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
To hospitals across the country anticipating their final. Now, more on this process. Reporter hey, maria teresa. Good evening to you. We are getting some new information from fedex about kind of their operations from today. What we know is that it is wheels down and then right back up. There are Freight Cargo Airliners right behind us here with the vaccine on, and they were here earlier today. They were able to transfer over into trucks and to other airplanes and go right back up again to other hubs and other routes across the country, like we mentioned some 636 sites total. Now, when it comes to all of this that goes into it, youll see here in this footage provided by fedex, it is a very urgent process but a delicate one. Each box has its own subzero housing to keep the temperature really low. It also has a tracker in it. There is Security Escort provided to these shipments, and of course faa is providing priority to any air flights going out that house the vaccine. And of course this
He may never again you see is this all the time it was necessary and were going to finally because the New York Times correspondent something straight out of this why for 3 am here in the russian capital. Thanks for joining us on the program today. Now 1st donald trump has said just in the last hour or so that a formal transition can begin for joe biden to take office. This comes after the head of the General Services administration reveals. She was kicking off the procedure, and many murphy said shed been pressured by the democrats to brief them on the transition as early as this choose. They are donald trump, in the meantime, still claims the game is not yet over, but said all protocols for the handover of power should be followed earlier today. The u. S. State of michigan has officially certified its president ial election results, handing joe biden at 16 Electoral College votes. The president elect has already begun busy year, really would busy filling key posts in his proposed adm
Very good move only in New York Times. Correspondent reads Something Like straight out of a spy thriller live from moscow. Thanks for joining us. That was the north international. Welcome to the program. The 1st, the transition process to hand power to president elect. Joe biden has been officially kicked off in the United States. The head of the General Services administration confirmed the news in the last few hours and has more. Emily murphy, of the General Services administration, has said that she is now beginning the process of transitioning to a biden white house. Now she put forward a letter explaining that she was taking this move and she said that she was not asked to do this by anyone in the trump white house. They had not requested that she begin this process. But furthermore, she emphasized that she had been threatened and that she had faced quite a bit of pressure in the lead up to making this decision. I was never directly or indirectly pressured by an executive branch o
There is a potential of a third vote now, we will not know whether that is happening, but maybe we can work it so we can tagteam the chairmanship. Senator blumenthal i think is back with us. I will make certain he and i can trade positions so we can both vote. If that happens. The committee is reconvened. Mr. Gilman, if you are available , you have about a minute and a half left. We heard your testimony to that last point and we would love to hear your concluding remarks. Can you hear me . Mr. Gilman . Can you hear me . Yes sir. Myi am going to pick up testimony from where i left off . Yes, sir. Ok. I was determined to make isolation gowns because we had the equipment to cut and sew them. I quickly got a sample from a local hospital, design my own pattern, research the materials the gowns were made up, and built a prototype. I sent it to yell new haven hospital, they evaluated it and awarded me an order. There was a surge demand. Hospitals needed more gowns than they could buy from the