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a good to get your perspective appreciate that that's john nichols a political writer with the nation thank you. thank you so much. to brazil where hospitals are under increasing strain refrigeration unit was sent to a hospital in ourself to this video emerged said to show bodies being kept in bags next to patients and alice is one of several major cities running out of intensive care beds including south paolo and rio de janeiro brazil has reported more than $2300.00 deaths and over $36000.00 cases were in rio supporters of the president jaya both an hour and held a protest against lockdown measures they say restrictions imposed by state governments should only apply to high risk groups both in our fight his health minister on thursday they clashed over the handling of the crisis he wants the economy and borders reopened. pakistan's government has lifted restrictions on prayers at mosques during the mostly muslim holy month of ramadan the agreement was made during a meeting of religious scholars and government officials chaired by the president. worshippers will have to wear face mas

mainland china to reproduce covert 19 in a lab for research he joins us on skype from hong kong john nichols great to have you back here on the news so the finish line in theory should be at least 12 months away how do they fast forward through that process. well normally with the banks and to start off with small animals and then move to the primates and then to the humans but it seems of this one that they've gone straight to the humans which are is a very bold decision on it but i must say is it risky. i think it's very challenging because that's why you have to have the testing in the small animals to make sure that safe and that it works i think the other issue is that you notice that they're all using young volunteers and this is actually going to be a big problem with this vaccine is that because the most of the mortality in this disease is in the elderly and in the elderly they don't mount a very strong immune response and that's called indian senescent so the best thing should actually be to see what a antibody response is in the elderly rather than the young so from a clinical poin

john nicholls clinical professor anthology at the university of hong kong it's really great to have you with us so much to talk about now hong kong who was one of the at the centers of sars epidemic back in 2003 and you were right in the middle of it being the key members of the team which actually isolated the virus why do you think the world hasn't learned the lessons of it and we are where we are right now ok well we did learn the lessons in 2003 and we learnt the hard way because we. in terms of we weren't prepared i think none of what was prepared in 2003 dealing with such a severe disease. and so so the society has learned about things like social distancing about the use of face masks and also for the preparation within hospitals having special wards which could cope with these emerging diseases which were transmissible and which had a high mortality so. we learned so lessons the hard way so that's why when the outbreak occurred and the general this here we were well prepared so it was a life ok it's it's on time signs again so it was hong kong was that's not the wars that stop t

is the nature of viruses and why are they there and she messed with us well i asked professor john nichols clinical professor of psychology at the university of hong kong and has been studying carnivorous his for 25 years and he's a leading expert in the field. danny pearl square her fassero anthology at the university of hong kong it's really great to have you with us so much to talk about now how come to us one of the at the centers of sars epidemic back in 2003 and here right in the middle of it being the key members of the team which actually isolated the virus why do you think the world hasn't learned the lessons of it and where we are right now ok well. we did learn the lessons in 2003 and we learned the hard way because we in terms of we were prepared i think none of the world was prepared in 2003 or dealing with such a severe disease and so so the society has learned about things like social distancing about the use of. face masks and also for the preparation within hospitals having special wards which could cope with these emerging diseases which were transmissible and which had a

is the nature of viruses and why are they there and she messed with us well i asked professor john nichols clinical professor of psychology at the university of hong kong and has been studying the horn of viruses for 25 years and he's a leading expert in that field. danny pearl square her faster anthology at the university of hong kong it's really great to have in with us so much to talk about now how come to us one of the at the centers of sars epidemic back in 2003 and he were right in the middle of it being the key members of the team which actually has led to the virus why do you think the world hasn't learned the lessons of it and where we are right now ok well. we did learn the lessons in 2003 and we learned the hard way because we in terms of we were prepared i think none of the world was prepared in 2003 or dealing with such a severe disease and so so the society has learned about things like social distancing about the use of. face masks and also for the preparation within hospitals having special wards which could cope with these emerging diseases which were transmissible and whi

worry the crucial steps of the trial process of being skipped we spoke with that earlier with john nichols a clinical professor of pathology at the university of hong kong. normally with the vaccines you start off with small animals and then move to the prime it's an end to the humans but it seems of this one that they've gone straight to the humans which is a very bold decision i think the other issue is that you notice that they're all using young volunteers and this is actually going to be a big problem with this vaccine is that because the most of the mortality in this disease is in the elderly and in the elderly they don't mount a very strong immune response and that's called immune senescence the best thing should actually be to see what the antibody response is in the elderly rather than the young because that's that the target population which has the highest mortality because if you remember you know we've got an aging population in hong kong during summers and 11 percent the population was over $65.00 now it's 18 percent so if they have the best use of this vaccine. should be rea

john samuelsen, thank you for you time. >> pleasure to be here. >>> let's go to the white house. 1600 pennsylvania avenue, hans nichols at his post there because again president trump expected to be meeting with some covid-19 survivors here roughly 20 minutes from now. hans, i understand you have new reporting on precisely how these survivors, how these guests are going to be vetted before they go into the white house. what can you tell us? >> reporter: well, they will, according to peter alexander receive a covid-19 test today. they will be screened beforehand. if the test comes back positive, they won't be let in. this is an attempt, an effort by the white house to try to figure out the next stages of this, the next phases as they look towards reopening the economy sometime in the future. and central and crucial to that will be to those who have already been exposed to the virus, question is do they have immunity and will they be part of the first tranche of workers allowed to go back. we'll see if the president opens up this meeting. it will be important to see to what extent there's social distancing between the president and these now recovered

john doe two was a total mystery. for a month the feds looked everywhere. they even suspected terry nichols' 12 year-old son josh, a kid. it was rather preposterous to think he could have been there without his father. his father was very protective toward him, but a for a few days that was their conviction. but ultimately they could not figure out who this character was. about a month, they decided he did not exist. the shop with the truck had been rented, had modeled up what happened on monday with what happened on tuesday. and it was a very convenient way of putting that issue to rest. meanwhile, there were a number of other people who had come to light as potential suspects. one by one the fbi and the justice department, because senior lawyers came out and cut these deals themselves, decided you tell us everything you know about mcveigh, and we we will will overlook everything else. that happened with five or six different people. the potential for pursuing them as suspects closed down. the interest in looking further afield group narrower and narrower as time went on. the prosecution i

nbc hans nichols, i said that not you. before we go to break, john heilemann, it's hard to get an answer to this, but i want to put this up one more time and maybe you can it will me what you think what the presidentet tweeted this when he did and why he was -- >> january 24th. >> yeah. january 24th he says china's been working very hard to contain the coronavirus. the united states greatly appreciates their efforts and transparency. that's the communityist communi 10,000 new yorkers have died, more have died in one city than died on 9/11. the two iraq wars and the afghanistan war altogether. in particular, on behalf of the american people, i want to thank president xi. john heilemann, before we go to break, what do you think the president is doing when heing toels toggles back and forth, calls. whew hahn virus, then attacks china, then goes back to kowtowing to president xi. what's going on there? >> well, i think, joe, you've said some times that he's a day trader. i think -- and that indicates a kind of like he will shift his position, shift his r