The reason hes not talking about the pandemic, hes not interested in doing the job of president. This is new day with Alisyn Camerota and john bermmaan. This is new day, its tuesday, december 8th i believe. We begin with breaking news. This Morning Britain becomes the First Western nation to begin inoculating people against coronavirus. A 90yearold woman was the first to get the Pfizer Vaccine. Back in the u. S. , the u. S. Will consider emergency use approval of the vaccine on thursday. States do not think they will receive enough doses to vaccinate top priority people. The New York Times reports that the Trump Administration turned down an offer from pfizer to buy more doses. The Administration Says that is not true. As we wake up this morning, 102,000 americans are in the hospital with coronavirus. Thats a record. Its like the entire population of south bend, indiana in the hospital at once. An average of 2,200 americans dying every day. 2,200. For all that death and suffering, the outgoing president is consumed with just one person, himself. His energy, such as it is, is almost completely focused on throwing out the results of the election he lost. Again, hes trying to undermine democracy to overturn an election in public as he holds maskless indoor events in small rooms in the white house. No public concern over a single life lost, but abundant whining about his own personal political loss. Overnight, cnn confirmed that the president made multiple calls to the speaker of the house in pennsylvania about that States Election results. As far as we know, no calls to the family of the coronavirus victims, but masquerading as some kind of victim himself. This is not leadership. Its theater. Deadly, undemocratic theater. Breaking overnight, cnn confirms that president elect joe biden will announce the nomination of retired army general lloyd austin to be his secretary of defense. That announcement could come as soon as today. We begin in the United Kingdom. Max foster live in cardiff, wales. Im coming to you from over the border in wales where vaccinations started today. I cant tell you where i was this morning because theyre keeping the vaccination secret concerned that people may turn up outside, queue up and try to get the vaccination. T theres not the same skepticism in this area as there are in other parts of the world. I saw Front Line Health Workers at the front of the queue for this vaccine. Over the border in england, it was over 80s getting priority, including maggie, who made History Today as a 90yearold, the first person in the world to receive the Pfizer Vaccine outside of trial and heres her message for the world today. I say go for it. Go for it. Its free. Its the best thing thats ever happened. So do, please go for it. Thats all i can say, you know . If i can do it, so can you. Coming in a close session to maggie was a gentleman, his name was william shakespeare, would you believe . Whats in a name . I figured the third person will be james bond at the rate were going. Once people are vaccinated, what do they receive . They receive a card like this. Its just a card with details of the vaccine on it and when you received it. The reason its getting quite a lot of attention is theres a debate here about whether or not this may be used as an immunization passport to give you access to places, to jobs, because you can go up to them and say ive been vaccinated, theres a huge political debate about that. Theres something stealthy some people think is going on here. The government says theres not. I wanted to say to you something i noticed this morning, the vaccine doesnt come preprepared. You have to makes it on site as it arrives within hours, so actually the site here, they had to have a team of pharmacists in place, and they dont normally have to do that. It does show another level of the logistical challenge in getting this vaccine out. It is complicated. In the uk, its just being administered in hospitals. That will change over time. Its quite a thing to see this actually happening now. People receiving the vaccine outside the test environment. Such a milestone. Thank you very much for your reporting. This morning 47 states in the u. S. Are seeing coronavirus deaths rise. Look at that map. Everywhere in red on that map so you know is seeing an increase in deaths week to week, more than 10 . The deep red is higher than 50 . In massachusetts, hospitals are now scaling back elected procedures to handle the influx of patients. Alexandra field is live at a hospital in wore chester that is now taking patients. Hi, john. Good morning. Hospitals all across the country need relief right now. Thats whats happening in massachusetts. They reopened a Field Hospital at a Convention Center that was used earlier in the pandemic. Its again accepting patients from all over the state in order to take pressure off of other hospitals. That as we see hospitalizations hit another record high across the country. A race against time in the United States as new dale lay cases of coronavirus surge straining in health systems. This is where death rates really skyrocket is when you start overwhelming icu staffs. Theyre exhausted already from the whole year. Here in massachusetts, this Field Hospital in wore checeste already accepting patients. Starting friday doctors will no longer perform any elective