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you at even more risk of a deadly blood clot in a moment we'll talk to a backing scientist at johns hopkins university 1st this report astra zeneca schofield 1000 victor vaccine has hardly been out of the headlines since last december in till now it's been instrumental in the success of the u.k.'s vaccination program but from now on its use there will be restricted to those over 30 years of age there have been worries in the european union about its effectiveness and potential side effects germany initially restricted its used to under 60 five's now berlin is recommending it purely for over sixty's those worries were compounded by several cases of a rare thrombosis type following astra zeneca vaccinations some of them fatal. the european medicines agency in amsterdam felt it was time to take a stance on the job its director stressing that the benefits of the antiviral agent far outweigh any risks. this vaccine has proven to be highly effective if it prevents if severe to season hospitalized patients and he is saving lives vaccination is extremely important in helping us in the fight against

you at even more risk of a deadly blood clot in a moment we'll talk to a vaccine scientist at johns hopkins university 1st this report. astra zeneca. vaccine has hardly been out of the headlines since last december in till now it's been instrumental in the success of the u.k.'s vaccination program but from now on its use there will be restricted to those over 30 years of age there have been worries in the european union about its effectiveness and potential side germany initially restricted its use to under 60 five's now berlin is recommending it purely for over sixty's those worries were compounded by several cases of a rare thrombosis type following astra zeneca vaccinations some of them fatal. the european medicines agency in amsterdam felt it was time to take a stance on the job its director stressing that the benefits of the antiviral agent far outweigh any risks. this vaccine has proven to be highly effective if it prevents if severe to fifty's and hospitalized patients and it is saving life so vaccination is extremely important in helping us in the fight against cope at 19 and we nee

you at even more risk of a deadly blood clot in a moment we'll talk to a vaccine scientist at johns hopkins university 1st this report. astra zeneca. vaccine has hardly been out of the headlines since last december in till now it's been instrumental in the success of the u.k.'s vaccination program but from now on its use there will be restricted to those over 30 years of age there have been worries in the european union about its effectiveness and potential side. germany initially restricted its use to under 60 five's now berlin is recommending it purely for over sixty's those worries were compounded by several cases of a rare thrombosis type following astra zeneca vaccinations some of them fatal. the european medicines agency in amsterdam felt it was time to take a stance on the job its director stressing that the benefits of the antiviral agent far outweigh any risks. this vaccine has proven to be highly effective if it prevents if severe to see some hospitalized patients and he is saving life so vaccination is extremely important in helping us in the fight against scope at 90 and we need

johns hopkins associate professor of emergency medicine.isa just figuring out if you can take this mask off. tom: i'm reading about that. i'm sorry, the news out of india particularly. jonathan: the news out of india is grim and i think the airline story has really captured the divide between a better domestic economy, domestic travel, but international business travel we are a long way away from that. this is going to happen in waves. the market often treats this as one big thing, one big movement. this will happen in waves. the airline business has really captured that. 10 straight days of losses. tom: give me a window tomorrow, give me a window into why this is different? jonathan: it's fresher. they've talked about frontloading some bond buying and is not showing up in the data. just how many bonds are they buying and what will that look like? we are not seeing it in a significant way. ecb president has been criticized about her performance in these news conferences. behind the scenes, there is some frustration. at least in the markets

david: you eventually went to johns hopkins and at johns hopkins you must have done reasonably well becausee elected as a rhodes scholar. sometimes people who enrolled scholarships go to oxford then come back and say " i am going to go to harvard, yale, i'm going to go into something important like private equity." how come you didn't go to harvard or yale or some other great law school? how come you decided to do something that not many rhodes scholars are doing? wes: i went into the world of finance and i was there working for deutsche bank in london. it was nice. i remember getting a phone call -- i was a brand-new analyst and it was from my good buddy, at that time major mic with the 82nd airborne. he said something to me -- " when are you going to get into the fight?" i am a paratrooper. i had gone through all my training with my soldiers, and as my soldiers are now deploying to afghanistan and deploying to iraq, i was working in high finance. i literally went back and thought about it and prayed on it and i went back and called him back up and said " mike, i'm in." i ended up doing a

