within the cdc, public health teams deal with toxic substances. since the seventies, the nationaltitute for occupational safety and health has dealt with a myriad of industrial and environmental issues. postwar development in biomedical research paid rich dividends and lead to nobel prize honors for dozens of investigators supported by nih grants. for scientists from the nih have been nobel laureates. marshall nuremburg for breaking the genetic code, julius axelrod for his work on the central nervous system, christian won a chemistry prize for work on a media acids, and carleton isolated a virus fatal among natives of new guinea. as reflected in his work, international health has become an area of importance for the ph, fs1 with notable exceptions. the cdc, for instance, provided leadership for the global camp and it resulted in the conquest of smallpox. in 1967, surgeon general william stewart had pledged ph as personal to the world health organization campaign against smallpox. more than 300 physicians, scientists, and public health workers led by the cdc's doctor d. a henderson

within the cdc, public health teams deal with toxic substances and since the 1970's, the national institute occupational safety and health has dealt with a myriad of industrial and environmental issues. postwar development in biomedical research paid rich dividends and led to nobel prize honors for dozens of investigators, supported by nih rants. four nih scientists have been nobel laureates. one for breaking the genetic code. one for his work on the central nervous system. one won a chemistry prize for work on amino acids. and one for isolating a virus fatal among natives of new guinea. as reflected in the work, international health had become an area of importance along with notable successes. the cdc provided leadership for the global campaign that resulted in the conquest of mallpox. in 1967, the surgeon general had pledged phs personnel to the world health organization campaign against smallpox. more than 300 phs physicians, scientists, and public health workers, led by the cdc, went all over the globe to fight the battle. and they won. by 1977, smallpox had been eradicated throughout

within the cdc, public health teams deal with toxic substances and since the '70s, the national institute for occupational safety and health has dealt with a myriad of industrial and environmental issues. postwar development in biomedical research paid rich dividends and led to noble prize honors. four nih scientists have been nobel laureates. one for breaking the jeanetgene code, work on amino acids, isolating a virus fatal among natives of knnew guinea. international health had become an area of importance for the nhs. the cdc, for instance, provided leadership for the global campaign that resulted in the conquest of smallpox. in 1967, surgeon general william stuart had pledged personnel to the world health organization campaign against smallpox. more than 300 phs physicians, scientists and public health workers, led by the cdc's doctor went all over the globe to fight the battle. and they won. by 1977, smallpox had been eradicated throughout the world. in the 1960s, reorganization brought new programs to the phs fold. one of the most significant was the food and drug administration whi

theadministration supports training of health professionals and sends them to underserved areas. the national institutes of health conduct basic research on diseases such as aids. the fda brings new drugs to the public. the substance abuse and mental health services administration provide services for mental, behavioral, andy dick disorders. the health-related concerns connected with -- and other responsibility for toxic substances and disease registry. addition is recent the agency for health care policy and research. it strives to assess the effectiveness of medical care. the public health service response to needy members of the community providing care to native americans through its indian health service. it also assess the elderly, drug addicts, those with aids and others that might be forgotten. when it started, the mission was to serve a group that had little access to medical care, merchant seamen. that was in 1798 when an act of congress signed into law by president adams provided for the government to maintain hospitals for sick or disabled people as had been done in england. for i

u.k. 800000 doses a pfizer biotech vaccine are now available in 70 hospitals elderly people and national health stuff are being prioritized u.s. health experts are warning of dark times ahead in its fight against covert 19 it's reported its deadliest week since april there are fears the worst is yet to come as people celebrate the upcoming holiday season. an inquiry into the new zealand mosque shooting has found failings by the police and intelligence but says nothing could have stopped the attack the royal commission security agencies were almost exclusively focused on the perceived threat of terrorism by muslims. health experts in zimbabwe are warning it could take 6 months before a coven 1000 vaccine is available there that's because of logistical and economic challenges that's despite its capacity to carry out vaccination programs reports from harare. nurses say more than 100 mothers visit this clinic in harare every day here their babies are inoculated against his eases such as polio and measles. children in zimbabwe have been receiving vaccinations since the early 1980 s. it's part of the

