U.S. surpasses 250,000 Covid-19 deaths

Anderson Cooper 360

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🗓️ 19 November 2020

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Covid-19 has killed more than 250,000 people in the U.S in less than 10 months. The country is currently averaging more than 157,000 cases per day, the highest since the pandemic started. Dr. Leana Wen is the former Baltimore Health Commissioner and an emergency room physician. She joins AC360 to react to this grim milestone and says the end is near with the two promising vaccines but we have to get through the winter first. Plus, the Georgia recount results are expected to show that President-elect Joe Biden did win the state by about 13,000 votes and election officials say the audit hasn’t found any evidence of widespread voter fraud. Stacey Abrams, the former Democratic gubernatorial candidate who lost in 2018, and other grassroots groups helped register new voters and motivate Black turnout ahead of the election. Democrats are hoping those same voters will turnout for the two Georgia runoff races in January that will determine which party will control the U.S. Senate. Atlanta Democratic Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms tells Anderson Cooper it’s not going to be easy and it’ll take everyone coming out to vote in order for Democrats to win the Senate seats. Airdate: November 18, 2020 Guests: Dr. Leana Wen Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms 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.
0:01.0	We start this hour with breaking news that 250,000 people in the United States are now
0:05.1	dead from the coronavirus, a quarter million Americans.
0:09.0	We crossed that threshold that horrible threshold is deaths from the virus arising rapidly.
0:13.6	On Tuesday, the U.S. reported more than 1700 dead, the highest reported deaths in a single
0:18.8	day in this country since May.
0:20.9	I want to show you our grim history of loss 50,000 dead by April, 100,000 by May, 150,000
0:27.9	by July, 200,000 back in September.
0:30.8	A quarter of a million now dead and public health officials cannot speak with the incoming
0:35.9	president of the United States, President Joe Biden.
0:39.1	The only reason they can't speak to him is because the current President's baseless
0:42.4	attempts to prove voter fraud and behind those baseless attempts and lies is probably
0:47.3	anger and shame at losing a desperation to hold onto power, maybe fear of what life
0:52.5	is.
0:59.5	It's what he's doing and he's harming this country and the transition to power.
1:05.8	Just a moment ago, USA Today released an interview with Dr. Anthony Fauci who would also
1:09.9	like to speak with the incoming administration.
1:12.6	Quoting Dr. Fauci, I would wish that we would be able to do that, that would be helpful.
1:16.8	As of this moment, President Trump has said nothing about the quarter million Americans
1:20.7	dead, but of course he hasn't.
1:23.2	By the way, he had nothing on his schedule today, again, nothing.
1:27.3	I imagine most of you had a lot on your schedules today.
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