Dday was a pivotal Turning Point in world war ii. Dday was the beginning of the end and thats where we are today. Make no mistake, it was not the end. Months and months of hardfought battles occurred and it took diligence, courage, and strength to eventually achieve victory. Trace the North Korea Post has another word for it vday. Team fox coverage with analysis from dr. Marc siegel. John roberts at the white house. We begin with mike tobin live in portage, michigan. Good morning to you. What is happening at the pfizer plant today . You can see the trucks are back in place. After yesterdays historic days with the first boxes of vaccine leaving the docks the followup today is more boxes of vaccine when leaving the docks. Yesterday 189 boxes were shipped out of pfizer plant here in portage, michigan. That worked out to more than 920,000 shots in the arm. Today 400 boxes or 1. 9 million doses of vaccine are scheduled to be shipped out of here. Within hours of the first Shipment Leaving Up
Imagine how would welcome here in germany theres been a steady upturn in the number of new corona virus infections and its showing no sign of slowing the country boast price for its initial response to the pandemic back in spring when it quickly introduced haad measures to curb the spread of the virus but cases have spiked in recent weeks hitting a record high of almost 30000 new cases on friday its the in the number of death deaths thats causing the most concern thats prompted chancellor Angela Merkel to call an emergency meeting with germany 16 states latest that mating has just gotten underway. Well for more on that joined by our Political Correspondent hansbrough and hans the German Federal and state leaders are making now to discuss the situation given the numbers weve just heard a hard lock down seems almost certain is indeed that is correct the meeting is taking place in the chancery that you see here behind me but in fact its only a mark of a chancellor who be there in person a
And nonfood products. In. Food for primarily food stores will not be expanded and we are also putting a ban on fireworks ahead of new years eve and theyll be in an ordinance in place to make this law. But there will also be a ban on body Care Services hairdressers beauty salons etc schools will also be limited and Daycare Centers as well so that will mean that children are to be looked after at home wherever possible and from the 16th of december so thats from wednesday schools will be closed certainly the School Children no longer have to go to school there will be emergency care. In place for some children. And Distance Learning will also be offered the. Senior year. High school might be dealt with differently and daycare will be run just the same as schools in this regard we are appealing to employers to offer home Office Options wherever possible from the 16th of december to the 10th of. January. And in terms of take away and delivery food from restaurants this will continue to be
Im the e. U. Need a trade deal to prevent chaos on the borders starting on january 1st. And public nearly as welcome to the program we start here in germany where the chancellor Angela Merkel has set the table for a bleak Holiday Season earlier today she announced a raft of tough measures saying they were necessary to bring that on the spiraling numbers of new covert 900 cases most known the. November the measures that we put in place on the 2nd of november have not been enough and when instead of back for a while we were able to stop the exponential growth and we had to pretend to do that and even talk but now were seeing a new rise in infections and exponential growth once again. Thats been good to. And what that means is that many people are dying youve been following the statistics im sure. You have this in the finally also know that we are close to exceeding the response capacity of our Public Health systems under aim was always to prevent this and this is why we must act and we m
She spoke at an event hosted by axios where topics included health care, expanded insurance access, and the rise of coronavirus cases in the United States. Hello and welcome to axios virtual event, health care 2021. Im sam baker, the Health Care Editor at axios coming to you from my home in washington, d. C. Id like to thank the crew for making this possible and id like to welcome our audience on facebook, youtube, twitter, linkedin and axios. Follow along at axios. Next 30 minutes we will unpack the best way to expand Health Insurance access and Health Insurance coverage in the United States an what that path forward looks like following the president ial election and in the midst of a pandemic thats getting worse every day. Our first guest is senator tina smith from minnesota. Senator, thank you so much for joining us. Thank you, sam. Its really terrific to be with everyone today. Id like to start off to just sort of frame this conversation. Obviously Health Care Access and coverage