within the cdc, public health teams deal with toxic substances and since the '70s the national institute for occupational safety and health has dealt with a myriad of industrial and environmental issues. post war development in bio medical research paid rich dividends and lead to nobel prize honors for dozens of investigators. four scientists have been nobel lawyer lu laurates. they went all over the globe to fight the battle. and they won. by 1977, smallpox had been eradicated throughout the world. in the 1960s, reorganization brought new programs to the vhs fold. one of the most significant was the food and drug administration. one of the changes was bringing programs for mental and addictive disorders into one agency. today they administer prevention and treatment programs in these areas. during the '70s it became heavily involved in the delivery of health services to poorer, isolated populations. the community health center program supported more than 800 health centers throughout the country. and provided medical care workers to these communities. they serve those who are less fortu

the public health servants of the united states, whose duty it is to protect the health of the nation. the corpse of physicians, scientists, and other professional health workers. it has served us with integrity. in 1798. i have asked the surgeon general of the public health service to talk with us tonight about vaccine. and the salk vaccine in particular. he has served as an officer in service since 1930. and is your surgeon general since 1948. it is my privilege to present a distinguished public servant, dr. leonard scheele. >>> many questions have been raised in recent weeks about the new vaccine against poliomyelitis. people are asking, is it absolutely safe? does it really protect against polio? will there be enough vaccine for large-scale use the summer? i will give you the facts about the vaccine as i know them. and i want to give you some idea of the outlook for the future. first, something about the disease itself. polio occurs everywhere. in this country, and throughout the world. it is caused by a virus so small that its presence cannot be known except by its effect on livi

the public health service of the united states whose duty is to protect the health of the nation is a corps of physicians, scientists and other professional health workers. it has served us with integrity i have asked the surgeon general to talk with us tonight about vaccines and the salk vaccine in particular. he served as an officer since 1930 and your surgeon general since 1930, and your surgeon general since 38. 1938. it is my distinguished honor to introduce the doctor. >>> people are asking having vaccine safe. >>> really protect against polio? enough vaccine for large-scale use this summer? i will give you the fact it's a i know them amend i want to given you some idea of the outlook for the future. first, something about the disease itself. polio occurred everywhere, in this country and throughout the world. it is caused by a virus so small that its presence cannot be known, except by its effect on living animals or on cells in tissue culture. nearly everyone is in repeated contact with the virus and is infected by it at some time in his life. the disease is generally very mil

it is truly a national health problem.ut, we should recognize, that more children die each year from pneumonia, cancer, and heart disease, for instance, that from polio. even without immunization, during an average year, the chance that any individual of any age will get paralytic 7500 oneitis is one in in 32,000 will suffer permanent crippling, and the chances are, only one in 60,000, will die from polio. so far this year, throughout the nation, in the age group 1-19, there have been 1.3 cases of paralytic polio among each 100,000. int year, the rate was one .4 -- 1.4. while it is too early to make predictions, there's no reason to believe the incidence of polio this year will be greater than the five-year average. experience indicates, however, there will be scattered local epidemics. some may be severe. let me tell you in a few words about the development of the polio vaccine. dr. jonas salk have the knowledge, intuition, and tenacity, to create a poliomyelitis vaccine out of that some of available scientific knowledge

this country does not have a national health service. let me show you what happens when countries have a national health service. let's take a look at this graph. if you look at daily vaccination rates per 100,000 people, the u.s. has been doing 53. compare that to the uk which is 59, bahrain is 249, israel is 608, canada a bit of an ought liar, not doing as well as the u.s., not doing well at all. we can debate until the cows come home whether the u.s. ought to have a national health service, but in this respect it would be useful. we heard dr. reiner hit the nail on the head, we ought to be doing these at race tracks, vaccine clinics at football stadiums, madison square garden. who is going to organize that? individual hospitals aren't. you need a centralized authority to organize that. when president biden takes over next month, perhaps that will happen, not to have a national health service, but perhaps he will create some kind of centralized authority that ma make that happen. >> there's every indication they'll try to federalize th

