--cdc from the outside. i could also say that these were challenges that i perceived as the outside, our signs needed to move faster. cdc had been long criticized for our science not moving fast enough. so how can we get things out faster? our clearance process out faster. that was something i addressed early on equity. clearly a challenge in the pandemic. and this was something that i know all of cdc actually believed in but we have this moment to do more for health equity and and actually it was one of the things that worked to boost them around most of the agency when i got there was to talk about equity to mobilize around social determinants of health around a core strategy for equity around addressing diversity inclusion within the agency and outside of it. data. i'm a data geek. so data has always been important to me. we launched the center for forecasting and outbreak analytics which was really important to think about innovation. data sources. how we can project how we can forecast how we can work w

rochelle walensky, director of the cdc. nih director anthony fauci, and fda commissioner doctor robert kayla. live coverage on c-span three. >> good morning. it is unhealthy labor and pitching committee will please come to order. today we are having a hearing on the federal response to the monkeypox outbreaks as we work to stop the spread of this virus. i will have an opening statement followed by senator burr and then we will introduce our witnesses. before we start i do want to take a moment to congratulate one of our witnesses, dr. fauci, announcing his upcoming retirement. dr. fauci, you have served through multiple decades and presidents and public health threats. and worked to save countless lives. and i hope you know that you have the thanks of a grateful nation for your incredible service to this country. so thank you, thanks for being here today. after the witnesses gave their testimonies, senators will each have five minutes for a round of questions. and what we are not able to have this hearing fully open to the

the cdc is also doing.t we are doing it in collaboration with them using some of our cohorts and collaboration with the cdc's capability to do that. perhaps you want to comment. >> thank you, doctor fauci, among our health advisory networks that we have sent a clinicians and our outreach, for example, to the american academy of pediatrics, we make recommendations just like that, if there isn't a typical rash, please consider monkeypox and test for it. we make those recommendations, thank you. >> thank, you senator collins, we will turn next to senator baldwin. >> thank you, mister chair, first, i'd like to ask unanimous consent to enter into the record on april 11th 2022 article from reuters entitled fact check of fauci's 2004 comments do not contradict his pandemic -- >> without objection. >> i want to join my colleagues, doctor fauci, in wishing you a very well in your retirement, thank you so much for your service to this country. i'm going to start with you for a question, on basic research, i think we

we expect a lot of the cdc. it is hard to expect too much of the cdc's when you don't have the authorities as i understand you need the debtor absent an emergency. but we look at what is happening today with the monkeypox, you are getting data but it is patchy. for instance you are not getting full democratic data. there's a lot of states that are not reporting to you. for instance breakdowns of caseo on race or ethnicity. that really hurts our ability to target to get the vaccine, who gets resources. so certainly in context monkeypox but maybey mor broadly, what position does that leave you in when you do not have the authorities to be able to compel states in a uniform way to get you good dataquest or. >> think it's better thank you for your question and your leadership in working with senator kaine, senator baldwin in trying to gets us the authority so we can provide the data to you. we have been working closely, tirelessly state and local staff will be doing the same to extract data on this data. we have neg

the people who need to be at cdc are at cdc. of, course our laboratory workers. we have many people -- we have people in 60 different countries. >> the article points at that those -- it's wide open. there's nobody showing up. offices are empty. so this is just of all these people are field workers, i think, again, as another example of being opaque. >> i don't imply that they're all field workers. seeing many of them are field workers. many of them are working at cdc and the employed in responses. many of them are on the road. i myself was in it atlanta last wrote week for a day, but i was in new mexico -- doing a secretaries travel advisory committee meeting. so many of us are on the road. i am here today and i'm working. >> what percent of cdc employees before the pandemic actually showed up for work every day as opposed to only 22% now? >> i don't have those numbers for you. >> i just feel like -- let me go back to why should we trust the cdc with billions when it's very difficult to get, i would say, a straight answer on what is the workforce in person effor

