Baby abdulrahman was crawling early, but now his mum worries he ll never be able to walk. He was the first child found to have polio in gaza in 25 years, and it paralysed his leg because of the war he wasn t vaccinated and now medical care is limited. He want to live and be treated. He wants to live and walk like other children. I feel a lot of guilt that he didn t get the vaccination, but i couldn t give it to him because of our circumstances. Displaced five times, the baby s family now lives in a crowded tent camp in deir al balah in central gaza. Raw sewage flows through streets nearby. Conditions are ideal for diseases to spread, especially polio, which is highly infectious. Since discovering the virus, un agencies have been racing to set up an emergency mass vaccination programme and with war raging, they ve negotiated three localised three day pauses in fighting with israel and hamas. Un officials say the plan is not ideal, but it s workable. What we re aiming at is to have 640,0
Major drug maker reports encouraging findings for a covid vaccine. We will speak to dr. Saad omer, the director of the Yale Institute for Global Health. Then nine months into the pandemic, we look at how many hospitals are failing to provide adequate ppe to doctors and nurses. We will talk to jean ross, copresident of National Nurses united. We have been calling for this protection for Health Care Workers, not just for many months now, but also, if you recall, since the ebola crisis hit our shores. And sad to say, we are still very lacking. Amy plus, Central America has been devastated by backtoback Climate Changefueled hurricanes over the past two weeks. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the quarantine report. Im amy goodman. The United States recorded nearly 167,000 new coronavirus cases on monday, the third highest daily toll of the pandemic. The official u. S. Death toll, already the highest in the world, is rapidly approaching 250,000 with
Major drug maker reports encouraging findings for a covid vaccine. We will speak to dr. Saad omer, the director of the Yale Institute for Global Health. Then nine months into the pandemic, we look at how many hospitals are failing to provide adequate ppe to doctors and nurses. We will talk to jean ross, copresident of National Nurses united. We have been calling for this protection for Health Care Workers, not just for many months now, but also, if you recall, since the ebola crisis hit our shores. And sad to say, we are still very lacking. Amy plus, Central America has been devastated by backtoback Climate Changefueled hurricanes over the past two weeks. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the quarantine report. Im amy goodman. The United States recorded nearly 167,000 new coronavirus cases on monday, the third highest daily toll of the pandemic. The official u. S. Death toll, already the highest in the world, is rapidly approaching 250,000 with
The British Government admits its new brexit bill falls foul of the Withdrawal Agreement. The president of the European Commission says upholding last years deal is a prerequisite for further talks. On average a new book on donald trump has been released every day, for the last 188 weeks. And still theyre flying off the shelves. Katty and i are clearly missing the boat on this trend. Hello im katty kay in washington, Christian Fraser is in london. The chief executives of nine Drug Companies around the world published a statement in the wall streetjournal today promising they wont push through a Coronavirus Vaccine before its ready and safe. In theirjoint statement, the heads of the worlds biggest Drugs Companies the companies that are actively working on a vaccine said they would only submit for approval or emergency use authorisation after demonstrating safety and efficacy through a phase three clinical study. The unusual public response was designed to counter public misgivings, in t
Good morning, everybody. It is tuesday, september 15th, and im Yasmin Vossoughian were going to begin with the Deadly Wildfires out west. As the death toll continues to rise, authorities are searching for the missing and firefighters are working to keep moilt blazes from hitting populated communities. So far there have been 25 fatalities across the state of california as of last night, more than 3 million acres have burned this year, the largerest on record. Together its forced more than 60,000 people from their homes in grooregon, the fires killed n people and forced tens of thousands of residents to flee their homes there. So the unprecedent wildfires and another hurricane on the horizon put the Climate Crisis at center stage in the president ial campaign yesterday the president after staying silent on the fires for three weeks visited california while joe biden visited Climate Change and blasted the president s record calling him a, quote, violent arsonist deadly fires and floods wo