host: a recent decision by the fda concerning e-cigarettes manufacturer, can you set up with the fda decided on this and why they did it? guest: the fda last week ordered juul labs to take its e-cigarette products off the market. it's one of the biggest e-cigarette brands in the u.s. and the action by the fda as part of a broader view its conducting of the industry. all e-cigarette manufacturers had to submit their product or fda review. it was to see if they were appropriate in the fda has been issuing decisions on these products and whether they can stay on the market or not. host: so they turned their attention to the juul cigarettes, why specifically so? guest: they said that juul provided insufficient or conflicting data -- as part of its application. they say the evidence is hazardous but juul did not provide that information step juul has gone to court and gotten the temporary stay and they are pursuing an appeal. host: when the fda looks for information, what specific information are they looking for from the manufacturer about its product? guest: juul and other manufacturers

the fda has found medication abortion treatments safe and effective. in this country, in order for drugs to be made available to the american public, the fda must act to consider that drug and announce whether or not it has found it to be safe and effective. those medications that may be classified as medication abortions have received fda approval as safe and effective are therefore available for prescription. what i will not do in answering your question is tell you what that means. as i said before, we will stay within the confines of the law, even though it is a law i believe jeopardizes the health of women. we will stay within the confines of the law. i want to make sure whenever we tell you is within the confines of the law. medication abortion, those treatments that the fda has signed off on as safe and effective are available to beacon's -- to be prescribed. under what conditions, stay tuned. on the second question? >>'s second question was planned parenthood contends exclusion from state programs violates federal law. do you agree that violate

i share the fda's concerns after the fda issued special safety directives, they reacted by reducing servicey on many lines and these cuts and long delays have negatively impacted all riders many who rely on public transportation to get to work or to school so i have two intertwined questions, the first is how do we get to a point where people are literally dying on the t, and second, when will the fda have a roadmap to get it back on track? >> thank you for highlighting the importance of safety in public transportation, particularly in the rail system. we as you noted, the letter that was issued by our chief safety officer at the federal transit administration was a result of a series of events that occurred, subsequent to a study in 2019 that identified a series of issues that needed to be addressed that the transit agency was in line to address and when we experienced ongoing safety incidents that is the reason we sent that letter. >> i'm glad you did. you talk about a series of issues, the question i have is how did we get to this place where people die on the tv? what went wrong? >> tha

so i know the fda is considering this and looking at it. and i know the cdc scientists are thinking about this and looking at the data as well. the decision is purely up to them, but the conversations as i said along with a whole lot of other conversations are always thinking about what we can be doing to protect the american people. so, let me just say again that decision is an fda and cdc decision. tony, anything else to add onto that? >> to -underscore what you said we are a team. the fda as part of a team, the cdc as part of a team. the white house is part of a team. we are all part of a team and we discussed this continually. but as said, we also have the situation where there are certain elements of the team that are the decision-makers and this case is the regulatory decision on the part of the fda and the cdc will examine it with regards to whether or not it's recommended order to allow it or what have you so we always talk about it. it's not something new, but we all recognize what the lines of authority are and that is what we wil

the fda followed with a product warning.r corporations control 90% of the baby formula market in the united states. president biden met with most of them last month after he used the defense production act to speed up domestic production and gave an update on "operation fly formula." this is president biden. pres. biden: on friday, the fda announced the kindle neutral care would be able to import formula from the u.k. today we are announcing united airlines has agreed to offer cargo space for the formula, for the delivery of 3.7 million bottles here under the states. recently signed legislation help make it easier for families to get the formula they need through the wic program. i call on all 50 states to take action and all 50 states answer the call, working with us to make that program more flexible. we're going to stay focused on doing even more. amy: but the shortage continues. "the wall street journal" reports operation fly formula has transported just one week's worth of formula and current stock is only meeting about

