through 6 only after approved. parents waiting to vaccinate those under 12 are hopeful that may happen by halloween. and what may first become the oral medication to cut hospitalization by nearly half. piravir. merck seeking emergency use authorization from the fda as soon as possible. i m very excited about a drug going forward to fda for consideration. we do need better treatments and oral therapy. prevention is the best way to go but when people get covid, we need better treatment. with 70% of americans having at least one dose. they are hopeful at least those who need a second doet will get
october. maybe you just needed a day to set in. taken some time to adjust ho quickly this has flown by, the united states hit a grim milestone reaching 700,000 deaths. there is good news in the threat of the coronavirus. drug makers america and ridgeback are working on a drug that could be the first pill used to fight covid-19. but vaccinations are still the key to get past this pandemic. bring us up to speed with the latest. only about 3.5 months that the u.s. hit 600,000 deaths and
we should point out a grim milestone 18 months now into the pandemic. and a forcing to vote on that fa instructure bill. more looking into the hours leading up to the january 6 insurrection with audio recordings and what officers were dealing with hours before the breach. a fight over alabama funding. her plan to use covid relief funds to build prisons. you are waking up in
great international pressure as well from some of our allies like france who are saying they re going to arrange to have additional airlifts out. and so you have that now also colliding with the president s challenge with what s going on in the south with hurricane ida now coming and bearing down on one of the states hardest hit by covid. louisiana had their highest death toll due to covid this past week. the president watching two things in particular. first of all, they re trying to move and evacuate individuals who could be most impacted to congregate settings. what does that do? it sets it up for a potential major superspreader event. they re urging people to wear masks, to use hand sanitizer, and then the second potential crisis here, alex, is what s going on at the hospitals because they could not evacuate some of the hospitals that probably should have been
companies fall into private hands? the sums are large now, they certainly are competing with the public equity markets, the public debt markets. to me, competition is a good thing. so some companies will leave the markets, others will come in. i think it s important that we have this dynamic movement, and i think competition between capital is a great thing, it s a great thing for business builders. but others think there should be wider tests of the public interest in takeover battles. where the british companies might be more vulnerable from takeovers that aren t in that long term interest and don t demonstrably make those commitments to jobs, to pension schemes, to supply chains, that there is a means by which the public interest test could be judged and met. british companies look cheap to international investors. the uk economy was among the hardest hit by covid, and the pound has never regained its pre brexit value. some people say bids like these highlight the value of and confi