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- Oh, God.
Oof.
[keys clacking]
I'm sorry.
Can I just--I'll just--
can we wordsmith for a second together?
"This evening, the FDA issued an Emergency Use Authorization
"for the COVID-19 vaccine for the prevention of COVID-19,
"the first in the United States.
"This is a critical step
to bringing the pandemic under control."
You can go ahead and send that now.
It's late. People are exhausted.
- All right, there it goes. - Perfect.
Okay, perfect. Thank you so much.
Thank you, guys. Have a good night.
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- General Perna. - Hi, General Perna.
This is Peter Marks. How are you doing?
- Peter, how are you?
- Very well. - I just saw.
- Hey, I know we originally expected
to be doing this probably tomorrow morning,
but instead it's this evening.
They just pushed send on the email just now,
so congratulations.
It is so exciting to have the first--
the first authorized vaccine.
It's really exciting.
- Sorry you had to go through all that political crap.
- I'm glad it's over with,
and I'm glad we're gonna have this out.
It'll give you a little more time.
Everything should hopefully get organized.
- It will, and I'm telling you,
vaccines will be moving tomorrow.
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- We cannot say this loudly enough.
All countries can still change
the course of this pandemic.
Every individual
must be involved in the fight.
The worst is yet to come if we don't rush
to ensure unity.
♪ ♪
- It's the biggest crisis in the world,
and it's a crisis that needs a science solution.
♪ ♪
- The pressure of the world came down on us.
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- We're going to defeat this with vaccine strategies
that have never been used before.
♪ ♪
We've never created a new vaccine
in less than five years.
- We do have to face the possibility
that it could be never.
- The world as we know it died,
and we have to create a new world,
and that new world has to have a vaccine.
♪ ♪
- To vaccinate the world, what are you gonna need?
A billion doses, three billion?
The world has never provided
more than 1/2 billion doses of any vaccine
in a year for anything.
- Unless we can get rid of it as a human species,
it's going to continue to reinfect,
and it will continue to be a global threat.
♪ ♪
- Tools to prevent, detect, and treat COVID-19
are global public goods
that must be accessible
by all people.
♪ ♪
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♪ ♪
- ♪ Call it stormy Monday ♪
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♪ But Tuesday's just as bad ♪
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♪ They call it stormy Monday ♪
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♪ But Tuesday's just as bad ♪
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♪ And Wednesday is worse ♪
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♪ And Thursday's also sad ♪
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Conventional wisdom is that a vaccine for COVID-19
is at least a year away.
But the organizers of Warp Speed
have little use for that conventional wisdom.
- It's called Operation Warp Speed.
That means big, and it means fast.
Its objective is to finish developing
and then to manufacture and distribute
a proven coronavirus vaccine.
Operation Warp Speed's chief scientist
will be Dr. Moncef Slaoui.
- I am really confident that our team
across the many governmental agencies
that are involved in these efforts,
the NIH, the CDC, the FDA,
and our partners in the private sector
will be able to deliver these objectives.
- Many scientists worry that the U.S. presidential election
and the need to resuscitate economies
could lead to premature and dangerous approvals.
[indistinct chatter]
- Great meeting. - What a great meeting.
Do you guys wanna come take a seat?
- So you're thinking over the next few months,
you think you can have a vaccine?
- Pardon? - No, we'll face the--
- Yeah? - You won't have a vaccine.
You'll have a vaccine to go into testing.
- Yeah.
- Ready to use when, would you say?
Ready to use?
- Would you make sure you get the president the information
that a vaccine that you make and start testing
in a year is not a vaccine that's deployable,
and that is gonna be, at the earliest,
a year to a year and a half no matter how fast you go.
- You think that's right?
I mean, I like the sound of a couple of months better,
would be nice, to be honest.
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- The project's gonna pour
essentially limitless resources
into a diverse set of vaccine candidates and platforms.
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Warp Speed hopes to have a proven product
and 300 million doses by January 2021.
Scientists contend they're better prepared than ever
to produce a vaccine at Hollywood speed.
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Couldn't tell you the stories I've filed this week.
- I, too, have been busier than I've ever been.
Really, ever than I have ever been in my life.
- I just think we're fucked on so many levels.
We all have exactly the same goal:
get me a safe and effective vaccine
as quickly as possible.
We're just scared that science will be steamrolled.
- For good reason.
Yeah, because we have so many examples
of it heading into this.
Take your pick.
The institutions which you have previously trusted,
the EPA, for example, is willing
to take climate change off its website.
The administration can perturb those federal agencies,
so why not the FDA?
There are a lot of people worried about this, Jon.
I mean, there are people who you would be surprised
they're that worried because they're very close
to the administration.
- So one hopeful sign to me is that we have Peter Marks
at the top at FDA,
who's committed to playing by the rules
and not letting politics trample science.
- And, you know, I think he's worried
about some of the things going on there.
[doorbell rings]
- We can set up out here any way you'd like here.
- Okay. - It's safe.
- Really appreciate it.
- I'm trying to capture a behind-the-scenes feeling
of this for the future.
So I hope you can speak more freely
about some things because we're talking in the future.
- Yeah, yep.
- And I'd like to learn the story
of how you became involved with Warp Speed.
- I watched too much "Star Trek" when I was a kid.
It was--the idea was doing things precisely,
accurately, quickly.
That's why I just thought of Warp Speed,
was just finding ways that we could remove dead space
from the vaccine development process
and try to engage the vaccine manufacturers more.
- You have a lot of pride in the FDA, obviously,
and its reputation. - Yeah.
- My sense is you also feel a sense of responsibility
to be the guardian at the gate and to not let things through
that shouldn't get through, and you have this possibility
that if a company asks for an Emergency Use Authorization
for a vaccine, Trump is gonna give it to them overnight,
and the FDA isn't--
- It ain't gonna happen overnight.
It ain't gonna happen on my watch.
We can't just, like, rush a vaccine along.
That could be really dangerous.
- So if Trump takes over and says,
"To hell with the FDA. This is ready.
Let's go." What are you gonna do?
- What would I do?
Probably hand in my resignation
with a letter basically saying that this is just not possible.
- I hope you'd come to me also and let me do a story...
[chuckles] To break the story.
- You can be my guest. - My selfish interest.
- Yeah, well, but that's why I've been--
that's why I've been willing to be a little bit risky here
if they try to jack anything through.
- Yeah.
- We're trying to make sure that the public has confidence
as much as they can.
Public health agencies are dropping like flies
in the United States, and I think we're trying
to do a reasonable job here of building the FDA
as a place where anything that comes through our process
is safe and effective, because if people aren't--
if they're not feeling comfortable enough
to roll up their sleeve at the end of the day,
any vaccine is a failure.
We care about making sure
that the right thing happens here.
Look, we're here in large part because of science,
and if we continue to exist on this Earth,
it's going to be because of science.
♪ ♪
- China has shared the genetic sequence
of the novel coronavirus
at the heart of the outbreak in Wuhan.
- Once China released
the genetic sequence of the virus,
it unleashed research around the world.
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- Which way should I go?
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Okay.
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I remember waking up
to an alert about the sequence
of the coronavirus coming out.
From that point on, from January 10th on,
it became a nonstop race.
At the NIH, we have this collaboration
with Moderna where we've been looking
at the coronavirus family for years,
so the same day that the sequences came out,
we could immediately say,
"This is the vaccine that we're gonna make."
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There are about 200 different vaccine candidates
across the world.
♪ ♪
They all approach the virus in various different ways,
but with the one common goal of training your antibodies
to know exactly what the virus looks like
and kill that virus before it can infect your cells.
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This is exactly
what your immune system should be doing.
It just needs a little help.
♪ ♪
Moderna and Pfizer both use
similar messenger RNA platforms
for this vaccine.
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This is a way to send essentially a telegram
to your body's cells.
Your cells open that message,
see exactly what needs to be read,
and then that message goes away.
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And then your cells make the protein
that that message said to make.
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For the COVID-19 vaccines,
that is the spike protein.
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It does not take long at all for your immune system
to activate and start to build up
the type of immune response that you need
to be protected against COVID-19.
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If we're gonna solve this problem,
it definitely has to be a global effort.
