[ is distinct conversations ]. And live here this morning on c spann span 3, a discussion about transparency and oversight at the food and Drug Administration. Well be hearing from dr. Scott gottlieb starting off the conference. Introductions under way. Efforts to pass and implement the food safety modernization act, focus on medical devices, especially the potential of using the unique device identifier to improve monitoring devices throughout the product lifecycle. We have successfully worked on products 10 to courage innovation particularly around antibiotics and 10 to sure appropriate use of them. We focused on drug safety and transparency in the supply chain and especially on the safety of compounded drugs. Among other things, pew submitted transparency to the task force back in 2010 if the. They touch on some of the topics well be discussing today. Reading the background papers for todays meet regular mind med of a meeting we convened in a room directly above of us here a few yea
Scrambling to figure out how much highly Sensitive Information has been compromised after malicious actors roamed undetected across Government Agencies for months. Welcome to tuesday. Its meet the press daily. Im chuck todd. The Electoral College has spoken and this morning Mitch Mcconnell finally decided to congratulate joe biden as the next president of the United States. Yesterday, electors met in all 50 states. So as of this morning, our country has officially a president elect and a Vice President elect. The Electoral College has spoken. So today i want to congratulate president elect joe biden, the president elect is no stranger to the senate. Hes devoted himself to Public Service for many years. I also want to congratulate the Vice President elect, our colleague from california, senator harris. For what its worth, its the first time anybody in that leadership position has used the Electoral College as somehow the bar before acknowledging a victory, especially one that was not ev
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About modernas covid19 vaccine. Yes, there are more vaccines on the record. The fda reports its 95 effective at protecting illness and protects against infection as well. Here are the facts at this hour, the Moderna Vaccine data comes as the Fda Advisory Panel is set to meet on thursday. Its a critical next step. If all goes well then, the vaccine could get authorization by the end of the week, meaning americans would soon have two vaccines. The need, of course, is enormous. We just added more than 200,000 positive coronavirus cases on monday. Right now one in 20 americans has officially been diagnosed with the virus. That doesnt even take into account people who didnt know they were positive. Another tragic milestone, so far we have lost more than 301,000 americans to this virus. 48 states are experiencing a percentage increase in covidrelated deaths over the past 14 days. In florida, the Positivity Rate is higher than its been in a month. But help has arrived. In jacksonville it was
Have been able to do if there were grandparents and Family Friends and even my husband around to, you know, kind of interfere with that, so i really looked back and think that was actually a blessing in disguise. Well, megan, thank you for sharing your story with us and charlie with us. He looks like a doll. Hes doing great, huh . Hes beautiful, megan. Megan westbrook, thank you so much. And it is the top of the hour. Im Brianna Keilar in for Brooke Baldwin and thank you so much for joining cnns special coverage of the coronavirus pandemic. We saw it happen in china. We are seeing this happen in italy and now the United States is experiencing its first sense of the unforgiving covid19 battleground that doctors have been warning of for weeks. The New York Times just captured images inside elm hurst hospital in queens showing overwhelmed hospital floors, underprotected hospital workers and patient after patient arriving seriously ill and highly contagious from coronavirus. A refrigerator