the american medical association really recently wrote to leaders and called for coordinated national effort to buy and allocate that year. the better business bureau is warning about a fake card. here it is. it claims to exempt people from having to wear a face mask. the card can be purchased online. it has a fraudulent department of justice deal on it. people who buy the cards online are opening themselves up to the identity theft. there just a reminder that some people might not wear a mask, but they may have a legitimate reason for that, for example, people who have pre-existing breathing problems and also some children. >> if there's a newborn baby, they are less than two years of age, they should not be wearing masks. >> doctors urge everyone to remember facial coverings are the first line of defense, as well as social distancing. >>> there is a new sign that racial tension continues in the city of martinez. city crews had to be called in to paint over graffiti. someone had written the words white lives matter in the painting at the intersection of howe road and old orchard road

desperate causes is the main reason behind this steadily declining population according to the american medical association journal in 70 is from 2000. 10 to 2017 the death rate among people aged 25 to 64 rose by more than 20 percent. this memorial was actually conceived built by the young people of our residents here are recovery residents part of who we are part of what we do is we provide ceremony in these people's lives the ceremony of death which. started about in 2013 we buried our 1st young guy from the house here and it has not abated and they are succumbing you know one after the next so these are all the personalized tags of the young souls who came to us and sought help and there's more coming. we had a couple of our crew of our sort of core guys who lived at the house when they left against the council 48 hours later they were dead relapse and just stopped picked back up part of the challenge is if you stay in their coverage obviously your tolerance lowers significantly. so you go back to believing the the lay of the way in this changed significantly i mean we're talking about. a chemical that

anthony fauci told the ""journal of the american medical association"" today. >> but you've got to remember're all in this together, and we have to take some societal responsibility. >> reporter: that, apparently, was not the case in tuscaloosa, alabama, where the fire chief confirms that several college students attended parties knowing that they were covid positive. elsewhere, other states are also putting the brakes on fourth of july festivities. delaware's governor is closing down bars and beach towns. in nebraska, officials are asking those hosting cookouts to keep a guest list so the state can do contact tracing if there's an outbreak. in new york city, one of the few areas not seeing a sharp jump in cases, schools will reopen this fall. but nationally, a top health official signaled to congress today the overall picture is not good. >> we're not flattening the curve right now. the curve is still going up. >> reporter: back here in florida, hospitals are stopping elective procedures, while at the same time saying they need more help. you need more nurses. >> that's correct. we're seei

. >> reporter: the american medical association is among those calling for the president to invoke the defense production act to make more equipment, but the trump administration says supplies are adequate in most states. >> ppe, we hear, remains very strong. our focus is to make sure our states have everything they need when they need it. >> reporter: several major hospitals tell us their supplies are sufficient but demands growing for smaller facilities like nursing homes and doctors offices and recently school nurses trying to get protective gear before classes resume lester >> all right joe friar tonight, said today it is on the same page with the cdc on guidelines for reopening schools after mixed messages left a lot of parents and teachers confused. let's get more from stephanie gosk. >> reporter: after new guidelines and new plans in place, it is going to be the parents and teachers left trying to make the school year work and no one we spoke to today is feeling very good about it. in phoenix, arizona, a covid hot spot, the first day of school has been pushed back from august 10

redfield stressed the measures during a chat with the journal of the american medical association. this comes at jama reports that face coverings really does work. in one situation, masks prevented the spread of infection from two hairstylists to their clients in missouri. >> thank you. >>> and cal skifornia is changi its testing policies. people with symptoms, in high risk categories or those who know that they have been exposed will get priority. >> ensuring that our guidelines not only say who needs to be tested but give some guidance to labs on which specimens to process first. >> these new rules actually move away from the newsome administration's plans for anyone to be tested. the doctor says that the state is averaging about 100,000 tests every day, but the turnaround time for results is slowing down because of the national spike in coronavirus cases. >>> coming up next, preventing potentially deadly wrong way collisions. california could have a solution. >>> and a community center living up to the true meaning of its name, how it is helping to build a better bay area. can't