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So I was actually very relieved
to start to see other vaccine platforms
starting to come out.
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- Behind the chairs.
- Okay. So strike a pose.
Right there.
Ready. - Okay.
Let's get started then.
All right, it's my pleasure to introduce a speaker
who needs no introduction.
Dan Barouch.
- The question of whether
so-called natural immunity exists
is really critical for the entire
COVID-19 vaccine effort.
It's also critical for epidemiologic modelling
of herd immunity...
- Every day, the first thing he does when he wakes up
is he checks to see how many cases there are
in the U.S., in the world, how many fatalities,
and that's what motivates him.
Hey, sweetie. You want some--want a snack?
- Yeah. - Yeah?
- Yeah. - What would you like?
We're gonna have lunch soon, but what would you like?
- I don't know. - Want some fruit?
- Mm, sure. - Fruit, yeah?
He thought that this was gonna be a major pandemic.
He said, "I think I should make a vaccine against this."
And I said, "You--you need to. You have the expertise."
"You've been building a platform for years,
"and with your HIV work, it'll hopefully translate well
to this other disease."
And so it's been crazy busy.
- Okay. - Sandwich.
- Bye. - Bye. Have a good day.
- Bye. - Good luck.
See you later.
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- So right now, I am adding serum,
and then after that, we add virus,
and we'll see what dilution of the serum
is able to neutralize the virus.
- So I'm measuring nanodrop RNA concentrations,
and so far, these are actually looking pretty good.
So, see, this is exactly what we want to see.
- These are the mouse samples, right?
- That's right.
- This is just three weeks after one shot,
and we're getting antibody responses
that are going down the whole plate.
- It will remain to be seen in a clinical trial
how well this extends to humans, but I mean,
this is unambiguously good news.
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- I'm cautiously optimistic.
This vaccine might actually work.
♪ ♪
Our vaccine is a viral vector-based vaccine.
It's the COVID-19 spike protein DNA
rather than RNA, and it's delivered into cells
by the common cold virus.
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We've shown that our vaccine candidate
appears to protect in animals, but we don't yet have
the critical proof of concept in humans.
So that's the big unknown.
The fastest way to get the answer
as to whether the vaccine
is safe, immunogenic, and effective
is to do formal clinical trials.
The phase one clinical trial
is the initial test of a new vaccine or a new drug.
It's often done in a small number of individuals.
The primary goal is to show that the new intervention
is safe and raises the type of immune responses
that we believe are important.
If that hurdle is cleared, then there will be permission
to expand into larger-scale studies.
- Large numbers of volunteers, 1,000 or tens of thousands,
are broken into two groups.
One gets a placebo.
The other gets the experimental vaccine.
Both groups are then told to live normally,
and a few volunteers may come into contact with the virus
to see if the vaccine really works.
- Americans of every race, location,
and medical condition have stepped up
to help fight COVID-19 by being a part
of the vaccine clinical trials.
- Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech,
they're going to enroll up to 30,000 participants
in this trial, which started yesterday
in the United States.
- We will continue following our patients
for safety or any other reasons,
also to see how durable their response will be
for up to two years.
♪ ♪
- Last month, clinical trials began
for a COVID-19 vaccine in Brazil.
- AstraZeneca said trials of its experimental drug
developed with Oxford University
are underway.
- A lot of frontline workers are volunteers
in major vaccine trials.
More out of the University of Oxford.
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- The country is second to the U.S.
in COVID-19 illnesses and deaths.
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Medical researchers say Brazil is a crucial testing ground
for a coronavirus vaccine.
That's because it may show whether a potential cure
can work amidst such a vast presence
and spread of the virus.
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- [speaking Portuguese]
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- We started our trial in Brazil at the end of May.
Our vaccine uses the viral vector approach.
We really do want our vaccine to be seen to be the best.
We don't know if it is. We'd like it to be.
We want there to be many winners.
We don't want to be out there on our own,
not least because no one company is gonna be able
to vaccinate 5 billion people.
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We were looking for a manufacturer
who could supply the world.
The Serum Institute of India,
which is the world's largest vaccine manufacturer,
took on making a billion doses themselves,
manufacturing at risk
to be able to go full steam ahead
once we have an efficacy result.
So in India at the Serum Institute,
they've been working hard on their manufacturing process.
All of that sounds encouraging.
We, the University of Oxford, will not make a profit
from this vaccine during the pandemic.
Provision of vaccines to low-income countries
is really important,
so we wanted that to be understood
because it was very clear to us
that the world would need this,
and we were worried that, as with
some previous vaccines, it might be the rich world
that got priority.
- Well done, everybody.
Enjoy the weekend, those of you
who are not working this weekend.
See you next week. - Bye.
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- How much money is at stake?
I mean, this vaccine, is it, like, this billion dollar race?
- This is not a time to make money.
I think this is a time to address
a huge public health crisis,
and we should make it affordable and accessible
to as many people as possible,
especially in the underprivileged countries
who need it the most.
- As case numbers spike around the world,
the race to find a COVID-19 vaccine is gaining pace,
but there are fears, as soon as one is found,
a limited supply will be met by overwhelming global demand.
The WHO is calling for countries
to sign up to its development program COVAX.
- COVAX focuses on little and lower-income countries
that cannot fully afford COVID-19 vaccines.
- We must all pull together
because we cannot afford to fail.
- The fastest route to ending the pandemic
and accelerating the global economic recovery
is to ensure some people are vaccinated
in all countries,
not all people in some countries.
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The overarching goal of the COVAX facility
is to ensure that all countries
have access to vaccines at the same time,
as soon as there is supply of a safe and effective vaccine.
♪ ♪
And that priority is given to health workers,
older people, and others at the highest risk.
The COVAX facility will save lives
and ensure that the race for vaccines
is a collaboration, not a contest.
♪ ♪
- So tell me about COVAX.
Where is it at right now?
- So the goal is to try to have 20% coverage
across the world, and the idea there
is that if you could get to 20% coverage,
you would stabilize the health care system
because you would be able to, you know,
go to the high-risk people
who would be most likely to go in.
You would deal with all the health care workers.
That should be enough to at least dampen
the pandemic by the end of 2021.
So we're asking the wealthy countries
to subsidize their doses and making sure
that there would be adequate doses
not just for the high-income countries,
but for low-income countries.
- So one of the things I'm curious, Seth,
is, you know, when we met in Chiang Mai
in '95--I think we had met before then--
but we were at this meeting in Chiang Mai,
this AIDS vaccine meeting. - I remember.
And I talked to you about-- I think it was
live attenuated vaccines or something,
and I didn't know the answer, and I tried to bullshit it,
and you caught me on it and nailed me to the tree,
and afterwards, I was very embarrassed.
It's 30 years ago, right? And I still remember.
- Don't bullshit me, man. - [laughs]
- So what are you doing this time differently
based on what you've learned
about starting things in the past?
We don't want to wait five years
for a COVID-19 vaccine to get to Zimbabwe.
- Well, I mean, the real message
we're trying to get across is that
if all you care about is yourself,
so you're only interested in self-interest,
vaccinating your population alone
doesn't get you to what you want.
If you want to go back to commerce, tourism, trade,
movement, students coming in, et cetera,
you will not be able to do that
if the epidemic's raging in other countries.
What we have to get people to understand
is that it's in their national interest
to try to make sure we have the vaccine
across the world.
As you know, there are people in the HIV community
who feel particularly strong about that.
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- Jon Cohen began writing for science in 1990,
becoming one of the world's leading AIDS reporters.
- AIDS has one of the highest infection rates in the world.
I think the world is waking up to that,
that this is not something that happened and is done.
This virus is spreading in real time.
♪ ♪
For many years, there were no good drugs for HIV.
And then, in 1996, excellent treatments
became available, and people got out of their deathbeds
and went back to work and lived their lives,
but not in sub-Saharan Africa.
In sub-Saharan Africa, those drugs didn't get there
until 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005.
♪ ♪
People died who didn't need to die,
and we let that happen on our watch.
♪ ♪
The failures to help people access drugs
was just profoundly wrong.
I wanted to show this terrible side
of humans, really.
We really are capable of turning a blind eye.
