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Dr. Sam Waksal; Searching for Antibodies; A-Rod Goes “All In’ to Fight Hunger

Squawk Pod

CNBC

Business News, News, Investing, Business

4.2543 Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2020

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Immunologist and former CEO of pharmaceuticals company ImClone Systems Dr. Sam Waksal explains the science that he believes will carry us through the coronavirus crisis. Scientists are looking to Covid-19 survivors for antibodies as they race to develop a vaccine, and testing kits may be easiest to find among the wealthy on Florida’s Fisher Island. Plus, Fanatics CEO Michael Rubin and Alex Rodriguez discuss the #AllInChallenge, encouraging celebrities to donate experiences and one-of-a-kind items to raise money for organizations addressing food insecurity during the pandemic.

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0:00.0

This is Guacke Pod. I'm CIMDC producer Katie Kramer. Today on our

0:04.9

podcast Finding Our Way Out of coronavirus by what's in our immune systems.

0:10.0

Dr. Sam Waxle, founder of Imclone and of Kedmon Pharmaceuticals, joins us.

0:14.1

The only way we get people back to work is to know whether or not they're immune or whether or not we can take the risk.

0:21.6

And the billionaire CEO of Fanatics, a sports merchandise company,

0:25.2

has challenged A-Listers everywhere to go all in

0:28.4

and support Americans hard hit by the pandemic.

0:31.2

It's the responsibility of the leaders in sports, entertainment, business

0:36.5

to really step up and figure out how to make a big difference.

0:39.7

Those stories and more, the airlines bailout and a wealthy island in Florida testing

0:44.2

for COVID antibodies. I don't know if you heard that line once you've seen one

0:47.4

pandemic you've seen one pandemic. It's Wednesday April 15th 2020

0:52.1

Squawk Pot begins right now.

0:55.1

Good morning, everybody.

0:56.2

I'm Becky Quick, along with Joe Kerner

0:57.8

and Andrew Ross Sorkin.

0:59.2

We've been watching the futures,

1:01.0

first stop on today's podcast, the latest coronavirus numbers. The number of

1:04.9

confirmed cases in the US is now over 600,000. With confirmed cases in New York

1:09.8

state topping 200,000 more than any foreign country. In New York City alone there was a

1:15.3

sharp rise in the death toll this week after health officials started to include people

1:19.4

who had never tested positive

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