and jeremy for more is epidemiologist . professor ben calling here from the school of public health at the university of hong kong professor, calling, what is the risk of animal to human transmission and vice versa of coven? 19 we think that the risk of a human getting infected from the pep is very, very low. it may not be 0, but it's very, very low. on the other hand, as a number of documented occasions when humans have passed, in fact, it's like when humans are post infection onto their pets. and in this case is not clear which way the transmission occurred, whether it's from hamster to human human to hamster. but we do know the hams does have been infected. so her, the pet owners be what is the pets, could transmit the corona about us to them. well, i don't think so. i think it's one of the many different ways that we face in most parts of the way we know on the coin is around. cobit is around, we could get infected in many different places. and now we can, we can where we a little bit about past, but i don't think it would be a major risk. so given hong kong order to carla, some 20

the most of the countries. ok profession. thank you very much. that was professor not dub dub dub, which director of the school of public health at the faculty health sciences have been green university. now world number one tennis player in of act ciocca, which has returned to the court for training in australia after winning a legal battle to stay in play in the upcoming australian open. on monday, a judge in melbourne returned the cancellation of his visa over corona virus. rules releasing the unvaccinated player from immigration detention jock of it. his family and his supporters have celebrated the decision, but this isn't over yet. the government could still cancel his visa on different grounds and to port him. oh, they were so happy that their hero is free, for now. they mobbed any car, even if they couldn't be 100 percent. sure, novak joke of it was inside. outside his lawyers office, they celebrated into the night somewhere. pepper sprayed in the chaos. outside court to joke of bitches. supporters cheered the decision to overturn his visa being canceled. oh go with you in the judge order joking, which is released from immigration detention

he works at the school of public health at the university of hong kong he junk been out from reading. professor cowling is china's 0 corporate strategy working i think it has been working in the last year. you can see they've had very few outbreaks across the country. the outbreaks they do have tended to be just in one city at a time. and so the disruption has been minimized. but i think the quality is going to be a big challenge in 2022, given the more transmissible omicron very. and my next question is how sustainable is the 0 go over strategy? well i think if we look at the past 12 months with outbreaks, generally being in one or 2 cities at a time, i think what we're going to see in the coming year is more widespread outbreaks that take longer to control, but still only affect any one time a minority of the population in china. so in that sense, i think they can still sustain it, but it may be not as good as it was in 22. when he won that may be more disruption than they would like. but then how long can the china afford these disruptions? because the strategy to control these out

and we're joined now by the end of an adaptive image in tell of if he is the director of the school of public health at the faculty of health sciences at bangor and university, and also an advisor to the israeli government. good evening doctor. you strongly argued for a 4th job for vulnerable, vulnerable groups. how does it help them? we are living now in the times we need to make the decision during uncertainty and what we saw actually. so there is waiting. give me anything a 2nd though, so we see that after 4 months there is a duction about these and also break rules. i think we can see the logical data and the other a few very se. so very similar to what is will be the 2nd dog we finally decided because of the driving, the cases that we need to really keep the safety of the vaccine. even though we don't have enough time to be waiting, we decided to finally go there. compromise just now we've done it also. busy over 6400 workers and so is, is the, on the kron variant part of the big part of the reason for this push. it's a combination of the way you see. and if you're driving the cases going on fo

and that's the way to do it for me. dooley or i spoke to the da da v to which the director of the school of public health at the ben gerber and university in tel aviv. i asked him how a 4th jab helped vulnerable groups. we are living now in the office of them 2 times . we need to make the decision during uncertainty and what we saw actually. so there is waiting, give me anything a 2nd though. so we see that after 4 months there is a duction about these and also break rules. i think we can see the logic of that there are a few very se, so. busy very similar to what these will be after the 2nd dog we finally decided because of the driving, the cases that we need to really keep the safety of the vaccine. even though we don't have a lot of time to be waiting for, we decided to finally go there. you mean a compromise just now we've done it also. busy for people that are over 6400 workers and so is, is the on the cross variant part of the big part of the reason for this push if the combination of the waiting community and you're driving the cases, we are going to face really thousands and thousands of new case

