>> how many student athletes do you have at baylor? >> about 525 student athletes across 19 sports. >> roughly, how many of the student baylor athletes play in revenue sports? >> men's basketball and football are our two revenue sports at baylor. all of our other sports require reallocation of resources in order to support them. >> and dr. emmert, can you provide the same figures for the ncaa? >> yes, there's roughly a half a million student athletes that play across in total over 19,000 different teams, 1100 different schools. most of those, all of those programs have basketball programs and football programs. but for the great majority of those 1,100 schools, none of them are revenue-producing sports. there is an aggregate when you look at the total revenue minus expenses of schools. there is well less than 50 of those 1,100 schools that we would describe as cash flow positive or profitable. but where they are, that revenue is grossly disproportionately coming from football and men's basketball and in some cases a few other sports. w

as a president of baylor university. a former division one athlete myself and i'm married to a former division one student athlete and-- i'm deeply invested in making sure it's a positive one for all student athletes. at baylor we are deeply committed to prioritizing our student athletes as students first cross our 19 sports. we have student athletes remarkable success on and off the field winning national and conference championships and consistently leading the big 12 conference on graduation rates. as a solution, we invest over $80,000 for fully scholarshiped student athlete in the form of tuition, room, nutrition, medical care and training services and health and safety protocols that prioritize our student athletes and a four-year program to help them with financial literacy, business education, career planning, personal branding, leadership and social responsibility. i believe this is a critical time for college athletics as we're having to rethink the status quo of recent decades due to numerous changes and challe

at baylor, we have the program in place, baylor built that had principles related to career development. leadership development and community service and we have been added to that now that we have the nil responsibilities so we can have three pillars in that program. the first one is really a monitoring system and helping students report to us and texas law reports that students report what they're doing and we want to make sure as they do it, it's in compliance with state law and federal law and eligible to participate at the ncaa level so we have to educate on that level. we also have to help them navigate the financial aspects of it and give them that kind of an education, the personal landing, how do you position yourself, and we've got a wonderful program that helps student athletes build on social media to enhance the fal and we have work on financial literacy from our law school, our business school, our entrepreneurship program and we help students understand what they need to do to get the right legal advice to be successful. we have a frame work for that and we built upon tha

. >> how many of baylor. about 525 student athletes across 19 sports. and roughly how many of the baylor student athletes play revenue sports. >> is best ball in football far too revenue sports of baylor and all of her other sports are require in their allocation of resources in order to support them. >> roughly half a million student athletes to play across until up 19000 different teams and 1100 different schools and most of those now those programs have basketball programs in football programs but the great majority, none are revenue producing spores. there's an aggregate when you look at the total revenue minus expenses of the school but in john sopko less than 50 of those 1100 schools that we would describe as profitable but where they are, the revenue is grossly disproportionate coming from football men's basketball and in some cases, if you other sports, women's festival in a few cases, ice hockey in the case of north dakota. and handful of others. >> thank you nothing those numbers indicate is a signi

>> men's basketball and football are two revenue sports at baylor. all of our other sports require reallocation of resources in order to support it. >> can you provide the same figures for the ncaa? >> yes, there's roughly half a million student athletes that play acrossin total over 19,000 different teams. 1,100 different schools. most of those, all of those programs have basketball programs and and football programs. but for the great majority of those 1,100 schools, none of them are revenue producing sports. there is an aggregate, when you look at the total revenue minus expenses of schools, there is well, less than 50 of those 1100 schools that, that we would describe as cash flow positive or profitable, but where they are, that revenue is grossly disproportionately coming from football and men's basketball and, in some cases, a few other sports, women's basketball in a few cases, ice hockey, in the case of north dakota, and you know, a handful of others. >> yeah, thank you. and i think those numbers indicate, the numbers indicate that there's a

