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w dot com. what happens in a nation where wearing a face mask is seen less as a weapon against a virus and more as a weapon against your political opponent people die lots of people die in the united states more than $500000.00 people have lost their lives to cohabit 19 it took just one year it took just last month for the death toll to rise from 400002 half a 1000000 tonight the worst public health disaster to hit america in 100 years when the world's superpower becomes the world's super spreader i'm burnt off in berlin this is the day. 500071. something awful bad for a movie born in america emigrated to america you know there's people killed in the

numbers took their final breath of move and. i'm honest behind the numbers we have to resist becoming numb to the sorrow. i must do so to honor the dead it was good food. equally important care for the living goes in the 300. also coming up israel could become the 1st host pandemic country in the world being banks unaided and having a green pass to prove it means more social and less distance. i feel like at this point i am crazy i mean just to be able to talk to people you know it's wonderful. and to our viewers on p.b.s. in the united states and to all of your around the world welcome we begin the day marking a moment that many say did not have to happen the united states accounts for only 4

percent of the world's population and yet it is home to 25 percent of all cope with 19 deaths last night the number of wives lost in the u.s. since the coronavirus pandemic began last year surpassed half a 1000000 more than 500000 dead in the span of just one year now that is a quibble to the entire city of atlanta georgia or the city of vancouver canada or braman germany dime the number itself is outrageous even more so because those deaths occurred in the richest country in the world prior to the pandemic most people would not have placed the us in the list of most vulnerable countries to the virus one year into the pandemic america tops that this. asunder president joe biden and the fust lady commemorated the 500000 victims of the pandemic on the unknowns of the white house along with vice president come in

the house and a husband they called on the nation not to forget the individual stories behind anonymous. that's more americans who died in one year whose pandemic. the new world war one. word to the vietnam war combined. has more lives lost to this virus than any other nation on earth. the president has ordered flags to fly at half mast for 5 days across the country. according to the chief medical advisor to the white house the previous administration is partly responsible for the high death toll in the country but i don't think it's you know all donald trump or all this or all that it's a combination of things and certainly the lack of involvement at the very very top of the leadership president biden has made the fight against the

virus a priority the good news is that the number of infections is forming but the fear of yet another wave is growing due to the new variants of the virus. my 1st guest tonight is dr william schaffner he is a professor of preventive medicine and health policy at vanderbilt university in nashville tennessee by the chef it's good to see you again this number 500000 deaths as one of the highest deaths to death tolls per capita in the world do you agree that this could have been prevented. you know this number is so high it's so devastating. it's painful and yes i believe that majority of those people in fact the substantial majority of those people could still be alive today if we had had a coherent nationally directed science based policy about coated from the very

beginning with that gift of hindsight dr schaffner i mean what were the biggest mistakes. i think from the beginning there was the mistake of not accepting this virus for what it was not understanding that the virus was in control that it was not going to disappear number 2 putting political considerations before scientific and public health considerations and number 3 not communicating clearly and in a sustained fashion to the public what needed to be done to contain this virus we needed a national policy not one that was sent out to the states where the states had then a crazy quilt of different approaches that was clearly the worst thing that could have been done and then now we have the flip side the u.s.

is one of the leading countries when it comes to the number of vaccinations around 13 percent of people have received their 1st shot in the u.s. how is this changing things on the ground. well i certainly think people are more optimistic they see the light at the end of the tunnel and indeed cases are coming down hospitalizations are being reduced that's not just from the vaccination i think another reason is that there's been so much spread of this virus along with the backs of nations that has created a decree of so-called community immunity or her own protection so that i hope these cases continue to go down as we continue to vaccinate and for a period of time continue to wear our masks and do social distancing next time to is it possible that my understanding you're right is it possible in local communities that they may be reaching

a local level of herd immunity because so many people have been backs in a. i think that we're reaching a herd immunity because this is a virus itself which can be so readily contagious and transmitted and makes so many people without symptoms after it infects and so we don't really know how far this virus has spread and so you take that along with the vaccine and i think together they are beginning to turn the cases down but we have to continue to vaccinate and dogs that i want to get your opinion on what we're seeing a with the pharmaceutical companies and their production problems we've got pretty productive problems at mcgurn a astra zeneca also has problems here in europe i mean how do you explain that is that something that we should have seen coming. well you can't count on everything going right you could hope for the best but you have to prepare for

difficulties and these are some of the difficulties i think the companies themselves widely were overly optimistic in kelly everyone at how many doses they could produce and now that they're really in the sustained high production phase they're finding it's not as easy as they hoped if we're looking forward now can we say that the u.s. his past the peak of this pandemic and how concerned are you about the viral variants creating a 3rd wave. well i be cautious about saying we're past the peak that's my hope but i'm a cautious optimist and so i'm not ready to tell the public that because if i do that they'll start taking off their masks the other thing is the variance a very important the british strain the british variant which is here is even more

