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sanjay gupta has more. >> when it comes to that term "aphasia" from a neural perspective, neurosurgerythe ability to communicate generally which means not just the ability to speak, but the ability to write, for example. and not just expressing yourself, but also being able to receive speech. so being able to understand the spoken word. being able to read someone's written work. so this is sort of generally what aphasia means. we don't know specifically what is going on with bruce willis. how much of his communication this really affects. typically, with aphasia it can affect different parts of the brain. it can be caused by all sorts of different things including a stroke, a brain tumor, for example, but sometimes more progressive things like types of dementia it cause this as well. again, we don't know what's causing the situation with bruce willis. let me show you in the brain if you look at the brain specifically there's a couple areas of the brain that we often refer to in talking about aphasia, closer to the front of the brain, broca area, if there's an impact there, typically pe

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sanjay gupta has the story of a man who keeps buying one-way tickets to war zones. >> whenever i travelird trip from his home in edinburgh, texas, to eastern ukraine. >> as a physician first, it's our duty and our ethics to help every needed person in the world. >> reporter: i understand that feeling. i have been in war zones and disaster zonings as a reporter. we were in haiti at the same time in 2010. at times, i have felt compelled to help. how much to you worry now about your own safety? >> every time i go back, i say, this is maybe the last time i will be going. but when i decide to come, it is a lot of fear and then a minute, i just remember my promise and people lost their life and i see their children not seeing them. >> reporter: but a syrian-american ran over 30 medical missions since 2011 to help his homehand from the catas catastrophic war there. but even as conflicts continue in sir kra, he finds himself in a similar situation in another country. >> what happened in ukraine, it happened in syria. and i feel myself that i am part of it. >> reporter: nearly to months of war,

sanjay gupta just spoke to a syrian american doctor who has risked his own life to help treat the war center. >> whenever i travel to the war zones, and i leave my home, always i do one way ticket. >> reporter: dr. monzer yazji is getting ready for a journey he made before. his third trip from his home in edinburgh, texas, to eastern ukraine. >> as a physician first, it is our duty and our ethics to help every needed person in the world. >> reporter: i understand that feeling. i've been in war zones, and disaster zones as a reporter. monzer and i were in haiti at the same time, in 2010. at times i have felt compelled to help. how much do you worry now about your own safety? >> every time i go back i say this is maybe the last time i'll be going. when i decide to come, it is a lot of fear, and then in a minute i just remember my promise, and i see their children not seeing them. >> reporter: yazji, a syrian american, ran over 30 medical missions since 2011 to help his homeland during the catastrophic war there. as the conflict continues in syria, he finds himself in a similar situation

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sanjay gupta. >> what's the deal, should we take aspirin or what's going on?nt problems but as we have seen more of the potential risks, risks like bleeding, these recommendations are encouraging people to be cautious. what these new recommendations, really when you are 60, you should not take aspirin to prevent a heart attack or stroke. bleeding risk goes up with age. if you are between 40 and 59, think about heart disease then you should figure out how significant your risk is and determine with your doctor whether or not you should be taking aspirin. >> all and all i am not sure if your risk is significantly high. the recommendation from your doctor probably going to come back you should not be taking it. the bleeding, the gi bleeding after a trauma if you are on aspirin could be more significant. that's what the this task force is trying to balance. >> does it make sense for somebody who's already been taken daily aspirin or if you are not in that category of higher risk, you should not. >> this part had been lacking with these recommendation. they don't a

sanjay gupta. this seems like a big shift.. >> this is a big shift, and you're talking close to maybe 30 million people who this may effect. people who may have been taking a low dose baby aspirin to try to prevent a first heart attack. when you think about that, that's close to one in ten adults, maybe more than that, who have been doing this for some time. the guidance has sort of been changing steadily over time basically balancing the risks of bleeding versus the prevention that it might provide in terms of heart disease or stroke. let me show you. the big headline here is if you're over the age of 60, if you've been taking aspirin to basically, they say you should not start taking aspirin to prevent a heart attack or stroke. but they say has young as 40 to 59, if you have a risk of heart disease or significant risk, talk to your doctor about the benefits. let me tell you quickly, as many times as i reported on this, the next question is how do you know if you're at high risk or high risk enough for this? there are various