♪ ♪
The challenge with HIV
and the challenge with COVID-19
is it's not simply about science.
It's about politics.
♪ ♪
There's so much we learned about how societies
and communities and governments reacted
that's happening now.
The community of people
who've been working together for decades
don't want to see this disaster happen again.
♪ ♪
- How do you justify the U.S. not joining
the WHO-led COVAX effort to provide a vaccine globally
when more than 170 other countries have joined?
- There is no nation that has been or will be
as deeply committed to delivering vaccines
all around the world as the United States of America,
not just in terms of dollars.
We will dwarf every nation
in terms of the financial resources,
the goodness of the American people
to give our money to make sure that these vaccines
are delivered all around-- no nation will match us.
It won't even be close.
But it is also imperative that when we do that,
we need to do so in a way that's effective.
It's not political. It is science-based.
And what we have seen demonstrated
from the World Health Organization,
that it is not that.
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- Please don't politicize this virus.
It exploits the differences you have at the national level.
- We are by far the largest contributor
to WHO, World Health, and...
they misled us.
I don't know.
They must have known more than they knew.
- When there are cracks at national level
and global level, that's when the virus succeeds.
♪ ♪
- It is now official.
The Trump administration
has taken the unprecedented step
of formally pulling the United States
out of the World Health Organization.
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- For God's sake,
we have lost citizens of the world.
Even 1% is precious.
♪ ♪
- COVID-19 is forcing all of us to live in new ways,
but it is also exposing longstanding rifts
in American society.
- According to a recent "New York Times" analysis,
African Americans and Latinos
have been disproportionally hit
by COVID-19.
- Black and brown communities across the country
being hit harder, in greater numbers,
and with fewer resources to save them.
- My aunt couldn't breathe.
You're not breathing right.
Like, you know, you're not-- something's wrong.
And they called the ambulance,
and they took her to the hospital.
- Okay.
- And we found out she was COVID positive.
- Oh. - It was surreal.
And it still is surreal to have someone here one moment,
and then the next moment, it's almost like
it was all a dream.
- He died at the hospital.
He went into respiratory distress
earlier that evening,
out having a good time with his kids.
That sudden.
We're just gonna try to keep as many as people as possible
from catching it.
That's all we can do.
- It infected my brother-in-law,
my mother-in-law, my father-in-law,
my husband, his sister, her husband,
and then my husband brought it home unknowingly,
and it infected both me and my two children.
♪ ♪
My father-in-law was so ill,
he wasn't even able to make it out of the hospital
to attend his wife and his son's funeral.
They literally were gasping for their last breath.
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- This disease rips through our communities.
- Yes.
- This pain that the disease leaves
in its wake, we just cannot ignore it.
- Mm-hmm. - This has changed everything.
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- In March, it was something in New York...
- Yes. - But now...
- Right. - It's with us.
- Right.
- It's--let me just start with this.
Allegheny County reported 1,470 new cases
over the last 48 hours.
So we're accounting for nearly half
of what the state is experiencing.
In other words, we're breaking records
in all the ways we don't want to.
- That's a wake-up call. - So here's the thing.
Do we have a breakdown in neighborhoods?
We have to look at these communities
that have these increasing, you know,
positive test rates, and you have to have
community members, even if they're not docs,
even if they're not first responders,
we have to have some community members
to take action where government has failed to get a handle
on this community spread, these outbreaks...
- Right. - In these communities.
This is all part of our reality now.
[indistinct chatter]
It is time to... [speaking indistinctly]
[horns honking]
[indistinct chatter]
Happy people, hungry people, angry people.
Who cares? Doesn't matter!
- Why not? Why not?
- Yeah.
- I mean, nepotism! Gruesome Newsom!
- Why?
Why say fuck a doctor who's telling--
- He is a doctor.
- No, I'm not talking about--
He's wearing a "Fuck Dr. Fauci" hat.
I'm asking him why.
- Why do you say it? Why don't you--
- He's politically motivated.
- What about all the other...
- He's wearing a hat that says that.
Don't tell me that. Talk to him.
- Talk to him.
- These kids can read. Shame on him.
- Whoo! - Whoo!
Latinos for Trump! You know how it goes.
We want four more years. Four more.
- Fauci's a disaster.
I mean, this guy--every time he goes on television,
there's always a bomb.
He called every one of them wrong.
People are tired of hearing Fauci.
They say, "You know, he's a wonderful guy."
And he is a wonderful guy. I like him.
He just happens to have a very bad arm.
[laughter]
[cheers and applause]
He has a bad arm.
- Arrest Fauci! Arrest Fauci!
- Well, this is just disturbing to hear.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, a key member
of the White House Coronavirus Task Force,
he is now facing death threats.
- This war on science, Dr. Fauci.
You are the face of science for so many right now,
not just here in the United States,
but around the world.
- I wouldn't have imagined in my wildest dreams
that people don't like what I say,
namely in the word of science,
that they actually threaten you.
I mean, that, to me, is just strange.
- Oh, that's kind of you. Thank you.
- Okay.
- And I'm gonna turn on my recorder.
So this is an attempt to make a time capsule,
to capture something for history.
What's happening right now so that we can look back on it
and understand, you know, this really intense time?
- The problem is, is that I'm walking a fine line
of being the only one
in that task force who's not afraid
to tell the president or the vice president
what they don't want to hear.
I mean, I'm not trying to undermine the president,
but there is something that's called reality.
- Yeah, sure.
- So that when you have, you know,
40,000 infections a day
or goes up to 70,000 infections
and then plateaus at 44,000,
that's not good news. - Yeah.
- The president goes around, and he'll ask something,
and I'll say, "No, absolutely not."
And everybody goes, "Eeeh!"
You know, how could you possibly say that?
Some people, no names being named,
get really awestruck
by the Oval Office and awestruck by the West Wing
and awestruck by the cars coming in and out
and the Secret Service, you know, with their guns
and all that sort of stuff,
and then you say to yourself, "Gee, this is really cool."
And you hesitate to really say
what you think of something.
I have not hesitated at all.
- I know it's late for you, and it's been a very long day.
What do you think about the possibility--
you know, China has three inactivated vaccines.
In a world where people work together...
- Right.
- Warp Speed could have said, "Let's make a Chinese vaccine
one of the candidates that we're going to evaluate."
- Yeah, you know, to be honest with you, Jon,
you're gonna have to ask Moncef that.
I mean, that's the-- you have a history
of asking me about things that I don't have control over.
- [laughs]
- You've been asking me these questions for decades.
- In the United States, the Trump administration's
$10.8 billion operation, Warp Speed,
accelerated vaccine R&D faster
than many researchers thought possible.
An equally massive effort unfolded in China.
But China is not waiting for the results
before widely using the vaccines at home.
Hundreds of thousands of people
have received its vaccines.
- China has really tried aggressively
to enter this space in this pandemic
both to reverse the narrative about itself
in this pandemic, but also to put itself
as a innovator and a country
that can master this technology.
- The country where the pandemic begun
has done a thorough job suppressing transmissions
by forcing entire cities to quarantine.
In countries unable or unwilling to impose
such hardline restrictions,
the pandemic is burning out of control.
- The United States leads the world in cases,
followed by India and Brazil,
while the UK and Europe
also report new waves of mortalities.
With winter weather pushing people
to socialize indoors, the virus could spread
even more rapidly.
- Johnson & Johnson's vaccine trial
just reached phase three with the largest group
of participants so far of any trial
at 60,000 participants.
- The study will be run mainly in the U.S.
but also in South America in six countries,
as well as South Africa.
- It's a study of importance level
that cannot even be measured.
- There is an electricity in the air right now
with our volunteers who are just not doing this
for themselves, but for the bigger picture.
- J&J has committed to mass producing
and delivering this vaccine on a nonprofit basis.
You absolutely are welcome to emphasize that
with the participants.
- That's certainly something our participants
always want to talk about because they're not doing this
for themselves. - That is public knowledge.
- They're doing it for the global public health.
I talk to them sometimes, and I say, you know,
"You are gonna help us figure out
"what dose we might use in the vaccine
that might end up going to a billion people."
Like, just think about that.
Like, you as an individual, we may never have
this much impact in our lives again.
