Pandemic rch record highs with no signs of slowing down. Researchers are now warning the u. S. Death toll may near 540,000 by april. Today we will speak to one of the worlds leading Infectious Disease doctors, paul farmer, the cofound of partne in health. All of these epidemics find their way to exploit social disparities and inequalities and take their greatest harvest among the pr anvulnerab. E qstion ware aski is does that need to be the case . And of course, the answer is, no, it does not. Amy dr. Paul farmer will talk about the pandemic, health care inequality, and his new book fevers, feuds and diamonds ebola and the ravages of history. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the quarantine report. Im amy goodman. The United States has set yet another world record for daily coronavirus cases and hospitalizations and deaths with over 216,000 infections confirmed thursday and more than 2800 deaths. Nearly 101,000 people are hospitalized with covi
That had 0. 07 of notice we barely get to 80 inland and 72 around the bay and everybody in the 50s and 60s with those breezy conditions at 7 00. Even cooler tomorrow with more drizzle on the way. Ill have that coming up in the accuweather sevenday forecast. First i want to get over to jobina who has a traffic alert. Jobina. Thank you, mike. Im tracking a sig alert right now in oakland that is causing a major backup on westbound 24. I want to bring you to the maps because it and this started as a multicar crash involving three vehicles and then a second crash in there and you can see the speeds are low down to 4 and 11 Miles Per Hour in the area. Again westbound 24 before College Avenue. Avoid this if you can and ill give you an update when the chp has opened the roadway. Reggie . All right, thank you, jobina. All this week abc7 news committed to building a better bay area by looking at education and how School Districts are handling going back to school. The San Jose Unified School dis
Good morning. The health labor on education and pension will come to order. This is another bipartisan hearings, which means senator murray and i have agreed on the subject and the witnesses. In falkt i would say every member in the committee would probably agree on the subject and Witnesses Today because this is a hearing entitled implementation of the cures act. The path forward to hear from dr. Frances collins, the National Institutes of health and dr. Gotlieb, the commissioner of food and drugs. Senator murphy will have a hearing wednesday on another reorganization which they played a major role in. We look forward to that. Senator murray and i will each have an Opening Statement and then introduce our panel of witnesses. After, senators will have five minutes of questions. In 2007 doug oliver, who is in the front row i believe, a Computer Programmer began to have trouble, had his drivers license taken away and declared legally bliepd. It was a rare form of macular degeneration. He
Good morning. The health labor on education and pension will come to order. This is another bipartisan hearings, which means senator murray and i have agreed on the subject and the witnesses. In falkt i would say every member in the committee would probably agree on the subject and Witnesses Today because this is a hearing entitled implementation of the cures act. The path forward to hear from dr. Frances collins, the National Institutes of health and dr. Gotlieb, the commissioner of food and drugs. Senator murphy will have a hearing wednesday on another reorganization which they played a major role in. We look forward to that. Senator murray and i will each have an Opening Statement and then introduce our panel of witnesses. After, senators will have five minutes of questions. In 2007 doug oliver, who is in the front row i believe, a Computer Programmer began to have trouble, had his drivers license taken away and declared legally bliepd. It was a rare form of macular degeneration. He
With the best overall entry. Deadline is january 18. Contest details on our website studentcamp. Org. Next, fda commissioner Scott Gottlieb and Francis Collins testify on medical innovations. They appeared before the Senate Health innovation and Pensions Committee on issues including the Opioid Epidemic, rare disease funding and research into treating addicts nonmedically. This is an hour and 50 minutes. Good morning, the Senate Committee on health and education will come to attention and order. Another bipartisan hearing which is what most of our hearings are which is what bernie and i created on the witnesses. I would say every member of this committee would probably agree on the subject in witnesses today. This is a hearing entitled implementation of the 21st century cures. Progress and the path forward for medical innovation, we will hear from Francis Collins, and doctor Scott Gottlieb, commissioner of food and drugs. We all have as i mentioned a hearing next wednesday on another i