partnered with pfizer. we had senior leaders collaborating with their senior leaders literally on the floor as they were packing and getting ready to distribute boxes this weekend to actual loading of the trucks. really just excellent collaboration between o.w.s. and pfizer. very impressed with the eamwork there. then we extended it through security of the shipments with the u.s. marshals and their track, coordination of handoffs, down to fedex, u.p.s., and down to the final administration sites where we dropped off the vaccine where the c.d.c. dispersed people throughout the country to observe the receipt of the product. to just get lessons learned and learn how it's being received. the comfort of people receiving it. how they unload the box. how they go ahead review instructions and initiate execution of administration. we have been seeing it all over the news. people getting doses of vaccine really a remarkable end-to-end effort. easily said, very difficult to do. and i'm grateful for everybody that's be

partnered with pfizer. we had senior leaders collaborating with their senior leaders literally on the floor as they were packing and getting ready to distribute boxes this weekend to actual loading of the trucks. really just excellent collaboration between o.w.s. and pfizer. very impressed with the teamwork there. then we extended it through security of the shipments with the u.s. marshals and their track, coordination of handoffs, down to fedex, u.p.s., and down to the final administration sites where we dropped off the vaccine where the c.d.c. dispersed people throughout the country to observe the receipt of the product. to just get lessons learned and learn how it's being received. the comfort of people receiving it. how they unload the box. how they go ahead review instructions and initiate execution of administration. we have been seeing it all over the news. people getting doses of vaccine he really a remarkable end to end effort. easily said, very difficult to do. and i'm grateful for everybody that'

yesterday was just the first step with the pfizer vaccine. this week, probably tomorrow the booklet for the review of the journey vaccine will be made public. many of you will have an opportunity to look more in depth into how remarkably aligned with the pfizer days and that moderna dana and trend data almost 95% efficacy. against disease and more to review tomorrow that booklet and the vaccine will be reviewed at the meeting by the fda on thursday. and hopefully as for pfizer diligently goes by with potentially distribution. we have insured significant commitment in terms of vaccines availability from a moderna within the first quarter and we announce on friday and the second quarter of 2021. we are in active discussions with pfizer to similarly extend the number of doses available for the american population. but things do not stop there. you notice we have two other vaccines in trials. the johnson & johnson vaccine, a one-shot vaccine. we are now almost at 42000 subjects included in the city. so it's more that we announced last week. the s

government placed an initial order of 100000000 doses for pfizer beyond techs clovers 900 and pfizer is ready to begin ship an initial dose a soon after receiving an emergency use authorization from the u.s. food and drug administration any additional doses beyond the 100000000 subjected to separate. in mutually acceptable agreement rumors are circulating that after that pfizer offered to sell more to the united states but trump said no deal now the white house denies that let's do the math pfizer says you need to do with this per person so $100000000.00 vaccines covers only $50000000.00 people roughly 15 percent of the u.s. population but u.s. officials say they checked the numbers and there won't be any shortage we are confident that it will have 100000000 doses of find this vaccine is agreed to you know a contract and beyond that we have 5 other vaccine candidates including 100000000 doses on the way from london so what does this america 1st document really mean pfizer privately funded to work without u.s. government support so washington cannot force its will to be 1st on the com

partnered with pfizer. we had senior leaders collaborating with their senior leaders literally on the floor as they were packing and getting ready to distribute boxes this weekend to actual loading of the trucks. really just excellent collaboration between o.w.s. and pfizer. very impressed with the teamwork there. then we extended it through security of the shipments with the u.s. marshals and their track, coordination of handoffs, down to fedex, u.p.s., and down to the final administration sites where we dropped off the vaccine where the c.d.c. dispersed people throughout the country to observe the receipt of the product. to just get lessons learned and learn how it's being received. the comfort of people receiving it. how they unload the box. how they go ahead review instructions and initiate execution of administration. we have been seeing it all over the news. eople getting doses of vaccine really a remarkable end-to-end effort. easily said, very difficult to do. and i'm grateful for everybody that's be

pfizer and madonna on --dash moderna and those with the ancillary like the needles and the diligence and the whites also responsible for getting the vaccine for moderna a remarkable work and fedex and ups come i cannot say enough to the men and women from fedex leadership down to a person's moving packages and storage capability onto trucks and planes and the pilots who got it where we needed it. the secretary said there is one part of this country that is not being touched today through wednesday. everybody is receiving fair and equitable distribution of the vaccine because of the commercial industry and the role they are playing in the distribution of the vaccine. we are incredibly excited about the strategy. we are continuing to provide states with future forecast so they continue to plan the forecast goes from next week through the following six weeks for planning. we will only release vaccines once the fda has approved it. forecasting hopes for planning but execution is only based on approval. then we sure those allocations on a weekly basis. and again to reinforce, it is not a

