C. D. C. As many as 450,000 americans could die from the coronavirus by february, in what he calls the most difficult three months in the history of public health. Now, that prediction comes from dr. Robert redfield and it comes less than two weeks before operation warp speed says it should start distributing its first vaccines. Great britain is moving faster than that, after the government approved pfizers vaccine today, launching a plan to start giving shots within days. Well, tonight, the commissioner of the f. D. A. Tells cbs news that it will take longer for the u. S. To approve the vaccine to assure americans it is safe. Still, experts say even when vaccinations begin, the damage from all that thanksgiving travel may already be done. And as we come on the air, the rate of new infections nationwide continues to grow. E viruslizations from the virus have hit an alltime high, too. So in an effort to stop further spread, tonight the c. D. C. Is once again asking americans not to trav
Good morning it is 8 00 a. M. At tesla headquarters in palo alto, california it its 11 00 a. M. On wall street squawk alley is live good Tuesday Morning im jon fortt with Carl Quintanilla back again it is a busy day on wall street with the dow hitting an all time high making another run at 30 k. That comes as president elect joe biden is reporting tapping former fed chair janet yellen to run the treasury department. Tesla is continuing the record run now topping half a trillion dollars in market cap. Making elon musk the worlds second richest person on paper and apple making another concession, carl on App Store Fees a lot going on yeah. We talked about that early moving being the small crack that starts to widen as for tesla, i mean, whether its some of the reports about a hatch back in europe or longer range vehicles or just enthusiasm over the ev space as we gheet into a Biden Administration on top of the gm news yesterday, jon. So there is a lot happening in the ev space and then m
Historical precedent . 1918 is the one that comes to mind. And we have nobody better to tell us about 1918 than my good friend christopher nichols. He is a professor of history at oregon state. Hes also director there. Oregon state center for the humanities and founder of their citizenship and crisis initiative. He also studied at harvard, waysleyan and at the university of virginia. Chris is an expert on, i would say, earliest parts of the 20th century. Of course, is he expanding out. He and i, before we came on, were just chatting about new work we have coming out on ideologies on u. S. Foreign policy. That book itself, that term, that title, was a seminole book in the field in 1987. Im really glad someone has decided to go in and update it, shall we say. Theres no better person to do it than chris. Will he talk to us about the 1918 pandemic. I would encourage you, as you look at your zoom screen, on the bottom youll see a q a button. Please, hit that button and submit your questions
Center for the humanities. Event occurred in dallas. Since the pandemic has begun, for our purposes, since we shut down in march, they thing that thing that has been driving our analysis here as historians is what is the historical precedent . Obviously, 1918 is the one that comes to mind and we have nobody better to tell us about 1918 than my friend christopher nichols. Hes an associate professor of history at oregon state. He is also the director of the Oregon State Center for humanities and the founder of their citizenship and crisis initiative. He also studied at harvard and wesleyan, and got his ma and phd from a good friend of ours at the university of virginia. Chris is an expert on i would say the early parts of the 20th century. That is what his previous work was on. He is expanding out and he and i, before we came on, we were chatting about new work on ideologies in u. S. Foreign policy, which is that book itself was a seminal book in the field in 1987 and im glad someone has
Flying into space theres always risk. I never knew another crisis. In their own words. Life on the front lines. Meet the icu nurses volunteering to fight covid19 far from home. People are running out of unemployment checks. And the biden team talks. The plan to fight the pandemic and bring our economy back. Announcer live from cnbc global headgaurs, the news with Shepard Smith the pandemic is spiringal out of control forcing cities and states to issue new initiatives to slow the spread the United States topped more than 11 million cases. Johns hopkins reports the latest million added in the past six days alone for context, mexico reported about a million cases since the pandemic began that means weve added mexicos total caseload in less than a week and the cases arent just surging. Theyre getting more severe. At least 26 states hit alltime highs for hospitalizations last week all the ones in red here thats from the covid tracking project. More than 1,100 americans die on average each d