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
Commissioner green . Present. Commission chow . Present. Commissioner guillermo, present. Ill note the commissioners. Thank you, mark. Well move on to the next item, which is approval of the minutes from the last Commission Meeting on january 5th. Commissioners, upon reviewing the minutes, are there any amendments . And if not, do we have a motion to approve . Before we go into the vote, i have to make sure there is nothing on the item. Thank you. And this is a general instruction, but you will press star 3 if youd like to raise your hand, and ill say the same introduction over and over again. Okay. So there is no comment at this time. Well vote. Commissioner chow. Yes. Commissioner green . Yes. Commissioner chong . Yes. Commissioner guillermo tkpwhrerpl . guillermo. And. Our next item is the directors report. Good afternoon, commissioners of health. This report focuses on covid19, and i will be providing an update and as well with regards to the current status of covid19 and our vacci
Good wednesday morning welcome to squawk alley. Im john for the with caro quintanilla and Julia Borstin well start with apple, a cost cut for Small Developers josh lipton breaks down the news for us. Here is how the new program is going to work its called the App Store Small Business Program it launches on january 1st and it does represent a big change here. Developers earning up to 1 million during the Previous Year will now be eligible for a commission of 15 on paid apps and inapp purchases, and that is half of apples Standard Commission apple says the new program will impact what it says is the vast majority of developers selling Digital Goods and services on the store. Tim cook saying in a statement the app store has been an engine of Economic Growth like none other, creating millions of new jobs and a pathway to entrepreneurship accessible to anyone with a great idea for investors this change is also important remember, the app store is critical for apple it accounts for an estima
Our first speaker is joanne mcneil, author of lurking, the inaugural winner of the art foundations art writing award for an emerging writer, resident at ivy, Logan Nonfiction Program fellow and instructor. Our next speaker will be sorry. Hang on. Sorry. I had the video open on my computer and sending my own words back to me. It was very confusing. Our second speaker will be Charlton Mcilwain, author of black software, the internet and Racial Justice. The vice provost of faculty engagement at New York University and professor of Media Communication at nyu steinberg school, our final speaker is author of the new laws of robotics, Robert Citino from the Yale Information Society project. So take it away, joann. Im happy to be on this panel with two others i really appreciate and a topic im sure we have so much to say about. There is something of a history. There are many things to look at and representative of missed opportunities. I wanted to focus on ten or 12 years ago, the time of the
Roberts court more than any other Supreme Court justice in the recent history john roberts has played a defining role to change our free speech law writing twice as many majority opinions in anyny colleagues b a once philosophicl and tactical 95 percent of those cases decided it is 15 years roberts has been in theaj majority so there is Something Special about this area of cases that speaks to how john roberts sees the court in the First Comprehensive report ron and david each of published looking at those 56 cases handed down by the Roberts Court the authors eyeopening study provides a l detailed look at of the justices differing approaches in here to tell us are the authors and david henson who serves as a legal fellow with individual rights and education with the freedom form is to. Larissa is dean and leading professor of lot university of Missouri School of law where the focus of the research and teaching is tort law and First Amendment with emphasis on freespeech issues and socia