>> jansen: morgues, right.lutely fueling the desire to come up with a vaccine no matter what it takes. >> whitaker: this was kind of personal? >> jansen: i took this very personally. i wanted to fight it, beat it, fight it down. it was-- nothing else mattered. >> whitaker: across the atlantic, in mainz, germany, doctors ugur sahin and ozlem tureci were also focused on fighting the coronavirus. founders of a cutting edge biotechnology company called biontech, they had been collaborating with pfizer on a flu vaccine when sahin read an article on january 24th, about a mysterious disease in wuhan, china. >> dr. ugur sahin: we knew that we are most likely running into a global pandemic. and we knew that we don't have time to waste. >> dr. ozlem tureci: we started to think about how to implement a vaccine development program from scratch basically, and so we had to pivot the entire company. >> whitaker: did you have any doubts about doing that? >> sahin: i did not have doubts. the only thing that concerned me is that

to the decisions made by governors on prioritization and of course if we have johnson and johnson, jansen and or astrazeneca entering into play in the february timeframe that only accelerates these timelines and then the second quarter of next year, enough vaccine to vaccinate every american who wants to be vaccinated so atsome point of course as our vaccination campaigns succeed we get to levels of vaccine -induced herd immunity and life starts looking more like normal . foundational to this will be some of the studies and work that are underway regarding the ability of individuals whohave been successfully vaccinated to continue to transmit the virus or not . that's important data we're looking to generate as we speak. that will help with understanding what the behaviors are even after a large percent of the american population has been vaccinated. that will be necessary . >> next question the next question is from evan brown, fox news, your line is now open. >> my question follows that a bit. do you have a good timeline as to when people might be able to talking about the people not in

rolf habben jansen, ceo of hapag-lloyd on the shipping industry, especially as we see congestion.take a look at how markets are reacting to concerns of the new variant of the coronavirus. this is bloomberg. ♪ annmarie: 6:55 in london. i'm annmarie hoerden. had thishe news we've morning, enhancing the risk off sentiment out of china. they are warning the u.s. warship to leave its waters in the south china sea and out of this, we saw the csi 300 extend its losses to the downside. though this is%, not the first incursion in recent months by u.s. warships, this is something that could add to the risk off sentiment we are seeing this tuesday morning in a second day of pullbacks across global equity markets. asian equities under pressure. you can see that when you look at the asian benchmark, the msci asia-pacific and s&p 500 futures to the downside, under some pressure, shrugging off the stimulus deal. they are down .5% this morning. it is the bad news that is starting to take the main hold of the narrative of the market, even though we did clinch the $900 billion stimulus deal. for co

hopefully jansen and astrazeneca, but we are also working inside our manufacturing facilities to expand capacity every day. dr. slaoui and i visited a company working to expand their capability. the secretary was just there yesterday or the other day. yesterday. between our visit, and the secretary's visit, which has been about 10 days, we were able to get the army corps of engineers there to help them assess, participate, and help really work through ideas to expand capacity more rapidly so we could get more doses of accine more rapidly. we actually think this is going to come to fruition and we'll have more vaccine from potentially once it's done for moderna. we are always constantly trying to expand and rapidly increase the availability of safe and effective vaccine for the american people. mr. secretary, that concludes my comments. secretary azar: thank you, general. we are open for questions. please state your name and publications and keep your question as short as possible so we can get to as many as we can in the time we have. i'll turn it over to you now, operator. >> thank you

. >> reporter: for some shell shocked supporters, it's impossible to think about the upcoming jansen nate runoffs with a continued deluge of misinformation from president trump and others. >> you voted in november. how are you feeling about the runoffs? >> i really don't know. i don't know if it's going to change anything or not. it may or may not. >> reporter: how can you say that? >> with all of the voter fraud and all the stuff they're talking about. i don't know 100% what's going on or how they cancel votes or whatever. you know, it's confusing. not trusting anything anymore. >> reporter: that is the republican nightmare in the upcoming senate runoffs because here a republican who could hold the most sway is trump. in harrelson county the president increases support by about 3,000 votes from four years ago. a trend in deep red counties. donald trump not only won these counties in november, he did so by roughly 276,000 more votes than in 2016. republicans need that amount to vote for kelly loeffler and david perdue in the january 5th runoffs, but there's a complication. the presid

this comes as the deputy secretary to hhs is saying that a third vaccine from johnson & johnson and jansene submitted for authorization as soon as next month and dr. amesh adalja is coming up here just pretty shortly and he's going to break down the new moderna vaccine so stick around for all of that. carley: ashley, appreciate it, thanks. todd: at least ten countries banning all flights from the u.k. over a new strain of the coronavirus. it includes much of europe as well as israel and canada. new york governor andrew cuomo urging the u.s. to do the same. >> right now, this variant in the u.k. is getting on a plane and flying to jfk. this is what happened in the spring. how many times in life do you have to make the same mistake before you learn? todd: british prime minister boris johnson says the new strain is 70% more transmissible than the current strain. carley: rick grinnell says the world including the u.s. fails to see the threat posed by china. >> we have to get much more aggressive about recognizing that china is a crisis and too many democrats are trying to tell us that russia i

