Vaccines for the u. S. Before sending them to other countries it coincides with reports that his administration actually rejected an early offer from pfizer to double its order of the vaccines more on this from washington with mike hanna. Its clear that this executive order comes from the differences between pfizer and his administration and the refusal of the administration to commit to buying more than 100000000 doses at the time that it could the executive order ports to insist that all americans must be treated before any doses go internationally well this is simply an in forcible it would appear has signed a large number of International Contracts as has the other company but these companies contracts already in place in some cases doses have already been shipped internationally so certainly this is something that would be very hard to legally enforced president tran claims that he may invoke the National Procurement act seldom used. To force companies to actually comply but its v
Covert 19 but in mexico theres a mammoth task as authorities outlined a strategy to immunize over 100000 people by the end of this year and in other news ethiopia says a u. N. Team visiting particularly the region is shocked that after not stopping to check its. In the United States code 1000 cases have now passed 15000000 with no slowdown in sight even with the Pfizer Vaccine rollout beginning across the atlantic in the u. K. Any response in america is a long way off however the countrys leaders current and future are promising a way out starting with president elect joe biden he says hes going to get a grip on the pandemic once he is sworn in on january 20th he has announced a medical team to tackle it and hes got a plan for the 1st 100 days of the. This team this team will help get at the latest at the last 100000000 covert 19 vaccine at least 100000000 covert vaccine shots into the arms of the American People in the 1st 100 days 100000000 shots in the 1st 100 days now the u. S. Has
Under attack because the coronavirus pushes the economy closer to the brink of collapse. More lives have now been lost to the pandemic of coronavirus on u. S. Soil than all of the americans killed over the nearly 2 decade long vietnam war a tally by Johns Hopkins University Also shows the death toll has gone beyond 58300. 00 and more than a 1000000 people have been infected total confirmed 1000000. 11 total deaths 58343. 00 total test results that we know of in the us 5000000 776000 almost 8000000 lets go live now to washington d. C. And our correspondent mike hanna mike some grim statistics to deal with this. Indeed e. S. P. Turn other grim statistic that the death toll in the corona virus epidemic in the u. S. Is now surpassed that suffered during the vietnam war as it goes past a 1000000 President Trump still insisting that the testing protocol is working affectively this despite the opinion of many Health Officials that states opening up to early at great risk without proper testin
All good. Im chris cuomo. We need to fight through as much of the uncertainty as we can. I know youre asking how did this go from 15 days to hearing about plans for more than 18 months . And yes, we are now hearing that the young arent in the clear. We are seeing cases pop up abroad and here too and some of them are bad cases. What changed . Heres the good news. We have the nations top coronavirus medic, dr. Fauci is here tonight. Okay . Hes a trusted source for information. Hes always been straight with me. Ive known him a long time. We also have obama Homeland Security chief jeh johnson here. Another trusted source. What does he say about what we can do to build capacity . How big a problem are we facing . He knows. And Dallas Mavericks owner and business titan mark cuban weighing in to help us understand whats going on in the markets and what he wants you to know about what the right and wrong fixes are Going Forward. Listen, for all the uncertainty, we know we have tough days ahead
Tomorrow 8 p. M. Our town hall. Now over to chris cuomo. Appreciate it. All good. Im chris cuomo. We need to fight through as much of the uncertainty as we can. I know youre asking how did this go from 15 days to hearing about plans for more than 18 months . And yes, we are now hearing that the young arent in the clear. We are seeing cases pop up abroad and here too and some of them are bad cases. What changed . Heres the good news. We have the nations top coronavirus medic, dr. Fauci is here tonight. Okay . Hes a trusted source for information. Hes always been straight with me. Ive known him a long time. We also have obama Homeland Security chief jeh johnson here. Another trusted source. What does he say about what we can do to build capacity . How big a problem are we facing . He knows. And Dallas Mavericks owner and business titan mark cuban weighing in to help us understand whats going on in the markets and what he wants you to know about what the right and wrong fixes are Going Fo