Is detected in the United States just as there are new predictions of a much higher potential death toll. Donald trump left the white house, but many republicans are refusing to leave him. We have the latest as some Party Members swear their loyalty to the former president. And the sub reddit page that has wall street in a spin. The latest on gamestops Crazy Ride On wall street. Live from cnn World Headquarters in atlanta, welcome to all of you watching here in the United States, canada and around the world. Im Kim Brunhuber. This is cnn newsroom. A new forecast warns that more contagious strains of the coronavirus could cause an additional 85,000 deaths in the u. S. By may. The first two cases of the variant first detected in south africa have now been confirmed in the u. S. Its already circulating in at least 30 other countries. Two americans who have it dont know each other and havent traveled abroad. Now this variant may make at least one potential new vaccine less effective. Drug
Elizabeth cohen. She joins us with the breaking details. What do you have, elizabeth . Alisyn, so the bottom line here is that we may soon have a third vaccine in the United States. We already have pfizer, moderna and with these results, its almost certain Johnson Johnson will be applying for Emergency Use Authorization from the fda. The bottom line, this vaccine does not seem to be as effective as pfizer or moderna but has impressive results and is still useful. Lets go over these specific numbers. The Johnson Johnson trial data shows that when you are looking at moderate to severe cases of covid19, it was 66 effective at putting preventing those, whereas moderna and pfizer was 95 . Those two were 95 . Thats a significant difference. If you look at preventing severe cases of covid19, which is the more important one, right . We dont want people in the hospital. We dont want people in the icu or dying. Johnson johnson was 85 effective at preventing severe cases. Moderna and pfizer were
Chair fewer this is the november 18, 2020 rescheduled budget and finance committee meeting. I am sandra lee fewer, chair of the budget and finance committee. I am joined by supervisors Shamann Walton and raphael mandelman. Madam clerk, do we have any announcements . Clerk yes. [agenda item read]. Chair fewer thank you very much. Madam clerk, can you please call item number one. Clerk yes. Item one, retroactive hearing on updates related to the economic landscape f [inaudible] on march 1, 2021 through february 28, 2022. Members of the public who wish to provide Public Comment should call 4154550001, enter meeting i. D. 1467347302. Press pound, and pound again, and press star, three to enter the queue. Chair fewer thank you very much. We have the department of Public Health. Colleagues, you may remember, we heard this item and continued it to today to get some more demographic information on our hiv and aids. These are the areas that we understood you were interested in hearing more abou
Thats right. So the question this morning is, what does this all mean for you . Obviously, these numbers are going to give people some pause in terms of choosing perhaps this vaccine. Dr. Fauci says vaccines, though, still, whatever you can get, the best way to keep this virus from evolving further. Officials in South Carolina also have just confirmed the nations first cases of the south africa variant. The new model shows the pandemic could claim nearly 654,000 lives by may 1st. Lets begin with the j j breaking news. Our senior medical correspondent Elizabeth Cohen is with us. Can you explain what that means for everyone watching . The bottom line is, if the Johnson Johnson vaccine gets authorization from the fda and you are looking for a vaccine, and youve looked for moderna and pfizer, which are better, theres no question, but you cant find them because theres not enough of them but you can get Johnson Johnson, experts are telling me, get it. Do not hesitate to get it. It is still a
Symposium director and the director for the peace and war center. At the universities and Global Resilience Center for global insecurities and the peace and war center and in the initiative for the university. The 2020 military writers award. We would like to mention a couple of details before i introduced hiintroducing and wet the award. For those of you that are not familiar with the award we created a special video that provides context and background to the award from the previous recipients and we ask that you go to the website. The link to the website has been put out on chat and take a couple of minutes after the presentation to watch the video we would also like to ask you go to the page in the military writers symposium website. You will see theyve given an introduction to the symposium this is why we are doing some of the things we are doing right now in this particular theme. As you can imagine this is the inaugural event virtually we bring the guests and authors here to the