More Mental Health and telemedicine options. Hello and welcome to axios Virtual Event health care 2021. I am sam Baker Health Care at are coming to you from my home in washington dc. I would like to thank the United Health. For making these conversations possible and thank her audience. Follow along on twitter using the or following. Over the next three minutes we will unpack best way to unpack Health Insurance access and coverage in the United States and exactly what that path forward looks like following the election and in the midst of a pandemic getting worse every day. Our first guest is senator tina smith of minnesota. Thank you. It is terrific to be with everyone today. I would like to start off framing this conversation. Obviously, Health Care Access and coverage has been a hot topic for a long time but i think the pandemic has highlighted and illustrated some of the gaps we are dealing with in the system. We have seen millions of people lose their health determines because the
Behind the music. Before the british cars, beethovens 9th symphony for the world starts to tsunamis, g. W. Since the beginning of the pandemic, numbers are playing an even larger role in our day to day lives. Which is better standing 1. 5 meters apart or 2 meters. What exactly is the . All right, do i have enough masks . And how no, can i wear one for numbers in form, Decision Making . How many kids can be safely in one classroom . Or how many people should i be allowed to make twists . Between new and changing numbers coming to us every day. Whats important and how do you keep your head from spending but so many statistics associated with a coronavirus pandemic is imposable to give on top of them all or even to understand them. Well, if all of these numbers leaving, you know, allow us to help you out by explaining a few of the key ones. The 7 day incidence indicates how many people tested positive within one week measured per 100000 inhabitants. For example, lets assume a city with 12
Thanks for that. And id like to bringing that now where cornelius other bar that he is with the German Council on Foreign Relations and an expert on iran, a very good day sir. What do you make of these developments . Well, this is something that had to be sheer, it this falls right into the transition period in the United States. We will see President Trump walk out of office in january and its becoming lee believed that this particular great maybe period between the election and the inauguration maybe lead to some to school a shift in the region around iran. Rumors of a meeting between u. S. Secretary of state, pompei o. And israeli Prime Minister netanyahu in the recent days. And this may just be well part of this escalation. What do we know about the scientist . The scientists mustnt proper set a. He was a professor of physics in tehran, but he was also with the revolutionary guard at the Iranian Elite forces. And so he was a twin figure all the scientists and military in the area.
Attacks over the last 7 years, despite agreeing to destroy all their chemical weapons back in 2013. While the human Rights Groups have filed already a kernel complaint with germanys federal prosecutor, and their hope now is that germany can deliver justice for the victims, reporters from d. W. And the german news magazine. Their spiegel have been given exclusive access to some of the evidence to scream, so we can sue, died in the searing gas attack in ghouta to this day, still echo in that years of syrian nurse a man. She wants nothing more than syrian president bashar assad. And the perpetrators of the a check to be charged. She and her husband met our witnesses of a criminal complaint filed in germany by human Rights Groups. They wish to remain anonymous because they fear for their familys safety. Wise, i fear for my mother and my sisters who are still living in syria and the whole because the regime is my real and unjust and it has no mercy. If it has a conscience, dick wouldnt have
A connector between 880 and 101. Youll have to take local roadways. Meanwhile, a look at the bay bridge toll plaza. That is looking clear for the morning commute and no major problems. A smooth drive for the other freeways outside of that. Well talk about the delays for the north bay coming up. Back over to you. This morning a rocky start for the biden transition team. A look at the white house as the president elect focuses on covid19 and health care. The Trump Administration is refusing to take the turnover heat. Attorney general william barr sent a memo to federal prosecutors around the country about investigating allegations of voting irregularities. Today in the bays tracie potts live with more details including the immediate fallout from that announcement. Tracie . Reporter and the defense secretary getting fired on twitter. There is a lot happening here in washington, but lets start with the transition thats not really transitioning right now because of some delays from the Trum