Plus, the mysterious death of a former ceo of online retailer zappos. What the medical examiner is saying. Felicity huffmans comeback. The new acting gig shes landed after the College Admissions scandal. And for the first time we hear from this man rescued after clinging onto the top of his boat in the open atlantic for hours. What he did to survive. Good tuesday morning, everyone. Today is a crucial day in the coronavirus emergency. Cdc advisers will vote on who should get the vaccine first. Today could also be the first day we see more than 100,000 people in the hospital with this virus. More states are setting up field hospitals to handle patients and more cities are considering wider lockdowns. A new study finds a onemonth shutdown in england helped reduce the number of covid cases by 30 which doctors say is encouraging as we wait for a vaccine. This morning a major step forward in getting americans vaccinated. A panel advising the cdc will give its recommendation today on who shou
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
Helping to mentor over 7,000 students welcome to december. Early today starts right now. Good morning. Im phillip mena. Glad youre with us im Frances Rivera the next few months could be devastating. More than 13. 5 million have been infected and fatalities have surpassed 258,000. Officials expect to see new infections spike in the next five to ten days new yorks Governor Andrew Cuomo called the covid the grinch as they prepare for new restrictions meanwhile california is on the brink of new stayathome orders about 75 of the states beds are occupied nbcs Miguel Almaguer has more. Reporter the end of the month marks the most dire month of the pandemic with a grim 35,000 fatalities. Now as tens of millions of americans return home from the holiday, the darkest days may be yet to come. As we go for the next couple of weeks in december, we might see a surge superimposed upon that surge were already in. Reporter expecting to see new infections spike in the next five to ten days, in states li
Right rally, are registered as taxexempt charities. Coming off his big win in who wants to be a millionaire, chef david chang will tell us how hes going to help restaurant workers hit hard by the pandemic. Hes got lots of ideas. First, heres todays eye opener. Its your world in 90 seconds. What weve done now with thanksgiving, you see the difference two or three weeks from now. Right at the time that people would be traveling for christmas. Promising breakthroughs on covid vaccines are lifting some spirits as cases surge. What is your expectations come june for how Many Americans will have had this vaccine . 100 of americans that want the vaccine will have vaccine by that point in time. Lawmakers are hoping to pass a Coronavirus Relief bill as the final economic protections from the stimulus package are set to expire. We need come together. Both sides must give. Dr. Scott atlas, a controversial member of the white houses Coronavirus Task force is apparently resigned. Gail force winds k
2020 election and the qs of the u. S. Electoral process. We are about the legal challenges brought forward by the Trump Campaign and how the American People perceive the integrity of the results. The center for American Progress is the host, this is about an hour. Subject this year we saw significant strength in our electoral system. Ultimately our system deck demonstrated democracies resilience we saw a higher share of the voting eligible population than any time in the last 120 years. That is a great site of the vibrancy of democracy but at the heavy load for a lecture to biggest ration vertically during the pandemic the conditions around covered for states to adopt quickly to a once in a century pandemic that meant shifting to mailin ballots recruiting new and younger poll workers and confronting prohibition in some states against counting mail ballots prior to election day. Sadly we also saw the effects of disinformation shared by politicians. And amplified over digital platforms a