up next, alex mccourt of the johns hopkins bloomberg school of public health discusses how states areesponding to the supreme court ruling that struck down new york state's concealed carry gun law. later, education next senior educator paul peterson will discuss his podcast, the education exchange. we will be right back. ♪ congress returns next week from the july 4 holiday break this senate is back monday at 3:00 p.m. eastern. senators will vote later in the week on the net -- nomination. legislative work in the house resumes tuesday, members will spend a week on the spending program. including a bill to protect the right to travel for abortion services. members will consider a bill to create an amber-like system for active shooters. watch live action from the house on c-span and c-span2 in honor live video app c-span now or c-span.org. but tv every sunday on c-span2 features leading authors discussing their latest nonfiction books at 8:00 p.m. eastern the author of liberalism and its discontent discusses the latest liberal attitudes. formal education secretary betsy devos talks about

up next, alex mccourt of the johns hopkins bloomberg school of public health discusses how states areesponding to the supreme court ruling that struck down new york state's concealed carry gun law. later, education next senior educator paul peterson will discuss his podcast, the education exchange. we will be right back. ♪ congress returns next week from the july 4 holiday break this senate is back monday at 3:00 p.m. eastern. senators will vote later in the week on the net -- nomination. legislative work in the house resumes tuesday, members will spend a week on the spending program. including a bill to protect the right to travel for abortion services. members will consider a bill to create an amber-like system for active shooters. watch live action from the house on c-span and c-span2 in honor live video app c-span now or c-span.org. but tv every sunday on c-span2 features leading authors discussing their latest nonfiction books at 8:00 p.m. eastern the author of liberalism and its discontent discusses the latest liberal attitudes. formal education secretary betsy devos talks about

hey, johns hopkins. uhh... good job.t you've nailed the whole burrito packing tape thing-- which i'm not saying isn't important, obviously it is-- how's that cancer research coming? still looking for a way to hot glue my taco shut? then please, no hurries. take your time. meanwhile, eric clapton has tested positive for covid. unsurprising, as he is a critic of coronavirus vaccines and pandemic restrictions. clapton's got a complicated relationship with shots. he famously admits administering one to the sheriff, but he swears he did not give one to the dep-u-tee. ( laughter and applause ) meanwhile, there's news from paris, where tourists will soon be able to stay a night inside the moulin rouge. renting out a sumptuous boudoir includes the moulin rouge's signature cabaret show an a three-course french meal-- though, guests will have to make do with a shared toilet. is this an airbnb or an escape room? ( as french host ) "we have fed all of you potatoes au gratin drowned in cheese, steak soaked in butter, and a double cre

marty makary of john's hopkins university is one of them.st written a remarkable piece and he wrote it with epidemiologist -- they found that pfizer and moderna were provided, and we are quoting "extremely we come in conclusive data to justify vaccinating children as young as six months in united states." "using a 3-does vaccine, 992 children between the ages of six months and five years, pfizer found no statistically significant evidence of vaccine efficacy, they wrote. in a subgroup of children ages six months to two years, the trial found that the vaccine could result in a 99% lower chance of infection, but they also have a 370% increased chance of being infected. what does that mean? we have no idea. we don't know how you would know because those data are completely incoherent. they do not present a picture that suggests a path forward. they are inherently confusing. meanwhile, moderna, "claimed a very weak vaccine efficacy of just 4% in ages six months to two years." that is not a statistically significant result either. so based on tho

a senior fellow at the foreign policy institute and john hopkins university. thanks for joining us in the program. thank you very much, appreciate that, sir. so this our stick around for more in just about 30 minutes. ah a whole new world. yes. to see out these days because the advocate and engagement equals the trails. when so many find themselves worlds apart, we choose to look so common ground. a with with ah, a green either use this done on a posterior responsive via but we need to give a, give me a call when you hear doorstep. because when you're gone, this suddenly green is domes, donna, because all, and you live with low grade a. you're not with them. of course why he, why not? you throw your way now on frederick is dying you way. not teaching your way, not i will be can leave the key only so many drama me. he thought he will not need school choice. you're not winning. you can then let the bullet session a stronger solution. but the most, the c, p u h. it will not accuse a family a and you'll notice, oh, a december 2013. the lowest peaceful year in the

