that obviously the reason that's really the reason you were the commissioner for indian food and drug administration but you don't think you, you, some of the blame i was going to be the hoseley and all my b b. i might, they may need a more awesome program i and that you lose last friday and now i'm on the same model. was the furnished b, r b has been those water mark. unfortunately, the why do you need to do international tandem? if you are the one in my, where you are, is where the vaccines are so high. isn't this something much more fundamental, this near liberal policies of big pharma, of the closeness between governments and big pharma and how they operate, versus the great success of your neighbor with similar kind of population? the people's republic of china. listen, the process. i be sort of when data and the ad on the i don't care if it's life or death. they have the vaccine. who cares who licenses? i mean, do you think, i mean this is life or death for in his population? surely these issues by the but they're about money and about rights. who cares? i use the binding all of the engagement

beginning in britain, we speak to the ex commissioner of indian food and drug administration, about why the vaccine production capital in the world can't vaccinate its own people. all this coming up into is going on the ground. the 1st is britain continues to come to grips with testimony for next top advisors, u k, p. m, or johnson. with the reason britain had one of the worst per capita death rates on earth just incompetence. and bureaucracy, or is it something more profound? something to do with the structure of british capitalism and join now from italy by professor guy standing for economic advisor to the shattered chance or the exchequer under jeremy corbin, an author of the corruption of capitalism. why ron th thrive and work does not pay . thank so much guy for coming back on the show, which we were all in italy obviously, but i think you caught up with some of the evidence from johnson's consillio area. dominic cummings was the u. k. koby response, do you think hijacked in the interests of rented capitalism as outlined in your book here? well, it is extraordinary incidence that

which seeks to ban sales of all flavored vapor and tobacco products in a statement the food and drug administration predicts that banning menthol the last allowable flavor in cigarettes and banning all flavors and cigars will help save lives particularly among those disproportionately affected by these deadly products who are those disproportionately affected and with menthol. accounting for one 3rd of all cigarette sales how will big tobacco fight back let's ask attorney sara papen tonio of the 11 papen tonio rafferty law firm sara right off the bat this looks contentious proponents of this ban point to those disproportionately affected as the 85 to 90 percent of african american smokers and vapors prefer an menthol products while oh ponens civil rights groups fear over policing of black communities lots to unpack here sarah where do you see all this headed. well to start holland this ban has the potential to encourage 1000000 people to quit smoking has the potential to save a lot of lives just by banning a flavor of tobacco so this shouldn't respond as a racial injustice issue should be viewed as

which seeks to ban sales of all flavored vapor and tobacco products in a statement the food and drug administration predicts that banning menthol the last allowable flavor in cigarettes and banning all flavors and cigars will help save lives particularly among those disproportionately affected by these deadly products who are those disproportionately affected and with menthol accounting for one 3rd of all cigarette sales how will big tobacco fight back let's ask attorney sara papen tonio of the. evan papen tonio rafferty law firm sarah right off the bat this looks contentious pro ponens of this ban point to those disproportionately affected as the 85 to 90 percent of african american smokers and vapors prefer menthol products while 0 ponens civil rights groups fear over policing of black communities lots to unpack here sarah where do you see all this headed. well to start holland this ban has the potential to encourage nearly 1000000 people to quit smoking has the potential to save a lot of lives just by banning a flavor of tobacco so this should have respond as a racial injustice issue should be v

host: he is a member of the food and drug administration advisory panel. sarah is on the phone from indiana. good morning. caller: dr., i would like to ask you a question. i am 67 years old and due to religious reasons, i was born at home and delivered by a midwife. i never had no baby shots for flu shots ever. how do you know? can you tell me for sure that if i take this vaccine but it will do -- what it will do for me? a friend of ours had the covid shot it and -- in march and now she has the covid. 95% of the time, i did not wear a mask and i have had the flu and all that. i think i have had the covid because in march, i never said nothing to nobody, but i could not taste anything. i was not sick, but i cannot taste anything. i knew that was one of the symptoms. can you tell me for sure, if i take this shot, what will it do to me? it might kill me. can you guarantee that, where i have not had any shots? guest: the fact that you have not been vaccinated before does not put you at any risk of getting the vaccine. if you think you were previously infected,

