Im steve clemons, editor at large of the hill thank you for joining us for covid19 and a responsible rx supply chain, looking at the resiliency of the Prescription Drug supply chain during a global pandemic. Id like to thank the distribution alliance. The coronavirus pandemic has upended our lives and forced the new normal upon us. While accommodations can be made for our lifestyle choices theres little legibility when it comes to our health care. For those most at riskexaccess to regular medication isnt a choice and in some cases its a matter of life and death. Both the Healthcare System and patience have changed their behaviors. As a consequence concerns have arisen regarding drug availability and shortages. What are stakeholders doing o to ensure that disruptions do not occur and there is collaboration between the public and private sectors and what plans are being put in place for distribution of this vaccine once it becomes available . We discuss all of this with some of the smart
Thank you for joining us today. Were here with governor larry hogan of maryland to talk about the challenges weve faced as a country, grappling with the covid pandemic and some things that maryland has done to deal with their epidemic of covid spread. This is a time with the Intelligence Committee long warning us of the risk and put it on par with weapons of mass destruction and counterterrorism and cyber attack. As much as we thought we were prepared as a nation, we found going through this episode at that we really didnt have all the preparations that we thought we had. And weve been unable to find as a nation a medium between allowing this virus to spread in a way thats causing a lot of death and suffering, and strict lockdown, something thats acceptable to enough people that we can implement some kind of an approach that enough people find socially and culturally and economically acceptable. So were continuing to see spread around the nation particularly in the south right now. Mar
And then the counter intuitive ones that took us all by surprise the dow did 205 and nasdaq lost 1. 27 . Its important to go over the companies that shocked this year with the outperformance and those that continue to shock want obvious winners are, well, obvious. People are hanging out at facebook as theyre ordering from amazon, search on google. And it didnt take a chance to figure out that the shut down would force people to use the internet if i werent jimmy chill in real life, i would be jealous of the titans even though the ceos are about to be drawn in court on the house judiciary subcommittee im torn because the Big Tech Companies their platforms arguably have too much market power. No kidding they got it by being good at what they do thats captaitalism. Theyve done better job responding to the pandemic than the government but forget the obvious covid winners. I want to talk about the big surprise the things people are doing when you cant go to the movies or ball game or ship y
Hear from mike roman later on today, july has been very good i think you will continue to get a positive from housing, this horton number is the number people should be focusing on because it was stellar you will get a lot of people talking about how there is a lot of good news in anything involving personal fun, polaris, but just were just in such dim tidings when it comes to aero space thats what im focused on greg hayes, 2023, oh, my. You were just talking about that and then iata, the International Air transport association is saying 2024 for precovid traffic levels they also point out that airlines are adding capacity, jim, ahead of demand which is coming back slower than they thought. Personal travel, people want toful tra, we know that. Great Conference Call by American Express on friday about what people want to do, but the Business Travelers is where they make all the money and the Business Traveler is zooming they just arent going i dont know what its going to take to bring t
Tiktok positive covid19 treatment news eli lilly starting phase three of an antibody drug. Well get into that and we have better than expected manufacturing data which along with better than feared earnings is helping lift sentiment. Were on record close watch for the nasdaq 59 minutes left trade. We certainly are. Its up 1. 6 lots to come on todays show well discuss the fast moving developments in the talk between microsoft and tiktok and what a mean would mean for other social media stocks with chris kelly. The plus, big Testing Companies like quest and lab corps warn of back logs and delays, well talk to Gravity Diagnostics ceo we have big Earnings Reports coming your way. Virgin galactic, taketwo and chegg and more well bring you the numbers as they cross and analysis as well. Lets focus in on the big stories. Mike santoli tracking todays market action. Mike, lets start with you. Not far off session highs really not that far all time highs. About 3 below that right now. And weve ki