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Morning Joe

Morning Joe 8/24/21

Morning Joe

Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski, MS NOW, Willie Geist

Washington, Congress, Government, Politics, President, Scarboro, Election, Brezinski, Ms Now, News, Issues, Giest, Campaign

3.98.2K Ratings

🗓️ 24 August 2021

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

The Morning Joe panel discusses the latest details in the coronavirus, Afghanistan, U.S. and world news and politics.

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0:00.0

I get this, the new name of the fully approved Pfizer vaccine is comirnati.

0:06.0

Comirnati, which sounds more like a drunk person trying to say community.

0:12.0

You can't arrest me. I'm a valued member of the community.

0:17.0

The vaccine isn't the only thing keeping the FDA busy.

0:22.9

They recently had to tell people not to treat COVID with a drug that's given to animals with worms.

0:29.2

Meanwhile, the people taking it are like, laugh all you want, but I don't have COVID, and the worms are almost gone.

0:36.3

So, Willie, you missed yesterday's discussion of the house and horse and cow deworming medication?

0:43.6

I did.

0:44.8

It's a bad day when the FDA puts out a tweet like this that reads, quote, you are not a horse.

0:50.5

You are not a cow.

0:51.8

Seriously, y'all.

0:53.2

Stop it.

1:07.9

It is mystifying on many levels, Mika, when you think that there are many people in this country who will not take a now FDA-approved vaccine, but they will take a medication made for horses and cows to be dewormed in the fight against COVID.

1:13.6

And it's great material for comedians, but at the same time, my God.

1:17.5

A lot happened yesterday, though, in the fight against COVID.

1:22.0

The big development that I think a lot of people were waiting for yesterday,

1:30.6

the FDA granting full approval to Pfizer-Biontex two-doseose vaccine yesterday for people ages 16 and up. The first COVID-19 vaccine to pass this final regulatory hurdle. The approval was the fastest

1:38.9

in the agency's history coming less than four months after Pfizer filed for licensing.

1:46.3

And the FDA's announcement started a number of new vaccine mandates with more likely to come.

1:51.2

New York City now requiring all Department of Education employees to get at least one dose of the

1:56.5

COVID vaccine by the end of September. New York City's effort to fully reopen the country's largest

2:01.5

school district next month is expected to set a standard for many districts across the country.

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