ought to have a national health service, ought to have universal health care, but i think it's generally agreed that when you're trying to do a mass vaccination campaign, it is very helpful to have the infrastructure in place. these countries already through their governments vaccinate people. they didn't have to build an entire infrastructure to do so like we have in the u.s. now, let's take a listen, actually, speaking of vaccinations, to general gustaf perna, who commented on this recently. >> as vaccine becomes available, states determine distribution priorities. i visualize as early as 8 january, between 8 and 15 january, the expansion to the utilization will greatly increase access of vaccine to the american people. >> now, folks who work in states tell me, brooke, listen, the point here is that we need help. we have the vaccines. we need help getting them into arms. brooke? >> as you've said, you know, it's all about the vaccination, right. that's what saves linkz, not just the vaccine itself. elizabe elizabeth, thank you. >>> to politics and a guarantee of chaos next wednesday wh

missed things turn out the going to be on the luck the job could only be received through the national health service for free the pfizer drug was approved in the u.k. this month and all available doses are going to people in hospitals over the age of 80 frontline medics and care home staff at the moment that means potentially long wait for everybody else a private clinic say they are getting requests from patients willing to fork out large sums to try to jump the queue we spoke with the owner of one such clinic. that has not really differentiated between the rich and the poor i have a clinic in wilmslow which is an affluent area and some of the people asking their parents have died or a parent has died and they're wondering how can i get the box ticking now i have been offered large sums to try and circumvent and see whether we can get the vaccine because private as we know goes on in this country hurts the government has bought the vaccine and there is no way to circumvent it but you know i think everyone you know would like to have the vaccine and even as agent and she comes with it people

and . 2021 doesn't look like it's bringing any relief either national health officials are warning us that january could be devastating without substantial mitigation the middle of january could be a really dark time for us some say that the lockdown was imposed too late others are saying that cuts in health care facilities and the closing of hospitals over the past decade have played a role regardless of why there's no question the 2020 will go down as one of the worst years in the history of new york city. r.t. new york. exhausted russian medical volunteers lying in a room with a covert patients going viral see this the some pages begin to call to help someone reported to be in a state of panic and confusion there were fears she could terror for oxygen screening should be under constant supervision that's a seat isn't it well the patients now i can tell you in a stable condition so a bit of good news and the colleagues have expressed their gratitude through social media the intense tutors told us what happened a bit more on the. but you know what we saw the whatsapp message that hel

the governments this is just the start of a long journey in trying of course to add improve the nation's healthhealth a huge operation the biggest public help of operation for the british government in modern times all right thanks so much need fox. said ahead of al-jazeera and small the world champion footballers score a major win off the field details now just a moment. business leaders is both to by no brass power. business leaders has vowed to buy no brass power. a chinese spacecraft has begun collecting rocks on the moon the chinese 5 touched down on tuesday if it gets the samples back to earth successfully china will become only the 3rd nation to do so an important step in a much more 'd ambitious space program under schapelle explains shortly after touching down on the ocean of storms a volcanic plane on the near side of the moon china's state television showed pictures of yet another homegrown technological breakthrough in space. or long march 5 is on a historic mission to bring back rock and soil samples from the moon the 1st such mission in more than 40 years to a delusional mental th

in . 2021 doesn't look like it's bringing any relief either national health officials are warning us that january could be devastating without substantial mitigation the middle of january could be a really dark time for us some say that the lockdown was imposed too late others are saying that cuts in health care facilities and the closing of hospitals over the past decade have played a role regardless of why there's no question the 2020 will go down as one of the worst years in the history of new york city jail up and r.t. new york staying strong at a time of desperate need an image of exhausted russian medical volunteers lying in a room with a covert patients gone viral st petersburg and turns were called to help someone reported to be in a state of panic and confusion there were fears she could tear off her oxygen mask meaning she had to be under constant supervision. the patients now in a stable condition with the internes praised on social media and by colleagues for their role in her recovery and turn students told us what happened on the day the photo was taken. but you know wh

