but not to be housed at nih. separate. it's going to be very nimble team far smaller than agencies to your custom to. there will be program managers including the director herself will likely not in the job in three to five years because you want to make sure everyone knows knows -- unlike nih which doesn't ahe sick research which would take a long time what we are hoping is these are ideas that we can price right away. very similar to what the department of defense did with darpa. the -- came out of our puppet we need to make sure it's not anchored tethered and doing things an older way. the program managers that are being hired will know they are under frame to get their work done and then they move on. we really have to lean on the private sector to be partners in this because it's going to be a team that reaches out to oaks were doing it right now and it's important. >> i think we all have a tremendous interest in this and wanted to succeed. i have a little skepticism until i see the structure and experienced some succ

but this is a staggering amount of money for the nih to waste.e vice president of public policy of the white coat waste project and he is here now. justin, thanks so much for being with us. i must tell you, i am an animal lover and i understand there is a certain role for animals, you know, in our attempt to try to find cures for diseases, but this strikes me as just coldhearted and a waste of money. >> yeah, i think animal lovers, liberty lovers, vegetarians, libertarians can all agree this is not a good use of taxpayer dollars. the blunt truth is tens of millions of dollars each year is going up in smoke under these half-baked marijuana experiments on mice and other animals and that taxpayer-funded experimenters are breaking the law by not disclosing how much money they're spending getting animals wasted. >> jeanine: how much know mike do you find out how much money they're waste in? >> we use government spending databases to obtain information. every press release that goes out of a taxpayer-funded university has to disclose by federal law sin

we need to hold nih accountable.need to ensure that taxpayer dollars is not going to labs going to risky research. and we have to make sure that labs are transparent to how they are spending taxpayer dollars from these funded grants. the budget even includes funding for climate change initiative. through the hundred and 74-page budget we have here, it mentions climate change more than fentanyl. i am increasingly concerned that the h hms has lost its way since biden took over. hhs has become increasingly more politicized. we saw the cdc school reopening with masking guidance. less transparent with congress, especially in the context of the use of covid-19 relief funding a recently released news article outlined. we also take a punitive, one side fits all approach to combatting covid-19 in respect to vaccine mandates. the biden administration has always failed the american people by planning to revoke title 42, which was used to prohibit migrants from entering the united states illegally to prevent the spread of covid-

>> will you get the nih nih to answer our questions in relation to covid origins? >> congressman, i know that the nih has answered many questions -- that >> okay. if you can give me more detailed answer later i would appreciate it. i've a lot of questions in a short time, as you are familiar. i visited the border and asked the acting secretary of children and families whether the office of refugee resettlement needed additional authority or resources from congress to improve the inadequate process of vetting potential sponsors of unaccompanied children. what they're telling the american people is there doing background checks. and what they're doing is they're doing a background check on a computer that's not part of the criminal background system in our country. they're just checking, you know, people finders or been verified, that kind of thing. not adequate. i have a written response saying, quote, o r is currently in conversations with our partners to determine what additional resources are needed from congress to improve the sponsor vetting process. but nothin

tethering it to the nih administerly, tethered it to the nih academically and cerebrally. if we wanted to increase the research done there we would do that. arpah is supposed to be a different concept and i think tethering it to a different agency might muddy that concept. and i want to take up two issues where the department, i think, clearly is not following either the law or congressional intent. first one is the surprise billing issue. this is something that i think we have -- before the rule came out at the beginning of the year, we were sure all stakeholders were taken into account and then it appears only the insurance companies were taken into account, and the rule that came out found illegal by a federal court clearly showed that the congressional intent was not the rules that came out of the agency, so i hope that you are committed on the second go around to actually doing what congress intended, which is not to have the qpa as the basis of the arbitration, which is to carefully define qpa not to allow insurance companies to define in such ways that will further

