More than 25 million confirmed cases of covid19 and more than 430,000 deaths across this country. Accounting for 25 of of the confirmed cases and 20 of deaths worldwide. While cases hospitalizations and deaths at have slightly decrd in the last few weeks, the numbers continued to be staggering. Now there is great concern of varied and more transmissible strains of the virus may become dominant over the coming weeks leading to a further worsening of the pandemic. Todays report comes as president Bidens Administration launches an aggressive effort to combat the pandemic and Congress Considers additional aid to bolster the Public Health response and jumpstart the economy. The future of Health Care Initiative released its first report of bipartisan prescription for Americas Health care in february 2020 Offering Practical Solutions designed to make healthcare coverage more affordable without adding a growing Systemwide Health expenditures. Todays report was led by a Bipartisan Group of heal
Centers event on the nations response to the coronavirus pandemic. I serve as the chief medical advisor. Today the Bipartisan Policy Centers future is releasing a new report. You can find this report at bipartisanpolicy. Org. That is bipartisanpolicy. Org. Since the beginning of the pandemic a year ago, there has been more than 25 million confirmed cases of covid19 and more than 430 cases deaths across the country, accounting for 25 of deaths worldwide. While cases, hospitalizations and deaths have slightly decreased, the numbers continue to be staggering and there is great concern variants, more transmissible strains of the virus, may become dominant over the coming weeks leading to a further worsening of the pandemic. Todays report comes as president Bidens Administration launches an effort to combat the pandemic in Congress Considers additional aid to bolster the response and jumpstart the economy. The initiative released its first report, bipartisan subscription for health care in
Clean house. The fall out continues at the silicone valley organization with a major announcement from the chairman of the board. I would like to announce that matt mahood former ceo and president. Svo has resigned. The abrupt departure is the latest in the flood of Community Backlash over this attack ad on the website. It was for race for Council District 6 and depicted black protesters on a smoke filled street and tag line do you really want to sign onto this . It was widely criticized as being racist and svo removed it, hired a Third Party Investigator and Political Action committee for svo has ceased activity. The executive Vice President announced staff, Board Members will undergo sensitivity training. I am very aware that svo has made several mistakes over past years that were culturally insensitive, racist, wrong. For that, we deeply apologize. Its a culture within this organization that is toxic to our community. Reporter jake tonkel, the candidate who was the target, says the
Washington coming up the numbers are in the United States took a major hit to its g. D. P. In the wake of the coronavirus dropping more than 30 percent annually straight ahead we analyze the extreme drop and the state of the real economy here in the u. S. Plus a big texas seeing an influx of antitrust cases as tech tensions continue to rise across the globe later on in the show where to take a look at the cases and whats at stake moving forward with a packed show today so lets dive right in. And we lead the program with the latest Economic Data out of the United States the Commerce Department reported wednesday Gross Domestic Product fell by a record 31. 4 percent in the 2nd quarter of 2020 now the number was a slightly better than the 31. 7 percent decline projected in august the contraction was more than triple that of the previous record holder of 10 per cent in the 1st quarter of 1958 now economists back substantial gains in the 3rd quarter as. Millions of americans have gone back
Through the tax and weekly radio show is called spectrum if you like and the information on the chrono larysa or any other science topic you should really check out our podcast so you can get it wherever you get your podcast you can also find us at dot com slash science. d around the world the race to develop a vaccine against the new coronavirus continues apace. The World Health Organization is now tracking more than 170. 00 candid frank scenes in the preclinical state researches test at the vaccine triggers an immune response to animals in phase one testing the vaccine is given to a small group of people to see if its safe place to involves a somewhat Larger Research group to test dosages and in phase 3 the vaccine is given to thousands of people to make sure its effectiveness so far there are no successful candidates. Seems normally require years of tests. And time to build up Production Volume the w. H. O. Has said it doesnt expect widespread vaccinations against coronavirus until