neutralizing antibody and there's a report coming out from the week before from my colleagues at the rockefeller university in new york saying that's not a lot of neutralizing antibodies so it's a little bit of a confusing muddled message and it'll sort out once we see the published out of a for right now the vaccine looks like it's well tolerated whether or not it's going to work we are really know until we do those large phase 3 clinical trials which will get underway in the summer in the fall of pharmaceuticals have been made . news elsewhere as well u.s. president donald trump claimed earlier today that he is taking the anti-malaria drug hydroxy chloroquine listen to us but i get a lot of tremendously positive news on the hydroxy and i say hey you know the expression i've used what do you have to lose ok what do you have to lose that i have been taken for about a week for about a week and a half every day at some point every day i take a pill every day. at some point i'll stop what i'd like to do is i'd like to have the cure and or the vaccine and that will happen i think 1st of. all there's currently

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it comes from this man eli epstein who's recovered from coronavirus now doctors at the rockefeller university in new york city are searching his blood for just the right antibodies. >>you really want something very potent. means can neutralize chilled virus. it's a twist on the use of convalescent plasma where someone who's recovered from covid gives blood directly to someone who sick that can work, but it's old technology. doctor emil von behring won a nobel prize for his research on convalescent plasma in 19 oh one. the new approach uses monoclonal antibodies and it's cutting edge. >>here's how it works when someone is sick with covid antibodies inside their blood fight off the virus. after the person recovers they donate blood. scientists select the most powerful antibodies and clothe them and turn it into a drug. it's one of the hottest areas in covid research. >>companies in new york and san francisco vanderbilt university in nashville tennessee. even the department of defense and many more are involved in monoclonal antibody research anyhow we caught the team at vanderbilt as they pick

rockefeller actually founded what is now rockefeller university, was then called rockefeller institute for research, probably the leading scientific research institute in the world. have a dozen people there want nobel prizes. that entire institution is dedicated to research on the pandemic, and they did some incredible science that stands up today. just as right now, every science institution in the world is working on this. in terms of different populations, there were epidemiological studies that came up with what you would expect. people living in more densely populated areas, where there were more people living in a home, had less square footage per person, per home. they suffered worse than other people did who had more space. obviously, that connected to race. it connected to how much money you made. those things were all related. treatmentf the actual you got if you were sick in a there wasn't much anybody could do, anyway. a majority ofaken the best doctors, and the youngest doctors, the best trained doctors. in the country, not just the army but the navy as well. the dean of

but we don't know exactly what that means, because there are some studies that came out of rockefeller universitynew york that said it is actually a very low amount. romaine: dr., once we get to the later stages of trials, whether it is on this treatment or other companies, and you start to get a broader testing of a larger sample size, a larger population, what is it that characterizes success that would allow a vaccine like this to be put onto the market> dr. hotez: ultimately, all of these vaccines, maybe hours as well, a dozen, two dozen vaccines, these are large studies of around 25, 30,000 people, where you are immunizing both vaccinated volunteers as well as placebo-controlled negative controls. you are looking for two things. in this to know, setting, that the vaccinated individuals are not getting the infection where is the controlled are at a higher rate. then looking at that many people, you will know whether there is going to be any safety issues in that group of individuals, which is reasonably sized to give you a said -- give you a sense of the safety of the virus. to problem is it

the department of health will be working with the three new york genome center and rockefeller university to conduct a genome and rna sequencing study to see if there's something about these children that may present a definable situation. but rest assured, the department of health is on top of it. this is the last thing that we need at this time with all that is going on, with all the anxiety we have. now, for parents to have to worry about whether or not their youngster was infected. and again, symptoms that do not even seem like the symptoms we associate with covid-19. so, we still have a lot to learn about this virus. and every day is another eye-opening situation. but rest assured, the department of health is doing everything they can do. i think it is fair to say the new york state department of health is the first one that has been on this situation. and again, working with the cdc, and whatever we find out we will not really sure with the public but with other states another hospital systems. it is very possible this has been going on for several weeks and it has not been diagnose

former head of epidemiology and research to find at rockefeller university. he recently posted a video questioning the effectiveness of widespread lockdown. after unmasking 1.5 million views, he said youtube inc. tip for violating the terms we mentioned in "the ankle." doctor, why do you think there is so much pushback to your line of thinking? >> because i think so many people have invested so much of their ego. and so they have a problem to acknowledging that maybe it was a little bit too much. >> laura: when you think about this, doctor, there are a lot of reputations come a lot of money, a lot of status that is tied to a particular way of thinking but a friend of mine said all great medical discoveries has come for someone kind of bucking the trend, whether research or just thinking about proper responses. is that a decent point? >> yes, i think it is. and what we see here is that so many people are directly or indirectly depending on money from the government. and this in itself is restricting freedom of speech. >> does that mean pharma money that goes t

