the world health organization is resuming a clinical trial now that was halted based on "the lancet"tudy. today, also in "the new england journal of medicine," dr. sarah laughlin of the university of minnesota, who as you know, shannon, has appeared on this program, also published a long-awaited, double blinded, placebo-controlled, randomized study, the gold standard that showed that hydroxychloroquine did not seem to work after exposure to covid-19. meanwhile, shannon, many other large, clinical trials are going on across the country and around the world to test hydroxychloroquine's use as a preventative and an early treatment. but consider this: will the politics of the situation allow the real science to emerge?

one that used to they'll e same data has retraktd, the new england journal of medicine, lancet. two major journals a calling into question the papers that fueled those journals. for their part the lancet and new england journal said we will not stand by those original papers. >> there are still studies going forward about the use of hydroxychloroquine when it comes to treating patients with coronavirus. let me ask you a broader question. i hear from a lot of people who are frustrated. they have been obeying the guidelines for months at great costs, economic costs, psychological costs. weddings called off. schools cancelled and they do not understand why health officials seem so silent with all these massive crowds criticizing. all this is not to criticize the purpose. just as a health issue, there not a significant risk to all these individuals in close quarters not social distancing, many of them not wearing masks? yelling, screaming, shouting, which could spread the virus and much more? is that not a health concern? >> i think it is a health concern. there is no question. it o

on friday the lancet as you know published an observational study hydroxy cloaking in the auto just reported that among patients receiving the drug the estimated a higher mortality rate. the w.h.o. immediately halted studies of the anti malarial citing the risk of heart problems then a few days later the lancet study turned out to be useless the lancet retracted the text over concerns about the quality of the data behind us. the w.h.o. resumed its trials. but precious time had been lost to find out of the drugs at aurukun can help covert 1000 patients worse still these kind of half baked scientific articles undermine public trust in scientific research. it's a devastating loss of trust of the time when the whole world is waiting for results from drug research that could mean the difference between life and death. now chloroquine is just one of many drugs that are being trialled in a bid to find a treatment for the corona virus to find out about the latest research i'm joined now by dr nick how much he's the covert 19th or appears 6 accelerator lead at the wellcome trust in the u.k.

study turned out to be useless the lancet retracted the text over concerns about the quality of the data behind us. the w.h.o. resumed its trials. but precious time had been lost to find out of the drugs the chloroquine can help covert 1000 patients. still these kind of half baked scientific articles undermine public trust in scientific research. it's a devastating loss of trust of the time when the whole world is waiting for results from drug research that could mean the difference between life and death. now chloroquine is just one of many drugs that are being trialled in a bid to find a treatment for the corona virus to find out about the latest research i'm joined now by dr nick how much he's the covert 19th or appears he expects fellow writerly to at the wellcome trust in the u.k. dr khan like thanks for joining us a number of countries have now approved does a fair trade covert 1000 patients what can you tell me about that drug so around a severe. inhibiting the replication of this what is a new virus. and we expect it to work particularly well early in the infection cycle to

ruben the editors of the lancet respectively who are pulling a rosenstein in saying i didn't know. i never read it. the play published it with the verb in the should consider resigning from their positions. we need to have a wholesale look. if you wonder what else is wrong with thesek journals. this is what we discovered. >> laura: dr. smith, the problem here i think is that the media, like it, you guys are sophisticated medical thinkers and were lazy. if the people here are like oh, my god, i'll never take this i'm e going to have a heart attack n the first pill all take. so people were afraid to, dr. smith, and you are coming on show week after week and come on the show 15 times at least. you explained very methodically when you prescribed it, how you prescribed it, the patient times you are having. and i'm just appearing real damage was done not only to medical establishments but the people. >> i agree, i think people have died and i don't like it at all. if i prescribe it i do so extremely carefully because the ministrations looking over my shoulder and i know. they restricted

