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The Fox News Rundown

Despite More Covid Hope, Many Schools Remain Closed

The Fox News Rundown

FOX News Podcasts

Politics, Daily News, News

3.41.7K Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2021

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Some good news. Every day the past two weeks there have been fewer than 100,000 Covid cases in the U.S. If you combine this past week, it still doesn't add up to the one-day record of the 300,000 new infections reported. There is also hope there will be enough vaccine doses for every American by July. So, despite all this encouraging news, why are so many kids still learning form home? Dr. Janette Nesheiwat, a board-certified medical doctor and FOX News Contributor, discusses where we are with vaccine distributions, why kids should return to the classroom despite concerns of other strains and why we're seeing such a mild flu season. President Biden this week during a town hall in Milwaukee distanced himself from White House press secretary Jen Psaki's comments that the administration's goal for its first 100 days was to have more than 50% of schools open at least one day per week. The comment was met with criticism leading to the President calling it a "miscommunication." Meanwhile, Vice President Kamala Harris dodged questions during a Today Show interview when pressed on the CDC's guidelines that it's safe for teachers to return to school without a vaccination. FOX News Sunday host Chris Wallace weighs in on the media's focus on the Biden administration now that impeachment is over. He also discusses former President Trump breaking his post-election silence to talk about the late-conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh and the Lincoln Project chaos. Don't miss the good news with Tonya J. Powers. Plus, commentary by FOX Nation host Tom Shillue. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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I'm Shannon Brem and this is the Fox News rundown.

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Friday, February 19th, 2021. I'm Dave Anthony. It's a positive trend lately. Fewer Americans testing positive for COVID.

0:34.5

Hopefully it stays like that because we still have those variants that are out there, the UK

0:39.0

variant and the South African variant that could be a problem in during spring break.

0:43.2

I'm Lisa Brady. The new president and his team hit some turbulence over COVID

0:48.7

messaging. People are going to judge this on on the of their lives, not whether there was some

0:55.8

contradiction between what the president and his press secretary said.

0:59.7

Plus the former president speaks and cancel culture, the Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace

1:04.8

and I'm Tom Shaloo I've got the final word on the Fox News rundown.

1:11.0

We've seen this trend before when the coronavirus seemed to be on the decline late summer

1:19.3

and then as we were warned came a big spike in the fall and early winter that we hope peaked last month.

1:27.3

COVID-19 cases have now been declining for five weeks.

1:31.2

CDC Director Dr Rochelle Wollensky, nearly every day the past two weeks, there have

1:36.4

been fewer than 100,000 new cases in the U.S.

1:39.8

And if you combine this past Sunday, Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, still doesn't add up to the

1:45.8

one day record on the Johns Hopkins tracker of 300,000 new infections reported back on January 2nd.

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