A symbolic vote asking people if they want president Nicolas Maduro out. Waiting for justice 25 years old victims of the post new rule struggle to find closure as they fight for their day in court. So the United States is gearing up for a massive coronavirus facts Nation Program with the 1st shots to be administered as early as monday in the next 24 hours trucks loaded with the pfizer buying tech jobs will head to nearly 150 centers right across the country it will be one of the largest inoculation campaigns in American History all this after the u. S. Centers for Disease Control and prevention voted to recommend the vaccine for people older than the age of 16 earlier the food and Drug Administration authorized it for emergency use and nearly 300000 people have died from cave 19 in the worlds worst affected nation and in the last 4 days almost a 1000000 new cases were confirmed and that pushes the total past 16000000 john hendren has this report now from washington d. C. In the nation
You can actually see the effects much more quickly. But i do want to warn these are theory, preliminary results. Theres 30000 people and you need to follow them for months and years. So these are just a early signals, but its promising now how long the immunity last that we have to see and how many people will take it. Thats the other concern, because you could have a 100 percent effective vaccine. If only half the people take it on half as Effective Group population. So if you have to follow the if its necessary to follow the results for months and years, what does that say when manufacturers are hoping to get this out of the market and into peoples arms or whatever in the next a month or so . Yes, so i thought in terms of racing to get it out we, we know that in terms of the early thing, some of the months and years were trying to answer is, does it have, for example, immunity that lasts for months and years. Thats the long term immunity question is a reduction. 2 years down the road
Immunized group. And so thats how you get the 95 its just 95 percent, which is really good because the other Team Last Week by pfizer was around 90 percent. So were getting more data that we could. This virus is ok so that this all sounds like good news. One of the things that people are going to be concerned about is the speed at which these things are going to be a big developed. Normally, it takes years for these things to develop to hit the market with done this in less than a year. So does that mean that safety is being compromised or, or what has happened to allow this to happen so quickly . Yes, safety is not in for anything. Were actually slowing it down in terms of base 3 trials. Remember a couple months ago we were trying to speed up politically and i was not good. Whats actually happening is 8. The money is now flowing at a much faster rate. Were in the middle of a global pandemic. Really Financial Resources are readily available. And in terms of infection, vaccines rely on
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Mean civilians abound in a district as part of a cease fire treatment, many torched their homes to leave nothing for azerbaijan is seeking to reclaim the program. Theres been another breakthrough in the race for a vaccine against covered 90 u. S. Pharmaceutical companies, but says its experimental vaccine use 94. 5 percent effective. It will be tested in a late stage trial involving 30000 of volunteers. The treatment involves 2 injections and just not have to be kept in cold storage conditions, but expects to have enough safety data for us, regulators to approve of roll out the vaccine this year. The European Commission says its working to sign more supply deals with vaccine makers. Lets find out more about this with eric feigele doing whos an epidemiologist and Health Economist from the harvard Chance School of Public Health. Welcome to day w. Lets start with this. This looks like fantastic news at 9000095 percent effective. Explain to us what that means in real terms. Company b. Here