contagious than the parent's trade and is more likely to cause serious disease that masks help reduce protect and so does the vaccine the vaccine is covering it so there's a possibility of another surge but i think we can stay ahead of it and prevent it yeah well i certainly hope if you are speaking the gospel truth there dr williams after vanderbilt university as always dr fafnir it's good talking with you we appreciate your insights thank you 5 pleasure. if there is a success story in this pandemic it is israel the country's vaccine rollout has become the global standard more than 80 percent of those eligible have now received at least one shot the result israel is now reopening its economy many shops and services are back in business again but they're not open to everyone some only allow customers who are fully vaccinated with

a so-called green pass to be used tanya kramer reports that since september classes at this television studio have been held online because of the pandemic now people can attend again and person but only those who hold a green pass the paris issued by israel's history of hers that is given only to vaccinated people or those recovered from cold at 90 so it's an amazing feeling and everyone needs a vaccine. there's no fear and it feels slight and apparently we are broadcasting the classes that are taking place here we are broadcasting them for people who still did not vaccinate on sunday is rare for the east restrictions after prolonged lockdown malls museums and stores have been opened for you but jim so those cultural and sports events would be made

accessible to cream pass holders of over $4000000.00 people have received at least the 1st try and take pfizer so israel is one of the 1st countries trying to get life back to normal opening up has also opened a debate over a variety of legal and moral questions of limiting personal liberties as there is someone not rushing to get the vaccine we are limiting few people and i believe this is bad we are not. doing that for good you can really enjoy cultural life you will enjoy both you will enjoy you know going to the gym but in this time only temporary base on the show we will let only people being vaccinated all we covet for corona to have the green puts it remains unclear whether international travel could also be leading to the clean past for now israel's bengali an app poetry remain closed for another 2 weeks to keep virus variants at

bay travelling is not yet on the mind of this group or for long term friends and to recent memory aged between 84 and 95 they had to play their favorite tiny's board game a zone online for the palestinian after their vaccinations they feel safe again to meet i feel like at this point i am free i mean just to be able to talk to people you know and it's wonderful very nice to see everybody's ok and remain pretty healthy throughout the year but very lonely and. it really is a wonderful feeling it's a 1st but cautious step back to some kind of normality. are for more tonight i want to bring in dr arthur caplan he's the director of medical ethics at the medical center in new york university are one is going to have you back on the

program let's talk about israel they're issuing green cards to people who have been banks in aged so that their lives can return to normal do you think that's a sensible path forward. absolutely there are some downsides you have people saying look i shouldn't be forced to coerced into vaccination and the green card de facto does that i can't go certain places if i don't add it there's also likely to be some fraud and forgery created as people who really don't want to get vaccinated for whatever reason take 2 alternative past but overall a way to beat back the virus is absolutely to try to control environments where it's highly contagious and vaccination doesn't and proof of vaccination will i think is inevitably it all our futures we know are that people can still possibly transmit the virus and even if they've been vaccinated so isn't it ethical to

demand that everyone should at least have a chance of vaccination before these freedoms are given back to the public but i think you can control environments there may be areas within cities within particular populations where we know that the vaccination rate is very very high at my medical school almost everybody is going to be vaccinated i think we could need and certainly used x. nation certification there in that environment to open it up so it is true that the more people that's needed the better we don't really have great data yet on transmission i'm pretty willing to bet though that the vaccines are going to help reduce transmission as well in any event i think we're going to see the passes or the certification of vaccination take place before we get complete herd immunity people are waiting to get out there waiting to travel waiting to go to work waiting

'd to go to the gym we saw what it meant to the israelis in the news clip i think it is that the same sentiments are out there worldwide. the british prime minister bores johnson he is looking at what he calls coded status certificates take a listen to what he had to say yesterday about that there are deep and complex issues that we need to explore at the cool issues about what the role is for government in mandating all the people to to have such a thing or indeed banning people from doing such a thing there are there are complex issues we need to work out we can't be discriminated 3 against people who for whatever reason contact the vaccine it's not happening you've got johnson there saying that there are people who can't have the vaccine or won't get vaccinated but whatever the reason there should not be any discrimination what is at stake here. well it's really liberty and freedom some

people can't get their acts unaided they may have to mask and continue to distance because there's nothing more they can do to protect themselves and they may be too nervous and even the slightest chance that infection could hurt them other people may choose not to be vaccinated that's ok but they're going to be restricted in where they can go to go where they can go to work where they can travel of i think by the way we're likely to see private industry start to mindy thanks a nation passports and certification before government look at the industries airlines hotels cruise ships restaurants they're going to say come in we're safe our steps are safe and the people you're traveling with are safe that's what they're going to use to get back in business i don't think they're going to wait for government to start making those passport decisions yet travel is interesting travellers to some countries they already have to provide proof of let's say yellow

fever an ocular nations where are the problems going to be with coded 19 when we're talking about travel requirements. you're right so we have a history already of immunization requirements to countries that have things like deal fever you have to show cord to get in this is building on that but we never head if you will in the developed world this kind of certification passport decimation system required some people are going to say again it's too risky it's too dangerous and i trust the vaccines will be swinging toward a situation where rather than scrambling to get the axe in a hit some people are going to still demand to opt out i think they're going to be able to do it but i think they're going to see their freedom severely restricted so dearly limited and that will be the price that they're going to wind up paying in these things coming $1000.00 passports i mean how how long are they going to have to have to be valid because we know that this virus can you take and change quickly

