tom: coming up, jason farley.f 12, this is bloomberg. ♪ francine: this is -- ritika: this is "bloomberg surveillance" they say domestic production will stop the country from losing its edge in innovation. the ceos of intel, qualcomm were amongst those signing a letter to the president. they say u.s. chip manufacturing has dropped from 37% in 1992 12% right now -- in 1990 to 12% right now. there will be a cloud-based platform built with microsoft that allows faster integration into its vehicle suite. here in manhattan, landlords are offering record cuts to fill empty apartments. they are averaging 2.3 months of fremont -- rent, that is the most in decades. once you subtract the concessions, rent is down 19%. that is your bloomberg business flash. francine: thank you so much. as we continue to track the virus bloomberg has developed a partnership, johns hopkins has been at the forefront of international response offering insight from experts and public health in infectious disease and emergency preparedness. running

we get an update from jason farley at johns hopkins, a nursing professor.n expert at epidemiology and his world-class research and aids care as well. thank you for joining us this morning. i want you to describe what it means to you to see the decline in hospitalizations across america. what does that signal? dr. farley: i think that we are seeing great signals of initial rollout for the vaccine, also, people are doubling down new data -- people are doubling down about wearing masks. schools can reopen, i think it is a positive trend for sure and the health care system is taking eight a -- a breath of relief. tom: is there a trend that you can glean where new york city will move from 20 per -- 25% restaurant occupancy to 50 to 70%? can you link the trends, medical and social, or is that not possible? dr. farley: certainly the pressure from the population will mount from greater liberties associated with real -- removing the restrictions as case numbers fell, but i would implore everyone to be patient, so we need to get the vaccine in people's arms in a grea

next, jason farley. we continue tracking covid-19.ok at the variants some of the concerns with vaccinations going forward. this is "bloomberg." ♪ francine: this is "bloomberg surveillance." tom and francine from new york and london. johns hopkins has been at the forefront of the international response every day we get insights from experts in public health, infectious disease, and emergency preparedness. we are happy to be joined by johns hopkins nursing professor. when you look at some of the things we are experimenting with globally. there was news there could be some kind of pfizer vaccine combined with the astrazeneca that could help with the global rollout. will this be the narrative going forward? doing everything we can, even combining vaccines to make sure we can vaccinate quickly? >> good morning from the u.s. pressure from the eu has prompted the conversation between pfizer and astrazeneca to consider combining. we have preliminary data on the combinations -- when the pfizer vaccine was approved many of us in the astrazeneca