Major drug maker reports encouraging findings for a covid vaccine. We will speak to dr. Saad omer, the director of the Yale Institute for Global Health. Then nine months into the pandemic, we look at how many hospitals are failing to provide adequate ppe to doctors and nurses. We will talk to jean ross, copresident of National Nurses united. We have been calling for this protection for Health Care Workers, not just for many months now, but also, if you recall, since the ebola crisis hit our shores. And sad to say, we are still very lacking. Amy plus, Central America has been devastated by backtoback Climate Changefueled hurricanes over the past two weeks. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the quarantine report. Im amy goodman. The United States recorded nearly 167,000 new coronavirus cases on monday, the third highest daily toll of the pandemic. The official u. S. Death toll, already the highest in the world, is rapidly approaching 250,000 with
A decision be made on which to take and what data to trusts also this hour a hong kong prodemocracy activist and media mogul jimmy lie is denied bail as he faces charges of fraud and a different type of exam season half a 1000000 students in south korea tackle the most important day in their academic calendar. And on peoples temple the school says n. B. A. Players get back to training the Houston Rockets trade old stalled home gold Russell Westbrook to the Washington Wizards. Thank you very much for joining as we begin this hour with the coronavirus pandemic in a new phase with countries racing to approve vaccines but in some parts of the world the picture is getting worse with cases on the rise as winter approaches since the start of the pandemic theyve been more than sea. 34000000 confirmed cases and nearly 1500000 deaths iran is now the hardest hit country in the middle east and has passed 1000000 confirmed cases over 1000 has killed almost 50000 people there but the Health Minister
She spoke at an event hosted by axios where topics included health care, expanded insurance access, and the rise of coronavirus cases in the United States. Hello and welcome to axios virtual event, health care 2021. Im sam baker, the Health Care Editor at axios coming to you from my home in washington, d. C. Id like to thank the crew for making this possible and id like to welcome our audience on facebook, youtube, twitter, linkedin and axios. Follow along at axios. Next 30 minutes we will unpack the best way to expand Health Insurance access and Health Insurance coverage in the United States an what that path forward looks like following the president ial election and in the midst of a pandemic thats getting worse every day. Our first guest is senator tina smith from minnesota. Senator, thank you so much for joining us. Thank you, sam. Its really terrific to be with everyone today. Id like to start off to just sort of frame this conversation. Obviously Health Care Access and coverage
About covert 19 vaccines. Fears for reading or refugees who are being moved to an island that aids groups say is dangerous. And people in indian administered kashmir accuse soldiers of widescale abuse which the army denies. Peter stammered with the sport says the Asian Champions League teams begin reaching the last 16 its childs play for so ill have all the details in the next hour. Where we begin with the coronavirus pandemic now in a new phase with countries racing to approve facts scenes but in some parts of the worlds the picture is getting worse with case numbers on the rise so as winter approaches no since the start of the pandemic there have been more than 64. 00 a 1000000 confirmed cases worldwide and nearly 1500000. 00 deaths well the u. N. General assembly is holding a special session on the pandemic here in his Opening Statements secretarygeneral antonio good terrorists emphasize that governments must be united in their response. For the 1st time since 145 and world is confr
Flying into space theres always risk. I never knew another crisis. In their own words. Life on the front lines. Meet the icu nurses volunteering to fight covid19 far from home. People are running out of unemployment checks. And the biden team talks. The plan to fight the pandemic and bring our economy back. Announcer live from cnbc global headgaurs, the news with Shepard Smith the pandemic is spiringal out of control forcing cities and states to issue new initiatives to slow the spread the United States topped more than 11 million cases. Johns hopkins reports the latest million added in the past six days alone for context, mexico reported about a million cases since the pandemic began that means weve added mexicos total caseload in less than a week and the cases arent just surging. Theyre getting more severe. At least 26 states hit alltime highs for hospitalizations last week all the ones in red here thats from the covid tracking project. More than 1,100 americans die on average each d