Will be first in line to get the Coronavirus Vaccine this as vaccines from pfizer and moderna await emergency use authorization from the fda this could happen in weeks. But the timetable apparently still isnt fast enough for President Trump. Fda chief dr. Stephen hahn was summoned to the white house to meet with chief of staff mark meadows and sources tell cnn that the president is demanding to know why pfizer hasnt been given the green light for the vaccine. Well have more on that in a second. First, lets get to the latest troubling sign of how the surge of the virus right now is only getting worse, not better. Hospitals being pushed to the brink as the number of americans requiring hospital care because of covid continues to shatter records, now on a daily basis. Cnns Stephanie Elam is live in los angeles. Shes tracking the latest from there. The numbers where you are worse every day. How are hospitals coping . Reporter were looking at these numbers rising here, kate, as were looking
He also says he believes with the breakthrough they received now, with some of the approvals they think theyre going to get in the coming days, coming weeks, this could be, he said, the beginning of the end of the coronavirus pandemic. Lets listen in. We believe it is really the start of the end of the pandemic, if we can he sure now a bold move out of the vaccine. I personally believe theres a number of companies now reaching, reaching, reaching the approval in the next few months. We might be able to deliver a sufficient number of doses at the end of summer 2021 to reach 60 to 70 coverage, which could give us the ability to have a normal end of the year. Its shocking to see with biontech and i asked him what will happen with the u. S. , what the next stages are there, jim, and he said he believes once the fda looks at the data, they will get approval a couple of days after the key meeting on the 11th of december, that they could get emergency use authorization in the United States an
Against the backdrop of just more terrible news. The u. S. Is now in the worst month of the crisis. More than a quarter of the total coronavirus cases have come in the month of november. And millions of people, as we are seeing, are looking past cdc guidelines and are traveling for the thanksgiving holiday week. There are big moves coming also in the president ial transition. President elect joe biden is expected to announce his first cabinet picks tomorrow. Cnn has learned that biden is expecting to nominate tony blinken as the next secretary of state. With also the legal losses piling up for the Trump Campaign and absolutely no evidence of widespread voter fraud, more republicans are speaking up and stepping up. Speaking up about President Trumps attempts to overturn the election. Listen to this. The legal team has been a national embarrassment. Were beginning to look like were a banana republic. Its time for them to stop the nonsense. It just gets more bizarre every single day. Fran
Biden Administration Pushes forward, were learning this news. That dr. Anthony fauci will meet virtually with the Biden Transition Team for the first time today. Lets begin with Adrienne Broaddus in chicago with the latest on the pandemic. Walk us through this, i know folks they might get a little tired of hearing these headlines, but the data points in a very disturbing direction. Reporter jim, it does. And if they dont want to hear the headlines, maybe this will reach people who are nonbelievers. Yesterday was the worst day ever since the pandemic started. More families are grieving. Yesterday, more americans died of coronavirus than ever before. John Hopkins University is reporting at least 2,800 deaths. Thats the highest number of reported deaths from covid since the start of the pandemic. And the u. S. Broke another record. 200,000 cases, on average, at least for the last 30 days the u. S. Has seen about 100,000 cases every day. And right now, across the country, hospitals are fil
Hospital beds across the country and the director of the cdc is warning that the next few months could be the most difficult in the history of pub, not just this pandemic, the history of public health. The Los Angeles Mayor says that city is on track to run out of the hospital beds by christmas. He is telling residents to hunker down. To cancel everything. The void in leadership from the white house during this is just staggering because as people are dying the president is obsessing over his false claims, and they are false, that the election was stolen. Now former president s of both parties are stepping up to fill that leadership void. Lets begin with cnns Adrienne Broaddus she is in chicago with the latest on the pandemic. Adrienne, you look at the numbers across the country, i mean, listen, breaking records every day now. Reporter you know, these are records the u. S. Does not want in its column, jim, but here we are. Another grim mile stostone for u. S. As you mentioned, yesterda