then on monday, after rigorous, thorough review, the food and drug administration authorized the pfizer vaccine for use in that age category, 12 and up. today, an independent advisory committee for the cdc voted to recommend its use. pending the cdc's final approval later today, we are going to have for the first time a safe and effective covid-19 vaccine for adolescents over 12 years of age. this is one more giant step in our fight against the pandemic. i sincerely thank the scientists, researchers, and clinical participants that deserve our thanks. they have all made this possible. nearly 17 more americans are eligible to get vaccinated thanks to them, and now. i encourage each of them and their parents to get there vaccination shots right away. here's why. we know that kids, at this age, 12 and above, are at risk from covid-19. about 3 million covid-19 cases have been reported in kids under 17 years of age. teenagers can spread it to their friends, to their siblings, to their parents, and to their grandparents. now that vaccine is authorized for ages 12 and up. and i encourage parent

paul offit, the director of the food and drug administration visor committee and from philadelphia, thanks for being with us. why hesitancy by parents for the covid-19 vaccine? >> i think parents should be skeptical of anything that they put into their children's bodies. there was a study that was done by pfizer for children. 2300 children were divided. the vaccines induced excellent immune responses. there were 18 cases of covid in that study. i'm sure that the parents were very happy that their children were in the vaccine group and not the placebo group. that way their children had a 0% chance of suffering from covid. host: you are the author of the book deadly choices, how it threatens us all. who is behind this movement? >> it is a well-funded movement that is specifically trying to provide misinformation to the public to scare them away from vaccines. i have been writing about the anti-vaccine movement for years. there is nothing that they could have done that surprised me, but this surprises me. you have a pandemic that has infected many people. it is on its way to killing as many a

yesterday, the food and drug administration authorized the use of the pfizer vaccine in children as young12. and it comes after more than 2,000 adolescent volunteers were tested. laura podesta is in new york. laura, i know a lot of parents are wondering what this could mean when it comes to schools reopening across the country. >> reporter: good morning, anne-marie, yes, allowing kids 12 to 15 to get vaccinated is huge news for middle and high schoolers and it will mean a lot of teachers who are hesitant to return to the classroom maybe more willing now that students can get the shot. about 17 million children ages 12 to 15 can start getting the pfizer vaccine as soon as thursday after the fda expanded its emergency use authorization. >> we know this is a big step for our country. >> reporter: acting fda deputy commissioner janet woodcock. >> the agency undertook a rigorous and thorough review of all scientific data. >> reporter: pfizer's clinical trial showed the vaccine is highly effective in preventing covid-19 in young people and there are no serious side effects. >> to be able to par

and now that the food and drug administration has approved pfizer's covid-19 vaccine for everyone. 12 years of age or older. >> the san francisco department of public health has teamed up with community organizations to make doses available in the cities communities. it hardest by the virus. have many opportunities in low income communities. so them bringing it makes a difference saturday morning. the grand opening of the 3rd vaccination sites set up in the visitation valley and sunnydale neighborhoods. it's located at the samoan community development center. the public health department says it will operate saturday mornings and afternoons as long as it's needed. we have capacity at this 0. 400 people. >> obviously there's more of a need. we will we'll shift to meet that need. no appointment necessary drop ins are accepted as long as you're holding up to get vaccinated. you can get the shot and visitation valley we're at 62% vaccinated every shot and every arm gets closer to be unsafe as the city and safe as a country and closer to loved ones have my grandma. >> i love her so much th

the food and drug administration has approved its use on this age group and i'm excited to say that this is our 3rd site. >> in visitation valley. and this is due to the work of community and for folks understanding that we need to prioritize people who need the vaccine. >> the most, the san francisco department of public health says the clinic will operate on saturday mornings and afternoons. for now, the site has the capacity to vaccinate 100 people each day. it's open. we're so that, you know, more vaccine is available to more of the population. one of the things that we know is that this year has been very for everybody, but especially our adolescents who haven't had that social connections. and this is another way. >> to get back to normal. no appointment. necessary drop ins are accepted in visitation valley we're at 62% vaccinated and with the opening of this site. that number will continue. trending up as long as i live. >> you know, say thank you to my family safe. that's all that matters right now. grandma, i i had gotten sick. i don't want to go there to covid. so getting this