three countries prohibited they use of covid based on the lancet study.nce, italy and dr. fauci himself basically declared the drug lost cause. >> clearly, the scientific data is really quite evident now about the lack of evidence supported and the possibility there could be adverse events particularly with the a cardiovascular and the arrhythmias that may be associated. >> laura: yet, deafening silence from dr. fauci today. the silent speaking volumes. if there's a lesson here, science and process and it's not the outcome and when politics and confirmation bias take presidents, there iss a bad result. joining me now is cardiologist and ceo of oxo cardiology and dr. steven smith founder of the smith center for infectious diseases and urban health. dr. smith, you treated somebody covid to patients and you continue to and you say it's a blight on the medical community and one that brings you more j joy. >> yeah, laura. thank you. how are you tonight? >> laura: good. >> it's in rough time and it's a rough time in the medical journalism and systemic medici me

rich, how did lancet and the w.h.o. get fooled? >> good evening, laura.hat i think happened here is that peer review is good but it's not perfect. and reviewers tend to be as critical or not depending on whether they like the results that they see. and if the study comes up with results that they are motivated to want, then less likely to be critical as they should be. >> laura: now in a new study that came out today being cited in the mainstream media by dr. boulware, they are saying that study was randomized and it shows that there is no benefit of early use of hydroxychloroquine involving 800 patients. but our medical team has been digging into that as well. what can you tell us about that? >> that study was, indeed, randomized, but it did not have no effect. it showed 17% benefit of taking hydroxychloroquine preventively here there is another study in india shows but it took six days in order to show benefit. and the study lasted only five days in treatment. so it is uncertain. but the main problem with the boulware study commits the attempt for preve

after you published your piece in the lancet study and advocating on the behalf of hydroxychloroquine what you think about treating p? after i published in the american journal last week, i heard from hundreds of physicians who have been very supportive of the message which is that outpatient disease is a totally separate entity that needs to be evaluated and treated on its own without regard to what happens in hospitals. >> laura: doctor, thank you so much, we appreciate your expertise. coming up a wake-up call for the black lives matter crowd in the last bite moment.

a large study that was published in lancet in the new england journal of medicine.oth reputable medical journals supposed to be occasional trial with over 95,000 patients. after the study was published, a letter written and signed by over 200 scientists questioning their data collection methods has now actually caused these journals to retract the actual articles themselves. that's a really big deal in the medical world this firm that collected the data the force are now saying they can't validate the data collection methods. this is the failure of the study's authors, the journal's editors as well as a peer review process. that being said, we want to make sure that we say, you know, it doesn't mean that their conclusions are wrong or in the future it's not going to still prove that hydroxychloroquine may not be effective. but the problem with this article was this big study caused to stop enrolling for clinical trials because this one article showed maybe there was increased risk of death with hydroxychloroquine, they halted all efforts. so that's a big issue right

like that bogus hydroxychloroquine study that was published in the prestigious medical journal "the lancet." i mean, that just collapsed, they had to retract the whole study. we are going to expose that later in the hour with two of the original medicine cabinet members. don't want to miss that. but countries on hospitals, including in this country hospital, they stopped allowing the use of that drug based on false data. how scary is that? and the experts, by the way, locked you down for weeks and weeks in your homes -- some of you still walk down -- based on false covid mortality productions. you couldn't go to your daughters that wedding, your son's baseball game, your kids didn't know matt couldn't go to school, you missed graduations and all of these life experiences, but the moment there was an event or a protest that they thought was important, all their rules were out the window. look at michigan governor gretchen whitmer, or pritzker in illinois. the left is always the same -- always the same. you will sacrifice, but they, they won't. just like with obamacare, climate change, and e

the lancet, a journal out of england, they are retracting it. it's because the database that the author used, it was an international database, a huge database, it was found to have been maybe not reliable. there are questions about its reliability. they're retracting it. to be clear, prior to this one, there were two major studies that looked at hydroxychloroquine that found that it didn't work, one even found it increased the chances of cardiac arrest. those have not been retracted. they did not use this database. those still stand. the nih and fda saying don't take hydroxychloroquine if you have covid unless you're part of a clinical trial. alisyn? >> what about this new study on the use of pepcid as a potential treatment? >> right. so it's the use of the active ingredient in pepcid. this is sort of intriguing. there's been thinking that this might help people who have coronavirus. so this was a very small study. can't emphasize how small it was. ten patients. these ten patients were at home with covid. they were not in the hospital. they sta

