we have all the tools we need. we know what works. we must mask up, socially distance, wash our hands, stay home when we're sick, and most importantly, get vaccinated as soon as possible. our effective vaccine response is a testament to what we can do if we work together. getting vaccinated and staying out of the hospital is a good way to thank our healthcare workers, medical professionals, and hospital staff for their incredible sacrifices and service over the past year. we should also recognize the frontline workers who have gone over and beyond to keep the rest of us going and the scientists and researchers who designed, tested, and manufactured these three vaccines, miracles of modern science. i know michiganders have made extraordinary sacrifices the past year, and i want to get back to normal as much as anyone else. i am tired of this, but we have more work to do. we could get through this quicker and stronger with a little more help, too. we have administered first doses to 3 million michiganders and repeatedly hit the new targ

we still have cases to fight, and we are determined that we are going to fight until we make federal law, the george floyd justice and policing act. we want to thank all who are involved but especially the attorney general and the governor. we want to thank president biden , the first time he came out of his house during the campaign he flew to houston and met with the family and attorney crawford and i and he sat there and i will never forget. he said to george's daughter, i heard you said your father is going to change the world. well, we can now tell george's daughter she was right. her father has began the changing of the world for real. but before we do anything, we first want to pray. and thank god. because somehow god made away. we believe in a god that can even get through the cracks in the jury room and bring conscience and truth. that jury, we want to thank them for letting god give them the strength, wherever they are tonight, we want them to know we broke down in tears when we heard the verdict. we had to hold each other and hug in tears tonight. we cried, many of us for

when we say inflation, that's what we mean. persistent inflation that goes up by 2% or whatever it is year after year after year. that level of inflation tends to be dictated by underlying inflation dynamics in the economy, as opposed to things like bottlenecks. the nature of a bottleneck is that it will be resolved. that the supply side will adapt. that, therefore, whatever costs people have to bear in prices because supplies are temporarily type -- tight as the economy reopens will be repeated next year. we think supply chains will adapt and become more efficient. it might take a year. but it will happen. that is what we are seeing. remember, sarah, we have had 25 years of inflation dynamics, roughly 25 years where inflation has been low. in many advanced economies around the world they have been unable to reach 2% inflation. some are fighting off disinflation. does bended dominant set -- that is been the dominant set of inflation for the past two decades. now we have situations with economies reopening, a surgeon demand perh

but, we could not be there. we can't bring him back but we can save lives. we want the actual reform that's going to not only give us the change we want but make sure not another family has to suffer what we suffered. thank you all, my sister kind of touched on everything. we have an amazing team here who have helped us along this journey and grateful for everyone who has supported us along the way. we are forever grateful to you. we love you all. thank you. >> thank you. tera. >> so we are going to hear from two more cousins and then we are going to hear from last the family, roxy and gianna are going to come and reverend jackson and others can address. at this time we are going to have angela paris come, cousin of george floyd. >> hello, image la harrelson, i am actually george floyd's aunt and this is the cousin here. >> this has been a hard role not just for me but the family, before everybody. i want to especially thank the minneapolis community for holding it down at the george floyd square. chanel austin, and jeanette rupert, maya washington, these ar

we can prevent that from happening if we start coordinating what we are doing. in the senate, we have a working group. we have 10 republicans and 10 democrats. we call it the g20 group and we meet consistently and we have the problem solvers with josh and brian coming over and working with us. we are working in a bipartisan, bicameral way. to have the executive branch of the governors involved truly complete set triangle and helps us have good input so we don't have redundancies or waste. that is what we are trying to achieve and set a pass forward. i think today was the tremendous start for that. >> i think our whole goal here is to work together, not just democrats and republicans, but working with the senate as we do and as we did this past winter and going into the new year on the covid package and that is the model. not just on this issue, but on every issue, working together across the aisle, with our mayors and local communities, that is how you actually get things done and bring the country together. gov. hogan: any other questions? reporter: could you t

