Good morning. The committee has come to order. One thing, i want to thank the witnesses for your testimony. Those appearing in person, traveling to d. C. To give it orally, and, also, answer our questions. The title of this hearing now is, i guess, examining the u. S. Approach to early covid19 treatments. I thought it was i originally set out a title of early treatments for covid, a essential component of a covid solution. It was inevitable that the coronavirus pandemic to be politicized into the tragedy it was. From the start, i knew it was impossible to have a perfect response. We were facing a new virus. No one wanted to underreact, and as a result i feared the tendency would be overreact. The challenges facing us were daunting. Our National Strategic stockpile had been reduced during the h1n 1 pandemic. It took time to develop a test. The fact that a large percentage of people that become infected exhibit no symptoms made the coronavirus even more difficult to detect and contain. I
Everybody thanks for being here on kron 4 news at 9 im grant lotus and im justine waltman in for vicki tonight. Now Assemblymember Phil ting and other members of a San Francisco delegation are calling on superintendents in their districts. To reopen schools as soon as possible this is new coronavirus cases reach new heights in the last 24 hours. The country has reported more than 195,000 new covid cases and close to a 100,000 patients are currently in the hospital because of covid this is according to the covid tracking project in california nearly 21,000 new cases were reported in a single day. This is the most new cases recorded in a single day in the state since the pandemic started california has recorded more than a million total cases so far. In the bay area more than 153,000 cases have been recorded and nearly 2000 people have died. And despite a surge in infections, a San Francisco delegation has now sent letters to several School Districts in the bay area demanding that school
The information is not coming from the people who matter most. Plus, six months in space. Tonight meet the astronaut whos been there, done that. And good evening its rare that we get from the government an unfiltered uncensured true view of whats going on with coronavirus. Nbc just got one the White House Coronavirus task forces latest report delivers a sobering assessment of the pandemics trajectory. It describes aggressive, unrelenting, expanding, Broad Community spread across america thats getting worse, not better the task force reports efforts to stop covid are inadequate and the curve must be flattened to sustain the Health System for both covid and noncovid emergencies. In short, the virus is out of control, the Emergency Health care system is in danger of collapse and the white house knows it the task force is alerting thanksgiving can make things worse urging the states to warn their people not to gather, to wear face coverings and socially distance, the report dated on sunday
A meeting government ministers for a 2nd round of talks as protests intensify against proposed laws on farm produce they say that theyll keep demonstrating for the go see a sions on tuesday ended without agreement and is withdraw to reports. To eat the lunch provided by the government and brought their own lunch meanwhile the protests are continuing on 3 major highways coming into the indian capital one of them with thousands of farmers tens of thousands of pharmacy using hundreds of to block these key highways theyre being joined by more and more protesters from states which dont think protest is arriving from the states or by just down from the states of. Bangladesh has begun to transfer hundreds of ring the refugees to the island of. Which the un warns is prone to cyclons and floods at least 10 buses carrying around 400. 00 people have left cox is bizarre. More than 2700 people in the u. S. Have died from corona virus in the past 24 hours thats the highest daily death toll since apr
Abuse but the army says theyre making it up. Thank you for joining us we begin with the coronavirus pandemic now in a new phase with countries racing to pull vaccines but in some parts of the world the picture is getting worse with cases on the rise as winter approaches since the start of the pandemic have been more than 64000000 confirmed cases and nearly 1500000 deaths iran is now the hardest hit country in the middle east and has passed 1000000 confirmed cases over 1000 has killed almost 50000 people there are the Health Minister says the actual number of deaths is probably much higher iran introduced tougher restrictions to counter a 3rd wave of infections which included closing nonessential businesses russia has reported more than 28000 new infections. On thursday the highest spike yet the 2nd largest city St Petersburg has announced restrictions around the new Year Holidays indonesia meanwhile is seeing a record daily rise in cases reporting more than 8300 on thursday and several