vin gupta. dr. and current presidents, like an unusual black-out of medical information, i wonder if it seems unusual to you and if you know, what you would like to know about the president's condition? >> absolutely. something for you to look up. the tangential gunshot wound. he had a high velocity weapon shoot directly at his head. missed, penetrating his l, but actually impacting the surrounding tissues, in this case, his ear. that is what we are being told. that is serious, i come from a military background. that predisposes to a traumatic brain injury. over time, we may not see initial symptoms up front. there might be bleeding that didn't show up on the ct scan. there are a lot of potential impacts that could impact his functioning if he is the next president. to his balance, to his hearing. it can manifest over time. so this is a big deal. tangential gunshot wound. we see them all the time in the armed forces. they can have secondary impacts. >> are there particular things you would want to k

vin gupta, great to have your expertise. thanks for your time tonight.g you were going to ask dr. gupta about the size of the bandage, and

vin gupta. always good to see you. what does this authorization mean?hanks for platforming this. this is a big deal. this is a blood test that we hope more people will utilize. to your point, utilization of colonoscopies is low relative to the burden of colon cancer. people don't like the experience, once every ten years. that's why we're seeing 40% of eligible adults not utilizing it even as screening age is lower and lower. that's why this is so important. hopefully we'll be able to catch more early stage colon cancers across america. >> we know colon cancer has a disproportion impact on people of color. you and i have talked about the disparity in the health care system generally. black americans are 20% more likely to get colon cancer, 40% more likely to die from it than other racial groups. talk about that gap. could this increased testing help improve that disparity at all? >> absolutely, chris. this is the idea here. once this is covered, the price point on this -- the list price is almost $900. we want to make sure medicare, private insurance ac

vin gupta. dr. gupta, thank you for being with us. about this new variant, is it just me or a whole lot of new variants these days? >> there are. and it's hard to keep track, honestly for those of us who have to deal with this clinically. for viewers out there, nothing to worry about. they mutate, they become more transmisable and contagious over time. vaccines and therapeutics we have are effective. >> omicron is a category i remember is pretty devastating because it's very transmissable, also with this subvariant? >> even more transmissable than the original variant of omicron. if you're next to somebody on a plane or a train coughing infected you need less time to be exposed to that individual to get infected yourself. >> dr. gupta, we've had you on this show before and a question that comes one covid is of course getting vaccinated, boosters, you told us before we should wait to get the fall boosters coming up n the interim how effective are the current vaccines at protecting against this new variant. >> the reality, the vaccine p

vin gupta, great to have your expertise. thanks for your time tonight. that is our show for tonight. no, it is time for the last word with jonathan capehart, who is in for lawrence. >> that evening, alex. i was hoping you're going to ask dr. gooped about the size of the bandage and whether the one required a bandage that large. >> well, honestly, i think everyone wishes donald trump speedy recovery. nobody wants to see any political figure the subject of violence but there are so many questions we've gotten literally zero complete information blackout on this and that seems irresponsible. >> i agree with you on that. thank you very much. enjoy your weekend. i am back from milwaukee, where i covered all four nights of the rnc for pbs. in less than 24 hours after donald trump gave the longest convention acceptance speech ever, donald trump received an unsurprising endorsement, the white nationalists who previously served time in prison for his role in the deadly 2017 unite the right rally in charlottesville was sentenced today to 57 months in federal priso

vin gupta, great to have your expertise. thanks for your time tonight. that's our show for tonight, now it's time for the last word with my buddy, jonathan capehart, in florence. >> even, alex. i was hoping you were going to ask dr. gupta about the size of the bandage, and whether the wound required a bandage that large. >> well, honestly, there are so many. in all of this is to say, i think everybody wishes donald trump a speedy recovery. nobody wants to see any political figure the subject of an assassination attempt or political violence in general. but there are so many questions that we have gotten literally complete information blackout on this, and that seems irresponsible. >> i agree with you on that. alex, thank you very much. enjoy your weekend. >> thank you very much, have a good show. >> thank you. >>> i am back from milwaukee where i covered all four nights of the rnc for pbs. in less than 24 hours after donald trump gave the longest convention acceptance speech ever, donald trump received an unsurprising endorsement. a white nationalist who

vin gupta, our medical contributor. thank you so much for joining us.hink one of the things that everybody is watching and wondering, how long will he need to be off the campaign trail. does it depend on his symptoms? what could people expect here? >> jen, it's been a while since we've been talking about this, thankfully, for the country. first of all, best wishes for the president. we don't know what his symptoms or if he's experiencing any symptoms. that will factor in. if he's asymptomatic, otherwise well, let's get him to a negative test as quickly as possible. likely the doctor will evaluate him for paxlovid, still very effective for these new forms of covid, as it's continued to change. given his risk profile, his age, his underlying medical history, he's somebody that will qualify for a course of paxlovid, but that path to getting him to a negative test is him staying off the campaign trail and then getting back on it. >> we haven't talked about this in a while, to your point. we used to talk about it all the time, so i guess that's a good thing.

vin gupta.t in the past? some people are saying that maybe there was some hiding going on. >> yeah, i think that has been suggested. joe biden has had fewer spontaneous interactions than other presidents, much fewer. there is, you know, you talk to people who have been around the president and for several months, if not for a year, there has been a noticeable shift from the mental agility, the acuity, the good give and take and the perceptive questions to after the summer of 2023 where that has declined. we should say, this is normal aging. and there is -- doesn't have to be any disease here, this is what happens as people age and their fluid intelligence or ability to problem solve, their verbal influence sy declines. >> what is your take on what has become the story, the only story of the day it seems and that is joe biden's mental acuity, what do you make of the debate and what do you make of his recovery from it? >> well, i thought you laid it out there really nicely, to say i care for many