linda livingston, who is president of baylor university. and -- one more. and jackie mcwilliams, the commissioner of the central -- what is that? intercollegiate athletic association. at this time, the chair will recognize each witness for five minutes to provide their opening statement. before i do, i want to make sure i can explain the lighting system in front of our witnesses . it is a series of lights. the lights will initially be green. the light will turn yellow when you have one minute remaining. please begin to wrap up at that point. and the light will turn red when your time is up. and for those -- [inaudible] you should be able to see the clock for those who are remotely presenting. i want to thank you, dr. -- nope, i'm wrong. let me begin with miss march. you are now recognized for five minutes. >> good morning and thank you. my name is cammy march. i am a senior at washington state university, where i hope to complete my bachelors degree in 2022. thank you for the opportunity to represent my fellow student athletes before the house, energy, and

another game on espn, baylor visiting oklahoma state. stillwater. i think there will be some baylor problems. aside from that, what do you expect to see? >> you got the weather handle on the weather? >> that's what i do, bud. >> i have no clue about the weather but baylor is one of the surprise teams being 4-0. remember matt rhule went to the nfl a couple of years ago and they kind of fell off but their offense has been good. they rung the ball well. oklahoma state also undefeated. both those teams off to a good start and we'll find out who is for real in the big-12. >> the other big game, of course, ole miss in tuscaloosa, another student versus teacher. that's going to be a team. >> except for the teacher always wins. 23-0 i think against his coaches. like that's absolutely insane what nick's been able to do but lane last year embarrassed nick saban. like he scored 40 plus. they did whatever they wanted to do offensively. about that all year long. and he'll be ready to rock 'n' roll. we're ready. these guys are ready to rock 'n' roll. "college gam

there is a report in the journal, baylor university steered lower income parents no limit loans. a disaster. onerous debt payments. many will not be able to pay it all off. so interesting to me, of all the criticism you see businesses get about profits no one talks about colleges. they are taking billions of dollars to the bank. they're getting kid to take the loans and parents take the loans. a lot of these grads are struggling because the degrees are not even worth it anymore, deneen. >> yeah, you said no limit loans, no matter what your income is. put that on the list as well. look, these universities don't care. all they want to rake in as much money as they possibly can. what they're doing is setting these families up for failure. i'm all for personal responsibility. can you afford the loan? however these universities are getting away with this and they're harming families. charles: it is interesting, the article talks about baylor hiking tuition so it would be seen as a more prestige university. golly. deneen, always appreciate it. >>> by the way i've been warning you it is

right now, i would like to ask for your help in welcoming skyler baylor to the stage.u so much. i am so excited. and i'm just going to cut right to the chase. you're probably wondering why a man, me, is standing in front of you to talk to you at the women's march about women's rights. i am the first transgender athlete to compete for a division i men's team in college . and the keyword, sports are cool, but the keyword is transgender. i am a transgender man, which means that although i am a man, i was assigned female at birth. which means that i have a uterus. which means that i could get pregnant. which means that i could need an abortion. [cheers and applause] >> i am here to remind you to make it absolutely clear that people of all genders can have abortions. and people of all genders can have safe and legal access to abortion. this is a women's issue. and it is also a transgender man's issue. it is also a non-binary person's issue. it is also a gender queer, gender fluid, trans masculine person's issue. this is about all of us. and i want to let you in on a little

baylor university professor talks about the capabilities of the continental army and the militia troops as well as advantages and disadvantages the american and british forces had. at 9:10 a.m. eastern, william wood university professor explains of the american and british militaries compared in demographics, organization and the officer selection process. at two p.m. eastern on the presidency a look at the life and times of abraham lincoln with historians. watch american history tv saturday on c-span2. >> washington unfiltered. c-span in your pocket. download c-span now today. >> c-span is your unfiltered view of government. we are funded by these television companies and more including charter communication communications. >> broadband is a force for empowerment. that's why charter has invested billions building infrastructure, upgrading technology, empowering opportunity in communities big and small. charter is connecting us. >> charter communications supports c-span as a public service along with these other television providers giving you a front row seat to democracy. >> republica