so update, first and foremost, pfizer vaccine. after eua on frida a lot of work w happening over the weekend by thousands of people from pfizer, ups, fedex and mckesson to assure that the vaccines were packed and ready to be shipped in a very methodical, disciplined, overwatched approach, right? ou goal is every vaccine that goes out is safe and and effective upon delivery, and we wanted to make sure that deliveries occurred in the places where people could receive them and then begin administering vaccineo the american people. it went uncredibly well. incdibly well. as i talked to you about, a lot of detailed planning and execution to this point. our goal is -- our strategy is simple. one, the pfizer vaccine initial push based on what was available, we wanted to get out to the american people right away. i briefed the cadence that we would pack on saturday, that we would relocate on sunday,nd we would deliver on monday. deliveries have begun todays we speak. of the 145 shipments the secretary are referenced, we know that 55 havee

reveals that 6 people who took part in trials for pfizer's coated vaccine have died . the public versus the police versus the president after weeks of violent protest in france officers voiced their anger over a perceived lack of support from emanuel much as they face mounting public hostility we speak with the deputy secretary of the country's largest police union . he succeeded in the force he succeeded to the police 150000 policemen and 100000 angry with his words on acceptable for president of the republic. also this hour the u.s. president elect makes his choice for the country's defense secretary nominating a retired general responsible for a half a $1000000000.00 training program in syria which was deemed a complete failure. a very warm welcome to the program from all of us here at r t h q in moscow let's get started with your live news update. donald trump signed an executive order and aimed at ensuring that americans have priority when it comes to access to vaccines produced in the u.s. both the outgoing and incoming presidents are beat about the prospects of

the pfizer vaccine is very tough to store. >> there it is. the first doses, coming out of the freezer and into the transportation boxes. >> i know it's probably not very exciting. but is there audio from inside of this pfizer plant right now? let's take in this moment, if we can. dealing with this coronavirus, that's killed 298,000 americans. 1,600 people coming down with the virus. and right here, live on television, we watch this pfizer plant, you see the beginning of the end. >> you get a sense that they understand the symbolism of the moment. it is so quiet. it's like you can hear a pin drop in this facility. they realize, there's camera crews here. this is a part of american history that will be written in history books for generations to come. kendis, you mention, the backdrop of all of this. we hit 2 million tuesday. it took another four days to hit 1 million people. >> and we watch these pictures, a few hundred feet from these men and women inside the pfizer plant. ellison barber is watching what is playing outside. ellison? >> report

pfizer vaccine. only 4 people develop the paralysis temporary facial proud of paralysis out of thousands so you know you've got to study these people out of the people the died the 6 people that died 3 of them are over the age of $55.00 all of the deaths are believed to be from natural causes so it must be studied how the vaccine if a tool did affected them obviously this is going to take much more top they believe that it's safe enough now to roll it out for people to get vaccinated despite the dangers in the unknowns and these e's why why there is this tremendous rush as i mentioned you know everybody's eager to return to life as it was to resume the world economy the social aspects all these lockdowns and people believe doctors believe these administrations believe in the u.k. u.k. in the united states that the dangers of the vaccine way less than the benefits yes a lot of unknowns feel hopeful even just by having this conversation left of years a little better informed many thanks for the attainm

is that being explored for pfizer as well? dr. slaoui: [indiscernible] vaccine is totally inappropriate at this stage. why? because the data -- two doses. we know the second dose increases the strength of the immune response in terms of antibody response. we know the memory is installed much in a stronger way after the second dose. firstesigned to learn the time it sees an antigen and to really burst when it's -- it is exactly when we get -- [audio static] [indiscernible] when we get a booster. every five years. that is how it is designed to work. a one doseassuming strategy with something like think something that should be tested experimentally. red because we've seen it in 14 days or seven days in moderna or pfizer. by the way, that is exactly the question we are asking of the johnson & johnson vaccine. the johnson & johnson vaccine follows -- response continued to go after 90 days after immunization. [indiscernible] the messenger rna vaccines. now, what we are saying is to take advantage of the second dose very significant boo