we are waiting the review from the food and drug administration.eporter: thanks so much for taking my question. the cdc has stopped monitoring breakthrough infections among vaccinated individuals, instead only investigating such cases if it resulted in a hospitalization or death. can you talk about why that is the right strategy? is there any increased worry about breakthrough infections now that everyone is starting to take off their masks -- their masks? dr. walensky: as we look at the breakthrough infections, those are the ones we are most concerned about. we want to study them to understand whether there is a variant involved. before we started breakthrough infections, we were studying hospitalizations. a large portion of them were fully asymptomatic. we are continuing to learn about breakthrough infections in the academic world as well. as we are bringing in capacity to study those coming in, we want to make sure we are limiting it to severe disease, hospitalization and death. >> next question. >> let's squeeze in one more question. reporter:

guest: my agency is fda, the food and drug administration. i am upset with canned mushrooms and as orbit acid -- absorb it ic acid. congress will give a bureaucratic agency, or department bureaucratic discretion rulemaking authority where now that bureaucratic agency has the ability to create some of those details of implementing the rules. like canned mushrooms, and every out must be packed in 37.5 milligrams of as orbit -- absorb bic acid. pick one agency and learned about it. -- learn about it. host: let's go to andrew from michigan. do you have a question or you want to take one of our pushing? caller: i will do one of your question -- take one of our questions? caller: i will do one of your questions. host: how can congress take away presidential powers? caller: they can passel -- they can also overset the bureaucracy, they can call hearings in investigation, and they can pull funds from different euros depending on how they organize and do their job. those are a few of the ways congress can restrict some of that power. host: what do you

eligible for the vaccine as soon as next week, stressing very much that it is up to the food and drug administrationdo that final approval. i think you can tell from that that the expectation is they know which weight that is going, and they say they have 20,000 pharmacies around the country ready to vaccinate those children. bear in mind tt children are much less vulnerable to covid than other groups of the population. around 300 children have died during the last year or so out of a total of hundred 76,000. you can see from that number alone that they are not quite as vulnerable. but it is this question of trying to get education in the schools back to normal as soon as possible, and certainly for the start of the new semester in the autumn. and it is particularly important for teachers to know that pupils are vaccinated as well. ros: thanks to gary for that. stay with me on "outside source ." we will turn to colombia, where unrest against changes to the tax system has seen at least 19 people lose their lives. >> i, nelson mandela, do hereby say to the faithful of the republic of south africa. >>

what i say is if the fda, the food and drug administration has said that it's safe if the centers for disease control, that's another important group of scientists in the governmentd effective, then those are scientists that we can trust and it's always important to talk to your doctor before you make a big decision like this, and to get all the answers to the questions that you have. and it gives us a way to protect ourselves and stay safe, and that's something i know that we all want. >> we've got a couple more questions from our viewers, just for you, dr. murthy. this question is from mary is idaho. >> hi, it's mary from idaho. what does the surgeon general do >> that's a plain question, dr. murthy >> well, hi, mary. thanks for your question the surgeon general is a doctor who is responsible for helping people to stay healthy and for giving them information and tips and other tools to preventm getk but tell you something that a lot of people don't know about the surgeon general. the surgeon general doesn't actually have to be a surgeon. i'm actually an internal medicine doctor. and

for more on the vaccine rollout, here's our correspondent >> reporter: the food and drug administrations pfizer's covid-19 vaccine can be used to inoculate children as young as 12 >> having a vaccine authorized for a younger population is a critical step to lessen the public health burden caused by the covid-19 pandemic. >> reporter: more than 2,000 volunteers were used for testing. the fda study found the vaccine was safe and offered strong protection 17 million children will be eligible for vaccination >> one can say that often children don't get terribly sick from covid-19, there are kids who do get very sick in addition, they can bring it asymptomatically around to their grandparents and others. >> reporter: some 15,000 pharmacies and some schools will offer doses. >> there should be the ones that would be more safe >> reporter: the final hurdle, a cdc advisory committee it's expected to make a recommendation on wednesday. >>> there's a wave of gun violence sweeping across the country. hundreds have been either killed or wounded this weekend alone. now authorities are trying to figu

