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
A warning from one of the Top Health Officials in the u. S. After reporting the highest daily death toll since the coronavirus pandemic began also this hour and crisis in syria the cold of winter is putting millions of people at risk. To their schools to n. B. A. Players get back to training as the Houston Rockets trade on store point god Russell Westbrook to the Washington Wizards. Thank you very much for joining us we begin this news hour in hong kong where the proDemocracy Movement has suffered a huge setback another prominent activist is facing time in prison media tycoon and prodemocracy advocate jamie law is the latest to be taken into Police Custody hell be held until a court case in april next year jimmy law is accused of. Fraud and this comes just a day after 3 other leaders were sentenced Joshua Wong Agnes cha and ivan lamb will serve 1310 and 7 months in jail respectively the Hong Kong Government says all those activists broke the law protesters say that trumped up charges t
Spike . Youre going to open up special lines this money. First we want to hear from teachers. If you are a teacher, want to hear from you at 202 7488000. Arenistrators, we know you making the tough decisions on whether to open or close schools. Our number, 202 7488001 parents and students, you are the ones sending your children for school. Parents and students, 202 7488002. If you dont fit any of those categories, we still want to. Ear from you, 202 7488003 remember, you can always text us at 202 7488003 as well. We are always reading on social facebook. Witter and once again, we are in the middle spike and coronavirus schools are making tough decisions on whether they should bring children to school or restart Virtual Learning. In new york city they made the decision this week to in in Person Learning and send Children Home next week. Here is new york city mayor bill de blasio addressing how his decision will affect new york city residents. Here is a quick portion. Be re is going to o
Save the lives of one of your childrens teachers, maybe it saves your life. Please, i implore you, wear a mask. Do it for yourself. Do it for your neighbor. A mask is not a political statement. It is a good way to start pulling the country together. I want to be very clear. The goal of mask wearing is not to make your life less comfortable. It is to take or take something away from you. It is to give Something Back to all of us. A normal life. The goal is to get back to normal as fast as possible. Masks are critical in doing that. It will not be forever. That is how we will get our nation back, back up to speed economically. We can go back to celebrating birthdays and holidays, so we can attend sporting events, so we can back to the live and connections we shared before the pandemic. It does not matter who you voted for. We are americans in our country is under threat. We are now called to do the same thing generations of proud americans have done when faced with crisis throughout our
Hopes of heading off the virus. Our trends are not headed in a favorable direction for us, and similar to in march when we had a rapid increase in cases, we may be needing to take additional restrictions quickly. Good evening. Im ama daetz. And im dan ashley. Thank you for joining us. Well start off tonight in Santa Clara County where Health Officials announced plans to shut down Indoor Dining next week. This decision comes as the county expects to move back into the red tier, meaning other restrictions are on the way. Reporter more sobering news as covid19 cases and hospitalizations are on the rise. Santa clara county, which reported 362 new cases on friday, is expected to move back into the red tier as soon as next tuesday. And as a result, Indoor Dining will be suspended on the same day. It is absolutely imperative that we take action now, each and every one of us, in order to get through this. Reporter with rain and colder temps on the way, many Restaurant Owners throughout the reg