaviruss restrictions. A Massive Public dinner on the charles bridge with no social distancing required. Things are going more easy now i think about covid19, and so just just to enjoy life. Just enjoy life. Weve gotten rid of covid. Sure looks nice. For some perspective, consider this. Florida Just Announced 10,000 cases in a single day. By contrast, as Writer Matt Obrien pointed out, with a combined population of 2. 6 billion people, china, japan, korea, vietnam, thailand, malaysia, indonesia, the philippines, australia and the entire European Union are averaging 6,670 new cases a day. Less than florida. All those countries, the population of 2. 6 billion people collectively, they have fewer cases than just florida, and that is just one state. In alabama the number of patients being treated for coronavirus surged past 800 for the First Time Ever today, marking the fourth straight day they have set record highs for hospitalizations. In texas, they hit another recordbreaking day for cases and hospitalizations. The governor just finally issued a statewide mask ordinance requiring most people to wear masks in public after long resisting that kind of policy. In california, the number of people hospitalized with the coronavirus has jumped 56 in the last two weeks. We are on an island here in the United States. No other country is struggling with the virus like we are in the way we are at this point in the arc of it. It is a global failure, as the Biden Campaign points out in this new ad. You are going to be so proud of your country. Were going to win so much. You may even get tired of winning. And youll say, please, please, its too much winning. We cant take it any more. Mr. President , its too much, and ill say, no it isnt. We have to keep winning. We have to win more. Were going to win more. The president has this metaphor he likes to use. Its something someone must have said to him in some meeting and it got buried in the brain. Its to talk about the virus like a dying fire. Quote, we may have some embers or ashes or may have some flames coming, but well put them out, well stomp them out. Its not a wrong metaphor. Its a good one. Its the idea you can suppress the virus enough and you can get red of the embers. Thats what other countries have done. They have suppressed it enough, they have firefighters extinguishing each ember as it appears and stopping the country from catching fire. Stopping the virus from spreading. But that is not us, no. We are way past the ember state. The country is on fire. It is in flames. We cannot stomp it out. And the rest of the world is looking on in horror. Joining me now, Laurie Garrett, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist. Followed the pandemic from the beginning across the world. Is it fair for someone who has been reporting on it from its first appearance in wuhan, Hubei Province in china, to say it is a global disaster than any other country . This is a National Humiliation in terms of the rest of the world. Chris, the one that blows my mind is canada. A new survey of Public Opinion in canada finds that only the highest percentage of canadians willing to allow americans to come to canada right now is 24 of quebec. In british columbia, only 6 of the citizens would allow americans to come across the border as long as this covid situation is out of control. Canada wants that border kept tight shut. No americans allowed. If you look around the world, the sense of disappointment is so painful to see. I was reading some newspapers in south africa where they were writing, you know, once you were our beacon. You were what we wanted to emulate. We wanted to be america. And now all we can see is total american failure. We cannot believe it. You see us like this in every single language around the world, in newspapers, in magazines, in broadcasting. Its just a sense of oh, my gosh, how did america fail this deeply . How could this be . The leader of science, the leader of democracy, the leader of the free world, and the number one economy, and its the number one complete failure when it comes to this pandemic. Its astonishing. And then we add salt to the wound when we say to the rest of the world, oh, by the way, were not going to play nice in the sand box, either, because were going to turn around and buy the entire supply of gilead remdesivir, the only drug out there thats been recently shown to be effective in reducing the length of time of illness other than dexamethasone, and were going to buy it all up so the rest of the world cant get any. And to the rest of the world, this is viewed as, once again, america saying, its us versus all of you. We do what we want. Were going to take the vaccine first. Were going to take the drugs first. To heck with the rest of you. In identifying the difference, i mean, it seems to me the sort of most clearcut problem when you look at us and other countries that had that outbreak, theres a whole category of countries that sort of avoided terrible outbreaks to begin with, which is great. Thats what you want to do. Right. But there are countries that had really bad outbreaks, thats italy and thats spain, and france. It seems to me the key difference is those countries kept things locked down long enough to get down to a possible suppression level to then do the kind of putting out the embers strategy that we never did. Like we never really actually got it under control in a way that would allow that, and so when we opened back up, it was inevitable we would have this. We didnt get it under control in the way that youre describing nationally, but new york, new jersey, connecticut, key states northeast did. And made the proper sacrifices and got their epidemics under control. I think really, chris, theres two key things. One, its obviously your National Leadership question. But its also that every single european country you named has a National Health system, and that means that they have always centralized data, centralized purchasing, centralized policy, so that it would be easy in paris for macron to turn to his Health Minister and say, what do you think we should do . And the Health Minister puts some tine cysscientists togethe says, boom, heres what we should do for the whole country. Here we have a completely fragmented response. Just today representative andy biggs in arizona called upon the white house to shutdown the Coronavirus Task force and get rid of tony fauci and deborah birx. Meanwhile you had andrew cuomo, weve done a good job, but were not going to let the following states send people our way because they have too much covid. Were acting more like 50 we should include guam and puerto rico and so on. 50plus individual nations than we are like a Single National response. The only, to me the only sort of moon shot here as far as i can tell is like a very fast 100 mask adoption, the data thats accrued the last several months has really suggested in terms of like effectiveness versus cost and hassle. Its the sort of easiest thing we have. You have abbott today issuing a mask order for any county in the state that has over 20 cases, which is the entire state. You have this tweet from the South Carolina governor henry mcmaster. Let me make it clear, wear a mask and social distancing now so we can enjoy high school and College Football which is sort of perverse at one level because there are other things more important than that, but also maybe good for the target audience. I