Defending the Vote; Moderna’s 90%; The Crypto Revolution

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4 • 494 Ratings

🗓️ 14 April 2021

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Just two weeks after a group of Black business executives co-wrote a letter urging the rest of corporate America to oppose Georgia’s voting legislation, a much larger group has penned a similar statement defending voting rights. Among the signatories: Warren Buffett, Amazon, Google, BlackRock, and hundreds of others. Now in the limelight: members of the business community who chose not to sign. While the CDC and FDA look into concerns about risks potentially associated with the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, Moderna has revealed its Covid vaccine to be over 90% effective, six months after the second dose. Moderna CEO Stephane Bancel shares more of the company’s data, as well as details of the industry’s vaccination safety system. Plus, crypto’s day has come; in a massive and massively anticipated direct listing, Coinbase has debuted on the public markets. Longtime crypto investor and Bitcoin bull Michael Novogratz explains why Coinbase is just the beginning of a revolution.

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0:00.0	This is a squawk pod. I'm C. NBC producer Katie Kramer today on our podcast.
0:07.0	Another letter to legislators from the C suite on voting laws in America.
0:11.0	This is a very thorny line to tow
0:14.8	for corporate America, so interesting to see
0:17.3	who signed, who didn't, who's still speaking out,
0:20.0	and is that going to be enough?
0:21.2	Just two weeks after black executives vocally
0:23.6	opposed Georgia's voting law,
0:25.4	a larger cohort is speaking up.
0:27.4	If the ideas that we're going to export a democracy,
0:29.9	if the ideas that our democracy matters more than anything else and that's what should be a
0:35.1	shiny beacon of the rest of the world, it's actually important that American companies speak
0:39.1	up and say so.
0:40.8	Moderna's COVID vaccine more than 90% effective six months after the second shot,
0:45.3	vaccine pipeline and safety with CEO Stefan Bonsel.
0:48.7	We look at the data of 64.5 million doses that have been administered to people around the world and
0:55.5	we have not seen any data suggesting any association with blood cloting or
1:00.0	trombotic events.
1:02.0	Plus, crypto's day has come. Coinbase is set for Trump This is a really important day for the whole crypto world, right?
1:12.6	This is a say, this is an asset class, and it's an asset class that's here to stay.
1:16.5	Coinbased isn't a FinTech company, right? It's a crypto ecosystem company.
1:20.7	It's Wednesday, April 14, 2021.
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