procedures that can be safely postponed within the state. Across the u. S. , over 102,000 people are hospitalized with the coronavirus. In california, as elsewhere, its not only about finding hospital beds, but also having enough staff to care for the sick. The limiting factor, the most important factor here in caring for people who have the covid19 disease are the nurses, the staff. Thats what is short and thats what is different this time around than it was during our summer surge. Reporter michigan extending its restrictions on some businesses and gatherings for 12 days. Right now 79 of all hospital beds are occupied. We cannot risk overwhelming our hospitals further. As the United States nears 200,000 new coronavirus cases per day, dr. Anthony fauci warns that could increase in the weeks to come. The blip from thanksgiving is not even here yet, so were getting those staggering numbers of new cases and hospitalizations before we even feel the full brunt of the thanksgiving holiday. In new york city, where almost 200,000 Elementary Students returned to inperson learning, the governor says Indoor Dining will be suspended across the state unless hospitalization rates stabilize. If we dont get the rate under control and you are going to overwhelm your hospitals we will have go back to shutdown. Even with vaccines expected soon, Health Experts say now is not time to relax. While there is light at the end of the tunnel, the tunnel is not short. And if we do not double down now on the mass and the social distancing, we will continue to see transmission. Officials in every state are working on their plans to distribute moderna and Pfizer Vaccines which will hopefully receive that fda emergency use authorization sometime later this week. Meanwhile, health and Human Services secretary alex azar is assuring that tens of millions of americans will be vaccinated by inauguration day, january 20th. Alex, thank you very much for that reporting. President trump will hold a summit today to try to tout the development of a vaccine, but representatives from pfizer and moderna are not planning to participate. Cnns joe johns is live at the white house with more. Why is that . Big event here at the white house. Theyre calling it a vaccine summit. Well see some of the top officials in the United States government involved in rolling out the vaccines. Some of the Companies Involved in it. Well hear from some of the president s favorite governors, but its also notable for whos not going to be here, that includes moderna as well as pfizer, the companies that created the vaccines. So why is that . The government says those companies are involved in the emergency use authorization process going on this week as a matter of fact, and it wouldnt look right, thats certainly true, but its also true there is a report in the New York Times today indicating that, in fact, these Companies Including pfizer, pfizer especially, did not give the government a bunch of this vaccine, a huge quantity of this vaccine because the government said it would not buy it. The government denies this report in the New York Times, but also says it wouldnt have been prudent to use government money on a vaccine that they didnt know at the time whether it would work or not. The president also is expected to sign an executive order today prioritizing vaccines for americans. This is part of his americafirst initiative, not clear at all how hes going to accomplish that. No teeth in this executive order, but it does raise an important issue, and that is the question of whether theres going to be enough vaccine to go around given the demand across the world. The administration essentially saying theres nothing to worry about here, but as you know, the administration has said that before and it didnt always work out during the pandemic. Back to you. Joe, thank you for the reporting from the white house. So, as the United Kingdom launches its Vaccination Program today, senator ron johnson has invited a vaccine skeptic to testify today in the senate. Why is he doing that . Thats next. Nonsteroidal antiinflammatory gel. Available over the counter. Voltaren is powerful arthritis pain relief in a gel. Voltaren. The joy of movement. Do you struggle with dull, dry skin, and find yourself reapplying moisturizer throughout the day . Try olay ultra rich. 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Theyre carvana certified. So whether you have it delivered or pick it up, we do it all so you can rest easy. Becoming the First Western nation to launch its Vaccine Program this morning, immunizing a 90yearold woman who reports she feels great. Dr. Anthony fauci warns that the middle of january could be a really dark time for the United States. The first week of december has seen almost 16,000 deaths here in the u. S. More than 1 million new cases. Joining us now is dr. Peter hotez. Great to see you. Im curious about your take on the split screen here. So britain, vaccinating its first patients, and this morning, today, here in the u. S. Senator ron johnson is holding this hearing with a doctor who is not an Infectious Disease specialist, i believe shes an internist. Shes a skeptic of vaccines, but believes strongly in hydroxychloroquine, which the fda, as you know, retracted their emergency use authorization, and thats what she will be touting. Yeah. Its