Candidate is 66 effective yet 85 effective against severe covid disease, that is lower in terms of efficacy than pfizer and moderna. Both were authorized at por than 95 effective but dr. Fauci hopes the one shot vaccine keeps people out of the hospital and helps alleviate the stress this pandemic has put on the health care system. The Johnson Johnson has te one vaccine and roll up your sleeves and get whatever vaccine is made available first. As More Con Tagious Variants continue across america. The South African variant has been detected and a new model shows that the pandemic could claim nearly 654,000 american lives by may 1, were up to 433. So disheartening to see. Lets begin with elizabeth cohen. So break down this data on the Johnson Johnson vaccine for us. All right, poppy and jim. Before i do, to just reiterate, bottom line Johnson Johnson, we expect them to apply to the fda for authorization very soon and it is a good vaccine. It works. It does well. But it is not as effective
as covid eases, people have gotten out and spent a lot of money. you have the war in ukraine, that is obviously driven gas prices up even higher. and then of course you have china s just crazy covid policy that is going to screw up the supply chain for months, maybe years to come. really at the end of day, this is window dressing, can this president or any president do anything about inflation with those outside sort of macro influences on the economy? yeah, you re right, just to find the challenges over the last two years, fundamentally our economy has been a severely effected by the pandemic. the president since he s been in office has been focused on helping us get through the pandemic in a way that is safe, by getting shot news arms and helping households and household balance sheets as you pointed out and pay the rent and pay the bills and helping state and local governments. the federal reserve was doing