- Yeah. - Yeah.
- We don't have any data yet from them, of course.
The trials are ongoing,
but we think a single shot vaccine
is a very promising option.
Just imagine how much easier it would be
to go to your local doctor or your local pharmacy,
get a one shot, and you're done.
That would be substantially more feasible
for global pandemic control.
We are anxiously awaiting the results.
[dramatic orchestral music]
♪ ♪
- More than 2 million people are infected
with the virus in Brazil.
A vaccine is crucial to help save lives.
♪ ♪
- [speaking Portuguese]
[somber vocalizing]
♪ ♪
[both speaking Portuguese]
- [whistles]
- [speaking Portuguese]
- Morning, little bud. How you doing?
- Want to say good morning?
- [softly] Good morning.
- [gasps] Good morning.
- Good morning.
- How you doing, little bud? How'd you sleep?
Did you sleep good?
Do you want to say, "Good morning, baby sister"?
Do you want to give her a kiss?
- Yeah. - That's right, bud.
In the name of the Father, and the Son,
and the Holy Spirit, amen, glory to Thee, our God.
Glory to Thee, O Heavenly King,
O Comforter, Spirit of Truth,
Who art in all places and fillest all things.
As we arise from sleep, we fall down
before Thee, O Good One, and we cry unto Thee
with the hymn of the angels, O Mighty One.
Holy, holy, holy art Thou, O God.
Through the Theotokos, have mercy on us.
Glory to the Father, and to the Son,
and the Holy Spirit.
Lord have mercy. Lord have mercy.
Lord have mercy.
Have mercy on us and save us.
Amen.
So great seeing you. How are you?
- Fine.
- Good.
All right.
- Let's have a seat, and we're gonna get started, guys.
- All right, we're gonna get started.
And I want to begin by saying welcome to the movement.
We are facing a great mountain right now
that is killing our brothers and sisters
by the thousands.
You ever hear people say, "Well, I can't wait
to get back to normal"?
And I think, "Well, what normal we want to go back to?"
We want to go back to the normal
of failing schools?
We want to get back to the normal of, you know,
not enough housing for homeless folks?
We're gonna go back to the normal of violence
on our streets?
And, you know, institutional racism,
is this the normal we want to get back to?
COVID disrupted everything.
There's a major opportunity there.
Father, if you would please, the next slide.
The work that you all are doing is to go out
into our communities and try to save lives,
and nothing short of it.
♪ ♪
The three primary objectives that we have,
the first is to combat the spread of COVID-19.
♪ ♪
- And this is some information
that you could share or you could use for yourself
as people of color.
Well, you know, sometimes we get left behind.
- That's right. - Yeah.
♪ ♪
- Second, discover and respond
to basic needs in the community.
♪ ♪
- And have you had a coronavirus test?
They have a testing site
at the corner of Charles Street.
- Thirdly, we want to support the mental health
of the community.
- Hi. - Hi.
How you all doing? - How are you?
- Stay safe.
♪ ♪
- It's like we're starting to know people
who, you know, who have been infected with COVID.
- Yeah. - Right.
- Yes, has COVID. - Is that really right?
- Yes.
♪ ♪
- And if we do this right, it won't only be
about the well-being of our generation,
but it will be about the well-being
of our children, of our children's children,
and our children's children children.
♪ ♪
- Mr. President, the FDA is reportedly considering
stricter guidelines for the emergency authorization
of a COVID vaccine.
Are you okay with that?
- Well, I tell you what, we're looking at that,
and that has to be approved by the White House.
We may or may not approve it.
That sounds like a political move
because when you have Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson, Moderna,
these great companies coming up with these--
the vaccines, and they've done testing
and everything else,
"I'm saying, "Why would they have to be, you know,
adding great length to the process?"
I don't see any reason why it should be delayed further.
- The president's patience seems to be wearing thin.
He was tweeting this morning, complaining about the FDA
and telling them to "get the damn vaccines out."
- Ladies and gentlemen, a warm welcome
to all the attendees in today's symposium
on protecting the integrity
of the COVID vaccine development effort.
- So I'll turn to Dr. Marks.
I hope you're able to comment on what you would say
to people who are concerned about
FDA's ability to maintain integrity
in this process.
- Our process must end up ultimately increasing trust
in vaccines and-- because without
that vaccine confidence, we're not gonna get
to where we need to.
Without getting to the point of having a large fraction
of the population vaccinated
with a reasonably effective vaccine,
we're gonna continue to be in places
like my basement right now where we'll be working
from home for long periods of time.
So we need to get back to normal lives.
♪ ♪
- Last night, the president again
promising a COVID vaccine soon.
- We're gonna have a vaccine very soon,
maybe even before a very special date.
You know what date I'm talking about.
- We will make sure that they meet
the quality manufacturing standards
that we've set and the safety and efficacy standards.
- The FDA is proposing stricter guidelines
for approval of a COVID vaccine.
Do you support that new FDA guidance?
- Oh, I definitely support the FDA.
- The guidelines call for checking on adverse reactions
for at least two months
after phase three trials are completed.
- For a vaccine, most adverse events
occurred by two to three months,
and obviously we're not gonna allow anything to proceed
that we have any significant concerns
for safety on.
- The White House has blocked new guidelines
from the FDA that could have made COVID-19 vaccines safer.
- He's trying to now bully the FDA into approving
a vaccine or vaccines
before they've been adequately tested.
That is a major mistake.
- We do need to make sure that people trust in this
and feel confident that what comes through our process
is something--because we at FDA are comfortable
giving that vaccine to our families,
they will feel comfortable giving it
to their families, and I'll stop there.
♪ ♪
Cans get to go back to their home...
For another day.
And we're done, thankfully. [chuckles]
- Scientist who does a lot of work
with getting information...
- I have my wife doing--
she's teaching an art class upstairs,
so if you hear a little-- her getting a little loud,
she occasionally may-- hopefully you won't hear a lot.
- So what happened?
- I don't under--I mean, I wake up in the morning
every day now, and I'm, like, amazed at what happens.
Basically, sometime midmorning today,
the White House about-faced.
They said, "You should get it out as quickly as possible."
So we did. The guidance is out.
- So in effect, this means it can't possibly be
before the election, right?
- It's very hard to imagine that we could have
a submission, get through the process,
and have a vaccine before the election.
- Well, are you glad that you're not being called
to go to the White House routinely now?
[laughter]
- [mouthing words]
So I have been told by my wife
that if I set foot in the White House,
I'll be sleeping on the street, so I won't be going
to the White House... [laughs]
For the near future, okay?
And I don't blame her, right?
We're not going to the local hot zone here.
- Across the nation, in red states and blue states
and swing states, voters are delivering
their verdict on a norm-shattering president
and two starkly different visions
of America's future.
- Oh, this is the big countdown moment, Jen.
Here we go. [phone rings]
- Pennsylvania! Oh.
I know it's only 4%-- hey!
14%. - So far it looks okay.
You know, they never show California.
- Well, no, because the polls are still open.
They close at 8:00. - Yeah, call me when he loses.
He has to lose. He can't win.
- Yeah. - When--
- Well, it said it won't be over until real late.
- You'll be up for a while. - I know.
I'll call you before I go to bed. - Yeah. - I promise.
- Okay, bye.
- You think they'll know by then?
- No, but I'll just check in before we go to bed.
I promise. - Okay.
I'm gonna hang up on you now. - Well, I'm gonna--huh?
- I'ma hang up on you. - I know.
You always do. - Yeah.
- Thank you very much. - All right, bye.
- Buckle up for a suspenseful night.
Voters in all 50 states are having their say
in the heated fight for 270 electoral votes,
the number needed to win the White House.
[birds chirping]
- Right here. - Where do you want me?
- You--one over. - Twice again.
- Let's get the cameras going here.
- Hold on, quiet.
- So this is the moment we've been waiting for
since Albert put us on a journey in March.
- I'm getting superstitious. Let's not talk...
- Okay. - About when or what.
- Be strong. - Be strong, huh?
[phone chirps]
- Yeah, hello, everybody. - Hi, Bill.
Hi, Katherine. - There's Bill.
[cheers and applause]
- Oh, wow.
