turning a corner, or as the song says, miles from nowhere. i'm michael smerconish in philadelphia. the u.s. food and drug administration granted an emergency use authorization for moderna's vaccine last night. the second vaccine to receive an eua in the united states, after pfizer. the majority of americans won't be able to get vaccinated until at least halfway through 2021. but the timing of this second

vaccine is welcome, as the country is feeling covid-19's impact like never before. in just the past week, more than 1.51 million new coronavirus cases were reported. that's according to johns hopkins university. that means new infections were reporting in 1 in 216 americans. it's the most cases added in a single week since the pandemic began. in just the first 18 days of the month, december already the second highest month of new cases since the pandemic emerged. yesterday saw yet another record high number of covid-19 hospitalizations. for 17 days in a row now, more than 100,000 people have been hospitaled due to the virus. the virus continues to kill thousands of americans each day. some of those victims include eight nuns who died within a week in a facility in milwaukee. a new study showing the death

rate for hospitalized vid patients three times that the rate of hospitalized flu patients and a new model projects projects 562,000 deaths by april. the state has reported more than 300 deaths for the second straight day. in event weeks, southern california has seen an unprecedented surge of new covid-19 infections and honkses. with hospital intensive care bed capacity plunging to zero percent. and health officials issuing dire warnings in the virus continues to spread out of control. all that, and yet, my next guest says we should resume life as normal. by the end of next month, at which time, the lockdowns and covid restrictions should immediately end forever. dr. jay bhattacharya joins me now, professor of medicine at

stanford university. he co-op ed an article in the? ? how to end the lockdown next month. target vaccines to the most vulnerable and don't give them to people who have already been infected. dr. bbhattacharya, let me ask you, you called for what you describe as focused protection, of those at highest risk. while those at lower risk live their lives normally. and some of your peers objected. they wrote a response. they called it the john snow memorandum. among other things, they argued that protecting the vulnerable is impossible, when others are living their lives normally, and that many people would needlessly die. now, you're back with "the wall street journal" op-ed where you say that the vaccine ends that criticism. how come? >> well, the vaccine is very, very effective.

we've seen from the trials, 95% efficacy of the vaccine. and the vaccine represents an opportunity for perfect focus protection. if we use it to protect the people we know to be at highest risk from the disease, the elderly, people with severe chronic conditions that are not quite elderly, but older, those folks, they face a very high mortality risk from covid. 5% mortality, 95% survival. for people under 70, the survival rate of covid is 99.95%, according to a study in the bulletin of the world health organization. so the rest of the population, we have to think about the lockdown harms. the harms of the lockdowns are devastating, especially for the young. 1 in 4 seriously considered suicide this past june. we've seen people skip cancer screenings. we're seeing a sharp rise in the excess mortality in the younger

population. and everyone who's listening has felt the harms of the lockdown. on that for the young, the lockdowns are much worse than covid. for all of us, that's not true. but what we have with the vaccine is an opportunity to protect them. and we have about 50 million older adults, people over 65 in the united states. and about 50 million doses will be available -- i'm sorry, 50 million people could be inoculated by the end of january if we do it right. >> well, the question is -- the question is, is that enough? here's what you wrote in the journal, 50 million people in the u.s. are over 65. the number of vaccines expected to be available in the next two months will be enough to vaccinate every elderly person who wants to be inoculated long with health care workers and other people with a 90% efficacy of projecting against covid-19

symptoms, we will achieve near-perfect focused protection. that the point, the lockdown should end immediately and forever. it is 50 really the number of doses to protected the health care workers? >> it is, if you understand the biology of it. someone who had covid previously is actually not going to benefit from the vaccine because they're already immune. in fact in the trials, the pfizer trial itself, they considered, they included people who had covid before. but when they did the analysis, they excluded the 7,000 some people who actually previously had covid because they knew there wasn't any benefit to vaccinating somebody who had covid, they're immune. but we can check -- >> but that requires -- i'm thinking of president trump. arguably, you know, the highest profile individual to have contracted covid-19. what i hear you say, interesting because there are some who wonder when he's going to get vaccinated.

