Today to decide on who should be first to get the vaccine once one is available. With the pandemic raging across the United States, we will speak to two africanamerican doctors who have spent years fighting Racial Disparities in healthcare. One of them joined modernas vaccine study to honor her father who died from covid19. Plus, we will mark World Aids Day with professor Steven Thrasher. Aids continues to kill too many peopl almost 700,000 pele were killed by it last year, and that was decades after education became available. As we are on the verge of potentially having a Coronavirus Vaccine to rollout, we dont antiracist,vely anticapitalist approach, hundreds of thousands of millions of people could continue to suffer and die. Amy all that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the quarantine report. Im amy goodman. The u. S. Centers for Disease Control and convention is convening a panel of advisers today to determine who will be the first in line to be
Yesterday from those companies, the reaction today, apple slammed by falling iphone sales, but you might remember the company was relatively optimistic for the iphone 12. That said, not a good day for the tech stocks today. Now, for the week, the market really had a rough week. The dow down 6. 5 , so thats almost 2,000 points. It was at one point, 1800 at the close. The s p and the nasdaq both down more than 5 apiece for the week, so its the worst week since march, also the worst month since march for the market. The dow down more than 4 percent for october, 4. 6. The s p and nasdaq also off for the month a little less than 3 . Theyre all red for the second month in a row. So thats where we are. Now, the s p since the 3rd of august is something weve been tracking as well. Well get back to that in one moment. The president is speaking before he boards the plane. Lets listen to this, and well get back to the market. And since 1972, but i think were of a good chance. Theres tremendous its
In San Francisco President Biden spoke to reporters so the potential shutdown ahead of this weeks funding deadline. President s comments can approach a meeting with this council of advisors for science and technology. President biden was in the bay area to attend fundraising events for his reelection. My foot we will begin by saying that one of the things is how over the last 30 years the federal government has paid less and less attention through science and technology a significant portion of gdp cut down to. 7 from 2 might be the safest most secure and healthiest nation in the World Without significant investment. In science and technology. And i mean that. We stepped out. One of the things it doesnt directly relate today but we talked about earlier this morning is that what leaders say matter in terms of peoples confidence in things they are not sure about. You saw what happened with regard to the crisis we had that cost over a million people. And as time began to move on more and
Amazon, microsoft, and alphabet are still to come. We will break down the key numbers to look out for and we have an interview with the ups cfo. Mark lets have a look at where european equities are trading right now. 30 minutes until the end of the session. Stocks falling for the first day in seven, highest close since august 2015. Today is all about the ecb. And actually rose during the ecb meeting. They kept policy unchanged, rates at present or lower levels. Qe can be increased in size and duration. The big comment was Downside Risks have diminished. That pushed the euro higher. However, underlying inflation pressures remain. Risk still tilted to the downside. They did discuss whether to. Hange the assessment of growth ecb economists suggest that will happen with forward guidance. The euro lower, sovereign bond yields falling today. Commodities and cds. Deutsche bank shares lower today. In the u. S. ,s rising 11 versus 24 for the big five in the u. S. Revenue dealing from stocks, wh
Week. Earlier today on capitol hill, House Speaker paul ryan and Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi spoke with reporters about the government funding and health care bills. As well as the trump administrations tax proposal announced yesterday. Up next here on cspan3, speaker ryan followed by minority leader pelosi. Are you ready, archer . Ready. What sticker . Oh, yeah. I havent had one of those in a long time. Good morning, everybody. First i want to welcome all our special guests today. I think its great to see you here and its great that you get to see the work your parents do, but dont tell them this but theyre actually kind of good at their jobs. One of those your daughters . Yep. So cute. You had one last year with us. This is abbys first time. Very cool. I digress. Sorry. Later today, the president will sign an executive order to improve accountability at the va. Under the Obama Administration, not nearly enough was done to hold bureaucrats accountable for failing veterans at va. Desp