host: let's get a response from dr. fauci. guest: zika had an outbreak in south america and frederico -- puerto rico in 2016. the level of zika activity is extraordinary low now. if you look at mosquito borne viruses in south america and rico, yougo -- puerto need to understand that sometimes there is a tendency to say it is the immigrants fall and stop immigration to the united states. you have to understand that if you look at just travel, not even people who are so-called emigrating, but people who go about for business, it is over a given year the communication back and forth between the north and south is about 300 million trips that people make. immigrants it is that are bringing it over, right away you have to take that off the table because it is not the case. no matter who it is, if you look at locally transmitted cases of zika in the united states in the year that we had a lot of zika, there were a couple of hundred cases in florida, and a very small cluster in texas. seas will not, on the basis of so many -- zika wi

dr. fauci? >> mf-59 is adjutant, a product to boost the immune system.t is not the vaccine itself. i have to respectfully disagree with the person who called in because mf-59 in europe has been used in tens and tens of millions of people and there is no issue with safety. so i have disagreement with that statement. >> host: jim, in percyville, virginia. good morning. >> caller: good morning, doctor, thank you. my question is less edgy than the previous one. solve a debate my wife and i are having. she is in the anti-vaccine movement that is paranoid. how would you t respond to her claim. i get vaccinated. i would like our daughter to, but claims like doctors like you, spokesman of the pharmaceutical companies and trying to push drugs on us and don't really know what it is. i'm of the view you guys are scientists that have spent years studying this. i wonder how you respond to that so i can kind of talk her into vaccinating my daughter. >> host: is your wife there? is she watching? >> caller: no. >> host: show her the answer on our website. go ahead. >> g

host: dr. faucibefore we let you go, is there something you can do to boost your own microorganisms or things that you have seen on the market? guest: there is nothing specific that you can say is going to boost your immune system. it is just kind of healthy living, good nutrition, sleep, not overexertion. thisy that if you get probiotic or that vitamin, it is substantially, and i may be good reasons to do that, but there is no real evidence that will prevent you from getting the flu. dr. anthony fauci, we are was appreciate the conversation. thank you for being here. we come back, we'll talk to author sam quinones and get a response to the opioid academic. 'ster, the peterson institute adam posen will be here to speak at the -- about the annual forum in switzerland and what is at stake there. we will be right back. >> the president of the united states. [applause] night, president trump gives his first state of the union address. join us for a preview. then, the state of the union speech live at 9:0

dr. anthony fauci.ressional memo that may undermine the russia investigation is now under review by white house lawyers. >> a democrat saying the vote to release the memo politicizes the intelligence-gathering process. >> sources say something changed inside the fbi that led to andrew mccabe abrupt departure. >> president trump's message to his supporters will be as follows -- you were right to bet on me because the economy is improving, and border security is at the center of the immigration debate. >>> this is actually a mobile hospital. it was built primarily for disasters. even georgia's largest hospital is having to use it to keep up with the flu outbreak. >> the controversy threatened to overshad overshadow the super bowl opening night festivities. tom brady extending somewhat of an olive branch to the man who ridiculed his young daughter. >>> the pelicans game he snuck on wearing warmup gear and thought he would blend in. >> even takes a shot. >> security escorts him to his seat. >> watch the sec

dr. anthony fauci, director of the national institute of allergy and infectious diseases and the federal response to the opioid epidemic. and a look at the u.s.' role in the 2018 world economic forum meeting in davos, switzerland. we'll talk with adam posen of the peterson institute. be sure to watch c-span's "washington journal" live at 7:00 eastern friday morning. join the discussion. >>> now a look at west point's oral history center. >> lieutenant colonel david siri teaches history at the u.s. military academy at west point and also is the director of west point's oral history center. how long has the oral history center been associated with the academy? >> it's been associated with the academy since about 2007. i've been the director since 2015, january. >> what is the value of an oral history? >> well, for us, we try to make it accessible to the cadets say s.o. they can use it for their research, but, really, all of our videos, all of our interviews are open sourced so anyone in america can get online, look at our interviews and hopefully learn something about our history from them

