Good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. Gps have been asked to be on standby from the start of next month to offer the new Covid Vaccination if regulators say its safe and effective. The governments already ordered enough doses of the vaccine for 20 Million People. This as the number of weekly registered deaths involving coronavirus in england and wales has exceeded 1000 for the First Time Sincejune. 0ur Health Correspondent Anna Collinson has more. A possible Coronavirus Vaccine has been likened to a light at the end of a tunnel. It still needs to be approved and there are questions about how long it will last. The uk may have its first jab by christmas. This will be a colossal effort to roll this out, which the nhs is leading. I know that they will rise to the challenge of being ready when the science comes good to inject hope into millions of arms this winter. Early results for the first effective vaccine show it could prevent more than 90 of people from getting covid, with the main
Treatment and vaccines for the virus. Health and Human Services secretary elex is our wednesday and in operation warp Speed Reading same expects 40 million doses to be ready for distribution by the end of the summer, but 20 million americans. Pfizer and moderna said this week their candidates proved to be about 95 effective in the late stage clinical trials. Pfizer said friday it would seek emergency use authorization from the fda. Professor of Health Policy and the Johns Hopkins Public Health and fox news medical contributor. Doctor, welcome back. Good to see you. Before we get to the vaccine, i would ask you about the state of the pandemic right now. How much worse will he get before it gets better . If you think about it in terms of the electoral college, we need to get to about 220 americans having been infected to have community immunity. Hopefully we will have good vaccination rates before we get to that number but we are taking a lot of infection into the fall right now, probabl
First doses of the vaccine. Its safe and effective. Data reviews showed that everyone had strong protection from the virus. An exciting day. That has been a tough year. We begin with john roberts live on the north lawn to give us a preview of what we expect to hear in the next hour. The summit should begin soon. We will see in the president talks just about the vaccine or wanders into the election of 2020. One thing the president will do is sign an executive order which ensures that the government prioritizes getting the vaccine to americans before any vaccine is made in the United States is shipped overseas to countries. Heres the chief vaccine negotiator talking about this. The president put america first. Today he will sign an executive order ensuring that americans are first in line for any of the vaccines that we manufactured and we have procured. The president is signing that executive order as the white house is pushing back against claims it passed on an offer from pfizer in th
Carley makes me almost want to work out. Todd welcome to fox and friends on wednesday morning. Carley Nevada Supreme Court throws out the Trump Campaign appeal to overturn state Election Results as texas filed its own lawsuit against four other states. Todd on a bike run, workout machine, the president s legal Team Continues this fight. Reporter another setback in the president s legal fight, the nevada gop says they are disappointed noting they were not allowed to argue the case before the Supreme Court. Here comes texas suing battleground states in pennsylvania, georgia, michigan and wisconsin, asking the Supreme Court to declare the certification is in violation of the electors clause in the fourteenth amendment, the votes cannot be counted. Texass attorney general ken paxton explains. Our request, the only place we can go is the us Supreme Courts we are pleading please hear our case. Give us a chance at least to argue what we think is right under the constitution. Attorneys general
One state here in the u. S. That new covid strain first surfaced in colorado, its also been confirmed in california, dr. Fauci says we should expect it in many more states already. Paul vercammen is in los angeles. Los angeles, i dont have to tell you, one of the worsthit parts of the country right now. Hospitals overwhelmed. Tell us what youre seeing there. Reporter well, just horrific conditions, and now all eyes on staying, thats where the new variant strain of covid19 turned up in a 30yearold man his symptoms two days after christmas. He was asked if he traveled and he said no. Governor gavin newsom and dr. Fauci were having a conversation and dr. Fauci talked about this variant and he said that the vaccine will be able to defend against the variant. When you get vaccinated, the immune response that you make is called polyclonal, which means its against many different parts of the virus, so even though you have one part of the virus thats changed, it is very likely that the other c