Why It Could Take Months For Pfizer Vaccine To Be Widely Available After FDA Emergency Authorization

Former CDC Director Dr. Tom Frieden joined MSNBC's Stephanie Ruhle to discuss Pfizer's new announcement that it was seeking emergency use authorization from the FDA. Dr. Frieden stressed that while this was great news, it could be 'many months' before the vaccine was widely distributed and people needed to be stay vigilant. Aired on 11/20/2020.
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Why It Could Take Months For Pfizer Vaccine To Be Widely Available After FDA Emergency Authorization | Stephanie Ruhle | MSNBC

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    1. @byebyebaby tRump
      Doesn’t the “beast” have cloven hooves?
      Probably a good chance he has 666 tattooed on his scalp somewhere under that mop.

    1. @Mein Depp In the UK employers are required to make reasonable adjustments to support sick workers, ultimately though, they can let you go if you are no longer fit for work. How that works in practice depends on how good (or big enough to accommodate) your employer is.

      Where I work a colleague was off ill for over six months on full pay and returned with no penalty. I know because I was part of the small team covering his work. (They were trying to recruit cover, but we are fairly niche) Equally though when I had my own problems a few years ago I must have had about 7 weeks off in total and they were nothing but supportive. I’m not saying that’s standard here in the UK, I know I’m lucky, but can you imagine how willing I am to go the extra mile for an employer that genuinely cares for its staff?

    1. @William H. Baird………..I Wouldnt hold your breath(while wearing your Mask) waiting for your answer. We Already know the Answer

    2. @Todd Dillon If they are that stupid then Moscow Mitch McConnel will have those American Covid 19 on his record and the GOP will be shamed. They will also lose seats in the midterms!

    3. @William H. Baird I DONT think, they are Thinking that way. Mitch could care less about the two of us Brother!

    1. @Woolfy 1. They were protests not riots. A very small percentage of the thousands and thousands of protestors across the country resorted to rioting and a significant number of people arrested for that had ties to malitias and white supremacist groups. 2. The protests began early on in the pandemic when we knew far less about transmission of the virus. Still, protestors wore masks, were outside and were not routinely bunched together because they were moving. And the protests happened because the systemic racism in policing in this country had lead to the unnecessay and cruel death of yet another black man. And You, on the other hand, clearly were not horrified by the death of George Floyd and so didn’t participate. But still, I’m guessing, you didn’t wear a mask and whined about wanting a haircut. See the difference moron?

    2. @Patty Kelly ​ Wow. You are a fool. Get the facts straight before you go blabbering on about things you cannot / do not understand. The “Protesting” was anything but that. Plenty of businesses / private property destroyed. Costing 1 billion (some say upwards of 2 billion). It is anything but Racism.

  1. Leave. your studio Stephanie. People are not wearing masks and going out to restaurants and not wearing masks. People are having house parties. All insisting this is still a hoax. Its exploding in mostly republican states I wonder why?

  2. Here’s why schools are closed and bars are open: liquor license fees, excise taxes on alcohol, sales taxes on customer checks, aka money. Schools don’t pay taxes, they consume tax revenue. When the rubber hits the road, politicians go with what keeps their donors happy. Plain, simple, and frankly sad.

    1. Ya Think!!!! They are Still Coddling the Fat Orange Fluke!! I would LOVE to see some Data, on Republicans with Rona compared to Democrats!!! I Sure it would be Ground Shaking!!

  3. Guess we’ll never see that great healthcare plan now, huh? 😏 Sidenote, I wonder how much Bidencare will differ from Obamacare and how much of it will pass in the senate considering how hard they tried to dismantle the ACA, smh. These people not f*cked up about the little guy having insurance. If he can’t afford it, that’s his problem. 🤮

  4. Please wear a mask today it’s more effective then waiting for a vaccine, we’re having exploding number of cases because all the Republicans and Trump wanted to hold mass COVID-19 spreading events Trump is still 100% in control of this pandemic , It’s still trumps 100% responsibility to take care of America not hiding in his bunker and go play golf

  5. About 200-250 million Americans do not give a single f*** about anyone else outside their own household, if it causes them the tiniest of inconvenience. Ironically, one of the least meaningful words in the US the last 2-3 decades, is “us” . And the primary keyword in the nation today, is “me”.

  6. The truth about these vaccines in today’s biotechnology is they were formulated via computer the day after the genome of the virus was mapped in the spring of this year. They have been being produced from the computer generated formula to initial testing in labs since that time and have been going through testing all along. This started and was going along when the insane orange clown was still calling the virus “a liberal hoax’ or saying it will “be gone by April” . These vaccines have nothing to do with any political party or political input.

  7. If only people would learn to distinguish essential from non essential we would ALL certainly be way better than what we are!

  8. Look at the lead pfser guy, echo sounds Russian sold stock that look suspicious. Then trump, today, was really angry at them for not rolling out vac before election. There’s something that stinks here

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