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laura maccleery, policy director for the center for science in public interest, welcome. maccleery: thank you, chairman, for the honor of testifying today on this critical topic. i am the policy director for the center for science in the public interest a 50-year-old , organization. americans are facing an unprecedented challenge in keeping themselves and their families safe during a pandemic. public health officials emphasize that we need to socially distance and wash our hands. we are looking for more to protect themselves. those without scruples are actively exploiting consumer fear and anxiety. in truth our under regulated supplements dietary is risky. for the past three years we have , been collecting evidence of scans concerning supplements and sending it to the federal trade commission. this includes many misleading claims we found on products marketed to those suffering from opioid and tobacco addiction, as well supplements making false claims on female fertility. it is far too tempting to think that a powder or a supplement a globalus with pandemic. when the coron

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. >>> with me is the president for the center for science and the public interest and he's critically a former associate commissioner of the fda. dr. laurie, i have read your quotes for months now about this. i'm glad you're here in person. thanks so much. >> thank you. >> so let's begin with that. the fda our sources there are saying two things. one, the fda could make these pharma companies wait 60 days after all participants in the trial have gotten the second dose. and then go for emergency authorization or wait for 60 days until half of the people have gotten the second shot. is it safe to wait for half of the people to have been two months out from this and not all of them? >> well, it's a balancing act. on the one hand, you want additional safety information and on the other hand, you don't want it to be withheld without improving what you know. so i think this is probably a reasonable balance that they're striking. it's important to get that additional safety information because sometimes those signals don't appear for a while after the injection. >> so they're basically putti

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i'm jason be minute and i am the chair of psychiatry at oklahoma state university's center for health sciences our oath is essentially 1st do no harm and i think that that's one of the biggest problems is that doctors don't realize that by prescribe opioids. that they could doing more harm than good and we've seen that in a lot of a lot of cases what would they originally prescribe for well historically the uses been for what we call cancer pain cancer does a lot of horrible things street your body and can cause a lot of pain nowadays it's used for a lot of different things these pills a cooled hydrocodone. contents are found to no other drugs that are legally sold on the market share the same component a powerful narcotic heroin and sometimes they are a 1000 times more concentrated. the opioid compound comes from a plant called the opium poppy and these plants are really grown mostly in asia and then they're imported by drug companies into the united states but what we do with the pills is we take the good parts of the flour that you would smoke and we concentrate them in a little pill. and s

. >> i want to thank you for the work that your organization es, the center for science and the public interest really does magnificent research and policy formulation and i think what you have done on these fake and phony cures is show not only that there is a financial cost but also that they have serious adverse side effects and i don't mean only the personal knowledge physical dangers, medically. i mean the sense of false security. that may cause complacency. a failure to practice good preventive action like wearing masks and physical distancing. and the kinds of dangers that they pose when people talk about them and exaggerate them to their friends or neighbors. so i think there is a special responsibility on the part of everyone who is involved in promoting these products and i note in your testimony that you amazon,ebay, to facebook. and i'm quoting, must do a far better job of removing misleading claims and product. shouldn't they be held accountable? >> yes. i think that there has been a per stheapings this third party platforms are just a marketplace without a stake in the ga

for hours. the agency claims it was draft published mistake, but democrats say the president is mixing politics with science. >> at the centers for disease control, great scientists there demoralized by the political overturning of recommendations to save lives. >> reporter: some models are predicting the number of deaths could double by the end of the year, and more schools and colleges reopen. in new york, the country's largest school district, welcomed back some students on monday with most parents and teachers saying they trust the safety protocols. >> we thought it would be best for him to go back to school and socialize with other kids. >> this is really important for the children and the city. that's why we're here. >> reporter: the city also advised against door-to-door trick or triting this halloween to reduce the risk of infection. >>> the washington post reports that the pentagon redirected most of their $1 billion in pandemic funding to defense contractors for military equipment. under the cares act, the money was supposed to be used for medical supplies like ppe, but the post reports that the pentagon used most o

