scott gottleib is here.s is the conversation that's happening in every workplace in america. >> the college or university the university has more discretion >> they can require vaccinations i think a lot of businesses are strongly encouraging vaccinations, they'll subject employees to have proof and do some extra screening they are trying to strongly encourage people one final point, these vaccines are likely to be authorized. they expect to file blas at some point. they will be totally authorized. they want to be able to have the requirements for getting vaccinated >> the college campuses and the kids on the college campus >> somebody refuses it that's a huge concern. they're still avoiding productivity why do you think employers are reluctant to require this and the approval from the fda from the fall >> they can require vaccination in the workplace business settings where you have a lot of employees that can't be socially distanced for the work in manufacturing folkes and those kind of jobs that's imposin

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scott gottleib, former fda commissioner and a cnbc contributor.sly about astrazeneca because i think we're moving in the right direction here what is it, 37 cases out of 13 million? nobody likes the 37 cases but i tried to do the math on how many people -- if 13 million were not going to get covid, how many lives do you save versus the 37 that died from the blood clots how many would be expected to die from covid out of 13 million? you can make a case it could be a pretty large number compared to 37, right >> well, backing up to your earlier discussion i think you might be back in the studio sooner than you think this summer so we'll see look, astrazeneca's -- >> well, because of the vaccines and because of a decline case count although again new york city, if there was two parts of the country that look a little bit concerning, it would be new york city and the upper midwest. astrazeneca has been very particular how they've wanted their data presented and their ceo has as well. i'm going to reserve commenting on their data and just say i think th

scott gottleib in his latest op ed in the wall street journal he says while we won't fully eliminatehospitalizations and deaths won't continue to recur. let's talk about meg's report. we touched on this last week when you suggested we should help mexico as soon as we've vaccinated everyone here this brings up questions we knew there was going to be vaccine nationalism happening. we've seen it play out in italy where the e. usaid vaccines manufactured there won't be sent to australia what should we do? if we haven't stopped it around the globe, it's still going to be circulating it seems it would be pretty difficult for any u.s. politician to say let's send what we have to other countries before we have every adult here. >> look, in 2009 with h1n1 we had vaccine being manufactured against the flu in australia and canada australia and canada wouldn't allow the doses destined for the united states shipped to america until they had satisfied their local needs. on the flip side of that, we were manufacturing vaccines in the united states for the u.k. and at glaxosmithkline facility and we

availability this is the thing, guys, we've been hearing for quite some time from people like scott gottleibld do this very rapidly because this is what they do they're very good at offering vaccinations and they do it every year with the flu shot and other vaccines too 20 to 25 million shots a month they could do. cvs says from march 3rd through yesterday teachers, school staff members and child care workers actually made up more than 30% of the covid vaccine appointments at cvs pharmacy locations. >>> bumble shares lost shares. they had 31% revenue growth year over year. bumble reported 2.7 million paying users of its app. that's up 32.5% from the prior year we're going to talk to the ceo whitney wolf herd. we have another big one coming up after this. pfizer ceo albert bourla we have the ceo of market maker virtu financial. he'll talk gamestop, rise in reddit stocks and payment of order flow he'll break it down and i imagine we'll have a fascinating conversation about it. as we head to a break, a quick check on the sawquk stack. stay tuned, you're watching "squawk" on cnbc ♪ ♪ (upbeat mus

scott gottleib on, the former head of the fda, to react to the news about the astrazeneca data.the company but i think this is a really unfortunate situation given the concerns people have about the vaccines if the company has not been completely clear. obviously we want to hear more about what happened. dr. gottleib pointed out yesterday that this is more of a commercialization issue potentially than just a public health issue when you have vaccines here in the united states that are so effective, it means people at some point, probably by may, he thinks, will be able to shop around for have i vaccine they get. the rest of the world is relying on vaccines coming out he thinks at least when it comes to the united states you could be looking at commercialization question where people say which one do i want to get at that point? >> reporter: yeah, the timing for astrazeneca is they likely wouldn't be getting on the market until early may by that point we'll be entering where we have enough vaccines for all-american adults by the end of may it would be a difficult time for any vac

scott gottleib >> yes we know that children struggle and suffer when they are at home and it is vital which is why the money and the arp for schools is esse essential. yes, that is so important and the kids have been out for a long time. any parent will tell you that their kids are having a hard time being at home by the way, the parents are struggling as well so it's time and that's, you know, key. a key part of this bill. >> secretary raimondo, you had your own experience with your family dealing with layoff i guess that's helped kind of shape your views on what we need right now. in terms of getting people back to work, what are the most important steps? >> we have to make sure that the american companies and american workers can compete. as you said, my dad made a good middle class living in the factory until all of the jobs went to china and that was really tough on my family. certainly as commerce secretary i'm going to look to be as tough as we need to be on china. i'm going to look to make investments in american workers and job training so they can get jobs in the advance ind

we had scott gottleib on earlier.variant with the south african strain, i guess. thinking that there are quite a few cases in new york. is the same worry for you in new jersey on that variant, governor >> good to be with you, joe. scott's got some deep jersey roots, i have to say yeah, we have that same concern. we know we've got the new york variant, the u.k. variant, i guess the brazil variant we're part of the same reality that you and i talked about a year ago the densest part of the nation we're the densest state in the nation we are right on top of the new york metro reality and invariably what hits them will hit us and vice versa. we're watching all of that very closely. >> overall what is the latest data point that you can bring us in terms of cases, hospitalizations, icus, everything else. continuing to be positive because you're starting to reopen. >> yeah. positive, joe, without question, but we've definitely plateaued like a lot of the rest of the country. so we've come down dramatically from hospitalizati

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