sanjay gupta.at former white house adviser andy slavitt said this morning in that this decision should have come from the cdc and not a judge. do you agree with that? >> yeah. of course. this is a public health decision and what the cdc has basically said is, look, ba.2, this new variant is obviously circulating quickly. we still need to get an idea of just how transmissible it is. it is true that airplanes have been generally one of the safest environments because of the air exchange and ventilation. but when you have a really transmissible virus, how much of a problem is that going to be? we they say we want until may 3rd. what struck me is it did not come from a public health agency, it came a judge, and there was no phasing in. people were on planes who were comfortable because they're in a masked environment, maybe they have kids who are not able to yet be vaccinated, people who are vulnerable, they work with, whatever it may be, and all of a sudden they were thrust into this environment. so i

sanjay gupta. this is where things stand in this moment.ndemic in the u.s.? >> well, we're in a pandemic still. it's the last part of your question, right? we're still in the pandemic. we'd like to think that we're not, but we are. the numbers have been improving. airplanes are generally, have been considered one of the safer places to be because of the air exchange and the ventilation on planes but i think what we saw was a legal decision, not a public health decision. what the public health, cdc wanted, saying ba.2 is new, relatively new. let's see how it's behaving. is it so transmissible that planes become a source of spread? they want time to evaluate that and they're not getting the time now. remember, we were surprised by omicron. we were blindsided by delta and i think people, if they learned anything, we want to at least be able to collect the data to not be surprised like that again. so this was a legal decision, not a public health decision and also very abrupt as uae adrienns describing, kate. they're comfortable in a masked env

sanjay gupta joins me now. >> good morning. >> sanjay, good to see you this morning.aw right after this came down that multiple airlines were already saying they're no longer going to require masks on flights. if you're a person on a flight, like i was last night, as this came down, do you think it's safe to go maskless on a plane now? >> well, this is a tough call because this was a legal decision. we can put up the list of airlines, by the way, and amtrak that is now at this point not requiring masks. tsa is not going to enforce masks in these places, but this was a legal decision, not a public health decision. and it was abrupt. as you point out, all of a sudden masks came off. families or travelers fully anticipating they could still be able to travel in a masked environment suddenly could not. children under the age of 5, who have not been able to be vaccinated, again, feeling more comfortable in a masked environment, suddenly were not in a masked environment. so, what we have known is airplanes are probably one of the safest places because of the high air exchan

sanjay gupta. >> sanjay, what is the deal? should we take aspirin? what is going on?ons angling toward over the last several years, it's for fewer and fewer people to take aspirin. initially the idea was, hey, you know, what's the harm? it could potentially help prevent problems. but i think as we've seen more and more of the potential risks, risks like bleeding from aspirin, they are encouraging people to be more cautious. what these new recommendations say is if you're over 60, really you should not start taking aspirin to prevent a heart attack or stroke. bleeding risk goes up with age, and 60 is the age they sort of determined there is really no net benefit if you're between 40 and 59, which you and i are and think about heart disease, you should think how significant your risk is and determine with your doctor whether or not you should be taking aspirin. all in all, unless your risk is significantly high, the recommendation from your doctor is probably going to come back that you shouldn't be taking it. again, it's a risk-reward benefit. bleeding from trauma if y

sanjay gupta.dent is on paxlovid, she's isolating but what's going on inside the white house right now? what should be the concern? >> as dr. jha was saying protecting the president, making sure people around the president are wearing masks, high filtration masks, that they're being tested, all the things we've been talking about for a couple of years. some of those things have becomes lacks at certain times and because the president is vaccinated and boosted it does offer protection against severe illness but we still know people who is getting severely ill. the vice president is taking paxlovid. i think there's a level of concern about this although they've said they are not going to change any of the protocols at this point. i do think it's interesting, you know, being very stringent about the testing protocols and masking protocols, that needs to be in place and sometimes it feels like sometimes it's gotten a little lax. >> a new study out that found among children or younger people 75% of them

yes, joe rogan did that and it was a really interesting debate with dr sanjay gupta from cnn, about whiches, which have huge followings now around the world, during the pandemic, which of them have any merit or not. so at which point does it become an irresponsible act to give the view the platform? i think a lot of people would criticise the bbc for refusing to ever go down these roads of debate because they believe they have the truth. and yet we know in the pandemic that scientists have changed their own minds many times, whether it be about the efficacy of masks, whether it be about the ability of vaccines to prevent transmission. i myself have changed my view about coronavirus many times in this pandemic. but isn't the concern aboutjoe rogan and the case of misinformation on covid, but more broadly that if those pieces of information which aren't factually true are given a platform, and are not adequately challenged, they then just get the platform without any of the downside? but i intend to challenge them from a position of fact and truth. and your programme is notjust on talktv, i

