dr cheek which is the head of nigeria's center for disease control he says nigeria is walking to. the his country is also prepared for the largest challenges less user friendly vaccines. i think even more important with the human resource of the capacity. you know things like sustaining the power supply getting the vaccine from the cities to the villages and this is where we really have a lot of experience on some of those vaccines i believe that the film health experts want that range 0 as must take coffee to cautious more seriously you know that to prevent the fed with something that monjack and the country's health care system cannot afford. joining me now is dr john in kind he's a director of the africa center for disease control and prevention and ideas about bite you'll hear thanks for your time 1st tell us how can the c.d.c. make sure that africa gets its fast shall vaccines no thank you i think that is. maybe the most urgent question we're working on now and turns to the continent. when she caught you record it 3 weeks ago or 4 weeks ago. announced that through the african

is the head of nigeria's center for disease control he says nigeria is walking to acquire. but the his country is also prepared for the law just to quote challenges less user friendly vaccines. i think even more important with the human resources the capacity. you know things like sustaining the power supply getting the vaccine from the cities to the villages and this is where we really have a lot of experience on some of those vaccines i believe that the film health experts one that main chance must take coffee precautions most seriously you know that to prevent. something that one jazz and the country's health care system cannot afford. joining me now is dr john in canada he's the director of the africa center for disease control and prevention and i disobey by 2 of you hello seth thanks for your time 1st tell us how can the c.d.c. make sure that africa gets its fast shall vaccines no thank you i think that is. maybe the most urgent question we're working on now and turns to the continent. when she caught you record it 3 weeks ago or 4 weeks ago. announced that through th

dr louis ciarán is the deputy director of taiwan's center for disease control he says that from the outsetthere were 3 crucial indications that something very serious was happening in china. the 1st is is the opi show announcement by the or else or sorties to the hospitals authorities were reminding a hospital there is an outbreak on your morning. happening hospitalized patients so be careful about taking those cases and the 2nd message doctors reminding each other while be careful because it could be dangerous to us so be careful that these patients were isolated and that a certain message was about the doctors chatting about well in my hospital i've found so many cases of pneumonia and they seem to be associated with one and seafood market and pretty malaria laboratory results says it's probably sars. the 2003 sars epidemic which also began in china infected over 8000 people around the world and killed 73 people in taiwan one of the worst affected countries it had left the taiwanese very sensitive to the dangers posed by viruses capable of humans . human transmission in order to limit an

cases and just under 50000 deaths well dr john you can get some is director of the africa centers for disease control hegave d.w. his assessment of astra zeneca is a vaccine with the ticket a reference to the south african virus variant. but you might not be effective because you never said your studies that. scientists presented. limited study on about 2000 bodies thrown under the studies on green does way south africa's temporary spending you did you knew stop using it but it just came a precautionary measure to be sure that you know to do an extensive vaccination using a vaccine that is not responding to it beren. some more of the latest developments in this pandemic german media reports a free rapid test could be made available from the 1st of march as part of the country's efforts to track the virus a court in the netherlands has ordered the government to immediately lift a nighttime curfew that's been in place since january ruling that the curfew lacks a proper legal basis and japan is preparing to begin its fascination program on wednesday despite concerns that a shortage of special syringes coul

this is student news africa on the program today 19 in nigeria the country center for disease control saying he's a vaccine is important now more than ever this officer is serving that the infection rate could be exponentially higher and what's been officially reported. and a life of fear and isolation that's reality for people in gaza is community will learn why their society is struggling to accept it. hello it's good to have your company the findings of a new report suggests that the covert 19 infection rate in nigeria is much higher than has been reported in national figures the study of antibodies conducted by the country's center for disease control revealed that as much as 23 percent or one in 5 people in lagos state alone had been infected by the time that the survey was done and that was last september and october about what amount to fall 1000000 people again just in lagos and now officially nigeria has reported just on the 153900 cases the c.d.c. noted that a majority of people infected don't show symptoms and would not have been tested. and. joins me now from lagos good to see french