. >> would you include cdc enough? no, i dupe the cdc was thinking at that time. but i i can tell you they did nt prepare gerry for a countrywidew pandemic. that was evident already in china. what do i mean by that? getting up the data streams you needed. bringing in the commercial laboratory development. it is great they worked on test for the public health lab. we all know public health labs are not what we call high throughput laboratories. the platforms they made the test for more in general platforms i could do a handful are less than 100 tests a day. we were going to need millions of tests a day. so we had to brief on board our commercial laboratories. until nancy made that comment in the end of february,. >> nancy. [inaudible] she is a senior official cdc for. >> yes when nancy said she was worried. but that was the end of february. was worried six weeks earlier. oi wasn't here, i did not watch it play out. i do not knoww what data they hd or didn't have. i just know when i arrived on the second of march we were incredibly flat-footed as a country. >> yesbo

would you saying would you include cdc in that? know, i don't know what the cdc was thinking at that time, but i can tell you that they did not prepare the country for a a country-wide pandemic that was evident already in china. and what do i mean by that getting up the data streams that you needed bringing in the commercial laboratory developers, you know, it's great that they worked on tasks for the public health lab, but we all know public health labs. they're not what we call high throughput laboratories the platforms that they made the tests for were in general platforms. that could do a handful or less than a hundred tests a day. we were going to need millions of tests a day so we had to bring on board our commercial laboratories until nancy messi'' a made that comment the end of february. i i don't know. i haven't saw our audience knows senior official at cdc. yes, so in nancy said she was worried but that was the end of february. i was worried in six weeks earlier so i don't i wasn't here i didn't watch it play out. i i try

yesterday cdc posted no administration data by jurisdiction. in addition to reporting aggregate vaccine administration data, age, sex, race and ethnicity, these newly available data display total doses administered for each of the individuals 39 jurisdictions for which we have received data. we continue to work closely with additional jurisdiction to make their data available in this report. to date 540,000 doses of vaccine have been administered across 39 jurisdictions reporting data. over the past few weeks we have seen an increase in second doses administered as more people have become eligible for the second dose. specifically 28 days after their first dose. as a reminder, this is a 2 dose vaccine and it is important to receive the second dose to have the best protection against monkeypox which currently suggests a 14 days after the second dose. working closely with jurisdictions to provide the most complete picture of who is getting vaccinated we 've been able to receive data on race and ethnicity for 91% of the first doses reported. among

we will be speaking with the director of the cdc, dr. rochelle walensky. we go on the prowl with a chinese detective, but he is no ordinary sleuth. he is a pet detective. welcome to world news america on pbs and around the globe. liz truss has become britain's new prime minister, making her first address from downing street. she promised a bold plan to see britain through economic troubles and said the u.k. can ride out the storm caused by severe global headwinds. but the problems she faces are serious with soaring prices and energy crisis and a widespread labor unrest. she takes over a divided and increasingly unpopular party, following the resignation of boris johnson after a series of scandals. this report from our political editor chris mason in downing street. chris: a day of ritual and weather. a cloudburst punuring the oreography of the new prime minister's arrival as her supporters hunkered under umbrellas, lectern. it was even taken back inside. her motorcade playing for time at a detour and up break in the deluge. the stage was reset. within mome

cdc will providec. them with vaccines, materials and technical assistance needed to realize the interventions and help us learn. as a set of the application is going to be available on the website and of the administration will be promoting the pilot program to the direct communication with partners as well as through social media. the data tells us monkeypox is not an infection that exists in isolation. it travels with hiv and other infections. published last week tells us 61% of people diagnosed with monkeypox either had hiv oriented sti. we used the data to change how monkeypox surfaces can be supported by public health departments, clinics and community-based organizations. last week the cdc communicated to the departments and directly funded hiv community-based organizations that the hiv and std dollars could be used to help us and the outbreak. at the same people we need to test for hiv and infections and lead to prevention and care or the same people who need monkeypox related to surfaces like te

