Name: Duke Dr. Mark McClellan answers your questions about the Johnson & Johnson vaccine
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Description: McClellan speaks with David Crabtree about the top questions surrounding the new vaccine.

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CAPITOL TEAM ARE COLLABORATING TO BRING YOU MORE INFORMATION ON THIS STORY. >>> WELL, THE FOOT IS ON THE GAS. IT IS NOT LETTING UP IN THE EFFORT TO VACCINATE AMERICANS. TODAY THE PRESIDENT WAS THERE, A FIREFIGHTER AND EMT IS WASHINGTON RECEIVED HIS FIRST DOSE TO COMMEMORATE 50 MILLION SINCE THE BEGINNING OF THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION WHICH HAS PLEDGED #00 MILLION DOSES IN THE FIRST 100 DAYS. THIS MOMENTUM WILL PICK UP EVEN MORE IN THE COMING DAYS WITH THE EXPECTED APPROVAL BY THE FDA OF JOHNSON&JOHNSON'S VACCINE WHICH THE FDA SAYS SAFE. THE FINAL HURDLE COMES WITH A COMMITTEE MEETING SCHEDULED FOR TOMORROW. WE KNOW YOU HAVE QUESTIONS ABOUT THIS SPECIFIC VACCINE CANDIDATE. WE HAVE LOTS OF PEOPLE QUALIFIED TO ANSWER THEM. PERHAPS ONE OF THE MOST QUALIFIED A CLOSE FRIEND OF WRAL, YOU HAVE SEEN ON THIS HALF HOUR PLENTY OF TIMES DURING THE PAST YEAR, DR. MARTIN MCCLELLAN IS A DOCTOR AND ECONOMIST. HE IS TESTIMONY CURRENT DIRECTOR OF THE DUKE CENTER FOR HEALTH POLICY. AND HE WAS AN FDA COMMISSIONER FROM 2002 TO 2004, AND TO ADD TO HIS EXTENSIVE RESUME, DR. MCCLELLAN IS AN INDEPENDENT DIRECTOR ON THE JOHNSON&JOHNSON BOARD. THIS IS WHY WE INVITED HIM TONIGHT AHEAD OF TOMORROW'S FDA MEETING. DR.  MCCLELLAN, THANK YOU FOR TALKING WITH US. >> GOOD TO BE WITH YOU, DAVID. >> ANY REASON WHY YOU SEE J.&J. WILL NOT GET THE GREEN LIGHT? >> I HAVEN'T SEEN ANYTHING EXPRESSING REAL CONCERNS ABOUT THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THE VACCINE, DAVE, BUT IT IS STILL IMPORTANT TO HAVE THIS DISCUSSION. IT IS IMPORTANT TO HAVE INDEPENDENT EXPERTS LOOK CLOSELY AT THE DATA AND ALSO TO ADDRESS SOME OTHER QUESTIONS. SO IT IS NOT JUST SHOULD THE VACCINE BE AUTHORIZED FOR USE, BUT ALSO PEOPLE HAVE QUESTIONS ABOUT WELL, HOW LONG DOES THE PROTECTION LAST, HOW GOOD IS IT AGAINST VARIANT ?           ALL OF THESE ISSUES THAT HAVE COME UP AS WE KEEP HAVING TO DEAL WITH THE COMPLICATIONS OF THIS PANDEMIC. SO IT IS GOING TO BE A GREAT OPPORTUNITY FOR PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT AND HOPEFULLY SOME MORE OPPORTUNITIES FOR LEARNING ABOUT JUST HOW WE CAN USE THIS VACCINE AS EFFECTIVELY AS POSSIBLE. >> AND I WANT TO FOCUS ON SOMETHING WE HAVE HEARD FROM VIEWERS WAITING FOR THEIR SHOT WHO MAY END UP GETTING THIS SPECIFIC ONE FROM J.&J. WE HEAR A LOT ABOUT IT, IT BEING SOMEWHAT LESS EFFECTIVE. DR.  WOLL FROM UNC LAST NIGHT TALKING ABOUT THIS, SO I'M GOING TO ASK YOU THE SAME THING. WHY SHOULD THAT NOT BE PROBLEMATIC FOR THOSE WAITING? >> WELL, I THINK PEOPLE SHOULD LOOK AT THE DISCUSSION TOMORROW BECAUSE IT IS GOING TO COVER A LOT OF THESE KIND OF ISSUES. IS THIS THE RIGHT VACCINE FOR YOU. IT IS REALLY GOOD NEWS, I THINK, DAVID, THAT WE NOW HAVE THREE VACCINATION THAT LOOK LIKE THEY CAN REALLY PREVENT THE REASONS BEHIND THIS PANDEMIC BEING SO DEVASTATING, AND THAT IS SERIOUS COMPLICATIONS, HOSPITALIZATIONS AND DEATH. THE J. AND J. VACCINE LOOKS VERY EFFECTIVE IN TAKE REGARD, BUT THERE ARE SOME OTHER REASONS TO HAVE QUESTION. SOME PEOPLE MIGHT PREFER IT IS A SINGLE DOSE, OTHERS MAY BE CONCERNED ABOUT I WANT TO AVOID EVEN THE MILD CASES AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE. SOME MAY BE CONCERNED ABOUT THE NEW VARIANT THAT ARE EMERGING WHERE THE J.