you at even more risk of a deadly blood clot in a moment we'll talk to a vaccine scientist at johns hopkins university 1st this report astra zeneca 900 victor vaccine has hardly been out of the headlines since last december in till now it's been instrumental in the success of the u.k.'s vaccination program but from now on its use there will be restricted to those over 30 years of age there have been worries in the european union about its effectiveness and potential side effects germany initially restricted its use to under 60 five's now berlin is recommending it purely for over 60 s those worries were compounded by several cases of a rare thrombosis type following astra zeneca vaccinations some of them fatal. the european medicines agency in amsterdam felt it was time to take a stance on the job its director stressing that the benefits of the antiviral agent far outweigh any risks. this vaccine has proven to be highly effective if it prevents if severe disease and hospitalized patients and he is saving lives vaccination is extremely important in helping us in the fight against scope at 19

joshua sharfstein there of johns hopkins.till ahead, e-sports giant veloce becomes the first to acquire a real-life sporting franchise ahead os planned public offering r. e-sports could be olympic. that is something to wrap your head around. almost as difficult to understand as nft's. ceo rupert svendsen-cook joins us to talk about this burgeoning phenomenon hear -- phenomenon. this is bloomberg. ♪ matt: this is bloomberg markets. i am matt miller. traditional sports came to a halt in 2020. the e-sports industry saw explosive growth. fast forward to now. one of the leading e-sports companies, veloce, launching a funding round to continue expansion ahead of its public offering and expanding into physical sports. ceo rupert spence and -- ceo rupert svendsen-cook joins from london to talk about this. let's talk first about the physical foray. tell us about extreme e-sports. rupert: extreme e is a brand-new electric racing series. we had our first race three weeks ago in saudi arabia. they race in parts of the planet affected by

been fantastic having you on the show explain to us what all this means because at our lab of johns hopkins university thank you very much for being on the show today. you very much take care. whatever the risks of vaccines they had to stay for now more on that from derrick williams. will we only have to be vaccinated once or will we need regular booster shots. once again the straightforward answer is we don't know yet but a lot of experts do think it's very likely that even fully vaccinated people will need booster shots in the future there are a couple of different reasons why that might become necessary the 1st involves the fact that the vaccines we're using now have been approved for emergency use because they were safe and the vast majority of people have gotten them and also extremely effective at least in the short term but we still don't know how long that effectiveness on average will last don't forget it's been under a year since the very 1st subjects' and trials received their 1st shots but based on what we know about naturally acquired immunity to the disease and what we know ab

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jon: coming up, johns hopkins bloomberg school of health.y markets back from all-time highs, down .2%. yields are in, single basis point. this is bloomberg. ♪ ritika: president biden wants to prove to the world this week that the u.s. has rejoined the fight against climate change. greenhouse gas emissions, ambitious and achievable. after policy reversals and years of inaction, the u.s. will have a wide credibility gap to overcome. the biden demonstration against democratic lawmakers and progressive allies. the administration will defend the government's policy of blocking permanent residency applications from thousands of immigrants who have been living legally in the u.s. for years. it involves a program for countries in crisis. the rollout of vaccines, global infections has hit a new weekly record in the past seven days, 5.2 million people were infected, a 12% increase from the previous week. outbreaks are coming in many countries not equipped to cope with it. a videogame retailer is stepping down. a tenure marked -- gamestop has become a

david: then you went to johns hopkins, is that right? wes: that's right.f the men in my life who were mentors all had something in common, they all wore the uniform of this country, so i joined the army and went to military college. david: then you went to johns hopkins, is that right? wes: that's right. david: you must have done well because you are elected as a rhodes scholar. some rhodes scholars go to oxford, get a degree don't get a degree, then come back and go to harvard law school, yale law school, go to something important like private equity, whatever it might be, right? what did you decide to do? how come you didn't some other great law school? how come you decided to do something that not many rhodes scholars were doing? wes: i went to the world of finance and was there for a little while working at deutsche bank in london. it was great, nice. i remember getting a phone call. i was a brand-new analyst working on deals. and it was from my buddy, a major with the 82nd airborne division. and he said something to me. he said, so when are you going