is the head of nigeria's center for disease control he says nigeria is walking to. the his country is also prepared for the law just challenges less user friendly vaccines. i think even more important with the human resource of the capacity. you know things like sustaining the power supply getting the vaccine from the cities to the villages and this is where we really have a lot of experience on some of those vaccines i believe at the film health experts one that main chance must take coffee precautions more seriously you know that's prevent. something that none chance and the country's health care system cannot afford. joining me now is dr john in canada song he's the director of the africa center for disease control and prevention and. thanks for your time 1st tell us how can the c.d.c. make sure that africa gets its fast shall vaccines no thank you i think that is. maybe the most urgent question we're working on now and turns to the continent. when she caught you record it 3 weeks ago or 4 weeks ago presidency them up was announced that through the african vaccin

a new no february what i spoke to the head of the major center for disease control last week and he said that there is no nobody knows exactly when they do not know exactly when the vaccine will. air so while all of that countries are having almost the entire population being vaccinated and you as most even have an idea when the 1st set of oxys without but the government plans to vaccinate or to 40 percent of the population by the end of the see and if you vaccines do and i arrive by the end of february they're going to be behind in their schedule. how does the government manage the pandemic is the public in support of the nigerian government. ok at the beginning of the pandemic a lot of people felt like this a virus that the government overreacted by calling for the lockdown and all of that well right now many people now know that the virus exists because if you speak to people outside many people know someone everyone knows someone that knows someone that has. died from unfortunately died from poor and our virus or has been effected by kuhn our virus so we do know people are where the

cases and just under 50000 deaths for some perspective on the story we can speak now to dr john and a qantas song he's the director of the africa centers for disease control and prevention and he. joining us from ethiopia's capital at dr nick i guess on welcome to think of you i want to ask you 1st about that piece of news that south africa has paused the use of the aspirin that seneca vaccine and even wants to return a 1000000 doses to the manufacturer and we have to say that the country has 40 percent right now of africa's reported covered 1000 cases how concerned are you about south africa vaccination rollout so that tank you for having me on your program 1st of all let me just say very clearly that that shows that the code vaccine is very safe and has been proven to be if your case shows in and in the context where u.s. tested and also want to say that i mean south africa has been extremely foot coming and very transparent in sharing their findings as well as included identification of the new variant so how does said i think we are learning about a lot about these new virus and we are learning how do we rule out vaccines africa c.d.c. have issued gui

cuomo lied, reports involved political donations, they were not the center for disease control rules, he. now we discover based on his own senior staff person that the reason -- listen to their language. they froze because they were afraid of an investigation? that's obstruction. it's a crime. at a minimum he has to resign, at a maximum ps to be indicted. i think what he's done is terrible. again, thousands of people died because of governor cuomo. this is not something minor. this is not a minor political scandal. many senior citizens will be alive today if it weren't for governor cuomo. >> emily: even viewing this in the most positive way possible, if we gave him the largest benefit of the doubt here, at a minimum it supports an investigation and disciplinary measures. >> harris: wait a minute! would it be the actual policy? we don't know the origins of that. maybe it will become transparent and let us know who wrote it. if you want to give us more space on that, on the fact that his team came forth and leaked that they lied about the numbers for the trump administration so there could

>>he's urging president biden consider a new vaccine strategy giving out one single dose and then delaying the second kiahnna sent a letter to the centers for disease control and prevention today, he's asking them to gather and then consider data on the effectiveness of single dose vaccinations kiahnna is the first lawmaker to publicly call on the biden administration to consider the strategy. interesting story we're following tonight british scientists will be testing to see whether covid vaccines. >>can be safely mixed and matched and still protect you from the virus in a study participants will get one pfizer vaccine and one astrazeneca vaccine. these 2 vaccines, a very different mechanisms to achieve the same goal of immunization if possible it would allow for more flexible vaccine delivery and help deal with vaccine shortages while being able to mix and match vaccines would of course be beneficial. one local health officials says it is not a practice meant for widespread use. >>i think it's for this we're what we're talking about when supplies are really short and that need is pressing that you can switch over, but that's not what we want to do i as d

