mask remember it's in there and she measures as much as possible eric by holding up the harvard school of public health thank you for your insights that take a look at some of the other stories making news around the world brazil's president variables in iraq has used his veto power to water down legislation requiring the wearing a face masks the populist leader remove provisions that would have made masks mandatory in businesses and searches nationwide brazil has the world's 2nd most coronavirus infections and deaths. the remains of 24 resistance fighters have been welcomed home to algeria in a solemn military ceremony the men were killed in the 19th century while fighting against french colonial rule their skulls have been kept in a french museum. british prime minister boris johnson has set out a list of 59 countries from where travelers can enter england starting on july 10th without having to go into quarantine countries like the u.s. sweden and brazil are not on the list. a court in istanbul sentenced a former leader of rights group amnesty international to 6 years in prison the very ticked again

howard koh, professor of public health leadership at the harvard school of public health. way you just described that, the way you framed that just now in those closing remarks is absolutely priceless. it shows that you are assistant secretary of health during the obama administration, sir. thanks for talking to us about this and please come back. i think that we are in the middle of a transition here. we'd love to talk to you about it as this policy develops. >> thanks so much, rachel. >> all right. much more ahead tonight. stay with us. ahead tonight. stay with us if your adventure... keeps turning into unexpected bathroom trips. you may have overactive bladder, or oab. not again! we're seeing a doctor when we get home. myrbetriq treats oab symptoms of urgency, frequency, and leakage. it's the first and only oab treatment in its class. myrbetriq may increase blood pressure. tell your doctor right away if you have trouble emptying your bladder or have a weak urine stream. myrbetriq may cause serious allergic reactions, like swelling of the face, lips, throat or tongue, or

my colleague at the harvard school of public health, tests you can take like a home pregnancy test with a strip of paper. you put it in your mouth and it will tell you rapidly. really cheap, really fast. not perfect but doesn't have to be because it's cheap and we can take it every day. that's a game-changer. think about what that would do for consumer confidence. you want to go out. you want to go back to work, to a theater. you take the rapid test and show you're clear. the last one that is just on the radar too is this. a couple studies are showing that 20% to 50% of the population that was never exposed to this virus has immune cells that do respond to the virus. so there's some underlying immune memory from your memory t cells that's showing they're cross reactivity. we don't know why or what the implications are, but if is promising we're seeing that reactist. one plausible explanation is it's related to exposure to other common cold coronaviruses. >> when you say they'll have more treatments out there before you get to the vaccine, is there any expectation there about if these tr

howard koh, professor of public health leadership at the harvard school of public health. the way you just described that, the way you framed that right now in those closing remarks is absolutely priceless. it shows that you were assistant secretary of health during the obama administration, sir. thanks for talking to us about this. and please come back. i think that we are in the middle of a transition here. we'd love to talk to you about it as this policy develops. >> thank you so much, rachel. >> all right. much more ahead tonight. stay with us. stay with us g the worst... ...especially when your easily distracted teenager has the car. at subaru, we're taking on distracted driving... ...with sensors that alert you when your eyes are off the road. the subaru forester. the safest forester ever. the sleep number 360 smart bed. prices of the season on can it help keep me asleep? absolutely, it senses your movements and automatically adjusts to keep you both comfortable. it's our 4th of july special the queen sleep number 360 c4 smart bed is only $1,299 plus, free premium del

a colleague of mine at the harvard school of public health wrote about this in "the new york times." d-19. in this case, the saliva test, strip of paper goes in your mouth. really cheap. rapid response and that can free up the economy a bit because it will give people confidence. you want to go into a store, a school, a theater. take that rapid test. here's something counterintuitive about this. it doesn't even have to be a perfect test. if it's cheap and the answer comes back quickly, even if it's inaccurate because you can take it every day, it can significantly slow the spread across the population. there's some other positive signs. several pieces of research showing 20 to 50% of people who have never been exposed to this virus still have immune cells that react to this virus. now the speculation is that this is because of past exposure to other common cold coronaviruses. there appears to be some cross-reactivity. what this means and how much benefit it provides is unknown. but there are signs happening that scientific breakthroughs are happening. >> and you point out vaccine tria

