current of arts. 95 percent vaccine effectiveness what does that mean the other 5 percent of recipients pashley protected or not protected at all i agree that this statistic can be confusing so let's look for a minute at exactly how pfizer and by on tech arrived at it based on their data the companies and rolled over 40000 subjects in what's called a double blinded trial which means neither the participants nor the vaccine administrators knew who was getting the vaccine and who was getting a placebo subjects' had a 5050 chance of getting one or the other they were of various ages from various countries and they were racially and ethnically diverse after administration it was a waiting game the trial coordinators basically had to wait for participants to begin getting sick when statistically relevant numbers of people got ill the results were evaluated the coordinators looked to see how many people got sick in each of the 2 groups when the initial results from the trial were published it reported 170 symptomatic cases of covert 19 among all trial participants and 162 of them were in the placebo

of arts. 95 percent vaccine effectiveness what does that mean on the other 5 percent of recipients pashley protected or not protected at all i agree that this statistic can be confusing so let's look for a minute at exactly how pfizer and by on tech arrived at it based on their data the companies and rolled over 40000 subjects in what's called a double blinded trial which means neither the participants nor the vaccine administrators knew who was getting the vaccine and who was getting a placebo subjects had a 5050 chance of getting one or the other they were of various ages from various countries and they were racially and ethnically diverse after administration it was a waiting game the trial coordinators basically had to wait for participants to begin getting sick when statistically relevant numbers of people got all the results were evaluated coordinators looked to see how many people got sick in each of the 2 groups when the initial results from the trial were published it reported 170 symptomatic cases of covert 19 among all trial participants and 162 of them were in the placebo group

coronavirus. 95 percent vaccine effectiveness what does that mean the other 5 percent of recipients pashley protected or not protected at all i agree that this statistic can be confusing so let's look for a minute at exactly how pfizer and by on tech arrived at it based on their data the companies and rolled over 40000 subjects and what's called a double blinded trial which means neither the participants nor the vaccine administrators knew who was getting the vaccine and who was getting a placebo subjects' had a 5050 chance of getting one or the other they were of various ages from various countries and they were racially and ethnically diverse after administration it was a waiting game the trial coordinators basically had to wait for participants to begin getting sick when statistically relevant numbers of people got ill the results were evaluated coordinators looked to see how many people got sick in each of the 2 groups when the initial results from the trial were published it reported 170 symptomatic cases of covert 19 among all trial participants and 162 of them were in the placebo gro

coronavirus. 95 percent vaccine effectiveness what does that mean the other 5 percent off recipients pashleyprotect it or not protect it at all i agree that this statistic can be confusing so let's look for a minute at exactly how pfizer and by on tech arrived at it based on their data the companies and rolled over $40000.00 subjects in what's called a double blinded trial which means neither the participants nor the vaccine administrators knew who was getting the vaccine and who was getting a placebo subjects had a 5050 chance of getting one or the other they were of various ages from various countries and they were racially and ethnically diverse after administration it was a waiting game the trial coordinators basically had to wait for participants to begin getting sick when statistically relevant numbers of people got ill the results were evaluated the coordinators looked to see how many people got sick in each of the 2 groups when the initial results from the trial were published it reported 170 symptomatic cases of covert 19 among all trial participants and 162 of them were in the plac

pashley e when you've got a new variant which is releasing lots and lots and lots of virus particles so that it is easier to get infected bite but out of the u.k. figures the 4 countries of the united kingdom of a much worse international examples or isn't it the case that just about everyone is struggling to contain this virus well unfortunately if we compare like for like with our european counterparts similar countries similar populations similar age structures then unfortunately the u.k. numbers are very high and there are very high because leading up to christmas period december onwards we had all that traditional thing that we do which is go around buying presents go around interacting on buses trains and you agree we are paying the price for it. so are you saying that the heavy death toll was seeing no over 80000 deaths in the countries of the united kingdom is a direct result of the easing of the lot though before christmas unfortunately it has a bearing on it of course unfortunately it's source silent because on the one hand we've got a variant from which it is easy to get i

coronavirus. 95 percent vaccine effectiveness what does that mean on the other 5 percent off recipients pashley protected or not protected at all i agree that this statistic can be confusing so let's look for a minute at exactly how pfizer and by on tech arrived at it based on their data the companies and rolled over 40000 subjects in what's called a double blinded trial which means neither the participants nor the vaccine administrators knew who was getting the vaccine and who was getting a placebo subjects' had a 5050 chance of getting one or the other they were of various ages from various countries and they were racially and ethnically diverse after administration it was a waiting game the trial coordinators basically had to wait for participants to begin getting sick when statistically relevant numbers of people got ill the results were evaluated coordinators looked to see how many people got sick and each of the 2 groups when the initial results from the trial were published it reported 170 symptomatic cases of covert 19 among all trial participants and 162 of them were in the placebo gro

war the internet is pashley back on the internet has been restored but social media social media platforms have not been restored yet people are bypassing that block using the virtual private networks of the p.-n. now our social media was blocked was a fast to be blocked on tuesday and this was after facebook suspended dozens of accounts of individuals connected to the ruling party and the information ministry this upset very much government officials including presidential where it was 70 who said that uganda is a sovereign country no one should interfere in its affairs then on wednesday there was a complete internet shutdown a security official saying that this is to avoid incite inciting messages being spread to the public to cause chaos particularly after the resolves so people are happy that the internet is back on but they're wondering when will social media platforms which they rely on very much like in what stopping people talk to their families using whatsapp and so on when will that be fully restored catherine thank you very much catherine for the reporting live from kampala let'