end you know february what i spoke to the head of the major center for disease control last week and he said that there is no nobody knows exactly when they do not know exactly when the vaccine is in nigeria so while all of that countries are having almost the entire population being vaccinated and even have an idea when the 1st set of oxys were right but the government plans to vaccinate or to 40 percent of the population by the end of the sierra and if you vaccines do and i arrive by the end of february they're going to be behind in their schedule. how does the government manage the pandemic is the public in support of the nigerian government if it's. ok at the beginning of the pandemic a lot of people felt like this the virus that the government overreacted right calling for the lockdown and all of that well right now many people now know that the virus exists because if you speak to people outside many people know someone everyone knows someone that knows someone that has. died from unfortunately died from coronary virus or has been effected by corner virus so we do know people are

for some perspective on the story we can speak now to dr john and the kendah song he's the director of the africa centers for disease controland prevention and he's joining us from ethiopia's capital addis ababa dr canvas on welcome to g.w. i want to ask you 1st about that piece of news that south africa has paused the use of the asteroid belt zeneca vaccine and even wants to return a 1000000 doses to the manufacturer and we have to say that the country has 40 percent right now of africa's reported coded $1000.00 cases how concerned are you about south africa vaccination rollout. so that tank you for having me on your program 1st before let me just say very clearly that that doesn't make a vaccine is very safe and it has been proven to be if your case shows in and in the context where u.s. tested and also want to say that i mean south africa has been extremely foot come in and very transparent in sharing their findings as well as included in dead end if you question of the new variant so having said that i think we are learning about a lot about this new virus and we are learning how we roll out vaccines africa c.d.c. have

john nkengasong, director of the africa centers for disease control and prevention. he said the world faces a moral catastrophe if covid-19 vaccines are delayed in africa while wealthier nations vaccinate their entire populations. doctor, welcome back to democracy now! congratulations as you mark the fourth anniversary today of the founding of the africa cdc. >> thank you. it is a pleasure to be back with you. amy: can you start off explaining what you described what canappen in africa as a moral catastrophe? >> the situation in africa is urgent and critical. if you look at the second wave of the pandemic, it has really become -- mortality rate now higher than the case fatality rate. the rates of death occurring over the last month are significantly more than what we observed in the first weeks. unless we have a time effort to vaccines, i'm afraid the situation will be extremely difficult to manage going forward. amy: last month, south african president cyril ramaphosa urged wealthy nations to stop hoarding surplus doses of covid-19 vaccines. this is what he said. >> th

centers for disease control and prevention and you know advises governments on health campaigns he says the vaccine rollout is exciting but says more needs to be done to get the vaccine to underrepresented groups was very encouraging what we're seeing is a riot here of vaccine approaches that all seem to work well and i think we can get bound up too much and there's a 70 or 80 or 90 percent what we're seeing so far in the data is very effective control of serious illness and death now the big unknown is the variants and whether any vaccine escape variants will become common and problematic but right now i would say the moment it's your turn for a vaccine get one get the 1st one you can but at the same time we do have to address equity act with it within countries where we're seeing much lower vaccination rates for example in black and hispanic populations in the united states and equity globally as your piece just showed and part of that means funding kovacs but part of it probably also means scaling up global manufacturing figuring out ways perhaps with m.r. in a technology to fund tec

he will be sworn in on saturday. in the united states, the centers for disease control and prevention has released new recommendationsow to safely reopen schools. they say returning to the classroom should not be dependent on whether teachers have been vaccinated, though they strongly encourage educators to receive the job. the cdc's findings are only recommendations. states and cities across the nation are likely to use the guidelines as a roadmap for how to resume in person education. you are watching "bbc world news america." still to come -- open for business, indoor dining resumes at a limited capacity in new york city had of valentine's day celebrations. some of the most influential banks on wall street's are now planning to accept the cryptocurrency, bitcoin. are is this correspondent has more from new york. reporter: you have mastercard, bank of new york mellon, the oldest bank in the nation both basically taking a bet on bitcoin and adds to this title wave after elon musk said they would start investing in bitcoin and accepting payment in bitcoin in the future. this is a currency born in the aftermath of the

