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and at the national medical association, our patients are primarily the underserved, marginalized andnificantly lower than the general population. so for our organization it was so important for us to sign on to this statement so that we could encourage our own patients to take the vaccine. >> i've written down the word so i say it right. the politicization you were talking about. mask were politicized before the vaccine. now dr. fauci is saying revised mask guidance is under consideration. he said revising mask guidance is under discussion. the taking off of the mask where people are vaccinated felt like a return of normalcy. do you think we might have to go back to everybody being masked? >> i would definitely leave that up to the experts. what i will say is that we see a return to normalcy but now we're seeing a surge and a return to what we saw last year. and increased rates, cases of covid-19, hospitalizations and deaths. over 90% are in people who are not vaccinated. so as far as the vaccination, we encourage all that are able to get vaccinated to get vaccinated and whatever mit

joining us now is doctor rachel villain away, but the president of the national medical association.anizations that signed on to the joint letter, recommending a vaccine mandate, among health care workers. there is also assistant professor -- gynecology at the nyu grossman school of medicine, and a member of the medical advisory group of the black help. trust thank you for joining us doctor. your response first of all to this new news, of the department of justice issuing an opinion to say it would not be a legal, in their opinion, for businesses and organizations and employers to issue a mandate. >> thank you for having me. i think it is such a great piece of information, in our arsenal against the covid-19 vaccine. to have this information. it is critically important, that we encourage all members of society that are able to get the vaccine to get vaccinated it's only the way we are going to surmount the pandemic. >> it's kind of interesting. let's just put of the cdc's latest numbers on vaccinations. the percentage of the total population that is fully vaccinated is just under 50%

for covid-19 one for hospital received a single dose of the covid-19 vaccination over 50 national medical associations and organizations are now calling for all nationwide mandate for health care workers to go ahead and get the shot. >> commissions and nurses are very much trusted by their patients. but, you know, if i'm going to ask you to do something i do it myself. and so from that perspective, it's also leadership o well for doctors and nurses who got who got to give good critical advice of their patients. and if we're not willing to take the vaccine. you know, how we tell our patients that is safe and effective for them. >> well, the state of california is not waiting for national vaccine mandate. governor newsom has announced plans to require health care workers to have proof of vaccination or negative test results starting some time next month. pfizer and moderna will be expanding their covid-19 vaccine trials in younger children. the fda has reportedly asked the companies to at 3,000 children between the ages of 5 an 11 to their ongoing studies. this comes after rare side effects were detecte

one of over 50 national medical associations and organizations now calling for a nationwide mandate for health care workers to get the vaccine conditions and nurses are very much trusted by their patients. but, you know, if i'm going to ask you to do something. i do it myself. and so from that perspective, it's also leadership role for doctors and nurses who got who got to give good critical advice of their patients. and if we're not willing to take the vaccine. you know, how we tell our patients that is safe and effective for them. here is a snapshot of what we found locally for health care providers and their percentages of hospital workers who are vaccinated 90% of university of california health employees are vaccinated for covid-19. both stanford health care and john muir health say about 80% of their employees are vaccinated and about 3 quarters of kaiser permanente's northern california workforce are inoculated against the virus as has menu in kron 4 news. >> over the last week. governor newsom says california actually saw 16% increase in vaccinations, but the state is not waitin

one of over 50 national medical associations and organizations now calling for a nationwide mandate forlth care workers to get the vaccine conditions and nurses are very much trusted by their patients. but, you know, if i'm going to ask you to do something. i do it myself. and so from that perspective, it's also leadership role for doctors and nurses who got who got to give good critical advice of their patients. and if we're not willing to take the vaccine. you know, how we tell our patients that is safe and effective for them. the state of california is not waiting for a national vaccine mandate for health care workers to happen. >> it is going down next month says governor gavin newsome this is a requirement. >> to prove you've been vaccinated and if you have not, you'll be tested. here is a snapshot of what we found locally for health care providers and their percentages of hospital workers who are vaccinated 90% of university of california health employees are vaccinated for covid-19. both stanford health care and john muir health say about 80% of their employees are vaccinated and

