Update with top officials at the International Vaccine access center. This is 30 minutes. Welcome and thank you for joining us today. My name is ellen wilson and i will be the moderator for this expert briefing for the media hosted by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. This briefing will address vaccines for covid19. The world has made unprecedented strides in developing covid19 vaccine candidates quickly. Many with higher efficacy than anticipated. Bringing these vaccines from Clinical Trials to the general public would require many considerations. Todays briefing would tackle these questions, including how do scientists develop vaccines against covid19 in less than a year, and how do we know they are safe . Will there be enough for everybody in the u. S. . What about people in low and middle Income Countries . Be demandingerly vaccines. Others will not be. How do you determine who will get it first and how do you convince those who are hesitant about such a new vacc
About its new travel quarantine, which was just rereclarified again by the county in the past hour. Nbc bay areas robert handa was at todays announcement and why its so crucial to get moving on it. Reporter the race is on as the Public Health Department Works to keep its vaccine and quarantine plans on track, even as covid cases surge. Whether its a vaccine or a travel quarantine, its all about trying to stop what Public Health calls a chain of transmission. The latest numbers show parts of the south bay running out of hospital beds. We are especially concerned because none of the hospitals serving south county and East San Jose had more than five icu beds available as of yesterday. Reporter the downy submitted its vaccine plan to the state detailing how it will distribute and administer vaccinations. There are some difficult logistics, including that necessary ultra cold Storage Units are now only being set up to store the vaccines at 70 degrees below zero. Dr. Jennifer tong says they
Monday, when we had 97 basis points. Some of the risk on currencies not necessarily reacting as they should, like the euro. We will break that down over the next couple of hours as the market digests the news and what it means Going Forward as cases pickup. Now we welcome our tv viewers andradio listeners, modernas ceo. The biggest question that it seems like people have is why does your vaccine require less cold storage then pfizer, key to distribution . Good morning, and thank you for having me. I think it goes back to the fact that we have been working on mrna vaccines for more than 10 years. That you mentioned, it is the first time they are doing an Infectious Disease vaccine. Over the years, we have invested heavily in science, and process develop and that allows us to have much better storage conditions than what we had five years ago. Guy this is really important because it is going to have a huge impact on distribution. How much of an effect will that stability at a higher temp
Dean of the cathedral. On the behalf of the bishop of the diocese of washington and all of us who serve this cathedral, welcome we are so glad you have decided to join us for this important conversation this evening. Convening conversations, bringing people together to discuss some of the most important issues of the day [inaudible] priorities since 2008, the nancy and Paul Ignatius program has 8 given the cathedral [inaudibl] y the nancy and Paul Ignatius fd wasta established by their children, david, sarah, amy and audie. Their friends and other relatives and as a recognition of their service and commitment to Washington Cathedral while we said goodbye last year, her legacy lives on here at the cathedral and we are so pleased to have paul as the mainstay of the cathedral community. Not to mention that this years ignatius program is especially important because yesterday Paul Ignatius celebrated his 100th birthday. Happy birthday and god bless and keep you. Thank you for all that you
He is the founder of the Dupont Center and his specialty is Global Security, everything from governance culture to state actors and nonstate actors and im going to try to explore as much of that todayas we can. I want to find out each day the Dupont Center publishes. [inaudible] it is a wonderful deep dive into a timely issue that goes to the heart of what we should be thinking about even if its not in the headlines. Anything from White Supremacy to whats happening with al qaeda and isis and regional powers and i encourage you to read it every day. I also encourage you to read the morning brief which they Stephan Group sponsored at the National Security produces in the 14th year and bring you the news every day about what you should be thinking about about National Security in a variety of dimensions. Ali, thank you for joining me today. Welcome. Please dont stay mute, this is your conversation. I want to start by talking about the book and then were going to turn to other things. And