Christine lagarde, president of the ecb, moderated by Francine Lacqua. Francine what a great pleasure to be here with Christine Lagarde, president of the European Central bank, and welcome to the forum here at bloomberg. Everyone is talking about the vaccine. How will that actually change your forecast and the economy if we do get a vaccine early next year . Ms. Lagarde it is lovely to see you and to participate. To your question, i am not sure it is going to be a major game changer for our forecast, simply because what we had anticipated in our baseline was that some stage in the first half of 2021, there would be a vaccine, and that it would be rolled out in the course of 2021. So it might be a little back celebrated a little bit accelerated given the news we are receiving from the various horizons, germany, the u. S. , but i dont think it is going to be a game changer, so to speak. I think that our forecast is being revisited all those times we speak, and we will be releasing on dec
Pandemmys, and the shows that swept the comedy category and adding in a few friends, too a busy week ahead. Early today starts right now good morning im philip mena. And im frances rivera. A giant of the Supreme Court now casts a long shadow over the 2020 election. The late Justice Ruth Bader ginsburg was truey an icon, an inspiration to a generation. Her impact felt in the growing memorials outside the Supreme Court and across the country her death on friday has already torn open a fierce new political schism President Trump and Top Republicans are vowing to quickly fill the vacancy, while joe biden says a senate vote before the election could create a constitutional crisis. Former president obama echoed his running mate, calling on republican senators to honor the same standard they set with Merrick Garland 4 1 2 years ago. The stakes dont get any higher than this, tracy reporter no, frances, they dont, because if President Trump nominates a conservative to the court, it could tip th
I think those are the two where the question is most relevant. Yeah. Well, i would just say it had an immediate effect on me, because i was supposed to be in germany right now at the bayer stockholders meeting. I had bought one share. I should mention, i was train by some really amazing historians, a bunch of people, but we didnt learn journalism, you know . We didnt know how to go on the ground. Ive had to learn on the fly. Buying a share, that sounds great. Ill tell you, the zoom version of the shareholders version was six hours straight, no breaks. No breaks literally just watching zoom from 4 00 in the morning germany until i dont know what time it was when i gave up. But and it was really interesting because heres the interesting confluence with this company, right . Its both a company thats on the cutting edge of health care and dealing, you know, so theyre talking a great deal about the pandemic at the exact moment in that stockholders e meeting theyre getting peppered by whats
A nationwide lockdown. And as new zealand says it eliminated the virus and restrictions eased officials warn against complacency. The World Health Organization has warned that the coronavirus pandemic is far from over and that it could indirectly harm the lives of millions of children who are missing out on vital vaccinations for other Infectious Diseases but says 21 countries are already reporting shortages of some vaccines every year more than 116000000. 00 in funds are vaccinated or 86 per cent of all children born globally but there are still more than 13000000. 00 children around the world who missed out on vaccination. We know that the number will increase because of course weve 19 already polio vaccination campaigns have been put on hold and in some countries routine Immunization Services are being scaled back or shut down. As european nations begin to ease their lock downs the w. H. O. Has repeated its call that they must track and trace or suspected coronavirus cases the warni
Self isolation is one thing but life on lockdown with kids one of whom is a preschooler well thats Something Else altogether Alex Forrest Whiting reports from the confines of her home here in berlin. Omarion evanston its good to have you with us u. S. President donald trump told americans of the coming week will bring the reality of the coronavirus pandemic to american shores numbers of infections and deaths are spiraling while Public Health officials struggle to equip hospitals with what they need President Donald Trump seems to have largely stopped downplaying the scale and the danger while u. S. Citizens adapt to the precautions needed to limit the spread of the virus. Reality bites refrigerated trucks outside the manhattan hospital to store bodies because the morgue is full under the gaze of the empire state building. On the street signs that people realize that serious new york has now where mosques and gloves and public. Soldiers are deployed to help extraordinary times and even