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kavita patel, former senior aide to valerie jarrett during the obama years and nonresident fellow at brookings and msnbc contributor. so, doc, after this fda correction, do you still fear, because they're involved as well, an unproven vaccine rushed to market for political reasons? it sure is possible. >> yeah, absolutely, brian. and i think you said it. it's really the political reasons that are the caution here. and by the way, this convalescent plasma is just one in a series of events starting with hydroxychloroquine also getting one of those emergency use approvals, through claims and misstatements made by scientific advisers to the president about the virus, testing, treatment. so it's no surprise, brian, that people are very much calling into question, legislators, doctors, scientists alike, and simply put, dr. hahn is a respected oncologist. and for him to make that kind of mistake, it just really -- it feels like it's just pandora's box, and what can we do but to ask for scrutiny of the data. we must demand transparency and full view of the data around these phase three trial

kavita patel. and she's been working with the trump administration as an external adviser on drug pricing. we want to talk about the schools today. we're seeing the problems schools have who have reopened are having. what's your number one concern about reopening schools right now? >> the number one concern, chris, has to be this uneven approach, particularly in places that are still seeing either a rise in cases or have not seen a significant decline. so it's the combination. we have still huge parts of this country where the numbers of cases just far exceed even the cdc's own recommendations for safely having more than ten people in a gathering, which includes schools. and on top of that, it's, as you just heard from the reporting, there's just very heterogenius mixed approaches to how schools are deal with this. some are requiring masks. some are not. some are able to exhibit those clear physical distance guidelines. some are not. and it's unfortunate because as we're predicting with the reopeni

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kavita patel. a quick question. we saw the graphic that cori coffin put up that 35 lifeguard has contracted coronavirus. 34 of whom have recovered. is that part of the problem? that you see people of a certain age or maybe, you know, physical agility in good health, they might get the disease and some will, you know, many in those conditions, you know, will recover quickly. people say, eh? >> yeah, alex, you're absolutely correct, certainly the trend lately across the country has been younger people but do not make a mistake, younger people are also still being hospitalized at higher rates than average, so, yes, you're correct that, sure, you can have a good story where many recover, but here's the problem, alex, we have no idea how many of those people that were infected and recovered spread it to other people. in the state of new jersey we know that at least for every person infected they're infecting at least 1.4 other people, which is a bad sign. >> too high. how can cities control things, though, like house par

kavita patel, thank you so much. we appreciate it. >>> the president says mail-in voting is rife with fraud. the republican secretary of state in kansas says it is not. he joins me next. . . >>> the house oversight committee plans to subpoena postmaster general louis dejoy. he hasn't produced documents to his restructure og of the usps, documents they requested during his in-person testimony last week. the documents should help determine why mail delivery was slowed down and why drop boxes were removed across the country. let's bring in kansas secretary of state scott schwab. mr. secretary, thank you so much for joining us today. i just want to get your assessment of how the usps is working in your city, are you confident they'll be able to handle the surge in mail-in ballots. >> our concern isn't so much any different than any year during election years, our concern is they treat mail ballots like they treat any other piece of mail. we recommend our voters don't put it in the mail and not so much for concerns of fra

kavita patel and phil rucker, pulitzer prize winning writer. does donald trump want relief for unemployed americans? >> you know, nicolle, he says he does and he's threatened by the way to take executive action to try to create some of that relief if congress doesn't come to an agreement here but we have to underscore how striking it's been these last few weeks to see the president largely absence from these negotiations on capitol hill, certainly his chief of staff mark med douse and his treasury secretary steve mnuchin are negotiating on his behalf but that is not an active president involved in these talks, they're trying to use whatever political muscle or capital he may have at the white hou house. in past crises for the government, the shutdown i'm thinking of at the end of 2018 and other instances was very involved in day-to-day conversations with legislators. he's been an absent leader. >> i'd love your thoughts on the breaking news that new york governor cuomo has given a green light for district to district decisions on school reopeni

kavita patel, former health policy director for the obama administration and an msnbc medical contributorat do you say about these patients who are having symptoms long after they should have recovered? >> it's really troubling, andrea. her story, while it might sound unusual because of the length of symptoms, is actually consistent with what the cdc is finding in its survey of patients who are not hospitalized. up to two-thirds of them, weeks to even an month later, have had symptoms like fatigue. this is something, andrea, i predict will stay with us, patients with covid will continue to battle different types of symptoms. >> i want to ask you about something dr. fauci had to say, that the united states needs to get daily cases under 10,000 by fall. let's watch. >> cases, you know, the last ones, anywhere between 50 and 60,000 per day with a thousand deaths per day, we've got to get those numbers down. if we don't get them down, then we're going to have a really bad situation in the fall, because as you get indoors and you get the complication of influenza, that's something we'll have t

kavita patel, who served in the obama administration. dr.o, one of the things that i think -- it's fairly obvious to say, but still sort of stunning is that there does not seem to be -- i mean, never mind universal directions as to what schools should be doing, there doesn't seem to be any universal principles from which local school districts or states or however -- whatever unit you want, can actually use those and assess what to do going forward. how is that possible at this point? >> well, sam, you're absolutely correct and honestly, six months into this now and we've gotten used to the fact that we have a national problem with no national strategy and it seems like the people bur bearing the greatest responsibility in this are the people who are received the least kind of support, i'm talking working american parents, teachers, students themselves and so, you're right. we -- we got here when we decided for various reasons that starting even in march, we wouldn't take a national approach to this. and what's really troubling is that -- i