the lancet and medical journal. and they both actually don't leave the study that shows hydroxychloroquine was not effective or even dangerous anymore because of the set up of the study that was in effect. this is the quote from the op-ed on this, hdl should rise or fall as a treatment on the medical merits, not whether people think it vindicates or repudiates donald j. trump and keeps the politics out of medicine, which sounds like, you know, a pretty good idea. >> that is absolutely true. so i stayed out for this very reason. i don't practice medicine. and a very hard job. what i tried to do both before i publish this and, look at the data that we get from hospitals. look at the data that we are getting from you know, states reporting deaths, try to put that together and see what the media is telling us. i want to say one thing, i really am grateful to fox. tucker and others have helped me get the message out. this book right now, number 2 on amazon and kindle and paperback, that has something to do with you guys.

the world health organization is resuming a clinical trial now that was halted based on "the lancet"today, also in "the new england journal of medicine," dr. sarah laughlin of the university of minnesota, who as you know, shannon, has appeared on this program, also published a long-awaited, double blinded, placebo-controlled, randomized study, the gold standard that showed that hydroxychloroquine did not seem to work after exposure to covid-19. meanwhile, shannon, many other large, clinical trials are going on across the country and around the world to test hydroxychloroquine's use as a preventative and an early treatment. but consider this: will the politics of the situation allow the real science to emerge? shannon? >> shannon: all right, dr. siegel. thank you. and most watched, most trusted, most grateful you spent the evening with us. good night from washington. have a saved weekend. i'm shannon bream. ♪ a lotta folks are asking me lately how to get their dishes as clean as possible. i tell them, you should try cascade platinum plus the power of oxi. cascade platinum + oxi penetr

thank you for your expertise and thank you for the work that "the lancet" does because we'll continue to rely on it. author of "the covid-19 catastrophe, what's gone wrong and how to stop it from happening again." >>> two police reform builds are being put forth in congress but do either of them do what needs to be done and that's empower good cops to the point where change begins. we'll talk about it when "velshi" continues. ontinues mornings were made for better things than rheumatoid arthritis. when considering another treatment, ask about xeljanz a pill for adults with moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis when methotrexate has not helped enough. xeljanz can reduce pain, swelling, and further joint damage, even without methotrexate. xeljanz can lower your ability to fight infections. before and during treatment, your doctor should check for infections like tb and do blood tests. tell your doctor if you've had hepatitis b or c, have flu-like symptoms, or are prone to infections. serious, sometimes fatal infections, cancers including lymphoma, and blood clots have happened. taking

and then we find out lancet was relyingng on fraudulent data by the company. has a handful of employees and one is an adult content model. yes, another one writes science fiction for a living. if so, they claim they have one of the best hospital databases in the world but they have no internet presence whatsoever. so come out lancet, a gun is faced in the suddenly withdrawing the study and went with the medicalt question whih is does hydroxychloroquine actually work earlier in the game to help decrease the symptoms of covid-19. it's been study in the lab is an antivirus and we don't know and this is a political hit job. now for the medical story this is very optimistic news. university of pittsburgh medical center today's reporting several of the doctors there are saying, you know what, covid-19, tucker, the virus appears to be getting milder and people who are being admitted have milder symptoms. we heard the same thing out of northern italy and guess what i've been hearing the same thing from many doctors here in new york city over the past week or two. the

i think that lancet paper helps further the evidence behind it.specially important for people to take these measures now as states are beginning to reopen in different ways around the country. these are all things we can do even with reopening happening. even a little bit of distance, six feet of distance, is enough to demonstrably, to substantially lower your risk of getting the infection or giving that infection to others. same with the mask. the main purpose of the mask is to keep you from giving it to someone else, even if you don't feel sick, you may have the virus and we don't know it, and so it's protection for you as well. there are other countries having much better success than even the u.s. in controlling the virus. they're using masks and they're physically distancing. >> you mentioned earlier a very important point, that we should look at rate of hospitalizations, rate of infection, not just the case count. so i want to go through this, i want to put the california cases in the past several days and it's moving up. south carolina case

in the last —— lancet medicaljournal, we think the risk is about 1.3%.in life with a two metres distance so one metre seems to be a reasonable compromise between risk and practicality. ok, thanks very much for that. obviously lots of use depending on where you're coming from on that one. i want to move on to of these questions on the new social support bubble advice. a question firstly from moira. if two people shielding in a separate household who are relatives and one lives alone for example my mother, can she stay in my house with myself, my husband and my son? this isa myself, my husband and my son? this is a tricky one, this one, and i have full sympathy. the issue is if you are shielding you are shielding for a reason and the current guidance is that because people who are shielding and being asked to shield at very high risk relative to the general population, the guidance for them has not currently changed. so people who are shielding should stay shielding, they shouldn't form these support bubbles at this stage. borisjohnson did these support bu

