CDC tells states to get ready for vaccines as soon as late October

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🗓️ 3 September 2020

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The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has told states across the country to prepare for a possible Covid-19 vaccine as soon as late October. Robert Redfield, the Director of the CDC, says his agency is preparing for one or more coronavirus vaccines to be ready by the end of the year. Saskia Popescu is an Infectious Disease Epidemiologist and she tells AC360 this is “extremely concerning” and “very premature.” Plus, President Trump claimed there was a flight to Washington that was “almost completely loaded with thugs wearing these dark uniforms” set on causing destruction in the streets during the Republican National Convention. Attorney General William Barr said authorities were tracking people who had flown from city to city to stir up violence but said Trump was speaking “in general terms.” Democratic Congressman Ted Lieu is one of two House Democrats who sent a letter to FBI Director Chris Wray asking if the FBI has been tasked with investigating the theory. He joins AC360 and says Barr was once again “making stuff up” because the President was very specific about the details. Airdate: September 2, 2020 Guests: Saskia Popescu Rep. Ted Lieu 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	So, the president traveled to Kenosha, a city torn over the police shooting of a black
0:05.0	man and never once mentioned that man, Jacob Blake by name.
0:09.1	The president travels around America, a nation torn by a pandemic and lately never mentions
0:14.0	it at all.
0:15.2	For the president, it's like the Voldemort of Malathe, the pandemic that shall not be
0:19.1	named.
0:20.1	John Berman here in Ferranderson, and there is breaking news tonight on just that front,
0:24.6	a major new sign of how soon a vaccine might become available.
0:28.4	This could, on the one hand, be a seriously hopeful development, but given the president's
0:32.4	track record on the virus, there's also reason to wonder if the timing of a vaccine rollout
0:37.1	might have more to do with electoral politics than sound public health.
0:41.4	Late new details on that at just a moment.
0:43.5	First though, the president's effort, as in Kenosha, to talk about anything but the
0:47.8	matter at hand.
0:49.2	More than 185,000 lives lost to the pandemic, the one that shall not be named.
0:54.6	The case count is at best plateauing at a shockingly high level and at worst, it is spiking
0:59.6	it yet another new region.
1:01.4	This time the Midwest.
1:02.6	Here's the governor of Iowa, one of the president's stauncher supporters, by the way, doing what
1:07.1	the president apparently cannot.
1:11.1	As you may have seen in the news headlines in recent days, Iowa had had the highest
1:16.3	rate of increase in COVID-19 cases nationally last week and the fifth highest positivity rate
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