Well take you live now to charlotte, north carolina, where joe biden is holding a Campaign Stop today. Its being called a biden for president black economic summit. Its just getting underway. Live coverage is here, cspan3. Mr. President , i was kidding. Hardest thing, only thing harder than being president of a union is being a mayor of a beautiful city. Folks, thanks for taking the time to be here today. I really appreciate i. And we even have an astronaut in the house and thats pretty cool. Look, first of all, i want thank chris and the mayor for being here and all of you for being here. And you know, these are tough times. Over 200,000 americans have passed away. 200,000. And the numbers still rising and impact on communities is bad across the board, particularly bad for africanamerican communities. Almost four times as likely to, three times as likely to catch the disease, covid. And when its caught, twice as likely to die as White Americans. Its the sort of emblemmatic of the ineq
2020 has been a year of challenge and triumph for americas space agency. The covid19 pandemic has disrupted planning and daytoday operations, but nasa and its commercial partners have achieved many successful outcomes. These include launching american astronauts to the International Space station and returning them safely to earth. And returning that launch vehicle safely to earth. Launching a perseverance rover to mars and preparing the space launch systems sls rocket and orion crew capsule for the first deep Space Exploration Program Mission next year. Im pleased that nasa administrator Jim Bridenstine is here to provide us with an update on the missions and programs and the agencys plans for the future. Further progress on the program is critical to achieving the goals of landing the first woman and next man on the moon by 2024 and establishing a sustainable presence opresent on or around r circus by 2028. Congress has given support for many key components of the arguments, notably
If you had. Money to spend and you wanted to use that money to underwrite isolation of those people who have been in contact with infected people if you want to get on top of the. The current upsurge in new reporting cases they need to support people in isolation if theyre finding it difficult so most people ive spoken to throughout the spectrum are academics to through to politicians appreciate that the only way that were going to really elude or mitigate peak deaths in the secondary wave is to Contact Trace and support people in isolation so there could be many people who just cannot isolate either because they have dependents or they dont have sufficient space in the house so these people need supporting so thats an important aspect of Contact Tracing this is you know i think one of the main messages that know a 3rd lever that the government has yet to pull in order to prevent a 2nd wave of morbidity and mortality is to get out there and empower and enable Public Health teams not ju
Can it really be said that the government is guided by the science one of the worlds most frequently cited neuroscientists prophetical 1st in news modeling has helped to educate the world about the realities of coronavirus and its impacts says were already falling off the knife edge here in britain and he joins me now from london garth thanks so much for coming back on as i said 10 days ago you said were falling off the edge of the knife since then Boris Johnson is in active new policies are closing bars at 10 pm instead of 11 satisfied with his response. Yes i think thats a very understandable response predicted by our modeling studies it reflects one of the 3 leaders that the government has access to. Best described i think in terms of changing or reducing the contact rates through specialists and saying look like the rule of. The curve for you the 2nd kind of leader is clearly. The copulation immunity which hopefully will be substantially augmented by vaccination but thats something
Were already falling off the knifes edge here in britain and he joins me now from london gul thanks so much for coming back on as i said 10 days ago you said were falling off the edge of the knife since then Boris Johnson as an active new policies are closing bars at 10 pm instead of 11 satisfied with his response. Yes i think thats a very understandable response it was predicted by our modeling studies it reflects one of the 3 leaders that the government has access to. As described i think in terms of changing or reducing the contact rates 3 specialists and saying look like the rule of. The curfew and the 2nd kind of leader is clearly the cooperation immunity which hopefully will be substantially augmented by vaccination but thats something for the future but theres a 3rd really. Which is Contact Tracing so when you ask me would i be satisfied with curfew. And censorship absolutely there is another way i do it i think i have to interrupt you there because johnson has claimed in parlia