mckesson gets the vaccine from the army it is not clear. as part of warp speed, the federal government partners with states and cities and private operators. i can see the department of defense getting 300 million doses of various vaccines. the general has warehouses that are filled with them he won't say how many viles. that's what we want to hear. by january or sooner, they'll begin to hand them over hoep hopefully mckesson and those are critical you get me >> what the heck does the drugstores do with them? the ceo of cvs went on yesterday, he made it sound like we are getting a flu shot. fair enough. here you can see and remember that you will have to get two doses. this looks like a lot, but remember you are talking about 10% of the country my question is how do they determine who gets it? is it first come first serve will they prioritize high-risk population and elderly do we want the drugstores making that call? more importantly some of these vaccines are not like the flu shot pfizer needs to be cold, can cvs do that? do they have a f

they're ready for the year mckesson sells for ten times for next year estimates. that's ridiculous. i know it is someone of a cut-throat business, these guys deserve much higher. we have to administer the vaccine some where here we gochlt t the ones that you all know cvs and walgreens. on top of that last week the department of health humans and services sent new department of services tharand that includes kroger and walmart reports this week be careful and costco which just gave you a $10 dividend. tonight stocks just -- how much could this business be worth morgan taylor took a stab answering this question for cvs give the stock trade ten times earnings, that translates to as much as 4 bucks per share for the stock price and this stock has been kind of -- it is up 10 straight points. i don't know if i can recommend it here. it has been a straight line. you have a lot of people coming in for the vaccine, many of them buying other things. you don't buy everything from amazon everyone with pharmacy exposure gets a boost cvs should benefit over the most honeywell and corning both wor

mckesson has already provided kits. because this is a once in a century pandemic, the vaccine is already being manufactured in bioreactors inside sterile facilities like this one at emergent biosolutions in baltimore. even though it has not yet been approved by the fda. vice president sean kirk says it can take up to six weeks to produce a single batch. >> it then leaves here and moves to another facility where it gets filled into the final presentation you're used to seeing when you're getting a vaccination from the clinic. >> reporter: emergent is shipping most of the vaccine to what's known as a fill finish line run but catalan and its chief commercial officer carol flynn. >> you're basically the bottling plant for vaccines. >> that's correct. it's a very sophisticated operation. >> reporter: one of catalan's lines can bottle up to 400 viles a minute with each vile containing five to ten doses. >> the situation we're facing now is what we call the need for paid. >> how many shifts are you running right now? >> we are

three really great authors who are going to join news conversation, and we want to start off with derey mckesson, an activist, podcaster 0,ed couldogy and writer, abusing "on the other side of freedom eye unpacks racial i justice in the out, how oppression persists. henly lou guess gates jr. says on the other side of free tom reveals a mind and motivations of a young man who has risen to the force of millenial activism through study, disminimum and conviction, derey, welcome. >> i'm on mute. so good to be here. >> i want to also personally thank you for the book. i read your book in five hours, one fell swoop. >> that's great. >> i wanted to start with you because before michael brown's killing in ferguson in 2014, you were not an activist. you were a teacher, an educator, and you make this split second decision to travel to -- from minneapolis which was where you lived at the time to missouri in the middle of the night to be part of something big unfolding and late ever we will talk to catherine sanderson why we act and then followed by eitan hersh and how we take action and you're a manifestat

announced at, we mckesson corporation will produce, store, and distribute vaccine ancillary supply kits on behalf of the strategic national stockpile to help health care workers administer the vaccine. on november 12, we announced of the partnership with a large chain pharmacies and independent regional ones to deliver safe and effective vaccines. the and president in response to this pandemic has a ready saved -- the unprecedented response to the pandemic has already saved many american lives. now, with multiple safe and effective vaccines just around the corner, we urge all americans to wash her hands, socially distance, wear a mask when you cannot do so. i will take questions. >> i want to ask you a question that i am asked fairly often away from the white house. with respect to what rudy giuliani and the legal team on the campaign side had to say yesterday, let's suggested that there is evidence of fraud, regularities, even malicious intent with respect to vote totals. what would be the pathway or strategy to overturn what the campaign believes is a flawed election? are we talking a

