my expectation will have very high immuno responses to the vaccine because they were already prior to the infection. where we don't have datafe are subjects that is an important question we need to address the studies. we also know from literature that people that get covid disease in general have a higher immuno response than those with the subclinical disease so the expectation is for tp them to be more protecte. >> what we do know to the first part of the question is the staff at each jurisdiction are highly professional , medically trained and have a clear understanding of the role of theda. and the cdc. 100 percent confident based o our deliberation how to implement their plan in accordance with that. i don't have any indicator to go outside of those things to go outside of those things the next question is with bloomberg ne the line is open. >>caller: thank you. with those additional doses will they be available to the states or where the federal government allocate those f gctly? who may be given to it and at priority? >> right now the allocations are for the 64 jurisdictions a

i'm immuno compromised and i have to take daily medicine that is immuno suppress enter and i'm extremely at risk if i'm exposed to covid-19. no matter how much i would love to be in-person with my students, i know that it would be an extreme risk to my safety, to the safety of my immuno compromised peers and students and to the immuno compromised family members, my students live with. as a special education teacher, i understand how important our work as educators is within an in-person context however i know how valuable and essential the lives of our disabled and immuno compromised community are. if we claim to valanciunas valur communities, then we must keep them safe by continuing distance learning and school closure until it is safe for all to return. thank you. >> thank you. >> hello, meredith. >> meredith? >> yes, hi. my name is meredith dodson and i am involved with a group reaching the distance and also to be a parent of a kid at rooftop preschool and a member of sfusd officially and so i want to thank the board of ed tonight for a plan for the resolution that is a pathway to sa

neither pfizer nor moderna, people that had immuno suppressed systems included.say with 100% certainty that the vaccine is safe and effective for that special population of patients. we can, however, say that covid is extremely dangerous for those that have suppressed immune systems. i recommend speaking to your doctor about your specific case, but i have colleagues that are newer obvious neurologists and they recommended patients get vaccinated. >> talk to your doctor. great advice. we have a question from las vegas. the people taking coronavirus vaccine, will they become asymptomatic, able to infect people that have not been vaccinated? >> a very interesting question. in both the pfizer and moderna trials what they were looking for was symptomatic illness. they did not test to see if people could have potentially still become infected with covid and be asymptomatic. they tested for people with symptoms and developed covid or severe illness of covid, secondary end point. no one can say for sure it absolutely prevents you from getting covid and being asymptomatic

people that are immune compromised because of immuno deficiency disease or chemotherapy or something like that, it could be that their immune systems don't react well enough. these are sort of the open questions that remain, brooke. >> so this is all, open questions, talking about pfizer specifically here. we are hoping we have a potpourri of successful vaccines to choose from eventually. astra-zeneca is another drug maker, we're getting new details on the efficacy of their vaccine. what is that? >> it is important to point out that there may be other vaccines. you mentioned that the government bought 100 million doses of the pfizer vaccine, and they had to make bets essentially, brooke, in the summer, saying where do we think this is likely to land. take a look at the list. 300 million of astra-zeneca, at that point of the summer, indicates they had more faith in that vaccine. 100 million of pfizer, 100 million moderna. johnson & johnson, astra-zeneca, and my conversation with the fda commissioner, we may have data at the end of january on that. within the next couple of months ther

there were people not -- immuno compromised people that were not included in the trial.sing. the trouble is not just going to be whether people have those conditions or age. we know for children the fda is likely not to -- currently the authorization is supposed to be for those over 16. we know kids are not going to be vaccinated currently given their lower risk for severe disease. immunocompromised is the one that we need to answer soonest because the concern is that they may have more severe disease. >> right. morgan radford and dr. nahid bhadelia, thank you both. doctor, thank you for your expertise in joining us as well. >>> up next -- the two democratic senate candidates in georgia have a couple of big boosts coming their way. when i was laid off... ...it was absolutely terrifying. i felt like i was just fighting an uphill battle in my career. as a little kid i knew that i wanted to work with computers. ♪ so when i heard about the applied digital skills courses, that definitely appealed to me. you're learning how to create spreadsheets, documents, forms and surveys.

