Welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. On his second day in office, President Biden has declared the economic crisis in the United States is deepening. He says he will take action to help families struggling to afford food because of lost income due to the pandemic. Mr biden wants to go much further hes calling on congress to authorise a 1. 9 trillion relief package. He says the time to act boldly is now. I dont believe the people of this country just want to stand by and watch their friends, their neighbours, co workers, fellow americans go hungry, lose their homes or lose their sense of dignity and hope and respect. I dont believe that. Especially in the middle of a pandemic thats so weakened and wreaked so much havoc and caused so much pain on america. Thats not who we are. The bottom line is this. Were in a national emergency. We need to act like were in a national emergency. So weve got to move with everything weve got, and weve got to do it together. I don
Welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. On his second day in office, President Biden has declared the economic crisis in the United States is deepening. He says he will take action to help families struggling to afford food because of lost income due to the pandemic. Mr biden wants to go much further. Hes calling on congress to authorise a 1. 9 trillion relief package. He says the time to act boldly is now. I dont believe the people of this country just want to stand by and watch their friends, their neighbours, co workers, fellow americans go hungry, lose their homes or lose their sense of dignity and hope and respect. I dont believe that. Especially in the middle of a pandemic thats so weakened and wreaked so much havoc and caused so much pain on america. Thats not who we are. The bottom line is this. Were in a national emergency. We need to act like were in a national emergency. So weve got to move with everything weve got, and weve got to do it together. I do
This is bbc news. Im freya cole. Our top stories President Biden warns that the us economic crisis is deepening, as he introduces his 2 trillion relief plan. Articles of impeachment against donald trump will be delivered to the senate on monday. His trial begins early next month. New Research Suggests the uk variant of covid 19 may be more deadly than the original virus. And one of the all time greats of us baseball, hank aaron, dies at the age of 86. Welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. On his second day in office, President Biden has declared the economic crisis in the United States is deepening. He says he will take action to help families struggling to afford food because of lost income due to the pandemic. Mr biden wants to go much further. Hes calling on congress to authorize a 1. 9 trillion relief package. He says the time to act boldly is now. I dont believe the people of this country just want to stand by and watch their friends, their neighbours, co
Garage at talladega was not a hate crime. Welcome to our viewers in the United States and around the world. This is early start. Im Laura Jarrett. Christine romans has the morning off. We begin with the u. S. Entearing critical phase in the fight to slow coronavirus. There are now 26 states headed in the wrong direction. We say it every morning but this is a count that keeps ticking up daybyday including new case records in california and texas. The most populace states in the nation. The governments leading voice on the pandemic dr. Anthony fauci telling a House Committee hes worried about complacency. The curve that americans once flattened is rising sharply again. Were now seeing a disturbing surge of infections that looks like its a combination but one of the things is an increase in community spread. We were going down from 30,000 to 25 to 20 and now we sort of stayed about flat and now going up. A couple of days ago there were 30,000 new infections. The next couple of weeks is cr
Lets take a look at what exactly these folks did. So this study looked at patients in 671 hospitals on six continents. Nearly 15,000 patients in the hospital received hydroxychloroquine or chloroquine or azithromycin, some combination that involved hydroxychloroquine or chloroquine. What they found is that the folks who took these drugs were 33 to 45 more likely to die. And thats after adjusting for all sorts of differences between these patients. They were still 33 to 45 more likely to die. They were also between 2. 4 and 5 times more likely to develop heart arrhythmias. I talked to a doctor about the earlier studies and he felt like it was pretty much like the nail in the coffin, now doctors are telling me this really looks like the nail in the coffin for hydroxychloroquine for hospitalized patients. Thats not the same as taking it preventatively, but there hasnt been any evidence that it works preventatively, either. Okay, and thats a question well ask the doctors, too, an important