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What A Day
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🗓️ 14 December 2020
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
The Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine was authorized by the FDA on Friday evening, and the first shipments went out on Sunday. Most state governments intend to follow CDC recommendations and give the first few batches to health care workers and nursing home residents and staff… members of the Trump White House might also get it early.
Today is the official electoral college vote, after which Biden and Harris will officially become the President-elect and Vice President-elect. Some Republicans may try to raise final objections when Congress counts the electoral votes in January, but… the end is near.
And in headlines: A judge orders the jail population in Orange County, California to be cut in half, pro-Trump protestors demonstrate and commit violence in D.C., and Russian hackers infiltrate the Treasury and Commerce Department.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Monday, December 14th. I'm Achilles Hughes. |
| 0:09.2 | And I'm Gideon Resseck and this is what a day where we are honoring the vaccine truck with |
| 0:13.0 | the prestigious WOD Car of the Year award. |
| 0:15.2 | Yeah, in both power, reliability, and carrying precious drugs, the FedEx truck with vaccines in it |
| 0:20.3 | was a cut above this year. Not a single other car was nominated or considered. |
| 0:24.2 | Well, get some vaccines in your car. Maybe they will be. |
| 0:34.8 | On today's show, the Electoral College makes its official vote for President Wonder, |
| 0:38.4 | who then some headlines? But first, the latest. |
| 0:41.7 | Many in the U.S. continued to voice skepticism. Recent polling shows between |
| 0:46.4 | one quarter and one third of Americans do not want to receive a shot. What kinds of problems |
| 0:53.2 | do those numbers present? |
| 0:56.6 | Martha, that is a significant problem. |
| 0:59.1 | If you think about how we get out of this pandemic, we have to continue our mitigation efforts. |
| 1:04.9 | Right now, that is so important, mask-ring, etc. |
| 1:07.6 | But the way we see light at the end of the tunnel, the way we get through this is to achieve |
| 1:11.3 | herd immunity. And that means we need to vaccinate a significant number of people in this country, |
| 1:17.4 | including those who are hesitant. |
| 1:19.1 | All right, that was FDA Commissioner Dr. Steven Hahn talking yesterday on ABC about some of that |
| 1:24.7 | skepticism that exists around the coronavirus vaccines and how to tackle it. He also pushed back |
| 1:29.2 | on President Trump claiming that the agency had intentionally slowed down the approval process. |
| 1:34.0 | Big ol' sigh. On that note, we have an authorized COVID vaccine in the U.S., |
| 1:38.8 | who, which is a huge milestone and one that we reached in less than a year, |
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