florida's largest teacher's union suing to keep schools closed this fall welcome michelle williams, dean of harvard's t.h. chen's school of public healthmorning, thank you for joining us this morning. >> good morning. thank you. >> so we're all trying to figure out how to reopen and how to get back to school let me ask you this. i think the biggest issue on the school's front, which obviously has a huge economic impact, is how people feel not necessarily about the odds of children necessarily getting sick themselves but to the extent that they're spreaders we saw this study over the weekend and we talked to dr. scott gottleib about it in south korea. 65,000 people they studied that showed kids over the age of 10 could spread it. it seemed to be inconclusive or maybe, i don't know, you might have a different view about under 10 what's your personal position on this issue now that you've been studying it and looking at it so far? >> thank you so much for that question you know, the thing about covid-19 is that it has really made it very clear that we are in the situation where science is important and skins we're learning about this viru

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joining us now is william hassletine with the harvard school of public health and author of "a familyd answers for parents, grandparents, and children." and professor, you've been talking about just this thing. how we need to come to grips with the fact that this pandemic is here and really not going away as fast as we'd like. i want to start on the more grim end of this discussion and work our way to the positive, because you do see positives. there's a study out of spain, which says that 14% of people who got sick, who got coronavirus and developed antibodies actually lost those antibodies within a fairly short period of time and presumably that means also losing immunity. so correct me if i'm wrong here, but what are the implications of that? >> well, the implications are something we've known about coronaviruses, this family of viruses, for a long time. there's some viruses that you get and you remember forever. and you're protected forever. there's some that you get, like hiv, that get into your body, and you never get rid of them. this is a little bit different. coronaviruses --

of miami, dr. julio frank, also the former minister of health of mexico, the former executive director of evidence and information for policy at the w.h.o., and the former dean of the harvard school of publicrank, obviously these are all numbers you know, the number of cases up 1500% since may. hospitalizations up 80% since july 4th. miami-dade county alone nine hospitals have hit icu capacity. seven others at 90% capacity or more. this is a list you know very well. but you have extensive medical expertise and you've come to a different conclusion than many other schools. you are committing to in-person classes this fall. tell me why. >> well, we are committed to a very, very detailed strategy that first of all gives people a choice, because there are different needs. we call this, our strategy is a responsive strategy that tries to ascertain what are the needs of different people and tries to stay away from all open or all closed. so a number of people are going to be fully online. in fact, about close to 30% of under graduate students. that gives us an opportunity to detensify. we have a strict protocol in place that if we apply the measures generally we'll have a safe semester but it re

insights, important, from an infectious decease expert from the harvard school of public health. doctor, good to see you again. i wish we could have a more optimistic conversation. look at trend lines. 60,000-plus new cases a day, pretty much retain in recent days. 14 states reporting record hospitalizations. the death count in many states starting to go back up. where are we? >> well, a bit like a deja vu unfortunately, in many ways we're back we were were months ago. tests, seeing tests are delayed. cases going up, and now we're unfortunately seeing the ramifications of those increased cases, which is increased deaths. so we're not in a good spot nationally at the moment, and i think we're really, i thought we were in crisis mode back in april and i think we're even in greater crisis mode at the moment. >> greater crisis mode is not something anybody wants to hear but the facts certainly support you when you look at 38 states reporting more cases this week than last week. so the question is when in a crisis, how long is the tunnel? how deep is the ditch? pick your metaphor. lis

do believe we can get there, and certainly there are lots of amazing strategies in the book that was put out by harvard public health -- schoolpublic health that i believe in. but the things that we don't have in place, the really important things like testing, tracing and isolating, they're not there. even the infrastructure isn't there. so, that's just one example of why i think we're quite not there yet? >> you know, professor allen, to the point she makes, you know, i'm not going far out on a limb here to say that the whole country is not going to be at the point it needs to be in terms of testing and tracing and isolation by the time kids go back to school, if ever, right? it's just not. do you think that needs to be in place fully? and when i say testing in this capacity, i'm saying testing that people can get immediate results whenever they want them, not some test you get the results back in seven days. >> yeah, so thanks for having me on erin, i really appreciate what the school nurses are doing. i agree. we're all aligned here. we want to get the kids back, get them back safely. we want to follow the safety here. fa

