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BASH: "Let’s talk about encouraging news and that is about potential vaccine and that potentially coming by the end of the year. 4 in 10 Americans told Gallup this month they don’t want to take the vaccine. That includes a majority of nonwhite Americans. How are you going to convince Americans to take this vaccine?"
GIROIR: "So I want to make sure that all Americans know that this vaccine — these vaccines have been tested in tens of thousands of individuals. They are independent data monitoring boards and an independent review and they will have an advisory committee on December 10th. We are trying to educate the public. We have to see what the data show but all indications are this is an extremely safe vaccine, the Pfizer vaccine and modern. And very effective. Over 95% effective. Remember if we immunize those groups at the highest risk like long-term care facilities and it is elderly and minorities, we can absolutely get 80% of the benefit of the vaccine by only immunizing a few percent of the population and that is what we really need to do this month when we are going to have — you know, we should have enough vaccine by the end of the year to immunize 20 million Americans and we have to immunize for impact. The rest of the America get it in the second quarter or third quarter of 2021 but we could maximize our impact right now."