obviously the fda did the safety assessment.s, as we made a transference, deviously we have to make sure phase two is safe, but that we do that safety assessment in as timely manner as possible. we have to make sure that we get that phase two open, we have to make sure is open in a safe way. we've been working closely with the safety commission. can you give us a little bit of a sense, do you feel like, with a new general manager coming in, we have a timeline of later in the air to get this open to the public, do you have any concerns about us meeting those timelines? >> senator, from the information i've received through our regional office in philadelphia, that oversees wmata, the project is proceeding. it is in commissioning, that means they are doing testing. that is one of the reasons that it's now in wmata its hands to ensure that all the systems that have been installed are going to operate safely. the decision, then, once that testing is completed, would be the federal transit administration, they will be signing off on

obviously the fda did the safety assessment.s, as we made a transference, deviously we have to make sure phase two is safe, but that we do that safety assessment in as timely manner as possible. we have to make sure that we get that phase two open, we have to make sure is open in a safe way. we've been working closely with the safety commission. can you give us a little bit of a sense, do you feel like, with a new general manager coming in, we have a timeline of later in the air to get this open to the public, do you have any concerns about us meeting those timelines? >> senator, from the information i've received through our regional office in philadelphia, that oversees wmata, the project is proceeding. it is in commissioning, that means they are doing testing. that is one of the reasons that it's now in wmata its hands to ensure that all the systems that have been installed are going to operate safely. the decision, then, once that testing is completed, would be the federal transit administration, they will be signing off on

it's really bad look for the fda. >> it sure is, kim if the fda admits basically response to a lawsuitence. meanwhile we did want to put you out of business. now i guess we have to reconsider. i mean this is the kind of thing that really gives government a bad name. >> we convicted you without a trial. now are going to pause but believe us we are sure the excuse would come up with the next will be believable. come on you can bet jewel is going to take all of this and in deed the evidence of political pressure which is sitting right there the fda moved almost simultaneously with the senate democrats demanding juul be taken off the market but they're going to present all that in court for this going to be a really strong case this is not based on the legal merits but as a result of a political pressure campaign which juul was denied basic process under the safety trail. paul: if juul is banned will other vaping products be legal? what is the potential unintended consequences of banning vaping for there's no question nicotine is addictive. >> at his right to one potential consequences som

it comes as the fda considers a request to make birth control pills available for sale over the counter. stephanie gosk joins me stephanie, starting with the move by the administration o emergency care, what could that mean? >> lester, today the biden administration reminded hospitals that an existing federal law requires them to provide abortions if the life of the mother is at risk, even in states where the procedure is now banned it says that federal law preempts state laws many of which have recently changed this as the fda considers making birth control pills available over the counter for the first time ever. >> reporter: when the birth control pill was first approved, it ushered in a sexual revolution. >> birth control, especially the pill, provided women the choice. >> reporter: more than 60 years later, a french company is asking the fda to approve an over the counter version at a very different time in america's history. just weeks after the overturning of roe v. wade in that decision, the supreme court said the right to contraception would not be affected. but in a concurring

at the end of may, the fda commissioner said this.y expectation is that. >> more than 2 months, we should be beyond normal and with a plethora. but that deadline has come and gone. what is timeline? when can we see our own u.s. supply back to what it was before this crisis that this happened? plan? >> i would say by early to mid august, we should continue to see very significant improvements in on shelf availability. >> again, that was evan lambert reporting for us tonight. >> and now kron 4 sports. >> one of the many great side effects of the local nba team going the distance and winning the finals. well, you've got something to distract. you. well, you wait for football season to start now. the forty-niners do report to training camp until tuesday. the raiders had their first day of training camp practice yesterday. and boy, there's some juicy storylines for las vegas this season. it's the first year with new head coach josh mcdaniels. davante adams is now a raider and this team looks poised to compete in the afc west division, whic

i know fda and cdc are considering this.a decision from them relatively soon, but we will see. obviously there are all the other things we can do to prevent infections. last wu not least, jose, one more important point, we've worked really hard to make treatments widely available. if you're over 50, you get infected, talk to your doctor. go to covid.gov and find a site. treatments are also a really important way of keeping people from getting very sick. >> so if you get treatment, get paxlovid, for example and get covid now and you get covid in three months, then you can't do paxlovid? >> no, that's not true. >> no? >> no. if you get infected now and you get paxlovid -- anybody who is at elevated risk of a bad outcome should absolutely have that as a consideration. and then if you get another infection three, four months from now, that does not make you ineligible for paxlovid again. the truth is paxlovid is keeping people out of the hospital, keeping people from the icu and worse. we should be making sure that everybody who

