Update with top officials at the International Vaccine access center. This is 30 minutes. Welcome and thank you for joining us today. My name is ellen wilson and i will be the moderator for this expert briefing for the media hosted by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. This briefing will address vaccines for covid19. The world has made unprecedented strides in developing covid19 vaccine candidates quickly. Many with higher efficacy than anticipated. Bringing these vaccines from Clinical Trials to the general public would require many considerations. Todays briefing would tackle these questions, including how do scientists develop vaccines against covid19 in less than a year, and how do we know they are safe . Will there be enough for everybody in the u. S. . What about people in low and middle Income Countries . Be demandingerly vaccines. Others will not be. How do you determine who will get it first and how do you convince those who are hesitant about such a new vacc
Weekend. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo gave an update on the confirmed coronavirus cases and deaths. The Governor Also Announced Public Schools in the state would be closed for another two weeks until april 15. Good morning everyone. Let me introduce who we have with us today. To my far right we have the president of Empire College who i worked with for many years and has been helpful here on this mission. Our commissioner of health to my left is the general Patrick Murphy who will say more in a moment and to his left is general shields. Thank you for being here today for this is an amazing a compliment transformative in just one week this center looks entirely different and this was a place that is literally going to save lives. Let me go through some facts if i can on a daily update of where we are and then i want to make some comments to all the women and men who are assembled and did such a great job on this facility. The increase in the number of cases continues. We still see tha
But we are moving to what i would say is virtual recruiting. I have a broader question. Experts say you can anticipate the spread of the virus will will likelyate, and not exclude the military. I am wondering what worstcase scenario you see for the army in terms of how you will have to adjust. We are taking this day to day. A lot of this is looking at the trend data as to how great it will go. Things we learned from general generaln your riba abrams and another general is that you create safety bubbles and keep uniform formations intact and ultimately see if you can ride this out. Will this be a seasonal flu . Will it reverberate or boomerang in the fall . So we are keeping the formations intact and will adjust as we learn more. You dont have a specific worstcase you are planning for . Secretary mccarthy we are learning more every day and looking at options, but we need to collect more data. I would add to the secretary, what we found in italy and korea were very strong measures where
Is this who wants to be a millionaire . It is running a lot better right now. Phone,ave folks on the is that right . What i will do is for all of the folks on the phone, this is ryan mccarthy. I will start with some opening comments. Q a we will do an open up to answer questions. Weve got to get out of here no later than 1600 and get back to the office. Let me make a couple remarks. Thank you for coming. We are trying to bring an update on the covid19 response efforts to protect our people, maintain Mission Readiness and support the government effort. To provide these updates as routinely as we can. We will work out a rhythm that is appropriate. Our goal is to be as transparent as possible and keep an open line of communication about what the army is doing. On march 19, currently the u. S. Army has 45 cases. This number includes 21 soldiers, six da civilians, eight family members, and 10 contractors. Crisis,ng in times of helping restore peace in times of chaos, and organizing against
Well. President trump will make his way to austin, he will tour mac pro manufacturing facility with tim cook. Impeachment hearings in washington, was billed as the most crucial day. The morning session many ways appeared to live up to that billing. Ambassador to the European Union, Gordon Sondland retreed new details about dealings with ukraine. President trump reacted to all of that. Blake burman was on the lawn of the white house. He joins us from the north lawn with the very latest, blake. Reporter what a morning in washington. Started with explosive testimony from Gordon Sondland, current ambassador to the European Union up on capitol hill as part of the impeachment hearing. Son land in his written testimony today he laid out an entire section he described in his words a quid pro quo. According to sondland in order for the newlyelected ukrainian president Vladmir Zelensky to have a meeting with President Trump, ukraine had to announce it would have investigations into the 2016 serv