purnell, thank you so much. and again, i'm so sorry for the loss of your father. you're going through something professionally, that is something demanding so much of your colleagues and suffering a personal loss as well. thank you so much for coming on. >> thank you. thrjs daily number of new infections is starting to tick up again, just as we're weeks away from flu season and colder temperatures sending people indoors. and more than half the country is experiencing a new rise in cases. >> reporter: we've looked at this map over and over again and we've seen better times. that's not now. 30 states see their numbers rising over the previous week. some are holding steady. only a half dozen are watching it decline. this is a terrible sign. and if you look specifically at the infection rate in individual places out there, what you'll see is it's very high on a day-to-day basis. between 41 and 42,000 new cases every single day. up 19% from last week. again, a terrible, terrible trend we do not want to see in any of this. and look where it is rising. across the west an

purnell, thank you very much for coming on this morning. >> good morning, jim.re. >> first, if i can, let's talk more about your personal experience of this. >> sure. >> you lost your father, sadly, who you described as a survivor and he overcame so much and your cy sister though she'sry cover rec from this, a long hauler, because for a lot of people this doesn't disappear in a day. tell us how that experience helped drive you to do your part in these trials. >> sure. it's been surreal, right? i've always been a woman driven by a sense of purpose and ultimately that's why i became a public health physician and then to see my family, you know, so devastated and disproportionately impacted. i lost my father to this pandemic, and i have a sister, as you mentioned who is a breast cancer survivor who is a long hauler. so it's given me a sense of fire in my belly to be a part of the solution. its given me a deep and abiding resolve to help communities that are vulnerable and marginalized because we've borne this on our backs, right? black and brown communities, we've

purnell, it's good to see you again. look at what we're seeing here, this changing in the guidance.ction to

nath, you have done a lot and you've done it all in our rural areas and in purnell and we are very, very grateful to have you here. welcome, mr. nath. and then our second witness is mr. jeremy ketelsen. mr. ketelsen is the vice president of ketelsen rv located in hiawatha, iowa. ketelsen rv began as a small rv business on the family farm in 1962 when mr. ketelsen ends when father wanted a camper. the business opened a storefront in mary and i am and later a service department, parts department and eventually a sales department and mr. ketelsen we're really happy to have you here. it was great to chat with you and mr. nath this morning you can really interested to hear kind of how you hang in there with the pandemic and the derecho affects a welcome come mr. ketelsen. then our third witnesses mr. rembert. mr. rembert is regional economist and head of the rural innovation network, or at the center on rural innovation in heartland vermont turkey started in this line of work when his hometown of wilmington ohio, i know we have another ojai went with us today as well come faced the loss of 10