The first vaccine doses rolling out americans must continue to take this pandemic seriously. Tens of thousands of americans can either live or die, depending on what we do to protect them until the vaccine gets widespread. New emails reported by politico today show a Trump Administration official back in july pushing the widely discredited theory of herd immunity, the idea of purposefully in fact,ing people and wrote the then science adviser, quote, infants, kids, teens, young people, young adults and have zero to little risk so we use them to develop herd. We want them infected. And recovered. With antibodies. We want them infected. Experts say that would be a disastrous course, though it might explain the refusal of the white house to do more to stop the spread. Cnn sara murray reports for us now. More hospitals across the u. S. Are once again warning they are running out of space. Reporter as the pandemic refuses to relent across the country, optimistic is growing a second Coronavir
The United States reporting a record high number of covid19 deaths in a single day today, more than 3,500 americans. President trump holed up inside the white house, ignoring the worsening pandemic, sources say hes lashing out and throwing temper tantrums, calling for two special councils, to investigate joe bidens son hunter and his false claims of voter fraud. And trump allies have inundated the white house with requests for pardons as the administration comes to end. Bring in good evening to both of you. John harwood. President trump lashing out. Thats not new. But one trump advisers says hes throwing an effing temper tantrum. How deep does his denial go do you think . I think, don, at some level he understands he lost the election. But psychologically, he cannot acknowledge that by his upbringing, by the way his ego dominates his life, hes got to think hes on top of every situation. So he cant say to himself i lost, hes got to come up with this notion its rigged. Hes done that in t
More than 3,000 coronavirus deaths again. 3,000 deaths reported overnight. Record hospitalizations. Now, a second vaccine could be on the way. An Fda Committee meets tomorrow to consider emergency use authorization from modernas coronavirus vaccine. Joining me now is Admiral Brett Giroir assistant secretary of health at the department of health and human services. Admiral, thank you so much for being with us this morning. How confident are you that we will have a second authorized vaccine in the next few days, and what impact will that have . So thank you for having me on. The data from the Moderna Vaccine looks extremely good. I have, of course, reviewed all the packets that were made public and the public can look at them, and were looking at about a 95 efficacy on this vaccine. 100 at preventing severe illness. It works across the age spectrum from the 18 to 35yearold all the way into the elderly, and, again, the side effects are very mild. Its just your immune system working like a
Has the latest. Perhaps a stimulus deal providing relief to so many immersions. Republican leaders and Democratic Leaders emerged talking very optimistically about getting a deal. Kevin mccarthy said they were very close. Mitch mcconnell said im optimistic. Chuck schumer said we are getting closer and exchanging papers and proposals that get to a final agreement. We dont have all the details yet because they didnt want to share the details as they were getting to the final stages of the negotiation. This appears to be along the lines of what weve been hearing about for some time. Money for small businesses, perhaps up to 300 billed 300 billion on the table. Money for Vaccine Distribution, money for schools, education providers and helping with expiring business tax provisions could be on the table. Again, we will see the details. We do not have those yet. When the leadership gets the deal, theyll get buy in and theyll have to attach it to a month long spending bill to keep the governme
Senate Majority Leader Mitch Mcconnell says there has been significant progress. The exact details of the bill are unclear, but we will ask some lawmakers about it this morning. And we will also break down what we do know ahead. Overnight, President Trump turned on senate Majority Leader Mitch Mcconnell for finally congratulating president elect joe biden. You know whats interesting . Vladimir putin acknowledged that biden won, but the president hasnt said anything about that yet. Cnn has also learned that mcconnell is urging Senate Republicans to not to stage any stunts when congress meets to count the electoral votes next month. Later today, president elect biden will formally announce Pete Buttigieg as his nominee to be transportation secretary. That will be interesting. And this morning, were also getting new details about who else biden is selecting. Meantime, more than 3,000 new deaths reported from coronavirus overnight. Hospitalizations again reached record numbers. Obviously,