dr. anthony fauci says it's a more severe strain and the flu vaccine isn't providing as much protection this year. >> a really good year of protection would be about 60% efficacy. we can't tell for sure right now, but we're estimating that it's going to be significantly less t that. it's going to probably be around 30% for the predominant strains. >> reporter: doctors we've spoken with say this is shaping up to be the worst u.s. flu season since the 2009 swine flu. that puts pressure on emergency departments like this one. >> last year, a busy day in our emergency department wou maybe . every day this week we've been seeing 260, 270, and a major component of that is people with influenza-like symptoms. >> reporter: it's not just the patients. >> when half the staff is out with the flu, it's hard to take care of patients. >> reporter: hospitals are g with spot shortages of iv saline bags, important for delivering medicin and hydrations. production problem were exacerbated as hurricane maria hit facilities in puerto rico run by baxter, a main suppl [ speaking for] with ers getting overwhelmed,

we may have a universal flu vaccine as well as a vaccine for zika within the next decade and dr. fauci at nih has said the most effective method for protecting americans against another pandemic influenza is to encourage in development stock piling of influenza vaccines that will protect against the virus. in tennessee the hospitals are filling up with people with the flu. dr. kadlec and dr. gottlieb researchers are nih discover a platform technology that could speed the development of a universal flu vaccine what would barda do to support the advanced research and development of that technology and dr. gottlieb what is the fda ready to do to encourage the use of that technology for innovative vaccines? i have three minutes. >> mr. chairman i will be very brief. barda is an integrated portfolio so once barda gets through clinical trials and they transition to barda that part of it is done. they could produce that in eggs or tissue culture or emerging technologies. >> i will quickly add we have in development vaccines that might be universal flu vaccines and could achieve what you are o

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dr. anthony fauci telling us, looking about 30% effective. at its best, 60% effective still, flu is big business for the drug industry. about 59% of kids get vaccinated you can see here about 43% of adults in the united states as of last flu season not as high as public officials would like but a huge number still of people. in terms of the biggest suppliers of the flu shot, three major ones santa fe, csl, and glaxosmithkline. santa fe supplying the most, 70 million doses estimated this season csl next, 50 million gl glaxo, 40 million. and how much they cost, between $15 and $20 a dose, you can see here this is a several hundred million dollar a year business for each of these companies just in the united states alone guys,even though the flu shot isn't expected to be as effective, public health officials tell us all to get them to try to protect ourselves as best we can back to you. >> these companies that produce flu shots, incentive to invest in the technology to make it a quicker turn around to determine which strains of the prevalent in

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dr. anthony fauci told us it's a more severe strain and the flu vaccine isn't providing as much protection>> a really good year of protection would be about 60% efficacy we can't tell for sure right now but we're estimating it's going to be significantly less it will probably be around 30% for the predominant strain >> here in california, we talked with doctors at emergency rooms and clinics who said the flu is putting pressure on the health care system. >> so last year a busy day in our emergency department would have been 200, maybe up to 220 everyday this week we've been seeing 260, 270, and a major component is people with influen influenza-like symptoms. >> and it's not just the patients who are getting sick. >> especially this year when the flu vaccine doesn't work as well we all get the flu shots but when half of our staff is out sick with the flu it's hard to take care of our patients. >> and with e.r.s getting overwhelmed by flu patients, doctors at stanford are encouraging the use of telemedicine for those without major complications so patients can get the care they need without

dr. anthony fauci, director of the national institute of allergy and infectious diseases and the federalesponse to the opioid epidemic. and a look at the u.s.' role in the 2018 world economic forum meeting in davos, switzerland. we'll talk with adam posen of the peterson institute. be sure to watch c-span's "washington journal" live at 7:00 eastern friday morning.