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This is widely expected. This is the vaccine that was found to be 94. 5 effective in the primary analysis. There is discussion about possibly having some sort of meeting later in the month with the fda to make the approval. We heard from officials over the weekend that they are going to try to approve it in fast order. If you take a look at markets, not the response you would think, at least not much. Jonathan it has been the diminishing marginal rate of the additional vaccine news in this market that has diminished over the last several weeks. Equity futures down 0. 4 percent. Expectations are already so well anchored by the vaccine news weve had over the last several weeks. We are down 0. 4 on the s p 500. In the bond market, yields up by a basis point or two to 0. 85 on the 10 year. The news isnt this morning. It is the cumulative impact of the last several weeks and now it is shaped the forward outlook under a much better way compared to what we face right now in the here and now i
We do expect that to be done within a couple of weeks. Youre on the more prepared this is documents and submit them to the f. D. A. In the coming weeks. Mcgurn, a shares jumped 12 percent in premarket trading. This is a 2nd vaccine in the United States to have a stunningly high success rate. Last week, pfizer announced that early data shows its maxine is more than 90 percent effective. Meanwhile, the European Medicines Agency is Human Medicines Committee said its starting a rolling review of madonnas covert 1000. 00 vaccine. The regular is already reviewing vaccines from astra zeneca and pfizer, all in an effort to speed up the approval process. Now to a coronavirus update over the weekend, the us are past 11000000, new code 1000 cases. This comes only one week after hitting 10000000. Thats an average of about 150000 last week. Positive test rates and hospitalizations are up across the cut 3 forcing states to place even more restrictions on social gatherings and even travel. The u. S.
The milestone comes as officials caution there may be a possible shortage of hospital beds for covid19 patients. The Health Ministry released data on wednesday showing that tokyo and the prefectures of aomori, fukushima and okinawa hit stage three on hospital bed availability. That is the second most serious stage. It means major problems could arise in the medical system. The numbers were current as of october 20th. Officials in fukushima said later they had enough beds as of tuesday. In another troubling sign, the Positivity Rate for pcr tests in aomori hit 10. 7 pour the week through october 18th. Translator the situation is different prefture to prefecture, but it appears the number of new cases is steadily increasing in some areas, so we have to be on our toes. The pad is also affected myanmars general election. Citizens aged 60 and over can vote early to reduce the risk of infection. One w did that is the countrys de facto leader awning sung suu kyi who is 75. She went thursday t
Learning to live with it cmon were dying with. Donald trump and joe biden clash on familiar issues but their 2nd and final president ial debate is more civil than the 1st. Game is president is on course or victory in elections that have violence allegations of fraud. But we begin with that breaking news item of libya where the nations 2 warring factions have agreed to what the u. N. Is calling a permanent cease fire the deal was agreed to in geneva where the 2 sides have been holding talks libya has been in turmoil ever since longtime leader in warmer gadhafi in 2011 was removed from power have been surviving administrations one based in tripoli and another one based in the east in tobruk well the uns libya envoy says she has confidence in the agreements. Today is a good day for the libyan people. At 11 15 am this morning here in the u. N. Headquarters in geneva. The 2 libyan delegations to the 5 plus 5 joint military commission talks signed a complete countrywide and permanent cease f