pending authorisation by the food and drug administration, expected at the beginning of next week, thatxt week to get the vaccine and that is significant, a group of about 17,000,000 young people. it's been causing some concern around the country that in fact a number of new infections from children has been increasing to about 22.5 per cent. at least in those states that records those new cases according to the age group. up from 3% at the same time last year. with children travelling more during the summer and back at school, there is a real impetus to get them vaccinated. a number of incentives like free drop—in centres. so they are trying to make it easier for young so they are trying to make it easierfor young people so they are trying to make it easier for young people to get the jab. the drugmaker pfizer expects its revenues and profits to rise markedly this year as a result of increasing demand for its coronavirus vaccine. the company hopes to take in $26 billion from sales, and said its profits should increase by 45%. it comes amid a debate about whether drug companies should b

food and drug administration set to authorize emergency use of the pfizer vaccine for analyzed since ages 12 to 15 as early as next week a move that would make some middle and all high schoolers eligible to get vaccinated in the u.s. something experts say would be a big step in raising immunity levels across the country pfizer recently announced in the trial results showing the vaccine is highly effective for that age group possibly even more than for adults according to pfizer at the end of march a clinical trial involving 226012 to 15 year olds showed 100 percent efficacy and is well tolerated the f.d.a. now reviewing that data if it's approved the centers for disease control and prevention would hold an emergency meeting and issue recommendations the announcement comes as health officials are worried axion hesitancy could make reaching herd immunity in the u.s. difficult if not impossible there are concerns now amplified as new data indicates children in this country represent 22 percent of new cases reported in this past week alone according to the c.d.c. the average number of cov

the us food and drug administration said it had carried out a thorough review of all available data beforesion. no population brings us closer to returning to a sense of normalcy and to ending the pandemic. now, parents and guardians can rest assured that in making our decision the agency undertook a rigorous and thorough review of all available scientific data. as we have with all the covid—i9 authorisations. a bit more on our process for reviewing the vaccine. i would like to stress that teens, parents and communities can have full confidence in our processes for reviewing this vaccine. the fda has done everything we can to ensure that the covid—i9 vaccines we have authorised have met the agency's high standards for quality, safety and effectiveness. we know that every time an american including members of our own families receives a covid vaccine dose you are putting your trust in us. and we are humbled by this trust and are working hard every single day to maintain it. as parents consider vaccines for their children, recognised you may have questions about the fda processes and whether

the food and drug administration in the u. s. actually issued a communique on exactly this topic just a few days ago. it says that although cove at $900.00 vaccination might cause a positive result in some antibody tests, it doesn't necessarily do so for all or, or even for most of them. that sounds a little counter intuitive, i know, but, but it isn't really for some simple reasons. one in particular, which is that most antibody tests weren't designed to detect immunity after vaccination. they were designed to detect a past infection with ours copy to. and although both vaccination and infection lead to the same result, which is immunity for at least a while against the virus, it turns out that at the immune system level things are a little more complicated to surprise, surprise, to explain what's going on. let's look at the structure of, sorry, covey 2 for a 2nd. from the outside. it looks like a ball studded with weird, feathery structures. the ball is what's called the cap, that which in cases the virus is genetic material to

so called in the very beginning in britain, we speak to the ex commissioner of indian food and drug administration, about whether the vaccine production capital or the world can't vaccinate its own people. all this more coming up in today's going, i'm going to 1st is britain continues to come to grips with testimony for the next top advisors, u k, p. m, or johnson. with the reason britain had one of the worst per capita death rates on earth just incompetence. and bureaucracy, or is it something more profound? something to do with the structure of british capitalism and join now from italy by professor guy standing for economic advisor to the shadow chancellor of the exchequer. under jeremy corbin, an author of the corruption of capitalism. why ron? today's thrive and work does not pay. thank so much guy for coming back on the show, which we were all in italy obviously, but i think you caught up with some of the evidence from johnson consillio area. dominic cummings was the u. k. code we'd response, do you think hijacked in the interests of rented capitalism as outlined in your book here? well, it

the food and drug administration in the u. s actually issued a communique on exactly this topic just a few days ago. it says that although cove at $900.00 vaccination might cause a positive result in some antibody tests, it doesn't necessarily do so for all or, or even for most of them. that sounds a little counter intuitive, i know, but, but it isn't really for some simple reasons. one in particular, which is that most antibody tests weren't designed to detect immunity after vaccination. they were designed to detect a past infection with ours cooperative. and although both vaccination and infection lead to the same result, which is immunity for at least a while against the virus, it turns out that at the immune system level things are a little more complicated to surprise, surprise, to explain what's going on. let's look at the structure of stars covey. 2 for a 2nd. from the outside, it looks like a ball studded with weird, feathery structures. the ball is what's called the caps. it which in cases the virus is genetic materia

