Surveillance: Lawmakers Weigh Biden’s Stimulus Plan
Bloomberg Surveillance
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🗓️ 25 January 2021
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Deborah Fuller, University of Washington School of Medicine Microbiology Professor, discusses the efficacy of Covid-19 vaccines on new strains. George Magnus, Oxford University China Centre Research Associate, says the new U.S. administration will bring a change in tone towards China but not of substance. Republican Congressman Bryan Steil of Wisconsin calls for targeted relief measures. Democratic Congressman Dwight Evans of Pennsylvania says Congress can balance virus relief and the impeachment trial. Doug Kass, Seabreeze Partners President, says pandemic-era central banking has put earnings season on the back burner.
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| 0:57.2 | Right now on the virus, a definitive conversation on COVID with Deborah Fuller of the University |
| 1:02.3 | of Washington School of Medicine and |
| 1:04.8 | Microbiology Professor. I can't say enough about the esteem of their program. |
| 1:09.5 | Dr Fuller, I want to go to the idea that we were all afraid of measles and maybe |
| 1:14.4 | Xe antevaxers were less afraid of measles now and there's different variance of |
| 1:19.7 | measles D4 B2 whatever those numbers are are the variance of this virus to be treated like the |
| 1:27.2 | variance of other things we've contained or are the variance here different? |
| 1:33.0 | The variance here could be quite different and that's just because we have |
| 1:38.0 | increasing evidence that some of these new SARS-Cov2 variants are not only gaining on ability to transmit more efficiently, |
| 1:47.0 | but developing mutations that could potentially evade antibody mean responses and that would potentially suggest that our current vaccines |
| 1:58.0 | it might impact the efficacy of our current vaccines. |
| 2:02.0 | Now our vaccines are very high efficacy. it might impact the efficacy of our current vaccines. |
| 2:02.8 | Now, our vaccines are very high efficacy, much higher than 90%. |
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