robert: it is going to be working with a government contractor mckesson, helping with the distribution. out as are ready to ship soon as they get the authorization. exactly what doses go to which states, not clear yet, but all of that is being worked out, and mckesson is going to be involved . hopefully that will go well. alix: expecting 20 million doses in the u.s. by the end of the year. thank you, bloomberg's robert langreth. fourvember, we have had positive mondays a vaccine news. it has been a killer for weeks. here with us is bloomberg's abigail doolittle to take us through it. abigail: it really has been a record-breaking month for stock so far. l, its vestment -- the russell, its best month ever. thet of this tied to vaccine, as you were just discussing. traders taking a bit of a breather, understandable after such a record-breaking month, but on average, look at monday relative to the other days, up more than 1%. four mondays ago the biggest one on the pfizer news. then you see going right through the week, investors, traders not participating quite as much, so real optimism a

so, i think the government is being very prudent i have been in touch with mckesson and i think they're completely ready and know u.p.s. has freezer for them no one seems nearly as worried about the pfizer temperature because they're ready. david, they're ready >> okay. i'm excited to hear that they're ready. i believe that will hopefully be the case and i hope teachers get it quickly, too >> that's also one, teachers before students. what i think is amazing -- >> get those schools fully opened >> this is a nonpolitical, this is mckesson's government some state intervention but a pecking order that will be announced later this week and then the drugstores and supermarkets and thousands of places you'll be able to get it and i think that is why it's going to be so accessible, carl, that people are going to get it. >> yeah. let's hope so, guys. it is going to be big. >>> when we come back, a lot to get to this morning. obviously, s&p global and ihs market and jim's take and nikola shares down 21% premarket. n'gowadot ay. this is decision tech. find a stock based on your interests or what'

mckesson is integral to the health care system i don't think that's a mistake to buy i think that's a really interesting stock. i think it's hated look at united health. see that go up yesterday i want hated i like hated >> joe >> completely agree. technology is coming for health care in terms of disruption. it's the next sector in which you will see price transparency, which is clearly missing in the sector day like today, thermo fisher. down significantly i think it's down $15 pressing towards it's 50-day moving average. i would step in, buy it there and i just might do it myself later on in the day. i agree with jim health care provides a tremendous opportunity when looking at growth and value. i think the health care story, unfortunately, was misplaced earlier in the year. it was all about biotechs. there's way more to the health care story and that along with the industrial sector, i think, is going to benefit from technology >> jon najarian, you have the action >> i agree. >> the largest maker of vaccines in the world, scott, isn't any of the names we talked about it's not pfize

i urged people to look at mckesson because mckesson is the company that is distributing the vaccine and going to do a great job. i think that's a nine times earnings now i like the stocks coming down. we can't just give up on everything. >> let's get back to the amazon effect this morning. we saw the red on the real time exchange there is a good amount of it just as a result of amazon's announcing amazon pharmacy, prescription medications delivered from amazon, prime members can access savings on medications and amazon pharmacy when paying without insurance as well and they're talking at over 50,000 other participating pharmacies nationwide. big savings is what they're offering free delivery within two days as well let's go through some of the names. there you see them rite aid, walgreens, cvs, goodrx, all getting hammered on this move in but also the drug distributors, don't forget them. i don't know if we have cardinal health or mckesson interestingly, amerisource bergen is a -- is pill pack's distributor. but i don't -- i don't know if that necessarily extends to amazon pharmacy. rem

there'sy have already an infrastructure in place that has distributed the vaccine, these are the , mckesson or cardinal health -- i'm just using those as examples -- who every day have trucks full of supplies. they are part of the supply chain that goes from the warehouse right into the practitioner's office or the hospital and they have been doing that every day now. i think they will harness that thert to say let's use existing distribution and that would be the natural way, the most effective way in my own judgment and they have have those contracts in place for quite a while. governor, what did you learn after the avian flu outbreak? guest: the first thing we learned was we were not prepared. most of our capacity was on contracts outside of the united now.s. you could see that if the only place we could get it manufactured was outside the united states, there would be -- so, we went to a pandemic, said, it may be another one. .e are not well prepared this was a good piece of insight by president bush. we spent a lot of time and effort developing what is now reflected as the national pan