pfizer put out this statement in response. if you hear the hair on the back of my neck standing up, it's because i have feelings about this. pfizer incorporated today released the following statement to address public comments that allege there are issues in the production and distribution of the company's covid-19 vaccine. pfizer is not having any production issues with our covid-19 vaccine, and no shipments containing the vaccine are on hold or delayed. this week we successfully shipped all 2.9 million doses that we were asked to ship by the u.s. government to the locations specified by them. we have millions more doses sitting in our warehouse, but as of now, we have not received any shipment instructions for additional doses. we have millions more doses sitting in our warehouse, but we get shirpment directions from te u.s. government, and they haven't give us any shipment instructions for what we should do with the millions of doses that we have just sitting here. more than 3,000 americans are dying every day now, and the

pfizer put out this statement in response. if you hear the hair on the back of my neck standing up, it's because i have feelings about this. pfizer incorporated today released the following statement to address public comments that allege there are issues in the production and distribution of the company's covid-19 vaccine. pfizer is not having any production issues with our covid-19 vaccine, and no shipments containing the vaccine are on hold or delayed. this week we successfully shipped all 2.9 million doses that we were asked to ship by the u.s. government to the locations specified by them. we have millions more doses sitting in our warehouse, but as of now, we have not received any shipment instructions for additional doses. we have millions more doses sitting in our warehouse, but we get shipment directions from the u.s. government, and they haven't given us any shipment instructions for what we should do with the millions of doses that we have just sitting here. more than 3,000 americans are dying every day now, and the

from pfizer saying there's nothing wrong. we heard from the states that they were notified by the federal government that their allocation was getting cut. as you have followed this story, have you had any sense that what's emerging here now is now a national news story about something going wrong, is forcing this toward a solution, that whatever the problem is, is getting worked out? is there any sort of scramble that you can detect to try to fix whatever the snafu may be here? >> well, the problem is, there's not a lot of acknowledgment of a snafu yet on the part of the federal government. pfizer's saying there's no issue on their end. and now there will be moderna's vaccine as part of a supply starting next week. but i do think it's eventually going to force more transparency about the issues. you know, there have been a lot of promises that distribution would go smoothly, that the government was ready to carry it out. but i think what we're seeing, since this is just the first days of distribution, is that this is a hugel

government placed an initial order of 100000000 doses for pfizer beyond techs covered 900 and pfizer is ready to begin ship an initial dose a soon after receiving an emergency use authorization from the u.s. food and drug administration any additional doses beyond the 100000000 subjected to separate. in mutually acceptable agreement rumors are circulating that after that pfizer offered to sell more to the united states but trump said no deal now the white house denies that let's do the math pfizer says you need to do with this per person so $100000000.00 vaccines covers only $50000000.00 people roughly 15 percent of the u.s. population but u.s. officials say they checked the numbers and there won't be any shortage we are confident that it will have 100000000 doses suffices vaccine is agreed to in our contract and beyond that we have 5 other vaccine candidates including 100000000 doses on the way from london so what does this america 1st document really mean pfizer privately funded to work without u.s. government support so washington cannot force its will to be 1st on the company and

pfizer has run the checks and collaborated with the fda. and going down below -80 had no effect on the vaccine, but they wanted to make sure and not only that the vaccine remains safe , but also the vial containing the vaccine, the seal, etc., was still appropriate. that's been approved and there are no issues with that. the vaccine, as they are theorizing, and we are not there yet because we don't have enough true -- situations to truly evaluate -- enough situations to truly validate -- but, as a vaccine travels in the air, etc., dry ice shifts, etc., the temperature fluctuates into a colder temperature -- poor choice of words, i apologize -- and hence, the -92. the key of this is the diligence and professionalism and immediacy which pfizer reacted in combination with fedex and ups. remarkable ability to see themselves, take control, quarantine, return, and replaced -- and replace the vaccine was just spectacular. and i applaud everybody involved in that. >> operator, we have time for one last question. >> the last questions comes from sar

people who took part in trials for the pfizer. president pushes ahead with a bill aimed at tackling islamic extremism with measures which include surveillance . broadcasting from moscow to the world this is r t international my names you know neal you're all welcome to the program our top story british health regulators are warning people with a history of allergic reactions against taking the pfizer vaccine it comes after 2 people who received the fell ill one day after the u.k. launched they must program. any person with a history of a significant allergic reaction to a vaccine medicine or food should not receive the pfizer beyond vaccine very unfortunate news for pfizer and this is piling on to what we've already learned about deaths and side effects but in this instance 2 nurses became very ill. after being injected with the vaccine they were apparently they had a history of allergies and they have vivid doing well now they're recovering but again this is something that somehow slipped clinical trials that people with previous