patients who get the actual infection, but it follows on the heels of a study published on rockefeller university last week that shows that those patients who recover from the infection actually have very low amounts of neutralizing antibodies. so when i first read the press release, i thought, this is a negative result. this doesn't look good. but then i heard very positive statements coming out of press and their own announcement that followed. >> because it sounds like what you're saying is that you can't necessarily make the cognitive leap. there's neutralizing antibodies but enough to make someone immune from coronavirus. >> that's right. because they didn't present the data. they didn't show, they didn't measure or report the results, what's the amount. we know experimental animal studies that we need a certain amount in order to achieve protection. if they reach that or didn't, that was a little bit confusing. they said it's the equivalent amount found in convalescent patients who get infected and then develop antibodies, but the study out of rockefeller the week before showed that those l

is the head of biostatistics and epidemiology and research design at rockefeller university.esume. he believes that mass of lockdowns, massive quarantines were a mistake and he expressed his view online. here is part of it. >> what ar are do you think aree possible health risks of the policy that we are following now with a shelter in place? >> we will see. may be a total of fewer cases. that is possible. however, we will see more cases among the elderly because we have prevented schoolchildren from creating immunity. and so in the end, we will see more death because the diets, the elderly people will die. we will see more deaths because of the social distancing. >> tucker: keep in mind no one in history has ever attempted mass quarantines. we have no idea what would happen once did. so what we need is a vigorous and informed debate about potential outcomes. imagine if the political leaders follow the advice he just saw instead of dr. fauci we might not base a global right now. whether we followed it or not, we didn't hear it and that video was deleted by google off of its yo

rockefeller actually founded what is now rockefeller university, was then called rockefeller instituteor research, probably the leading scientific research institute in the world. have a dozen people there want nobel prizes. that entire institution is dedicated to research on the pandemic, and they did some incredible science that stands up today. just as right now, every science institution in the world is working on this. in terms of different populations, there were epidemiological studies that came up with what you would expect. people living in more densely populated areas, where there were more people living in a home, had less square footage per person, per home. they suffered worse than other people did who had more space. obviously, that connected to race. it connected to how much money you made. those things were all related. treatmentf the actual you got if you were sick in a there wasn't much anybody could do, anyway. a majority ofaken the best doctors, and the youngest doctors, the best trained doctors. in the country, not just the army but the navy as well. the dean of th

newton was kotowski, the head of biomechanical design at rockefeller university.tty believes that massive quarantines b were a mistake. and hes expressed this view online. here is part of it. >> what do you think are the possible health risks of the policy that we are following now of the shelter in place? >> we will see may be a total of fewer cases. that is possible. however, we will see more cases among the elderly,e because we have prevented schoolchildren from creating herd immunity. so in the end, we will see more deaths, because the school children don't to die. it's elderly people who died. we will see more deaths, because of the social distancing. >> tucker: keep in mind that no one in history has attempted mass quarantines. we had no idea what would happen once we did. so what we really needed was a vigorous and important debate about potential outcomes. imagine if the political leaders follow the advice you saw instead of tony fauci, we might not be facing a global depression. it's a point of view that we should have heard. whether we followed it or not

now, doctors at the rockefeller university in new york city are searching his blood for just the right antibodies. >> you really want something very potent. potent means can neutralize, kill the virus. >> it's a twist on the use of convalescent plasma where someone who has recovered from covid gives blood directly to someone who is sick. that can work, but it's old technology. the doctor won a nobel prize for his research on convalescent plasma in 1901. the new approach uses antibodies and it's cutting edge. here's how it works. when someone is sick with covid, antibodies inside their blood fight off the virus. after the person recovers, they donate blood. scientists select the most powerful antibodies and clone them and turn it into a drug. it's one of the hottest areas in covid research. companies in new york and san francisco, vanderbilt university in nashville, tennessee, even the department of defense and many more are involved in monoclonal antibody research. we caught the team at vanderbilt as they picked their favorite antibodies. >> these are all distinct. >> the treatment cou

