Well, just against a spike in cases that has folks worrying about whether we will be hanging around the delays and more in the weeks and months to come. Lets go to David Lee Miller on however this goes. David lee . Neil, andrew cuomo says hes decision to halt all Indoor Dining in the city is because of an increase in the number of infections, transmission as well as the surge in the number of hospitalizations. He says the density of the citys population makes eating indoors at risk, in his words, too risky. The city was the epicenter of the pandemic. Capacity was limited to 25 . Monday, theyll be restricted to offering only Outdoor Dining. According to state statistics, restaurants are the fifth highest cause of covid spread. The governor called on washington to provide financial help for the struggling industry. I believe the federal government should include subsidies for bars and restaurants in their relief package. Today we will extent the commercial eviction moratorium. So a landlord cant evict a commercial enterprise because they havent paid the rent. Bill an Industry Trade group, the new York City Hospitality Alliance called the governors decision a last straw for countless restaurants and jobs. The group says restaurants in the city have taken precautions to keep people safe. One Restaurant Owner said the forced shut down is bad for the overall economy. Its coming to the point that its hurting people. You have taken the five boroughs, 24,000 restaurants in the five boroughs. They employ close to 320,000 people. Look what its doing to them right now, right before the holidays when they need the money the most. New york city is not alone in halting Indoor Dining. A similar ban will take place in pennsylvania. In a little less than an hour, baltimore will put a halt to all indoor as well as Outdoor Dining as the virus continues to surge. Neil . Neil incredible. Two Restaurant Owners in new york are worried and how long this will drag on. Amanda cohens has a great restaurant in downtown new york. Very wellregarded french restaurant. Tommy greco from grecos steakhouse on ninth avenue in new york city. Great to have you with us. Amanda, what do you do . I dont know what were doing. I dont know what were doing the last couple months. Having Indoor Dining from what i can tell, it wasnt that great being here anyway. We need financial help from the federal government. The only thing that will save us. 25 Indoor Dining wont save the restaurant industry. We need government help. We need them to past the restaurant act. Neil all right. Dont hold your breath for that. Theyre having trouble on that. Let me ask you. Your steakhouse, obviously you have delivery and all that. But i got to imagine that is tough when it comes to doing that with steak, right . So what do you do . Yeah, steak in my genre of the steakhouse fine dining that i am, you cant deliver porter houses and tomahawks. You know, folks right now that are tight with money are not ordering that. Theyre ordering more fast casual, inexpensive stuff. Its difficult. Its difficult for us. To allow us just to have Outdoor Dining with the weather being in the 30s with possible snow, who will sit outside . Neil its freezing out. So lets get your thinking on this, amanda. You talked about the hope for help out of washington. Im sure youre looking for the same thing, tommy. Theyre having a devil of a time coming up with a package regarding covid19 relief. Increasingly looking more unlikely every day. If you dont get that and if this drags on weeks, amanda, then what . Then i close. Then every restaurant starts to close. Ive been open for 12 years. Eight months ago, i was making 10, 12,000 a night. Enough to cover my coast costs. Now its 500 a night. I have nothing left in my bank account. I will close. I will put my employees on unemployment. The jobs will disappear permanently and i also will be out after a job. Neil goodness. Tommy, the rationale behind these shut downs from the governor of new york and his counter parts and places like california, maryland, is that the spikes do happen at restaurants. Even though the data is inconsistent on it. Youre doing everything, you and amanda, and have you had any reported cases that have come from your restaurant . No. Weve had no reported cases come from our restaurant. Okay . Just like amanda said, were not even making money. Were just going through the motions here. What he said today was 74 of these cases come from inhome gatherings. With 1. 4 coming from restaurants. You close the restaurants, youre forcing people to do more inhome gatherings. Makes no sense. Bill . Neil what is weird about it, were preparing to see a vaccine monday. Maybe another one thursday or friday. So in the middle of this hopeful news, youre shutting down. Its weird. Yeah. Its hopeful news. The fight of really depressing news. We need help. By the time we get the vaccine, it would be a couple months down the road. We need help now. Neil hang in there, guys. Well get an update on that. Might strike you as odd, im familiar with best of your restaurants. I know i dont look like a restaurant visitor but i am. Im a big fan. Hang in there. Im sure better days are ahead. Man, it seems like youve been unfairly targeted here. Well watch it closely. We have your back. We both took out the latest to these managers interests here. What is happening on the vaccine front is retidy ready common. Its deciding who gets it and when and how it gets to you period. Its a little tricky. Well explain. Oh, oh, oh, ozempic® announcer onceweekly ozempic® is helping many people with type 2 diabetes like emily lower their blood sugar. A majority of adults who took ozempic® reached an a1c under 7 and maintained it. Heres your a1c. Oh my a1c is under 7 announcer and you may lose weight. 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Santa, santa, youre on mute just wanted to say thanks. Thanks for believing. Neil teasing, but not quite done. The official writeup from the food and Drug Administration on that pfizer covid19 vaccine could come any moment. Mark meredith in maryland with what happens after that. Hey, mark. Neil, good afternoon. Will it be tonight or tomorrow. Thats the question. Dr. Stephen hahn is denying reports that his job was threatened over whether or not it would get done today. Theres questions about whats going on behind the scenes here at the fda. President trump made it clear he wants it moved as fast as possible. He called the fda a big old slow turtle and wanted the damn vaccines out now. On thursday, 24 hours ago, an fda advisory approved the vaccine. Were still waiting on the final green light from the fda for emergency authorization. Canada and the u. K. Have already approved it for use. And you may be wondering what is the holdup . Were getting an idea from dr. Hahn himself who said the fda is finalizing the necessary documents to be sure that patients and providers have the information that they need to make informed decisions and safely administer the vaccine. This is a critical part of what the agency does to promote and protect the public health. While they are still waiting to give that final green light today, the fda told the cdc and operation warp speed to get ready to make sure that the vaccine disfusion facilities and plans were ready to go. All indications are that they are and still waiting to get the injections started potentially as early as monday. So monday looks like the first vaccinations. That wont be going to you and me. It will be going to the first responders, the people on the front line and continue to roll out early 2021. Neil . Neil i hate to break it to you, youre so young, youre going to be last in line for this. I get yours. Thats the plan. Mark meredith, great seeing you. Great reporting on this. Mike tobin in michigan. I understand that theyre all set up with the manufacturing to get this out. But thats going to be a big project, isnt it . It will be a huge project. If approval of this emergency use authorization goes through friday, if it goes through saturday, they can start moving vaccines out of this massive facility here in kalamazoo in 24 hours. 