We begin this morning with President Trumps efforts to reverse the results of the president ial election. Mr. Trump fired the top cyber official after the agency he has rejected the allegations of voter fraud. Joe biden is building out his white house staff as the Trump Administration continues to block his move into office. From washington, what is on tap for mr. Biden today . President elect joe biden is going to be meeting in a virtual round table with Frontline Health care workers. Hes pushing forward despite President Trump continuing to falsely claim hes won the election. Two weeks after election day, supporters of President Trump cheered on the president in pennsylvania. I want to help support the president and what hes doing and make sure all the legal votes get counted. President trump lost pennsylvania to joe biden by more than 80,000 votes. The legal effort led by Rudy Giuliani is a long shot. Every single legal vote has been upheld in every piece of litigation so far. Last
Covid solution. It was inevitable was inevitable that the coronavirus pandemic would be politicized and this is a tragedy that it was paid from the start i knew it was impossible to have a perfect response and we are facing a new virus that caused an entirely new disease. No one wanted to under react and as a result i fear the tendency would be to overreact and create Unrealistic Expectations regarding our ability to stop a highly contagious pathogen. The challenges facing us were daunting and our National Strategic stockpile have been reduced during the h1n1 pandemic and had not been replenished. It took time to develop reliable tests and even more time to Scale Production to meet the demand. The fact that a large percentage of people that become infected exhibited no symptoms made the coronavirus even more difficult to detect and contain. I have tried not to criticize the elected officials that have had the response ability to make very tough decisions with limited and highly imperfe
Up 95 points. The dow better by 393 points. Perhaps on investor belief that the worsening pandemic will shake congress fists open leading to, perhaps, the passage of a relief package. But as millions rush to get tested, rapid covid testing suddenly under fire from billionaire Tesla Ceo Elon musk who claims he took four tests with confusing results. So were bringing out one of the breakout stars of the netflix dock you series pandemic, dr. Jacob glanfeld, what he wants to hear from the president as the development of a covid19 vaccine inches closer to reality. And the coronavirus isnt elon musks only problem. Theres a new player on the electric vehicle front carving out its own ev beast face. Yes, thats right, the ceo is here in a fox business exclusive. Yes, the company is publicly traded. Well tell you who it is. All right, but first a fox business alert, just as americans rush en masse to get covid tested this hour, teslas ceo, elon musk, is on the attack. Did you see what he treat t
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
I thought it was and i originally set out the title of early treatments for covid essential component of a covid solution. It was inevitable was inevitable that the coronavirus pandemic would be politicized and this is a tragedy that it was paid from the start i knew it was impossible to have a perfect response and we are facing a new virus that caused an entirely new disease. No one wanted to under react and as a result i fear the tendency would be to overreact and create Unrealistic Expectations regarding our ability to stop a highly contagious pathogen. The challenges facing us were daunting and our National Strategic stockpile have been reduced during the h1n1 pandemic and had not been replenished. It took time to develop reliable tests and even more time to Scale Production to meet the demand. The fact that a large percentage of people that become infected exhibited no symptoms made the coronavirus even more difficult to detect and contain. I have tried not to criticize the electe