Judy and its friday, mark shields and david brooks analyze the president s refusal to concede. And what a Joe Biden Administration could look like. All that and more on tonights pbs newshour. Announcer major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by [music] moving our economy for 160 years. Bnsf. The engine that connects us. Consumer cellular. Financial Services Firm raymond james. Johnson johnson. Fostering informed and engaged communities. More at kf. Org. Announcer and with the ongoing support of these institutions. Announcer and friends of the newshour. Announcer this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Judy covid19 set all kinds of recordin the u. S. This week and none was good. Just days after passing 100,000 new cases a day, the u. S. Reported 153,000 yesterday, more than 67,000 people are hospitalized. A record for a third raight day. The country has averaged near
Thank you for joining me for covid19 and a responsible rx supply chain, a look at the prescription chain during a global pandemic. Id like to thank our sponsor the Health Distribution alliance for support of todays program. The pandemic has upended our lives and forced a new normal upon us. While accommodations can be made for our lifestyle choices theres little likability when it comes to our healthcare. When patients for chronic diseases have access to regular medication it isnt a choice and in some cases its amatter of life and death. Both the Healthcare System and patients have changed their behaviors. As a consequence concerns and fears have arisen surrounding drug availability and shortages. What are stakeholders doing to ensure disruptions do not occur and theres collaboration between the public and private sectors and what plans are being put in place for distribution of this corona vaccine once it becomesavailable . We discuss all of this with some of thesmartest minds in Heal
Dorsey, and alphabets sundar pichai, are set to testify virtually tomorrow. Section 230hange could have longterm ramifications on free speech on the internet. Banned news political ads. We will ask Cambridge Analytica whistleblower as part of our special electioneering series. First, lets get a read on stocks and microsoft results. Abigail doolittle with us from new york. Big beats out of the gate. Abigail in the after hours, they are trading higher. Although i think what we are about to look at could be all over the map at the moment. They are talking about the idea that further lockdowns could hurt demands. Their Cloud Business was weak. Microsoft Cloud Business very strong. That was a piece of the beat. Maybe part of the business that could have gone to microsoft. Again, after hours, this stock is trading higher on the year. Valuation is rich, but the theter is good enough that stock is doing just fine. The s p 500 index and the dow down once again. The nasdaq climbed sharply higher
What plans are put in place for distribution of the Coronavirus Vaccine once it becomes available. We will discuss this and more, a few housekeeping notes, at the hill events, the hashtag, special letters, thehillrx supply chain. We will take question throughout the program and i look forward to those. If you experience trouble live stream refreshing it will work i hope. My first guest is National Health expert and respond to the frontlines and implementation of the Affordable Care act, governor secretary Kathleen Sebelius is the ceo of sibelius resources which provide strategic advice to nonprofits that is my go to person when it comes to issues of knowing what a smart Healthcare System looks like. Let me just ask you, you oversaw many of the institutions we are looking at to save this country whether it is pushing the time curve on developing a vaccine and distributing it or how you approve various dimensions of this therapeutic, what would you say is going well, what would you say h
Get started let me center best wishes for a speedy recovery to President Trump, the first lady, as well as all the officials who work closely with the president. One month out from november 3 americans across the country have already started voting in the most important president ial election in a generation. President elect joe biden for reelected President Donald Trump will face a double digit unemployment situation and a global pandemic, a reckoning on racial inequality and a divided nation. The one institution that could help address these problems is the federal government. The federal government needs to be effective if it will deliver for the American People. That is why preparation and planning today is critical for effectiveness on january 20. Regardless of your wins a smooth transition this year is not enough in this year we need the best transition ever in american history. Should Vice President biden win the challenges are truly daunting. In normal times a new president fac