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peter hotez, dean of the national school of tropical medicine at baylor university. dr. saw this coming. the biden administration, public health experts, you're going to hit a point where supply is not the constraint. for the first few weeks and months, people are desperately trying to get appointments. now, that's not an issue. now it's getting people to do it. is that where we are right now? >> just about. i mean, remember where we have to go, chris. we have to, based on the high transmissibility of these new variants, the b.1.1.7 variant from the united kingdom. the 1.4.2.9 out of california, we have to vaccinate or else transmission goes up. we need 80% of the u.s. population vaccinated. that essentially means just about all the adults and a high percentage of the adolescents. in theory, all the stars are aligning now in order to vaccinate our way out of this epidemic, at least in the united states, provided we can get everybody onboard. >> i saw this in the city of houston, where you're located. the houston chronicle saying covid vaccine supply increase in texas. cl

peter hotez works at the texas children's hospital. he is dean of the national school of medicine at baylor. good evening, doctor. thank you for being with us. >> thank you for having me. >> i'm not a doctor or an epidemiologist. i want to give you a chance to set me straight. i'm telling how i'm sort of feeling about this as an issue and what seems like maybe something to consider. is there something i'm not understanding or have i gone about this the wrong way around? >> rachel, it turns out you've learned a lot of epidemiology over the last 14 months, so that's a pretty good assessment, actually. a couple things to think about. the overwhelming variant is the b.117 variant from the united kingdom. yes, we have other variants, the brazilian and the california variant, but the one that's really excelling right now and the one keeping us all up is the b.117 variant. that's accounting for the rise in cases in michigan and accounting for more hospitalizations among younger people. this variant is more transmissible, it has higher transla

doctors like paul off et and peter hotez continue to be vaccine warriors.get the vaccine, we're never truly going to get clear of this worldwide nightmare. they're willing to risk their lives against the death threats as have other scientists like anthony fauci, hoping and doing anything they can to make sure that science and trust in science ultimately wins the race. i'm dr. son jay gupta. thanks for watching. >>> on this episode of united shades of america, we're talking shades of white supremacy. we formed the show in early 2020, weeks before covid-19 hit, a month before the police in minneapolis killed george floyd and before all the protests that followed. for many of us had ever heard of defunding the police and before the president and his croneys used racism to describe the coronavirus, which led to a rise in hate crimes in

peter hotez joins us, dean of national school of tropical measured -- tropical medicine. n such a support unclear thinking through this pandemic. peter, somewhere buried in your distinguished cv is hematology. it is ignored by so many in virology, in bacteriology. it is the effect of all of this on our blood. give us a synopsis of the hematology of blood clots to these vaccines. dr. hotez: we do not know the full story yet, but there is an emerging story coming out in papers like the new england journal of medicine and others and it has to do with the fact that the two major adenovirus-based vaccines, that is astrazeneca and johnson & johnson, not the mrna vaccines, not the other technologies, the two major adenovirus vaccines seem to be inducing an immune response in some mechanism we do not fully understand that is activating an antibody response to platelets associated with blood clotting. this is causing platelet activation at these events happening in the veins draining the brain and is causing cerebral thrombosis. michael: to be clear -- tom: to be clear, this is the

peter hotez joining me. to think about this. i don't know it is a good thing we stopped this vaccine because we had the coincident blood clot incidents or it is a terrible thing we stopped it. i thought, let me ask peter. what do you make of this? >> yeah, i think the fda and cdc had no choice and the reason is this because we see to seem another similar phenomenon with the astrazeneca vaccine in europe. you have the moderna and vaccine which are mrna vaccine. the other platform the is the adeno vaccines and both seem to have the link, though extremely rare, and a particular type which is life threatening. i think they needed talk to european regulators, the british regulators to see if they could identify a common mechanism, number one. number two, to see if more cases arise. three, and most important, if they can identify a very specific group, whether it is pre-menopausal women, say on birth control or smoking or post-partum. then you can identify the group and recommend that group not get either the aden

