And also Johnson Johnson, just releasing the results from its phase three trials. Saying in its announcement it is 66 Efficacy Rate overall. 85 against severe disease. Still notably lessective than the vaccines from pfizer and moderna. What does the biden team say about that . The White House Press secretary just said this morning that President Biden is encouraged by the data coming out from j j but also said that the politicians will leave it to the scientists who we should hear from any moment. While were standing by. Lets bring in Elizabeth Cohen following the latest developments. So on this announcement from Johnson Johnson, what are they saying . Basically the bottom line here, kate, is that this vaccine does work well against covid 19, this j j vaccine. Im going to jump in. Andy slavic, one of the members of the Covid Response team is beginning the briefing now. On both the successes and the hurdles we face. I hope on these calls, that the public will get a regular and consisten
Milestone, 6. 8 million cases, 200,000 atsorth world wnd the combined. U. S. , about onefourth to one fifth of the worlds number of cases. Although we do have a big popul population but overrepresents in the number of cases. So we want to explore what is happening there and we have a doctor with the Johns Hopkins University Center for Health Security who will be us or we had him, lost him, getting him back. We want to talk about flu season coming up, a lot of doctors fear the twindemic. We want to check in with dr. Alok patel who talked about the importance of the flu shot. Lets get right to dr. Patel because i got my flu shot yesterday, right . I posted about it on social media and i was flabbergasted at some of the responses i got. And ight, w t dress th i not controversial that i got a flu shot and i got some really earnest responses, dr. Patel, from people who were spreading myths about the flu shot and i just want to clear this up with you today. So one of the first myths that som
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Revenue loss there that were seeing in that first fiscal year. Then this is where it gets intricate. A portion of those revenues that we are adjusting directly within our proposal, and that includes the dsfg baseline revenues. In addition, the Mayors Office did assume as part of its projections losses in primary care, Behavioral Health, and Population Health as well. So in addition, there are other revenues that were managed such as 1991 realignment that goes to support our budget, but we its not something that we manage centrally. So that sort of 59 million of negative that you see in that balancing sheet, its part of this 132 that you see here. So what im doing is essentially matching some of the losses that we have. We did have some improvement over this assumption. Even though the instructions, i think, were issued in the middle of may, i think may 18th, and we did work with the Mayors Office in early may, a lot has happened in those six months since we submitted our initial projec