that concerns me. >> doctor adalja? >> first, event to owen was an exercise that the johns hopkins center put on. we do lots of pandemic exercises. we are trying to increase awareness of the fact that pandemics have major consequences. if you don't prepare for them, if you are complacent, if you think it's not going to disrupt the world in 2022, it is a poly. that is why we continue to do exercises. i think event to a one is prescient. it shows how important it is to prepare for pandemics, just like other exercises we have done. atlantic storm, we're continuing to do boost exercises. we want to raise awareness of this very important problem that is often neck lifted in the north. regarding vaccine injuries. a couple of things. the caller is talking about the 1976 swine flu h1n1. not 2009. that vaccine rolled out, it did have a higher -- and your logic disorder, we have seen with prior vaccines. that was stopped. that has not been the case with a 2009 vaccine. it is not necessarily the case with the current covid-19 vacc

adalja: hospitals are not in chaos.at the hospital last week and i will be there this weekend. they are not in chaos. we are in a much better place. i see very few covid-19 patients now. hospitalizations are up, but is not what they were doing the december 2021 period we had with covid. it is not something that is completely disruptive. we do have staffing issues with nursing particularly. hospitals are trying to adjust, but it is not anything like what we saw in the past. i think the hospitals are in good shape, although we do have shortages because of the shanghai lockdown. cap scans are not available because of what is happening. jonathan: dr., think you as always. dr. amesh adalja of the johns hopkins center for health security. the sick, i think you are trying to get to the right issue. what do we face here? perpetual lockdowns? what breaks this? lisa: from a political standpoint it seems like very little, because they are just cracking down harder in terms of trying to keep information, as well as isolating people

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amesh adalja. he is a fellow senior scholar at the johns hopkins university. (202) 748-8000, for eastern and foot -- eastern and central. (202) 748-8001, four -- from mountain and pacific. [video clip] >> dr. fauci, i want to ask your insight on when we will not call the pandemic? what kind of process we we go through to make that determination? >> there is no firm, widely acceptable definition. when one talks about the pandemic, you talk about a highly transmissible infection which is why we distributed throughout the globe. when you are in the acute formative stage of the pandemic the way we were in the united states just a few months ago, -- 2000 deaths a day. we have come down to a lower level. now we are unfortunately picking up a bit. when you get down to a level where you have a level that might be comparable to respiratory or parainfluenza. it wouldn't be considered a pandemic in the classic sense. but there is a lot of gray zone about the definition. i don't think you are going to see all

amesh adalja.ll be talking about the latest on covid-19 and the up tick in places here and nationwide. and what is happening across the world as well. >> -- along with these television companies support c-span2. a house panel is investigating unidentified aerial vehicles following a pentagon report released last june by unit -- u.s. military sightings of an unidentified vehicle. watch live tuesday at 12:35 p.m. eastern. >> listen to c-span radio with hours free c-span mobile app, c-span now. if live streams of court proceedings and hearing. campaigns and more. analysis of the world of politics with our -- podcaster. >> washington journal continues. host: dr. amesh adalja is a senior physician at john hopkins -- johns hopkins. the mat we are looking at, the account from the new york times, their ongoing tracker of covid. at this stage in the virus, they say it continues to spread nationwide. daily reports of new cases increasing threefold since the start of april. what is your take on that? what is

dr aimish adalja is a senior scholar and infectious diseases physician at the johns hopkins center foreed to be concerned and we need to find the answers. that being said, although we are seeing monkeypox spread in communities without links to travel, it is not the same level of panic we had during covid—i9 or with the new influenza virus. because even though this is scary and there are open questions to be answered, we understand monkeypox in a different way because we have tools that we know can be put to bear on this outbreak and stop it. once we understand the epidemiology of how people are getting infected. femicide is the killing of women, simply because of their gender — it's often the result of domestic violence. and in bolivia the number of cases has led to indigenous women in the country developing an app that they hope will help to save lives. wendy urquhart reports. el alto, near la paz, is bolivia's second biggest city and is also one of the poorest in the country. gender violence is rife. 180 cases against women were reported in 2021 and 3a cases have been registered by m

dr amesh adalja is a senior scholar and infectious diseases physician at thejohns hopkins centre fordoing something unusual or spreading in a new manner, we need to be concerned and we need to find the answers. that being said, although we are seeing monkeypox spread in communities without links to travel, it is not the same level of panic we had during covid—i9 or with the new influenza virus. because even though this is scary and there are open questions to be answered, we understand monkeypox in a different way because we have tools that we know can be put to bear on this outbreak and stop it. once we understand the epidemiology of how people are getting infected. stay with us on bbc news, still to come: all aboard for these pampered pooches. howjapan is making a special effort to please its canine commuters. in the biggest international sporting spectacle ever seen, up to 30 million people have taken part in sponsored athletic events to aid famine relief in africa. the first of what the makers of star wars hope will be thousands of queues started forming at 7am. taunting which le

let's go to pittsburgh in the united states and get more from dr aim—ish adalja — a senior scholar andt thejohn hopkins centerfor health security. thejohn hopkins centerfor health great thejohn hopkins center for health to get you on ti the great to get you on the program. in the first instance, we are emerging from the pandemic, from covid and now we've got this new virus. how concerned should we be? i now we've got this new virus. how concerned should we be?- now we've got this new virus. how concerned should we be? i think that an ime a concerned should we be? i think that anytime a virus _ concerned should we be? i think that anytime a virus is _ concerned should we be? i think that anytime a virus is doing _ concerned should we be? i think that anytime a virus is doing something i anytime a virus is doing something unusual or spreading it a new manner we need to be concerned we need to find the answers. although we are seeing monkeypox spread in communities without links to travel it's not the same level of panic that we had during covid—i9 or with the new influenza virus because

amesh adalja of johns hopkins discusses the recent rise in covid-19 cases. join the discussion with your phone call, facebook comments, text messages, and tweets. "washington journal" starts right now. ♪ host: a mass shooting once again shocking the nation. the weekend mass murder in buffalo has part media calls for legal action on high-powered weapons, but more notably the focus is on the racist views of the murderer, views new york governor says are "spreading like a virus." good morning. it is monday, may 16, 2022. we will spend the first hour talking to you and getting your reaction to the weekend shooting.