i just think it's an important violation of the law of the fda should be tracking. but you don't track it. >> the transit agencies as you may know of them they collect with a very different matter and the information that is provided to us has to do with the resources, the sources of funds that build their budgets. >> let's go on to the topic of the capital investment grants. last year's infrastructure law requires the transit agencies make progress on their deferred maintenance of the transit systems in order to be eligible to receive a cig grant and the idea is helping to protect federal taxpayers so they are not being spent on large capital projects for transit agencies who are not even properly maintaining their existing systems. my concern is the interim guidance that the fda has put out makes a mockery of this requirement from the statute. there are four categories of assets on which there are deferred maintenance backlogs. rolling stock equipment, facilities and infrastructure. your interim guidance allows the agency to make no progress whatsoever. in factte

dave submitted to the fda, the american lung association is pushing for the fda to actually do more. some of its members say the fda should also get all flavored and synthetic products off of store shelves. >>>> vhis made it very clear he has that authority and put on a strict time. what you'll has s, ped hundreds of thousasa if not millions of us make this transition away from the most dangerous form of nicotine consumption. >> a probate groups warn the new gulations could backfire on public health. adult smoking advocates say the fda's decision could turn millions to smoking tobacco cigarettes faster, more reliable response to emergency calls. that is the promise of the newly merged fire protection districtn the east bay. the much anticipated consolidation of the contra costa county fire protection district and the east contra costa fire protection district became official today. a ceremony was held this morning in brentwood to mark the ansfer of power east contra costa fire chief brian helmick called today's merger historic. 10 years ago. today we shutter station 94. >> on july 1,

i think the fda stood up. what is so hard about this you are making decisions with far fewer data than you normally would because we are in the the pandemic. >> absolutely. you mention the encroachment of politics into medical science of public health. clearly negative examples. can you think historically of any good examples of politics interfering in science and public health? are there good examples out there. >> what i would say a good example let's go back to the trump administration i think the decision to put $24 billion into this effort. the name operation warp speed was not the best choice the safety guidelines. what they did there they basically said the vaccine was a risk they did not wait for finishing of the phase three trial to see if the vaccine worked or to see if it was safe they built the building to mass-produce it if it didid not work they were going to throw the vaccine away. and when you saw the trials were successful you could roll the right off the shelves. that was an example of the go

the fda's review may take 10 months or so. dr.llavicencio heads equity transformation for the american college of obstetricians and gynecologists, or acog, and she joins me now. she joins me now. weome to the newshour. let's start with your view on this. should the fda approve this over-the-counter status? dr. villavicencio: thank you so much for having me. and as a board-certified obstetrician and gynecologist, i am thrilled to see this application. we are out of step with our peer countries as it comes to over-the-counter birth control. we have excellent data to show it is safe. we are excited the fda may allow over-the-counter birth control in the united states. amna: why has it taken the u.s. so long? dr. villavicencio: it is hard to speculate why this would be. the fda process is a complex one and a rigorous one, which should reassure viewers and people who are out there that if we get over-the-counter birth control we will know it is safe and reasonable to be over-the-counter. there are concerns about risk factors and compli

i really do feel like the fda was not at its best during that time. i think they really succumbed to what was a lot of arm-twisting by the administration. there was an administration that was looking for a medicine. the hydroxychloroquine had never been shown to work to either prevent this illness. convalescent plasma data was very weak and when you had sort of the fda commissioners standing up in front of the american public and saying 35 out of every n'hundred people whose infectedwill have their life saved by convalescent plasma i don't know what data he was looking at because that wasn't the data that was available . i think that was what scared me frankly. hywith doctor ezekiel emanuel wrote an op-ed fearing the october surprise. as we headed to the november election i was afraid that the administration reaches an operational work speed, all applicable vaccines that hadn't finished phase 3 trials, especially the two months to make sure there was no safety problem and that was going to take you beyond the election day but fortunately that didn't h

