FDA could approve COVID-19 vaccine before phase three trials end

PERSONAL GROOMING HIS HAS ACTUALLY NEVER BEEN YEAH THAT’S COLLATED MIGHT HAVE BEEN YOU MAY HAVE HEARD THIS IS WELL THE FDA COULD AUTHORIZE EMERGENCY USE OF A COVID-19 VACCINE BEFORE PHASE 3 TRIALS ARE OVER ACCORDING TO FDA COMMISSIONER STEPHEN HAHN IF A VACCINE DEVELOPER APPLIES FOR APPROVAL BEFORE THE END OF PHASE 3 THE FDA MAY AUTHORIZE IT SAID THE AGENCY WOULD HAVE TO DETERMINE THAT THE BENEFIT OF COURSE OUTWEIGHS THE RISK. HE ALSO SAID THE VACCINE DECISION WOULD BE BASED ON DATA NOT POLITICS DOCTORS HAVE EXPRESSED CONCERN OVER POLITICAL PRESSURES TO APPROVE A CORONAS CORONAVIRUS VACCINE BEFORE IT’S READY TO GO. HE AND HERE’S A DOCTOR DEBORAH BIRX SAID ABOUT THAT. DON’T WAIT FOR THE VACCINE TO DO THE RIGHT THING. DO THE RIGHT THING TODAY BECAUSE IF WE DO THE RIGHT THING TODAY WE GO INTO THE FALL WITH MUCH FEAR CASE.

YES, I’M HOPEFUL FOR VACCINE. BUT I’M ALSO VERY CONVINCED RIGHT NOW THAT WE CAN STOP COMMUNITY SPREAD BY WEARING MASKS, SOCIALLY DISTANCING AND AVOIDING CROWDS. YEAH, I MEAN IF YOU JUST THINK ABOUT ANECDOTALLY THE WAY CALIFORNIA HAS BEEN FOR THE PAST MONTH OR SO. AND THIS IS CORROBORATED BY. OBVIOUSLY THE THE WAY THAT THE NEW TIERED SYSTEM SET UP AND ALSO THE DEPARTMENT PUBLIC HEALTH IN LOS ANGELES TODAY THAT THE PRESS CONFERENCE IS THAT IT SEEMS LIKE WHAT WE’RE DOING NOW IS WORKING.

I DON’T KNOW WHAT WE’RE DOING HUGELY DIFFERENT THAN WE DID. IN JUNE THAT THEN LED TO SPIKE IN JULY MAYBE IT WAS RESTAURANTS, MAYBE WAS BARS, THOUGH THEY WERE ONLY OPEN FOR A WEEK THEY GOT SHUT DOWN AND I DON’T. I DON’T I DON’T KNOW. CONFUSING. BUT. YOU KNOW OBVIOUSLY HAVE A VACCINE RIGHT NOW AND THOSE NUMBERS KEEP GOING DOWN SO I THINK AS LONG AS WE’RE ABLE TO KEEP ON THAT TRAJECTORY. YEAH, I JUST DON’T KNOW KNOW WHAT ARE PEOPLE REALLY BEING DIFFERENT I THINK PEOPLE ARE DOING LESS NOW THAN IT SEEMED A GOOD ANECDOTAL SEEMS TO ME MORE PEOPLE ARE OUT THEY FEEL MORE COMFORTABLE DAY LIKE I’M NOT DOING THIS. BUT AGAIN I DON’T KNOW MAYBE IT’S JUST THE CIRCLES THAT I SEE ON ON THE INTERNET TO THAT POINT ANDREW I I’M SEEING THE SAME THING I CAN FOLLOW OTHER PEOPLE FROM OTHER COUNTRIES PEOPLE IN THE UK FOR INSTANCE AND I’M SEEING THEM THAT BARS AND CLUBS AND LIKE THEIR IRISH THE SWING AROUND FIRE STICKS.

LIKE DOING THESE CRAZY THINGS. AND IT’S LIKE THAT’S A VERY SPECIFIC WELL AS OF SPECIFIC STORY I SAW. BACK HOW HOW ARE OTHER COUNTRIES DOING SO MUCH BETTER I CAN’T EVEN IMAGINE A DAY WHERE BARS COULD BE THAT PACKED AND WHERE WE COULD BE SEEN PERFORMANCES AND SHOWS LIKE THAT. AND I DON’T KNOW WHAT ARE YOU GO TO WHERE THERE’S PEOPLE THROWING FIRE JUGGLING FIRE. BUT IT SOUNDS GREAT I LOOK FORWARD TO THE YOU KNOW WHEN YOU CAN TAKE US THERE FOR 5 DAYS TO CIRCUS YOU BUT ROBERT YOU’RE NOT WRONG MY FRIEND USED TO LIVE IN ITALY FOR SUNDAY. ABRAAJ YOU STAY THERE FOR A FEW YEARS AND SAYS THAT HER FRIENDS IN ITALY WHERE YOU REMEMBER THIS IS A HUGE AT THE CENTER SAID THAT THEY ARE SHOCKED TO SEE THE U.S. STILL CLOSED FOR SO MANY REASONS AND YEAH, I GUESS THAT’S WHAT FUELS THE FIRE ON THE INTERNET THAT MAKES PEOPLE THINK IT’S VERY POLITICAL WHICH IS WHY THEY EVEN HAD TO ADDRESS THE FACT THAT IF A VACCINE IS OUT IT’S NOT BECAUSE OF POLITICS BECAUSE THAT’S IMMEDIATELY WHAT.

