thank you and we are grateful to have you as a friend here at the national institute for civil discoursemr. sen. flake: glad to be involved. thank you so much. >> our country has to recognize we are and a state of national triage. we need unified, bipartisan support in this emergency in which we find ourselves. in order to rescue both the economy and public health. and to protect ourselves from the virus. in what other ways that the best research indicates. reason, the whole emphasis of our political efforts should be in the direction of this triage. limit our inclinations politically, to support agendas that do not directly address this national crisis. there is no room for or making political hay of the health and economic emergency. all members of congress and the administration, and state and local governments, will see this for what it is. not a political opportunity. needscrisis that immediate and ongoing addressing. ♪ >> i'm a teacher working from home. i have students of different economic status and different nationalities and religions play -- and religions. please trust me whe

crabtree: carl, i'd like to present to you one of our staff from the national institutes of health, dr. davis, the associate director of our national institute of allergy and infectious diseases, and ask him to answer this question and then any other scientific questions you may have. carl: dr. davis, awfully nice to have you come and see us tonight. i will ask what seems like a silly question, but what is this virus like? what is this virus? dr. davis: well, to begin with, influenza is the specific disease caused by a specific virus. this virus was first isolated in 1931 by the rockefeller institute and subsequently in 1933, it was shown as a human disease by british scientists. now we know that there are three major classifications of virus. types a, b, and c. and more recently, a new type, a fourth type, d, has been described in japan. carl: this a, b, c, and d. if this fourth type, the d type, is that the asian flu? that's what confuses me, the a, b, and c. dr. davis: type-a influenza is the influenza which commonly causes epidemics and pandemics at intervals throughout the recent

there are 27 institutes at the national institutes of health and i can name one or two others.ou are always available to answer the questions. why did you decide to do that? >> it became clear to me that in the discipline i was dealing with, infectious disease, particularly emerging infectious disease that generates a lot of concern on the part of the public, that could be hiv-aids, it could be pandemic flu, ebola, even most recently now with the ebola crisis, it became clear to me the public needed to be educated to understand just what these issues meant to them personally and to the nation and the world. i was perplexed by seeing that scientists who shunned away from trying to explain things in plain english the way people can understand them, it was the culture back then when i first started doing it, that scientists either did not want to be bothered with getting involved or when they did, they spoke over people as opposed to trying to get people to understand. i made the decision along time ago that it was important for the public to understand, and if you really want to

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anthony fauci, director of the national institute of allergy and infectious diseases, and a prominentember of the white house coronavirus task force, has become a fixture in america's living room during the covid-19 pandemic. recent polls give him a higher than 75% approval rating for his communication about the crisis. over the next hour we will give you a more in-depth look at this veteran public health official. you will learn more about dr. fauci's life, work, and public health philosophy from his own words. he sat down with q&a for a profile interview in 2016, and in this program we will share much of that conversation with the. anthony pyeongchang, now 79 years old, has been in his role with nih since 1984. he has advised every president since ronald reagan. in this first segment he talks about his working relationships with several of those prior presidents. following that we will show you a portion of a recent interaction between dr. fauci and president trump at the white house on march 29. >> let me show you some video you have probably not seen for a long time. this goes bac

. >> tuesday the national institutes of health recommended against the combination of hydroxychloroquine and zit row my sin. also sold as a z pack unless the patient is in a clinical trial saying there is potential for tox is tiicitie toxicities. >> they're recommending against the use of hydroxychloroquine with the combination of z pack. >> i'm always willing to take a look. >> there are other studies that helped covid-19 patients, such as remdesivir. the nih panel didn't endorse any of them saying more clinical trials need to be done. now doctors are planning to study another class of drugs, those that treat blood clots. >> virtually every single person i see that i'm asked to interview and examine has a clotting problem with the disease. the clotting problems are the most profound that i've seen in the icu setting. >> nick cordero contracted the virus and had his leg amputated because of a blood clot. he survived but blood clots can be deadly. trying to figure out the right drug to prevent the clots. another way to save the lives of patients with the novel coronavirus. elizabeth cohen

