A 13 year legal battle. Im still going to welcome to the program the European Commission has approved corona virus vaccine for use across the e. U. Brussels signed off on the drug after the european bed since Agency Approved the drugs used in people over the age of 18 the e. U. Is facing a stove of criticism for the slow pace of its vaccine rollout astra zeneca this is the 1st to gain approval after those from biotech pfizer and medan. Straight to brussels that we find correspondent teri schultz welcome terry millions of people in the u. K. Have already received this vaccine why is the e. U. Been so slow. Thats right phil but despite all the pressure and the criticism that European Medicines Agency is not in the business of apologizing for taking whatever time it feels is necessary in a life or death issue like this so today in our briefing e. M. E. A. Officials said that the astra zeneca data was very complex and despite the fact that it was the 1st one that they started looking to ap
Strain. A major win for farmers in nigeria a dutch court orders the local branch of shell to pay compensation just caused by oil spills. More protests and scuffles near indias capital as farmers demonstrate against new government laws they say will hurt them could benefit corporate farms and with all your sports after 14 days of quarantine the worlds top tennis stars are back on course in australia and fans were allowed into new. So the European Union is expected to give astra zeneca covert 1000 Vaccine Limited emergency approval in the next up thats despite a growing dispute between the block and the company about a supply shortage at the e. U. Was expecting at least 80000000 doses by the end of march but a week ago actually cut its supply blaming manufacturing issues the president says the vaccine maker is failing to meet its contractual obligations also far the e. U. Has approved to covert 1000 vaccines but there is growing criticism that the rollout is just too slow but there is mo
Today to decide on who should be first to get the vaccine once one is available. With the pandemic raging across the United States, we will speak to two africanamerican doctors who have spent years fighting Racial Disparities in healthcare. One of them joined modernas vaccine study to honor her father who died from covid19. Plus, we will mark World Aids Day with professor Steven Thrasher. Aids continues to kill too many peopl almost 700,000 pele were killed by it last year, and that was decades after education became available. As we are on the verge of potentially having a Coronavirus Vaccine to rollout, we dont antiracist,vely anticapitalist approach, hundreds of thousands of millions of people could continue to suffer and die. Amy all that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the quarantine report. Im amy goodman. The u. S. Centers for Disease Control and convention is convening a panel of advisers today to determine who will be the first in line to be
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