i mentioned the approval of that fda drug and pharmaceuticals. we should not be leery at all of having not tested in the court. we should not be passive in that regard. this is a constitutional right stripped from american women, leading us to minority rule. this is a dangerous moment in america, where the supreme court has decided to eliminate majority rule of guns, then save you, but the supreme court took that away. americans want freedom of choice for women read they took that away. americans want action on climate change. the supreme court's of the minority is now going to run the country. so, we should not be passive in this, we should be aggressive. we should do so. that is what we hope the president will do in every way possible. >> i want to get into more of what you are doing in washington. you want an amendment to your state constitution that guarantees a right to abortion. what is the process of that passing? >> short term, not good because we need a super majority in our legislature. we have democratic majorities but not super majori

i mention this issue about the fda approved drugs. pharmaceuticals. we should not be leery that all about having that tested in the courts. we should not be passive in this regard. this is a constitutional right that has been stripped of american women by republican court that is leading us down the road of minority rule. this is a very dangerous moment in america where the supreme court has decided to eliminates majority rule on guns, americans want a gun safety, but the supreme court took that away. americans want freedom of choice for women. they took that away. americans want action on crime climate range, and this is something the minority is going to run -- the country. we should not be passive in this. we should be aggressive, if we have to push the bounds of these matters, we should do so. and that's what we hope the president will do in every way possible. >> and i want to get into a little bit more about what you are doing in washington. you want an amendment to your state constitution that guarantees a right to abortion. what are the prospe

larry: and fda spokesperson tells the i-team, during an ongoing investigation, the fda names ingredientsnly when there's enough evidence linking that specific ingredient to illness or injury. currently the fda is conducting sample analysis on multiple ingredients. kristen: the house of representatives is said to vote on a bill that would protect the use of contraceptives. house speaker nancy pelosi joined the author of the belted announced efforts to restrict the use of birth control. supreme court justice clarence thomas indicated that the courts should review the rights to contraception. the bill would establish a statutory right for individuals to access and use contraceptives like birth control pills, iud's, an emergency contraception like plan b. >> these extremists are working to take away the rights of women, to take away a right to decide when to have children, to take away our right to control our own lives and bodies. we will not let this happen. kristen: the house will vote on the bill tomorrow. larry: now to the global heat wave is affecting millions. president biden taking n

fda is inspecting more doses in denmark. one company that makes the vaccine doses that we are focused on. those doses will be coming over the upcoming weeks. we are incredibly focused on making sure the vaccine doses get to the united states and get out to places like, new york city. claimant do we wish we had more doses, of course. we had a stockpile and what we need is more. we are getting more. i'm very sympathetic to people who want these doses today. i was say to them, is coming in the days and weeks. >> in general, what do people need to know about monkeypox? >> what people need to know, we are seeing this largely in the lgbtq community. for people in the community, if you have symptoms, a fever, a rush, get tested to make sure it is not monkeypox. whatever it is, get that treated. that's key point number one. point number two, as i said, this is not some novel virus we have tests, vaccines, therapies. we are building up capacity on all of them. they will become more readily available to the american people. we will ha

companies that the fda has approved.hey are from r.j. reynolds, and british american tobacco. all of the thousands of companies have never been part of big tobacco, they have been denied or are still waiting and will probably keep waiting for a lot longer. the public health community will always try -- they'll have their own ends and we have to balance out. not that their ends are bad, but you have to be upfront about balancing against monopoly, thinking about state markets, and the consumers. sometimes these objectives can conflict with one another. >> one question on those lines. should there be special protections for minority businesses? in jersey it so long to implement legal recreational cannabis. there was a demand that you had to have a carveout. the communities were hardest hit by the war on drugs, cory booker will not protect the safe banking act. does there need to be a government regulation to make sure the minority businesses can compete against walmart and amazon? >> i don't know if there needs to be a prot