supreme court on monday against a case activist deray mckesson. the lawsuit involved a police officer who was injured at a protest over the 2016 police killing of alton sterling in baton rouge, louisiana. the unnamed officer was hit with a piece of concrete or rock allegedly thrown by a protester. the officer sued mckesson for damages because of his affiliation with black lives matter. even though the identity of the alleged assailant is unknown. kentucky governor andy beshear vowed to take immediate corrective action friday following reports kentucky police used three hitler quotes in a training slideshow and urged officers to be "ruthless killers." one of the hitler quotes was -- "the very first essential for success is a perpetually constant and regular employment of violence." the slideshow was first reported by a high school newspaper. a police spokesperson said it was removed in 2013 and no longer in use. and hurricane eta is nearing into category 5 strength as it barrels towards nicaragua. the hurricane is expected to cause catastrophic dam

distribute the they are called distributors and like ameris panies or mckesson or cardinal health ho every day send trucks full f supplies, they are the part of the supply chain that goes from a warehouse right into the hospital.ner office or they are doing that every day now. so i think they are going to to say let'seffort use that existing distribution. the natural way and most effective way in my own they nt and i think that have doubtedly had those contracts in place for quite a while. you also led the development of a federal plan after these 2005 avian flu outbreak. you learn? guest: the first thing we learned is we were not very well prepared. we didn't have sufficient vaccine manufacturing capacity. of our capacity was on contracts that were outside the united states. can see the danger of that now if the only place we could et manufacturing done was outside the u.s. it would be danger that the countries who somehow want ght the vaccine before it got to the states. so, we went to congress and said a pandemic will happen. maybe it one or another one. not well es we are prepare

distribution companies like mckesson, fedex, and ups. and pharmacies like cvs and walgreens that have agreed to do things differently, to think, how can we get this to the american people in the most rapid and expeditious way? we will be successful because of this all-of-america approach, this collaboration, this effort that everybody is leading towards. i will end where i started: this is about saving lives, the lives of the great american people.a and we will not rest until we are successful and that we have irreversible momentum to returning our nation back to normal. thank you, mr. president. thank you very much. thank you, general, very much. great job. alex, please. secretary azar: thank you, mr. president, for providing the leadership that's gotten us where we are today. the success that operation warp speed has realized so far has been made possible only because of the bold vision you announced not even six months ago, right here in the rose garden. to highlight three of the remarkable accomplishments we see just this week. first

then we're working with mckesson, a large, very large distribution company that knows how to produce, or distribute vaccine throughout the entire country. and i'll talk about that in a minute. and then as the secretary mentioned, we have collaborated with pharma, such as cvs and walgreens. all right. so that we have already laid out plans and coordinated memorandums of agreement to ensure that we're executing the right way, in accordance with the jurisdiction plans. as they direct we'll execute. so, we're bringing this whole of america approach from government to industry. and we're bringing it all together to ensure that safe and effective vaccines are delivered to the american people in a timely manner. the time associated with delivery. we will begin distribution of the vaccine within 24 hours after emergency use authorization is approved. all right. and only after the science has determined and approved it accordingly, then we are poised and ready to begin distribution. distribution will occur from our fill/finish sites. and we'll go to all 64 jurisdictions that we are responsible