dementia studies in sweden arizona and columbia the findings published in the journal of the american medical association indicates that a blood test can detect the tell protein one of the hallmarks signs of all simers. opera portsmouth's show no higher concentration on the lower. lower color concentration the blood test which was just as accurate as more invasive methods including m.r.i. brain scans c.t. scans and spinal taps provides a much simpler and more affordable way to diagnose whether people with cognitive problems were experiencing all simers as opposed to another type of dementia sparking new hope for patients yet the ball is then a thought that's very good instead of taking spinal fluid you can just have a simple blood test it means you can learn about the condition before it gets worse and have support and help from people so you can live a so-called normal life even so normal day but no now the researchers say that the blood test was also able to identify symptoms of alzheimer's 20 years before the patient was expected to start experiencing thinking and memory problems however they do add t

and va medical center, published articles about race and medicine in the journal of the american medical association and handling internal medicine. his columns and op-eds have appeared in the new york times, chicago tribune and general constitution. and i am happy, thankful and would love to welcome dr. danielle ofri and damon tweedy, everyone give them a very hearty welcome. it is special that we have them here tonight. >> as a fellow physician writer, the very best out there, what you have been over the years, just want to say thank you. i guess to start off, why this book and why now? we are going to talk about the disparities associated with covid-19, more broadly at the beginning. why this book and why now? >> in approaching english majors, getting questions about medical issues, attached a study which was headlined showing medical error was the third leading cause of death. is this really true? i don't have an answer. i didn't know. if it really is true i see that every single day. it doesn't feel like i do. are they wrong? are they correct and i am trying to answer that. it is a hard questio

it was published in the journal of the american medical association. >>> speaking of opening schools, while a vast majority of bay area schools will begin the school year with remote learning, dozens of south bay schools are hoping to reopen for in-classroom learning. they would need to get the okay from health officials first. under governor newsom's pandemic plan, elementary schools have the option to apply for a waiver with their local health officer. if they qualify and are approved for this exception, students can return to class even if the county remains on the state monitoring list. private schools like gidian housener jewish day school are among those applying for a waiver. >> it starts with health checks and temperature checks at the front door for all staff and children. we have provided all of our staff with ppe that they can replace every day if they wish, face a.mmasks, as well as sheei and gloves. >> at least 80 schools have reached out about getting a waiver. no word on when they will be approved or denied. >>> four students around the bay returning to class or learnin

"the journal of the american medical association" or "jama" conducted a new study estimating the coronavirustoll between march and may could be 28% higher than the official death toll that's been reported. what do you think about this? what does it mean going forward? >> well, kenneth, it's an interesting study that looked to compare the death rates from the spring to one year ago, and it found that when looking at the total number of patients who died, that there was an increase that couldn't totally be explained just by the reported numbers of covid-19 deaths, which leads to the question, what else caused this increase, and so their conclusions concluded that there were secondary deaths due to covid-19 such as patients not coming in to seek health care in a timely manner. >> we learned today that labs across the country are currently near or at capacity due to the increasing demand for coronavirus tests in recent days. your thoughts? >> well, i think overall this is a good thing. to my knowledge the companies aren't necessarily running out of the tests themselves but more a manner of the c

dimentia studies in sweden arizona and columbia the findings published in the journal of the american medical association indicates that a blood test can detect the tell protein one of the homework signs of all simers. there are. 2 or 3 minutes or so show higher concentration on the lower. lower color considering the blood test which was just as accurate as more invasive methods including m.r.i. brain scans c.t. scans and spinal taps provides a much simpler and more affordable way to diagnose whether people with cognitive problems were experiencing all simers as opposed to another type of dementia sparking new hope for patients yet the ball is then a thought that's very good instead of taking spinal fluid you can just have a simple blood test it means you can learn about the condition before it gets worse and have support and help from people so you can live a so-called normal life even so normal day but no now the researchers say that the blood test was also able to identify symptoms of alzheimer's 20 years before the patient was expected to start experiencing thinking and memory problems however they d