pfizer's largest facility, sprawling complex, 1,300. acres. the vaccine will be leaving here going directly tool 600 individual locations. we know that ups and fedex will carry these packages that have thermal monitors onboard to make sure its pfizer vaccine is at the 100 degree temperature. >> this is going to be an amazing logistical challenge. a life moment indeed. we're not told the full fda is going to meet on sunday -- i assume they'll accept this recommendation. i don't know why they're waiting until sunday. maybe they want to go through and reveal everything today, is that right? >> it may be. any additional points of clarification i that'll thought it would happen sooner as you're intimating as well. >> let me just correct. the cdc advisory panel -- the cdc advisory panel is going to meet on taensunday, whether to recommend. >> these are two committees and some of this is overlapping, wolf. the cdc advisory committee, acip, they have scheduled meeting together. they were the ones who sort of made these recommendations of health care w

we will work with pfizer to get that shipped out. and so we could be seeing people getting vaccinated monday, tuesday of next week. >> even after the vaccine becomes more widely available, though, the cdc director says the devastating increase in covid cases and deaths that we've seen over the past week are likely to continue at this pace for up to three more months. the current surge and what could have been done to prevent the pandemic from getting this bad, plus important new information about the vaccines are all part of special coverage on our website today, combined with in-depth reporting on all our msnbc

government placed an initial order of 100000000 doses for pfizer beyond techs covered 900 and pfizer is ready to begin ship an initial dose a soon after receiving an emergency use authorization from the u.s. food and drug administration any additional doses beyond the 100000000 subjected to separate. in mutually acceptable agreement rumors are circulating that after that pfizer offered to sell more to the united states but trump said no deal now the white house denies that let's do the math pfizer says you need to do with this per person so $100000000.00 vaccines covers only $50000000.00 people roughly 15 percent of the u.s. population but u.s. officials say they checked the numbers and there won't be any shortage we're confident that it will have $100000000.00 doses suffices vaccine is agree to a contract and beyond that we have 5 other vaccine candidates including $100000000.00 just on the way from london so what does this america 1st document really mean pfizer privately funded to work without u.s. government support so washington cannot force its will to be 1st on the company and

government placed an initial order of 100000000 doses for pfizer beyond techs covered 900 and pfizer is ready to begin ship an initial dose a soon after receiving an emergency use authorization from the u.s. food and drug administration any additional doses beyond the 100000000 subjected to separate. in mutually acceptable agreements rumors are circulating that after that pfizer offered to sell more to the united states but trump said no deal now the white house out denies that let's do the math pfizer says you need 2 doses per person so $100000000.00 vaccines covers only $50000000.00 people roughly 15 percent of the u.s. population but u.s. officials say they checked the numbers and there won't be any shortage we're confident that it will have $100000000.00 it's a pfizer has vaccine is agreed to in the contract and beyond that we have 5 other vaccine candidates including $100000000.00 just on the way from london so what does this america 1st document really mean pfizer privately funded its work without u.s. government support so washington cannot force its will to be 1st on the comp

then we execute through the great effort by pfizer, mckesson and ups and fedex. i feel confident that we can achieve the goal and it will be delivered to the american people. it is dependent every week on the final approval of the availability by the fda. we stay in a red them to ensure we can meet the requirement. i will have to tell you where we are at the end of the month. thank you. >> our next question comes from dan. your line is open. >> general, i wonder if you can say anything about when the first doses will arrive at long-term care facilities versus health care workers. do you see one happening before another? >> as you know, we are working in support of the governors and the states for execution. we are delivering directly to the facilities where they have identified by the quantities they identified. i know that after speaking with many governors myself and then taking state briefs from all of the states and regions, including the federal agencies, that they both -- many of them are going to simultaneously do front line health care workers as well as

government placed initial order over 100000000 doses for pfizer beyond techs covered 900 and pfizer is ready to begin ship an initial dose a soon after receiving an emergency use authorization from the u.s. food and drug administration any additional doses beyond the 100000000 subjected to separate. in mutually acceptable agreement rumors are circulating that after that pfizer offered to sell more to the united states but trump said no deal now the white house denies that let's do the math pfizer says you need 2 doses per person $100000000.00 vaccines covers only $50000000.00 people roughly 15 percent of the u.s. population but u.s. officials say they checked the numbers and there won't be any shortage we're confident that it will have 100000000 digits of pfizer's vaccine is agreed to a contract and beyond that we have 5 other vaccine candidates including $100000000.00 just on the way from them so what does this america 1st document really mean pfizer privately funded its work without u.s. government support so washington cannot force its will to be 1st on the company and its free to s