it comes from this man eli epstein who's recovered from coronavirus now doctors at the rockefeller university in new york city are searching his blood for just the right antibodies. >>you really want something very potent potent means can neutralize chilled virus. it's a twist on the use of convalescent plasma where someone who's recovered from covid gives blood directly to someone who sick that can work, but it's old technology. doctor am a van bearing won a nobel prize for his research on convalescent plasma in 19 oh one. the new approach uses monoclonal antibodies and it's cutting edge. >>here's how it works when someone is sick with covid antibodies inside their blood fight off the virus. after the person recovers they donate blood. scientists select the most powerful antibodies and clothe them and turn it into a drug. it's one of the hottest areas in covid research. >>companies in new york and san francisco vanderbilt university in nashville, tennessee. even the department of defense and many more are involved in monoclonal antibody research we caught the team at vanderbilt as they pick

now doctors at the rockefeller university in new york city are searching his blood for just the right antibodies. >> you really want something very potent. potent means can neutralize, kill the virus. >> reporter: it's a twist on the use of convalescent plasma, where someone who's recovered from covid gives blood directly to someone who's sick. that can work, but it's old technology. dr. amil von bearing won a nobel prize for his research on convalescent plasma in 1901. the new approach uses monoclonal antibodies, and it's cutting edge. here's how it works. when someone is sick with covid, antibodies inside their blood fight off the virus. after the person recovers, they donate blood. scientists select the most powerful antibodies and clone them and turn it into a drug. it's one of the hottest areas in covid research. companies in new york and san francisco, vanderbilt university in nashville, tennessee, even the department of defense and many more are involved in monoclonal antibody research. we caught the team at vanderbilt as they picked their favorite antibodies. >> these are all

. >> governor cuomo announced that rockefeller university and the new york genome center are workinger understand the covid virus in children. we have a representative from the genome center to discuss what we know and don't know about this. glad you are able to join us today. it has been described as similar to kawasaki disease, to toxic shock syndrome. what should parents be looking for? what are the symptoms here? >> the symptoms are that children have a hyper inflammation. their lips, their tongues turn red. they break out in a rash on various parts of their body. and it is a very clear and obvious disease. as it says here, there is objected nall pain associated with it. that's one of the most striking aspects of the disease. >> yeah, and the governor was very quick to say look, an abundance of caution is good here. any of these symptoms in your kids, you should call your doctor. now i understand your research is going to start with pediatric samples. are these from those 85 patients? how many are you looking to collect? where are you starting here? >> well, i should point out th

it comes from this man eli epstein who's recovered from coronavirus now doctors at the rockefeller university city are searching his blood for just the right antibodies. >>you really want something very potent. means can neutralize chilled virus. it's a twist on the use of convalescent plasma where someone who's recovered from covid gives blood directly to someone who sick that can work, but it's old technology. doctor emil von behring won a nobel prize for his research on convalescent plasma in 19 oh one. the new approach uses monoclonal antibodies and it's cutting edge. >>here's how it works when someone is sick with covid antibodies inside their blood fight off the virus. after the person recovers they donate blood. scientists select the most powerful antibodies and clothe them and turn it into a drug. it's one of the hottest areas in covid research. >>companies in new york and san francisco vanderbilt university in nashville tennessee. even the department of defense and many more are involved in monoclonal antibody research anyhow we caught the team at vanderbilt as they pick their favori

and talking to other states, countries about what they may have learned, partnering with rockefeller universitynd the new york genome center to see if there's anything in the dna of these cases, but parents have to be aware of this. the predominant signs, fever, abdominal pain, skin rash. other symptoms, change in skin color, difficulty feeding, trouble breathing, racing heart, health gentlem health /* lethargy, irritability. harder for a parent to know exactly what they've been dealing with. if your child has been exposed to someone who had covid, even if it was several weeks ago, that is a special alert in this situation. the department of health has told the hospitals in the state to prioritize covid testing for children who come in with any of these situations. if you want more information, this is the health site to go to. as a parent, i can tell you this is a parent's worse nightmare, right? to have a child, we thought that children would not -- were not especially affected by the virus and now to find out they might be and it might be several weeks later, this is truly disturbing. we rai

the department of health is also going to be working with the new york genome center and rockefeller universityt a genome and rna sequencing study to see if there's something about these children that may present a definable situation. but rest assured the department of health is on top of it. this is the last thing that we need at this time with all that's going on, with all the anxiety we have. now for parents to have to worry about whether or not their youngster was infected. and again, symptoms that don't even seem like the symptoms we associate with covid-19. so we still have a lot to learn about this virus. and every day is another eye opening situation. but rest assured, the department of health is doing everything that they can do. i think it's fair to say that the new york state department of health is the first one that has been on this situation. and again, working with the cdc and whatever we find out we'll not only share with the public but we'll also share with other states and other hospital systems, because it is very possible that this is been going on for several weeks and it