our bodies -- our bodies -- thank you so much. >> one more time for skylar baylor.he executive director of sister song a justice collective, the united states largest organizer -- organization dedicated to reproductive justice for women of color. please help me welcome monica simpson. >> what is up good people, how are y'all doing today? yeah, it is been a long time since we've done this, right. like, all of us together. coxing to see each other outside of those boxes. it feels so good to see y'all faces. yes. so yes, again, my name is monica simpson and i get the honor and privilege of leading sister song. we are a southern based national organization. i had to say that because the south is in the building today. can you y'all give it up for the south in the building today. so, i know that y'all have been standing here for a minute and i know that we have heard from so many amazing speakers already. we have heard speakers tell us so much about their own lived experiences. could we give those speakers one more round of applause, for the leadership and bravery and fi

and when we had to close our libraries for austerity to baylor, all these banks that you know, change in order things. and so the bailouts, there is no 100 mental change. they have been tinkering around as the edges, though, has not really done anything. the government could discipline them by saying, look, we won't give you any taxpayer sponsored contracts. these homes had no experience in dealing with a pandemic. shouldn't they got coded contracts running into 100 and millions of pounds? and that is, in a sense, the real fundamental problem in this country that there are certain groups on the elite who have benefited from government policies. others have not our wages. and i look at the workers wages have basically been stagnant for the next decade. meanwhile, the energy bills, the food bills, transport bills are rising and old. repeat the la struggling. as you said earlier, 14 and a half 1000000 people live below the poverty line. and there is no discernible government plan to, to deal with that. and when, when, when you listen to the labor policies are announced to the conference

it urgently needs a government to negotiate an international, baylor, bernard smith, al jazeera tunis, still to come this half hour presidential arguments lead to a major diplomatic rift. algeria closes its air space to french military flights. and one woman's legal battle with chinese tradition. fighting for the right to be an unmarried mother. ah. hello, good to see who hears or whether story for asia pacific leave that a frontal system sliding across the yellow river valley. as them, the darker colors popping up there, the dark of the color, the more intense the rain is falling and were seen it swoop in to pyongyang and also sol on monday. now there are some dry spots to be found. this is for eastern areas, have china, so we'll get shanghai $32.00 degrees full on sunshine. also clear conditions in hong kong with a high of 31 degrees southeast asia. we've got our storms coming and going here, but there is some particular concern. as we head toward the philippines looks like we could have a tropical cyclone cookin up. and this is going to slam into the southern islands. winds will al

pay salaries and meet loan repayment urgently needs a government to negotiate and international, baylor, burnett. smith, al jazeera jonas. let's go over the sedan now where a warning has been issued that if it fails to move toward civilian leadership, u. s. and economic political support could be put at risk and attempted to 2 weeks ago has caused more mistrust between the military and civilian groups that share power in a transitional government. the still no date for the military to hand control to the civilian side. this tension is piling pressure on a p steel sign between the transitional government and rebel groups a year ago still had on al jazeera opposition parties in georgia make allegations of electoral fraud as results. point 2 or 3 every tree food governing party and other day sees lava spew from la palmer's volcano forces advise people to limit their time out. those ah hello, they let start in the middle east and we've had a historic, a weather moment for omen. that's after the 1st tropical cyclone made land for since record keeping began. and this was the seen as flash flo

to pay salaries and meet loan repayment urgently needs a government to negotiate an international, baylor, bernard smith, al jazeera jonas, algeria has closed. it says space to all french military flights headed to the sal region in a deepening diplomatic stand off on saturday. president abdur maggi to boone recalled his ambassador from france. it was in response to french president emanuel micron, saying algeria is ruled by a political military system which is tired. the french military says it doesn't anticipate the air space closure will have any impact on its operations against arm groups in the south. are crumb her if is a defense analyst em chief editor of the online publication mean a defense. he says there are mixed feelings within algeria about the president's decision. anteriano only provides a safe route to a friend show and the coalition flights towards the side. junior provides also gas, diesel and kerosene for aircraft in the us that are extensively used for counter insurgency north and monday. so if i was, if the escalation uh, keeps like we might have a problem from the co

