Citizens. Welcome to the program the president of the European Commission ursula fund a line is urging drug maker astra zeneca to stick to commitments to supply the e. U. With its 1000. 00 vaccine the british Swedish Company has said its cutting the number of doses by 60 percent because of production problems astra zeneca also says it is not contractually obliged to deliver but funnel line said the contract is Crystal Clear many e. U. Member states are still failing to meet their vaccination targets. Correspondent. In brussels so the president of the e. U. Commission says their contract is Crystal Clear what does it say about the livery. Look ive been looking into this contract which i have here with me for the past couple of hours and i have to tell you its its a little bit difficult to tell what it says on the delivery schedule because if you go through the Relevant Pages they they look like this so a lot of the parts are blackened out and so they do not provide the Crystal Clear few
Has just introduced a control mechanism for companies producing vaccines tell us a little bit more about that if you want its a bit of a warning shot for other companies and pfizer of biotech is also a company that has suddenly confronted the u. S. Supply a problem so what the use is has introduced is a mechanism whereby companies a you can track now to what extent companies are exporting vaccines that are being produced inside the e. U. The u. S. Made clear today this is only an insurance policy they do not want to get involved into any sort of vaccine protectionism or to export bounce but it is clear that they are flexing their muscles to show those tech or from a suitable dions that they do mean business here. Georg not as in brussels for us thank you so much. The astra zeneca vaccine is one of 3 being used as part of britains vaccination drive the country has one of the highest death tolls in the world but as we have heard it is also making more progress than many other countries e
A 13 year legal battle. Im still going to welcome to the program the European Commission has approved corona virus vaccine for use across the e. U. Brussels signed off on the drug after the european bed since Agency Approved the drugs used in people over the age of 18 the e. U. Is facing a stove of criticism for the slow pace of its vaccine rollout astra zeneca this is the 1st to gain approval after those from biotech pfizer and medan. Straight to brussels that we find correspondent teri schultz welcome terry millions of people in the u. K. Have already received this vaccine why is the e. U. Been so slow. Thats right phil but despite all the pressure and the criticism that European Medicines Agency is not in the business of apologizing for taking whatever time it feels is necessary in a life or death issue like this so today in our briefing e. M. E. A. Officials said that the astra zeneca data was very complex and despite the fact that it was the 1st one that they started looking to ap
Catching even a little bit of sunshine later today. So, big changes ahead after a soaker of a storm with an Atmospheric River the last few days. The Atmospheric River well out of the area. You can see on hidef doppler lingering showers for us. You can see light shower activity over gilroy, 101 and up across the north bay from st. Helena and napa, vallejo and fairfield picking up light rain. Through the day, we are looking at partly sunny skies. So, a little sunshine. Highs in the low to mid50s this afternoon. As we time it out for you, taking you hour by hour, stopping the clock at lunchtime hour at noon, you can see sunshine through the day. Catching a bit of clearing as we head through the afternoon. We will talk about the weekend as we are tracking another weather system. I will show you the locations that have a better chance of wet weather coming up. Lets check in with gianna. Until it dries out you may be dealing with slick surfaces. There is flooding in some areas. The bay bridg
An assistant professor in Infectious Diseases at stanford and leads the johnsonen john vaccine study at stanford. Thank you, dr. Grant. Good afternoon. There are a few different ingut ther 72,66 . 85 . Break down whats what. Right, so the overall prevention against severe disease is in the mid80s, like you said. One other piece of information that you didnt say, so just in terms of what people know, its an virus vector single dose and these are comparing the efficacy of the please bo vespers the active drug. In the individuals with the active drug it prevented 72 of overall infections and prevented 88 of severe infections studywide. Another piece of information thats important, is after 28 days of the vaccine there was no people that had been given the real vaccine that ended up in the hospital or died. And substantially, you know, a fair number in the place bo arm. It was effective against preventing against severe disease. But not as effective of mild disease. You also mentioned the