. >> first of all, more than a year ago, in long covid research at nih. is there room and energy, or power behind other forms? >> there is room for more, in the american rescue plan, by one vote, every time we have a hearing before the health committee and i have doctor fauci there, i will have a long covid question. what are we finding out and what do we determine but groups like survivor core and others producing rich bodies of patient experience, descriptions that can be used by researchers too. all the research doesn't have to happen at nih. many hospitals are doing long covid research. i was at ballard health which is one of the healthcare systems that serves southwestern virginia, northeastern tennessee. i was there during senate recess, with multiple hospitals and physician practice groups and they are doing their own internal assessment of long covid clinic they started last year, what patient experiences are, things that seem to be working or don't seem to be working so the nih research has to happen and it will provide more funding for it. by pa

all the research doesn't have to happen at nih. many hospitals i know are doing long covid research. i was at valid health, which is one of the largest health care systems, i was there last week during a senate recess. they have multiple hospitals. they have position practice groups. they are doing their own trauma assessment of a long covid clinic they started last year and what patient experiences are, things that seem to be working, things that don't seem to be working. i think the nih research has to happen, and i hope we are going to provide more funding for it, but there is some really good research out there that is being conducted either by patient advocacy groups or by health care providers, pharmaceutical companies are taking a look at this. we just have to stay at it and then spread it to the entire community, patients, families, employers, the results of what we are finding. frances: we have the $1.15 billion one year ago. the biden administration made sure long covid could be considered a disability under the ada. more

all the research doesn't have to happen at nih. many hospitals i know are doing long covid research. i was at valid health, which is one of the largest health care systems, i was there last week during a senate recess. they have multiple hospitals. they have position practice groups. they are doing their own trauma assessment of a long covid clinic they started last year and what patient experiences are, things that seem to be working, things that don't seem to be working. i think the nih research has to happen, and i hope we are going to provide more funding for it, but there is some really good research out there that is being conducted either by patient advocacy groups or by health care providers, pharmaceutical companies are taking a look at this. we just have to stay at it and then spread it to the entire community, patients, families, employers, the results of what we are finding. frances: we have the $1.15 billion one year ago. the biden administration made sure long covid could be considered a disability under the ada. more

anthony fauci of the nih. when you talk about getting your arms around this, how important is it to have accurate information? a lot of people are doing home tests and i'm not sure we know that that would be put into the model? >> that something i think we need to consider as more and more 15 minute test become available, what you are going to miss our people who get infected and have no symptoms or have mild symptoms so they don't come to the attention of a health care provider or they don't wind up getting a pcr. when you get a pcr and it's positive, that's get -- that gets recorded where is your home test, you have no mechanism of reporting it unless you go through the health care system. you are right, we are probably underestimating the number of infections we are having now because many of the infections are either without symptoms were minimally symptomatic and you will miss that a people do it at home and it's not reported to a central bank. david: we have all learned an awful lot about epidemiology th

this is a developing area and we -- i would encourage you to look at the nih project to examine the hygiene hypothesis. kristen: part of the reason why more medical professionals are becoming more comfortable with fewer restrictions is because of more availability in antivirals and treatments. so the first has been approved for children. is it a trial version of an adult treatment we already have? dr. gandhi: yes. the generic name is remdesivir. it is an antiviral given intravenously and has been used in hospitals for a long time in adults. it is one of the mainstays of inpatient hospital treatment. it targets the sars to make it stop replicating but we have not had it available for those under 12 until now. but now it is dosed appropriately. and it is given by iv and an outpatient setting sue it prevents you from going into the hospital. -- setting so it prevents you from going into the hospital. kristen: are there any risks with it? dr. gandhi: it is very well tolerated. we use it all the time. we have been using it for two years. really well tolerated. no major risks. it is based on weig

the nih launched a clinical trial last week. that will look at the safety and effectiveness of boosters available to use against future variants. >> what we will do is a sessionsing different 4th doses that are either ancestral strain or variant specific in the first pha se of the study. we are planning to look at different platforms to get a great durability. >> we know what the fda authorizing the second boosters for 50 and up there was some discussion that there wasn't enough date a. that's possibly something that could be discussed at the advisory committee meeting today. we will watch it. in the newsroom. kpix5. >>> a live look at san francisco where city life is inching closer to normal but there is one alarming sign. the city tops the list for the highest infection rate in california. experts we spoke and that return to large gathering. also tourists in the city. though there is some concern that the sharp decline may have leveled off other metrics are still encouraging. >> we were 18,000 cases a day in the bay area. now