schools in san francisco. it's formed by guidelines from a variety of sources, including the centers for disease control, california department of public health, we also referred to guidance from harvard school of public health and the american association of pediatrics. we say the guidelines will be used as a tool to help schools layout their operational guidelines for opening. they can use them as age appropriate interventions to protect staff, students, and their families. we emphasize preventing transmission of covid-19 via respiratory droplets, especially transmissions between adults which we know is at greater risk, using universal distancing, face coverings, and general intervention, and we feel this is better than frequent cleaning and disinfection. that is because coronavirus is easy to kill. common cleansers are effective, and hand washing breaks the chain of transmission. we recommend that cohorts be of a smaller size in elementary schools. cohorts can be a larger size in middle school and high school. finally, these guidelines are about how to keep teachers, staff, and students as safe as possible in schools, but safely reopening schools needs to be a community effort. eve

schools in san francisco. it's formed by guidelines from a variety of sources, including the centers for disease control, california department of public health, we also referred to guidance from harvardhealth and the american association of pediatrics. we say the guidelines will be used as a tool to help schools layout their operational guidelines for opening. they can use them as age appropriate interventions to protect staff, students, and their families. we emphasize preventing transmission of covid-19 via respiratory droplets, especially transmissions between adults which we know is at greater risk, using universal distancing, face coverings, and general intervention, and we feel this is better than frequent cleaning and disinfection. that is because coronavirus is easy to kill. common cleansers are effective, and hand washing breaks the chain of transmission. we recommend that cohorts be of a smaller size in elementary schools. cohorts can be a larger size in middle school and high school. finally, these guidelines are about how to keep teachers, staff, and students as safe as possible in schools, but safely reopening schools needs to be a community effort. even the children's r

here's a professor of global health at harvard. the school of public health. the deputy director of the harvard global health institute. he's the practicing general internist and at harvard medical school. he holds an md from harvard medical school. jha, we welcome you. maybe you can start off by telling us what a data enthusiast is. thank you for joining us. dr. jha: chairman, ranking member, it is an honor to be here this morning. i don't think i would describe myself as a data enthusiast, but i do believe data and evidence to drive our decision-making. maybe that is the idea. let me get to my testimony. we are in the middle of the greatest global public health crisis in a century. millions of people around the world have gotten sick and hundreds of thousands have died from this disease. despite this, our best estimates are that less than 2% of the worlds population has been infected with this virus. the global pandemic is just getting started. and the single biggest obligation i believe we all have is to protect the lives and well-being of the american peopl

schools in san francisco. it's formed by guidelines from a variety of sources, including the centers for disease control, california department of public health, we also referred to guidance from harvard school of public health and the american association of pediatrics. we say the guidelines will be used as a tool to help schools layout their operational guidelines for opening. they can use them as age appropriate interventions to protect staff, students, and their families. we emphasize preventing transmission of covid-19 via respiratory droplets, especially transmissions between adults which we know is at greater risk, using universal distancing, face coverings, and general intervention, and we feel this is better than frequent cleaning and disinfection. that is because coronavirus is easy to kill. common cleansers are effective, and hand washing breaks the chain of transmission. we recommend that cohorts be of a smaller size in elementary schools. cohorts can be a larger size in middle school and high school. finally, these guidelines are about how to keep teachers, staff, and students as safe as possible in schools, but safely reopening schools needs to be a community effort. eve

marc lipsitch, a professor of epidemiology at harvard's t.h. chan school of public health. thank you for being with us. i think what we need to do is hear from more people like you on an ongoing basis to give us an evaluation of why we are where we are on july 3rd. we are seeing things in houston, in texas, in arizona and to some degree in florida and california that reflects what we went through 2 1/2 to 3 months ago in the northeast. why are we here right now? >> thank you for having me. i think we're here because many parts of the country have decided that they're tired of restrictions and that they're reopening, and they're doing that in a way that reflects understandable fatigue. we all hate these restrictions. nobody enjoys them, but that do not reflect the data and do not reflect a situation being under control. in fact, some of the states that have been fastest to reopen are the ones where it never really was under control and was still growing when the reopening began. if you contrast that with almost every country in europe and almost every country in east asia an

