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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Defense held a briefing Monday on "Operation Warp Speed" and COVID-19 vaccine distribution.
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operation warp speed and for bringing together all of America, HHS, the military, the private sector in the states toe Make this happen. This week, everyone's work starts to pay off This weekend. Shipment of vaccines is 2.9 million doses, enough to vaccinate 2.9 million people with 2.9 million doses held back and sent in 21 days for people to receive their second dose each Friday. From here on out, we will announce new weekly allocations of vaccine. It's likely that another vaccine may be authorized in the coming days. If it meets FDA is rigorous standards, depending the successful authorization of other vaccine options? We have enough vaccines already purchased to ensure we can meet our goal of vaccinating every American who wants it. By the end of the second quarter of 2021 we continue to negotiate four and purchase more doses to including the announcement of another 100 million doses of Madonna to be delivered in the second quarter of 2021 states and other jurisdictions have decided who will be vaccinated in the early stages, drawing on their own best judgment, their own situation and the recommendations of experts, these jurisdictions will generally be using these first doses to immunize frontline healthcare workers, along with residents of long term care facilities like nursing homes and assisted living facilities. Today, the CDC distributed another $140 million in funding to states to continue planning efforts around allocation. Operation Warp Speed is taking care of the cost of the vaccines themselves, the ancillary supplies like needles and syringes and the cost of distributing the vaccines to jurisdictions while healthcare payers are handling administration costs. So no American faces an out of pocket expense for this vaccine. These jurisdictions have given us the locations where they want vaccine shipped in total 636 sites nationwide, with 145 sites expected to receive vaccine today, 425 tomorrow and 66 sites on Wednesday. As we speak, vaccine is arriving at sites and trucks and planes owned by UPS and FedEx Toe bring these lifesaving products to the places where Americans will receive them. By Wednesday, vaccine will be delivered everywhere from sites here in Washington to the shores of Guam. So the northeastern corner of main here in Washington members of our military, HHS, public health leaders and private sector partners Air running an operation center 24 7, where many of them have been essentially all weekend to ensure these vaccines get where they're supposed to go without delay. Americans who may be in these early categories of healthcare workers or those in long term care facilities should look for information from their state governments like their State Cove in 19 Web page, or for for guidance about where and when vaccinations would occur. We know Americans will want to know how quickly vaccines are being administered and what kind of progress we're making. We want to ensure that any picture we give of this progress is accurate, and we plan to provide more updates in our on our work with states Toe provide as much information as possible in the coming days and weeks. Like so many Americans, I eagerly await the day when I could go receive a safe and effective vaccine and the day when my family conducive that, too, in the coming weeks, and I and all of our public health leaders across the administration will be out making a major push to educate Americans about the incredible safety and effectiveness of these vaccines. This FDA authorized vaccine in each vaccine FDA potentially authorizes will have been through the typical numerous stages of safety review and more. This vaccine has gone through clinical trials much larger than many vaccine trials. It's gone through the drug companies checks. It's gone through an independent data safety and monitoring board. It's gone through. The FDA is Independent advisory committee. It's been subjected to transparent standards at the FDA has published of its requirements, and it's been authorized by FDA. Is career scientific experts at 95% efficacy? This vaccine is extraordinarily effective at protecting you from this virus. Getting vaccinated will help keep you, your family and your country healthy and safe in the meantime, and in the coming months is our country approaches full vaccination. We have to continue taking steps toe. Keep ourselves our loved ones and our community safe. Wash your hands. Watch your distance where your face coverings when you can't watch your distance and avoiding avoid settings where you can't do those things where you may let your guard down. Every sacrifice you make in the coming months will help save lives and ensure that we emerge from this pandemic as soon as possible. Each vaccine administered in these coming days is a tribute to the generosity and genius of this country. The achievements of every American who made operation warp speed possible should be a point of pride for us all. Our war against the virus is not over yet, But this week we're taking a major step toward our eventual victory. With that, I'll hand things over to Dr Moncef slowly to provide, uh, update on development. And he will then turn to General Purna who will give us, um, or update in depth update on vaccine distribution. Doctors lobby. Thank you, Mr Secretary. Hello, everybody. Well, just very, very quickly. First acknowledge a historical event last week with the approval of the Pfizer vaccine, I think a great accomplishment by science, Andi. The investment off in basic research. Great accomplishment by academic science by science and development in biotech industry and the pharmaceutical industry and a great public private partnership as a enabled by the US government. So really e think Great job. But yesterday was just the first step with the Pfizer vaccine approval this week, probably tomorrow. The booklet. Former PAC Review Off the Modern A vaccine will be made public, and many of you will have an opportunity to look more in depth into how remarkably aligned with the fighter data. The modern data are also with almost 95% of Dixie against disease, 100% efficacy against severe disease on mawr for you to review tomorrow. That booklet and the vaccine will be reviewed at the very back meeting by the FDA on Thursday. And hopefully, as for fighter diligently followed by potentially an approval of the vaccine