Contact tracing is largely gone. I think and i believe that we should be treating every case as if its a variant during this pandemic right now. The good news according to dr. Anthony fauci is Johnson Johnsons new singledose vaccine could help get more people vaccinated and prevent severe disease and hospitalizations as the virus continues to mutate and replicate. We have now a valueadded additional vaccine candidate. This is a singleshot vaccine in which you start to see efficacy anywhere from 7 to 10 days. It is inexpensive and the company is capable of making doses in the numbers of billions. Joining me now nbc news chief White House Correspondent and Weekend Today cohost Kristen Welker. Dr. Celine gounder, a member of bidens Advisory Board during the transition. And patrice harris, former president of the american medical association. Kristen, how difficult is it proving for the biden team with such a short transition, if any, to get their arms around the shortage of doses and the
Dropping . Some of them havesome of them hs much as 30 or 40 . Host thanks for sharing your experience this morning. That will wrap it up for washington journal this morning. We did want to tell you about tomorrows program. Kaiser health news will join us to talk about the latest on the Coronavirus Fight against the pandemic. We will also hear from the Economic Policy director at the bipartisan policy center, talking about the fed and what the fed can do during the pandemic and other Economic News related to the coronavirus. That will do it for this mornings program. We hope you are with us tomorrow morning at 7 00 eastern and for our primetime program. Announcer cspans washington journal live every day with news on policy issues that impact you. Coming on monday morning, the response of u. S. Health Insurance Companies to the coronavirus with julie robin are of Kaiser Health news. And how washington is addressing job loss amid the coronavirus pandemic with the Economic Policy director
Information about the local community and things going on around the country. Today we have our membership watching and a number of members diplomatic corps tuning in as well. And a number of invited guests, not members of the club, are and watchingtening as well. Our First Special guest today is. Ed leonsis the second is the governor of maryland, governor hogan. And the chair of the National Governors asos asian. And then we have association. And then we have kim ford. Let people know that next week on friday we will probably have another program. We are working on the details of that now. Secondly, april 28, next tuesday, a week from next tuesday we have dr. Fauci, reasonably well known these days as the director of the National Institute of allergy and infectious diseases. And we look forward to a good conversation with him. I would like to remind everybody that after the interview is completed, about one hour, total, we will put this up on our website. You will be a little watch it
Covid19 on the front lines. A digital event cast from the atlantic. We are going to be talking for the next hour or so about the latest science, about the latest treatments, and will be looking forward about what we can expect in the weeks and months ahead. Before get underway, a moment to thank our underwriter pharma, who is making the conversations possible. First, lets take a look at where we are right now. As of last night, more than 580,000 americans have been diagnosed with covid19. And over 23,000 have died of covid19related complications. There are some signs of improvement in places like new york. The curve appears to be flattening, but some other hot spots are emerging, and at the moment, 316 million americans are still under stayathome orders. This is an evolving situation, of course. The atlantic has been moving along with it, publishing articles like the technology that could free america from quarantine, and the coronaviru unique threat to the south. Another article which
Rural areas. May not have broadband, so i worry about those communities who may be low resource or under resourced. Those are just a few of the things that i worry about. Thank you, our time is up. Dr. Patrice harris, we would like to present you virtually with our notable National Press club coffee mug along with our hope that we can share a cup of coffee here at press club in person in the near future. Thank you for joining us today. Dr. Harris thank you for having me today, and thank you. I will enjoy that mug. My thanks to our National Press announcer tonight at 9 00 eastern, netflix director and former u. N. Official michelle fix. Ith her book, the that was something i discovered in my research that there is a believe everybody is the same because everybody is treated in the same way. If people do not have experiences, with that logic, we are not only denying difference but any quality. Afterwardstch tonight at 9 00 eastern on cspan two. Announcer congressional efforts are underwa