peter hotez and professor william haseltine.or haseltine, is it becoming more evident at least in the united states to go back to a semblance of pre-covid life is for a vaccine? is that the only hope? >> well, i hope it's not the only hope. i think, behavior change, by most people, is the actual answer. but there are two solutions from the medical world. one is a vaccine that everybody's talking about. in my opinion, it's going to come. but it will be partially effective, and we don't know for how long it will last. there is another solution, which is coming very quickly, which is a bridge to an effective vaccine. and, that is, the use of combinations of antiviral drugs to suppress the virus, and to protect people from being infected in the first place. we know that works for another virus that affects, in this case, instance, children. we know that it works to malaria. and so, we are very hopeful. we actually know and have the drugs and the model for this is hiv. we've developed drugs, and there's some spectacular, new drugs on

peter hotez professor and dean of tropical medicine at baylor college of medicine. thanks for joining us. as the u.s. sets record numbers of daily coronavirus cases, dr. fauci says the inevitable happened when the country opened up and suggests we need a reset right now. so what should a reset, sanjay, include at this very, very critical moment? >> well, an acknowledgment first of all that the status quo is not working very well. so people keep saying we'll put a pause on things and that's fine but, you know, you see what's happening with the new infections on a daily basis. it may involve, you know, in some places, possibly having to shut down some places again. i know dr. fauci has said, look. hopefully we don't need that but there are some places where to break the cycle of transmission at least for a period of time that's what might be necessary. we know that indoor settings, restaurants, bars, things like that, there are certain areas that are the highest risk and those areas in particular are i think going to need to be addressed in places where peter hotez li

peter hotez and professor william. is it in the united states the only way we'll go back to any semblance of precovid life is for a vaccine? is that the only hope. >> i hope it's not the only hope. i hope behavior change by most people will be the answer. there are two solutions, one is a vaccine everybody is talk about. in my opinion, it's going to come but it will be partially effective and we don't know for how long it will last. there is another solution which is coming very quickly. which is a bridge to an an effective vaccine and that's combination of anti viral drugs to suppress the virus and protect people from being infected in the first place. we know that works for something called respiratory virus, that affects in this case children. we know that it works for malaria and so, we are very hopeful. we actually know and have the drugs and the model for this is hiv. we developed drugs and there is spectacular new drugs on the near horizon for controlling hiv. we can do this. that is a double strategy from the m

professor peter hotez.in england has just been eased, with many businesses including pubs, restaurants, hairdressers and cinemas allowed to reopen in the next few hours. the british prime minister has urged people to "enjoy summer safely" and says he won't hesitate to reverse the measures if cases begin to climb. 0ur political correspondent alex forsyth has more. so two of you? yes, please. it's in the diary, the table's booked. businesses preparing to open up after months of lockdown. some restaurant owners not sure what to expect. nobody knows, no—one knows. we have no idea who's going to come, who isn't. this tourist town in the cotswolds is gearing up. even in the model village, it feels like a big moment. anxious, nervous, excited. it's a nervous time for number ten, too — in his words, a turning point they have to get right, with the virus still present. if it starts running out of control again, this government will not hesitate in putting on the brakes and reimposing restrictions. as we take this ne

dr peter hotez is professor and dean of the national school of tropical medicine at there have been soorldwide, making it the country with the most deaths. in per capita deaths, the us is also somewhere near the top of the worst affected countries in the worst affected countries in the world. us mortality rate is six after belgium, uk, spain, and france. dr peter hotez is professor and dean of the national school of tropical medicine at the baylor college of medicine. he told me more about the figures. where where art is we are in a dire public health crisis. right now, the southern part of the united states accounts for 2596 the united states accounts for 25% of the global pandemic. 25% of the 200,000 daily cases globally are now occurring in the southern united states. in the southern united states. in the numbers are rising very steeply. 0n the numbers are rising very steeply. on a daily basis, we have gone from 40,000 new cases a couple of weeks ago to 50,000 to 60,000. now, 70,000. we will be at 80,000 new cases by the end of the week with no end in sight. and the tragedy is this