the national institutes of health, the surgeon general's office, fema, they should be keenly aware ofs and is not in that stockpile. it shouldn't be we didn't have a pandemic until now so we didn't look. it's foolish government at its usual. it doesn't work often that well and it's the exception when it does. >> you know we had a coronavirus in 2003 called sars. the vaccine was dropped when sars fade away. all this mobby gets allocated -- all this money getsal gate. but we only look at moving targets. so that particular virus was very similar to this one. had we pursued further we would have ended up with the vaccine we have now. lou: if i can be change to anti-virals and therapeutics. hydroxychloroquine seems to be working in conjunction with d pack. i'm -- z-pack. i'm even h anecdotal. but it's working in patients, including one i happen to know. there is something about even the expression hydroxychloroquine that drives the left nuts. this has become a lightning rod. it drives the left nuts because this president recommended that people consider it. now we are seeing a statewide te

anthony fauci, director of the national institute of allergy infectious diseases and a member of the white house coronavirus task force. so let's just start in january or february. when was the first time that you realized that this was a major problem because i remember in

anthony fauci, director of the national institute of allergy and infectious diseases and a prominentember of the coronavirus task force, has become a fixture in america's living rooms. recent polls give him higher than 75 percent approval rating for his communication. givethe next hour, we will you a more in-depth look at this veteran health official. you will learn more about dr. fauci life, work, and philosophy. --sat down with cuban day q&a. catchy, now 79, has been in his role with nih since 1984. he has advised every president since ronald reagan. in this first segment he talks about his working relationships with prior presidents. youowing that, we will show a recent interaction between dr. fauci and president trump at the white house. >> let me show you some video you have probably not seen for a long time. this goes back to 1998. it is very quick. it is from the debate, george herbert walker bush and michael dekakis. and they are talking about heroes. >> i agree with the governor on athletics. there's nothing corny about having sports heroes, young people who are clean and ho

the national institutes of health panel has now weighed in on hydroxychloroquine saying quote, there was insufficient clinical data to recommend either for or against it. then late today, "the new york times" was first to report that a high-ranking doctor, who led the hhs efforts to try to develop a coronavirus vaccine, he was transferred out of that position this week, and demoted, after he internally questioned the president's advocacy of that drug. dr. rick bright tells the times quote, i believe this transfer was in response to my insistence that the government invest the billions of dollars allocated by congress into safe and scientifically vetted solutions

the national institutes of health panel has now weighed in on hydroxychloroquine saying there was, quote, insufficient clinical data to recommend either for or against it. then late today, "the new york times" was first to report that a high-ranking doctor who led the hhs efforts to try to

respond to different vaccines work in different ways says doctor anthony fauci head of the national institute of allergies and infectious diseases using everything from genetic immunization with rna and dna vaccines. >>actors why the cheney waited routines nanoparticles and center and that's a good thing said doctor peter hotez a vaccine expert at baylor college of medicine in houston. >>by having that diverse array of different technologies and increases the likelihood that you'll get one or 2 or 3 that reach the finish line that's right most of these vaccines likely won't work and those that do will take a while to be tested. doctor fauci is char cessa doing this in the year to 18 months that would be a world record and we're trying our best hotez who was also working on a vaccine thinks it will take significantly longer than that to complete human trials. researchers spend many months giving vaccines to their human study subjects to make sure they're safe and effective. >>with dozens of companies developing vaccines it's possible. some might be overly optimistic, you may think you're talki