peter hotez, professor and dean of tropical medicine of baylor college of medicine in houston. let's start with michigan and the surge in cases there. you just heard the report from evan, a senior administration official is reiterating to me tonight that more places are -- more help, i should say, is on the way to places like michigan, more vaccinators, 160 from fema, but not additional vaccines. what do you think about that? >> yeah, i think there is a rationale for surging or redistributing some of the vaccines to fish michigan but i very complicated. the variant is 65% of the isolates not only in michigan but throughout the northeast, including some of new england states, new york, new jersey and florida and now in texas. the question is is michigan just the tip. spear and other states are going to follow? and i think that's why the biden administration may be hesitant about throwing everything now at michigan because of the concern is then they'll just have to back pedal and go to the other states. the other consideration, which is kind of interesting, is new hampshire righ

sanjay gupta and peter hotez and the author of "preventing the next pandemic, vaccine diplomacy at a time of anti science." sanjay, the rate of vaccinations in the u.s. is at the low point since march. the high still but dropping consistently. do you think the new guidelines will give people an incentive to get vaccinated or still too conservative? >> i think therey're still a bi conservative and being cautious, which is the tone they've taken throughout this administration and understandably. it would be hard to loosen guidelines when the numbers were particularly high. still cautious guidelines and a lot of people are people that may need to be incentivize to get the vaccine may have been the people doing the things the recommendations are allowing them to do. i don't know how big a difference that makes. we have 61% of the country that says they are either already have received a vaccine or willing to do it but 17% who say they are in the wait and see mode. this movable middle. and the 20% or so that says pretty much they're not planning on getting this vaccine. it's that 17%. par

peter hotez about restarting j&j's rollout and what it means for vaccine hesitancy.st, cnbc's meg tirrell breaking down the cdc recommendations. >> the vote was 10-4 with one abstention those who voted no weren't opposed to the use of the vaccine. it was a debate about how it should start to be used again. a lot of the committee's discussion focused on the risk for women under age 50, because they appear to be at highest risk of this very rare clotting event after receiving the j&j vaccine. the 15 cases reported, all were women and 13 were under 50 years old. the committee found the risk of these clots for women in that age group was about seven per million compared with less than one per million for women over 50 overall, the committee found the benefits of the vaccine across all groups in preventing hospitalization and death from covid outweighed the risk of these clots. but there was discussion about flagging the risks, specifically for younger women, so they could choose another vaccine if available. now, local leaders like new york's mark levine are already anti

peter hotez. dr. hotez, i understand the desire to be as transparent as possible. i understand the desire to get out there and talk to physicians and alert them to this possibility. i understand all of that. what i don't understand is why they're pausing it while they do that considering it is just six cases out of around 7 million doses. it seems like -- you tell me, is there more going on behind the scenes that we are not seeing, or is this -- am i wrong, is this a more prudent choice? >> here's the reason why i think it was the right thing to do. first of all, this is through the vares reporting system, but the thinking is that by pausing this and warning the medical community that this is a rare side effect of concern, potentially other cases of cerebral thrombosis could come forward, so that number of 1.1 million could start going up, and that's important to know. secondly, the j&j virus is an adenovirus vector vaccine, and another adenovirus vector vaccine, astrazeneca, is considered to be about 1 in 150,000. so they're trying to figure out what's going on an

we can now speak to dr peter hotez, co—director of texas children's hospital's center for vaccine developmentns us from houston. thank you for your time, i know you are busy. what do you make of the latest developments? well, i think of the latest developments? well, ithink it of the latest developments? well, i think it probably is related to the vaccine but an extremely rare conditions. if's not simply blood clots, so evil one basis, a severe life—threatening condition. —— it's not simply. the reason they took the measure to put it on hold was to alert clinicians they should be on the lookout for other similar cases. —— to liberal thrombosis. also the numbers may start to go up when they do that. to get on the numbers of the percentage. and i think it is also to talk to the european and british regulators, the mhra and the ema, because it may be a very rare pathway for the adenovirus vector vaccines, astrazeneca oxford, johnson &johnson and oxford, johnson & johnson and maybe oxford, johnson &johnson and maybe even the russian vaccine. a few days to get around it is warranted. years ago thi

