Ban on abortion. Only a small number of doctors are still prepared to carry out the proceedure. I hope that the karma will save me andi i hope that the karma will save me and i will not go to jail. The head of the us covid i9 Vaccine Programme says the First Americans to receive the vaccine could get it as soon as december 11th less than 3 weeks from now. Dr Monsef Slaoui says he hopes to be able to ship vaccines to immunisation sites, within 2a hours of Regulatory Approval by the us food and Drug Administration. Our washington correspondent, lebo diseko, has more. As the us battles to deal with coronavirus at last, some welcomed news. The head of the government Vaccine Programme saying that immunisation could start in less than three weeks. The second the emergency authorisation is approved, they will issue recommendations for who will get the vaccines on a priority basis. That is very likely to be health care workers, first line workers, individuals that are very high risk. Elderly.
Available and when. And cabinet concerns. President elect biden plans to announce lloyd austin. But his military background has some Top Democrats concerned. Welcome to tuesday. Its meet the press daily. Im chuck todd on a busy and historic bay in the battle against the coronavirus. December 8th will be known as the day we got the first shots in the western world. The very first vaccines were administered in the uk. Hopefully its kicking off the beginning of a long end to what has been a long pandemic. Here at home later this hour, president elect joe biden will introduce the health team he hopes will oversee his administrations response to the pandemic. That announcement will come at nearly the same time the white house hosts what it is calling a vaccine summit which appears to be designed for President Trump simply to take a victory lap and try to claim credit for the Coronavirus Vaccine himself. The president is also expected to sign an executive order thats pretty meaningless. Its
Use. So what happens is that the fda will officially grant emergency use authorization, then the very next day the cdc basically will decide whether or not to go for it and then by the next day people could start getting the shots in their arms. A lot of data, a lot of information presented over the last 24 hours and i know you were watching it very carefully with a keen eye. What open questions and, again, this wont keep you from approving this and getting it in peoples arms on monday or tuesday, but what questions still remain for you about the Pfizer Vaccine as far as who should be receiving it . Yeah, i think that the area that im interested in the most is that group of individuals 16 to 18 years of age. I want to hear more about it. I want to look at the numbers of individuals enrolled and make sure that the data is robust enough to make a recommendation across the board. We will have a chance to discuss that with them today. Because right now the Pfizer Vaccine is not recommended
Going to be putting out . I dont quite understand it. He says Foreign Countries wont be able to get the vaccine before anyone in the United States gets it. It sounds like the problem is the opposite, pfizer has made deals with other countries that is going to limit the supply here. Frankly i dont know and frankly im staying out of this. I cant comment. You dont know . Hes in charge of the vaccine rollout, by the way, as appointed by the administration and he is saying he doesnt want to get involved in it. Right now the u. S. Is seeing the deadliest week since april, more than 15,000 americans died and the u. S. Reported more than 1 million new infections. That is people infected with this virus. Breaking just moments ago the fda released new information specifically on the Pfizer Vaccine before the fdas critical meeting on thursday. Sanjay gupta has more. Sanjay, if we could begin first with this new guidance, what are we learning . Well, so this is a 53page sort of briefing document t
As there have been more than 3 million new covid cases in the u. S. In the last 17 days with 16,000 u. S. Deaths in the last week alone. And the New York Times is reporting the white house passed up several opportunities to buy more of the Pfizer Vaccine last summer. So those allotments were sold instead to europe. Instead, it wont be able to be available in the u. S. Until next spring at the earliest. Help could be on the way in a matter of days, though, the fda releasing a 53page report today detailing the Pfizer Vaccines efficacy ahead of a critical meeting on thursday, when an Advisory Committee of the fda will discuss emergency use authorization for pfizer doses in america. Already history being made today as the pfizer rollout began in great britain, starting in a hospital north of london where a 90yearold woman became the first person outside of Clinical Trials to receive the Pfizer Vaccine. It was fine, it was fine. I wasnt nervous at all. I dont know what to say. Well have a l