Who Gets the Vaccine First?
Chasing Life
CNN
4.5 • 8K Ratings
🗓️ 18 November 2020
⏱️ 15 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Promising news that Moderna's coronavirus vaccine is stunning 94.5% effective. |
| 0:08.0 | We have two vaccines that are really quite effective. So I think this is a really strong step forward |
| 0:14.6 | to where we want to be about getting control of this outbreak. |
| 0:18.0 | This week, Moderna announced positive preliminary results for its COVID-19 vaccine. |
| 0:24.0 | This comes just a week after Pfizer, released similar data suggesting their vaccine is more than 90% effective. |
| 0:31.0 | No matter how you look at it, this is good news. No doubt about it. |
| 0:36.0 | But it does raise the next logical question. |
| 0:39.0 | When a vaccine becomes available, who's going to get it first? |
| 0:43.0 | President Trump has said that states should prioritize frontline workers, the elderly, and high-risk Americans. |
| 0:50.0 | But if you do the math, those groups could easily add up to more than the number of doses that will be immediately available, |
| 0:58.0 | if one or even both of these vaccines are authorized. |
| 1:01.0 | On top of that, there is a complex distribution plan to be sorted out. |
| 1:05.0 | One major hurdle, for example, is that Pfizer's vaccine in particular must be kept at extremely cold temperatures until it's ready to be administered. |
| 1:14.0 | So low that not every health care facility has the proper equipment to store it. |
| 1:19.0 | Today, we'll look at the factors the government will have to weigh when determining where and to whom the vaccine will go first. |
| 1:27.0 | We're also going to examine the big question that must be answered about distributing the vaccine globally. |
| 1:34.0 | I'm Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN's Chief Medical Correspondent. |
| 1:38.0 | And this is coronavirus, fact versus fiction. |
| 1:42.0 | Well, you know, that issue divides in two ways. |
| 1:51.0 | One is, are we going to have supplies of vaccine that we share with the world? |
| 1:55.0 | And then the second part is, okay, if we kept them here at home, who's going first among Americans? |
| 2:01.0 | Art Kaplan is a professor of bioethics at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine. |
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