children under the age of 16, pregnant women, breast-feeding mothers, people who have existing immuno compromised existing situation and people who have had severe reactions to vaccines in the past. people who had severe reactions were excluded from the pfizer trial. so there wasn't a lot of data there. pregnant women were excluded from the pfizer trial. but there were women who became pregnant while in the trial, so they have some data from that. they basically say we don't have enough data to suggest it's bilg windshield. we don discuss with your health care provider. >> we people have to remember this virus came on the world suddenly, these vaccines are being developed quickly as well. sanjay, it's just -- i'm so sick of saying this to you, but once again the u.s. reported its deadliest day in this pandemic. it was wednesday, yesterday. more deaths than on pearl harbor. more than 3,100 americans. more deaths than september 11th. this vaccine can't come soon enough. is there going to be added pressure to rush the approval process because of how bad it's getting out there? >> yeah, i

the immuno compromised those taking biologics like myself, we do not know if they will actually mount do not know how they will respond to the vaccine. luckily's not a recumbent vaccine with the virus projecting better protein. but will they be able to mount that immune response? we do not know that yet. pregnant patients, children under 16 years of age, we don't have that information on right now. they did a wide range of age, ethnicity, comorbidities and all of those people seem to be doing really, really well produces the people invention, the pregnant, the children the immuno compromise. kennedy: so doctor found she talked about -- spoke about communities of color who are distrustful of mass government inoculation, and rightly so given the history of this country by the way. so how do you reengage and create that necessary trust if you are hoping to achieve herd immunity? the naacp just put out a study they looked at that 18% said that actually trust the vaccine is safe. 14% said they trusted actually works. that is a huge issue. all you have to setback in our history to understan

we excluded immuno copper might individuals. it is yet -- populations. we excluded immuno compromised individuals. we will study those populations in future studies. here are the demographics displayed on over 43,000 subjects as of november 14 with good presentation of gender, race, ethnicity and age, with even split between vaccine and ceepo recipients -- placebo recipients. the breakdown is age groups above and below 55 years old. in the older 65 and above groups, note that 9000 of the participants were over six he five years of age. you theme share with data from our phase 2/3 portion of the trial. i wanted to highlight something. we have ongoing safety reviews by an independent data monitoring committee. these are occurring weekly. this makes sense in the context of a rapidly enrolling trial. the dmc consists of four adults and pediatric infectious disease experts and one statistician with expertise in assessing vaccine safety, immune response, and efficacy. no safetyentified concerns during the clinical trial and recommended the study continued as p

health experts are recommending who should get them 1st the advisory committee on immuno immunization practices says that health care workers and the elderly need to be a priority as andy gallagher reports. in hospitals across the us medical staff are making preparations to receive the 1st but use of the coronavirus vaccine currently to drug makers pfizer and medina a seeking emergency approval for their drugs as the u.s. averages 150000 new cases a day the death toll according to johns hopkins university stands at close 227-0000 the advice from health experts to the c.d.c. is that the elderly and frontline medical staff should receive the vaccine as a priority it's estimated that close to 900 health care professionals have died after contract in the virus. 50 concerns of prompted health care workers to strike in illinois we pass or workers die from coal that we have health keeping laundry dietary workers' activity a everyone all of the partners have died from this disease and so we might have a paper or workers the elderly and those who care for them have also been hit hard by the pa

so, unfortunately the people who have immuno—compromised systems who may be at risk may also have reduceduestion. do blood types make a difference to the taking of the vaccine? in answer to debra, no, there is no evidence that one blood type performs better than another. my answer to all people who are worried about this is to say, look, the vaccine has shown to be effective in a wide range of groups of people and there is no reason to think that one blood group performs better than the other. unfortunately, gentlemen, we've run out of time, which is a real same because we've got a lot of other really good questions, but we got through quite a lot. thank you both. dr bharat pankhania from the university of exeter medical school. professor stephen evans from the london school of hygiene and medicine, always a joy to have you on bbc news with us. well, it's going to stay pretty grey across the uk this afternoon. there's a chance of little bit of sunshine hear and there but also, notan not an especially cold night that this year and then into tomorrow, this year and then into tomorrow, this