it urgently needs a government to negotiate and international baylor, bernard smith, alger 0, jonas, libya's coast guard is intercepted a boat carrying about 500 refugees and migrants to europe and has returned them to libyan shores. another vessel rescued, 65 people traveling from libya on a wooden boat on saturday. recent days, limited security forces have detained thousands of migrants during raids. the u. n says one person was killed and at least 15 others injured in the crackdown. officials described it as a security campaign against illegal migration and drug trafficking. alec trainer has more from tripoli. i spoke to a senior official in the ministry of interior earlier today, and he told me quite frankly, libya is in a catch 22 situation. there's a lot of pressure from european countries to stop the flow of migrants you are reaching europe. but when they do that, they're put into these detention centers where, where human rights organizations are saying that there's a lot of abuse. that there are overcrowded, that they're not, that they're not safe and abuses occur. so the li

baylor university talking about the capabilities of the continental army and militia groups as wel disadvantagese american british forces had. craig smith of the university explains how titish militaries compared in demographics. organizations and the officer sect at 2:00 p.m. eastern on theidency a look at the life and times of abraham lincoln with historian david reynolds. watch american history saturday on c-span2. >> get c-span on the go. watch the biggest political events live on demand anywhere on our mobile app. access highlights and listen to c-span radio and discover new podcasts offerload c-span now today. >> actor alyssa milano was among those testifying on capitol hill about the equal rights amendment. a proposed amendment to the u.s. constitution that would guarantee equal rights for all genders. th oversight and reform committee hearing is three and a half hours.

community college and she holds a phd in history vanderbilt university as well ll as history degrees from baylorversity and george peabody . in 2011, doctor bucy was appointed davidson county historian by then mayor charles b, a position she continues to hold. carol is the author of tennessee through time: the early years and tennessee through time: the later years . these are social studies textbooks currently used in the fourth and fifth grade classrooms. in numerous schools. she is also the author of history carved in stone i, the city cemetery. women helping women women of nashville, exercising the franchise: building the body politic. the league of women voters and public policy 1945 to 1964 and several scholarly articles. she served as a member of the board of directors for the presbyterian historical society and is the vice president of the tennessee historical society. as a longtime advocate, local and state history she regularly conducts educator workshops on the incorporation of tennessee history into existing us history courses and is a frequent speaker across the state on a variety o

dean of the national school of tropical medicine at baylor college of medicine.ters. the woman says, no, just pfizer. the guy walks out. so the new guidance is going to be, no, go ahead, any brand is better than no booster. am i correct about that? >> that's probably the case. but the truth is, as you heard in the united states, anyway, there's no limit to the amount of vaccine we have available. they all should be available in abundance. all things being equal, i would err on the side of sticking with the same vaccine. but if you have no other choices, yes, sure, go ahead with what they call the heterologous boost, mixing and matching. one of the studies published today showed that if you got the j&j vaccine, the amount of virus neutralizing antibody with the second dose of j&j was lower than with either of the two mrna vaccines. i would push back on that a little bit. it was a small study, number one. and secondly, the way these vaccines like the j&j vaccine works, the amount of antibodies goes up over time. they stopped that study after 29 days. and in the oth

she holds a phd in history from vanderbilt university as well as history degrees from baylor university and george peabody college. sorry. in 2011 dr. bucy was appointed davidson county historian i then mayor karl dean, a position she continues to hold. carol is the author of tennessee through time, the early years, and tennessee through time, the later years. these are the social study textbooks currently used in the fourth and fifth grades classrooms in the numerous schools across tennessee. she's also the author of history carved in stone, the city cemetery, women helping women, ywca of national, exercising the franchise, building the body politic, the league of women voters and public policy 1960 -- 1945-1964 and several scholarly articles. she has served as a member of the board of directors of the presbyterian historical society in philadelphia and is the vice president of the tennessee historical society. as a longtime advocate for local and state history she regularly conducts educated workshops on the incorporation of tennessee history into existing u.s. history courses and is