. >>> welcome back health care moving higher today with anthem and mckesson among the biggest winners. the group slightly underperforming the broader market since president trump was elected in 2016. up 25% compared to the s&p 500 rallying 58% for more on how this election could impact health care stocks, jared holtz. first broad question, if it's possible to simplify it this much, which president -- which candidate as president will be better for health care as a whole? >> good afternoon, thanks a lot for having me. we have done a lot of thinking about this i actually think that a biden presidency would be better for health care than trump becaused on, you know, some of the work we've done, what we believe to be his core underlying policies, and given the fact that the aca in our mind is the biggest risk, biggest impediment facing health care and the supreme court which is going the hear this case against next week that seems to be the biggest risk than anything biden has planned for it at this point. >> the aca being rolled back i think is what you mean what are the chances of a bid

it seems to go just a little bit beyond that, not just drugstores operators, but disturb it is like mckesson, cardinal health. cardinal down by 6.3%. they will be doling out fewer pills to those physical pharmacies, and even beyond drug distributors, you are seeing other companies like cardinal health, those insurers under pressure, likely having to do with amazon's plan to offer prescription discounts to prime members. it is sending ripples across the health care space, amanda. getsa: as it does when it into a new space. kailey leinz, thank you for that. from new york and toronto, this is bloomberg. ♪ . . . businesses today are looking to tomorrow. adapting. innovating. setting the course. but new ways of working demand a new type of network. one that's more than just fast. you need flexibility- to work from anywhere. and manage from everywhere. advanced technology. with serious security. and reliable coverage, nationwide. forward-thinking enterprises, deserve forward-thinking solutions. and that's what we deliver. so bounce forward, with comcast business. with i am mark crumpton bloomber

i bet you this is going to be a lot of names, fed ex, mckesson we know is part of this distribution effort. it's going to be an all hands on deck. i love it. it's great american business and of course, we will be watching all of it. thank you very much. blake burman. >>> okay. so it looks really nice out there in washington, d.c. is blake even wearing a jacket? the sun is shining. sure. particularly on this solar stock. look at this one-year picture of sun power. this is a gain of 368% over the past 12 months. and the skies might only be looking brighter as to what's shaping up as a more climate-friendly biden presidency. could a key player still missing from the cabinet roster actually darken the horizons for renewables? sun power's ceo tom werner is here on the list of potential energy secretary nominees that's been thrown around at least by those in the know, right? it's already dividing moderates and progressives as it fights for keeping a green peace in place. closing bell ringing in 49 and a half minutes. "the claman countdown" is coming right back. in a land not so far away, people

be doable and worked out now by general gus pirna, the four-star general together with contractors mckesson doing this. remember, we do a dance like this every year. d disburse 100 million vaccines during a brief time of august, september, october, november. this is clearly more ambitious but not so different from things we've done in the past. >> getting into details here, as the vaccine reportedly requires two doses, what's the timeline for first dose to second dose? are you concerned that people might not go back for the second shot? or simply forget? is that going to be tracked at all? lastly, a friend of mine who suffered with covid-19 and recovered wondering, will people who already have the virus need or get a vaccine? >> so the, at least for the first vaccines, there are about three or four week it's apart depending if it's the pfizer or moderna vaccine. take as week or so to develop a full amount of anti-bodies in your system. roughly five weeks from the time you receive your first dose, then second dose and then have antibodies. the states are doing, and really they're responsible

. >>> drug distributors mckesson and thermo-fisher have seen quite the runup on the prospect that they will be key in getting covid-19 vaccines to end users. then there's this secret weapon for vaccine distribution. autonomous vehicle trucking company gatik. the company makes autonomous vehicle software and sensors which is upfits to four transit box trucks. the original plan was to deliver groceries, things that need to be frozen or chilled temperatures but gatik is ready to pivot and fast. the ceo of gatik joins us in a fox business exclusive. great to have you. all right. pre-pandemic, you entered a deal with walmart and with a canadian super-store chain. describe the business plan you had before the pandemic. >> absolutely. so gatik, we do autonomous deliveries for the middle mile segment of the supply chain. last year we announced a partnership with walmart at their headquarters, handling operations from one of their stores, their microdistribution center, to retail locations in bentonville, arkansas. today we are coming out with a partnership with canada's largest retailer and yo

