Vaccine day. Health workers and the elderly first in line today for vaccine injections in the uk. Ended up actually being a very emotional day, finally for the first time some hope in. Were going to have more coming up on that. Including some of the british News Coverage that aired in britain in prime time tonight, some of the first people who received the injections and how that was covered in the british press. You will want to see that, i promise that. Weve got that coming up in awe moment. Meanwhile, nbc news has obtained a new document from the White House Coronavirus task force that warns that even with the expected start of a Vaccination Program here too sometime soon, according to the White House Task force tonight, quote, the current vaccine implementation will not substantially reduce viral spread, hospitalizations or fatalities until the 100 million americans with comorbidities can be fully immunized, which will take until the late spring. Again, this thing wont have a dent
Up on that. Including some of the british News Coverage that aired in britain in prime time tonight, some of the first people who received the injections and how that was covered in the british press. You will want to see that, i promise that. Weve got that coming up in just a moment. Meanwhile, nbc news has obtained a new document from the White House Coronavirus task force that warns that even with the expected start of a Vaccination Program here too sometime soon, according to the White House Task force tonight, quote, the current vaccine implementation will not substantially reduce viral spread, hospitalizations or fatalities until the 100 million americans with comorbidities can be fully immunized, which will take until the late spring. Again, this thing wont have a dent in it until 100 million americans are vaccinated. That will take number of months. Kwoetd, behavioral change and aggressive mitigation policies are the only widespread prevention tools we will have to address this
You will want to see that, i promise that. Weve got that coming up in just a moment. Meanwhile, nbc news has obtained a new document from the White House Coronavirus task force that warns that even with the expected start of a Vaccination Program here too sometime soon, according to the White House Task force tonight, quote, the current vaccine implementation will not substantially reduce viral spread, hospitalizations or fatalities until the 100 million americans with comorbidities can be fully immunized, which will take until the late spring. Again, this thing wont have a dent in it until 100 million americans are vaccinated. That will take number of months. Quote, behavorial change and aggressive mitigation policies are the only widespread prevention tools we will have to address this winter surge. Quote, this surge is the most rapid increase in cases, the widest spread of intense transmission and the longest duration of rapid increase that we have yet experienced. The Coronavirus T
But the states governor says there are signs that social distancing is working. The cdc is urging americans to keep it up or risk losing any progress that we are making right now. Also today, another report of an Early Warning within the Trump Administration, another one, and this one coming long before this crisis even hit the United States. This one from u. S. Intelligence, jim, back in november. Yeah, it is remarkable. How do americans view washingtons response . New cnn poll shows that majority of americans, 55 , now say the federal government has done a poor job of preventing the spread of coronavirus in the United States. Lets begin with those new projection numbers. We should call them that, theyre modeled, projections, numbers, this morning, senior medical correspondent Elizabeth Cohen joins us live. Help put us into context, folks at home, they hear different numbers every couple of days and models are just that, models, they dont predict the future, they make it educated gues
Bottom line is this is coming at a very critical time for the president. He is facing a whole series of National Security crises and an odd time to change your defense secretary when your dealing with the spread of isis inside iraq as well as syria, also, the New York Times story over the weekend suggesting the administration is changings its policy and potentially expanding the mission in afghanistan in 2015, something the president said he would not do. When the president came out with chuck hagel today he went on and on about his credentials as defense secretary. Making you wonder why he accepted hagels resignation as the white house claims this went down. Other senior officials in private telling Jennifer Griffin at the pentagon this was a firing, not a resignation, and you have to wonder after a series of clashes over policy, particularly how to deal with isis, how aggressively to good after them, the syria policy, there have been conflicts between haigle haigle and whitee officia