and distribution, we have an insured significant commitment in terms off vaccine. Those availability from Moderna with 100 million in the first quarter and the 2nd 100 million announced on Friday in the second quarter of 2021 we are in active discussions with fighter to similarly extend. The number of those is available for the American population, but things don't stop there. You know that we have two other vaccines in phase three trials. The Johnson and Johnson Johnson's vaccine one shot vaccine. We now are almost at 42,000 subjects recruited in this city so slightly more than the cap we announced last last week. The study will stop recruiting later this week. Andi, given the intensity of transmission in the US on did in the other countries where the trial is being conducted, we definitely expect to have first readouts of that trial in the first parts of the month of January and likely potential complete read out of the trial towards the end of the month and a submission oven anyway. Vaccine doses from the J and J Vaccine will, if approved, start to participate to immunizing the U. S population in the month of February and going forward. And because it's a one does vaccine, they can really scale up very quickly the number of US vaccines that would be, uh, uh immunized. The the fourth vaccine that we have in the portfolio that's in phase three trials is the AstraZeneca vaccine. You know that that vaccine has undergone phase three trials in the UK, in Brazil and in South Africa, but also under operation warp speed. We have conducted a clinical trial, mostly here in the US. We have more than 22,000 subjects recruited in that trial. On that trial should also be completing its first ethic, Siri doubt somewhere in the probably second half of the month of January and potentially be ready for an EU a submission later in February and again participating with vaccine does is in the month of March and going forward. These are the reasons why we feel confident, provided that the vaccines performance remains on the path that we are on, that we will be able to have enough vaccine. Those is to immunize the U. S population. There's two points I want to say in conclusions. One is it's very, very important now that vaccines are approved in the U. S. That Americans continue to act in a generous way in that they would continue to participate into clinical trials. It is thanks to the participation off tens of thousands of Americans in the Pfizer a Northerner trials, that we are able to have these vaccines approved today and that we are able to assess their efficacy and their safety, and likewise for the young sense and for the AstraZeneca trial, we have two more vaccines in the portfolio using more classical protein based vaccine platform technology. Please continue to participate in the trial these vaccines are very likely to be as effective as the vaccines that we know already and as safe as those vaccines. It may very well be that participating in the clinical trials could be the fastest way to access vaccination. You know that we are doing the best we can in terms off providing vaccine doses. But these are rolling in the few millions per week Participating in a clinical trial may allow you either immediately to have a vaccine those or immediately on completion of the trial. If you were on the placebo group to have a vaccine injected on the second key point is really to continue our engagement. And all experts, real experts, engagement with the population to explain the data. Now that the data is available in public that demonstrate the efficacy and the safety of these vaccines, it's very important that we increase the number of Americans that, except to be vaccinated based on facts and data and reality, because vaccines on the shelf are useless and unless the majority the large majority of esque it's vaccinated, we will not be able to control this pandemic, stop here and pass on to general partner will tell us more about distribution. How we thank you. And of course, Mr Secretary, thank you for allowing me to be a part of this. Uh, and just come off of Dr Slough is last comment on Saturday I mentioned I was asked who was going to be the first one to receive the vaccine. Uh, and my comment was we've had over 100,000 people participate in trials. They were the first ones to receive the vaccine. They were the heroes to really help us get going. So I would applaud them to Dr Slavia's point continuous effort. And that will be so helpful. So update, uh, first of foremost Pfizer vaccine after eu A on Friday. Ah, lot of work was happening over the weekend by thousands of people from Pfizer, ups, FedEx and McKesson to ensure that the vaccines were packed on ready to be shipped in a very methodical, disciplined, over watched, uh, approach right. Our goal is every vaccine that goes out, um, is safe and effective upon delivery on. We wanted to make sure that deliveries occurred, uh, in the places where people could receive them on, then begin administering vaccine to the American people. It went incredibly well. A Zai 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 American people right away. I briefed the cadence, uh, that we would, uh, pack on Saturday, that we would relocate on Sunday and we would deliver on Monday. Deliveries have begun. Uh, today, as we speak of the 145 shipments to Secretary referenced, we know that 55 have been received on. We'll track the remaining 95 accordingly. Aziz, we go through the day. We know that the shipments for tomorrow's deliveries have already been packed and checked on. We'll be managing each of those to include Wednesday's shipment. Now, that's this initial 636 shipments that went out for the Pfizer vaccine. We have already, uh, identified the follow on orders for Pfizer vaccine on. There will be an additional 581 shipments that will continue on beyond Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, through the weekend in delivery to the American people. The point being It was the initial push that we were, uh, you know, fully driving execution. And now we're starting our drumbeat of continuous execution of vaccine as it is available. It's allocated to the states. The states tell us what location they wanted on at what quantities we package and we deliver. It is a constant flow of available vaccine. Clearly, the next vaccine that we're looking forward to you A. This week is the modern A vaccine. Uh, and in that light, we know that we're gonna ship just a little bit short of six million doses out to the American people on. We're shipping it to 3285 locations across the country. It