- Whoo-hoo! - [screams]
[bottle pops]
[cheers and applause]
- To life!
all: To life!
- To breakthroughs. - Actually.
- Breakthroughs.
- This celebration is really to life.
[soft dramatic music]
♪ ♪
- It's 5:59, and I just woke up
to Slack messages, emails,
that Pfizer has reported its first analysis,
and they found 95% efficacy,
which is startlingly high.
- Okay, it's an amazing moment for science.
What can we say, you know?
Shit, you come up with a vaccine in, you know,
11 months after the description of the virus.
I mean, you know, never in the history of anything
has that been done.
Just a revelation of science that we're able to do this.
♪ ♪
- Dr. Fauci.
- This is insane.
- What a whirlwind, huh? - Wow.
[laughs]
- I'm happy and reassured...
that we are seeing a return to being guided by science.
We're all breathing easier, I think.
- Are you referring to the vaccine
or the election or both? [laughs]
[dramatic orchestral music]
- We already started the manufacturing
sometime back, and as I said, we believe we should be able
to have up to 50 million this year.
There's no time to be lost here.
♪ ♪
- Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer will apply
for FDA emergency use approval within days.
- The type of vaccine that it is, an mRNA vaccine,
that is not the only company that has it.
There's another company, Moderna,
which has a vaccine
very similar, if not identical to this.
Their results will be coming out soon,
so it's likely that we're gonna have
more than one vaccine that's effective.
♪ ♪
- Mm, I--like, I--
♪ ♪
I've already, like, shed, like, a million tears.
Like, this is--oh.
- We're getting Moderna's phase three interim results.
94.5% efficacy for their COVID-19 vaccine.
The bar was set very high by Pfizer last week at 90%.
This met it.
♪ ♪
- You know, that moment was--
I was--I--it was the first time
that I was able to have any real happy tears
in this entire thing.
Science really spoke in that moment.
♪ ♪
It was-- that moment was beyond...
Beyond the race, for me.
- We now have two safe and highly effective vaccines
that could be authorized
by the Food and Drug Administration
and ready to distribute within weeks.
♪ ♪
- We have some breaking news for you.
The first coronavirus vaccine has been approved
for use in the UK.
- This has been manufactured
by the U.S. pharmaceutical company Pfizer
and its partner BioNTech.
- 90-year-old Margaret Keenan making history
as the first person in England and indeed the world
to receive the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine
outside a trial.
- The president's been venting because he's seeing
other countries roll out their vaccines
and their citizens getting shots in their arms,
and so he's been incredibly frustrated
that the emergency use has not been granted here
for Pfizer's vaccine, despite how it's been
in the works for several days.
- The president has been putting extreme pressure
on his closest advisors to get the vaccine out the door.
- A key FDA committee
going to go over the submission
from Pfizer and BioNTech.
- A group of outside, independent medical experts
who will discuss all of this data,
and then they will vote at the end of the day.
- Could we bring up the voting question?
Based on the totality of scientific evidence available,
do the benefits
of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine
outweigh its risks
for use in individuals
16 years of age and older?
Okay?
- Doctor, 16 and 17-year-old children
do not have high rates of disease,
so it becomes a risk benefit balance
that worries me.
- Arnold, at some point, as another pediatrician,
I'd like to chime in
as a last pediatrician to chime in.
- Okay. - Here's what I would say.
I think I support the statement,
actually, as written.
I think it's never an issue of when do you know everything.
The question is, when do you know enough?
We certainly know that this vaccine
is highly effective for three months
after dose one.
We have clear evidence of a benefit,
and all we have on the other side
is theoretical risk, so I, frankly,
would support this as written, and I agree with Dr. Rubin.
- Okay, I think we are going to vote.
- You'll have two minutes to cast your vote
after the question is read,
and all votes will be considered final.
Go ahead and please cast your vote.
Please close the vote and broadcast the result.
So we do have a favorable vote,
and that concludes this portion of the meeting,
so I will now hand the meeting back over to Dr. Monto.
Thank you, everybody.
- And therefore,
our work for the day is done.
Goodnight, and see you soon.
- I have to give you a hug. [chuckles]
I got a little teary. - Did you really?
- I did. Just did.
- Really? - It felt really emotion--
it's a big--it's hard to get a feel for that
'cause you're sitting in this chair
and at your computer,
but that was, like, a big, big deal.
- Yeah. - Wasn't it?
- That's teary, cool. - I guess.
- All right. - All right.
[line ringing]
- General Perna. - Hi, General Perna.
This is Peter Marks. How are you doing?
- Peter, how are you?
- Very well. - I just saw.
- Hey, I know we originally expected
to be doing this probably tomorrow morning,
but instead it's this evening.
So congratulations.
It is so exciting to have the first--
the first authorized vaccine.
It's really exciting.
- Sorry you had to go through all that political crap.
- I'm glad it's over with,
and I'm glad we're gonna have this out.
It'll give you a little more time.
Everything should hopefully get organized.
- It will, and I'm telling you,
vaccines will be moving tomorrow.
[dramatic orchestral music]
♪ ♪
- Within the next 24 hours,
they will begin moving vaccine
from the Pfizer manufacturing facility
to the UPS and FedEx hubs.
And then it will go out nationwide.
We have realized the greatest public-private partnership
in modern times.
Doctors, scientists, researchers, factory workers,
logisticians, and hundreds more
have all come together for a singular purpose:
save lives and end the pandemic.
♪ ♪
[beeping] - I'm bringing a load over.
- Overnight, a potential turning point
in the COVID crisis.
The first doses are now being prepared to roll out
from this Pfizer plant in Michigan.
- From the production line to the arm.
- Getting this vaccine out to at least 70%
of the 330 million people in this country
is gonna be one of the biggest tasks
we've ever undertaken.
♪ ♪
- Lifesaving vaccines have been developed.
Sharing vaccines now is essential
for ending the acute phase of the pandemic.
We're asking all countries to be part of a global effort
to suppress the virus everywhere.
♪ ♪
What happens next is up to us.
♪ ♪
[siren chirping]
♪ ♪
[applause]
♪ ♪
[siren beeping]
- UPS and FedEx trucks and planes
will soon start rushing this vaccine
across the country, some shipments
escorted by U.S. Marshals.
We expect the first vaccinations
as early as Monday.
♪ ♪
- I...
think it's perfectly normal
not to be excited about taking a vaccine.
Father and I, we're old soldiers.
You know when they had-- we had vaccine day in the army?
Nobody woke up going, "It's vaccine day!
"I'm so excited!
I can't wait to go get me shot up."
But, you know, we do it
because we know it's good for us.
We know that we cannot wait until vaccines
get into the community to begin talking about vaccines.
Did you see this?
Did you hear that an African-American woman
developed the Moderna vaccine?
It's very encouraging, and I think, in a way,
very fitting.
Would you get the COVID vaccine?
You want it?
- No. - No?
- Oh, you wouldn't take it? - Mm-mm.
- The sooner that we talk about vaccine,
the more time people have to warm up to the idea,
to work through their own issues
until they have the comfort they need
to really get this. - I don't know what it is.
I don't have corona, so I don't know,
so... - Uh-huh.
- I try to stay away from people who have it
so I don't have to worry about a vaccine.
- Okay. [laughs]
- When people say-- you know, I see this.
I'm watching the TV, and they say, "Oh, you know,
Black folks don't trust because of Tuskegee."
- Right, right. - Yes, Tuskegee was horrible.
It's also not only about Tuskegee.
That's the reality.
[somber music]
When the crisis is all over,
you know, and it will end one day,
we've got to come together and point this out.
♪ ♪
We just want to remind you
that when we needed testing sites,
there wasn't any testing sites.
We just want to remind you that there was a time
where you told some folks to get on a bus
for three hours if they had COVID symptoms
to come to a testing site.
We just want to remind you all that,
and we want to know
how you're gonna get right with what you did.
♪ ♪
- Would you consider taking the vaccine?
- Oh, no, I don't want to take it.
I don't know. I wouldn't ever--
I just--I'm not gonna take it. [laughs]
- Okay.
- Would you read some information about it?
- Oh, yes, I will.
- Well, I think-- 'cause that'd be a great start.
- Okay. - See?
