Warp speed, the governments plan to distribute a Covid Vaccine to some 300 million americans. Will you be able to bang your fist on the table and say what happened to that shipment that was going to Good Samaritan hospital in baltimore . Yes, and not only that, ill know after it gets there how fast theyre administering the doses that they were given. ticking that may be our shot. Ken burns has made nearly 40 films, finding the american paradox in the wars we fight and the games we play. I told people that baseball was the sequel to the civil war, and i meant it. I meant it. How we play games, and the nature of immigration, and the exclusion of women, and popular culture, and advertising, and heroes, and villains, and our imagination, and race, and race, and race. ticking im lesley stahl. Im bill whitaker. Im anderson cooper. Im scott pelley. Those stories, tonight, on 60 minutes. ticking joint pain, swelling, tenderness. Much better. My psoriasis, clearer. Cosentyx works on all of this
This is the cbs evening news with norah odonnell, reporting from the nations capital. This is the cbs evening news ith norah odonnell, reporting odonnell good evening and thank you for joining us, were going to begin tonight with a possible breakthrough in the development of a coronavirus vaccine. Just as the country is entering a dangerous and deadly new phase of the pandemic. In a surprise announcement, the drug maker pfizer said its vaccine is 90 effective and it could be ready for approval in weeks. Well, that sent the dow soaring closing up more than 800 points. Its a glimmer of hope in what president elect biden is now calling a very dark winter ahead. One of his new advisors bluntly called it covid hell. And as we come on the air cases re growing at sucgrowing at such an alarming and exponential rate, tonight the u. S. Has topped 10 million infections, that is more than a million new cases since the end of october. And with the death toll rising again in cities like el paso now
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