at the federation of american scientists in washington d.c. so i thank you for your time. a petition to cancel the tookie a lympics has been submitted to games organizers on friday 350000 people signed a petition in just 9 days when it comes as the country faces a 4th wave of corner virus infections the capital tokyo osaka and other prefectures already under a state of emergency but the government appears commit to opening the olympics on the 23rd of july a series of test events have been hell to check safety protocols and organizers say a spectator free olympics is also a possibility none of that has however dampened the growing public opposition to the games. almost nothing has gone as planned ahead of what is still called the tokyo 2020 olympics at a wednesday news conference even brian your question please a man posing as a journalist staged a cancel the olympics protest for the olympic committee's spokesman. where no olympics anywhere. you know. we don't want the olympics used anymore. not that great no i'm sorry to disappoint you that it was me not the president toda

at the federation of american scientists in washington d.c. so i thank you for your time. a petition to cancel the tookie a lympics has been submitted to games organizers on friday 350000 people signed a petition in just 9 days well that comes as the country faces a 4th wave of corona virus infections the capital tokyo osaka and other prefectures already under a state of emergency but the government appears commit to opening the olympics on the 23rd of july a series of tests events have been hell to check safety protocols and organizers say a spectator free olympics is also a possibility none of that has however dampened the growing public opposition to the games. almost nothing has gone as planned ahead of what is still called the tokyo 2020 olympics at a wednesday news conference even by your question please a man posing as a journalist staged a cancel the olympics protest for the olympic committee's spokesman. anywhere no olympics anywhere. we don't want the olympics and use turning off some of. that great know i'm sorry to disappoint you that it was me not the presiden

and if you me all assistant senior fellow at the federation of american scientists in washington, d. c. dr. welcome. i'd like to begin with seeking some clarity 1st, the so called lab leak. terry is taken by some to mean a deliberate leak from the one lab. other say it could have been an accidental leak, and there's also suggestions the chinese scientists were carrying out lab experiments. they shouldn't have been. which theory is the us investigating later having the lovely theory is obviously a very controversial topic previously thought. be a conspiracy theory, but in certain ways, a lively theory. this is the institute ology. it could be a complete accident and the accidental leakage of a naturally occurring buyers. that's honestly the most plausible of the lab leak theory. but the last week in itself is not the most possible. the most plausible is just natural infection that to an animal from bad to another animal, to humans that occur naturally, nature is probably the most likely lab leak. it's possible there is not enough evidence. it's just circumstantial evidence. lab techni

dr eric final thing a little bit earlier an epidemiologist and senior fellow at the federation of american scientists he said there are steps india can take to bring this situation under control. india right now has reached so out of control that a certain rigor is definitely what is needed now i want to emphasize lockdowns are difficult this is why a lot to be combined with government assistance to help people stay at home because when they don't have help people won't be able to stay home so this is really key to a lot of must be combined with governments but that obviously we need more than just that we need to actually have rapid testing i don't know p.c.r. testing is limited but rapid antigen testing are very inexpensive and can easily be purchased in the hundreds of millions and so those new really need to be deployed and of course the oxygen crisis you know there's besides austin shipments you can also we need to ramp up oxygen concentrator from machines that can actually do novo concentrate oxygen supply for people we need all that now and of course on top of that vaccine production vaccine s

me all assistant senior fellow at the federation of american scientists in washington dc. dr. welcome, i'd like to begin with seeking some clarity 1st the so called lab leak. terry is taken by some to mean a deliberate leak from the one lab. other say it could have been an accidental leak . and there's also suggestions that chinese scientists were carrying out lab experiments they shouldn't have been. which theory is the us investigating? later having a lovely theory is obviously a very controversial topic previously thought. be a conspiracy theory, but in turn away a lively theory. this is a to our ology. it could just be a complete accident and the accidental leakage of a naturally occurring buyers. that's honestly the most plausible of lab leak theory, but the lively can itself is not the most possible. the most plausible is just natural infection to an animal for that's another animal to humans that occur naturally. nature is probably the most likely lab leak. it's possible there is not enough evidence, it's just circumstantial evidence. lab technicians got sick. oh, littl