We have to have that conversation
because all of that influences attitudes
about the vaccine.
'Cause that wasn't somebody else
that did all that.
That was the very same people that are telling us now
we need to get vaccinated.
[indistinct chatter]
[line ringing]
[phone beeps]
- Hi, Ron, just checking to see
if there was any adds overnight.
We had scheduled some clinics today.
Trying to make our contingency plans
if we don't receive vaccine today.
- Delivering the COVID vaccine
is being called the biggest logistical challenge
in a generation.
- State and local health officials
were left to piece together a massively complicated
rollout operation without federal guidance
or additional resources.
- Coast to coast, many areas dealing
with a shortage of vaccine supply.
- The slow rollout of the vaccine comes
as the U.S. approaches 400,000 deaths.
- Phone lines ring busy. Websites are crashing.
In Florida, first come, first serve for seniors
led to long lines and frustration.
- We've seen senior citizens
waiting overnight for the vaccine.
- Why did that happen?
- That's my question to you, Governor.
You're the governor of this state.
I'm not the governor of this state.
- We were promised 20 million doses
by the end of 2020.
The federal government came nowhere close
to meeting that mark.
[tense music]
- We were expecting to receive a vaccine shipment today.
I just have clinics scheduled.
That's why I'm trying to figure out
how to notify people.
♪ ♪
- It is essential that, in the waning days
of this current administration
and the incoming administration,
that they step up those efforts
and deliver on the promises,
because lives are hanging in the balance.
♪ ♪
- Well, we are focused, frankly, on making sure
that the vaccines are made available
as quickly as possible and distributed
as efficiently as possible.
- How much are you concerned about the lack of communication
with the Biden transition team?
- Of course, we would hope that transition happen quietly
and smoothly, and we're here to serve the American people--
- Have you had any contact
with members of the Biden transition?
- No, no contact.
- AstraZeneca announcing late stage data shows
its vaccine was, on average, 70% effective
at preventing the virus, but that's not the whole story.
- The team carried out trials
using different amounts of the vaccine.
For those who received two full doses
four weeks apart, it was found to have
62% efficacy, but counterintuitively,
for those who received an initial half dose
followed by a full dose a month later,
it was found to be 90% effective.
- Well, AstraZeneca and Oxford University
acknowledged a manufacturing error.
- The half dose was never supposed to happen
in the first place.
It was actually an error, one that turned out
to be a very fortunate one.
- There was no mistake.
We knew exactly what we were doing.
There was no error by the investigating team.
- Well, the paper itself, Adrian,
says there was a miscalculation,
so I think you're--
- No, it absolutely does not say there was a miscalculation.
There was no miscalculation. There was no error.
- Adrian, I have to hold you accountable for a second.
You guys have been difficult. You haven't been transparent.
The company doesn't let you speak.
The company doesn't speak.
The Italian company sends me cryptic messages.
Nobody wants to, like, honestly say,
"Here's what happened."
- I would argue that it is there in the paper,
and we wrote it down, and-- - It's a different study.
- No, it's not. No it's not.
- And to blend them... - No, no.
- It's not kosher. - No, no, no.
We don't care whether it's kosher or not.
We don't follow that.
Look, it's simply what we thought was sensible
and reasonable, and we proposed to regulators,
and they said, "Yeah, that sounds fine."
- All right, I think you were-- I'm gonna tell you my opinion.
I think you were naive to not anticipate criticism
for doing that, because it's far afield
from what the standards are elsewhere.
- We make no apology for doing multiple different groups
for safety, immunogenicity, and efficacy
in a pandemic, and if there's a different pandemic next year,
we will do the same thing. - Okay.
We don't need to argue about it.
I'm just telling you why that criticism exists.
- Yeah, I know, okay, and I'm telling you
we're not contrite, and we would do the same again.
- [laughing] - Seriously.
- The AstraZeneca vaccine is a good vaccine.
WHO is now finishing the prequalification
for that product.
In fact, we plan to roll out about 350 million doses
of that vaccine in the first half of the year.
- The center where I'm getting jabbed
is currently using the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine
for those receiving their first dose,
and that is the one I'll be having.
It's so important that we all get our jabs
when asked to do so.
- Relived to be getting your jab, Prime Minister?
- Very pleased, very pleased. How are you?
See you in a few now.
[spirited orchestral music]
♪ ♪
- You lock it? There.
- Okay, it's locked. - All right.
♪ ♪
Okay.
♪ ♪
- I can't see. - It gets foggy.
- I took my glasses off because it's too foggy.
- Yeah--oh, where'd I put my glasses?
Oh, I got 'em in my pocket.
I'm like you. I'm like an old person.
- Yeah. - I can't find anything.
- [laughs]
♪ ♪
- One, two, three.
♪ ♪
- You did it? I didn't even feel it.
- There you go.
♪ ♪
- We're now on track to have enough vaccine supply
for all Americans by the end of July.
- I don't trust the vaccine.
- I'm not getting the vaccine
because I'm honestly not scared of the virus.
- A new poll finds nearly half of Trump voters
do not plan to get the vaccine.
- What if Trump came out and said,
"Please, please take this vaccine."
- No, I don't believe he'll take it.
- Vaccine hesitancy is on the rise
in European and Asian countries.
- Vaccines are safe.
Please, for yourself, your family, your community,
this country, take the vaccine
when it's your turn and available.
That's how to beat this pandemic.
- Dr. Slaoui,
thank you so much for agreeing to do this.
You started on May 15th technically.
Did you ever meet one-on-one with Donald Trump
and have a conversation with him?
- We met many times, but never one-on-one.
- Can you remember anything that was said
at any of those that sticks in your mind?
- I can. - [laughs]
Tell me. - [laughs]
We were in the Oval Office. Happened twice.
Twice.
And he would, at some moment, do this.
"It's oval here. This is the Oval Office.
I'm the president."
- He would just say that out of the blue?
- Out of the blue, I swear, and, like, honestly,
the first time, I was like, "Oh, my God."
- Did he ever confront you and say,
"You're a Democrat. You didn't vote for me.
Are you--are you working behind my back?"
He never got in your face? - Absolutely not.
And frankly, Jon, my preference
is, even after the fact, not to politicize this.
I worked so hard to stay out of any politics.
- You have a sense that you accomplished
what you set out to do.
- Honestly, yesterday, I was surprised.
We got an email saying, "As of tomorrow,
you cannot use the word Operation Warp Speed anymore."
I told myself...
"Why? What's the added value?"
Because, in a way, everybody that's worked
under Operation Warp Speed, it feels like,
"What did we do wrong?" - Yeah.
- Why?
And I'm not married to that name.
Frankly, I don't care.
Honestly, I feel...
I feel so fortunate and happy
to have served and helped.
That's all that counts.
I say two vaccines approved-- by all standards,
this is absolutely exceptional.
Absolutely exceptional.
And I think it was done uniquely
on the basis of science, of data,
of commitment to hard work and transparency.
This all has been achieved between May and now.
We're not done.
There is still a lot to be done.
- Do you think that Trump's failure to concede
and refusal to concede made it more difficult
to transition the information to the next team?
- For sure.
Very, at least, unfortunate. Polite word.
- Yeah.
- You know, I look forward-- you know,
I'm super happy looking back.
I will redo it in an eye-- you know, in a blink.
Please next pandemic virus, please do not come
during an election year.
- It's the number one story on CNN right now.
Breaking news.
It's in an article in "The Boston Globe" now, Chloe.
It really is the number one news story
in every single news organization
in the world now.
"J&J trial shows 66% efficacy in global trial,
"85% efficacy against severe disease,
and 100% efficacy against hospitalization and death."
So it's an incredible day. It's an amazing day today.
Hello, good morning, everyone.
[indistinct greetings]
- Morning, Dan.
- It's really been a privilege working with all of you
over the last year.
Many of you worked on this project
in different forms, and it's not often
that I have the privilege of telling you guys
in lab meeting that our vaccine worked,
and it's really amazing.
It's a good day.
[serene music]
It's a good day for the world.
♪ ♪
- The U.S. could approve
a third coronavirus vaccine soon.
- Johnson & Johnson asking the FDA to authorize
its one-dose shot for emergency use.
