Biden: I will ask all Americans to wear a mask for the first 100 days

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🗓️ 4 December 2020

⏱️ 54 minutes

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President-elect Joe Biden said he’ll ask all Americans to wear a mask the first 100 days after he takes office and thinks the country will see “a significant reduction.” Biden also revealed he asked Dr. Anthony Fauci to be a chief medical adviser and part of his Covid-19 response team. The U.S. recently reported its highest one-day Covid-19 death tally with more than 2,800. There’s also at least 100,600 people hospitalized with the virus, a new high since the pandemic began. Dr. Leana Wen is an emergency room physician and the former Baltimore Health Commissioner. She explains to Anderson Cooper why she’s urging Americans to cancel their Christmas and holiday celebrations now. Plus, two legendary journalists Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, whose reporting on the Watergate scandal helped lead to former Pres. Richard Nixon resigning, join AC360 to discuss the similarities and differences between Pres. Trump and Nixon. Airdate: December 3, 2020 Guests: Dr. Leana Wen Carl Bernstein Bob Woodward To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Good evening. Reality versus unreality again dominates the program tonight.
0:05.6	First, the reality. We are now weeks or even days away from vaccinating people against
0:09.7	coronavirus, depending how quickly the approval process moves. Yet we are also now just entering
0:15.1	the darkest moment of the pandemic. In fact, we are not even fully in it. Things will get
0:20.7	worse, according to the director of the CDC. The numbers, apparently, aren't yet showing
0:25.0	the full impact of Thanksgiving travel and holiday gatherings. Yet already, the daily
0:29.1	death toll is stunning. Right now, the single day count stands at 2,642. And that number,
0:35.6	as you know, won't be final until the overnight hours. Last night's 24-hour total was a record,
0:41.2	3,157. In case of today, top of the 14 million mark, it's taken just six days to add the
0:47.9	latest million, yet another record day for people hospitalized for COVID, more than 100,000.
0:53.4	And with ICU beds running short in this, in his state, California's governor today
0:58.3	announced stay-at-home orders for heart-hit areas when ICU capacity drops to 15%.
1:05.6	The bottom line is if we don't act now, our hospital system will be overwhelmed. We don't
1:11.2	act now. We'll continue to see a death rate climb. More lives lost today. We are now
1:17.8	seeing and introducing a regional stay-at-home order in the state of California.
1:24.6	This is not just California Delaware announced stay-at-home orders running from December 14th
1:28.8	through January 11th. In other words, the holidays, Arkansas recorded its highest case count
1:34.2	of the pandemic, record as well in Massachusetts. In Michigan, cases are running at five times
1:39.1	what they were at the start of October. More than 10,000 new cases today in Florida. Again,
1:44.3	vaccines are coming, but the surge is already here. That is reality. It's what Democratic
1:49.4	and Republican governors are all now dealing with. It's what the incoming President and
1:52.6	Vice President say is their top priority. Speaking with CNHJ Tapper for a conversation that's
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