charge of this, gus perna, has had a lot of time to think this through and they've contracted with mckesson. i think it will go okay. the u.s. does this carefully orchestrated dance every year for flu vaccine, we give out 100 million doses of flu vaccine starting in august and going through the fall. this is a bit more ambitious, but it's not so completely different. so i do have some optimism that we'll be able to begin vaccinating the public in significant amounts. it's a matter of keeping everyone alive and not doing reckless things between now and the early part of next year. >> that's really true. and we don't know how long, very briefly, we don't know how long the immunity lasts for any one of these individual vaccines yet? >> yeah, that's exactly right, andrea, we don't know about the durability of protection. so the question i often get asked is, hey, dr. hotez, which vaccine are you going to wait for? the answer is, don't wait. first of all, you won't have a lot of choice, at least in the beginning, you take whatever vaccine is offered you to because there are still a lot of unknow

distribution companies is unlike mckesson, fedex and u.p.s. and pharmacies is unlike cvs and walgreen's that have agreed to do things differently. we will be successful because of this all of america approach. this collaboration, this effort that everybody is leading towards. >> martha: joining me now francis collins, the director of the national institute of health. thank you so much for being here. it's great to have you with us today, dr. collins. what is your reaction. >> glad to be with you, martha. >> martha: what do you think when you hear that pfizer now has finished the safety protocols that have to go through so now it can be moved toward fda approval. have you ever seen a timeline is unlike this? >> never. this is extraordinary. the average time it's taken in the past to develop a vaccine has been about 8 years. this has been done in 10 months. and it was also done on the size of a trial that wasn't usually attempted either. both pfizer and moderna had more than 30,000 volunteers as part of their trials and by the way thank you to t

in mapping ho how to distribute the vaccine efficiently but will rely on private distributers like mckesson which distributed the h1n1 vaccine. the pfizer vaccine will require two doses, 21 days apart. and will require subzero temperatures for storage. >> minus 70 is what's required for the pfizer vaccine. >> one company working to help with that is thermofisher scientific. it is ramping up production of its freezers for distribution centers and hospitals. and pfizer has created pizza box size coolers to refrigerate the vaccine for weeks at a time. the army general in charge of operation warp speed explains how pfizer will distribute the vaccine. >> they will utilize fedex and u.p.s. in order to execute distribution. simultaneously we will shift ancillary kits needles, syringes alcohol wipes and dilute tents for the vaccine to pete the vaccine at the end state facilities we are talking about. >> u.s. troops will not be distributing the vaccine military plane could say fly to remote parts of the u.s. to help if needed. the states determine how many doses they need. but tension with the trump

morning 30 days of studies where you can take the product out of freezer like a distribution center, mckesson, we'll use distribution and put it in the fudge, regular fridge like you store insulin at cvs walgreenses or doctor. that is a big change to the product that we're very excited about. reporter: so if this moderna vaccine ends up hitting the marketplace in the upcoming weeks there will potentially be a lot of it. because under "operation warp speed" the u.s. government penned a $1.5 billion contract, meaning that there will be some 50 million people treated in the u.s. potentially wit and connell, the u.s. government eventually will have the option to buy more of it down the line should it choose to. connell? connell: we heard a lot about that friday when we didn't know about these results, "operation warp speed." in terms of how the distribution work, how they get it, how is that going to play out and what do you know about it? reporter: it's a good question, right? what are the details whenever there is a vaccine or vaccines down the line, who gets it, when and how. i asked the white

that they have deployment in place using the dod and the cdc and mckesson i think you would see this virus -- this vaccine distributed in early december. i think we'll have it approved and ready to go by thanksgiving. charles: so during the trials two doses were given. this a global crisis. you mentioned "operation warp speed." we'll be pretty good being the at the front of the line but can we get this down to one single dose. give the audience an idea how long-lasting and durable the vaccines will be? >> i love the idea that it is 90% effective and let me tells you what that means. the vaccine is genetic material that signals your cells to make the protein of the virus. we look at what your immune system does. they looked at 44,000 patients. 22,000 of them got the vaccine, 94 got infected with covid and had 90% response to the vaccine itself. meaning they had no symptoms or much minor symptoms. that is incredibly, incredibly positive news, charles. consider that the flu vaccine is only 30 to 60% effective. we want everybody to take it. the measles vaccine which stamped out measles i