now, the national health service has recruited 30,000 people to distribute vaccines nationwide so this is going to be an enormous effort, and it's all starting today the vast majority of those vaccines are going to be administered in the new year, and this is why things are going so slowly because it's sufficient a logistical challenge. all of these vaccines, and there are now 800,000 doses here in brittain, they've require two different doses three weeks apart. that alone is an issue, tracking people, making sure they've come back for the second dosage but the real issue, it needs to be stored at negative 100 degrees fahrenheit >> even with those complications, you hope it goes smoothly and successfully. >>> meanwhile here in the u.s., the pandemic is reaching new heights. the number of americans infected has now surpassed the 15 million mark from december 1st to the 5th, over a million people were infected that's an average of 200,000 people infected daily. >>> in california, a new lockdown has been triggered for 33 million people as available hospital icu beds drop to critically low

well, i have had such marvellous service from the national health service, particularly the nurses, theyen i broke my hip. we said, "oh, if you walk 100 times, your 100th birthday's coming up, we'll pay you a pound for every length that you do," and i think i said, "let's raise some money for charity. " and he said, "well, let's raise it for covid—19, for the nhs." you're doing a good job, carry on on, old boy! thank you from myself and from everybody at the royal armour corps and the nhs for everything you're doing. thanks, captain tom! we were talking earlier to tom moore, who's walking 100 lengths of his back garden before his 100th birthday on 30 april. and he hoped he would raise about £1,000. that went up to about £5,000. when we spoke to him and his lovely daughter hannah, in the first half of the show, they had just over £200,000. well, since we talked to him, another £45,000 has gone into hisjust giving page. the target had gone up to £100,000. let's make it £300,000, can we? can we do that? we then went i believe back on bbc breakfast on the bank holiday monday and i think the

and . 2021 doesn't look like it's bringing any relief either national health officials are warning us that january could be devastating without substantial mitigation the middle of january could be a really dark time for us some say that the lockdown was imposed too late others are saying that cuts in health care facilities and the closing of hospitals over the past decade have played a role regardless of why there's no question the 2020 will go down as one of the worst years in the history of new york city caleb mop and r.t. new york. for astra zeneca a vaccine against 1000 has been approved for use in the u.k. it's the 2nd job to get the green light in britain and the health secretary matt hancock praised the development calling it a moment of hope and the year. u.k. is seeing europe's fastest growth in kobe cases with more than $50000.00 new infections registered each day and it sparked a rush to get vaccinated with wealthy people reportedly offering thousands of pounds for a shot but as things stand they're out of luck the job can only be received through the national health servi

doctors and medical leaders warn of significant pressure on the national health service.ore than 300 schoolboys freed from their kidnapping ordeal in nigeria have been reunited with theirfamilies. the us vice president, mike pence, has become the first senior figure in the trump administration to get a coronavirus vaccine, which he called "a medical miracle". and he did so in a very public way, in front of cameras at the white house, along with his wife and the us surgeon general. the move comes as officials are mounting campaigns to quash scepticism about the record—fast development of the vaccine. mr pence said he wanted to assure the american people that while they'd cut red tape, they'd cut no corners. history will record that this week was the beginning of the end of the coronavirus pandemic. but with cases rising across the country, with hospitalisations rising across the country, we have a ways to go. and i want to assure the american people that we're going to continue to make sure that our health care providers have all the support and resources they need to meet

