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Drugmakers Face Ongoing Vaccine Hesitancy

WSJ What’s News

The Wall Street Journal

News, Daily News

4.14.2K Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2023

⏱️ 19 minutes

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P.M. Edition for May 31. The FDA approves Pfizer’s vaccine for RSV, a deadly respiratory virus. But as Wall Street Journal health business editor Jonathan Rockoff reports, companies are preparing to introduce the shots after resistance to vaccination reached new highs during the pandemic. Annmarie Fertoli hosts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:19.6

The FDA approves a new vaccine for the deadly virus RSV, but will people opt in?

0:24.8

Pfizer, GSK, and other companies that are developing vaccines for RSV and for

0:29.8

other infectious diseases are going to be rolling out these vaccines, facing headwinds of

0:35.6

hesitancy and resistance. And how a group of conservative women known as moms for liberty could

0:41.2

play a big role in the GOP presidential primary. It's just really blown up and Republican

0:46.6

candidates for president are starting to tap these women to ask them basically what they think

0:52.6

the education platform should be. They're setting up meetings with these moms, they're seeking

0:58.0

them out to have them at their events. Plus, the full house prepares to vote on the debt ceiling

1:02.7

deal. It's Wednesday, May 31st. I'm Ann Marie for Tolly for the Wall Street Journal. This is the PM

1:08.0

edition of What's News, the top headlines and business stories that moved the world today.

1:20.7

The house is expected to vote as soon as tonight on a deal to raise the nation's debt

1:24.5

ceiling for two years and exchange for cuts to government spending. The bipartisan deal

1:29.0

brokered by President Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is expected to pass despite opposition

1:34.1

from some conservative Republicans. If approved, the legislation will move to the Senate, where lawmakers

1:39.5

have said they'll move quickly to approve it as the U.S. runs up against a June 5th deadline.

1:44.4

That's when Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has said the government could run out of money to

1:48.3

pay its bills on time unless Congress acts to raise the nation's borrowing limit.

1:53.0

The 2024 field of GOP presidential candidates is growing. Aides to former New Jersey Governor Chris

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