peter hotez, professor and dean of tropical medicine at baylor college of medicine.reventing the next pandemic: vaccine diplomacy in a time of science." dr. hotez, this is your chance to kick off this new drug, nopremavir. >> thank you to be having me. i do have to point out confidence 75 randomized patients who got the placebo or the pill. i think for me the most impressive part is what dr. fauci pointed out, there were eight deaths in the treated group, but it's still a relatively small study. i think merck and company will apply for emergency use authorization. the thing about that that gets me equally excited, though, is the fact it makes sense, unlike hydroxychloroquine where it's unreasonable to think that would cause any impact. this is an anti-viral drug against influenza and to target mrna viruses, like the coronavirus and the sars-2 virus. when you put it all together, it looks pretty promising for individuals who have either breakthrough infection or for some reason didn't get vaccinated. it will have some impact at mitigating the disease. but it's importa

children,'s also happens to be in a spare, time dean of the national school of tropical medicine at baylor college of medicine, dr., here's the scene i have witnessed, a guy goes into a walgreens, and says, i am a returner recipient, do you have moderna boosters, the woman behind the counter says no just pfizer. guy walks out. so the new guidance is going to, be no go ahead, any brand is better than no booster, am i correct about that? >> yes that's probably the case brian, but the truth, is as you heard from jeff in the united states, anyway, there's no limit to the amount of vaccine that we have available, they should all should be available in abundance, and so all things being equal, i would tend to err in the side of trying to stick with the side vaccine, dose because will be more data available, more safety data, more effectiveness, data if you have no other choices, yes sure go ahead,. mixing and matching, the one thing that came out with one of the studies, today that was published in the mid archive, is it showed possibly that if you got the j&j vaccine, the amount of virus neutra

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also the medical director of the baylor college of medicine. it is not over and that family's experience helps exemplify that. when you hear this number, 700,000 lives lost and that this country is now leading in deaths, you know, around the world, i talked to a doctor who said it's a horrible number, but making it worse is about 100,000 of the deaths came after the vaccine had been made available. so those were possibly preventable deaths. what are your thoughts? >> my thoughts are and honestly, fred, i'm a little shooken up, honestly, listening to teresa's parents speak. that was tragic. but my thoughts on reaching this grim milestone is that this is just yet another sordid stain on american history. the united states is considered by many to be one of the most technologically advanced country in the world, but we have the highest death toll in the world. we're leading by almost 10 million cases. it doesn't make sense and i hope that looking back on this, people realize that a lot of this was preventable. a lot of these mistakes were things t

intern at baylor law school.he most shocking piece of new information came from that 1996 interview with dennis dunlap's most recent ex-wife. >> did he ever mention any other murders or any other cases? >> either i read it or he told me about it, was the lady where the principamu her, he was dating that lady. i want to say, i'm not for sure, he dropped her off that night or that evening. >> bam. right? like, that's mic drop, okay? this is earth shattering news. >> before the state's narrative was a cohesive unit. theoretically possible that this man drove from austin to clifton, killed his wife for whatever reason, and then drove back to austin. >> if you have officer dunlap in mickey's house the night of the murder, it completely changes the dynamic of everything. not only do you have another alternate, much more viable suspect, but even if you don't count him as a suspect, the theory haso change. >> joe should have been exonerated and freed years ago, but it hasn't happened. >> do you believe that one day justi

shery: and we had that whistle baylor revelation as well. kurt: we did. it's a really busy couple of days for facebook. late night the when ial blower who -- the whistleblower who had given documents and did a 60 minutes interview and accused the company putting profits ahead of user safety. we're going to see more of this fallout starting tomorrow. the whistleblower is going to speak before a senate subcommittee on how facebook, whether or not facebook keeps kids and teens safe on its app. so this is a story that will continue. i mean, outage today was almost a distraction in some ways from these bigger issues about how facebook operates. but those are going to continue to be front and center, starting tomorrow morning quite frankly when this whistleblower testifies before congress. haidi: and after hours a lot more productive with all of those outages. and bloomberg tech rotter. tune in to bloomberg radio to hear from the big news makers. in-depth analysis from the daybreak team and our broadcasting live from our studio in hong kong. you can listen in v