>> we are always mindful. first thing we do, we wake up, look at case rates, by region. the bay area saw a modest increase in the last number of days. state wide, decrease. put that in perspective. new york had over 6,700, a state half our size. florida over 4,700, much smaller. california less than 1,400. we were 2,400 a few days ago, it bounces back and forth. positivity rate remained 1.7%. 1.6% today. 1.7, 1.8 the last few days. so yes, day everyday we are cautious and mindful. everyday people get vaccinated and these cards go through a race to these variants and race to keep the rates at a minimum. >> hi there, how can you ensure people from other states who have lax rules about covid don't come into california and reintroduce covid into our population when we are moving towards herd immunity. and secondly, once june 15th passes, could the tier system come back afterwards if our rates go back up. >> look, one thing we are mindful of is, you don't know what you don't know. with these mutations, with the variants, with the reality they are experiencing in places like i

we know we can do this if you ask how we galvanize people by making the moral case but also enablingeople to imagine and understand how we do this may be technical what needs to happen with the wto but some of that has to happen that understanding we can train and mobilize and the pulley vaccine workers largely women who are the front-line healthcare workers including vaccination efforts and we can do this because we do it every year with routine against measles and pneumococcal virus and that large-scale quickly because we did it in my lifetime not that long ago with the biggest push against polio. >> it is well said. especially to think of the examples of what we have done in the past and a guidepost for us in a reminder this isn't just the right thing to do but it is to take on - - strategic and inner self-interest we will come back to you during the q&a and now i will move to the president and ceo of oxfam america. focusing on the key issues that has been undertaken from the role of gender and social change and humanitarian preparedness and response to those crisis among so many

when we think about the year on year, we are anticipating that as we move throughout the year, we wille some declines. we go back to what i was mentioning at the beginning, that at the beginning of the quarter we were fully anticipating the full year was going to be year on year down, now we are more in the flat range with one q being strong. guy: -- with 1q being strong. guy: how does this change the narrative around the banks? betsy: as it relates to investment, trading is one piece of the overall pie. it is not the entirety by any stretch of the imagination. when i think about my group and why i am overweight u.s. large-cap banks and consumer finance, it really hinges on three key things. one, credit is doing phenomenally well, and likely to be. two, we anticipate banks will increase their buybacks as you move through the second half of the year. we have already heard from corals that if pasties -- from quarles that if you pass the stress test, that is going to be the outcome effectively. third, we look for -- to increase. so you've got an outlook for better credit, more efficient b

when we talk about the black community we often hear that we should collaborate with churches, or we should collaborate with activists. we are not monolithic and it takes a multifaceted approach, the church especially. it's a powerful influencer in the black community. a lot of the people we are interacting with in this movable middle are actually not being influenced by the church. we have to think about some other influencers and who they are. we also have to talk about how people get their information. they get their information through word-of-mouth a lot of the time. that's the reason our company is called grapevine health. we recognize a lot of health information is being transmitted on the great fine. we are not there to correct misinformation. the pandemic has provided a perfect opportunity for us to learn and listen and understand where the misinformation is coming from. with respect to messengers in addition to the churches, and influential -- we also need to include health care providers. i will tell you a quick story. in one of these ask the doctor sessions a lady said --

or are we funnel americans who recognize we are stronger when we care for and protect -- all or are we fellow americans recognize we are stronger when we care for one another? america is best when it is a community where people look out for one another, tied together by common values and common concerns. i believe that is who we are at our best. that is why i am urging every person in our country to get vaccinated and help the people you love get vaccinated. make sure they have an appointment. help them get answers to questions. lead by example and show them that you are getting vaccinated too. if we do this together, we will turn the pandemic around. in the process, we will protect our families, communities, and country. thank you for your time. i look forward to your questions. that to you, jeff. dr. zients: let's open it up for questions. we only have time for a few questions today. >> if the pause on the j&j vaccine is listed but there is this link with this severe adverse event, even if it is incredibly rare, how do you see the j&j vaccine fitting into your campaign going forward?

we have a lot of things we are targeting. immediately, it is just to stop the absolute madness that is coming from the left. you know what, we need to take that crown away from chuck schumer. [applause] he has to be stopped. he absolutely has to be stopped. he rules with an iron fist. he has a number of ploys to keep the democrats where he wants them to be. that is how they keep everybody together. he controls the money. he controls the gavel. all the committees. he needs to be stripped of that authority. that is the first thing. we just stop the madness. then we have to work hard and make sure we are setting ourselves up for success for the next two years, as well. >> just the way it works, whoever the majority leader is in the senate, they decide what we vote on. it really matters that we have a majority leader that is a republican. if you look at when we get the majority back in the house and senate, then we will do the budget. there will not be any bills that we do not want to pass that we have to vote on. we will not be