he had been in touch with the national institute of health, which is opening its laboratories for marylando do testing, and we were able to confirm to him that walter reed hospitals capacity is available to maryland. in utah, the governor told us he employees to state do contact tracing in their state. in the last 36 hours, 23,000 residents have also signed up for what they are calling they healthy together app. they have 50 different testing locations across utah and have tested 82,000 people in the state already. other state examples were just as inspiring. governor murphy of new jersey has forged a partnership with records university, working closely with the fda. they have authorized a saliva based test being deployed at that site that is expanding their ability to track what continues to be a very challenging environment in new jersey. governor parsons of missouri also told us how they worked with google marketplace to create an online portal for more than 200 companies in missouri who have repurposed their manufacturing lines to create medical supplies to meet the need within the sta

anthony fauci, director of the national institute of allergy and infectious diseases, looking at his personal life, his relationships with past presidents, and his career fighting infectious diseases. watch a profile of dr. anthony fauci, sunday at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span's q&a. russian president vladimir putin delivered an address on the government's response to the coronavirus pandemic. fromlked for a few minutes his presidential residence outside moscow. pres. putin: friends, my fellow russians, the week i announced as the nonworking week is coming to an end. schedule very tense that we are seeing doctors, nurses, still working. all the medical staff of health institutions. all struggling. every hospital, they are on the front lines. they are treating and saving people. prevent -- prevention. and i'm sure that all of the russians would appreciate what we are doing. are other industries that are working hard. i would like to sincerely thank all of you, without any exception, and i would like to say thank you to the volunteers, all the people who are not in different, who know t

he had been in touch with the national institutes of health which opening up its laboratories for marilynirm. in utah, gary herbert said he actually devoted 1200 state employees to do contact racing. in the last 36 hours, 23,000 residents have also signed up for what they are calling the healthy together app. they have 50 different testing locations across you , 50 different testing locations across you, and have tested a few thousand people in the state —— across utah. other state examples we re across utah. other state examples were just as across utah. other state examples werejust as inspiring. governor phil mercy of newjersey forged a partnership with rutgers university working closely with the fda. they've authorised saliva based tests that are being deployed just at that site that's expanding their ability to track what continues to bea ability to track what continues to be a very challenging environment in newjersey. governor mike parsons of missouri also told us how they'd work with google marketplace to create an online portal for more than 200 companies in missouri who have rep

anthony fauci, director of the national institute of allergy and infectious seizes and member of the white house coronavirus task force will be our guest starting at 8:00 p.m. eastern, taking your phone calls and questions on the coronavirus pandemic. c-span has round-the-clock coverage of the federal response to the coronavirus pandemic and it is all available on demand at c-span.org/coronavirus. watch white house briefings, updates from governors and state officials, track the spread throughout the u.s. and the world with interactive maps, watch on-demand anytime, unfiltered, at c-span.org/ coronavirus. we welcome to the program this morning the conversation, the reverend jim wallace. the founder of -- the president and founder. thank you for being with us. happy easter. he is their president and founder. happy easter. guest: happy easter to you. host: tell us your thoughts this morning. what would be your typical easter sunday tradition and what are you doing this easter sunday? guest: easter is the proclamation, the conviction of despair and life over death. ,ven now in the midst

. ♪ >> a trial that the national institute of national institute on allergies and infectious diseasesrted a trial in february, to any of this year. 21, a random eyed, -- a randomized placebo-controlled trial comparing the julie add drug,mdesivir -- gilead remdesivir. it was the thousand individuals, the first high-powered placebo controlled, randomized trial. it was with germany, dem or, spain, greece, denmark, it set up. the primary endpoint was the time to recovery, the ability to be discharged. you have a study like this, we have a data and safety monitoring board which looks at the data. there isindependent so no prejudice on the part of the investigators because they are doing the trial or the drug is from a certain company. on data and safe report monday -- that data and safety monitoring board contacted me on friday the week before and then on april 27 and notified the multiple investigators doing the study dropped the world, that the data shows -- doing the study in the world, that the has ahows remdesivir positive effect in diminishing the time to recovery. this is quite impo