fauci, the cdc, nih, fda, all the teams that we have at hhs, we're this are to execute. and so whether we're in one case block or at one case attacking or running the football or periodically being given the ball to toss it as well, we're going to do g what we must do to execute on what the president wants to see. and hhs is in indispensable in the execution and trevorly of that covid policy -- delivery of that covid policy. so we're thrilled to be not only a team member, but on the field when it comes to delivering to beat back covid. >> so you gave us some really impressive statistics about shots in arms a moment ago in the last 12 months, and i think a lott of the credit obviously goes to the coordinated effort to the various agencies that report to you. but let's click down on some of those agencies. obviously, the cdc has come under fire recently for its management of the pandemic, changing guidelines, that kind of thing. the fda, i think, has done what they could to expedite these therapies for use by americans. how, if you think about this particularif moment, hav

we have launched efforts across the nih, the cdc, and the veterans administration including the landmark $1.1 billion recovery initiative to better understand long covid and accelerate scientific progress. we are providing americans experiencing long covid information about where they can access the resources to support what they need as well is helping them understand if they have a disability and educating them on their rights. long covid israel. there -- long covid is real and they're still so much we do not know about it. many americans are struggling with troubled breathing or regular heartbeats, to less apparent potentially serious conditions related to the brain or mental health. at the president's direction, the department of health and human services will lead a governmentwide response to covid, focused on three main goals, improving care, services and other support for individuals with long covid, enhancing education and outreach among the public, private sector, and the medical community, and advancing research to support both goals. of course, we will collaborate with academi

well the nih just said, you know what actually this is naturally happening in this place in the end. we didn't need to use all of these tools. is covid spread across the country over the summer by the early fall. it was clear that we're going to get an answer very quickly, but i think the tools that we're developed in terms of tracking the spread of the disease and figuring out how to locate the trials that potentially be very useful for running trials on a very fast timeline with other infection emerging diseases. so i hope those lessons are share i you know, not a politics reporter or i'm this i don't i barely know how government worked when i started this and i just found myself so impressed by like the dedicated civil servants all at all levels, even i dare say political appointees who are you know often not not very glorified and having you know, they have their issues, but it was just there was so much passion and you must have experienced this talking to people like crisis just brings together people and it also divides them in certain ways, and i i learned so much talking to

and we the nih are doing studies now to determine what the best boost would be. be in omicron boost or should it be a boost of the original, ancestral strain? we don't know. we are going to find out by the study we are doing. haidi: dr. anthony fauci speaking with bloomberg's david westin. coming up on daybreak, central earnings are due across the bloomberg any time, and achy insight into the state of the global chip crunch. idc's kiranjeet kaur joins us. this is bloomberg. ♪ ♪ haidi: a quick check of business flash headlines, the application for expansion of its south texas law site has been suspended by the u.s. army corps of engineers, after spacex failed to provide requested information. the army corps informed spacex the process can be reinstituted once the data is provided. a potential bid for italian infrastructure atlantia, sources say u.s. giant is in talks to takes atlantia private in partnership with the benetton family. atlantia attracted interest from other investors including the spanish construction tycoon sorrentino perez. jet airways india plans

is all the new federal health bureaucrats that have been added to the cdc and nih through stimulus dollars are they going to be comun organizing open raw toughs? where is this money going to be spent? i doubt it's even constitutional. but i'm not surprised democrats will be using taxpayer dollars trying to boost their efforts coming into november. dan: i had a guest on my radio show who is an expert in voter irregularities. we have a history of this. the hatch act was specifically designed to stop federal agencies from pressuring people to vote. the fact that they are not answering foia requests and being shady about this program i will bet has you looking out with the side eye here with what's going on here? >> that exactly right. we know the government isn't being transparent about the origins of the virus. whether it be the mandates or the issued the next couple years. now they are not being transparents with whether you will be able to use the multi-trillion dollar government. i want everybody to put on their imagine if hat. imagine if donald trump signed an executive order to say he w

