UK approves Pfizer vaccine, first shots early next week; Moderna trial participant describes vaccine side effects; CNN: trump discussing potential pardons for his children, son-in-law; Mark Kelly sown in as Democratic Senator of Arizona; Biden facing pressure as he vows to build diverse team
The Lead with Jake Tapper
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🗓️ 2 December 2020
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Azar: UK Vaccine approval should give Americans even more confidence; 100 million American could be vaccinated by February per operation warp speed; First U.S. shipments of Pfizer’s vaccine; U.K. to vaccinate tens of thousands next week; Experts fear vaccine side effects could determine people from getting second dose; Top Georgia election official to Trump, Senators: Stop inspiring acts of violence with your rhetoric; Trump continues to dispute election with false claims in new video; Trump teases” Four more years: in White House; Barr appoints U.S. Attorney John Durham as Special Counsel; President Obama critiques fellow democrats for not making room for new voices in party; Trump treating veto of major defense bill if congress doesn’t revoke internet protections; Couple married 47 years dies of cover second apart
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the lead. I'm Jake Tapper and we begin today with the health lead, a huge moment in the fight against coronavirus. |
| 0:09.0 | The United Kingdom has now become the first Western nation to approve a coronavirus vaccine. |
| 0:16.5 | The first shots in the UK will happen early next week. |
| 0:20.2 | This is the vaccine developed by Pfizer and Biontec, which trials have shown to be 95% effective in preventing coronavirus infections. |
| 0:30.0 | And the approval in the UK could be good news for the American people as well. |
| 0:36.0 | This afternoon, Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar said that the approval across |
| 0:40.8 | the pond should give Americans even more confidence about the The approval by the FDA is expected as early as next week as well. |
| 0:47.0 | The CEO of BionTek told CNN that he believes this moment marks the start of the end of the pandemic. |
| 0:56.8 | But that end, of course, is not yet here. |
| 0:59.5 | A White House Coronovirus Task Force report obtained by CNN says that the COVID risk to all Americans right |
| 1:04.8 | now is quote at a historic high. |
| 1:08.2 | And yesterday the United States recorded its second highest one day death toll since the pandemic began almost 2,600 |
| 1:16.7 | deaths in one day just in the United States that's the worst since April. |
| 1:21.7 | As CNN's Dick Watt reports for us now today the head of the CDC the for public health. A global first. |
| 1:34.0 | The Brits just authorized the Pfizer-Antech COVID-19 vaccine. |
| 1:39.0 | They might start vaccinating people next week. |
| 1:43.0 | We believe that it is really the start of the end of the pandemic. |
| 1:46.0 | December 10th, an FDA panel meets U.S. authorization could come within days, and then... distribution to the American people becomes |
| 1:55.4 | immediate within 24 hours. We expect if all safety and efficacy approvals are |
| 2:00.8 | granted those doses will arrive on December 15th. |
| 2:04.0 | Moderna's vaccine is about a week behind. The plan, vaccinate 20 million Americans in |
| 2:10.4 | December, 30 million in January, 50 million in February, by March 1st. |
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