Dr. Gottlieb on Moderna vaccine: We can effectively end Covid-19 pandemic in 2021

Dr. Scott Gottlieb told CNBC on Monday that the devastating coronavirus pandemic could “effectively” be ended next year, following promising developments around Moderna’s Covid-19 vaccine.

The Massachusetts-based biotech company on Monday announced that its coronavirus vaccine was 94.5% effective in preventing Covid-19, based on preliminary data from its phase three trial. The news comes one week after Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech said an interim analysis showed their vaccine was more than 90% effective in preventing Covid-19 among trial participants who had not previously been infected.

“If these full data sets hold, when the full data comes out, we may have two highly effective vaccines against Covid,” Gottlieb, a board member of Pfizer, said on “Squawk Box.”

“Once we get these vaccines in sufficient qualities heading in 2021, the combination of the fact that a lot of the population will have already had Covid, combined with the fact that we’ll be vaccinating the public with a highly effective vaccine, we could effectively end this pandemic in 2021 with our technology,” added Gottlieb, a former U.S. Food and Drug Administration commissioner in the Trump administration.

Since the coronavirus first emerged in China late last year, there has been nearly 55 million confirmed global cases and at least 1,318,884 deaths from Covid-19, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University. Total infections in the U.S. just topped 11 million, with more than 1 million of those cases coming in less than a week.

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[phillyfan-]

Hoping and praying that this pandemic will end soon!!!! I want life to go back to normal!!!!

[dannyw]

"I just want my life back"
-Stan Marsh 2020

[ozy]

I know of reading left to right, this guy talks left to

[seankessens]

I think Moderna company is lying about its effective % Pfizer just came out and said there vaccine in 90% why did Moderna come out 3 days later and say ours is 94.7% effective? Because they want the world to buy there vaccine they dont want to be second or 3rd I think they should do research and if data shows that there vaccine is only say 30% effective they should be prosecuted

[DavidLS]

I'm curious, are you people who say they won't get vaccinated the same people who refuse flu shots, smallpox vaccinations and measles vaccinations?

[tysonhuanh]

all this is great but probably won't change anything until summer of next year. we are still going to have a rough winter ahead of us.

[bethkatehis]

Thank you to all the Doctors and Nurses and Thank you to All the Volunteers! I am in the Moderna Cove Study trial! I am very Thankful and Excited to help with the Vaccine by Participating and receive the 2 shots 28 days apart! Happy Moderna Monday 94.5 Percent Efficacy! Thank you 🙏

[Mbros]

I hope this is true cuz I'm sick of the Corona virus. I want it to end now

[IJUSTENDEDU]

For those skeptical. We won't be the first to take it. It's going to be frontline workers and people of power. We can sit back and see how it works on important people.

[funnybee]

Fun fact you can’t breath while smiling
Joking, just wanted to make you smile for a second!😃

[mr.gorilla]

God! I want the world back to normal! It’s been 9 months since we’re in quarantine! If Coronavirus Pandemic is over! WERE FREE!!!

[dansand]

kind of weird. these people talk like they are treating a herd of animals without the experience of knowing how to treat animals. he said "YOU HAVE TO NEED TO SEE THE WHOLE DATASET". WTF!!!!

[hussainqureshiwaish]

Saying they can end a pandemic and selling them for £30 is a discrase

[enott]

Be sure to get your shot at Tuskegee University!

[bestofministries]

WE ARE LIVING IN THE LAST DAYS REPENT YOUR SINS

[Allyoop-mugg]

Can you get Dr. Gottlieb back on the show now its approaching the end of 2024 regarding the safety and effectiveness of the moderna covid shot.

[sirspookii]

Great news.

Time to end this nightmare.

[joshuapadiernos]

After the pandemic ends and go back to normal, we want to go back to work, back to school, back to worship, back to normal lives and other in person events like parades/festivals.

[Flower-culi]

Boy oh boy I sure do hope that a certain group of people in the United States doesn't politicize the vaccine!

[Mrwd]

Looks like Dr. Gottlieb finally got some sleep