let me hand you over to our science correspondent eric williams he's been looking into some of your questions on the coronavirus. in electron microscope. and flu viruses look alike. they both have a corona. so why isn't flu a corona virus too. i understand your confusion maybe it makes the most sense to explain by drawing a comparison from the macro world that we live at sparrows for instance have have wings and they have beaks and they have feathers and so do eagles would you would you call them the same thing and you can't judge evolutionary relationships based on just one or 2 apparently shared traits in virological terms although influenza and coronaviruses are both single stranded r.n.a. viruses that bear spikes on their outer surfaces and that's pretty much where the similarities end the coat that surrounds that genetic material in the 2 groups is is for example made up of very different proteins which which interact also differently with our cells and and that genetic material itself is very different coronaviruses are much larger than flu viruses and there are and they is made up of a

for timing in advice and now it's your chance to ask the questions is our science correspondent eric williams on all things corona. could sars cove 2 also grow less deadly. yes and it could end there's hope that it will viruses evolve just like we do with them it can happen at a much faster rate because new generations are produced decades apart in the midst of a raging infection they come within days or even hours but within that for us massively accelerated time frame they're also subject to evolutionary pressure known as selection you've heard of survival of the fittest that started when one know why but but what actually makes one virus fitter than another scene from this perspective in our current situation it isn't really to grow more lethal because at least in theory growing more deadly would force us to take even more drastic measures to protect ourselves eventually denying the virus the opportunity to spread easily and and opportunistically to do the unwary in theory or at least it makes more sense for a virus to actually cause less deadly symptoms in its host over time but grow more

looking for a culprit someone to blame for this pandemic and no it's not our science correspondent eric williams he can answer some of the questions you have like this one. is bill gates behind this mess. if you believe this already there's probably nothing i can say or do that will make you change your mind but i wanted to talk briefly about the big scientific reason why the answer to this question is no 1st a fact bill and melinda gates with their foundation have undisputedly contributed billions to advancing health care programs around the world they've arguably done more to improve human health than anyone else in history to be behind this mess as you put it the only thing i can assume is that you mean they would in some way be behind having sars cove to created by evil scientists and a lab but sars cove too wasn't bio engineered expert community widely agrees on that because for a number of science based reasons the evidence that it wasn't bio engineered is compelling so regardless of what you might think bill gates is capable of and though i don't understand it i know there are a lot of pe

time to head over to our science correspondent eric williams he's going to ask us to some of the questions you've been sending us on the coronavirus. how different is some. other viruses that in fact for example do people who catch influenza sometimes have no symptoms yes although asymptomatic is a is a pretty squishy the term we've known for decades that people who don't report flu symptoms can test positive as carriers for the bug and older estimates usually put the number of asymptomatic areas for flu at around 50 percent much cited british study from 2014 however determined an even larger number of people infected with influenza never develop symptoms 77 percent to be exact now if that's correct it means not even one in 4 people who catch the flu will ever show any signs of it one way or the other even if the estimates don't all agree there's plenty of evidence showing that it's quite common for us to catch a range of other viruses and show no signs of illness and there's also broad agreement that those asymptomatic carriers are likely contributing significantly to the spread of those

well time for your questions now and that means over to a science correspondent eric williams. what is the size of the corona virus in my columns. with all of these large scale animations of coronaviruses that i look at every day sometimes it's hard to remember how tiny they actually are to answer this question let's 1st get the terms down micron is an old way to say micro meter which is one millionth of a meter to put that maybe in terms that we can visualize it takes a 1000 micro metres to make a single millimeter now the small ones that is a virus is much smaller it's down in what's called the nanometer range a 1000 nanometers makes up a single micro-grid are at around $125.00 nanometers in diameter source code 2 is actually a pretty large virus at least among the viruses that in fact humans but it would still take 8 of them lined up to stretch a single micro metre or micron if you prefer. hair is always used to illustrate stuff like this a human here is around 50 microns across so it would take around $400.00 coronaviruses end to end just to span the width of a human hair y