&J. VACCINE WAS TESTED MORE RECENTLY, INCLUDING IN SOUTH AFRICA, WHERE A VERY LARGE NUMBER OF THE CASES WHERE IT PREVENTED HOSPITALIZATIONS AND SERIOUS INFECTIONS WERE FROM VERY WORRISOME VARIANTS. SO THOSE ARE ALL THINGS THAT WILL FACTOR INTO PEOPLE'S DECISIONS. I'M JUST REALLY GLAD THAT WE HAVE, THANKS TO THE WORK AT J.&J., THANKS TO THE WORK AT THE OTHER COMPANIES AND THE INSPECT CLINICIANS AND PATIENTS THAT WE HAVE SOME REALLY GOOD OPPORTUNITIES TO GET THIS PANDEMIC UNDER CONTROL AND HOPEFULLY GET BACK TO MUCH MORE NORMAL LIVES. >> YOU KNOW, MAYBE EIGHT, NINE MONTHS AGO WE FIRST HEARD DR. COHEN SAY ONE DAY AS WE WERE LEARNING SO MUCH MORE ABOUT THIS ILLNESS THAT WE ARE FLYING THE PLANE AS WE'RE BUILDING THE PLANE. SO LOGISTICALLY, WOULD THIS ONE SHOT, DOESN'T NEED TO BE STORED IN SPECIAL FREEZERS, DOES IT MEAN WE'RE ABOUT TO PUT THE LAST PART OF THAT PLANE TOGETHER TO GET US OTHER THE HUMP? >> WELL, THIS IS A CRITICAL PART OF THAT PLANE. THAT PLANE LOOKS A LOT BETTER THAN IT DID SIX MONTHS AGO, DAVID. THE OTHER GOOD NEWS HERE, AND IT IS NOT JUST THE PROGRESS FROM J.&J., BUT THE MANUFACTURER OF THE OTHER VACCINES,  PFIZER AND MODERNA. THEY HAVE INCREASING SUPPLIES COMING TO AMERICANS, HERE IN NORTH CAROLINA AND ACROSS THE COUNTRY. SO THEIR SUPPLIES ARE EXPECTED TO DOUBLE OVER THE NEXT MONTH OR SO. J. & J. IS EXPECTED TO DELIVER AT LEAST 20 MILLION VACCINE DOSES, AND THAT MEANS 20 MILLION PEOPLE FULLY VACCINATED IF THIS IS AUTHORIZED IN THE MONTH OF MARCH ALONE, MAYBE MORE AND LOTS MORE AVAILABILITY AFTER THAT. THERE HAS BEEN SO MUCH NEWS LATELY ABOUT THE FRUSTRATION THAT PEOPLE HAVE WAITING TO GET A VACCINE BECAUSE THERE ARE MORE PEOPLE WHO WANT IT THAN THERE IS SUPPLY. BUT THAT WILL CHANGE IN THE COMING WEEKS AND THAT MAKES FOR A MUCH BETTER FUNDATION FOR KEEPING OUR COMMUNITY SAFE, PREVENTING SPREAD, AND GETTING ON WITH OUR LIVES. >> WE HAVE A VIEWER QUESTION FROM BENTON HENDERSON IN RALEIGH WHO SAYS SHOULD WE EXPECT BOOSTERS OR MODIFICATION TO THIS DOSE? >> WE MIGHT. SO FAR IT LOOKS LIKE FOR THE J.&J. VACCINE WHERE IT, AGAIN, WAS TESTED AGAINST SOME OF THE MORE WORRISOME VARIANTS THAT ARE OUT THERE NOW, AND ALSO FROM STUDIES, IS NOT THESE LARGE CLINICAL TRIALS, BUT STUDIES DONE FROM WHETHER THE EXISTING TWO VACCINES ARE EFFECTIVE AGAINST THE VARIANTS, IT LOOKS LIKE THEY'RE PRETTY EFFECTIVE, ESPECIALLY FOR PREVENTING THE SEVERE CASES THAT HAVE MADE THIS PANDEMIC SO BAD. SO I DON'T THINK THIS PEOPLE NEED TO WORRY WRIGHT NOW ABOUT GETTING, WAITING FOR ANOTHER VERSION OF THE VACCINE. THE MOST IMPORTANT WAY WE CAN GET THIS PANDEMIC UNDER CONTROL IS GETTING AS MANY PEOPLE VACCINATED AS POSSIBLE THAT IS GOING TO PREVENT THE VIRUS FROM FORMING THESE MIATIONS. IS GOING TO HELP US GET OUR HEALTH CARE SYSTEM BACK ON TRACK. BY THE FALL, THERE MAY BE A NEED FOR A SHOT THAT TAKES ACCOUNT OF THE NEW VARIANTS, BUT WE HAVE TIME TO DEVELOP THE VACCINATION, ADAPT THE PLATFORMS THAT WE HAVE NOW, AND WE HAVE A LOT MORE CAPACITY TO MANUFACTURER THOSE VACCINATION AT LARGE SCALE. SO I THINK THE MAIN THING TO FOCUS ON NOW IS VETTING VACCINATED, MAKING SURE YOU HAVE THE INFORMATION YOU NEED TO MAKE AN INFORMED DECISION AND GET A SHOT WHEN YOU GET A CHANCE, WHICH LOTS OF PEOPLE ARE GOING TO HAVE A CHANCE TO DO IN THE COMING WEEKS. >> STEP BY STEP WE'RE MAKING

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Brian Shrader flies over the site of a plane crash at Raleigh-Durham International Airport approximately three hours after the accident.

