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Technology. This happens time andy came i t again, whether it be new viral, antivirals, cancers, et cetera. And money came in. The idea wasnt so much on the return. Dr. Anthony fauci is getting an update on potential vaccines for covid19. He is speaking today at an event hosted by the university of Virginia School of medicine. Some zoom webinar housekeeping. Slides at the end of this program provide a resource list, information about continuing education credit for clinicians and a link to our centers website where youll find our speakers biography. The slides also give a link to Medical Center hours youtube channel. Todays program is being recorded and closed captioned and will be posted to youtube within days. Today well handle questions using zooms online q a function. Write your questions there, brief and to the point, please, and well draw from them for our speakers consideration after his presentation. This Medical Center hour joins with Medical Center grand rounds for the lectur
A possible breakthrough in the fight against covert 19 u. S. Drug giant pfizer says its vaccine candidate is 90 percent effective. Also in the news there i mean to end a decade of chaos and bloodshed in libya u. N. Backed talks have begun paving the way for a political transition. And uncertainty in peru is the president faces a 2nd impeachment trial in just 2 months coming up a live update from the capital lima. And bumpy december the legal sports news 27 seen masters champion Sergio Garcia withdrawals from this weeks tournament of the testing positive for corona virus. But were starting with breaking news this hour 1 pm in washington d. C. And literally in the last 2 minutes the u. S. President donald trump has fired his secretary of state. In his words. Has been terminated straight to kimberly how could a White House Correspondent cant believe its begun. Yes thats right mark else for is the secretary of defense or at least he was until this announcement by the u. S. President on twi
You are watching cspan, your unfiltered view of government. Created as a Public Service and brought to you today by your television provider. Fauci spoke anthony about the coronavirus pandemic as cases rise across the u. S. And europe, and the vaccines announced by pfizer and moderna. The University School of university of Virginia School of medicine hosted this hourlong event. Introduce dr. Anthony fauci is dr. David wilkes, dean of the uva school of medicine. To begin, i like to extend thanks for the invitation to host dr. Fauci. Mentioned, dr. Fauci is the director of the National Institute of infectious diseases. Research onsive infectious and immune diseases. Dr. Fauci has made many seminal doneibutions and incredible research. Hes one of the worlds most bio scientists. He has the u. S. Medal of freedom ordered by president george w. Bush. Dr. Fauci is loud it for his epidemic infectious disease. Two local pandemics bookend his career. In the 1990s, it was hiv aids and now covid19
But many queions remain. The news came on the same day thtotal number of u. S. Infections tped 10 million. We will speak toulitzer ize winning journalist laurie gaett. Weill look at the death of palestinian chief negotiator saeb erekat who has died from covid. Then fears are growing that the Trump Administration is moving to overturn the election of joe biden. On monday, attorney general william barr authorized new probes into voter fraud as republican lawmakers are backing trumps decision not to concede to the president elect. President trump is 100 within his rights to look into allegations of irregularities and wait his legal options. Amy we will speak to kristen clarke, president of the Lawyers Committee for civil rights under law. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the quarantine report. Im amy goodman. Attorney general william barr upended Longstanding Justice Department policy on monday by announcing federal prosecutors could investigate