Update with top officials at the International Vaccine access center. This is 30 minutes. Welcome and thank you for joining us today. My name is ellen wilson and i will be the moderator for this expert briefing for the media hosted by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. This briefing will address vaccines for covid19. The world has made unprecedented strides in developing covid19 vaccine candidates quickly. Many with higher efficacy than anticipated. Bringing these vaccines from Clinical Trials to the general public would require many considerations. Todays briefing would tackle these questions, including how do scientists develop vaccines against covid19 in less than a year, and how do we know they are safe . Will there be enough for everybody in the u. S. . What about people in low and middle Income Countries . Be demandingerly vaccines. Others will not be. How do you determine who will get it first and how do you convince those who are hesitant about such a new vacc
To feel the Nervous Energy of the finalists and the champagne would be flowing. The kirkus prize isnt what you may imagine when you think of literary award ceremonies. There is no formal banquet or assigned seating. It is a Cocktail Party with a glamour and energy all on its own. Last year when Entertainment Weekly wrote about the major literary awards they referred to the kirkus prize as golden globes, fun and unpredictable and tonight we want to share that energy with you at home and give you a glimpse of what it is like to attend the ceremony in person. To that end our editor at large, megan, caught up with some of this years finalists so we could connect with them as as we were all at a party together. You can view the full conversations on kirkus. Com, but here is a sneak peek. A typical year we would all be gathered at the Austin Public Library for the ceremony, a Cocktail Party beforehand, everybody mingling. I wanted to ask whe could we find you as a finalis before the award ce
And chilly up in the north bay subfreezing for Napa Santa Rosa also 46 even for San Francisco in 35 for freeman inland. In the east bay temperatures in the middle to lower 30s. So for comparison. Yeah, were a little cooler this morning dry air calm winds clear skies. They we look for all those things for cold nights and it looks like for the day ahead, like this mostly sunny and temperatures bumped up a little bit of course as we get the daytime heating like this. It will be modest highs, 55 looks like by 11 and by 2 were looking at 60 well take a closer inspection or forecast in just a bit marty all right dave thanks a lot, lets get to the news breaking overnight police are still investigating a deadly shooting. At a sacramento mall it happened on black friday officers first got the reports of a shooting around 06 00pm last night at the Arden Fair Mall in sacramento. 2 people were shot and died at the mall, another at the hospital an hour later the victims were just 1719 years old the
To you live from the beautiful Central Public Library beautiful austin texas. In a typical year this would be filled with the brightest stars in america and around the country publishers agents with laughter you can feel the Nervous Energy and the champagne would be flowing the price is a what you might imagine thinking of literary award ceremonies the reasonably greater assigned seating come it is a Cocktail Party with the glamour and energy all its own. Has shown Entertainment Weekly wrote about the literary award referred to as go on golden globe to and to show that and give you claims of what it is like to attend the ceremony a person. Our editor at large caught up with issues final is to connect with them as if we were all at e Party Together you can view the full conversation at kirkus. Com. In a typical year will be the ceremony everybody mixing and mining so where could we find you as a finalist before the Award Ceremony . You can find me by the many dessert table. [laughter] s
Square today empty space that would usually be packed with visitors. San franciscos lack of tourists could mean cuts to programs that residents rely on. A brks krrbc 7 News Reporter me woodro has the story. Reporter suns around San Francisco say welcome, were open and visitors are few and far between. One of the campaigns is our gate is open. While that gate just got closed two days ago. Reporter steve rizzo is general manager at hotel g. The hotel has been closed for eight months. Rizzo estimates theyve lost 8 to 12 million in that time. I imagine that a lot of places are in the same boat as we are. Your cash flow runs out when you have no Revenue Source coming in. Reporter according to the quarterly status report released this month by the controllers office, the hotel tax is expected to drop 43. 4 million below the expected 126. 2 million. One of the things that visitors really do is help to pay the cost of living in San Francisco and without them, its going to be noticeable for all