Today to decide on who should be first to get the vaccine once one is available. With the pandemic raging across the United States, we will speak to two africanamerican doctors who have spent years fighting Racial Disparities in healthcare. One of them joined modernas vaccine study to honor her father who died from covid19. Plus, we will mark World Aids Day with professor Steven Thrasher. Aids continues to kill too many peopl almost 700,000 pele were killed by it last year, and that was decades after education became available. As we are on the verge of potentially having a Coronavirus Vaccine to rollout, we dont antiracist,vely anticapitalist approach, hundreds of thousands of millions of people could continue to suffer and die. Amy all that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the quarantine report. Im amy goodman. The u. S. Centers for Disease Control and convention is convening a panel of advisers today to determine who will be the first in line to be
City leaders encourage everybody to get tested tonight. There is a catch. Thanks for joining us. Everybody at 10 im Vicki Liviakis and im grant lotus some people say everybody get tested and then its ok if everybody congregate but there is a testing shortage and city leaders tonight are asking people not to use these government operated covid testing sites. Before their thanksgiving travel or gathering plans. They say these resources are for essential workers at people who have symptoms or believe they were exposed to covid yeah, one of those government operated sites is on the embarcadero and thats where we find kron 4 Taylor Bisacky she joins us now live with more. About the citys message. Sign here behind me says appointment only and at last check appointments here are booked up through december second at put that in perspective this site typically tests about 1700 people a day so this is obviously raising concerns for the people that need the tests most the city is now emphasizing
Big mistake. He attended a birthday party, the upscale French Laundry in youngsville. For a close friend and now were learning to top officials of the California Medical Association attended that party as well and the photographs of that event at the restaurant in napa valley are raising even more concerns our Capitol Bureau reporter Ashley Zavala explains. The California Medical Association confirmed wednesday, its ceo Dustin Corcoran and Senior Vice President Janice Norman were at the now infamous doesnt Person Dinner Party with governor Gavin Newsome the party celebrating the birthday of lobbyist jason kinney corporate and norman or not doctors but leaving organization that lobbies for 50,000 of them in california, neither responded to our request for comment cma spokesperson released a statement saying quote the dinner was held in accordance with state and county guidelines newly surfaced photos at the pricey posh French Laundry show the diners close together on masks and in an are
Several San Francisco restaurants all closed indoors because of covid she says that she was not pleased to hear about the governor photographed inside the pricey French Laundry restaurant with his wife for a Birthday Celebration with at least 12 people in attendance. Were locked down the call indoor everything is shut down a u n i mean the Restaurant Business as well so its a really hard time for everybody really do think it said double standard. He has all these expectations for us diana who owns a restaurant in Citrus Heights near sacramento also thought that the governor. Was definitely not practicing what is preaching and at the same time expecting all of us who are trying to you know enjoy a nice meal and be with our families and now we cant even be you know in thanksgiving together the French Laundry is only open for reservations with the prefix menu of 3. 50 for 50 and 850. A plate. It is unclear which offering the new sums had and who paid for it. The governor has said that he
President confronts china donald trump strips Hong Kong Office of special trading Status Holding china accountable for its clampdown on human rights to. South africa reopens its schools despite a rise in cases of 1920 schools lack basic facilities will they become breeding grounds for the coronavirus. Plus flooding in Bangladesh Forces more than a 1000000 people from their homes a further of the country is under water after some of the heaviest monsoon rains in decades and rivers are said to rise even further. Welcome to the program we begin with breaking news the Irish Government and apple have won their appeal against a 26 the e. U. Decision that sat apple had to pay the i was government 13000000000 euros in back taxes money that ireland didnt even want so ill instruct the case to you have so. Dublin has long denied that its tax arrangements with apple about so illegal state Aid European Commission is expected to appeal the ruling to the European Court of justice. Earlier this year t