peter hotez, always a pleasure. thank you. that is "all in" on this monday night. "the rachel maddow show" starts now. good evening, rachel. >> good evening. thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. it was 100 years ago this spring. a teenager named dick roland was at grave risk of being lynched. tulsa, oklahoma, has had defendants dragged out and lynched. and there was fairly good reason to believe it was going to happen again. a local paper had published an account in 1921 that accused roland of rape. he worked as a shoe shine boy at a building downtown, and it accused him of sexually assaulting a white teenage girl. and teenage dick roland was arrested that day. after that, a mob, a large mob of white tulsa residents started gathering at the courthouse, demanding basically to get their hands on him. and tulsa was a bustling city at the time. a lot of business, a lot of oil business, was running through tulsa. and it was a segregated city. most of the african-american population lived in greenwood. it was flourishing there, it had a hospital, and schools,

peter hotez now, co-director for the center for vaccine development at texas children's hospital good to see you again. we've reviewed the pfizer report here, and the numbers really look fantastic what of this, kids being vaccinated before next school year is that realistic? >> yeah, i think it is i mean, the study is not that big. it's about 1,200 adolescents, 12 through 15 in the vaccination group and a similar number in the placebo group, and what it showed is there were 18 cases of covid in the placebo group and zero in the vaccinated group that's how you got to the 100% i would guess as you get to much larger studies, it will probably come down a little bit it will probably be similar to the very high level of protection that we see in adults so the question is where do we go from here i think there's a few reason the vaccinated adolescents, we are seeing adolescents going into pediatric intensive care units they are getting sick, especially those with underlying risk factors as you pointed out, if we're going to interrupt virus transmission, we have to get to 80, 85% of the popu

there's no one i'd rather talk to than vaccine effort peter hotez. on this week's episode, he lends his expertise to describe everything from the basic of vaccines to, what are they? to their impact on the world. download it wherever you getture podcast. don't forget to subscribe. that's it for "all in." now "the rachel maddow show." >> here is the just posted headline over at "the new york times" right now. quote, matt gaetz, loyal for years to trump, is said to have sought a blanket pardon, and that's not the kind of pardon you need for your blanket. what this means is he was asking a pardon for himself for things for which he's not yet charged. this is the latest development in a bizarre and stomach churning story we have been covering for about a week now. gaetz is a republican congressman from florida. as that headline alludes to. he was a staunch supporter of trump. it was first reported "the new york times" that matt gaetz is currently under federal investigation for allegations of alleged sex trafficking of an underage girl. now, this is an i

peter hotez at texas children's hospital. dr. hotez, how does this happen?p speed focused very heavily on all new innovation and technology vaccines. these are vaccines that use technology that's never been scaled to this level where you're going to vaccinate a whole country, much less globally. when you start going from a small scale to now having to vaccinate tens of millions of people, that's brand new and there is a learning curve. i have a different spin on this, which is that it's actually amazing how well it's worked so far with rolling out the pfizer and moderna vaccines, and so yes, this is a glitch and it's a setback, but it could certainly be much worse given all the other new technology vaccines. >> let's also note that officials have said this does not apply to any of the vaccine that is already out there, the j&j vaccine, it was only what was in that factory that had not been shipped yet. let's talk about good news. pfizer has another study. it announces that its vaccine lasts at least six months, effective up to six months later. also that, qu

there's no one i'd rather talk to than vaccine effort peter hotez.sic of vaccines to, what are they? to their impact on the world. download it wherever you getture podcast. don't forget to subscribe. that's it for "all in." now "the rachel maddow show." >> here is the just posted headline over at "the new york times" right now. quote, matt gaetz, loyal for years to trump, is said to have sought a blanket pardon, and that's not the kind of pardon you need for your blanket. what this means is he was asking a pardon for himself for things for which he's not yet charged. this is the latest development

