It's Monday March 15th, I'm Gideon Reznik, and I'm Erin Ryan filling in for Akila Hughes.

And this is what a day where we really think we should have had a shot at the best spoken

word album Grammy. Hard to deny that we are both speaking words and doing a pretty good job.

On today's show, the Governor Cuomo Saga continues to get worse than some headlines.

But first, the latest. Even though the decline was steep, we absolutely need to avoid the

urge to say, Oh, everything is going great, which it is going in the right direction.

But once you declare victory, you know, that metaphor that people say, if you're going for a

touchdown, don't spike the ball on the five yard line, wait until you get into the end zone.

Well, you know, there are some circumstances where you might want to spike it at the five yard

line, but that's a clock management issue that I don't need to debate with Anthony.

That was Dr. Fauci on Meet the Press yesterday with a familiar message for Americans.

Don't stop while you're ahead. We'll know that the pandemic is over when we don't hear his

updates all the time. But in all seriousness, let's talk about where things stand right now.

Yeah, I would love for you at some point to debate him on clock management at the end of the

public. I think that's like the one thing that Dr. Fauci knows less about than me is like

football clock management. That's or the one thing that I know more about than him, maybe.

We'll have to see. Yeah, so on that front, right, it is a bit of a strange situation because he and

others have been talking about this kind of plateauing in cases for a while in the US.

We dropped like crazy from the worst part of our hellish winter. And if you look at the seven day

moving average now, it's been about 50 to 60,000 a day. That's kind of in the range of last year's

summer peaks. So that in and of itself is down slightly from even a couple of weeks ago, but it's

not on a steep trajectory we saw in January. And we still have over 1500 Americans dying from

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