peter hotez. professor william haseltine, as always. >> thank you so much.y do appreciate it. up next, breaking news on roger stone, president's longtime friend, former political advisor, just days before he was scheduled to report to prison. now, a free man, says the white house, after the president commuted his sentence. reaction, when we continue. 49... 50! i found you! good job. now i'm gonna stay here and you go hide. watch your favorites from anywhere in the house with the xfinity stream app. free with your xfinity service. now any room can be a tv room. stream live tv, on demand shows and movies even your dvr recordings. download the xfinity stream app today to stream the entertainment you love. xfinity. the future of awesome. >>> roger stone was due to report to prison next week for lying to congress and witness tampering for a stay of more than three years. but the president just commuted his sentence of his longtime confidante. so he's not going to go to prison at all. white house calling him a victim of the russia hoax tonight. want to go back to

let's speak to professor peter hotez, who's co—director of texas children's hospital's center for vaccineopment. thank you for coming on the programme. thank you for having me. is this a big weekend for the us and a big test? we are ina very the us and a big test? we are in a very difficult and dire public health crisis, and that has to do with the following. we are seeing this very steep acceleration in the number of covid—19 cases, particularly in the southern half of the united states. across the country, backin states. across the country, back in april and march, the peak was around 30,000, 35,000 cases, we boarded down to 18,000 but now it is climbing back aggressively, so it was 40,000 cases last week, 50,000 cases this week, it will be 60,000 next week and projections are it will soon be at 100,000 cases a day. professor just to jump in there, when we are talking about those numbers... president from's case is that the numbers are up because that testing is up, if you test more the numbers go up because it test more. —— president trump. that is a very misleading statement because t

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peter hotez a professor indeed of tropical medicine at baylor college of medicine. thanks for joining us. as we've been reporting now 150,000 americans have died from the virus. those are the confirmed numbers. more than 1200 people in this country died just yesterday alone from this virus. what's your reaction to the, first of all, the sobering milestone of 150,000 confirmed deaths? >> wolf, we're spiraling out of control, unfortunately. the epidemic is still widespread in the south and the deaths are accelerating. you talked about 1200. it is going up every day. most of those deaths right now are from our epidemic in the south. we had 64 deaths in hid ago goe county in south texas yesterday. that is not a big county. i think less than a million people, 800,000, 900,000 people. 64 deaths. so that many counties now in texas and florida, covid-19 is the single leading cause of death on a daily basis. now we are seeing the virus extend northward. dr. birx has pointed out how it is now going from the traditional southeast, you know, when we talk about alabama, mississi

peter hotez just said quote there is no way to stop this train. in addition, there is modelling from the university of washington's institute for health met tricks arics and eva. joining us, what is affecting the numbers the most? >> the big increases there we're seeing in florida, texas, california we're concerned in turning the corner in ohio. the other factor is school openings we expect in august in september. that's going to increase contact tracing and seasonty in september and october. all those come together to give us the numbers for first of november. >> so just schools, kids going back to school, if that happens, that means more people will die? >> well, it's -- kids going back to school but all the other stuff around and all the interaction that happens and we seen mobility data and contact but their parents are more likely to go to work when kids are at school and after school ac activities and a package that's a big contributor to how much contact people have unless of course, we're very careful how schools openings are managed. >> i

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peter hotez is a vaccine researcher and dean at the national school of tropical medicine. dr. hotez, do you agree with this assessment? should these 18 states hit pause on reopening? >> oh, absolutely. well, i haven't seen the full list of the 18 states, but what i can tell you is we are seeing a massive resurgence across the southern part of the united states. if you look at a map of the u.s., everywhere from florida, louisiana, alabama, mississippi, into texas is lit up like a christmas tree as of course is arizona now and southern california. so this is -- this is a dire situation that we're facing. we heard from the doctor in your report earlier about the awful situation in florida, exceeding icu and bed capacity. you know the other piece to this of course is it's not just the beds, it's the hospital staffs are getting exhausted across the southern part of the u.s. donning ppe multiple times a day and then they're getting sick, so that's the other piece. we are having to send in nurses and doctors and health care professionals from all over the country into the south. this

peter hotez is the dean of tropical medical at baylor college of medicine. doctor, is it fair to wonder how many lives could have been saved if the president had set this example earlier? >> well, first of all, i am glad he visited walter reed, our national medical center, paul begala in the last hour pointed out what an inspirational place it is and he's right. i had the privilege of giving medical grand rounds there back in january. it's not just the wounded w warriors who are amazing but the doctors and nurses and professionals. so i am glad the president wore a mask. i think the point is this should not be a lead story in the news. maybe back in february or march it would have been a lead story, but not now. we're way past that. we have this terrible public health crisis right now, and the fact that we're still even discussing masks is ridiculous. we have to do so much more right now to help slow this terrible onslaught that we're facing now from covid-19 with this steep acceleration. we're going to hit 70,000 cases this week. >> it's not far off. we hit