hospital admissions, and they can see we are heading into an incredibly precious time for our national healthm, and we are taking our foot off the gas, if you like. with these e—zines. and i think when you've got doctors and nurses and health professionals speaking out in the way in which they are speaking out, we should listen to them. so we would have expected some toughening up from the prime minister today. he didn't go that far. he may well have to go further in the coming days but we certainly need clarity across the united kingdom, asap. so if you were health secretary, in matt hancock's position right now, what would you be saying to borisjohnson? what with the practicable thing you would say be, would you tell the nation it is the 24th on the 25th only or whatever? what with the practical thing be that you would advise? we don't have access to the modelling. chris whitty was interesting saying that he had done modelling and this will have an impact, it will mean a rise in infection which will mean a rise in infection which will mean a rise in infection which will mean a rise in hospi

in. 2021 doesn't look like it's bringing any relief either national health officials are warning us that january could be devastating without substantial mitigation the middle of january could be a really dark time for us some say that the lockdown was imposed too late others are saying that cuts in health care facilities and the closing of hospitals over the past decade have played a role regardless of why there's no question that 2020 will go down as one of the worst years in the history of new york city jail up and r.t. new york. and china have struck a landmark deal after must 70 years of talks it opens up the chinese market to european investment while giving beijing an inroad to some strategic european projects are to charlotte devinsky has the details. they steal has almost been several is in the making between the e.u. and china and they've really pushed the boat out to get it done before the end of 2020 essentially it means that there is the opportunity for the e.u. for investment in certain industries this is companies within the e.u. to be able to invest in areas of china that

diseases we know now have been addressed in such a way they have had a major impact on the health of the nation. this is true of covid-19. it is particularly meaningful to me as a member of the nih to be receiving today, what secretary and several of our health care providers, a vaccine that had its origination and the fundamental research conducted ase at nih by our scientists well as our grantees and contractors. seeing now is the culmination of years of research which have led to a phenomenon that has truly been unprecedented. that is to go from the realization we are dealing with the new pathogen, a virus that was described in january of this than one year later have vaccines going into the arms of so many, including myself. honor to bet an part of this process. thank you very much. it grieves -- it gives me great pleasure to introduce to you the secretary of hhs, alex azar. sec. azar thank you for joining us on this proud and happy occasion. i want to express my deep gratitude to dr. collins, dr. fauci, and members of the nih team for their hard work, especially on various elements of oper

scotland will be administered today and then for us johnson tweeted as well thank you to our national health service to all of the scientists who work so hard to develop this vaccine to all the volunteers to where everyone has been following the rules to protect others we will beat this together and yeah as you say the that the difficulties of this program the biggest mass vaccination in national health service history in the u.k. it has to be stored at minus 70 degrees centigrade this vaccine this very fragile and that's why it's hospitals in the main that are being tasked with doing the vaccinations in the initial stages at least. 800000 vaccines available at the moment there will be 4000000 more by the end of the month and then 40000000 over the coming weeks and months enough to vaccinate 20000000 people in the united kingdom some day hospitals around the country doing these vaccinations at the moment as you say because of the difficulties in actually giving this vaccine out the hospitals will only be giving it to over 80 year old people initially and those who work in care homes of monks

it is truly a national health problem. but we should recognize that more children die each year from pneumonia, cancer and heart disease than from polio. even without immunization during an average year, the chance of anyone getting paralysis from polio is 1 in 7500. 1 in 32,000 will suffer permanent crippling, and the chances are, only 1 in 68,000 will die from polio. so far this year, throughout the nation in the age group from 1 to 19, there have been 1 3/10 cases of polio among each 100,000. last year, the rate was 1 in 4/10. the comparable average was 1 in 1/10 average. while it is too early to make a prediction, there is no reason incidents this year will be greater than the five-year average. experience indicates there will be scattered local epidemics. let me tell you in a few words about the development. dr. jonas salk had the initiative to create a polio vaccine out of the sum of knowledge. the national foundation for infantile paralysis, through public contributions, supported the development, and application of

