tom frieden. sanjay, so the original vote was whether or not to approve a pfizer-booster dose for ages 16 and up. why did the committee vote no on that question, not to recommend that? and do you think it's something they may vote yes on in the future? >> well, in terms of the first question, i think the -- um -- there just wasn't enough scientific evidence to support that that was necessary to -- to provide boosters for healthy people under the age of 65. you know, that -- that's been the concern for some time. i mean, i think even before this meeting today, scientists have been going back and forth on this. and as you point out, anderson, it seems preordained that everyone was going to have a booster, you know, recommended for them. and the fda has -- their committee at least has advised not to do that. has recommended not to do that. so it's -- it's -- um -- whether it happens in the future or not, maybe. i don't know. but at this point in time, the evidence just wasn't there. dr. paul offit, w

tom frieden. dr. frieden, thanks so much for joining us. booster shots. do you expect they will do anything other than adopt the recommendations for a limited rollout? >> i -- i don't think >> i don't think that he will they will change that: vote was unanimous and the data suggests that if boosters necessary, th are going to be necessary, at this point, for people over the age of 65 and those at particularly high risk. but really, we have to go back to the bottom line here, wolf. which is that the reason we're still having well over a thousand deaths a day and tens of thousands of people in our hospitals is because people haven't been vaccinate. not because the vaccine needs a boost. >> were close to 2,000 deaths here in the united states right now. it's so, so disturbing. and a new study finds, dr. frieden, that two doses of the johnson & johnson vaccine increase the protection to 94%. were you surprised by that big jump at all? >> there is a lot of information in the press release from johnson & johnson. we haven't seen all of the detail

frieden used to run the cdc. he knows better how that would work, but i think it's on their agenda to say, okay, we officially recommend this to the population. define more precise the what it means to have a risky illness, who are those people. we'll hear a formal recommendation from the cdc. but to be clear, anderson, i think some 2 million people, more than that, have gotten boosters already just because they went out and asked for them. some were immunocompromised but some people were just worried. >> doctor, what do you recommend for people out there? >> let's see what the cdc says. there are complicated decisions to be made here. it's only pfizer that's been recommended. there is emerging evidence that maybe moderna is a little more effective than pfizer. there are a lot of people who got j&j. they probably should be getting an mrna dosage as a follow-up to be better protected. these are complicated issues, and what's important is independent, scientific, regulatory bodies look at this, transparently look a

tom frieden, president and c.e.o.solve lives, a >> woodruff: as we reported, president biden held an international covid summit today and called for 70% of the global population to be vaccinated by september 2022. indonesia has recorded more than four million covid cases. more than 140,000 people have died. initially, indonesia turned to china, but nick schifrin explores how the u.s. and its allies are trying to achieve vaccine inroads in china's backyard. >> schifrin: in indonesia's newly-dug covid cemeteries, the grievers are barely old enough to wear a mask. row after row, column upon column, from the air, all symmetrical, as if pre-planned. but on the ground, these graves were dug so quickly, the names are written in pen. the flowers, and the heartache, are fresh. at the pandemic's peak this summer, grave diggers in head- to-toe p.p.e. buried more than 200 bodies here, a day. ross the country, the daily death toll was 3,000. at first, the medical savior was china. indonesia was the first country to approve sinovac

tom frieden. dr. frieden, thanks for coming on. let's talk about the booster shots. after all the turbulence and the decision-making process here, how helpful do you think the boosters will actually be? >> well, the bottom line, dan, is still that the reason we're seeing lots of people in hospitals and still more than a thousand, more than 1,500 deaths every day in this country is because there are so many people who are not yet vaccinated, so the single most important thing we can do is get people who haven't been vaccinated vaccinated. but it does seem that boosters may be important, particularly a month ago there was a recommendation for anyone who is immunosuppressed to get one and now in the past week a recommendation for those over 65, those working where they put others at risk, health care workers, people in correctional facilities, people in homeless shelters, frontline workers so this is a way of doing what we can for those pandemic, but also we have to understand that vaccines are super effective, but we're also going to have to mask and test and adapt as

frieden. 21 states across this nation have banned vaccine passports.y to thread the needle so that most, if not everybody, will be happy about it. how do you do it? >> well, no one likes to be told what to do. >> john: clearly. listening to the mayor of san francisco, you're right. >> the fact is that we're all now being affected by covid. whether it's harming or killing people we know and love, or affecting our workplaces or our schools. and the best way we have of getting control over covid is increasing vaccination rates. we know mandates, although unpopular with people, are a very effective way to do that. it's not just about you. whether or not you get vaccinated may make the difference in life and death, between school and no school, between work and no work for another person. so mandates are coming. the problem is, unless we have a valid way of verifying vaccination status, mandates can be undermined. what i'm suggesting is that there be standards so that no one can steal your data or sell your data. you have control over what it's used for. th

