Fauci: “All things considered, we’re not in a good place”

Anderson Cooper 360

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🗓️ 1 December 2020

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Covid-19 cases are at record-breaking levels and with a possible surge in the U.S. before Christmas, White House Coronavirus Task Force member Dr. Anthony Fauci says “all things considered, we’re not in a good place.” Moderna and Pfizer have both officially filed for FDA emergency authorization for its coronavirus vaccines and U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar says “we could be seeing both of these vaccines out and getting into people’s arms before Christmas.” William Haseltine is the Chair and President of ACCESS Health International. He tells AC360 the vaccine news is promising but there are still a lot of unanswered questions. Plus, President Trump said he’ll be coming to the Georgia to campaign for Republican Senators Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue, who face two Senate runoff elections in January. Senator Perdue’s opponent, Jon Ossoff, joins AC360 to react to the President’s visit and says Perdue is griping about Trump in private but in public he’s “indulging the President’s fantasy that he actually won.” Airdate: November 30, 2020 Guests: William Haseltine Jon Ossoff To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	It was the first time I allowed myself to cry.
0:04.8	John Burman here in Ferranderson, that's the chief medical officer of Moderna describing
0:08.9	his reaction to extremely positive data on his company's new COVID vaccine.
0:14.1	Moderna is now seeking emergency use authorization for it, joining Pfizer, which has a similarly
0:19.1	effective vaccine.
0:20.8	This is remarkably hopeful news, and it was followed by a dose of breaking news.
0:26.1	The departure of the only doctor the president seemed to embrace on his task force.
0:30.3	Dr. Scott Atlas, the one who doubted masks and had no infectious disease qualifications
0:35.2	for the job, stepping down.
0:37.8	More at a moment on how the task force is taking the news.
0:40.9	Both items that in the vaccine coming at the beginning of what could be the darkest days
0:44.9	yet for the country.
0:46.4	A record number of Americans in the hospital, nearly 95,000, and Wisconsin, nearly one in
0:52.6	four of them are in ICU's.
0:54.7	In Rhode Island, there are simply no beds left, and alert went out to cell phones that hospitals
0:59.1	are at capacity.
1:00.1	They've been setting up field hospitals there.
1:02.8	The country is averaging close to 160,000 cases a day, and we haven't even begun to feel
1:08.1	the effect of holiday travel and get-togethers.
1:12.1	We may see a surge upon a surge.
1:13.9	You know, we don't want to frighten people, but that's just the reality.
1:17.6	We said that these things would happen as we got into the cold weather and as we began
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