to countries that have approved astrazeneca, just as soon as we have approval from the food and drug administration. one of the things the president announced yesterday is that by the time we get to july 4, a full 10% of our stock of vaccines that we have acquired will be distributed to other countries. pfizer has relationships with other countries and contracts with other countries. we are pleased that we will be able to be an exporter of vaccines and still have enough, and still have plenty of vaccine to make sure we vaccinate the public. one of the benefits of everybody getting vaccinated as quickly as possible is it will allow us to do a better job leading way in helping the globe get their vaccines as well. next question. >> shannon, nbc. >> hi, i wanted to ask about the summer camp guidance. i was wondering if dr. walensky could respond to some criticism about having kids wear outdoors, given that you guys have all talked about the low level of spread outdoors and the low level of transition among younger children. dr. walensky, could you talk at all about the data or the evidence the cdc use

in the right direction, even more americans are expected to get vaccinated now that the food and drug administration says children as young as 12 can get. the pfizer vaccine. younger population can bring us closer to a sense of normalcy in a meeting with some of the nation's governors. president biden applauded states for helping fight back. >> against the pandemic. >> and millions of americans are starting to live life more normally after more than a year of sacrifice. >> but washington senator patty murray says there's still more work to be done. >> we have to address systemic inequities and tear down barriers that are making it harder for some people to get vaccines. >> louisiana senator bill cassidy and his republican colleagues say the cdc isn't moving fast enough to update their safety guidelines. they've been incredibly slow to update their information. this is the first time i've heard him admit that previous infection confers immunity. >> and today president biden announced that they are partnering with the ride sharing services like uber and lyft to help get more people vaccinated. these r

the us food and drug administration said it had carried out a thorough review of all available data beforest children who catch covid—i9 develop no symptons, or only mild ones, but can still spread the illness to others. dr meghan ranney is an emergency physician and associate dean of public health at brown university. she's been giving me her reaction to the news. good news. not unexpected, we all saw this coming. we had the pfizer press release over a month ago now and we've been waiting for this approval to come but it is really good news, both for kids and for communities. why is it such good news? we've long been told that actually children do not suffer particularly with covid—i9. that's absolutely right, kids are less likely to get severely ill, to be hospitalised or to die but as a parent i would say any preventable death of a kid is one death too many and kids are susceptible to that multi inflammatory syndrome in kids, they are susceptible also to potentially other long covid effects, we've heard of student athletes getting permanent heart damage from covid and finally kids can s

the us food and drug administration said it had carried out a thorough review of all available data beforee decision. most children who catch covid—i9 develop no symptoms, or only mild ones, but can still spread the illness to others. we know that this is a big step for our country. vaccinating a younger population brings us closer to returning to a sense of normalcy and to ending the pandemic. now parents and guardians can rest assured that in making our decision the agency undertook a rigorous and through review of of all available scientific data as we have with all the covid—i9 vaccinations. let's speak to the bbc�*s north america correspondent. peter bowes joins us now from los angeles. peter, janet woodcock is saying it is a big step towards normalcy, normality. isuppose that imagining people were not crying out for this particularly. crying out for this articularl . ~ ~ particularly. well, ithink some parents _ particularly. well, ithink some parents have - particularly. well, ithink some parents have been| particularly. well, i think- some parents have been crying out for it. think

food and drug administration at the end of the month and it also said it expects to apply for emergency use authorization for a booster shot. that could protect against coven 1000 variants during the 2nd half of july meantime the f.d.a. is poised to authorize pfizer and biotechs coronavirus vaccine for teens and children 12 to 15 years old and by next week still though the company's kovan $1000.00 vaccine is disproportionately reaching the world's richest nations according to the world health organization as of mid april wealthy countries have secured more than 87 percent of the more than 700000000 doses of coated $1000.00 vaccines dispensed around the world while poor countries have only received a point 2 percent now pfizer says it is committed to making its vaccine accessible globally and announced on tuesday that it has shipped 430000000 doses to 91 countries or territories reporting in new york trinity chavez r t. joining me now to discuss is professor richard wolfe host of economic update and author of the sickness is the system professor let's start with pfizer here clearly they

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