Incredible Health Helps Hospitals Hire Nurses More Quickly During COVID-19

Dr. Robert Frenck, Infectious Disease Specialist at Cincinnati Children's Hospital joins Cheddar to discuss the latest coronavirus variants.

Futures were lower this morning. Wall Street was trying to make back some losses from the first day of trading in 2021 as investor optimism slows over growing coronavirus cases and the spread of new variants. Investors were also watching the runoff elections in Georgia today and the effort from some Republicans to oppose Biden's electoral college win on Wednesday. John Augustine, CIO at Huntington Private Bank, joined Wake Up With Cheddar for more on the markets.

While vaccines are making Americans more optimistic about the pandemic, the rollout is incredibly slow. According to Bloomberg's vaccine tracker, 6.25 million doses of the coronavirus vaccine have been given to Americans and only 29% of shots distributed to states have been administered. We're one week into 2021 and still well below the Trump administration's goal of administering 20 million doses by the end of last year. Dr. Anthony Fauci saying the U.S. needs a little more time to catch up on vaccinating the country. For more, we spoke to Dr. Eric Dickson, CEO of UMass Memorial Health Care.