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are wondering why the biden and ministrations doesn't seem like he wants to follow the guidance from its own centers for disease control i want to be clear that there is an increase in the data to suggest that schools can reopen and safely opening does not suggest that teachers need to be vaccinated in order to reopen safely. >> the doctor spoke to this in a personal capacity and she's the head of the cdc but we will wait for the final guidance to come out to use it as a guide for schools around the country. >> shannon: frustration this building tonight among students, parents, local lawmakers with teachers unions continued resistance to return to in person classrooms. the collateral damage being suffered by children. >> she asked me the point of living, if it's ever going to end, what's the point the point. >> they are slipping more, they're in their room or, they're isolating more. they are eating less, eating differently. they're not spending as much time with you. they are really angry. >> it's about learning, social and emotional growth, psychological health and safety. numerous services that schools provide. >> s

john oversaw the centers for disease control, the national institutes of health, the fda and the office of the surgeon general. hetment of health and human services, a licensed physician is now the ceo of herbalife where the company's nutritional supplements have seen record demand during the pandemic. he joins us in a fox business exclusive. well, doctor, thank you for being here. >> hi, liz. liz: i mean, the timing is unbelievable. not only are you an m.d., but you got your master's in public health from johns hopkins which has really been the source on numbers when it comes to covid. identify just got to get your reaction to passing this tragic milestone. >> yeah. it's been a tough year for so many families, as you know. unfortunately, it's not over. the good thing is we have a vaccine, many available through a number of different outlets. hopefully, things will begin to get back to normal in the coming months, if not year. liz: you know, i've got to ask you because you have a really interesting background. before herbalife you ran the health and wellness division at walmart. hindsight, of course, is 20/20, i

he made that had mission. and the chime better is so quiet, you can hear pens clicking, centers for disease controls, everything. and you could hear nothing. joining us now, congressional reporter for politico. andrew, good morning to you. thanks for getting up early. and you were in the chamber as that video was playing out for senators. and i noticed that you shared some of the looks that you saw on their faces, the way they reacted. i was hoping that you could take us inside the chamber. what did it feel like for the senators to watch again that day when they were all essentially the victims? >> right, so i was struck by the extent to which on a day that was supposed to be really broke the legal arguments, the constitutional arguments underpinning these respective cases on the side of the house managers and the president's defense team, the house managers really leaned into this idea of trying to make these senators relive january 6, relive the horrors of january 6. and that was the case for everyone in the capitol community of course. i was struck in particular when some of those video clips were playing ho

while president biden says he wants to get america's back in the classroom -- kids back in the classroom, the guidelines from the centers for disease controlconfusion among parents, teachers and students all across the country. charles watson live in atlanta with more. charles. >> reporter: hi, jon. it is president biden's hope that most k-8 schools reopen five days a week for in-person learning by his 100th day in office, but, however, critics say that could be difficult under new cdc guidelines to safely reopen schools. of concern, among other things, is the cdc's recommendation that schools in areas with high transmission rates move to hybrid learning. right now that would affect more than 70% of students who are -- enrolled in schools that are in so-called red zones. meanwhile, increasingly frustrated parents in oakley, california, holding protests in hopes of getting their kids back in class as state lawmakers try to pass legislation that addresses funding issues. this follows the resignation of the entire oakley union elementary school district board after members were caught on a hot mic mocking parents. >> if -- are we alone? >> ye

