For a vaccine. U. S. Pharmaceutical giant pfizer has announced it has begun testing an experimental vaccine in humans in the u. S. , that, a crucial step, but a lot of steps involved with this. Lets get to elizabeth cohen. Lets begin on this modeling here. It is a model that the white house has relied on. And now it says in effect doubling the death rate, how do they get to that number . They look at what were doing, actually, jim. Thats what they look at. They say how much are we social distancing, how much are we staying at home, and if it looks like were not doing it as much as we used to, not a surprise, the number of deaths are going to go up. Lets take a look at those numbers. Also at a second model. So what this showed, this is from the university of washington, that model you referred to that the Trump Administration relied on, theyre saying more than is 134,000 deaths between now and august 4th previously they had said 72,433. Much of the reason for that difference, why is it
Victory for footballer Marcus Rashford, Whose Campaign to extend Free School Meals in england this summer has prompted a major government u turn. And the English Premier League makes a return on wednesday, but what will it be like without the fans . The World Health Organization has welcomed the results of a Clinical Trial in britain that showed a widely available steroid dramatically lowered mortality rates in patients with severe covid 19 symptoms. The who called the research on the drug dexamethasone, a life saving scientific breakthrough. It said it was the first treatment shown to cut mortality in serious cases. Our medical correspondent fergus walsh reports. For those laid low by covid 19, for the very sickest hospital patients, at last a drug that can tip the odds in their favour. 6,000 nhs Covid Patients were part of the trial and the results were so overwhelmingly positive, they were rushed out days after the study was completed. It found that dexamethasone saves one life for
The Trump Administration takes legal action to prevent the publication of a memoir by the president s former National Security advisorjohn bolton. And riding solo on a rollercoaster, theme parks are working out how to stay covid secure when they finally re open, but will the visitors return . The English Premier League makes a return later on wednesday. Aston villa will take on sheffield united, and Manchester City will play arsenal in the first matches since the beginning of march. 92 matches are being packed in to a0 days before the end of the season. But therell be no spectators in the grounds as our Sports Editor dan roan reports. Its the same competition but with a new look. Banners and seat coverings in place of supporters and the only fans inside, projected onto giant screens. We were granted exclusive access to villa park as it prepares to host the premier leagues eagerly awaited return and the man in charge here told me how much it meant. We do have the eyes of the world on us
To them. So this is a constant effort to fight back those attackers and also find other tools of National Security to hopefully deter this activity which is clearly very damaging. Nbcs chief Foreign Affairs correspondent Andrea Mitchell has the latest. Good morning, jose. This is believed to be the biggest cyber attack in u. S. History, targeting 4. 2 million current and former employees. It could be more. Who did it . U. S. Officials tell nbc news most likely china. Today the government is scrambling after a massive hack into personal information names, Social Security numbers, birthdays. For millions of current and former government workers. If proved to be from china, the u. S. Would likely retaliate. There are all sorts of ways that we can retaliate. But through diplomatic means and perhaps by giving whoever is behind this if we can determine that for certain a taste of their eenown medicine. The government is telling employees to monitor their Bank Accounts and offering Identity T
Sunday. What do you tell the person who is going to get deported before the election that the decision was essentially made in your hopes of saving a Democratic Senate . Thats not the reason. To react to this and immigration super panel of sorts the codirector of dream action coalition, frank cherry, the executive director of americas voice, and Vice President of immigration policy for the center for American Progress all joining me this morning. Thank you. Er cerica, as a dreamer, your mother is facing deportation as we speak. What do you tell her today and how do we in the world that arent personally affected by this, to react . Its, i mean, its a tough situation because to me, you know, theres a promise that happened again that, you know, if there is going to be a delay of the announcement to happen after elections, you know, to me its just hard to believe now and to trust the president. It is going to, you know, my mom has to turn or go back to i. C. E. On december and so its a lit