Pandemic rch record highs with no signs of slowing down. Researchers are now warning the u. S. Death toll may near 540,000 by april. Today we will speak to one of the worlds leading Infectious Disease doctors, paul farmer, the cofound of partne in health. All of these epidemics find their way to exploit social disparities and inequalities and take their greatest harvest among the pr anvulnerab. E qstion ware aski is does that need to be the case . And of course, the answer is, no, it does not. Amy dr. Paul farmer will talk about the pandemic, health care inequality, and his new book fevers, feuds and diamonds ebola and the ravages of history. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the quarantine report. Im amy goodman. The United States has set yet another world record for daily coronavirus cases and hospitalizations and deaths with over 216,000 infections confirmed thursday and more than 2800 deaths. Nearly 101,000 people are hospitalized with covi
Chilly out there this morning were seeing clear skies than yesterday but not Crystal Clear in fact if you look out at our sutro tower v you can see that thin veil of low clouds and fog that is sitting right through Sales Force Tower right across the bay itself so that is going to result in a couple of patchy areas remain counter some low visibility on roadways. Both of the coast along the bay and even towards our inland areas, the Central Valley has our heaviest dose of fog this morning, skies will gradually clear and then it sunshine the rest of the day in fact thats going to make one of our coolest morning. So far one of our warmest afternoons of this forecast right now though were still in the 30s for dublin and livermore each at 38 degrees santa rosa youre at 36 when the at 34 degrees right now napa a cool 36 degrees. So yes get the jacket ready to go as you venture out there over to you robin all right, thank you john were checking in on the traffic and its quite busy in some spot
Holding on to the 30s. Areas like santa rosa nevado petaluma and napa were down there this morning. Now youre back to the mid to upper 40s. Im talking more about what to expect today as well as thanksgiving still to come all right. Thank you john were checking in on the traffic which is looking really got a huge improvement compared to the Early Morning hours were off to the golden gate where we never had any problems are major issues and it looks really good here well get a little bit of fog coming from the north bay but. Across the span refined so 20 minutes novato to the toll plaza were checking on the bay bridge with the traffic is thinning out nicely it was solid about 30 minutes ago, so its breaking up we could see a little more space between the cars, its very quiet heading into San Francisco. So were at 13 minutes for your drive to make it in and slow traffic on the nimitz northbound from to 38 today this after a fatal accident at the davis street overcrossing at 8. 80 back to
From bear market to a new record at the fastest pace since 1991. 193 trading days from low to a record. But the vaccine by both moderna and pfizer are about to create a mountain of medical waste. This is all great news for one company out there, steracycle which disposes of it for hospitals and medical facilities all across the world. The ceo is in full preparation mode. Shes going to explain what theyre doing to get ready for that in a fox business exclusive. And as casino stocks rally on the vaccine news, are they kicking off the party a bit too early . The ceo of circus sports just opened the biggest sportsbook in the nation. How hes actually calm about this. Hes betting his early open will earn him a lot of green. First, weve got team fox business coverage ready to roll. Blake burman live at the white house with the plan now in place to distribute the moderna vaccine. Hillary vaughn is in wilmington, delaware with what president elect joe biden is about to say in a speech about the
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