Million, representing more than a quarter of all cases globally. I want to bring in our Bloomberg Markets reporter, who has been on top of all of this action. What did you notice today, with more record highs it is the usual suspects that continue to lead the way. A story of tech outperformance again. Boarde higher across the when it comes to major averages, but the outperformance came from the nasdaq. A record high. It was up by more than 1. 5 . I want to highlight that even though tech stocks and stocks wasdly were higher, so gold. It has been the highest since 2011. 1800 an ounce. That creates safer assets. The tone is not all risk on. The tech has been a safety trade. They are benefiting from a world staying at home. Todays session was the largest of the large that were leading the way. Apple, amazon, facebook, all contributing the most to todays rally and all four of them closing at record highs today. From a valuation perspective, how overvalued does the tech market look . We are
Next few hours. The authorization would trigger the starting gun for trucks and planes to transport the vaccine to hundreds of hospitals across the country with shots going into arms perhaps as soon as monday. Todays fda meeting comes as an absolutely crucial time in the pandemic. 3,124 americans lost their lives to coronavirus just yesterday. That was the deadliest day since the pandemic began, and frankly, one of the deadliest days in history. More than 221,000 tested positive for the virus. A record 6,000 are hospitalized right now. During this treacherous time, our outgoing president regrettably steams entire focused on trying to undermine the results of the president ial election. Not helping the citizenry suffering because of his policy failures. Cnn policy correspondent Elizabeth Cohen is joining me. This is going on all day, the fda meeting, what have we learned so far . So, the fda, the Advisory Committee, jake, has been briefed by the fda, cdc, by pfizer, about the effectiven
Triggering a massive distribution operation thats expected to see vaccines ship within days. And the latest numbers reveal how desperately those doses are needed right now. More than 291,000 americans have now lost their lives to covid19. And tonight the country is facing more than 15. 5 million confirmed cases. That follows the single deadliest day of the pandemic since it erupted here in the United States in january more than 3,100 americans died in just 24 hours. Also breaking 106 House Republicans have just filed a brief in support of a bogus texas lawsuit seeking to overturn the president ial election. President trump just met over at the white house with state attorneys general supporting this effort. Lets get the very latest on this important fda vaccine meeting. Its critical whats going on right now. Cnns sara murray is working the story for us. If the panel votes to recommend the vaccine, full fda authorization, that could follow very, very quickly, right . Thats right. The fu
With 52,618 cases reported today. And at 5 more on the vaccine rollout from the Prime Minister, who will be joined by the ceo of the nhs Simon Stevens and brigadier phil prosser. Gp surgeries in england have begun offering the first dose of the Oxford Astra Zeneca covid 19 vaccine with the second dose to be given three months later. Vaccine with the second dose to be there had been concern in birmingham after leaders revealed the Pfizer Vaccine was going to run out tomorrow. But the citys mayor says hes been assured that from tomorrow, supplies of the Astra Zeneca Oxford vaccine will start to be delivered. Nhs england say nearly 20,000 second doses of the Pfizer Vaccine were administered between december 29th and january 3rd. 0verall, more than 308,000 people received a pfizerjab in the week ending sunday january 3rd. This takes the total number of people vaccinated in england since the rollout began to over 1. 3 million. Latest daily figures show there have been 52,618 more covid case
What is the state of the pandemic right now and what should people be thinking heading into winter . If there is a message you think the Community Needs to hear, you have a very attentive audience. Dr. Walensky thank you for having me back. I am delighted to have this on the radar of critical businesses and Business Owners in terms of where we are right now. You are right, we are in a different place than we were in may 2021 and we have traversed very hard terrain since that time. In terms of where we are now, we are tracking at the cdc 40,000 cases of covid every day. Hospital admissions are about 3200 and our deaths are between 350 and 400 per day. While that is markedly different then we have seen in some of our prior months, i am disturbed we are at 400 deaths a day and that continues. In terms of cases, we recognize we are testing, using pcr tests, up to 3 million every single day. Now with more and more use of rapid tests we are not tracking every case. But as a colleague of mine