The u. S. Election result suffers more setbacks this time in pennsylvania and michigan. Not backing down thousands of people protest in thailand. Does the government has to have proposed amendments to the constitution . And the sports in mens cricketers and ansell returned to play in pakistan for the 1st time in 16 years. Welcome to the new u. S. Drugmaker. Pfizer plans to request emergency approval for its covert 1000 vaccine in the coming days. This after results from its trial show that its safe and around 95 percent effective in all age groups that seem developed with german partner has shown consistent results across the demographics with no major side effects. Lets get the very latest from our correspondent, joe castro, who is live for us in wilmington, delaware, really encouraging noises coming out from pfizer for the back of Companies Like madonna saying there that seem to it has a very high success rate. Thats right, so this is very encouraging news, but the irony is that thes
Every day. And waiting two or four more months, we count into the tens of thousands of more deaths. A harm to the population, that no vaccine ever would even approach in decades or centuries. So, we believe that these vaccines will have their safety and their efficacy very well documented to the point we are today. We really look forward to the reviews with the fda who are independently with its vaccine review board, potentially approve these vaccines and the cdc and acip as the secretary said, would recommend. Then we look forward to the next two vaccines that we hope will be giving us data on their efficacy, in weeks to come. Maybe in early january for one of them. And for the other, it could be in the next few weeks, if data from trials running outside of the u. S. , or maybe slightly later with trials in the u. S. Read out. Thank you very much. I will pass to the coleader of me with the operations. Mr. Secretary, dr. Solari, my coleader, thank you for this opportunity to talk about
Good wednesday morning welcome to squawk alley. Im john for the with caro quintanilla and Julia Borstin well start with apple, a cost cut for Small Developers josh lipton breaks down the news for us. Here is how the new program is going to work its called the App Store Small Business Program it launches on january 1st and it does represent a big change here. Developers earning up to 1 million during the Previous Year will now be eligible for a commission of 15 on paid apps and inapp purchases, and that is half of apples Standard Commission apple says the new program will impact what it says is the vast majority of developers selling Digital Goods and services on the store. Tim cook saying in a statement the app store has been an engine of Economic Growth like none other, creating millions of new jobs and a pathway to entrepreneurship accessible to anyone with a great idea for investors this change is also important remember, the app store is critical for apple it accounts for an estima
Between antifa and Trump Supporters on the streets of washington, d. C. What can be done to curb the growing division in america. A look at market this is morning futures pointing to a rally at start of trading up 275 points right now. On the dow industrials nasdaqup 57 and s p higher by 29. The dow the best performer last week while the tech heavy nasdaq struggled with a selloff with the dow industrials up 4 on the week and nasdaq lower by half a point. And the s p higher by 2 . Covid cases on the rise across the country mean wheel as world waits for a rollout of the vaccine. Well be talking with new york state senator brad and who is one of fact pfizer vaccinings patients his insight coming up. Plus american i think knew try bring you highlights from latest spacex launch with four american astronauts onboard mornings with maria is live right now. European markets take look like this pretty much a firmer tone s p 500 up 45 and cac up 60 and dax index higher by 69. Pretty much about ha
And also Johnson Johnson, just releasing the results from its phase three trials. Saying in its announcement it is 66 Efficacy Rate overall. 85 against severe disease. Still notably lessective than the vaccines from pfizer and moderna. What does the biden team say about that . The White House Press secretary just said this morning that President Biden is encouraged by the data coming out from j j but also said that the politicians will leave it to the scientists who we should hear from any moment. While were standing by. Lets bring in Elizabeth Cohen following the latest developments. So on this announcement from Johnson Johnson, what are they saying . Basically the bottom line here, kate, is that this vaccine does work well against covid 19, this j j vaccine. Im going to jump in. Andy slavic, one of the members of the Covid Response team is beginning the briefing now. On both the successes and the hurdles we face. I hope on these calls, that the public will get a regular and consisten