do they explain to pfizer? they probably have to communicate to their own populations who are of hospitals and nursing homes and frontline workers expecting that they would get vaccinated next week and now they are hearing that's no longer possible and they are saying we didn't screw this up something is changing here, right? >> absolutely. everybody is under tremendous pressure, tremendous pressure from all kids and you mentioned the hospitals up to the states to to pfizer i think that this is really a matter of communication and form others who are vaccinating, they have some planning to do they have probably stead you'd appointments already for them you might have to tell people we're going torg delay a week there are delays and i think the issue is really the communication between the hospitals and the states and the states and the federal government and they really need to get their act in order in terms of communication. >> you know, meg, what are we missing? if pfizer says they have full supplies and the

of course the president in an interview and ever since pfizer got its approval or pfizer said that its vaccine was ready on november 8th after the election the president has said that this is all they're doing. give me a sense of how big of a role did the administration play in what is being played out right now? >> well, certainly the administration did play a significant role in creating the framework for this to happen quicker than it could have otherwise, making sure there was an emphasis on getting an emergency use authorization through the fda, making sure earlier in the pandemic that the defense production act was used to try to streamline some of what needed to happen, and as well as to make clear that the federal government was going to front the cost of producing millions and millions of doses of vaccine before they even knew whether or not they were going to work because what they didn't want to do is get into a situation where they had to wait until basically the last couple weeks, right around now at the end of the year, to know whether or not it was effective and then sta

beyond vaccine very unfortunate news for pfizer and this is piling on to what we've already learned about deaths and side effects but in this instance 2 nurses became very ill. after being injected with the vaccine they were apparently they had a history of allergies and they've doing well now they're recovering but again this is something that somehow slipped clinical trials that people with previous conditions the history of severe allergies and reactions to allergies they are vulnerable they're vulnerable to the side effects tell us more about what the u.s. food and drug administration has revealed the problem is that we learned of these deaths not from pfizer whose very exceed the c's i mean you'd think that they obligated to go public and to tell people be open and transparent about how their trials are going how people are taking the vaccine you know these deaths 2 of the people who died received the jab while 4 of them politically cebu injection so they're saying that the vaccine is still safe they still believe it's safe it is effective. and that these deaths were it is unli

pfizer vaccine -- pfizer has chosen to do their own delivery of vaccine, right? in collaboration with us, our priorities to distribution capabilities. right? fed ex and ups. right? they will distribute the fed ex and ups and fed ex and ups will break down the vaccine by location and then distribute it to the final locations accordingly. the moderna vaccine is going a little bit differently. moderna chose to have a distributor come in and help them mckesson will take responsibility for that. they're going to break down the vaccine. they will repackage it, then they will distribute it through fed ex and ups down through the final administration sites as directed by the governors. at the end of the day, whether it's pfizer or moderna, our capability and capacity is something that we know how to do and we know how to track and how to implement it and how to make sure that the vaccine is delivered, delivered safely, it is delivered to ensure the stability of the vaccine and it is delivered securely to the locations that we said. right? this is why we put this all toge

albert boarla ceo of pfizer. both pfizer and moderna have broken speed records to come up with new vaccines. and alex golf coursrski is clos. >> have you created a revolution in how this company creates vaccines. >> i think we've changed game pretty dramatically. >> how about you, albert? >> the power of science, the power of the private sector. >> alex, how about you? >> we've never done anything at this scale. >> moderna was testing how quickly it could make a vaccine using that mrna technology. then covid hit. >> dr. fauci gave an interview. he said we're going to have this within a phase one trial within 100 days. we're now on a clock publicly. before it was something we thought we're going to give it our best shot. >> we had to go all in. that was going to be a break or break moment. >> pfizer partnering with a gentleman biotech company went with the same mrna technology as moderna. albert, talk about the very beginning of your approach and how you guys decided to go the direction you did? >> i just followed

in the morning as america's best stories she reveals that 6 people who took part in trials for the pfizer biotech bucks seen. coming up in the program the french president pushes ahead with a bill aimed at playing the stream with measures which include more surveillance we've got no reaction coming up on the in the program. just after 99 here in moscow this wednesday december the 9th a warm welcome to the program wherever you may be joining us from today i mean in the. british health regulators are warning people with a history of allergic reactions against taking the phaser bio vaccine it comes after 2 people who receive the job fell ill one day for the u.k. launch they must fox and nation program. any person with a history of a significant allergic reaction to a vaccine medicine or food should not receive the pfizer beyond seem very unfortunate news for pfizer and this is piling on to what we've already learned about deaths and side effects but in this instance 2 nurses became very ill. after being injected with the vaccine they were apparently they had a history of allergies and they'r

