"We Are On Fire" Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear

Middletown CT

26 August, 2021

3:24 PM

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This week hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear (D), on the dire situation in the Commonwealth as the delta-driven pandemic pushes the state's hospitals to 'disaster' mode. He laments the recent State Supreme Court decision limiting his executive order powers to initiate universal masking for all Kentucky children returning to day care and school, calling requiring masks 'the right thing to do' for vulnerable kids. He also discusses efforts to battle the crisis with assistance from the National Guard and FEMA to address hospitals at the breaking point, with this much more contagious variant leading to the highest death rates since the pandemic began, driven predominantly by unvaccinated people and impacting more young victims.