also talking to other states, countries, about what they may have learned, partnering with rockefeller universitynd the new york genome center to see if there's anything in the dna of these cases. but parents have to be aware of this. the predominant signs, fever, abdominal pain, skin rash, other symptoms. change in skin color, difficulty feeding, trouble breathing, racing heart, irritable or confusion. it's a wide array of symptoms, as you can see. which makes it even harder for a parent to know exactly if your child has been exposed to someone who had covid, even if it was several weeks ago, that is a special alert in this situation. department of health has told the hospitals in the state to prioritize covid testing for children who come in with any of these situations. and if you want more information, this is the health site to go to. now, as a parent, i can tell you, this is a parent's worst nightmare, right? to have a child -- we thought that children were not specially affected by the virus -- to find out that they might be and it might be several weeks later, this is truly disturbing. so

now doctors at the rockefeller university in new york city are searching his blood for just the rights. >> you want something very potent. that means can neutralize, kill the virus. >> it's a twist on the use of convalescent plasma where swhun who has recovered from covid gives blood directly to someone who is sick. it can work but old technology. there was a nobel prieknow priz. the new approach using clone al antibodies and it's cutting-edge. antibodies inside their blood fight off the virus. after the person recovers, they donate blood. scientists select the most powerful antibodies and clone them and turn it into a drug. it's one of the hottest areas in covid research. companies in new york and san francisco, vanderbilt university in nashville, tennessee, even the department of defense and many more are involved in this research. we caught the team at vanderbilt as they picked their favorite antibodies. >> the same site. >> the treatment could possibly prevent infection or treat those already sick. vanderbilt lead researcher specializes in vaccines but he says this research will b

the department of health is also going to be working with the new york genome center and rockefeller universityuct a genome and rna sequencing study to see if there's something about these children that may present a definable situation, but rest assured the department of health is on top of it. this is the last thing that we need at this time, with all that's going on, with all the anxiety we have now for parents to have to worry about whether or not their youngster was infected, and again, symptoms that don't even seem like the symptoms we associate with covid-19 so we still have a lot to learn about this virus and every day is another eye-opening situation. but rest assured, the department of health is doing everything that they can do. i think it's fair to say that the new york state department of health is the first one that has been on this situation and again, working with the c.d.c. and whatever we find out, we'll not only share with the public, but we'll share with other states and other hospital systems because it is very possible that this has been going on for several weeks and it h

testing capacity resides in university labs, small labs, research labs that are urnt currently underutilized. we have the capacity. the question is can we get the supplies? . rockefeller foundation group includes industry leaders and scientists. when we talk to companies, they'll only be able to scale up manufacturing if states ban together as they're doing in the northeast and frankly place much larger and much more long-term purchase orders, especially from the august to december time frame to give the companies a few months to let their manufacturing in order to get to the 30 million tests a week. sanjay is right, we need a whole host of new technologies, some of which look promising. including point of service test not guilty particular. in order to have the volumes we need, we need states to come together and make larger purchases. the foundation is actually working with those states to provide financial credit guarantees and other tools that would help them project that market demand. but this is a very fractured industry that works on short-term purchase orders. we're not going to get there without real national leadership on this particular issue or a public/p

university's president about their ambitious plan to get things back on track today tuesday, may 19th, 2020. >> announcer: from nbc news, this is "today" with savannah guthrie and hoda kotb from studio 1a in rockefellerlaza >>> hey, everybody welcome to "today" on this tuesday morning. we're so happy that you're starting your day with us. savannah, i know a lot of parents are wondering, a lot of kids are wondering what's going to happen in the fall when it comes to universities. >> absolutely. and notre dame is a big one and made a bold new announcement they will have classes this fall we'll speak live to the university president, father john jenkins in just a few but there are a lot of developments to catch you up on, including that promising news about a potential coronavirus vaccine. we're going to start, though, with that eye-opening revelation from the president that he is taking a malaria drug, hydroxychloroquine and zink supplement in hopes of preventing coronavirus after an exposure at the white house. what the nation's experts are saying about that this morning kristen welker at the white house, good morning. >> reporter: hey, savannah, good morning to you the president's announcement he's t