Nearly one in four americans have received at least one dose, with a 13 of the country fully inoculated. Today, though, a grave tone from dr. Rochelle walensky, pleading with americans to keep their masks on and continue social distancing, a response to seeing people on the move and seeing states easing restrictions. More travelers than ever during the pandemic, airports on sunday, 1. 5 million according to the tsa, nearly 10 million in total in the last week. And spring break in the miami area is seeing unprecedented nighttime crowds with few masks to be seen. In the meantime u. S. Covid numbers are stabilizing at high levels, the country is averaging about 54,000 new cases a day. And a thousand deaths daily. We must act now, and i am worried that if we dont take the right actions now, we will have another avoidable surge. Just as we are seeing in europe right now. And just as we are so aggressively scaling up vaccination. I want to turn now to cnns Kristen Holmes for more on astrazen
Against symptomatic and 100 effective in preventing severe disease and hospitalization. This is in a u. S. Based trial. The company says there were no Safety Concerns whatsoever. Heres the but. Several European Countries, though, had temporarily suspended use of astrazeneca because of reports of blood clots in a small number of vaccinated people, but the company says, an independent Committee Found no increased risk of blood clots. Astrazeneca is now preparing to apply for Emergency Use Authorization here in the u. S. And a little bit more good news for all of us today. The number of new covid cases is continuing to drop and the u. S. Is now averaging 1,000 deaths a day. This is down 26 since last week. Cnns Alexander Field has more. Reporter a vaccine plagued by weeks of controversy now showing positive results in the u. S. Will it be enough to change its global image . We are thrilled by the results. We have disclosed this this morning. Reporter in a u. S. Based clinical trial, astra
Parker and myself nikki brown to the National Archives audience on this terrific book that Alison Parker has just written. And just been published. Its this book i have my hand, and it is this that is on your green. Unceasing militant. Im very very happy to begin this conversation, with Alison Parker, who is the chair of the department of history, at the university of delaware, and she is also the professor of american history. She has written three books. But purifying america that was your first book, articulating rights. And the third book, she is here to talk to us about, is unceasing militant. We will have a conversation about Mary Church Terrell. So handing it over to you dr. Parker. So alison how are you doing . Im doing great nikki, and i appreciate you being here to have this conversation together. And im looking forward to talking to you about today. That is terrific, thank you so much, so what we are going to do just now, is to show a few images, of Mary Church Terrell. Then
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Suzanne with me today, our distinguished guests. Dr. Johnetta b. Cole, president and chair of the board of the National Council of negro women and former president of Spelman College and bennett college, the only two hbcus dedicated to educating africanamerican women. And dr. Ruth simmons, president of prairie view a m university, an historic hbcu hbcu. She also served formerly as president of both Brown University and smith college. Its a pleasure to have you both here today with us. You have made such a significant contribution to the field of education. We have invited v. P. Franklin from the university of californiariverside to give a short presentation on the history of blacks in education. Really happy to be a part of the 20th anniversary of the history makers, and i just wanted to say thank you to miss richard son. Im glad to be a part of it at the beginning and here at the end to discuss the background, historic background for Higher Education for africanamericans. Africanameri