as i look at this and i'm done to get your thoughts on this i don't trust the nih, i don't trust theny of them. and i don't want to live my life fear and i don't live my life in fear and i'm think you do either. >> absolutely not, first off it's good news for joe biden that it is enough to wear the mask on amtrak because he's got 200 million miles on amtrak. [laughs] >> that's what he says, he might have the numbers off. >> ask the porter who died in 1979, he'll tell you. [laughs] it is scary though right? that they're fighting for this so hard. jen was disappointed you're disappointed that americans, they clawed back a little bit of their freedom that disappoints you? it think about that. and it was never science behind it. the second they said mask up between bites, you had to know that there was no science to masking on a plane. no other masking application works that way it's not like you're in a booth spring lacquer and at some point someone says if to keep the mask up unless someone hands you a fiesta mix in which case you take it down until you're done, soon as you're done a b

have kind of known all along, even during the trump era and certainly during the biden era, cdc and nihsk advice and acknowledging natural immunity protection, it is quite shocking and the american public should demand answers. the report is short on specifics, i would like to know what happend and how we can prevent it in the future. >> todd: can we trust these health agencies to be nonpartisan ever again? >> we have to, we have to make fundamental decision, it should not be republican or democratic thing, the agencies should be above reproach, if they don't have the trust of republicans and democrats ark like, they are not doing their job. we have to figure out some way to do that, american peep shell demand answers. >> todd: moderna -- is it necessary to vaccinate babies? what do you think, is it really necessary? >> well, i just tell you, i look at evidence they put, like 6000 kids, very little kids, they are looking at weather the vaccine produces immune antibody response. that is not good enough to me. they need to show clinical benefit to children, so the clinical benefit would b

the entire two years could've been answered in one week with a good, solid, rigorous studies for the nih $42 billion, dr. fauci could have answered the question about circus transmission versus airborne transmission when people were pouring gallons of alcohol-based solutions on their mail and groceries. these questions could've been answered in a few days with rigorous studies. cloth masks, ignoring natural immunity. they are still not honest about natural immunity. myocarditis in young males with the vaccine in the mental health crisis we have essentially created after shutting kids out of public schools and most of the country. math scores are down 10%, depression is epidemic, the cdc won't even tell us what the suicide rates were during the pandemic, which is very odd. they publish that every year on an annual basis. you cannot find it anywhere, the suicide rates over the last two years. people are sick of the absolutism. i can tell you as a doctor people are very forgiving if you make a mistake. if you're honest. >> tucker: i agree. >> but when you use so much dogma that is when peop

we're going against centers for disease control, but the nih and the scientific community. there's a clear political agenda out of the state of florida. >> and what about a hospital, doctor's office? we wear a mask in a medical facility. is that also not going to be required? >> this is why it's so dangerous to subvert recommendations. it's not just for you wearing a mask to present yourself frrm getting infected. it's the guy next to you who's sneezing and now instead of in a mask, releasing the particles. the mask thing only works best when both parties have their mask on. >> thank you so much for coming in and pete, thank you as well. you're appreciateded as always. >>> and fighting against the russian assault as a key steel factory housing troops and civilians is surrounded and a crucial deadline expiring. d a crucial deadline expiring. okay, this is a freezer, not a time capsule. sometimes the house itself can tell you how a young homeowner is turning into their parents. -not those two. -yep, they're gone. -forever? -yep. that there is progressive's homequote explorer

work on that front but we should remember that all this work has been done in partnership with the nihthe public sector, america's great scientific universities. that funding for the covid vaccine prevention network and covid antiviral network expires in november. congress has not acted on reauthorizing it. that has to happen. we cannot have now any abrupt end of the research effort on covid. that would be so unwise. jon: for people still getting covid and many are, how easy is it to get paxlovid? if you what the antiviral pills, how easy is it to get them? dr. thin: it has been -- >> it has been frustrating for people and i think much easier -- it should be much easier than it is. you really need to start taking what we have in the first three to five days. as soon as you get symptoms, you need to start. it is still difficult for people to find them, to get a prescription, providers are not necessarily so comfortable with them. if you lose those couple first days, at this he goes down dramatically. the only thing we do not know is if antivirals or vaccines really are having an impact

