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Debra Burkes, the White House coronavirus task force coordinator appearing on CBS's Face the Nation Sunday, said she's worried the rate of spread could be similar to what was seen after the Memorial Day holiday in the US but this time with a far higher number of new daily cases, we're entering this post Thanksgiving surge with 34 and 10 times as much disease across the country, and so that's what worries us the most.

We saw what happened post Memorial Day.

Now we're deeply worried about what could happen post Thanksgiving because the number of cases 25,000 versus 180,000 day.

That's where that's why we're deeply concerned.

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Burke's told CBS she hoped to brief President elect Joe Biden on Monday on the latest coronavirus data.

Her comments came before Biden's office on Sunday said he twisted his ankle playing with his dog in Delaware and would see an orthopedist out oven abundance of caution.

Meanwhile, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer on Sunday urged his Republican colleagues to pass a coronavirus relief measure that includes $30 billion in federal funds he says are needed to distribute the Cove in 19 vaccine.

A successful covert rollout will require about $30 billion in federal funds to make sure the vaccine gets into people's arms.

Legislative negotiations over an economic relief package have been stalled in Congress for months, and today we are once again urging leader McConnell to put the Heroes bill on the floor of the Senate.

It has passed the House, and it has the money that's needed to distribute the vaccines.

The U.

S is reporting more than 162,000 new infections on average each day and leads the world in the daily average number of new deaths reported, according to Reuters data.