peter hotez, director for the center for vaccine development, dean of tropical medicine at baylor college of medicine. good to have you. sepsis can be very serious, it can be life threatening. a blood infection in esecffect. how serious for someone this age? >> it is a medical emergency, especially in an individual over the age of 65, the president is around 75 years of age. and left untreated it has a very high mortality rate. it sounds like they picked it up very early. it sounds like they identified potentially a pathogen that is in bacteria that is in the blood. or in the urine. and then can appropriately tailor both the antibiotics and his fluid resuscitation to ensure that he makes a good recovery. so the fact that he's walking around and jobing with staff, all good signs. high probability he's going to do really well. but just goes to show you how fragile things can get as you get older. and you have to be alert to telltale signs of extreme fatigue or fever or shivering or cold and to have a high index of -- low index of getting to medical attention right away and it sounds like th

galvin from the baylor college of medicine.her in the spring after she enrolled her toddler son in the pfizer vaccine trial for babies as young as 6 months. thank you so much for coming back to talk with us. we have your adorable children, 3-year-old charlie, 20-month-old nathan, who seems to be snacking. i'm kind of jealous right now. he seems to be doing great after the trial. tell us how he has been doing. >> thank you for having us back. >> tell us how -- because i remember we talked at the time, you were just enrolled in the trial. were there any side effects? anything like that? and what do you want to say about this news that the -- that it looks as though shots will be approved for kids 5 and up? >> yes. so the children did perfectly fine. they did very, very well. they were having dance parties after each shot. so i think that they did fine. as far as the news is concerned, as a physician i'm ecstatic. you know, this last wave was devastating for us here in texas for the whole country, really. our children's hospital w

peter hotez from baylor college of medicine. dr. hotez, as i said, this is not better than a vaccine. the vaccines are still the most important thing here. but this is what has been missing. explain what's going on here. >> yeah. so, john, you're absolutely right. so what happens is if you -- the pill is given twice a day for five days and seems to cut the risk of dying or hospitalization by half. it's not a huge study. i think it was under 1,000 patients, 1,000 individuals. but it was impressive enough that the advisory committee said let's stop this. this is promising enough. and then apply for emergency use authorization. so the way it would work is if you start having symptoms and you have -- and you're identified as having covid, then you could take the pill and it will reduce your risk of hospitalization and potentially death. as i say, it's reduced. this is nothing nearly as powerful as getting a vaccine. what we don't want for this to happen is to become ivermectin 2.0, that people use it to not get vaccinated. secondly, we

i'm not sure if you saw that tweet there michael baylor, but the bitcoin mining news, this solidifiedhe west which i think stabilizes the network and also demonstrates the resiliency of the bitcoin network. half of the mining was eventually taken down, offline for a short period of time, and the network didn't crash, it didn't suffer any service disruptions, bitcoin didn't go to zero like peter schiff wants. and the bitcoin wants to assert itself as the first network designed to survive a global war, well, this is a proof of concept test because a distributed network can't be -- while keeping the internet on. charles: i know you started this economics passion if project a few months ago, you're teaching people about investing in crypto. i think it's fantastic. i urge everyone to check that out. check you out on twitter, you are absolutely fantastic, and i hope we can get you back again real soon. >> thanks so much for having he if, charles. charles: see ya. folks, if you want to make a lot of money in the stock market, there's one secret ingredient9 you must have. we've got the market

