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The chief administrate officer of mercy hospital, springfield. thank you for being with us. i have been following your twitter updates, the updates you have been giving on the hospital and the patients there. what does your covid unit look like now? >> thank you for having me. i do appreciate it. today as of right now we have 122 covid positive patients in the hospital, about 20 of those are currently in the emergency room waiting for placement in beds upstairs. our plan allowed us to open multiple units based on acuity. we have two units serving icu level patients, one of those is full with 2...

Could prove a problem for the rest of us. but, yes, it is an incredible miracle. you know what? you only need to speak to someone who lived through polio to know what life is like when you don't have a vaccine and you have to sit and watch people get very sick and die. we are so incredibly blessed and lucky we don't have to watch that. >> elizabeth cohen, thank you for all of that. so the u.s. is still seeing just under 12,000 new covid cases a day, just shy of 200 deaths a day at this point in the pandemic. proof of how far much of the country has come, as we just discussed, but in missouri...

With hundreds of thousands of students forced to learn at home, the pandemic put a spotlight on the huge disparities that exist when it comes to accessing the internet.

Governor Gretchen Whitmer has announced a new initiative to expand the rollout of broadband internet around Michigan. The governor's office has released the

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