Covid Vaccine Update with Dr. Dean Fanelli

Show #1029-Part1: Monday, January 18, 2021

00:00-31:55 Covid Vaccine Update with Dr. Fanelli

Dr Dean Fanelli co-founded 3 bio tech companies and is a patent, regulatory, and transactional attorney in the Washington, DC office of Cooley LLP focusing on issues related to the development, protection, and commercialization of biotech and pharmaceutical products. 

Since he’s in D.C., Dr. Fanelli gives an update about what it’s like there with 25,000 troops ahead of Biden’s inauguration. 

Last we spoke, the Covid vaccine was still a bit of a pipe dream, now its beginning to be widely distributed

• Status on distribution and who gets it first?
• Biden goal of 100 million in 100 days.
• 1st &2nd shots, are two needed?
• Does it work, for how long?
• What about variants?
• Upwards of 1/2 Americans saying no to vaccine, why?
• Covid reactions, foxnews reported that in CA epidemiologist asked for a pause in moderna vaccine distribution. “Dr. Erica S. Pan, the California epidemiologist, issued a statement Sunday recommending a pause in the distribution of a specific lot of Moderna vaccine after "fewer than 10 individuals required medical attention over the span of 24 hours."

 

31:56-42:34 Joe Biden’s Executive Orders

Jeff goes over some of Joe Biden’s expected Executive Orders including ending the Keystone Pipeline, another multi trillion stimulus and rejoining the Paris Climate Accord.