i know we have a busy monday afternoon so we will try to get the resume questions as we can get through. i've got two items at the top -- this morning, the white house, we released 50 state-by-state fact sheets in addition to fact sheets for the district of columbia and puerto rico for passing the american jobs plan so we can invest in infrastructure and grow our economy. on the screen behind me, you will see some of the needs outlined and the tangible difference the jobs plan will make in improving the lives of americans. for a few highlights here -- from 2010 to 2020, florida has experienced 20 extreme weather events costing the state up to 100 billion dollars in damages. the president is calling for $50 billion to improve our infrastructure. many states across the country have had weather events, but this is just one of the examples. in michigan, there are more than 1200 bridges and 7300 miles of highway import condition. that's clearly an area that could benefit from funding. in south dakota, 13% of south dakota ends do not have access to acceptable broadband speed. that something w

very comfortably we know that we can go to 20 if we vaccine. wanted to share that number. >> thanks, supervisor haney for calling this hearing. maybe we can go to public comment right now. are there any callers on the line? >> we will check with jim smith from the department of technology bringing us the public comment callers. on 26 or through sfgovtv if you wish to speak call in by following the instructions on the screen by dialing 415-655-0001. meeting id1872694043. pound twice and star to enter the queue to speak. for those connected to the meeting via phone press 3. please continue to wait until your line is unmuted and that is your opportunity for your comments. do we have callers for agenda item 3? >> we have no public callers. >> thank you, mr. smith. public comment is closed. this is an extremely informative update. follow-up hearing and update on vaccination plan and strategy. thank you, colleagues, and director carroll for the important discussion we have had. supervisor haney, we might be good to continue this item to the call of t

we will ramp up capacity as we go into 2022. but if we don't nail this virus is a global collaboration in the next 12 to 18 months, it is going to keep on going. so we really need the entire planet. guy: can we talk a little bit about stability? you are now fridge safe, and that is a huge difference. have you made any changes to the product, or is it simply learning from experience and understanding the stability regime that the product needs? stephane: indeed, when we launched our product, we did not have time to do all of the work we are supposed to do on the product launch, so we launched with one month, then extended to two months. today, we are showing three months good stability. for long-term storage, we are at -20 four vaccines, so we think it is going to help in getting this out. alix: that would be great news, particularly for india and latin america, like you mentioned. when it comes to making the vaccine, we are going to talk a lot about supply shortages in pretty much every industry. fed chair jay powell talked abou

if we have a substantial number, we will be shortening it to two minutes, and if we have even more, we will be shortening it to one minute. i want to thank andrea evans and matthew dougherty. thank you so, so much. so we will go right into item 3, and i am going to turn it over first to our data officer and our systems investment liaison, cynthia. i'm going to turn it over to you first to give an overview of the process, and then, we'll turn it over to each liaison so they can talk about their area. >> thank you. and i just want to thank each member of this committee, chair [inaudible], vice chair d'antonio, h.s.h., mohcd, and d.p.h. so this is a team effort, and i think i am glad that we wanted to be this collaborative and community input really shaped so much our thinking, so we thank everyone who participated. so sod, we're really going to go through each area of the four funding area, and kind of present each area. one thing to note is since we presented everything two weeks ago through our last ocoh meeting, we went through a number of meetings and controller staff to really get b

we as we love transparency we would like to publish everything we use. it's just not allowed and we can all say we don't keer there's intellect or property rights but we are if so we publish everything's it would just be breaking the law. they prefer intellectual property. to the health of children. if you make money out of selling pesticides how much incentive. does these companies do these companies have. to get us off pesticides will they make sure that we get to use less pesticides on will they make sure that we use always more pesticides. today the industry prefers to spend millions of euros in lobbying to delay regulations instead of researching substitutes and how to make these things differently. quite frankly i've had a name string for a long time i have never seen a brown envelope if that's where you're leading to absolutely never. you know the interest it's in the industry's interest to bring food to the tables that is safe at a high quality. that is reasonably priced so that you and i and all of those people working in food industry can also

so we're going to make sure that what we do is put resources behind what we say and we look -- >> can i just say -- just say in closing that the office of rights is so vitally important that's where we look for accountability. so i look forward to subsequent confers with you specifically mr. secretary regarding how are we going to hold the offices within your department accountable in ensuring that the civil rights and the pursuit of equity is actually happening? and i think thank you. i yield back. and madame chair and ranking member, thank you for allowing many e to ask questions out of turn. >> let me recognize now congressman harris. >> thank you, madame chair, welcome secretary. first off, i do want to echo what the ranking member said about ni -- i'm glad you're willing to enforce the law as written, including the church amendments, the weldon amendment, one that's very important conscious protection. as a health care provider myself, something that i think is very important to enforce those current laws. let me just move on to surprise billing. one concern that's raised we pass

