Trump administration shelves CDC’s detailed plan to reopening the U.S.: AP
According to the Associated Press, the White House has decided to ignore a detailed plan from the CDC with recommendations on how to reopen the United States. This comes as Moderna announced it had received approval from the FDA on Thursday to move to the second phase of its coronavirus study, boosting confidence that reopening might be closer than anticipated. Yahoo Finance’s Anjalee Khemlani joins The Final Round panel to break down the latest news about the coronavirus.
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MYLES UDLAND: Let's move on and talk a little bit about what's happening in the vaccine world today. Anjalee Khemlani joins us now with the latest there. Anjalee.
ANJALEE KHEMLANI: Hey, Myles. Yep, so we know that Moderna, the one that got first to clinical trials with its, you know, really new technology, the messenger-RNA technology, has said on an earnings call today that it did get approved for the phase two of its trial, and that is really good news for obviously when we're looking at, you know, the number of players that are trying to get the vaccine out there with a timeline going out to an emergency-use approval in September, which matches and is on par with what we've heard from the major players like Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson. So really positive news there on that front.
Meanwhile, we have also been hearing news from the White House both regarding, you know, the reality of whether or not there is, in fact, enough personal protection equipment for people on the front line. We heard about the, you know, interaction with the nurse and the president yesterday in which he just sort of disagreed with a nurse who was saying there might not be enough on the front line right now.
And then we're also aware of a report about the CDC not being allowed to share their guidelines. We've known for years that, you know, in any situation, public-health situation, they are the entity relied on to provide details and to provide guidelines for how to respond. And the fact that the White House has, you know, stopped this from coming out is a concern. Going forward, it's going to create confusion for states which were already working on either a state-by-state or regional basis on how to reopen and what businesses to allow to reopen.
So it just adds to the conversation of, you know, continued confusion about how to go about this. Myles.
MYLES UDLAND: All right, Anjalee Khemlani with the latest on everything going on in the world of coronavirus.