on the pandemic, we are joined by andrew from john hopkins university.iod one wave ago, two waves ago, where we would play this idea of comparing death tredn to cases trend. cases are flat or even elevating up a little bit, even as we see continued good news on deaths in america. is there a concern that we will link like we did eight months ago where deaths will come up and rise again with cases or have we finally separated two? >> the fact that we have immunized such a large percentage of our vulnerable populations, the elderly, health care workers exposed to the virus more frequently, that shed have a major effect on the fatality rate, hospitalization rate, less so on the case rate, because we still have not immunized enough of the general population. there should be a disconnect between the case rate and fatality rate. however, the emergence of these new variants seems to be shifting the demographics of not only cases, but also severe cases, to a much younger age group. that makes it a little bit questionable as to how much of an effect we will see on

finally ended up in military academy and a switch went off at johns hopkins.d wes moore do when he finally got to johns hopkins? what got him going? david: he decided to turn his life around and became a rhodes scholar at johns hopkins dotted -- got a degree at oxford and decided to give his time to the military and he went to afghanistan as an officer there. serve several years in afghanistan. came back and got involved with a number of other activities but the last four years has been running robinhood. he will until the end of may and then he is planning to run for governor of maryland. tom: this is absolutely extraordinary. this is the kid that turned it around and made good. what has he done at robinhood. i believe robinhood come every year, gives all the money away. it is a true conduit for charity. david: yes. the financial community puts up all the money for the ministry of cost. all of the donations are given away every year. it is about 400 or $500 billion a year going to the poverty problem in new york city and the environs around new york city. it

professor francisco gonzales who teaches about the politics and economics of latin america at the johns hopkins university here in washington d.c. thank you both for joining us today let me start with you lorella you know as we've been watching things unfold at the border but also watching the politics of the immigration debate play out in washington d.c. i'm interested in what you would like to see in terms of rhetoric from president biden becoming real action on reforming immigration what would be the key pieces that would help you have confidence that this is ministration is going to be different than those who have come before it. such a good question steve because i think rhetoric is just the beginning of really shifting and shifting a story and telling the story about who we are and what we stand for as a country and what are the kind of policies that we're going to advance but here the biden administration really has an opportunity to deliver they have looked at latino voters and immigrant voters them being democrats for decades and promised to deliver on a path to citizenship for $11000

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. >> then you went -- eventually went to johns hopkins. you must have done a reasonably well because you became a road scholar -- a rhodes scholar. what did you decide to do? how come you do not go to yale law school or harvard? >> i went to the world of finance working at a bank in london. i remember getting a phone call is a brand new analyst from my good buddy, at that time major mike stencil who was with the 82nd airborne division. and he said to me, -- my soldiers are now deploying to afghanistan and iraq and i was working in high finance. i went back and thought about it , then called him back up a couple of days later and said mike, i am back in. they did a binding request for me, and i met up with the 82nd airborne division, and then within nine months i was getting ready to deploy with the 82nd airborne division in afghanistan. >> ok, so you went to afghanistan, but did you ask for an office job or something like that? >> no. we were very much in the field. so much of the conversation at that time was iraq. we had 150,000 troops i

jennifer nuzzo, johns hopkins senior scholar.te moment, a decision -- difficult decision to make. when you start to see it showing up in the data, the hesitancy, and you see a crisis in latin america, india, brazil, the pressure will build to do something. lisa: there is a humanitarian aspect, the images just horrifying of people struggling to get to the hospital and not enough beds, not enough oxygen. it also is an issue of economic recovery. can the united states fully recover without the rest of the world on board? no. we are seeing that with airlines. southwest is ok but american is a different story. we cannot end the pandemic and less do more outreach. jonathan: alaska doing ok, another airline with a domestic tilt. goldman, a big call. tom: this is one of those tea leaves during earnings season of a reset. keith horowitz writes very careful notes on citigroup. it is not what he says on goldman, this is not an extrapolation of a boom quarter, it is a refresh of his excel spreadsheet and it gets him up 20%, which gets my att