those are leading to positive trends in data the cdc has collected the last couple weeks especially in our hardest hit areas. as you can see, the week over week growth rate of the virus meaning how quickly the virus is spreading is trending downward in some of the areas involved earliest in the outbreak. places like new york, california, texas and illinois are all seeing significant decline in growth rate over the last month. to put a finer point to it, back in july, cdc estimated that it took eight days for cases to double nationwide. by mid august, the doubling rate was 25 days, showing encouraging progress. the positive trends we're seeing speed to the actions of individuals taken across the country to protect themselves against the virus. that includes changing behaviors and seeking out testing at vaccines. the data underscores the fact that we cannot be complacent, and we must aggressively continue our work to get clear prevention guidance and vaccines out to individuals and communities where the virus continues to spread quickly. and those places and individuals that may face bar

i'll throw safety review which we kind of alluded to and choice be there where the cdc said. hey, we've been given out this vaccine now for more than almost two years and 600 million doses have been given and there isn't actually that much of a difference if you actually look at the mrna sequence between the ancestral coronavirus it was designed for and this updated version targeting b form b5, and we can get more into that kristen and well we can get more into a as well in terms of who should get the vaccine and when have you been looking at my questions because in fact that is what i want to ask you now, right? it's gonna be out there first of all, and how many days they said next week, but did they set a date? did not say a day, but i will tell you the first shots were actually given this morning in new york city. oh, and so it it's entirely possible that we will actually have a supply of these vaccines over the weekend, but the goal was to have it rolled out after the holiday weekend, so i have not seen any specific updates about when they'll be available in the bay area,

how can you deep in your partnerships with the cdc and what role does the cdc currently play in your ongoing programs and activities? >> actually, through the covid pandemic i would say that we have become closer to the cdc than we have ever been before. we have worked hand and glove with them, in many of the travel and transportation issues that we have, be it airport screening and other things. i talked nearly daily to the leadership of cdc, i have worked with them for the airline issues, cruise ship issues, we also work with them around biotech shun issues, and what i spoke about earlier, we are taking a new strategic direction in biosphere valence and they are a big partner with that, along with the h h s in asper. the other piece of that, is redo bio surveillance with our immigration center. your staff gets these reports, we put out reports on all that is going on in the bio threat arena. the cdc is creating a similar, but complimentary capability under the cares act. we have people there on the ground, helping them. what we don't need is to and picks. we need an entity that doe

so i'll be interested to see what the cdc advisory committee has to say.d desire to get vaccinated. i'm an infectious disease expert and a pediatrician, and i'm comfortable with this. but i think for a lot of people they want to make sure that there are no issues with these new formulations. >> right. as it stands, only 30% of eligible americans have gotten any booster. who can and who should get this one, assuming it is approved or authorized? >> you know, as a nation i think there are so many of us who want covid to be something in their rearview mirror, want this to be over. and a lot of people just don't even want to think about it. they don't want to think about boosters. they don't want to think about doing things to protect their health. they just want to get on to doing the things they loved to do before covid. but the pandemic continues. and more than 400 people are dying every day. people are experiencing long covid symptoms. and people's risk varies. not everyone has the same risk. there are individuals, elderly individuals, viindividuals with d

how can you deepen your partnerships with the cdc, and what role does the cdc currently play any ongoing programs and activities? >> through the covid pandemic, i would say we have become closer to the cdc than we have ever been before. we have worked hand-in-glove with them and many of the travel and transportation issues that would had, be it airport screening and other things i . i talk nearly daily to the leadership of the cdc. i have worked with them on airline issues and cruise ships issues, bio detection issues. we are taking a new strategic direction in buyer surveillance -- in buyer surveillance, and they are a big partner with us along with the h.h.s.. the other piece of that is we do bio surveillance. we put out reports on what is going on in the world in the bio threat arena. cdc is creating complementary a similar, but complementary capability under the c.a.r.e.s. act. we have people down there in the ground floor, helping them. we need another entity that does what they don't do. we are working hand-in-glove to make sure that the government gets the most out of these two su

