These campaigns start thinking about a transition of power. Guest it is an interesting history. Until 2010 there was no legal requirement for campaigns to prepare. In 2010 the president ial transition act passed. It provided that it was not just something they could do, it was a responsibility. Of candidates who are representing major parties to organize transitions. So, transitions generally start as early as april. Certainly by may, because there is just too much to do in organizing the National Government to do it in 75 days between the election and inauguration. It is a quite surprisingly sophisticated, can be, operation. Host what does it entail . Guest there are really four responsibilities. The first is to prepare to put a team on the field, if you will. Organize a white house staff, a cabinet to fill the most important senateconfirmed positions. They have to be cleared. Getting a running start is important. The Second District the second is to prepare the first 100 or 200 days
Phase of Clinical Trials. The fda has now scheduled a meeting of its Vaccine Advisory Committee to review the Moderna Vaccine on the 17th 17th following their meeting of december the Pfizer Vaccine on december 10. We also learned this morning that the United Kingdom has granted authorization to the Pfizer Vaccine. While the fda completes its review, the approval of another independent regulatory body should give americans additional confidence in the quality of such a vaccine. If all goes well, as general perna will lay out, that means we can make our first shipments of vaccine to states this month, and we are on track to be able to ship enough vaccine for 20 million americans before the end of the year. Of course, were all eager to have enough supply to vaccinate every american who wants it. Because of operation warp speed, we expect it to be at that point in the spring. Having substantial quantities of a safe and effective vaccine thats been authorized by the fda before the end of th
Briefing with officials on operation warp speed to give an update on the status of a coronavirus vexing. They discussed how a vaccine would be distributed across the authorizede one is for emergency use. This is one hour. Hello, everyone, and thank you so much for joining our weekly operation of warp speed briefing. While we continue to face concerning epidemiological trends across much of the country, we also continue receiving good news through operation warp speed. With modernas announcement on monday, two companies have now filed eua applications with the fda. Out of the three companies that have showed promising data for efficacy in phase 3 trials. On top of that, more owssupported candidates are well on their way in that final phase of Clinical Trials. The fda has now scheduled a meeting of its vaccine Requirement Committee to review the Moderna Vaccine on the 17th following their meeting of the Pfizer Vaccine on december 10th. We also learned this morning that the United Kingdom
Youre expecting here in the coming days and week. What we should be watching for this week. Hanks for having me, john. That makes two of us as far as trying to keep on top of everything. As far as the current state of play, these past three weeks we have seen three crucial positive readouts of data from leading programs. The first came from pfizer, the second came from moderna, and the third one this morning just came from astrazeneca and the team at oxford. These are three leading vaccine front runners, all three in late stage studies appear to be effective, the first to 95 effective in preventing covid19. Thatnity is expected to do late november, early december. That will set up an fda decision, all eyes turning to the agency to see how quickly they can approve it and for what subgroups of the population. Vaccineing on in the phase, but there is a lot going on and muchneeded positive news when you think about the surge that we have seen in cases, hospitalizations, and deaths. The fda
Chuck blah house is back ,o talk about Social Security chuck strategist at blah house come as we sit here eightmonth into the pandemic, with the resultant economic downturn, he talks first about what covid impact has been on the health of the Social Security system in this country. Nott it probably will surprise your viewers to see that it is having a negative effect. The recession that has been , wages have covid gone down. All of that weakens the Financial Sense of full security. Ate looking at a painful security programs even before covid, and this has made the situation more urgent than before. It . Urgent is what is the status of Social Security right now . Guest i would say it is extremely urgent. Wen before the pandemic hit, were risking getting past the point of no return with the Social Security finances. The five readjustment that we have to make if we want to continue to have our Social Security program that has been financed and historically the weight has been, five of tho