the medical distribution company, mckesson, says it already has produced enough kits for 88 million shots. >> ostrowski: the idea is the kit will marry up with the vaccine. and they will go together as one package to provide that capability to an administration site. >> martin: because this is a once in a century pandemic, the vaccine is already being manufactured in bio-reactors inside sterile facilities like this one at emergent bio- solutions in baltimore, even though it has not yet been approved by the f.d.a. vice president sean kirk says it can take up to six weeks to produce a single batch. >> sean kirk: it then leaves here and moves to another facility where it gets filled into the final vial presentation you're used to seeing when you're getting a vaccination at the clinic. >> martin: emergent is shipping most of that vaccine to what's known as a fill finish line run by a company called catalent and its chief commercial officer karen flynn. you're basically the bottling plant for vaccines. >> karen flynn: that's correct, and it's a very sophisticated operation. >> martin: one of c

. >> reporter: the trump administration has tapped drug administration giant mckesson to hand the challenge. priority given to health care workers, first responders and the elderly along with other vulnerable populations. but fellow stanford immunology professor dr. david relman believes the priorities after that could be less clear. >> you then immediately have to ask, well, what is essential and how essential is essential? >> reporter: for the first time consideration will reportedly be given to minority communities heavily affected by the virus. while the administration has promised to make the doses available free of charge, several state governors are already raising alarms about the broader costs of actually vaccinating millions of people. >> some insurers have said, well, um, yes, we will provide the vaccine if, you know, a whole variety of things are true. and it gets complicated quickly. >> reporter: plans call for the vaccine to be rolled out in phases, but doctors say which vaccine is available when could also be consideration for many. and dr. palendren believes some people coul

partnerships we have formed with the pharmaceutical companies like pfizer and moderna like distribution like mckesson, fedex and ups and pharmacies like cbs and walgreens that have agreed to do things differently, to think how can we get this to the american people and the most rapid way. we will be successful because all america approach, the collaboration, the effort that everybody is leading towards. i will in where i started, this is about saving lives, the lives of the great american people and we will not rest until we are successful in that we have your reversible momentum to returning our nation back to normal. thank you, mr. president. >> thank you general very much. great job. alex please. >> thank you, mr. president for providing the leadership that has gotten us where we are today. the success the operation warp speed has realized so far is made possible only because of the bold vision you announced not even six months ago right here in the rose garden. to highlight three of the remarkable accomplishments we've seen this week, first pfizer announced promising data on the vaccine candidate

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i will not be denied this time by the way, carl, they don't know who you are tried mckesson, i'm jim cramer, didn't do this, but you have the image of who the heck is that? senator cramer from the dakotas? it doesn't matter, it is just -- just taking the people they want to take. >> guys, as david said earlier, big hour still ahead we'll talk to mike wirth of chevron. we'll talk about some of the retail numbers rolling in from target, e-commerce once again a standout and we'll keep a eye out for dow 30k, the opening bell in 17 minutes. don't go anyway. ♪ for skin as alive as you are... don't settle for silver ♪ gold bond champion your skin gold bond (vo) i'm a verizon engineer and today, we're turning on 5g across the country. with the coverage of 5g nationwide. and, in more and more cities, the unprecedented performance of ultra wideband. the fastest 5g in the world. it will change your phone and how businesses do everything. i'm proud, because we didn't build it the easy way, we built it right. this is the 5g america's been waiting for. only from verizon. >>> as we fautalk to c

