so as a country we have spent the last
nine months riddled with a lot of fear
with rampant lockdowns across the
country
all due to a tragic global pandemic and
today
we marked the beginning of the end
of all of that at this moment
millions of vaccines are on their way
all across the country to all
50 states and almost no one except the
president
and some scientists with a dream said
that that
could ever be possible mr president on
operation
on this vaccine operation warp speed
who's in charge of that and
are you over promising when you say
you're going to have 300 million doses
of vaccine disease no i'm not over
promised i don't know who said it but
whatever the maximum is whatever you can
humanly do
we're going to have who's in charge of
that operation warp speed
we have uh you know as a judge of it
honestly i
am i'll tell you i'm really in charge of
it
but already many in the media are
warning that this will
never work as advertised so will their
message
morph when it is joe biden who is in
charge of this program we're going to
put that a question to scott atlas who
has taken a lot of heat over the course
of all of this has been very outspoken
he's stanford university's hoover
institution senior fellow and a former
special adviser to the president
admiral brett jarwar assistant secretary
of health at the united states
department of health and human services
and admiral johar i want to go to you
first um you know when you look back
on this and you hear that and even dr
fauci
uh testified 12 to 18 months would be a
very
an aggressive timeline so what do you
say to all of those who said that
there's no way that it could be done by
the end of the year
well i guess the proof is in the pudding
because we're here on this historic day
and it
it is a near medical miracle but you
know miracles seem to imply that there
was no
intervention by the administration or by
people and let me tell you
it started with the president vice
president the secretary setting the
expectations
they picked the best people in the
country actually the best people in the
world to implement it
they eliminated all bureaucratic
barriers and said there was no expense
there was no barrier that couldn't be
gotten rid of
um you know picking six candidates out
of a hundred or 150
um this was all a result of outstanding
leadership and capability and
and i'm just so honored to be part of
the team and i think america should be
proud of this accomplishment
so and you should be congratulations to
you and to everybody who's involved it
really is a historic day
in this country and i think that we're
going to look back on it
as such what do you say to those and i
hear this from
folks who say you know watch what's
going to happen any any little
hiccup any glitch is going to be blamed
on president trump and then as soon as
january 20th rolls around the successful
side of this will all be
attributed to the to uh president biden
um do you believe that that's the case
and what would you say to people
about that
well you know i try to stay out of
politics but i've spent several months
seeing
uh this vaccine effort being discredited
or minimized for political purposes and
even outcast
on the vaccination process so i wouldn't
underestimate anything that happens but
i can tell you
we have a plan to get all of america
vaccinated
by june and that means 200 million
vaccines out
by the end of february and hundreds of
millions more
if the next administration follows the
plan that we have
uh continues to implement it that's
what's going to happen
and again i don't you know i'm not
pointing fingers for credit or blame or
anything else
but believe me this is happening right
now because the efforts of this
administration
so a couple other questions um with
regard to
the treatments you know we see these
really terrible
numbers of deaths in the country hitting
new highs since last may
and we've heard so much about the
treatments and how great they are we've
heard it from some very high profile
people who got them
and it makes you wonder why aren't we
lowering those death numbers
with these treatments are they not
getting where they need to go
so it's it's a great question so your
chances of surviving
are tremendously higher now because of
the treatment so the case fatality rate
is
much lower 80 to 85 percent lower the
problem is we have so many cases
so even though your chances are much
better the numbers of cases are
are outstripping that ratio so we have
more deaths more hospitalizations
and that's why until we get more people
vaccinated you know tens of millions of
people vaccinated
it's really critically important to do
the things that we've been talking about
including dr atlas physically distance
wear a mask when you can't physically
distance
wash your hands avoid those indoor
crowds avoid travel
but let me i just want to go back to my
question for one second the end is near
the treatment sure remdissever all these
treatments that we hear about people
getting
why aren't they are they getting are
they in massive circulation across the
country can any person in this country
get their hands on those
so um yes they're in they're in
circulation all across the country
and we have not exceeded uh the supply
for these treatments so
if you're an individual you get them
your chances of dying go down 85 or 90
percent
but there are so many cases right now
circulating over two hundred thousand
new cases a day being identified
that even though an individual's chance
is down overall the mortality in the
country is going up
so yes these treatments are effective
until we get a vaccine
and we got to get that vaccine out there
and i know you guys are working very
hard to do just that
a story that caught my eye this morning
talked to some people about it
that in the uk they have identified a
new stream that they say
is very strong that was from the health
secretary in the united kingdom are you
aware of that and what's your assessment
of it
so we haven't done at least to my
knowledge all the molecular studies on
that but up until this date
there has been no strain that it has
arisen that can escape
the vaccines as we know it because the
vaccines are against a very critical
part of the virus
if the virus mutates to that essentially
it's no longer the virus so
we do need to study that that's a new
report but i am very confident
thus far everything that we've seen all
the genetic drifts etc would be covered
by the vaccines that we have we hope we
hope so good news thank you very much
admiral good to see you tonight