of philadelphia dr paul offit thank you both so much for taking the time to be with us today dr schaffner let's start with you i want to start by asking about this region or on this antibody cocktail that we were seeing which is said to provide immediate short term protection against the virus and this is obviously different from vaccines that can take up to several weeks to really develop the immunity what's the difference between these treatments and the vaccines. well of actually is well 1st of all those are in a local. the vaccine is an active stimulus of your own immune system your body produces its own antibodies that are then we hope rather long lasting these are general. in a body treatment is what we call passive the anybodies are given to you from the outside they last for a period of time can be very effective in preventing the selection and preventing serious disease but they are a temporary quick fix as opposed to the older fix of the vaccine could be kind of like a medication biologic something like that that we're looking at here right. except it's designed to prevent illne

william schaffner of the vanderbilt university medical center. the cdc.gov website has what they call a "covid vaccination tracker." could you explain the numbers to us? the eighth that more than 22 million doses have been distributed, but the total number of people initiating vaccination, just under 7 million. why the big gap between those numbers, and how to shrink that gap? guest: i am not entirely sure why the gap is large. that has puzzled me greatly. locally, we have been trying to vaccinate very intensely. the first vaccines went to health care providers and people who are residents in nursing homes, long-term care facilities. is movinge latter more slowly than we anticipated. certainly among health care workers, i think what we have discovered is that there is more skepticism than people anticipated. we are doing an awful lot of education. in my own medical center, we have moved the needle, as we have gone out and done q and a amongst our staff from custodians to the chancellor. we have convinced people, given them a level of comfort that

always a pleasure to have you thank you so much for making time for us today dr schaffner let's look at the numbers here the u.s. the goal was to have 20000000 vaccinations by the end of 2020 only 6700000 americans have received the shot is a problem with the infrastructural otter or what are we looking at here. it's very heterogeneous error there are all kinds of problems out there it depends on the location my state is actually one of the top 3 or 4 states in vaccinating people our proportion of vaccines delivered in arms now is pretty good but even within our own state we're seeing that some locations are doing better than other some locations are swamped with the early except hers they just want the vaccine but they haven't got enough other places and this is happening too many people surprise and health care facilities that not all health care workers are ready to get the vaccines they need reassurance the persuasion they need information so all of that's rolling out if you haven't planned for it your vaccination program is a little slower than we would like so it's a whole spec

william schaffner of the vanderbilt university medical center.he cdc.gov website has what they call a "covid vaccination tracker." could you explain the numbers to us? the eighth that more than 22 million doses have been distributed, but the total number of people initiating vaccination, just under 7 million. why the big gap between those numbers, and how to shrink that gap? guest: i am not entirely sure why the gap is large. that has puzzled me greatly. locally, we have been trying to vaccinate very intensely. the first vaccines went to health care providers and people who are residents in nursing homes, long-term care facilities. is movinge latter more slowly than we anticipated. certainly among health care workers, i think what we have discovered is that there is more skepticism than people anticipated. we are doing an awful lot of education. in my own medical center, we have moved the needle, as we have gone out and done q and a amongst our staff from custodians to the chancellor. we have convinced people, given them a level of comfort that t

william schaffner of the vanderbilt university medical center.dc.gov website has what they call a "covid vaccination tracker." could you explain the numbers to us? the eighth that more than 22 million doses have been distributed, but the total number of people initiating vaccination, just under 7 million. why the big gap between those numbers, and how to shrink that gap? guest: i am not entirely sure why the gap is large. that has puzzled me greatly. locally, we have been trying to vaccinate very intensely. the first vaccines went to health care providers and people who are residents in nursing homes, long-term care facilities. is movinge latter more slowly than we anticipated. certainly among health care workers, i think what we have discovered is that there is more skepticism than people anticipated. we are doing an awful lot of education. in my own medical center, we have moved the needle, as we have gone out and done q and a amongst our staff from custodians to the chancellor. we have convinced people, given them a level of comfort that they

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schaffner, let me start with the british prime minister boris johnson now announcing a lockdown for englandbruary. they've had a 30% increase in hospitalizations in one week. from their new variant. and we've now found new york has discovered that it has a case which of course means there's many more. i ask this for a very specific reason. you could have a more transmissible version of this and see a whole lot more death than you would if you actually had a deadlier version which was not more transmissible. right? the amount of death you could see from this could be horrific. are you concerned about the impact here in the u.s. at this point? >> oh, of course. we're always concerned, erin. and you're exactly right. now, let's make it clear for our viewers, this is a more contagious strain but it's not more apt to make you seriously ill. however, it's so contagious that it could spread to so many people and find older people, people with diabetes and heart disease, that it's likely to make many of them so sick that they have to go to the hospital. and of course the risk of dying goes up. simp