and we're going to begin here with the headline that pfizer offered to sell more doses of the pfizer vaccine to the u.s. earlier this year but the trump administration said no. and now pfizer may not be able to get the u.s. more doses until next june. the trump administration responding tonight and this evening, a spokesperson for the department of health and human services downplaying the news, saying they have five other vaccine candidates. but this could bring real questions and tonight, the staggering numbers right here. 14.8 million cases, 1 million new cases in just the first five days of december. we're now at 2,100 deaths a day on average. nearly 90 americans are lost every hour. more than 283,000 american lives lost now in this pandemic. hospitalizations at a record high in icus across the country. this one in montana at 200% capacity. their own staff now falling victim, as well. california, for one, imposing a strict new lockdown for most of the state. new york's governor warning he might have to roll back the reopening here if numbers continue to climb at this rate. massac

pfizer's largest facility. operation warp speed said vaccine will be bound for 600 individual locations. place says like hospitals, pharmacies, cvs and walgreens. operation warp speed said many of those places will not actually take delivery of the shipments until tomorrow. the bulk of the shipments arriving on tuesday. it is up.p.s. and fedex handle could the shipments. and they say there's a reason why the vaccine is not arriving today. >> we could deliver it within 24 hours, but the decision was made by the team that about because there are hundreds of administration sites that are going to be receiving these, they thought it best that we wait until monday to deliver them to ensure they're all open and ready to receive. so a weekday, normal business day seemed like the optimal time to send out those first shipments rather than try get them delivered on a sunday when some of these administrative sites might be short staffed or not open. >> reporter: this is not just a ground game. there is also a massive air

the first to receive the pfizer vaccine will not be fully protected until january and pfizer vaccine will not be fully protected untiljanuary and even then complete protection cannot be guaranteed. as the uk approach is another grim milestone of 60,000 coronavirus deaths, the message is, there is still a way to go. anna collinson, bbc news. well, pfizer's vaccine is being manufactured in belgium. our correspondent nick beake is in brussels. what do we know about its distribution? it isa distribution? it is a huge operation, hugely important, and it seems it is getting under way. we believe the first batches of the pfizer vaccine will be taken through the eurotunnel today, from calais in northern france, emerging in folkestone in kent. they are packing it up in the pfizer battery. we were there yesterday and saw the lorries. although pfizer and biontech behind these vaccine wanted to shout about what they have created, as you can imagine, they are much less keen to give a running commentary about the travel movements about what is extremely precious cargo. it does seem good news it is

health regulators are warning people with a history of allergic reactions against taking the pfizer be on talkback seen as comes after 2 people who receive the job fell ill one day after the u.k. launched a massive vaccination program. any person with a history of a significant allergic reaction to a vaccine medicine or food should not receive the pfizer beyond vaccine very unfortunate news for pfizer and this is piling on to what we've already learned about deaths and side effects but in this instance 2 nurses became very ill. after being injected with the vaccine they were apparently they had a history of allergies and they've doing well now they're recovering but again this is something that somehow slipped clinical trials that people with previous conditions the history of severe allergies and reactions to allergies they are vulnerable they're vulnerable to the side effects tell us more about what the u.s. food and drug administration has revealed the problem is that we learned of these deaths not from pfizer whose very exceed the c's i mean you'd think that they obligated to go pu

finishing the distribution of 2.9 million out of pfizer. and this week we are heading into a big week. it's 7.9 million total, moderna and pfizer vaccines going -- being distributed. as the secretary highlighted, for moderna, the 5.9 million going out to over 3400 locations. then the additional 2.1 million for pfizer going out to another 1000 locations. so, over 4000 locations will be receiving vaccines between today and tomorrow. and then we continue to order on a repetitive basis. so i see vaccines being delivered again on wednesday and thursday. and if needed, and if required, and if asked for by the states, industry is ready to go and delivery on christmas day. really, to lean forward and make sure that everybody has access to the vaccine accordingly. we will begin to work a cadence which i'll talk about in a minute with you to illuminate the consistent delivery of vaccines on a competitive basis to allow everybody understand the confidence that vaccines will come when ordered. before i do that, though, i'm never going to miss an opport