dimensions studies in sweden arizona and columbia the findings published in the journal of the american medical association indicates that a blood test can detect the tell protein one of the hallmarks signs of all simers with whom there are. 2 or 3 months or so no higher power concentration on the lower ones lower color concentration the blood test which was just as accurate as more invasive methods including m.r.i. brain scans c.t. scans and spinal taps provides a much simpler and more affordable way to diagnose whether people with cognitive problems were experiencing all simers as opposed to another type of dementia sparking new hope for patients yet the ball is then a thought that's very good instead of taking spinal fluid you can just have a simple blood test it means you can learn about the condition before it gets worse and have support and help from people so you can live a so-called normal life even so normal day but no now the researchers say that the blood test was also able to identify symptoms of alzheimer's 20 years before the patient was expected to start experiencing thinking and memory prob

. >> the american medical association has been begging the federal government to direct the manufacturcquisition, and distribution of ppe. >> it's a shame that we run out of ppe to protect healthcare workers. >> this month, a democratic congressional house oversight committee, lack of leadership from the trump administration is forcing local governments, states, and hospitals to compete for scarce supplies. >> it's not just n95s. it's everything. we really need the president to fully invoke the defense production act. so he can mass produce the things that will keep us safe. and, to this point, he has refused to do so. >> the department of health and human services disputes that account. telling cnn it has moved with deliberate and determined speed to ensure we secured supplies and equipment needed by front line u.s. healthcare workers. hhs listed 19 companies that have received orders under the defense production act, or dpa, to acquire emergency supplies, including 600 million n95 masks but experts say it's not enough, and it started far too late. only half of the masks ordered will

the american medical association, american academy of pediatrics, american academy of family physicians and american college of physicians condemned president trump's decision, saying it "puts the health of our countrtry at grave risk." former vice president jojoe bidn has vowed to reverse trump''s decision on his first day in office if he wins the novemberer election. in brazil, the nation's far-right president jairir bolsonaro has tested positive for the coronavirus after months of downplaying the severity of the pandemic. bolsonaro recently developed a high fever and a cough. brazil is the second hardest-hit nation in n the world after the unitited states, with morere thn 65,000 deaths and 1.6 million confirmemed cases. bolsonaro said tuesday that he is taking hydroxychloroquine, evenen though it has been provon ineffective against covid-19 and sometimes dangerous. my third dose of hydroxychloroquine. i am feeling verery well. i was feeling a little ill onn sunday. i was that on monday. today, tuesday, feel better than on saturday. in all certainty, it is working. amy: brazil-based j

arizona up to more than 3100 this as the american hospital association, american medical and american nurses association just publishing an open letter to american public saying covid-19 is not behind us and we must resist confusing reopening with returning to normalcy underlining a message that we hear from dr. fauci. >> he has said from day one that the virus will dictate the reopening and it should not be left to local officials to try and make a political decision of some kind. you just wonder how this is going to be treated in those areas that were resistant early on because they weren't as hard hit as new york and the northeast was. now they are being hard hit. they already started this reopening process. >> yes they thought they missed it but they had not >>> as stocks continue to shake off virus fears, our next guest raised his target on the s&p he still thinks there are gains in for the year. why the change of heart now? >> i think this is probably one story more than anything else. if you look at the actions that have been taken by the government, they have really done a gre

maybe the journal of "the american medical association" cover would have been a little bit more suitedmes. but here's the problem i see, and it's not personal, i'm not here to pile on dr. fauci, he certainly has far more medical expertise than i do. this is a multifactorial problem here, but there are a number of factors. it's not just a virus. you have the hold hammer-nail analogy. when you are a hammer everything looks like a nail. everything is seen through the lens of the problem of the virus and that's good, i'm glad we have the expertise and in the triage of our needs that's at the top. but that's not only are concerned. we can't have people just spouting off in the white house saying, you know what, a lockdown might be a good idea. that has a real effect on people, it's not a joke. you can't just recommend a lockdown haphazardly and say, we can shutdown the virus. while you could also shutdown the hospital treating the virus, did you think any of this through? what about our food supply? did anyone think of that? that's a problem with placing too much faith on any one doctor or