but we are very protective of what we have today and we will only engage in a transaction which we feelemental scale, incremental distribution channels, or after the product range -- add to the product range we have today. asia and china is very much of interest to us. we see china having significant growth over the medium-term horizon. that will be an area of focus and attention for us. anna: thanks very much. claire peel, the cfo of dws, thanks very much for coming to speak to us. let's get an update on some of the top stories we are covering this morning with a bloomberg first word news update. laura: the european commission wants the power to levy fines are blocked deals by foreign state owned companies. they seek to answer complaints from european businesses that chinese state backed firms get support they cannot match. chinese business groups have already complained about the draft, which could change before it is set to be proposed next week. sources tell bloomberg that president biden is not planning to increase the estate tax as part of his tax hike plan. during the 2020 campai

we had free reign to do what we wanted. being able to do a full-scale test like that is just invaluable. >> thank you. >> any other questions from this body? >> i would just like for you to maybe summarize for us without these geotechnical improvements, without any improvements to the island, in fact, the island would be forward in being exposed to the geotechnical events? >> very much so. there are two distinct issues, geotechnical concerns here. both of which would have not been mitigated would result in unacceptable performance. one is as you mentioned the liquid. that is seismic, not static. when the big one comes, which it will, that fill layer would liquefy. it turns into a liquid. it would have certainly slowed laterally into the bay. the improvement with the vibration is to eliminate that concern. the second concern is when we plan for sea level rise, we have to elevate the island a bit. more so as we go northward. that adds weight to the island and would induce a new round of settlement. that compressed layer under

very comfortably we know that we can go to 20 if we vaccine. wanted to share that number. >> thanks, supervisor haney for calling this hearing. maybe we can go to public comment right now. are there any callers on the line? >> we will check with jim smith from the department of technology bringing us the public comment callers. on 26 or through sfgovtv if you wish to speak call in by following the instructions on the screen by dialing 415-655-0001. meeting id1872694043. pound twice and star to enter the queue to speak. for those connected to the meeting via phone press 3. please continue to wait until your line is unmuted and that is your opportunity for your comments. do we have callers for agenda item 3? >> we have no public callers. >> thank you, mr. smith. public comment is closed. this is an extremely informative update. follow-up hearing and update on vaccination plan and strategy. thank you, colleagues, and director carroll for the important discussion we have had. supervisor haney, we might be good to continue this item to the call of t

this half-hour we are focusing on the way we work.seen a monumental shift in where and how people do their jobs. with the light at the tunnel growing closer in many of the world's financial hubs, some companies are beginning to plan their returns to offices while others are experimenting with more hybrid models. we will be speaking with standard charters hr and we will hear from helena morrissey about how the changing work environment is impacting the economy. >> the future of work is really about the future of workers. >> what to me is the most important question is defining what a worker is, from all the other aspects, worker advocacy, mental health, and then we work from there. >> the evolution as we all move into this new normal in this hybrid environment, you have to come up with a new operating model. that will have some cultural changes and some norms that are new. >> maybe 80% of people will come back in a hybrid way. >> we are just entering into what i call the, messy middle period >> we think we will be able to open. >> we t

we don't. and we. . .taught ourself. .. we don't argue... and we wouldn't tell you if we did.agine making art on your own? no. just as a side project? certainly not. never. because we invented ourself together. we invented ourself. before that, we were silly art students, but we went there because we were not accepted in the beginning, that we created these two—people vision. but, i mean, i think a german magazine once asked you, "so, what happens to your art when one of you dies?" that's the great german question. yeah. only in... so, i mean, it's brutal, but it's serious. only in germany have they asked that. if you can only imagine making art together, if one of you is no longer capable, do you just... you quit? i think we stop. we did nearly... we did nearly 8,000 artworks. it's too early to be thinking about that anyway. is it? you said death is one of your subjects and, of course, we all, as we get older, think about it more... it's the same question you can ask any two people in the world. you wouldn't ask the taxi driver, "what are you going to do when your missus dies

