Centers event on the nations response to the coronavirus pandemic. I serve as the chief medical advisor. Today the Bipartisan Policy Centers future is releasing a new report. You can find this report at bipartisanpolicy. Org. That is bipartisanpolicy. Org. Since the beginning of the pandemic a year ago, there has been more than 25 million confirmed cases of covid19 and more than 430 cases deaths across the country, accounting for 25 of deaths worldwide. While cases, hospitalizations and deaths have slightly decreased, the numbers continue to be staggering and there is great concern variants, more transmissible strains of the virus, may become dominant over the coming weeks leading to a further worsening of the pandemic. Todays report comes as president Bidens Administration launches an effort to combat the pandemic in Congress Considers additional aid to bolster the response and jumpstart the economy. The initiative released its first report, bipartisan subscription for health care in
Plainfield, illinois. Towe take you live now california, where governor gavin newsom is updating the state on coronavirus. Governor newsom we are experiencing all across the united states. To put this in perspective, our ofen day average is north 14,000, 14,600 seven, to be precise. Day case number is roughly in line with that sevenday average, 14,034. To put that in perspective, when you look back at the peak we experienced at the beginning of this pandemic, the seven day previous week was to1, compared to the close 15,000 cases we are now experiencing over seven days. We anticipate, based on what occurred over the course of the last number of days, that within a number of weeks, onetwo weeks based on thanksgiving activity and all the efforts to educate people against activities and anherings, that we will see increase in cases. It is important to put in perspective california as a state visavis other states just for purposes of comparison. People have inquired and asked how we are do
His absolute priority and he is getting working already in the next 24 hours hell be naming a corona virus taskforce that he will be sitting up he has been advised by various experts for a long period of time now among them ron klain who was the a boat and barack obama but we understand as well that this task force is going to be headed by beck murphy whos a former said Surgeon General appointed by obama and then fired by donald trump in 2018 as well as a former commissioner of the food and Drug Administration David Kessler so this is really a heavyweight team that will be advising biden and which will form part of his Coronavirus Task force as he and his. Vice president elect come heris go forward but biden has made very clear through his campaign and hes made very clear since he was spoke as president elect that he believes that the way to combat the pen did make is to follow the science. And to find donald trump has refused to concede defeat and is preparing for a series of legal fi
Disease including severe disease in people who receive. Its really just a milestone though we have a lot of work ahead of us. Knowing the vaccine is going to be effective is great news, but we still need to complete the regulatory process, which involves completing the study, generating more data, follow it safe. And then of course, we need to get busy manufacture. Alan fisher has more from washington d. C. So heres a little bit of good news. 1st of all pfizer announcing last week that they had a vaccine that was more than 90 percent effective. Far more than many of the experts had predicted they would get in the 1st stages of testing here. I know we have a 2nd company saying that they have a vaccine that they can get out to people, probably 20000000 doses by the end of the year, going to people who are front line workers or noise, most at risk with ineffectiveness in the early tests of more than 94 percent. So its been difficult for many people to get through this period, but there is
Challenges to some states results but fellow republican and former president george w. Bush says the vote was fair and congratulations biden as i White House Correspondent kimberly options in the coming weeks the legal challenges will continue in fact the u. S. President wants to remind it was tweeting today that joe biden while claiming victory is the projected winner by a number of Media Outlets on twitter he said when does the lame stream media as he calls it call who our next president will be so until that vote is official and certified in mid december the True Campaign believes it has a window of opportunity so it is continuing to receive funds soliciting funds in order to finance these legal challenges that are taking place across many states. Saudi arabias king saul mana and crown Prince Mohammed bin salma have joined World Leaders and graduating joe biden and come to the house they were the last of the gulf leaders to do so ties between riyadh and washington have been exceptio