She spoke at an event hosted by axios where topics included health care, expanded insurance access, and the rise of coronavirus cases in the United States. Hello and welcome to axios virtual event, health care 2021. Im sam baker, the Health Care Editor at axios coming to you from my home in washington, d. C. Id like to thank the crew for making this possible and id like to welcome our audience on facebook, youtube, twitter, linkedin and axios. Follow along at axios. Next 30 minutes we will unpack the best way to expand Health Insurance access and Health Insurance coverage in the United States an what that path forward looks like following the president ial election and in the midst of a pandemic thats getting worse every day. Our first guest is senator tina smith from minnesota. Senator, thank you so much for joining us. Thank you, sam. Its really terrific to be with everyone today. Id like to start off to just sort of frame this conversation. Obviously Health Care Access and coverage
Nearly 2,000 americans died of the deadly disease yesterday, the highest death toll since early may. As daily infections now top 100,000 for nine straight days. In fact, yesterday, 143,000 plus. Businesses are faltering so we are going to take you live to chicago, the city that may be the epicenter of the next major lockdown. Meanwhile, reliance on the cloud more important to business than ever before. And we talk to a ceo about how it clears the workfromhome runway of any debris for the biggest businesses in the world. This is a fox business exclusive and they are publicly traded. Baby yoda the hottest new star in disneys Magic Kingdom but will streamings popularity have the power to offset its shuttered parks when it reports earnings after the bell . Our power panel is about to give the mouse house stock an inspection. First, this fox business alert. Even Federal Reserve chairman jay powells measured calm and assurance that the recovery has been faster than expected, not enough to so
Were taking an ominous turn. Lets go to Jackie Deangelis following all of this and some of the restrictions being put in place to respond to this. Jackie. Reporter good afternoon to you, neil. Thats right. The market is lower because of spike in cases. Weve been talking about pretty much all week. That is after we got the news pfizer or biontech come to stronger conclusion on their vaccine it would be 90 effective. There are still so many questions about this. Today on mornings with maria the biontech founder talked about the vaccine, how long it might protect people. Roughly a year or so listen. Theres a good chance that the vaccine not only will protect us but could protect from infection or virulent infection for a significant period of time. I personally expect that the vaccine could protect us with, with protocol for a year. If we learn we need to reimmunize. We could do that after one year. Reporter meantime the pfizerbiontech vaccine was not the only one in the works, right . We
144,000, 65000 people hospitalized and we are averaging over a thousand deaths a day. A new round of restrictions would surely slow the economy and put more people out of work, heard even more with travel, retail and Entertainment Industries perhaps, thats one reason the market is selling this morning. After the huge recent gains the dow looks to be down about 200, s p down about 10. Look at the nasdaq with a modest bounce to the upside with the dana may be a quarter of a percent of the standout political headline comes from Bernie Sanders. He says yes, if offered the job of labor secretary in a biting next he would take it. On that, we will say this, varney co. Is about to begin. Stuart born to be wild, well i guess thats fairly appropriate. What you are looking at is rather empty new york city on a rainy thursday morning. Of course, its been half empty for about eight months and Governor Cuomo has more restrictions on businesses. Ashley, bring me up to speed. Ashley he certainly has.