. well worried about mutations that lead to new strains that lead to things that are more infected and so on keep in mind what we need is a vaccine that present prevents us not so much from being infected but prevents us from dying or getting severely ill that we have to go to the hospital so for the data looks good on that it may not stop infection but it may stop us if you will literally from dying i think that's a trade off a lot of people are going to take even with new intentions and strains at the same time if the vaccine only works for a year you're going to have a booster significant problem we don't know yet we don't know how long this protection that the various magazines are out there going to afford us so we may wind up having to update our vaccine passports periodically let's say every one or 2 years are right dr arthur caplan director of medical ethics at the medical center and new york university dr happen as always it's good talking with you we

appreciate your insights tonight thank you for having. a public outcry by anti-gay voices in gonna has forced that country's 1st community center to temporarily close its doors the center opened just at the end of january in a ceremony that was attended by european and australian diplomats now it has been forced to shut down after a hostile campaign by churches power titian's and homophobic organizations e.-w. met with the man who opened that center. is openly gay he lives in this apartment alone in a crowd away from his family he hutch to relocate after coming out as deep into into 17 that decision hasn't been easy he says since most of his relations who oppose his sexuality and lifestyle complaining of constant threats of our time.

fears for his life. just the mere fact. that somebody points with me that he could actually need to mean being ranged. in. excess of what. you know. and yet but his experience that i go through. but then people who play a huge peasant thing down are also good to my experience and according to their rights group right not rights i think it's 40 percent of. the community peasants have suffered a tot's don't place worried about the level of a trait for people based on their sexual orientation it is unfortunate that some guy would treat you differently because. it made him feel like if you can't laugh at him. right it is unfortunate so it is not.

who is purported in the a mind to describe need to be to perform and for the head to abuse the. same sex relationships are not spent meted by law in gonna complain it's against the movement see this won't change anytime soon due to gonna scorcher oh i'm truly just moments. we will be the rules that govern the states that will leave and for that mater if you ask me personally i abide by the rules or regulations of the country so i am for what the government to say what the laws are saying what a traditional believers are saying and one of christian courts say. gazing on lesbianism a waterway correlates for. reform i believe that the. and we

will who recognize that. under that's a common view on the streets of our crime and elsewhere in the country. a thing that. they don't we want to. cite sucked because i think it's for outs or on our knowledge on i'll try to sell out on the. hard to call it a customs is something that we do in grew up with it is not an african thing we are not into this our ancestors did not innocent to deceive and it is a taboo so we don't need to feel it we don't need it don't go and others like him and to relent in. an elegy to rights activists he also more places like minded people to discuss issues affecting them and to 2nd solution us finned that week if a new leg of carney and we need to talk about it as

a community we need to leave with the proper authorities to make sure that the terms the have been put into we will only be depressed if i remove from the dunker is hoping for acceptance within that kenyan society suna but that's hope i p.s. from a distance for now. we know for a moment meant to be share on capitol hill this week senators questioned and listened to a man who was a moving portrait in patients and granted to despite having with reasons not to be in 2016 president obama wanted to nominate merrick garland to the u.s. supreme court but republicans blocked his hearing it was a disappointing and a bitter moment for garland well now u.s. president joe biden has nominated him to be u.s. attorney general yesterday during his hearing garland was asked by a senator what motivates you why do this this was his answer.

yes senator so you know i come from a family. where my grandparents fled anti-semitism and persecution. the country took a stand. and. protect us. and i feel obligation to the country to pay back and this is the highest best use of my own set of skills to pay back. and so i want very much to be the kind of turned attorney general that you're . saying i could become. i'll do my best to try to be that kind of a conviction. finally snow and ice have been

causing serious suffering for parts of the united states in recent days just ask the folks in texas but the big freeze it can also bring great beauty take a look at this parts of the famous niagara falls frozen over creating huge abstract ice formations gorgeous as the falls span the border between canada and the united states they have a vertical drop when the water's flowing a more than 50 meters. well the day is almost done but the conversation it continues online you'll find us on twitter either at the w. news or you can follow me at brant go off t.v. and remember whatever happens between now and then tomorrow is another day we'll see you then everybody.

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