the cdc says any flu shot is better than none at all.ever, the agency suggests 3 specific vaccines for those over 65. you can see them here on your screen. these particular vaccines have 4 different strains of the influenza virus. the cdc says they will help older adults fend off the versions of the flu that are expected to circulate this year. everyone in the u.s. over the age of 6 months is urged to get a flu vaccine. ideally before the end of october. >> walmart and cvs have agreed to pay more than 147 million dollars in west virginia's opioid crisis is that state claimed that those pharmacies did not maintain effective control as a distributor of those drugs and therefore contributed to an oversupply in the state. cvs says it wants to put the claims behind it, adding that opioid prescriptions are written by doctors, not pharmacies. walmart has not released a statement yet. the settlement is part of a larger trial involving other pharmacies, including walgreens and kroger. those companies have yet to reach a settlement. just a month a

for example, the overdose response strategy, and you need collaboration between cdc and oh and d.c. peace program helps communities reduce overdose by connecting public health and public safety agencies in all 50 states. cdc also partners with them on the drug free communities program to provide grants and supports to hundreds of community coalitions across the country, to advance youth substance use prevention. our fifth strategy is raising public awareness and reducing stigma, to advance the strategy we recently launched a campaign called a stop overdose. which focuses on raising awareness about fentanyl, naloxone, poly substance abuse, and decreasing stigma. today's top overdose has reached over one billion views. finally, cdc recognize the importance of preventing adverse childhood experiences as a key part of the production tragedy. these are potentially traumatic events that happened during childhood, decades of research show they are strongly linked to risk for substance use, addiction, and overdose. as well as risk for mental health challenges and suicide, among other leadin

half of it to nih, half to cdc.osed. >> but still one of the things you point out is staggering to me, the difference in how much we spend. so, you say, this is from your research, the u.s. spends about $7,000 on research per life lost to sepsis. about $1,000 per life lost on motor vehicles. and for lives lost to guns per person we spend $63 per life lost. >> shameful, isn't it? we have a lot of lost time to make up for. so, the current moment is a moment when at least we should be significantly increasing the federal investment in research on gun violence. >> a lot of what you're trying to get is facts, evidence, research, data. >> right. >> one thing we're noticing in america these days is that doesn't seem to matter. we're sort of living in a post-truth polarized environment where people for almost reasons of tribal belonging believe or don't believe. it feels more like it's about faith than evidence. do you think evidence and research could change this? >> this is climbing a very steep hill. i think we recognize

on their agenda was restore federal funding for research at cdc.n by his secretary of hhs that that amendment did not preclude research. that was then codified into statute by congress and then congress started to appropriate funds. $25 million which is nothing, half of it to nih, half to cdc. at least it was opening the spigot for research on gun violence that had been closed. >> still, one of the things you point out is staggering to me the difference in how much we spend. you say -- this is from your research. the u.s. spends about $7,000 on research per life lost to sepsis. about $1,000 per life lost on motor vehicles. for lives lost to guns per person we spend $63 per life lost. >> shameful, isn't it? we have a lot of lost time to make up for. the current moment is a moment when at least we should be significantly increasing the federal investment in research on gun violence. >> a lot of what you're trying to get is facts, evidence, research, data. one thing we're noticing in america these days is that doesn't seem to matter. we're sort of liv

the cdc has released the number of monkeypox vaccines which have been administered, but now says when the agency looked into the data more closely, discover the vaccines were not received evenly among different races are grant lotus is here to break down the latest data from the cdc and explain grant. well, ken and pam. the latest data suggest that on tuesday, at least they say they've administered more than 540,000 doses of genius, the smallpox or that smallpox vaccine that is now being used to prevent the >> infection of monkeypox are m-pox says it's being called, but the data shows that white men use here overwhelmingly getting more doses than our black and latino or hispanic man and fewer white men have gotten monkeypox compared to other races. you look at this chart of the people whose ethnic background is available, more than 200,000 doses out of the 540,000 doses went to white people more than 91,000 doses went toispanic or latino people. more than 50,000 doses went to african americans in more than 31,000 doses. wet to asians. however, the cdc also says as of september 4th of