for more head to ka cbsmoneywatch.com. at the cbs broadcast center, i'm diane king hall. >>> there was a big day for foster city's gilead sciences. they want to get into oncology in a big way. the company says it is buying the biotech company amino medics for $21 billion. the deal will expand gilead's access to treatments of various types of cancer. the transaction is expected to close by the end of this year. >>> activists are upping the ante in their fight to protect the elk living in the point reyes national seashore. are concerns that the elk are dying of thirst while trapped behind offense. demonstrators posed for a photo while reaching out through that fence to demand the barrier be removed. protesters claim after last year's dry winter the elk are trapped with a dwindling water supply. one man who's been photographing the elk for 12 years said he's alarmed by the number of dead animals he has found lately. >> my main concern was when i came across five of them in such a short time. the last to die off we had was it happened under the park services knows. >> we been taking photos of the seeps and springs and all seem to be

divisive issue all of the science on all of this is pretty straightforward but talking about science the center for disease control and prevention in this country have been issuing guidelines with drawing guidelines saying they got it wrong and they need to revise it or perhaps potentially coming under political pressure so there is an air of confusion here there's no real joined up thinking when tackling this pandemic people are always 2nd guessing themselves as to how to get through this but that picture going into the fall they're going into the autumn in the colder months does not look good all right thank you very much any campaign lanny. and watching the news hour live from london much more still ahead on the program lines call for pre-departure coronavirus testing to sidestep national quarantines keep the industry in the. presidential power play angry scenes as sri lanka's parliament considers unprecedented new powers for the head of state. and then later in sport as latter shows no sign of slowing down just a few weeks out from his 39th day. on our mali is marking 60 years of independence f

science instead of politics. at the centers foreat scientists are there, demoralised by the political overturning of recommendations to save lives. dr craig spencer is the director of global health in emergency medicine at columbia university medical centre. he gave us his assessment to the us response. i think what we know is that our response from the beginning in the us has been politicised and fragmented and patchwork in the worst ways, in part because we haven't had the centralised co—ordination, leadership and coherent messaging and support of science that we need when we're responding to epidemics, and particularly massive pandemics like this. your opening package was incredibly powerful. 200,000 deaths isjust a tragedy and every single one a mother, father, a son, a daughter, a sibling that we have to mourn and we have to honour, and i worry that the politicisation of our response has left us inure and somewhat immune to this very, very human and painful toll and the long—term effects of this — we're certainly not out of th

for you your photos can help save god. here's how. can contribute their photos to citizen science projects and supply valuable data for research on coasts animal center outside. the university appeals coast which project examines all types of coastlines where the cliffs. all sat. vacation is can upload their photos and specify the exact location to the coast which website the images go into the global data bank and help scientists to better understand the risks of rising sea levels. the wild me project by an american n.-g. o. documents to migrate 3 parts of wildlife anyone with a tourist or researcher cannot gloat photos of wild animals to the site artificial intelligence. recognizes each animal bites individual traits and records the date time and location the photo was taken this allows scientists to follow migrate 3 patterns and users can see where the animal they photographed on their holiday has moved on to. anyone can take pictures of clouds with nasa's globe observer app and again help researchers. the u.s. aeronautics and space administration compares the photos and other data like time and place with their own satellite images which among ot

science. whether it's cdc, centers for disease control recommendations on how to deal with this pandemic. we've seen politics intervening there. >> do i read that you would be hesitant to take the vaccine if it was approved by the end of the year? >> yes, i would be hesitant. >> we heard a candidate tell 10 million north carolinans he would be hesitant to take a vaccine. i think all that's irresponsible. >> now, if democrats see political opportunity in fears about a vaccine, it is unethical for them to seize it. no one should be playing politics with the health of americans. but his sentiment is shared by a growing number of americans, and for many, worries about the vaccine start with the president. a president who says this about masks. >> i think wearing a face mask, as i greet presidents, prime ministers, dictators, kings, queens, somehow i don't see it for myself. i want people to have a certain freedom and i don't believe in that and i don't agree with the statement that if everyone wear as mask, everything disappears. there are a lot of people who thinks masks aren't good. >> who