he says it is still possible that americans may still have to wear their masks even into 2022. as you know, the centers for disease control prevention say that is still one of the most effective ways at preventing transmission of covid-19. so really yet another different kind of norm that many of us could expect possibly even next year. >> it certainly is. polo sandoval, thank you so much for bringing us the latest there. and be sure to stay with us in about 30 minutes i'll speak to dr. ashish jha to reflect on the death toll nearing the half a million mark and the timing debate over the second dose. dr. fauci still says to keep it a few weeks. dr. jha disagrees. of course i'll ask him about wearing the mask into next year. we'll be back. the world around you may seem like an immovable, implacable place. it is not. it can be bright. quiet. and safe. it's a change that will be felt from this street. to this street. to no street. and everywhere in between. all it takes is the slightest push in just the right place and that will be the tipping point that changes everything. ♪ ♪ advanced non-small cell lung cancer can change

centers for disease provide control and prevention in the u.s. and is now c.e.o. of resolve to save lives and illness action that rises government's own health campaigns he joins us by skype from new york thanks very much indeed for being with us what you've seen what do you make of the johnson and johnson vaccine so far was very encouraging what we're seeing is a variety of vaccine approaches that all seem to work well and i think we can get bound up too much in this that 70 or 80 or 90 percent what we're seeing so far in the data is very effective control of serious illness and death now the big unknown is the variants and whether any vaccine escape variants will become common and problematic but right now i would say the moment it's your turn for a vaccine get one get the 1st one you can but at the same time we do have to address equity act with heat within countries where we're seeing much lower vaccination rates for example in black and hispanic populations in the united states and equity globally as your piece just showed and part of that means funding kovacs but part of it probably also means scaling up global manufacturing figuring out ways perhaps with m

he is the first shelter dog to move into the white house. the ad closes with the bark and directions then are given for people to visit the centers for disease control site so they can get more information about preventing the spread of covid-19 and here at kron 4 we'll have a very special edition of the red and gold zone puppy edition this sunday. it's on our kron on app it will be airing all day long from 2 until 08:00pm. so download the kron on app in the app store right now so you can get in on all the cuteness. lots of campbell's couples and it's they're they're really cute those puppies and they're all up for adoption. so i know the sports team had some fun with that one. that is just so beautiful only the first dogs could also join in and that on the field i think they're too big for the pump. it is our puppies yes for puppies will let you know they can referee though hopefully we'll see. >>let's take a look at temperatures out there right now for your friday afternoon. we're tracking widespread mid to upper 60's when we should be in the mid 50's this time of year. >>about 5 to 10 degrees above average but unique microclimate forecast as you

he was threatened. i think anybody in law enforcement would like to know specifically. remember this is allegedly a coverup of the numbers. it is not just about new york. the centers for disease controlisease is spread, who it is affecting, how it is being affected. so when you cover up, don't provide the data, the centers for disease control it affects us across the country because then the scientists cannot do their job. elizabeth: that is an important point you just made. you know, you wonder if the biden administration, if the doj there would do a probe because of what you pointed out. melissa derosa's mother-in-law is the u.s. attorney for southern district of new york, audrey straus. this lawmaker, says cuomo stonewalledded us for seven months. it only took your democratic state attorney general to pry the information out of you. you wouldn't including nursing home patients put in hospitals, dying in hospitals to your numbers, you wanted to make yourself look better. we now have a impeachment push for new york lawmakers. it has 16,000, 18,000 signatures. what do you say to that? >> i think it is warranted. he earned this. he was out there every day trying to put this calm blank

he is right. we want to make sure that our kids can safely return to the classroom but according to the center for disease control can. this refusal on the part of some of the teachers unions to return is not about the kids, it is about them and it is really stoking fear where the science we should follow the science. >> dana: earlier today after the cdc director said that the white house said that's not official guidance coming from them. which i thought was interesting. also, as the covid relief bill moves through and the biden administration wants however many more billion dollars for school, $160 billion, shouldn't that be on the condition that the classrooms get opened back up? >> absolutely. there are a lot of people who haven't gotten paid because they have been out of work. there are other people that continue to get paid and they don't suffer like those who have suffered not only medically, emotionally, mentally and financially from this crisis. so yeah, the money that goes to the schools ought to be on the condition that they safely reopen. we know how to do that. >> dana: i feel like the mayors. we're