schools in san francisco. it's formed by guidelines from a variety of sources, including the centers for disease control, california department of public health, we also referred to guidance from harvardl of public health and the american association of pediatrics. we say the guidelines will be used as a tool to help schools layout their operational guidelines for opening. they can use them as age appropriate interventions to protect staff, students, and their families. we emphasize preventing transmission of covid-19 via respiratory droplets, especially transmissions between adults which we know is at greater risk, using universal distancing, face coverings, and general intervention, and we feel this is better than frequent cleaning and disinfection. that is because coronavirus is easy to kill. common cleansers are effective, and hand washing breaks the chain of transmission. we recommend that cohorts be of a smaller size in elementary schools. cohorts can be a larger size in middle school and high school. finally, these guidelines are about how to keep teachers, staff, and students as safe as possible in schools, but safely reopening schools needs to be a community effort. even the

of course raising questions about how protected you are once you've had it against getting it again. up front now william hazeltine former professor at harvard medical school and the school of public healthof "a family guide to covid." i appreciate your time. you have been looking at studies like these. how significant are these sorts of conclusions? >> these are very significant for the future of this epidemic. what they show is something we suspected but had not really known until now and that is this, like its sister coronaviruses, the ones that give us colds, are very different from the childhood viruses. those things like measles and mumps you get them once and you're protected for life. we know with the cold viruses it is different. you get them and you forget them. your body forgets they were ever infected and they come back and get you again every year. you can be reinfected by the same cold virus every year and get the same cold. we didn't know that was happening with this virus but there was an early study from china and now there are two studies. one from spain and one from the uk that actually measures the virus in people and the antibodies and watch the immunity decline. tha

health at harvard. and the chance school of public a real effectively director of the global health institute. practicing and professor of medicine at harvard medical school. an mp h. we welcome you. and you start by telling us what the enthusiast is. it is indeed an honor to be here this morning. i don't think i would just for myself that way but to believe that dana evidence should drive our decisions. presumably that is it. i'm against my testimony. we are in the middle of the greatest mobile public health crisis in the century. a million people around the world have gotten sacred and hundreds of thousands died from this disease. despite this, our best estimates are that less than 2 percent of the world population have been infected with this virus. the global pandemic, is just getting started. in the second biggest obligation we all have is to protect the lives and well-being of the american people and the people around the globe. in this light i that the administration's decision to withdraw from who is so deeply unwise. is there some irony it in my testifying today. for years, i have been

i'm very fortunate to be a professor at harvard and very early on, february and march was very clear there were bodies of knowledge of our school of public healthe and our labs and so forth that were not making it into the public conversation. this was very frustrating to me. so i've been sort of on a path, i call it liberty the knowledge, okay? we actually do know how to control this disease, we do have the capacity in this country. there are places in this country where people have figured out. massachusetts has an impressive infrastructure. >> danielle allen, pleasure to have you on. >> thank you so much. >>> next on "gps," china says its new national security law for hong kong applies to everyone everywhere. that includes me talking you to here on tv from new york city. i'm about to interview one of the leaders of hong kong's protest movement. tune in to see what happens when we come back. om vmware helps you redefine what's possible... now. from the hospital shifting to remote patient care in just 48 hours... to the university moving hundreds of apps quickly to the cloud... or the city government going digital to keep critical services run

of health care providers nationwide. more than 300 doctors from harvard medical school, yale, and ucsf signed a letter written by the u.s. public interest research group. it was sent to every governor, member of congress, and the trump administration. they say we need a new strategy for containing the virus because we're losing the battle against covid-19. >> we should not be having to make decisions about whether or not people should be able to get medical care, and the only way to stop these things from getting worse is that if we really go back and have a reset. >> reporter: the u.s. public interest research group estimates more than 200,000 americans will die from the virus by november 1st unless lawmakers take more serious action. >>> new at 11:00, the economic toll of the pandemic continues to pile up. a new report estimates that thousands of businesses in the bay area from bowling alleys to restaurants have closed their doors and will never reopen. nbc bay area's sergio quintana has been examining the numbers and has the details. >> reporter: for eight years, the location in the inner sunset of san francisco has been a m