we have to wait our turn. 31-year-oldz is a woman who is not immuno compromised.he old people should get the vaccines. >> we go live now to montpelier, vermont, for an update from governor scott on the covert response. >> thank you, everyone, i know that many begin holiday festivities today on christmas eve. dr. levine and i will be somewhat brief but we thought it was important to keep to our twice weekly schedule and make t

does have some political contenders though there is no benefit of the immuno party his party is currently 3rd in place but he's really only strong in the polls his biggest contender is who just this month broke away from the coup would and formed a new government cold new hope and his party is currently 2nd in all of these parties though it and yahoo's likud bennett cmu now and. new hope are really in be israeli right so we're going into this new election really to see a battle within the israeli right very interesting to keep an eye on that i mean there with the latest for us from west or east and thanks ira. now united nations investigators have handed the security council evidence of war crimes and crimes against humanity in mali groups and security forces and decay said in that report which documents crimes allegedly committed between 20122018 that's when separatists in northern mali now watched an offense of their ethnic rivalries and violence and since bread to other regions including neighboring mccain a faster and. christian thing is at the u.n. with more details from that report.

would like to know, are these pfizer and oxford vaccine safe and suitable for people treated with immunoer a signal through the wonderful mechanisms that are present within our own cells to make this viral protein, that is then recognised, but there is no virus involved at all. there is an issue with people in this group who might not respond as strongly to the vaccine, but that isn't a counter indication to having it. our bodies are very good at detecting rna in the wrong place. the immune system is setup to do that. there will naturally be a response, perhaps sore arm, feeling like you have they flew for a day or two in some cases, but those side—effects are relatively uncommon, but it isjust our side—effects are relatively uncommon, but it is just our body reacting and means we are developing a good response, as it should be expected to a potent vaccine. similar theme in the next question from andrea, who has a son with a suppressed immune system, which means he can't have a live vaccine and nor can anyone in the household. she says she can't see any any information about that could s

immuno deficiency virus. your turn to get an immune response and the virus itself is targeting the immune cells, the white blood cells. enormouslyoven challenging. host: we will hear from sean first. you are on the air. caller: i don't mean to sound crazy but as i listened to this all year, i swear it sounds like a vaccine from resident evil. nobody even knows the long-term effects of the coronavirus itself. know the anybody long-term effects of this virus -- of the vaccine that you have only been testing for four months or five months. what is the effect from this five years from now? worst case scenario is you could see resident evil, are people going to become zombies? host: we will hear from dr. beyrer. guest: it is an important question and you are right to be concerned. the fda said they wanted two months of safety data because we are in a global pandemic in the u.s. is the most effective country -- effected country. data is af safety minimum of two months. we are following the people who have been immu

pregnant women, four children -- for younger children, we don't have data but for pregnant women and the immuno compromise, it will be something that providers will need to consider on an individual basis for patients. or for people. >> thank you. next question comes from carl's a mayor with new york times. with new york times. >> i would like to know, are you going to require the astrazeneca clinical trial in the united ,tates, which is half enrolled although that means according to astrazeneca that they can't apply for an eua until june and that will affect the supply of vaccines to the united states? >> i'm sorry, but that is one there i can't speak to a product that is under development. thank you. our next question comes from financial times. >> just want to follow-up. what advice would you give a doctor if a pregnant woman asked for the vaccine? what should they be considering? >> dr. marks. >> i think this is one where you would want to have, from a provided to an individual, a consideration of the potential benefits and risks. what we don't know about the vaccine versus what we do. if t