saying we have freezer farms, we're ready, we have cvs, mckesson, walgreens saying we're ready i want this in two weeks, why can't i get it >> you can get it. all the names you have cited are part of the process through which the vaccine doses will be shipped, will be warehoused, will be transported and will be inoculated we have localized and are localizing all the syringes, the, you know, alcohol, the masks, everything, that we are required to inoculate, to immunize is being moved. and as soon as the eua is approved within 24 hours the vaccines will be in the immunization sites and people will be immunized. the difference is we don't have 300 million doses. we will have as the month goes by within the month of december, up to 35 to 40 million doses enough to immunize more or less 20 million high risk individuals. and then -- >> i appreciate everything you're saying, but -- >> we can immunize on the monthly baseis >> let me give you my forecast, chaos. i deal with the corporations involved in this chain of command, no one knows what is going to happen. you think cvs knows what is goi

government partners working together to get these vaccines out to states and cities from an industry side, mckesson as a distributor, working with operation warp speed pfizer is working with fedex and u.p.s. walgreens and cvs involved here, getting vaccines to nursing homes. it will be a huge effort we'll start to see play out in december sara >> i was reading that the minor side effect was fatigue. could these results have been any better at all? >> i mean, they are pretty good, wilf what's great also is we saw ten cases of severe disease in the pfizer trial and nine of those were among people in the placebo group. it protects against cases of covid-19 but severe disease. we don't know if it protects against infection completely and how long these results last. i will say about the side effect profile, it is grade three fatigue and headaches, which means it could affect your ability to go about your daily activities so, there is some thought from experts that we need to look closely at these vaccines and the impact they'll have the day after you get your shot. can you go to work and things like th

all the way from pfizer and moderna through mckesson which is going to distribute it in a great trucking mechanism and then down to cvs and walgreens as they partner with us to distribute the vaccine. >> you say it's going to be fair and equitable. how do you decide who gets it first? >> so my responsibility is to make sure that the vaccine gets out to the nation in a timely manner. so our goal, eua, plus 24 hours vaccines moving throughout the country. we are executing it against a pro-rata to the total population of the states. once it gets down to the states the governors with eua guidance, cdc, acip guidance will make sure the priority for execution of the vaccine in their state will be implemented. >> of course, this distribution plan will have to continue after january 20th when joe biden is going to be president of the united states. we heard the president-elect say yesterday the fact they can't coordinate with your team could cost lives over time. what kind of coordination have you had, if any, and what challenges are created by the fact that you haven't? >> let me assure you, my

operation warp speed" project in which the distribution is taking place through, in a lot of these cases mckesson, there will be distribution facilities. the johnson & johnson ceo, neil, was asked today about how all of this will take place as it relates to who might get the first vaccines? he said it would be up to the cdc and other governmental agencies to sort of figure that out. you have got the trump administration via the white house going through "operation warp speed," you have the afda with the eua, distribution, and a whole lot of parts involved in this. they set up "operation warp speed" to get through this, when we get to that point in time there is a plan to go about it. we'll see how exactly they implement that plan. neil: got it. my friend, thank you very, very much. blake burman in washington on all fast moving developments. good time to go to jerry baker, my friend from "the wall street journal" at large, much, much more. we don't want to put a calendar date on it like j&j but we got something down the pike a host of others do. how do you think all of this plays out? >> as you sa

there'sy have already an infrastructure in place that has distributed the vaccine, these are the , mckesson or cardinal health -- i'm just using those as examples -- who every day have trucks full of supplies. they are part of the supply chain that goes from the warehouse right into the practitioner's office or the hospital and they have been doing that every day now. i think they will harness that thert to say let's use existing distribution and that would be the natural way, the most effective way in my own judgment and they have have those contracts in place for quite a while. governor, what did you learn after the avian flu outbreak? guest: the first thing we learned was we were not prepared. most of our capacity was on contracts outside of the united now.s. you could see that if the only place we could get it manufactured was outside the united states, there would be -- so, we went to a pandemic, said, it may be another one. .e are not well prepared this was a good piece of insight by president bush. we spent a lot of time and effort developing what is now reflected as the national pan