harvard educator is the lead author of a new report on risk reduction strategies for reopening schools and he says distance, hygiene, mask wearing, and proper ventilation can work. >> we've seen massive public health consequences to these school closures. in terms of virtual drop outs. we cannot afford as a country to keep our schools locked down another year. we know the risk reduction strategies work even with a full load of kids in the class. kids are at lower risk of getting this virus, lower risk of serious adverse consequences. early evidence looks like they are at lower risk of transmitting to adults. >> the american pediatric association has recommendations as well. they do differ slightly. either way the goal is to get kids back in the classroom. >> reporter: in order to gauge a child's feelings toward wearing a face covering i went to the source. meet kip and aldon, a pair of second graders. >> it is sort of annoying because when you're running it keeps slipping down and you get really hot and sweaty. >>it's hard to breathe because it's blocking most of the air that is supposed to get in your mouth. >> reporter: this oakland mother has an incoming kindergartener and says masks in the cla

public health experts. dr. peter hotez, dean of the school of tropical medicine. also, william haseltine, researcher formerly at harvard university and author of "the family guide to covid." dr. hotez, you are in one of the epicenters of the virus right now in houston. i'm wondering when you hear the president saying 99% of cases are harmless. i mean, as a scientist, what do you think? >> well, anderson, what i think about are the 2,000 covid-19 patients, right now, we have in our texas medical center in houston, including 600 in the icu. almost 600 in the icu. you can't hide icu admissions. you can't hide hospitalizations. and i think about a lot of my former students and residents, doctors, nurses, who are taking care, technicians, who are taking care of those patients tonight. so this is a catastrophe for our city and the state of texas. the numbers are accelerating, precipitously. around 7, 8,000 cases a day. we are seeing this in florida. we're seeing this in arizona. the cases are rising so rapidly that, we cannot even do contact tracing anymore i don't think. i don't see how it's possible to even do that. so, es

of health care providers nationwide to put the u.s. back on full lockdown. more than 300 doctors from harvard medical school, yale and ucsf signed a letter written by the u.s. public interest research group. it was sent to the trump administration and to every governor and member of congress. the medical professionals write that we need a new strategy for containing the virus because we're losing the battle against covid-19. >> we should not be having to make decisions about whether or not people should be able to get medical care, and the only way to stop these things from getting worse is that if we really go back and have a reset. >> the u.s. public interest research group estimates more than 200,000 americans will die from the virus by november 1st unless lawmakers take more serious action. >>> the economic toll of the pandemic continues to take victims. a new reports estimates thousands of businessness the bay area alone from closed their doors and will never reopen. we have a closer look at the numbers. >> reporter: for eight years, this location has been a mexican food favorite. it's one of the latest spots to fall victim to coronavirus dining restrictions

of a online approach. they are citing public health transit the primary reason for that. >> attending classes online, most will still be paying full tuition, including those going to harvard. some schoolss, offering a 10% rate. >> bret: boston, thank you. north carolina man seeking to become the youngest elected man of congress in over 200 years. beyond the borders tonight, iranian officials called the intersection of the passenger plane by a u.s. fighter jets and the skies over syria illegal. iran's threatening action against washington over the incident in the u.s. official confirms that the american jet passed by the iranian airliner but at a safe distance. if the taliban in afghanistan said they're ready for talks with afghanistan political leadership after the muslim holiday at the end of july. if the terror group offering to hand over the last of the governments prisoners in the weeks' time provided the government to freeze the prisoners as well. turkish president joined hundreds of worshipers for the first muslim prayer is 86 years inside higher sophia. that landmark has been one of the most significant cathedrals, mosques, museum before the conversion back into a muslim place o

schools in san francisco. it's formed by guidelines from a variety of sources, including the centers for disease control, california department of public health, we also referred to guidance from harvard school of public health and the american association of pediatrics. we say the guidelines will be used as a tool to help schools layout their operational guidelines for opening. they can use them as age appropriate interventions to protect staff, students, and their families. we emphasize preventing transmission of covid-19 via respiratory droplets, especially transmissions between adults which we know is at greater risk, using universal distancing, face coverings, and general intervention, and we feel this is better than frequent cleaning and disinfection. that is because coronavirus is easy to kill. common cleansers are effective, and hand washing breaks the chain of transmission. we recommend that cohorts be of a smaller size in elementary schools. cohorts can be a larger size in middle school and high school. finally, these guidelines are about how to keep teachers, staff, and students as safe as possible in schools, but safely reopening schools needs to be a community effort. eve