okay, rob, thanks. >>> there is breaking news from the cdc. a panel has just given a green light for updated covid boosters, offering protection against these newest variants for people 12 and older. here's abc's erielle reshef with when these shots are going to be available. >> reporter: a cdc panel tonight voting to recommend new omicron specific booster shots. >> 13 yeses and 1 no. >> reporter: those pfizer and moderna vaccines redesigned to target the ba.4 and ba.5 subvariants are expected to roll out as soon as this weekend. >> we finally have updated vaccines that do a better job of matching to the circulating variants. >> reporter: covid is still killing more than 400 americans a day, but just one half of eligible people have gotten their first booster. >> we're not going to eradicate covid-19. but we have to do what we can to hedge our behavior against any potential infections, fall surge, and also long covid. >> reporter: the new booster for children under 12 years old won't come for at least another month or two. and as kids head bac

i let emergency response at cdc for four years will i was there. i worked at cdc for 13 years.ne thing everyone in leadership went through was crisis communication training. in that training, you learn the mantra for crisis can occasion is be first, be right, be credible. during the pandemic, cdc has had challenges in those regards. they are looking to improve communication, reduce the amount of review required to change the culture so the agency is not waiting for every last thing to be done before making recommendations and bringing those to the public. being less jargony and communication will be a major improvement. host: the pew research poll talked about responding of the government to these kind of matters. they write that respondents cited lessons connected with feelings of dissatisfaction with how the coronavirus outbreak has been handled. 9% of those who responded said not relying on elected officials was a lesson for the country going forward. 6% said the country should learn not to close down the economy and schools. 2% shared a critical view of coronavirus response

the cdc recommended updated boosters for most americans yesterday.ots made by pfizer and moderna target the original coronavirus strain and the latest omicron variants. federal health regulators say people need wait at least two months since their last vaccination to get the booster. but some cdc advisers say waiting at least three months would provide the maximum benefit. >>> still to come, say good-bye to typos in tweets. twitter users will soon be able to edit their messages. we'll tell you when that feature will be available. it takes energy to take on the world.■ breaking down barriers, or breaking the laws of gravity, keep moving with the ultimate energy bar. we bake in delicious, wholesome ingredients, purposefully crafted with a blend of protein,■fat and carbs. because the more good you put in, the more great you get out. clif. baked in goodness. now introducing clif thins. a crispy, craveable 100-calorie snack. (vo) purina one has the inside story on your pet's health. it starts inside the gut... with purina one with microbiome balance. natu

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that leaves it to the cdc director to give final approval.moderna boosters are designed to protect against the original virus and the omicron variant. we will return to this after the news summary. a federal study finds the pandemic caused dramatic learning losses for the nation's nine-year-olds. the national center for education statistics says average map scores dropped 7% since 2020, the first decline since testing began. average reading scores of fell five points and that was the most in 30 years. in ukraine, nuclear inspectors are inside an endangered power plant. they arrived today to assess damage from fighting around the site. lisa desjardins has our report. reporter: inside a war zone, mission to over disaster. u.n. nuclear experts made it to the nuclear plant, europe's largest, a place caught in the crossfire of ukrainian and russian shling. [explosions] reporter: it runs -- it rests along a river inside a battle zone. it is held by russians but operated by ukrainians. both sides agreed to the access by iaea. the six reactors make t

the fda off the rise and cdc recommended new, updated covid-19 vaccines for all americans 12 and above. this makes us, the united states, the first nation with new vaccines that match the version of the omicron variant that is currently dominant. dominant both here in the u.s. and around the world. for the first time since december of 2020, these vaccines have caught up with the virus. and as secretary becerra and i will the biden administrationths been preparing for this moment in close partnership with state and local health departments, with pharmacies and community health centers, rural health clinics, physicians and other health care providers. this is the moment when people can keep themselves healthy and safe and think about the road ahead. we are extremely -- working extremely hard to make sure they have ample supply of vaccines that will continue to remain. now, we have been working over the weekend to get these vaccines out to locations around the country. and before we get into talking more about the vaccines and vaccination programs, let me first turn to dr. tony fauci to d