quite a contrast. First of all, congratulations to the british people getting their first vaccines for covid19. Thats really exciting. This is what were going to need ultimately to get our way out of this awful epidemic and the pandemic. On the United States side, the committee will be meeting december 10th on thursday. In a couple of days. Hopefully the usfda can begin releasing vaccine through emergency use authorization a day or two after that. So maybe this weekend or early next week. It comes not a moment too soon because were looking at reaching that same milestone tragically of 300,000 americans would have lost their lives in this epidemic next week. Its beyond heartbreaking. Again, in the u. S. We still continue to court conspiracyi conspiracyists, the antivaccine movement. I think this person represents the aps, which is not the american medical association, i think its a farright Political Group of about 5,000 physicians, maybe other Health Care Personnel that, you know, i have not heard of this group in a while. I remember in the past they were discrediting lyn ining links be and aids, saying aids was not caused by the hiv virus, linking abortions to breast cancer. All sorts of crazy things. The point is u. S. Congress has access to the worlds greatest scientists. Any one of the National Academies, you know, including myself would be more than happy to come to washington to speak to congress. We would do it at our own expense. Rather than tap someone from the National Academies of medicine or National Academies of science, they bring in Conspiracy Theory groups. It makes no sense. One of the stories of this epidemic is going to be that, yes, the coronavirus killed so far 300,000 americans, but it was enabled by antiscience groups that downplayed the severity of the epidemic, touted spectacular cures like hydroxychloroquine, which doesnt work, which tried to attribute covid deaths to other causes so that people didnt believe this epidemic was real. They thought covid19 was a hoax, especially in the middle part of the country where i am. Its ultimately death by covid19 and death by antiscience. Look, this doctor who is testifying today says theres no evidence that masks, lockdowns or social distancing work. I think this says much more about ron johnson and the Republicans Holding this hearing than it does about this fringe group. This tells you what ron johnson is thinking about it and where his head is here. The New York Times was the first to report that the white house chose not to order more than 100 million doses of the Pfizer Vaccine when it had a chance over the summer. The white house disputes elements of this story, but basically they 100 million, they wanted an option to buy more later, but pfizer says we have orders in from other parts of the world, we cannot accommodate more than the 100 million you ordered now. What do you make of this story . Well, it makes sense in the sense that this technology is still brandnew. Its still not a Mature Technology in ability to scale up manufacturing. Our vaccine, which is a much Older Technology in india with our collaborators in bioe, theyre producing 1. 2 billion doses without breaking into a sweat. Thats the advantages of the Older Technology. This is a new technology that can get to the clinic fast, but in terms of the ability to scale up, its not as robust. We may have missed an opportunity there. Well need at least four or five different vaccines in order to vaccinate most of the population of the United States or to reach that 60 to 80 threshold that we estimated is needed to interrupt transmission of the virus. The first vaccines are a great start, but well need at least three or four other vaccines to add on top of those. Joe johns was basically saying in his report that they felt it wouldnt be prudent to order more back in the summer before they knew if it would work. Mind you, they did order 96 million hydroxychloroquine doses that theyre now sitting on in the national stockpile. They spent millions of dollars on that. Yeah, but it doesnt make any sense because, you know, the whole point of operation warp speed was to manufacture at risk. That was the term that government officials were always using. Well scale up production of these vaccines without knowing if they work or not because if we have to wait until the end things will move too slowly. That was the whole reason for the warp speed part. Its not the length of the its not shortchanging the clinical trials, its manufacturing at risk. So by definition you knew you would have to purchase vaccines without knowing they would be effective. Fortunately its turned out both pfizer and moderna are. I think the others will be as well. So theres some piece missing to that story that i dont quite understand. Dr. Hotez, thank you very much for that information. Thank you. President elect joe biden will nominate the first black man to lead the defense department. Well tell you about retired general lloyd austin next. Service at the ready. At mercedesbenz, its not just a job, its our mission. From our expert technicians armed with state of the art tools and technology, to genuine parts made for the perfect fit. Whether its our place. Or yours. Were there. Rain or shine, day or night. No one knows your vehicle better. 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