kizzmekia corbett pictures a viral immunologist key scientist behind the invention of the mrna vaccine and professor at the school of public healthto "washington post" life. saying thank you so much for having me and happy new year. >> happy new year to you too. let me start with the news of the day if i may. we have a record-breaking million cases out there and president biden has called for increased testing and doubling the number of anti-viral pills available and a state of emergency now with the increasing number of hospitalizations. what is your take on the possibility of this new variant? >> i call it the oh my. variant instead of the omicron variant. just to make a little bit fun of it even though it is not fun to be experiencing this at all. variants are coming because we are allowing the virus to circulate around the globe continuously so as the virus circulates the virus makes copies of itself and it makes copies of itself and anyway it's possible for the virus to come back around and cause more harm. in the case of omicron obviously it's better at being transmittable from human-to-human. there is previous immunity whe

during her i spoke to that bab davida, which the director of the school of public health at the ben gerber and university in tel aviv. i asked him how a 4th jab helped vulnerable groups we are living now in the times we need to make the decision during uncertainty and what we saw actually. so there is waiting. give me anything a 2nd though, so we see that after 4 months there is a duction about these and also break rules. i think we can see the logic of data and the other a few very se. so very similar to what is will be the 2nd dog. we finally decide that because of the driving, the cases that we need to really keep the safety of the vaccine. even though we don't have a lot of time to be waiting for, we decided to finally go there. compromise. so now we've also. busy got over 6400 workers and so is, is the on the cross variant part of the big part of the reason for this push it's a combination of the way you see and you're driving the cases going on for face of really thousands and thousands of new cases and then finally the danger that the health care system will be overwhelmed. and then

of the center for infectious disease research and policy at the university of minnesota. he's been a guest on this show. another author, a phd candidate at the school of public health at the university of minnesota. they are saying that without transmissible this is, you will see teachers, bus drivers, etc., not being able to show up to teach, so it is time to send kids home. what do you think? guest: we should listen to the medical professionals but also put concern into listening to the people who are treating the patients, and i have experience with that. let's look at where we are with this and also start looking at the therapeutics we have to treat people with the disease if they come down with it. the administration has been not talking about that, just the vaccines, but if someone gets sick, they are going to need treatment. we need to look at that as a method of dealing with the effects of the omicron variant. host: well, the administration yesterday at their white house covid briefing, the health officials who run that briefing a weekly basis, talked about the administration's efforts to expedite these antivirals pills. here's what they had to say. [video

joining us is a senior scholar at the johns hopkins center for health security at the bloomberg school of publich. also an olympic medal winner and rhodes scholar. what i think is fascinating is, you did your dissertation specifically on how the media and public policy intertwined -- around ebola. what do you think about how they are intertwining now? before we got to the young -- to the olympics, just in general, when it comes to covid? >> i do a lot of work and misinformation, so these days when it comes to covid, when it comes to the barriers between getting ourselves out of this pandemic with vaccinations and people taking the repercussions, i think that communication, media, those play a critical role. you can have a perfect countermeasure and it doesn't work if people will not use it. matt: what can we do about that? that's been the question throughout the pandemic. how do you convince those who are vaccine skeptical -- especially if it breaks down on partisan lines, to go and get the shot? >> i think it comes down to getting to a more local level, i don't think from a national level that

of the unvaccinated. >> laura: the end of that sound bite is the goal here. joining me harvey risch, epidemiology of the school of public health. and board-certified phd research scientist, is this still a pandemic of the unvaccinated or was it ever a pandemic of the unvaccinated or has omicron blown up the fraudulent narrative? >> the last point is exactly right. we are ending the pandemic now. i am very optimistic that we see the thrashing of very mild disease through omicron. that is what is going to make a blizzard in cases across the united states now only some of which are being counted because the people are doing so many at-home tests and plenty that will families are positive and so what? they have mild symptoms by and large peer that is the way this is going to go. delta at the cdc said today, delta is below 5% of cases. and that is going out. >> laura: iran gave parents advice today, look. >> if the kids are too young to be vaccinated, surround your kids with people who are vaccinated. we know that our kids can be safe when in school, by the way. social distancing class with larger classrooms on buses and everything