peter hotez at texas children's hospital and the author of "preventing the next pandemic: vaccine diplomacyin the u.s. is at its lowest rate. it's high still but dropping consistently. do you think the new guidelines will give people an incentive to go get vaccinated, or are they still too conservative? >> i think there is still a big conservative here. and they're being cautious, which is sort of been the tone that they've taken throughout this administration. and understandably. it would be hard to loosen guidelines when the numbers were particularly high. but these are still cautious guidelines. and i think a lot of people who may need to be incentivized to get the vaccine may have been people who have already been doing things that the recommendations are now allowing them to do. so i don't know how big a difference that really makes. we have 61% of the country that says they are either already have received a vaccine or are willing to do it. about 17% say they are in the wait and see mode, this movable middle. and the 20% or so that says pretty much they're not planning on getting this

peter hotez. thanks so much. just so people know what we're talking about, what people like professor osterholm are seeing when they're concerned about being in this new wave. look at michigan where the charts are crystal clear, the cases clearly rising in michigan. you can see there in that graph. and hospitalizations clearly rising as well. if you look at the hospitalizations, they're headed up nearly to where they were at the worst of the fall surge. so is this is fourth wave, professor? >> well, it is, but we're dealing with two americas, john. we've got this massive increase now in michigan and other states in the upper midwest and to some extent in the northeast. and we have the rest of the country that seems to be staying at still a high level, but not going up presumably because we're vaccinating. so the big question is which way is this going to turn? it depends how quickly we can vaccinate. there are a couple of alarm ing situation. in minnesota, we're seeing young people getting hosptting hospit. but y

where are they getting their information and how do people like paul offit and peter hotez who you knowis film, talking about how they're trying to promulgate the pro vaccination message. >> we're grateful for their work and for your work every day. it's fascinating and looking forward to seeing it this weekend. sanjay, thank you. you can see this all new cnn special report "the truth about vaccines" tomorrow night right here on cnn at 9:00 p.m. eastern. >>> up next -- 40 years after a teenager's brutal lynching in alabama, cnn introduces you to a mother who fought to take down the kkk. psoriatic arthritis, made my joints stiff, swollen, painful. tremfya® is approved to help reduce joint symptoms in adults with active psoriatic arthritis. some patients even felt less fatigued. serious allergic reactions may occur. tremfya® may increase your risk of infections and lower your ability to fight them. tell your doctor if you have an infection or symptoms or if you had a vaccine or plan to. tremfya®. emerge tremfyant™. janssen can help you explore cost support options. >>> shining a spotlight

peter hotez, thank you so much for starting us off with this conversation.nd. >>> when we return, the right-wing disinformation campaign about the capitol riot is turning republicans against one of their own and sparking an increase in threats against all lawmakers. >>> plus the right for racial justice after the chauvin guilty verdict, there's renewed hope for real change but it's running up against the gop's newest war. >>> and later, country superstar brad paisley joins the conversation. he's a star of that new public service announcement we played at the top of the show, urging everyone to take the shot. "deadline white house" continues after a quick break. don't go anywhere. k break. don't go anywhere. when it comes to autism, finding the right words can be tough. finding understanding doesn't have to be. together, we can create a kinder, more inclusive world for the millions of people on the autism spectrum. go to autismspeaks.org we look up to our heroes. idolizing them. mimicking their every move. and if she counts on the advanced hydration of pedial

peter hotez was saying it's possible we'll end up saying women who are taking birth control shouldn'te the j&j vaccine. why not make a specific group on the pause rather than the entire population? >> i don't think we have enough information to do that, chuck, quite honestly. because when you talk to our colleagues in europe, particularly in the uk, it isn't only women. there are men involved and it isn't always associated with birth control by any means. so i think we have to be careful. we did not have enough information to make a narrow restriction off the bat. when we get more information, and that's what we're talking about friday, it may be by the time you get to friday, that they will say, okay, we've looked into it now, here are some of the restrictions. i think it would have been too early to have restrictions without looking more closely at it. >> the third shots. both the ceos of moderna and pfizer have indicated it's likely we'll need a third shot. there are some people are going to hear, when pharmaceutical ceos say it, they might raise an eyebrow. i assume this is going

