Crowns a chubby parrot as bird of the year. Hello and welcome. We begin with more good news in the search for a covid vaccine. After Clinical Trials in the United States, the firm moderna says its vaccine is almost 95 effective. Its one of around 50 vaccines now being tested on people worldwide, and its success along with pfizers announced last week raises hopes that others could also be effective. However, the World Health Organization has warned that with cases surging in europe and the us, now is not the time to be complacent. Our medical editor fergus walsh reports. Another dose of hope and further evidence that vaccines will provide a way out of this pandemic. Thank you. Stunning early results from this trial, from Us Firm Moderna, have eclipsed the strong results just a week ago from pfizer biontech. I broke into an ear to ear grin when i heard the numbers. It really exceeded our best hopes, and it is an incredibly exciting moment for us as a company, and as a world, as we start
Light at the end of the tunnel the postponed Tokyo Olympics and paralympics will go ahead, according to the ioc. A british diplomat is hailed as a hero in china afterjumping into a river to save a woman from drowning. We begin with more good news in the search for a covid vaccine. After Clinical Trials in the United States, the firm moderna says its vaccine is almost 95 percent effective. Its one of around 50 vaccines now being tested on people worldwide, and its success, along with sziers announced last week, raises hopes that others could also be effective. However, the World Health Organisation has warned that with cases surging in europe and the us, now is not the time to be complacent. Our medical editor fergus walsh reports. Another dose of hope and further evidence that vaccines will provide a way out of this pandemic. Thank you. Stunning early results from this trial, from Us Firm Moderna, have eclipsed the strong ones just a week ago from pfizer biontech. I broke into an ear t
Hello im Christian Fraser in london, Laura Trevelyan is in washington. More than 1 million americans have been infected with covid 19 in the last week. The pandemic is out of control, the Trump Administration appears to have given up trying to control it, and there is a severe risk in the coming weeks that hospitals across the United States will be overwhelmed by the numbers. And yet today wall street was buoyant. The Financial Markets soared. And thats because we had news of another stunning breakthrough which could ultimately help control the pandemic. Moderna says its Coronavirus Vaccine is 94. 5 effective against covid 19. This follows news last monday that pfizers vaccine was ninety per cent effective. Modernas vaccine could be available before the end of the year though most of us wouldn;t get it until the spring. It cant come soon enough. The covid map here in america is flashing red. She has completed rem does a beer. The United States may be entering the most dangerous period
Thousands of people in nicaragua and honduras to evacuate their homes. Light at the end of the tunnel the postponed Tokyo Olympics and paralympics will go ahead according to the ioc. Welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. Everybody needs a bit of good news at the moment. We begin with more good news in the search for a covid vaccine. After Clinical Trials in the United States, the firm moderna says its vaccine is almost 95 effective. Its one of around 50 vaccines now being tested on people worldwide, and its success, along with sziers announced last week, raises hopes that others could also be effective. However, the World Health Organisation has warned that with cases surging in europe and the us, now is not the time to be complacent. Our medical editor fergus walsh reports. Another dose of hope and further evidence that vaccines will provide a way out of this pandemic. Thank you. Stunning early results from this trial, from Us Firm Moderna, have eclipsed the s