2. 9 million doses can move right away. The supply has to stay here and stay here in cold storage. The Pfizer Vaccine in particular requires a follow up shot. The trial shows one shot was 50 effective at fighting the virus. The second shot proved 95 effective. Alex azar said if the eua approves it, shots could go into peoples arms monday or tuesday. Other Officials Say the pandemic is not over but at least theres a light at the end of the tunnel. It mean we can see the end of the pandemic. Its really in our sight. With 20 Million People being able to be vaccinated in december, 30 million in january and another 50 million in february, just with the 2 vaccines that we know about now, pfizer and moderna, we know the end is in sight but we still have a lot of work to do until most people can get vaccinated and the pandemic goes away. Ups and fed ex will handle this sophisticated super cold supply or shipping chain that will get the vaccine out to its point of use. Once its at the point of use, states will have control over who gets the vaccine first. As you talked about with mark meredith, the priority will be the healthcare workers and atrisk populations like people in nursing homes. Neil . Neil got it. Thanks, mike. Mike tobin in michigan. Want to go to warner thomas. Thomas is the oxner ceo, one of the biggest in louisiana. The largest nonprofit healthcare company. How they will go about getting this distributed to folks. Mr. Thomas, thanks for taking the time here. How do you go about getting this out to folks . Because its one thing to approve something but another to get it out in peoples arms. How do you do it . Neil, thanks for letting me be with you today. Weve been preparing this for months for this day that hopefully is coming next week. We have five of the ultra cold minus 80 freezers that are deployed across louisiana. We have 26 of the minus 20 freezers deployed across louisiana. We anticipate hopefully with the emergency authorization to get 9,400 doses approximately on monday. Thats our anticipation. We would begin vaccinating our healthcare workers immediately upon receipt of the vaccine. Weve worked on this for some time. Were ready today, or monday for the approval to be done and receive the vaccine on monday. You know, apparently enormous pressure on the fda to get this out. In fact, do so and give the green light today. The Washington Post was reporting that the white house chief of staff, mark meadows told the fda commissioner, stephen hahn, to submit his resignation if the agency does not clear the vaccine by days end. Is that true . Does that worry you . Yeah, i dont know a lot about that. I think the important thing here is that this is done right. That the appropriate process is followed. I think as we heard from patients and heard from our healthcare workers, i think folks want to make sure theres no corners cut. I think the fda working in conjunction with the white house and the administration, i know theyll get this right and do it appropriately. Once that is done, were ready to take the vaccine and vaccinate folks. So i think everybody wants to make sure this is done appropriately. We know that theres a certain percentage of the population that is worried about getting the vaccine because they feel like its been done too quickly. Once again, i think the appropriate process is being followed and thats what we want to see. Neil you do raise a good point. The questions started when the United Kingdom approved it for their citizens. Bahrain came after them and canada a couple days ago. Were still waiting for fda. Do you trust then that the fda is being very careful, certainly not rushing and this report about pressure coming from the white house to get it out by the end of the day is unnecessary . Yeah, its hard i cant comment whether that is necessary or unnecessary. What id say is were confident the be fda is going through the right process. Our physicians have reviewed the documentation from the fda and feel very confident about what theyre seeing. The fact that we need the right guidance on storage and any other concerns about how we administer the vaccine is important. Were part of the pfizer trial. So were very familiar with the ultra cold storage and how to handle that and do the vaccine. Once again, i think making sure that we can ensure the American Public that this is done right and all of the processes are done appropriately is very important. Neil you would honor obviously you heard me, but youd honor the protocols of whatever the governor is calling for . Protocols about the healthcare workers, nursing homes, older, more vulnerable patients and theest are. That seems to be the guidelines that folks are getting no matter where they live, right . Correct. Were going to follow the cdc guidelines. Weve been in contact with the Governors Office here in louisiana. Weve identified or first wave. Approximately 10,000 healthcare workers. We have those folks identify. We think we can vaccinate them within ten days. We can get that group done. As we get the second shipment of vaccine in the second week, well continue to vaccinate folks to 1 b. Once again, well follow the cdc guidelines. Weve had close connections with the governor of louisiana. Hes done a great job with the plans and the distribution of the vaccine. Were ready to go as soon as we get approval. Neil real quickly, the tendaytime target is for both doses, right . The first dose and some days later the second dose, correct . No, actually a 21day delay between the first dose and the second dose. The ten days im talking about is that would be the period of time to take us to vaccinate the first 10,000 people. We want to do this in a wave progression just because were concerned there could be some side effects and we dont want to vaccinate all of our people in one or two days. Were doing this in a few days. We deploy the right nurses and technicians to help us in this process and well be doing this across all of our facilities in louisiana. Neil understood, sir. Thanks for clarifying that for me. Theyre going to have a big responsibility here getting it out to the fine folks there that have been waiting a long time. 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