Coronavirus cases in the united states. Hello and welcome to axios virtual event, health care 21. I am sam baker coming from my home in washington, d. C. I would like to thank United Health group for making these conversations possible. I would like to welcome our audiences. You can follow along on twitter using the axios events. Over the next 30 minutes we will unpack the best way to unpack Health Insurance access and Health Insurance coverage in the united states, and what that path forward looks like both following the president ial election and in the midst of a pandemic that is getting worse every day. Our first guest today is senator thune smith of minnesota. Smithr, senator tina of minnesota. Thank you for joining us. Sen. Smith thank you, sam. It is terrific to be with everyone today. Sam i would like to start off to frame this conversation obviously, Health Care Access and Health Insurance coverage has been a very hot topic for a long time, but i think the pandemic has set of
In charge of their care. And a masters like no other. How the tournament will look different this year while keeping tradition alive. Especially the music. But first, heres todays eye opener. Its your world in 90 seconds. The coronavirus is now spreading so quickly, Public Health experts say it is simply uncontrollable. And the days ahead will be even worse. What were seeing at the highest levels of government is basically tossing it in. Passing their hands up. We give up on this. President elect joe biden has chosen ron klain as his white house chief of staff. He was also the white house ebola czar. President trump making his first public appearance in six days. He continues to fight the transition of power to president elect biden. Georgias secretary of state is authorizing a full hand recount over accusations of election fraud. Well continue to follow and enforce the law. Tropical storm eta bearing down on the florida coast. Already bringing strong wind and heavy rain. Right along t
Data from the late stage kile of its Covid Vaccine and could reveal that data on how things work very soon were keeping our eyes on shares of southwest the airline saying it sees a deceleration in revenue improvements for the rest of the year, carl jim, well start with the balance between these covid numbers and the expectation that winter is going to be tough. But got to say some of the encouraging headlines out of curavac today saying that this might not be something we need every season because the mutation peers less frequent and more stable at basically refrigerator type temperatures. Look, im convinced that the people evolinvolved in this, i n well get good news from all these companies. Havent stopped the times. I expect good news from moderna. I expect good news from j j. I speexpect good news from glaxs behind, but astrazeneca. Here is the problem, carl, i keep thinking what happens, when do we get it when do we go to walgreens and just get it . And will everybody get it . I j
Employees. Weve got those details. But first we start with some breaking news. The electoral vote count stands right now at 227 for mr. Biden and 213 for mr. Trump. And we still have eight uncalled races. In wisconsin, which is still too close to call, biden holds a narrow lead of just 20,000 votes. Well within the margin of error there. Well within the drift that lets the president call for a recount. The Campaign Says they will immediately do so, request a recount. Another place biden holds a narrow lead, thats michigan thats where we find Brian Sullivan in grand rapids any update on this very close race reporter yes, and no how do you like that im like an economist on the air. Im going to give it to you both ways heres where we stand right now. Heres the reason i answered that way number one, heres the count 94 of michigan has come in. Its that last 6 that is the issue. Now, youve got joe biden who is up by about 45,000 votes right now. To your point, there are far more outstanding
Surging as the u. S. Rounds the corner on a vaccine. But how exactly will a vaccine work well speak to stanford medical dean, dr. Lloyd minor. Power lunch starts right now thank you, ty. Welcome to power lunch, everybody. Im kelly evans. Tech is the best performing sector today, up 2. 5 as it regains some ground it lost over the past several sessions. Take a look at big cap tech name apple, microsoft, amazon and facebook all higher today. You can see amazon and microsoft up about 3 . Flipside of the coin, Energy Stocks are lower the Energy Sector etf, exl up 14 . Taking a breather today. And despite all the volatility, the s p is up a whopping 9 to kick off november. Wow. Dom chu has more. We have talked about this rotation, whether its a great rotation, whether its a microrotation into some value type sectors like energy, industrials. We have some massive moves on some of the most beaten up stocks in the s p. This righthand side, this move higher than been led by many of those deeply