now to some of your questions on the coronavirus is our science correspondent eric williams. how long will it take to make the estimated 5000000000 times says of a vaccine necessary to provide herd immunity to the wild. this is another question where you would need a crystal ball to say anything definite but i can hazard a guess production is a bottleneck that any vaccine will have to pass through and depending on the technology platform behind it that bottleneck could be more or less tight now i don't have time to talk about all the vaccine platforms out there so i'll just concentrate on on 3 of the most advanced in terms of trials and how long it takes to make them messenger r.n.a. vaccines which are basically chains of specific nucleate acid sequences they can be make quite quickly but m.r. in a moment kulas are also unstable and currently need freezing which complicates distribution developers and into late stage trials with m.r. and they vaccines claim they'll be able to produce hundreds of millions of doses by the end of the year if approved and that they can upscale ra

you haven't already getting contact on how you tube channel will get out science correspondent eric williams to look into a topics you bring to being with a study mostly they agree that people who are living with hiv and that are on an effective treatment program where the antiviral medication are not any more likely to contract or die from covert 19 and then people who don't have a child you know aspect of that though is certainly antiviral therapies that are keeping their disease in check the united nations program that's response program that's responsible for global action on hiv he has warns that in 2020 there could be up to half a 1000000 additional aids deaths in sub-saharan africa alone caused not by patients catching code 19 but occasions that those occasions that those patients need to survive in the fight against aids fight against aids over the last decade. and just briefly you don't need a crystal ball to know this was coming kentucky fried chicken is temporarily suspending its long time ad slogan it's finger licking good with personal hygiene top priority in stemming transmissi

time to hand you over to our science correspondent eric williams has been looking into the questions you've been sending us on youtube. does plasma therapy work and if so when should it be administered. this is another of those questions that needs regular updates since our knowledge in the area continues to evolve just a reminder a convalescent plasma is isolated from the blood of patients who've recovered from the disease and it contains antibodies that help keep someone who's had it once from catching it again antibody rich plasma can also be given to others as a medication the method has been used to treat patients in a range of epidemics for for over a century now but it's proven surprisingly difficult to determine just how effective it is as a therapy for people who have contracted cove at night t.v. there's a couple of different reasons why not least that it's hard to carry out double blind studies involving placebos with with people who are in the middle of trying to fight off a potentially lethal disease although plasma therapy has been given to many covert patients in dire

time to hand you over to our science correspondent eric williams has been looking into the questions you've been sending us on you trip. does plasma therapy work and if so when should it be administered. this is another of those questions that needs regular updates since our knowledge in the area continues to evolve just a reminder a convalescent plasma is isolated from the blood of patients who've recovered from the disease and it contains antibodies that help keep someone who's had it once from catching it again antibody rich plasma can also be given to others as a medication the method has been used to treat patients in a range of epidemics for for over a century now but it's proven surprisingly difficult to determine just how effective it is as a therapy for people who have contracted cope at 19 there's a couple of different reasons why not least that it's hard to carry out double blind studies involving placebos with with people who are in the middle of trying to fight off a potentially lethal disease although plasma therapy has been given to many covert patients in dire circums

time to hand you over to our science correspondent eric williams he's been looking into the questions you've been sending us on you tube. does plasma therapy work and if so when should it be administered. this is another of those questions that needs regular updates since our knowledge in the area continues to evolve just a reminder convalescent plasma is isolated from deployed of patients who've recovered from the disease and it contains antibodies that help keep someone who's had at once from catching it again antibody rich plasma can also be given to others as a medication the method has been used to treat patients in a range of epidemics for for over a century now but it's proven surprisingly difficult to determine just how effective it is as a therapy for people who have contracted cope at 19 there's a couple of different reasons why not least that it's hard to carry out double blind studies involving placebos with with people who are in the middle of trying to fight off a potentially lethal disease although plasma therapy has been given to many covert patients in dire circumstan

