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Anderson Cooper 360

CDC: Healthcare workers and long term care facility residents should get vaccines first

Anderson Cooper 360

CNN

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3.73.8K Ratings

🗓️ 2 December 2020

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Vaccine advisers to the Center for Disease Control voted that healthcare workers and residents in long term care facilities should be first in line to get any Covid-19 vaccines. Both Moderna and Pfizer have applied for emergency authorization from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. The FDA is set to meet with its advisory board committee in the coming weeks to review both applications. Dr. William Schaffner is a professor at the Division of Infectious Diseases at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and serves as an advisor to the CDC. He joins AC360 to explain how the CDC determined who should get the Covid-19 vaccines first. Plus, the New York Times is reporting Pres. Trump has discussed pardons for his three eldest children, his personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani and his son-in-law Jared Kushner. Also, a source tells CNN that Giuliani and other Trump associates are seeking preemptive pardons for “blanket” protection. John Dean is the former Nixon White House Counsel. He tells Anderson Cooper he thinks it might be a trial balloon to gauge reaction but he’d be more surprised if it doesn’t happen.   Airdate: December 1, 2020   Guests: Dr. William Schaffner John Dean To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Good evening, two stories.

0:02.7

Dominate the news tonight.

0:04.1

One concerns something that exists and thank goodness forward at least two effective

0:07.6

vaccines against coronavirus.

0:09.5

Federal officials met today to work out who gets vaccinated first and all the other important

0:13.6

details surrounding their early deployment.

0:15.4

And we'll have more on that tonight.

0:17.7

We begin though with tonight's other big story, which is all about something that does

0:21.2

not exist and the con game surrounding it.

0:24.0

Now, you might think that the president of the United States ought to be concerned that

0:26.8

more than 270,000 Americans have now died in his watch and the deaths are now running

0:31.0

at a rate of one every minute.

0:33.5

You might think that that should be any president's greatest concern right now.

0:38.0

Instead, the man who still occupies the White House is focused on what is, I'm sad to say,

0:42.0

a con game over the election he lost.

0:45.2

How is it a con game?

0:46.8

Well, the president is peddling an idea that is not true to people who want it to be true.

0:52.2

In exchange, he's taking their money, about $170 million so far, which is small-dollar

0:57.6

donors or nerdy folks are being led to believe is going toward legal expenses related to

1:01.8

the election.

1:03.2

It's largely not.

1:04.8

That is the definition of what a confidence game is.

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