johnsonourse if we have and johnson, jansen, and/or astrazeneca entering into play in the february time frame, that only accelerates these timelines. in that second quarter of next year, enough vaccine to vaccinate every american who wants to be vaccinated. so at some point of course, as our vaccination campaigns succeed, we get to levels of vaccine-induced herd immunity and life looks more like normal. foundational to this are some of the studies and work under way regarding the ability of individuals who have been successfully vaccinated to continue to carry and transmit the virus or not. that's important data that we are working to generate as we speak. that will help us with understanding what the behaviors are, even after a large percent of the american population has been vaccinated that will be necessary. thank you. >> we will go to the next question. >> the next question is from evan brown, fox news. your line is now open. reporter: thank you very much. my question follows that a little bit. do you have a good timeline when might be ableple to -- talking about the people who are

and msnbc senior correspondent chris jansen is in tampa, one of the first hospitals expected to get the vaccine. good morning to you. thank you for being here. what's their expectation? did the fda make the right decision here, in trying to get this vaccine out to this hospital? >> reporter: good morning, well, the folks here say it can't come soon enough. this is a state that's had a 1.1 million cases of the coronavirus, and is approaching 20,000 deaths. and so this is kind of, in many ways, ground zero for this state. because not only is tampa general behind me one of just five hospitals in the state that will be first to get doses of the vaccine, but neighboring wisconsin county, which includes saint pete, they're one of only two counties where nursing homes are going to be getting vaccine, in this first round. but there's a lot of questions. who will get them. when will they get them. and how many, so let's start with that last question, which is how many. the governor admitted yesterday, he had pushed for florida to get more, but they're expecting to get about 180,000 doses of this

jansen mentioned with hiv, hpv, if they had stable infection. and we included additional evaluations that grew beyond the core group that we're looking for, solicited, unsolicited. within the population that we have so far, we have within the 38k database, about 120 of these and 196 in the total 43,000-plus database. we're getting to a point where we will have enough of those individuals to look at and we would propose obviously doing that in association with the bla if not sooner. we need to have enough of them. as you may know, we amended the protocol in flight so there was a little bit of delay. that was the only population apart from the 12, 15-year-olds that were delayed because of the way that was staggered. but, yes, it's our intent to essentially have more information on that population. >> okay. >> thanks. i had a question about -- since this vaccine is going to be rolled out through the eua, there might be a fair number of people who have access to the vaccine who covid exposure, may not know they've been positive. the two questions ki

he spoke with pfizer's head of vaccine research and development, kathrin jansen. >> you live in new york when you were starting off on this mission, new york was on fire with this virus. >> yeah, we were living in a hot zone in new york. and we saw firsthand what was happening every day. and, bill, the most chilling thing for me was when we walked our dog and we go by the hospital complexes. and you see one refrigerated truck after the other. appearing in the parking lots in front of the hospitals. >> refrigerator truck morgues. >> morgues, right. it was just chilling. absolutely chilling. and then the economic aspects, as well. that was absolute ly fueling th desire to come up with the vaccine no matter what it takes. >> this was kind of personal. >> it became very personal. >> i saw this as the enemy. >> the virus? >> the virus. i took this very personally. i wanted to fight it. beat it. fight it down. it was -- nothing else mattered. >> this sunday on "60 minutes" we'll have more of that interview plus a closer look at the lab that developed the first authorized vaccine in the u.s. >>

april as more vaccine becomes available these two and we hope astrazeneca and johnson and johnson janseninated to the point by the second quarter of next year every american who wants a vaccine should be able to get one. ainsley: story in california all these restraint owners furious and upset they can't pay and not getting any stimulus money. this lady her name is angela she owns a restaurant the pineapple saloon and grill. they shut down indoor and outdoor dining. i want you to talk about that first listen to her soundbite. set it up for the audience $60,000? steve: $80,000. ainsley: $80,000 for the tent in back parking lot trying to do it safely. hollywood couples in and showing an nbc show and catering for all their staff and crew members. me are allowed to open and feed their crew she is not allowed to feed the public. watch this. >> i walk into my parking lot and obviously mayor garcetti has approved this. has approved this being set up for a media company. everything i own is being taken away from me and they set up a movie company right next to my outdoor patio. tell me that this