especially in recent years politics intervening in what should be driven by health and science, whether it's cdc center forol suggestions and recommendations on how we deal with this pandemic, we have seen politics intervene there. >> do i read you to say you would be hesitant to receive the vaccine if it were approved by the end of the year? >> i'm going to -- yes, i would be hesitant. >> we just heard a candidate for the u.s. senate look into the camera and tell 10 million north carolinans we should be hesitant to take a vaccine. i think that's irresponsible. >> is that irresponsible? >> no, i don't think that's irresponsible. let me tell you what i'm hearing. he wants to make sure that this vaccine goes through the process and n a proper and effective way. when we know we have record public mistrust, when we know that we have skepticism, it is so very, very important that we can say we followed the science and that we followed the the process clearly. we need a vaccine, no doubt. but we can't rush that vaccine. that could possibly cause people to have hesitancy around other adult and childhood immunizat

science need to work hand in hand. let's bring in professor or they d.n.i. go he's a neurologist for an insanity hospital and the founding director of the qwest center for transforming biomedical research professor dan i got thank you so much for joining us how has the coronavirus changed the relationship between science and politics i don't think this relationship has changed in principle scientists provide evidence and politicians may or may not act accordingly but this is different for example to the scientific council because of the climate change is that it is in the nature of an emerging pandemic that the available evidence is often tentative new evidence leads to new interpretations and new recommendations potentially even rehearsals so in general politicians don't have a good track record in following sound scientific advice i mean climate change again is therefore not big surprise to me that politicians have difficulties in following scientific advise is it is based on preliminary evidence and reckoning by statistical models. now as they saw in that report there here in germany off that he has become a household name how much influence what you say individu

center. for example, we want to get high resolution modeling for what it g.weather forecast and computing resourcel tools it's pretty exciting in terms of the science, that we hope to conduct. >> i want to get some of those tools in a moment but t's bring amanda in here. you're a social scientist and you basically study human interaction inwildfire. what arme of the areas that you are particularly eager to dive into in this new center. >> i am particularly eager to look at how california is adapting to fire in different places. so, within eachof these big fire stars are going to lebe liindividual communities and their histories culture and capacities. i think we need to find ways to learn from the stories and help them better adapt to the situations. >> there has been a national mecohesive, wildfire mana strategy that was put into place in 2014. by the obama administration. under that, there were three props, onto make e landscape more resilient, another is to improve our response to wildfires, and the third is where you work. it is in the adaptation of our what sort of adaptations are working best? >> so, there are a number of adaptations, you can

technology and science is a competitive authorization, of the program that includes facility development program and authorization of initiatives like the research centers. it's funding forhe entire office of science over the next ten years. the significant investment is essential to u.s. leadership in biological environmental research. amidst covid-19 for the next public health challenge understanding of these complex systems is dependent upon the basic research conducted by the science. i want colleagues on both sides of the aisle to come with me and focus on these bipartisan programs i want to thank our witnesses for being here today and look forward to the discussion and thank you chairwoman. i yield back the balance of my time. >> thank you very much, mr. lucas. i now recognize the chairwoman of the committee for an opening statement. >> thank you very much for holding this hearing today and thank you all for being with us. today we need to discuss the research on this program. these capabilities are now being used to better understand covid-19. many of these facilities related to these sciences, they range from the well for two decades in the making, to large servi

