A delayed supplies after criticism of a slow rollout so mccain has more on this now from ballin. This is the astra zeneca vaccine in use available to british patients most at risk from covert since late last month and from now on officially so too for many e. U. Citizens most at risk from the pandemic its a real pleasure to be here and to announce the 3rd positive o. Pinion for the authorize ation of the astra zeneca covert 19 vaccine this expand the range of Vaccines Available to e. U. And a Member States which will all help to bring the pandemic under control and protect the citizens of the e. U. Except that far fewer e. U. Citizens will be able to receive the vaccine for the next few months after the company cut back what it could deliver to the block astra zeneca a british swedish firm blames production problems at some of its plants and said it can only deliver fewer than half of the 80000000. 00 doses promised the europeans have complained and decided to protect all vaccine stock
Contamination issues and other problems but i think we have not been aware that there has been this systematic issue, a major change in the system that manufacturing and deliver pharmaceuticals. The implications of one country controlling the supply of medicine is astounding, no matter what state we are talking about. Think aboutng it. What if there is a Global Pandemic and it is hard tot loe move products across the world. What if there are heightenedns tensions within the South China Sea and everyone could be vulnerable and everyone could be put at risk. The role of the fda in this situation cannot be overstated because the fda cannot be effective in ensuring the safety of the medicines in the farflung regions of the world as a can at home. Many of us are not aware of the face to face contact that the fda has with those who are manufacturing our drugs. The inspections that they conduct, they are very handson and involved a major that the manufacture of drug can stay safe. They have s
The worst dow point loss ever the previous 2 record set just last week as the markets were closing in new york and washington President Donald Trump was asked if the country was in a recession well it may be without thinking in terms of a recession with a good in terms of the virus once we step i think theres a tremendous pent up demand both in terms of the stock market and in terms of the economy and once this goes away once it goes through and were done with it i think youre going to see a tremendous a tremendous surge the trading day was so bad the president of the New York Stock Exchange had to shoot down rumors that the Trading Floor might close down tweeting closing the markets would not change the underlying causes of the market decline this would only further compound the current market anxiety. Over the weekend the Federal Reserve lowered Interest Rates to nearly 0 hoping it would call in the markets it did not they lower the rates on sunday market is telling us that theyre no
Major stop people crossing borders to panic buy things in supermarkets as well but its one of the germany hungary said it was closing all its borders potence already done so in the Czech Republic as well. And altogether now you have a 100000000 europeans in lockdown spain is now going through the same trajectory as italy did just reported a big spike in fresh case in the last 24 hours and so increasingly these enforced stay at homes for people are being done theyre being put into place by by the police and probably in the fullness of time by the military as well and frankly i have to say that despite the fact that europe is now the center of the pandemic and obviously is a very big rise in cases they talk about trying to flatten the curve out of the virus the other thing that i think European Countries are going to have to start to address very very quickly is what on earth you do with all these people are staying at home to pay them any money so they can buy things well spain is also
The next few Weeks Congress has already put forward a bill to provide sickly as well as Food Assistance to children and the elderly it still needs to pass the Republican Controlled Senate before us President Donald Trump can sign it into law. But the new proposed payments which also need to be approved by congress would be part of a package worth more than a trillion dollars. Clude help for the airline and other Industries Hit hard by the slowdown in business this is worse than 911 that for the Airline Industry were going big with this invisible enemy we dont want airlines going out of business we dont want people losing their jobs the Hotel Industry has also been hard hit tuesday mariya the Worlds Largest Hotel Company started furloughing thousands of employees as their hotels see fewer customers but its not just the economy that has the white house worried it says Public Health remains a priority on standby in new york the army corps of engineers to increase Hospital Capacity in resp