The us says its hoping to begin a program of vaccinations against cover 19 could begin as early as december, the 11th head of the White House Vaccine Task force. So the plans to vaccinate 20000000 people before the end of the year 2 vaccines are up for approval in december. Both said to be 95 percent effective. Our plan is to be able to ship vaccines to the immunization sites within 24 hours from the approval. So i would expect maybe on day 2, after approval on the 11th or on the 12th of december, hopefully the 1st people who will be immunized across the United States across all states. In all the areas where this, the state department of health will have to told us where to deliver the vaccine. , theres been a surge in new infections across the u. S. , which has now recorded more than 12000000 cases. Hospital admissions have doubled in recent weeks and daily deaths and they are in highs not seen since may. And g. 20 leaders have promised to spend no effort in making sure that vaccines
Okay, i think we can start. Cochair madrid okay. This is the mayors disability Public Meeting for november 20, 2020 at s 1 p. M. My name is alex madrid. Thank you, alex. Im Deputy Director of m. O. D. And serving as clerk for this meeting. This is a virtual meeting. Its being broadcast to the public on sfgovtv. It is open caption and sign language interpreted. The Mayors Disability Council holds nine meetings and generally held on the third friday of the month. Please call the Mayors Office of disability at 415 5546789. Or by email, you can contact us at mod sfgov. Org with any m. D. C. Business. Our next regular meeting will be on friday, january 15, 2021 from 1 00 to 4 00 p. M. This will also be an Online Meeting and will be broadcast on sfgovtv. Thank you for joining us. Well now do roll call. And helen, joining the meeting. Sorry. Great. So ill go through the list . Can anybody hear me . Yes, we can hear you. Great, thank you. Please say present when i call your name. Alex madrid .
Rice universities Public Policy hosted the event. It is over one hour. Welcome to the Baker Institute webinar. I am steve lewis. The head of our china studies program. We are happy to have you all this afternoon. Thank you for tuning in. I am hoping not only do you find it informative and unique colleague, but froma welcome respite domestic politics, which is never as important as aging asian affairs. I would like to thank all of you again. Our hardworking staff at the Baker Institute. My Research Assistant for helping. The foundation for endowing a lot of the events here. The doctor i have known her for 10 years one of our top scholars. I think it has been 10 years. She was a postdoc here for asian interested in media. Had her and her expertise in many of our past webinars on chinese politics. We are happy to have her again today. Also, we are happy this year because she is newly minted as an associate professor, tenured professor at media studies at the university of virginia. The on
Welcome to the program the coronavirus keeps pummeling europe. Italy and spain have tightened restrictions as new infections are surging across europe italian Prime Minister tzipi conte on sunday ordering all bars and restaurants to close by 6 pm for at least a month the government in spain has meanwhile imposed a curfew on bars and restaurants from 11 pm to 6 and lasting until may last weeks they became the 1st western european nation to surpass 1000000 confirmed cases. Lets get more now from our financial correspondent conrad boos in frankfurt conrad bad news coming out of italy bad news coming out of spain we have the german chancellor just yesterday giving her very grim outlook speaking of a very difficult winter ahead what a market is making of all of this. Well chris more and more economists on the markets are giving out all pissant mystic outlooks for example the chief economist of the o. E. C. D. The organization for Economic Cooperation and development says that this years slu
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