the teacher the heavens from the center for global development thank you so much for bringing us up to date thank you. and now it's time for your questions to our science correspondent derrick williams. just kovac 19 transmission change depending on whether it's in that or if it's hot and dry one of the great hopes last winter here in the northern hemisphere back in february and march that covert 1000 would prove to be seasonal hasn't hasn't really panned out and in the last months a lot of researchers have come out with with often conflicting messages about about where and how environmental factors are influencing the spread of the disease any direct links between the war temperatures and transmission of the virus seem to still be pretty pretty tenuous to me but increasingly researchers are coming to a more united conclusion that the humidity the amount of moisture in the air could be playing a pretty big role in the spread of sars code to both those indoors and out in the evidence is mounting that dry air makes the virus spread more rapidly one new study out of australia claims that when a relative humidity falls just one percent in 1000 cases could

the teacher david evans from the center for global development thank you so much for bringing us up to date thank you. and now it's time for your questions to our science correspondent derrick williams. just kovac 19 transmission change depending on whether it's in that or fatah try one of the great hopes last winter here in the northern hemisphere back in february and march that coded 1000 would prove to be seasonal hasn't hasn't really panned out and in the last months a lot of researchers have come out with with often conflicting messages about about well and how environmental factors are influencing the spread of the disease any direct links between the war temperatures and transmission of the virus seem to still be pretty pretty tenuous to me but increasingly researchers are coming to a more united conclusion that the humidity the amount of moisture in the air could be playing a pretty big role in the spread of sars co 2 both both indoors and out in the evidence is mounting that dry air makes the virus spread more rapidly one new study out of australia claims that wind relative humidity falls just one percent in 1000 cases could rise by 7 to 8 per

started something in palo alto called centers for new generation that were for underserved kids to have high quality experiences. everything from hands-on math science and everything including instrumental band and that sort of thing because i believe music's important to kids as a musician. and we now have them in dallas and in birmingham, atlanta, and several in california. those kinds of partnerships are also really important because we really -- and by the way, the programs take place in the school building when we are not in covid, in the school building after school. so, we're also using the infrastructure well. so, there are all kind of ways that we can help to close this gap. but we can't just keep talking about the gap as if it were just a matter of the amount of money that we spend. >> in our few remaining minutes, the theme of today's program is leadership. leadership broadly. there's been a lot of con if fie lost in the american leadership. as you described it in recent years. how do we go about giving the american people confidence in their leaders, making the right decisions, taking the country in the right direction? >> you have to ow

for safety and effectiveness. >> hahn said fda officials will be guided by science and will not allow pressure from anyone to change that. also speaking was the director of the u.s. centersor disease control and prevention, robert redfield. he says he expects about 700 million doses of vaccines to be available by late march or april.l. u.s. president donald trump has repeatedly said vaccines will be ready as early as october. some experts are concerned the administration may be pressuring health authorities to approve a vaccine before the presidential election in november. ♪ >>> an australian think tank says it's identified more than 380 chinese internment camps used to detain uyghurs and other muslim authorities in xinjiang. it says more than a dozen are under construction. the australian policy institute released the report on thursday based on satellite images and survive or accounts. china has faced strong criticism for detaining more than 1 million peoplple in xinjianang e 201717. the government sayays they're i reeducatioion programss needed counterterrorism. the agency says 61 have been constructed since july last year. it says location in t t silk road city of ca

the teacher david evans from the center for global development thank you so much for bringing us up to date thank you. and now it's time for your questions to our science correspondent derrick williams. just kovac 19 transmission change depending on whether it's in that or if it's hot and dry one of the great hopes last winter here in the northern hemisphere back in february and march that covert 1000 would prove to be seasonal hasn't hasn't really panned out and in the last months a lot of researchers have come out with with often conflicting messages about about where and how environmental factors are influencing the spread of the disease any direct links between the war temperatures and transmission of the virus seem to still be pretty pretty tenuous to me but increasingly researchers are coming to a more united conclusion that the humidity the amount of moisture in the air could be playing a pretty big role in the spread of sars code to both those indoors and out in the evidence is mounting that dry air makes the virus spread more rapidly one new study out of australia claims that when a relative humidity falls just one percent in 1000 cases could