patrice harris, former president of the american medical association and professor lawrence gosten, directorf o'neal institute for national and global health law. thanks to you both for joining us. dr. harris, can you think of a reason why the white house would be so certain the virus' spread would peak in april and dramatically almost effectively go away? >> well, you know, wolf, i think from the very beginning we've all been clear that this is a new coronavirus, and we're not sure how this new novel coronavirus would act. we had hoped that it would act like other coronaviruses, but scientists have always been clear that we need to make sure that we are following the data as it came in, that we need to make sure we had transparent access to data, and from that data we would make the best decisions. the other thing that's been true, it is true now and true from the very beginning is that we absolutely have to follow the science and that we need a national coordinated strategy. we are losing the battle and we won't be as effective unless we have access to transparent data and we follow the sc

center and has a staff position varies published articles about race and medicine and the american medical association in the annals of internal medicine. his comments have appeared in the "new york times", patient conduct reviews observer. and now i'm very happy and thankful and would love to welcome doctor danielle ofri and doctor damon tweedy. everyone at home would give them a very hearty welcome round of applause. >> thank you. >> it's great to me to it doctor danielle ofri as a fellow physician i have admired your work the breath the you write about i just want to say thank you it's great to be with you. >> thank you. >> host: we will start off with why this book? we are going to talk about covid-19 and disparity. but we will open up the session more broadly at the beginning to talk about your book so why this book and why now? >> guest: the only physician in a publishing house full of english majors you seem to get everybody's questions about medical issues. the couple views of the set mean e-mail and had a study with headlines saying medical errors was the third leading cause of death. when i

a senior cdc official telling the journal of the american medical association we have way too much virus across the country for that right now, which is why this country is a pariah state. tomorrow european union countries will reopen travel from 14 countries including canada, row wanda and central africa but not the u.s. the world leader for decades in the study of plea venrevention infectious disease and to send people to the moon and we can't fly to paris because we're a health hazard for the whole of government approach that vice president pence keeps going on about. i mean, let's be honest. it not been a whole of government approach because whole of government means the federal government. it's been a good luck you're on your own. that the the approach this administration decided to take when they left it to the states. remember the president talking about this being a war against an invisible enemy. if this country was invaded by an enemy force and the president left the defense up to individual states the way he did with coronavirus, that president would be forced to resign. thing

a new study published by the "journal of the american medical association" found, of middle-aged patientsho 100 recovered from covid-19, 78 had structural damage to their hearts. as the u.s. death toll from rapidly approaches 150 thousasand, president trumpmp declared tueuesday much of thehe united states is covid free. speaking from the white house press room trump lamented polls , showing his approval rating is lagging far behind top infectious disease expert dr. anthony fauci. curious. a man works for us, with us. arefauci and dr. birx highly thought of, but nobody likes me. it can only be my personality. amy: president trump then walked out of his tuesday press briefing after a cnn reporter asked him about his re-tweeting of a video featuring stella immanuel well, an evangelical christian doctor who has urged people not to wear masks and embraced the drug hydroxychloroquine for covid-19 despite studies showing it offers no benefit and can cause deadly side effects. immanuel has previously suggested alien dna is used in pharmaceuticals and that gynecological problems a are caused by se

the american medical association reported 39 states have seen a spike in opioid-related overdoses.ces like cook county, illinois, which includehigo, opioid-related deaths have in a nearby county up by 1/3, according to the coroner. >> when i look through these deaths, overwhelmingly bees were people that lived alone, wereal having finan difficulties, marital difficulties, previous problems with addiction or mental health problems. these are the very needy of ou society. they need community. >> addiction is a disease of isolation. no one chooses to have addiction any more so than anyone chooses to have diabetes or multip cirrhosis. william: he isfe a por of epidemiology and medicine at johns hopkins. he says another effect of the pandemic has been a massive disruption to the illegal drug market. >> if yothink about the way the pandemic has ground the economy to a halt, that has occurred in the illicit drug markets as well. it has decreased the transport of drugs across borders, but it has also disrupted local drug markets and introduced greater uncertainty regarding at howtances are

