More than 25 million confirmed cases of covid19 and more than 430,000 deaths across this country. Accounting for 25 of of the confirmed cases and 20 of deaths worldwide. While cases hospitalizations and deaths at have slightly decrd in the last few weeks, the numbers continued to be staggering. Now there is great concern of varied and more transmissible strains of the virus may become dominant over the coming weeks leading to a further worsening of the pandemic. Todays report comes as president Bidens Administration launches an aggressive effort to combat the pandemic and Congress Considers additional aid to bolster the Public Health response and jumpstart the economy. The future of Health Care Initiative released its first report of bipartisan prescription for Americas Health care in february 2020 Offering Practical Solutions designed to make healthcare coverage more affordable without adding a growing Systemwide Health expenditures. Todays report was led by a Bipartisan Group of heal
Day. A. Q a forum on inclusion in policy end government. Opportunities in those areas under a Joe Biden Administration. The hill hosted the event. Greetings and welcome. I am the editor at large of the hail. Thank you for joining us for the final session of our diversity and inclusion summit. We have been testing the proposition that without diversity, a government does not represent its constituents, its society suffers, and businesses and organizations are less successful. We are going to take a look at how all of us can play a role in building a culture of equity in society. I would like to thank our sponsors, qualcomm, the International Franchise association, and association of realtors. Special thanks to the National Association of realtors for supporting this band of programming and it is going to be a great band. Stay tuned, lots of cool stuff. Some of the leading minds in civil rights and activism are with us this afternoon to discuss how intentional actions can lead to positiv
That issued its largest ever emergency funding appeal for 6400000000 dollars to reach 300000000 people. 6 coronavirus patients have died in a pakistani hospice on the shower after oxygen supplies ran to hundreds of patients were left for hours on reduced oxygen because of a delay in deliveries polls to choose gonna us president and members of parliament have closed the incumbent president nana those main rival is the man he replaced 4 years ago john the hama both men have signed a pact saying they will accept the officially declared winner. French president of iran michael says future arms sales to egypt will not be made conditional on its human rights record but mike ross said he did speak frankly about Rights Violations of president had been fed to his c. C. In paris on monday without adding any more detail. I will not make our cooperation in defense or economic matters conditional on these disagreements 1st because i believe in the sovereignty of people and respect for our legitimat
Talks to secure a trade deal between the uk and the European Union are resuming later on monday. They broke up last night with the trickiest areas of disagreement like fishing richts, Competition Rules and enforcement of the deal remaining unresolved. If theres going to be a deal, it needs to be done by december 31st. Our Political Correspondent chris mason reports. Last night in brussels, the lights on, the talks ongoing. Huge amount at stake. It is serious. Its at 50 50 right now and i dont think one can be optimistic about resolution emerging. Speaking to some of the key principles here, this isa the key principles here, this is a very challenging issue to resolve, and particularly around the level playing field. There are three main sticking point, the so called level playing field, how any deal is enforced and fishing rights. Eu sources suggest a deal on fish is close. The british sources say it isnt. It seems the two sides cant even agree on what they disagree on. After todays ne
Phone lines split up as usual this morning. Democrats, 202 7488000 is the number to call in. Republicans, 202 7488001. Independents, 202 7488002. You can also send us a text. That number, 202 7488003. If you do, please include your name and where you are from. You can catch up with us on social media, twitter and facebook. A very good monday morning to you. You can start calling in now. Theheadlines on this topic, first use of the vaccine maybe december 13. 40 million doses said to be available by the end of the month. That from the front page of usa today. Frontline gets the first vaccine doses, but then who . Thats the question we are asking this morning, asking you to be in the position of setting the priority, how would you do it . Turning to the cdc webpage there, i q a on how the cdc is making its covid19 vaccine recommendations. Making those disease vaccine recommendations based on the input from the Advisory Committee on immunization practices. Its a federal Advisory Committee