i really do feel like the fda was not at its best during that time. i think they really succumbed to what was a lot of arm-twisting bythe administration . it was an administration that was looking for a magic medicine. the hydroxychloroquine and never been shown to work to either prevent this illness. convalescent plasma data were very weak and when you had some fda commissioners standing up in front of the american public setting 35 out of every hundred people are infected with this virus will have their life by convalescent plasma i don't know what data he waslooking at because that certainly wasn't the data that were available . so i think that was one that scared me frankly. when i see doctor emmanuel wrote an op-ed in the new york times physically saying hearing about an october surprise as we headed to november 3 elections i was afraid that sort of the administration would reach his hand into the operation and the lockable vaccines that hadn't finished phase 3 trials especially two months after last dose to make sure there was no safety problem

at the end of may, the fda commissioner said this.expectation is that. >> more than 2 months, we should be beyond normal and with the plethora. but that deadline has come and gone. what is timeline? when can we see our own u.s. supply back to what it was before this crisis that this happened? plan? >> i would say by early to mid august, we should continue to see very significant improvements in on shelf availability. >> that was evan lambert reporting for us tonight. >> still ahead, meeting canceled the high stakes school board meeting in uvalde. that was postponed. the board member that's facing the possibility of being fired for his response to the massacre at robb elementary. >> and today we saw cooler temperatures in the bay area below average highs for downtown san francisco at 62 degrees. before we warm up again for the 2nd half of your weekend, your full weekend outlook after the break. >> welcome back. our top story this half-hour as teachers and staff gear up for the new school year, there's a new heightened sense of urgency

including this fda issue. we have a very effective telemedicine's of system in our state where women can contact the position in our state from anywhere. actually anywhere in the world, and get good reproductive advice, and prescriptions. and we intend to guard our ability for our physicians to provide that telemedicine help, and we need the federal government then to help us affirm that the fda has privacy over this issue so these can be shipped to women across the country. that our project will be a major issue. we intend to prevail, women deserve it. >> now, it shifting to a topic i know you are particularly passionate about. last thursday they supreme court ruled to restrict the epa's ability to regulate greenhouse gases. you're extremely critical of this ruling, saying the federal government would now be much less effective at limiting pollution, and shift more of the burden to the state. how is washington state going to pick up some of that burden? >> well, we have to recognize a reality. at the moment,

at the end of may, the fda commissioner said this.ctation is that. >> within 2 months we should be but young, normal and with the plethora. but that deadline has come and gone. what is timeline? when can we see our own u.s. supply back to what it was before this crisis that this happened? plan? >> i would say by early to mid august, we should continue to see very significant improvements in on shelf availability. >> that was evan lambert reporting for us tonight. >> the mega millions grand prize. now up to 790 million dollars after there was no jackpot winner from last night's drawing. it's a big one, guys. it's the 4th largest jackpot in u.s. history. there's not been a winner and 3 months, pretax 790 million dollar prize is for the winner. who takes the annuity option? that money is paid out in 30 annual payments. the california lottery is advising players, though, to buy their tickets in person this time around. we tell our players avoid buying tickets online or through a 3rd party delivery service because those are regulated or ev

at the end of may, the fda commissioner said this.s that. >> within 2 months we should be but young, normal and with the plethora. but that deadline has come and gone. what is timeline? when can we see our own u.s. supply back to what it was before this crisis that this happened? plan? >> i would say by early to mid august, we should continue to see very significant improvements in on shelf availability. >> and we'll be right back. a jelly bean that's good for you? try nature's bounty jelly bean vitamins. good-for-you nutrients in a tastier-for-you form. more sweet dreams. more flavorful immune support. get more with nature's bounty jelly beans. we changed our fries to make 'em hot & crispy every single time. high-fryve! and every single time, toby insists we “high fryve.” high-fryve? high-fryve. high-fryve!! it'll catch on. right?! try wendy's hot & crispy fries! preferred almost 2:1 over mcdonald's. nasa plans to kick off its next mission to the moon on august. 29th just about a month from now, the announcement comes on the annivers