you wouldn't give president trump a vaccination, true? >> i wouldn't give him priority for vaccination. maybe give it to him later when his immunity starts to decline, maybe in a year or two. i think the -- >> here's my real question, in order to follow this plan, you'd have to be giving antibody tests which correct me if i'm wrong we're not doing. because what i hear you saying, right now, with the precious few doses that we have, about to be expanded by moderna, i think i hear you say give everybody an antibody test so that we don't, i'll use the word, waste one, on somebody who has already had it? >> yeah, i think that's a really smart idea. if you've had confirmed diagnosis of covid, you don't need an antibody test because you know you had it previously. yeah, absolutely. we should not be prioritizing people previously who had covid. basically that will end up with more lives lost. we should be preserving them to the vulnerable. people who have not had covid and over 70 and face a high

mortality risk. >> another question, do we really know how long your immunity lasts if you had it? and secondly, what about the long-term health implications of someone who has had it, who survives, according to that data that you rely on, but they survive with a life long problem? >> yeah, i mean, i think those are really important questions. i think for people who get covid, it seems like the evidence suggests at least a year of immunity. there's been, you know, hundreds of millions of people, infected worldwide. and only a relatively small hand full of documented reinfections. i mean what that means is that the immunity lasts at least a year. and if it's like other coronaviruses, it will last longer than that. other coronaviruses, like the common cold variouses actually do induce immunity for a amount of time. we'll see immunity as we go on but the immunity is pretty complete and long lasting.

as far as the long lasting effects of covid, that's a real thing, absolutely. we're learning more about it as we go along. it's relatively uncommon, the literature on this, if you look on the cdc side tells you about the uncertainty around that. against that you have to consider the long-term damage from the lockdown. the physical and psychological damage from the lockdown. >> understood. >> that's widespread. >> and you quote in the journal, i'll put them on the screen, these survival rate you say 99.95% of those under 70 will survive. 95% of 70 and older will survive. are you arguing that for the nonelderly and those without co-morbidities, the lockdown is actually worse than getting the virus? >> that's exactly what i'm saying, michael. the lockdown is devastating for the under 70. if you think about the lockdown harms they're not just economic,

they're medical. they're psychological. as i said earlier, 1 in 4 young adults the cdc says seriously considered suicide this past june. imagine the psychological distress that people have to face where 1 in 4 adults feel that. the medical results are real. consider our children, a study published in the american journal of the medical association, when you miss school, it has consequences for the rest of your life. they estimated 5.5 light years are cut from our children just from the lost schooling this past skrinpring. long jo longdowns are devastating for the young people and the health -- >> i am framing a survey question. kathryn, are we able to put it on the screen while dr

dr. bhattacharya is still my guest -- >> there it is. should we wait for near universal vaccination before a resumption of normal life? you get for the first to respond to it. go ahead. >> we should not wait. we should wait until the vulnerable protected which we can do if we're smart by the end of january. >> you know some are going to say this is reckless. people are saying, wait a minute, you're advocatining opening up the bars and restaurants before we've got an adequate level of protection. you'd say what briefly to them? >> i think it's reckless to delay opening up when we know the lockdown harms are so devastating again to the physical and psychological harms of the young. i can understand we're exposing older people to risk. with the vaccine, we don't have to. we can use the vaccine to protect older people who really would have been at risk, absent a vaccine. with the vaccine, they won't be.

after that, the lockdown is way worse than covid. we're in a bad situation, michael. we either have to face one bad thing or another. either covid or the lockdown harms but we shouldn't pretend there are no harms for lockdown. >> i have a time constraint. i'm simply say this, had you heard the data i laid out at the onset of the program. there are terrible things hap n happening in terms of death, hospitalizations, people contracting it. we're at the worst point they've been. when they hear you say a month from now we ought to open up. anyway, thank you, dr dr. bhattacharya, it's provocative. i want people to read. i'll put in my twitter feed again your op-ed from the "wall street journal." and thank you for explaining it. >> thank you. >> what are your thoughts? tweet me @smerconish. go to the facebook page. what do we have from the world of twitter? i've seen too many critically ill patients to ever think that

lockdown is worse than disease. he's making that argument. you heard him as i heard him say he's making that argument for those who are not elderly. and for those who don't have co-morbidities. with regard to those who are older, he absolutely says vaccinate them first and health care workers as well. but the survival rates of 99.95% of those under 70, that's a different situation. make sure you're going to the website today. yeah, it's a provocative question at smerconish.com. should we wait for near universal vax nation before a resumption of normal life? remote learning, perdue university had everybody on campus. how did it go, i'll talk about the report card. and the governator is here. putting his money where his

democracy is after helping to open polling places. patriot arnold schwarzenegger wants incoming president joe biden to sign a new voting rights act. we'll find out why.

