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12-13-20 Meet The Press Francis Collins Vaccines Masks Covid-19 Coronavirus Lockdowns Pandemic

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12-13-20 Meet The Press Francis Collins Vaccines Masks Covid-19 Coronavirus Lockdowns Pandemic

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What that means is, if you have had the vaccine and people are going to start getting it this week, you still need to wear the mask. You still need to think of yourself as potentially contagious. What that means is, if you have had the vaccine, and people are going to start getting it this week, you still need to wear the mask. You still need to think yourself as potentially contagious." How long are masks going to be a part of our life? I mean, are they going to be stocking stuffers next year too? This could go on and on and on. This could go on and on and on. This could go on and on and on. But we're not done yet. But we're not done yet. But we're not done yet. To say, America, this is good for you. Let's all get together and say, America, this is good for you. Let's all get together. This Sunday, vaccines begin rolling out of Pfizer's manufacturing facility. After the FDA gives its approval. It can't be overstated. You know, this is what we've been praying for. Still warnings that vaccines will come too late for two minutes. Probably for the next 16 to 90 days, we're going to have more desperate day than the end of 9-11, where we had a parole. As COVID cases and deaths set new records. This morning, I'll talk to the director of the National Institutes of Health, Francis Collins. From NBC News in Washington, the longest running show in television history. This is Meet the Press with Chuck Time. Good Sunday morning. Here's a scene we have all been waiting for. Trucks carrying Pfizer's newly authorized vaccine or rolling out this morning. Then it can't be. There's a very good chance that he may pass. 16 to 90 days, we're going to have more desperate day than we had in 9-11. We're in a teeth for crisis right now. In this nation, these presidential leadership right now. But I can't breathe. Joining me now is the director of the National Institutes of Health, Francis Collins. Dr. Collins, welcome back to Meet the Press. I think there have been few, if any, vaccines that have ever been subjected to this level of scrutiny. So if you want to look at the facts, the vaccine that we know is safe and effective. Then I can't breathe. Absolutely. I think there have been few, if any, vaccines that have ever been subjected to this level of scrutiny. So if you want to look at the facts, so if you want to look at the facts, if you want, if you want, if you want, if you want. So if you want to look at the facts, I think you should be very reassured. All reasonable people, if they had the chance to sort of put the noise aside. And disregard all those terrible conspiracy theories, would look at this and say, I want this for my family. I want it for myself. People are dying right now. Right now, right now, right now, right now. Some of the issues that we don't know the answer to yet after you take the vaccine. When will we know the answer to the question of whether, if you've been vaccinated, whether you can spread the disease? Chuck, that's a great question, preventing symptomatic illness. But we don't know whether somebody who had the vaccine could still acquire the virus without any symptoms and potentially be contagious to others around them. That is an urgent question to discover. It will take us a couple of months to figure that out. And there's still some debate about the ideal design of the studies to do that. What that means is, if you've had the vaccine and people are going to start getting it this week, you still need to wear the mask. You still need to think of yourself as potentially contagious, even though you are protected from getting sick at a very high percentage of certainty. Masks are still going to be part of our life. We need to recognize that and not step away or start to drop our guard. How long are masks going to be a part of our life? Are they going to be stocking stuffers next year or two? I don't think so. But, you know, it's going to depend on the American public quite a bit in terms of whether people are willing to take part in this immunization plan, which depends on the vaccine. The experts would say we need 70 to 80% of Americans to be immune before this virus will basically give up and it'll be gone. And we think we can get there by June or so for almost all of the 330 million Americans who are interested in getting this vaccine. But if only half of them do so, this could go on and on and on. This could go on and on and on. This could go on and on and on. Remember, D. Day was June of 1944, the warden end until 1945. We're in that same space and it's up to all of us just like we did in World War II to pull together and say we're going to get, but we're not done yet through this, but we're not done yet. We got to absolutely double down, but we're not done yet, but we're not done yet. We double down, we double down, we double down, but we're not done yet. We got to absolutely double down on all the things that Americans can do to save lives and look at the lives that we have lost in the tragedy that's there. And if we've got a chance to make this next few months, which otherwise could be really dark, which otherwise could be really dark, which otherwise could be really dark, really dark, really dark, really dark facts and say America, this is good for you. Let's all get together and make this COVID-19 slip back into the rear view mirror. Isn't that what we want? Absolutely. Dr. Francis Collins, head of NIH. This is what good government can look like, folks. Anyway, Dr. Collins, thanks very much. This is what good government can look like, folks. Anyway, Dr. Collins, thanks very much. This is just one more reminder to please folks. Social distance, wear a mask, wash your hands, be safe. Ignore the nonsense and social media and you know what I'm talking about. That's all we have for today. Thanks for watching. We'll be back next week. Because if it's Sunday, let's make the press. Thank you.