Worn surging numbers may undermine a Global Recovery. Plus, we discussed prospects for the u. S. And the wider picture with the atlanta fed president , who joins us this hour. Haidi lets look at the sydney staggered open, the friday session muted compared to the street we have had in asian stocks, asiapacific stocks seeing 13 consecutive days of gains broken by the thursday session, the longest winning streak since 1988 coming to an end. A flat stock a flat start in sydney, kiwi stocks up, muted start in japan spite heavy inflows of foreign buying. We are seeing a further downside when it comes to trading in the futures session. Getting secretary mnuchin speaking at the moment. He is speaking in an interview with Bloomberg News, saying financial conditions are quite strong, that companies that are need grants,covid not that. We heard secretary mnuchin earlier asking the fed to return unused coronavirus money. We will get you more as we get those comments. This is coming at a time when
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Producers for an exclusive look into the shot as russia plans to vaccinate the general public as soon as next week. For a country to authorize emergency use of fighter and biometrics for the team back to britain is also looking to roll out that are seen as really that we have a lot to get through so lets get started. As the world moves closer to mass vaccinations against covert 19 russia was one of the 1st countries to register its sputnik 5 vaccine several nations have raised questions regarding the back seems africa c citing a lack of data according to a press release from the countrys coronavirus headquarters russian president Vladimir Putin announced his plans to begin large scale vaccinations as early as next week with millions of doses already produced in the country you leadership of all of us sits down for an exclusive interview with the c. E. O. Of one of the companys top. To mass produce the sputnik 5. Demitra. Bio cad one of the companies expected to launch production of the
Phase of Clinical Trials. The fda has now scheduled a meeting of its Vaccine Advisory Committee to review the Moderna Vaccine on the 17th 17th following their meeting of december the Pfizer Vaccine on december 10. We also learned this morning that the United Kingdom has granted authorization to the Pfizer Vaccine. While the fda completes its review, the approval of another independent regulatory body should give americans additional confidence in the quality of such a vaccine. If all goes well, as general perna will lay out, that means we can make our first shipments of vaccine to states this month, and we are on track to be able to ship enough vaccine for 20 million americans before the end of the year. Of course, were all eager to have enough supply to vaccinate every american who wants it. Because of operation warp speed, we expect it to be at that point in the spring. Having substantial quantities of a safe and effective vaccine thats been authorized by the fda before the end of th
2. Potential vaccinations against covert 19 are in the works. On nov 9th, the pharmaceutical giant pfizer in conjunction with its german partner, bio and tak, announced a new vaccine with about a 90 percent success rate against the virus. Then just 7 days later on monday, november the 16th, modernity announced to the world a coronavirus back scene that was 94 percent effective in preventing covert 19 infections. These announcements have left many experts, health care professionals, and big pharma executives like pfizer board member, dr. Scott gottlieb, exclaiming to cable news hosts and talking heads worldwide that quote, the combination of the fact that a lot of the population will have already had coded combined with the fact that will be vaccinating the public with a highly effective vaccine. We could effectively end and this pandemic in 2021 with our technology. But while ending covert nineteens reign is without a doubt the best way possible for us to kick off 2021. That doesnt mea