CDC Issues Thanksgiving Recommendation

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention today recommended against traveling or gathering for the holiday, urging Americans to consider celebrating in their own households instead. In the agency’s first news briefing in months, officials said they were alarmed to see 1 million new cases reported across the United States within the past week, as the Washington Post reports.

Restrictions Working In Europe

In a rare hopeful sign amid the grinding slog through a pandemic that has claimed more than 1.3 million lives across the globe, Europe’s new restrictions appear to be slowing the spread of the coronavirus in some of the worst-hit countries. The World Health Organization said today that new case rates were falling for the first time in months across the region by about 10 percent, as the NYT reports.

Mnuchin Declines to Extend Several Fed Emergency Lending Programs

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin declined to extend several emergency loan programs established jointly with the Federal Reserve that are set to expire on December 31. The Fed’s corporate credit, municipal lending, and Main Street Lending programs won’t be renewed, Mnuchin said today, as the WSJ reports.

Climate Corner

In the latest episode of Theories of Change, host Sarah Ladislaw talks with Archie Young, the United Kingdom's lead climate negotiator since 2016, about the future of climate negotiations in light of this year’s delayed COP meetings and the five-year anniversary of the Paris Agreement. Listen on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.

Coronavirus Crisis Update

The Coronavirus Crisis Update podcast brings you the latest updates and analysis from CSIS experts and the leaders directing the global response. Past guests include NIAID Director Anthony Fauci, White House Chief of Staff-designate Ron Klain, IHME Director Chris Murray, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Representative Tom Cole (R-OK), Former FDA Comissioner Peggy Hamburg, and more. Listen on Apple Podcasts & Spotify.

Video Shorts

Check out CSIS’s new series of video shorts: “Testify,” "What's Happening," "Preview," and “High Resolution.” And don’t forget to subscribe to the CSIS YouTube Channel!

In That Number

162,000

As of Wednesday, the seven-day average of new cases across the country had surpassed more than 162,000, an increase of 77 percent from the average two weeks earlier.

Source: NYT

Critical Quote

“Amid this critical phase, the CDC is recommending against travel during the Thanksgiving period.”

— Dr. Henry Walke, Covid-19 incident manager, CDC

iDeas Lab

Many of the China's Rocket Force brigades fielding short-range DF-15B and DF-11A missiles are clustered in coastal provinces along the Taiwan Strait. They would thus be the most likely to engage in a potential Taiwan contingency.

The Andreas C. Dracopoulos iDeas Lab at CSIS enhances our research with the latest in cutting-edge web technologies, design, and multimedia.

Optics

(Photo credit: Patrick Semansky/Pool/AFP via Getty Images.) Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks following a security briefing on Mount Bental in the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights.

This Town Tomorrow

Tomorrow, at 11:00 a.m., the CSIS Economics Program hosts Under Secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs Brent McIntosh for a discussion on the new Common Framework and what it will mean for countries hit hardest by the economic fallout from the Covid-19 pandemic.

And, at 8:00 a.m., the Atlantic Council's Global Energy Center hosts a expert panel to discuss policy harmonization alternatives to competing carbon border adjustment mechanisms.

Later, at 10:00 a.m., the Woodrow Wilson Center (WWC) Kennan Institute holds a Facebook Live chat with Igor Zevelev, former director of the MacArthur Foundation's Moscow office, on crises in the post-Soviet region.

Video

The CSIS Korea Chair today hosted Denis McDonough, former White House chief of staff, for a discussion of the Biden administration's policy priorities. Watch the full event here.

Podcasts

On the most recent episode of Smart Women Smart Power, host Beverly Kirk talks to Bonnie Glick, the former deputy administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). They discuss USAID’s digital strategy, the future of 5G in emerging markets and the threat of Huawei, and the role USAID plays in contributing to global network security.

Listen on Spotify, Google Play, & Apple Podcasts.

Smiles

This is a smile. All the episodes of Daryl Hall’s web program “Live From Daryl’s House” are big smiles. Aaron Neville, Joe Walsh and Billy Gibbons, just to name a few, have stopped by to jam out their hits with Daryl and his band.

A couple of weeks ago Tommy Shaw of Styx popped in. I think you’ll enjoy the results as much as I do.

I invite you to email me at [email protected] and follow me on Twitter @handrewschwartz

The Evening is my daily guide to key insights CSIS brings to the events of the day. It is composed with the External Relations team: Emma Colbran, Caleb Diamond, and Kendal Gee.