peter hotez. are people waiting to see if there are impacts, they're nervous?ss of masks will have vaccines so we can get herd immunity? are you worried? >> i'm not that confident. we've seen this in israel. the cases don't really decline until we hit around that 60% to 65% benchmark. in new hampshire we've already reached that at 60%, and guess what, the numbers are starting to decline. but we're not going to get down into containment mode, really see these big plummets in trans mission until we hit 50%. it's a pretty high bar, and it's a really high bar when you consider that 20% of the u.s. population is ineligible to receive a vaccine because they're under the age of 12. so that means -- so we have to get 70% of that -- we have to go from 70% to 80%, pretty much every adult and adolescent has to be vaccinated. that's where vaccine hesitancy becomes a real problem, and now from at least four or five independent news polls from quinnipiac to monmouth university to pbs news hour, we did a poll in collaboration with texas a&m. they all pointed to the same thing

tom: later in the it :00 hour, peter -- in the 8:00 hour, peter hotez will join us out of baylor.or the white house, jared bernstein, member of the white house counsel of economic advisors. dr. bernstein, what is so charming out of your work from columbia is that you have always gone from the societal effect of america. how does the biden adminstration sustain the confidence of society given the shock of these false steps in our clearing from the pandemic? dr. bernstein: it is an important question, and i do want to make clear that while you're appropriately called me dr. bernstein, i am not a medical doctor. we have a deep staff of medical authorities and public health officials who are pouring over this information. on your question, again, it is always a joy to talk to someone who knows the history of what we are talking about here, if you look at the polling on the infrastructure proposal, north of 70% of americans are supportive, and more than 50% of republicans are. the reason is when it comes to the fact that there are 400,000 schools and childcare centers wherelea -- where

peter hotez, codeveloper for the vaccine development at texas children's hospital. doctor, i want to go back to something lindsey said a moment ago where officials in lebanon county, pa are seeing a spike because people are tired of mitigation measures and don't want to wear masks anymore. are these people getting sick and tired of wearing masks, are they vaccinated? if they're not vaccinated and choosing to wear a mask and getting sick, isn't that their own doing? >> you know, you've partly hit on it. this is the perfect storm of another of things happening, stephanie. we've got the b.1.1.7 variant accelerating, which is more transmissible. we have this one from california accelerating and that's why it's easier to get sick because it's more transmissible, including younger people getting sick. that's problem number one. problem number two, you have this defiance of masks coming out of the conservative part of the country. and so wherever -- so that's a huge issue that people are still defiant of masks and now tragically they're defiant of vaccines. we have at leas

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peter hotez, mike memoli and ellison barber, thank you all for getting us started today. really appreciate it. >>> once again, we are going to take you to the white house for president biden's remarks as soon as they begin. also coming up, we will continue the conversation on outdoor mask wearing and latest vaccination efforts with new jersey governor phil murphy, who just loosened restrictions in his state. >>> but first, loyalty is now being put to the test as new nbc news polls show new trouble for the gop and its former leader. has trump's favorability rating sunk to new lows since biden took office? ffice? we didn't stop at storage or cloud. we kept going. working with our customers to enable the kind of technology that can guide an astronaut back to safety. and help make a hospital come to you, instead of you going to it. so when it comes to your business, you know we'll stop at nothing. mommy, i won a medal. that's amazing! ♪ your radiance comes alive ♪ i got in! ♪ i don't need the rain ♪ celebrate all the moms in your life with sparkling gifts from pandora jewelry

peter hotez, thank you so much.morning. >>> so president biden has taken a concrete stance on the killing of more than a million armenians by ottoman turks more than a century ago, becoming the first u.s. president to call the event a genocide. former presidents have acknowledged the mass killing, but stopped short of labeling it genocide, due to turkish objections. the distinction came on april 24th for armenian genocide remembrance day. in a white house statement that reads in part, quote, each year on this day, we remember the lives of all of those who died in the ottoman-era armenian genocide and recommit ourselves to preventing such an atrocity from ever again occurring. according to a senior administration official, biden informed president erdogan of his decision before making the announcement during a phone conversation on friday. turkey has firmly rejected the declaration. so peter baker, i guess my question to you is why former presidents have bent to turkey's needs on this being not labeled correctly. >>