my daughter is immuno suppressed. i believe there should be a plan in place so as many people in possible, including myself and my wife, including teachers, we want to get people back in the classroom, i mean, there's no reason that we have not been able to roll out these vaccinations in a much more efficient, faster process. but again, we want to lay this blame at the feet of the president of the united states and i come on this show enough and lay enough blame at his feet, but kaitlan was corrected. they're in charge of contact tracing and testing and you just throw the vaccinations at their feet and don't give them any money. the problem with this is that we are mitch mcconnell, who is just running this country into the ground, who passed a $900 billion bill which should have been about $2 trillion to $3 trillion which didn't include any state and local funding. that is why you do not have a foundation in place where you can distribute these vaccinat n vaccinations properly. we have to get them out. without that mo

we have to wait our turn. 31-year-oldz is a woman who is not immuno compromised. the old people should get the vaccines. >> we go live now to montpelier, vermont, for an update from governor scott on the covert response. >> thank you, everyone, i know that many begin holiday festivities today on christmas eve. dr. levine and i will be somewhat brief but we thought it was important to keep to our twice weekly schedule and make sure that we update vermonters on the latest number of cases in the vaccine rollout before going into a holiday weekend for many. as far as getting into the updates, i want to continue highlighting acts of kindness, service, and goodwill throughout vermont. let me talk a little bit about the mary hogan school in middle barry. after hearing about the waves of kindness initiative, the students and staff were inspired and wanted to help raise spirits during the holiday season. the pre-k to sixth grade partnts wanted to do their , so they got creative making art projects with inspiring messages of hope. worked with the better middle barry partner

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make conclusions about the safety of the vaccine in children under age 16 and pregnant women and immuno compromised individuals. that's important to make a note of. yes, the document says overall the safety profile is good but those groups we need more research. and it does confirm the efficacy of the vaccine appearing to be 95%, which is what has been reported before. but the document also includes data on efficacy after one dose. which really stood out. and here's more information on that in particular. now keep in mind this vaccine is administered as a two-dose shot. so two 30 micro gram doses given 21 days apart. but after that first dose, the document describes efficacy between the first and second dose as 52.4%. so that tells us there is some efficacy that we're seeing there. there's some immune response we're seeing there after that first dose. the document does go on to say that, you know, we -- the analysis cannot support a conclusion after efficacy after a single dose because the time between that first dose and second dose is only 21 days. but this is interesting, jim and pop

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we see that they have good immuno responses. it can help guide and hopefully speed up the start of trials in human children. if we can immunize children, we can break the cycle of transmission in the local communities. >> the uc davis teams as they have been in touch with regulatory agencies in preparation for human trials. >>> a new and more contagious strain of coronavirus sweeping across southern england is prompting european travel restrictions. experts say it may spread 70% faster than earlier versions. >> it seems like this new strain is more contagious. it does not seem to be any more dangerous than run-of-the-mill covid. >> germany is among one of the countries to shut off travel time's with the uk. the german government which holds the presidency of the european union has called a special crisis meeting today to coordinate a response. france also banning all travel from the uk for at least 48 hours. that includes trains carrying freight through the tunnel under the english channel worships traveling from dover. lots of

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children under 16, in pregnant women or women that are breastfeeding, was not tested in people that are immuno compromised or people that had allergic or severe reactions to vaccines in the past. it is possible the vaccines will not be made available to those groups. but really, that's a relatively small group. if most of the rest of the country gets vaccinated, that brings herd immunity and can protect people that can't get vaccinated. >> if it gets the thumb's up, how quickly can people get the shot? >> so to be clear, we don't know. we expect it will get the green light. let's talk about what happens next. within days, maybe a week, we think it will be days, the first shots could go into arms. those first shots go to health care workers and go to residents of nursing homes. that's already been decided. the next group, essential workers, firefighters, police officers, et cetera, other elderly people, and also those with underlying medical conditions such as heart disease or obesity or other kinds of medical conditions, and later it would be available to everyone else. if you're in the everyo