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indiana, where purdue is located. the university ended its false semester last like. mitch daniels shared in "the washington post" titled even amid a pandemic the kids are all right. "can we learn something from purdue's of course response? mitch daniels, the foreign govern former governor joins me to discuss. governor, i know you're a data guy. i'm going to put some on the screen. and what you gleaned from it. 40,000 students. two-thirds of classes were at least partially in person. you had 2770 positive cases. what lessons did you learn? >> we learned especially with an overwhelming young population, michael if you throw the sink at this problem, watch did on a

daily basis, you can manage your way through this. and you can protect the vulnerable which was apparent to us even back in april and may as the wisest strategy. we moved two-thirds of our faculty and staff off of campus altogether. and they worked mostly remotely, and as soon as we caught a case, we removed that person temporarily until they recovered. in the case of the students, they invariably did. it wasn't perfect, we made mistakes, but we made it. it's far and away the right tradeoff for certainly our students who needs real education and the kind we provide for faculty and staff who did not lose their jobs as 14% of higher ed employees did this year. and for our community for which we were a major economic support. >> i know that it was costly. you wrote the following in that op-ed that i referenced.

purdue was able to do this by spending $50 million on testing as well as the physical and technological infrastructure to minimize the possibility of viral spread on campus such as reconfiguring classrooms for more social distancing and adding plexiglass barriers for students. the dining halls became carry-out only. and the university set up tents around campus to provide outdoor space for eating and studying. do you think -- by the way that was from the chronicle of higher education. i misspoke when i said it was your op-ed. do you think your approach can be emulated by other universities? >> well, we certainly emulated others. we stayed in the regular touch with other schools who had opened, or tried to. and tried to learn from their successes as well as their mistakes and shared our own. every school is different. we never pass any judgment on the decisions of other schools, either not to open or to close, having done so. this was a tough problem.

and probably different. and just as public officials in different states correctly, i think, addressed it in localized specific ways. but, no, i mean, we certainly -- some of the things we did are a broader application. and folks are more than welcome to study what went well and what didn't. >> governor, tell me about the 2770 who contracted of course? >> what i can tell you, most of these were very mild. more than 80% were asymptomatic or had one symptom, maybe headache, loss of taste or smell. i asked our folks at the beginning, our medical team, to construct a severity index. it had six levels. no symptoms at all being level one. eligible to consider hospitalization at the top. less than 1% of our students ever got past the fourth level

out of six. so, we did everything we could to identify cases. again, remove them temporarily from the population. we switched them. a massive effort involved to enable them to switch seamlessly from in-person, or partially in-person classes to online while they quarantined. but having done all of those things, you know, thank goodness. we worried about it every single day. we did not see anybody -- any student's health seriously jeopardized, or any staff member, for that matter. >> do you know how that infection rate compares to indiana at large? >> it was consistently lower. right -- when the surge came to our whole state and to the whole midwest, over the last few weeks, those numbers converged somewhat. but it was, i think,

understandably concern to people, that college campuses might prove a menace to their surrounding communities. that there would be transmission of the virus from the campus to the neighborhoods around it. in our case, it worked -- it worked actually the other way around. and we had, in the last two or three weeks of school, actually, the infections we were experiencing in the student population almost, or always came from those who were living off campus. or had activities away from purdue property. >> finally, governor, i'm concerned about the mental health aspects of our students both being on campus and being off campus. i know some students protested recently over academy stress and mental health concerns at purdue related to covid-19. address that issue briefly from your perspective? >> it's an issue, it was an issue on college campuses, a growing one way before the virus showed up. it can't have made things

better. although we have evidence, i think your last guest talked about it, the people you might want to worry about at least as much are those who have been stuck elsewhere, off campus. 22% by one estimation of young people say they consider suicide. so, there was no stress-free place to be this fall. but, we would like to believe and i think evidence supports that certainly, our students would tell you, 90 plus percent of them wanted to be on campus. that was a big factor until our original decision. looking back, i do believe this was the best among, you know, tough choices. >> the kids are all right. i never took you for a who fan, but thank you. >> i think people know this, how we managed to navigate it in reasonable shape. i always give the same three