. >> reporter: that concern now highlighted in a new study in "the lancet" which found without a mask the risk of transmitting covid is 17 msk itrops toavo stoi huween police protesters artwarming... >>people out there screaming at the top of their lungs. this can't abe good thing. >> the more droplets that go into the air, the more the potential for spread. >> reporter: even more serious, research shows the virus itself may discriminate. >> the paradox here is that we're protesting because of unequal treatment. at the same time, this virus is saying, "i don't care that you're african american. i i'm going to disproportionately affect you." >> reporter: out here at this rally in hollywood, you can see there is virtually no social distancing. that's leading for some states to call for both protesters and police who attend these rallies to get tested for covid-19. norah. >> o'donnell: carter evans, thank you. up next, moving words that span generations of poets yearning for the kind of america that's been out of reach for so many. colgate total is different. it fights bacteria in your w

a new paper published in the lancet medicaljournal warns governments must go further to prevent deadlystuart kinner, is head of thejustice health unit at melbourne university. hejoins me now. thank you for being with us. clearly theissue thank you for being with us. clearly the issue of covid—19 and presents asa the issue of covid—19 and presents as a global challenge, what makes prisons across the asia pacific area particularly vulnerable? a prison in general is a very high risk setting because it concentrates people with health problems, you have a high prevalence of many of the chronic diseases which are associated with the prognosis of people who contract covid—19 and importantly, for example in the philippines to pegula this is a very considerable concern, to also acquire covid—19 is a significant risk so you have all of that health problems and then people concentrated together in very congruent dominic congregate settings. you mentioned the problems of complications with things like tobacco this, what are the health outcomes likely for prisoners who contract covid—19? outcomes l

. >> reporter: that concern now highlighted in a new study in "the lancet," which found that withoutask, the risk of transmitting covid is more than 17%. with a mask, it drops to 3%. >> we have to stop this! >> reporter: and while the hugs between police and protesters, and loud cries of support might be heartwarming... people out there screaming at the top of their lungs. this can't be a good thing. >> the more droplets that go into the air, the more the potential for spread. >> reporter: even more serious, >> people hugging individuals and being equal at the same level, at the same time, if they wore a mask, i would be much, much happier. >> out here at this rally in hollywood you can see there is >> reporter: out here at this rally in hollywood, you can see there is virtually no social distancing. that's leading for some states to call for both protesters and police who attend these rallies to get tested for covid-19. norah. >> o'donnell: cartervans, thank you. up next, moving words that span generations of poets yearning for the kind of america that's been out of reach for so man

doubts over dates have provided by health care firm which was used in their study published in the lancet the research from to the world health organization to suspend testing of hydroxy chloroquine those are the headlines on al-jazeera coming up next year inside story. when a prime minister takes a lump of coal into his own thing all of it that coal means a lot to the country's fortunes we bring you the stories in developments that are rapidly changing the world we live in it breaks it down was a slogan that whatever the problem is of course jokes and counting the cost on which is iraq. a vigil in defiance for the 1st time in calling the bombs it's a mule event to remember the chinaman square massacre it comes as china proposed to impose national security laws almost semi autonomous territory so will the city's democracy movement so by this is inside story. hello welcome to the program and it's. hong kong has held a candlelight vigil to remember the tiananmen square massacre every year for the past free decades it's one of only 2 territories in china the other is macau where people can o