on may 10, 1818, the final report was released by the johns hopkins university health security center, and it already clarified that a new pandemic could begin due to leaks of dangerous pathogens from the laboratory. the scale of experiments with genetic manipulation of coronaviruses in the united states was unparalleled in the world. training. backstage. west to a similar pandemic. began pre-elite. you somewhere the acquirer is on the other side, and obvious white spots in the american versions of the event are obvious on the other hand. linking the dates between the closing of the fordrich laboratory, the outbreak of an unknown lung disease exercise and the start of the game war in the province. wuhan is an irrefutable reality. answer to a rhetorical question. who developed the new coronavirus, the united states or china will lie on the surface, but to discuss this, and even more so to doubt, no one will be able to make this informational component in western coverage of the pandemic. this is a classic media show fear breeds panic panic breeds absence common sense pressure. society

john hopkins said average daily cases have more than tripled over the last three months and the average number of daily deaths have risen above 400 for the first time in two months. more than half of the u.s. population lives in a county with high covid numbers. cdc recommends wearing a mask indoors if you live in one of those counties. b.a.r.t. is no longer requiring masks started today. b.a.r.t. surveys trains four times a month. they estimate in june 89% of riders wore face coverings but today it is up to passenger to decide. though it is still strongly recommended. >> i don't like it because i don't feel like the pandemic is over and more than likely it is still here with us. and everybody needs to still wear their mask. i mean i'm going to still wear mine. i don't know about anybody else. but i'm going to have mine on every day. >> b.a.r.t. reinstated the mask mandate back in april. and since then b.a.r.t. directors have not indicated they would be renewing it. >>> and we are following some breaking news in the east bay now. we're getting our first look from chopper 5 at a reigniti

that's right, johns hopkins students are working on burrito tape, while the cooks at qdoba are working covid test [ laughter ] guys, finally, it is tuesday, it is time for "wetweet. here we go ♪ wetweet wetweet ♪ >> jimmy: welcome to wetweet this is where we are, as a a group, decide something that we should post on twitter. i'm going to show you five different tweets, and we're all going to vote on whether you like one or not. you all have voting clickers at your seats yep. do you see where they are. some people aren't even remotely looking for them. it's fine. it's all right you can vote for all of these. or you could vote for none of them whatever you want. we're just going to see the results live, and then we'll tweet it out higgins, roots you have clickers as well >> steve: got 'em. >> questlove: yep. >> jimmy: all right, good. now whatever tweet gets the most likes, we will tweet out live on the show so we can all like it and wetweet it >> steve: ah [ cheers ] >> jimmy: you see, it's a shared experience. all right, ready here we go the first tweet is, "blood moons must be conflic

johns hopkins released a report describing the success of us groups such as the ncos alliance are makingorts to create viral directories. for as many viruses as possible, fundraising for fees is provided primarily by the us government through the agency international development usa races. worth more than $1 billion, the goal of these projects is to reduce outbreak uncertainty through broad cataloging. as many viral species as possible in the month before the outbreak of unknown pneumonia, which was dubbed the epidemic of vapers in august of the nineteenth year in the newspaper. the new york times, another piece came out. a lethal biological research facility at an army lab is shut down and security concerns with the disposal of hazardous materials have forced the government. suspend activities of the leading military biological center. it was the well-known in narrow circles laboratory at the ford dex army base, the ford dectric army complex, located in the state of merlint. this is not just the largest military base, but also the laboratories in which they work on biological defense of

a graduate of princeton and johns hopkins university's professor burlingame taught at connecticut college for many years before joining the faculty at the university of illinois springfield in 2009 where he currently holds the chancellor naomi b lynn distinguished chair in lincoln studies. professor burlingame is the author of abraham lincoln a life or is he calls of the green monster? the inner world of abraham lincoln an american marriage the untold story of abraham and of abraham lincoln and mary todd and lincoln and the civil war. he is also the editor of many collections of lincoln primary source materials. the atlantic rated abraham lincoln a life one of the five best books of the year 2009 and in the new york review of books the dean of civil war historians james mcpherson wrote that professor burlingame knows more about lincoln than any other living person. professor burlingame's presentation today is based on his recent book the black man's president abraham lincoln african americans and the pursuit of racial equality for which he is the recipient of this year's abraham lincoln i

