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
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
About covert 19 vaccines. Fears for reading the refugees who are being moved to an island that aid groups say is dangerous. And people in indian administered kashmir accuse soldiers of widescale abuse which the army turn on is. A National Sport as a bron james signs an 85000000. 00 deal with the l. A. Lakers and finally one driver raymond version or a chance in the bahrain sakit scene of his horrifying crash just 4 days ago. But we begin with the corona virus pandemic now in a new phase with countries racing to approve vaccines but in some parts of the world the picture as you can see is getting worse with cases on the rise as winter approaches and since the start of the pandemic there. The more than 64000000 confirmed cases coming quite close to 65000000 there and nearly one and a half 1000000 people have died from the fire as well the United Nations is currently holding a special session of the General Assembly on covert 19 in his Opening Statements the secretary general antonio caet
15 in early december. Maybe in a couple of days. The bay area is projected to be mid to late december. Now, once in affect, bars, wineries, personal services, hair salons, barber shops must close. These things will stay open. Schools with a waiver. Critical infrastructure, retail 20 capacity, and restaurants can can be own for takeout and delivery. Meaning no more Outdoor Dining. The governor encouraged everyone to get outdoors for Mental Health and all nonessential travel is banned statewide, right now, no matter the region. A whole lot to unpack with our doctor who keeps us informed on the latest covid information on twitter. Thanks for joining us on this big day. Nice to be here. I want to do start with the governors stayathome order. How quickly do you see the bay area to reach the point. If we continue the surge, we may get there in the next couple of weeks. The hope is of course that we all turn this around. That people begin restricting some of their i have at thes even in advan
Rigor refugees who have been moved to a Remote Island thats prone to flooding. And indias army denies reports it carried out the prize attacks in kashmir the deaths of 2 some tips. To begin with the Coronavirus Crisis and the global death toll has now passed 1500000 with a 3rd of those in just the last 2 months the United Nations secretary general is once again calling for unified Global Response to the pandemic which is infected more than 65000000 people a number of countries have been reporting record high deaths among them italy thats despite the overall number of cases dropping just under a 1000 people died in the last 24 hours and the United States recorded its highest daily death toll on wednesday well than 2800 soaring infections at record hospitalizations a prompt a tougher measures including in the 2nd largest city. The choices between us are stark between health and sickness between care and apathy and yes between life and death for too many of the people that we love my mess