Movement. To begin with the Coronavirus Crisis and the global death toll has now passed one and a half 1000000 with a 3rd of them in just the last 2 months many countries are reporting soaring infection rates and deaths as governments struggle to contain a new wave of cases in the worst affected country the United States 2804 deaths were recorded on wednesday america is close to passing 14000000 cases in total italy has hit a new record with 993 deaths in one day thats higher than the peak of fatalities in the 1st wave in the middle east infections of suppost 1000000 in iran the country has reported almost 50000 deaths as governments race to approve vaccines the United Nations and Global Health officials have warned against. Fast tracking the process this after the u. K. Or through eyes use of the pfizer biotech vaccine on wednesday and as fears of vaccine misinformation grow social media giants facebook and instagram say theyll start removing posts with false claims United States cont
Already in. Meantime of course the president refusing to concede the election repeating his baseless claims that the election was a fraud. Lets go to carol lee standing by for us in washington. Welcome to you. What did the president say today if anything on this . He made a number of very familiar being aing could yaccud that wont sound new to you, but he continues to make them. He also vented a range of frustrations on everyone from his own Justice Department to the governor of georgia who is a republican and ale lie. T ally. The president said he was ashamed that he endorsed him. And he took aim at the Judicial System Making Unfounded accusations of unfairness there. Take a listen. They dont want to take the affidavits. Then they say we dont have proof. I wanted to file one suit, donald j. Trump president of the United States against, you know and put everything into one simple suit and they say sir, you dont have standing. I say i dont have standing. You mean as president of the Uni
Delayed qualifies it here in cats on the hard work continues as it has to host the world cup in 2 years time and unprecedented attempt by donald trump. To undo the election, results appears to be slipping away with members of his own party delivering a new blow. Republican leaders from michigan was summoned to the white house on friday, but following talks with trump, the Senate Majority leader and House Speaker issued a statement saying, there was no new information that would change joe bidens victory in the state. They said the results of suffocation process should be free from threats and intimidation. Biden won michigan by more than 154000 votes. Alan fisher is live for us from the white house. Is there. He seems to be grabbing at straws, trying desperately to appeal to people. Well not only is he running a road is running out of days, there are 3 states that will meet to certify the results. On monday, were talking michigan, pennsylvania and they are 3 states that donald trump re
Expects surge upon surge the c. D. C. Or centers for Disease Control saying that the next 3 months could be among the worst or most difficult in u. S. Public Health History what americans are bracing for is the fact that its known that there will likely be an uptick in infections as well as deaths given the fact that Many Americans did not listen to the Public Health officials warnings over the thanksgiving holiday and as a result traveled and so the seeds of an increased outbreak have been planted all across the United States there is some optimism of course knowing that by the end of the year its likely that a vaccine will be approved emergency authorization for pfizer as well as mcdermott but its just going to be a drop in the bucket some 40000000. 00 doses this is a population of 330000000 and of course you need not one but 2 of these inoculations in order for it to be mostly effective in fact as the United States is continuing its process of certifying these drugs to be safe to us
The vaccine this year. And were looking forward to maybe about 500000000. 00 to a 1000000000. 00 this next year. But that is going to be a 247 operation. It will be not, wont solve this problem. Its going to require many vaccines as weve been saying for a while, but we ought to be able to do our part from here for. This is really important. A White House Correspondent kimberly health kit has boy, in terms of who gets this vaccine . Well, according to the target ministration, it will be most vulnerable populations that will be getting it 1st that includes the elderly and those with compromised immune systems. But also what we know is that in fact, this could be 1st, be distributed about 20000000. 00 doses as early as december and the top Infectious Disease specialist dr. Anthony found, she says in fact that this vaccine is what he says is as good as it gets. The virus is not going to stop and call a time out. While things change the virus is just going to keep going. The process is just