Health & Science

“If you look across the United States, we are really in a public health crisis right now,” Dr. Anthony Fauci told Colorado Gov. Jared Polis on Tuesday.

A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention panel is voting on who will be first in line to get the coronavirus vaccine.

“It’s really, hopefully, going to be the beginning of the end,” OhioHealth CEO Dr. Stephen Markovich told CNBC.

If authorization is granted, it could enable use of the vaccine in Europe this month, BioNTech said.

The Dow is set to soar Tuesday, setting up Wall Street to start December with a strong rally after the best month for blue chips since 1987.

Germany was widely seen as a poster-child for its approach to tackling the coronavirus in the spring, but its second wave is proving more deadly.

Both sides said they will review the arrangement again in late December to decide on a start date.

DeepMind has developed a piece of AI software called “AlphaFold” that can accurately predict the structure that proteins will fold into in a matter of days.

“We’re at or beyond capacity. We’re making every possible infrastructure, including more airflow rooms,” Billings Clinic CEO Dr. Scott Ellner told CNBC.

“If a hospital gets overwhelmed, there will be a state investigation,” Gov. Andrew Cuomo said.

“You’re getting to levels where this virus is not going to circulate as readily,” the former FDA chief told CNBC on Monday.

The World Health Organization is holding a briefing on the Covid-19 pandemic.

Doses of Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine could go out next month. The process of distributing the medicine, however, could prove a logistical challenge.

As the U.S. heads into a difficult period of the pandemic, Fauci urged Americans to take virus mitigation steps “short of locking down.”

Birx explained that in the past nine months the federal government has compiled detailed data used to track and measure the virus.

“These lines are going to continue until a vaccine comes out and until the nice weather comes about,” Summit CityMD CEO Dr. Jeffrey Le Benger said.

The Pentagon also recorded more than 1,300 new confirmed cases of Covid-19 among the sister service branches, a new record for the military in a 24-hour period.

Britain has asked its medicine regulator to assess the vaccine for a temporary supply, which could mean it’s rolled out in the country before the end of the year.

It comes as drugmakers and research centers scramble to deliver a safe and effective vaccine to help bring an end to the coronavirus pandemic.

“We believe that this product will never be licensed in the U.S.,” one group of critical U.S.-based analysts wrote this week.