the fact that the food and drug administration failed to properly regulate the claims that produce was making the failure of the medical establishment. and the fact that it took money from purdue and other opioid makers and promoted aggressive use of state medical boards that failed to regulate the way in which doctors prescribing and even encouraged aggressive prescribing there's a lot of blame to go around the question is is who is guilty or who should feel guilty i don't know that anybody feels too guilty i kind of wish a few more people did feel a little more guilty despite public outcry pharmaceutical companies find new and creative ways to market their heroin builds. what's in the parts lauren and we do have pounder we can employ from there and it looks to be very opioid centric including painkillers marketed to children the food and drug administration announced about a month ago that they were determining that oxycontin is safe and effective for children 11 and up which is very disturbing most of the companies that now operate in these bases in this space have gone dark. it's n

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the food and drug administration is expected to meet this week to discuss the issue. dr.ashish jha is the dean of the brown institute school of public health. he joins me now. thank you for joining us and for all you do. >> thank you so much for having me on. >> over the weekend donald trump called the u.s. death toll of 350,000 plus fake news, this despite so many families mourning their loved ones and hospitals at full capacity. what do you say to a u.s. president who calls the official death toll fake news and refuses to take responsibility for his own mishandling of this pandemic? >> so, it's so deeply disturbing. first of all, uts not fake news. it's real news. it's probably an underestimate of the number of people who have died from this pandemic in the united states. his comments are so deeply disrespectful towards the families of those loved ones. their losses are not fake news. it is just shocking to me that this is where our president is right now in the last days of his -- his last days in office, refuses not only to take responsibility but really tries to eras

of the availability accident been 3 and pulls the administration of vaccines until the investigation by the centers for disease control and prevention food and drug administration madonna and the state is complete now all the incidents are said to have happened at the same community clinic and they are reportedly this clinic was closed for several hours after adverse reactions to the vaccine now what we're hearing from the state epidemiologist of california is saying that less data exists on adverse reactions to the modern a vaccine and that modern a is now reviewing the incident but it is rare for vaccines to trigger serious side effects now it's important to note that back in december there was an incident in boston where a physician he received the vaccine and within minutes started having adverse health effects allergic reactions that was back in boston so that incident is being looked into so when it comes to the state of california the numbers are worth looking at we've got 2900000 cases of coded 193-3392 deaths so far daily deaths are in the hundreds from coded 19 this is how hospitals are dealing with it. i've been here 21 years and i've

of the availability accident density and pulls the administration of vaccines until the investigation by the centers for disease control and prevention food and drug administration madonna and the state is complete the szell's in california have called for a temporary halt to the vaccine from the pharma giant known as madonna the stated reason a higher than usual number of adverse effects all of the incidents are reported to have taken place at a single community clinic in california the site was closed down for several hours after the adverse reactions happened is switched to another batch of the drug and currently madonna is investigating what exactly took place but not many others would follow suit even when things got more serious in norway people die after receiving the pfizer bio and the tech jab well those who died were elderly folks with serious basic disorders at this point we've got fires there and. on the tech conducting an investigation along with the norwegian regulators it is important to remember that about 45 people die every day in nursing homes in norway so we does not a given that this represents any excess mortality well that i

it was really a consequence of more than a decade of work to strengthen the food and drug administrationhere i worked in the bush administration, and a lot of work done at nih and work done in the pharmaceutical industry. there were some outstanding people out the fruit and -- food and drug administration that were ready to go for this moment. it would have been easy today -- to say [indiscernible] unfold, we will take a different course. he put a tremendous amount of pressure on these people to get it done quickly and they worked very hard and very long to get it done. so truly, on the base of the scientific achievements, and frankly what it will mean for america getting out of the pandemic, it is a huge achievement that should not be minimized. let's not forget there are a lot of people that dismiss that and said it is an impossible timeline and it would not work and people questioned the safety of the vaccine once they were approved, which is something we are living with, the legacy of that. i myself, i'm not in the risk group yet or in the eligible category here in washington, d.c.,

