Administrations Public Health team. Former obama certainly vivek murthy has been asked to reprise his role, according to the washington post. And the president elect asked dr. Anthony fauci to stay on in his current position, in addition to an expanded role as the chief medical adviser. The Biden White House will need all the help that it can get. 200,000 americans are testing positive for the virus every single day. 3,000 are dying from it. Those numbers are only getting worse in the coming weeks. And even the muchtouted silver lining, an imminent vaccine, comes with massive challenges. A new report from nbc news outlines how unprepared the Trump White House is for the logistics of actually distributing this vaccine. And how much thats going to challenge the incoming administration, which will inherit the burden of getting the majority of americans vaccinated. As one former hhs official told nbc news quote, this, the team is going to have an amazing challenge of trying to get the publ
Be the biggest hack of the u. S. Government ever. Hello. Im chris jansing. We begin this hour with some major news on the coronavirus pandemic. The first doses of modernas vaccine are starting to arrive at more than 3,000 locations across the country. The rollout of this second vaccine now available here in the u. S. Means millions more americans will be getting the shots. Near lly 6 million doses are expected to be shipped out this week, with 20 million distributed by the end of the year. But it comes as cases and deaths continue to rise at an alarming rate, and as Health Officials warn it could still get worse. Especially now that were in the Holiday Travel season. Meantime, the cdcs Advisory Panel is releasing new recommendations for who should be next in line to get the vaccines. People over the age of 75 and essential workers, like first responders, teachers, postal workers, Public Transit employees, and Grocery Store workers leading the list. And the Moderna Vaccine comes as a ne
Directly on this last july. Reporter we did, and this is incredibly controversial, andrea, because you would have such a significantly high death toll. Lets look at that exchange. It is going to disappear. Its going to disappear. It would go away without the vaccine, george. It would go away without the vaccine . Sure, over a period of time, sure, with time. And many deaths. And youll develop herd like a herd mentality, its going to be herd developed and thats going to happen. That will all happen. Reporter now, when the president said herd mentality there he presumably meant herd immunity. But again, a highly controversial notion that the disease will go away without the vaccine and it was one that was being pushed by scott atlas who has now of course stepped down from his position here and a lot of, i can tell you, Top Health Experts are breathing a sigh of relief about that, that hes no longer the person who is closest in counseling the president on this issue. Now that there is, of
Other states. But first, here are the facts on the pandemic at this hour. The wall street journal reports the Trump Administration has fallen short of its ppe stockpiling goals. Take n95 masks for frontline workers, the administration said in may it wanted to increase its supply to 300 Million Masks over 90 days. By mid november, we had less than half of that, just 142 million. Right now there are more americans hospitalized with this virus than at any other time during the pandemic according to the covid tracking project. The New York Times warns a third of americans live in areas where hospitals are running critically short of icu beds. The strain on our hospitals comes as we hit a new record for daily coronavirus cases. On tuesday, more than 222,000 americans were diagnosed with this virus. So far, listen to this number. About one in 22 americans have tested positive for covid19. A littleknown panel of independent experts is about to play a big role in the most critical step to stop
Remember, modernas vaccine is 94 effective against infection and 100 effective at preventing the most severe cases of the coronavirus. U. S. Officials say nearly 6 million doses of modernas vaccine will start shipping as soon as it gets approved. Were also get something surprise very goes nuod news ab the Pfizer Vaccine. There are more doses out there than previously reported. Doctors have found some vials that are supposed to hold only five doses actually hold as much as six or seven. That means there could be thousands and thousands of extra doses out there, and the fact is, we need them now more than ever. Lets look at the numbers. We just passed 17 million cases of the coronavirus in this country going from 16 million to 17 million in just 4 1 2 days. That is massive. In fact, the total number of cases in the United States has doubled in the last two months. Worldwide, more than 74 Million People are infected, including french president Emmanuel Macron who learned overnight that he