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 african-american doctors who have spent years fighting racial disparities in healthcare. one of them joined moderna s vaccine study to honor her father who died from covid-19. plus, we will mark world aids day with professor steven thrasher. aids continues to kill too many people, almost 700,000 peop 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 don t 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. i m amy goodman. the u.s. centers for disease control and convention is convening a panel of advisers today to determine who will be the fi
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 african-american doctors who have spent years fighting racial disparities in healthcare. one of them joined moderna s vaccine study to honor her father who died from covid-19. 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 don t 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. i m amy goodman. the u.s. centers for disease control and convention is convening a panel of advisers today to determine who will be the firs
city leaders encourage everybody to get tested tonight. there is a catch. thanks for joining us. everybody at 10 i m vicki liviakis and i m grant lotus some people say everybody get tested and then it s 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 that s where we find kron 4 taylor bisacky she joins us now live with more. about the city s 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
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 didn t even want so i ll 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
is dismissed it s a blow to e.u. efforts to crack down on sweetheart tax deals for big business. plus a 3rd of bangladesh is under water after some of the heaviest monsoon rains in decades and rivers are said to rise even further. i m god as welcome to the program u.s. president donald trump passes signed an executive order and in hong kong special trading privileges he also announced sanctions against officials on banks involved in beijing s crackdown on civil liberties in the territory china has condemned the decision and says it will retaliate with sanctions on u.s. citizens. and another escalation of tensions between the u.s. and china. trump took actions against china in retaliation for its recent moves on hong kong he authorized sanctions on banks and officials involved in imposing a tough new security law that effectively terminates the semi autonomous territories unique status the u.s. move comes to weeks after beijing pass a new law that many say represses fundamenta