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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Bloomberg Penl Podcast. I'm Paul swing you

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Speaker 1: Time to check in with Bloomberg Opinion. We're joined by

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Speaker 1: opinion columns. Max Nisson covers all things healthcare for US,

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Speaker 1: and we love to have him on, particularly during this

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Speaker 1: pandemic because there's so many topics. There's so much breaking news,

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Speaker 1: and Max, I want to start with the Santa Fee

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Speaker 1: news here. I guess the CEO came out yesterday and

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Speaker 1: said that the US would likely get first crack at

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Speaker 1: their vaccine because the US was first to step up

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Speaker 1: with funding here, and now he's getting some pushback on that,

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Speaker 1: including from the President of France here, So give us

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Speaker 1: the background here. How common is that in the world

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Speaker 1: of healthcare and vaccines for one country to get preference

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Speaker 1: over another. Uh, you know, it's not uncommon at all

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Speaker 1: in the sense that you do see wealthier countries UM,

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Speaker 1: countries that have a manufacturing base UM do do get

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Speaker 1: access more rapidly. There there was a flu outbreak that

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Speaker 1: the two thousand nine one where where a lot of

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Speaker 1: those vaccine stocks, which which didn't end up being super useful,

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Speaker 1: were were bought up by by countries like the United States.

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Speaker 1: This is a kind of particularly special and case where

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Speaker 1: you know, the United States on one hand, is providing

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Speaker 1: some of that that at risk manufacturing capacity before we

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Speaker 1: even know if the vaccine works UM. But at the

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Speaker 1: same time, the furor that this this kind of prompted

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Speaker 1: highlights that this is going to be a really complicated

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Speaker 1: geopolitical issue, that there's such demand that that giving countries

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Speaker 1: preferences is going to be incredibly controversial and difficult, and

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Speaker 1: and that you also, you know, you if you politicize it,

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Speaker 1: that that has some risks. What if you have a

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Speaker 1: situation where where the vaccine that turns out to work

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Speaker 1: and they take the position that because they funded it, UM,

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Speaker 1: to step down um to do anything but try to

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Speaker 1: develop maximum capacity and give it out to whatever extent

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Speaker 1: possible based on need um. You know, the best situation

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Speaker 1: and we can argue over who's going to get it first,

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Speaker 1: the World Health Organization yesterday warned that it could take

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Speaker 1: up to five years before the coronavirus pandemic is under control.

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Speaker 1: I'm looking at more and more dire predictions of social

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Speaker 1: distance in distancing strikeing out for a longer and longer

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Speaker 1: period of time as we await some sort of treatment

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Speaker 1: or vaccine. Where are we How do we even judge that? Unfortunately,

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Speaker 1: anyone that tells you that they have, you know, an

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Speaker 1: accurate timeline is is making it up. You know, Okay,

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Speaker 1: much the temptation, but you also want to avoid giving

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Speaker 1: the sense of false hope because the best way to

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Speaker 1: It's the worst case scenario where you have to use

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Speaker 1: public health efforts, testing, tracking, tracing, um screening to to

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Speaker 1: So you really do have to approach is cautiously, and

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Speaker 1: cautious about the timeline. Max Neeson, thank you so much

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Speaker 1: for being with us as all is Maxinism and Bloomberg

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Speaker 1: Opinion calumnist, joining us to talk about the vaccine and

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Speaker 1: the arguments that are already occurring over the distribution of

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Speaker 1: those vaccines. Paul, all right, how you're gonna I'm not

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Speaker 1: sure how you figure that out. You know, it's just

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Speaker 1: thinks that fair is for them to get it first? Okay?

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Speaker 1: Moment of truth, Paul, real, moment of truth. How many

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Speaker 1: times have you googled the symptoms of COVID nineteen as

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Speaker 1: well as the transmission mechanisms, the you know, rate of contagion.

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Speaker 1: You know what fortunately I have not, you know, I'm

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Speaker 1: really yeah, I'm just you know, staying at home, you know,

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Speaker 1: doing all the common sense stuff. And I think that's

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Speaker 1: Definitely the best way to go. I cannot confess to

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Speaker 1: the same, but I like at well, first it was

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Speaker 1: a trade dispute. Now it's fingerpointing about the coronavirus. But

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Speaker 1: smooth under the Trump administration. Now we've got President Trump

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Speaker 1: better to ask that of than Andy Brown, editorial director

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Speaker 1: he thanks so much for joining us here. It seems

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Speaker 1: like President Trump is ratcheting up the rhetoric, the anti

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Speaker 1: So so look, this is not the first time, obviously

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Speaker 1: seems to me that that that is quite a significant step.

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Speaker 1: And I'm wondering how much this is due to the

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