increased the risk of death in covid—i9 patients has been retracted from a leading medical journal, the lancetl drug had been touted by president trump as a potential cure. three of the study‘s authors said the research was no longer considered reliable. nba basketball is planning a return to the court. the sport's board of governors approved a plan that allows 22 teams to resume the regular season. they intend to play all games without fans, in orlando, florida. but the plan still needs approval from the players association. german prosecutors who are investigating the disappearance of the british girl madeline mccann are assuming she's dead. they're investigating a a3—year—old german man who's believed to have been in the area of portugal where the child was last seen 13 years ago. jenny hill reports. they have looked everywhere for madeleine mccann. it's 13 years since she went missing during a family holiday in praia da luz. herfamily have never given up hope that they'd find her, but today, investigators in germany announced they had opened a murder enquiry. they believe a german man kill

some of my colleagues recently wrote in the lancet, we are social beings, and social interaction is as extremely concerning. concerning perhaps, but the government say they have been following scientific advice and that there are dangers in reopening schools too quickly, and this is still a public health emergency, people are still dying, still a large number of cases, although the figures may be moving in the right direction, you know, of course the government want to reopen schools, but the question is, can they?” believe there is converging evidence that young people are at low risk of suffering with, you know, serious symptoms and the deleterious effects of covid, and i also don't seem to spread it about as much. so i think what we need to have is a proper dialogue with teachers and young people to understand the relative risks, and i think that the big picture thinking on the relative risks have been ignored. we have heard ideas like limiting class sizes to just 15 and so on, is that what you would like to see happen? schools reopening fully but with restrictions? this is where w

joining us now is richard horton , the editor-in-chief of "the lancet." about mornings in december and january being missed, it is about warnings going back to the 1980's. what is not in place that should have been? richard: good morning and thank you. we've known over the last 20 or evolvingthat the nature of human civilizations, in particular urbanization, economic growth, the emergence of slum areas in the peripheries of cities has created an environment which is highly conducive to what he called where viruses that exist in animal populations literally jumped from those animals into human beings. over the last 30 years, we have seen an increasing number of these spillover infections take lace. we should have been prepared for this to happen again. very sadly, although we knew it was a risk, in many western countries, we were not prepared. anna: and is your criticism particularly at the u.k., the u.s., or all of them? do you think that the response could be differentiated from country to country? some continental european countries have done better tha

it's possible they were actually the 1st to publish a paper in a medical or scientific journal lancet going through what they're up there there are times works with the so-called replication effect the common cold virus into which they genetically engineer the gene that then codes for that who are service wrote in the data where all that promising correctly but again i think we're going to learn a lot over the next year and there has never been more interest more money or more expertise in developing a vaccine in the history of mankind in this one. well we definitely are more advanced technology and we have the medical scientists who are working on this vaccine for endless hours and hopefully it won't be too long before we can find one dr paul offit thank you so much for your time director of the vaccine education center at the children's hospital of philadelphia. time now for a quick break but hang here because when we return from breakthroughs in the hall to breakthroughs in space will talk about the 1st manned space x. mission to the i assess with space entrepreneur rick tumlinson

at two metres, we think, but this is based on data published in the lancet medical journal, we thinkn't a huge number, it is certainly a lot smaller than the about 13% if you are closer than a metre but it is not zero. we started with a cautious two metres, but many people are saying it is very difficult to run businesses, operate schools, and have some semblance of normality in life with a two metres distance so one metre seems to be a reasonable compromise between risk and practicality. ok, thanks very much for that. obviously lots of views depending on where you're coming from on that one. i want to move on to of these questions on the new social support bubble advice. a question firstly from moira. "if two people shielding in a separate household who are relatives and one lives alone, for example my mother, can she stay in my house with myself, my husband and my son?" this is a tricky one, this one, and i have full sympathy. the issue is if you are shielding, you are shielding for a reason and the current guidance is that because people who are shielding and being asked to shield

authors raise doubts over days are provided by health care firm it was their study published in the lancet that prompted the world health organization to suspend testing of hydroxy chloroquine the controversial drug has been 1000 by u.s. president on the trend as possible treatment for corona virus. still ahead on al-jazeera all creatures great and small we look at the role that biodiversity plays on our planet and the unprecedented pressure it's now facing. and russia's president to man swift action after delays and cleaning up a few holes though in the arctic. i know they're still very halt across much of the middle east on the arabian peninsula we've seen one or 2 bits and piece of travel to turkey and still we're watching this the remnants of that recent system which brought the flooding into southern amman is still continuing to impact these southern and western areas of yemen it should begin to push into the southwest of the go through friday if you will in the east was over turkey and then look at these temperatures again another 14 days on the winds a little bit stronger there thro

