A motorcade ride that many say breaks the code that 19 protocols and britain struggle to coltan influx of migrants crossing over from france is putting pressure on the government which promised to take back control of the borders after breakfast and. Im sara kelly welcome to the program the 2020 nobel prizes kicked off a short while ago with the naming of the winners in the fields of physiology or medicine this year it is a trio of. Harvey j. Alter Michael Hotel and charles am rice the panel at the institute in stockholm awarded them the prestigious prize for their discovery of the hepatitis c. Virus the medicine prize carries a tickler sick. If it can see this year with the corona virus pandemic highlighting the importance of medical research for societies and economies around the world and well have more on this in just a moment with our colleague Derek Williams from d. W. Science but 1st lets take a look at a situation in the United States there are mixed messages coming from washin
Diagnostics to detect it thats one reason why theyre receiving the prize because another is that youre not going to also going to be able to go on and develop antivirals to help to help treat people so the 1st fundamental Building Block that you have to have is what are we dealing with lets identify it this is what it is and thats what they did and its really interesting that theyre being awarded this in a year where we are having a Global Pandemic and these are theyre all exists arent they they are and i think that even though the nomination process closed out and in january and weve seen weve seen a shuji amount of interest and research into into viruses and and sars cove to and weve learned a lot about things like very fundamental science things like about the immune system all of that research is still very fresh so i think you going to see a whole crop of sort of coated 19. Nobel prizes 5 or 10 years down the road but i think that given them giving this prize right now for vibes.
Halt an influx of migrants crossing over from france it is putting pressure on the government which promised to take back control of the borders after breakfast. Im sorry kelly welcome to the program the 2020 nobel prize kicked off a short while ago with the naming of the winners in the field of physiology or medicine this year it is a trio of virologists harvey j. Altera Michael Houghton and charles and rice the panel at the institute in stockholm awarded them the prestigious prize for their discovery of the hepatitis c. Virus the medicine prize carries a particular significance this year with the corona virus pens and make highlighting the importance of medical research for societies and economies around the world. So lets get more with 5 correspondent Eric Williams who is here with us in the studio so tell us more about the winners and whether you were surprised with this choice well to be honest im almost always surprised i mean ive been doing this for a lot of years and there are
Think the timing is good bad example hes recovering and getting through well i dont think i have too much of an impact on the election. With the election just one month away trumps camp is struggling to push his campaign forward pulls show that joe bidens lead in the president ial race has grown since last weeks debate under quarantine the president cant hold rallies to fire up his base and his Coronavirus Diagnosis has made it even harder to divert attention from his much criticized handling of the pandemic. And lets get more now we are joined by president of the German Interdisciplinary Association of Critical Care and emergency medicine welcome to the program and thank you for joining us there are reports that we have heard that the president s oxygen levels dropped twice what does that tell you about his condition. Yes from the far distance and only tells that the capacity of the president s law was perhaps affected by the virus disease public at 90 and it could also tell. He will
To truly process whats going on and at the same time because of the pen demick we have millions of americans voting early voting by mail right now as we speak as the just the factors around them the variables around them keep shifting the outcome for the election is anybodys guess and anybody is a fool to say they know what it might be but the unpredictable come back to you is trump showing any symptoms do we know. We have not heard and it is far too early to speculate on that we do know what his doctor a said which as you said hes feeling well and he is going to continue to push forward with his president ial duties however this is definitely going to change the shape of as william mentioned the election the president and the 1st lady have to quarantine for 14 days in 13 days we are supposed to have the 2nd president ial debate between donald trump and joe biden there were already some jokes and not jokes circulating after the debacle that was the 1st debate whether it should be cance