center for africa at the london school of economics and political science he joins us now from kent in the u.k. thanks so much for your time sir i was a game changer is bit is candidacy in this contest where other merriman has the most spots i mean because party has the most support blast but what is currently. disqualified it looks like big here really is the next person with the most votes so it's quite significant he used a significant candidate in this particular election and one of the reasons why what terrorists kind of basically so contentious is actually that he originally didn't really want to leave the sea he deliberately introducing even the fright presidents into this new constitution just so obvious he can plan and redeem method with the if putin which are the very least he could be the right presidential candidate if you are regional kind of he did not die and so now he's had to put in some of our presidential candidate because the other candidate died ok so given that then it is what are likely to let this election run free lead and fairly. it's not like. you say surely

science need to work hand in hand. that's bring in professor or they d.n.i. go he's a neurologist at burren insanity hospital on the founding director of the quest center for transforming biomedical research professor dan i got thank you so much for joining us how has the coronavirus changed the relationship between science and politics i don't think this relationship has changed in principle scientists provide evidence and politicians may or may not act accordingly but what i guess is different for example to the scientific council because i think climate change is that it is in the nature of an emerging pandemic that the visual evidence is often tentative new evidence leads to new into patients and new recommendations potentially even reversals so in general politicians don't have a good track record to be following sound scientific advice i mean climate change again is therefore no big surprise to me that politicians have difficulties in following scientific advice is it is based on preliminary evidence and reckoning by statistical models now as we saw in that report there here in germany and he's become a household name how much influence would you say individual s

science need to work hand in hand. that's bring in professor or they d.n.i. go he's a neurologist at berlin shotty hospital on the founding director of the qwest center for transforming biomedical research capacity and i got thank you so much for joining us how has the coronavirus changed the relationship between science and politics i don't think this relationship has changed in principle scientists provide evidence and politicians may or may not act accordingly but what i use is different for example to the scientific council because i think climate change is that it is in the nature of an emerging pandemic that the available evidence is often tentative new evidence leads to new into patients and new recommendations potentially even rehearsals so in general politicians don't have a good track record to be following sound scientific advice i mean climate change again is therefore no big surprise to me that politicians have difficulties in following scientific advise if it is based on preliminary evidence and reckoning by statistical models now as we saw in that report there here in germany kristie and also he's become a household name how much influence what you say

science need to work hand in hand. let's bring in professor or they d.n.i. go he's a neurologist at berkeley and shot at a hospital on the founding director of the quest center for transforming biomedical research capacity and i got thank you so much for joining us how has the coronavirus changed the relationship between science and politics i don't think this relationship has changed in principle scientists provide evidence and politicians may or may not act accordingly but that is different for example to the scientific council because of the climate change is that it is in the nature of an emerging pandemic that the visual evidence is often tentative new evidence leads to new interpretations and new recommendations potentially even reversals so in general politicians don't have a good track record to be following sound scientific advice i mean climate change again is therefore no big surprise to me that political difficulties in following scientific advice is it is based on preliminary evidence and reckoning by statistical models now as we saw in that report there here in germany and also he's become a household name how much influence what you say individual

that for them which for years i can't believe how politics have manipulated the science here and how incredibly dedicated is to see these you know amazing is the fusion is like the centers for disease control just fall flat on their face it is being manipulated politically. with this whole sort of mess here in the united states it's a sad day dr bob arnot great to get your thoughts and your analysis thank you very much indeed for talking to al-jazeera thank you so much there good to see you now former italian prime minister silvio berlusconi is in isolation at home after testing positive for covert 19 the 83 year old's doctor says berlusconi has no symptoms but he took a test as a precaution after returning from holiday in sardinia where there's been an outbreak on a scone he's been prime minister 4 times he says he'll continue to work from home as leader of the force that it down the party before local elections this month so venice film festival has begun as scheduled in another sign of some return to normality there was still plenty of glitz and glamor on the red carpet most of it at a social distance and with mosques out in force you know public red carpet events an

