Live now to discussion with main senator angus king who joins Healthcare Providers and Bipartisan Policy Center experts on the use of telehealth during the covid pandemic. Health team led by, Catherine Hayes and others. For those of you who may be unfamiliar with the Bipartisan Policy Center we were established a a little over a decade ago by four former majority leaders, senator bob dole, late senator howard baker on the republican side. Senator tom daschle and senator George Mitchell on the democratic side. Senator mitchell from the great state of maine which youll hear shortly his estate, very well represented here this morning. The country is indeed, indeed the world quite frankly is experiencing a once in a lifetime pandemic caused untold suffering and death. Doctors, nurses, hospitals, Healthcare Providers are struggling to provide Critical Care under some very difficult conditions. But if there is any good, and theres that much, but if theres any good to come out of this virus,
Will begin with President Trump on the campaign trail and on the attack. Not against his opponent but the countrys top Infectious Disease experts. In a series of insults on twitter, he said he is a disaster and called fauci and other experts idiots, with just 15 days until the election and down in the polls in nearly every battleground state, tonight the president appears intent on minimizing the onavirusrus pandemic, telling Campaign Staffers that americans are tired of hearing about the virus and just want it to be left alone. But the president s comments come as the countrys leading Public Health experts are now warning that the next three months will be the worst of the pandemic. Nationwide the number of new single day infections has reached a new high. Since this summer and hospitalizations are up in 39 states. Tonight in a cbs news exclusive were inside one of the hardest hit hospitals in wisconsin, a state where new infections have exploded and where doctors are struggling to ke
With just five days to go, President Trump and joe biden set to hold dueling rallies in a battleground that could hold the key to the election. While a group of former Homeland Security secretaries join forces to dispel concerns over widespread voter fraud. It would be impossible for someone to orchestrate a massive fraud. Savannahs exclusive conversation with them just ahead. Mounting toll. The u. S. Shatters another coronavirus record. More than 80,000 new cases in a single day, as dr. Anthony fauci warns that even with a vaccine, a return to normal is not on the horizon. I think it will be easily by the end of 2021 and perhaps even into the next year before we start having some semblances of normality. From celebration to investigation. The dodgers Justin Turner facing potential fines and suspension for celebrating on the field at the world series while positive for coronavirus. What the league and his teammates are now saying about his decision. Those stories, plus, you want surpri
The pandemic. Attacks and interruptions. That is what most of the audience remembers from the first president ial debate between President Trump and Vice President joe biden. Now the commission on president ial debates is calling for a new format. Senator blackburn will be my guest. Stocks finishing higher on hopes of a new stimulus bill, but it was a choppy day. Abigail doolittle joins us from new york. Walk us through the ups and downs. Abigail certainly fitting it was a choppy day because it was a choppy quarter. And following the pattern we have seen over the last few months. Redad the premarket in the after that debate, the chaos, investors not liking it. The s p 500, up more than 1. 5 . Afternoon news that a stimulus agreement had not been reached, stocks really nosedived, not into the red, but the s p 500 only up about 3 10 of 1 . Day, windowf the dressing to the third quarter, it was the mega cap stocks that did save the day. Apple and microsoft, both up about 1. 5 , again not
It started it. It essentially was the industry which was unpacking the biology of cells and understanding how those biology cells could be used to make new medicines, a little different from what pharma was an pharma in the past was essentially trying out medicines on animals and seeing if they work and then put them into a human being a Clinical Trial process once we understood how the genes work, once we knew how to manipulate those jeans, a whole new ability to transform what we knew about cells into medicines came into being. This was areal revolution , and about in the 70s and walked through to the 80s and then now today there are approximately a couple thousand companies, about 700 of whom are members of bio, many are private. They are now much smaller industries in the europe and in asia and actually, these Small Companies although they are tiny and they represent no more than any one of the Big Companies in terms of numbers, theyre generating about 70 70 percent of all the medi