leana wen. >>> but first, here is my take. we're often told that america is deeply divided, that polarization makes it impossible for us to make any progress in policy. that our country is so internally con flicked it cannot project unity and strength to the world. but on the most important foreign policy issue confronting policymakers, the problem is closer to the opposite. washington has embraced a wide-ranging consensus on china that has turned into a classic example of group think. to watch tuesday's hearing, held by the new house select committee on china, was to be transported back to the 1950s. members of both parties tried to out-do each other in the denunciation of china describing, as mike gallagher did, the communist party is a threat to the united states and blaming it directly for every problem in america from drug use to covid, to unemployment and since unemployment is at a more than a 50-year low. one could dismiss some of this more extreme rhetoric as the usual congressional grandstanding. but it creates a dyna

we're now joined by cnn medical analyst dr leana wen dr wen thanks so much for being with us. nearly every state in the country already has the standing orders that allow pharmacists to dispense narcan without without a prescription. so why is this decision such a milestone? i think it's a big step. it's something that i and other advocates have been calling for many years, mainly because it helps to normalize deluxe in use. naloxone as bianna mentioned is something that is a complete antidote to opioids. if somebody is overdosing from let's say fentanyl, which is a very potent opioid, they could be dead within minutes because they'll stop breathing. there'll be unresponsive. but if naloxone is given it will save their life. they could be walking and talking within just a couple of minutes. and so this really needs to be made widely available. removing the prescription requirement is one major barrier. that's that's that that has stood in the way, but another is still in the way , which is that of cost. we still don't know how this over the counter prescription or how this ove

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leana wen.ity and emergency room physician. dr. wen, thank you for coming become. confidence in medical scientists and the cdc has declined since covid. could that have been avoided? >> well, i have to say first of all that there has been a the lot of misinformation. there are people who perpetuated t that. it's not from reputable scientists and public health officials. but at the psalm time, i also think that the public health establishment has made some unforced errors, including not acknowledging a as much as we should have that science ev evolves. when science changes and new data come out, our recommendations also have to change. i think the cdc could have done a better job of explaining the rational behind their changes and i also think we shouldn't have been so quick to dismiss certain hypotheses that turn out to be valid. natural immunity is actually a thing. but i think there was fear initially if we talked about natural immunity, it might desuede people from getting vax vat nated. in n

cnn's medical analyst and former baltimore health commissioner, dr leana wen spoke to us earlier about's at stake here following this bill. we're talking about ethel. accolade beautiful, calculate method to correlate. these are the chemicals that we're aware of so far, so in their undiluted form, they could cause skin irritation, irritation, respiratory difficulties, even dizziness and worse, but in this case, we don't know what the delusion is going to end up being as in if this these chemicals are in the water supply and then reaches the water treatment plant and then reaches people's homes. it'll probably be significantly diluted by that point, and it may be that there's not going to be any detectable concentration , but i think that the city of philadelphia is doing the right thing in giving people advanced warning, saying to use an abundance of caution, get bottled water. in the meantime, prepare for in case we do detect these contaminants in the water . it may not come to pass, but at least be prepared for when that, and if that happens we'll take a look at global markets when we