announcer: coming up this morning on washington journal, alex mccourt from johns hopkins bloomberg school of public health on how states are responding to the concealed carry gun law. and education next

there was a spokesperson from johns hopkins. is another question i have, i've isolated since march 2020 because i'm 87, there was a long list of problems. i was interested in the new vaccine he seemed to mentionon might come out in october covering the b5 so i might get vaccinated. he mentioned another word i'd only heard once before in the beginning of the covid problem when supermarkets made one white isles mentioning the word of traumatize. it's not a real word? they showed a cloud drifting over the different piles. >> thank you, i hope you're fullyle vaccinated. i hope you will be able to get the new and improved multiple strain vaccine this fall and i encourage you to talk to your healthcare provider so you can get that. there are three ways to get convicted, one is droplet spread from your mouth. wearing a mask, keeping 6 feet from a person tends tosu dramatically reduce exposure to a problem. the second is where i coffin my hand and touch my hand and then touch the surface and then youac come behind me in touch thefa surf

university, press in late, february and joining us this afternoon as discussions are martha jones of john's hopkins and megan sweeney of the university of michigan. i'm eric arneson from the george washington university co-chair of the washington history seminar along with my colleague christian osterman of the wilson center who cannot be here today. the washington industry seminar is a collaborative non-partisan venture of the woodrow wilson center's history and public policy program and the american historical associations national history center. and for over the past decade the seminar has been meeting weekly and pre-covid times in person at the wilson center and since the pandemic well, here in the virtual realm behind the scenes two people make these seminars possible pete bierstecker of the wilson center and rachel wheatley of the national history center, and i'd like to thank institutional supporters the george washington university department of history in particular as well as a number of anonymous individual donors. and as i say every week, we invite you to join their ranks. on the logis

we're going to cross live to hafez our go yell senior fellow at the foreign policy institute in john hopkins university. thanks for joining us on the program. so what do you, what do you make of the timing of these latest statements in the united nations regarding libya? well, this is sort of more or less, it's been a routine meeting that the security counseling holds on libya. this time, it is basically to discuss the role of the un mission in tripoli, and also to agree on a new emvoy or a special envoy for the security council and the secretary general in libya. ed, something that hasn't happened for the last, almost a year. and that position has been vacant, and it has been substituted by the secretary general with the special advisors to him. but a number of countries and in the security council went that situation to change and for our new special envoy to be name. well, how much do you think these western sanctions have actually done to bring peace to libya when a lot of these countries that are putting that have laid these sanctions against the country actually helped to topple gadhaf

19 cases hospitalizations and deaths all continue to increase in the united states according to johns hopkins average daily cases. more than tripled over the past three months and health officials believe those are under-reported because of the high use of home tests government data shows hospitalizations have surpassed 40,000 people for the first time in about four months and more than 4,400. people are hospitalized right now in california. meanwhile the rates of monkeypox continue to increase in san francisco. now community activists are demanding more be done at the federal level. they've called out the cdc and fda abc 7 news reporter on sir hussain was at the rally where protesters called for action today. we need the federal government to do what it needs to do and give the state of california the city of san francisco and communities across the state the resources that we need to. communities safe we demand it the demand from community groups that federal agencies step up engagement education testing and treatment around the monkeypox virus because the government agencies have failed. a

crimes against women and in bel, baltimore, maryland is shannon friday. raleigh, a professor at the john hopkins bloomberg school of public health. as always we want to hear your thoughts and questions, so be sure to jump into our live you tube chat and you too can be part of this discussion. ladies, thank you so much for joining us. such an important film really stunning, really powerful, moved me to want to understand this more in an even do something about it quite frankly. and i want to ask you, i mean, jasmine story ah, a harrowing example of kind of tragic outcomes that could be prevented. and i'm curious what you discovered, what you learned and, and why you made this felt we learned that jasmine story demonstrates what's happening across the u. s. and that is that offenders who should not have guns under federal and some state laws are still carrying them anyway. and they're using them to kill their intimate partners at alarming rates. the number of intimate partners killed over the last 10 years is soaring. and we know that the problem has been compounded by the pandemic. the reason we

