After approval on the 11th or on the 12th of december, hopefully the 1st people who would be immunized across the United States across all states. In all the areas where this, the state department of health will have told us where to deliver the vaccine. And g 20 leaders are promising to spare no effort in making sure coronas fire risk. Vaccines are distributed fairly around the world. But wrapping up their Virtual Summit hosted by saudi arabia, they gave few specifics on exactly how this will be guaranteed. Discussions also focused on helping poor nations recover from the economic damage inflicted by the pandemic. Ethiopian Prime Minister has given to grain fighters 72 hours to surrender before the military begins an offensive on the regional capital mckelway, calories controlled by the great Peoples Liberation front. Reuters news agency reports. The group is destroyed. Roads to stop an advance. Millions of voters in begin a fast so are casting their ballots in an election, taking pla
I have guy with me a wonderful author writing a fantastic book john, you are a distinguished scholar and historian and have given us a book at exactly the right time we need in the midst of a pandemic. You have said your goal was to do a citizens guide what did you mean by that quick. Great question. I wanted to write a book that will be a first draft of history during the covid and beyond but would speak to an interested reader not just a specialist in the field there are a lot of specialist and my valueadded code be a translate to readers who are just fascinated by the blizzard of the legal issues that have arisen in the last six months that we were not on most peoples agenda until now. And we never thought about past epidemicsut we are now particularly what can weearn from them andhen do we know it will be over. But i want to beg at the end of your book and now i will back to ask you more about this questn. You wh america has two histories one is far more appealing in the mons and y
Do a citizens guide. What did you mean by that . Guest i wanted to write a book that would be a first draft of the history of the law of epidemics with the year of co covid and beyond but that it would speak to an interested reader and not just a specialist in the field. There are lots of specialists, and i thought my value added mighvalueaddedmight be to trane in the field to readers that are just fascinated we never thought about the past epidemics that we are certainly thinking about them now, particularly what can we learn from them and what do we know when its going to be over. But i want to begin if i can at the end of your book and then pivot back at the end of the interview to ask more about this question. You write america has two histories, one far more appealing in the months and years ahead americans will hold the power between them. Lets hold them and hope they make the right choice. Now im going to be asking more about what that choice is but for now, i just want to know
Abigail doolittle who has been over this story. Nasdaq another record high today. What are you hearing about sort of the strength that we saw into end of todays session . Its pretty amazing. We have another record high for nasdaq. Nasdaq 100, big tech stocks continuing to do well. Those are the stayathome stocks this years defense. Theres an odd tension that you have this years defense and new hitting record high after record high. Interesting,t earlier today, you had tech slightly lower. Bulle end of the day really rushed through supporting technology. Investors looking past virus numbers. Its not going to slow the that it hadhe way on the shutdown. Back in february when the virus was raging in china, that down, stocks here ignoring it. It feels we are ignoring some of fundamental data. Take a look at the moves that we have on the day. Wasnt just tech. Tech actually on the day a sector. Ower as financials up 3. 5 . Bit of a nice cyclical tilt s p 500 beings s p helped out by bond fall
This is boom box the one business show you cant afford to miss more in washington coming up there with. The hard way that is not a luxury item. As some nations have begun to reopen their economies a surge in cope and 19 cases has followed we take a spin around the globe and see which hotspots are seeing a coronavirus comeback plus we analyze how markets have reacted in the wake of the outbreak but could there be a darker horizon ahead and later the u. S. Is no stranger to surging gun sales but how much of the pain demick driven the sector we have so much to get to so lets dive right in. There. And we lead the program with renewed concerns about a 2nd wave of corona virus infections as the World Health Organization reported a Record Number of new cases sunday. Yesterday more than 183000 new cases of quoted were reported to w 2 is really the most you know a single day so far. More than 8800000 cases 7 now been reported to joe and more than 465000 people have lost their lives some countri