Pfizer CEO says vaccine data could be available by October; 'The Dr. Oz Show' host Dr. Mehmet Oz weighs in.
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Following today, though, is the
vaccine,
the ceo of Pharmaceutical giant
Pfizer, making an optimistic
announcement in the companys
race for that covid vaccine? Take
a listen,
I dont know if I have to
wait until two thousand and twenty one because, as I
said, our status, we have a good
chance that we will know if the
product works by the end of
October and then, of course it
is regulators, job to issue
license or not,
Steve, okay. So that is
promising news here. With
reaction, the host of the Dr Oz
show kicks off 12th season today,
Dr Oz, good morning to
you
good morning to you, Steve,
yeah, its good news, and you
know we have the Covid 19
headquarters on the show this
season. So I had the task
force on the program just
recorded. It youll see it this
afternoon,
testing on the show, but also
Jerome Adams, the surge on
general said by the end of
October, its reasonable that we
might have a vaccine data.
We wont have the vaccine widely
distributed, but id just
be looking over the weekend at
the data from China, where they
Vevery, given hundreds of
thousands of people, their
vaccine, so were going to start
to see as soon as these trials
prove they are beneficial a
rapid deployment of these
vaccines. Hopefully, before the
end of this year,
Steve and Astrazeneca announced
after one patient who had a
really bad reaction, they restart
ed their trials as well.
Dr Oz, let me ask you this
lets say the virus vaccine is
available.
You look at the public opinion
polls im shocked that a
majority of Americans dont want
to jackup their sleeve and get
the shot.
Can you explain why so many
people are reluctant to get this
vaccine?
Well, there are different
reasons.
A lot of people say youre doing
it at warp speed, which means you
rushed it. It normally takes you
five years. How could you do it
in six months and how could that
possibly be safe and its safe,
because everyone broke every
possible red tape, boundary
thats, usually out there and
just made sure we focused on
whats important, which is
putting a lot of people into a
clinical trial but, for example,
the african american community,
and were doing a big show on
this tomorrow. The health
disparities are large in this
country, even independent
of poverty and financial issues,
theres the reality that African
Americans dont trust the system
and they are not represented in
some of these clinical trials
because they are not enrolling
to get the vaccine, so they dont
trust that its going to apply
to them and other groups that
feel strongly that they, the
virus itself, is not that big
of a deal ill just not deal
with the vaccine consequences.
Ive been pretty open about my
sentiments on this
vaccines. Save lives.
Do they have side effects?
Yes, are they out weighed by the
benefits?
The benefits are much greater in
this particular situation, to get
our nation completely back
on its feet and do things like
going to football games? So we
can pack, stadiums well need a
vaccine.
Youve got many to choose from,
but get informed on this topic.
Brian ill. Definitely take it
as soon as it passes the right
protocols im in
I want to talk about the hottest
conversation in America right
now, and its Bob Woodwards
spoke with the President of the
United States expressed how
it is serious this virus coming,
but he played it down publicly
like. If you hear about a bomb
scare, you try to investigate it,
but you dont necessarily tell
the american public. Your house
could blow up any moment so
Scott Gotleib, often a critic of
the administration, is also an
allie of the administration.
When it comes to insight and
information.
When he was asked about this, I
think he shocked the entire
staff of face the nation,
because they wanted him to blame
President Trump, but listen to
what he said.
The White House leadership
was failed by health officials.
We did not have a diagnostic in
the field, so we couldnt screen
for it.
We should have.
We should have started working
on that in January and we over
relied on a surveillance
system that was built for flu
and not for coronavirus without
recognizing that it wasnt going
to be as sensitive as detecting
the coronavirus spread as it was
for flu, because the two viruses
spread very differently.
Those were two critical failures.
Now you could say well, the
president put those
people in place, hes
responsible.
You know you could make second
order arguments around that, but
I think ultimately the White
House did not have the
information they need to
make decisions
Brian. They said the White
House was situationally blind,
Dr Oz and youre a man of
medicine whose also noticing
politics and to blame the
president on this seems to
be what everyones doing, but
Dr Scott Gottleib could not
jump in on that because he was
there in January and February,
meaning in constant contact.
Well, the testing czar, whose
on the show this afternoon, was
very open in saying that there
was a massive testing delay
thats why he started on March
twelve, because until then we
had not done testing and Dr
Gottleib said the same thing.
How can you have a scenario
where we know were prepared to
fight against the virus, but you
still need the data to drive the
decisions and the fact that
we did not have a testing system
that worked well. Is an
embarrassment
now moving past that there was
also realities about this virus
that surprised us.
We did not appreciate the
asymptomatic spread, be so
important, thats, not true for
the flu, which is normally
how we prepare ourselves. We
model the flu and copy it. So
scientists didnt expect that
we didnt appreciate aerosol
spray, be so important. Didnt
appreciate the role of masks so
theres plenty of blame to go
around and well look back in
hindsight and im sure experts
from the White House Task force
came in. My show today believe
that the things that should have
been done got done in a manner
that made sense but ill. Tell
you ive interviewed lots of
political leaders about Covid 19,
almost all of them echo what Dr
Gottleib said, which is they
were flying blind.
They didnt have the data to
drive decisions that needed to
be made Democrats and Republican
S
Jedediah. So doctor you have a
new season of the Dr Oz Show,
and that is premiering today, so
tell viewers what they can
expect from your show. This
season,
well were all in this
together, so im bringing
you facts. First
youll have lots of insights
from the leaders tomorrow. Im
doing a big show on some of
these issues around health
disparities and health care,
because its very inefficient
and costs lives and its
stunning that we dont have
better representation in some of
these arenas.
Im also getting, as you always
know, some of the biggest experts
in different areas coming on
telling the truth about topics
that are controversial. But
America needs to hear about it
and some of the topics folks
havent really processed
effectively because it gets so
confusing in the way that its
often delivered, but I think
youll enjoy it and I got a
safe environment in my studio, so
im here at home.
This is the revised version of
what you saw me come to you with
all year. Long during Covid 19,
but we took studio, is open
itself now, so its fun
Steve ive got a question for
you.
When you do a home studio, can
you write off your house for tax
purposes?
Brian good point very good
point.
I dont think so
Steve I dont think so either.
I spent a a lot of time here
in this chair ill. Tell you tax
Brian. A lot of american
broadcasters have a lot of
write offs this year.
Steve no kidding all right. Dr
Oz, well be watching check
your local listings for show.
Transcript generated on 2020-09-14.