the teacher david evans from the center for global development thank you so much for bringing us up to date thank you. and now it's time for your questions to our science correspondent derrick williams. just covert 1000 transmission change depending on whether it's in that or if it's hot and dry one of the great hopes last winter here in the northern hemisphere back in february and march that coated 1000 would prove to be seasonal hasn't hasn't really panned out and in the last months a lot of researchers have come out with with often conflicting messages about about where and how environmental factors are influencing the spread of the disease any direct links between the war temperatures and transmission of the virus seem to still be pretty pretty tenuous to me but increasingly researchers are coming to a more united conclusion that the humidity the amount of moisture in the air could be playing a pretty big role in the spread of sars code to both indoors and out in the evidence is mounting that dry air makes the virus spread more rapidly one new study out of australia claims that when relative humidity falls just one percent in 1000 cases could rise

centers for disease control. michael caputo has no health background, no science background whatsoever. but in april, the trump white house installed him as the top spokesperson at the department of health and human services whereupon he apparently started dictating to the cdc what the cdc's scientific publications could say about coronavirus and how their pronouncements, their scientific pronouncements about covid had to line up more closely with what the president was saying about the virus. this story started breaking late on friday night. politico's dan diamond obtaining emails showing michael caputo and one of his staffers demanding changes to the cdc's weekly scientific reports. quote, the cdc's "morbidity & mortality weekly report"s are authored by career scientists and serve as the main vehicle for the agency to inform doctors, researchers and the general public about how covid-19 is spreading and who's at risk. such reports have historically been published with little fanfare and no political interference, said several longtime health department official who's have been viewed

for real. so now what we're seeing and living through has put the climate and also science at the center of thential race. >> it will start getting cooler. >> i wish -- >> you just watch. >> i wish science agreed with you. >> well, i don't think science knows, actually. >> we need a president who respects science, who understands that the damage from climate change is already here. and unless we take urgent action, it will soon be more catastrophic. >> joining us now, cnn political correspondent, abby phillip. it struck me, abby, that vice president joe biden's speech yesterday, which was specifically about the fires out west and tying it to climate change was really about more than that. because he connected to it to the suburbs. he connected it to science. and it seemed to be broadening out this issue to a much larger phenomenon. what did you see there? >> i think that this is what joe biden is trying to do, which is make this contrast as stark as possible. and he's being helped along quite a bit by president trump, as you saw in that clip. the president literally laughing at scientists telli

for the center disease control. there are scientists who work for americans who do not want america to get well. scientists deep in the cdc have given up scienceome political animals. they walk around like they are monks but they are engaged in n rotten science. he accused the so-called this unit of being determined, undermined president trump. these people are all going to hell. i do not think it means what you think it means. caputo's profound understanding of the word. that admittedly is the least of the problem here. michael caputo's comment remains live yesterday, first reported today by "the new york times." he simultaneously says while he's doing that he's being hu hunted. this is a real thing. this is really who they got as a gate keeper on covid information for the public and the world. really. the person who wrote that story of "the new york times." thank you so much for your time this evening. i appreciate you being here. >> thank you. rachel. >> you reported this straight up with drirect quotes and no commentary. i am giving my opinion about it because i can't stop myself because it strikes me as so bananas. is there a connection b

the center for disease control and prevention plays a critical role providing data and science-based public guidance for families, researchers and healthcare providers to rely on for life and death decisions. guess the trump administration has repeatedly interfered in those efforts. we have seen the white house contradict critical guidance on reopening the communities and returning to school. we have seen the president conspiracies about the death count and misinformation about masks. the trump administration officials have reportedly taken unprecedented steps to hijack the cdc and undermined its credibility. the administration ignores the objections that the cdc scientists into posted guidance under the cpc's name with unrest or that access to testing, a move that was immediately criticized by public-health experts and has been since thankfully reversed. political appointees have demanded to oversee and manipulate the agencies morbidity and mortality and last week you confirmed the administration took hundreds of millions of dollars out of your budget for a feel-good pandemic ad camp