joshua sharfstein is a public health professor at the bloomberg school of public health ajohns hopkinsversity and a former principal deputy commissioner of the food and drug administration. he says more communication between this country's major governmental health agencies, the c.d.c. and f.d.a., could help. he joined me yesterday from baltimore to discuss why. joshua, on the one hand, you've got a regulatory agency, and on the other hand, you've got one whose primary mission is public health. give me an example how during the pandemic these agencies that should have been kind in lockstep because their services were all called for didn't work together as efficiently as they could have? >> well, i think people know that there was aig challenge with testing at the beginning of the pandemic that we didn't have enough tests. but behind that is the intersection of, well, how big a problem is this going to be? what does the nation need and e actual technology of the tests? it was a big disconnect between the c.d.c. and the f.d.a. between the approach of what the country needed to fight the

powering possibilities. exposed to covid-19 researchers at the school of public health developed an easydevice that can help detect low levels of the virus. according to the study, the device captures virus laden paracels that deposit on a silicon surface recently similar but larger devices have been developed to detect virus particles in the air. last year, a plug in screening device to detect airborne covid-19 particles in indoor spaces was put on the market encouraging news in san francisco today, city officials said covid cases are on the decline. and as ktvu is, tom baker tells us serious illness and death are much lower than the previous surge. the good news is, things are starting to plateau. covid cases peaked on january, the ninth in the city when the seven day case average began to steadily dropped from 2100 and 64 cases a day. to 1705. just a few days later. the light at the end of the tunnel is here. we may go through another tunnel again, but just know that there is hope, and there is like and because san francisco vaccinations and booster rates are so very high, most cases

of the norwegian refugee council. and dr. paul spiegel, director of the center for humanitarian health at the bloomberg school of public healthohns hopkins university. next up, as the nation heads into the martin 13 holiday weekend, attempts by democrats to pass major new voting rights legislation appear to have been stalled. we will look at a stunning new documentary titled "who we are: a chronicle of racism in america." stay with us. ♪♪ [music break] amy: lara downes performing "troubled water" by margaret bonds. bonds was one of the first black composers to gain recognition in the united states. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. as the nation heads into the martin luther king day federal holiday weekend, democrats have been dealt a major blow in their effort to pass new voting rights legislation. on thursday, democratic senator kyrsten sinema and joe manchin announced she would not support changing senate rule to prevent republicans from using a filibuster to block the legislation. senate majority chuck schumer had promised a vote on the rule changes by martin luther king

the rate of infection was even higher still at 6 104701 per 100000 inhabitants, respectively. manuel franco is a professor of epidemiology and public health at the university of color in madrid, and the john hopkins school of public health in the u. s. i asked him what might explain the differences between the neighborhoods. one of them is, what is the quality of housing and the amount of people living with you was in the same household unit where we know so far is that if you live in a small slant, i've 6 people, it's pretty much impossible to keep the social distancing than we are right now, encouraging people to guess the way our cities are segregated. unorganized nowadays, and it doesn't matter if it's madrid, barcelona london or new york is some people get to choose or to pick where they want to live and others don't get to choose. and that's because of also, laura, she story to reasons. it's not a fancy area, was that with lots of renewal, then it's the perfect plays were low income people and new immigrants are going to come on the list. so at the end, you have a mixture of low income, elderly people, with immigrants from different countries of origin getting to live in these areas where we are s

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jonathan: the vice dean of the bloomberg school of public health -- johns hopkins bloomberg school ofc health. your equity market up 19. the s&p and on the nasdaq. the nasdaq 100 up 62 advancing. here is a quote in the political nightly addition, the supply chain constraints are not excusable. they are predictable and have been evident months ago. the country and administration needs to come to terms with effective post-pandemic world is not 2019 what a world in which its ever present and the tools, vaccines, monoclonal antibodies, antivirals and rapid tests are provided. that quote from our next guest. tom: some things out front and center in your next guest leading the charge. even thrilled of the support we have during this pandemic. giving us great leadership. dr. adalja, i want to talk about the mystery of the moment. the ministry for the president of the united states and a mystery for the person who lives three doors down from lisa abramowicz trying to figure out what to do next on covid. what is the timeline forward of this variant? what does the research show of what to expec