did you know it was chris jansen?t coast. we're in new york city. that's the fox square christmas tree, and i think it's absolutely beautiful. oh, you've got to look at the markets. records all across the board here. west virginia got i -- west virginia got, i think -- weave got, i think the technical world is intraday highs, up nearly 200 points for the dow, 30,900. nasdaq up -- 30,100. >> on pace for a record close for the dow, nasdaq and s&p on a friday. stuart: intraday high. let's be technical, shall we? all right, everyone, now this. dave morris is a restaurant owner in michigan. he just happened to walk past a live news report, and he felt compelledded to put in his two cents worth of revolt. watch this. >> my government leaders have abandoned me. >> are you, are you the owner? >> $4 trillion of stimulus money, and they gave it to who? special interest groups and campaign donors. wake up, stand up! this is america, be free. give us the money to shut this thing down and calm this virus, but don't take it out on

two other people katherine jansen with pfizer. scientific head of vaccine research. candidate. >> thank you all very much. >>> we should also mention no your value partnered with forbes to roll out a special project. it's 50 over 50. one of their power lists. we are elevating women who shattered norms and found success way later in life, and, of course, if you want to nominate someone, you can do so at knowyourvalue.com. that does it for us this morning yasmin vossoughian picks up coverage right now. >>> hi there, everybody. i'm yasmin vossoughian in for steph ruhle this morning. it is wednesday. december 30th. we have multiple praki inbreaki stories we're following at this hour. >>> the fight against the coronavirus taking another turn with colorado reporting the first case of the new covid variant believed to have emerged from the uk. colorado gonvernor announcing a man in his 20s with no recent travel history. experts warning the strain be is more contagious but not more lethal. that's good news. more cases

it comes as the deputy secretary of hhs says a third vaccine from johnson and johnson and jansen couldn as soon as next month even with a third vaccine joe biden's pick for surgeon general says it could be time before most of us could get the shot. listen. >> if everything goes well, we may see a circumstance late spring, you know, people who are in lower risk categories can get this vaccine, but that would really maybe closer to mid summer, early fall when this vaccine makes its way to the general population. >> now, of course, healthcare workers will be the first to get this vaccination, this vaccine and then first responders like the new york fire department nypd and emts also keep in mind. president-elect joe biden and his wife jill are set to publicly get the pfizer vaccine today. back to you guys. brian: thanks so much, ashley. meanwhile, let's bring in fox news contributor dr. mark seale. dr. siegel, i'm stunned. we got this vaccine, even anthony fauci says by the spring we should really be will seeing things begin to go back to normal. and this new incoming surgeon general says

i'm in the jansen j & j trial. i either got a vaccine or a placebo. i don't know.i got it to be able to go out and tell people these scientists, these experts, the people in the white coats, not the politicians, are the ones calling the shots here on these vaccines. and they are being safe and they are being careful, and it's going through a process that the f.d.a., the food and drug administration, that is actually more stringent than it was pre-covid. in other words, to get this emergency use authorization, they have to go through even more testing and they have to show efficacy rates above 50%, which they normally wouldn't. that's good. we want us to be safe. but even with all that hard work that is being done, all the scientists, researchers working around the clock, there are some americans that are unwilling and concerned. part of it is because some politicians i think have played politics with this, and i hate that. that somehow in the trump administration this wouldn't be trusted. of course, this is not a political game. this is about saving lives. so i'm e

kathryn jansen. >> we believe that our data have satisfied the eua requirements for a covid-19 vaccine as you see here on the green checkmarks. we are seeking emergency use authorization for our vaccine in individuals 16 years and older with or without evidence of prior infection with sars-cov-2. we have demonstrated the risk paro profile for our bnt-162b2 vaccine given the efficacy of 95% with high efficacy observed in both younger and older adults as well as diverse demographics with and without underlying comor mid dis. and we observed efficacy against severe covid-19. in addition, we have demonstrated a favorable safety and tolerableability profile in more than 40,000 individuals. why are we applying for emergency use authorization for bnt-162b2 now? with the high efficacy and good safety profile shown for our vaccine and the pandemic essentially out of control, vaccine introduction is an urgent need. dramatic increases in cases have occurred all over the country and it is estimated that about 55,000 deaths will likely occur every month over the next few months modeling from the cd

jansen, one regarding mechanism of action. rna's and principle can be recognized via the immune system, particularly specific rna boost activation. it could induce interferons, explain what was observed in the study and may provide an effect, contributing to robust immune responses and the protection observed. recognizing that the vaccine contains modified rna, it may have blunted the activating potential. what is known regarding the leading rma to activate the vaccine isthe ou observed in vitro? my question for dr. bill gruber, regarding the numerical imbalances potentially indicating allergic reaction, what is pfizer's response to it allergic reactions to animal models o. dr. gruber described the adaptive response. what about dna? do these correlate with any of the study endpoints? like to actually have our doctor described in detail what we know about the mechanisms of actions. let me start off while the doctor is getting ready to say that one of the reasons why we platform fora our vaccine is the reason that theempers, ton