i'm currently a research associate at the center for american indian health. johns hopkins movers, go a public health hello. so good to have you. thank you so much. hello charles, please introduce yourself to our viewers around the globe. high for me, thanks so much for having me. my name is charles hawthorne. i am an equity in harm reduction project manager with the california bridge program based out of oakland, california, where i help department start harm reduction program fall across the state. it's have you on board am rich, so welcome to the stream. please introduce yourself. thanks for having me. i'm marissa perez. i am based in washington dc. i am currently the director of the office of federal affairs for the drug policy alliance. i guess i want to get your quick opinion on what we're seeing right here on my laptop. so this is the rise in us drug overdose debts by race and ethnicity. 2020, over 20. 19 black, 44 percent american indian and alaska native, alaska native said 9 percent white, 22 percent. asian pacific islander 22 percent. it's valid. 21 percent. what does that

according to researchers from johns hopkins. worse yet, the aclu documented cases of arrest for medical debt in several states including maryland, tennessee, and arkansas. in maryland, they of the practice of -- less than $1,000. the result of these practices essentially revives debtors prisons which should be illegal in this country. these that collection tactics for obvious reasons, affecting consumers well-being, psychological -- consumers may forego and delay medical care because they fear medical debt, which can form your physical health and lead to greater medical expenses in the future. carrying dead and being subjected to these debt collection practices also causes psychological distress. increasing anxiety, depression, substance use disorders, and other mental health use -- disorders. all of these things can lead to medical bills down the road, a vicious cycle. so to address this epidemic of medical debt, we ask that you focus on ways to prevent medical debt so that seeking health care doesn't send individuals into a fi

according to johns hopkins and the cdc, coronavirus infections nationwide are up by 6%, with more thannew cases reported each day over the past two weeks. earlier i spoke with a cardiologist and professor of molecular medicine at scripps research. i asked him about the sudden rise of covid cases in the states and the cdc suggestion to return to indoor mask wearing. >> we've already seen a 20% increase in hospitalization. this has worsened. it is disproportionate. we have capitulated to the situation of the virus. what is in store is that like what has happened with this buyer virus variant, we will see escalating numbers of cases, and more hospitalizations. one good thing is it does not appear to be accompanied by icu admissions and deaths as previous variance. but this is concerning. >> this variant is so contagious, even when people have three or four vaccine shots, they are still getting infected with covid. as you point out, most are avoiding hospitalization, serious hospitalization or death. some feel that recovering from the infection is like getting another booster shot. they do

i need to go to the reality that our work, our medical work on covid came out of the johns hopkins university and this is very much on south africa. you have lived covid, you replaced a senior official who at age 62 died of covid. how immediate is covid to south africa and what is the covid illness look like for south africa in the next six months? >> thank you very much for the opportunity to speak your viewership. so far, so good. the last time i looked, we seem to have everything going down. that's the reason we lifted restrictions as far as covid is concerned and encourage people to actually keep being on top of the communicable diseases in the traditional way. just this morning when we seemed to have found a new subvariant and it is something we are going to look at, but so far, so good. we are only recovering post-pandemic. and the economy we are dealing with, more wicked than it was before pandemic, that we can say with confidence that there are indicators that have demonstrated that we are actually on the border of leveling up with a pre-pandemic situation. tom: when you walk into a r

according to researchers from johns hopkins. worse yet, the aclu documented cases of arrest for medical debt in several states including maryland, tennessee, and arkansas. in maryland, they of the practice of -- less than $1,000. the result of these practices essentially revives debtors prisons which should be illegal in this country. these that collection tactics for obvious reasons, affecting consumers well-being, psychological -- consumers may forego and delay medical care because they fear medical debt, which can form your physical health and lead to greater medical expenses in the future. carrying dead and being subjected to these debt collection practices also causes psychological distress. increasing anxiety, depression, substance use disorders, and other mental health use -- disorders. all of these things can lead to medical bills down the road, a vicious cycle. so to address this epidemic of medical debt, we ask that you focus on ways to prevent medical debt so that seeking health care doesn't send individuals into a fi

