After the ecb announcement and it has been quite choppy in the u. S. , equities are now lower. All three indices are down. The dow and s p down by. 4 , nasdaq down. 1 . The 10year yield at 70 basis points. Little movement but enough to show there is some kind of reaction. The euro continuing to strengthen. Above 118. We will stay on the euro. Surgeine lagarde say the in currency must be monitored. That only called for the european to strengthen further. Our first guest is lena komileva. A lot to unpack out of the meeting but how is the european economy doing . Economy wasropean recovering quite strongly from the effect of the lockdowns. It is the balance effective switching on and switching off and on an entire continent. Whilst important is that a lot of the conversation is about the top figures, which did recover quite strongly in the early months after the lockdowns, we had quite a great divergence between the sectors. Those most affected by social distancing are lagging behind but
Washington today, we are holding this hearing virtually in compliance with the regulations for Remote Committee proceedings pursuant to House Resolution 965. Remote hearings certainly are not the same as sitting together in our Committee Room and you should know. The new authority has allowed us to continue to do our work a behalf of the American People, while keeping our staff, families and broader communities this is the First Official Virtual Committee hearing in the United States house of representatives. As we begin this historic proceeding, i want to underscore that i plan to continue this committees long tradition of collegia collegiality and substantive debate even as we conduct our business from afar. I will continue to work with Ranking Member and his staff to make sure that all Ranking Members are respected in the knew virtual format. Before we turn to todays important topic, i want to remind members of a few procedures to help us all navigate this new platform. First, consi
Highlight a new tool to help assess symptoms, and find a place to get tested. Lets look at a couple of slides about our testing data. Yesterday, we got results of 1438new pcr tests, and serology tests. As you can see from this slide, the present positivity from testing continues to trend downward. Statewide it is at about 15 . On this slide you will see the number of tests continues to trend upward. Both of these are good things. We know there are simple steps that all of us can take and should to help stop the spread of this virus. Work, and we know these guidelines will be part of our new normal as we continue to move forward. You have heard me say this hands, please wash your stay six feet away from other people, and where a Face Covering in public. Wear a Face Covering in public. When people wear masks, it goes a long ways to reduce the spread of the disease. Wearing a mask could literally save someone elses life. That is becoming clearer every day as we move further into managing
Well thanks for having me on. You know this is its not an opportune time to start to defund any efforts at Public Health i think that should be hopefully obvious to most people you know donald trump is no fan of Global Institution and i think he certainly would want to take steps to make sure that blame is placed didnt places other than where he is im not suggesting that the w. H. O. Did its job perfectly here i think the weather today b. H. O. The c. B. C. Or anybody else plenty of blame to go around but in the middle of a crisis to take the feet up the street that you need in the middle of a global epidemic doesnt make a lot of sense to me was the obama admin and what the Obama Administration is you know would have been prepared for this. Well look its hard its hard to prove a negative i think i think id say 2 things one is there was a. Structure in place that would have been able to respond more quickly and i think thats thats the 1st thing the 2nd thing is that. They would have pro
U. S. We will get the latest on the research and learn how the pandemic is affecting how you shop for groceries. Join in on the conversation our phone lines are open. Good monday evening, a lot to get to, but we will begin as we always do with the numbers courtesy of Johns Hopkins university. Northern 3 million confirmed cases around the world, 185 countries and regions. 210,000 deaths in the u. S. Deaths. Death toll athe about 55,000. Joining us from philadelphia is the director of the vaccine and Immunotherapy Center on the campus of the university of pennsylvania. Thank you for being with us. Guest my pleasure. Host let me begin with where you are at in terms of the research for vaccine. As i understand, you are among the most aggressive in finding a vaccine. Of a program,part coalition for epidemic preparedness and innovation. They have assembled a coalition of many different parties to ame together to develop vaccine countermeasure for covid19, and our particular focus of this gro