Reaching front line medical workers as early as tuesday or monday. Now, nursing home residents and staff are also at the top of the vaccination list. A final key left to turn by the head of the u. S. Centers for Disease Control and prevention. Well, dr. Robert redfield must issue the governments final blessing on the vaccine developed by pfizer and biontech. Once that happens millions of frozen vials packed in dry ice will start moving cross connie under the fdas emergency use authorization. This drug with more than 95 immunity against coronavirus after two shots is showing up just as the pandemic in the u. S. Is getting much, much worse much faster. A million americans tested positive in just the past four days alone bringing the total so far to a staggering 16 Million People infected. It took almost 100 days to reach the first million back in april. Now, nowhere is the scope of the pandemic more apparent than in the nations hospitals. That system has been pummelled since july. The nu
As pfizer covid19 vaccine is being delivered to hospitals around the country the New York Times citing fwo familiar sources with distribution plans. Reports that senior white house staff will be among the first to receive doses. And National Security official confirmed to us that senior officials across all three branchs of government will be priority for vaccination. Due to a president ial policy directed from 2016. In other news, the nations 538 ps president ial electors meet tomorrow to cast the vote for president. Voting begins at 10 00 a. M. In indiana, tennessee and vermont. Battleground states of arizona, georgia and pennsylvania will begin at noon. The wisconsin follows at 1 00 p. M. And michigan at 2 00 p. M. Each cast two ballots. One for president and Vice President. To be counted during a joint session of congress on january 6. The its doubtful the president will accept the results. Could it be called a coup . Whatever word, the effort alone is dangerous for democracy. Expe
Health Officials Say the vaccine could alter the course of the pandemic, in the u. S. , and not a moment too soon, of course. The country, now, passing 16 million cases, after adding 1 million in just four days. And hospitalizations, hitting another record, on saturday. More than 108,000 patients, around the country, in hospitals with coronavirus. Cnn chief medical correspondent, sanjay gupta, has more, now, on the vaccine, who should take it, and what the rollout will look like once the cdc director signs off on it. Well, just remarkable development, scientifically, with this vaccine. We know the vaccine is now authorized, and has now been recommended by the centers for disease control, as well. Which means, lots of moving parts are starting to unfold. We know that the shipments are scheduled to begin this weekend. Likely, going to be arriving, in many places, by monday morning. And we could see people starting to get vaccinated, for the first time outside of a clinical trial, early t
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Arrests, the rioters, themselves, begin to speak out. Question this morning, why do they say they did it . Plus, the unprecedented level of security around the biden harris inauguration on wednesday. With so much at stake, the question is, what are officials doing to prevent possible insider attacks . Its way too early for this. Good morning and welcome to way too early, the show that honors the legacy of dr. Martin luther king jr. On this day, and hopefully, every day. It is monday, january 18th. Im kasie hunt. Well start with the news. The new yorker published staggering, new footage over the weekend from inside the capitol riot. Reporter luke molison has followed them for months and attended the january 6th rallies in washington that gave way to the riots. Heres some of what he captured. Whose house there are [ bleep ] million of us out there and we are listening to trump, your boss were peaceful let the people in go back out wheres the exit . [ inaudible ] 1776 antifa guess what, a