my fellow americans, we have to show not just that we are back, but we are back to staying and we are not going to go alone. [applause] we will do it by meeting with our allies. no one nation can deal with all the crisis of the times from terrorism, nuclear proliferation, mass migration, cybersecurity, climate changes. we experience what we are now, pandemics. there is no wall high enough to keep a virus out. our own vaccine supply grows to meet our needs and we are meeting them. we will become an arsenal for vaccines for other countries for a democracy for the world. and influence of the world. [applause] every american will have access, every american will have access to be fully covered from covid-19 with the vaccines that we have. look, the climate crisis is a global fight. the united states accounts for less than 50% of carbon emissions. the rest of the world it accounts for 85%. that's why i kept my commitment to rejoin the paris accord because if we do everything perfectly, it's not going to matter. i kept my commitment right here in america with all the major economies of the

we don't have a finalized plan, but we will make sure to provide an update as to where we are. >> we need to know what the resource requirements are for this and others. >> i understand. >> thank you. i understand there are no other colleagues seeking recognition, so i have final questions. ambassador, you refer to the reduction at the embassy in kabul as rightsizing. rightsizing suggests since we are changing our mission, we are bringing it to a different size. it's my understanding that the reduction at the embassy is because of increased violence in kabul. is that correct? >> having been a chief of mission myself, the ambassador, depending on his needs and the circumstances, the country requests adjustments, and i believe we made requests taking these factors into account. it's a small number. >> taking into account all of these things including increased violence? >> that must've been one of them. >> it will be interesting to find out why we are at this particular time rather than reducing mission, because we have not reduced troops yet. it is compelling to understand why so we t

we cannot wait. we have to keep on that urgency. i think we are pretty much unified.hen we need the money. i think we have made available $12 billion for vaccines and their deployment for middle income and low income countries. and i think by the end of april, we did have a commitment of about $2 billion. we are working with 40 plus countries on this. as i said before, the money is great, but if you don't have the vaccines, we have no results. go back to urgency, fairness, and deployment. on deployment, there has been very effective and good cooperation with all the agencies helping developing countries. the who, unicef, the global fund, the regional organization. what we need to look is at the readiness assessment. i think we have come this far together. and you see various degrees of readiness. therefore, what we are doing in our operations in coordination with the who and unicef, to see how we can support countries in the effects of implementation. it will be a continued effort, as well as the need to monitor it is correctly implemented. who has established a usefu

that, but once we get a clear path of where we are going with counsel, we will certainly that you'll know. >> going back to your cause the national parks, any reason why they are still at reduced capacity when we know that gathering outside -- is a few -- and less of a chance of contracting covid. >> we know there are a lot of vaccinations happening. our country is safer. but, we are just not quite there yet. we will continue monitoring the situation, we need everyone to their masks on and social distance. >> what is your plan for restarting the gulf of mexico? >> there is not a moratorium on new leases. when we have done, right now permits are still being issued. there are still ongoing leases that are have -- happening. >> thank you. >> nice to see you all. >> a good thing to celebrate. >> as you know, president biden just included a world climate summit. on the first day he and united states will target reducing commissions -- emissions. he underscored america's commitment to rating human jobs. we also want to lead the way our government -- some examples of our insulin the gsa --

i know that we all miss the things that we used to do before the pandemic, and i know that we all want to get back to doing those things that we love, and soon. today is another day that we can take a step back towards normalcy. over the past year, we have spent a lot of time telling americans what they cannot do, what they should not do. today, i would tell you some of the things you can do, if you are fully vaccinated. again, as a reminder, the cdc defines fully vaccinated as 14 days after your second dose of a pfizer or moderna vaccine, or 14 days after your single-dose of j&j vaccine. today, cdc is updating our recommendations for fully vaccinated people, and providing guiding principles and sample activities to give people who are fully vaccinated away to assess their unrest for covid-19 and determine what situations are safe. if you are fully vaccinated, things are much safer for you than those who are not yet fully vaccinated. this guidance will help you, your family, and your neighbors make decisions based on the latest science, and allow you to safely get back to the things yo

