People who study pipework health have been saying listen, this is going to happen. Its only a matter of time. This is a message from the governments chief medical officer coronavirus. You should now only go out to an absolutely necessary for food medicine, work or exercise. Always try to stay 2 meters apart, to not meet others outside your household, even friends and family. I think this disease is remarkably infectious, even compared to influenza in the flu. And so even though we were prepared, were almost overrun by the ferocity of the pandemic. Is highly transmissible, like all the crying about it, which would only cause a common cold. You know, if youre in the room with someone with a cold, youre likely to get the cold. But the problem with this virus is it doesnt stop in the nose. It doesnt stop in the long. It can spread very rapidly into the rest of the body. And thats why it is such a dramatic disease portobello road in the heart of Londons Notting Hill district, normally packe
Which raises even more questions and concerns of the residents here in kabul about the security in the city which has been deteriorating throughout a very, very long time. How could this happen with all those checkpoints, with those glimpse on the sky of kabul, but they have been monitoring the security situation and what happened this morning, really, it really felt like the capital was under attack. I spoke with people who even thought that there was a military coup. Others felt that the taliban were trying to take over the city because for 10 minutes nobody knew what was happening. It was just and i could watch from my window. It was just contact constant explosions and things landing across the city. There were fathers who grab their babies and they try to hide behind refrigerators. Praying that today will not be the day that their baby will die. And all these rockets have landed in the heart of kabul, our very crowded areas, residential areas, and the kabul is not a stranger to ca
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These children are dying because society has yet to decide that their lives are worth saving. Woodruff and, its friday. Mark shields and david brooks analyze the president s refusal to concede, and what a Joe Biden Administration could look like. All that and more, on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by moving our economy for 160 years. Bnsf, the engine that connects us. Fidelity wealth management. Consumer cellular. Financial Services Firm raymond james. Johnson johnson. The john s. And james l. Knight foundation. Fostering informed and engaged communities. More at kf. Org. And with the ongoing support of these institutions and friends of the newshour. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Woodruff covid19 set all kinds of records in the u. S. This week, and none was good. Just days after passing 100,000 new cases a day, the u. S. R
Access to the vaccine be part of these discussions . I think leaders are very much going to be focused on cooperation to finding a way to distribute the vaccine and not necessarily on competition. Those may well be conversations held between countries that have announced that they are competing to become the 1st. But remember, the United States is the one most notably who has said it will not participate in an international effort. Now there has been a letter addressed to the g. , 20 by several leaders, including the head of the w. H. O. , the world health organization, and signed by commission. President Ursula Vander lion asking g. 20 leaders to make up a funding shortfall of 4500000000. 00 in a w. H. O. Program that would ensure equitable, equitable distribution around the world of a vaccine. So i think that thats what, what the push is going to be not to focus on the competitions, the, the, you know, sort of horse race that weve seen, but rather on getting everyone on the same page