Today to decide on who should be first to get the vaccine once one is available. With the pandemic raging across the United States, we will speak to two africanamerican doctors who have spent years fighting Racial Disparities in healthcare. One of them joined modernas vaccine study to honor her father who died from covid19. Plus, we will mark World Aids Day with professor Steven Thrasher. Aids continues to kill too many peopl almost 700,000 pele were killed by it last year, and that was decades after education became available. As we are on the verge of potentially having a Coronavirus Vaccine to rollout, we dont antiracist,vely anticapitalist approach, hundreds of thousands of millions of people could continue to suffer and die. Amy all that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the quarantine report. Im amy goodman. The u. S. Centers for Disease Control and convention is convening a panel of advisers today to determine who will be the first in line to be
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Oall the urgency to have a safe and effective vaccine available and with those being developed with socalled warp speed interest and understanding the E Development process has never been greater. Weve got the experts both inside and out to help us do that. Let me briefly introduce our speakers today. The 24th commissioner of the food and Drug Administration and clinician having trained in both medical oncology and radiation oncology. Prior to joining he served as the chief medical executive is the university of texas and the anderson cancer center. Before that he chaired the department oncology at the university of Pennsylvania School of medicine. Twentyfirst commissioner of the fda before that founding Vice President and Senior Scientist at the Nuclear Threats initiative, a foundation dedicated to reducing Nuclear Chemical and biological threats. More recently the foreign secretary for the president and board chair of the association for the advancement of science. For the oped at th
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