Years. That is the best month of the year, im connell mcshane. This is the closing bell. Time for news of the hour. Jackie deangelis in new york, blake burman in white house, Hillary Vaughn with the president elect in delaware and Edward Lawrence in washington with the latest on the covid19 relief deal. A lot of moving parts well get into. The market is back in rally mode. Good afternoon, jackie. Reporter good afternoon, connell. Well talk about the records we set today with the s p 500 and also the nasdaq. Look at the gains there we beat what we were expecting handily. You only needed 16 points on the s p and only needed seven on the nasdaq. This was a strong broad based rally today what is interesting big tech continues to gain on this momentum and continues to go higher from there. Facebook, apples, amazon, microsofts of the world are continuing to climb up. That is something you expect to hear. Again it wasnt just tech, it was broadbased. Look at the dow winners you can see we have
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CDC panel endorses Pfizer Covid booster shots for high-risk adults, rejects plan to distribute widely across America : Rashtra News A key Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advisory group voted Thursday to recommend distributing Pfizer and BioNTech's Covid-19 booster shots to older Americans, nursing home residents and other vulnerable people, clearing the way for the agency
help. the meeting was very significant. the cdc s chief medical officer, kathleen dooling, she unveiled her plan to distribute the vaccines nationally. she began by acknowledging that older americans indeed faced the greatest risk, as everyone understood. so if you wanted to save as many americans as possible from dying, you would give preference, the first shots, to people over 65, that s the obvious policy. it may be the only morally defensible policy but there was a problem with doing that, she explained, older americans were too white. racial and ethnic minority groups are underrepresented among adults age 65 and older. this meant according to her, they could not be allowed to get to the first covid shots whether they needed them or not. so instead dooling recommended a group that the government started calling essential workers. they were less white than old people. that s what the cdc went with.
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