eric feigelman, with the federation of american scientists and both are co-authors of a new op ed inws," covid remains a dire threat. how to keep schools safe. dr. patel, first of all, will the honor system work? how do you know who is vaccinated? who isn't? should there be some sort of vaccine passports, what do you do? >> yeah, andrea, good to be with you, and i think that the honor system doesn't work, and not because people are trying to be malicious or have bad intentions, honestly, we just know that people are going to walk up to that home depot and if they see everyone going in being maskless, human psychology will make it hard to evercome that. without an honor system we do need federal technical guidance. they do not want to issue vaccine passport, we understand that, so that all of these dozens of apps being developed have some promotion that they're free, help in different languages and interchangeable. imagine having five different apps on the phone to communicate the same thing, and that's where most of us, if we look at europe other and countries, they have put a premiu

doctorate final thing with us on al-jazeera never to me ologist senior fellow at the federation of american scientists and former health economists at the harvard chan school of public health lovely to have you with us dr i mentioned earlier john if you heard what dr anthony felt she was one of the people saying actually we need a nationwide lockdown and we need it now and we need it for a few weeks would you agree with that that could act as i think they call it almost a circuit breaker. yok india right now has reached so out of control that a certain group is definitely what is needed now i want to emphasize lockdowns are difficult this is why a lot to be combined with government assistance to help people stay at home because when they don't know how to help people won't be able to stay at home so this is really key to lock and must be combined with governments but that obviously we need more than just that we need to actually have rapid testino p.c.r. testing is limited but the rapid energy in testing are very inexpensive and can easily be purchased in the hundreds of millions and so those new real

eric frankel thing from a little bit earlier an epidemiologist senior fellow at the federation of american scientists he talked about the steps that india can take to bring the situation under control. india right now has reached so out of control that a certain group is definitely what is needed now i want to emphasize lockdowns article this is why not be combined with government assistance to help people stay home because when they don't know how to help people won't be able to stay home so this is really key to a lot of must be combined with governments but that obviously we need more than just that we need to actually have rapid testing i know p.c.r. testing is limited but rapid indigent testing are very inexpensive and can easily be purchased in the hundreds of millions and so those new really need to be deployed and of course the oxygen crisis you know there's because i was also in shipments you can also we need oxygen concentrator from machines that can actually do novo concentrated oxygen supply for people we need all of that now and of course on top of that vaccine production and vaccine sha

me all interesting senior fellow at the federation of american scientists in washington dc. dr. welcome, i'd like to begin with seeking some clarity 1st, the so called lab leak. terry is taken by some to mean a deliberate leak from the one lab. other say it could have been an accidental leak . and there's also suggestions that chinese scientists were getting out lab experiments. they shouldn't have been. which, terry is the us investigating? later having a lovely theory is obviously a very controversial topic previously thought. be a conspiracy theory. but in turn away a lively theory. this is a to our ology. it could be a complete accident. and the accidental leakage of a naturally occurring buyers. that's honestly the most plausible of lavalley theory. but the last week in itself is not the most possible. the most plausible is just natural infection to an animal from bats and other animals. humans that occur naturally, nature is probably the most likely lab leak. it's possible there is not enough evidence. it's just circumstantial evidence. lab technician got 6. 0, little sate

looking at americans to listen to the scientists and also listen to themselves do more than 50 other stakeholders invested and reopening schools including leaders from the american federation of teachers. >> it's important to understand the implementation components. they do show to ensure that recommendations are feasible and that they adequately address the safety and well-being of the individual guidance aim to protect. >> we made a graphic to show how similar what the teachers union asks for is to what the cdc included in their guidance on reopening. so it's almost a mirror image. you see on the left with the teachers union wanted in the event of high community transition results from a new variant of sars covid-19, a new update of these guidelines may be necessary. on the right of the reopening guidance, basically the same thing. we will see if this comes up in president biden's remarks this afternoon, he is scheduled to speak about all the ways that the federal government is spending $2 trillion of the stimulus, earlier was not asked about it to be fair, and during the first trip to a washington, d.c., eatery he went to a taqueria. >> john: all right, peter doocy with f