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
On friday, the Alameda County Health Department shut down this mcdonalds at 13, 30 jackson street in oakland with customers waiting in line on from the Health Department. They have some sanitation the season they need to clean up. And we saw inspector filling out this Health Report. It reveals that 7 violations were found at the restaurant, including rodent activity. The report explains rodent droppings were seen around the water heater along the walls and wrote it. Traps responded as well to hold were seen in the kitchen and a dead rat was found on a trap near the soda syrup boxes. We feel like. A lot of more rats than the past that last time this is Oscar Rodriguez who has worked there since 2022. And says the closure is needed good because i know that people its not going to takes closer to get and the like infection are gets about and theyre at. But i worry as the war care. That i know all day, we are looking those states. He and other workers were striking but decide to come to wo
Top of the hour, good morning, everyone. Im poppy harlow. Im jim sciutto. Two of the nations top medicalec perts will testify in just a matter of minutes. Thats a live picture from the hill. The director of the National Institutes of health and the Surgeon General will address the role vaccines play in preventing Infectious Disease outbreaks and protecting Public Health, but this morning there is a new obstacle in the race for a vaccine. Drug giant astrazeneca is completely pausing its global trials of their Covid Vaccine after one of their volunteers became unexpectedly sick. This halt, they say is normal. Its a normal precaution as the company gathers more data to find out what it was that made this person sick. The National Institutes of health made their plea for more testing. Their message, test, quote, as many people as possible. Lets begin with our senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen. Well get to the news which is really significant in a moment, but just explain why ast
Families. And for their nation itself. No one could make that choice for them. They had to do that themselves. Today the world sees that theyre choosing cooperation over conflict, friendship over em anity, prosperity over poverty and hope over despair. They choose a future in which arabs and israelis, muslims, jews and christians work together, pray together and dream together side by side in harmony, community and peace. Once again, let me congratulate the people of israel, the people of the United Arab Emirates and the people of the kingdom of bahrain. God bless you all. This is an incredible day for the world. This is a really wonderful and beautiful occasion. I want to thank all of the members of congress for being here. Senators, congressmen, congresswomen, we just appreciate it so much. Everybody wanted to be here. Its a very important day for the world. It is a very important day for peace. Before the parties sign the accords id like to ask Prime Minister netanyahu to say a few
Monday, so reporters have not been able to ask questions of the doctor. Also comes as the president is even conceding things were not as rosy as he initially portrayed them, which is just a week ago that he was taken to the hospital. He told Rush Limbaugh hes done with it, talking about how he was before he took this aggressive treatment. He was talking about the doughmorbidities as well. He was talking no medical professionals have said this is the reason the president is back at the white house and not still in the hospital. We dont know exactly what it is, because we havent heard from those doctors. Of course, brianna, this is like the third time in this pandemic that this president has touted an unproven treatment, describing it as a cure. He did the same thing with hydroxychloroquine, this is something that the president tonight, but theres still a lot of unknowns about this antibody cocktail. Thats why it doesnt even have emergency use thauthorization, d was given to the presiden