director of the national institute of allergy and infectious diseases to come clean how much the 12th and tell the nation what the president couldn't tell us was still not provided adequate testing the virus it's failing he said let's admit it he said this to congress the idea of anybody getting testing easily the way people in other countries are doing and we're not set up for that i think it should be but we're not that's in direct contradiction to what you've been telling me is that no it's not if you look you are you can go back in time to try to rewrite history with facts you have now with the facts at the time when he was at the c.d.c. in atlanta how many cases do we have in the united states a very low number so when you're talking about anyone who needed a test needed that was available and of course dr couches talked about this numerous times you know what the problem was with testing at the very outset was that government did not have the capability for a nationwide test we had to go to the private sector and when we got the private sector involved that led us to become the

joining us now is national institute of allergy and infectious disease's director and white house coronavirusk force member, dr. anthony fauci. dr. fauci, thank you so much for joining us. >> good to be with you. >> o'donnell: you said we're not yet there in terms of the key steps that we have to in place to reopen the economy. if you had a magic wand what, would we need? >> well, i think it's going to be different for different parts of the country. rolling reentry program, as i eall it, would be the capability of being able to test, identify, of being able to test, identify, isolate, get someone who is infected out of circulation, and do a degree of contact tracing. the absolute thing that you would need is to be able to respond and contain whatever n't wind up in a situationu don't wind up in a situation where you have another escalation. >> o'donnell: do you envision, then, in the future, in terms of reopening the economy, that there will be temperature checks at businesses, that there will be fewer tables at restaurants? what will that new normal look like? >> i mean, i absolutely would

announcer: we will profile dr. , director of the national institute of allergy and infectious diseases relationships with past presidents, and his career fighting infectious , andses, hiv, sars, h1n1 now the global coronavirus pandemic. watch a profile of dr. fauci, sunday at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span's q&a.

anthony fauci, director of the national institute of allergy and infectious diseases, looking at his personal life, his relationships with past presidents, and his career fighting infectious diseases -- hiv, sars, h1n1, and now the global coronavirus pandemic. watch a profile of dr. anthony fauci, sunday at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span's "q&a." our first guest of the morning joining us from new york is dr. wafaa el-sadr, a professor of epidemiology at columbia university, and director of the ic ap at columbia. guest: thank you very much, it's my pleasure. host: can you tell the viewers the work that and it does? guest: yes, i am the director of the center here called icap, and it works in the u.s. as well as in more than 30 countries around the world

but still, as of the this morning, the national institutes of health recommending against using it in combination with another drug that the president has been pushing. also of note, the senate passed an $480 billion relief package for hospitals and testing. the house is expected to vote on the measure tomorrow. more than 45,000 americans have now died from this virus. 45,000. nearly 3,000 died just yesterday alone. our first report this morning from martin savidge in atlanta. word that coronavirus kills people in the united states much earlier than expected. >> reporter: staggering information, john. the information comes just as the governor of georgia continues to defend its controversial plan to reopen business in the states. the death toll here continues to rise. despite the fact that georgia is woefully lagging behind other states when it comes to testing. krcritics say testing is crucia as the information in california shows. officials in santa clara county, california say autopsies now confirm that two individuals died from coronavirus on february 6th and february 17th. three

we will transfer our studies to the national institute washington.result of intensive studies, it was concluded the disease was due to a virus, and several new vaccines were produced from these investigations. spreadenting diseases through unclean milk, a safe milk supply is essential. typhoid fever and other diseases are spread through contaminated milk. the public health service feels that clean milk that is pasteurized is the only safe milk to drink. it has conducted studies to ensure the safety of pasteurization procedures that ensure a safe, clean milk supply to the consumer, if sanitary conditions are observed by consumers themselves. disastrous floods which frequently occur in the u.s. illustrate a emergency may arise suddenly. during these floods, officials request sanitary engineering help to protect town and city these requests for aid are met with proper response. water purification machines are quickly dispatched and put into operation by the sanitary engineers. as the water is pumped into the reservoirs or disturbing systems, it is treat