health groups, including the american academy of pediatrics, american health association, national medical association, and children's environmental health network have written, and i quote, these ubiquitousality substance ---y big which tus substances are a growing threat. they are widespread and likely present in drinking water of tens of millions of americans. further, developing infants and children are particularly vulnerable to pfas exposure. of concern, almost all fetuses and infants will have some exposure to pfas before birth or early childhood which is associated with decreased birth rates, effects on renal function and lipid serum levels. that statement was from the american academy of pediatrics, american public health association, national medical association, and children's environmental health network. in addition to our children and young people being affected, pfas poses a serious risk to america's service members. there's an epidemic of contamination on military sites, and more than 400 sites across the united states are affected. i've had the privilege, mr. speaker, of hearing the c

let me repeat that statement, which is from the american public health association, national medical association, and children's environmental health network. in addition to our children and young people being affected, pfas pose a pretty serious risk to america's servicemembers. there is an epidemic of contamination on military sites and more than 400 sites across the united states are affected. i have had the privilege, mr. speaker, of hearing the concerns of many of these families, and it is not just about the service members. it is about their children. it is about their children, who are affected. it is unacceptable that the men and women who sacrificed to keep us safe around the world face this danger to their health and that of their children here at home. that despite these obvious and well-known risks, big corporations have for decades failed or refused to prevent their spread. a new study published last week shows that based on epa data, an estimated 30,000 industrial sites are known or suspected of using toxic pfas, 12 times what had been previously estimated. we cannot accept the sit

groups, including the american academy of pediatrics, american public health association, national medical association and children's environmental health network have written, and i quote, these ubiquitous substances pose severe health risks across the united states and present a growing threat to public health. they further say pfas are particularly dangerous, widespread and likely present in drinking water of tens of millions of americans. further, developing infants and children are particularly vulnerable to pfas exposure. of concern, almost all fetuses and infants will have some degree of exposure to pfas. pfas exposure before birth or in early childhood has been associated with decreased birth rate, effects on renal function and lipid serum levels. and immune system dysfunction. now let me repeat. that statement was from the american academy of pediatrics, american public health association, national medical association and children's environmental health network. in addition to our children and young people being that pfas also posed a serious risk to america's service members. there is an emd

more than 50 national medical associations and organizations are now calling for a nationwide mandate for health care workers to get the vaccine. >> physicians and nurses are very much trusted by their patients. but, you know, if i'm going to ask you to do something i do it myself. and so from that perspective, it's also leadership role for doctors and nurses who got who got to give good critical advice of their patients. and if we're not willing to take the vaccine. you know, how we tell our patients that is safe and effective for them. and the department of veterans affairs is the first major federal agency to require health care workers to get covid vaccines. >> at the va vaccines will now be mandatory for doctors. registered nurses, physician assistants and others who provide direct care to veterans employees will have 8 weeks to get those shots. >> new at 8, a group representing most of the bars in san francisco has put out new guidance. this requires customers to either be vaccinated or to have a 72 hour negative covid test. if they want to go inside the sf bar owner alliance sa

one of over 50 national medical associations and organizations now calling for a nationwide mandate for health care workers to get the vaccine nurses are very much trusted by their patients. but, you know, if i'm going to ask you to do something i do it myself. and so from that perspective, it's also leadership. >> role for doctors and nurses who got who got to give good critical advice of their patients. and if we're not willing to take the vaccine. you know, how we tell our patients that is safe and effective for them here is a snapshot of what we found locally for health care providers and their percentages of hospital workers who are vaccinated 90% of university of california health employees are vaccinated for covid-19. both stanford health care and john muir health say about 80% of their employees are vaccinated and about 3 quarters of kaiser permanente's northern california workforce are inoculated against the virus as haaziq madyun kron 4 news. >> well, starting thursday hundreds of bars in san francisco will require either a proof of vaccination or proof of a negative covid-19

hospital workers nationwide hasn't even received their first shot of the vaccine over 50 national medical associations and organizations are now calling for a nationwide mandate for health care workers to get the shot. >> commissions and nurses are very much trusted by their patients. but, you know, if i'm going to ask you to do something. i do it myself. and so from that perspective, it's also leadership role for doctors and nurses who got who got to give good critical advice of their patients. and if we're not willing to take the vaccine. you know, how we tell our patients that is safe and effective for them. >> you know, the state of california isn't waiting for a national vaccine mandate. we've already heard from governor newsom. he's announcing a plan to require health care workers to either have proof of vaccination or a negative test result. >> starting sometime next month and the bars in san francisco didn't wait for anybody to tell them they decided as a group that they're going to require proof of vaccination or a negative covid test. if you want to drink inside the founder of the san franci

