Good morning. I'm James Holman from the Washington Post and this is the Daily

202 for Monday, October 12. In today's news, Amy Coney Barrett will promise to be a justice in the mold of Antonin Scalia as her confirmation hearing kicks off.

President Trump promised to bring China to heal.

His foreign policy failures have made us less safe and two

Stanford professors win the Nobel Prize in economics but first the big idea.

In the past seven days, nearly 300,000 Americans tested positive for the coronavirus and 4,500 of our fellow Americans died.

Many of them did not have access to the world-class medical care that President Trump did.

13 states, most of them in the West the world-class medical care that President Trump did.

13 states, most of them in the West and Midwest,

reported record-setting numbers of new infections

over the last week, including in my home state of Minnesota, where I worry every single day that the contagion could come next for my mom.

The seven-day rolling average for new cases reach new highs in Alaska, Colorado, Indiana,

Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dakota,

and Wisconsin.

Nationwide, the number of new COVID cases being reported each day has been slowly but steadily

climbing since mid-September.

Since February, at least 215,000 Americans are dead, more by far than any other country in the world.

Meanwhile, this president continues to insist that he is not contagious and that he's clean, to use his his word but health experts say that's not certain

Trump tweeted on Sunday that he is now immune to the coronavirus and can't give it

even though the White House has not released any negative test results,

and immunity to the virus remains poorly understood.

Trump's tweet was quickly flagged by Twitter, which said it contained misleading and potentially

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