this is a pfizer facility. now they had pfizer vaccines go into this nursing home, they're keeping it consistent. they won't have moderna show up here. all of the vaccines, another shipment this upcoming week of another doses of pfizer vaccine. by tend of the month, i'm told by officials, they hope to have the cvs mobile clinic to begin vaccinate the rest of the 100-plus residents and workers. there's a light at the end of the tunnel here. >> makes sense to keep it consistent with only pfizer vaccines at that facility and that program partnership with cvs and walgreens happening across the country, as well. gary grumbach, thank you. >>> now, to politics and donald trump has been denies the election outcome for weeks. now, he's downplaying another reality, the russian cyber hack of the u.s. government. why he's doubting kremlin involvement. and who exactly is he blaming instead? >>> and ready to roll out. we're monitoring the live pictures and live developments from the moderna distribution center in memphis reg

four cameras here at the pfizer facility in portage. we understand that the first boxes of this vaccine have made it to the loading bay, the lower right. they'll be loaded on to these trucks, driven to locations in the area and also driven to grand rapids, michigan, the airport where diane gallagher is, and flown to others. let me go back to cnn health reporter jacqueline howard. jacqueline, one element of this vaccine that is important to mention here, unlike several others that include a bit of the virus in the vaccine, this covid-19 is not included in this vaccine as we learned from the fda's issued emergency use authorization and the fact sheets sent out. >> reporter: we have to keep in mind this is an mnr&a vaccine, the main component is jenchgene information, the genetic information of the coronavirus that is what really plays a big part in how this vaccine primes and boosts your body to fight off possible infections. an mr&a vaccine. when it comes to the prescriber information and fact sheet that will be sent out with the vaccine

government placed an initial order over 100000000 doses for pfizer beyond techs covered 900 and pfizer is ready to begin ship an initial dose a soon after receiving an emergency use authorization from the u.s. food and drug administration any additional doses beyond the 100000000 subjected to separate. in mutually acceptable agreement rumors are circulating that after that pfizer offered to sell more to the united states but trump said no deal now the white house denies that let's do the math pfizer says you need 2 doses per person so $100000000.00 vaccines covers only $50000000.00 people roughly 15 percent of the u.s. population but u.s. officials say they checked the numbers and there won't be any shortage we're confident that it will have one $100000000.00 doses of pfizer's vaccine is agreed to a contract and beyond that we have 5 other vaccine candidates including $100000000.00 just on the way from london so what does this america 1st document really mean pfizer privately funded its work without u.s. government support so washington cannot force its will to be 1st on the company an

pfizer's model is different. the vaccine will come from the pfizer manufacturing site and it up at the administration site. when i talked about the discrete origin-destination pairs we can connect with our network and a network like ups, that is not really a challenge. as more vaccines come on, this is what we do every day. they are asking us to transport them rapidly from point a to point b, to get them either from the manufacturer, the duchenne beater, to tens of thousands -- or. distributio the onus of protecting the package is on the manufacturer unless there is some unforeseen delay. mr. wheeler: i will add to this. there is a complex difference between the two. theer is going with mckesson shipment with the ppe and equipment necessary. those kids are going out from ups the day before the vaccines arrive. it gives us good visibility of where the vaccines will be delivered. if there are any errors in the addresses, will know that. when they arrived, we caught it off with dry ice. moderna is different. just as

john, if the pfizer vaccine i approved here in the u.s. what should people do if they have a severe allergy >> lester, it's not unusual for a very small number of people to have this reaction to a vaccine, especially a new one that having been said, i wouldn't be surprised if the fda recommends waiting for anyone that has a severe allergic reaction to a food, medication or even a pet. that could be significant people who now have additional concerns so pfizer's hoping to quickly find out what triggered this and determine who should and more importantly who should not be getting this vaccine. lester >> all right thank you. >>> this vaccine can't come soon enough for hospitals facing the crush of patients and a surge of infections tied to the thanksgiving holiday miguel almaguer has the latest. >> reporter: the thanksgiving surge experts feared is now here and just beginning to cripple states like california. as hospitalizations spike more than 80 this medical center outside los angeles had to turn its lobby into a makeshift covid ward while

