Secretary this week, sharing a bleak Economic Outlook if the u. S. Fails to act. Listen. Its an american tragedy, and its essential to move with urgency. Inaction will produce a selfreinforcing downturn causing yet more devastation. David meanwhile, novembers Unemployment Rate comes down to 6. 7 . Thats good news. But the new job numbers were disappointing, signaling that the recovery is slowing a bit. And no wonder considering the determination of some local and state leaders to keep people from resuming normal life with draconian lockdown orders that call for even more restrictions. Listen. Regions where the icu capacitity is falling below 15 , we are now mandating that we are implementing a stayathow many order for three weeks. David the nations economic fate really hinging on the period of delivering the covid19 vaccine. But a slight setback there as well as pfizer admit es theyll be slashing their vaccine rollout target in half after a supply chain problem. More on that later in t
Healthy as any of us can possibly be given the truly crazy world in which we live at the moment. I am scott henkel, i am the director of the wyoming institute and im so happy to welcome you to tonights thing can drink. The topic of which is, pandemic and historical perspectives. So i am so happy to introduce dr. Melissa morris who is assistant professor of history in american studies here at the university of wyoming and a member of the Humanities Research institute here committee who will be a moderator tonight and who will introduce our speakers. So please wear. Thank you, scott. And thank you to all of our panelists for agreeing to participate. Who i know our later time zones so thank you for sticking with us. And of course to all of you out there tuning in in some form or another. Im just going to do a brief introduction to our panelists and then i will let them each talk for a couple of minutes more about how their work intersects with what we are doing tonight. We so first we hav
New year will be different this year. Just this week then your Governor Andrew Cuomo defended his mandates. This Holiday Season is the problem, this is not a political issue, this is not a normal thanksgiving, keep your children home, close businesses, stay home, stay home, stay home. Gerry i think you got that message loud and clear, many businesses the next few weeks are usually crucial for the ability to thrive or survive, we spend a disproportionate amount of our income on this. Every year, but its coming at a time when the coronavirus maybe hitting the maximum spread and a few months before the widespread availability of vaccinations. Companies especially small firms that have been entered badly damage now face potentially exponential threat, we will take a detailed look on how the pandemic and the lockdown has affected key sectors of the economy and what future there might be when this is all over. Consumer spending accounts for more than two thirds of total Economic Activity in
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One of the windows of the capitol. She was also accused of using a bull horn to direct rioters. This all comes as were days away from the start of trumps second Impeachment Trial. One person we wont be seeing or hearing from, however, is donald trump himself. His defense team confirming trump wont testify. A new reaction this morning from congressman ruben gallegos. Well, this is more a typical trump move. This is not about defending his presidency, its not about defending his actions, its about, again, dividing america. Its a very cynical move because he believes and he understands the Republican Senate is not going to hold him accountable. Theres a lot of new information to run through with the trio of nbc reporters and we will begin with nbcs mike memoli, joining us from wilmington, delaware, where President Biden is spending his weekend. Mike, welcome to you. In the past few minutes were learning more from the white house on the former president and intel briefings. What do you kno