Dr. Fauci on What the Vaccine News Means
Prognosis: Misconception
Bloomberg
4.1 • 838 Ratings
🗓️ 16 November 2020
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
It’s taken less than a year for scientists to develop what appears to be an effective vaccine against the coronavirus. Drugmaker Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech delivered dazzling preliminary results in a large patient trial this month, and just today Moderna announced that its vaccine also looks extremely effective. But creating a vaccine is only part of the challenge. Jason Gale spoke with top US infectious-disease doctor Anthony Fauci about another impediment to a successful vaccination strategy: people not wanting to take it.
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| 0:33.6 | Welcome to Prognosis. I'm Laura Carlson. It's day 247 since coronavirus was declared a global pandemic. |
| 0:43.0 | Today's main story? It looks like we are on the edge of having a truly effective coronavirus vaccine. |
| 0:50.1 | Or a few. We spoke with Dr. Anthony Fauci |
| 0:54.3 | about what that actually means |
| 0:56.3 | for putting the pandemic behind us. |
| 0:59.6 | But first, |
| 1:01.0 | here's what happened in virus news today. |
| 1:04.1 | Today. Moderna said its COVID-19 vaccine was 94.5% effective, according to early results from a large, |
| 1:23.5 | late-stage clinical trial. |
| 1:25.9 | It's another sign that a fast-paced hunt by scientists and |
| 1:29.4 | pharmaceutical companies is paying off. The highly positive readout comes just a week after a |
| 1:35.3 | similar shot, developed by Pfizer and Bio-Ntech, was found to be more than 90% effective in an |
| 1:41.9 | interim analysis. Both shots rely on a technology called messenger RNA that has |
| 1:47.8 | never before been used to build an approved vaccine. Soon, millions of people around the world could be |
| 1:55.7 | spared from illness by the breakthroughs. While the vaccine news is encouraging, |
| 2:01.8 | the World Health Organization remains guarded |
| 2:04.4 | about the potential for new tools |
| 2:06.5 | to start arriving in the coming months. |
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