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peter hotez, dean of tropical med season at baylor college of medicine and in the race for a vaccine. first, doctor, what is the damage of suggesting, of having the president suggest that the cdc is lying to people and that doctors are lying to people? >> yeah. i don't know what the president's end game here is. this is an abandonment of human rights. it's certainly a total absence of intellectual curiosity. this is terrible for the country at a time when we need leadership. our epidemic is now spiraling out of control, especially in the southern half of the united states. we heard about the rise in hospital admissions and icu admissions. hospital staffs are exhausted and sick across the country. that's why we have the fly-in of hospital staff. that is a very bad sign seeing that happen in italy and spain and new york, that's when the mortality rates really started to go up and they're already on the rise and we might anticipate and see even a steeper acceleration because of this exhaustion on the part of hospital staffs and we are in a full-blown public health crisis and the presiden

peter hotez out of houston. but i want you to listen to this. daily, the texas medical center was reporting their icu bed capacity and it was at 96% then at 97%. and then they get a call from governor abbott saying, i don't like the headlines that you are running out of hospital beds, so stop publishing the information. and you know what? they do. so, he was able to force an end to the transparency, the public health reporting and the information that all of us can use to make real world decisions, like wearing masks and staying at home and understanding just how bad this crisis is. so individually, those nurses and doctors and the front line staff, including the custodians, are my all-time heroes, because they're literally risking their lives to save the lives of others. but i am disappointed in some of those hospital ceos. they're not speaking the truth and sharing it with news texas. >> thank you very much for joining us tonight and explaining what is happening in your state. i'm very sorry for the situation in texas tonight. we really apprec

peter hotez.the dean of the national school of tropical medicine at baylor college of medicine in houston. dr. hotez, thank you for being with us this morning. we woke up to this op-ed from peter navarro. clearly, he has personal issues with dr. fauci. but the bigger picture here, on the day where we set a record for the number of new cases, the overnight response from the white house, because they clearly sanctioned this letter from peter navarro, is to attack the nation's leading infectious disease doctor. what does this tell you, what's the impact? >> well, john, it's even more than that, right? you've got a new record being set every other day in terms of new numbers of cases. this massive resurgence across the south. right now southern u.s. accounts for about a quarter of the world's cases of covid-19. think about that. just the southern half of the u.s. now accounts for a quarter of the world's cases. and no end in sight. numbers rising dramatically. the institute for health metrics says 224

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peter hotez, dean of the school of tropical medicine at baylor school of medicine. we've been talking to you the very first moments of the pandemic, the first confirmed cases. you've been talking to us from texas. it is now in your backyard right now. how are things in texas right now? >> it's been in our backyard for a while, chris. we're seeing this dramatic and steep acceleration. it's very worrisome, especially in the metro areas. san antonio, houston, austin, dallas. the numbers have a vertical rise, and it's also accompanied by a serious increase in hospitalizations and intensive care unit admissions. so we are in a dire public health situation, and now we have some new modelling estimates coming out of the university of pennsylvania that show as bad as this is, the numbers could double in houston and other texas cities within two weeks in the middle of july, and possibly double again by the end of july. so this is, as i say, a dire situation. unfortunately, it's not just happening in texas. this is happening in arizona and florida. it's starting in georgia. t

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peter hotez, dean of the national school of tropical medicine at baylor college of medicine at houston co-director of the texas children's hospital center for vaccine development. so, dr. hotez, here we go again! texas is now having to shut down. i'm sure this is no surprise to you. you've been talking about the extreme measures that may have to be taken. texas may have to follow suit, because your numbers there are so bad. so, shutting down, will that help what we're seeing with the hospitals, et cetera? >> you know, alisyn, this is the problem, that we have to react to these massive surges. this is what florida will eventually do. texas will do. california's already done. this is not the way to do it. you know, we are supposed to be anticipatory. we should have known that this was coming and planned ahead of time. and this is the problem, there is no roadmap, no plan for the country, so we just force the governors to make hard decisions when they see these massive surges, and the people start piling into icus and hospitals, and then the deaths start rising. and this is not the way to