the study was published in the journal american medical association neurology out of 1900 patients withent visits or hospitalizations with covid-19, about 1.6% had a stroke, according to this research. that's compared to 2% -- to .2% of nearly 1500 patients seriously ill with the flu. >>> well, the summer travel season is now in full swing, as kristina reports. while the coronavirus has certainly slowed flights, more than 626,000 people passed through the checkpoints on sunday. >> reporter: july 4th holiday weekend and a crucial test for airlines to gauge consumer demand and concerns. here at the airport, you can already see safety precautions like the plexiglas. everyone has to be wearing a mask and there are sanitation stations virtually everywhere. 764,000 people traveled for the holiday weekend this year. that is down 64% compared to last year, but it's still the best number in the past four months. american airlines is booking flights at full capacity. even united is selling as many seats as possible, including the middle seat. officials at united and americans say that social dist

the journal of the american medical association and internal medicine.hey've appeared in the new york times, observer and constitutions. now i am very happy and thankful to welcome doctor daniel. it's very special that we are here tonight. >> thank you. >> i'm pleased to meet you. i've admired your work. want to say thank you and it's great to be with you. >> thanks. >> to start off, why this book and why now? were going to talk about covid-19. >> impressions about medical issues so years ago, they sent me an e-mail she sent a text saying medical error is the third leading cause of death. the e-mail said is it really true? have to say and give an answer. i really didn't know. it doesn't feel like i do but i wondered to answer that question but i quickly learned, medical error so counting was very difficult. it's pretty hard to answer but that's what piques my interest. >> how do you go about this? how did it come up? >> they went back to the data and reanalyzed it which is not on kosher at all but it involves taking smaller sets and multiplying it out to

and this new study from the journal of the american medical association specifically looks at deaths between march and may. why were so many deaths unaccounted for and by how much? >> let's take a look at what the study authors did and retrace steps here, jake. what they did is they looked at deaths between march and may this year and compared it to previous years. they found there were 122,300 more beths in that time period than there previous years. the study authors believe the majority of the deaths are attributable directly or indirectly to covid. but when you look at the death count it is only 95,235 deaths so the study authors believe that is an underestimate. they say look we have this many excess deaths from this year kbhared to last year and we believe it is attributable to covid so they believe the 95,000 number is really low. jake. >> elizabeth cohen, thank you so much. >>> in california, a record breaking new kroerp cases, 9,740, the high number since the pandemic started. the previous record was 7149 a week ago today. dan is live from pacific palisades. govin newsom hav

joining us now to discuss, the former president of the american medical association. dr. patrice harris and lawrence professor at georgetown university. founding o'neill chair and global health law. dr. harris, why is the country still having so much trouble with testing? >> wolf, thank you for having me on and let me say that simply stated, it's gut check time. and everyone who professes to have the interest of the health and well being as well as economic well being of our country needs to demonstrate that care and concern. and one critical issue. we've had miss after miss is testing from the very beginning. we've not had a national strategy. we've not had the supplies that we need, and we still are pretty much where we were four months ago, so we need that national strategy. i'm hearing from colleagues and of course, you know that we see people waiting in hours long lines, and once they get a test, it may take up to a week to get the results. so we continue to call on the administration to develop a national strategy so that we cannot only get the test but also have a

. >> the american medical association has been begging the federal government to direct the manufacture, acquisition, and distribution of ppe. >> it's a national shame that we ran oust masks and other ppe to protect our health care workers. there was no excuse in march and even less of an excuse now. >> reporter: this month a democratic congressional house oversight committee concluded lack of leadership from the trump administration is forcing state and local governments, hospitals and others to compete for scarce supplies. the national nurses united union just endorsed joe biden because of what it calls trump's abandonment of public health and safety. >> it's not just n95s. it's everything. we really need the president to fully invoke the defense production act so he can mass produce the things that will keep us safe. and to this point he has refused to do so. >> reporter: the department of health and human services disputes that account, telling cnn it has moved with deliberate and determined speed to ensure we secured supplies and equipment needed by frontline u.s. health care worke