service beds are occupied, the national health service under an immense amount of strain, asr catherine hudson from the royal college of emergency medicine explains. we are now at a really dangerous point where we could tip into finding it incredibly difficult to manage. now we've got crowded departments with covid as the additional burden, which is a really scary and challenging place to be. and you can see this as we're increasingly getting ambulances queueing outside departments. pretty stark warnings there from that doctor. so that's italy taken care of and the uk. what about sweden? sweden, a big u—turn there. throughout the whole pandemic one of the few countries going against the world health organization advice saying that you don't have to wear a face mask in public. the theory being that if people wear a mask then they feel overly secure and they‘ re not likely to social distance. but now there has been a big u—turn on that and swedes are being told if you are on public transport in rush—hour you have to wear a face mask and in addition remote learning for 13 —16—ye

than this took office just weeks before the pandemic arrived he said from the start to put the nation's health before the economy but with the russian sputnik 5 vaccine due to arrive next week the economy hasn't gone away. protests like this noisy and colorful her regular feature of everyday life in argentina with the cover of night in front of the country but particularly on there would you like me to recruit him out of that setting. the question is always where the money's going to come from argentina is one of the world's leading graeme produces but the industry has been paralyzed of the strike by workers demanding a wage increase enters its 2nd week. part of a growing demand from workers across argentina and the rest of latin america they don't want to emerge from the pandemic worse off than they went into an. al-jazeera one of cyrus. palestinians living in is really occupied areas may have to wait months to receive a current virus vaccination israel will begin its inoculation campaign next week israeli settlers living in the occupied west bank will receive it at the territories 2 and a ha

all of them released by the uk's national health service, some of the hospitals.e been waiting to see for months. a scientific achievement with no modern parallel and a day marking hopefully the beginning of the end of this international crisis. with us now from london is sir simon stephens, the head of the uk's national health service. thank you for being here on a busy day for you. good morning. >> good morning. what a pleasure. as you say, it's amazing that in less than a year since the first coronavirus cases were diagnosed, here we are today with a vaccine getting into the arms of vulnerable patients, starting off here in the british national health service, but hopefully available in many other countries soon. >> you are about i think eight or nine hours into the vaccination process. how is it going? have any issues come up that have been either expected or unexpected? >> it's been a great day so far. we've got nurses and pharmacists and doctors across the country who are vaccinating the first group of older patients together with staff working in care homes

centers, the national association of city and county health officials, the national pharmacists association, the national governors association, the national indian health board, and the national food association. hopefully you can see that the 23 represent a very broad spectrum of national association with the primary focus and mission of making sure our national vaccination campaign is as effective, efficient, safe, and equitable less possible. that is how we view our contribution to the all of government all of nation effort. host: let me remind our viewers they can take part in this conversation. we are going to open up regional lines for this conversation about the national covid vaccine plan effort. if you are in the eastern or central time zones, eastern or central time zones, you can call in at (202) 748-8000. if you are in the mountain or atific time zones, call in (202) 748-8001. if you are in a medical professional, we will open a special line for medical professionals. we want to hear from you at (202) 748-8002. keep in mind that you can always text at (2

let's look at the facts, the government tells us that this is all about protecting the national health peak of 16,612 in the uk out of 127,000 hospital beds nationwide a week or two ago. the numberof nationwide a week or two ago. the number of patients in critical care beds reached a peak. at the recent peak of the virus, the national health service had 13,003 hospital beds and 18% of critical care beds free, which is better than it usually is at this time of year. significantly better. there is cause of concern because of the potential growth of the virus but not cause for panic. the government undoubtedly has to act but it should do so on the basis of hard facts. what we are talking about today is what the government thinks of as a localised lockdown, but we know from other studies around the world, other studies around the world, other countries, what does work and what does not. we don't have to guess. there is hard evidence. some of the select committees have cove red of the select committees have covered that hard evidence. what does work is very, very narrowly targeted intervent