we didn't realize we were awol then. we just didn't even think about it. so the consulate was able to get us out. i just know that we ended up with emergency visas. so we got out. we got on the plane, and all of a sudden the plane started to turn around. and i looked at this one guy named barry, and i said, what's going on, the plane is turning around? no, no, no. and i said, yes, it is. we had to go back to hong kong because there was a crash on the taiwan airport. so now we know we're really in deep doo-doo because the hong kong airport closes at midnight. so we had to get out of there and to taiwan before that because our plane for vietnam left the next morning. so we are at 11:55 boarding the plane to get out of hong kong. we got out, we arrived in taiwan at 2:00 in the morning. had no place to stay. i asked the taxi driver to give me a place that was reputable, but my room had no window. it was a closet, but i had a bed. i didn't sleep much. got up, shopped around the little area in the hotel, got on a plane back to taiwan. we landed, get on another p

we want to delve into a little more of what we know and what we don't know as we await a presser on that j&j. drew armstrong, bloomberg health editor, joins us now. what is the take away so far? drew: it is worth keeping in mind that right now, we have appears to be a very rare, but obviously concerning, side effect. ultimately, we need to figure out how significant and how dangerous this is, who might actually be at risk, and within that, it is also worth keeping in mind that the j&j doses are being ministered -- the j&j doses being administered in the u.s. right now are a tiny action of the overall supply. they are going to become more important over time, but there are a lot of pfizer and moderna out there. alix: so when does j&j come back from this? i guess that is the question, but also, what are you watching for the presser? are we going to get that information? drew: i think we need to know more about exactly what happens, whether these are treatable events. it is worth keeping in mind that there are plenty of side effects from drugs and vaccines out there that are side effects. a

wes: i did.ate from high school and a lot of the men in my life who were my mentors at that point and people i admired, they all had one thing in common -- they all wore the uniform of this country. i joined the army and i went to a military college. david: you eventually went to johns hopkins and at johns hopkins you must have done reasonably well because you were elected as a rhodes scholar. sometimes people who enrolled scholarships go to oxford then come back and say " i am going to go to harvard, yale, i'm going to go into something important like private equity." how come you didn't go to harvard or yale or some other great law school? how come you decided to do something that not many rhodes scholars are doing? wes: i went into the world of finance and i was there working for deutsche bank in london. it was nice. i remember getting a phone call -- i was a brand-new analyst and it was from my good buddy, at that time, major mike with the 82nd airborne. he said something to me -- " when are

as facing threats for that apartment and i think we look to china and we look to russia and we have to look at those areas. some of the forces will remain in central command because we are going to look at offshore over the horizon options and that will -- nothing on the skill of the expenditures that you are seeing now in afghanistan, course, but we will still need to do some things there as well. i think broadly it will be significant lever for the department to apply against what i agree and most significant challenges that we face today. >> thank you, i appreciate that. that i will recognize mr. wilson who i believe is with us virtually. >> thank you, mr. chairman. thank you witnesses for being here today. i'm grateful that general mckenzie of course and i believe the relationship is of paramount importance to u.s. foreign policy. giving that you've moved into his sons, i want to ensure our cooperation will continue to be a priority. in moving to centcom it's important that we not undermine the cooperation israel has in europe particularly with nato. the question would be how ar

that is what we hope to support, and we think we will continue, as we have in recent years, to move theusiness forward in those parts of the world. manus: we've got two minutes left and two huge issues to deal with. one come are you looking at any of -- one, are you looking at any of citi's assets on the block? would you be a buyer? andy: we will have a look at what they are potentially selling. we have a number of markets that they operate in as well. whether there are opportunities to bulk up on the scale, we will have a look at it. it is in the early stages. we are awaiting detailed information. we will see where we go from there. annmarie: you have worried about low rate environments impacting the business. do you see inflation picking up? there is debate about whether it will be transitory or persistent and thus increasing the rise in rates. andy: our sense is that near term will see inflation in the numbers, but largely off a base that was unusual last year. it will be a modest increase rather than anything substantial, but that should be supportive for travel. for us, it is easie

while we celebrate how far we have come, we have to hold ourselves accountable. today, the cdc is announcing two more reports that address needs and health inequities, including vaccination efforts. the first report details trends in racial and ethnic disparities across the country. looking at data in march through december 2020, we confirmed the findings published last year. people from racial and ethnic minority groups are disproportionately affected by covid-19, including an increased risk for hospitalization. within each region, the proportion of patients hospitalized was highest for hispanic and latino individuals. the largest disparities occurred early in the pandemic, april-july, 2020. even though these have become less pronounced, there were disparities among racial and ethnic groups in all four regions of the country, with the largest disparity among hispanic and latino patients. the second publication looked at emergency visits for covid-19 from october through december. data from 13 states show hispanic and native individuals were 1.7 times more likely