new york infectious disease specialist william schaffner wants to see a full investigation into the cluster of allergic reactions in california. we know that these m. ore in a bag scenes are associated with more allergic reactions the last number i saw from the c.d.c. was he leavens such reactions for every 1000000 doses so still rather rare but it grew big in one clinic that deserves further investigation did something unusual happened in that clinic or wasn't deed it that their church vaccines report of adverse reactions gives pause to some people but i think by and large the vaccines have been shown to be safe and are wonderfully effective so across the country at the present time we have more demand than we have vaccines and so our program is rolling out and becoming more efficient we're trying to vaccinate more people more quickly across the atlantic in the u.k. researchers have published some alarming new findings on coronavirus patients according to the report one an 8 people hospitalized in britain with the virus dies of related complications within months of being discharged on nea

refugee crisis in the middle east in part 2 we're going to speak to the turn and colonel anthony schaffner a decorated u.s. intelligence official who was on the advisory board of trump 2020 but now joining me from gaza is the director of operations for the united nations relief and works . agency the. mo apparently while everyone's been talking about the inauguration of joe biden there's been aerial mom mom and all of gaza by israel armed by the united kingdom the european union the united states and tanks have invaded in some going to land invasion in gaza. so yes indeed we had a couple of nights ago. that particular incident was triggered by rockets fired from here towards israel and then there was bombardment heavy bombing by charlie heavy bombardment in retaliation for those strikes and that i have to say happens regularly over the last couple of weeks i think there have been 3 such nights now for me to be perfectly honest you know no one got there was even injured in the area stopped the more serious incident was the tanks coming into gaza a few days ago that's in the border area and

infectious disease specialist william schaffner wants to see a full investigation into the cluster of allergic reactions in california. we know that these m. or unable axes are associated with more allergic reactions the last number i saw from the c.d.c. was 11 such reactions for every 1000000 doses so still rather rare but a groupie in one clinic that deserves further investigation did something unusual happened in that clinic or was in deed it that their church vaccines report of adverse reactions gives pause to some people but i think by and large the vaccines have been shown to be safe and or wonderfully affected so across the country at the present time we have more demand then we have vaccines and so our program is rolling out and becoming more efficient we're trying to vaccinate more people more quickly. and of joe biden's inauguration and following the capitol hill riots washington d.c. started to look at like a war zone with troops and checkpoints right across the city but intelligence officials are now fearing an insider attack coming from among the $25000.00 national guard

united states can start to move toward some notion of normality infectious diseases freshest william schaffner what's the see a full investigation into the cluster of reactions in california. we know that these m. or in a bank scenes are associated with more allergic reactions the last number i saw from the c.d.c. was 11 such reactions for every 1000000 doses so still rather rare but a groupie in one clinic that deserves further investigation did something unusual happened in that clinic or wasn't dede it that that vaccines report of adverse reactions gives pause to some people but i think by and large the vaccines have been shown to be safe and are wonderfully effective so across the country at the present time we have more demand than we have vaccines and so our program is rolling out and becoming more efficient we're trying to vaccinate more people more quickly a video of a woman suffering convulsions reportedly off the receiving a covert jab in the united states has caused widespread shock warning to fears you might find the following images distressing brant green a film his mother off to

turn and as we do this reminder get a flu shot which we should every year and we asked dr william schaffner from the vanderbilt university medical center will we also end up getting a coded shot every year influenza is endemic even though it's seasonal it's it lives with us this virus it becomes more active in the late fall and through the winter then it baits during the spring and the summer but it comes back so it's just part of the life we live you know we do live in a very very germy world so that's what that means the question regarding code it is is this now a virus that we're going to have to live with henceforth at the moment it looks that way the trick is can we flatten the curve so to speak can we do things to keep this virus the covert virus at bay down at the lower levels so that we can resume the sorts of activities you were talking about in the introduction. even if ill advised christmas travel wasn't spiking new infections as predictably as the ill advised thanksgiving travel did science was already telling us that a dark winter looms and that new more contagious u.k. strain

notion of normality the thing with this story i spoke with infectious disease specialist william schaffner he said the cluster of allergic reactions in california to the maternal vaccine has to be fully investigated. we know that these m. or in a back seat these are associated with more allergic reactions the last number i saw from the c.d.c. was he leavens such reactions for every 1000000 doses so still rather rare but a groupie in one clinic that deserves further investigation did something unusual happened in that clinic or wasn't dede it that their church vaccines report of adverse reactions gives pause to some people but i think by and large 'd the vaccines have been shown to be safe and are wonderfully effective so across the country at the present time we have more demand than we have vaccines and so our program is rolling out and becoming more efficient we're trying to vaccinate more people more quickly in a related story a video of a woman suffering convulsions allegedly after receiving a coronavirus job in the u.s. calls widespread shock a warning some may find the following imag

