today. two of those companies told congress they will offer the vaccine for free or at cost. [dr. gupta] the government was able to make a lot of at-risk investments/bets on all these various vaccine candidates. it was very expensive to do that, to either fund the research or buy a product that hadn t even been developed. [tom] a $2 billion agreement with pfizer and a smaller german company. it s the biggest deal yet in the government s operation warp speed. that was a very risky financial decision that worked out absolutely wonderfully. [tom] even before fda approval, pfizer, merck, astrazeneca, moderna and johnson & johnson all plan to ramp up production to meet global demand. rather than waiting for it to go through the trials, we began immediate manufacturing the vaccine, stockpiling, if you will, millions and millions of shots. and at the same time, we continued through the traditional safety and efficacy trials. and the bet was that if they proved successful, we will have already
the traditional safety and efficacy trials. and the bet was that if they proved successful, we will have already accumulated tens of millions of shots, and it worked. it s a messenger rna vaccine. and that basically means it s a blueprint of a part of the virus. you put that blueprint in the body, and the body in and of itself sort of acts like a vaccine factory. it didn t come out of nowhere. it came out of 20 years of previous research on trying to make mrna an effective therapy. here comes covid, and suddenly we need it fast. [tom] pfizer executives are calling it one of the biggest medical breakthroughs in the past 100 years. a covid vaccine developed in just six months. 90% effective in the group of drug trial volunteers who were known to be infected. i almost broke into tears because that was so unbelievably high for a vaccine to be that effective on the first shot. [dr. emanuel] it is remarkable, and it shows you what can happen
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tens of millions of shots, and it worked. it s a messenger rna vaccine. and that basically means it s a blueprint of a part of the virus. you put that blueprint in the body, and the body in and of itself sort of acts like a vaccine factory. it didn t come out of nowhere. it came out of 20 years of previous research on trying to make mrna an effective therapy. here comes covid, and suddenly we need it fast. [tom] pfizer executives are calling it one of the biggest medical breakthroughs in the past 100 years. a covid vaccine developed in just six months. 90% effective in the group of drug trial volunteers who were known to be infected. i almost broke into tears because that was so unbelievably high for a vaccine to be that effective on the first shot. [dr. emanuel] it is remarkable, and it shows you what can happen with the right focus, the right ability to marshal all the resources and put em together. and for that, i think president trump