the fda fda wants companies to show that their e-cigarettes benefit public health. the fda says it will conduct a further review of juul's products. and now to southern california where today a jury found the man accused of killing rapper nipsey hussle guilty of first-degree murder. the man 32 year-old eric holder junior and hustle had known one another for years. >> when a chance meeting outside the grammy-winning rapper zell a clothing store led to the shooting and to hustles death. the the evidence against holder was eyewitnesses to surveillance cameras from local businesses that captured his arrival on scene, the shooting and his departure holder could get life in prison when he's sentenced on september. the 15th. >> the husband of rapper nicki is expected to be sentence for failing to register as a offender in california. kenneth petty pleaded guilty to the federal charge last year and faces a minimum sentence of 5 years supervised release that he was convicted of attempted rape in new york back in 1995. for an incident that occurred with a 16 year-old girl the

, through the pharmacy closet the constitutionalist, preempt state laws that disagree with the fda'sion about the efficacy and safety of those drugs. so, there is currently a lawsuit being waged now in mississippi, with a pharmaceutical company suing the state, because the states trigger ban effectively, for closest the prospect of prescribing medication abortion. and they are sitting on the grounds of that violation of the supremacy clause, and the fda preemption. it would be great if you could have the f da, echoed by attorney general merrick garland, about the fda granting, about medication abortion. but even just the general, you, no information provided to the public at that, about the efficacy of a medication abortion, about how to get it with a useful period, so many options are being foreclosed. and this is a very safe option that still available. >> i'm so glad you talked about the fda, because it's something that we've been following here in one of the regulatory pieces that could fall in. steph, find a question to you how do you see this all playing in the midterms? and by

essentially, currently, the fda policy in the u.s. is any man that reports sex with another man in the last three months will be deferred. this has been a change. it used to be a permanent ban in the '80s that was introduced, went down to one year in 2015 but now it is a three-month but it is still a blanket deferral, and advanced study -- go ahead. >> no, i was just going to ask you, you know, why is that? explain to somebody why that is the case. >> so currently, you know, the evidence regarding the testing that is performed on blood donations, there is a potential window period and, you know, right now the fda does have this three-month deferral but the question really is that really the optimal strategy and what is the advanced study is looking at the primary goal to provide data to the fda to potentially change it from this blanket three-month deferral to instead more of a risk based approach where you ask specific questions that help determine risk and then determines whether or not a deferral is needed. >> so sounds like your s

in the meantime the fda is trying to make things easier for women who want birth control pills. right now the emergency contraceptive pill called plan b , is available without a prescription. but birth controls are not and many companies are appealing to the fda to change that. >> we know birth control is safe and to be over-the-counter and we never made and the barriers and the need to intervene in order to receive this medication for so many people will make it much easier for people to be able to determine and to live their lives and the way that they want to. and that means preventing pregnancy. >> tonight on nbc nightly news at 6:30 pm, with the sticking points will be for the fda and how long the decision to take . >>> an important update for parents struggling to find baby formula. the factory in michigan is once again producing formula. the abbott february recall and shut down played a large role in the national shortage of baby formula. the plant got up and running in early june but was forced to close again weeks later because of storm damage. production of a specialty

by the fda in the next couple of weeks.g in the days and weeks ahead you'll see vaccine availability become far more widespread. we made a lot of progress on testing availability. it's true that this is a virus we've known about for a long time and have the tools. we haven't had an outbreak like this before or certainly in the last decade. we are doing everything we can. and i think you're missing the fruits of all of that in the days an weeks ahead. >> i want to get your reaction to a new gao report that the cdc is still not prepared to respond to disease threats posed by international travel. they can unable to quickly and identify the number of passengers exposed to a specific infected passenger on a flight. does that worry you, especially now that we have relaxed or eliminated the requirement for testing before return flights from overseas? >> we really are in a different moment in the pandemic where we have relaxed a lot of the international masking and testing. we need cdc and other agencies to be able to jump. what w