hospital workers nationwide hasn't even received a single dose of the vaccination over 50 national medical association sent organizations are now calling for a nationwide mandate for health care workers to get the shot. >> commissions and nurses are very much trusted by their patients. but, you know, if i'm going to ask you to do something. i do it myself. and so from that perspective, it's also leadership role for doctors and nurses who got who got to give good critical advice of their patients. and if we're not willing to take the vaccine. you know, how we tell our patients that is safe and effective for them. >> the state of california isn't waiting for a national vaccine mandate. governor newsome in fact, has announced plans to require health care workers to have proof of vaccination or negative test results starting sometime next month. and then there's the children. and if you have young kids who are too young to get vaccinated. i know you're especially concerned about them. well, pfizer and moderna. >> are expanding their covid vaccine trials to younger children hopefully to eventually say that

. >> has not received a single dose of the covid-19 vaccination over 50 national medical associations organizations are now calling for a nationwide mandate for health care workers to get the vaccine. >> physicians and nurses are very much trusted by their patients. but, you know, if i'm going to ask you to do something i do it myself. and so from that perspective, it's also leadership role for doctors and nurses who got who got to give good critical advice of their patients. and if we're not willing to take the vaccine. you know, how we tell our patients that is safe and effective for them. >> the state of california is not waiting for a national vaccine mandate. governor newsome has announced plans to require health care workers have proof of vaccination or a negative test results starting sometime next month. >> pfizer and moderna will be expanding their covid vaccine trials and younger children. the fda has reportedly asked the companies to add 3,000 children between the ages of 5.11 to their ongoing studies. this comes after rare side effects were detected such as a type of heart

the vice president kamala harris is a member of the alpha kappa alpha area, but also the national medical association. that's all association national bar association all those black institutions, which model their existence on the denominations of the black church, but phil after that i'm going to do the history of gospel music. okay, you know, okay, so they're gonna they're gonna get mad at me because i'm supposed to do q&a now, but that's one thing i wanted to i i had on to talk to you about, but i wanted to talk to you about black music. but let's go to to q&a, but i want to ask you i'm going to close by asking you to tell me like your your favorite gospel song. well, we'll come back to that. we'll come back to that. okay here you ask me you can ask me now or well. i'm i'm the guest so you do whatever you ask me. what's up? me, too? okay, let me ask. this one. what did the great migration mean to the racial makeup of the united states and northern black churches? oh, that's a great question. we remember i said that in 1910 90% of the african-american people lived in the south. and after 1910, of

matter of fact, nationwide hasn't received a single dose of the covid-19 vaccine over 50 national medical associations and organizations are now calling for a nationwide mandate for health care workers. at least to get the shot. >> nurses are very much trusted by their patients. but, you know, if i'm going to ask you to do something. i do it myself. and so from that perspective, it's also leadership role for doctors and nurses who got who got to give good critical advice of their patients. and if we're not willing to take the vaccine. you know, how we tell our patients that is safe and effective for them. >> the state of california is apparently not waiting for a national vaccine mandate. you may have heard governor newsom has just announced plans to require healthcare workers here in the state of california have proof of vaccination or a negative test result starting sometime next month. >> pfizer and moderna are going to expand their r ovid vaccine trials. 2 younger children. now the fda is reportedly asking them to add 3,000 children between the ages of 5 and 11 to their ongoing studies. now, this

health groups, including the american academy of pediatrics, american health association, national medical association, and children's environmental health network have written, and i quote, these ubiquitousality substance ---y big which tus substances are a growing threat. they are widespread and likely present in drinking water of tens of millions of americans. further, developing infants and children are particularly vulnerable to pfas exposure. of concern, almost all fetuses and infants will have some exposure to pfas before birth or early childhood which is associated with decreased birth rates, effects on renal function and lipid serum levels. that statement was from the american academy of pediatrics, american public health association, national medical association, and children's environmental health network. in addition to our children and young people being affected, pfas poses a serious risk to america's service members. there's an epidemic of contamination on military sites, and more than 400 sites across the united states are affected. i've had the privilege, mr. speaker, of hearing the c