speaking today with the journal of the american medical association. >> right now, if you look at the number of cases, it's quite disturbing. and we're setting records, practically, every day of new cases in the numbers that are reported. that, clearly, is not right direction. >> to dr. fauci's point, florida, today, reporting 10,109 new cases. a new daily record. and just look at the seven-day moving average of new cases in that state, over the last four weeks. now, let's add in the european union to those numbers there. to be clear, all 446 million people. right now, florida, with a population of just 22 million, is averaging twice as many cases per day as the entire eu. it's incredible. now, let's look at texas and the eu over the same period of time. again, these are seven-day averages and skews the data. and again, those two lines tell the story. cases are rising, in fact, in 38 states here in this country. steadier falling steady or falling in just 12. press secretary liked to call what you are seeing in those numbers, in those facts, you are seeli seeing on your screen, embers.

. >> reporter: the american medical association has been begging the federal government to direct theanufacturer acquisition and distribution of ppe. >> it is a national shame that we run out of masks and other ppe to protect our healthcare workers. there was no excuse in march. and even less of an excuse now. >> reporter: this month, a democratic congressional house oversight committee concluded lack of leadership from the trump administration is forcing state and local governments, hospitals and others to compete for scarce supplies. the national nurses united union just endorsed joe biden because of what it called trump's abandonment of public health and safety. >> not just n-95s. it is everything. we really need the president to fully invoke the defense production act so he can mass produce the things that will keep us safe. and to this point he has refused to do so. >> reporter: the department of health and human services disputes that account, telling cnn it moved with deliberate and determined speed to ensure we secured supplies and equipment needed by front line u.s. healthcar

the american medical association wrote to leaders in washington a call for coordinated efforts to buy and allocate gear. it >>> the better business bureau is warning about a card that claims to exempt people from having to wear a face mask. you can buy this card online, it has a fake department of justice sale. the better business bureau says people who buy the card online are vulnerable to identity theft. they are also reminding people that some people may not wear a mask, but they will not a legitimate region -- reason for doing so. >>> a up a purple heart recipient that lost her legs and the iraq war is defending her patriotism against a cable news host. u.s. senator tammy duckworth of illinois had recently suggested a national dialogue over whether or not monuments honoring george washington should be removed because he owned slaves. tucker carlson said that she is an unimpressive person, and that people like senator duckworth hate america. her response was simple. walk a mile in my legs and tell me whether or not i love america. the tenant colonel duckworth lost both of her legs

letters the committee has received from the organizations representing the workers, the american medical association, the american college of emergency physicians, the national nurses united into the american association of medical colleges. oeach of these groups has writn to emphasize healthcare workers around the country are still experiencing shortages of critical supplies including masks. i would ask unanimous consent riat these be entered into the official hearing record, so ordered. >> in closing i want to thank the witnesses and my colleague. today's hearing made clear as the infections and hospitalizations spiked, communities are facing shortages of personal protective equipment and testing supplies. we need action from the government to address the shortage is now before more people are exposed to make use of the resources to identify the need and to distribute supplies. second, the administration needs to adhere to the contract practices including open competition to make sure that it isn't favored in the inexperienced supply areas over businesses with a track record of success. third, the

in the united states have died from coronavirus, but a new study in the "journal of the american medical associationports that number may actually be 28% higher. that's roughly an increase of about 36,000 lives. 36,000 deaths. with me, dr. james philips, chief of disaster medicine and assistant professor at george washington university hospital. so doctor, thank you so much for being on and why do you think there's such a gap in the numbers? >> well, there's a number of reasons. initially it was about testing. also recognition of the different ways that the virus can kill people. initially thought a primarily respiratory disease, we sought patient whose came in with respiratory symptoms. flu-like illness, if you will and reserved a limited number of tests for them and why we had a very high positivity rate during those times. when we saw patients that died from respiratory illness during that time we assumed it was covid and in most cases were able to test for it. but we've long feared there were a number of patients dieing in the hospital and outside of the hospital particularly early on in this di