the downward side of the curve in terms of the omicron crush. doctor ashish jha, dean of the brown university school of public health. post, his headline here as you can see is, quote, the worst of omicron might have passed but the pandemic isn't over. dr. jha suggests that we use the next few months, when we see lower levels of the virus, to get ready, to get ready for the next surge or even the next variant. he says part of that preparation will need to include new vaccines. he also says by the time the next variant arrives, all americans should have access to anti viral treatments immediately after testing positive. are we on track, both for new variant specific vaccines and for the kind of access the therapeutics that my kind of the make that kind of difference? joining us now is dr. ashish jha, -- dr. jha, nice to see you again. thank you for being here tonight. >> good evening, rachel. thanks for having me back. >> you exude cautious optimism on the best of days, but you are now making it explicit in this piece for the washington post today and some of what you posted on twitter today around it. i wonder if you

the downward side of the curve in terms of the omicron crush. dr. ashish aja, the dean of brown public school of public health. it this way in "the washington post," the head line as you can see it, the worst of omicron might have passed, but the pandemic is not over. dr. aja suggested that we use the next few months when we see the lower level of virus to get ready for the next surge or next variant. he said part of that preparation will need to include new vaccines. he also said by the time the new variant arrives, all americans should have access to antiviral treatments immediately after testing positive. are we on track for both new variant vaccines and for that kind of therapeutics that may make that kind of difference. joining us now is ashish aja, he's dean of the brown public school of health. dr. aja, thank you for being here. >> thank you, rachel, thanks for having me back. >> you embody, with what you posted around twitter today around it, i wonder if you can tell people how to keep in mind these two things at once. that it does feel like we have a sense of what the shape of the omicron curve is goin

the end of january. because the omicron is so highly contagious, there is a possibility of being infected more than once. that's a new warning from health leaders this morning. the dean of the brown university school of public health and a doctor with the world health organization are urging people to get vaccinated and boosted. bay area health experts agreed omicron can strike more than once. new cases are indicating natural immunity after infection does not last. >> protection from the first infection is looking not very good. at least in very preliminary data from the united kingdom. only about 20% of protection about getting infected again. so by all means don't think because you have had it or because you had that booster that you can go out and don't have to worry about getting omicron. >> local doctors maintain boosters and masks are your best protection of hospitalizations. >>> a live look where today is a deadline for businesses to notify customers of the looming indoor vaccine mandates people 12 and older will be required to show proof of vaccination to enter indoor businesses in oakland. that includes restaurants, bars and theaters and gyms and large indoor events at city properties. customers wi

the hair and hoot? are they reason to feel hopeful about what is to come and how soon? joining us now is dr. ashish jha. he's dean of the brown university school of public health. dr. jha, i appreciate you being here, as always. >> thank you, rachel, for having me back. >> what's your reaction to the wastewater news from boston? >> i think it's really good news. look, this has been a leading indicator for the entire pandemic. i look at it probably every few days. and what it does is it tends to precede case counts by about a week. so if you see wastewater infection numbers rising, you will see that in the case reports coming out of the department of health in about five, seven days later. this is a very sharp decline. it's down about 30, 40%. it really looks like the wave has crested in eastern massachusetts. and i expect cases to start falling in the next few days. >> without a degree in this kind of stuff, in epidemiological terms, is the sharpness of that drop explained by the same factors that created the sharpness of the rise? is a curve that rises that steeply always also going to come down that steeply or could we be looking at something where it went up real

the global epicenter of the pandemic. martin, the key is professor of european public health at the london school of hygiene and tropical medicine. with studies suggesting army kron cases, a less severe. we asked him if government were overreacting by re introducing such strict measures. no, i don't think that there are on did certainly milder than the delta variant, but i wouldn't say that it's actually a disease that you can just dismiss as being trivial. we certainly are seeing quite number of people being in the hospital not to anything like the same extent as before. also some worrying data from a number of countries that children are being admitted and some of them are getting seriously ill. but the other thing that we need to remember with this is that we've tend to think of this as a primarily respiratory disease. and that of course has been a major part of the presentation. but this is a virus that can affect many different parts of the body and were particularly worried about the long term consequences. what we call long covert. we still don't know anything really much about the extent to which you mccree will be drivi