- This is an incredibly stable vaccine to use,
especially in developing countries
where freezers, frankly, are just not practical.
- Intends to distribute the vaccine in the U.S.
immediately following authorization
and expects a supply of 100 million doses
to the U.S. in the first half of 2021.
♪ ♪
- All right, so today and tomorrow
are gonna be two extremely busy days.
The health department, as I'm told,
had 2,000 extra doses of vaccine,
and they cannot get any new vaccine
until they get rid of these 2,000,
so as many of you know,
we received this emergency phone call
saying that there is gonna be this pop-up vaccination clinic,
at which point we can get 1,000 people vaccinated
in our community, another thousand in Homewood.
They said we need a gym.
We'd get us a big gym to do this in.
Of course, we don't have that in our community.
What we do have is an abandoned grocery store
that's shutting down on us.
We have right now over 600-- right, Angela?
Over 600 names of people who had signed up.
We have to try and get to 1,000 names today
because the vaccination will happen tomorrow.
Sound good? - Yeah.
- All right. - Let's go to work.
[line ringing]
- Your call has been forwarded
to an automated voice message--
- Hello. - Hi, good morning.
Is this Mrs. Allen?
- All right, and I'm just calling to make sure
that you--they're gonna give you a slot
for you to come down to Shop 'n Save tomorrow.
- Are you calling to give me a date to get my shot?
- Yes, I am.
- Well, I'm just so relieved
because it seemed like it was going to be months.
- Are you still interested in receiving the vaccine, ma'am?
- My husband and I both.
- Let me go ahead and put you in then.
- Angela, how many do we have at this particular moment?
- 804. - 804.
- Yes. - That's just wonderful.
Thank you so much. - Yeah, you're welcome.
- Microchips? - That's what he said.
- There's no microchips in there.
What is it, Lay's, Doritos? What is it?
[laughter]
You know, that's that QAnon stuff.
We're not into that. - No.
- We just watched "The Net."
- Can I get you an answer from the Bible on this?
- Mm-hmm. - This is what it says.
"Honor the physician
"with the honor due him
"and also according to your need of him,
for the Lord created him."
- Hi, we wanted to know if you're interested
in getting a COVID vaccine.
- Huh? - For the 65 and over.
- We can sign you up right here.
- I know, but no thank you. Not at this time.
- You're not interested? - No.
- "The Lord created medicines from the earth,
and a sensible man will not loathe them."
- That's right.
- "The druggist making a compound of them.
God's works are never finished."
How about this?
What if we signed you up,
and then someone could call you and see
if a time worked for you?
Does that sound good?
- Sounds all right to me. - All right.
"My son, do not be negligent when you are sick,
"but pray to the Lord, and he will heal you.
Keep in touch with your physician..."
"For the Lord created him."
- All the shots are accounted for.
They are ecstatic that we found over 1,000 people
in less than 24 hours,
so they're setting up right now.
There are two police that are here on station.
They'll be both in and out just to make sure
everything is copacetic, I assume.
So you're ready to rock and roll.
- Sir, how you doing? It's so good to see you.
- Hey. - Yeah, Ms. Diane, thank you.
Hey, Riv, how you doing? It's so good to see you.
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♪ ♪
- You're clinical review ten.
We don't have that quite yet,
so you're hanging out with David
until we tell you what else you're doing.
- I can do that. - All right.
- If they don't have an appointment,
find a yellow vest. - Okay.
- 'Cause we gotta defuse the situation.
- The older adults will probably laugh at you
when you ask them if they're gonna be pregnant.
You have to ask everybody. Don't make assumptions.
♪ ♪
- You got an appointment, right?
- Yeah.
♪ ♪
- Good morning, everyone.
Happy vaccine day to you, one and all.
[uplifting music]
♪ ♪
[indistinct chatter]
- Life is slowly returning to normal
as more people around the world
are receiving their COVID-19 vaccine.
- Restrictions are now lifted
for social and recreational areas,
and businesses will no longer have to follow
social distancing rules or limit how many people
they can allow inside.
- On July 4,
we're gonna celebrate our independence from the virus
as we celebrate our independence of our nation.
- Americans are embracing pre-pandemic life
even though the Delta variant
poses a great threat to the unvaccinated.
- 2%? I mean, that's not like--
- Have you seen the variant report from the UK?
Yeah, so all of that-- yeah, all of that in the UK.
- And then--hang on-- South Africa down there.
- What we are seeing now is the emergence of new variants.
Some are more transmissible and maybe even have
slightly increased mortality.
That's obviously very, very concerning.
Others might be more to do with their ability
to evade immunity, which we have seen
with some of the vaccines now, and that's, of course,
very worrisome.
Why are we seeing them now and not--
I mean, we're looking more now, and we have had more cases,
but there's also just more time that has lapsed.
- Well, and there is, like, more immune pressure
right, in the public? - Well, that's the question.
This is clearly a bigger threat
than what was before it.
This is one of the biggest warning signs
of the entire pandemic.
[soft dramatic music]
The virus is changing all the time, right?
I mean, that's what viruses do.
♪ ♪
Viruses mutate...
♪ ♪
And sometimes they end up being more transmissible.
Those are the ones that are gonna end up dominating.
You have a lot of vaccinations,
but you have clusters in which the virus
will continue to circulate
because the vaccination is low.
That means that the virus gets a chance all the time
to sort of break through in the population
where they are vaccinated
because the virus keeps circulating.
If we just let the virus run out in a community,
it is gonna evade more vaccines in the future.
That is exactly what we are seeing in India right now
with the Delta variant.
It's capable of evading some level of immunity...
♪ ♪
And it's spreading across the world
pretty quickly.
- The inequitable distribution of vaccines
has allowed the virus to continue spreading,
increasing the chances of a variant emerging
that renders vaccines less effective.
- We are going to be in a situation
in which new variants will emerge
in areas of the world where vaccine coverage
is much lower 'cause they don't have access
to the vaccine.
In South Africa, that's what we are seeing right now.
We need to get very serious about saying,
"How do we get the vaccines to Africa?"
A concerted effort to really get worldwide control
of the pandemic is what our goal should be,
and I'm not sure that it is right now.
♪ ♪
- South Africa is the world's fifth worst effected country.
- South African hospitals are overwhelmed,
mortuaries overcrowded,
and burial plots in short supply.
- So we are very worried.
This is a second wave, and the wave is being fueled
by this new variant.
The new variant seems to be much more infectious,
and obviously, the more the virus evolves,
the more we have to evaluate whether that is impacting
on vaccine efficacy.
You know, Janette died from COVID,
and our HR person also. - Really?
- Yeah. - Really?
- Yeah, I think this morning.
She's been in ICU for three weeks.
- Really? - Yeah, that's horrible.
- It is. - I know.
We're in big trouble.
Our health care workers are dying.
We can't let them go back into a third wave
without a vaccine.
Our president worked with the Serum Institute of India
to secure doses of AstraZeneca,
and thank God, that vaccine started
to make its way into South Africa.
♪ ♪
- The arrival of these vaccines
contains the promise that we can turn the tide
on this disease that has caused so much devastation
and hardship in our country
and across the world.
♪ ♪
- The weekend the vaccine is arriving,
Michael is analyzing his data,
and he's getting more and more catatonic.
He kept on saying to me, "Glenda, I'm worried
"about the vaccine efficacy for AstraZeneca
against our South African variant."
It's not gonna work.
♪ ♪
The only plan B I knew about was the vaccine from J&J.
We knew it worked against our variant.
♪ ♪
We have a longstanding relationship with J&J.
We're working on an HIV vaccine together.
♪ ♪
So we're working in a kind of gray zone here.
I've emailed, and I've asked them
if they've got some spare vaccine lying around.
We have to vaccinate health care workers
in South Africa.
Can you help us?
And they agreed.
♪ ♪
Had a whole lot of research vials
all over the world, so they started to do an inventory,
and they found half a million doses.
♪ ♪
[laughter]
Can't believe it. We've pulled it off.
♪ ♪
Vaccination signs. Oh, that's cool.
- Yeah, I think that's there.
- The country is euphoric.
We can vaccinate almost half of the health care workers.
