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. >> reporter: tyrel powell was driven by the social justice movement and the memory of friends losto violence >> it is an essential part of my motivation because it still never leaves my heart. >> reporter: both now applying to medical school, and they're not alone. some medical schools reporting african-americans applying in unprecedented numbers. as much as a 43% increase for some institutions. >> we've now had over 10,800 applications and we only enroll 130 students >> reporter: howard university's medical school produces more african-american doctors than any institution in the country. applications up there by 28% only 5% of the nation's doctors are black. a problem public health officials believe leads to poorer patient care in minority communities. do you really think this is a turning point? >> i think it's a turning point. we have a crisis in our country and maybe this pandemic creates the opportunity for us to change that trend >> all i can say is i'm very pleased. >> reporter: dr. joycelyn elders was named surgeon general in 1993, the first african-american to be the nati

help battle the coronavirus crisis the country's health system is going to overwhelm and infections tyrell out of control. and a new u.n. report says modern agriculture is the biggest killer of biodiversity and that changing the way we eat is key to saving the planet's wildlife. chemical for a walk police in myanmar have formally charged ousted leader. the move provides the insurgent military with grounds to keep her in custody the authorities say illegally imported walkie talkies were found at soon she's home if convicted she could face up to 2 years in prison a national campaign of civil disobedience has been growing since this week's military coup protesting medical workers say they will not work for the new military regime. and are refusing to provide non-emergency treatment. so if the finds too noisy to ignore residents of the i'm gone buying pots and honk their car horns for a 2nd night major demonstrations against the military for now have not taken place earlier in the day health workers and hospitals across myanmar wore red or black ribbons and refuse to do any non-emergency work

. >> reporter: tyrell powell driven by the social justice movement and the memory of friends lost totivation because it still -- it's still -- it never leaves my heart. >> reporter: both applying to medical school, and they're not alone. some medical schools reporting african-americans applying in unprecedented numbers, as much as a 43% increase for some institutions >> we now had over 10,800 applications and we only enroll 130 students. >> reporter: howard university's medical school produces more african-american doctors than any institution in the country applications up there by 28% only 5% of the nation's doctors are black, a problem public health officials believe leads to poor patient care in hard-hit communities. >> do you think this is a turning point? >> i think it's a turning point. we have a crisis in our country. maybe this pandemic creates opportunity for us to change that trend. >> all i can say is i'm very pleased. >> reporter: dr. joyce elders was named surgeon general in 1993, the first african-american to be the nation's doctor. increasing the number of physicians

german leaders have expressed particular concern about the latest austrian outbreak of various states tyrell is not taking the situation seriously to the. polls it seems like a deja vu we are driving through to rule the very same state you know that was a major hot spot in europe when the pandemic began is making headlines by becoming a hotspot again this time with a new variant from south africa and most cases stem from here shots a district 60 percent of at least $400.00 cases this makes austria the 2nd most infected country after south africa with a coronavirus mutation. but with carnival season in full swing the people here don't seem to be worried much maybe only met up for a little growth and will be again in our midst of it at the house of us because this is a saving. it is the same thing that happened in ishqiya last year there is a concentrated move to look for someone to blame my c. for i know. this but it's always to blame anyway people's behavior politics opinions are split over this question here and i hate this one feel free. should have had buddha checks much. better you could

we'll go to meg tyrell at cnbc. >> thanks so much. just a follow-up for dr. fauci, and i've got another couple of questions. i wonder if you could tell us more about -- and it is early -- but what the epidemic of past, or long covid might look like beyond the pandemic, and how worried you are about that, and if you see any work going on in trying to develop therapeutics or other ways of addressing it. i wondered for dr bolenski on the masks, a lot of people are excited. i wondered how you decided on cloth masks, if you considered or are considering n95s at all, even though we know there is a constrained supply. finally, just a question on the vaccines in general, on the plan going forward. with johnson & johnson potentially coming out next week, we know astrazeneca will have us phase three data in a few weeks, and novavax has said q2 it'll plan to file and could have 110 million doses in the third quarter. it seems like we're going to have a glut of vaccines potentially later this year which is a great situation but what is the plan for all of these different

>> first, meg tyrel at cnbc. >> thanks so much. to follow up, dr. fauci, and i have another couple questions, one for dr. walensky and one for all of you. i wonder if you could tell us a little bit more about -- it's early, but what the epidemic of long covid might look like beyond the pandemic and how worried you are about that and if you are -- >> we have been listening to today's covid-19 response briefing. for more, i want to bring in an infectious disease physician. the medical director of the special pathogens unit at boston medical center. an msnbc contributor. thanks for your time. let's start with the fda's endorsement of the johnson & johnson covid vaccine. that's the big news today. it will really change the way we vaccinate many americans, because as you well know, it requires a single shot instead of two. it could be approved by the fda as early as friday. the response team, they just said that they could expect to send out three to 4 million doses as early as next week. help us understand how much of a game changer this really is. >> g

. >> first we'll go to meg tyrell at cnbc. >> hi. thanks so much. just follow-up, dr. fauci and then i have a question for dr. walensky and one for all of you. long covid, i know it's early, but what the epidemic of a past for long covid might look like beyond the pandemic and how worried you are about that and if you're seeing early work going on in trying to sort of therapeutics or other ways of addressing it. i wonder for dr. walensky on the masks a lot of people are so excited about this announcement. i wonder how you decided on cloth masks. if you're considering n95s at all, even though we know there's a constraint of supply of those. then finally, just a question on the vaccines in general and the plan going forward. you know, with j&j potentially coming out next week we know that astrazeneca will have data in three weeks and novavax said they'll file and it seems like we'll have a glut of vaccines but what is the plan for all of the vaccines if they do succeed? >> thank you. i'll take the first question related to this this syndrome. very important question abou