As timing who gets it and when, that is all still to be decided. There is a bit of a protocal for this. Well get into that with a prominent doctor as well. The left and right view on this battle, but first to blake burman on this latest news and this efficacy rate which was higher than both companies originally said, right . Reporter exactly, neil. We knew this Pfizer Vaccine candidate was effective. Pfizer though reiterating that today, in fact raising the effective rate on their covid19 vaccine candidate but just as important pfizer today also reported that they believe their vaccine candidate is safe which is why they say they are going to be applying for the eua. That is the emergency use authorization that the fda gives out. They will apply for that in the coming days. Here is what pfizer said earlier today as part of their news release they put out this morning. To date the Data Monitoring Committee for the study has not reported any serious safety concerns related to the vaccine
Nevertheless, there is a huge amount of false and misleading information strong winds, especially in the sloshing on line about what some south. Strong went combined with a high tide means they could be the people claim to be the risk which is chance of flooding. All the details com pletely people claim to be the risk which is completely unfounded. The potential throughout this mornings programme. Risks of taking the vaccine are its sunday the 15th of november. Unfounded. An agreement between our top story this morning is a call for social Media Companies facebook, twitter and google and to face tough financial and criminal penalties if they fail to clamp down others and government to take steps to work with Public Health on anti vaccine content. With a Coronavirus Vaccine authorities and also to sign up to a on the way, labour wants principle of not profiting from any the government to bring in emergency laws to deal with what they describe as dangerous online material. Misinformation
Gods of silicon valley. Plus, amazon launches a digital pharmacy that includes discounts and deliveries for prime members. It promises to upend the pharmacy business as we know it and may smell may spell trouble for thousands of small pharmacies across the country. Plus, what are your children watching . A new study finds if it is childrens content on youtube, it is probably littered with ads promoting violence and providing no educational content. New cases ofrge in covid19 and lockdown measures. Pharmacy stocks took a beating after amazon announced it is getting into the pharma business. Markets generally and the day down but it was a big update for amazon. How much influence did that have . Abigail lots of great headlines that you were mentioning. It was a fairly quiet day. It started risk off and ended mildly risk off with the s p 500 index down about half a percent. Betweenaq flipflopping gains and losses. At the end of the day, a very small loss. At the end of the day, amazon up
And then there was a socl promise abou connection that because these platforms were hosting what i called stranger sharing or personperson interactions it was thought that they we going to make ties, so you give a fist bump to the driver and find you have a connection on air b b and become friends. So all of those things. One has not been recognized as the extent to which this grew out of the longer standing traditions within Silicon Valley and when we look at those traditions we see what it mht have taken. There was the idea that the online communities need to bring bull togetr in these spaces andhis was a really into the nonprofit platform that was founded at this time. And withhat cyberutility and there was another strand in Silicon Valley. Prosperity and there was the right wing Silicon Valley discourse in t war leftwing one and with the sharing economy. And now i just mention the nonprot. And it remained quite important parts of the world. And that is whermy Research Team started
Acknowledges like robinhood yesterday restricted trading in gamestop and other volatile stocks. Robinhood eased up on those restrictions today but the backlash has been fierce. Here is reaction from conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh and bar stool sports Founder David portnoy. Its not just political now. The elites are Bent Out Of Shape that a bunch of average, ordinary users have figured out how to make themselves billionaires. Everything is rigged in favor of the elites. This has upset the rigging. I think its criminal. There has to be an investigation and people have to go to jail. Whether that actually happens i dont know. But ive never been more convinced about Market Manipulation and the people, the hedge funds controlling the game. Harris robinhood ceo is defending the decision. Watch. We had to make a very difficult decision to protect our customers and our firm. This decision was not made on the direction of any market maker. We are in a historic situation there is a lot of