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peter hotez.an of the national school of tropical medicine of baylor college in houston and co-director of the children's texas hospital center for vaccine development. and dr. hotez, i want to put up on the screen so people can see what has happened in this country. this is the number of cases in the previous week. we know this. let's look at june, though. let's look at what has happened in june. all the states in deep red have seen a more than 50% increase in new coronavirus. this happened. there's no argument over this anymore. at this point, the rearview mirror isn't that helpful. what we need to know is what's the plan? how do we fix this, doctor? >> well, first, let's articulate the full extent of this problem. there's not a dark enough color on that map to accommodate what's to come. dr. fauci says we're headed towards 100,000 cases per day. if you extrapolate that times the population of some of the states, we're just about there already in texas. so texas, if 100,000 cases a day would be

peter hotez. he's dean of the national tropic school of medicine at baylor college. dr. hotez, thank you so much for your time tonight. i know your time is really precious right now. >> it's a -- it's a really crazy busy time. we're also developing a vaccine for covid-19, trying to get that into clinical trials, so life is very full, but thank you for having me. >> i'm worried about texas because texas is big and anything that's happening on a large scale and going wrong in texas is almost by definition a national problem. i'm worried about it because of the way that dr. fauci today talked about places that we're seeing in the south and in the west having problems being big enough problems that they are going to become national problems. i'm also just worried about texans and all these different people in all these different cities having so much trouble. can you put it in perspective in terms of where texas has been and how bad things are now? >> yeah, absolutely, rachel. we hit 7,000 cases today, which is our all-time high. to give you a sense of what that number means

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peter hotez is the dean of the national school of tropical medicine at the baylor college of medicinemultiple conversations about the current state of -- and it was the moment we're in now is what you feared three weeks ago, four weeks ago, five weeks ago, when we went through this. i want to say it was two weeks ago you said texas was in danger of becoming brazil. anyway, here we are. now what? >> yeah. and this virus is still spiraling out of control. actually, now, it's not only just texas, it's across the southern half of the united states and just about all the major metro areas, all the way from miami to phoenix and los angeles. and we've got to figure out a way to get this under control. chuck, the new numbers now suggest that of the 200,000 new cases that occurs globally, globally, one quarter occurs in the southern united states. so the southern united states is the major epicenter of the covid-19 pandemic. and we've got to get this under control. and we need to have a national plan to halt this. it's simply not going to happen with incremental measures. and we need to look a

peter hotez told us earlier this morning. that with the ridiculous, absurd, false, dishonest statement from the president this weekend that 99% of covid-19 cases are totally harmless. that's just wrong, and every doctor in america knows it, including the fd

we can now speak to dr peter hotez who's professor and dean of the national school of tropical medicines us from houston. where are we with the latest figures in the united states? we are in a dire public health crisis and right now, the southern part of the united states accounts for 25% of the global pandemic was up 25% of the 200 thousand daily cases globally are now occurring in the southern united states and the southern united states and the numbers very steeply. on a daily basis, we have gone from — gone daily basis, we have gone from —— gone to 70,000 and we will be at 80,000 new cases by the end of the week. the tragedy is this is now, we are now seeing a delayed increase in the number of deaths. typically what happens is that after patients are hospitalised and in intensive care for a couple of weeks, that is when you see the sharp rise in deaths. we are now seeing this. in many states such as the south, such as texas and florida, within a couple of weeks, covid—i9 will be the leading cause of death in those dates. as it was in new york back in the spring and tragically, again

peter hotez. dr.ed something around here and across a lot of shows on the network, around the disinformation that's been circulating in our politics around the pandemic. and i wonder what you make of the fact that dr. fauci is now at the point of almost pleading with a journalist not to make him answer a question, because he's not going to lie, that would put him at odds with donald trump and it's around these same issues that we keep debating, mask wearing, social distancing, and shutdowns. >> yeah, i think what you're seeing is the fact that tony knows exactly what needs to be done to help the country actually save the country, because we're going down such a terrible path, and yet, if he's just puts it all out there in a very direct way, like i do, and i can do it because i'm a medical school professor and i have that freedom to do it, he doesn't. if he just puts it out there, you know what happens, he'll get marginalized and he'll no longer be able to engage the white house, the oval office, and t