we have really been dealing with -- we have really built on the work we have done.here is the vaccine alliance which for 20 years has been doing more than 500 vaccine introductions, protecting more than 800 million children over a 20 year historyga. we built on this experience to make sure when we are faced today with this huge challenge that we can make sure the vaccines, the right vaccines are getting to the right people. >> my next question is on a topic that's very much in the news. it's on vaccine hesitancy. you have had a lot of experian's with vaccines and we just talked about the employment you been doing. you have seen that vaccine skepticism is not new. this graph shows an attitude toward the covid-19 vaccine in different countries. as you can see in some countries, there is greater hesitancy than others. i question is, what can we do to persuade people to get the shot in the arm, two shots in the arm? >> the acceptance and all the work that needs to take place on communication is an important topic. that's not sufficient to have the vaccine. the vaccine n

we are hearing that, but we haven't heard specifics. as we get those specifics we can correct that. because things are shifting so quickly, site leaders aren't necessarily on top of how they are shifting. at one point, our classroom sizes were limited to 14 students. that is not the case anymore. at one point, that is what leaders understood. recently we have heard that being reiterated and we have had to correct that. we are not passed 14 students. is there misinformation or misunderstanding? probably because. >> thank you. i just want to piggyback on commissioner alexander's concern about trying to get the one grade level back in secondary to meet the requirement to get -- it will look around $15 million, i think. if he is correct and we can do a hybrid model and maybe have only very limited return in person, we can qualify for the funds. i'm not really asking for this right now, but i would like that to be explored if it hasn't been explored with the team. can we get -- are they getting the option to come back. >> low, this is jean. of course,, we will come back. we understand th

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four years ago, we had our work cut out for us. we organized and we engaged and we fought back. republicans were in power, but they were not leading. they put their own individual interests ahead of the people they represent. when faced with a once in a surgery -- once in a century global crisis, what do they do? not nearly enough. schools closed, businesses disappeared, families lost loved ones. what do they do? they failed to meet the moment, when the country so desperately needed their leadership. my grandmother often said you don't throw a rock and try to hide your hand. republicans love causing trouble and then they disappear when people called out for it. a funny thing happened in 2020. americans said they were sick of it all. they were sick of people in power who did nothing to talk. they are sick of elected officials who are only interested in maintaining their own power, and they are sure as hell sick of politicians playing games with their lives. folks in this country, they don't want words. they want action. it's as simple as that. actions over words. when times are t

started to think about how can we help the city, how can we capitalize on everything we have in our fleet to make a positive impact? we struck up a partnership to begin with in san francisco. we had the idea of perhaps using our fleet to help out to help deliver meals to people in need in the city and dedicate as a very small scale initiative with food banks organizations in the city. it could be delivered over a million meals to people in need in the city of san francisco during covid. so even though we are still a precommercial company, the ability to have that impact at this early stage got us to think about the impact this technology you have going forward and that's what we decide to pledge 1% of her fleet of the future to help in the community, taking into service and we will do that in every city we deploy come every location that we deploy. it's exciting to have the opportunity at such an early stage and the point of a technology like this to building social impact and to help our immunity move into the companies dna. this journey we went through during covid into living all

we don't hear each other, we don't understand each other.'t think both sides have bad intention. it is good if two presidents would talk about this. >> these sanctions, you know the reason is due to the alleged alexion meddling, the solar hack, the buildup of troops on the u.k. border. do you think these sanctions will change the course of recent russian behavior? >> it is very difficult to say. i can only judge when i have facts. i don't have any facts. i have not heard anything about proof. for many years we have heard russia was having some relationship with mr. trump. at the end of the day it appeared to be fake information but nobody apologized. sorry for accusing you. it has never appeared to be the truth. we should really work together and try to define what is right, what is wrong. we want a good relationship with america. unfortunately, the president did not bring the preparation. we expect the new administration can do much better. annmarie: so you are bullish on the biden administration. i think the intelligence officers would not

we even think.hat is helping tack, helping the stay-at-home trade, helping the bond market, or you have yields moving lower. then again, it doesn't feel like there's a lot of velocity because the vix is so low. we are at 17, going lower. the implied volatility is actually picking up for the summer months, just not right now, so maybe there is a little more to come as we reopen in the summer after fullback away should -- after full vaccination or herd immunity in the u.s. we are now below the 50 day moving average for crude, yet no particular shake out as well. it is hard for me to get excited by another record, you know? guy: i agree. it doesn't have that i want a new cap 4000 kind of level. 4089 last time i looked. doesn't feel quite the same. there are plenty of skeptics out there. money market funds continue to draw inflows. let's check and see executive what is happening with the data as well because we can to be tracked that very carefully. jobless claims out once again. it is a thursday. i'm c