guess my question to you is can we do it short of massive interventions . If everyone masks up and everyone gets on the same page, can we arrest the growth were seeing now . Well, look at it this way. The choice, mask or not to mask, is being described as if it were an economic choice, as if somehow by wearing a mask you are opposing the opening of the economy. And you were asomehow in favor f the lockdown. And if you didnt wear a mask, you were somehow gung ho for the economy. They said we could save 5 of our gdp loss. Enormous, trillions of dollars to the u. S. Economy, and that means a lot of jobs if every single person, when they left their home, was wearing a mask at all times. Thats a very simple intervention. Its cheap. Anybody can do it. It requires no skills whatsoever. Just put the mask on so that it covers your nose and your mouth and youre set to go. Lets do it america. All right, Laurie Garrett, its great to talk to you ton this topic. Thank you for making time for us tonight. Have a great 4th of july holiday. And to all our viewers, i hope you will be safe, happy with your family, no covid, happy independence day. Stay safe. For more on what things look like at heart in texas, im joined now by our friend dr. Peter hotez, dean of the school of tropical medicine at Baylor School of medicine. Weve been talking to you the very first moments of the pandemic, the first confirmed cases. Youve been talking to us from texas. It is now in your backyard right now. How are things in texas right now . Its been in our backyard for a while, chris. Were seeing this dramatic and steep acceleration. Its very worrisome, especially in the metro areas. San antonio, houston, austin, dallas. The numbers have a vertical rise, and its also accompanied by a serious increase in hospitalizations and intensive care unit admissions. So we are in a dire Public Health situation, and now we have some new modelling estimates coming out of the university of pennsylvania that show as bad as this is, the numbers could double in houston and other texas cities within two weeks in the middle of july, and possibly double again by the end of july. So this is, as i say, a dire situation. Unfortunately, its not just happening in texas. This is happening in arizona and florida. Its starting in georgia. This is this massive resurgence across the south, and dr. Fauci now has projected we could reach 100,000 cases per day, double what were at now. If you extrapolate times the population of texas, arizona and florida, were already about there. So weve already reached his apocalyptic predictions. So clearly this is not working. We need a new strategy. And ultimately, we now realize there has not been any National Road map or strategy, and now ive been calling for it urgently to make it happen. We why just showing some footage inside houston methodist hospital. Weve been getting reports inside hospitals in Harris County around houston and bear county as well. Its almost a familiar genre of b roll. It is doctors in i. C. U. Units in p. P. E. Overwhelmed. Weve seen this footage in lombardi. Weve seen it in spain. Weve seen it in new york. We are seeing it in texas now. The big question always is does the Health Care System have capacity . Is there reason to think that because of surge capacity, because the rise here might be maybe slower than new york because of the testing capacity, that this can be accommodated in texas . Well, you know, here in our Texas Medical Center in houston which is the Worlds Largest with 60 institutions, 100,000 employees, we still have a little bit of room. We still have some room, and we are doing better at i. C. U. Care because of all the new interventions. We have a clotting therapy, the plasma convalescent treatments, the dexamethasone, the remdesivir. So we are getting patients out of the i. C. U. But eventually if those numbers continue to climb as they are, by july we will be in trouble. The issue is this. Weve got to stop community transmission. And the question is whether the measures that had been taken on so far are going to be adequate or do we have to go to the next level. And were going to have to be asking this question all over the United States because were in the same situation in arizona, florida, and its not going to stay in the south. The numbers will start to rise precipitously again until there is a coherent National Strategy for conducting these interventions with daily messaging. And hopefully with a greater involvement from the cdc that can take the lead rather than the White House Task force that has mainly their strategy has been let the states lead and well provide fema support, p. P. E. And supply Chain Management and other manufacturing and other measures. That strategy is clearly a failure. And Laurie Garrett kind of pointed that out as well. Without a unified strategy, just this fragments system, its failed us miserably. This is the largest Public Health collapse in the history of the nation. Final question. When you talk about other interventions asking that question, what do you mean by that . Do you mean places like metropolitan areas going back to shelterinplace, closing most businesses, Something Like that . Thats right. Thats right. We may have we may have to go there at least to get this back under control because when youve got that massive surge, that vertical slope, clearly the intervention today that the governor has demanded a full mask wearing by the entire population, whether its going to be enough or were going to have to go to the next measure, i cant really say. This is why you need a National Strategy because you have the models that you could look at for every metro area. Work with the epidemiologist at the cdc and say, is this enough or do we have to go further . Dr. Peter hotez. As always, thank you, sir, for your time tonight. Thanks so much, chris. All the best. Ahead, the president used the new jobs numbers today as proof the economy is roaring back, but that just is not the case. Theres a lot more to the story. Its not good. Well explore that next. Its pretty inspiring the way families redefined the word school this year. Its why, at xfinity, were committed to helping kids keep learning through the summer. And help College Students studying at home stay connected through our university program. Were providing affordable Internet Access to low income families through our internet essentials program. And this summer, xfinity is creating a Virtual Summer camp for kids at home all on xfinity x1. Were committed to helping all families stay connected. Learn more at xfinity. Com education. The president came out today to do a victory lap on the latest jobs report which at first glance looked pretty good, 4. 8 million new jobs and a low Unemployment Rate. I have to say to my ears as i watched its 15 cases and pretty soon its going to go down for zero, but for the economy. Because, yes, some jobs are snapping back, but that is the easy part. Basically the job gains we saw were people who were furloughed and went back to work. When it comes to permanent job losses, that number went up by almost 600,000. And were still down 15 million jobs from where we were in february, and crucially, this might be the worst part. Todays data was collected before the coronavirus surge in mid june. Theres a lot of reason to be very, very worried about where the economy is headed right now. 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