More than 25 million confirmed cases of covid19 and more than 430,000 deaths across this country. Accounting for 25 of of the confirmed cases and 20 of deaths worldwide. While cases hospitalizations and deaths at have slightly decrd in the last few weeks, the numbers continued to be staggering. Now there is great concern of varied and more transmissible strains of the virus may become dominant over the coming weeks leading to a further worsening of the pandemic. Todays report comes as president Bidens Administration launches an aggressive effort to combat the pandemic and Congress Considers additional aid to bolster the Public Health response and jumpstart the economy. The future of Health Care Initiative released its first report of bipartisan prescription for Americas Health care in february 2020 Offering Practical Solutions designed to make healthcare coverage more affordable without adding a growing Systemwide Health expenditures. Todays report was led by a Bipartisan Group of heal
Centers event on the nations response to the coronavirus pandemic. I serve as the chief medical advisor. Today the Bipartisan Policy Centers future is releasing a new report. You can find this report at bipartisanpolicy. Org. That is bipartisanpolicy. Org. Since the beginning of the pandemic a year ago, there has been more than 25 million confirmed cases of covid19 and more than 430 cases deaths across the country, accounting for 25 of deaths worldwide. While cases, hospitalizations and deaths have slightly decreased, the numbers continue to be staggering and there is great concern variants, more transmissible strains of the virus, may become dominant over the coming weeks leading to a further worsening of the pandemic. Todays report comes as president Bidens Administration launches an effort to combat the pandemic in Congress Considers additional aid to bolster the response and jumpstart the economy. The initiative released its first report, bipartisan subscription for health care in
To hospitals across the country anticipating their final. Now, more on this process. Reporter hey, maria teresa. Good evening to you. We are getting some new information from fedex about kind of their operations from today. What we know is that it is wheels down and then right back up. There are Freight Cargo Airliners right behind us here with the vaccine on, and they were here earlier today. They were able to transfer over into trucks and to other airplanes and go right back up again to other hubs and other routes across the country, like we mentioned some 636 sites total. Now, when it comes to all of this that goes into it, youll see here in this footage provided by fedex, it is a very urgent process but a delicate one. Each box has its own subzero housing to keep the temperature really low. It also has a tracker in it. There is Security Escort provided to these shipments, and of course faa is providing priority to any air flights going out that house the vaccine. And of course this
A new terrorist World Leaders to address the Climate Emergency in what he says would be the defining task of the 21st century a new report on wednesday found 2020 is on track to be the 2nd hottest year on record. The United Nations has reached an agreement with ethiopia to allow aid into government controlled areas of the t. Grier region for weeks the un has been warning of a possible humanitarian crisis due to the conflict between at a sabah and t. Grab rebel forces tens of thousands of civilians of ready fled the fighting into neighboring sudan. This is the news from berlin follow us on twitter and instagram at the top news of visit our website t w dot com. As the world enters what is predicted to be a long pin dimmick winter there is a deadly disconnect the euphoria over a Coronavirus Vaccine although no vaccine has been delivered yet see the u. K. And the exploding death toll from coburg 19 people losing their lives by the thousands see the United States 2 parallel tracks and there
Four weeks, so through december 21st. First lets bring in the Public Health officer for Alameda County, dr. Nicholas moss to talk about some of these. Dr. Moss, i want to congratulate you. I know you have been in this role on an interim basis but made permanent this week. Thank you. Thank you very much. Its a big job ahead. I want to ask you, what do you think of the statewide curfew . Is it a good idea . Were still waiting to hear the secretarys remarks and get a sense of the details of what the state has in mind, but i would say more broadly were supportive of everything that the state of california is trying to do to keep californians safe, and we think its good for our residents here in Alameda County and across the region to really take a cautious approach to covid, especially with this surge. But again, still waiting to hear the details about this latest set of restrictions. Yeah, still waiting for the details. We know based on what we were able to learn its not as severe and all