we ended up raising wes: wes: $42 million last year -- wes: since i have been ceo, we raised over $675lion. there are certain foundations that will say " we will take a portion of rn doing meant -- our endowment - robin hood's endowment is essentially zero. every dollar we get in, it will go out within the time period of that next calendar year. on january 1, it is like press go again. david: you have staff -- who pays for the staff and administrative processes? wes: the other unique model, the other unique mechanism of the model is our board covers all operational expenses. david: but covid must have made it harder to raise money or figure out how to give it away. how did you do that? wes: covid was remarkable. there was a lot of uncertainty, uncertainty about what does that mean in terms of how do we continue to move at a fast pace? how do we consider the fact that we know how damaging this was going to be on our community partners? we saw 11 years of job growth go away in 11 weeks. we knew what communities would be hit hardest by that. it was our communities. i am so proud of the wa

i think senator burke mentioned we value the relationship we have with you and we want to keep it open and have your back. two, director haines, i think you have made mention of this. i think the majority of member's on the committee are actively working on bipartisan legislation that would encourage around this idea of tech alliances, and we do this not only in a greater way with the private sector but with our partners, and as we have discussed, again, in a broadly bipartisan way, we take in some of the lessons, and i think we may have at least a partial response with appropriate liability protection for will be some sort of mid incident reporting to an enterprise that would include public and private membership that we could potentially close some of these gaps that senator gillibrand and others have raised in their questions. again, we thank you all. we will still reconvene -- where? pardon me? we will reconvene in 317 at 2:00. have an enjoyable lunch. >> thank you. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2021] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute,

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we fell, but we are just off the high. any pullback has to be in the context that we are surging with incredible levels after a massive year of gains and a stretched market. i think the virus will become more of a concern. anna: not far from all-time highs on global stocks despite all about. -- all of that. >> the cdu leader laschet is hanging on in the race to replace angela merkel. sources told bloomberg he won about of the parties top committee that may give him an edge. laschet says he wants to resolve the standoff swiftly. eight warnings of an increase of russian troops on the ukrainian border. the number of personnel has grown to 150,000, the largest ever. the eu did not say where it obtained the figure, but it is an increase from the numbers provided by ukraine. moving ahead with plans to stop the breakaway competition. conversations with centricus over a financing package a day after 12 of the world's richest football clubs announced their new competition which has been heavily criticized by domestic league's, fans

we will watch all of the above. making sure we are meeting the equity marks we set forth. by the way we went from two million vaccines 23 days ago to four million under the equity mark. we anticipate conservatively, again, that's just assuming an old pace. let's do the conservative pace. two and a half million doses last week by the end of this calendar month, north of 30 million people will be vaccinated with at least one dose in the state. or at least will have administered 30 plus million doses. i want to remind everybody, that in california currently, there are about 32 million people that are eligible to receive a dose of vaccine. so we are getting to a point where the vaccine administration, that's just in a month. extrapolate ten weeks out. we are looking ten weeks out. that our expectation the vast majority of people who would want, in fact everybody who wants a vaccine will have had the dose, the second dose, will have the opportunity to see at least a few weeks of those vaccines in people's arms. so the stability and the efficacy of those vaccines will be at peak

we don't think we are in any kind of physical bumping is, but we think because we had a very large -- during the pandemic, and effort that we had in our ears. it needed extraordinary measures. >> global news, 24 hours a day, on air and at quicktake by bloomberg, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. this is bloomberg. annmarie: we will pick it up from here. vaccine setback. johnson and johnson pauses the rollout of its covid-19 vaccine in europe. and the u.s. the details coming up next. this is bloomberg. ♪ >> the fda is the gold standard for ensuring the safety and effectiveness of the vaccine. i think today is clear evidence they are taking every step necessary to ensure the american people have clear and transparent information. >> we expect it to be a matter of day for this cause. >> we want to get this worked out as quickly as we can. that is what you see the word pause. he want to hold off a bit. we might go back to that, maybe with conditions, maybe not. >> the real condition that is notable is not just the thrombosis for the -- those tw

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