Epidemiological trends across the country, we have reasons for optimism. With mondays announcement from the monitoring board for moderna candidate vaccine and showed 95 efficacy, we have two safe vaccines that could be authorized by the food and Drug Administration to be distributed within weeks. Operation warp speed has delivered a safe vaccine in a number of ways. And ensure there are no delays in vaccine production. Because of this work, by the end of december, we expect to have 40 million doses of these two Vaccines Available for distribution pending f. D. A. Distribution and going to our most vulnerable americans. We have been laying the groundwork in administration for months. There are four major caps to get the manufactured product to americans safely in order to save lives. Allocation, distribution, administration and ongoing monitoring and data work. We have led the groundwork for these and paid for the vaccines and worked to ensure that the Administration Costs will be cover
Country. This is throw to an hour. This is close to an hour. Thank you for joining this update on operation warp speed. Because of president trumps founding and leadership of operation warp speed, even as we face daunting epidemiological trends across the country, we have reasons for optimism. With mondays announcement from the monitoring board for moderna candidate vaccine and showed 95 efficacy, we have two safe vaccines that could be authorized by the food and Drug Administration to be distributed within weeks. Efficacy, we have two safe vaccines that could be authorized by the food and Drug Administration to be distributed within weeks. Operation warp speed has vaccine in a fe number of ways. Operation warp speed has delivered a safe vaccine in a number of ways. And ensure there are no delays in vaccine production. Because of this work, by the end of december, we expect to have 40 million doses of these two Vaccines Available for distribution pending f. D. A. Distribution and going
Test. Test. Test. As you see over there on the left, the salon versus the church, the way the two parties were arguing which areas should get close first or reopened first, saloons, gambling houses versus churches. In some communities that mapped on to ljous sentiment or antisemitism or anticatholicism. Because remember this is an era of rising prohibition coming out of this. So it mapped on to different areas of politics to different regions related to what got privileged to the virus but not reaction to the virus itself. We will talk about that too. And a suf rujette handing out bonbons. And Warren Harding ran on the platform of world war i pushing the return to normalcy and return to society as we know it. As we take a step back, we saw pushback, protest and reemergence in that era. You may have heard about the antimask league. It was an organized league in San Francisco in early 1990s that pushed back against mask requirements that were mandatory. Antimask league is the only really
Global news 24 hours a day on air and on bloomberg quicktake, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in over 120 countries. I am Mark Crumpton. This is bloomberg. I am vonnie quinn. Welcome to Bloomberg Markets here are the top stories we are following. Covid vaccine in the ether again. Pfizer says a final analysis of the chemical trials data shows its vaccine was 95 effective. Free han the 90 previously. Michael stubblefield, ceo of of and later we will speak to the ceo of intact financial. It would be the biggest acquisition of a u. K. Listed company this year. A quick check of the markets. For the most part, not doing much. The s p 500 unchained. The 10 year yield under 88 basis points. Weakk dollar index a dollar index. We have a slightly smaller dollar. Investors keeping an eye on vaccine development. Tor provides materials for vaccine candidates. The president and ceo Michael Stubblefield joins us for more. Michael, you provide Raw Materials for most of these vaccines
Historical precedent . 1918 is the one that comes to mind. And we have nobody better to tell us about 1918 than my good friend christopher nichols. He is a professor of history at oregon state. Hes also director there. Oregon state center for the humanities and founder of their citizenship and crisis initiative. He also studied at harvard, waysleyan and at the university of virginia. Chris is an expert on, i would say, earliest parts of the 20th century. Of course, is he expanding out. He and i, before we came on, were just chatting about new work we have coming out on ideologies on u. S. Foreign policy. That book itself, that term, that title, was a seminole book in the field in 1987. Im really glad someone has decided to go in and update it, shall we say. Theres no better person to do it than chris. Will he talk to us about the 1918 pandemic. I would encourage you, as you look at your zoom screen, on the bottom youll see a q a button. Please, hit that button and submit your questions