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xfinity xfi can because it's... ...simple, easy, awesome. [ barking ] eric dobroka williams is back inpen. today's match up will be in a spectator free arena in lexington, kentucky. she is joined by her sister and rising star cocoa golf. the houston astros game and then the intentions between those two are ready and then mike from the astros and it got heated between the two teams as well and. >> the houston coach started to yell at him and challenged him to fight. everyone eventually cooled off and the a's did win n ames. >>> the giants jumped out to an early lead and then the skipper gave it for some reason and pulled out the giants starteder kevin that was roll nothing the game. tonight's game against the astros starts at 6:00. >>> the college football season could be in jeopardy before it starts. the leader of the biggest college conferences held a meeting yesterday over the growing concerns that all fall college sports including football will not be played. the mid-afternoon conference was the first to postpone all of the sports this fall. the big10 is ready to pull the plug on th

joir joining me now is someone who had william barr's job under president barack obama, eric holder, is the chair of the democratic redirecting committee. i remember speaking to you in the hall when we were doing that four years ago. i want to start on william barr. obviously, i think anyone that read the mueller report knew that initial spin from him was misleading. that appears to have been an indicator of things to come. what is your assessment of his performance as attorney general in terms of the danger he poses, both to the department of justice and to the kind of administration or free and fair elections this fall? >> well, i think we need to be extremely concerned about the intelligence report from the senate. america needs to wake up. the intelligence report indicates that the presidential campaign of president trump at the highest levels was interacting with the russians. and that should give us great pause. the neutral and observant justice department would take appropriate action, would try to probe and find out what that was about, hold accountable people involved in that

following his early years in indiana eric went on to study mathematics and political economy at williams college n and graduated with high honors from harvard law .t school. today eric serves as a senior trial counsel for the department of justice rswhere he has successfully spearheaded major litigation about the constitution, administrative law and national security for numerous agencies across the us government over the last 14 years so he has extensive experience. prior to joining the doj eric worked for judge paul diamond in the us district court for eastern pennsylvania. us far eric has built a reputation as an exemplary civil servant and a tremendous legal advocate and i'm delighted that he's taking on the challenge of inspector general at the department oftransportation . he has great potential to bring objectivity, accountability and integrity to dot which is precisely what we want from this yo position. eric, thank you. thank you for someone with your incredible credentials, someone of your caliber and your hard work and service, for your desire to serve in this capacity . miste

williams. thank you. >> thank you. eric: now to the unrest in beirut. angry lebanese protesters stormed government buildings there demanding justice as parts of huge demonstrations all day today that were held against the president, prime minister and other officials coming after that massive explosion you see there that devastated lebanon's capital on tuesday. that killed nearly 160 people, injuring nearly 6,000, destroying a lot of the downtown. dozens of people still missing. we are live in beirut right now where it is after midnight. trey, you have been doing stellar reporting on the ground with those protesters all day. what has it been like? what have you seen? >> thank you, eric. it was a busy day of protests here in beirut. more than 170 demonstrators were wounded. many of them by live ammunition, and one police officer was killed. these clashes started in martyr square but ended up taking place all over the city. you had protesters actually taking over government buildings, ministry buildings, so it was a significant demonstration, and you had

william barr testified before congress and the media had their fangs. sout stephanie rule for instance on m.s.n. b.c. she was talking to california congressman eric swalwell who at one point wanted bore impeached and she could not contain herself i don't think he's gotten better since i made that call he hasn't gotten better and in fact if you look at things that have happened since then i'm thinking roger stone for example things have got worse given all of that let's be honest the sides questioning bill maher today and hopefully for you tripping him up what oversight can your committee realistically do did you hear that hopefully you'll trip him up during questioning hey stephanie you forgot to wear your impeach bar hacked what was that about sticking with them isn't b.c. one of the people who is looking i apparently to replace joy reid who moved to weekdays from weekends is a woman named tiffany quo us now she had on a guest an african-american backing donald trump in fact he happens to be the head of the national diversity coalition for the trump campaign and here's how some of that when your colleague you're using these racist terms like a g

at 8:00 p.m., mark levine has attorney general william barr as his guest on life, liberty and levine, all tonight on the fox news channel. ericy say. arthel, thank you. folks, thank you for making fox news channel your choice for news. i'm eric shawn. ♪ greg: one of the telltale signs of hysteria, when behavior typically deemed mentally unstable becomes entirely acceptable. if you ever wonder how people ended up drowning witches or killing neighbors in civil wars or following chrissy teigen on instagram, you can bet hysteria was the driving force. we've seen idiots defending looting while laughing off rising murder rates. in nyc the rate of shootings is expanding faster than brian setter's sweat pants.