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mouth is, come on my show and drop tro fuvment backstage at the ed sullivan theatre in my late show, immuno-tabulouspresidential jab-a-rama featuring physician it is assistant snoop dogg. you are going to get the vac-sizzle. that's a joke. of course, we are fixing to get another ex-president pretty darn soon, even though we can't get him to admit that. let's learn the latest in cbs long running segment, i am a bitchy sniff i teeny peeny orange jello mussolini, here to steal your election away. >> the road from the white house house. >> stephen: you tell them that they have won. >> stephen: over the last four careers we have can occasionally talked about this administration, when it was appropriate and some of the crazy, you know, norm smashing they have done. not often but sometimes. but now that it's about a to be over the president's team are leaving it all on the field after they burn down the stadium. but now i am not scared about it or angry about it. i am just in awe of the sheer majesty of their stupidity. case in point former national security advisor and plan plotting to steal every la shri

he said look, all of my patients are immuno compromised for the last thing i want to spread covid-19hem. so the healthcare workers within your other point i really have to hit artemis bring we have got to get this vaccine into underserved areas. because we are seeing a lot of covid-19, about 70% of cases in many cities are minority populations. we need to reach her minority populations with this vaccine. support yes stop chicken stroking get it there and say people's lives. that is supposed to be the point spread a love your thank you so much. you always have me at ease, dr. marc siegel thanks again. >> kennedy i was a pleasure thank you. see for the economic front congress is working to reach a deal right now, they're actually working they can brings financial aid to businesses and towns across america. they plan to work to the weekend. my gosh up and be so foreign to to hammer out the details. early reports of the new government spending bill includes a pandemic relief package will reflect mitch mcconnell's measured approach low-cost about a trillion dollars for that sounds like a

underrepresented minorities, look at the elderly, young folks, pregnant women, folks with underlying immuno deficiencies, immune problems, that's part of the entire package that we will present to the vaccine advisory committees. >> after the first dose it was a fair amount of protection, 52.4%, obviously a lot better but better than the 50% that the fda originally required. does it make sense to you to take the 40 million projected doses by the end of the year and give all those as first doses to people? >> we considered that, sanjay, and we decided that it would be more prudent not to do that, namely to get the real total degree of protection, not the 52%, but the 95% after the second dose. >> reporter: these are the kinds of questions the advisory group will ask to help determine who the vaccine will be authorized for and then the group will vote. their vote doesn't bind the fda, but the agency usually does follow their lead. the goal, to have 60% to 70% of the country vaccinated to achieve herd immunity and protect our communities from this virus, which is why this meeting will be repea

i mean, he is sacrificing people who are immuno suppressed and have other issues for a theory that's as you said so many times completely faulty. sanjay, good to see you. great to learn from you. appreciate it. >>> a marquise transition event today, the president-elect announces his economic team this hour. want to go straight to jeff zeleny in wilmington, delaware. jeff, millions of jobs have been lost during the pandemic. what are you hearing from sources inside the biden team about their plans to dig out of the recession? >> reporter: well, dana, there's no question that the economy really is at the center of the successes or failures that will be to come of the biden administration. he knows that better than anyone. that's why this afternoon here in wilmington he is going to introduce the first part of the economic team here, led by janet yellen. she will be the first woman nominated as treasury secretary. she of course comes from a history of the federal reserve. has a history. we have seen what she has done before and her economic views are to jump start the economy by focusing

. >> are any of you immunocompromised or on immuno suppress ants? >> no. >> all right. good to go.ants? >> no. >> all right. good to go . >> all righty. small poke. >> thank you. >> of course. >> left shoulder . >> that's great. great job. great job. >> so before you guys leave today you will be getting a shot record proving that you received the vaccine from us today and this vaccine is a two-dose series so that means you will need to come back in 21 days for the second one. again, with any vaccine you could have a pretty sore arm at the injection site, maybe some redness, but if anything else happens make sure to contact a medical provider or go seek medical care. >> okay. >> great. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> well, good morning and thank you all for being here. i want to thank my wonderful wife, our second lady, karen pence, the surgeon general, and dr. tony fauci and members of the white house coronavirus task force who are joining us here today. i especially want to thank the fine medical team at walter reed hospital that administered our vaccine today. i didn't