>> so, the data are really suggestive, and we all know there was a study published from the baylor college of medicine this week that showed that mix and match strategy is probably better than if you get a j&j first and get either a pfizer or moderna second, your antibody levels are much higher. the one thing i would caution is there were only 50 people in each group, so only 450 total people, so still a very small number. this is very consistent, though, with the data out of the uk, with the astrazeneca vaccine that's very similar to j&j. where i am is that's probably where we're going to go in the future. but we still have too small of numbers the from the fda to probably authorize that. that's one reason i think they will authorize the j&j vaccine, because the question is are people who got the first j&j vaccine better off getting a second dose. i think the data that are presented says yes, they are better off and there's no increased risk of vaccine side effects. i think you'll see that today. >> follow the data. admiral, thanks so much. >>> another breaking news story we've been follo

first, baylor university professor julie anne sweet teaches on the capabilities of the continental army and the troops. then craig bruce smith on the demographic makeup of the british military. here is julie anne sweet. >> you all supported independence. in order to do that we need to arm them and all those things. i to talk briefly about military history in general. setting aside political history for now. next couple weeks it is military history. here is the thing. there are certain challenges folks who study military history will encounter like -- what are things you can see them running into? >> history is written by the winners. >> to the winners go the history. they are the ones who tell the story, but this is the way it usually works. you usually get their perspective. we will see that a lot in this war where you got the american revolution stuff or had you read the spring chapter to get the british perspective. their version is a little bit different. >> there wasn't a lot of certainty who won what battle and all that stuff. >> you run into cement certainties. lots of different

development at texas children's hospital and the deen of national school of tropical medicine at baylor college. monica, it was interesting to see that the white house -- the president chose to come out today to talk today about this. do you have further insight as to why they thought today was a good day for this? >> usually, these speeches, these covid updates, chuck, do come tied to some more administrative action or a bigger message that they want to push. you remember a couple of weeks and months ago when the president unveiled his six-prong strategy or they wanted to give that rollout of the boosters. today's was more of an overarching message, a progress report and message and a warning where the president wanted to make sure that they hear things are trending in the right direction but it's not the time to let up. even though we are heading into a fall with a lot of new tools in the tool kit, the president is reminding americans that we want to make sure that people are taking advantage of that. he did say for anybody who is eligible for a booster, make sure you are going to get

ra sheena ba set, an emergency medical room physician at the baylor college. good to see you. >> good morning. >> is it your feeling that those who got the johnson & johnson one shot, should they all get that booster as soon as possible? >> absolutely. there's no doubt in my mind that anyone who is eligible for a booster should go ahead and get it as soon as they're able to. >> so the johnson & johnson vaccine had a lower efficacy rate, about 72% versus moderna or pfizer, which are around 94, 95%. and with a booster shot, now, the johnson & johnson efficacy is now 100% reportedly, so then why not in the first place get the two doses of johnson & johnson? >> so, fred, i think when the vaccines were first released, the united states, we were essentially hemorrhaging, we were at a point that we had never seen before, seeing 3, 4,000 deaths per day. upwards of 200,000 kcases per day, and we needed to get our population protected and so our vaccines were released in order to try to prevent people from dieing and prevent hospitalizations. the johnson & johnson vacci

. >>> joining us now, an emergency medicine physician and medical director at the baylor college of medicineow kids 12 to 15 are getting the full adult 30 microgram pfizer dose. for kids 5 to 11 it will be 10 micrograms. can you explain why are the doses based on age not weight considering, you know, a 12-year-old could be smaller than an 11-year-old. >> what we do know is that pfizer actually tested a few different doses before they settled on the 10 microgram dose used in the phase three trial. so what i conjecture is that the 10 microgram dose is what seemed to do the best in that age group. >> what would you advise parents do if their kid just turned 12, go with the 12 to 18? >> yes, definitely go with the 12 to 18 full 30 microgram dose of the vaccine. >> you heard in nick's piece, several schools are considering pulling back on their mask mandates, but community transmission is still considered high in almost 80% of counties in the u.s. does this worry you considering not all kids are going to be protected right away? >> it definitely worries me. i think we're jumping the gun a little

