The Doctor Behind the Government's Vaccine Deals
Prognosis: Misconception
Bloomberg
4.1 • 838 Ratings
🗓️ 11 December 2020
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
At the center of Operation Warp Speed, the Trump administration’s program to accelerate the development of Covid treatments and vaccines, is a man named Moncef Slaoui. Dr. Slaoui is chief scientific adviser for the Operation, and is trying to leverage decades of experience in the pharmaceutical industry to secure deals that can help curb the pandemic. Riley Griffin spoke to him about the possibility that his work might accelerate a treatment for the deadliest Covid-19 cases, a critical step in the months before a vaccine is widespread.
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| 0:30.6 | Welcome to Prognosis. I'm Laura Carlson. It's day 272 since coronavirus was declared a global pandemic. Today's main story, |
| 0:42.3 | we spoke to the man at the center of Operation Warp Speed, the government's effort to quickly |
| 0:49.1 | secure a vaccine and treatment options for the pandemic. |
| 0:58.8 | But first, here's what happened in virus news today. |
| 1:14.2 | The Food and Drug Administration is preparing to clear Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine as soon as this weekend. That's according to top U.S. health officials. But first, the FDA is scrutinizing recent reports that people who received the vaccine |
| 1:21.7 | had allergic reactions. One of the last things the FDA does before clearing a product for public use is to make sure |
| 1:30.3 | the instructions on the label include up-to-date information about who should use it and how. |
| 1:37.3 | In the past several days, there have been reports of serious allergic reactions to the vaccine in the UK. |
| 1:45.0 | After starting immunizations on Tuesday, the UK's National Health Service said people with a significant history of allergies shouldn't receive the shot. |
| 1:57.0 | New York, once the epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic, sits on the brink of breaking its case record from last spring. |
| 2:08.1 | But the impact of this latest surge is very different from those nightmarish early days. |
| 2:15.1 | Patients are spending less time in the hospital and are less likely to receive |
| 2:19.3 | intensive procedures like intubation. Daily deaths are not spiking as sharply as cases, but that |
| 2:26.9 | doesn't necessarily mean New York is in the clear, especially with the Christmas and New Year |
| 2:33.5 | holidays approaching. |
| 2:36.0 | For now, the state is staving off repercussions from the current spike in cases, with ample |
| 2:42.5 | hospital capacity and one of the nation's lowest death rates. |
| 2:47.9 | Dozens of other states are being overridden with hospitalizations and seeing deaths |
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