jessica justman, professor over at the columbia school of public health. jessica, i want to start off with testing here. availability of testing, and more importantly, do you think we should have put more emphasis on testing over the last couple of months instead of just on vaccinations and boosters? jessica: i think that many of us knew or were predicting that a winter surge was coming. that is because in the winter, that is when we have surges in respiratory illnesses, influenza, and other viral causes of infection. so it is not a surprise. yes, it's disappointing we are not better prepared. yes, we should have taken steps to be in a better position than we are now. but we needed to multitask on this. we needed to do vaccines and boosters and prepare for more testing at the same time. i really would not choose testing over vaccines and boosters, no. taylor: you talked about the winter season, you brought up the flu. earlier i was listening to comments from dr. scott gottlieb , formerly over at the fda, saying this is going to be the pivotal year when covi

the next day, lester >> stephanie, thank you. >>> just a short time ago, i spoke with dr. ashish jha dean of the brown university school of public health. i asked him if he thinks we're ultimately all going to be infected with this omicron variant. >> i don't think we're all going to be infected many americans are, but there is a lot we can do to protect ourselves. and my hope is that a vast majority of americans don't end up infected with this variant. >> is omicron going to push delta out of the picture? and would that be a good thing >> we don't know we did see it push delta out in south africa in the u.k., the data is not totally clear yet. it looks like it's suppressing data if it ends up pushing delta out, it would be terrific because all the data so far suggests that omicron is a milder version. and, obviously, if we're going to have a virus circulating around, i'd rather have a milder version circulating around. >> and is there anything here that suggests that omicron might be the beginning of the end >> well, i sure hope so i mean, i do think a lot of americans will end up getting infected now, obviously, we have a good chunk

the test themselves. phil, thank you. >>> and we know many of you at home have so many questions. so let's bring in dr. ashish jha. dean of the brown university school of public health. i want to get right to the news from dr. fauci about a potential reversal from the cdc that would require asymptomatic people to test negative before ending their isolation. do you think that's the right decision? >> thanks for having me back. yes, i've been saying for some time now that having one or two negative antigen tests should add a lot of confidence that someone is no longer contagious. so we'll see what the cdc does, but do i think it would be a welcome addition. >> and with omicron cases at record highs and parents sending their kids back to school tomorrow, is it safe for schools to reopen for in-person learning? >> yeah, i do think it is. my kids are going back to school tomorrow. i think it's safe for them to do so. there's a lot that schools can do to keep infection numbers lower, with masks, improved ventilation, vaccination. these are the kinds of things that can keep spread low in schools. >> we know tests are hard to find right now in so many areas. what are the ke

of learning. shery: anti-vaccine protesters gathered on sunday, the number was smaller than expected. the bloomberg school of public healthssors says the vast mortality of the mortality in the u.s. is from the unvaccinated. one in five adults in the u.s. remain without a shot. >> we are seeing omicron being less severe, because it is so transmissible it is increasing case numbers and that lowers severity rates. it is being trumped by the fact that case numbers are expanding so high. we are seeing case numbers drop but it is responsible -- important to remember that the hospitalizations and deaths lag case numbers by anywhere up to two weeks because it takes a longer to develop the severe disease. >> this is in the post this morning, unvaccinated, 65 or older, our 49 times more likely to be hospitalized -- are 49 times more likely to be hospitalized. >> it ranges from anywhere from 35% to 90% based on the numbers that i am seeing. unvaccinated people are driving that severe disease. >> do we need to do what austria does? >> well, this is the ongoing issue in the u.s.. it is going to play when we start to see these case num