toll from the corona virus has topped 3000000 people that's according to the tally compiled by johns hopkins university as the worldwide vaccination rollout continues places like brazil and some european countries are seeing surges in covert 19 deaths. and we turn to india now day day after day for more than a week the country has reported record coronavirus cases the situation is particularly dire the capital delhi which has been placed on a weekend lockdown in a bid to contain the spread of infection numbers are also exploding in other cities like mumbai. once again he and his family are packing their belongings during the lockdown last year the couple and their 2 children had to leave mumbai now a year later they again say they have no choice. there are so many problems i cannot work so we cannot afford food we live on just one or 2 euros a day there is no other way we have to go back to our home village. the taxi driver hardly has any customers. that's because mumbai went into a 15 day lockdown on wouldn't stay after coronavirus numbers exploded. india has recorded more than 2000 infecti

here to tell us why is anna durbin from the johns hopkins school of public health.you think we are seeing infection rates rise, even as a so many people have gotten vaccinated? dr. durbin: i think it is probably because so many people are getting vaccinated and we are looking at positive effects of those vaccines being available. people think everything can go back to normal right away, when it really cannot. we have not vaccinated the majority of the adult population yet. yet things are opening up, people are -- from a year of covid fatigue -- are getting out there, congregating with people and not wearing masks as much as the you should. that has a lot to do with it. we are also looking at, particularly in michigan, a variant that is known to be more transmissible really taking its toll. i expect we will see that go up. matt: i was just going to ask about that. um, are these vaccines, which have shown incredible efficacy with the original variant, are they going to show efficacy with the new strains? dr. durbin: that is a good question. i think it is important to

one researcher at r johns hopkins had been frank with them and told them everything and even includedheir mothers story in his textbook but all others denied it in a trick the family by telling them at one point we are concerned you have the same cancer your mother had so we need to get blood samples. that's not the reason for laboratory techniques was call it one - - causing the samples to be misidentified. they needed to identify which samples and which were not actually it was an international problem because the cells were distributed so widely and were so valuable they had samples and cultured that were misidentified they that they were looking at prostate cells but turns out they were the healer cells but what is interesting reading the original medical journals the way that her cells were racialized.di most cell cultures came from white people because researchers would tend to take their own families bodies cells and use them. but in this case i can only describe it is poorer laboratory technique. contamination. instead of blaming researchers it went on to the cells. language o

that's according to johns hopkins university. here's polo sandoval with more. >> reporter: several health care facilities in the state of michigan reporting their hospitalization numbers continue to climb, not only reaching levels we saw during the most recent surge this past fall and winter, even exceeding those numbers. that is the case right now at beaumont health, one of the more recognized and largest health care systems here in the detroit area. officials there telling me they continue to see hospitalizations there climb. dr. joel fishbain with that hospital system telling me he is specifically continuing to notice those patients get even younger. many of those admitting to him that they've attended large gatherings, which go against those recommendations in place not just here in michigan but throughout the country. dr. fishbain also saying about half the patients he's seeing right now are infected with that highly contagious b.1.1.7 variant. >> we're seeing many more people sick with family and exposhe sures. until everyb

tom: johns hopkins university school of public health. now, we are going to continue to discuss this with his colleague. what i saw this morning and this weekend was an explosion in brazil and particularly, the new wary that many of you have called for in india. tell our american viewers and listeners what it means to see this explosion in the third world of pandemic. joshua: first of all, it is terrible because it means a lot more people are getting sick and potentially running the risk of long-term consequences or even dying. for everyone, it runs the risk of new variants developing because when there is so much violence transmitting from person-to-person, there are billions of opportunities for the virus to mutate. i think we have to really take seriously the need for the world to be vaccinated. tom: how do we do that? how do you propose that all of your reading and the research of john hopkins that the western world and the successful examples like the united kingdom and united states, and frankly, israel and select others, how do the

one researcher at johns hopkins who had been frank with him, told him everything and even included their mother's story in his textbook but all the others were denied it. they tricked the family by telling them at one point we are concerned you might have the same cancer your mother had so we had to get samples from you. that's not why they want to the samples. they wanted the samples because poor laboratory technique was calling -- causing the samples to be misidentified and they needed to identify which samples and which were not. that became an international problem, cells were distributed so widely, were so valuable they actually have a lot of samples and cultures that were misidentified, thought they were looking at prostate cells, but they were gila cells. what is interesting to me about that when i read the original medical journals, the way her cells were belatedly racialized, most cell cultures came from white people in part because a lot of researchers would tend to take their own family's bodies, cells and their bodies but in this case, i can only describe it as poor laborator

