Also in ethiopia, where the government says its moving forward on its final offensive against fighters around to graze main city and palestinian leaders condemn the u. S. Secretary of states unprecedented visits to an illegal israeli settlement and the occupied Golan Heights. Welcome to the program. We begin with the latest on the coronavirus pandemic and the race to find an effective vaccine. British, a pharmaceutical giant astra zeneca says its phase 2, trial show promise in protecting the most at risk groups. It says people over 70 who have been tested have shown a strong immune response. The vaccines being developed with Oxford University and its in the final stages of human trials. Now in the last 10 days, 2 other drug makers, pfizer and madonna, reported their back scenes are more than 90 percent effective in late stage trials. Well, globally cases have surpassed 56000000. There have been more than 1300000 deaths worldwide. 250000 of those in the u. S. Making it the worst affecte
Months. I was proud. We were doing well. Almost everyone in the city did what they asked you to do we are seeing how fast it could move the governor laid out a warning and we are seeing what is happening in San Francisco. Let me be clear, as clear as i can be, its not good. Cases are spiking. Hospitalizations are increasing quickly. Our infection rate is higher than the summer. This is not just about San Francisco but the entire region, state, and country the dangerous winter has arrived. We will have to take more action. We are still working out the details we are working out the details in Santa Santa Clara county. They have limited gatherings. Theres are things you have consider as well as other ideas to stop the spread. No one would like to be here. We spoke about worrying about doing well but having everyone relax and the cases spike like they did during the spanish flu. Im not saying thats what happened but there have been a lot of challenges including lack of national leadership
She spoke at an event hosted by axios where topics included health care, expanded insurance access, and the rise of coronavirus cases in the United States. Hello and welcome to axios virtual event, health care 2021. Im sam baker, the Health Care Editor at axios coming to you from my home in washington, d. C. Id like to thank the crew for making this possible and id like to welcome our audience on facebook, youtube, twitter, linkedin and axios. Follow along at axios. Next 30 minutes we will unpack the best way to expand Health Insurance access and Health Insurance coverage in the United States an what that path forward looks like following the president ial election and in the midst of a pandemic thats getting worse every day. Our first guest is senator tina smith from minnesota. Senator, thank you so much for joining us. Thank you, sam. Its really terrific to be with everyone today. Id like to start off to just sort of frame this conversation. Obviously Health Care Access and coverage
More Mental Health and telemedicine options. Hello and welcome to axios Virtual Event health care 2021. I am sam Baker Health Care at are coming to you from my home in washington dc. I would like to thank the United Health. For making these conversations possible and thank her audience. Follow along on twitter using the or following. Over the next three minutes we will unpack best way to unpack Health Insurance access and coverage in the United States and exactly what that path forward looks like following the election and in the midst of a pandemic getting worse every day. Our first guest is senator tina smith of minnesota. Thank you. It is terrific to be with everyone today. I would like to start off framing this conversation. Obviously, Health Care Access and coverage has been a hot topic for a long time but i think the pandemic has highlighted and illustrated some of the gaps we are dealing with in the system. We have seen millions of people lose their health determines because the
Home in washington, d. C. I would like to thank United Health group for making these conversations possible. I would like to welcome our audiences. You can follow along on twitter using the axios events. Over the next 30 minutes we will unpack the best way to unpack Health Insurance access and Health Insurance coverage in the united states, and what that path forward looks like following the president ial election and in the midst of a pandemic that is getting worse every day. Our first guest today is senator tina smith of minnesota. Thank you for joining us. Sen. Smith thank you, sam. It is terrific to be with everyone today. Insurance has been with us for a long time but how has the pandemic shaped how you view this problem of health care coverage. Do you see that differently now . Sen. Smith here we are in the midst of a Global Pandemic. Thatt is the pandemic asserted in my home to state of minnesota and the upper midwest that is surging in my home state of minnesota in the upper mi