>> and that the vice president is a member but also the medical association national bar associationich model their existence on the denominations of the black church but after that i will do the history of gospel music. [laughter] >> table get mad at me because i'm supposed to do q&a now but i do want to talk to you about black music by will close by asking you to tell me or favorite gospel song that we will come back to that. >> but you can ask me now. i'm the guest. >> what did the great migration mean to the racial makeup of the united states and northern black churches? >> in 1910 and african-american people lived in the south and then they began to the north. the majority of the black people never lived in the north. reverse migration is in the seventies but it came very close at the percentage. you can fact check me and i have at hand but in 70 they started to move back to the south. and with the industrial jobs of the urban north so it meant to things that large lack denominations formed in the city in the northern cities and then the other thing that house of representatives

leading medical groups including the american medical association, american nurses association, say the health and safety of families, communities and the nations. i think that we're turning a page. >> yeah, a month ago it seemed like everything was trending optimistically, vaccination reallies were good, we thought that we'd hit the july 4th marker. that hasn't happened. and then there was annen aity vaccine push. and now another note where people are saying we need to do mandatory vaccinations like this group talked about. but also redoubling our efforts to reach the hard to reach populations. >> you have new york city asking teachers to get the vaccine or get tested every week, compelling them. and the big question that we'll be looking at in the days to come is vaccine mandates and whether or not the white house can come to terms with something like that as they try to get teachers vaccinated for the

pharmaceuticals with the national institutes of health thepp numbers are amazing funding from nih contribute to published research associate with every single new drug approved by 2 fda 356 new medications we are putting billions into nih we want to make sure consumers can afford the products that they generate from thattu research are we getting that return? >> senator durbin i would say the research ecosystem is a whole of basic research is an important part but nih does not bring drugs into clinical development and marketing approval is only done by pharmaceutical companies. if we look at the statements of nih itself without the efforts of the pharma industry to develop and bring drugs to market, their basic research would not produce patient accessible innovation. >> if you listen the thickets and patents law of two consumers it's to have profits for a longer period of time. >> i take issue with the comments made by my colleague. is not that easy to get a patent do you have to show it has to have novelty and utility and other features that entitle it to get a patent. and i would also point out the innovation does not stop upon approval of a product. there are many important innovati

national institutes of health. the numbers are pretty amazing. funding fornd the nih contributd to the published research associated with every single new drug approved by the fda within 2010 and 2019. 356 new medications. we are putting billions each year into the nih. we want to make sure consumers can afford the products that these pharmaceutical companies generate from that research. do f you think we are getting tt kind of return? >> senator durbin, i would say that the research ecosystem is a complete all of which basic research funded by the government is an important part. but nih doesn't bringni drugs io clinical development and marketing approval. that can only be done by pharmaceutical companies and i think if we look at the statements of the nih itself, they will acknowledge that without the efforts of the pharma industry to develop and bring drugs to market, the basic research would not produce patient accessible innovations. >> but if you listen to doctor moody, m and she's pretty convincing, the thickets that we haves created in the patent law cannot serve the purpose of research innovation or benefits to the consumers. it's all about monopoly control of some of these drugs so that you c

national education association had to say. the call for mandatory 7 defective covid 19 vaccinations and testing for all students and staff people returning to face-to-face instruction in the fall subject to medical such as social distancing, masking and proper ventilation be mandatory for all. brian: the biggest teachers union in the country is calling for a vote on that. look at what it is. another way the teachers union is going to try to do remote learning for another year. we heard this last year. we are not going to put teachers back in schools with the kids until everybody gets shots. we heard that. the shots weren't even -- pete: teachers get shots. brian: then it became what about the kids? then it became we need new heating and air-conditioning. they've always got something. rachel: they gave the more money and still don't -- pete: with tucker last night she talked about her kids were vaccinated, one of her kids reacted negatively to it and she is really suffering now. in a wheelchair and had ventilation for her nose, gary last night talking about the reaction of her daughter maddie to the vaccination. listen. >> the only diagnosis we've gotten for her is conversion disorder or function

national junior college athletic association schools. voluntary participation in intercollegiate sports necessarily involves assumption of the inherent risks of injury. as a former chair and member of the ncaa's competitive safeguards and medical aspects of sports committee, i know that schools can facilitate the effective treatment of these injuries as well as significantly reduce the risk of aggravated injury and future adverse health effects by following the committee's recommended best practices. thank you for considering my testimony, and i welcome your questions. >> thank you very much. so, obviously, a lot of material put on the table here, and i think it's our task now to take you all up on the notion that everybody wants to see nil rights and see legislation. the question is how are we going to get that done? obviously our colleagues have some very important viewpoints that need to be listened to. one area that i want to probe on, dr. frederick, you specifically mentioned the meac institutions and the notion that you only have limited ability to address some of these issues. obviously coach few, and i would say probably the pac 12 have been doing some of these things already and have created a standard. so we have bee