frontline workers have already received a shot but the pandemic is far from over we asked dr william schaffner about what these new vaccines may mean for the most vulnerable immunocompromised and the hope that next year's holiday season will at all be closer to normal. but i think the committees are pretty convinced that they are safe in those populations and although at least need not work optimally immunocompromised patients they may provide protection and remember those in you know compromised patients if they get sick with cold would tend to have really serious illness so i think the general proposition is at this point it probably won't hurt it could. do you think it would make them worse. i don't think it will make them worse by no means i think it really provides some measure of protection it may not be the same level as you get you need normal healthy person but it will be safe and we're already seeing some talks of these immunity passports canada iceland and hungary are talking about them how will this impact of vaccination rates are immunity passports really a safe way to return to a

specialist william schaffner spoke to r.t. boom bust about the difficulties hospitals are facing. there are all kinds of problems out there it depends on the location my state is actually one of the top 3 or 4 states in thanks amazing people are proportion of vaccines delivered in their arms now is pretty good but even within our own state we're seeing that some locations are doing better than other some locations are swamped with early except errors they just want the vaccine but they haven't got enough other places and this is happening to many people surprise and health care facilities that not all health care workers are ready to get the vaccines they need reassurance the persuasion they need information so all of that's rolling out if you plan for it your vaccination program is a little slower than we would like so it's a whole spectrum of issues kind of coming together one and the incoming administration under joe biden has actually advisers they've been expressing a caution about being able to hit they're talking about 100000000 vaccine in the 1st 100 days. how possible is

frontline workers have already received a shot but the pandemic is far from over we asked dr william schaffner about what these new vaccines may mean for the most vulnerable immunocompromised and the hope that next year's holiday season will be closer to normal. but i think the communities or pretty convinced that they are safe in those populations and older only need not work optimally immunocompromised patients they may need provide protection and remember those in you know compromised patients if they get sick with a cold would tend to have really serious illness so i think the general proposition is at this point probably won't hurt it could i don't. think it would make them worse. i don't think it will make them worse by no means i think it really can provide some measure of protection it may now be the same level as you get in a normal healthy course but it will be safe and we're already saying some talks of these immunity passports canada iceland and hungary are talking about them how will this impact of vaccination rates.

schaffner i know the mass create new waste in which we cannot recycle these materials are definitely not compatible with the ideal of a circular economy hasn't got time we are burdening our planet with a lingering legacy one that is likely to outlast the pandemic by centuries. or. for more i'm joined by mark commute dominic from the university college london where he's professor of materials and society a project lead the plastics waste innovation hub good to have you with us let's start 1st of all you putting things into perspective how big a global problem ah single you masks single use masks in comparison to to plastic bottles a box of force. so it's a very significant problem simply small so it's getting bigger so in the u.k. we did a calculation that every year it creates $124000.00 tons of single these plastic waste recyclable that's just in the u.k. with 65000000 people now if you think that well you know you've got a 1000000000 people and lot wearing single use mosques then you realize it's an enormous amount of the waste and it's growing every day of course i mean as long as

william schaffner is professor of preventive medicine at vanderbilt. us. fromen joining nashville thank you for your time continues. journal host: our guest is jack goldsmith professor of law at harvard university law school. he co-authored the book after trump: reconstructing the presidency. thank you for joining us. tell us the story of why you wrote this book, after trump? guest: bob bauer, white house counsel for barack obama and di who worked in the george w. bush , who worked in the george w. bush presidency, we've met to talk about that book. we were talking about all the issues trump had raised about the gaps in presidential accountability, norms that weren't working, and it occurred to us that after trump left office, there was going to be a complete re-examination of the accountability structures for the presidency akin to what happened after vietnam, watergate and the church commission. project,f to do that to write a book that wade outlined the areas where we thought reform was necessary -- the areas outline where we thought reform was necessar

start a new war is joining me now from fairfax county in virginia as you tell the colonel anthony schaffner a decorated intelligence official and an advisor on the trunk 2020 board tony thanks so much for coming back on the show we were hearing about geopolitical issues in the middle east and so on just tell me about your take on jake sullivan being national security advisor and the senate approved avril haynes as director of national intelligence arguably 2 very controversial appointments. yeah thanks for having me again and i think the controversial by the fact that it's a return to the obama focus on national security and world order. part of the challenge is been is to try to think differently and i hate to use that term as other folks marketed that but one of the things that my palm peo did in full disclosure you know i had multiple conversations with mike when he was director of cia and most of those conversations really related to the middle east of how how should we do things to bring a focus of peace and prosperity over war and one of the things that i think needs to be continued i