will be a very similar cadence. Uh, that was executed this week with Pfizer, where we're hitting initial sites on Monday. Follow on Tuesday and Wednesday. And then by the end of the week, we're just in a routine cadence of execution. I cannot tell you enough, right? What role commercial in the series playing in this right, Pfizer eventually Madonna, right? And the work that they're doing to get the vaccine prepared for final distribution, McKesson in the distribution of all the ancillary kits for the Pfizer vaccine, which included syringes, needles, alcohol wipes, uh, and pollutant. And then they will also be responsible for kidding the vaccine for Madonna, right? So really a remarkable work. And then FedEx and UPS. I just can't say enough to the men and women of FedEx from the leadership all the way down to the person's moving packages, from storage capability onto trucks and planes. And then the pilots who got it out to where we needed it as a secretary said, There is not one part of this country that's not being touched. Uh, today through Wednesday, everybody is receiving fair and equitable distribution of the vaccine on its because of the commercial industry and the role they're playing in the distribution of the vaccine. We're incredibly excited about the strategy. We are continuing to provide states with future forecasts so that they can continue to plan our forecast. Uh, go from, uh, next week through the following six weeks for planning a zay said we will Onley release vaccine once the FDA has approved it s O forecasting helps for planning, but execution is on Lee based on approval. Uh, And then we share those allocations with the States for their planning on a weekly basis. Again, to reinforce it is not a one and done delivery. It is a consistent flow of ordering preparation and delivery. So vaccine continues, it rolls out as vaccines are available and mawr and more people get access to the vaccine every day. Mr Secretary. Thank you, General. Well, open for questions now, so thank you all. Operator, we're ready for questions. A friendly reminder that when asking a question, please state your name and publication and please keep your questions short as possible so that we can get to as many questions as possible. Thank you. Our first question comes from Angelica Levina with Bloomberg News. Your line is open. Be talking with you. Sorry. Can you hear me now? Yes. Okay. Thank you. Um so when the vaccination of long term care facilities begin and if not until the 21st Why wait a week to start those vaccinations, General? Yes, please. Eso Thank you. So of course we're working through the states plans. Right? And the guidance that was put out was long term health care facility slash nursing homes as one, uh, priority, but as well as the first line medical personnel who are out there. So allocations for vaccines went out to the States to the locations that they directed. And they are identifying, uh, in those populations who is first. Here's what we do know we know that several states are already going to establish are already established and then going into a long term health care facilities, they'll go in there this week. We know that the C. D. C. And collaboration with CVS, Walgreens and the States, uh, created a very elaborate campaign strategy for execution into the long term health care facilities this week. Um, we're doing, um, a scaling start into execution. Four states are ready to go in partnership with CVS and Walgreens to start scaling the vaccine into those facilities. We know on Monday, a week from today, over 1100 long term health care facilities and nursing homes will also begin vaccination. So very in incredibly difficult plan. As we work to touch over 70,000 long term health care facilities and nursing homes, collaborated and prioritize a za states want many tasks have to be achieved before you can actually walk into the door. You have to work through, make sure there's locations in the facilities To do it, you have to make sure that all the patients have a signed consent, which means sometimes you have to reach out to several layers of family. Uh, to get the final approval, we have to ensure that we have the right number of vaccine available, uh, to go into each of the facilities. So we're not going back and forth. We have to ensure that the persons uh, not on Lee, uh, the elderly. But the staff could be inoculated at the same time, so we close the bubble on each facility. So very detailed plan. Very extensive requirement of over 70,000. Uh, states are already executing are gonna execute this week on, and we are executing, uh, scaled. Um uh, scale. Start with CVS and Walgreen this week. The bluff is if they want to do it, we could figure out how to get it done. But we are ready to really take a good, hard right approach, uh, executing and taking care of these great Americans. They're in the elderly category, end up and and just one extra clarification there. You had mentioned the December 21st just by way of background, the CDC and working with CVS and Walgreens and MH had those discussions received feedback that remember the nursing homes had, until, I think, December 7th, to make their final election on contracting with Walgreens, receive yes or MH A for these distribution programs, and then they had to scale. And so they asked us to be sure to give them or, in those discussions, came about to give them headroom to be able toe. Just get the logistics and operations established. But there's no prohibition on distributing and vaccinating sooner. In fact, we encourage it sooner. If Walgreen's CVS MH they are ready to go faster. And as the general said, we expect to see vaccinations and nursing homes this week, um, and literally net by next week, these pharmacy chains should have the ability to execute vaccination programs daily in thousands of long term care and assisted living facilities and progress quite rapidly. Thank you. Next question, please. Thank you. Our next question comes from Evan Brown with Fox News. Good morning. Thank you all for doing the call today. I think this question might be best for the general, but anyone can answer it. Um was mentioned earlier in the call that there could be hiccups and distribution because nothing is ever perfect. Um, what would some of those hiccups actually be that you might have anticipated? And what, What would be the remedy for those and and how how intense would those hiccups be? So, uh, I think that we've worked through many, many situations and I'll give you a couple here in a moment,

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