peter chen, hong. he's an infectious disease specialist at the university of california, san francisco for being with more than 250000 deaths. how did things get this bad in the u.s.? well, terry, i think the answer is pretty simple. it's the lack of a national strategy. it's like where 50 different countries with 50 different strategies and viruses know any warders so that it's no surprise that what's happening in one part of the country happens in the other right now. the whole country's exploding 2, highly effective back scenes could soon be approved, possibly in a matter of weeks. what are your expectations in terms of impact on the pandemic in the u.s. military ad cautious optimism. of course, that's the civil lining. in all of this, it's estimated that pfizer says we can have 40000000 doses by the end of 2020 and. and when you're in a says 20000000 doses and that 1000000 goes to cafagna only be able to treat some of the health care workers and 1st responders. so, you know, not good news for every

peter chen hong. peter let's start with that good news there. we're close to getting a vaccine.ng 95% effectiveness for a vaccine. the director of health and human services said that by the end of next month, by the end of december, they're expecting 40 million doses ready pending fda authorization. does this mean that there is a real light at the end of this pandemic tunnel? >> thanks for having me on, there is a light at the end of the pandemic tunnel. but the light may in the come for some time to most people in the community. i think it is really encouraging. i feel really encouraged. we need a bit of encouraging news giving the fast number of increasing cases that we have been seeing in the bay area and in california. >> yeah, that's -- as we go back to reality, this week we had our highest week long average ever of new cases in the united states. 156,000 per day. also 1700 people died yesterday in the country. that's one death every 50 seconds. it almost seems like with this second wave, we're back at square one. >> it's even more sobering than square one even. frank, to t

we're here with drrmt peter chen hong. really disturbing figures.alifornia has hit a new record with 18,3 50 new covid 1 cases yesterday, average test positivity is up to 6%. can you put that into perspective for us? is that the worse we've be? >> it's not the worst we've been. we've been up to seven, close to ten. what's different is the rate of up crease, which is breath taking. remember we were really, really low a few weeks ago. if you had this conversation two weeks ago, some of these kinds of conversations weeks ago, we had different rate of infection. the risk has been so high and that's what's different about the third wave. >> given the rate of increase is so high right now, so quick, we want to show you this risk map that georgia tech put together. it helps you look and see what the odds are for, you know, facing covid. if you were going to a party of a certain size. we want to show this to you. marin county, what do we have this set at? one to 25 people? ten people. if you're in marin county, it's a 5% chance that you'll encounter someone

earlier we spoke with peter chen hauling a professor of medicine at the university of california san francisco and an infectious disease expert he told us that the election and in particular non socially distance to rallies may have worsened coronavirus. mosse wouldn't mind dated in voting facilities in the united states during the season in fact even if your state has a mosque mandate the federal law didn't permit or didn't mind it or in force mosque going at the sites i'm also considering that the activities around election time the buses of supporters particularly from president trump they're not wearing masks they're in an enclosed space they're writing up and on these all promote potential super spreading events people are not writing mass in these rallies they're huddled close together as shouting and screaming there's a lot of emotions and these are the states where there's a lot of coronavirus happening right now c o pretest probability of getting an infection in these communities is actually higher and here are some of the other latest developments in the penn demi germany h

pretest probability of getting an infection in these communities is actually higher and that was peter chen hong speaking with us earlier here are some of the other latest developments in the pandemic germany has set a new record for a new infections in the country almost $20000.00 positive cases were registered in the last 24 hours in england a 2nd national lockdown has come into effect tough restrictions on social contacts are in place and all non-essential businesses will be closed for the next 4 weeks grace is announcing that it will be entering a lock down from saturday the measures are due to last for 3 weeks according to the prime minister and denmark is set to call all of the country's farmed makes more than 15000000 animals there that's after a mutated corona virus from a make farm infected at least 12 people. sports news and in the champions league are real life see avenge their defeat in last season's semifinal by beating paris such a man who had 2 players sent off leipzig came from a goal down to win 21 and move on to. move on to level the points with manchester united at the to

peter chen, hong. he's an infectious disease specialist at the university of california, francisco. and that's the u.s. apostles, 250000. we asked him, how could things get this bad? i think they answer is pretty simple. it's the lack of a national strategy. it's like where 50 different countries with 50 different strategies and 1st there's no any warders so that it's no surprise that what's happening in one part of the country happens in the other right now. the whole country is exploding. there wasn't a pizza chain, the whole infectious disease specialist at the university of california speaking to us. and here's a look at some of the other developments in the coronavirus pandemic. the african continent has a past 2000000 confirmed cases. health officials are warning of infection starting to creep up again into a 2nd surge in japan. the number of new infections hit a record daily high of over 2000 cases. the prime minister's urging maximum caution, but stopped short of calling for new restrictions. china's national pharmaceutical group says nearly 1000000. people have taken an exp