Celebrated thanksgiving a month and a half ago, and since then, the nation of 37000000 has seen its daily coronavirus case count, nearly triple. According to the Public Health agency of canada, the number of infections has gone up from 2000 new cases a day in mid october to around 5500 a day, with few canadians flying to get their turkey dinner. Many are blaming the festive gatherings themselves and not travel for the surge. If the current trend continues Public Health officials in canada say that the country could see up 260000 new cases of covert 1000. 00 per day, by the end of december. In the states, a search like canadas would likely take the country over the edge. Currently, the u. S. Is seeing approximately 200000. 00 new infections a day. With the current trends, christmas will likely be very different this year in both the u. S. And canada. But there is a light at the end of the tunnel. Vaccines are being fast tracked to combat the virus. And one of the front runners from phar
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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
At morning and thank you all for being here today. Todays hearing comes at a perilous time for the 2020 census. Last month they were traveling press reports indicating career officials at the Census Bureau warned the trumpmp administratin about significant that will delay the delivery of census data until late january or early february. After these reports became public the director of the census issued a Public Statement nfirming the problems were found but he provided no details. These developments were particularly troubling because they were not reported to ournt committee. We have. About them in the press before the census charger made his Public Statement. Nobody from the Trump Administration informed us about any of these problems or delays. For these reasons the committee wrote a letter on november 19. They asked for documents that career officials prepare describing these data problems and the resulting delays. They also requested documents that were prepared for the departmen