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The Lead with Jake Tapper
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🗓️ 8 September 2020
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Fauci acknowledges skepticism around vaccine: “We’ve got to regain the trust of the community”; 16 of the largest U.S. school districts start today, 14 online; Biontech CEO: Could submit vaccine to FDA by mid-Oct.; More than 37,000 cases reported at U.S. colleges; Trump on whether he’d fund campaign: “If I have to, I would”; NYT: Trump Campaign war chest “dwindling”; Trump to expand oil drilling moratorium for Florida; Rose Garden under repair less than three weeks after renovation; Trump. Biden zero in on battleground states as race heats up; Source: Biden to focus on economy, COVID-19 in Michigan; NBC/Marist Poll: Trump has 50% support among Florida Latino voters, Biden sees 46% support; Biden new ad paints the need for “fresh start”; Sources: Trump distressed over fallout from Atlantic Story; Pelosi: GOP stimulus bill “insults the intelligence” of Americans; Senate to vote on stimulus bill Thursday, but unclear if it will pass; Dow drops 600+ points after seeing worst day since June; “Tenet” grosses over $20 million after movie theaters reopen; Iowa gov refuses to issue mask mandate despite rising cases; Iowa State University reports more than 900 cases; Experts cautious over schools, flu season impacting pandemic; Iowa governor announces $100 million for more testing; CNN’s Clarissa Ward on journalism in the age of extremism;
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the lead, I'm Jake Tapper and we start today with our health lead, the nation's top infectious disease expert Dr Anthony Fauchy, |
| 0:08.0 | acknowledging this afternoon that many Americans are skeptical about a coronavirus vaccine. |
| 0:13.0 | The skepticism, of course, does not come in a vacuum. |
| 0:16.0 | President Trump has exerted political pressure on the FDA |
| 0:20.0 | when it comes to unsafe treatments for coronavirus, such hydroxyloquan and the president is now suggesting a vaccine could come before the election. |
| 0:28.0 | This is all now requiring health experts such as Fauchy to reassure the public that any vaccine will be safe. |
| 0:36.0 | We've got to regain the trust of the community about when we say something is safe and effective they can be confident that it is |
| 0:46.3 | safe and effective and that's the reason why we have to be very transparent with the |
| 0:50.6 | data as well as what it is that goes into the decision-making |
| 0:54.8 | process about approving a vaccine. Nine of the companies competing against each |
| 1:00.3 | other to develop a vaccine have also tried to reassure the public today |
| 1:04.2 | by promising to follow the science and not rush the process to get a vaccine |
| 1:08.9 | approved but not even a vaccine will be an instant fix for the coronavirus and a harsh reality set in today for millions of children across the United States as 14 of the largest school districts started a new semester this morning fully online. |
| 1:24.4 | Another demonstration for the American people that their government has failed them and |
| 1:28.4 | is failing their children by not having |
| 1:35.0 | having testing available all over the country so that schools can be open and be safe. |
| 1:42.0 | Nearly 190,000 Americans have died from coronavirus at a rate |
| 1:46.4 | nearly double that of the European Union despite the EU having 100 million more residents. |
| 1:55.0 | CNN's Erica Hill starts off our coverage. |
| 1:58.0 | Buses, backpacks, masks, back to school in the age of COVID. |
| 2:04.0 | My daughter is thriving to be around other people. |
| 2:07.0 | It's going to be great to see them. |
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