there's been a substantial investment by the nih.d, particularly vaccinated and boosted, you're not just less likely to catch covid but less likely to have long covid. there's -- the pills you can take at home might also decrease symptoms. we're trying to figure out how best to prevent it and how to treat it. >> we're learning about 40% of covid deaths reported in january and february were from involving people who were vaccinated only about 30% of americans have received a booster. so given the vaccine effectiveness, given the way in which this virus seems to change or modify itself, what should be our approach on our expectations, boosters every year? or will that be changing, too? >> yes. so that stat you quoted, i want to switch it in the other direction. 90% of folks who died during january and february were not vaccinated and boosted. and those who did die who were vaccinated and boosted were generally old with co-morbidities. the third shot is essential, especially for folks who are high risk for severe covid. i expect going f

nih has gotten involved and started to create cohorts of people they are going to track. suspect we will learn more in the months and years ahead. there's no time like now to get going on studying this condition . >> another concern being raised by a number of doctors is about the racial disparities that have played out throughout the pandemic carrying over into long covid. we already know black americans have suffered higher rates of infection, hospitalization, and death. there's doctors raising concerns that black americans do not have the same access to treatment that are available. what is the administration doing about that? >> one of the things this pandemic has taught us is when you have a health crisis like this, long-standing systemic inequities in our society are exacerbated. they are identified, they are exacerbated. we've got to work on long-standing systemic in equities and make real progress, but we also have to really track these things carefully, so one of the things we are doing on vaccinations, on therapies, we are looking at who is getting them, who is

then they started receiving grants nih for a project working on at the university.re are so many questions and so many ethical violations. dr. fauci has not been honest with the american people. but we believe peter adamczyk holds the key and that is why we asked to investigate eco-health alliance and at the very least prohibit him from receiving any more american tax dollars. he's received $3.7 million in tax dollars that we have found so far and probably more. he needs to stop receiving american tax dollars, and he needs to come before congress to answer questions. >> todd: texas border patrol agents are arresting child predators and gang members at the border. in the meantime a delay in title 42. they were thinking about billing jen psaki rolling out yesterday. if joe biden won't secure the border to keep out child predators, what possibly could get him to change his attack at this point? >> i have no idea. and what was troubling at the border last week was seeing the evidence of where women were being raped at the border and abortion pills at the border. you saw

this is part of broader frustration now that the cdc and nih have been lying to people for two years. the wrap symptomized study about wearing cloth masks. they had two years to commission such a study, never been done. air ventilation is good. airlines and written the faa begging the requirement be dropped. people don't realize there is larger part of restrictions in travel. transit travel, buses, reentering the united states. what people don't understand, when you have such onerous testing requirements to reenter your own country, people will not travel overseas. it crushes international travel and family gatherings. elizabeth: the other thing going on we have white house officials including top covid advisor, he is dr. ja, he is contradicting and rebutting dr. fauci. dr. fauci was saying china's total lockdowns are a good thing. dr. ja is saying they will not work. we have to live with the virus. why didn't fauci talk to dr. ja at the start of the pan instead of shutting down america? you talked about this. 22 million jobs destroyed. 10 of millions of americans lost their livelihoo

antibodies , according to recent studies and to denied natural immunity by the directory of th cdc and nihat would be like the head of nasa denying that a moon exists. >> a give you a chance to come in on this before we go to our next topic but there are some that saying the next wave is coming and we will continue to have. >> and cases but there are thos who say they are not going to back off restrictions and at least the ability to bring things back, should they feel necessary. >> at this point i think that people can make their own individual decisions in conjunction with the doctors predicted of the government continues to make mandates and punish them and reward others i just ridiculous. and mask mandate for two -year-olds, it just does not make sense. long ago we gave up on the science and let political science and political decisions by political leaders far outweigh the real science. it's a shame. >> i want to ask you this about another health-related issue. this is about abortion. oklahoma's past a lot outlaw many abortions if not all of them and on the flipside of the same time,