. >> we take you live now to a conversation with food and drug administration commissioner stephen hahn about the fda's response to the coronavirus pandemic. >> challenge and pain, communities and families have faced turmoil and tragedy and we've seen extraordinary examples of courage and resolve. the fda has been at the center of the governor's efforts to combat this health emergency and this, too, has faced personal channels. we have worked hard to meet these challenges with unprecedented scientific effort and diligence. the agency's workload increased significantly to meet the extraordinary demand of covid-19 on the order of approximately doubling of our normal work. and our work force responded in kind, taking on these new challenges while continuing to fulfill our regular mission critical responsibilities. i'd like to address both aspects of this commitment and i'll start by giving you a small sampling of some of our non-covid related achievements from the past year. our team worked diligently to address food supply issues during this crisis and support employers and employees to p

. >> stephen hahn the head of the food and drug administration gave an update on the agency's response to the coronavirus pandemic including the implications of new strains of the virus and challenges of vaccine distribution. hosted by the alliance for health policy, this is about one hour. >> dr. hahn was sworn in as the 24th commissioner of food and drugs on december 17, 2019. he is a physician, scientist, healthcare leader with an extensive background in patient care, academic research and executive leadership, dr. hahn is a dedicated commissioner in medical oncology and radiation oncology. doctor, thank you so much for being with us today and now i turn over to you for your opening remarks. >> good morning and happy new year to everyone, doctor thank you for that kind introduction into the alliance for hosting today at this series, i very much been looking forward to this, it's an honor to be part of this tradition of this rigorous discussion on public policy and public health and i want to echo my thanks to the press for what they have done to bring information to the american peo

. >> stephen hahn the head of the food and drug administration gave an update on the agency's responseo the coronavirus pandemic including the implications of new strains of the virus and challenges of vaccine distribution. hosted by the alliance for health policy, this is about one hour. >> dr. hahn was sworn in as the 24th commissioner of food and drugs on

food and drug administration has approved the first long acting hiv drug cocktail that would require shots just once a month instead of daily pills. it is expected to help people stick to their cocktail and to do so with more privacy, not too long ago people had to take multiple pills several times a day usually around meals. drug makers hope this will improve their quality of life. still ahead, a woman explains what happened when she had an allergic reaction to the coronavirus vaccine end. >>and san diego says she had an allergic reaction to the covid vaccine that she got at the petco park mass vaccination site yeah she says shortly after getting the shot her blood pressure changed and that she felt her throat closing up, but despite her reaction she still urging people to get that vaccine. jeff mcadam has her message. >>the streets of downtown san diego continue to be logjam with traffic people in line to get their covid vaccines might has been was hesitant at first about getting the shot. so i couldn't sunsets are both seniors. >>that we should go get the shot share of britain says

food and drug administration. the fda is alerting patients and health care providers of the risk of false results, particularly false negative results with the curative sars covid 2 test what that essentially means is if you come in with symptoms you get tested. and the results come back positive you probably do have coronavirus however if you have symptoms get tested and it comes back negative there's a chance that those results are inaccurate now the fda has recommended that physicians who suspect a false negative should get their patients tested again. they're also putting out recommendations that the folks who administer these tests. >>very closely follow. the guidelines for taking the samples the not nasal swabs and also for sending the samples off to be tested now we did get a statement from the company curative today. the ceo fred turner said we are confident in our data and we are working with the fda closely on the matter testing sensitivity and accuracy on behalf of our patients is at the heart of our wor

food and drug administration. e fda is alerting patients and health care providers of the risk of false results, particularly false negative results with the curative sars covid 2 test what that essentially means is if you come in with symptoms get tested. and the results come back positive you probably do have coronavirus however if you have symptoms you get tested and it comes back negative. there's a chance that those results are inaccurate now the fda has recommended that physicians who suspect a false negative should get their patients tested again. they're also putting out recommendations that the folks who administer these tests. >>very closely follow. the guidelines for taking the samples the not nasal swabs and also for sending the samples off to be tested now we did get a statement from the company curative today. the ceo fred turner said we are confident in our data and we are working with the fda closely on the matter testing sensitivity and accuracy on behalf of our patients is at the heart of our work