Translator the number of newly confirmed infections are still at a high level. Infections are spreading throughout the city, and to all age groups, including elderly people who are prone to becoming seriously ill. The governor called on residents to stay on high alert and take every precaution in their daily lives. Ministers and experts met on friday to discuss s how to figh the virus. They talked about who should get vaccines first, once theyre available. The plan is to give priority to didical workerers, the elderly d people with preexisting conditions. Officials will also consider prioritizing ambulance attendants, Health Care Health cenenter officicials, pregnantnt women and nursing ho workers. The governmentnt has agreed d w the u. K. Pharmaceutical Company Astrazeneca and pfizer of the u. S. On a supply of vaccines once theyre developed. The government is also backing the efforts of domestic companies. It aims to start distributing vaccines in the first half of next year. More th
The great debate, the fractured republic and a time to build. This is two hours. Host author yuval levin, what is your assessment of the United States . Guest thanks for having me here. That is a wonderfully broad question to open within a challenging one. They are living in a moment of crisis. It is hard to deny. We have been through a spring dominated by a Public Health crisis. We are facing now also a social crisis and the struggle for racial the quality and very much of this moment that forces us to confront challenges that weve had trouble with in recent yea years. In th a time of crisis, you kno, its because it is the time of testing its also the time to think about what americas strengths are, what they are good at as a country and how we can build on that address the enormous problems in front of us. Host how did we get here . This is that an era marked by crises from 9 11 to the financial crisis to a pandemic that forces us to look to the sources of restraint what the politics
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