authors raised doubts over data provided by health care firm which was used in a study published in the lancet the research from to the world health organization to suspend testing of hydroxy chloroquine. meanwhile brazil has overtaken its need to record the 3rd highest number of covert 1000 deaths in the world that soft had reported a record daily death toll for the 4th day in a row more than 1400 deaths were confirmed on thursday pushing the total above 340080 in the latin america's worst affected country present has been widely criticised for dismissing the risk of the virus saying on tuesday that death was everyone's destiny. argentina meanwhile has extended its lockdown until the end of the month as it struggles to control the spread of coronavirus and includes restrictions on movement and businesses in the capital when a size that measures will be relaxed in other parts of the country argentina recorded its highs daily number of new infections on wednesday the total has now passed 20000 have been more than 600 deaths in nicaragua are doctors say the infection rate is out of control but t

raised doubts over data provided by health care firm which was used in this study published in the lancet the research from to the world health organization to suspend testing hydroxy couric when a controversial drug has been touted by u.s. president donald trump as a possible treatment for corona virus now the u.k. based pharmaceutical company seneca has started producing a potential vaccine for corona virus the company says trials are underway and asked started manufacturing doses so it can meet demand if the vaccine proves effective it says it will distribute a $1000000000.00 system no end middle income countries the company's chief executive pascal so oreos say is there a mean to ensure equal access to their acts seen if successful. we are moving at the food speed we are writing right now we are on a warning 10000 volunteers in the u.k. in a face street new york trial. we also received. 'd recently to conduct a large study in brazil as well and we are in the process of organizing a large 30000 volunteers study in the united states we expect to get the results of our clinical in all of

raise doubts over data provided by health care for him which was used in a study published in the lancet the research prompted the world health organization to suspend testing. in senegal the government is easing some coronavirus restrictions after 2 nights of protests in several cities well then 200 people were arrested. for some because angry at the government's restrictions to contain the current of virus protests years in senegal 2nd largest city burned an ambulance and health center meant to protect them from the outbreak on friday president monkey so announced an extension of the state of emergency including a curfew until the end of june that decision led to demonstrations throughout the country when you those protesting early birds are unable to travel to the farmlands to plant seeds ahead of the rainy season in the southern city of camps during police fire rubber bullets protesters demanding action to address water and food shortages and in downtown to car the military was deployed to disperse an angry crowd of residents who are out of work. among the protesters a medusa are. ea

doubts over dates have provided by a health care firm which was used in the study published in the lancet the research from to the world health organization to suspend testing of hydroxy chloroquine those are the headlines on al-jazeera coming up next year inside story. when a prime minister takes a lump of coal into his own parliament that call means a lot to the country's fortunes we bring you the stories and developments that are rapidly changing the world we live in. was a slogan that one of the prime minister boris johnson counting the cost on al-jazeera. a vigil in defiance for the 1st time. to remember the tiananmen square massacre it comes as china prepares to impose national security laws on the semi autonomous territory so will the city's democracy movement survive this is inside story. hello welcome to the program and it's on congas held a candlelight vigil to remember.

, published in the lancet medical journal say high levels of diabetes are partly to blame.d all levels of government have been targeted. he declined to say which country might be responsible but said that all levels of government had been targeted. we are confident this is the action ofa we are confident this is the action of a state —based actor. we have not gone any further than that. i cannot control what speculation others might engage in on this issue or frankly, any others. i have simply laid out the facts as we know them and have disclosed today. malala yousafzai has completed her degree at oxford university. she took to twitter to share the news and revealed plans which include lots of netflix, reading and sleeping. these are the celebration pictures, obviously, after her graduation. you will remember that malala yousafzai was shot in the head because she was promoting girls going to school in pakistan. she is now graduated and she is getting well deserved rest. typical student, she is getting well deserved rest. typicalstudent, enjoyed. —— enjoy it. what a week it