the worst of the omicron surge behind us. let's discuss with a member of the vaccine advisory committee and the dean of the brown university school of public healthre heading in the right direction, but deaths are still on the rise. i just checked, the u.s. is now averaging 2,033 new deaths each day. at what point where the omicron crisis finally be over? >> yeah, wolf, first of all, thanks for having me back. look, i do agree. certainly agree with dr. fauci that the infection numbers are heading down in the right direction, about 20% off the peak. what we know from really two years of this pandemic is that deaths follow about three to four weeks later. so we're probably a couple of weeks away from the death numbers declining. my hope is that once we get into mid february, we're really going to have very low levels of cases across the country. >> for those who are fully vaccinated and boosted like i am, when should they feel comfortable going back to a restaurant, eating indoors or a bar or a movie theatre for that matter? >> well, i'm fully vaccinated and boosted since i'm over 65 and i to that now. i certainly go to restaurants and i wear a mas

. >> reporter: merlin chowkwanyuan, an historian at the school of public health, he says despite presidenthe country in many ways, including... >> on the historical stage, where the president gets to use the pulpit, he used it to fl flaut scientific expertise. >> president trump: we can knock it way. >> reporter: he acknowledges that mr. trump does deserve some credit for the quick development of the covid vaccines. >> president trump: there are some people who say my greatest achievement was getting the vaccine. >> reporter: but he adds that his follow through in promoting and distributing the vaccines was weak. if you had to give this president a grade on how he handled covid, could you give him one? >> i would probably give him a "d." he had some of the vaccine contribution, but, yeah, a "d." >> reporter: and with the country reeling from covid, donald trump lost his bid for re-election. that's when he started down the path that historians say ultimately led to the other defining moment of his presidency. insurrection and assault on the u.s. capitol. as his followers responded to his re

of getting infected. jonathan: thank you, sir. the johns hopkins bloomberg school of public health now entering year three of all this. like a lifetime for some people. tom: snow on the ground here and i was thinking we are one week away from our sojourn to davos and that is not going to happen. think of the microcosm of -- that have been blown up the length of this pandemic. things that really matter, whether it is sports at high schools or church events or whatever. jonathan: all of the conferences in this country and around the world. that is why this conversation that shifted to a conversation around targeted relief. that relief come i've no idea when it comes or how big it will be. lisa: the idea of small baseball stadiums or other gatherings, arenas or places where people would go to see shows are still closed. how do you keep them afloat for a few months longer? my focus has been on schools and kids getting back in person and the challenges there. new york city is trying to keep schools open. this going influence on children, i cannot stress enough. the idea of possibly going into lockdown or going remote was t

he is with the bloomberg school of public health. nt to clear the air -- what is the next step for the trips in atlanta? what is -- troops in atlanta? what is the next step for the cdc? >> getting the u.s. through this wave. deaths, the peak will fall after that. getting through this. -- getting through this period is a challenge. it is stressing out the ability of health care to provide treatment for everybody. tom: the rest of us talk about this. you are doing it. dr. sharfstein, from where you sit, are other countries doing this better? is the u.k. doing omicron better than we are? dr. sharfstein: i'm not sure any country has figured out omicron. other countries are willing to shut things down for a few weeks. certain countries in europe have gone that route. we will have to see how it works. i understand in countries where people really follow what the government says, you see cases coming down quicker. you are taking away in those places the locations where the virus can transmit quickly. a country said that you cannot sell alcoh

of these mitigation strategies are in place, schools can open safely. that was doctor elizabeth stewart from the john hopkins bloomberg school of public health. beth holmes guilty of conspiring to defraud investors in the blood testing startup. the verdict is still being read in the courtroom, and what we know at this stage is that prosecutors have said that holmes, aged 37, swindled investors between 2010 and 2015 by convincing them that small machines could run a few drops of blood for a friend or prick. we will have more on this breaking news story a little later on in the programme will we can speak to one of our correspondent, so do stay tuned for that. south africa's parliament has suffered further serious damage after a fire that was believed to have been brought under control reignited. the fire service in cape town said strong winds had caused smouldering wood in the roof to catch fire. no—one has been hurt. a 49—year—old man has been charged with arson, and is due in court tomorrow. apple has become the first us company to reach a market value of $3 trillion. landmark was hit briefly on monday, with shares peaking a landmark was hit