peter hotez, let me say something to the three of you. you have informed me, you have moved me, you have pushed me on this story in a way that nobody else has? can we make a regular thing? i would love to have all three of you back for more time next time. >> i would love that. >> i'd be honored. >> thank you all. thank you so much, all of you. wow. >>> before we break, though. we have an update on supreme court justice ruth bader ginsburg. news just in that she has been released from the hospital after being treated for a possible infection. court says the 87-year-old is home and doing well. ginsburg was evaluated monday night after experiencing fever, chills, and she underwent a follow-up procedure to an earlier surgery. >>> after the break, in 2016, it was the wall. in 2018, it was the caravan. now in 2020, donald trump is once again trying to convince americans that there are people out to get them. that campaign strategy is one we'll share with you, next. stra we'll share with y, ounext how about no no uh uh, no way come on, no no n-

peter hotez, three of the best expert voices on all of it.hank you for starting us off. >>> when we come back, new reporting about donald trump's month of campaign misery in june and how he is the biggest obstacle to any course correction. >>> and the president's inaction on russian bounties. speaking far louder than words. how the battle lines are now drawn on that front for november as well. >>> plus, we'll go to texas where covid cases are exploding. all those stories coming up. this is an athlete, twenty reps deep, sprinting past every leak in our softest, smoothest fabric. she's confident, protected, her strength respected. depend. the only thing stronger than us, is you. she's confident, protected, hsaturpain happens.ted. aleve it. aleve is proven stronger and longer on pain than tylenol. when pain happens, aleve it. all day strong. [ind(mom)ct radio chatter] come on, hurry up! all systems go? (mission control) 5 4 3 2... ignition and liftoff. (vo) audi e-tron. the next frontier of electric. >>> think about what june 2020 did to donald

i believe will have a vaccine early next year i've had guests like peter hotez is the famed vaccine researcher down in texas children's in houston who believes he won't have until the 3rd quarter and he says that's a land speed record by itself because vaccines usually take 4 to 5 years to develop but let's just say sometime in the 1st half of next year we have a vaccine is widely available then the question is will people take it a one of the knocks on the vaccine is if it only takes 5 years and you made it less than a year then you must a rushed so by cutting corners are you exposing us to side effects i don't think with 30000 people being involved in these trials that will take at least 6 months before we have comfort levels that it's safe that we're taking a big risk but yeah there any vaccine as a risk associated with it and we won't know for years and years but i believe most americans in the data supports this would take the vaccine about a 3rd would not but i'm not sure we can address their concerns all that readily anyway they'll be different kinds of vaccines so they can pick the one

peter hotez, thank you for your warning. we appreciate you every time, it has been a very bad week. thank you very much. >>> brazil is approaching 70,000 coronavirus deaths. they're now second in fatalities just behind the united states. in hong kong all schools are being closed ahead of recent surges. >>> over 1100 new fallalties pushing the country's total here close to 70,000 now. he continues to tell his country men to go back to work even if congress is trying to protect tribes in the amazon and beyond providing them clean water, hospital beds, and sanitizer. facebook and instagram removed dozens of accounts they say were putting out false information about brazilian pricks, the pandemic, and they tied them back to his two sons. >>> i'm will ripley in hong kong. the numbers are still relatively small right now. dozens of cases being reported every day, but hong kong just saw a record daily high of locally transmitted infections. they identified restaurants and nightclubs, taxis, and senior care centers. will it be enough to stop the spread of the illness. some of the symptoms t

peter hotez as well. baylor college of medicine. hello, dr. hotez. i'm glad you're here. you're in texas. a major hotspot, unfortunately. and the state, as we know, is setting yet another record of new cases today. and they've got nearly 7,000 reported. and by the way, if you look at hospitalizations. look at that chart there. it's also following the same trend there. the upward trajectory of it. and you've got governor greg abbott who is expanding the suspension of elective surgeries to, in some ways, free up these hospital beds. just tell me how bad is the situation right now in texas? >> you're absolutely right, laura. thanks for having me. we're having a crisis situation, here, in texas. we just broke a record. today, 7,000 new cases. to put that in perspective, dr. fauci warned we could be up to 100,000 cases, daily, in the united states. based on the size of the population of texas, that's 10,000 cases a day. so we're almost at dr. fauci's apocalyptic warning, right here, in texas if that continues. so we are seeing a steep rise. there's no evidence that the numbers