the warning comes as america's drug authority reveals about 6 people who took part in trials for the pfizer vaccine. is coming in the french president pushes ahead with the bill islamic extremism measures which include. its. around the clock across the world this is our to international from the team myself you know neal hello and welcome to the program. or top story british health regulators are warning people with a history of allergic reactions against taking the. vaccine it comes after 2 people who received the job fell ill one day after the u.k. launched a massive vaccination program. any person with a history of a significant allergic reaction to a vaccine medicine or food should not receive the pfizer beyond seem very unfortunate news for pfizer and this is piling on to what we've already learned about deaths and side effects but in this instance 2 nurses became very ill. after being injected with the vaccine they were apparently they had a history of allergies and they were very very doing well now they're recovering but again this is something that somehow slipped clinical trials t

pfizer developed this vaccine in record time. today shipments began rolling out of the company's production facility near kalamazoo, michigan. cbs' manuel bojorquez is there. good evening, manny. >> reporter: adriana, good evening. with the first doses already on the way, the next shipment of nearly two million doses is being prepared tonight at this pfizer facility, set to depart tomorrow. pfizer's vaccine rollout is a first for the u.s., but the initial amount will cover only a fraction of the front line medical workers who are first in line to receive it. mike mcdermott is the company's president of global supply. when can most americans get this shot? >> yes, so today we shipped 500,000 doses. by the end of the week we will have up to 2.9 million doses distributed in the u.s. but you are right, there is a here isp to be done in terms of a scale-up to be additional equipment that is being delivered and installed over the coming months here in kalamazoo, michigan, but also in our facilities in europe. >> reporter: the company a

a greater number than the pfizer vaccine was sent to. in part because the moderna vaccine can be accommodated in more sites, including harder to reach and more rural places. as we move forward, states will continue to adjust where they want these doses shipped to meet their needs. as many of you know, this past weekend the advisory committee on immunization practices, sponsored by the c.d.c., made more recommendations about future waves of vaccine allocation. those recommendations are there for states and other public health jurisdictions to use. we believe that these jurisdictions and their leaders are in the best position to understand their specific needs and allocate vaccines in these early days to save the most lives possible. as general perna has said, that's the only goal here. save lives. i also want to remind everyone that o.w.s. is not just about vaccines but also therapeutics, and more americans need to know about the two authorized antibody therapies that o.w.s. supported in development and manufacturing. these two products h

back at pfizer headquarters. those vaccines destined for california and for alabama. the problem is that during the transportation, somehow the temperature dropped too low and we know that that vaccine needed to be kept cold. it just got way too cold. let's take a look at what the army general for operation warp speed told reporters. quote, we returned them immediately back to pfizer and we sent immediate shipments to replace those two trays. we're working with the fda now and cdc, fda and pfizer to determine if that anomaly is safe or not but we're taking no chances and we can see that. in a statement pfizer said it replaced those 3,000 doses and will investigate how the temperature drop happened. so, stay tuned for more information on that. also, let's take a look now at the fda advisory panel that approved the pfizer vaccine just last week. it is now today reviewing moderna's data. now, in a briefing document, the fda vaccine panel wrote that the moderna vaccine has a favorable safety profile and no specific s

pfizer is for 16 years and older. it's not recommended for pregnant women who are people who have allergic reactions to vaccines. that's fairly normal. that's a lot of doses but is still keeping with anthony fauci and other people's ideas that if you want a vaccine and you're not in an early phase, it may still be late spring and summer before you get that vaccine. >> reporter: that's exactly right. this vaccine -- you know, the point is once it gets to the states and mckesson in conjunction with operation warp speed, they're making sure that these vaccines get to the right locations. once it gets to the states, then it's in the hands of the governor. we heard last week, for example, a lot of governors complaining about the allegations of the pfizer vaccine, saying they didn't get enough or the amount that was forecasted and projected. the reason you heard those complaints from the governors because it was their responsibility to then get them to the individual sites and locations. chief operating officer of operation

for the blanks medical regulator gives the green light to the pfizer biotech backseat also coming up russian opposition leader alexina bayani says he knows who nearly killed him with poison last august and is trying to confront the alleged hit man you know so should have no bellies is detained by police instead. hello i'm terry martin good to have you with us e.u. states are set to begin mass inoculations within days now the blocks medicines agency has officially approved the pfizer biotech vaccine the shot is already in use in britain canada and the united states. trucks arriving in the parting from a pfizer factory in belgium the drivers were probably there to collect the company's codes of 19 vaccine and death bound to be under pressure to deliver. so too with a used drug regulators the pfizer vaccine was authorized in britain and the united states weeks ago and calls have been growing for the use medicine watchdog to allow it but the organization defended the time it took saying it had refused to compromise public safety and the agency's commitment our experts have worked tireles