so how are the cdc and white house going to shake up their strategy for this latest dose? earlier i spoke with cdc director dr. walensky. what makes this booster shot round difference? does it supply significantly more protection? >> yeah, this is a really important question. for the first time now, we have a shot that actually targets exactly the variants that we have circulating right now. so about 88% of our variants are ba.5, about 11% ba.4 and right now this updated shot is half the original strain and half that ba.4, ba.5 strain. what's targeted to that ba.4, ba .5 strain. this updated vaccine will perform better against the circulating strains we have now it will perform better against other circulating variants that may come, and that it won't sacrifice anything in terms of protection of the original strain. we're in a much better place with this updated booster now. >> an infectious disease expert at the children's hospital of philadelphia also a member of the fda advisory committee has been critical of this updated booster. he says that a healthy young person rea

the cdc responded, we would love to do that.ly 20, 2021, clark humphrey at the white house, digital director of the covid-19 response team, emailed dave sumner at your team, among others, asking, anyway we can get this pulled down, and cited a specific instagram account. within 46 seconds, your company responded and said, yep. on it. that sounds like what in the law we call a pattern of practice of meeting, coordinating, and colluding with the united states government to target particular speech that no one in any of these emails alleges is incitement, which would not be constitutionally protected. no one in any of these emails alleges it directly encourages violence, which would not be constitutionally protected. it appears to all be constitutionally protected speech on very politically sensitive topics that facebook is working with the government to target and remove. is that your company policy to do this kind of thing? >> senator, we were quite public about our cooperation with health organizations during the unprecedented t

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that's after the cdc and the fda gave approval this week to new boosters from pfizer and moderna thatfully provide more protection against the latest variants this coming winter. for the latest questions around this, and more, i'm joined again by dr. anthony fauci, the president's chief medical adviser and the director of the national institute of allergy and infectious diseases. welcome back. with the news that these new boosters will be available, there is understandable confusion about who should get them and when. is there a clear, simple rule of thumb that people should follow? dr. fauci: well, if you look at the eligible, who is essentially approved by authorization and recommended by the cdc, it is just what he said. for the pfizer, it is 12 years of age and older, and moderna is 18 years of age and older. the need for it varies considerably depending oone's risk. there would certainly be a greater benefit if you are an elderly person and a person with an underlying condition. if youre young person, the relative differential might be less but there would be a degree of benefit

but we may find out more when the cdc meets later this week. >> all right stephanie gosk, thank you. >>> in mississippi, the emergency that left the city of jackson without running water is getting worse. the crisis forcing families to wait in long lines for bottled water and schools to shift to online learning. morgan chefsky is there. >> reporter: in jackson, mississippi, bottled water disappearing just as fast as people's patience. >> i've been in line maybe almost an hour >> reporter: one case per car. for a crisis hitting 180,000 people >> no water. no water pressure. no nothing >> reporter: today officials said a new water pump should help how much longer before the people here can be confident that water coming out of their faucet is clean. >> well, they can be confident that the water that is coming out of their faucet is clean when we tell them that it's clean. obviously, right now it is not >> reporter: the plant part of an older jackson water system that could cost more than a billion dollars to fix a pricey problem experts say is already playing out nationwide as aging pi

cdc signing off on the updated versions of pfizer's and moderna's booster shot on september.harmacies and other vaccination sites began administering these new around labor day weekend. the new booster targets both the original covid strain in some of the omicron variant, some infectious disease experts say a lack of public awareness about the shots are the prevailing narrative that the pandemic is is over might have hindered the vaccine rollout. moderna is asking the fda to authorize newest booster shot for children between 6 and 17. it will be targeting the original strain along with subvariants of the omicron strain. the cdc says it expects to recommend booster shots for it. young children sometime next month. that's pending fda authorization. as for even younger children, moderna expects to request authorization for children between 6 months and 6 years old later this year. coming up, what prosecutors are now saying about whether florida congressman matt gaetz should be charged in a trafficking investigation. >> new details released in the kristin smart murder trial. one