PEOPLE WILL SAY WHETHER IT’S DONE WE’RE NOT ON BOTH SIDES BECAUSE PRESIDENT TRUMP MADE THE PROMISE OF FOR THE VACCINE ARE MADE THE PROJECTION OF NOVEMBER, SO IF IT’S NOT DONE BY NOVEMBER, ONE SIDE WAS A SEATING GET IT DONE, BUT IF IT IS ANOTHER SIDE WILL SAY WELL WHY ARE THEY RUSHING IT. AND IT’S IT IN AMERICA, SPECIFICALLY THE REACTION TO THIS FEELS VERY POLITICAL YEAH, I THINK YOU’RE RIGHT BUT EVEN MORE TO ROBERT. YOU NEED TO TO KIND OF PIGGY BACK ON WHAT YOU SAID ROBERT, I THINK THAT. YOU KNOW AMERICA OBVIOUSLY IS A MUCH BIGGER PLACE THAN INDIVIDUAL COUNTRIES IN EUROPE FOR SURE AND ALL STARTED. YEAH, IT’S HARD TO COMPARE IT, YOU KNOW THE WAY THAT IT CAME TO THE UNITED STATES WAS DIFFERENT THAN THE WAY THAT IT CAME TO EUROPE, I THINK THAT WE HAD A REALLY INCONSISTENT WALK DOWN ACROSS THE BUT OBVIOUSLY WE’RE SEEING NUMBERS DROP IN A HUGE WAY WHICH IS REALLY GOOD NEWS AND I KNOW HE DOESN’T GET A LOT OF COVERAGE STILL ON THE NEWS THAT IT SEEMS TO BE GOING IN A POSITIVE DIRECTION AND I THINK THAT FOR EVERYBODY OUT THERE WHO FEELS LIKE OVERWHELMED BY THIS AND LIKE IT WILL NEVER END.

COURTNEY FRIEL IS TALKING ABOUT HOW GOOD NEWS FOR 7 MONTHS FEELS LIKE NOW. YEAH, A LITTLE BIT OF AN EXAGGERATION BUT PRETTY CLOSE IT FEELS LIKE 10 YEARS. BUT KNOWING THAT THE NUMBERS ARE GETTING BETTER AND THEN AT LEAST THAT THERE’S NO HOPE EVEN THOUGH RIGHT NOW IT LOOKS TO ME LIKE 15 PER 100,000 PEOPLE IN LEE COUNTY WE’VE GOT YOU DOWN TO 7. THE FOUR-WEEK MOVING TO ANOTHER TIER FOR 3 WEEKS. WELL SPEAKING OF 71 ALSO EMPHASIZE THE POINT THAT WE HEARD TODAY THAT NEWS CONFERENCE AT 7% IS THAT NUMBER HAS A DEATH RATE OF THOSE WHO SOLELY DIED FROM COVID-19.

THE OTHER DEATHS THE OTHER NIGHT THE PAST 3% HAD JUST LIFTED ITS UNDERLYING CONDITION PREEXISTING COULDN’T BUBBLE BOX SO 7% IS STILL NOT GOOD. BUT I THINK THERE’S A STAT STICKY THOUGH BECAUSE AND BECOME MORE BUT IT IS ARE ALWAYS LISTED AS MULTIPLE THINGS LIKE IF YOU DIE OF CANCER, YOU DON’T JUST DIE OF THE CANCER THERE’S USUALLY LIST BUT DOCTORS WILL LIST ALL OF THE THINGS THAT THE PERSON HAD SO IT’S NOT I MEAN JUST EVEN ONLY COUNTY TO COME OUT AND SAY 7% IS INTERESTING. YEAH I I THINK THAT WE KNOW THAT EVERYBODY YOU KNOW THIS IS A DEADLY DISEASE IF YOU ALREADY ARE SICK OR YOU HAVE PREEXISTING CONDITIONS WE’VE KNOWN THAT FOR A LONG TIME, BUT STILL THERE ARE A LOT OF PEOPLE.

IN THE WORLD WHO HAVE PREEXISTING CONDITIONS. SO.

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