Merck asks FDA to authorize first pill to treat COVID in U.S.; Trump continues to peddle the big lie as GOP embraces him; U.S. delegation says talks with Taliban “candid and professional”;

The Lead with Jake Tapper

CNN

News

3.5 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 11 October 2021

⏱️ 40 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Merck: COVID pill cut risk of hospitalization & death by 50%; COVID cases & hospitalizations drop in U. S. as vaccinations rise; FDA vaccine advisers meet this week to discuss booster shots from Moderna, Johnson & Johnson; Dr. Fauci: “go out there” and enjoy Halloween; GOP candidate for governor in Texas: COVID vaccine is a “dangerous shot”; Pushes for more antibody treatments; Labor dept: heath care industry lost more than 500,000 employees since February 2020; Trump allies get subpoenaed, as committee threatens to pursue criminal charges for those who don’t comply; Capitol police whistleblower alleges leadership failures on Jan 6; No. 2 house republican dodges on whether 2020 election “stolen”; Cheney calls out Scalise for refusing to say Biden won election; Trump sends birthday video demanding “justice” for capitol rioter Ashli Babbitt over 1/6 death; Grassley embraces Trump’s support as former pres. spreads lies; Taliban preaches gentler approach; but violence, oppression are reality; CNN on the ground in Taliban controlled Afghanistan; Afghan says Taliban “were enjoying beating me”; FBI: couple tried to sell nuclear intel hidden in sandwich; Southwest cancels hundreds of flights for fourth straight day; Southwest blames air traffic control problems, staff shortages and weather for cancellations; Passengers stranded as Southwest cancels thousands of flights; To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Could this be a COVID game changer?
0:06.0	The lead starts right now.
0:08.3	A new phase of the pandemic, the FDA will soon consider a new pill to fight COVID-19, along
0:14.8	with more booster shots and vaccines for young kids.
0:19.1	Nuclear secrets hidden inside a peanut butter sandwich, the stunning details of how a Navy
0:24.7	engineer in his life, allegedly attempted to sell top secret information to a foreign
0:29.8	agent who turned out to be the FBI.
0:33.6	Plus, total meltdown, thousands of flights canceled in the past few days in a mystery
0:38.6	over exactly what is going on.
0:46.0	Welcome to the lead.
0:47.0	I'm Pamela Brown, in for Jake Tapper on this Monday.
0:49.0	We're going to start with the health lead.
0:51.1	And brand new and good is going on right now in this pandemic.
0:55.0	Today, the drug maker, Merck, asked the FDA for emergency authorization for what could
1:00.1	be the first pill to treat the virus, not a vaccine, not an infusion of antibodies.
1:05.4	This would be a capsule to treat adults who get sick.
1:08.5	Merck says this one is so promising the company stopped to study on it because the drug
1:12.6	was working so well.
1:14.6	And this new request comes as COVID cases keep ticking down.
1:18.4	As Ian and Nick Watt reports, that's an encouraging sign.
1:21.0	But as leading experts warned, it doesn't mean we're done with this pandemic.
1:26.4	The first pill to treat COVID-19 might be getting close.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from CNN, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of CNN and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.