Hello and welcome. We start with an apology from americas top Infectious Diseases expert Dr Anthony Fauci after he criticised uk regulators over their rapid approval of a new coronavirus vaccine. Britain on wednesday became the first country in the world to approve the Pfizer Biontech vaccine for mass use. Speaking earlier to cbs, dr fauci said the uk was not as rigorous as the us in its vaccine approval process. But when he spoke to my colleagues earlier on this channel, dr fauci backtracked. The point i was really trying to make, i did not make it well, which is why i welcome to the opportunity to get on your show and say it came out wrong. In the United States, there is such a considerable amount of tension of pushing back on the credibility of the safety and efficacy that if we in the United States had done it as quickly as the uk did it, and thats no judgement on the way uk did it, and even though my statement did come across looking that way, if we had a, for example, approved it
So would you say with 3 vaccines already been approved and many more awaiting approval that this is the beginning of the end of the corona virus pandemic. Well this is how i see it it will be certainly a change in the us after having discussed axing orders and European Union and hopefully soon or so in other countries and read backs in rolled out big box nation campaigns for the d start of by beginning of next year this really changed the whole picture and im confident that this is your hope that spring and summer change and to look normal life again with a good vaccine now you are leading a phase 3 trial for the cure of aca vaccine what can you tell us about that and when do you think it will be ready. Well if a city did not get stuck but we hope to stop it every hour or so to speak maybe tomorrow again last next week we have got to approvals for ethics committees and be caught also a response that this can depart any constituent be still less tulu honest a few career is. More all beg
General Assembly World leaders convene for a special session is there a multilevel. Pandemic and the number of deaths in russia suggests that the virus is taking a far greater told them to government is admitting well meet an undertaker who tells us he is overwhelmed. And a key architect of the European Union and the g. 7 dawns from code big seen former french president to scott to lead france during the 19 seventies and laid the foundations for europes single currents. To our viewers on p. B. S. In the United States and to our viewers all around the world welcome we start tonight with the latest from the pandemic here in germany and the news is. Not good the head of the countrys Public Health institute says that germany is still nowhere near bringing the 2nd wave of corona virus infections under control a partial lockdown in place since early november has stabilized the numbers but those numbers remain to haul. The coronavirus pandemic is not yet letting up in germany. The head of the
Everyone its a question of we or me what will it be i bring gulf in berlin this is the day. To serve superimposed upon a search the 96. 00. County. Number since the onset there. Were likely to lose another 250000 people. And were not in a good place cannot be travelling through solid. Diminish to the extent possible travel christmas is going to be a long one. Also coming up a report from a remote corner of russia where distance is no defense against the coronavirus but with a look at one time there was a huge line of hearses standing in line outside the morgue it was only then that people started to understand that the death had really come. Down to our viewers on p. B. S. In the United States and to all of our viewers around the world welcome we begin. On the day with statistics from the pandemic numbers that are usually attached to natural disasters or terror attacks not to a virus in the United States more than 2800 people died yesterday from coated 90 more than on any other day sin
The mayo clinic, and its role in the community today. We go to rochester minnesota. Mayo clinic is an american institution. It is at the heart of our country in many respects. It is the worlds first and largest private Multispecialty Group practice. That is a big, formal term. It means it is specialists working together in a highly organized way, devoting a whole range of unique, diverse talents for the sole purpose of serving each individual patient. It is a model that the mayo family developed with the franciscan sisters that has expanded and grown to other Medical Centers and has welcomed patients from all over the world for more than 150 years. This is Heritage Hall, the museum of mayo clinic that was established with a gift from john and lillian matthews. They are loyal patients of mayo clinic and they had a unique vision. They said we want to add more voices to the choir and tell the Great Stories of mayo through contemporary museum exhibits, designs, films and products like that