Try and disenfranchise voters. And i just wish he would accept the loss, move on and start bringing us together instead of trying to create more divide. Live look right now at the Capitol Building in washington. It is saturday, november 21st. Good morning to you. Im victor blackwell. Good morning, everyone. Im amareau walker in for christi paul. This morning the u. S. Is at a crossroads in the coronavirus fight. Continuing down the worst stretch yet of this pandemic. The u. S. Added more than 195,000 new cases yesterday alone. Thats a record. The first time the u. S. Has added more than 190,000 cases in a single day. Nearly a week after we crossed 11 million cases, the u. S. Is already close to surpassing a total of 12 million confirmed cases and thats the most anywhere in the world. There is a light at the end of the tunnel though. Pfizer and biontech have applied for emergency use authorization for their coronavirus vaccine. The fda says its outside Advisory Panel will need to discus
Undermine democracy. Rudy giuliani has lost every case so far. Continues every case. It should be over. Lets hope it is. Good morning to you. Saturday, december 12th. Im victor blackwell. Good morning, im amara walker in for christi paul. We have viewers with us from around the world. We thank you for being with us. Were hours away from another milestone moment in the covid pandemic. The fda has authorized pfizer and biontechs Coronavirus Vaccine for emergency use. Now this sets up a cdc Advisory Panel to vote today. An acceptance by the cdc would allow the vaccinations to start as early as monday. The timing could not be more critical. More than 3300 new deaths due to covid19 were reported in the u. S. On friday. More than 108,000 people in hospitals right now across the country and the u. S. Has added more than 231,000 new cases yesterday. All of these statistics are records. Lets bring in cnn Health Reporter Jaclyn Howard now to walk us through the vaccine news. Jaclyn, good morning
Before. New cases are hitting record highs. The deadliest week yet of this pandemic is ending with news that theres more help on the way, which is the light. Yes. There are now two coronavirus vaccines authorized for emergency use in the United States. The fda says modernas vaccine could start rolling out pretty soon. Vaccinations could start as soon as monday pending a cdc panel vote today and a signoff by the director. Thats expected. Jaclyn howard is with us now. Its always good to have you here. A week ago you were walking us through pfizers vaccine. Now were looking at modernas. How does it stack up . Reporter theyre very similar vaccines, christi. Theyre both mrna vaccines, which means their main component is messenger rna. Thats Genetic Information about the coronavirus and it helps stimulate your immune system to identify and prepare for it in case they encounter it. Pfizer is at 95 efficacy, moderna 94. 2 . The process they both went through was the same for the fda authorizat
From the start, our vaccination strategy has been centered around urging approximately 1. 6 million americans, including gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men, and others with a known highrisk exposure to monkeypox. To do that, we have worked nonstop to scale up access to the vaccine in the u. S. We have made more vaccine available to any other country in the world. Because of that, the authorization of safe and effective vaccination, we can accelerate the number of shots in arms with the urgency this outbreak warrants. As of this past monday, we have made 1. 1 billion vials of vaccine available, the same total number of files that jurisdictions were expecting before fda approval of Intradermal Administration. As the administrator will discuss shortly, we are approaching having enough vaccine for everyone in the at Risk Community to receive two foot to receive two doses of vaccine. Weve also seen progress in intradermal vaccine in the past two weeks. As of today, 75 of juri
Pushes the current number of cases over 400 and the number of deaths to 19. New york state has the second highest number of cases at the moment and the governor put it under a state of emergency, asking more than 2,500 people to selfquarantine. Worldwide, there are more than 105,000 cases with a spike of cases in italy. Nearly 16 Million People across northern italy are now living under lockdown in an effort to contain the spread. So 21 people tested positive for coronavirus aboard this ship thats off the coast of california. Natasha chen is here and im sure there is a bit of relief for them, because we now know right, they have some information. Right, there is a plan. Yes and the plan is to dock at the port of oakland. Dont know the exact timing, but its supposed to be monday, and the first order of business is to make sure that the people who require acute medical care are disembarking first and they will be taken to hospitals in california, and then the disembarkation will continue