we will be in touch with the additional questions and as we learn more she asked if the fda had beenthat but thanked him and said she'd passed this to the investigation team asap. i'll go to the end of the earth to save one person from going through it. i've gone through i want a daily harvest to do the same due to the ongoing investigation the fda would not tell abc 7 news, if or when daily harvest contacted the fda daily harvest tells abc 7 news it enacted its voluntary recall on june 17th when it sent out. it's initial email to customers. buthiily harvest customers who didn't check email or spouses and children who weren't the prepared an eighth of product not knowing about the recall on june 19th, tashi messaged ray on linkedin again. i am pleading for you to please let medical professionals know what is going on. please let the news outlets know that afternoon the company posted about the issue on its website. it wasn't until june 23rd six days after its voluntary recall in the form of an email. customers that daily harvest issued a company announcement which was posted publicly

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-- the fda told the companies add in omicron. now they are add in something specifically for ba 4 and 5. the week of june 18th, 37% of all strains in the u.s. were ba 4 and 45 which is a sub variant of omicron. now it's 52%. that's in one week. that's a human jump. they said these two strains are winners. they know how to go out there and beat the other strains, put it in the shot. >> i want to you about hospital v izations. the numbers are rising. there's about 30,000 that have doubled over the past two months. this is something public health experts are concerned about? >> yes. seeing rise in cases makes people concerned. take rising hospitalizations. take a look at this on may 2nd until now. the number of hospitalizations has risen dramatically. yes, that is of concern especially since people have just gotten very lax about wearing masks and other kinds of mitigation efforts. i know we feel like we're past covid, 300 americans are dying every day of covid. 300 american lives lost every day. i know it's not in thousands but sti

fda has to do lock release. they have to inspect the doses to make sure they were appropriately manufactured. they're doing the same point as they're deploying the 800,000 doses. those are going to cities. as soon as fda finishes that, which should be this week, those doses can be distributed or used on patients. i think the vaccine situation is going to improve dramatically. you'll see hundreds of thousands of doses available. the white house has intervened to take control of the response away from the cdc. this can't be our response. when the cdc drops the ball, the white house steps in. we need to fundamentally reform how we respond to these crises. >> you wrote a book on that. i want to ask you about covid. 54% of americans live in an area of high covid community spread. that's up from 31% the prior week. that seems fast moving. what is different about these variants now? >> well, look, it's the b. 5 variant that's growing. it does seem to be the b. 2 infection confers more robust immunity against b. 5. nort

miss depending on the city and the websites not doing well in cities like new york and dc -- >> the fda has not been doing well. >> so i think we do need coordinated action to help people get tested. we know it's very hard to get tested for monkey pox right now. to get tested and get vaccinated, and that kind of, i will use the term bigoted language, that makes it seem like the only people that get this are from one group of americans. guess what? gay men have friends and family members and colleagues and this is not just transmitted through sexual activity but close contact. you don't fight diseases and glad brought up hiv/aids. you don't fight diseases by caricaturing the people who debt them at one point in time but through a whole host of campaigns but the government can play a role in making some of this easier and i hope they do because it's a public health emergency right now. >> in getting access to the vaccines and distributing them, the fda has been shameful and shame on them for not going to the facilities where they're already in viles and ready to go and ready to ship. but

the fda went to court to block the release of the results of pfizer's clinical trial for 75 years on their vaccine, and think we a judge refused. now that the documents are out, it shows appalling information in those documents it lots of injuries and deaths, especially. pregnant women lost their babies. so my question is, does the republican -- we're the democrats don't want people to know what's in those documents, but are the republicans going to subpoena fda officials and people at pfizer when they take over congress to get to the bottom of this? i think the american people have a right to know what is in those stock ends, when politicians are pushing people to take these obviously unsafe vaccines. doctors have examined. guest: full transparency is certainly what the american people deserve on -- relate to our agencies, particularly places like the fda, and relationships with drug companies or any medical device. medical companies. that is very important. really the same thing with food. supreme court ruling just came about, related to reining in the epa. reining in agencies. not