peter hotez at baylor college of medicine telling anderson cooper last night because of the spread we're seeing especially across the south that it is quote rising so rapidly we cannot even do contact tracing anymore. do you agree with that assessment? has the u.s. missed its window to effectively mitigate this and contact trace? >> yes, i think that we are in a really different situation at this point. we have seen such an incredible increase in cases and every one of the cases needs to be contact traced an then every one of the contacts needs to be contacted as well. when you think of this rise in cases and we don't have enough people on board, the number it takes to contact trace we're falling behind there and that means we're not talking to people, telling them they have been exposed and telling them to stay home. >> listen to this, dr. jha from tom bossert. we are in trouble, it's harder to extinguish the flare-up and it will take a while to put out the fires. we can top 500,000 u.s. deaths this year if this trend continues. this is from the man who was advising the president on all

peter hotez, professor and dean of tropical medicine at baylor college of medicine. good evening, to both of you. doctor, i'm going to start with you. so let's talk about california rolling back its reopening. shutting down all indoor activities. los angeles and san diego, students won't be returning to school buildings next month. should other states with surging cases and hospitalizations do the same? should they follow suit? >> yeah. they're going to have no choice, don. these cases are rising, precipitously, in multiple states. really, in a whole band across the southern half of the united states. it's worse in some than others. it's the worst in texas, florida, arizona, southern california. and the only choice may be to really begin aggressively dialing this back. it's not just the number of cases due to diagnostic testing, as the white house would like us to believe. but, in fact, the number of hospitalizations, icu admissions, is rising precipitously. positive testing rates. and -- and sadly, the deaths. and the other piece to this, don, we've talked about thi

peter hotez, who said yes, it's potentially good news, but there's so many unknowns. so, you give us your assessments of this oxford study and what it will mean for the lives of americans, if anything at this point. >> absolutely. i think he's right. let's try to understand how studies and trials have to go before we say this works. if oxford had not passed this test, this vaccine was really not going to work. so, what happened was they wanted to see if this vaccine would create antibodies and more specifically neutralizing antibodies against the covid virus. they also wanted to see if it was safe. and on both cases, the answer was yes. it created neutralizing antibodies in a month and a second dose to 100% of the 30-something people they tested. if this had not happened, this vaccine would have been dead in the water. but now we have a vaccine that creates antibodies. the big question is so what? does it really keep people from getting covid? that is the next step. the phase three trial that's going to involve thousands of people. have we not crossed this hurdle, we

this is from the acclaimed peter hotez of baylor. "the president of the united states retweeted this nonsense. he lacks interest in slowing or halting the virus. the strategy is to continue deflecting, first china, then who, now the scientists themselves. we will need to seek a branch of government still willing or able to lead a federal response." this is a backdrop to all we talk about in economics, finance and investment. jonathan: let's be really clear about this. every single aspect of government worldwide deserves to be criticized for their response to this crisis. said travel curbs don't help. mayor bill de blasio in this city in march said get out on the town. that was what the mayor of new york city had to say to the people of new york. he is worthy of criticism as well. the government, the federal government, is also worthy of criticism as well. what is important is learning from mistakes and learning from them quickly. what we need at the federal level is something a whole lot quicker, a whole lot earlier. we push it too f

peter hotez professor and dean of tropical medicine at baylor college of medicine. tell us more about how this would work, this so-called double defense. >> sort of double defense seems to be a new term. there's two arms to the immune response. you need a vaccine to induce what are called t-cells and a vaccine to induce what are called virus neutralizing antibody to achieve protection against the virus. the oxford vaccine was shown in not human primates to do both but the level of neutralizing antibodies is not very high so the vaccine was partially protective meaning it protecting the monkeys from getting very sick but shedding virus and did not interruptd transmission and the question is whether that's the same in human trials. it looks as though the single dote doesn't do what you want but two doses in the ten patients they gave two doses they seem to see levels of neutralizing antibody roughly the same as someone who gets the virus and then recovers from it. potentially good news. there's also t-cell responses but ten patients it is hard to say too much. my take

peter hotez say he's concerned if you look at the map that more and more states as you move north are beginning to see rises in cases and could develop into full crisis mode soon. >> i think that's absolutely correct and it emphasizes that it does not respect the borders. we are woven together as a community. you can't expect one state to do something and try to get the virus under control and have a neighboring state not do the same sort of level of rigor and not see it as well. what we're seeing is the natural evolution of the virus. speaking of alabama, we have reached our peak of hospitalizations yet at uab hospital for the virus. hospitalizations for people with the virus and we are now at an all-time high use of our icu beds in the state. we have 12% of our icu beds in the state remaining. so this is playing out exactly like what happened in the northeast. could we now see that moving forward? absolutely. to the north, to the west, to the east. to florida, yes. absolutely. and i think that's really a concern because it is emphasizing that we are all in this together. we have to

