Fauci Predicts Widespread Vaccine Availability By April. Are Americans Ready?
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🗓️ 2 December 2020
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While the vaccine is months away for most, health care personnel and residents of long-term care facilities will be able to receive the first doses when they become available, a committee from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended this week. NPR's Pien Huang has reported on that decision and others by the Advisory Committee for Immunization Practices.
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| 0:00.0 | It's time for Americans to get ready to be vaccinated. |
| 0:04.2 | I want to encourage Americans to get prepared and to get educated now. |
| 0:08.2 | At a briefing on Wednesday for Operation Warp Speed, |
| 0:11.2 | the government's vaccine development program, |
| 0:13.3 | Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar said people should get online |
| 0:18.1 | and do their research now. |
| 0:20.4 | Visit the CDC's website to find out more about the vaccines we're developing |
| 0:25.1 | and the process they've gone through. |
| 0:26.6 | With the FDA weighing emergency approval for two vaccines, |
| 0:30.4 | Azar isn't the only government official telling people to get ready. |
| 0:34.0 | By the time we get to April, the normal healthy young man or woman 30 years old |
| 0:40.8 | who's got no underlying conditions can walk in to a CVS or to a wall green |
| 0:46.1 | and get vaccinated. |
| 0:47.6 | Dr. Anthony Fauci said in an interview with Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg this week, |
| 0:52.1 | anyone who wants to should be able to get a shot by April. |
| 0:56.0 | The challenge is convincing people not to put it off. |
| 0:59.6 | If they want to wait a month or so, that's okay, |
| 1:02.6 | but I don't want them to wait six to eight to nine months. |
| 1:06.1 | A return to normal life, Fauci said, |
| 1:08.6 | depends on at least 75% of the population getting vaccinated. |
| 1:13.6 | So if you want to be part of the solution, |
| 1:16.7 | get vaccinated and say, |
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