something that is going teef to be worked out operation warp she had is working with companies ups mckesson big companies trying to figure out problem with cold chain extremely develop to keep a cold chain in technicality when not electricity in many parts of the world. >> this is something that bill gates was telling me about years ago that oftentimes you want to get the drugs to where you need to get them, but the travel to get them there, is -- is tricky because it has to be in a refrigeration type mechanism, is there anything else you can tell us about this category of drugs dr.. >> what mra vaccines do take a elegant solution to hard problem take protein of the virus make antibodies get that gene into your body cells make that protein immune system reacts to a rapid way of vaccine i think this illustrates that mnra vaccines like pfizer, moderna probably way to go forward thinking about emergency are infectious disease outbreaks rapidly into clinical trials into arms of americans. >> great to talk with you get your insights on this important subject this morning thank you, sir. dr. adal

whether it is the government agencies to scientists to researchers to the phrma companies, companies like mckesson that will be distributing this. and from their point of view, that is their value proposition and they are proud of it and surprised that they were own with it talking to me. >> and you can take it a step further, you saw dr. emanuel which i think will be one of president-elect biden's advisers, but talking about a global distribution, not even favoring americans and then you get into a whole different discussion and i understand it. i mean, that is like the ultimate nationalism to think that we make it, we get it here. it is almost sort of another exam of t example of the global inequality i don't know how you fix it but you can't deny that we think we're special i guess andwould he deserve the vaccines here because he got a lot of flack from certain corners saying that it should be global. what would you do? no, i'm kidding. i'm not asking you for an answer i don't know do you >> no, but you're right in that this whole epidemic and pandemic has magnified and amplified in-qualities i

of stability, where you can take the product out of the freezer, in a big distribution center like mckesson, will do distribution for the u.s. government. and then you put it in the fridge, regular fridge like you store insulin at cvs or walgreens or the dr. that's a big change in terms of usability of the product. that's what we're excited about. maria: tell me about the grades. it's actually a shot, right? this is an injection? >> yes, it's like a typical vaccine. you clean your arm with a product to make sure you don't get consistent ta contaminated. you inject the vaccine and put on a band-aid and it's finished. it's like when you get your flu shot at the local cvs or wall green. it will be the same thing. maria: fan tack i fantastic. did you take it as well? >> i did not take it yet. this is unethical for an employee of a company to be part of a study because the thinking is that we might not report side effects. but as soon as i'm allowed to take it, i want the vaccine. so does my wife and my daughter, who is already 18 years of age. my younger one who is 16 is not happy she can't get

partners with the cdc and the mckesson and company already sent vaccines around the country multiple times the plan is in place and never been done this way before. they are already geared up to already send out 50 to 100 million doses. governor cuomo is talking about underserved areas but the plan includes temporary clinics being built in under served areas on indian reservations in poor neighborhoods in order to get the vaccine to people who need the most. healthcare workers will need it, the elderly will get it. the poor minorities will get it. all is he doing is shaking confidence in a vaccine we have very exciting news about. our big problem is going to be vaccine compliance. how disturbing is that for him to be shaking the confidence in this vaccine at exactly the wrong time? brian: we think it could be ready. they want to get the shot going, their words, at the end of this month, but they need two shots i understand it. then all of the sudden later in the day i read about moderna, excuse me, i have got one, too. what should we know about that? >> well, that's a very similar te

has developed very sophisticated thermal shippers so that they can watch every single shipment go out mckesson with "operation warp speed" to supply the syringes that you need. and then it will go state by state. and so there are a lot of questions about how this vaccine rollout will go. >> are you serious, they are actually using fedex and u.p.s. to ship these things that have to be kept at 90 degrees below zero and nothing against fedex and u.p.s., i love them, i use them constantly, every day there are packages showing up, but if i had something that was really important, i don't know that i'd feel comfortable shipping it cross-country that way >> well, that is why they designed these thermal shippers that have gps trackers on them and temperature trackers so they literally have a control tower they tell us where they will be tracking every single one of these shipments and seeing how cold it is, making sure that nothing gets diverted this case there are heists we've heard about drug heists before so they will be paying attention to every single one of these packages >> when i was talking t