answers. we started early. an early decision was really important here, michael. because i could see it was going to be a huge implementation challenge. and we needed every day. and the second thing was we made a decision to do everything possible, much of what we did was probably superfluous and we left nothing to chance. no effort. but the critical, maybe decisive factor was the leadership really of our young people. i got lots of letters. we all read sorries about forget about it, the kids will another comply. >> i remember. yeah. >> yeah. and, you know, kids are kids. but i just have to tell you, at least in our case, we had spectacular compliance. it was, again, the critical -- most critical factor. we couldn't have made it without it. our students, not only abided by the impositions and the inconveniences we asked them to,

but in many cases, went beyond it. i mentioned in that article, one young man, just out of curiosity parked himself in one of our business set of corridors one sunny, breezy day and found 94% of his fellow students wearing a mask outside. >> hey, governor, i've got to run. merry christmas and congrats. thank you. >> thank you. i want to remind you go to my website smerconish.com. answer this week's survey question, should we wait for near universal vaccination before reassumption of normal life? up next, arnold schwarzenegger is a rarity among republicans. will he talk about voter suppression, climate change and equal rights and actually do something about them. he's here what some thoughts with what other republicans must do post-trump. did i just get piy did i just get piy deion sanders? you sure did! now in the app, get a free footlong when you buy two.

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they say it takes one to know one. a hollywood action hero praising people he deems democracy-action heroes. the terminator, star and former california governor arnold schwarzenegger has been fighting to make it universal for all. the goal to promote post partisanship and urges leaders to put it over politics. on tuesday, the estimate is it streaming an awards ceremony for action heroes, people who voted to expand voting access or protected the will of voters under tremendous pressure. chris krebs, former director of the cyber security and infrastructure agency who said the election was the most secure in history and subsequently fired by president trump. and georgia's secretary of state

brad raffensperger who has been a appreciate target of attack from president trump over the election in georgia as the state gears up for two major senate races in january. last week, schwarzenegger made a call to raffensperger letting him know that the industry demands to bestow award status. >> you will go down in history of being a good guy. a good public servant. >> governor, honestly, we're just trying to run an election. just follow the process, follow the law. and we didn't set out to earn any awards. we don't really -- we'd love to make elections boring again. >> i just spoke with governor schwarzenegger. hey, governor, welcome back. it's so good to see you. >> it's great to see you. thank you for having me. >> let's talk about democracy action heroes.

there's a letter that you sent out to election officials. i want to quote from it in september. and you said this, the united states gave me everything i have. and i believe it's my duty to repay the kindness of this country every day of my life. everything i achieved. my body building success, my movie roles, my investments. my governorship, my family, would have been impossible anywhere but america. so, what did you decide to do? >> well, just like you said, i felt strongly that i should invest in our democracy. and that means that i was -- i recognize the fact that we had closed so many polling stations since 2013, since the supreme court made that decision, that we don't really need voting rights act anymore. and since then, they closed 1600 polling stations.

and really has an effect, i felt, that was, you know, kind of unjustifiable. that minorities in the south weren't able to vote exactly the same way we were voting everywhere else. this is where i decided i'm going to open up polling places and i'm going to go and invest. put my own money in, put millions of dollars in to open up new polling stations. we were able to open up 50 polling stations. people requesting them. we were working very closely with them. it gave them, just alone in georgia, 144,000 more voters were able to go and vote because of our polling stations that we opened up. source i think we made a real impact there. and as i said, every dollar that is spent on this was worth it. it was one of the greatest investments that i've ever made. >> it's wonderful that you did what you did. but it's also kind of sad that it took a private citizen to be writing checks. shouldn't the federal government have a response?

>> well, you're absolutely right. because, look, my friends in europe, they were laughing about the fact that i had to put in my own money, in order to fight for democracy. they said you have the oldest democracy there is in the history, so how can you brag about that when you don't really have the financial means to open up polling lace ining places an have laws in place so that there's voter suppression going on especially in the south. and they laughed about that because their government provides them the means to have positiving places open. it's ludicrous. you know something, i don't care. what i care about is one thing, can i contribute and make things better. for years, since 2013, people have been complaining about this problem. and people have lost because of the problem the elections. and i said to myself, i'm going