sanjay gupta. you dove into this new data on this additional second booster shot.ll us? what does it say for older adults? should they get the fourth shot? >> i think if you're over the age of 60 and it's been at least four months since you had your third shot. getting another shot could offer some benefit. i dove into this data and i want to explain this. to make clear, if you've had three shots, you're still really well protected. if you look at the entire population of people in the study who did have severe outcomes requiring hospitalization, less than 1% were in people who had three shots. if you add the fourth shot, how much of an incremental benefit do you get? what you find is that again, fourth shot compared to three shots. you got infection benefit of about 45%. symptomatic infection, 55%, hospitalization, 68%, and death, 74% effective if you got the fourth shot compared to the third shot. but the real headline. three shots are still very protective against getting very sick from this. when you look at the data out of israel, the people getting fourth sho

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sanjay gupta joins us with the latest. >> good morning, john.other small dose of the vaccine. so this is the 10 micro gram dose, a third of the adult dose. they did this six months after the first two doses. what they found is what you see on the screen. now, as you look at these numbers, keep in mind what they're looking for is they're looking at safety and basically in the lab to see how many antibodies are created. they're not so much looking at overall effectiveness of this because they are trying to do what is called an immuno logical study. trying to see does this additional dose create more antibodies. at least in a month, because that's how long they followed the participants in the study out, they found a significant increase in the antibodies against omicron, 36-fold increase. that is sort of the data. that's the data they feel is necessary to submit for this emergency use authorization. 12 and overruled, john, if you are that age group, getting the booster is part of being upto date with convenience. obviously the same with adults. we

sanjay gupta. okay, sanjay, give us the numbers here. give us the presentation. >> okay. let me preface by saying this is coming from the pharmaceutical company as we always say this data does have to be vetted and validated from the fda. with err just hearing from moderna. what they have found by giving 25 micrograms, that's one quarter of the dose they give to adults, they're giving to children under the age of 5, let me show you the numbers, they are looking at how much does this protect in terms of antibodies overall good antibody response. here are the numbers in terms of overall efficacy against symptomatic infection, so getting an infection that has any sort of symptoms at all, could be just a runny nose or whatever. in the 6 month to 2 years 51% effective, 2 to 5 years 37% effective. those are lower numbers than we're used to seeing from the beginning of the pandemic but very similar to what we see with adults with omicron and the moderna vaccine at that higher dose against symptomatic infection. in adults it's protective against severe infection against hospitali

sanjay gupta about that and he cautioned and reminded me that we were blindside when the delta hit lastthe country was starting the off ramp if you will, and do you think that dropping the maxes is giving the people the false sense of the security against the next variant? >> we are always going to have threats of the next variant, but it is not going to erase all of the protection that the medical counter measures will give us, and this is one small part of life where the mandates exist. everything else does not have a mask, so if we are going to be blindsided and if another variant is going to takeover, it is not using airplanes and planes and bus, but it is in the bars and the restaurants and everyday life where there has not been a mask requirement for a very long time. >> thank you for coming in, dr. adalja. >>> towns on the southern border are bracing for a surge of migrants now. >> would you be ready to serve that many more migrants? >> it is daunting. >>> and plus, what happened to the crew members aboard the sunken warship? russia is not saying, but the e parents are speaking o

sanjay gupta joins us now with a remarkable story. >> reporter: hey, jim. yeah.ow killed and many more wounded. every time we see the ambassador and explosions on television, there are people who are rushing in to try to help the injured, try to save their lives, at risk to their own loves. this doctor is one of those people, and here is a little bit of his story. >> whenever i travel to the war zones and i leave my home, always i do one-way ticket. >> reporter: the doctor is getting ready for a journey he's made before. his third trip from his home in edinburgh, texas, to eastern ukraine. . >> as a physician first, it's our duty and our ethics to help every needed person in the world. >> i understand that feeling. i've been in war zones and disaster zones as a reporter. he and i were in haiti at the same time in 2010. at times, i have felt compelled to help. how much do you worry now about your own safety? . >> every time i go back, i say this is maybe the last time i'll be going. when i decide to come, it's a lot of fear. and then in a minute i just remember my

sanjay gupta. >> we don't know this as a fact but it could be that we may need an intermittent boostil we get this level so low down because we don't know where covid is going in the sense of the long, long range. >> dr. peter hotez joins me now from texas children's hospital. always good to see you, dr. hotez. dr. fauci says we should be prepared for annual covid boosters and back in the fall you wrote we'd likely be good after the third shot. how are you feeling today? do you think an annual booster could be in our future? >> well, here's the problem, erica. the mrna technology may not be holding up as well in terms of boosters as we originally hoped. you know, i remember saying to you, you know, it's not going to be one and done and two and done but could be three and done and i believed at the time but then we had disappointing news in that the effectiveness of the booster declined after several months to 66% against emergency room protection, 78% against hospitalizations, still good but not as good as it was and hence the reason now for the recommendation of the second booster.

