Im keeping this brief and to the point. Local leaders have been sounding at definite alarm for months about the need for direct fiscal assistance from washington as the virus rages in our city. Our budgets are under extreme stress. Arts fences are skyrocketing. Our essential lifesaving services are strained. The need for public assistance is through the roof. This has been going on since the beginning of the pandemic since march of last year. Today, only 38 cities have received direct relief yet mayors everywhere continue to do what we do everyday. We get it done. We run our cities with a balanced budget which we are required to do by law. So what does that mean . How do we possibly do that in the face of this tremendous crisis . It means the cut jobs. It means eliminating services and staff at the same time. Our First Responders have been on the job since day one of this pandemic transporting those with covid to hospitals with Public Health initiatives keeping social and family order
I want to thank her for an sent the National League of cities in the National Association of counties for their sheer dedication to this issue on badly needed federal assistance as we continue to fight the covid19 pandemic. A quick note for members of the press joining us today, we will take questions after brief opening remarks. If you have a question, please put your name and media outlet in the chat and well call on you. Im keeping this brief and to the point. Im keeping this brief and to the point. Local leaders have been sounding at definite alarm for months about the need for direct fiscal assistance from washington as the virus rages in our city. Fences are skyrocketing. Our essential lifesaving services are strained. The need for public assistance is through the roof. This has been going on since the beginning of the pandemic since march of last year. Today, only 38 cities have received direct relief yet mayors everywhere continue to do what we do everyday. We get it done. We r
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On vaccines are picked particular wolf that the use of father restrictions in the u. K. The virus the subject in many countries around the world people are telling them bones to vaccines and the chief medical officer in the england said 6 months was an estimate and got direct questions from family buns and from maggie checky who say do you think are a covered 1000 vaccine will be available so over to you christmas. I was speaking this week with one of Cambridge Universitys foremost experts on this gordon doogan who is a vaccine ologist is an Award Winning vax knowledge just and he has brought to the clinical coalface a number of vaccines over the course of his career and i asked him this very question last week and said with a fair wind behind it whats the most optimistic projection he said to me hes thinking realistically probably 2120 in 2021 june so it might be as long as 9 months to go yet the government themselves have said that we might see some vaccine available before christmas
Was an estimate and were going to write questions from family barns from Maggie Charity who say do you think a covered 1000 vaccine will be available so over to you christmas. I was speaking this week with one of Cambridge Universitys foremost experts on this gordon doogan who is a vaccine ologist is an Award Winning vaccine on the just and he has brought to the clinical coalface a number of vaccines over the course of his career and i asked him this very question last week and said with a fair wind behind it whats his most optimistic projection he said to me hes thinking realistically probably 2120 in 2021 june so it might be as long as 9 months to go yet the government themselves have said that we might see some vaccine available before christmas on a small scale basis this might be just part of a trial or whatever but really to scale this up to get it to the number of people who need it and do it in a safe way is still going to take quite a bit of time so thats why i think the proje