marty makary, professor at the john hopkins school of medicine and author of "the price we pay." would you make of the white house's handling of this especially this relentless push of paxlovid? >> pfizer's getting a free commercial. it's been given off label the majority of the citizens in the united states. it's a nonimmune people, people with known immune systems but given to a low risk people and the result has been a rebound rate of about 50%. you prolong the symptoms in the period where you're contagious and on a population level it drives mutations we are learning more and more about that now. >> laura: today son jacob had a pretty candid take on the the presidents condition. >> if this were my parents calling in the same position in terms of their vaccination status when they got covid, i'd be worried. around the same age of the president. >> laura: does not surprise you? >> and no -- in the world of fearmongering, it's concerning that we are using the language if i were caring for the president i would simply reassure him. he feels fine, looks fine, he's probably on days

anderson and, and texas, or johns hopkins in, in, in maryland. those are some of the people you want to partner with, some of the most important health care companies. our company like united health in minnesota, there's number of health care companies in, in nashville, tennessee. so if you want to innovate in those sectors, you're going to need partnerships because it requires sort of a systems level integration. it's not like an app in the app store, it's a much more complicated, multi faceted problem. you can't do it alone. you need those, those, those partnerships, and many of the partnership you need are with organizations companies in the middle of the country, which will advantage these rising city. if we pay more attention to what's happening, those cities, if we back more companies with venture capital in those cities, if we can reverse what's been a brain drain in many parts of the country, where people laughed because they didn't see much happening there. they didn't feel like they could be an arch bird, you know, start a company unles

on may 9, 18 , the final report was released by the johns hopkins university center for health securityady clarified that a new pandemic could begin due to leaks of dangerous pathogens from the laboratory, the scale of experiments with genetic manipulation of coronaviruses in the united states had no analogues in the world. training. backstage. west to a similar pandemic. began pre-elite. benefit the acquirer is on the other side, and the obvious white spots in the american version of events are obvious on the other side. the connection of the dates between the closing of the fordrich laboratory, the outbreak of an unknown lung disease and the outbreak of the war of games by wuhan frenzy, an irrefutable reality is the answer to a rhetorical question. who developed the new coronavirus, the united states or china will lie on the surface, but to discuss this, and even more so to doubt, no one will be able to make this informational component in western coverage of the pandemic. it's a classic media show fear generates panic panic generates a lack of common sense social pressure. that provo

on may 10, 1818, the final report was released by the johns hopkins university health security centerlarified that a new pandemic could also begin due to leaks of dangerous pathogens from the laboratory, the scale of experiments with genetic manipulation of coronaviruses in the united states had no analogues in the world. training. backstage. west to a similar pandemic. began pre-elite. you somewhere the acquirer is on the other side, and obvious white spots in the american versions of events are obvious on the other hand. relationship of dates between the ford e3 lab shutdown, an outbreak of an unknown lung disease exercise, and the start of the game war in the province. wuhan is an irrefutable reality. answer to a rhetorical question. who developed the new coronavirus, the united states or china will lie on the surface, but to discuss this, and even more so to doubt, no one will be able to make this informational component in western coverage of the pandemic. this is a classic media show fear breeds panic panic breeds absence common sense pressure. society provokes the allocation of

let's go to the johns hopkins resource center and see where we are with the virus in the united statesaccording to the johns hopkins coronavirus research center, there has been more than 88 million confirmed cases of covid-19 in the u.s. and more than one million deaths in the united states since the beginning of covid-19. also, they have a vaccine tracker on their site which shows 67% of the united states population is fully vaccinated. that is more than 222 million americans. but 67% are vaccinated which leaves a little over 30% of americans who are not vaccinated. we want to know, how worried are you about covid-19, especially as summer vacation is in swing and was school season coming up? how worried are you about covid-19? if you are in the eastern or central time zones, we want to hear from you at (202)-748-8000. if you are in the mountain or pacific time zones, your number is (202)-748-8001. let's start with ben calling from state college, pennsylvania. good morning. caller: hi, good morning. host: go ahead. caller: good morning. i understand the renewed anxieties in regards to