she leads the vaccine effort at the national institute of health but first the assistant professor offectious diseases at harvard university school of public health. thanks so much for being with us. your team used models of what we now know about covid-19 along with other viruses to create possible scenarios of the pandemic, one which concluded a potential need for social distancing until 2022. can you explain how you found that? >> absolutely. so there are two ways in which the pandemic acts. one, we eliminate the virus i think with global spread of the virus, that one is quite unlikely. and the second pandemic ends because there's sufficient immunity in the population. so with that as a backdrop, we were interested in asking about the impact of social distancing and what happens when we stop a one-time effort. so we are doing social distancing with the idea of flattening the curve and trying to prevent overwhelming our health care infrastructure, so if we're successful in doing that, we also keep a lot of people susceptible to the infection so that if we stop social distancing afte

promising but it but it is early it's still early in the process no new data from brazil's national institute shows that deforestation in the amazon this increased by over 50 percent compared to last year this is not only a threat to the environment but also to indigenous communities and there are fears that illegal loggers could spread the corona virus to the trees above. members of brazil's environment agency head into the rain forest to fight deforestation. it's been on the rise in the past year they have come to the appy day why land in the state of to protect indigenous territory from illegal gold miners $100.00 assessed give us oh boy we are trying to prevent the land takeover that is happening in this indigenous territory and the neighboring ones is being promoted by invaders and illegal miners that are trying to take away their land there's coronavirus and these people become more fragile and vulnerable. there's been deforestation alerts from the space research institute in almost 800 square kilometers of brazil's rain forest it's a 50 percent increase if compared to the same period l

the national institute of health looking to see whether some develop immunity. tests that could help america get back to work. >>> and the two tech giants, apple and google, teaming up on a project they say could be a game changer for tracking the virus. >>> also tonight, the tornado danger this easter weekend. 100 million in the path from texas to virginia. >>> and "america strong." the families on the front lines fighting this disease, making the tough sacrifices to focus on their mission. >>> and good evening. thanks for joining us on this saturday. i'm tom llamas. we begin with the disturbing milestone in this coronavirus pandemic. the death toll in this country surpassing 20 thousand. that includes 2,000 lives lost in the last 24 hours. america's deadliest day yet. 783 deaths in new york alone. this latest surge pushing the u.s. total beyond hard-hit italy after already overtaking spain. now the deadliest nation in confirmed covid-19 fatalities. we have reported on the economic toll. look at this -- cars lined up at food banks across the country. nearly 17

[captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2020] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] governor cuomo: the controller could have taken them yesterday. he chose not to. he must pay them at the moment of passage. you have to wait and see the budget. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2020] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] >> we will go from albany, new york to tallahassee, florida were governor ron desantis is now briefing reporters on his state's response to the coronavirus. this is live coverage on c-span. seniors are lot of heeding the call. i think they are doing what they need to do to protect themselves and ultimately, if the seniors and those web health problems, if they are protecting themselves, i think we will be able to get through this ok. that order will be forth coming and we will hopefully have some resolution on the cruise ship we will continue to be working rea

he is the director of the national institute of allergy and infectious diseases division of the national institute of health. thank you, dr. fauci. let me ask you right from the beginning, we are looking at, and you acknowledged in one of the briefings, that we have a real racial gap here in terms of impact, and though we're concerned about all impact, when we look at hispanics 29% of the population, 34% of the deaths. blacks 22% of the population, 28% of the deaths in new york. in los angeles, hispanic are nearly 50% of the population, 28% of the fatalities. blacks are 9% of the population, more than almost double that of the percentage of the deaths, 17th. chicago blacks 29% of the population, but make up 70% of the deaths. more drastic numbers in milwaukee county, wisconsin, blacks are only 28% of the population, 73% of the deaths. louisiana -- i could go on and on. how do you look at this and explain the race gap and how are you and the task force looking into this as anything you can tell us that we haven't heard from the task force in 48 hours that you can add to this and tell us h