we're creating them by treating people who have long lingering infections mostly immuno suppressed people with convalesce want serum. that actually creates a stew where the virus has a lot more chances to emerge to mutate to get around and to change. and it's a paradox. we're trying to save people, but our efforts to save them seem to be creating these new viruses with some pretty dangerous possibilities. not only more transmissible, but there is a possibility and suggestion in south africa that it is more lethal as well especially to young people. >> well, phil rucker, if that isn't scary enough we learn undersustained hacking attack by the russians. the president's been mostly silent on that save a tweet that was designed to throw the russians a lifeline. see all previous tweets on the russians. on the virus, phil, it's vaccine rollout time. we're also in the middle of a horrendous spike. we have care rationing going on in some hospitals and communities in this country. so the president's silence on both fronts is odd. why a total lack of engagement on his part? >> well, brian, my colle

immuno compromised people and adolescents under the age of 16.e are three groups that we need to continue to better investigate the safety and efficacy in these groups. so i would say it is more uncertainty than caution or concern. >> let me ask but the safety protocols going forward. the committee spent some time talking about how people who got the vaccine would be monitored for safety effects going forward. talk to us a little about how important it is to have a system in place to track people after they've been vaccinated. >> so important. the fda doesn't have to reinvent the wheel here. we already have within our country an active and passive surveillance system. and they have a very thorough plan now to enhance these existing systems. so that we can monitor this in real-time very closely and be able to detect if there are any longer term safety signals that we need to recognize. or a difference in perhaps the effectiveness in different sub groups. >> is that something that can be done for 100 million people as the admiral expects by the end

has tons of cases of lots of young people getting it who don't end up passing it to people who are immuno compromised and elderly people and people in nursing homes. that's how this virus works. it is what the public experts said from the beginning. the virus spreads. when young people started going back to colleges we knew it was only a matter of time until the virus got out to the rest of the community. as the "new york times" reported though young people do have less risk deaths rose fast in college towns when they returned to campus. again, all of this was as predictable as night following day. there has always been an iron clad correlation between cases and deaths even as the fatality rate has indeed fallen. but here's what one trump appointee was saying when colleges closed. quote, we essentially took off the battlefield the most potent weapon we had. younger, healthy people, children, teens, young people who we need to fastly infect themselves, spread it around. think about that for a second. this is a trump administration official at hhs directing covid response, expressing that h

due to the pandemic, housing a family like the shaws with a child who is severely immuno compromised has become even more challenging for ronald mcdonald house bay area charities which helps facilitate housing and services for patient families in oakland and san francisco. >> we have to lower capacity inside a house to make sure we have proper social distancing, and what's that's really meant is we had to think about resources dchly. >> enter bay area companies veritas and apartment list, which partners with rmch to increase capacity. >> about three months ago, we donated ten furnished apartment homes to ronald mcdonald house for their use and for the use of families like this one who need a safe place to stay while their children are getting treatment. >> the donated apartments have worked so well for children's hospital families like the shaws, the hope is it's an arrangement that will live on long past the pandemic. for the shaws, it's all about the here and now. >> thank you for helping us with the apartment. i really like it. thank you. >> in oakland, laura anthony, abc 7 news.

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risk benefit profile of the vaccine and where you are as an individual are you an adult, healthy, immuno-compromisedyour child so, the more vaccines we have, the better it is we need hechlt terogenearia and the ones that are cheaper. >> we need them to get distributed faster, especially in this country, where operation warp speed wanted to do 20 million by the end of the year we're at 2 million how do they speed that up in the new year where are you pointing blame why is that happening? >> yeah. look, sara, it's a really good question, you know the way i think about 2020 and 2021 is like two hops to a game. we just got the first hop done tremendous things we were able to establish, getting vaccines approved in record time, vaccines with really good efficacy and safety. and, you know, there have been some other good things that happened in the first half of this gachlt now we're transitioning to the second half of this game many believe we can knock down this pandemic in 2021. in order to do so in the second half we have to come up with a different game plan. that game plan will require more coordina