let's go to the johns hopkins resource center and see where we are with the virus in the united statesaccording to the johns hopkins coronavirus research center, there has been more than 88 million confirmed cases of covid-19 in the u.s. and more than one million deaths in the united states since the beginning of covid-19. also, they have a vaccine tracker on their site which shows 67% of the united states population is fully vaccinated. that is more than 222 million americans. but 67% are vaccinated which leaves a little over 30% of americans who are not vaccinated. we want to know, how worried are you about covid-19, especially as summer vacation is in swing and was school season coming up? how worried are you about covid-19? if you are in the eastern or central time zones, we want to hear from you at (202)-748-8000. if you are in the mountain or pacific time zones, your number is (202)-748-8001. let's start with ben calling from state college, pennsylvania. good morning. caller: hi, good morning. host: go ahead. caller: good morning. i understand the renewed anxieties in regards to

and here in the u.s., cases are at the highest and rising fastest in the south, according to johns hopkins university. also ticking up in the midwest and northeast. >>> and new zealand is coping with its own wave of infections driven by ba.5. during july the country's seen some of the highest death tolls and warning that the new wave of infections could put its health system under considerable pressure. >>> deadly high temperatures are sending people in europe and the u.s. scrambling to stay cool. coming up, how the record-breaking heat waves are causing wildfires and the dangerous toll this is taking on people's health. and as the u.s. braces for record temperatures this weekend another fire has broken out near yosemite park in california. we'll have the details. stay w with us. you sound... tired. oh, thananks. what? when did i- morning! oh, great. there's two of them. good days start with good nights. so i would ask your doctor about both. calling doctor johannes. no, please, i can do that. all right? with age comes more... get more with neutrogena® retinol pro plus. a powerful .5% reti

according to john hopkins and the cdc, infections are up six percent with more than 100,000 new casesorted each day over the past two weeks. earlier, cnn spoke with the doctor. a cardiologist and professor. the scripture research. we asked about the concerns of the new and very contagious variant.>> this variant is so distinct from omicron. were 40 percent of americans and throughout the world. they do not protect from this variant. this is crucial. this variant is so unrecognizable. relative to previous versions of the virus. that is why gearing up. air filtration and ventilation. no less critically important are getting boosters. second shots for people over the age of 50. that is how we can increase protection.>> the u.s. senate majority leader. a spokesperson says he has very mild symptoms. the new york democrat pass remote remotely this week. after the july 4 recess.>>> a lakeside beach temporarily closed after his swim was hospitalized with that where brain eating amoeba. it is found in fresh warm water. health officials say it can infect people in contaminated water entering th

according to john hopkins and the cdc, coronavirus infections nationwide are up 6%. reported each day over the past two weeks. dr. eric is a cardiologist and professor of molecular medicine and he joins me know from la jolla in california. thank you dr. for being with us and all that you do. >> thank you rosemary. >>> the cdc here in the united states has been reporting more than 100,000 new covid cases a day on average over the past week. of course many people have been testing at home. those positive infections are not being counted. others are actually choosing not to test it all. what might the true number of daily covid infections be do you think? >> we are hovering at that number of confirmed infections for many weeks but they probably represent at least 500,000, perhaps even 1 million infections a day because of very severe underreporting with the rapid tests or not even getting tested at all. >> those are horrifying numbers. nearly a third of the u.s. population lives in a county with a high covid-19 community level according to cdc data. so the agency recomm

for more, let's bring in eric toner, a senior official at the johns hopkins school of public health.k us through this perhaps increasing cases that we have seen. what is it attributed to an how do we combat it? >> thank you for having me. the cases all over the world are increasing, particularly seeing that in europe and new zealand and australia. we are seeing it in the u.s. cases have gone up several hold. we really don't have a good handle on how many cases there are because testing is not nearly as adequate. kriti: let's talk about monkeypox as well here. how worried should we be about that? is it on the shadows, the steps, or the heels of covid? how big of a deal compared to coronavirus? >> well, monkeypox is a very different disease. it is not nearly as transmissible. it requires very close skin to skin contact. it is premier league being transmitted between men who have sex with men. it is continuing to grow and it is a concern. it could become endemic in parts of the world where it had not been before. it might become a risk and cannot be contained in longer. kriti: very quic