anthony fauci, director of the national institute of allergy and infectious diseases looking as personal life, his relationships with past presidents, and his career fighting infectious h1n1, andhiv, sars, now the global coronavirus pandemic. watch a profile of dr. anthony fauci sunday at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span's "q&a." >> on friday, the u.s. house of representatives considered a coronavirus economic relief package. the bill passed unanimously after three hours of deliberation. the global pandemic capped many members away from the house floor, including a significant number who stayed in their home districts. representatives participated in the debate. in light of the unusual circumstances, c-span offered any member of congress was not able to speak on the house floor to provide us with a video statement on their views on this significant piece of legislation. to this day, we have not received any videos from republican members. we will hear from 33 democrats who have submitted videos. up, california representatives barbara lee and mike thompson. then, dean phillips of minnesota, an

in 1930, congress changed its name to the national institute of health.ute in washington, d.c., most of the investigative work of the public health service is conducted. the diseases and conditions studied by the service include a long list. heart disease is public enemy number one. it is first on the list of causes of death. more than 300,000 persons die each year in the united states from this cause. the electrocardiograph has aided greatly in the study and diagnosis of heart disease. is cancer. this disease results in the death of about 135,000 people in the united states annually. malaria is still an important public health problem in at least 16 states of the union. this mosquito-borne virus disease makes up more than 2 million cases annually. this patient is having a malarial chill. the fight against malaria is the fight against malaria mosquito. the prevention of mosquito breeding by seeing no containers are left laying around to hold water and provide breeding places for mosquitoes and by eliminating refuse piles so far as possible. in certain reg

he had been in touch with the national institute of health, which is opening up with laboratories do testing. we were able to confirm with him that walter reed's capacity is available. in utah, the governor told us he devoted 12 hundred state employees to do contact tracing. last 36 hours, 23,000 residents have signed up for what they are calling their healthy together app. they have 50 different testing locations across utah and have tested 82,000 people already. were juste examples as inspiring. governor phil murphy of new partnershiporged a with rutgers university working closely with the fda. salivave authorized a based test that is being deployed at the site. that is expanding their ability to track what continues to be a challenging environment in new jersey. governor mike parson of missouri told us how they have worked with google marketplace to create an online portal for more than 200 companies in missouri who have repurposed their manufacturing lines to create medical supplies to meet andr need within the state -- with the state. in connecticut, governor ned lamont spoke ab

[captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] [captions copyright national able satellite corp. 2020] >> earlier today, former president barack obama endorsed his former vice president, joe biden, for the 2020 presidential race. they released the announcement by video which ran about 15 minutes. president obama: hi, everybody. let me start by saying the obvious. these are not normal times. as we all manage our way through pandemic unlike anything we have seen in a century, michelle and i hope you and your families are safe and well. if you have lost somebody to this virus or someone in your life is sick, or if you are one f the millions suffering economic hardship, please know ou are in our prayers. lee's know that you are not alone, because now is the time for all of us to help where we can and be there for each other as neighbors, as coworkers, and s fellow citizens. over the past weeks we have seen plenty of examples of the kind of courage, kindness and selflessness that we will need to get thro

director offauci, the national institute of allergy and infectious diseases, and member of the white house coronavirus task force, will be our guest live at 8:00 p.m. eastern taking your calls and questions on the coronavirus pandemic. announcer: new york governor andrew cuomo give an update on his state's coronavirus response. governor cuomo said the hospitalization rate continues to decrease and the curve is flattening. the governor also said he will coordinate with businesses, schools, transportation, and other states for the safest way to reopen. happy easter for all those celebrating. happy holy week. to my right we have dr. jim. thank you gov. cuomo: good morning. good to see you again. some of you for the second time today. happy easter, for all those celebrating. we deserve some good knows. change in total number of hospitalizations is down again. this is the number we have been watching, because the fear for us was always overwhelming the hospital system. added capacity, we have moved equipment around. the fear was always overwhelming the raw capacity of the hospital system.