here with us with more is doctor hotez from baylor college of medicine.lly vaccinated, understands he has this cancer and is being very careful and yet this can happen. walk us through it. >> yeah. that's a sad day for me as well, john, because in the decade i was microbiology chair at gw, secretary powell, general powell was a pretty frequent visitor to george washington university. the president then used to invite him quite a bit and i got to know him somewhat so this is tough for a number of us. you know, with multiple myeloma, it's -- it's a blood cancer, it's a cancer of a type of white blood cells called the plasma cell that's involved in producing antibodies so people don't produce the antibodies that they don't need to in order to fight infection because that's a major means that we need to fight covid infections so people with multiple myeloma number one are susceptible to infections in general, both viral and interior infections and infectious diseases are the leading causes of death in multiple myeloma as in secretary powell and not only do th

peter hotez, dean of the national school of tropical medicine at baylor college of medicine and co-directorvaccine development at texas children's hospital. dr. hotez, always good to see you. so what is behind there bacteria recall that's taking place? >> yeah, it's really a fascinating story and a medical mystery, although i think it's about to be solved, fred. so it's a disease called meliodosis, caused by a bacteria that's actually a pretty important cause of death, around 90,000 deaths per year predominantly in southeast asia, thailand, vietnam, in singapore, northern australia, and it's a bacterium that lives in the soil. and during monsoon seasons, it gets kind of -- the high winds it gets kind of swept up. sometimes it aerosolizes and people inhale it or rice farmers get cuts and abragdsbracesions s from the soil. the question is what the heck is it doing in minnesota, kansas, texas, and then georgia. that was a head-scratcher for a while. but the centers for disease control has -- did extensive interviews as part of their outbreak investigation and now they've identified that this p

a professor and dean of tropical medicine at baylor college of medicine.appreciate you spending part of your day with us and sharing your expertise. looking at the larger picture, have we seen the high point in cases and rates? is this the beginning of the end, or the end of a current surge? >> well, i wish it have the former but, you know, in my heart i feel we're still in for a pretty rough ride for the rest of the year. here is why, boris. if you look at this time last year, when we also had a terrible surge across the southern part of the united states, icncluding here in texa, we started going down precipitously around this time. after halloween, it started going up. into november and december, it really shot up. i'm looking at the northern border of the u.s. with canada and seeing lots of cases in minnesota, wisconsin, north dakota, across the north-northwest part of the country, before we get to seattle. everything in between. eastern washington and wisconsin, minnesota. really gives me pause for concern. looks like the beginning of the fall surge w

peter hotez from baylor university.d for people over 65, people with underlying health conditions, and people with high-risk jobs. that is not the case for j&j. why is that? >> well, part of it is because for the j&j vaccine, even though we're calling it a booster, it's not really a booster. it turns out this was always a two-dose vaccine. something that we've talked about all year. you know, when we looked at the early phase one, phase-two trial data, it really needed two doses to get consistently high levels of virus neutralizing antibody for everyone. and at that point it was a really, really good vaccine. so there is a subtle difference. with the pfizer vaccine, for instance, there's clear waning, munts, and you need a booster to restore the immunity. with the j&j, the vaccine immunity is staying constant. it's just not at a high enough level. it's around 68% in terms of preventing hospitalization, according to amanda cohn at the cdc. ill think that was the number she said at the committee meeting. so the point is i

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robert atmar, professor of infectious diseases at baylor college of medicine in texas.e you with us. the study found that mixing these vaccines is safe. the technology in the vaccines is different. explain to us how this works. >> so the -- both the pfizer and moderna vaccines are made of a substance called mrna, whereas the johnson vaccine modifies another virus called the adenovirus which helps keep people from getting infected in the virus. that's what we measured in the laboratory. studies so far have suggested that the higher the levels of antibodies, the higher the level of protection against getting sick with coronavirus. >> and you found that the phase and her moderna boosters spark a stronger response than johnson & johnson. what can we read from that for people who got the j&j shot and boosters? >> that result wasn't particularly surprising. we knew going in that the immune response seen after the j&j when we measured by antibody is not as high as it is for the pfizer or moderna. and so giving a second dose, that we didn't see as high an antibody response was