COVID By The Numbers
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🗓️ 11 December 2020
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
The FDA’s advisory panel voted to approve emergency authorization of the Pfizer-BionNTech coronavirus vaccine. Once it’s authorized, which could be any day now, an initial shipment of about 6.4 million doses is expected to be sent across the country.
The state of the pandemic in the United States is extremely dire, with this week bringing a new record in single day fatalities, and a record number of people hospitalized across the country. One of the main sources of reliable data throughout the pandemic has been the Covid Tracking Project. We spoke to Alexis Madrigal, one of its co-founders, about the current numbers, how we measure where we’re at, and where we go from here.
Plus, we’re joined by writer and comedian Tien Tran for headlines: Amazon’s new invasive fitness tracker, MPD defunds the police, and a DMT study in England.
Show Links:
https://www.theatlantic.com/author/alexis-madrigal/
Listen to Tien Tran on Hysteria and find her on Instagram:
https://crooked.com/podcast-series/hysteria/
https://www.instagram.com/hanktina/?hl=en
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| 0:00.0 | It's Friday, December 11th. I'm Achille Hughes. |
| 0:09.1 | And I'm G'day and Russneck and this is what the day where we were requesting that Disney |
| 0:12.2 | Plus puts Jabba in all 10 of its new Star Wars shows. |
| 0:15.4 | Yeah, but I don't want to stop there. I want him also to be in all of the new Pixar features |
| 0:19.4 | and all of the basic shows on pretty much every other streaming platform. |
| 0:22.9 | Yeah, Jabba should be the main character and showrunner of everything on HBO Max. Anything |
| 0:28.8 | that I see that doesn't have Jabba in the next couple of years, I'm going to cry. |
| 0:39.1 | On today's show, a conversation with Alexis Madrigal who co-runs the COVID tracking project, |
| 0:43.6 | then some headlines. |
| 0:44.7 | But first, the latest. Yesterday, the FDA's vaccine advisory panel voted 17 to 4 to approve |
| 0:50.5 | emergency authorization of the Pfizer BioNTech coronavirus vaccine. It is a big, big step, |
| 0:56.0 | and means that the FDA is almost certainly going to authorize it imminently from there, |
| 0:59.7 | an initial shipment of about 6.4 million doses is expected to be sent out across the country. |
| 1:05.0 | Half will be the first doses and the other half will cover the second dose for the same |
| 1:08.8 | individuals three weeks later. The Pfizer trial will reportedly continue and there will be |
| 1:13.1 | more observations for safety concerns. Pfizer said that they plan to apply for full approval |
| 1:17.8 | in April after six months of safety data has been collected. At this point, emergency authorization |
| 1:23.0 | would clear the way for at-risk individuals like health care workers and nursing home residents |
| 1:27.3 | to begin getting shots. Also, next week, the FDA will review Moderna's vaccine data. |
| 1:32.5 | Yeah, I hope we go to for two. And this is coming as we face an increasingly drastic situation |
| 1:37.3 | in the United States. This week brought the new single-day record in COVID fatalities exceeding |
| 1:42.4 | 3,000 people. There is continuing growth in cases and hospital capacity is a major issue in many |
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