Day. Ktvus Jana Katsuyama is here with the pfizer results in the race to get vaccines to people. Reporter one interesting point is pfizer says their data showed basically the vaccine was 94 effective with older adults and had no serious side effects. Now the fda has an Advisory Panel on standby to review and publicly debate the data in early december. As president elect joe biden held a briefing with healthcare workers wednesday, the nations ninemonth battle with the coronavirus show the emotional toll. One nurse tearing up along with the president elect. The hardship and heartbreak on the front lines, now seeing some hope. On wednesday pfizer announced new test results from their vaccine candidate shows a 95 efficacy rate overall, despite the rest timeline. The nations top Infectious Disease expert said in a call this week that he is confident the vaccines will be safe. The data then goes to the fda , to career scientists who have no political obligation to anyone. Then they go to an
Close at the open. The road map begins with that renewed vaccine optimism and detailing their own strong data. Plus as for the market, the u. S. Stocks poised for new records and the futures are and investor optimism about that vaccine and dow is within striking distance of 30,000. We have a lot of deals this morning. Pnc looking to become one of americas largest banks and set to buy spanish bank and 11. 6 billion the Purchase Price and other deals to tell you about this morning carl lets start with the moderna news excellent news for the second week in a row. Dr. Fauci on some of the networks earlier today saying the data are striking and the results are just as good as it gets i really think we have to go back just a couple months and recognize that even if we had any hope that there would be a successful vaccine maybe 70 , 80 . 50 to 60 for the flu is something we learned moderna Insider Selling was bad and turns out the Insider Selling was bad meaning they sold badly i do think wha
Epidemiologist, joining us now, to answer these questions. Thank you for being here. Other states and countries have issued curfews, but how effective are they, or is this more of a wakeup call so that people get it and take the spread seriously . In europe, at least in some places they have been quite successful. The french have turned the curve over, it started to come down, pretty precipitously, after they invoked a curfew. In europe, a lot of this has to do with closing bars. Which as you can imagine, are centers of social interaction. But i think that is, those are pretty much closed anyway, it does put time frames are on things, and gives a break at least four most of the evening, and the early morning. The other thing it doesnt do is it doesnt just close everything down period, which is a good way and more layered in that sense. Californias Positivity Rate is up 52 , hospitalization 63 percent, and what do the numbers tell you about the spread in peoples behavior . The spread in
California going under curfew. The new order comes exactly a week out from thanksgiving. There to hold all nonessential activities from 10 pm to five p. M. That is every county except San Francisco and marin. The order be in effect for at least a month maybe even longer. So, what exactly is the plan to enforce this . We are in livermore with that part of the story tonight. Restaurants will have to close up shop by 10 00 bm come saturday night. Health Officials Say covered cases are on the rise. In fact, they say covid can go from zero to 60 rapidly. They need these Health Measures in place. There is no single culprit. It is a combination of factors. It is certainly the colder weather, more mixing which comes with more opening. Reporter state and Public Health officials are issuing the curfew until 10 00 p. M. Until 5 00 a. M. In the looked here. It goes into effect saturday and expected to last one month. Essential workers are exempt. I dont approve of it, but if it is going to happen,
Goals when live across and broke horns with glass well see who came out on top. And all i was like oh welcome to the program u. S. President elect joe biden has picked 2 prominent physicians to lead his Coronavirus Task force is made to tackling the pandemic his top priority when he takes office on january 20th and hes already putting together a team to come up with a strategy biden started his day fresh from his election victory speech by going to mass at the caf Catholic Church in his hometown well minton delaware thats where his son is buried biden also says tackling Climate Change and bridging the u. S. Political divide are key goals of his administration. President donald trump returned to the gulf coast where he was playing when u. S. Networks declared biden election winner on saturday beforehand he was he fired off a new round of tweets alleging Election Fraud so far he has produced no substantial evidence to support the allegation. Now lets bring in our washington correspondent