Now, ahead. Vice president harris heads to the sun belt ready to fire up voters in Battleground Georgia as a state gop official says the race is tighter because of her. And israel sends tanks and troops into the west bank adding even more anger and instability in the region. Good to be with you. Im katy tur in for andrea mitchell. Jack smith has filed a new Superseding Indictment against donald trump for allegedly trying to overturn the 2020 election. While he doesnt add new charges, jack smith recasts his case as a prosecution of a Candidate Running for office, trying to work around the Supreme Court decision that gives president s broad immunity for, quote, official acts while in office. Gone are the conversations donald trump had with the doj. Gone is the primary reference to him as the 45th president. Instead, hes mainly described as a candidate and changed is coconspirators like Rudy Giuliani are described, they are, quote, private attorneys. Will that be enough . We have analysis
Challenges involved in rolling out covid19 vaccines across the country. They will also discuss the opportunities for the Biden Harris Administration to deliver a rapid coordinated response to covid19, that includes strategic use of vaccines to protect more people. The speakers will bring a sciencebased perspective on these and other topics. Please note participants are welcome to use images, video, and quotes readily from the webcast and the content is for immediate relief. Release. I would like to briefly introduce our two speakers. Dr. Chris beyrer is the director for human health and public rights in the department of epidemiology, International Health and Health Behavior and society at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and also the founding director of the center for Public Health and human rights. During the pandemic, dr. Beyrer has been engaged in research and focusing on lessening prisons to prevent the spread of covid19, transmission of covid19 and efficacy of
Series on elections, covering election operations, election integrity, and election security, which will be the focus of our conversation today with our guest, a former department of Homeland Security secretary, mr. Michael chertoff. Im going to read a little bit about mr. Chertoffs bio before i turned it over to our host, elliot burke. As secretary of the u. S. Department of Homeless Committee from 2005 to 2009, Michael Chertoff led the cutHomeland Security from 2005 2009, Michael Chertoff transformed fema into an Effective Organization following hurricane katrina. His greatest successes have earned if headlines because the Important News is what didnt happen. At the chertoff group, mr. Chertoff provides highlevel Strategic Counsel to corporate and government leaders on a broad range of Security Issues, from Risk Identification and prevention to preparedness, response, and recovery. For heading the department of Homeland Security, mr. Chertoff served as a header will judge on the u. S
Update with top officials at the International Vaccine access center. This is 30 minutes. Welcome and thank you for joining us today. My name is ellen wilson and i will be the moderator for this expert briefing for the media hosted by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. This briefing will address vaccines for covid19. The world has made unprecedented strides in developing covid19 vaccine candidates quickly. Many with higher efficacy than anticipated. Bringing these vaccines from Clinical Trials to the general public would require many considerations. Todays briefing would tackle these questions, including how do scientists develop vaccines against covid19 in less than a year, and how do we know they are safe . Will there be enough for everybody in the u. S. . What about people in low and middle Income Countries . Be demandingerly vaccines. Others will not be. How do you determine who will get it first and how do you convince those who are hesitant about such a new vacc
Chief Information Security officer, meredith harper. Welcome, and over to you. Thanks very much, john. Its nice to see you, even virtually. So, today, you have everyones bio. So, i dont think i need to reintroduce our panel. But what theyre going to offer us, i think, is a way to look at the year, and back at the year in a context of cyber and health care, and give us a little bit different way to look at the latest efforts to get the vaccine out to the public. We actually have some news on this today, by the way. Well get to that a little later. Basically, the New York Times reported that Cyber Attacks related to cold storage of the vaccine have been going on since august. Its unclear whether this is about ransomware or something more sinister. But well get to that in a minute. What i thought wed do is divide the discussion basically into three parts. Were going to look at the broader issue of cyberthreats and attacks of the Health Care Sector as we sort of wrestle through a pandemic.