we have to wait our turn. 31-year-oldz is a woman who is not immuno compromised.he old people should get the vaccines. the front-line workers should get the vaccines first. i think this is just selfishness. host: so you would put senator marco rubio on that list, considering his age? caller: yes i what. exactly. it has nothing to do with republicans or democrats. it has to do with elitism. that's how i feel. host: ok. edward from liverpool, texas, democrats line. caller: yes sir. since theink that politicians already have the therapeutics, they can hop on a chopper and be at a hospital in seconds compared to us, so they've got the therapeutics working for them. it didn't take long to get mr. trump treated or a few others. so why don't we just leave them alone, but all of the people who have no money and no help, put them first? get those people in the hospitals as being first as well because if anything is going wrong with the shots, they are in the hospital. they will be watching each other, seeing if anything is going wrong with these shots. they are in a perfec

immuno deficiency virus.r turn to get an immune response and the virus itself is targeting the immune cells, the white blood cells. enormouslyoven challenging. host: we will hear from sean first. you are on the air. caller: i don't mean to sound crazy but as i listened to this all year, i swear it sounds like a vaccine from resident evil. nobody even knows the long-term effects of the coronavirus itself. know the anybody long-term effects of this virus -- of the vaccine that you have only been testing for four months or five months. what is the effect from this five years from now? worst case scenario is you could see resident evil, are people going to become zombies? host: we will hear from dr. beyrer. guest: it is an important question and you are right to be concerned. the fda said they wanted two months of safety data because we are in a global pandemic in the u.s. is the most effective country -- effected country. data is af safety minimum of two months. we are following the people who have been immunize

. >> pfizer and moderna mess engineer rna thevenes the vehicle to cite immuno, the moderna vaccine doesng size small number of doses everything about moderna one is more flexible easier to administrator than pfizer, we have pfizer under control ups fedex cof the bc walgreens we know how to do this moderna is easier to use the data packages remarkably similar, i think you see with moderna a little bit more higher efficacy first dose of vaccination then what exciting we can get astrazeneca, john durham you based on a platform very well established vaccine platform and j&j, so think about that if j&j can get 40 million doses that is 20 million people vaccinated, that is 40 million people getting vaccinated. >> great when would you expect more progress on j&j vaccine. >> head of r and d at johnson & johnson suggested that -- you can see -- time frame az and johnson & johnson have significant clinical trial enrollment in phase three trials here in the united states, so really just like we did with pfizer and moderna we are waiting to get events in those trials that means people getting covid

that's also true in the immuno suppressed population. i think that's going to be important. there aren't the ability to do placebo-controlled trials in that sense and i think you would have to look at immunogenicity as well. and see how much less of a response you get in nose those groups. those are going to be important studies for the larger study. it will make up four to five, six per cent of the entire u.s. population. >> thank you. doctor? >> since we're talking about other studies, a couple of points that haven't been raised. i'm trying not to repeat things. but i know there's a lot of overlap here. the other studies that we actually haven't talked a lot about are really looking at other conditions. we talked about bell's palsy, but there's other neurologic outcomes that i think have to be high on the list. we really need to consider, especially when we go into the children studies. and so, i want to urge those particular things to be looked at. the other part of it is the cardiac findings. we think most of this likely from the sars-cov-2 receptor there, maybe specific

. >> are any of you immunocompromised or on immuno suppressants good to go >> start with the doctor,we'll go from right to left. that one particular nurse. going to be responsible. those questions, i guess, you heard that they were to everyone, so initially i thought it was just to the vice president. are you breast feeding, but obviously. it's pretty simple >> quick, quick and painless. >> quick and easy. >> second lady, as it's called karen pence >> and the vice president. >> they see this repeated, i would think, andrew with the president-elect and others, the vice president-elect >> great job. >> and there it is >> great job >> now, this is obviously the pfizer biontech, since any second we could hear about moderna. >> this vaccine is a two dose series, so that means you'll need to come back in 21 days for the second one again, with any vaccine, you could have a pretty sore arm at the injection site, maybe some redness. if anything else happens, contact a medical provider or go to medical care. okay >> thank you >> i think we can skip that, andrew, don't you think, the booster. >