Astrazeneca is to resume vaccine trials. Virus numbers rise but travelers defy warnings to stay home. Imports of u. S. Goods closed slowed last month. David amidst all of that and a overnighthat markets we are getting futures coming online in about 60 minutes. Been a veryt has good past two weeks for global equities. The nikkei 225 flirting with 27,000. Kiwi dollar has been standing on the platform. They are not getting a lot of action. It has been about a weak dollar. About vaccineing reflation trade. Astrazeneca will run another global trial. Amid questions about the program and the level of protection. Initial test claims varying degrees of efficacy, sometimes as high as 90 . Our Deputy Managing Editor has the story. We have been asking a lot of the experts whether they can explain the gap between efficacy depending on the number of doses. No one has managed to come up with much of a thesis. Is that why there saying more trials are needed . Is that why they are saying more trials ar
Thank you for your time today. I like your happy thanksgiving. Happy early thanksgiving. If you have a question the doctor, go to Facebook Live and well try to get them answers. Doctor, the tsa has screened five million travellers since friday. How nervous does that make you, given what were facing right now . It makes me very nervous, kristen, because we know that in previous holidays, even in the united states, memorial day, etc. , it was accompanied by a predictable increase in cases in two weeks. Not only cases but concerningly high hospitalizations. You hook at what happened in thanksgiving in canada, i think the writing is in the wall. Well see increased numbers in two weeks, even above our current surge. Lets try to do our part and one piece of that is having smaller gatherings. Dr. Fauci was asked whether the risk from small gatherings has been exaggerated . What does the data show . Can we do a small gathering without a surge . I think what the contact data tracing shows is it
Steadfast dedication and loyalty. He went on to say she has been harassed and threatens and threatened and he does not want this for her or anyone at gsa. He won on to say our case strongly continues wanting to keep up the good fight and believing he will prevail, nevertheless that he is recommending emily and her team do what needs to be done, with regard to initial protocols, and that he has told his team to do the same. Joe bidens Transition Team welcome to the move. In a statement his team says, todays decision is a needed step to begin challenging tackling challenges facing our nation. Campaign officials will be with federal officials to discuss the campaign sponsor and our National Security interest and gain complete understanding of the trump administrations efforts to hollow out government agencies. We have two correspondents covering the story. One in wilmington and another in washington, d. C. Remind our viewers how significant this all is . It is significant because what we
The announcement. Unprecedented that there should be a rich abundance of approaches, all of which rich abundance of approaches, all of which are rich abundance of approaches, all of which are essential. And new data shows another covid 19 vaccine developed in the us that may only require a single dose is 66 effective. In other news, primary schools in wales could re open to all pupils after half term though the nationwide lockdown will continue. And thousands of volunteers helping the nhs with the Vaccine Roll Out will be prioritised for a jab. Hello, and a very good afternoon. The European Medicines Agency is expected to approve the Oxford Astrazeneca Covid Vaccine for use in the eu this afternoon. The uk has been using the Astrazeneca Jab in its Mass Immunisation Programme for weeks now. Meanwhile, the European Commission has published a redacted version of its contract with the pharmaceutical giant in a continuing row about supplies of the vaccine. A contract was signed in august fo
Businessweek is really taking everyone by storm. Tom they mentioned all the right schools as well. I think it is true probably in every urban area, but after real estate it is the focus of new york city, what to do with the cherubs in not only the private schools, but i would also mention the stateoftheart anything,ools are, if even more competitive. The schools with a heritage up in boston, boston latin. They are just as hard to get into as the other fancy schools. Do spend a lot of time thinking about education for our kids, and these fouryearolds actually have to do tutoring, but also applications and interviews to get into these kindergartens. I find that fascinating. We will talk about Central Banks much more. Thats get to bloomberg first word news with ritika gupta. Ritika President Trump has fired a Homeland Security official who contradicted his unfounded claims about election fraud. Christopher krebs is a former Microsoft Official who the president named to a top security job.