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The Highwire with Del Bigtree

FACES OF COVID

The Highwire with Del Bigtree

The Highwire with Del Bigtree

News, Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.93.4K Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2020

⏱️ 134 minutes

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Summary

Battle of the NY Covid Bills; Mass Vaccination Stumbles Out of the Gate; Doctors, Nurses, Sheriff’s, Firemen, Share their Covid Truths; Honoring our own

Transcript

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0:00.0

Good morning, good afternoon, good evening.

0:05.0

Wherever you are out there in this world, it's time to step out onto the high wire.

0:20.0

Welcome everybody from around the world as we speak, as we sit here right now.

0:26.0

The FDA is mulling over the idea of whether to approve Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use authorization.

0:37.0

This is a committee called Verback, vaccine-related biologics products advisory committee that are looking at this.

0:45.0

So if anything, we are monitoring that as this show is going on, should a vote come out and approve that vaccine for the United States of America,

0:53.0

you'll be the first to know right here.

0:56.0

And I understand that tomorrow, ASIP, the advisory committee on immunization practices, that's the CDC's committee.

1:04.0

They have an emergency meeting to meet tomorrow on these issues.

1:07.0

So it's underway folks.

1:09.0

Here we go.

1:10.0

It's that exciting time.

1:11.0

The warp speed vaccine is about to land in the United States of America despite very short testing, small groups of people being looked at.

1:21.0

But there was some headlines that caught my attention this week.

1:24.0

And for some of us, it might have been really terrifying.

1:27.0

I have a little bit different perspective on it though, but let's take a look at these headlines that we're seeing this week.

1:33.0

Official badges could identify healthcare workers who are COVID vaccinated.

1:40.0

CDC to encourage vaccinated for COVID-19 buttons.

1:45.0

And then it said, if there are, I voted stickers, why not vaccinated for COVID-19 buttons?

1:51.0

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is planning to offer healthcare providers a template they can use to print buttons or stickers that would advertise a person's vaccination status.

2:01.0

Now I know this sort of smacks of Nazi Germany in some ways.

2:06.0

And we're all terrified of that idea of some form of a yellow star that we have to wear around.

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