Trade. Meanwhile joe biden pushes ahead with the set transition and makes plans to fill critical posts donald trump has so far refused to could see the race. Im sure welcome to the program we begin with breaking News Pharmaceuticals giant pfizer house announced that its im the Coronavirus Vaccine developed in partnership with a German Company build tech is 90 percent effective the 2 companies are the 1st to show successful data from a large scale trial of such a vaccine pfizer. Found no serious safety concerns and expect to see calls for emergency use in the United States this month the number of covered 90 infections has now exceeded 50000000 worldwide according to a Johns Hopkins university in the u. S. So lets explore this with to be a support whos an epidemiologist a retired hospital welcome to you how significant do you feel this news is. Well i think this is a significant step and we know that several companies are working on back scenes and so were hoping to hear this news. Soon and so today we heard the news however we have to understand this is an interim analysis otis is not the end of the trial the discount is still ongoing and its a press release so we have not seen the data in detail but we have very. Positive that this data hold true and that a lot of people who are vaccinated are protected from getting corona so are you able to see from the details that have been released so far to see what hes 90 percent effective at doing and for how long. As far as i understand they were too lax in nations and necessary and after these 2 vaccinations a certain number of people still got 6 or 90 percent doesnt mean that everyone is protected but from the people who are participating in the trial 90 percent did not get it after 2 vaccinations but again this is an interim analysis and more data coming in right field results are saying these are results from trials so what now has to happen successfully before any vaccine can be rolled out well we need to wait until the closure of the trial we also need to follow very say a very carefully the Safety Information which you already mentioned so far there do not seem to be concerns about safety and then we have to see when the effects and is ruled out that we follow people who have been vaccinated to really see whether in