peter hotez is a professor and dean of tropical medicine at baylor college of med sen. dr. hotez, you heard dr. fauci. you have been skeptd caical of timeline. are you encouraged by the early results? >> i share dr. fauci's cautious optimism that we will have a vaccine for covid-19. i think we will have multiple vaccines for covid-19. i hope ours is one of them. the tactical hurdle to develop a vaccine is not very high as we have discussed. it is just a matter of inducing neutralizing apt bodies against the spike protein. it is an old-school problem in virology. we know how to do this and i think we will have multiple covid-19 vaccines so on that point, sure, i'm cautiously optimistic, as well. we both work on hard targets. he worked on aids vaccines forever. i work on parasitic disease vaccines. right now in terms of where we are with covid-19 in the nation, we are in an absolute dire public health crisis. we had 75,000 new cases per day. the numbers continue to accelerate. we'll be in the 80,000s by next week and the deaths are starting to surge up and it is not only deat

peter hotez said this morning on "new day." >> what we're starting to see now, john, is what i think is more than the occasional gap or misstatements. i think when you look at this in totality, what we're really seeing is a coordinated misinformation campaign coming out of the white house. >> doctor, he's talking about the comment tear that i we heard one of my colleagues play of the president on testing. it's just the sniffles, it's 99% harmless, it's embers that are going to be put out around the country. do you agree with dr. hotez on this? are you reaching that conclusion as well? >> i think the fact of the matter is, the white house does not have the expertise to be able to be making these kinds of statements. you know, when they do have experts available to them, they ignore their advice as we're learning dr. fauci has not been meeting with donald trump or his staff. i have no idea where trump is getting his medical expertise. it's certainly not from his medical degree or his ph.d. in biology or epidemiology normall expertise to be able to make these kinds of decisions. so i re

let's get expert medical analysis from peter hotez and former u.s. surgeon general vivek murthy. you describe this as a perfect storm. the u.s. seeing its highest single day of new cases as the holiday weekend approaches. just how bad do you fear this could get? could we see things spike even more? >> thank you, jim. i'm deeply concerned about where we are in this pandemic. you know, we are certainly seeing more cases than we've ever seen. we are setting records, multiple records this week for new cases. but i fear that this could, in fact, get worse. we've heard dr. fauci tell us that he would not be surprised if we saw more than 100,000 cases a day, which is almost double where we are today. so things can absolutely get worse. here's the good news. the ability to stop the spread or at least slow the spread of this virus is in our hands. the decisions we make about staying home, avoiding unnecessary contact with others, the decision we make to wear a mask when we go out, to distance from other people, to wash our hands, avoid touching our faces, avoid crowds, these are the kind

peter hotez is a vaccine scientist and professor and dean of medicine at baylor.r, thanks for joining us. >> thanks for having us. >> it took 99 days to reach 3 million and just 15 days to go from 3 to 4 million. despite what this president says, this isn't about testing, is it? >> no, we know it's not about testing. this epidemic is dramatically accelerating, and we know that because it's not just the substantial increased number of cases, especially across the southern united states, but it's increase in hospitalizations, it's increases in intensive care unit admissions and now the deaths are coming. yesterday we had 200 deaths in the state of texas from covid-19. which -- which is a record for us. same with california. across the southern states right now, covid-19 is becoming, if it isn't already, the leading cause of death on a daily basis in these southern states. and so we're spiraling out of control and we now need to take measures to get our arms around. this is the plan or whatever they're doing, in terms of the national level, simply has failed and we h

i talked to peter hotez tonight, a respected infectious disease expert from houston. he said it may be too late for a rigorous testing and contact tracing regimen. he said lock down and let's start it all over again and this time make sure we follow the science and the facts. that's how we got to this place. >> and where do we go from here? and are there any pressures on the texas republican regime to move in the right direction? >> there are, and interestingly, lawrence, those pressures are coming from democratic leaders who got it right. so the 29-year-old first-term county judge of harris county, she represents more people in that county than the entire state of colorado. she has taken one of the most aggressive, ambitious positions on trying to contain the spread of covid. clay jenkins up in north texas in dallas county, county judge wolf in bear county in san antonio, all of them have done as much as they can under current state law, and i think that pressured the governor to finally do the right thing or at least take the first step on the path to doing the righ