This means that Donald Trump will be the 45th president of the United States.

This is your life now. This is our election now. This is us. This is our country.

It's real. Hi and welcome to the 45th Robia here I'm here with my colleague and co-host

Susan. Hey Susan. Hey Robin how you doing I'm good I hear you are completely isolating yourself from world and US news.

And hopefully COVID. And hopefully COVID.

And that's the most important aspect of it.

Well, it's okay. I'm also excited for next week when hopefully we'll actually have a live recording together, potentially.

Right, I am going to be, yeah, we're going to have to figure that out. We'll be talking through masks distance from each other, but we might be able to be in the same space at least.

We'll figure it out. Yeah, I'll be traveling to join you to do some work on what we do for undisclosed,

so I'm looking forward to that. It's the first time I'll be on a plane since March I guess.

Godspeed. Yeah, thanks. All right so let's get down to it.

Top of the show COVID where we are right now. It's not looking great. We are at about

7.8 million positive cases, 216,169 counted deaths.

Yesterday, he hit a daily case rate of,

daily case rate of over 51,000 positive cases in the country, which is the highest number that we've hit in over two months.

Hospitalizations are up.

Right now, the US has 36,000 COVID patients who are currently hospitalized and 36 states have seen an over 10% rise in just the past week.

Now it's not just us. I looked at the Jan Hopkins their global chart. For the last three months, like the global cases have been slowly, slowly, but surely trending upwards. I don't know.

So I guess the question is why? I don't know why. Well, I mean, I think there's a number reasons why I think number one, obviously a lot of places reopened, right? We had the temporary lockdowns in some places a lot of places reopen school

started interestingly enough the CDC director Redford said had a call with governors this

week and he says that cases are trending up because

of small gatherings that people are being more careful outside there's more there's

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