It's Thursday, December 3rd. I'm Hila Hughes.

And I'm Gideon Resnick and this is what the day where we were asking all the remaining

monolists to end this charade and just tell us where you are.

Yeah, quite frankly you're not as compelling as Waldo.

Like we get it. You're a bunch of mirror things. Just show up.

Yeah. I don't need to pick you out.

Unlike Waldo, you're very easy to spot.

On today's show, start warnings about the holidays from the CDC and new quarantine guidelines,

then some headlines. But first the latest.

Today we can announce that the government has accepted the recommendation from the independent

medicines and health care products, regular tree agency to approve the Pfizer biotech vaccine

for distribution across the United Kingdom. After months of clinical trials involving

thousands of people to ensure that the vaccine meets the strictest internationally recognized

standards of safety, quality and effectiveness.

All right, that was British Prime Minister Boris Johnson announcing the country's emergency

authorization of Pfizer's coronavirus vaccine. This makes the UK the first Western country

to authorize a vaccine, a major step in starting to bring an end to this pandemic.

Russia and China have approved vaccines, but without waiting for the results from large-scale

trials. So how did this happen in the UK before the US?

Great question. And it seems to be something that was also on the mind of Trump's chief of

staff, Mark Meadows, who has been putting some pressure on American regulators of late to get

moving a familiar thing from this White House. But the basic gist of it, based on

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