republicans take over the senate, i would imagine you are going to lead the charge looking into fauci, the nihng wrong, every step of the way, is that -- is that a good assumption on my part? >> if we take over, i will subpoena dr. fauci, i will subpoena all of his records and he will be made to answer for funding gain-of-function research in wuhan. we will get to the bottom of whether or not this came from the lab and we will put forward laws and regulations that say we're going to try to prevent a pandemic like this from ever escaping from a lab again, but he is going to be made to answer under oath. >> sean: i hope you sent out the preservation letter or we might have more bleach but in the future. senator, good to have you, thank you. when we come back, the left continues to smear elon musk. wait until you hear why msdnc's joy reid thinks he is buying twitter. you won't believe it. it's true. leo 2.0 terrell, pete hegseth is straight ahead. ♪ ♪ why hide your skin if dupixent has your moderate-to-severe eczema, or atopic dermatitis under control? hide my skin? not me. because dupixent targe

he flip-flopped on a lot of issues masking, mandatory evacuation to disabled and misled on the nih thatarch in chinese lab and then he admitted and testaments agency does not interact the money. i don't know we have been through it through history here with this doctor living through this pandemic. can we survive the next one? this isn't over, right? we could be hit with another one and did we learn any lessons here? >> to have big lessons you just pointed out we need to learn is gate of function research is dangerous and provoking viruses whether led to this pandemic or not could lead to a pandemic and it is on the table that it might have been involved with this one. and lockdowns we did not look at and certainly dr. fauci did not look at the idea of the cost of a lockdown very little benefit because you're locking poor people down together they spread the virus. but what about all the mental health damage the physical damage the lack of public health screenings and the economy going in the tank. forget about was happening in china. >> $22 million jobs destroyed for the president keep

cms, the center for medicare and medicaid services, the nih, and something near and dear to you, the substance of mental health -- substance abuse and mental health services. this is a broad set of responsibilities. you have been in the role for a year now. how do you go about setting the immediate priorities for the organization? i know covid is at the top of your list and i know we want to spend time on that because it is of interest to all of us, but talk to me about how you viewed the job in the beginning and how you set the priorities for your term. sec. becerra: you are right. to some degree, our priorities were set by circumstance of covid being upon us, requiring us to tackle that first and foremost. job one had to be covid, covid, covid. we believe that if we do covid right and address this pandemic that we will be able to do a whole lot more because covid exposed so many of the gaps that the public health system has. if we learn from those lessons, we will be able to improve the system which is already the most expensive in the world, provides some of the best care in the w

okay, you know, i don't trust the nih, fauci, the cdc, dr. biden or dr.h all of them, they have all been wrong the whole time. >> i'll tell you, there is a lot of paranoia out there. the federal judge struck down the biden mask mandate for public transport because it is not inside the cdc's authority. it is arbitrary, it's capricious, based on a law designed to protect us from other countries by sanitizing themselves, that is all these masks do. i am completely confused about this cdc decision. they agreed that planes are not dangerous, the air actually comes from outside the plane, often, which is at 35,000 feet, clean, they are asking the department of justice to go after the judge who just told the cdc that they don't have the jurisdiction on these mandates. i mean, it is one big circle that is not getting us anywhere. that paranoia has to end. >> sean: and by the way, we learned as we went along and things did change, the science changed, you know, first we were told that we got a vaccine that we would never get covid, then we had breakthrough cases w

nora volkoff, part of the nih doctor, thanks so much what has changed so dramatically in the past fourassive expansion on access to fentanyl fentanyl has flooded the market across the whole country urban areas, rural areas, and it's contaminating not just heroin but basically all of illicit drugs, including illicit prescription medications. >> how has this happened do we even know? >> it's happened by the fact that there's a large profit basis for people that are dealing with drugs by selling fentanyl you synthesize it and it's so powerful and is easy to bring across the border. the drug is so potent that it has very powerful effects so you need a minuscule quantity in order to get the large effect. and that is what is driving it the enormous profit that the illicit drug market can make by selling fentanyl and the highly rewarding effects of this drug. >> doctor, as you know, certain officials are advocating for more treatment options others want to see stricter laws and enforcement. in your estimation, doctor, how should the government be approaching this >> we know the most effective

