The Race to a Vaccine
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The Motley Fool
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🗓️ 30 March 2020
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
President Trump extends social distancing guidelines through the end of April. Johnson & Johnson announces plans to begin human testing a coronavirus vaccine. The Justice Department signs off on the Raytheon and United Technologies merger. And a shareholder advisory firm recommends that Papa John’s gives Shaquille O’Neal the boot from its board. Motley Fool analyst Tim Beyers talks about those stories and weighs in on big earnings from Cal-Maine, the nation’s largest egg producer and distributor.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Monday, March 30th. |
| 0:04.0 | Welcome to Market Foolry. I'm Matt Greer and joining me from Colorado is Motley full analyst Tim |
| 0:09.2 | Byers. Tim, welcome. How are you doing now there? How's this situation out in Colorado? |
| 0:15.0 | You know, we're social distancing out here in Colorado Mac. It's a good morning. |
| 0:20.0 | It's going to be a little sunny today. Still a little on the cooler side, |
| 0:23.5 | but I'm looking forward to spring and getting out |
| 0:26.5 | and social distancing, but maybe stretching my legs a little bit. |
| 0:30.3 | Tim, you and me both. |
| 0:31.9 | Social distancing is the word here in Virginia as well in fact I get to give a shout out to my neighbor because a few minutes ago I had to go outside and ask him if he could stop the weed eating for a little while because I was about to record. |
| 0:44.6 | So we are in surreal times. |
| 0:46.2 | I never thought I'd have to ask someone to stop weed eating. |
| 0:50.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:51.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:52.0 | The strange times we live in. |
| 0:53.4 | It's the signs of the apocalypse, let's hope not. |
| 0:57.0 | It is, it is. |
| 0:58.3 | Well, on today's show, we're gonna talk some J&J, |
| 1:00.9 | we're gonna talk eggs, mergers, Papa Johns, and J. and J we're going to talk eggs mergers, Papa Johns and shack. How is that for a Motley show? But let's begin with the |
| 1:08.8 | latest on the coronavirus. On Sunday President Trump announcing that he was extending social |
| 1:14.3 | distancing guidelines until the end of April. Now, Tim, at the time of our |
| 1:19.6 | taping right now, more than 2,400 deaths in the U.S. with more than 2,400 deaths in the US, |
| 1:24.0 | with more than 1,000 of those in the state of New York alone. |
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