Welcome everybody to todays hybrid hearing. Pursuant to house rules, some members will appear in person and others will appear remotely via webx. Some members are appearing in person. Let me first remind everyone that pursuant to the latest guidance from the attending physician, all individuals attending the hearing in person must wear a face mask unless you are speaking. Members not wearing a face mask will not be recognized. Let me also make a few reminders for these members appearing in person. You will only see members and witnesses appearing remotely on the monitor in front of you when they are speaking in what is known as webx as active speaker view. The timer is visible in the room directly in front of you. For members appearing remotely, i know you are all familiar with webx by now, but let me remind you of a few points. First, you will be able to see each person speaking during the hearing, whether they are in person or remote, as long as you have your webx set to active speak
Ethnic groups. To make sure that any possible side effects dont vary for people with different ancestry. Beyond taken pfizer and now planning to apply later this month for emergency use approval in the u. S. Even if it all goes well authorities have stressed its unlikely any vaccine will arrive before the end of the year. And Germanys Health minister has called the news very encouraging but he also warned against false expectations saying that the vaccine wont be available over night he urged people to remain cautious and keep socially distanced until they finally get vaccinated. Knowing that there is a good chance that the next autumn and winter might be considerably better than this year that gives me and i hope gives other germans and europeans optimism confirms us in our approach we must look after one another particularly well this november of this winter in general stick to the rules of and on the of to personal and the lake and so out into space is a once in a century kind of si
Different ethnic groups. To make sure that any possible side effects dont vary for people with different ancestry that. Beyond taken pfizer and now planning to apply later this month for emergency use approval in the u. S. Even if it all goes well authorities have stressed its unlikely any vaccine will arrive before the end of the year. Now lets get more we are joined now by peter crams now director of the institute for tropical medicine at the University Hospital in tubing and hes also leading the Clinical Trials of a covert 1000. 00 vaccine which is developed by German Biotech Company sure vaca welcome to the program and thank you so much for joining us i want to talk about the vaccine that youre working to develop at 1st id like to get your reaction because we have biotech pfizer saying that they succeeded in reducing the risk of cova 1000 by 90 percent in an efficacy study what is your reaction to that going to do this. One of these news. And i dont know the press release. Or any o
Twopart hearing with drug company leaders. It is three hours 35 minutes. Welcome to todays hybrid hearing pursuant to House Speaker rules some members will appear in person and others will appearer remotely. Some members are appearing in person, let me first remind everyone that pursuant to the latest guidance of the house attending physician, all individuals attending this hearing and person must wear a face mask, unless you are speaking. Members whono are not wearing a face mask will not be recognize recognized. Let me also make a few reminders for these members appearing in person. You will only see members and witnesses appearing remotely on the monitor in front of you. When they are speaking and what is known as web act as active speaker view. A timer is visible in theib room directly in front of you. For members appearing know youre all familiar with web ex by now, but let me remind you of a few points. Whether they are in person or remote song as they have their web ex set to ac
The highest code with 19 infection and death rates. British scientists like many others are working around the clock to find a vaccine. With one of the countrys most renowned institutions the university of oxford fighting the pandemic on multiple fronts. Professor Martin Landry hes one of the scientists leading the recovery trial its the Worlds Largest randomized Clinical Trial of potential cause with 1000. 00 treatments. Hes not looking for a cure as such hes focused instead on finding readily available drugs that can be used immediately to reduce the number of deaths. Will there ever be a cure for cope with 19 or even a vaccine or will we all just have to learn to live with the virus find out more as professor Martin Landry talks to aljazeera. Professor Martin Landau thank you for talking to aljazeera thank you very much for having me youre currently running the worlds biggest trial of possible coronavirus treatments why is that such an important area of research when so much of the