Dr. William: Virus Is ‘Very Serious’ Despite Successful Pfizer Vaccine Trial | Stephanie Ruhle

Pfizer is saying that their early data shows its COVID-19 vaccine is 90% effective. Infectious disease expert Dr. William Haseltine joins Stephanie Ruhle to discuss his reaction to this news and what he thinks American citizens still need to do to fight the virus. Aired on 11/09/2020.
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Dr. William: Virus Is ‘Very Serious’ Despite Successful Pfizer Vaccine Trial | Stephanie Ruhle

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    1. @Keys879 Cool, you can post (possibly legit, or not) stats. Now, please go gather information on infectivity rates of COVID-19 vs. the flu (which is, by definition, seasonal…duh) and at least 3 different types of mortality rates.

      “Infectious disease response account” – you think the US has a piggy bank for various things (army piggy bank, car industry piggy bank…) and Obama just broke it open and didn’t throw any extra change back in it? Reading OAN or something?

      There was literally a PLAYBOOK, TITLED, PLAYBOOK, on how to handle pandemics. They created on office, specifically for this as well. Trump dismantled it. Where do you come up with bs btw?

    2. @Nothing At all There is bureaucracy in all government. I don’t characterize the FDA as possessing “excessive bureaucracy”. Red tape is EXCESSIVE

    3. As this mRNA vaccine was developed in Germany, it must meet their standards, which are every bit as rigorous as those of the FDA.

    4. @Cory Pedigo uhm….its bieng tested, that’s why its not available yet, its still in trial phases. The initial results were just promising not conclusive. Remember other Coronavirus have been around for a long time such a SARS and MERSA so they have actually been working on this research for a long time. It’s just getting more funding and focused effort because of covid 19, another type of Coronavirus. They already had something to build on.. Now days we have superior computing power, data collection methods, and better medical procedure than the last time we had to mass produce a vaccine so perhaps it won’t take as long as in the past. But….its not a “vaccine” yet its a promising test result still in trial.

  1. It’s so serious that we need mail-in voting and nationwide lockdowns and mask mandates.
    Fortunately it’s not so dangerous that we can still mass protest and party in the streets.

    1. @The man that had to do it to them While I agree that many of them were at the very least wearing masks, it still doesn’t change the fact that everyone needs to take this more seriously. Just because the college students aren’t at risk for death, that doesn’t mean their grandparents or parents aren’t at risk.

    2. @The man that had to do it to them masks don’t do anything, bud, don’t know if you’ve heard. What good is a mask when you have people touching each other, drinking alcohol after one another, and fidgeting with their masks? You’re just excusing the left in typical double standard fashion

    3. @The man that had to do it to them you are either delusional or blind because the protester/rioters and the people partying weren’t wearing masks,yes some were but most weren’t,there is no difference between the two,wake up.

    4. You Republican Trump turds have been speaking about your rights concerning covet from day one… Trumpturd promoted his Rally’s to get his people there without wearing masks or social distancing… Looks to me like all these celebrations in the street were called individually and of their own will and not promoted by anyone… so we have a president that wants people to be infected and we have individuals with their freedoms… You can’t have it both ways Trumpturds…

  2. All we hear is crickets from Herman Cain about COVID-19. He’s silent as the grave.
    Toxic Trump: “Don’t let DEATH dominate you!”

    1. Had Herman known in 2012 about the treatment Trump got in 2016,he would have stayed in the race and kicked Obama back to Indonesia,the country of his birth.

    1. Same type of people who are scared of vaccines are the type of people who were terrified of electricity when it was invented. Anti-science idiots who live for fearmongering.

    2. @dxc good you be one of guinea pigs and show us outcome.please volunteer to go first and show us idiots how this new science works out.

    1. No, not terrified, but aware, and prevent a tipping point of rapid exponential doubling of infections. Everything will not be ok without taking actions.

    2. @woodsprout I put on the news; More cases of Covid flus…
      I put on my pants… More cases
      I put on my shirt… More cases
      I put on my Hat, coat and gloves… more cases and no love.
      I Put on a mask …don’t ask!
      I even stayed home… so, Please put on my tombstone:
      He could’ve Just turned off the News and stopped at his coat
      and went outdoors realizing that no matter what He put on
      there was no hope!🖕🏾😒

    3. Good luck, red states. Utah, if it’s such a hoax why is your Republican governor telling you the hospitals are getting full?

    1. Sweden has 10 million people. Highly educated. National healthcare. High per capita income. Paid sick days for any illness. Very low population density. So not a good comparison.

    2. Sweden’s economy is both performing poorly during the pandemic and they have the highest COVID-19 death rate in the region. What’s your point? The best thing for any economy is getting this virus under control, and some countries have. Wear masks, stop congregating densely. Protect yourself and others.

    3. Sweden did introduce measures, including restricting gatherings to less than 50 people, as well as some shutdowns. Their numbers were a result of less population, a higher quality of health care, and a later infection rate that was kept low by the summer months.

      They’re current numbers are now quite high btw. And they have one of the highest COVID mortality rates in Europe now.

  3. No coverage of the “Super Spreader” Biden celebrations? Are these not the same people screaming 200k dead!! WTF

    1. @Kevin Tran Yhea I saw that. Around their neck, up on their head, the “only cover the mouth” style – for those that ERE and incessantly cry “OMG 200k dead!!!” 😂

    2. @Daniel Schlobach Yes. It’s stupid to compare that no one got sick at either event. Whether wearing a mask or not.

    1. the headline is its 90 percent effective and last as long as measles shots yet this dude is acting like its a flu vaccine. he just woke up bed right next to the camera maybe. shorts on.

    1. I put on the news; More cases of Covid flus…
      I put on my pants… More cases
      I put on my shirt… More cases
      I put on my Hat, coat and gloves… more cases and no love.
      I Put on a mask …don’t ask!
      I even stayed home… so, Please put on my tombstone:
      He could’ve Just turned off the News and stopped at his coat
      and went outdoors realizing that no matter what He put on
      there was no hope!
      🖕🏾@ vaccines

  4. Well, this is going to be distributed on an EUA so it will be well into 2021 when they will be talking about distribution. This vaccine is not under the “warp speed” business so the lame duck Trump people have to figure out how to take credit for it and Trump needs time to buy Pfizer stock as he did with Regeneron and Gilead.

  5. Pfizer, the one who has been known to lie about test trial results on multiple drugs facing lawsuits for such, that Pfizer?

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