to do something about it. because i'm not a complainer. i'm a doer. that's exactly what i did. i just recommend very strongly now that biden is in office that they go and work on a new voting rights act. because i think it's irresponsible to not have a voting rights act and have those polling places closed under the auspices of budgets and coronavirus. all of that stuff. a lot of times there's excuses. the fact of the matter is it's expose suppression. it's basically the republican party saying we don't want people to vote because maybe we didn't perform as well as we promised. because it doesn't make any sense if you don't want people to vote, if you can show up. i was always happy because i was competing in the mr. universe contest. saying i'm the greatest. therefore, i'm going to show it to the judges and every judge

can come in and vote. that's the way it went forward. if you start hiding and suppress votes and try to cheat on the election. and you have people throw out hundreds of thousands of democratic votes. that's not what the party should stand for. the party should not stand for gerrymandering or cheating on elections or having voter suppression. this is not what the republican party should be standing for right now. >> we're not accustomed to hearing a republican make a call for a new voting rights act. how practical is it that something can get done? >> well, i think if there's a will, there's a way. i believe very strongly that the democrats and the republicans have to work together in this new administration and also at the same time, create a new breed of republican. because i think the old card has failed terribly this year. especially in this election process. and i think to work together because we have several things

that have to be accomplished. one of them is equal rights. we have to create equality in america. maybe it's also something that we've seen so many times republicans talking about the fact that that's what we need to do. because we are a country of equality. and we should always strive for better -- to have a better system. >> what's the real state of the republican party? donald trump lost in his bid for re-election. but republicans gained in the house, seemingly, they held on to control of the u.s. senate. we'll find out soon. in state legislative races in the montana, gubernatorial race, the gop did well. so, there's this disconnect. how do you see it? >> well, i think there was a disconnect. i think with trump it was very simply, you know, four years ago, they voted for trump because he promised them a certain amount of things. i think the second time, when you get re-elected or want to get re-elected it's more about what promises did you keep.

and how did you perform as the leader. and i think that's where, obviously, he fell short. so, this is why he was voted out. and i think that the republicans as a whole they still voted because people like to see a balance in washington. between the democrats and the republicans. because you don't want to have a situation like you have in california, the democrats have total control. and they're not really performing at their best. because you only perform at your best when there's competition. and you know, i think also with the president, i think biden was successful because he appeared to be in the center. i think that's where the action is. and this goes back -- way back to roosevelt. remember the republicans had lost their way before. in 1932, if i remember correctly, when, hoover lost, president hoover. and then roosevelt was voted in, franklin roosevelt. so then they held on to the

democratic party. and the leadership for a long time during the whole second world war. they did a great job. and then finally someone came along from the republicans that was in the center, eisenhower. and he finally won to the republicans in 1952. it's always people in the center. remember when nixon won in 1968, had was in the center. he was a president that was -- created the epa, the environmental protection agency. and also was fighting for universal health care. so, those were then kind of the center handle for leaders. ronald reagan was that way. george bush was that way. of course, another one who took that title away, presidency from the republicans was clinton. and why? because clinton was in the center. so, as you can see, you know, the people in the center, i believe with what eisenhower said. politics is like the road.

the center is drivable. and the left and the right is the gutter. that's exactly what it is. >> i only wish that all se centrists had the passion of governor schwarzenegger. >> look, i'm very passionate. mike. we talked about it many times. i love this country. and i want to make everything -- i want to make sure we stay the number one country in the world. and that we, you know, really improve in our system. there's always room for improvement. and i think the only way that we get things done in a very effective way is if both parties vote for something. we've seen republicans vote for something. that didn't work. we've seen with the health care, with the affordable care act, only democrats vote, that didn't go anywhere. so, i think you have to make an effort to bring people together. and i think biden has a good shot to do that because so far he hasn't offended anyone on the

republican side. and i've watched it very carefully. i think he really is always in his speech reaching out across the aisle and saying come on in, we want to work with you. i think that's the right way to move forward. >> governor, merry christmas. when this pandemic is behind us, i'm looking forward to having another cigar with you. >> i cannot wait. remember, we have many events coming up at our schwarzenegger institute at usc. and, by the way, you know, you will see those, you no, award shows, if anyone is interested in it, you know, it will be shown this tuesday, this coming tuesday on december dwek22nd. on my twitter, youtube and facebook. it's the democracy action hero awards. >> thank you, governor. >> thank you very much. still to come, what do these have in common, princess diana's

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