. >>> now to the coronavirus pandemic as johns hopkins university reports the number of confirmed covid worldwide has topped 150 million. india is especially hard hit, breaking another daily record today. that's nine days in a row with more than 300,000 new cases. experts here the fuel numbers are much higher. outside hospitals and make shift medical centers thousands are waiting for hours in hopes of getting oxygen or a bed. the government has approved vaccinations for anyone 18 and older, but the country's vaccine supply is expected to fall well short. meanwhile, the u.s. military aircraft carrying desperately needed medical supplies has landed in new delhi. more than 40 countries have committed to sending aid. >>> the number of dead has overwhelmed cemeteries, working around the clock but still unable to cope. crematoriums are running short of wood for funeral fires. sam kylie is in new delhi. a warning, his report does have disturbing images. >> reporter: this is a scene at a crematorium, they're dealing with about 150 people coming here to be burned. they are not able to be seen of

we speak with a doctor from johns hopkins. don't quiver. we don't need fed policy out of you. that out of james in st. louis. i have to ask you about the number they gave me emea pause, a 75% vaccination rate. is that feasible in the scientific literature? >> it is feasible to get up to 75%, but if you look at the whole population, we have a vaccine only approved for ages 16 and up, and a lot of the population are below 16. i think that will be difficult, until we get pediatric indications. then we have to deal with vaccine hesitancy. it will be a challenge to get to that level, but i do not look at that number and say that is the end-all, even though it may be the herd immunity threshold. do we get enough of the high risk populations vaccinated, enough of our nursing home patients vaccinated, that we never have hospitals into crisis. i tend to differ from some people because i focus on hospital capacity driving people's behavior, because this vaccine is causing the virus to lose its ability to put hospitals into crisis. every day, as a vaccine goes into someone's harm, the vi

think you so much to caitlin rivers, johns hopkins center for health security scholar.is supported by michael r. bloomberg, the founder of bloomberg lp and bloomberg philanthropy's. coming up, the global economy is on track for its fastest growth in more than half a century. economists are warning of a dangerous divergence between some regions. that story is coming up next. in the markets, we are looking at a record high on the s&p 500. the index is up 1.4%. your outperformance is coming from large cap technology. the nasdaq 100 up by 1.6%, as we see yields not doing a lot. you did get the five basis point move on friday on the blowout march payrolls number in the u.s. we are basically unchanged. 1.71% is where we sit on the u.s. 10 year. the real dramatic action is in the commodity complex. wti crude at this point, down 5.4%. we are sitting at $58 a barrel. more supply coming onto the market. demand concerns are still present. we will have much more next. this is bloomberg. ♪ karina: janet is calling for a global minimum corporate tax rate. janet yellen's comments are

andrew pekosz, johns hopkins bloomberg school of public health. ethically speaking, you have to give us freedom to gain more freedom. isn't that the conversation around vaccine passports? lisa: that has been the question since the pandemic has been raging and that is why people have been talking about china and how they cracked down and constrained human rights and had a more effective way of stopping the pandemic more quickly. in the u.s., people saying do not restrain my freedom and yet, who's freedom are we talking about is this is a societal problem and a societal need to combat it? jonathon: from that perspective, we should not dismiss those concerns. once you give certain freedoms to the government, it is difficult to reclaim them. many are grappling with that after what has happened in the last 12 months. power-hungry individuals in government, they are always on. it is hard to get it back. lisa: he was hoping to celebrate the amazon stock split. jonathon: he did not get that, did he? lisa: he was going to call in though. jonathon: the firs

that's according to data compiled by johns hopkins, and the u.s. leads the world in covid deaths with more than 560,000 to date. michigan is being hit with so many new cases of covid-19 right now that hospitals running out of space to treat patients. the state is currently leading the u.s. in new infections. >> we're seeing many many many more people sick in families and exposures. the problem and concern that i have is until everybody gets vaccinated, could there be other variants that now escape the immune system. >> according to johns hopkins, nearly half of u.s. states reported an increase in covid-19 cases this week. but some promising vaccine news, more than 205 million covid-19 vaccine doses have been administered in the u.s. according to data published saturday by the cdc, and beginning monday, all adults will be eligible to get vaccinated. in addition, cdc advisers will meet next friday to review the ongoing johnson & johnson vaccine pause. experts emphasize that the rare cases of adverse reactions from covid-19 vaccines are far outweighed

