New Study Suggests Pfizer Vaccine is Effective Against South African Variant

The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer and Pamela Brown

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🗓️ 18 February 2021

⏱️ 40 minutes

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President Biden seeks to clarify his stance on vaccinations for teachers and reopening schools after shifting messages. He also promises 600 million Covid vaccine doses by July. A source says the House will move on Biden’s stimulus package next week. Trump repeats the baseless claim that he won election during remarks about the death of Rush Limbaugh. A source said Mitch McConnell laughed at Trump’s attack on him, he has no plans to respond. A dangerous freeze grips the central U.S. as millions lose power. 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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0:42.0	I'm Will Flitzer in the
0:43.2	situation room we're following breaking news a new study just released suggesting
0:48.5	that the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine is repeat is effective against the South African variant of the
0:55.8	coronavirus. The news comes amid growing concern about multiple variants
1:00.5	which the CDC warrants could lead to a rapid rise in new COVID cases
1:05.7	here in the United States. Meanwhile on the heels of last night's CNN presidential
1:10.1	town hall in which President Biden tried to sell his COVID relief plan.
1:14.8	Mr Biden said a short time ago that Americans quote,
1:18.4	want everything in the 1.9 trillion dollar package.
1:22.1	At the same time, the White House is trying to clarify
1:24.9	some of the shifting messages of recent days,
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