♪ ♪
Ian's just phoned me,
and he says that there's a riot.
They've had to pull in the police at Berea,
and we worry that we're gonna run out
of vaccines there.
♪ ♪
There's a lot of them. It's, like, crowded.
Like, now they're starting to queue.
Police everywhere.
That's insane.
Well, you know, we only have a limited amount
of doses left.
[indistinct chatter]
- In South Africa, we're in this pandemic
for three years or more. - Yeah.
- We are fucked. We are fucked.
- Why?
Why are you-- why is it so bleak?
- We underestimated the virus.
COVID-19 is actually now the leading cause of death
in South Africa over HIV and TB.
- Really? Wow, wow.
That's sobering.
- It is a logistical nightmare to get 67%
of the population vaccinated.
- Even if you have supply, even if you have vaccine.
- I don't think there's gonna be an issue of demand.
It's always gonna be an issue of supply.
♪ ♪
- I am fully immunized. - Great, and so am I.
- What are we doing? Is it hoarding?
Is it fair to call it hoarding?
- It's disgraceful that health care workers
globally do not have access to safe and effective vaccines,
and that really represents a collective failure.
You know, another example of complacency
that occurred between the last crisis and this one.
It's like a no-win situation because if you state
that you're gonna donate a portion of the U.S. supply,
you're gonna make a lot of people unhappy,
and a lot of people will expect more as well
and say, "That's not enough."
- Let's to switch to the COVAX facility.
- The goal is 2 billion doses, right, by the end of the year.
There has been the generosity on the part of many countries
to providing money, but nowhere near enough.
A lot of countries that had the money
jumped in the queue and placed orders for vaccines
with all of these companies.
That undercuts COVAX because the idea is
global, equitable allocation, and so that's been
a real frustration that they haven't been able
to get access to vaccines yet when other countries have.
- Why not give the vaccines to COVAX now?
- Those decisions are being assessed
and being assessed every day.
- Are you lobbying for that? Do you believe in that?
- I believe in making sure that we have as much vaccine
to get Americans vaccinated and get the world vaccinated.
- But there's a push right now, David.
There are doctors and nurses dying,
and we have covered our doctors and nurses in this country.
If they want a vaccine, they can have a vaccine.
- Well, I want to get to the point
where we're making vaccine in this country for the world.
That is a goal.
- Because right now it's India
that is making vaccine for the world.
- Right, and what did India do today?
- They blocked exports. - Right.
- You must be pulling your hair out about India.
Are you gonna have trouble hitting your target
for COVAX members?
- It is likely now that we will.
Everybody says they want vaccine equity,
but not everybody's acting like they want vaccine equity.
The Serum Institute of India did a deal with us,
I have to say, in good faith.
Unfortunately, that's been superseded
by government controls,
so that has broken down completely.
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♪ ♪
- As India continues its devastating battle
against a raging outbreak, the country's prime minister
has temporarily banned exports
of COVID-19 vaccines so that all doses
can be used in-country.
♪ ♪
- Thank you so much. - Nice to meet you.
Thank you for having me. It's very kind of you.
- Yes, okay. There we go.
- Are you comfortable with me taking my mask off?
- Please do. - Okay, thank you.
- Go ahead.
- The government in India said it's a short delay.
It's not an export ban.
Do you--do you agree with this decision,
or are you being forced to make this decision?
- These decisions have been made
by the government of India, which have been rightly made,
and I support those decisions based on the need in India.
See, their perspective is
that, look, we want to help the world.
We are helping the world, but we need to protect
our people first.
- The government isn't taking over the company?
- Not as yet because I've agreed to what they want to do.
- If you disagree?
- If I disagree, I will be nationalized,
and we don't want to do that. - Really?
- And even they don't want to do it.
- They could do that? - I don't think they want to.
I'm just joking, but--
- Well, are there government people here
making sure that you're not exporting stuff to places?
- I won't comment on that.
I really can't, but let's leave it at that.
- But the goal of 274 million doses
in COVAX by the end of May-- - That's not gonna happen.
No, without me, essentially, COVAX would fail.
We have signed contracts of 240 million doses
for the AstraZeneca product with COVAX.
- Mm-hmm.
- And we're in the process of signing more contracts,
but of course, national interest
always supersedes all contractual obligations.
What we have to do is in the interest
of our nation and the world,
and right now, our nation needs us,
and I don't want that to be the situation.
I want, and I plead with other vaccine manufacturers
to provide more doses to COVAX
so that the pressure for me is off.
- So what should Pfizer and Moderna...
- Short and simple.
- What should Pfizer and Moderna have sold it--
- Sacrifice profits. They are for profit.
I am for profit and philanthropy,
and that is the distinct difference
between Serum Institute of India
and every other vaccine company on this planet.
That's in a nutshell.
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♪ ♪
- The public sector has invested billions
in development of vaccine candidates,
but it's the private sector that will rake in the cash.
- This will be one of
the biggest profit possibilities
in literally a generation for these companies.
♪ ♪
- Even as vaccines bring hope to some,
they become another brick in the wall of inequality
between the world's haves and have nots.
- Pfizer is forecasting $15 billion in revenue
from its COVID vaccine.
- Moderna created three new billionaires this year,
CEO Stéphane Bancel.
He is now worth over $4 billion.
- Those who have vaccines are getting better significantly,
and they're opening up their society.
Those who don't have vaccines are facing
serious surges in cases
and deaths due to COVID.
♪ ♪
- Companies are rejecting requests
by manufacturers in developing countries
to share the recipes and know-how
so that they can solve the severe shortages.
♪ ♪
- The fact that the vaccine recipe is a secret
even as we are facing
unprecedented vaccine shortages
is a moral stain.
- The differences between the haves and the have nots
is now completely exposing the unfairness of our world.
- There have been unprecedented statements
said by corporations in terms of access,
but when you really boil it down,
it's actually still business as usual.
- [sobbing] - [sobbing]
- The injustice, the inequality.
Just give us the vaccines.
♪ ♪
- Dr. Tedros.
Thank you so much for taking the time to meet with me.
- Thank you. Thank you for having me.
- I want to ask you about your own vaccination.
You got your first shot when?
- You know, still I feel like
I know where I belong,
in a poor country called Ethiopia,
in a poor continent called Africa,
and wanted to wait until Africa and other countries
in other regions, low-income countries,
start vaccination.
So I was protesting, in other words,
because we're failing.
I saw global failures like HIV, and these are the things
I remember when we were confronted with COVID.
- Why do you think it is that there are so few world leaders
who are willing to say, "I'm gonna be blunt
"and call this a catastrophic moral failure.
"I'm going to say it is grotesque
to have a gap between 12-year-old being vaccinated--"
and you never say, "In the United States,"
but I can fill in the blank. I live there.
"We must do more," they say or think,
but they don't call it what it is.
Why not?
- [chuckles]
I mean, that's the question I wanted an answer for actually
because a shared responsibility is just something
you would expect from a decent human being.
When the whole world is burning,
it's about humanity.
- I imagine you have been on the phone with leaders
of vaccine companies.
- I encourage them to help.
- And what was the reaction?
- [sighs] It's the same response,
the same argument.
You know, it's unprecedented actually
to have a number of vaccines approved
in just a year, but that still saddens me
because I know what happened in the past,
and that's happening now on our watch again,
and, you know, this question comes,
"When do we learn? When?"
♪ ♪
The development and approval of vaccines
in record time took us
to the summit of scientific achievement.
The question that every person on Earth is asking now
is how and when will we end this pandemic?
We have the knowledge and tools to do it,
including vaccines,
but around the world, many other countries
are now facing a surge in cases,
and they're facing it without vaccines.
Above all, at the root of the pandemic
is a deficit of solidarity and sharing,
sharing of data, sharing of information,
sharing resources, sharing technology and tools
that every nation needs to keep its people safe.
We're in the race of our lives,
but it's not a fair race,
and most countries have barely left the starting line.
♪ ♪
You know, Jon Cohen, a science journalist
is with me today, and he was telling me about,
"Tomorrow is a long time."
I think that could be a very important message
to do things today and to do things now.
Tomorrow is a long time.
I think we have to do everything with that mentality.
Thank you so much.
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