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The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer and Pamela Brown

U.S. Coronavirus Death Toll Tops 283,000 and 14.8 Million Cases

The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer and Pamela Brown

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3.2865 Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2020

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

The United States' coronavirus death toll tops 283,000 and 14.8 million cases. On average, more than 2,200 Americans are dying daily from covid. The United States sees one million new cases of coronavirus in the first five days of December. The Pfizer vaccine could be available this week after a FDA meeting. CNN reports that the first vaccine shipments will fall short of what 27 states need to vaccinate frontline healthcare workers and the elderly. Fauci says that even once someone is vaccinated, that they still may spread the virus.  Fauci says that the United States hasn't seen the "full brunt" of Thanksgiving surge and says that, "the middle of January could be a really dark time for us." United States President-elect Joe Biden announces health team including HHS secretary, CDC director and Fauci was announced as the chief adviser on covid-19. Biden says that he plans to name the attorney general this week and he also plans to name the defense secretary on Friday.  Millions of people are under a stay at home order in California as hospitalizations hit 10,000. New York City may close its indoor dining if hospitalizations rates don't stabilize.  CNN reports that the house conservatives are urging Trump not to concede and press for a floor fight over election loss.  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

This is CNN breaking news.

0:07.0

Welcome to our viewers here in the United States and around the world.

0:09.6

I'm Will Flitzer in the situation room.

0:11.8

We're following breaking news. The US

0:13.4

coronavirus death toll now topping 283,000 people as the country closes in on

0:19.7

15 million confirmed cases.

0:23.1

And on this Pearl Harbor anniversary,

0:25.2

COVID-19 is killing almost as many Americans

0:28.2

on average every day as did the attack

0:31.0

which left 2,400 people dead. Health officials are extremely

0:35.0

worried about the coming weeks. Dr. Anthony Fauchy warning that we still

0:39.2

haven't seen the full brunt of the Thanksgiving surge adding and I'm quoting him now the middle of

0:44.8

January could be a really dark time for us meanwhile all eyes will be on the

0:49.6

FDA meeting this Thursday which is expected to clear the way for the Pfizer vaccine

0:55.1

to be distributed immediately. We're also following the presidential

0:59.6

transition President-elect Biden announcing key members of the team that will fight the pandemic

1:05.2

including Dr. Fauchy, who will be a chief medical advisor to the president.

1:10.8

For more on the breaking pandemic news, let's go to see there's Lucy

1:13.5

Kavanaugh in Denver for us Lucy an average what 2200 Americans are dying daily

1:18.8

from COVID. That's right Wolf and just to put that number in context more Americans could potentially

1:26.6

die of COVID-19 today than the total number killed at the Pearl Harbor attack

1:31.6

nearly 80 years ago.

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