Announcer next, indiana Governor Eric Holcomb on the surge in covid19 cases and the states continued response to the coronavirus pandemic. Hes joined by the states top health officials, who addressed the distribution of vaccine, and senator todd young, who spoke about the 900 billion relief package agreed upon in congress. Gov. Holcomb good afternoon, hoosiers. Thank you for joining us again this afternoon. It is tuesday. We will be back at the normal time, same place, same time, on wednesday next week. But we wanted to get this out of the way as the holiday approaches, and approaches fast. So, if you are not done with what you should be done with, get out there and get it done. But we do have a full show, so we will get right at it. Dr. Box will talk about our Positivity Rates and new information on that front. Dr. Weaver will talk about our vaccination distribution effort. Senator todd young will be joining us virtually, coming right off into the late night last night. He was probabl
The crew thats the fusion todays the day when theres really no direct consequences to be expected and that is why the french president today here said there is no plan b. We now have to see this through and it will be interesting where which things will change 1st but now really this crucial 1st step has been made but how did the u. Member states manage to convince some of the more resistant and more coal reliant countries to agree to this deal. One number of things come to mind i think the real game changer here was of course that leaders are early on the summit yesterday agreed the Coronavirus Relief fund of billions of euros coming Member States way and particularly how one half of that fund or rather 30 percent of that package some 550000000000 euros will be used for a green transition and so basically in a way you could say the european Member States aborts this compromise from countries like poland because they will see a lot of money coming into their industry to help them make
A breakthrough and brussels now Prime Minister of course johnson and leader on the left on the line say negotiations have until sunday to close the gap on a deal. Plus what goes up must come down that was a plan for this space x. Test flight the starship prototype made it miles up into the air but the journey didnt quite and as hoped. Im serious oh misconducts good to have you with us a worrying development that is how the head of germanys Public Health institute has described a spike in corona virus infections and deaths in the country i dont use conference this past hour the president of the op ed koc institute lot of vila said the situation had deteriorated over the past week he stressed that the country needed to do Everything Possible to prevent another expo. Then shal rise in infections and to protect vulnerable groups like the elderly in care homes with the number of outbreaks has doubled since the spring when his comments come as the number of daily infections hit a new record
A tougher lockdown do you think that was a mistake. I think it was a mistake at the beginning because we tried really to flatten the curve and then to hope that the numbers will go down so we flatten the curve thats happened but then the numbers didnt go down and we know this since week so we should have acted now and really increased the measures and we definitely have to do it now and not wait until after christmas this will be too late because the number of infections i mean that in 2 or 3 weeks we see the hospital again being filled with new patients and the i. C. U. Been filled with new patients so we have to act now because the Health Care System is on its limits you say we have to act now what exactly should be done what do you recommend. I recommend to conduct a hard lockdowns really close down as much as possible recommend that people stay home over the Christmas Holidays otherwise we see the same thing as with thanksgiving in the United States with the peak about 2 weeks afte
Like there has been some frustration with a leading lawmakers here for taking this kind of piecemeal approach revisiting measures regularly and also not deciding to go with a tougher lockdown do you think that was a mistake. I think it was a mistake at the beginning because we tried really to flatten the curve and then to hope that the numbers will go down so we flatten the curve thats happened but the numbers didnt go down and we know this since weeks that we should have acted now and really increased the measures and we definitely have to do it now and not wait until after christmas this will be too late because the number of infections mean that in 2 or 3 weeks we see the hospital again being filled with new patients and the i. C. U. Been filled with new patients so we have to act now because the Health Care System is on its limits you say we have to act now what exactly should be done what do you recommend. I recommend to conduct a hard lockdowns really close down as much as possib