We welcome you to this primetime edition of the washington journal. With the senate back in session today, we will talk to a leading vaccine expert from newton, massachusetts. Later, we will examine some of the new side effects from this virus. We hope you join in on the conversation. Our phone lines are open. If you live in the eastern or central time zone. For those of you out west if you are a medical professional, we would love to hear from you. Good monday evening. Thank you for being with us. Lookgin as we always do, at the numbers from Johns Hopkins university. Now around the world, the number of coronavirus cases approaching 3. 6 million in 187 countries and regions. The death toll has exceeded 251,000 around the globe. Joining us from massachusetts is dr. Mark poznansky, director of the vaccine and Immunotherapy Center at mass general hospital. I want to begin with the headline today from the new york times. As states moved to reopen, at least one model predicting the u. S. De
With the senate back in session today, we will talk to a leading vaccine expert from newton, massachusetts. Later, we will examine some of the new side effects from this virus. We hope you join in on the conversation. Our phone lines are open. If you live in the eastern or central time zone. 202 7488000. For those out west, 202 7488001. If you are a medical professional, we would love to hear from you. 202 7488002. Good monday evening. Thank you for being with us. We begin as we always do, look at the numbers from Johns Hopkins university. Now around the world, the number of coronavirus cases approaching 3. 6 million in 187 countries and regions. The death toll has exceeded 251,000 around the globe. Joining us from massachusetts is dr. Mark poznansky, director of the vaccine and Immunotherapy Center at mass general hospital. I want to begin with the headline today from the new york times. As states moved to reopen, at least one model predicting the u. S. Death rate could double. As you
We create second down d 260,000 month. And there is the idea of a recession looming around the corner most of the big picture data points tend to be small. The Labor Department and payroll report this one tends to linger, painting the whole market in whatever light that report is and in this case, of course, its a positive light. These matter why . Because we head into next week its going to affect all of our game plan. On wednesday the Federal Reserve will reveal the next move when chairman Jerome Powell holds his press conference and after the fabulous numbers we got today, i dont know im worried. Im worried he can turn hawkish like did he late last year he took a wrecking ball to the economy. Colin powell, a wild card. Even though we have great job growth, there is not much inflation. That will be a Huge Positive if you take more hawkish tone, well, you no he what look out below and hes capable of that sometimes i think he just cant lose the old model the other big nine earnings eve
When the buyers shares about guyer that tells you the market approves of the deal one of the main reasons why all three major averages had record closes today dow gaining 191, s p jumping 0. 57 and nasdaq 0. 23 you have to wonder why they took so long. Eliminating commissions on trading, well, theyre going to make it on credit balances that forced the rest of the industry to follow suit. Because the others made a lot of money from commissions their stocks were clocked. But Charles Schwab took advantage swooping in to buy Td Ameritrade for 26 billion and now they have 5 trillion under their belts. House of pleasure i remember goldman debated it schwab is less than 20 billion from you and gaining on you. Very to wonder if schwab at this point has a Better Business model for the future particularly for millennials unless the apple credit card turns out to be huge goldman has catching up to do and could double its assets and still not come close to the new schwab a lot critics worried abou
Its my honor to introduce our next speaker, colonel francis oconnor, m. D. , whos the professor and chair of military and emergency medicine. If you never been there actually worth a visit here francis took me around and its really a great place where we have training, medical training for those are going to be serving in our country and providing service to the men and women who serve in a country. Hes also a leading voice for exertional illness, sickle cell trait. Hes leading a major study and internist and really sicklecell trait even better and he certainly has been a mentor and a friend to john and me and others at the ncaa and trying to guide us to go in the right direction. So thank you for coming here today. Well, thank you. Its an absolute honor to be here to honor derek sheely. As a father of three sons im still shaken. Ms. Sheely, listening to your words and your passion, i will not forget. I will not forget. Im going to be moving away from cardiac and we will talk about som