sanjay gupta. sanjay?ituation that we don't know, heard the term aphasia, which turns out to be one of the most googled terms on the internet. it's generally something at least in the world of neuro, something that's a broader term of use, typically not just speech that it refers to but communication, and not just being able to express yourself through spoken or written word but also being able to receive communication, being able to understand what someone is saying or being able to read. so i just bring that up, jim, to tell you with aphasia, that can mean many different things. it can affect different areas of the brain, be caused by different things, a small stroke, a brain tumor, a head injury, but things that are progressive like certain types of dementia. let me show you what i was talking about. if someone has on this brain image, an area of the brain that's more affected, they're likely to have more difficulty with expression, with speaking, with even writing. if something is affecting the warneck

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sanjay gupta explains, it is not that simple. >> at this lab in emory university, this scientist is workingstions of the pandemic, how much protection does a previous covid infection provide? >> the vaccine response, you may have all individuals with the vaccine have high antibodies that wane over time. with infection, you'll have people with very high and very low antibody responses. >> take a look at this graph of people who have immunity from a prior infection. see how varied the blue dots and lines are. they represent the antibody response. it is all over the place. it is proof that not all infections are the same. but with vaccines, a much more predictable consistent antibody response. but how do you use this data to make decisions in the real world? especially now that states have loosened measures like masks and vaccine mandates? if i were to get my antibodies checked, could i then get some sort of measure of just how protected i am? >> there aren't good correlative protection, this is the measurement one needs to know how well they are protected. now with the variants, we're seeing

sanjay gupta joins us now. the recommendations are from the preventative service task force.recommend and what the concerns are around aspirin. >> sure. so the headline here really is for people over the age of 60 who are thinking about starting to take an aspirin to prevent the heart attack or a stroke in the future. the new recommendation is they should not do that. people have heard for some time, look, if i have risk of heart attack or stroke, maybe taking a baby aspirin, low dose aspirin can be helpful in reducing that risk. what they're clear about is if you're 60 or older, you should not start taking an aspirin for that reason. for people younger, 40 to 59, they're saying it's possibly going to be of benefit if you are high risk. but you should talk to your doctor about this first. it's not an obvious decision. the real concern here, an, is sort of this idea of even though it's just a low dose aspirin, it can increase your risk for bleeding. and that risk for bleeding, it goes up as you get older. so people 60 and older, they say there's really no benefit at all to asp

sanjay gupta and today es the human factor. >> meet paul alexander, one of the last people in the worldure and stimulate breathing. it has been his home, keeping him alive for 70 years. in 1952 paul contracted polio, and became paralyzed from the neck down. he was 6 years old. a therapist promised paul a dog if he could breathe on his own for three minutes. >> i developed a way to breathe. i worked on it for a year before i could breathe for three minutes, but i reached it. >> eventually paul would be able to gulp or take in air for hours at a time. allowing him to leave the confines of the iron lung during the day, and accomplish more than anyone thought was possible for him. college, law school. and a 30-year career as a courtroom attorney. paul wrote his autobiography, and he's working on a second book now. >> i've got some big dreams. i've got -- going to accept from anybody their limitations. on my life. not going to do it. my life is incredible. >>>>> the human factor. brought to you by culturell. take charge of your digestive health. this thing, it's making me get an ice bath aga

sanjay gupta tells us his remarkable story in today's "the human factor." >> meet paul alexander, he'srld still in an iron lung. the iron lung works to change the air pressure and stimulate breathing. it has been his home, keeping him alive for 70 years. in 1952, paul contracted polio, and became paralyzed from the neck down. he was 6 years old. a therapist promised paul a dog if he could breathe on his own for three minutes. >> i developed a way to breathe. i worked on it for a year before i could breathe for three minutes. but i reached it. >> eventually paul would be able to gulp or take in air for hours at a time. allowing him to leave the confines of the iron lung during the day, and accomplish more than anyone thought was possible for him. college, law school, and a 30-year career as a courtroom attorney. paul wrote his autobiography, and he's working on a second book now. >> the limitations of my life, i'm not going to do it. my life is incredible. >> what an inspiration. cnn's coverage continues right now. >>> vladimir putin claims victory in mariupol. russian forces blocking a