that's according to data compiled by john's hopkins university. duriew daily covid cases and more than 500 deaths. those numbers have dropped to 2,300 daily cases and 68 deaths. >>> an important tool in the fight against the coronavirus could be given the green light again. it now appears the federal government is leaning toward resuming the use of the johnson & johnson single-shot vaccine as early as tomorrow. >> we need to make a decision quickly, and i'm hopeful we'll be able to use the vaccine soon. >> reporter: u.s. health officials put use of the vaccine on hold after six women developed rare blood clots after getting the shots. they decided the benefits outweigh the risks and the vaccine can be used with a safety warning. the daily average of shots arms has fallen below three million a day. >> reporter: scientists have put together this map. the areas in darker blue show where americans are resisting the vaccine the most. and is it so necessary to wear masks outdoors? pfizer and the cdc said they might revisit their mask guidelines. >> we w

let's bring in john hopkins public health professor doctor marty mccarey author of the price we pay andl contributor in florida those states are in the northeast. is there something about the geography that causes the rate of infections to be so high? >> well pandemic is regional and it is based on how much natural immunity is there from prior infections how well the state is doing with their vaccine rollout, and the seasonal variation that we normally see with coronaviruses. five states right now are making up almost half of the infectionings with michigan, leading the way that's in part because they're doing intensive testing. especially in kids that are going to sporting events, and they're also at the same time doing intensive testing outbreak of people age 10 to 19 that's most common group right now. that is getting infected, also, some long-term facilities were not adequately protected. they've got 39 outbreaks there, and some correctional facilities in addition to the b117 being dominant in michigan they've got a real problem right now in young people especially those with obesit

and in 197 in 2017, she came to baltimore as the black alumni presidential professor and at johns hopkins university. there since then she has earned too many awards to mention. so let me just say she is an acclaimed scholar and in 2019 her alma mater the cuny school of law awarded her a doctor of law on an honorary basis and each spring. i she she and her husband who is french go back and forth across the atlantic, although they haven't been able to do that this year, but she is definitely a citizen of the world. and so we are very honored to have dr. martha jones. share with us. what really is the impact of black women? who now have the right to vote and will fight every day to make sure that every person has a right to vote on the politics of this democracy. thank you to you jane and to the us capitol historical society. i'm extremely honored to have been a part of what have been an extraordinary series of conversations insights, and i look forward to the work that we'll all do together out of this symposium experience. so, so thank you so much. my theme is indeed the 19th amendment an

at least 37 states reported a rise in average daily cases over the past week. 37, according to johns hopkinss upward trend. today the white house announced plans to invest $1.7 billion to help states track and monitor the new variants meanwhile the cdc reports a panel of advisers will meet next friday to discuss the nationwide pause on administering the j&j vaccine. health experts are concerned that shelving the shot could increase vaccine hesitancy, especially among marginalized communities. in north carolina, one organization is now sending teams of specialists to encourage people to get shots and ensure they're being distributed equally. nbc's mara barrett is in wake county. >> reporter: these strike teams are made up of community-embedded teams that bring together vaccination opportunities like this one at the church specifically targeted to the latino community here in wake county. the reason they picked this spot is because the team is using data vulnerability mapping and that makes sure they can look at historically marginalized communities, the rates of poverty, the rates of low acce

that, according to the latest figures from johns hopkins university. a million of those recorded in the greater-europe region. this week, france passed the grim milestone of 100,000 covid-19-related deaths with e emmanuel macron tweeting no name and no face would be forgotten. here in france, 6.3% of the population has now been fully vaccinated. over in germany, the figure is 6.5%. german chancellor, angela merkel, this week got her first vaccine in the shape of the astrazeneca shot. that -- a certificate tweeted out by her spokesman, earlier this week. the astrazeneca vaccine that is, only now in many european countries being given to older populations. another hiccup on the road of europe's vaccination rollout has been the suspension, by several-eu countries, of the johnson & johnson vaccine. we await the results of the european-medicines agency investigation that we should get next week to determine whether or not it believes that it can safely be used here, in europe. elsewhere, europeans now really looking ahead to what those rolled-out vaccinatio