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tom frieden, one of the world's leading public health experts. dr. freedom is the former director of the centers for disease control and prevention is now the ceo of a 5 year initiative called resolve to save lives. dr. freedom, thanks so much for joining us today. let me ask you to just sort of help our viewers to understand from your perspective, given where we were, you know, 18 months ago, plus what has gone really well in this effort against this pandemic. and what are the parts that we really need to focus on that have not gone well and i want you would include not just america, but the rest of the world. well, one thing that's gone well is that we've learned a lot more about the virus and you know, the old saying know your enemy, the virus is the enemy here, and the more we understand it, the better we can fight it. we also have remarkably effective vaccines, especially the m r n a vaccines, but several of the other vaccines as well. this is a stunning success of science. on the other hand, we have real opposition to implementing the 2 mos

and these bulky machines called frieden calculates, could do surprisingly little.odels could add and subtract. later models could do square roots. the women were calculating early potential of different rocket propellants, as well as the trajectory of early missiles. they were working on missiles such as this one, 39-foot, as well as the sergeant, which is a smaller surface to surface missile. their real love was space exploration. we see that in the 1950s when the women start adapting their design for the sergeant missile into a rocket called jupiter c. to do this, the women take their calculations from the sergeant, but they create a scaled down version called the baby sergeant. they take 12 of these baby sergeants and they place them in a big spinning tub. the women who worked on this told me that they decided to make it spinning so that way it would balance the thrust of all of the different rockets. they placed two of the big spinning tubs on top of a large red stone rocket. at the peak was a single baby sergeant whose aim was to launch the world's first satel

just an hour ago, i talked with tom frieden, the former head of the cdc, now head of a group called "e to save lives" and we talked about this exact issue. always good to have you another newshour. president biden said we would not get out of this pandemic with half measures or middle-of-the-road ambitions. he made this announcement of an enormous purchase of pfizer doses to donate to the world. does it meet that bar? >> there is a lot to like in the announcements from today, but unfortunately it is too little and too late. we need a different approach. we are billions of doses short and the missing link here is my dharna -- moderna. the united states tpayers paid for e invention they are selling. the safeguarding of the world is dependent on their technology d pfizer's scaling up massively. mrna vaccines are our insurance against variants and production failures and our most hopeful way to get the world through this disaster. william: i want to get back to the pharmaceutical companies and a second, but back to the president. too little too late, what do you want him to be doing? >> c

. >> many experts say you should be doing more, including tom frieden, the former cdc director. he said, while focusing on sending vaccines to rich countries, moderna is doing next to nothing to close the global gap in vaccine supply. shameful. he believes you should be speeding vaccine distribution. is that a good idea? >> no, it's not. i think intellectual property is what created the thriving life sciences sector that was ready when the pandemic hit. without that, we wouldn't be here to discuss if we need the boosters or not because we wouldn't have vaccines and also, we are very proud of what we have done. i don't know why he's using these words. we're very proud. we have saved millions of lives. >> is there more you could be doing now? but is there more you could be doing now? >> i think we -- always is there more you can do, but i want to make sure you are understanding what we are doing right now, and what we are doing right now in order to have vaccine available everywhere, is first one is we need to have a vaccine because now it is considered given, but ten months ago,

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years ago in 2013, when there was a government shut down, tom frieden who led the cdc described thatiod of time one of the worst in his tenure at the agency 8,000 cdc staffers were furloughed. do you have expect a similar dynamic to play out if there is a shut down this year in this pandemic or will there be different instructions to those critical agencies now? >> well, we are taking every step we can to mitt divat the impacts of a potential shut down on our pandemic response, economic recovery, or other priorities. the fact is shut downs are incredibly costly, disruptive and damaging. direct public health efforts can generally proceed during a shutdown because they're exempt and that is certainly our intention but large swawteds of the federal government coming to a screeching halt would certainly not be beneficial to pandemic response. but we are doing everything we can to mitigate. i would also say on the first part of your question, it's consistent with long standing practice across many administrations for omb to remind senior agency staff of the need to review and update order

thomas frieden who has been pointing out on twitter the last week this is quote shameful he says focusingines to rich companies, moderna and pfizer are doing nothing to close the supply how do you respond to criticisms like that in. >> i respond already we have received 500 million doses to low and middle income country we will receive a billion doses by the end of this year by the beginning of this year. we will do at least one billion doses next year and i think the facts are speaking for themselves >> is there more that pfizer could do there is also some focus on the infrastructure in developing countries and there has been criticisms of the biden administration for delivering vaccines but not delivering the sort of cold chain functionality to be able to store and move those vaccines around or helping get vaccinators to be able to help rom out these vaccines? what more do you think can be done to expedite all of this >> clearly more can be gone for the poorest countries. so they can meet special conditions like i think this is something that the w.h.o. is doing. and this is something t

mike and dan frieden lost their father andrew in those attacks.story. >> go to daddy. say hi, everybody. [cheers] >> just the most outgoing apropos always had a smile on his face. >> hi. >> he was an amazing person and more importantly an amazing father. >> hey, daddy. >> he was just the best dad. >> he was everything to us. our coach, our role model, our hero. >> your dad was a great man, a great coach, and a great father. he was always willing to help out. he was a big man with a big heart. >> my husband was kind of a larger than life person. >> i'm 6'1, he is 65. he made me laugh. had a really good sense of humor. >> round of applause randy and lisa. >> he was a really great guy. you know, they only say only the good die young. ainsley: on the morning of september 11th, 44-year-old andrew freidman went to work in the tower of the world trade center. he had just started a new job there only two weeks before. ainsley: tell me about that morning, that day. >> typical day. he went to work. i went to work lisa, doesn't andy work in the world trade c