president admitted taking get media vultures circled, on may 20 second respected scientific journal lanceted a story that suggested the treatment is dangerous despite the fact the potential side effects, amid alarms rely on questionable data from surgespherical but with only four boys, one a science-fiction writer and the other an adult content model. it has little online presence. the seams new england journal of medicine retracted a separate study on heart disease risks on covid-19 but relied on data from the same dubious source. the politicization of the pandemic continues, it is still ongoing. the world health organization is resuming the clinical trial that was halted based on that study. today in the new england journal of medicine, doctor sarah lofgren of the university of minnesota published a long awaited double-blind placebo-controlled randomized study, showed that hydroxy chloroquine did not work after exposure to covid-19. many large critical trials are ongoing across the country to test its use as a preventative and early treatment. will the politics of the situation allow rea

. >> reporter: colorado, now providing masks for protestors, and new research published by the lancets they work. exposed to this virus, unmasked, the chance of infection is 17.4%. with a mask, it tumbles to just 3.1. >> there's no doubt, at all, that this is something that we should all be doing. >> some places, like new york, are, right now, doing better. >> number of new covid cases walking in the door is at an all-time low. >> but, in those red states, daily new case counts are, still, climbing. the west coast, all red. california, setting new highs this week. south carolina. an early reopener, now deep red. >> states numbers are going up in new cases. we need to watch it really carefully. >> one of the first hotspots on american soil was a nursing home near seattle. federal data now shows around a quarter of all u.s. covid deaths, to date, were nursing home residents. 26,000 people. the impact of all this will last long, emotionally and economically. the u.s. economy could take ten years to recover. output, says the congressional budget office, might fall nearly $8 trillion in th

drug increased the risk of death for private 1000 patients the authors of the paper published in the lancet said they could no longer valid for its underlying data last month the study prompted the world health organization to suspend the testing of hydroxy cora queen mosques in indonesia's capital have reopened at 50 percent capacity is the 1st step in the easing of coronavirus restrictions their worshippers are keeping their distance and wearing masks. new u.s. government scientists say carbon dioxide in the atmosphere rose to record levels last month despite coronavirus lockdowns that followed a brief drop in c o 2 levels in april libya's u.n. recognized government says it's regained full control of the capital tripoli ending the year long siege by war of cliff after but have to as military command says it's been moving fighters outside of the city in preparation for un brokered cease fire talks well those are the headlines next stop here it's al-jazeera well they'll be more news after stay with us. cons are part of the civic cookie. is simple but the knowledge of well before us at them

17.4% according to "the lancet." this is what that study showed. so that's the likelihood. it's not inevitable i will spread it to you, but it's pretty high. what about when i wear a mask what is the likelihood of spread? the number actually drops to about 3.1%. so you get a six fold decrease in transmission by simply wearing a mask. if you're doing things outside it decreases by another 18 fold. my point is we have lots of data in terms what can actually help and at the white house, among coronavirus task force, you know, meetings and things like that, some of the basic precautions are still not being taken. >> one other point you made, sanjay, states reopening aggressively are not meeting the white house's own standards to do so, which is to show the decline in cases i believe over 14 days. so how can the vice president claim everything is hunky-dory, right, when those areas are not even meeting what the white house put out as guidance necessary before you reopen? >> it makes no sense. i mean, these were their own guidelines. 14-day decreased trend in terms of the overall

this appeared in "the lancet."ies, evaluated the evidence, the strength of that data, and they found that with respect to masks, it helped lower the risk a little bit. with respect to eye protection which we haven't heard a lot about, they found that people who wore some kind of eye protection lowered their risk threefold of becoming infected. it went from 16% to 6%. now, there are cautions here. there are no official recommendations yet about eye protection. they said in "the lancet" the evidence was low regarding the benefit of eye protection, but it may be a good idea. those are the author's words. we're talking about anything from a face shield, clear cheap goggles or good old eyeglasses or sunglasses that people might have. >> all right, something is better than nothing. dr. jen ashton, we appreciate it. thank you so much. robin? >> okay, amy, thank you. >>> and also this morning we are celebrating the life of singer bonnie pointer. one of the founding members of the pointer sisters. she got her start singing