He is expected as a virus numbers continue to spike around the nation to give an update on operation warp speed and talk about new developments in the race for covid19 vaccine. At the close you look at the numbers, the vaccine helps as well with upbeat corporate profit a rally not far away from a record high, it was flirting with the record, needed to be 470 but lost a little steam in the final minutes of trading, a strong day, the s p that is a recordsetting, closing up by 48point, as it settled in what appears to be the 23rd record close of the year for the s p 500 and we want to monitor the smallcap stocks today and the russell 2000, the russell closing in record territory what is significant for the smaller stocks, the first time in more than two years we have seen a wrestled record, the s p up in the second straight week, adding more than a thousand points. We canoes and big tech brought the nasdaq into the red, those are your numbers as we come to you on a friday, im connell mcsh
That. Governor will have to let us know when hes ready for it. Otherwise, we cant be delivering it to a state that wont be giving it to its people. I know the people of new york very well. I know they want it. So the governor will let us know when hes ready. Hes had some very bad editorials recently about this statement and what has happened with respect to nursing homes, and i hope he doesnt handle this as badly as the nursing homes. But we are ready to provide it as soon as they let us know they will actually use it, and it is a very safe and great vaccine. We have among the lowest case fatality rates anywhere in the world, the entire world, and we performed significantly better than our peer countries. Also madetration has critical investments in therapies that have helped reduce the mortality rate by 85 . That is one of the most exciting things. It is incredible, some of the antibody vaccines and others that have come out and help people. Last month, the fda approved remdesivir and
U. S. History, high nearing, manufacturing therapies and vaccines and record time. Numbers like nobody has seen before. The medical breakthrough of this scope and magnitude has never been achieved before. This rapidly, this quickly. We are very proud of it. Ive had tremendous help from the military. Generals and admirals and many other great people at the white house. Operation warp speed is unequaled and unrivaled anywhere in the world. Leaders of other countries have called me to congratulate us on what we have been able to do. We have helped many countries with their ventilators and all of the problems that they were having. I would like to congratulate everyone involved in this effort. It has been an incredible effort. As a result of operation warp speed, pfizer announced on monday that its china virus vaccine is more than 90 effective. And all exceeds any expeditions. Nobody thought that they would get to that level. We have others coming, and that we think will be coming at equal
System is as secure as its ever before. The Registration System as secure as its ever before. Four years ago the obama administration, a little later than this, said there is a big problem and were going to declare the election structure a structure of National Significance and were going 0 it play a different role than we ever played before. No anticipation this was going to happen. Not much discussion. Election officials all over the country immediately said, oh, no youre not. Youre not going to just decide in october of Election Year that youre going to take over the election system and declare it a national a system of National Significance, a system of critical significance to the future of the nation. Of course it is. But it didnt become that in october of 2016. But the message was clear that we needed to build those stronger ties with local and state election authorities. We needed to do everything we could as we saw the efforts by some foreign actors and some people in their ba
That causes more deaths in our country because we have ignored science. We havent acted in an evidencebased way. In this p but say that election in november, science, science, science, and science are going to be on the ballot. That is what is at stake here. And its a matter of life and death. With that, im pleased to take any questions. Es, sir. Reporter last time we saw compromise last time we rought states in to compromise [inaudible] is this part of the inherent problem with bringing in d. C. , the challenge of the political balance so they proceed, d. C. Is automatically a Democratic State. Speaker pelosi that shouldnt be how we have enfranchisement in our country. Whats the nature of the vote. Actually, mr. Hoyer said here from the podium yesterday, not here, we were in a different room, but that at the time of that late 1950s, people thought that alaska would be a Democratic State and hawaii would be a republican state. And of course theyre not. Repud of course they are not. Whi