s national health service. the us has experienced that studly this week of the corona virus pandemic since april 15000 americans have died from covert 1000 in the past 7 days much of the recent surge has been attributed to thanksgiving celebrations an inquiry into the new zealand mosque shooting has found failings by the police and intelligence but says nothing could have stopped the attack the royal commissions security agencies were almost exclusively focused on the perceived threat of terrorism by muslims the number of afghan civilians killed in iraq strikes carried out by the us and its allies has risen 330 percent since 2017 the costs of war project at brown university set around 700 were killed and 29000 alone the group attributes the rising figures to america relaxing its rules of engagement those are the headlines the stream is up next on al-jazeera by. the world food program will be seed the nobel peace prize for fighting against hunger and the use of starvation as a weapon of war we ask executive dire

service and we can debate until the cows come home until whether such a national health serviceld be good in general. but when you are launching a campaign like this, it would be helpful if there was one central authority. >> and so i interviewed admiral giroir and a number of other doctors about this and giroir said that the problem is just getting up to speed, that this is a very ambitious program to vak nature vax knccinate 80%. and so what is the plan? >> the president's plan based on a tweet that he did earlier today, he tweeted that the federal government has distributed the vaccines to the states and now it is up to the states to administer, get moving. and so get moving is not a plan, that is not a plan. when i talk to the folks in the states trying to make this happen, what never say they need is more money. because they say this is a big deal to try to vaccinate basically the entire population. and they have gotten more than about $330 million, but they say that they need more. and they say that that is what they need in order to make this work. >> also just not true t

their latest work and our march to britain's national health service the n.h.s. here the deadly dragon of covert 19 isn't being vanquished by st george but by a nurse with ancient roots. britain's prime minister isn't much help. it's looking really good the government that has really given no support to the n.h.s. over the decades they've really learned the n.h.s. into the ground we really wanted to reference that asia and minority communities in this country who are really the backbone of the n.h.s. just and without them and the whole thing and with and you know we just collapse. many of they were examined capitalism and the realities of post-colonial britain including breaks it which the artists see as a tragedy. they also take a stance in their works against british imperialism which many britons still viewed positively. almost forgotten history is about by the darkest side of empire where you really see that it was very much built on the blood. of the countries that britain came to rule over is the thing that's not really explore this really fascinating 1st t

the pandemic 2nd wave in an address to parliament merkel demanded tougher restrictions as the nation's health care system nears its limit that can german leaders get the public behind a total lockdown during the holidays as health experts are recommending also coming up on the other side of the atlantic anticipation grows for about saying roll out the outgoing u.s. president touts america's group speed development but how much cooperation has trump offered to his successor will be rolling out the actual vaccination program. i'm rebecca ritter's welcome to the program german chancellor angela merkel has pushed for tougher restrictions to bring down stubbornly high coronavirus numbers this is germany's death toll from covert 9 tain has hit a record daily high of 590 state as a considering a strict lockdown over the holidays to curb infection right addressing the german parliament just moments ago merkel urged the public to recognize the seriousness of germany situation. well this right now isn't does not fill us in and 14 days until christmas day and we must do everything we can to ensure that

wednesday hospitalizations are also at a record high as cases surge nationwide the head of the national health agency has warned the next few months could be the most difficult time for public health in the country's history. world leaders.

s national health service and nato. ina's recovery gathered pace in november, supported by strong demand from home and abroad. it was the nation even further ahead of its peers as the only major economy likely to expand this year. exports have rocketed in recent months. the return of virus restrictions in many parts of the world have fueled demand for medical equipment and electronic devices. global news 24 hours a day on air and on bloomberg quicktake powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in over 120 countries. i'm leigh-ann gerrans. this is bloomberg. francine: thank you. joe biden biden is now officially the electoral college confirmed his victory. it puts them over 270 votes needed to win and will be inaugurated as the 46th president on january 20. biden noted his 306 electoral votes is exactly the same number president trump turned in 2016. >> at the time, president trump called the electoral college tally a landslide. by his own standards, these numbers represented a clear victory then and i respectful