Seen some activity just in the past 10 minutes or so. I want to take you outside Sky five right now for a live look at the scene. We saw a van being escorted to the runway there and someone got out and now there appears to be a really careful inspection of the debris going on. So we're working to confirm if that may be the NTSB investigation team arriving at the scene. Let's zoom out and give you some about where this is. There are two main runways at RDU International and this is in the grassy field next to the runway that mostly serves terminal one on the east side of the airport, that runway remains closed while this investigation continues at the top of your screen. That is the other main runway that serves terminal two, mostly that runway is open. So we have two things going on here that could affect your flights for the rest of the day and maybe even into tomorrow, the airport takeoff and landing capacity is roughly reduced by half because they are only working with one runway. And if you have a flight coming out of terminal one, maybe Southwest, you're going to have to take that crossover all the way out to that other runway. It's going to add a lot of extra time.

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A UNC Health physician and pilot were taken to the hospital Wednesday after a small plane crashed at Raleigh-Durham International Airport (RDU).


Sky 5 flies over plane crash at RDU

RDU Airport Authority gives an update on a plane crash that sent a physician and pilot to the hospital. The crash occurred Wednesday morning on a flight that took off from Wilmington.

<p>Landguth first, I want to extend my thoughts to those affected by this morning's aircraft accident and thank our first responders for their quick action to respond. The airport authority and its mutual aid partners responded to an aircraft accident at RDU involving a general aviation aircraft. The accident occurred at approximately 10:10 a.m. in the grass next to runway five, right 23 left. The flight was arriving from Wilmington, North Carolina. The A the aircraft is owned by medical Air Inc and operated by UN C air operations. The aircraft had two people on board, one pilot and one passenger. Both were transported to area hospitals. The federal A Bush administration issued a ground stop that was lifted at approximately 1130 this morning. The Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board have both been notified. The National Transportation Safety Board is en route and expected to arrive within the next hour at which time we will conduct an accident investigation. Rdu's runway five left 23 right reopened to departing and arriving aircraft around 11:30 a.m. this morning. Are you experiencing approximately 70 delays and several arriving flights were diverted to other airports? Until ground stock was lifted, travelers should contact their airline for the latest updates regarding the flight status. And of course questions about the identity and condition of the pilot and passenger should be directed to UN C health. And at this time I'll try to answer any questions. You may have, uh, the one, any other accidents in, in the past. I'm not familiar with any other accidents have occurred with that operation. I don't know, uh, that's the role of the National Transportation Safety Board. They'll actually come in and do the investigation. Uh, and at some point in the future, they write up a report and determine what the cause of the accident was. You know, that there was no notification to the airport authority or to the FAA uh about any type of emergency on board. Do we have a guy? We don't, all we know that we've got them out of the airplane and we've got them transported to local hospitals. We know situations like this and delays have a ripple effect on, you know, flights. Do you have any idea what type of impact we'll see here in our view and for not sure, but what we're going to encourage everybody to do is reach out to your airlines. We'll be able to give you real time information about the impact of your particular flight. Ok. I believe some of them went to Greensboro and I think a couple went to Charlotte as well. What, what to be impacted due to the NTSD. Say that one more time at this point in time, what we call the west side of our airport is now open the investigation they'll conduct will all be on the east side. So at this point, we are anticipating normal operations returning to normal operations from this point forward. I don't think that anything that they're doing regarding the investigation or where they would have to investigate would have any impact to the west side of the airport. No, the aircraft is still on the airfield itself. It's on the east side of the field. So terminal one that runways the east side of the field, that's where the debris field actually sits, the west side of the field is open and operational and safe to operate. Not that I'm aware of in operations for you throughout this event today. What was your main concern concerning the passengers that were in the internals? Right. I think our primary focus when, when that accident occurred were the two people sitting in that aircraft? Our primary mission is to make sure we can get to them and try to rescue them and try to make sure that we can get them in a safe condition as fast as we possibly can. Uh secondarily is trying to figure out then how we recover and get our operations back up and running. Mhm. How does that affect? What goes on term? Yeah, so great. Question. So the team has figured out a way to get all the aircraft they're gonna operate at terminal one. Your Southwest develops. Uh We've got a crossover taxi way that we can actually get them through our general aviation aircraft. We've got a crossover taxiway, we can get them to. But the rest of the uh accident scene is actually kind of isolated and closed and locked off. Yeah, you're terminal one at this point in time. Once they can get back on their schedule, it's going to be a normal operations. All right. Thank you guys. All right. Thank you. Grab your phone, right.</p>

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