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Challenges involved in rolling out covid19 vaccines across the country. They will also discuss the opportunities for the Biden Harris Administration to deliver a rapid coordinated response to covid19, that includes strategic use of vaccines to protect more people. The speakers will bring a sciencebased perspective on these and other topics. Please note participants are welcome to use images, video, and quotes readily from the webcast and the content is for immediate relief. Release. I would like to briefly introduce our two speakers. Dr. Chris beyrer is the director for human health and public...

Im keeping this brief and to the point. Local leaders have been sounding at definite alarm for months about the need for direct fiscal assistance from washington as the virus rages in our city. Our budgets are under extreme stress. Arts fences are skyrocketing. Our essential lifesaving services are strained. The need for public assistance is through the roof. This has been going on since the beginning of the pandemic since march of last year. Today, only 38 cities have received direct relief yet mayors everywhere continue to do what we do everyday. We get it done. We run our cities with a bala...

Announcer tonight on late night with seth meyers john oliver, awardwinning sports announcer joe buck an allnew a closer look, featuring the 8g band with fred armisen and now, Seth Meyers Seth good evening im seth meyers and this is late night. Hows everybody doing tonight . Well, thats good to hear. Lets get to the news. President trump on tuesday granted a ceremonial thanksgiving pardon to a turkey named corn no such luck for the turkey named cohen. Following the news yesterday that the stock markets Dow Jones Industrial average hit an alltime high of 30 thousand points, President Trump inter...

I want to thank her for an sent the National League of cities in the National Association of counties for their sheer dedication to this issue on badly needed federal assistance as we continue to fight the covid19 pandemic. A quick note for members of the press joining us today, we will take questions after brief opening remarks. If you have a question, please put your name and media outlet in the chat and well call on you. Im keeping this brief and to the point. Im keeping this brief and to the point. Local leaders have been sounding at definite alarm for months about the need for direct fisc...

Activity in the Second Quarter of 2020 we are going to see eyepopping forecasts in the third quarter. We cannot lose sight of what that means for people who are struggling, businesses who are struggling, in the fact we still have a deep hole. Recovery,led k shaped and those who do not have options to work from home, is already fading away. We see a hollowed out downtown. [indiscernible] what does that mean for city revenue . In high rent districts employment is still at that 45 of precovid levels. Colleagues and i have a clause looking at what this means for cities and how it depends on revenu...