coronavirus test that promises 99% accurate results in 15 minutes delivered to your smartphone. the country emerging from its deadliest month, 99,000 people killed since january. scientists agree the improvement is real, but the risk is the same as it ever was. relaxing too soon. the more transmissible and potentially deadly variants are gaining more of a foothold here in the united states, and doctors warn those numbers could very well turn for the worse again. vaccines, we know, will end this pandemic, but the question is how long will it take, and can the biden administration speed up the distribution plan enough to outrun the virus. you need to get vaccinated when it becomes available as quickly and as expeditiously as possible. not only are you going to protect individuals from getting disease, not only are you going to protect them from getting infected, but you are going to prevent the emergence of variants here in our country. let s walk through some of the latest
color. one of the things we can do is target the highest risk communities hit by this pandemic, so going into communities and meeting people where they are, and not expecting every community to go out and seek and search where they can find the vaccine. meeting with states to discuss their plans for ensuring equitable vaccine distribution and ask for assistance in achieving that goal. as you all know, and wea ve talked about it in here, governments are seeking the distribution to ensure that vaccinations are getting to all parts of the country. we are thinking instinctively and creatively how to do that, and we re also working with the cdc to improve vaccination data reporting by ethnicity. there s no question that it s not at the level we need it to be at. do you think that s going to happen, or is there a message to people giving out the vaccines? i just wonder how that actually gets changed on the ground level? i don t know if it s a presidential memoranda or policy chan
administration the top u.s. infectious disease expert anthony found she says america will remain in the world health organization and help fight the disease at home and abroad i am honored to announce that the united states will remain a member of the world health organization yesterday president biden signed a letter is retracting the previous administration s announcement to withdraw from the organization the united states stands ready to work in partnership and solidarity to support the international coal d that 19 response. former president donald trump s articles of impeachment will be sent to the senate soon and that s according to us house speaker nancy pelosi trump was impeached just days before the end of his term for inciting a riot at capitol hill several people were killed. at least 32 people have been killed in twin suicide bombings at a busy market in the iraqi capital no one has claimed responsibility but the government is blaming i saw it s the most violent i
that s great. wy wyatt, send me more pictures. all right. i will. sa sanjay, thank you. thank dr. anthony fauci. dr. rochelle walensky. and dr. marcella nunez-smith. also thanks to those who wrote in with your questions. to a lot who joined us tonight, i know a lot of people didn t get their questions answered. i apologize. the conversation continues at cnn.com/c cnn.com/c cnn.com/coronavirusanswers. the news continues with chris cuomo. chris? all right. we re running late. i m chris cuomo. welcome to prime time. let s get right after it. what s happening in washington deserves your attention. it may be as dangerous as the pandemic. my question is how many red flags do we need? homeland security just put out a warning of more possible violence to come from violent anti-government extremists. fueled by false narratives that could continue to mobilize to incite or commit violence. now, this that s what the gop has to say about this threat. why? the only response they ve
by february 20th, 2021. that s dr. rochelle walensky, who joins us shortly tonight, along with dr. anthony faucfauc. here s white house senior covid adviser andy slavitt doing the same on vaccine availability. right now, i want to level with the public, we are facing two constraining factors. the first is getting enough supply quickly enough and the second is the ability to administer the vaccines quickly once they re produced and send out to the sites. we are taking action to increase supply and capacity, but even so, it will be months before everyone who wants a vaccine will be able to get one. we ll be devoting a good deal to the subject tonight. that s right, anderson. we re going to ask dr. walensky and dr. fauci how the administration inteds to get the states 16% more doses, using the defense production act to boost production and just generally how to remove obstacles to getting people vaccinated. we ll be joined by the head of the newly created health equity