vin gupta. this drug's approval is encouraging news for people with alzheimer's and their families, but it isn't a cure, right? it just slows it down. so how much of a difference will people see? >> ana, that's the critical question. this is a milestone. this is a fist step towards new therapeutics to the point that kate made in her segment here. this is going to allow those with early stage alzheimer's to have an independent life for a longer period of time. is it a cure? no. we have to have clear understanding of what outcomes this is going to improve. when it comes to independent functioning, communication abilities, meaningful time with family, this is going to increase all those things that are important to patients. >> just for people who have the mild at least start of the disease. the drug's approval came with the fda's strongest safety warning called a box warning because of potential side effects, brain bleeds, brain swelling. how comfortable should people feel taking this drug? >> let

vin gupta, it's great to talk to you.es, doctors, i should say, that are advocating for a triple shot here. do you think this is safe? >> well, frankly we just don't know. we don't have enough information. we don't have the clinical trials to know whether or not getting three shots at once, covid, flu, rsv for someone who needs all three shots come this fall, whether that diminishes the impact of each individual shot, there is a suggestion that says you get rsv and flu shots together, it diminishes the impact of each individually. many of us believe we should sequence the vaccines since we don't know the impact of multiple shots at the same time, especially three. so my advice for all of your viewers who are 60 and older, who would qualify for an rsv shot or medically higher risk, to stay on dialysis, or poorly controlled diabetes is to get the shot first. it's quite long over in a year potentially. then to get covid, then to get flu because those have a narrower window of protection once you get the shot. >> what do you

vin gupta who consults with major sports teams including the seattle seahawks and the mariners.young, only 18 years old. how surprising is this for someone his age? >> ana, it's very rare. thank you for platforming this. few athletes experience this, sudden cardiac death. i should note for your audience there's a lot we don't know that's been made public. we don't know if bronny lost his pulse and underwent true cardiac arrest. like in the case of damar hamlin, did he get shocks and defibrillation because he was experiencing arrhythmia. we don't know the facts. the fact is that he went in and less than 24 hours was discharged from the icu, suggests this was probably an arrhythmia, his heart beating in an abnormal way that caused this event to occur. critical details are lacking. >> what could make him susceptible or anyone susceptible in his shoes to something like this? >> glad you asked that. i think we have a figure here of what is the most common cause of this in young athletes. it's called hyper troef fik cardiomyopathy. the enlarged heart there where it says apex there, yo

vin gupta's back with us. dave errenberg is also back with us.back with us. this is at its core a really heartbreaking piece of reporting to get through. and this is at its core about why we cover politics in these times, because politicians' words impact the actions that people take during an emergency, and in this case dr. gupta, he cost the lives of his own constituents. tell me about this reporting. >> nicolle, good afternoon. that was really hard to hear. when you go into that really in-depth analysis from the "new york times." it was important to hear, though, because what we saw was florida accounted for 14% of the deaths of all americans between july and october of 2021. that delta wave you referenced earlier. they had overall at the end of it the third highest covid death toll in its entirety across the country at the state level. so by no means was the desantis administration in any way effective in controlling this virus in what is a highly vulnerable population. what i think is important, the takeaway here, is clearly that as the puck

vin gupta. break this down for us.u for the service you're doing by highlighting this. for all your viewers out there, if you have trouble breathing, asthma, or a heart condition, this is uniquely significant to you. because we know to your point, ellison, the wildfire smoke, those particles in the air you can't see them but smell them, but they can lodge them in places in your lung where you can't cough them out. that causes organ dysfunction. this touches us all. i'll quickly say, children, we've seen that, as children are routinely exposed to wildfire smoke over the course of weeks, season after season, they're at higher risk of developing asthma. we know that places, urban inner city locations, high rates of asthma. if you're expecting, an expectant mother, pre-term birth. >> as we think about the rest of the summer, you know, hot, humid weather. smoke coming in from canada or new fires that start, what do we need to do? >> kate, a few things. first of all go to airnow.gov, check your outdoor air quality in your zi