when people say i don't want to get a vaccine, they're risking getting a disease and an nih recently researchers said recently over the next few years you're going to have two choices. get vaccinated or get naturally infected andgetting naturally infected is not the better choice . that's the purpose, we learned something about going back to this with the fda next tuesday. will consider a trial in 5 to 11 years of a few thousand children and then make a recommendation for a few tens of millions of children.you never know everything. the question is when do you know enough? when do you know enough to move forward that's the history of medical advances. we lived 30 years longer than we do 100 years ago because of the nine medical advances their about in the hard earned and they will always be thhard earned. people make theargument let me wait till the learning curve is over but the learning curve is really never over . >> and you say in the book where always, day in and day out making decisions in the face of uncertainty . whether we acknowledge it or not. i really liked your analogy o

the nih has been wrong. b you bit more right than them from the entire beginning of this . transmittedle she us to the president who was recently boosted for the second time? >> it's definitely possible and this speaks to the rank hypocrisy we keep facing.e the rule was fifteen minutes less than six to six feet members completely made up other organizations around the world. many other countries use three feet. it's arbitrary. it was a made up number eveno today when you look back on whyo we picked it, it's hard to figure out why we stuck with itu because fouche own internal memo trump wasou r still in offe would have a few infections. be on the front page of every paper, you'd be diagraming every single person where they sat seating chart would tell you who got infected next . now we have a super a spreader that the gridiron club anotherbo good example. you don't even talk about it. here'sut the reality. half the states shown half the states the country seeing increased numbers of this new omicron being two variant, which is about 75% of the cases. but they're not that sev

nih has gotten involved in starting to create cohorts of people that they're going to track. suspect we're going to learn a lot more in the months and years ahead. there's no time like now to get going on understanding this condition and figuring out how to help people who suffer from it. amna: specific to that, there's another concern being raised by a number of doctors about the racial disparities that have played out throughout the pandemic carrying over into long covid, and, again, having no idea how long that will take. but already kning black americans suffered higher rates of infection, hospitalization, and death, there's doctors raising concerns that, again, black americans do not have the same access to treatments that are now available, and specifically support for long covid. so what's the administration doing about that? dr. jha: yes, so one of the things this pandemic has taught us is that, when you have a health crisis like this, longstanding systemic ineqties in our society are exacerbated. they're identified. they're exacerbated. we have got to continue addres

maybe nih should do a study on that. it seemsly like a legitimate health crisis. we're being slightly unfair in that analysis. we do not mean certainly to suggest that it's only democrats who favorlysi censorsp for political ends. republican leaders supported to in a phone call reported today by the new york times, for example, congressman n kevin mccarthy of california told his close friend liz cheneyewexam that he hoped the l media companies would censor more conservative republicans in congress. donald trump, the sitting president, had already been silenced by those companies. but mccarthy wanted the tech oligarchs to do more to force disobedient lawmakers offer the internet quote quote can'ts they take their twitter accounts away too? those are the tape recorded words of congressmanre kevin mccarthy, a man who in private turns out sounds like an msnbc contributor. and yet unless conservatives get their act together right away, kevin mccarthy or one of his highly h liberal allies like elise stefanik is very likely to be speaker of the house in january. t that w

of my frustration over what happened to the pandemic especially as it is related to the cdc or the nih is more the function of bureaucracy and how bureaucracies work rather than sometimes the individuals who are personally involved. i just wanted to say that up front. and also having been a direct of the department of public health i also have some concerns when i became director of the department that the majority of our function was not related to when ity think is most important function of the cdc which is disease control which was her first and primary mission which is a national security issue versus the shift towards prevention. i think we know why that's occurred but yet it lends a level ofoc frustration because e don't have the immediacy that we need when comes w to handling te pandemic. also dr. murthy, dr. walensky, as physicians, as published authors, medical doctors, we published in medical journals and as you on the first ten there's a requirement for disclosure. disclosures of financial interests, any conflict of interest. dr. walensky i do want to ask if the cdc when th