Today to decide on who should be first to get the vaccine once one is available. With the pandemic raging across the United States, we will speak to two africanamerican doctors who have spent years fighting Racial Disparities in healthcare. One of them joined modernas vaccine study to honor her father who died from covid19. Plus, we will mark World Aids Day with professor Steven Thrasher. Aids continues to kill too many peopl almost 700,000 pele were killed by it last year, and that was decades after education became available. As we are on the verge of potentially having a Coronavirus Vaccine to rollout, we dont antiracist,vely anticapitalist approach, hundreds of thousands of millions of people could continue to suffer and die. Amy all that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the quarantine report. Im amy goodman. The u. S. Centers for Disease Control and convention is convening a panel of advisers today to determine who will be the first in line to be
Senator david perdue refused to take part, so democratic challenger jon ossoff stood on stage alongside an empty podium. It is a strange situation to be asking a question of a sitting United States senator who is not here to debate as he asks for the votes of the people to be reelected. Amy the debates came a day after President Trump held a rally in georgia and called on georgias republican Governor Brian Kemp to overturn the election but kemp refused to do so. We will go to georgia for the latest. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the quarantine report. Im amy goodman. The u. S. Is heading towards 15 million confirmed cases of covid19 as daily cases are averaging close to 200,000. The reported death toll has topped 282,000 with hospitalizations now over 100,000. Experts warn the grim figures do not yet account for spikes related to thanksgiving travel. Hospitals and the 911 emergency call system are being stretched to the breaking point as Fr
Too close to call come in washington and north dakota. We will get response from naomi. Lein and alicia garza then, as the coronavirus pandemic grows, nurses on the frontlines are holding a national day of action to protest lack of basic protections for nurses and their patients. When something doubles every day, gets to very large number very quickly. So if there are 1000 people infected today, in seven or eight weeks, there can be 64,000 people infected in the state o f washington if we dont somehow slow down this epidemic. Amy well speak with the president of National Nurses united jean ross. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has deployed the National Guard to new rochelle, a suburb of new york city, ordering a onemile containment zone around a synagogue whose congregation is at the center of the nations biggest single largest coronavirus outbreak. National guard member
Too close to call come in washington and north dakota. We will get response from naomi. Lein and alicia garza then, as the coronavirus pandemic grows, nurses on the frontlines are holding a national day of action to protest lack of basic protections for nurses and their patients. When something doubles every day, gets to very large number very quickly. So if there are 1000 people infected today, in seven or eight weeks, there can be 64,000 people infected in the state off washington if we dont somehow slow down this epidemic. Amy wellll speak with the president of National Nurses united jean ross. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has deployed the National Guard to new rochelle, a suburb of new york city, ordering a onemile containment zone around a synagogue whose congregation is at the center of the nations biggest single largest coronavirus outbreak. National guard memb
Quorum call the presiding officer the senator from ohio were in a quorum call. The senator will suspend. Without objection. Mr. Brown tomorrow i will do something ive never down. I will vote for a trade agreement, the first time in my career. Im voting for that trade agreement because of the work that my colleague from oregon, senator wyden and i did to fix President Trumps deal and secure new protections for American Workers for the First Time Ever in spite of the president s intransigence, in spite of the president s lining up as he always does with corporate interests because our trade agreement for the First Time Ever, ever put workers at the center of this agreement. Every trade agreement that ive seen in my time in congress, north American Free trade agreement, Central America free trade agreement, the trade agreement with colombia and south korea, one after another, every one of these trade agreements, every one of these trade actions were written fundamentally in secret by corp